All all the positive chatter. So exciting. Good evening. Good evening. Thank you. Good evening. It's Thursday, 03/26/2026, and the time is 05:00. This is a regular monthly board meeting of the Keller ISD Board of Trustees. All trustees are present. We move to the pledge of Bryce. Please arise for the pledge of allegiance. Here to lead us in the pledge, the pledges are some of the fantastic students from Friendship Elementary School. Immediately following the pledges, principal Casey Necessary will come to the podium and introduce her
students. Good evening, everyone. I'm Casey Necessary. I'm the principal at Friendship Elementary, and I'm excited this evening to have brought several of our members of our fourth grade leadership team. These students play an integral part of our school day. They have such roles as raising and lowering the flags, opening car doors in the morning, helping shelf library books, and even delivering weekend smackbacks to classrooms for students to take home. And I'm excited to recognize each of them this this evening. Caroline Smith, Sydney Williams, Hamaya Hill, Hayden Yasa, Sam Portillo, Zani Odhiambo, and Cooper Harlan.
Thank you so much. We'll now move to a prayer for the evening. Now please join us for a word of prayer. Vice president Washington. Heavenly father, guide us tonight as we serve our students, staff, and community. As we enter the last nine weeks of the school year, we lift our students and staff during this season of testing and hard work. We especially pray for our seniors and their parents as they celebrate milestones and prepare for new beginnings. Give them peace, strength, and joy in this important season. Amen. Thank you. Awards and achievements, Bryce.
Alright. In your board packets on pages four through six, you'll find students have achievements this evening. Photos will be taken directly following each award inside the boardroom in front of the backdrop in the southwest corner where our board members will join award recipients for a quick photo. During this time, we ask that guests remain in the sitting area, and we invite you to take any personal photos outside in the courtyard following the awards portion of the agenda. All group photos taken inside the boardroom will be shared via the Keller ISD Facebook page. For our first award tonight, I'd like to invite Board Vice President Washington to join us as we honor our March Hard at Work Employee of the Month.
Keller ISD's Hard at Work Employee of the Month for March 2026 is a nurse from Keller Middle School. She was nominated by Keller ISD lead nurse Candace Harriman who said the following, Janine consistently demonstrates an exceptional commitment to supporting others. When nurses were asked to collaborate with their principals to develop a plan for offering stop the bleed training to students, Janine stepped up without hesitation. She created the necessary forms and organized the information needed to implement the effective the training effectively. As word spread among the nursing team, several campuses reached out to her and utilized
the materials she had developed, which streamlined the process district wide. Janine exemplifies dedication, teamwork, and servant leadership, consistently going above and beyond to make a meaningful difference for students and colleagues. Ladies and gentlemen, please let me congratulate our March 2026 Keller ISD Hard at Work Employee of the Month from Keller Middle School, Janine Bernard. Thank you to all of our staff who make it a priority to recognize their peers each month. Employees can nominate a colleague for a hard at work employee of the month by visiting www.kellerisd.net/haw
and completing the You've Got Heart online form. At this time, trustee Erickson, will you please join us for the next award? And, trustee Kelly, will you please assist us at the photo backdrop? More than 270 Keller ISD elementary students gathered at Foster Ridge High School on Saturday, Books, a celebration of reading, teamwork, and friendly competition. Representing all 23 elementary campuses, student teams put their literary knowledge to the test in a fast paced, quiz style challenge based on a curated list of books they've been reading throughout the year. After several exciting rounds, the blazing bookworms from Betty Pearl Elementary claimed the elementary division
title, while Lone Star Elementary's team, Because of the Six, earned a strong second place. Just a few weeks later, the excitement continued with the tenth annual intermediate battle of the books competition. About 75 students from seven intermediate middle schools competed in the reading showdown. Taking the top spot was the lost dreamers from Bear Creek Intermediate, followed by Candy Readers from, Timberview Middle School in the second place. Congratulations to this year's Battle of the Books champions. From the blazing bookworms from Betty Pearl Elementary led by librarian Amy Pratt, we have
Reed Gilbert, William Johnson, Duane Lawrence, Leo McIntyre, Raymond Wynne, and Zachary Terrode. And Because of the Six from Lone Star Elementary led by librarian Nancy Paris includes Iker Cruz, Claire Health, Niharika Nicalapu, Cameron Russell, and Liam Schwindemann. Next from the intermediate competition, we have the lost dreamers from Bear Creek Intermediate led by librarian Misty Shea, includes Iman Badamosi, Ayanna Hegde, Shriheetha Kaluri, Lina Kim, Eric Liu,
and Kaylee Middleton. And finally, candy readers from Timberview Middle School led by librarian Angela Wilson, Elijah Jenkins, Sydney Johnson, Michael Creso, Peter Creso, and Rachel Rachel Wynne, and Josiah Rodriguez. Battle of the Books not only showcases strong reading comprehension but also collaboration, dedication, and a shared love of literature. We're proud to have so many students participate every year. Congratulations again to all of the students that took part in this year's competition. Next, may I please have Ward Secretary Campbell join us for our next award.
Keller ISD's Destination Imagination teams competed at the Mid Cities Destination Imagination Regional Tournament on February 21 with two teams advancing to the finals. The mythical DI legends placed second in the elementary level engineering above and beyond category, while the scary dairy team earned second in the middle level fine arts category. Both teams have advanced to the lone star finals on April at the University of Texas at Arlington, and we wanna congratulate the following students. First from Willis Lane Elementary, we have the mythical DI legends, which includes Neil Deepak,
William Allen, Francis Fry, Oliver Rybak, Alejandro Duarte, Tobias Henicki, and Olivia Sengling. And then from the scary dairy team, we have Emma Nelson from Keller Middle. From Bear Creek Intermediate, Shiloh Nelson, Arna and Arna Venulopoli. Hillwood Middle's Audrey Royser and Milo Haas. And finally from Indian Springs Middle, TJ Deepak and Dhruv Arun. These students' creativity, teamwork, and problem solving skills were on full display as they tackle
complex challenges and showcase innovative thinking. The representative KSU well wish them all the best at finals next month. For our next award tonight, may I please have board president, Burt and doctor Wilson to help us with this next honor. Keller ISD is proud to recognize four high school seniors who have advanced to the finalist standing in the 2026 National Merit Scholarship Program, one of the nation's most prestigious academic competitions. These students were initially named among more than 16,000 semifinalists nationwide, selected from over 1,300,000 high school juniors who took the PSATNMSQT, representing less than 1% of US high school
seniors, National Merit semifinalists are recognized for exceptional academic achievement and outstanding accomplishments in and beyond the classroom. Advancing to finalist status requires students to demonstrate a consistently outstanding academic record, leadership, and involvement in school and community activities, and the submission of a comprehensive scholarship application endorsed by their school. Congratulations to this year's Keller ISD National Merit finalists. From Timber Creek, we have Caleb Cotton and Ayesha Shaikh. Unfortunately, our other two finalists could not be here tonight, but we do wanna extend
our congratulations to Jack Dyers from Keller High and Central High's Daniel Milmo. This this achievement reflects an extraordinary commitment to scholarship leadership and academic excellence as finalists. These students will now compete for approximately 6,900 National Merit Scholarships awarded nationwide with nearly $26,000,000 So congratulations and good luck. For our final awards tonight, I'd like to invite KSC assistant director of athletics, Bart Helsley, to help us recognize outstanding state achievements in wrestling, swimming, and diving. And trustee Coco, will you please help us up front? And doctor Wilson, will you please assist us at the photo backdrop for these last
awards? Thank you. It's always a pleasure to announce, Keller ISD student athlete success at the state level. Tonight, we'll know, we'll notice wrestling and swimming. In UIL State wrestling, 18 Keller ISD wrestlers competed at the state tournament on February at the Berry Center in Cypress, Texas, following outstanding performances at the regional tournament. Three student athletes are in top six finishes, proudly representing the district on the medal stand.
Echo Crainer, a senior at Central High School, placed fourth in the girls, 135 pound division. On the boys' side, Drew Brinkmeyer, a sophomore at Keller High School, finished sixth in the 120 pound class, while Dominic Salazar, a junior at Central High School, earned fifth place in the 126 pound division. I'm going to announce, my school, and we'll start with Central High School, Ryan Salazar. Of Course, Echo Crainer is not here tonight. And then next would be Kelly Ford.
Aurora Barberina, and Dominic Salazar. They are coached by Marvin Lethridge, Connor Buescher, and Aaron Faith. Next up is Fossil Ridge High School. First off, we have Cadence Juarez. Kaylee White, Carmen Torres, Kinsley Ashburn, Aaron Esquivel, Jaden Brown, Xavier Morris.
Fossil Ridge wrestlers are coached by Doug Grounds, Melissa Watts, and Isaiah Vega. Next up is Keller High School. First up would be Audrey Moore. Keanna Ray Hiller. Drew Brinkmeyer. And AJ Parchman. Coaches for Keller High School, Jim Ski, Chris McDaniel, and Dustin Scarborough. For Timber Creek High School, first up is Evra Bain. Next is Enrique Guerrero. They are coached by Desmond Torres and Jacob Burton. Now for swimming and diving. After outstanding performances at the region championship, both the boys and girls, Keller High School
swim team and dive teams competed at the state at the UIL six a state championships on February at the University of Texas at Austin. The Keller girls team finished second overall earning a state silver medal and captured state titles in both the 200 yard medley relay and the 200 yard freestyle relay. Standout performances included Natalie Schneider, who won the 50 yard freestyle and placed third in the 100 yard freestyle, and Ella McWhorter, who claimed first place in the 100 yard
breaststroke. The boys team capped a strong season with Maxwell Stanislaus earning second place in the 200 yard freestyle. Now for all of the color swimmers. First up, Maxwell Stanislaus. Adam Hune. No. Manley Snyder. Sofia Corbin. Paloma Rabe. Lila or Lila Dowell. Amber Gallimore. Claire Holler. Ashlyn Anderson. William Fisher, Clinton Panama Yang, They are coached by Jason Lovell, David Poole, and Justin
Moskovsky. Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. I oh, I did. I'm sorry, Ella McWhorter. I'm sorry about that. Thank you. Yeah. Which one is common? Alright. It's great to, see so many so many of our students and educators getting awards. So move to the president's update. First of all, thank thanks to all of you for being here, and for those who might be watching online. There's a few highlights I would like to to share. I know we're one week into the last nine weeks, but I wanna welcome everyone
back from spring break. Hopefully, it was a good time to charge recharge batteries and get ready for the very busy completion of the school year and the upcoming year end activities, which there are many. Thanks to the Keller Education Foundation for its successful rooted gala on March 7. The event was extremely exciting to attend. It had the largest attendance and accounted for a record setting amount of donations that will be used to support our educators. So to to Amanda Magura and her team and all the volunteers, a tremendous thank
you for that. Also, thanks to the students and staff members that volunteered to help this week with the Chad Powell Memorial Special Olympics, earlier this week. It was an awesome event to attend and interact with mister and missus Powell and many of our staff and student volunteers. There was a record number of school districts attending from as far away as Weatherford. Truly a great event. The policy review committee completed its review of all board policies, which keeps us compliant with the three year review of all district policies.
I wanna thank all the committee members for their time over the past few months to get this done, and to Bryce for shepherding the process. Lastly, the long range planning and citizen bond advisory committee has one more joint meeting, which Corey will discuss briefly in his comments. Doctor Wilson? So, yes, on, I believe it's Thursday, April 2 of next week, we are going to have our final meeting. And just as a reminder, at that meeting is when we will be using the criteria that, the committee has come up with, and we will be presenting our options
for campus consolidation. Just a couple reminders of that. It it by no means is that gonna be an easy decision, and by no means is that going to be a joyful evening, with our committee. But we know that it's the it's the right thing for our district, and we know that, we can be confident in that we have brought close to a 100 people together. And those folks have worked hard to give us input. They've made me think. They've made me rethink.
They've challenged me to make sure that, what I come up with is the best thing for the school district. And, I appreciate them. I appreciate their their their support going forward, but it is gonna be a challenge, and I do expect next next Friday to, be a little challenging for us as well, because that's when our community, teachers, staff, kids will find out, what potentially, we will be we will be bringing forward to you guys, hopefully later this month for
final approval. From there, no, there are a lot of details that we're not gonna have. And we do we do plan on working with, again, working with our community and working with folks for feedback because once you're talking about closing campuses, you're talking about where kids are gonna go to school, what that process looks like, and we want to we wanna we wanna do it right, and we wanna make sure everybody feels supported along the way. And so, rather than jump and say, here's what each every detail is, I'd rather
I'd rather make sure our details are correct and that we get input from our community, before we go with that. So, with that, we did have the so that'll close the April 2 portion. Spring break was fantastic, but I can tell you we hit the ground running probably about 07:00 on on Monday morning. Kids' activities, they never stopped. They still continue on. We have our girls. Keller High School girls and boys are still in the playoffs. I will tell you we get a rare home game this Friday night.
We have the Keller boys soccer team is playing at the stadium at 07:30. And so they won the flip of Allen, and so Allen and Keller will be here, which is fantastic. I am I'm excited about having the opportunity, to have a playoff game here in the district. I was on a campus the other day and, well, I was on multiple campuses just the other day and it was I'm gonna tell you, I was at North Riverside, it was one of the campuses that I was at. And I was so proud of the work that that campus has done. And, you know, we know that they've had some challenges over the couple past couple
years, But I'm gonna tell you, that's a different place, than than it was. And I know Hermes, keeps telling me that how good a work they're doing. I was on Heritage, just a couple weeks ago, and I see that same level of commitment and that drive towards student success. And our our folks are pushing now, and it matters, and it matters to us, and it matters to them. And, you know, we we still have work to do. We realize that, but, our our people are are responding to some pretty, pretty good
challenges. So proud of the work they've done and proud of, in particular, our folks over at North Riverside and and Heritage. So with that, we'll get to the rest of the meeting. Thank you. As we begin the rest of our meeting, I'd like to highlight the school board meeting protocol. Any violations to these, expectations could result in a request to be removed from the meeting. Behind me, no signs are allowed as this presents a safety concern. Applause, heckling, bullying, and verbal disturbances of any kind will not be tolerated or allowed during the meeting.
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the board. A timer will be visible on the screen and will change colors to indicate that you have thirty seconds remaining. Each speaker will be speaking from the stand alone microphone to your left. In order for speakers to hear when they are called and to be heard, we ask that audience members remain quiet and respectful of everyone. Bryce will be calling each individual up to speak as well as the individual who will be coming up next so you can make your way to the microphone and be ready when it's your turn. Bryce, will you please call the two speakers to the microphone?
Yes. First, we have Stuart Winnie followed by Barbara Brewer. So first, what does it say that stop the bleed trauma training for students is even necessary? Just think about that. The state of Texas passed a pray for Jesus plan. I expected the Rump Board to happily wag its tail and approve the plan, clearly supported by the largest contributors to these rumpers. The state legislature deliberately refused to properly fund text in education, but is happy to demand the insertion of Christian lessons, ignoring the fact that actions specifically contradict the values
they espouse. So what's happened now that the six month deadline has passed? A deadline that the lumpers zoomed well ahead of seemingly in a race to bend the knee before their contributors instead of Jesus. There are 1,210 ISDs in Texas. Each and everyone was required to vote on the pray for Jesus plan. The right licked its lips in anticipation of an overwhelming majority of those districts voting yes, but something happened along the way. Districts paused, read the details, and realized it was a trap.
In the end, exactly 15 districts have passed the plan, including Keller ISD. Keller ISD, whose unseemly haste to pass this Christian nationalist plan, will now cost the district because the design of the bill requiring district personnel to be involved in some manner and the inability to rescind approval. 1.24% of ISDs agreed to this, so our good little boys and girls who voted yes believe that 98.76%
of the districts in Texas were wrong. Instead, they have proven to us, the voters, that they do not have the good of the district and students in mind, but that of their puppet masters. I shall remind you of Exodus 27 and Deuteronomy five eleven in your little manuals. For the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. You hypocrites better pack for a hot climate. And so we come to today's effort to start an amendment of board policy b e.
This is necessary because it's been weaponized by the good little girls and boys of the rump to prevent an effort by another trustee to save money All because it would love a little Timmy off the teeth of public money. This makes me wonder exactly what else has been buried by captain Chuckles and Jammy Johnny. It is now exceedingly clear we can only save this district if the ropers resign now. I would call upon their consciences, but I do not think that they have any. And one has already proven they can't resign without their master's approval.
So instead, we will have to appear at the polls in November and Chuck, Chris, Bootbert, and Huck, Heather, right out of office. Run-in. Barbara Brewer? Good evening. I wanted to come up here and talk about something that, honestly, shouldn't even be an issue, but here we are. Last fall, the Timber Creek touchdown club, which does an incredible job of including our entire community for, like, football. They support the students. And, they create a true sense of community by including feeder families and even families
that have kids that have graduated. We had planned a special they had planned a special night to celebrate Fort Worth mayor, Matty Parker, with a coin toss. They also had planned a special nine eleven event with a World War two veteran. All of that was denied. That's what's so frustrating because here we are, and Arnie Nizani is on the baseball field. We have Central who's having elected officials on the baseball field, but Timber Creek was denied. I know Corey Wilson has done an amazing job through all of this.
Our community is split, and how do we move forward? So I'm actually glad that Armin was out there pitching. I think that's amazing. I think that we should have our elected officials. We support the voters chose these elected officials. They're part of our community. We should be inviting them. We should be inviting our fire, our police. They are part of the community. I also just I just think that a school, that wants to recognize a veteran, a first responder, or even invite an elected official, they should be able to do
that. It's that simple, but we were denied. So how do we move forward from here, Corey? That's what I wanna know. Thank you. And I'll move on to reports. And then move down to the twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven budget update. Doctor Wilson. Before I turn it over to John and Pam, what, I would like to say is, you know, we we made the decision last October, November ish, to bring Pam on board. And the fantastic thing that, we realized is she is great at digging into data
and getting us numbers and getting us information, and it has made it has made the the the budgeting process significantly, more robust. So I I would say that, I appreciate that work. I appreciate the the team, our finance team. But I'm also gonna say our our leadership over here who is looking through their budgets and their conversations are willing to say, you know what, we we I would love to have that but I would rather have that money where it needs to
be with our kids and with our teachers, and, we can support them, with with however much that that that we we have left over. And so, we've taken a lot of good steps forward with our budget. There's still a ways to go, two steps forward, two steps back. Sometimes it's three or four steps back, but the team keeps keeps trucking along and they just keep, saying, alright. Here's here's what we're gonna do. So, with that, I will turn it over to Pam.
Thank you. So I'm not sure if there I am. I got it up there. So just want to, share a little bit with you. There's not a lot from last month. This time of year, if you look at the timeline, is a lot of digging. It's a lot of digging, looking at things, looking at things that we can keep and things that we can give up. So the process that we're in right now, this week and next week, we have Kristen's team that is starting to put things into some of our templates. Tazbo has offered up, this year, they have a template where we can put stuff
in and get some predictions out of it. So, she is working on that along with Omar's, which will give us some, predictions going into revenue. And then what we're doing with, departments right now is having deeper conversations with them in reference to areas that we can, cut back and have some savings in. So when you look at our timeline, we're right in on track with that on moving forward with where we need to be. I want to say that I'm very impressed with the departments and how they're approaching
it and coming into our meetings with really positive attitudes, and we're all trying to find ways to stay as far away as from we can from any type of programming. So, kudos to all of them as we're doing this. The next slide on the budget overview, you'll still see the same assumptions. None of those have changed at this point in time. John will talk a little bit later, in reference about our students that something that may impact that, but at this point, we are still staying with these same assumptions.
The next slide there, you'll see still our increase, our budget increase where we're still looking at, was back to looking at the that. So we see with, our schools, under Tri County's utilities, that's where we tend to see the the variations and the swings in our pricing. Because of the issues in The Middle East with fuel prices rising, they have, given us a, a heads up that they will be considering a change in pricing per
kilowatt hour that could be anywhere from, 10 to 40% increase. So right now, that's about, 12¢ per kilowatt hour. We will know more later this spring, but, that may have an impact on on the budget as as we take a look at that. The other on, HVAC, this is one that that really is, always problematic for us given our aging infrastructure. We know that we continue to to have failure in equipment, which is, something that,
the the bond steering committee will be taking a a strong look at as we, contemplate a a potential bond. But we also know that we saw almost double what we had, budgeted for our it it is something that as our equipment continues to age, it's becoming much more expensive, not only in being able to to hire technicians, parts, and we're just seeing more failure because of the the age of equipment, which will will continue, which is
why it's gonna be so critical on our bond issue to be able to to address this this moving forward. Wanna talk a little bit about some clarifications as we think about budget. As as you know from the time line and we've talked about this and we'll talk more at our our budget workshop. We always have to make assumptions and bring a budget to you based on really the the best data we have, in educated guess because we don't have all of
the information we need at the time that you have to approve a budget. And a couple of those key ones are in revenue projections. So we have the preliminary property values, but, we will not get till after you pass the budget because we have a July 1, budget year, those finals. So there's always variance from what we, get in the preliminary to to what the final property values look like. ADA is a is an important piece to our funding mechanism.
Right now, we are tracking a little above our 94%, which is one of our budget assumptions. So we we will keep an eye on that as we move through, the last eight weeks of school. I feel fairly comfortable where we sit right now based on the last couple years' trends. We always dip in the last month or so of school, particularly at the high schools with senioritis, and, that that becomes a financial impact for us.
But I I think where we're sitting right now in most of our campuses were in the upper 94 to 95%. So we we typically see a little decline in in the last portion. TEA decisions continue to have an impact for us. There are still aspects of the last legislative session that TEA still has to make decisions about how we'll receive funding, what some of those stipulations will be, and some
of those are scheduled to come in June, July, and August. There will be some implications for us that we we just won't know about at the time we pass a budget. The second bullet point here is the real wildcard. This is the one that could end up being a significant budget buster for us as we move through the next academic for us as we move through the next academic year. We do not have any idea what the direct impact of the the ESAs will be on our student attendance. We can make some educated guess.
As you know, we have, projected about, a 83 student decline. We came to that number looking at our demographers projections, TEA's projections, and our last three year trend. We don't know what the impact for the ESAs will be. At this point in time, there are some preliminary numbers out there, for each school district, but that information on how many of those students are actually students in Keller ISD right now are unknown.
And according to TEA, we probably won't know that until the fall at best. So there's been some reporting in the media that approximately 80% of of the ESA applications have, been made by individuals that are currently not in public schools. They're currently in private parochial and homeschooling. We don't know if that's accurate or not. So that's something we'll continue to monitor and be talking more about because that that could have a a, profound effect on our on our budget.
We'll continue to look for staffing efficiencies. Questions have come up regarding that. We've discussed the need to right size the district. If we're losing students, we have to right size our staffing for that in other areas because of the the lack of appropriate funding for public education. We will have to go beyond just the right sizing to be able to to have a balanced budget. The majority of those, staffing efficiencies as we're working through that process will come from attrition. So we have enough turnover in the district that I that I think the, significant
majority of those will be able to handle, through attrition. It will require us moving staff between buildings where there are needs and and openings, but, we're we're fortunate, that as large as we are, we we do have some, attrition capabilities. Continue to work with department budgets. As Pam mentioned, over the next two weeks, we're sitting down with each department budget going through their their budgets, discussing with them what are the absolute needs, what are
the requirements, and what do we have in our budgets that that are wants. Over the last several years, we've eliminate eliminated most of the wants and the nice to haves because we've had to focus on what's, most mission critical for us. And then looking at our, again, at our campus allocate. The the issue we have is really the age of the buildings and the designs of the buildings. Some are just, much more efficient than others. So it's, you know, we actually look at kind of how it how it breaks
out by campus. Okay. Thanks. And are we locked in with Tri County? We don't have an option? No. We we don't have an option. That's That was okay. That that's not something we we can negotiate. Our utility bills tend to lag between thirty and sixty days from the time, you know, we've had the usage to when we when we receive them. Over the last couple of years, we when we received them. Over the last couple of years, we've made some significant strides in our energy management, looking at, you know, our summer hours, when we allow camps to occur, our set
points, all all those types of things to try to reduce and and we will continue to reduce. One of the areas that, we're gonna have to eventually talk about is, the the use of microwaves, those types of things in classrooms and buildings because that does have an impact on our budgets, and something we're looking we're analyzing right now and be something probably next fall we'll we'll, come back to to talk about and what's what's
that gonna look like moving forward. Tri County, typically, this time of year gives us, your rates are gonna go up, and then it moderates a little as as we get, get closer to, those rate changes. So I understand with Tri County, they're coop right. So there's no negotiation you can really do. Now What talk to me about this microwave thing. So I understand ghost power, and I understand all of that.
Like, when you have when you have things plugged in, it it it it saps a little bit of energies from being plugged in and not being used. But, do you really think the use of microwaves and I mean, is this a legitimate concern or is it just like I mean, I I don't know why I'm talking about it. So It's a legitimate concern. Okay. When you take a look at both, both of our power suppliers also have a demand fee. So your kilowatt hours are more expensive during high demand.
And you can watch our kilowatt our our kilowatt usage spike from approximately 10:30 to about 01:00. Lunchtime. Lunchtime. And so it it is a significant swing, and those kilowatt hours are, at the highest rate. So, off the top of my head, I'd I'd I'd please don't let me get the specific, but it's roughly, probably in the range of $400,000 plus for, for us,
but for the the two of them in the high demand charges. And that's in Tri County? Tri County and Encore. Both of them have a a a period in which your kilowatt hours have peak time frames? Yeah. They do. Well, I but in Encore, it's based upon the energy company. Try or Tri County is an actual coop. So the all that in in the Encore delivery system, it's all negotiated based on energy company you use. We our kilowatt per usage in the Encore is less just because we were able
to to negotiate that term. Yeah. But it it does make a difference. We have to to balance some of that. But there, you know, there there are ways we there continue to be ways we can reduce our energy usage. One, we'll be getting more efficient HVAC systems. But that's where we're gonna have to balance is, you know, when when we put more limits on our campuses and our other facilities, that has a ripple effect.
So is that ripple worth the the the effort to to save on the energy? We're continuing to look at that. We're utilizing a system now, a software system that allows us to to analyze that to a to a greater degree where, I can get better information. We can look at trends, those types of things. And, like I said, it's just something we'll have to come back and and talk about probably in the fall. So, right after, not too long after I was elected, right, and you you were
interim for a little while, there was a couple groups that we talked to that specialize in energy savings. I mean, literally the same conversation we're having now, limiting micro save microwave times and certain things and and TVs and all this other stuff. And, and the conversation then was that it wasn't suitable to the environment for education. You have a lot of pushback from educators and stuff like that. But they had opportunities in place for funding where they would kinda take it take
it over time that they would Come in with LEDs and different kind of functionality to even kinda cover the cost in some degree. At the time, it didn't seem like it was suitable, but if we're having these conversations now about a legitimate possibility, would it be wise for us to entertain some of those conversations with those groups again now? I I think we're we're a little premature because, like, LED lighting and some of those types of things may be encompassed in in a in a bond issue.
And that's that's a more financially effective way for us to be able to accomplish those. How is it more financially effective, though? If if we have a group that's willing to cover the cost of it and cover the saving versus going to the taxpayers for the money. So they operate two ways. There there is an there is an interest charge to that. Sure. And what you're also pledging is any energy savings that you achieve, they take a
percentage of that for their investment. Yeah. For the money back. Yeah. For the money back. So when you look at typically, when districts look at that, if you don't have another option, that's our that's an that's something that that you can consider. With a with a bond issue, then the savings becomes part of the actual district savings. Your bond interest rates are I have never seen one of the independent companies, that's
not to say that that's not possible now, where their interest in investment requirement were less than what what you were you were paying through through bond. It's something we we definitely need to to take a look at. The district's doctor Wilson, would you say decade or better ago, entered into one of those agreements for energy management. It still has residual when you talk to educators that were here because of the restrictions that were put in place.
They were not seeing talking about that right now. Seen negatively. I think the difference I I think the difference you're right. We're we're talking about those restrictions. I think the last time we did this so I was a principal when we started this and then I was, I worked over here in central office towards the end of this when this group was here. What the challenge is for for us is, in those a lot of times we have to give up control. And once you give up control, when teachers call and say, it's 99 degrees in
my classroom, what we've experienced is well, on our our chart, it says 54. So where to go with that? Because if we reduce this anymore, we've already ran the data and if we crank anything up then our margins are off. And that was and then the other part of that is we've run-in that with groups that we've partnered with, for example, we've partnered with somebody to do our scoreboard. Scoreboard at the stadium was it's basically free.
And so they put that scoreboard in and then their pitch to us was we're gonna get their ad revenue, it's gonna pay for itself. That company went bankrupt. Now we were fortunate because they said you guys get to keep that scoreboard, but then Free scoreboard. Yeah, exactly. Free scoreboard. That was great. But Abstract money. Yes, they didn't have to do that And had they not, we would have been in trouble because we would have been we don't have a scoreboard. And so it's all about what control do we wanna give up as a school
district to to somebody else. And our experiences with that have been they just they haven't been as positive as we'd like them to be. On the flip side, can we I think the conversation then is, as an internal organization, we know that we need to save some money and we need to do it through those areas that if we save $70,000 a year in energy, then we can invest that in staff. That's a great investment. But can we manage that on our own? My goal would be how can we do that?
Can we do those things? Because somebody else is gonna come in and they're gonna get rid of microwaves, refrigerators, all the other things. Which we're just talking about. Exactly. But but the question is, can we do some of those things and still have our ability to make our own decisions and realize things too? So Well, I just think it's important, like, if we're being honest with ourselves, no one's I mean, if a company goes bankrupt, no one's gonna repossess a scoreboard. No one's gonna repossess LED lights or AC units or anything like that.
It's just that's just what's gonna happen. But, my my thing is I just wanna make sure that as we as we move forward talking about the bond issue, because that's becoming up, you know, a lot now, and we know what's coming. And to pretend like I'm not gonna have any conversations and a lot of resistance on it would just be a lie. Right? So as we continue to move forward in these discussions, I think it's incredibly important that we are outlining every available option, out there for and and weighing it down
to cost the district versus cost the taxpayer because at the end of the day, every cost of the district is a cost of the taxpayer. And, and so we just need to wait we need to make sure that we're taking all those things into consideration because if not, the bond conversation will not be received positively. And, I think we've done a good job from a budgetary perspective to show the public that we are paying attention to finances, to some degree. I think we can do better. There's some things I think we failed on. But, come November we're gonna have to make sure that we have all of these
converse everything's gonna have to buttoned up and if the conversation is, not using microwaves well whether it's us telling you not to use microwaves or some company who's telling us not to use microwaves because they're footing the bill, it's two different conversations. Alright? And that's all I'm saying. Right? No. We we we try to to look at every every opportunity and aspect we we can and what's, what's the best investment for for the district. To doctor Wilson's point, there there's no hidden magic when energy management companies come in.
We can do the majority of that internally ourselves without, incurring that cost and maintaining the the control over some of those those decisions. And it's we're gonna have to continue to look at those areas. The changes we made just in our, summer programming times, set points, the, remote work day that we do for the, year round staff in the in the summers on
the have saved us roughly 350,000 a year since we've implemented those. So we continue to look and and refine those aspects and and will do so as we move forward with our our campuses and and other facilities. We it it's something that's, I mean, rural utilities are about 4 and a half million dollars of our budget every year. So it's it's not an insignificant, amount.
And if we can continue to to whittle away and save a couple $100,000 in our utilities, that's money we can spend on the classroom. Yep. I would simply say that Randy and I sit on the budget committee, and, I know we've been offering up information since, the committee began. A lot of good feedback from committee members, things that we may not have thought about, things that come forward that now they understand why we we can't or whatever.
So that's an important committee, and I know Randy, you know, Randy and I both, I said, participate in it. I wanna echo a little bit on Chris's point because we're gonna come to the community with a big number. We don't know exactly what the number is, but we know it's gonna be a big one. And I guess as just as a a family person, as a resident taxpayer of KISD, before before I would sign up to to support the bond, we would need
to make sure that everything is being done, to the nth degree. So I think to Chris's point, if there are what I recall from those discussions that you brought up was that there were very few of these energy management companies that dealt with school districts. They dealt with commercial entities, big buildings, single entities, and so on. And we're spread across 42, 39 campuses. Some have different most of them have different types of energy supplies as other than
Encore and Tri County. We got water chillers in some, and we don't have it in the others. And, anyway, where I'm going with this we have a quite an assortment. Yeah. Exactly. But where I'm going with this is if if we seek out a school district or school districts that have implemented the usage of an energy management company, I think it would be a valuable phone call to find out how they do it, does
it work, does it not work, what the problems are, so that we can at least, if it doesn't work for us, that's that's fine, but we can at least tell the community, hey, we've we've checked with other districts and they do it because of their whatever. Could be a small district that has a handful of campuses, could be, you know, whatever it is. I'm just you know, it's just a thought that I think we should at least explore. So I think, you know, Chris makes a a reasonable point on that.
I have a question. Have we any I mean, obviously, the our biggest problem is HVAC. Right. Is that accurate? One of. Okay. What's our biggest problem? Problem tomorrow or no? Well, it's it's If you solve one thing tomorrow, which one is it? HVAC, your, mechanical systems, your plumbing and electrical, it's the MEP. Those those systems are, at end of life. Have you looked into a financing metric not associated to a bond? Yes. We've actually talked to, particularly around HVAC, what would what would that option look like.
There it's a fairly new area of capital investment into k 12 education. Is that, like, directly through Carrier or is it, like, a third party? It's it's third it's third party. As we've as we've worked with, Trane and some others, they've been able to connect us with when they've done projects with some capital investment companies, we've we've had some discussion with them.
There are a handful of school districts that they were unable to get bonds passed, and that was the only way they could they they could move forward. So we'll we'll continue to look at all those areas, and and we'll balance those out on, and bring before a bond committee if we believe that's that's an option for consideration. Do we go as far as to total cost payment plans, anything like that, or is it just initial conversations? The issue on total cost and payment plans is you have to have a definitive,
list of exactly what you're going to replace. Don't know. We have a list of of needs, but there's still more analysis that has to be done, and that's, that also carries a cost. So Trane, for example, has looked at our nine buildings, helped us, review the engineering studies, and have worked to analyze. They believe this could be refurbished versus replaced. So that's that's a much deeper depth that, they've done for us at no cost
for those nine to do for the rest of the district. There there is a cost. So we we had in general conversations with, representatives from one of the third party firms that you're not at a point where they're gonna say, hey. We're gonna give you x, and it's only gonna cost you you x. But we were able to get a a better understanding of how that process would work, what they would require, and and maybe what, what the potential. As they told us, it all depends on interest rates and those types of things
at the time. Sure. From observe I I guess what I'm confusing I I guess I'm confused. We we have a I have a really sick MEP book at my house that was done on the audit on exactly this conversation. So is that not good anymore? No. But it can be refined, and that's exactly what we're doing. So you you don't walk into a car dealership and say, hey. I've I've got this. Now tell me exactly the the cost and interest rate two years before you're gonna buy the car. So we've had the conversation with them about what that would take.
And when we get to a point where we we can get, more in-depth with them, we'll we'll be able to do that. We started those conversations because, without a bond issue or potential on the horizon, we have no other way to replace some of these systems. And in some of these areas, we're at a point where if they're not replaced, such as the cooling tower at Timber Creek, if we had lost the complete system
there, those are custom made. Those are four to six month lead time. We could not have held school during that time frame. Made cooling towers? You have to for the for the systems that are that's not something that's on the shelf that you just say, hey. Here here it is. They make those to to order. It has to be put in place with a with a crane. We're talking major systems. This isn't this isn't the HVAC unit you have at home that somebody's got on on the rack. They're, set, you know, lead times on on on those types of things.
So that's where we started those conversations was what what could we do if, a bond issue wasn't on the horizon or if a bond issue didn't pass? And we'll we'll look at those options, sit down with them again, and look at what other our players are are out there for for this opportunity. Sorry. Sorry, Chris. Any anybody else have any questions for John? Because I think some of this conversation, we have a upcoming, workshop doing that.
April? Is that a the Thursday? Wednesday? I can't remember. April What's your workshop? Eighth or ninth. So perhaps some of this this conversation be carried over to Well, they can. Well, but with all due respect, I do believe it's pertinent right now too. So, I mean, I mean, I I can sum it up, but I I I just wanna get some clarification here. So commercial commercial HPC units are very common. Right? They're they're they're very many commercial HVAC units.
So is ours literally custom, or you mean it's just outside the norm? They're they're outside the norm, and they have to be designed for, the particular systems and and the loads. When you refer to commercial, and and a small office building, those types of things, we're talking on a high school, you know, a couple 100,000 square feet with the controls that are necessary, the air handlers, all those types of things. Those are are not things that you you just pick up the phone tomorrow and
they can they can be delivered. Those are those are a little longer time. Yeah. Yeah. There's and some of them fairly significant. So, you know, it's a it's complicated system as we look at the MEP. We've been able to working through their analysis, you know, we we can refine some of those those costs down. So there there's more due diligence we need to do before, you could sit down and say to somebody, give us your exact dollar amount and what's that? We we've got to refine continue to refine the scope, which is what we've what
we've been working on. Okay. Thank you, John. Mhmm. Thank you, John. Great update. We're now ready for the consent agenda. Do I have a motion to, on the consent agenda? First of all, any item pulled from the consent, it would be added to, later in the meeting to items pulled from, consent agenda. Do I have a motion to approve? So moved. I'll second. Any discussion? All in favor? Seven zero six zero. Thank you. Sorry. Now move on to action items. Our first action item is the approval of administrative contracts.
Johanna. Good evening, president Barth, trustees, and doctor Wilson. On page one nineteen of your board book, the administration recommends that the board of trustees approve the renewal of administrative contracts presented for the twenty twenty six-twenty twenty seven school year. Do I have a motion? So move. Do I have a second? I will. Any discussion? All in favor? Six zero. Thank you. I would add one thing. Although we're taking administrative contracts tonight, we're also pushing out teacher contracts at the same
time. Yes, sir. They'll be going out on March next week. I just want teachers to make sure that they know that those are on their way as well. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Our second action item is a discussion, consideration, and possible action to adopt a resolution to approve the sale of the surface only of real property consisting of 4.5 acres more or less situated at the Southeast Corner of Johnson Road and Harrell Drive located at 3095 Johnson Road, Southlake, Texas 76092, part of Lot 18, JG Allen Edition,
Tarrant County. John? Thank you, mister Robert. So, let me just go back and review a little bit of, where we were to to get to this point. In, January, the board declared, three pieces of property access. Prior to that, the board had declared, the Golden Triangle property as as access. So we we actually had four pieces of property that the board had passed that
resolution on. Statute requires that the board, pass a resolution declaring them access. It then, requires that if the district is going to sell that property, it notice has to be printed in the newspaper on two separate occasions, which we did, and, stating how and when sealed bids for those properties would be received. So that notice was printed.
And at the January, we received, a number of offers for three of the four We did not receive any interest in, the one property, which is, there, by Basswood Elementary. This was one of those properties. In working with JLL, the the broker that, the the board had appointed, we were able to go through and analyze those offers, and they worked with the, top respondents
to those sealed bids, which brings us to tonight. We have reached agreement for, the top bidder for these four and a half acres, which is, Clay Homes. Their goal is to build approximately three to four homes on that property. The sales price, that was bid and accepted was $2,700,000 for that, four and a half acres. There is some, due diligence that needs to be done both by the buyer and
on our behalf. There, is planning and, of course, zoning changes that will will need to occur. But what we're asking for the board's approval tonight is to pass the resolution, which will allow us to to move forward with, with that contract, and to, to begin the the process and the due diligence that's necessary, to finalize that sale. So the administration recommends that the board of trustees approve the resolution concerning the sale of surplus real property as presented.
So moved. Do I have a motion? So moved. Do I have a second? I'll second it then. Any discussion? All in favor? One, two, three, four. All opposed? Zero. Any extent abstentions? I choose to abstain. No abstain. There were no, items pulled from the consent agenda. We move to preview. We have a preview of revisions to policy b e. Bryce? Yeah. So last month's month's meeting, the board discussed revising policy BE local. We took those discussions. We looked around some of our peer districts.
We received some additional, input from trustees following the meeting and had some discussions with Tasby, to draft the revisions in the agenda tonight. You'll see those revisions at the agendas. Most of those are revisions at the agenda section of the policy draft. The revised verbiage would allow any single trustee to request an agenda item and require that the item appear on the agenda of a regular meeting within sixty days after being timely submitted, which is ten calendar days before the meeting. If it's determined by the superintendent or board president, the item is the same.
We got a lot of echo there. Sorry. Over here. Or similar to a subject that has previously been considered by the board, the issue would be brought to, public vote by the board at the next scheduled regular meeting to consider whether the item should be added to a subsequent agenda. Those changes are intended to encompass the discussions from last month, but I do want to point out that TASB also had a recommended change at the special emergency meeting section of the policy, allowing two members to request a special meeting instead of three. They cited just concerns about potential inadvertent violations of the Texas Open Meetings Act, requiring
three members to call, one of those meetings. So, as this it's a preview item. Some of the actions gonna be taken this evening, but I'm happy to collect any additional feedback, with the intention of bringing it back to you guys at a future meeting. Sure. I think that, if, you know, when when it talks about the if if a subject has been previously considered by the board and a board member requested the same or similar subject be placed on the agenda, the board may determine by majority vote whether the item will place in the future agenda.
I think there needs to be a timetable associated to that because virtually every topic we could talk about could be considered a few a past, meeting. And, so I think I think there needs to be a a reasonable timetable associated with that. A lot can change in a year, six months, nine months, or five years. Right? And so that would be my suggestion. Good. So I had a suggestion on the what is it? Page two zero three. It says at an appropriate time, and I think that's part of the problem we had and why we are changing this to begin with.
So I'd like to see us take appropriate out so there's not a judgment call. So where it says on the next appropriate agenda right there? Yes. Just say the next agenda. Next agenda, gotcha, yep. Thank you. Where's that, Jennifer? On page two, the first full paragraph, the blue on our copy. Yeah. The first part of the blue. It says, currently, it says the next appropriate agenda. I I think if we just say the next agenda. Sure. I'm not are you seeing what she's saying? I guess I would like to mister Coker's, feedback.
Is there a goal for how like, what would be appropriate, number? I don't know. Are you gonna work five years? Well, honestly, I think that, six months maybe. I mean, like, if you look at, for example, really, the there's many things that can change in any from legislation to insurance policy to anything that you that could possibly happen. I mean, six months is a long time in the world of of governance and
insurance and gas prices and transportation. So I think six months is a reasonable time. The, you know, we should be able to address any topic again after six a six month time frame. Perfect. Thanks. Appreciate it. I just have a small technical thing. We reviewed draft agendas, not preliminary. So on page two, in the same paragraph Jennifer was talking about, I would propose we and it says in reviewing the preliminary, change that to draft. Draft. You don't need it? Sure. Go ahead. What? See what I'm talking?
Oh. Right here to draft. Okay. And, Jennifer, I apologize. I I can't find it. Where's the the appropriate Where do you see the preliminary Oh, on on page two. Yeah. Yeah. Hey. Okay. Chris, I was gonna ask you for clarification. Are you saying that if the topic has been spoken about within six months, we do the vote, and then outside of that six months, we wouldn't need a vote. Correct? Correct. I was yeah. So what my suggestion is that after six months, the board member should be able
to bring a topic up for discussion again. Right? Because a lot can change in that time frame, and it could change variables or what have you. Any other comments? So you'll take those suggestions into consideration with the revision when we see it? Yep. Is it in April? Yep. Very good. And then I would also add, in the meantime, if you guys have any feedback, if you go home and read through and start thinking about it, please let me know if you have other things that, that you would like us to, to think
about including in the run for approval next meeting. Definitely, yeah. Thank you. Thanks, Bryce. So we'll have a, work session and discussion on tonight's agenda to consider board operating procedures, that we've all received, a draft of and hopefully, we've had a chance to review. So first of all, I wanna, I wanna thank, Heather and Jennifer and Chelsea because this is one of the opportunities where we created a board subcommittee.
And, these three individuals, worked quite hard on coming up with this draft, so thank you for that. And, yeah, we'll let it, let the conversation open up. Yeah. Just, to to state that, you know, upon inspection of other school districts that this is common practice. I know feedback from, mister Campbell about and and Jennifer as well about going to TASB last summer, that that was also a common common practice amongst other districts.
So, just trying to get it all in in one place, and it's not gonna be very specific because we referred back to board policy because those policies can change and be updated and we want didn't wanna be pigeonholed in our board operating procedures. But this just gives us a nice place to to refer to to make sure that we're all on the same page. Yeah. And to piggyback off of that, I know for us, especially with this being the first board operating procedure, I think it was important that we didn't get too far into the weeds whenever we were mapping everything out.
Plus, I mean, we were starting from scratch to map everything out, and we didn't want it to be, so convoluted. So, I think this is a great jumping off point, especially for this board as either through turnover and things of that nature, if there's other people that wanna put their stamp on it to expand upon it, things of that nature. But definitely going through everything. You know, our goal was to ensure that everything that is within the BOP is, in fact, pointing back to that the policy and procedure that we have. So, yeah, love to hear your thoughts on it.
So I have a a couple of thoughts. Just, first of all, I think there needs to be just a proofreading. You know, there's some things that probably just need to be proofread. I would There's three specific areas that I would like to, just consider. They're not numbered but And, John, let me interject real quick. Is our goal was once we all had a look at this is that we would send it to the attorneys to make sure that everything was in line and proper and according to policy and state law. So this is, again, is just the the draft that then will go, and be
viewed by the attorneys to make sure that we're in compliance. For sure. And, also, if anything needed to be added or subtracted or if there's something that you you saw that you feel absolutely does not adhere to how we actually operate as a board, we we wanna make those changes as well before we get it to legal. So Yeah. Whoever is taking notes on it. I yeah. Just three three things in particular. I I get the point, about legal review. Of course, we want that done and I'm I'm happy that we're putting some board policies, operating procedures, together.
But under seven b, because it seven b, third bullet point, Chelsea. Mhmm. The way policy currently reads, the policy revisions, and are adopted, but were also reviewed and adopted by the board. And we used the preview process, so we might need to just wordsmith that a little bit. You know, they're they're not just adopted. They're previewed by the board and then adopted or however it needs to read.
I would also go to, viewed and adopted. Got it. Where's the next one? Eight. Well, eight and it just says policy references. This is having to do with committees. And we have board policy that actually has two types of committees. Community committees and then board committees. So we have policy BDB covering the, community committees like the advisory, but we also have BDF which is specific to the committee that you three, were part of.
I think the last thing I have is You said that one was specific to board committees or community committees? Well, I I don't remember without going to the policy. Oh, no worries. BDB and BDF go hand in hand. One is for one and, Bryce, correct me if I'm wrong. One is for one type of committee and and the other is for the other type of committee. Correct. Yeah. One's for Okay. So I think for just policy references, we'd wanna show popping out. Okay. And last thing, it's under 14 f.
And there's just a note here, there's no policy references, guidelines adopted by the board operator. I would suggest perhaps updating policy BBF for these, and I think BBF is board ethics, if I'm not mistaken. Sir, you're on you're on you're on bullet point. On Bullet0.14F. 14. Okay. It's a policy reference. Yeah. It's just the policy reference where there's no policy reference, but we could, reference policy.
The closest thing I could find was BBF, which might be Are you saying boy, boy, frog? Yes. BBF. Okay. I I wrote that down wrong. Yes. BBF. Boy, blue Frank. Boy, boy free. I wanted to say frog. Baby, baby free. Whatever. Okay. That's just a suggestion, and then that can be updated and then referenced here so it just doesn't stand out here by itself. That's that's all I had. Otherwise, good work. Okay. Yeah. Because that one was I just wanted to quickly say thank you to Chelsea. She had the pen on this as we say in the writing world and really
when it did all the collating and everything else, and then we helped with that. So thank you for taking the Of course. The lion's share. Well, that's a lot. And thank you for the more work you put into this. We appreciate it very much. Of course. Of course. Yeah. We, we definitely had a meaning of the minds on a lot of this. So it was just more so of, like, how do we wanna structure it and what exactly do we wanna say? So I I appreciate appreciate this committee because I know this was something that we needed to get done. So is there anything else? Anybody else have any concerns? Gokor, do you see anything? I'm just correcting the Frank that I'm good.
Thank you for that correction. I did my best. I would also add here if there's anything that you see as you're going away, feel free to get back and then I'll I'll relay it over to the committee. I wanna thank you all for doing this because I know this is this is something that I've asked, asked you guys for for a while and I appreciate you, putting in the work to get this done. Do you think it was a helpful process to be able to break down some of the work and do it outside and come back? So So I would say we should look at doing it in the future potentially for other stuff. Yeah. And when John and I were or mister Bert were and I were talking about
that, this is a this is a perfect use of a subcommittee. So I'm glad it worked. Yep. Worked exactly the way it was supposed to. So good good work. And, so the next step, I guess, is, you the committee will somebody will send it, clean it up, basically, do the word, I mean, clean it out, but go through and wordsmith. No. That's not the right word either. We'll make the changes, you suggested, and look through it. Well, proofread and make the corrections, suggestions, and then and then it goes to the
attorney. Right? I think we would send it to doctor Wilson and then you'd take it from there. Right? Yeah. Yes. Send it to me and then we will have I'll also get it to Bryce and Bryce and Welch will take a look through everything, make sure we're good to go, and then we'll bring it back to you guys for adoption. Preview and adoption. Preview and adoption. Does it need another preview since it's not an actual policy? That'll be up as a board. Yeah. Okay. Well, I mean, I I think it would have to officially be adopted by the board to be official. I think it would have to be adopted. I just wonder if we need to preview again before we adopt or if we could just bring it back for adoption considering this as the preview.
You don't have to. My understanding is I would I would, again, I'll go back and talk talk to our counsel, Haley Oshkaegas, and then bring that back to you guys. I don't believe we do. It gives you another opportunity to take a look and have any other discussions as a board before we adopt, but we can it's it's really up to you guys. You let me know what you prefer. And I'm I'm more than willing, if there isn't within the next couple weeks, obviously within time to get back on the agenda or get to whoever we need to.
If anybody sees anything else, I'm I'm more than willing to, you know, make any other changes. I I know we're willing to do that. So just keep me posted. Keep keep us posted. We're now ready to, I got the we're now ready to go over scheduling and upcoming events, doctor Wilson. Yes. So it is the start of the busy season as we enter the last nine weeks and start wrapping up, another school year. On March 30, we have our district of innovation committee meeting, our DOI.
On April 2, our long range planning and citizens bond advisory joint council. Remember that's again where we are going to lay out what we, are presenting community as options. And followed by the seventh, we have our citizens bond advisory committee meeting. First one where it's just the bond committee itself. On the eighth, we have our budget workshop. Also at that time, we're gonna talk about some of our MEP data. We'll have a regular board meeting on the twenty third and then we have another citizens bond advisory council as that as the planning to, put that package together for
you later in the summer. Starts up in earnest and that begins on, April 30. So we now move into executive session, which may be called for the purpose of permitted by the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas government code five five one dot zero zero one with five five one dot one four six. Section five five one dot zero seven one, consultation with attorney. Section five five one dot zero seven four, personnel matters, appointment, employment evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, dismissal, complaints.
Section five five one dot zero seven six, deliberation regarding security devices, deployment, implementation of security personnel or devices. Section five five one dot zero eight two, school children, school district employees, disciplinary matters, or complaint, and section five five one dot zero eight two one, personally identifiable information about public school students. Particularly, we will be reviewing applications for KSD board of trustees place six appointment.
There is no action, to be on the agenda following executive session, so we will reconvene and then adjourn. Thank you. Okay, John. Hold on a second. $400,000. Back from executive session at 07:40. There's no other business for the board. I'll take a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. All in favor? Four zero. Five zero. Thank you. I mean, I can vote no. I've been known to do it.