Good evening. It's Thursday, 07/24/2025, and the time is 5PM. This is a regular monthly board meeting of the Keller ISD board of trustees. All trustees are present with the exception of trustee Coker who is on a business trip out of town and trustee Ranklev who had an emergency work conflict come up this afternoon. We'll move into pledges. Bryce. Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for
all. Honor the Texas flag, I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under god, one and indivisible. Thank you, Bryce. Now we'll move, join us for a word of prayer. Vice President Washington. Gracious God, as we come together to make important decisions for our district, we ask for your wisdom and guidance. May this decision be rooted in what is best for our children and their future. Bless all those involved in this process and may your work will be done through our work tonight. Amen. Thank you. As we begin the rest of our meeting, I'd like to highlight the school board
meeting protocols. Any violation to these expectations could result in a request to be removed from the meeting. No signs are allowed as this presents a safety concern. Applause, heckling, bullying, and verbal disturbances of any kind will not be allowed or tolerated during the meeting. Please refrain from side conversations during the meeting as it serves as a distraction. Attacks of a personal nature and name calling against district staff and board members will not be tolerated. Members of the public will not be allowed to approach or walk in front of
the dice at any time during the meeting unless invited to do so. The business of the board begins with audience with individuals. The portion of the meeting is specifically for members of the public to address the board. Your input is encouraged and will always be thoughtfully considered. Please address your comments to the board as a whole rather than to the audience or any individual. Trustees may not respond to audience questions or inquiries, specific complaints or grievances against an individual should be addressed through the grievance process and not in this venue.
We expect everyone to act civilly and with respect. Individuals who wanted to speak were required to sign up before the meeting began. Pursuant to board policy BED local, the amount of time each speaker receives may be adjusted for effective meeting management. Tonight, each individual will have three minutes to address 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 be heard, here when they are called and to be heard, we ask the audience members remain quiet and respectful to 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 is your turn. Bryce, will you please call the speakers? First shift, Gabrielle Gordon followed by Zara Anderson Hemispa. It's Gordon. Alright. Zala Anderson Hemispa followed by Chance Womack. Good evening, everyone. My name is Zara Anderson Himelsbach, and I am the leader of Sunrise Terrence Campaign
for Public Schools, a member of the Keller Student Activism Organization and an incoming sophomore at Central High School. I am here tonight to stand up for my rights and remind this school board that their duty is to serve their constituents regardless of their race, religion, sexuality, gender, or class. The Texas legislature recently passed SB 10, a law that would require the 10 Commandments to be placed in all classrooms in all public schools. This is a blatant violation of the separation of church and state, and I urge you, our board, to take legal action against the state legislature by seeking legal counsel
to take steps to abolish this law. When Louisiana attempted to pass a near clone of this bill, it was declared unconstitutional. I urge you, Keller ISD, to take similar action to maintain classrooms where religions, or lack thereof, are not just tolerated, but accepted and embraced. And let me remind you, trustees, if you are scared to defy the law to protect your students, You were not scared to defy the law when you went behind closed doors, shutting out your own trustees to split our district along racist, classist, bigoted
lines. You were not scared to defy the law when you spent taxpayer money, unbeknownst to them, to push your hateful agenda. You were not scared to defy the law when it served the purpose of exclusivity. Our teachers, parents, and community are taught to encourage critical thinking, new perspectives, and acceptance. So why not defy the law in a way that serves your constituents and serves inclusivity? Speaking of past infringements, John Burt, Charles Randclave, Chris Coker, and Heather Washington, your community is not satisfied with your leadership. Three months ago, I spent hours block walking to ensure new trustees that would stand
for our community's rights and then was bashed online by Chris Coker for standing up for what I believe in. Five months ago, I co organized a walkout that spanned the entirety of our district, got hundreds of students involved, and resulted in mass media turnout. Nine months ago, I showed up with a campaign behind me and press recording me to protest your transphobic policies. And I had my community and my peers behind me every step of the way. We will not stand for your unjust leadership. This is my second call to action. But those trustees involved in the prejudiced and dishonest splitting of our district resign to
make way for transparent leadership that will love and support all of Keller ISD. This is what I ask of you. Be the board that did good. Be the board that stood up in the face of hype hateful and exclusive policy. And to mister Burt, mister Randleff, mister Coker, and miss Washington, be the trustees that stood down when your community decided you were no longer fit for leadership. Thank you. Chance Womack followed by Lelana Matos. Hello? Hi, everyone. My name is Chance Womack. I graduated from Central High School last year. And throughout my time at that school, I have watched the more extreme elements of
this board push an agenda that over time has sunk its claws into public education and will not stop until it suffocates it. I was involved in the fine arts program, and I saw the censorship firsthand. The truth is this board has not represented the population it serves. The bill the Texas state legislator recently passed in which they mandate the 10 commitments be displayed in classrooms is an attack on public education, an attack on the population for which public education provides for. Public education should be an environment where all students are welcomed, not just those that belong to the groups that hold the most political power. How would you feel if you were to send your child to a classroom that
pushed ideas you don't believe in? Education is a place for developing your ability to think, not having the ideas of the powerful be instilled in the next generation. So I urge this board to represent us, to represent their students that will be marginalized by this measure. You are willing to defy the law to split our district against our will. Now please, defy the law to protect us. This bill is unconstitutional. Follow Louisiana's example, strike it down, take legal action, protect our freedom to have our own beliefs, maintain the principles this country is built on, and represent the people you
serve. Thank you. Leilana Madis followed by Zephyr Peoples. Good evening, KISD board, students, teachers, and community members. My name is Leilana Matas and I'm a student at Keller ISD. I'm here today to encourage you to take action against SB 10, a bill that will require the 10 commandments to be displayed in all Texas classrooms. While this may seem like a good idea to many people on the school board, it will only result in your students being alienated from one another. Although I haven't gone to church in many years, I understand the importance of God's teachings. Throughout the Bible, the stories that are told have many goals in mind, but a significant one is to encourage you to be a good person.
Due to this, you must be kind and giving. You must not lie or cause harm, but above all, you must be respectful. Now this can be done in a number of ways. In fact, the 10 commandments tells us to not only honor their mother and father, but also have no other god before the one true Christian god. While this might be one person's goal, this isn't going to be everyone else's. And I fear in this effort to be faithful, you have forgotten to respect others and push entire communities to the side. This bill will not only alienate people of other religions, but it will sorry. This bill will alienate people of other religions.
Students who fast for Ramadan or light the menorah for Chanukah. If it becomes law, this isolation will only get worse. The separation between church and state will be broken. And what will stop the state from requiring bible study or prayers in public schools? I know it is incredibly easy to ignore all of this, to ignore your students that are Jewish, Muslim, trans, gay, or even undocumented in favor of your own ideals. But I promise you, the longer you decide to not take action against this bill, the more harm that will come to your students. You will hear me say this for as long as I have to, but students deserve to learn in a school they feel safe in, no matter their identity, race,
or religion. Posting the 10 commandments in schools isn't going to do that. It isn't going to encourage kids to be proud of what makes them different. Our school district has around 34,000 students in it, most of which you and I will personally never know. Each just as different as the next, and that's a good thing. It's a great thing to embrace myself and others for our differences and I wish I didn't have to come up here on the stand to tell you that. Please stand up to the state and seek legal action on what you can do to take action against this unconstitutional bill. Stand up for us. Zephyr Peoples followed by Jacob Ryan Everett.
Hello? Is this good? Can you hear me? I'm sorry. Hello? Okay. What? Okay. Alright. So I'm also here to talk about the senate bill 10, which is clearly unconstitutional. I'm requesting the board take action against this either through suit or any other legal means possible. But I think it's just I wanna explain really why senate bill 10 is so ridiculous. So it's requiring the 10 commandments of a very specific religious branch of Christianity to be displayed in every single Excuse me just a minute. Can you get either closer to the microphone? I'm having a hard time.
Raise it up. You're taller than the microphone. Thank you. Sorry. So it requires the 10 commandments to be posted in every single classroom. And this is, first of all, crazy because I can't imagine or I can imagine in how ridiculous it is that next year, I'll be taking United States history. And I'll have a clear violation of the First Amendment First Amendment separation of church and state in the classroom. This is not only hostile to many students, but just legal with already legal precedent of how unconstitutional it is with precedent from the Supreme Court almost 50 ago and
Louisiana recently ruling on it being unconstitutional as well as the Supreme Court ruling, Taylor versus Mount, a recent Supreme Court ruling stating how the schools cannot infringe any beliefs that will impose any religious beliefs that will infringe on religious practice. I have yet to hear a reasonable argument as to why this is helpful in any way. I would love to hear if anybody could tell me why.
But it, overall, is just a continuation of a pattern that creates hostility towards students. And if the board does not take any action against this to protect our students as well as staff members and the community, then I must also request the resignation that of trustees that are complicit with this, and you know who you are. Other policies that do need to be fixed include a dead name policy that creates hostility towards, queer students, isolating them in the classroom, a book banning policy that puts
gender fluidity as more taboo than glorification of suicide. Among other things in recent this past year that have been incredibly harmful to education. If the board does not protect students, then what are you doing? That's your job. So help us or resign. Thank you. Jacob Ryan Everett followed by Stacy Miller. Hello. My name is Jacob Everett and I am a sophomore at CHS. One thing I wanted to talk about today is the new law that is being passed throughout Texas. This law is very unconstitutional because it breaks the First Amendment, one of the 10
that helped build this entire country. In breaking this, you're going against the country, which can be bad, but if you help us try to fix this, it can be even better. We can have inclusivity for everyone with religion, race, any different kind of person in this community. And so one of the main things is the religion part. This is trying to give the 10 Commandments to be in every single classroom in this entire district, which could be a really good thing if this was a in
a Catholic school district. We are not a Catholic school district, so we shouldn't have this here because then it will try to force and pressure people into following Christianity, and it will try to force people to go by rules that they don't even follow. This would be very important because we all have our different opinions, and without this, we're just following something that we don't believe. And this would be very upsetting for people like students, faculty members, and people of the community. We all have our own opinions because if we were the same person, we wouldn't
be able to do things differently. Everything would end the same way. That includes religion because if we try to find religion with Christianity only, this can also stunt growth of trying to be more open minded towards new knowledge. And people from a very young age are taught that we should be open to other things, different religions, different sexualities that we can perceive. And if we do this, then there will be no inclusivity of religion and so
we will only think that Christianity is good and it will try to force us to think that only Christians are the good type of religion out of all of them, which isn't correct. Everyone believes their own things. So we need to be very inclusive about what people believe and make it important to others and not just the people that will listen. Thank you. Stacy Meadow followed by Chloe. Stacy is not here. Chloe? Good evening. My name is Chloe Hedrick. I am a member of the fine arts department and an incoming junior at Keller
High. Recently, the state legislature passed law SB 10, which will require that the 10 Commandments be mandatory placement in all schools. This law is not only a violation of the First Amendment principle of the separation of church and state, It is an actively harmful decision that will only make life harder for all students, especially students of LGBTQ orientation. By enforcing your political and religious beliefs on students who are neither Christian nor fit your conservative mold of what a student should be, I ask, how far are you willing to further this agenda? Will you ban the religious practices of non Christian students altogether?
Will it come down to suppressing queer and trans voices that demand to be heard? Will it end with banning the rights of students this board is supposed to protect? Louisiana has already deemed a similar law unconstitutional, and shouldn't that say enough? I ask that you take legal action against this law. You have already broken the trust of this district by hiding your intentions to split it, a decision that would have spent taxpayer money and done irreversible damage to the people of this community. To mister Burt, mister Wrencleve, mister Coker, and miss Washington, I ask that you step down from your places at this board due to your violation of that trust.
This school district is supposed to encourage individuality and being different. It is supposed to respect children who do not fit the norms and foster kindness. This law and the policies that will follow it if you do not do something will hurt those that you pretend to care about. Because if you really did care, it would be overturned. I am a Christian, but I am also queer. I have peers and friends who are black and Latino and trans, queer, and disabled, and I can tell you right now that those students have shown more honesty and strength in their beliefs than some members of this board ever will.
We exist. We will continue to exist despite the policies that you enact. If you want to stand on the correct side of history, you will choose to listen to the people who have the most to lose. Thank you. And one more call for, Gabrielle Gordon. I apologize for being late. My name is Gabrielle Gordon, and I've been a resident of, this area of KISD District for over thirty five years, and my daughter graduated from Central High School. The first thing I'd like to, say is my belated congratulations for, our new our
trustees, miss Erickson, Miss Kelly, and Randy Campbell. Congratulations and welcome on the, as a trustee. I'm here again to talk about my perennial, request is the pregnancy support program. We've, have a lot of debt in Keller ISD. There's we have, issues about, you know, money not coming in from the federal government and I would like to have the old Pregnancy Support Program reinstated. Right now it is, it is divided, with all the four schools and it has
been decentralized when we had a centralized program. The number one reason girls quit school is pregnancy. And a pregnant a girl who has a baby, who does not have a high school education cannot support that child unless they have a lot of other support. And we all want people to be support themselves and their children. And our previous program was very good and I'd like to see it back. The second thing I would like to say is I hear, students, talking tonight and
I urge everyone to support the new Keller Pride, group and they've had some fundraisers and they're having a festival at, St. Martin's in October, So I hope everyone comes and supports, Keller Pride. The last thing I'd like to talk about is, the I heard a report on CBC, which is Canadian Broadcasting corporation about the rise of misogyny in our high in our schools and all of North America.
This has been spurred on some by some, social media hosts like Joe Rogan and it's getting to the point where young men are, demeaning women by saying things like shut up and make me a sandwich or, I want to see the man in charge and they're also doing this to their female teachers. And I don't know what the program or what the policy is in Keller ISD to this is not good behavior it is, demeaning to women and it is not good for girls and makes them uncomfortable and even fearful And again I don't know
what the policy is for this but we do not need, misogyny in our schools. Thank you. Trustees, we're now going to executive session for the purposes permitted by the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas government code section five five one dot zero zero one through five five one dot one four six, section five five one dot zero seven one, legal consultation regarding pending legal matters, board representation. Section five five one dot zero seven two, deliberation regarding real estate property, purchase, exchange,
lease, or value. Section five five one dot zero seven four, personnel matters, appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, dismissal, complaint. 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, firstly identifiable information about public
school students. Time is 05:25. We will return as soon as we can. Thank you. We are back from executive session at, 05:40. Our first action item is to consider hiring of doctor Corey Wilson as superintendent and approval of superintendent contract. Do I have a motion? I move that we hire and name doctor Corey Wilson as the superintendent of the
Keller Independent School District And I authorize mister Burt to finalize oh, and authorize mister Burt to finalize his contracts on terms as discussed. Do I have a second? Mister Burt, I'm proud to second that motion. I think we have a motion and a second. Do we have any discussion? I just wanna say thank you for the last few months. You've done a phenomenal job, as well as your staff and, I look forward to things to come and as we work through the challenges and the good and the bad and the ugly and all the things in between.
So thank you for all the hard work. All in favor? All opposed? Motion carries five zero. I would like to make a a brief statement. Doctor Wilson has served Keller ISD as interim superintendent since February. He's been an educator for twenty seven years, with the last twenty three years being in Keller Independent School District. Doctor Wilson's background in education and his history with KISD is well documented on the KISD website, so not spend time recanting that information.
Since his appointment as interim superintendent in February, the board has been pleased with doctor Wilson's leadership and performance. Tonight's vote, together with previous support from trust the trustees not present, confirms the board's full confidence and faith in doctor Wilson's ability to lead Keller ISD, and we're excited to have him at the helm. With intentional collaboration between central administration, the campuses, PTAs, parents, and the community, we expect
to see continued focus on operational efficiencies, but most importantly, focus on academic performance, the trades, and special offerings through KCAL and KCA, and developing students through athletics and fine arts. Congratulations, doctor Wilson, on being hired as Keller ISD's superintendent. So man, I can't even get through the introduction part.
So obviously, I couldn't do this without two people that are sitting in this audience. My wife, Angela, would you stand and say hi? And my son And my son, Garrett. Thank you. Thanks to you for your sacrifices and for supporting me. I'd also say my mom and dad, I gave them permission just like mister Guerrero or doctor Guerrero gave her parents last week to view this as mom and dad's
first time. So, wherever the camera is, I love you guys. Thank you for all you've done, and I look forward to working with this board. I look forward to, to watching this young man who is entering seventh grade, graduate from high school here in a few short years. And, we have a bright future ahead of us. We have a great team and we're gonna do great things. So, I love you guys. Mom and dad love you guys and, thank you so much. Is there an official photo to be taken? Thank you, Angela and Garrett, for sharing your husband and your dad, with this district.
We'll now move into, board president's update. First off, I wanna give a big shout out to Lee Cook for organizing this year's Back to School Bash and all the volunteers, sponsors, and vendors that took part. It was great seeing all the kids and parents who I could tell couldn't wait for the school year to begin. We may hear more, from from miss Cook here in a little bit. Second thing, as a result of the recently concluded legislative session, you will see a number of procedural and policy changes and recommendations from TASB coming out to be in
compliance with some of the new state laws, some of which we're previewing I emphasize previewing tonight. We're one of the few districts that previews policies, revisions, and additions that get adopted at a subsequent meeting, which is a good thing. You will hear more about this as the meeting progresses. I also wanna give, a shout out to Keller Lions Club, Raider Express, Shotzke's Bar and Grill, Hash Kitchen in Fort Worth, and the multitude of other organizations throughout the
Keller Independence School District community that provided assistance to help those recovering from the recent floods in Central Texas. With the start of our school year just around the corner, let's keep those who will be starting their school year during cleanup and recovery in our thoughts and our prayers. Doctor Wilson? Yes for our superintendent's report tonight I wanna start off with, I believe Johania Johania and John have been working extremely hard to make sure that our salary schedules are
exactly what, we ensured that our teachers would receive this year, our teachers and and staff. So to start with, I just wanna clarify for our staff and for the trustees that, just as we presented, just as John presented in July or I'm sorry, in June, teachers with five plus years of experience will receive $5,000 plus their step. Sometimes that'll range from 100 on the low end to, I believe around $8,900 at
the higher end. But all teachers, all eligible staff who are on that pay scale, who are on that step scale, will receive that step along with the 5,000 for the five for the five year plus teachers, for the three year plus teachers, three to four years, it's 2,500. All of their staff is, the 3%. They did I'm pleased that, after some checking that, Johanina came back and shared that we do have some teachers we didn't believe would be included in the state allocation.
That doesn't mean everybody, that still doesn't account for, a few few classes of teachers, so we've had to separate those out. You'll actually actually see a new salary schedule. I think the frustrating part for us is they're all teacher contracts, but there was a specific definition that the state gave us to use with regard to those allocations. And so, that's the flow through money as as we've shared, but, I did want you to know that we're getting those up. If they already haven't been up, I think Bryce may have posted them.
So you guys can take a look, but we wanna ensure that everybody understands that that they will receive their steps. Also I have another question about longevity stipends. Our employees who work for ten years, do receive a longevity stipend. It's timed really well, I was right before Christmas in November, and there is, those are still in the budget, those will still be handed out this year and so teachers will teachers and staff, will receive their longevity stipend.
Secondly, a couple weeks ago, governor Abbott did call the legislature back into session, for the first executive session. There were three items that he talked about that could significantly impact public ed. One of them is called a ban on lobbying by taxpayer funded entities. What that would cover is educators associations. The challenge is our voices, our professional voices, the representation of our teachers. They wouldn't have the ability to go down there and lobby our our congress or
not congressman, our legislators, which could obviously take a big pro public education voice at DOWB from the state level. The second one that that obviously is is unfortunately becoming quite of a quite a bit of a refrain is that, they are talking about imposing further spending limits on taxing entities. As you know, they our tax rate is largely controlled by the state, it looks like they want to put further restrictions on those that would that would cut off
our ability to educate our students but the bigger as we see fit but also it's just more an erosion of local control. And finally the one that we are all in favor of, in fact we ask the governor for this ourselves, amongst quite a few other school districts, is ending and replacing STAR. The Texas House of Representative proposed a really good bill that would eliminate STAR and replace it with MAP testing and that is definitely a positive for kids, teachers, parents,
and our district. We initially thought that that the cost of that with with MAP would be about 300 to $400,000, but as Matt reminded me yesterday, the what we're actually gonna save in technology because what he's charged with is replacing devices that keep up with that that allow our students to conduct a test online because all testing has now been pushed online. That will actually save us close to about a million dollars or so, that we can push down and so we can change our refresh cycle, and put some extra
money in our pockets. So that would definitely be a wonderful thing for the school district. We also had a big event this morning, where is she at? Big event girl. She is here to share a little bit about it. I will tell you I was over there and it was packed. And missus Price was there early and she said the line was down the street. So I'm gonna have, Leigh Cook share a little bit about the back to school bash for us. Leigh? Thank you Chris, appreciate it. Good evening everyone. Thank you very much. Yes, today was our sixth annual back to school bash held at Fossil Ridge High
School and it was a huge success. I would like to thank several organizations and groups first, the Keller Council of PTAs, the Keller Chamber of Commerce, Medical City Alliance, and Freeform Chiropractic. They provided our physicals for us this morning. All of our other vendors, organizations, and district staff who worked so hard to make this event such a huge success. I'm very appreciative. I do need to recognize two very special groups. First, the young men service league. These young men and their moms came on Tuesday and created all of our 2,000
school supply packs one at a time and then a bunch of them came back this morning, and they help us all year long. So I wanted to make sure that I recognize those folks. And second, I want to recognize the Fossil Ridge High School, custodial staff. They did a phenomenal job this week helping us get ready for this event while they're also trying to make sure that Ridge is ready for a new school year and there's a couple of hallways they might have to touch up with WACS today. So, I'm very appreciative to Patricia Espinosa and her team. The goal of this event has always been to help ensure that our struggling families
are ready for a successful new school year. We, along with our community, try to provide a one stop shop to get ready for a new year and we feel like we provided that today for a lot of our families. While we don't have final numbers yet, I can tell you that we had just over 2,000 backpacks to give away along with those school supply bundles, all purchased by Keller Council of PTAs, and we had a lot of empty boxes at the end of the day. So we are very excited about that. The Chamber of Commerce provided composition notebooks and packages of notebook paper for all of
those backpacks and 16 different businesses in Keller hosted donation boxes on-site and we collected supplies from those and all of those are gone as well. The chamber then hosted today's hospitality room for all of our vendors because of course our event continued to be a lunch hour today so that was a huge help. In addition to the school supplies, the students had the opportunity to get required vaccinations, get a vision and or dental screening, and a school physical, and only the vaccinations had a required charge. We have to pay for the medicine for those.
There are approximately 80 vendors who attended community organizations and district services available for parents to visit. And rather than charging our vendors a fee, we asked them to bring a small school supply item, an eraser, a highlighter, a small pencil sharpener, those kinds of things that families can pick up at their tables so that when families leave the event, they have a fully packed backpack, which is very exciting. And seeing the smiles on the little ones, especially the the pre k babies and the kindergartners that's hitting them in the back of the knees and it's just one
of my favorite things of the entire year. SOS International provided snow cones and cotton candy and that was a huge hit with the kids. There were some kids who weren't quite as excited about the backpacks as their parents were, but the cotton candy and the snow cones smooth things over a little bit, so we're excited about that. We also had a DJ and a photo booth, so it took on kind of a carnival feel and that was a great way to get ready for a new school year. Thank you to all of you who joined us. I'm very appreciative of your attention to this event, and we look forward to next
year so thank you very very much. Thank you, Lee. Of course. Lee. As we Can I say something real quick? Sure. I just wanna say it's a great example of when our community comes together with all the vendors and helping our students. But it takes the vision to pull it together. I know it's a lot of hours and a lot of time, even a passion project. So thank you very much and thanks for pulling the community together to help our kids. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Lee. I also wanted to give you a quick update as as you know it's getting hot outside. Ramping up quick just in time for the start of school and, as doctor Allison
has talked about for years, our systems need upgrading and the work that we need to do to get them taken care of is significant. So I asked Dustin to just, put together a quick update as far as what we're doing with our AC systems and and what the plans are when the the outages that we know are gonna happen. When those pop up, what are we gonna do? So, Mr. White. Yes. Thank you, Doctor. Wilson. So I'm just gonna give a, overview of the summer HV HVC work that was done and is still taking is taking place and being done as we speak.
During the summer months, a comprehensive effort was undertaken to ensure that all HV systems across the district are prepared for the upcoming school year. This report will provide a detailed overview of the activities performed, including inspections, maintenance, equipment replacement, and the process for reporting HVC issues. Quarterly inspections of chillers and preventive maintenance. All chillers district wide underwent quarterly inspections to assess their operational status and identify any potential issues. These inspections included repairs of defective parts and focused on preventative maintenance and system evaluation.
The inspections aim to ensure we have optimal performance and energy efficiency for the upcoming academic year. Additional preventive maintenance was conducted at other district locations including the Ag Science Center, the Central High School Field House, the Compass Center, Falls Village High School Field House, and the Annex Building, to name a few. We also had a we're also in the process of doing some equipment replacement. Recently, Trinity Springs Middle School, experienced, HVC issues. These issues have been ongoing for, I would say, at least the last couple years.
We've been aware of them as a district. We've tried to address them to the best of our ability. We've run into the position now where any maintenance we've done to them is just not working and the units are failing. So we are purchasing three units, to be installed. Luckily, two of those units are in stock and ready for installation prior to the start of school year, which is the goal. And then the third unit has some lead time that we have to order and bring into the district. We expect those three units to provide a significant improvement in the cooling issues at the campus. However, we will still continue to monitor because there's some other work that has to
be done. Service agreements and system evaluation. To help support the district HPC operations, the district maintains service agreements with multiple vendors. These agreements help cover and support preventive maintenance and routine maintenance. They help provide emergency repairs when needed. They help with system upgrades, and they help with spot cooler deployment, which I'll talk about during in the notification process. The vendors include Intech Carry Services, Century Mechanical, Rescue Cooling Rentals, American Mechanical Services, and Efficient Facilities International.
The district has also partnered with Trane to evaluate and analyze system performance, inspect equipment conditions, and review energy consumption patterns. The findings from these assessments will help prioritize maintenance and repair activities as we move forward, focusing on critical issues that could impact system reliability. By addressing these urgent concerns first, the district can potentially prevent costly breakdowns and extend the lifespan of our systems and units to the best of our ability. Notification of issue reporting. So when we have an issue on our campuses.
As you know, with any type of mechanical system, there are unforeseen issues that arise and require repairs. To streamline issue reporting and expedite service response, campuses submit a work order and then call extension 3950, which is manned all day from the morning till the afternoon by Heather Hitting, who does a wonderful job of triaging these. She we ask that when they do report these issues, that they provide as much detail as possible, including, the problem, including the location, and then we get this information to a tech for assessment.
If the issue cannot be assessed immediately and or the repair and or repaired, the district has a partnership with Rescue Cooling for spot cooler deployment if necessary. The process ensures prompt attention to HPC concerns with a solution to maintaining a comfortable environment for students and staff if the repairs cannot be performed in a timely manner. In conclusion, the summer HBC work has been comprehensive, focusing on preventive maintenance, system functionality, and targeted unit replacement. The district is positioned to transition the new school year with a plan for issue
reporting, continued maintenance, and targeted in unit replacement. That's in conclusion of my report. I would be happy to answer any questions you may have. I think, Nelson, just to be be clear, this does not imply that we won't have some issues probably? No, sir. Okay. I just wanted to be be be clear that we will, have some issues, but you have a plan in place to address them as quickly as possible. So thank you. Yes, sir. Doctor Wilson, to to mister Burt's comment, all of these efforts are done to try
to ensure that when school starts, we we we have the the best learning environment possible. The reality of it is when you look at the age of our systems, these efforts have helped us extend them beyond their their life expectancy. So we have units that's life expectancy is twenty years, and they're 28, 29 years old. So, yes, we we are going to have issues. And in many cases, the the best we can do is extend that life a
little more, but the the only real solution will be when we can begin to replace those those units. That's that's the only way we can guarantee that that we won't. And as you look at the long term weather forecast, we've gone this long this summer without a 100 degree day, and it looks like we're ready to hit, those 100 degree days just about the time our our students arrive back at campus. So responding to these as quickly as we can, trying to triage them and impact them, but the only real solution to address, many of the issues we face is
just the the the complete replacement and upgrading and modernization of our equipment. I would add to that as he's saying the replacement and I wish we could go back and replace all of those, But this is as as we start working to bring you our our mechanical, electrical, and plumbing, study, that we've conducted, this is it's gonna highlight the the amount of work that needs to be done. And just for some context, the the three four three or four.
Three units at Trinity Springs, that was a replacement cost of $200,000 for three units. Exact there you go. And if you if you spread that out and that and that doesn't replace the whole building. That's three units in that building. How many units are in one building? Yeah, it's it's quite a bit. So if you multiply that out over the number of schools we have, particularly your larger facilities, then it's a significant amount and, it just reinforces the need for us
to to really look about how do we address those, those infrastructure needs. So thank you guys, I appreciate that. And finally we are, well I have two things because somebody just walked in that I would like to introduce to you. We just have new teachers starting next week. New teachers are starting next week. Returning I can't believe that. Returning teachers are starting two weeks and, as Garrett will be excited, here in two and a half weeks, three weeks or so, he gets to go back to Indian
Springs and start seventh grade. So all kids are coming back here pretty quick, and we are excited, but there's certainly a lot to do. The last thing before I end our our superintendent's report tonight, last week we were, we approved or you guys approved the hiring of the principal at Basswood Elementary. And it was quick notice. It was during the day and her family and her were unable to join us, but she is here tonight. And she just walked in, this is perfect timing.
She can get in here and say hi. And so I would like to introduce, the principal at our new principal at Basswood Elementary School, Jordan Niswander. Hi, good evening. I wanna thank each of you first, on the board and doctor Wilson for this incredible opportunity to be the principal of Basswood Elementary. It's been a week already and I've loved every second of it, and I'm very honored to be a part of the best feeder pattern, Panther feeder pattern. And, here tonight I have my husband Josh and our youngest Landon and then both
my parents, Gordon and Karen who are also educators as well. So this means a lot and they're all so supportive and I could not have done that without each of them. So again, thank you so much for this opportunity. I'm excited and excited to be a part of the Basswood family. So thank you. Exactly. Exactly. There's a lot across the street that you need to mow, Jordan. I'm just kidding. We'll get that taken care of. It's it's fun to see. I interviewed Jordan. I was sitting in for an interview for actually Kevin, and I interviewed Jordan for
an assistant principal position many years ago and I knew she was the right one for not that job but a different job I already had it picked out for. And she took that and she has done nothing but awesome work over at Liberty Elementary and she is going to do a great job at Basswood. So congratulations Jordan, we're looking forward to your leadership. And with that, that concludes our superintendent's report. Thank you, doctor Wilson. We're moving to reports.
Back at you. So I have asked Jennifer Price, to give us a a quick update. Accountability is coming out in a couple weeks and so I want to preview at a very high level just because all of our data right now is preliminary. And so I've asked her to to present to you just a little bit with regard to student performance. Alright. Good evening. Tonight, I'm going to review a preliminary, STAR and EOC. EOC is our end of course for our high school students and, our AP results.
So AP is stands for advanced placement, so these are courses that students can take for college credit. How do I get that thing to go? Sorry. One second. Thank you. I need to turn it on. Alright. So as a reminder, STAR, when students take take the STAR assessment, the state reports results back in three one of three categories, approaches, meets, and masters. So approaching is considered passing, and we have a little bit higher of a percentage
which is meets, and then masters student can get on star. This test is a one time test. It's administered one time in the spring. It's in April and May. And this is very important when we start thinking about star versus math. And this is very important when we start thinking about STAR versus MAP, STAR results come back after students and teachers have left for the summer. So once the results come back, the teachers typically don't see them. If they're checking their email, they might see them in in late June.
Typically, they don't get to look at those results until they come back for August professional development. So this is a very delayed, reporting, and it does nothing for us. There's no action that we can take when we're getting results back in the summer. It's important to also know that starting a few years ago, the state started using artificial intelligence to score what's called short constructed responses. That's where a sentence is posed to the students, and they answer in three to
five sentences. So artificial intelligence is grading those, and there was a a high percentage of students scoring a zero across the state. And in order to get those rescored, you have to pay the state per student to get those rescored. Just a little caveat there. And I wanna take a minute to clarify misconceptions because when data starts coming out, a lot of times we see on social media. Well, it's students who score approaches, they're not performing on grade level.
We all have kids who have taken this test, we know that is not true. A lot of times we'll we'll hear, well, if a student is not scoring at the meets level, then that means they can't read. That's not true. And so those are misconceptions that social media starts to take a hold of, where we're gauging a student's star performance on their reading ability. That is that is not accurate. And so, I just feel like it's important to all all remember that as as
we go through. I do wanna spend a few minutes talking about acceleration in Keller ISD. So before when we start looking at our data, we look at it by grade level and we start comparing how did we do, comparison to other districts, but in Keller there are some areas where it's not an apples to apples comparison and math is one of those areas. As you are probably familiar, we've talked about our acceleration options in math. We have on level math, we have advanced math, and we have hybrid math.
So I want to look at, some scenarios. So let's take a look at the first line which is kindergarten. So kindergarten across when you look at on level advanced, it's kindergarten. Let's look at third grade. So that's where we start to see the acceleration in regards to hybrid. So in third grade, we have third grade on level, third grade advanced math, and then in hybrid, students are learning third and fourth grade math during their third grade year. In fourth grade, the students who are in hybrid start taking the fifth grade STAAR.
So we can't compare our fourth grade results to our neighboring districts because they don't have hybrid math. We start to see that as we go through, the upper grade levels, seventh grade. You can see we have students who take seventh grade, seventh and eighth grade accelerated, and our hybrid students, are taking algebra one as seventh graders. That is two years ahead of of their peers. And so I think it's important to realize, STAR does not take into account acceleration
opportunities like this. And so it's just not apples to apples. And we love our opportunities, and and we value that. And so we we just wanna make sure that when when we are comparing our data, we have to know what we're looking at. We do also have reading, language arts acceleration, and that really starts in the seventh grade. So some similar things. We have on level, and then we have students in the seventh grade who are taking a combination of class of seventh and eighth grade.
And we have some students who begin taking English one their eighth grade year, and so that's that's similar. It's just information for us to know when we look at data. And science, I wanna point out, students who are in eighth grade, we brought biology down to the middle school level a few years ago. And so it's important to know our students who are in biology in the eighth grade, they don't take the eighth grade science test. They take biology. So just information for us to keep in our minds.
So at a high level, what does performance look like in Keller ISD over the past couple of years? I've talked about approaches, meets and masters, and you'll see, the blue the blue bars are from 2024. The green are 2025. You can see, our performance is remaining very steady as it was last year. So these are all tests for reading. So third grade all the way through English two. Math is on the right hand side.
You'll see our two year comparison. It's interesting. We saw a little bit of a dip in our approaches, but we saw, increases in our meets and masters performance in that. Science, we had a couple of percentage points increase, and you can see our two year comparisons. And social studies, I you know, a 1%, it's it's not, gonna be substantial for us. It just remains consistent when we look at our performance.
So finally, what I also wanted to share, when students are in high school, they have the opportunity to take advanced placement courses. And at the end of the course in May, they can take a test called an AP test, and it is scored on a one to a five scale. So students who score at three have the opportunity to earn college credit through through that assessment. So that means that if a student is taking AP biology and they get a
three on the AP test, they don't have to take that course in college. So, that they a wonderful opportunity for our students. I wanna highlight, what you'll see here is our number of students who took an AP test in 2024 versus 2025, and our percentage of students who scored a three or higher on those tests. So you'll see each high school in the district.
I do think as we continue to offer more dual enrollment courses, we potentially could see a decrease in our number of students who are taking AP test, just we are offering more opportunities for kids to earn college credit other than just the advanced placement avenue. But if you look at our students' performance, it's still at a very I mean, that that's great that eighty two percent of our kids who took an AP test
are getting college credits. That's awesome. And finally, I wanna end, as we're talking about STAR and state testing, I talked to the board and the community about the accountability system with the state of Texas. So ironically, the there was litigation over the validity of the accountability system. So the twenty twenty four ratings haven't been released by the state. Ironically, today we got an email that's saying from TEA, we're gonna release your twenty
twenty five accountability ratings on Friday, August 15. And on that same day, we're gonna go ahead and release the ratings from 2024. So that's going to be confusing because, they will be releasing twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five ratings at the same time. I wanted to provide the board with projections, so we use a vendor to help us project, the campuses who are, we think, going to be rated as a, b, c.
When you look at our 2020 2024 versus our 2025, we are projecting an increase in a's, in b's, a decrease in our c rated campuses. We are, projecting, two campuses, with a d rating. Our district overall, we're anticipating it to be a b, and so we will support campuses, like we do every year, looking at their data, assisting and helping and supporting
them every day, all year long. So those are the projections. TEA publicly will release those on August 15. So this is just so the community has the information and so does the board. So with that, I will take any questions that you have. Sorry. I have a question. Sure. Okay. So on the accountability Yes. So they will actually have an accountability rating per campus. Correct? Correct. So right now, these are just our projections on what we're thinking. So, and that is gonna come on August 15.
So we're gonna see not only 2024, but they're also gonna give us our 2025. Correct. Awesome. Okay. So, I just wanted to ask a question and I think there are so many parents that will be able to identify with this, but so what happens when a student is growing in their map testing? They have an a or b in the class, but then they go to that star and they hit not even approaching Right. Or not even meets. What what happens to that student then? So the state requires us there was a bill called fourteen sixteen that was passed
two years ago, and we're required to offer thirty hours thirty to fit fifteen to thirty hours of tutoring services for each test that a student does not pass. Parents, have the ability to deny that, but that's what the law requires us. I would say with MAP, MAP is looking at two things. It's looking at achievement and it's looking at growth. And that's what we really value about MAP is it's looking at three times a
year how the student is growing throughout the year. STAR does not look at that. And so, you know, we have even parent we all have kids who have taken the STAR. Sometimes it's just not a good day. Mhmm. I mean, sometimes it's for whatever reason, they may have been performing great all year, and on the testing day, whether it's nerves or whatever, the issue may be, sometimes
the score isn't reflective of what we've seen. Right. Especially going into that fifth grade year where you finally have the science star. Right. So that I know that was something that a lot of parents were asking, like, what happened? So, thank you for clarifying that. I appreciate it. And I just just to reiterate what you said is that the parents do have the ability to deny that. They do? Okay. Yeah. But they can also take advantage of it. Correct. Absolutely. Yes. Thank you. You're welcome. So so, Jennifer, thanks for all the all the work on this. I know it's high level.
We got, it's like the STAR testing is accountability and arrears. Yes. And you really never have the ability to adapt for the student, on a given star test because that student, that educator may have moved, certainly to another grade, maybe and they they won't match. Right. So you've lost whatever opportunity there was to remediate Keller's finest. You've lost the ability to remediate any opportunity and that's the value as you said
of the map testing. That's correct. Because I've got so many emails from from folks. What about the accountability or achievement? Yes. Achievement tests and I guess that was the old version of what became STAR. Yep. But again, even with the achievement test, those students have moved on. By that time, the horse is out of the barn. Right. I do I have been in touch with, some folks in Austin, and I do believe that there's a movement towards MAP. Yes. They just never got around to it in the last session.
They made good progress on it. If I'm not mistaken, the house made good progress on it, and then it kinda died in the senate. This is one of the 18, agenda items on governor Abbott's Yes. Session this go around. That's correct. So we'll be watching for, the house subcommittee on education with mister Buckley to see if he's going to have a committee hearing, and, and we'll be watching that real close. Because I I I gather from conversations I've had, there's not a lot of staff,
favor down in Austin. I we are in support of MAPS, so I would say I think there's a lot of support from MAPS, not only at the education committee level, but certainly on people that have written in or called into their, legislature, and I think that may be a call to action, for us to reach out to our elected officials in Austin. And if you're if you don't want STAR, that would be your place to tell them you don't want STAR.
Exactly. So thanks for all the all the all the work and the analysis you and the team do. Thank you. Yeah, I'd also like to point out and make sure everybody knows that Keller ISD provides MAT. We do. It's not every district that has this program that provides the feedback, the valuable feedback, three times a year. So huge plus to us that we already know the program and hopefully it'll be adopted and STAR will go away. But kudos to to Keller for providing this for our educators and our kids because
as we know, STAR doesn't do much good for for us because the scores don't come out until summertime. Yeah. Any other questions for on this? Alright. Thank you. Thank you very much. We'll now move on to the, consent consent agenda. Yes, mister Burke. I would like to move, item 11 c, approval of bids, bids renewals. If we could move that to 12 c, under action, that would be fantastic.
Okay. Thank you. So other than, item c, do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda minus item c? I'd like to make a motion to approve the consent agenda as provided. And a second? I'll second. Thank you. Any discussion? All in favor? All opposed? Pass five zero. Thank you. Our first action item is approval of the twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six student code of conduct. Wilson. So I've asked Lindsay to put together, a much more comprehensive than we typically do with these just because there were so many there were substantial changes made to our
student code of conduct this year. So she is gonna highlight all of the changes as quickly as she can. But with that, Lindsey. Alright. Tonight, we are bringing forward our twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six student code of conduct for approval. I'm going to share with you some background information and the changes you will find inside the document compared to last year. Alright. To keep things legal, consistent among campuses, and as strict as possible, we followed this
process this year to update our student code of conduct. As you're aware, this past spring, the eighty ninth Texas legislature met. Among the bills passed and signed into law were many items that that impacted chapter 37 of the Texas education code. Chapter 37 is the discipline code that guides Texas public schools. It is the basis for what we build our student code of conduct on. Once the laws were passed, the law firm of Walsh Gallegos began updating their model student code of conduct and pushed it out to districts on July 14.
Using the Walsh model ensures we capture all the legal changes in our own student code of conduct. When the student services department received the model framework on July 14, we begin working to update the Keller ISD specific student code of conduct. Once the code of conduct has been approved, we will begin training campus administrators on these updates. The purpose of the student code of conduct is to keep the district in legal compliance regarding student discipline while promoting a safe, secure, and optimal learning environment for all students. The information on this slide is found on page four of the document.
In short, it is our district wide discipline management plan. It includes descriptions of prohibited conduct, the disciplinary options, methods, and consequences for preventing and addressing student misconduct, and the process we will follow when administering disciplinary consequences. An important note is if there is a conflict between the student code of conduct and the student handbook, what is in the student code of conduct will control. If there is a conflict between the student code of conduct and local district policy,
the more recently adopted item will control. So let's take a look at the changes. Beginning with teacher removal from class. You can find this section beginning on page 17 of the student code of conduct. The code of conduct now states that a teacher may remove a student from class when the student repeatedly interferes with the teacher's communication or student learning. The student demonstrates behavior that is unruly, disruptive, abusive towards the teacher, another adult, or another student. The student engages in conduct that constitutes bullying as defined by law.
In the past, to remove a student from class, a teacher had to document the student with that the student repeatedly interfered with the teacher's ability to teach or meet the criteria in the second bullet here. Now teacher removal from class no longer requires the need to document repeated behaviors and as a removal can be based on a single incident. A student removed from a teacher's class cannot be returned without the teacher's written consent unless the placement review committee determines that such placement is the best or only alternative
available, A conference is held within three school days of the removal in which the teacher has been provided an opportunity to participate and a return to class plan has been prepared for that student. On page 18 of the student conduct, we find the information about in school suspension. In school suspension assignments are not subject to any time limit. This is a big deal because schools were limited through to a three day maximum in the past. An additional update is that if a student is placed in ISS for over ten
days, the placement must be reviewed by campus administrators every ten days. Page 18 also has a specific section designated to e cigarettes because there is a change. In the past, the first offense of possession or use of e cigarettes was a mandatory DAP placement for five days. Now a first time personal ecigarette possession or use will result in in school suspension or ISS for period of at least ten school days. However, a student who sells, delivers, or gives an ecigarette to another student will be
placed in DAEP no matter what offense, and that did not change from the past. So if a student gives or sells an ecigarette to someone else, they go to DAEP. But if they have the e cigarette on themselves and it's just contained there, they would get ISS for ten days. Page 19 of the student code code of conduct has some brand new language regarding parents requesting in school suspension when they cannot supervise their own child that has been assigned out of school suspension. The specific language states that upon receiving a written request from a student's parent or
guardian, the principal or other appropriate administrator may, at his or her sole discretion, reassign a student placed in out of school suspension to ISS if the student's parent or guardian demonstrates through supporting information and documentation that they are unable to provide suitable supervision for the student during school hours during the period of the suspension. If the administrator decides on ISS instead, the alternative placement may be used only in
extenuating circumstances and may may not be used as routine replacement for out of school suspension. The school district will maintain documentation of each reassignment, including the parent's request, the reason for the parent's unavailability, and all supporting information and documentation. Page 19 talks about special education students that receive in school suspension. It specifically states, if a student that receives special education services and place is placed in ISS, the student must continue to receive special education and related services specified in
the student's IEP and progress in the general curriculum. In the past, there was a a ten day window in place where services were required to begin after a student served more than ten days out of placement. We will work with our campuses to make sure they provide the needed support beginning the first day a special education student with specific IEP needs is placed in ISS. Page 19 addresses some additions to pre k through second grade and all levels of homeless students out of school suspension options.
In the past, all homeless students and our pre k through second grade students could only have out of school suspension if their conduct contained elements of an offense related to weapons, or if they engaged in selling, giving, or delivering, or possessing, using, or being under the influence of marijuana, a controlled substance, a dangerous drug, or an alcoholic beverage. Now out of school suspension options have expanded for homeless students and students in second grade or younger to include conduct that threatens the immediate health and safety of other
students in the classroom or engages in documented conduct that results in repeated or significant disruption to the classroom. The prior offenses of weapons, drugs, alcohol, etcetera are still reasons for suspension as well. The state lists mandatory reasons we must send students to DAEP. This list begins on page 20 of the student code of conduct. There are a couple of changes regarding harassment and retaliation from students towards employees or volunteers. The law used to read that a student would face a mandatory DAP placement if
they engage in conduct that contains the elements of the offense of harassment under provisions of the Texas penal code against any employee of the school district. The law now reads that students will have a mandatory DAP placement if a student engages in the criminal offense of harassment as defined by law against an employee or volunteer regardless of location. Criminal harassment is a serious offense involving repeated conduct intended to cause a person to fear for their safety. It includes actions like stalking, following someone, making threats, or engaging in unwanted communication, whether
directly or indirectly. A criminal offense would involve the police. So if we have a student that demonstrates this type of behavior towards one of our employees or volunteers and the police are involved, we would send them to DAEP. For retaliation, the code used to read that a student would face a mandatory DAP placement if they retaliate against any district employee. Now the code reads they will face mandatory DAP placement if they engage in the criminal offense of retaliation as defined by law against any school employee or volunteer on
or off campus. So similarly to the one above, if the police are involved in student retaliation towards an employee or volunteer, they would go to DAEP. The reasons to mandatorily send a student to the juvenile justice alternative education placement or JJAEP have expanded to include the items on the screen. A pretty significant consequence change involves students who assault employees or volunteers. The consequence used to result in a DAEP placement, but it is now a JJAEP
or expulsion placement. So So a little side note, when you hear the word expelled that we we're talking about JJ or JJAEP. Only certain and very specific offenses result in these types of mandatory placements, and that list begins on page 27 of the student code of conduct. If a student is sent for a mandatory placement, there is not a financial cost to the district. But if a student is sent to JJ for a discretionary placement, the in the district incurs a charge. So regarding students who assault employees or volunteers, they will now face a mandatory expulsion,
meaning they will go to JJAEP. You can see I also listed the definitions for both assault and bodily injury. For the offense of engaging in conduct that contains the elements of exhibiting, using, or threatening to exhibit or use a firearm, we have to also refer to section 37.125 of our code. You see there the locations include property sorry. Our park our property, parking lots, parking garage, or any other parking area that is owned by our district or on a school bus being used to transport our students
to or from school sponsored activities. The only caveat to these things is if a charge happens off campus and the student gets deferred prosecution, the student would serve their time at DAEP. A brand new opportunity is the virtual expulsion program. It is outlined on page 31 of the student code of conduct. We can place a student who has been expelled under the allowable reasons into a virtual expulsion program established by the district and provide virtual instruction and instructional materials for remote learning only if JJ AEP rejects admission of the student or returns the student
before the expiration of the discipline assignment. In the event this happens, we will make sure the student has a computer and Internet access, and they will be provided assignments through Edgenuity, our online platform used for virtual courses. There will be an assigned teacher who grades the assignments in Edgenuity as a student moves through the course, and we would review the placement of students in virtual expulsion programs every forty five days to determine if continued placement in the program is appropriate. Finally, senate bill three twenty six requires us to include a definition of antisemitism in
our student code of conduct for purposes of disciplining a student for behavior motivated by antisemitism in both k 12 and higher ed settings. It has been defined as a certain perception of Jews that may be expressed as hatred towards Jews, including rhetorical and physical acts of antisemitism directed toward Jewish or non Jewish individuals or their property or towards Jewish community institutions and religious facilities. The administration recommends that the board of trustees approve the twenty twenty five, twenty twenty
six student code of conduct as presented. I would be happy to answer any questions. Do I have a motion? Do you have a second? Second. Any discussion or questions? So how do we this I mean, this is significant changes, with some serious consequences that, parents and guardians and even students may not be aware of. So what is the how do we inform these folks? We're currently working on that exact plan right now. I know at the secondary level, specifically, we hold student, assembly, student meetings where we
bring the kids in by grade level or whatever the campus wants, and we go over these very specifically with students so they have a a warning upfront about what consequences could be. We're also working on communication for parents regarding numerous changes that are outlined in all of our legislative updates and are are working to compile that so we can get something out before the start of school. Is there any is there any consideration too on the website, a banner that highlights a significant changes to code of conduct? Go check it out or attend or call or do something.
Okay. I'm just I'm just thinking that somebody's gonna get caught off guard and and say, well, we we did the best we could, but, you know, people go to the website, put a banner out there, and just highlight the sorry. Just highlight the fact that this is this is serious business. Great. This thought. Yeah. And based on I know the registration went out for our kids, and we've had to check off that we have received the student code of conduct and so on and accepted it, but it was the old version. So will we have to resend out a new version with this?
I think we updated that language to say they know where to find the most recent updated code of conduct on our website, so that it didn't kind of walk us into that. But there's definitely I mean, I agree we need to make sure people are are aware upfront of some of these changes and consequences. Yeah. So like a like he was saying, like a one cheater, like what you just did to to kind of pull out those ones that especially with the super serious consequences. Any other questions, comments? Yes. I had a real quick question. So how much of our student code of conduct is actually written by us? The majority of the language here is written by the the law that Walsh puts
into a model template. And there will be things as we kind of import it or download it where if your district does this, you kinda select this section. If your district does this, you select this section. And a lot of that is guided by policy that that already exists. So it's not our language. I didn't write it, but we definitely read it and work to implement it. When we are implementing it, some of it is a is a little bit more summarized than if you go into the code and see what it means. So we have to use this side by side with chapter 37 to determine locations
and definitions of some of the consequences. But it's it is predominantly their language just with our components that apply. I thank you for clarifying that because I think there's a misconception that we just sit here and randomly change things Yep. And we don't. Yep. And so a lot of that is by law, stuff that comes out of the legislature, and then we have to put it into our code of conduct. So, thank you for the clarification. Welcome. And I would say that's a that's a good point, Chelsea, because the the language in there is very specific and it's specific Welsh Gallegos and your and the law
firms that do this, they're adding that language for a very specific reason. And so as you know, a shall and a may in the legal world are very very different. And the the, the alteration of one word may change what, is required of us. And chapter 37 is very prescriptive. And so we wanna make sure that we are as close to what is expected of us as possible. So good point. All in favor of accepting the student conduct as presented?
All opposed? Five zero. Thank you. Our second action item is the approval of order authorizing the issuance of Keller Independent School District unlimited tax refunding bonds in one or more series. Thank you, Mr. Wirt. This evening we have with us, Jeff Robert with Hill Top Securities. Jeff's gonna walk you through, the the analysis that he's helped us do, regarding, the proposal that you have in front of you. One of the key pieces of our fiduciary responsibilities are to look at not only
short term, but long term, financial aspects that would be a benefit to our community and our taxpayers. And I believe this is a significant, option for us that, as you'll see, could have, quite a quite a large savings for our taxpayers, over the forthcoming years. So with that, I'll turn it over to Jeff and let him walk you through it. Thank you, mister Allison, president Burke, trustees, doctor Wilson, Jeff Robert with Hilltop Securities. I'm gonna go through a quick presentation.
What we're asking for tonight is for your consideration of a parameter refunding order. As mister Allison mentioned, there's an opportunity we believe, over the long haul, the long haul to save quite a sum of of money, on the debt service side. Did I do that? There we go. I'll go to second. So I'm gonna go straight to, page two. And if if you have any questions as I'm going through this, please don't don't hesitate to stop me. There's a lot of numbers on this slide. But in essence, to summarize in columns two, three, and four, that's the principal interest and total p and I on the maturities from the series 2015 issue that we
would look to refund. And then columns five, six, and seven are the pre the PNI, principal and interest, and total PNI on the refunding debt service itself. And so we have the capacity, to basically accelerate payment and ultimately achieve savings that you see there in column eight. And the bottom line number would be a little over $30,000,000, and these are based on current interest rates plus 15 basis points to try and be, to try and be conservative. Now the the parameter that's before you this evening doesn't only include those bonds from the 02/2015.
It includes all of the other maturities from the series 2015 on page three. We also included the 2016 a and the 2016 b. I will point out over on the far right the call dates for each of those. In order for it to be refunded using tax exempt rates, you have to be within ninety days of the call date. So the parameter order does allow for one or more issuances of refunding bonds. And so we're looking at in executing the one that you saw on the prior page as soon as possible, and then we're gonna continue to monitor interest rates to
see if it makes sense to refund the, the other bonds that you see on this on this slide. And part of the reason we're not refunding all of the bonds from the 2015 right now is this is what's called the bond buyer index. This just kinda gives you an idea of where long term tax exempt interest rates are. So in the the white graph in the background, this is the twenty year rate, comes out every week, and it's gone all the way back to 1981. And you can see what that's kinda come down quite a bit, and I call it the COVID rates that you see there at the bottom, on the bottom right. Those are your your COVID interest rates where we hit the lowest rates, in our
lifetimes, I believe. But, you can see since then that rates have come up a little bit and that blue graph shows what this index has done over the last year. So it's come up some, so we feel like, we should wait and kinda see if if maybe rates will settle down, to allow for us to achieve more savings if we do a subsequent refunding. Remember, the one that we're talking about now is only four years, so this isn't really a graph that would depict the interest rates on that four year refunding. But on a on a fifteen to twenty year refunding, this is this is kinda what you're looking at in terms of of interest rates.
So the parameter bond order itself, it's allowable under, section thirteen seventy one for new money issuances or 12 o seven for refundings, which is what we're talking about this evening. In a parameter order, the board delegates final pricing authority to pricing, delegated pricing officers. In this case, it'd be the superintendent. I say chief financial adviser, but I've got officer, but I've got it correct on the next page. Chief chief operating officer is what I should have there. The parameters that are included are your maximum interest rate, your maximum principal amount, which is a not to exceed amount, the minimum savings threshold, the final material data, and
then the expiration of the authority. And the only way that the officers can approve that on behalf of the district is if those parameters are met. And so the parameters are included in the order. The delegated pricing officers, again, superintendent or chief operating officer, the maximum principal amount is the total amount from those candidates you saw a few pages ago. Minimum savings for refundings, we gotta have positive present value savings. Maximum true interest cost, 5%. Final maturity date would not exceed the final maturity date on the longest, maturity that
we'd be refunding, and the delegation authority is good for three hundred and sixty five days. I know I flew through that pretty quickly. If there's any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. I should have written this down, but what was the total cost savings by doing the refunding procedure? The total cost Total cost of issuance on that? Yeah. I don't have a detailed cost now, but for 60,000,000, I think I plugged in 200,000 was what I've got right now. Now we'll give the district a full accounting of what what the costs are, but just because there's so many parties involved, but just for initial number running purposes, I
used a total of 200,000. Okay. And that that includes, municipal adviser, bond counsel, attorney general, rating agencies, DEA. So there's several different parties involved there. So we I kinda guesstimated on the front end, but then when we get closer to actually executing it, we get the exact, numbers from all of those different parties. Okay. Thank you. What would you what would you say the expected overall savings to our taxpayers would be? Well, it'd be that I mean, hopefully that $30,000,000 that you saw. You know, those numbers can change a little bit but that's kinda the target right
now. And if you could, talk to us about what are refunding there's so many terms on the financial side that are we hear them but, they're a little nebulous. So if you could tell us what a refunding is and then walk us through the process Sure. Of what do we do if we call a for a a refunding? Sure. So so refunding is very similar to refinancing, like when we refinance our mortgages, let's say. But in this case, you actually issue refunding bonds, the proceeds from the sale of
those bonds Go toward paying off the bonds being refunded. So the old bonds go away, and then the district takes on the refunding bond issue with the new structure, the new interest rates. The process itself, you know, we would apply for what's called the permanent school fund guarantee, which is a insurance policy from the state that would give us a triple a rating. We would also have calls with the rating agencies, the district would, and myself in order to, to get our underlying rating. Right now the district's underlying ratings are stand alone ratings are double a two with
Moody's and double a with S and P. So we would have underlying ratings of double a two, double a, and then triple a ratings with the permanent school fund. So very, very safe investments. Once we complete that, we would then take the bonds to to market, basically, and have an underwriting syndicate sell, those bonds on behalf of the district at rates that are fixed at that time, and then I'd be able to give you what the final final savings would be. But but in a nutshell, a refunding is very, very much similar to just a a refinancing. They kind of achieve the same same thing. Can we go back and look at slide number two while while we're still discussing
them? I apologize. Yep. I did. I missed it. Or maybe it's I'm sorry. Slide three. Let me have John. Can you put that on there real quick? Yeah. There's a presentation over there. Perfect. Yep. Yes, ma'am. Oh, there we go. Oh, slide three or slide two? This one. The one you just said. This one. Okay. Perfect. I just wanted to look at that for a second. Yes. Just to again, so column two, three, and four, that that is the the debt service on the, the bonds we're looking at refinancing or refunding. And then column five and six would be the refunding debt service.
And and, clearly, a lot of the savings is a result of of paying the principal or accelerating it early. So, basically, if our if if over the next, well, two of them are I'm sorry. One of them was August and then two February? Yes. So this right here is just this 2015 series, so there's actually a 119,000,000, that's callable on that one. Okay. And we're we're calling about, just under 59,000,000 there if you look at the bottom
of column two. And so there'd still be, you know, roughly $60,000,000, $70.70 $60,000,000. Excuse me. $60,000,000 outstanding on the 15. But then for the 2016 a and b, since those aren't callable until, February, the earliest that you could execute one would be kinda mid October, because we'd have to settle or close the issue by, after November 17, which is ninety days prior to 02/15. Okay. So we're within the ninety days for August.
Yes. Is it the recommendation that we do the, the sell of the bond? Yes, ma'am. So so you'd be approving the parameter order. Okay. And the parameter order has allows for one or more issues and so the thought is we would do this initial one and then as we get closer to mid October, depending on when in where interest rates were, if it makes sense to refund the remainder, we would look at the possibility of doing that. If not, then we would just continue to monitor. And again, this parameter order is good for for one year.
So if we did if we didn't execute anything, a subsequent refunding within a year, we'd come back before the board, if it made sense to refinance or refund those issues. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. So quick question. In the past, we've and, we've heard the terms defeasance. Yes. Is this now a replacement for defeasance? And if so, what happened to to it? It, it it accomplishes the the same thing, really. New laws have kinda been passed not kinda laws have been passed to disincentify disincentivize
defeasances, and so, I don't think you'll see many districts that are able to do that any longer. But, yes, that's what we've done in the past is defeasances. Yes, sir. Thank you. And, Jeff, it would be accurate to say, to Chelsea's point, what we're trying to do is get the authority with the parameters so that when the mark and conditions are right, we can act. Because as you know we we don't meet every day and so we would have the ability if there's a if there's a good time and the financial professionals are saying, let's do it now, then we have would have the ability to go ahead
and do that right away. Yes, sir. And this is basically stating that we're in a position right now to refund for the August. And so and then in October, like you said, we'll be looking to see if we're in a position to go ahead and and refund. Yes. And the the hope is again that, you know, what we've seen with interest rates on this this chart in the in the blue there that maybe they'll come back to levels they were at even, you know, earlier this year and late last year. Alright. If there are no other questions, the administration recommends the board of trustees to adopt an order authorizing the issuance and sale of Keller Independent School District unlimited tax refunding
bonds in one or more series. So moved. Do you have a second? I second. Any questions, discussions? I just have one question. So as opposed to just a specific, set of parameters, you you will be acting on our behalf and the market will determine when you're gonna release certain refunding against these parameters. Is that correct? Yes, sir. And and, you know, that it's not something that would just show up on on doctor Wilson or mister Allison's desk. I mean, we we would talk.
I would let them know that this looks like where we're where we are. If we decided to move forward, it would meet the parameters and then get get their approval to move forward. And a lot of districts also, you know, do weekly communications with with their boards to let them know, hey. We're looking at the potential for pricing if it remains at these levels. So so, yes. We would monitor it, but but but I would be in contact with with doctor Wilson and mister Allison, well before we decided to to make a decision to to pull the trigger for lack of a better term. So does that does that answer your question? I think it does. And I just wanted to, I guess to, miss Kelly's question.
We're not authorizing the specific sale right here. We're authorizing you to use the market to determine when is the best time to sell or to refund these. That clarify at least it clarifies in my mind. And that runs for one year. Right? Yes. And again, it'll be a very collaborative effort between myself and and the administration. Perfect. Any other questions, comments? Thank you for clarifying that, John, because that that's what I was trying to to get at. And I know when it comes to bonds, I'm not proficient in bonds.
I know that this is a standard practice that happens all across the state of Texas, all all across The United States. So, whenever I I first looked at this, I I was concerned like, oh, are we are we doing something right now but no this is so we are. And our CEO COO. To be able to to move on this if we have the opportunity so I appreciate you bringing this to us tonight. Thank you. Any other questions, comments? All in favor? All opposed? Five-zero. Thank you very much. Thank you. We'll now move into our third action item which, came out of the consent agenda.
Doctor. Wilson? Do you want me to present it first? Yes, please. Okay. On page 12 of your board book, you'll find the action item for the approval of bid and bid renewals. Just to let you know, we are bringing forward RFP 2406DashO6 for professional services for special programs. Excuse me. That opened on June 30 with 24 companies responding. We also opened RFP 2500Two-three for district wide landscaping services, which opened March 24. Responses were received from six companies, which were shortlisted to three companies.
Three of the companies did not pre provide complete bids, so we shortlisted them to three. All of these responses have been reviewed by Keller ISD staff members and evaluated for district compliance and best value. The administration recommends that the board of trustees award the attached list of vendors 42406 for special services for special programs and Dyna Mist Construction LLC for RFP 2,500 and two-three for district wide landscaping services as presented. And if you have any questions, I'd be happy to have John answer them for
you. Earlier. So we have do we have a motion? So moved. Second. I'll second. Any questions? So I know we've talked about the landscaping and lawn maintenance. We've gotten a lot of emails from concerned citizens about the status of our grass and such. Just speak about what the long term goal is for this and, you know, the one we've talked about the one year plan, three year plan, five year plan. So the savings that we'll see now, if any, in the savings three to five years down the road? Yes. I'd be happy to.
As we brought a couple different, options to you, We've got several goals when we look at our our operation suggestions. One, we're trying to maintain budget predictability. The second is sustainability, and the third is really the level of service. We have struggled being able to maintain staffing levels with our landscaping crews. Very hardworking, dedicated group of employees, but we've been fortunate when we can be at
50 or 60% of the the necessary staffing that we need to be able to have a weekly mowing, trimming those types of things for our campuses. One of the concerns is around budget, and we've been very diligent in analyzing this option, because we we don't have the capability to increase those costs. And we we've all received questions from folks about mowing and and upkeep on campuses,
and the reality of it is for every dollar we spend on the operations side, we cannot spend that on the education side. So when you increase that side, you're decreasing the education side. So we take very seriously what's the most efficient way to provide the best level of service for our students on the operation side and for our community. In this case, as as we took a look at it, because of our staffing levels, we believe that, outsourcing, that, our landscaping, not only from staffing, but we're also
at a a point where we have aging equipment, and we would need to replace that. But, as we analyze at least the first year, at this point in time, I'm not predicting a cost savings. Now there, I I believe there will be because there are costs involved that we we really can't track, easily, like our, gasoline usage and and some of those types of things. But we believe it at, worst case is that this will be a revenue and
expenditure neutral proposal. So the the contract looks at three years, first, two years being a set price, and then we we build in the option to renew after that, based on the the CPI index. So the the advantage, we believe, will be more consistent and greater capability by outsourcing to maintain our campuses. The the bid, would cover 33, mowings, so to speak.
Also the ability when we get extended rain and we get behind without appropriate staffing, we we can't catch up. And that's been something that we've we've had to to deal with. This also includes hedge maintenance, some limited, tree trimming, which, we we think will, be a huge advantage for for maintaining our campuses and our communities' investment in those campuses. We reviewed these proposals.
We met with the three companies that, you have in front of you. We had follow-up conversations with two of the three, fairly extensive, to to talk about their approaches, and, the the way in which they do business. We felt very comfortable with the approach that, Dynamis Construction was providing, As we did our reference checks on all of these, we received very high marks for their customer
service, their collaboration, including some of their, technology that, they incorporate where they there are before and after pictures of campuses that are then uploaded where we can see exactly where they've been and and what that, what that looks like. They were also very willing to, work with the the staff that would be displaced, moving with this contract. And, actually, mister Blank and representatives from DynaMister are scheduling starting on Monday to be
able to interview and meet with our staff, and the opportunity of offering them positions, continuing to maintain our grounds, but in a in a different way as DynaMist employees. So we were, also very positive that, again, good, solid, hardworking individuals, we just can't sustain the staffing to be able to to meet the needs that we'd like for our campuses. So that's why we brought this, proposal forward after a great deal of consideration and analysis.
And, as we move forward, we have the opportunity to look at this year to year, make sure it's still accomplishing what we want within the fiscal parameters that we've established. And if it's not, then we'll reevaluate and and, make a different decision. What's the transition plan in terms of timing? When will they start? Yeah. Our crew will stay on till September 1. It gives them time to to staff and and bring equipment in, though they they have offered as we get ready for school. We know that, our our crews will do the best to make sure campuses are
ready for that first day, and they've offered to assist us, if we if we don't believe that's that's possible with our our current staffing levels. So, it gives them transition. We've already begun the transition conversations with them, what that looks like, met with our account manager. So it's we're we're we're moving forward in anticipation of your approval this evening to have everything ready for September 1. I think you mentioned, a real good point, and that is the financial predictability.
You know, in in today's day and age, given what we're facing as a district to have to have predictability and what our costs are gonna be. And then you can plan up as you need to or down as you need to. But the roller coaster, it makes it very hard for us to absorb roller coaster, pricing. So, thank you for that. And then, I think that that was I just wanted to make that that oh, the second point that I want to make is that this is, in my opinion,
an an opportunity for us to move out of of a service that is not part of our core competency, which is educating our kids. And I and I applaud you and your staff for taking that approach and allowing the district to get down to some of the basics of, educating kids. So thank you for that. Any other questions, comments? All in favor? All opposed? Thank you. Five zero. Thank you. Next item on the agenda is preview of policies. Bryce? Yeah.
This evening, we're bringing a preview of proposed, policy revisions to local board policies BDAA, BDB, BDF, EI, FTE, FEC, FFAC, FNCE, and CFB. As noted on the agenda item, most of these policies report of TASB, TASB's recommended update 01/25, including revisions to align our policies with recent changes in law, various state and federal agency policy revisions, or to provide clarity to existing policies. Additionally, the Keller IC finance department, requested revisions to CFB to align with a change
in federal accounting rules. I wanna be sure to note that this update was provided, just a week after the conclusion of the eighty ninth legislative session, regular session, and doesn't reflect the changes in law that resulted from that session as many of those bills were still pending the governor's signature at that time. We anticipate a much more robust update of one twenty six in the coming months, based on the number of educated education related bills, that was passed, that were passed during the session. Tazewi did expedite one, bit, one policy that was a result of, the legislative session.
That's policy FNCE local, based on the passage of House Bill fourteen eighty one, which provided a statewide ban on the use of cell phones or personal electronic devices by students during the school day. I'll bring your attention to that one just because it, it was provided to us shortly before we were putting this agenda together. We included it, because we wanted to make sure, that we were able to leave it on next month's agenda, in time to improve so that we're in compliance with fourteen eighty one h p fourteen eighty one, as soon as we we possibly can.
That version of it will not be the the version that's in the agenda right now will likely not be the version that we present to you guys in in August. Again, that was just kind of a model policy that has been provided for us. For example, there's a line in there off the top that just talks about prohibiting possession of cell phones. That's not the administrators administration's recommendation or direction that we plan to go. And, there are the the version we bring next month will probably likely look very much like the current version of the policy. We just need to align that policy with 14 HB fourteen eighty one.
So please review that one closely over the next month as so we wanna make sure we don't water down our original intent of of our our cell phone policy. Also point out changes to, B. D. B. And B. D. F. Those are really to provide more clarity and distinguish between what a board committee and a board advisory committee, are. It just more clearly defines a board committee as a committee composed of board members, versus an advisory committee, which is a committee formed by the board that, involves district stakeholders and provides recommendations, to the board.
So, again, this is just a preview item, and these policies will be brought for consideration at an upcoming meeting. But in the meantime, I'll be happy to answer any questions that you may have. Yeah. I just wanna make sure that everyone heard that this is just the proposed because I've gotten quite a few emails and conversations in regards to the cell phone situation that, this is very preliminary, and there will be changes. And it's likely that we continue on with the policy that we provided last year. Yes. Yeah. And and so I asked Bryce to include that in there knowing that it's gonna
look very different on the end result. The reason being is because what TASB did was they reflected exactly what, HP Fourteen eighty one. Fourteen eighty one said. So they took 14 h p one h I'm sorry. HP fourteen eighty one, put it down on paper, sent it out to districts and said, here's the model policy. Now most districts don't have a policy. And I thought it was important that we looked at what, came straight from TASB as a comparison against what we had the previous year.
I I will tell you, I'll ask your feedback over the next couple weeks. As you have those, send that into me and then we'll get with Bryce and then we'll we'll we'll update based on on your feedback. But it is not our intention to ban cell phone storage in backpacks, but I also wanna make sure you guys and our staff spent a lot of time crafting that policy just just as it was. There are a few tweaks in language that we need to change, telecommunication device, personal
communication device and and such. But the big thing is we we went through that transition with our kids last year and we are in a good spot and so our recommendation next month will most likely be, again based on your feedback, that we continue on with as much as what we as much as our policy of last year as possible because we don't wanna we don't want more change in that area. Like I said, we've gone through that once. Our administrators have worked really, really hard, to make that, and I think that they
would they would be very in very much in support of of continuing forward. And just again, with any policy, I'll just say it again just because, I received some questions, as well as you guys did today. The recommendations from TASB, we're gonna bring them as they are and it's it gives us a good comparison about what's being recommended at the state level or from TASB and then what our policies could be. So it's a good back and forth. But it also is important for us to take a look at this and say
what do we want Keller ISDs to be? And this is one of those that, model policy is great but ours is going to look most likely very different. So just one more clarification. So since school starts before our next meeting, the policy that starts day one of school will be the current one that's in ours. Correct? Just to make sure we're clear. Yep. That is correct. That's a great question. Remember, these are just previews. And so by port policy, we preview, one month and then we take action the next month. So these are just for preview. There's no action taken.
We didn't ask you to take any action tonight. And, anything that exists will remain in place until you take action to either, change them or reaffirm that this is this is exactly what we want. And I think just one one one more point on that. As you indicated, doctor Wilson, the staff spent a lot of time putting together the parameters of what became policy. And in fact, the policy was that's in place was intended to be a backstop
to the administration's, desire to curb cell phone use in the campuses. So the policy was driven already by what the administration, wanted to have. And if I'm not mistaken, the the task reversal, the only thing missing, maybe some terminology, but the exceptions. It does point out according to, 1481, you have to delineate certain exceptions for medical and, five zero four and, you know, other type of plans where, a student may
need to have. But we are not for the fourth time, we are not taking white cell phones in schools. Right. Yeah. We're not prohibiting possession. That that is not the That's Probing use possession, item is not gonna happen. Yeah. Alright. Thank you for the preview. Like doctor Wilson said, if anybody has any comments, or preferred verbiage, please send them into the ham. We'll aggregate them and then, that's the beauty of a preview. We're one of the few districts that preview in one setting and then adopt in
a subsequent meeting to allow for, this rewording as needed to colorize, an otherwise broad policy. Alright. So that takes us to work session. Doctor Wilson? So as I said, the start of school is fast approaching. On on August 13, we have our first day of school. August 28, our regular is our next regular board meeting and it's always interesting that we have our first, holiday listed.
The kids will appreciate that but we do have our first holiday on 09/01/2025. Okay. So our trustees will now go into executive session for the purpose permitted by the Open Meetings Act, Texas government code section five five one dot zero zero one to five five one dot fourteen six and section five five one dot zero seven one consultation with attorney post legislative update, with attorney.
The time is 07:20. We will return as soon as we can. And we're not anticipating any any action items upon return. So okay. So we'll return as soon as we can, and at that point, we'll adjourn the meeting. Thank you. We are back from executive session at 08:45PM. This is the end of our agenda for the evening. I'll take a motion to adjourn. So moved. I second. Any discussion? All in favor? All opposed, pass five zero. Thank you.
He's adjourned at 08:42. That's gonna be Mhmm. I'll watch it.