Good evening. Good evening. It's Thursday, 04/23/2026, and the time is 5PM. This is the regular monthly board meeting of the Keller ISD Board of Trustees. All trustees are present. Bryce, we're ready for the pledge. May I please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance? Here to lead us in the pledge are some some of the incredible students from Hidden Lakes Elementary School. Immediately following the pledges, principal Shannon Moss will come to the podium and introduce her students. 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. Good evening, members of the board. Doctor Wilson, thank you for having us here tonight to begin our meeting. These are a handful of our fourth grade leaders. A couple of the things they do among many things is welcoming, visitors for events and various assemblies as well as making sure the littlest of our mustangs make it
to class in the morning. So we have miss Adele and miss Maddie and miss Emily, miss Julia, and mister Campbell. Thank you. Very well done. Now please join us for a word of prayer, vice president Washington. Heavenly father, guide our thoughts and actions tonight so that our decisions reflect wisdom and care for every student we serve. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Ready for awards and achievements? Bryce? In your board packet, you'll find student staff achievements on pages four through six tonight.
Photos will be taken directly following each award inside the boardroom in front of the backdrop in the Southwest corner, where our board members will join award recipients for a quick photo. During this time, we ask that guests remain in the seating area, and we invite you to take personal photos outside in the courtyard following the awards portion of tonight's agenda. All group photos taken inside the boardroom will be shared on the Keller ISD Facebook page. For our first award this evening, I'd like to invite trustee Kelly to join us as we honor our April Hard at Work Employee of the Month. Next Tuesday is National School Bus Driver Appreciation Day, and appropriately, Keller ISD's hard at
work employee of the month for April 2026 is a bus driver serving at the Friendship Elementary School. She was nominated by Friendship fourth grade teachers Katie Cottrell and Katie Middleton, who shared the following. Tabitha serves one of our most challenging routes with remarkable patience, consistency, and care. In a world where turnover is common, she has built lasting relationships and has a steady, positive presence for her students. When two brothers were at risk of missing a field trip due to unsigned permission slips, she took the initiative to ensure their forms were completed by the parent so they could participate. She then volunteered to drive the field trip bus and stayed throughout the day to
support students and staff riding an extra set of hands and a trusted adult for those who needed it most. Her compassion was especially evident when a student began struggling due to painful blisters. She stepped in without hesitation, carrying the student so she could continue enjoying the experience with her classmates. Praised by the fourth grade team for going above and beyond to make each day a success, Tabitha exemplifies a deep commitment to students and in the true spirit of service. Please help me congratulate our April 2026 Keller ISD Hard at Work Employer of the Month, Tabitha Ballard.
And the school year is winding down, but there's still time for staff to recognize their peers. Employees can nominate a colleague for a hard at work employee of the month by visiting www.kellerisd.net/haw and completing the You've Got Heart online form. Up next, may I please have board president Burt and doctor Wilson come forward to celebrate our latest Keller ISD Star Educator Award winner. This month we're excited to recognize a fifth grade teacher from Parkview Elementary School. Her nomination highlighted the following. Mrs. Jones creates a classroom where students are encouraged to productively struggle, persevere, and take ownership
of their learning. Her classroom is a true community where students support one another confidently, commonly use their academic vocabulary, and engage deeply in rigorous work. She also builds strong partnerships with families, helping them understand and support the goals she sets for their children. Let's learn more about our winner in this brief video. Talk to me about what we need to do first. What's the first thing we should have done on this particular project? I have been teaching at parking for twenty two years. It definitely is my home away from home. I am teaching fifth grade math this year, and I'm definitely enjoying the grade level.
I tell them every day that I am their biggest cheerleader. I want them to be and feel successful every day when they walk into my classroom. I have seen the light bulbs come on for so many of my students. They're getting it. They're falling in love with math, and they're having fun. In the classroom, we do a lot of thinking building, which allows for collaboration among the students. If we need a partner and we don't have one, she'll give us some cards, and we mix and match with each other and find a partner that we don't talk to every day. So you get to collaborate with other people that you normally don't.
She's super nice, and she'll always help you work through the math, and she'll, let you work with other people. And sometimes she'll, like, do something wrong. It helps us, like, learn and learn from our own mistakes. They come into the room. They're engaged. They're focused. They are learning, and they are setting goals. I want them to know, yes, miss Jones might have been that teacher that stayed on me, but she really cared about me, and she wanted me to do their very best. Please tell me congratulate this month's Keller ISD star educator award winner, Parkview Elementary fifth
grade teacher, Michelle Jones. We're proud to be able to shine a spotlight on the exceptional learning happening in our classrooms, the Star Educator Award program, as this month's recipient, Michelle, will receive $500 to invest in her classroom. Congratulations once again on this well deserved honor. For our final awards tonight, I'm gonna invite up CTU director Bodie Carroll. I'll ask that vice president Washington and secretary Campbell please join us up front, and Trustees Erickson and Koko, will you please assist us in the photo area as we recognize outstanding national achievements from our CTE organizations? Good evening.
Tonight, we are proud to recognize an outstanding group of Keller ISD students who have qualified for national competition through their career and technical student organizations or CTSOs. These organizations provide students with the opportunity to apply their learning in real world competitive environments that mirror their chosen career pathways. Through their dedication, hard work, and commitment to excellence, these students have distinguished themselves at the state level and earned the opportunity to represent their schools in Keller ISD on the national stage. Their accomplishments are a direct reflection of the strength of our career and technical education
programs and the impact of meaningful hands on learning experiences. We are equally proud of the educators and advisors who have guided and supported these students along the way, helping them develop not only the technical skills, but also leadership, professionalism, and confidence. At this time, we'd like to recognize our national qualifying students. So as your name is called, students and teachers, please come forward to be recognized. Up first, with the three d printing club from KCAL competing in the project additive manufacturing event, is Lincoln Lassiter, Richard Lazars, Shreyen Shigalapoli, and Tanner Swindell.
Our next group of students is the Business Professionals of America or BPA from Keller High School. First up competing in Advanced Office Systems and Procedures is Mila Do. Competing in c plus plus programming is Vivica Vederu. Competing in fundamental accounting is Colin Strong. In fundamental word processing is Samantha O'Connor. And competing in interview skills is Rana Kusisi. And these guys are joined by their advisor, Mr. Tuan Trane. Our next group of students from Fossil Ridge High School competing in DECA. The event is the Emerging Business Growth Plan.
We have three students, Aidan Adekari, Bryson Driggers, and Labib Zahid. Our next group is the DECA chapter from Keller High School. Competing in business finance series is Catherine Spooner. Competing in business services operations research is Ruchi Gopal. Competing in Hotel and Lodging Management is Aylin Safdar. And competing in Principles of Business Management and Administration is Manushi Uppredi. And they're joined by their advisor from Keller High School, missus Lisa Potts. The next group couldn't be here tonight, but from Timber Creek High School, we have
our DECA chapter competing in retail merchandising with Mason Stewart, and his advisor is miss Peggy Strong Johnson. Up next is our Future Business Leaders of America or FBLA from Central High School. Competing in business ethics is Ashi Kashyap and Samarth Jain. Competing in future business leaders is Subha Karki. Compete competing in international business is Adi Macharia and Awan Khanal. Competing in introduction to business procedures is Aden Tran. Competing in introduction to FBLA is Daniya Khan.
Competing in introduction to retail and merchandising is Umal Ajak. Competing in the local chapter annual business report is against Samarth Jain and Suba Karki. Competing in management information systems is Oliver Menes, Shareef Subedi, and Vincent Ramos. Competing in parliamentary procedures is Angeline Pollinger, Emma Jurkovich, Kinsey Buck, Shariah Chaudhary, and Wendy Liu. Competing in public service announcement is Ari Barnett and Ava Roheem. Competing in sales presentation is Alexander Lay, Nathan Bau, and Pune Ravula.
Competing in social media strategies is Bayan Hamid, Mason Govan, and Michelle Park. The FBLA group from Central High School is joined by their advisor, missus Jessica Anderson. Okay. Our next group is Future Business Leaders of America FBLA from Timber Creek High School. Competing in accounting is Judy Zhu. Judy is joined by her advisor from Timber Creek, miss Lindsay Gideon. Okay. Our next group is the FCCLA chapter from KCAL. Competing in the interior design competition is Valerie Larios. Valerie is joined by her adviser, missus Rebecca Morrow.
Okay. Our next group is the HOSA chapter from the Keller Collegiate Academy competing in the medical innovations events. We have four students, Lael Babar, Suhas Chinta, Sanjeet Varalapudi, and Roniel Chimbalanga. These guys are joined by their advisor, missus Allison Morgan. Okay. The next group is our HOSA chapter from Keller High School competing in the patient care technician event, Isanvi Bogi. And competing in the surgical technologist event is Manushi Uppredi.
And they are joined by their advisors, missus Winnie Underwood and missus Carrie Horsley. Okay. The next group is our SkillsUSA chapter from KCAL. Competing in web design is Bhavesh Kesi. Also competing in the web design event is Anya Saravrunan. And con competing in the construction event is Caden Noblit. The SkillsUSA advisors from KCOW are missus Kristen Henderson and mister Luis Vasquez. Our next group is the Texas Association of Future Educators or TAFE from Keller High School. Competing in the creative lecture event is Julia Toler.
And competing in exploring support services careers is Hannah Hagar. And then we have our Taffy group from Timber Creek High School competing in children's literature pre k Spanish is Natalia Estrada. Competing in ethical dilemmas is Corinne Olson, Madison Trujillo, Sailor Hutchinson, Sydney, and Sydney Powell. In the exploring administration careers event is Blythe Blandford and Isabella Mendoza. In the exploring support services careers is Robin Gonzales and Sydney Powell. Competing in interactive bulletin board at the elementary level is Hayden Madison and Lexi Fulmer.
Competing in lesson plan and delivery professional development is Ella Donnell and Emma Edwards. Competing in the outstanding chapter event is miss Abigail Wood, Isabella Mendoza, Kelsey Karp, Natalia Estrada, Robin Gonzalez, Sailor Hutchinson, and Sydney Powell. I think that's three for these young ladies. And last but not least, from our TAFE group, competing in research learning challenges is Abigail Wood, Addison Pfaff, Kelsey Karp, and Olivia Toekin. Okay. And our last organization to recognize tonight is the Technology Students of America or TSA
from KCAL. Competing in architectural design is miss Addison Hoyt, Brianna Gutierrez, Colby Hesterman, Gabrielle Brando, and Sri Ananya Kuraju. The TSA advisors at KCOW are mister Jeff Taylor and missus Wendy Starkey. Once again, congratulations to these students and their advisers. We wish you the best of luck as you represent Keller ISD on the national stage. Thank you. Alright. So thank you all for being here and those of you watching on online. Again, as we've seen tonight, our students and educators continue to excel in in so
many areas. I won't list them because I know I left leave somebody out, but I would invite you to go to the Keller ISD website and Facebook page, and you'll see all kinds of information about, our great students and educators. I would point out, that Timber Creek High School, Fossil Ridge High School, and Keller High School girls' softball teams are playing in the regional finals, as we speak. So Keller High School had their first game last night and won, and, Timber Creek
and Fossil Ridge start theirs tonight. So, we wish them all the best. I also say that the, Keller Fine Arts District Honor Choir concert, took place on Tuesday, which I was fortunate enough to attend. There were performances by the Keller High School Chorale, the fifth and sixth grade honor choir, and the seventh and eighth grade middle choir, school chamber choir. The talent really that was showcased by the students and their directors was nothing short of amazing.
Trustee Erickson was also there. In case I didn't see any other people there, please, didn't mean to leave anybody out. But, anyway, lastly, the board held a budget workshop on April 8 to discuss the 2627 budget and the district facilities study. Declining enrollment, inadequate state funding, inflationary costs, and underfunded mandates continue to drive the, budget narrative.
Based on current cost estimates, increased cost will add approximately 12 and a half million dollars to the 2627 budget. For those that were not able to attend the meeting, the presentation and recap of the meeting can be found on the district's website. Thank you. So superintendent's update will be very quick tonight. I believe we have twenty days of school left or right around there. It's pretty shocking to believe, but, it's it's right around the corner of the end of school.
Our graduating class, we will be celebrating them, on Saturday, by eight May 20 that's probably in here. May 23, starting at 08:00, we'll give it to McRae Creek, central following Fossil Ridge, and then 8PM that night. And we'll have our high school kids. So just to I I'd looked at some of the data for that class. You know, we often hear about the younger generation. I wanna tell you the younger generation, I'm not so sure they live up to
their reputation. I think they exceed it because the top 10 students across our high schools, their GPA is an average of 5.4. They've taken as seniors this year, they've taken 1,375 advanced courses, either AP or dual enrollment. So our kids, as you can see tonight, they do a lot of great things. They work hard, they're engaged, and, they're gonna do do great things when they leave us. I was excited to see our TAFE group because those are future Keller ISD teachers.
We just need to make sure they remember that once they graduate, they need to come back home. They don't have to live with home at home, but they do need to come back and work where they went to school. Lots going on, budget's getting close. John will have a little bit of an update tonight, but we are we are wrapping up about 30 different meetings that we've had with our committees since the, since December. Lots of great work, lots of great work with the with the community and, I I just can't tell you how much I enjoyed listening, interacting with them.
Lots of tough decisions, but they've they've they've certainly challenged my thinking and and, we we are better because of, the input from from those groups. So, I just wanted to highlight that. So as we begin the rest of our meeting, I'd like to highlight the school board meeting protocol. Any violations to these expectations could result in a request to be removed from the meeting. No signs are allowed as this presents a safety concern. Applause applause, heckling, booing, and verbal disturbances of any kind will not be allowed or
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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 hear when they are called and to be heard, we ask that audience members remain quiet and respectful of everyone. Bryce will be calling each individual up to speak as well as the individual who will be coming up next so you can make your way to the microphone and be ready when it is your turn.
Bryce, will you please call the speakers to the microphone? First up, we have Mary Catherine Casada followed by Stuart Rene. No more, Catherine? Stuart Winnie followed by Barbara Brewer. So which one of you is slated to become big brother? The question is more rhetorical and inquisitorial because I'm confident that people controlling Global Guardian LLC have that worked out. There are three of you I expect to hear this and wonder exactly what's going on. There are three of you who already have your orders. 9.c, approve of purchase exceeding $25,000 line item two, A video on dual imager cameras to
be installed at all four high schools. Nearly $230,000 and no mention of future operational costs while we struggle to cut costs. Visual and near infrared live monitoring with microphones powered by AI. A company that works worldwide and boasts its asset security and ability to monitor and locate people worldwide. But it doesn't mention keeping school kids safe, just school property safe. An AI powered camera network being deployed to Keller ISD high schools. Quote, automated detection instantly identifies people, vehicles, objects, and movements in real time.
Behavioral analysis, searchable footage tagged with metadata. Global Guardian's privacy policy says, and I quote, your information, including personal data, may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from your jurisdiction. They then admit, quote, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure, and that, quote, we employ third party companies and individuals who
will access your data. This sort of monitoring result in KISD students, especially those in grades nine through 12. Their appearance, gait, habits, activities, schedule, and possibly even facial recognition profiles being broadcast over the Internet and then analyzed by AI. Studies of this sort of protection for schools shows no statistically identifiable improvement in safety and security for the students and actually has shown a 32% reduction in high school students feeling secure and not feeling that they're being surveilled, and they tend to feel
not trusted. KISD's student handbook page 10, quote, consent to video and audio recorded a student when not already permitted by law will no doubt be used by supporters of this intrusion, and the safety carve out will be used to override any parental opt out on file. But is this what we want? A prebuilt, stalker like stream going to who knows who and who knows where with the images and data streaming on the Internet of our kids, ourselves, teachers, and staff. A giant database, the company's own policies allow it to mine for data and train
AI. Now on a lighter note, when is 36 equal 48? When someone who writes this rule doesn't know how to add. Barbara Brood followed by Michael. Good evening. I'm here tonight to discuss the tech Texas sorry. I'm here tonight to address transparency and accountability under the Texas Open Meetings Act. Micah Young and Charles Frankliff's depositions were shared with the public today. According to those depositions, our previous school board president Charles Rankliffe stated he was not familiar with Tomah. That should concern every taxpayer in this district.
In fact, in the city of Keller because he's running for city council. This law isn't optional. Exists ensure decisions are made openly, not behind closed doors. I'm tired of watching our taxpayers' money being wasted. This board pursued a district split, spent thousands of dollars on a report, won one single phone call, John, one single phone call about bond debt, and you would have known you couldn't do it. $700,000,000 can't be split. That's not due due diligence.
That's a failure of basic oversight, and the spending hasn't stopped. Now we're suing through Paxton. We continue to see taxpayer money used on legal fights instead of classrooms, teachers, and students. That's why I'm asking you to resign, John Burt. Michael Schnitzius? Good evening. My name is Michael Schnitzias, and my wife and I have a second grader and a fourth grader at Whitley Wright Elementary School. Specifically as a parent of a fourth grader at one of the elementary schools that would have an altered feeder pattern under the proposed campus consolidation plan.
I'm here to respectfully request that we be given more clarification on how this process would unfold. As I understand it, a Ridley Road fourth grader would go next year to Parkwood Hill Intermediate for one year as a fifth grader and would then switch over the following year after campus consolidation to Indian Springs Middle, for sixth grade to then continue to Keller High School. While it's not crystal clear to me that that is the proposed sequence, I'll say that it does bring up a lot of questions about how the details would work under that plan.
The idea of our oldest starting an immediate school was already daunting, but now we're wondering things like how extracurricular activities will be coordinated, in switching from one feeder pattern to another, how academic tracks and course selection will be affected. And now instead of considering how to support our kids through the transition from elementary to intermediate, we're wondering how we should approach supporting them through the volatility of shifting from elementary to intermediate to middle over the course of just two calendar years, on
top of shifting from one high school feeder pattern to another. Socially, they'll go from spending fifth grade getting to know new peers in the post elementary world to then following consolidation, becoming the new kids in a social community that's already had a year to adjust and coalesce without them before they arrive. If these changes must happen, please give us more information about how to expect them to happen, and how the system plans to accommodate the disruption that fourth grader families in feeder pattern shifting elementary schools are facing.
Thank you. We'll now move on to reports. Doctor Wilson. Can you can you use the mic up there just because online? Maybe? Is that a little better? Alright. The update this evening will be fairly brief since there has not been significant change since our our budget workshop as as we work through the budget. Just a couple of things that that I wanna reiterate. We continue to refine budgets. We're at a point where we, are starting to get, more refined data on contracts.
In May, we'll receive our next update on tax rules, which which will be beneficial for us. So, as we continue to to get that information, the the work is still ongoing in finding areas for potential savings as we prepare, to to bring a balanced budget to the board in June. Our budget assumptions really haven't changed, since the very beginning of our budget process, but a couple key factors, revolve around declining enrollment.
It does help us as we progress through the year as we refine our enrollment numbers because we begin to see the high school course requests, look at our roll up numbers, look at our pre k enrollment, which helps, kind of tell us what we we might be, seeing eventually in kindergarten. The increased operational costs that we've seen through our budgets over the last couple of years, as we prepare to to, bring this budget forward, we're continuing to evaluate those.
The the challenge with operational costs is that they compete directly for the dollars we could spend on instruction and in salaries for our staff. And with our aging facilities, as you know, each budget, we've had to bring back a million plus addition, just to be able to Band Aid issues that we have. That's not fixing them. It's literally, the Band Aid to get us through, another year and to try to
maintain those instructional environments. So the work that the the bond committee is doing will be vital as we look forward. While bond dollars cannot be used to pay teacher salaries, they are instrumental in helping us offset some of those operational costs as we're able to update these systems, replace those systems, become more efficient. It absolutely frees up dollars on the other side of the budget so that, we
we could adequately, support our staff. And then, the final key factor I wanted to, bring it again this evening is as part of that budget, we're looking at a minimum of a 1% salary increase. Again, those operational dollars are competing for our ability to do that and, underfunding from the state, just exacerbates that. Our goal is always to provide more for our staff, but with the the tight
budgets we currently have, that's at least our minimum goal. As we roll into the fall, if enrollment stabilizes, if our operational costs, are where we would project them, our hope would be that, maybe there would be budget capability to do something as a one time bonus, and then to be able to plan for for the next year. We know we need to be, competitive in compensating our staff, but the reality of
it is, our our budget's just not allowing us to to do that at this point in time. So, those are just a few of those key factors we've been talking about. It it's nothing new, but I wanna reiterate, for our folks that, look at our our board meetings and, read those minutes. So with that, doctor Wilson, anything else you would like to touch base on this evening? I'll just go back to a couple things that John said. One, the importance of not only, our bond committee's work and the impact it will
have on our facilities, and obviously the learning environments for our kids and teachers, but also the impact it has on our day to day operational budget, which then in turn allows us to compensate teachers like they need to be compensated. That is certainly an area that we are working very hard to achieve. As John said, we're gonna do as much as we can this year. There are opportunities that we believe may be available, to not necessarily in salary, but
also but instead in a one time bonus. Once we know what we're dealing with for next year, the goal would then be to roll that over into salary and then, add on top of that the following year, so to make that permanent. We're looking at several different things, creative uses of of our funding, creative uses of some revenue streams that we're hopeful come into the district, that we can turn in ongoing revenue streams for the purpose of, that continual teacher compensation.
But I I I want I want I asked John to to mention a couple of those things because I want our budget is hard. It is challenging. But, you know, for the first time in a couple years, this is the first time we're we're going to be able to, without additional funding from the state, provide a step and an increase in salary. First time last year, we were able to put away money in the fund balance. We anticipate more money coming in the fund balance. With a bond, with a bond, with consolidation, with with additional revenue coming in through
sale of properties and those things, we are we are on very good financial footing and our priority will be ensuring that our staff, particularly our teachers and our what is what is considered our non classroom teaching professionals, speech language therapists, occupational therapists, all those folks, are are compensated to the degree that they need to be compensated to. Move on to the consent agenda. Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda?
I'd actually like to pull item b, please. It's done in action. Which one, Jen? Item b. B? Yeah. Like boy. We have a motion to, approve the consent agenda minus item b. So moved. And second? Second. Any discussion? All in favor? I have a real quick I'm so sorry. Real quick question. Are we pulling it down to action or just pulling it? Okay. All clear? All in favor? All opposed? Six zero. Our first action item is the approval of a food service management company. Doctor Wilson?
Let me try that again. On page 26 of your board book, you will find the action item for the approval of the food service management company. Just some background information, our RFP number 2603DashO1 for food service management opened on March 9. Responses were received from four different companies. The Texas Department of Agriculture reviewed and approved the proposal prior to it being issued in January 2026. This process began for us in October 2025 and it's a highly regulated process from
the Texas Department of Agriculture. They actually have the template that has to be completed by all of our companies and all of the vendors that responded have to be vetted by them as well. All of the responses that we received have been reviewed by a committee of five Keller ISD staff members and evaluated for district compliance and for best value. Proposal results and the proposed contract were submitted last Friday, April 17 to the TDA for their approval. If approved by Keller ISD and the TDA, the start date of the contract will be 07/01/2026.
TDA, like I said before, does regulate this entire process. With that said, the administration recommends that the board of trustees award to Whitson's Culinary Group upon review and final approval by the Texas Department of Agriculture for RFP 2603DashO1. And I'll be happy to answer any questions. Yeah. I have a question. So what were the, in your opinion, the big contributing factors for you to choose them? To choose them? Well, we actually have the evaluation criteria listed in the packet, and a lot of
it is the biggest factor has to be price. That's the way the TDA makes it. And then there's reputation. There's the ability to serve the district and their financial condition and things like that. Yeah. Thank you. You're very welcome. I guess where our kids are concerned, they're probably most concerned about the taste of food and the the quality of the food because I know we've experienced some some not so great meals in the past. So what does that look like? Well, we actually had samples from all of the companies, and we were, the evaluation committee was very pleased with the results.
So I think you're gonna be happy. Will you, at some point, be able to provide us with some of the changes or some of the upgrades that you're seeing with this company, compared to the last company we're using as far as what what they're offering? Is there gonna be more fruits, more vegetables, things of that nature? Absolutely. We'll be happy to share that. Thank you. You're very welcome. Just wanna say thank you, Laurie. Good job. Thank you. So I have a motion to accept the recommendation. So moved. And second? I'll second. Any discussion? Any further discussion? All in favor? Thank you.
All opposed? Thank you, Laurie. Nice job to you and your team. Our second action item tonight is the approval of revisions to local policy b e. Bryce? Hey. You'll find that action item beginning on page 28 of your board packet. These revisions were previewed, for the board at last month's regular meeting. Since that time, the only changes have been made were those that were discussed during the meeting, specifically adding the time, especially, the policy revisions, as presented. Do I have a motion? So moved. And second? Second. Any discussion?
Yeah. Alright. So in the the last paragraph of for the preparation, it says, can you go read that last paragraph for me, Bryce? Under preparation. One second. Before the official agenda is finalized, it for any meeting, that one? No. It it start it starts with if a subject has been considered by the board in the past six months. If the subject has been considered by the board in the past six months and the board member requests the same or a similar subject be placed in the agenda, the board may determine by a majority vote whether the item will be placed on the future agenda. In such an instance, the board president, superintendent must include on the agenda for the
next regular meeting an action item to provide board members an opportunity to vote on, including the proposed item on a subsequent agenda. Okay. So in order for us to discuss whether the merits of an item being put on the future agenda, you have to discuss said item. Right? So, really, what we're talking about is bureaucracy at its finest. We're gonna have a meeting to discuss the merits of putting something on a future meeting to discuss again about what you're voting on. Right? So in in I I like this for the most part, but in my opinion, that whole section should be cut out.
If if because, again, we're just gonna be having one debate and discussion, one board meeting to then weigh in for the board to decide to put on a future meeting to then have the discussion again. I think I think inclusion was included in case there's something that is a repeat item that was has been discussed in the last issuance that needs to be discussed again. So it's not automatically ruled out, but it provides the board with an opportunity to consider that item, in future. But isn't it the same thing? Right? So if I because things my assumption would be if something's gonna be revisited twice
in six months, it's an item of swift action. Right? Or it should be looked at for swift action. So to to have a discussion about it, to have it put on the agenda sooner, to then just have a discussion to then put it on another needing to have another discussion. You're just, what, delaying it thirty days for the sake of delaying it thirty days. I think that if there is gonna be a time limit in there, like, I would and I think that we've talked about this in the past potentially. I would rather just see it be a maybe a shorter window and no discussion
to put on another agenda. Does that make sense? So fewer months? Yeah. So maybe three months. Three months. Yep. And that's definitely a change we can make. Does it wanna send you funds on there? So we're just talking about changing six to three. Is that correct? That's what it sounds like at all. Yeah. Yeah. We can make it. Any any concerns or are we good with that? That's so when we discussed this the last time, I think in the, last board
meeting, everybody was okay with six, but now we want three? I'm sure I mean, is that the consensus of the board, or do we wanna just keep it as is and adopted, or do we wanna do now another revision, or can we make a motion tonight to change it to three and it's actually adopted? Or We can make a motion to change it. I think if there I think to your to your question, Chelsea, if if this is the only change or if there's any other change, we'll take a motion to accept the revision with whatever changes we agreed tonight, and that becomes in the in
the adoption. Correct? Because we already previewed. Correct. Yeah. So you you can you can, just to make that change Yeah. Vote on the change. And if that passes, you could vote on that version of the So so far, we only had the the one change. Yes. Correct. Yeah. So we would take a take a a motion to accept it Yes. With that change. Mhmm. Great. Let's change the six to three, and I think all the rest is fine. And we can you wanna take out the rest of that? No. No. I think I think all the rest is fine. Just change six to three. Gotcha. Okay. So that's my motion.
I'll second. I'm sorry, Chris. Can you say your motion again? Yeah. So where it says, if a subject has been considered by the board in the past six months and the board member requests that the same with similar, subject we place on the agenda, the motion is that we replace the word six with three. So we've had a motion and Heather seconded it. Any discussion? All in all in favor with the approval with that change? All opposed. Six zero. Thank you. Did you wanna On approving that. So you approve the, the We approve revision as written except changing the six to
three. Now we can prove that. Now we can approve that. Oh, yes. Sorry. So in you approve that revision, you can approve the the action item with that version of the policy. So another vote. So we have a a move now to approve. I'll second. All in favor? I'm sorry. All opposed? Okay. That one's 06:00. Thank you. So our third action item would be to take up the, consent item b. So we have the, a motion to wait.
We haven't Motion to A motion to accept. Item yeah. Yep. For the budget amendments as presented. Does that work, Bryce? We haven't had a, a motion yet. I was saying I I'll make the motion for that. Repeat it down a few moments. I'll make the motion to review the budget amendments that were pulled from the consent agenda earlier and take action. A second. Second. Any discussion? I do. I had a comment and a question. So, mister Burke, thank you for recognizing softball this morning earlier in this meeting, and our theater teams are performing today and probably anxiously awaiting the results by this point.
So, Timber Creek, Fossil, and Central are all doing that today as well. So hope they get good results. And I noticed they were in here for the post district competition, so always nice to see money moving towards recognizing our students' achievements. My question is on the legal expenses. I was looking to see if there was a letter. Given everything that's been going on in the district, I just wanna be really transparent when we're talking about legal expenses. So doctor Wilson, can you just clarify what these are specifically for and why we need an increase to move over? So, yeah, the increase to post sister travel is always fantastic that the kids are
opportunities, but it comes at a cost. So, we find that money because they've they've earned it and they deserve it. With regard to the the legal, that's 70 so we have our our line item for our legal services. We do anticipate our West Gallegos. We we anticipate having to, exceed that budget by a little bit, what we'd specifically set aside just because of the nature of its district business that we own right now. Thanks for clarifying this district. Sure. And, Corey, I just wanted to also have a follow-up question to her question.
So whenever we're looking at the general fund expenditures, we're actually taking this from one GL code to another. So we're we're not actually trying to find 70,000. We have it already. We're just moving it to one other GL code that's a payout GL code. That's correct. Okay. Any other discussion? So, basically, we are, approving the purchases exceeding $25,000 All in favor? I'm sorry. Budget amendment. I'm sorry. Budget amendments. All in favor? All opposed? Thank you. I was looking at the wrong page.
Next, we have a preview of the KISD board operating procedures. Doctor Wilson? So at last meeting you guys were able to have some discussion on your operating procedures. Now we're bringing that back for, formal preview before we, actually approve it or bring it up for consideration for approval at our meeting in May. So any discussion you guys have related to, the draft that we have provided, you,
can let us know or have a discussion here at this time. I brought some, proposed revisions that I I can pass out if you would. I think if you wanna pass them down. Let me preface this by saying that I am grateful for the work that trustees Washington, Erickson, and and Kelly did on, assembling these board board operating procedures. I appreciate your work very much. These are all fairly simple revisions. Most of those are one sentence and there's only three in total. And I'll I'll go off, and I gave, Bryce a copy earlier.
But, board operative procedure section one item six a. On third bullet, I'm proposing that, we amend the language to say the superintendent shall have full, unredacted, and timely access to all invoices submitted to the district for payment. Item six f, first bullet on the board operating procedures. Amend that sentence to read, individual trustees do not engage in purchasing decisions, contract negotiations, vendor selection, or enter into agreement for services without their prior and expressed written consent
of the board. My last, requested revision is section two of the operating procedures. Item 10 in the introductory paragraph. I would like to add the following language. For all purposes, the board of trustees and the district shall be represented as a single lingo single legal entity. Thank you for Matt, may I speak? Thank you for that, Trustee Campbell. My only comment in regards to these three bullet items is they sound more like their policy versus board of operating procedure.
No. I I I agree that, when I was looking at this language, I I think it's, a fair discussion to say, should this be in in our education code or in board operating, procedures? Mhmm. But I think that, we've had some issues, in the past with trustees entering into agreements with author expressed written permission of the board and my only interest in putting this out there is to make it quite clear as policy in the board operating
procedures. That the the trustees only operate as a body corporate and that no individual trustee has the authority to enter into any contract or service without the express written permission of the board. So, I I take your point, but I would like to clarify this and I think it it's worthy of consideration putting into our operating policy. So there's never any confusion again about what the expectations are. Okay. Yeah. And I'll just, confirm with with Trustee Kelly and Trustee Erickson is that the the
operating procedures that were created and put together were all come from policy that exists other than, I think, the social media because we don't have a social media policy but we're looking into creating one. So I would like us to, refer to policy so that we have something to reference these three bullet items like the rest of the Board of Operating Procedures does. Because all of the things listed have a reference to an existing policy. No. I I agree. I think that these are all referenced back to, to our, other education code.
And and, so if, when it takes a little bit more time to get that, and I'll be willing to step up and help research that. But I I do think that, I I take your point. We need to make sure and reference these back to, education code as we've done in the rest of the operating procedure. So if it takes another a little bit more longer to get it right, that's fine with me. And I actually, trustee Washington, I agree with you. I I one of the things that I think we need to ensure is that the BOP is, reflecting what is in our current policy, and I think it also
has helped us identify where we're lacking in policy. And so, out of this process, we're we're probably gonna be, doing some policy work over the summer. So, you know, Randy, that's something, if there's something that you see a particular policy where those would fit in, I think it's something that you go ahead and start drafting, drafting to be prepared for agenda later on down the road. So but I I definitely know whenever the three of us have discussed how we want this BOP to look in our committee meetings is that we wanted it for
now. We want it to be more of an overview, of what we currently have. So, yeah. And if there's any assistance that you need with any policy work, I'd I'd be happy to help with that too. So Okay. I think those are I think those are great points. To the extent that we either have a policy or need a have the policy, but it needs to be revisited. But to the points y'all are making, then these comments, if they become part of the BOP, then they refer back to to either a policy that is exist already
or an amended policy that comes back for review and and adoption down the road. And I know when we talked before, there was a discussion that before these got approved in any case, they were gonna be looked at by Walsh Gallego. So they haven't they haven't looked at we're still in draft mode still. So they may or may not we may or may not be able to adopt at the next meeting. Right? I mean, this is a preview work in progress. Right. The goal tonight was not necessarily for adoption, but for us to go ahead and
say, let's go ahead and send this to Walsh Gaydos. There's nothing else that we need broader scope on. There's nothing that needs to be added or subtracted at this point. So yeah. We would just want to know, as a committee, are we good to go ahead and submit to Walsh Gayagos? Yeah. So what's the time frame for getting any comments, additional comments back to, doctor Wilson? Yeah. I would say within the next week just because our next meeting is actually three weeks from tonight.
And so I'll need to make sure that Haley's good, or run everything by Haley to see if there are any concerns that she has or any suggestions she has for, languages because as you know, she's a stickler one language. So So after tonight you want us to give any changes or suggestions with within this next week? Yes, ma'am. Thank you. By the end of next Friday I would appreciate that. Will that give you enough time? Yeah. Okay. I'll just make a brief point here is that, I I did look at what
this would refer to in other other policies here. And the the first one is here. The superintendent is responsible and looking at board operating procedures. The superintendent is responsible for the district's financial operations. So to me, that that first, suggested revision is a natural extension of that. If he's responsible for the financial operations, he needs to see all the unredacted invoices. So that's just an extension of that idea. The, limitations and ethical stewardship on section f there.
Again, the language in the first bullet point and original, leaves open the possibility of an agreement for services. So I'm just tightening up that language to make sure that includes services and not just the items listed. And then, on, the last one, section two, the district being represented as a single single legal entity, that one's more problematic because we've had a situation in the past where the district or the board was represented as a separate legal entity from the
district. And if we need to go back into their policies to to revise that, I would like to correct that for future. I think the board and the district are a single legal entity and should always be represented that way. So I'll I'll leave my comments at that, and we'll work it out, among us. Thank you. Moving to our work session and discussion. Doctor Wilson. So as I said before we'd had a lot of committee meetings and we still have, a lot to accomplish in our next twenty school days. Beginning on April 29 we have our next long range planning committee meeting.
We have our citizens bond advisory committee meeting on April 30, May 12, another long range planning committee meeting. May 14, again, is the regular board meeting. It's a lot sooner than, regular month just because graduation will then be in just that next week in a couple days. Our CBAC meeting, our citizens bond advisory, we're actually going to take campus tours and allow those folks to look at some of the the infrastructure challenges that we have,
just because it helps put a kind of as you put a face with a name, it puts a face with an issue. So we want to, take them on the school buses and drive around the district. On May 19, we have our citizens bond advisory committee meeting. Twenty first is the last day of school. KCA academy KCA graduation ceremony on the twenty second and then like we talked about earlier, the full day graduation beginning at 8AM and ending probably around 10:10 thirty on
May 23. Busy times. The trustees will now go into executive session for the purpose permitted by Texas Open Meetings Act. Texas government code five five one dot zero zero one to five five one dot one four six. Section five five one dot zero seven one consultation with attorney. Section five five one dot zero seven two deliberation regarding real property, purchase, exchange, lease, or value. Section five five one dot zero seven four, personnel matters, appointments, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties,
discipline, dismissal, complaint. Section five five one dot zero eight two, school children, school district employees, disciplinary matter or complaint, section five five one dot zero eight two one. Personally identifiable information about public schools student, specifically consultation with legal counsel regarding pending litigation, and b, litigate, deliberation and legal consultation regarding personnel matters, including recommendation for non renewal
of term contract employees pursuant to Texas government code five five one dot zero seven one and five five one dot zero seven four. The time is 06:11. We will return as soon as we can. Teacher term contract. I move to propose for non renewal of the term contract of Nicole Navarrete and direct the superintendent to provide notice of this action to the employee. I have a second? Second. All in favor? All opposed?
Six zero. That is the end of our agenda for this evening. I'll take a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. All in favor? Six zero. We're adjourned at 08:10.