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PM, and we are immediately going to go out and go into closed session at 527.

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Okay, everybody.

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For the regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of Gregory Portland, ISD, Monday, December 18.

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The time is 6 o'clock straight up. Please silence all your electronic devices.

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And let's see where we are here.

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We are back in open session from closed session.

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No action to be taken on any items in closed session.

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We have a forum.

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Six of our seven here.

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And we're going to start off with the indication by Nicole Nolan,

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followed by the pledge of allegiance by Melissa Gonzalez.

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Everybody please stand.

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number six, the reading of the GPSD vision mission and beliefs and I'll start us off and then we'll go to my left with Zach the vision of GPSD is to educate and inspire and power.

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The mission of Gregory Paul and ISD is to educate and inspire and empower our students to succeed in life and become the next generation of leaders.

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In GPISD, we believe students are leaders and critical thinkers who embrace diversity and pursue excellence in all endeavors.

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In GPISD, we believe that parents, families, or two partners have a voice and have a high expectation.

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In GPISD, we believe faculty and staff will include some relationships and maximize student success with integrity, compassion, and talent.

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In GPSC, we believe principles and campus leadership are courageous leaders who show grace, empower others, embrace diversity, and cultivate GP pride.

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At GPSC, we believe the superintendent and central office advance our vision with intention, collaboration, and purpose driven leadership.

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In GPSC, we believe our Board of Trustees are strategic collaborative leaders who model good governance and empower and inspire others to serve the GP community.

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Okay, item number seven, recommendations and presentations.

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I didn't get a chance to look at the sign and sheet to see if we have any elected officials

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or honored guests here today.

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Anyone in the audience forgive me if I pass you over.

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And so we'll go ahead and move on to our student recognition.

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Yes.

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So, as we as a team go around to the front of Ms. Maturn come to the podium to do our recognitions tonight.

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And don't they look fantastic, right? We have the best school board.

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well, good evening, Dr. Kavassos, Vice President Gregory, Trustees, and all of our GP family.

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Audience members, we invite you not only to observe our recognitions yet also to participate in the following way.

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So if you have a phone with you, if you could grab it real quick and scan that QR code that's on the screen.

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This is a chance just to submit a quick positive praise, a quick message of encouragement to our teachers.

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It's an exhausting week for our teachers and staff as we celebrate across the district so they will really appreciate it.

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If you could lift them up with some words of gratitude.

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Thank you.

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Now we'd also like to share a few reminders for those who are being recognized tonight.

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When your name is called, please approach the superintendent to receive a certificate and take an individual photo.

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Then please shake hands with each of our school board members.

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And if there is more than one person in your group to be recognized, please remain standing at the left side of the room until all of your group has come forward and will gather in the center of her group photo.

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For all recognitions, we invite our principals, teachers, and advisors of any student groups as well as supervisors or team members of employees and those working with the honorees directly to approach the front and join your honoree for group photo.

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Our recognitions will begin this evening with an opportunity to extend sincere gratitude to a neighboring industrial company for their dedication to some of our most incredible wildcats.

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Here at GPISD many of our students enjoy the opportunity to participate in the special Olympics throughout the school year.

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There are five million participants worldwide in 172 countries, including ours, who take part in this of the world's largest organization for children and adults that qualify for special and services and support.

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These wealth cat athletes are able to excel with their peers who share intellectual and physical abilities that are complementary to one another, and tonight we have several of them in the audience with us,

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who we will now invite forward to join our superintendent and school board.

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So please welcome them and our GPIC advisors for the special Olympics program, Mr. Brandon Ellis and Mr. James Espinoza.

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So can we bring up our athletes?

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And we also have with us our director of special education, Miss Amanda Monios, who will join us as well.

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Up for the front to get ready to smile big for a group photo.

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We all would like you to know that later this spring, we are going to be bringing back this entire group for recognition of the program and our athletes.

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So tonight, they are not here to receive certificates, like some of the other individuals, because you all will get that in the spring.

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Instead, they're receiving something really, really exciting, which is a really big check.

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Wildcats, the Special Olympics program, will be well supported this school year thanks to the significant donation of $31,000 from our friends at Sheneer Energy.

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And we're inviting our representatives from Sheneer to come forward and present this check to our Wildcat athletes.

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Please welcome Mr. Luis Bondeo and Ms. Nadia Muddy.

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Okay, and as our Special Olympics athletes wander back to their seat,

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May have several parents and family members of these outstanding students in the audience. If you could please stand, if you're a family member, of these wild cats, so we can thank you for all you do.

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Thank you all very much, and thank you again to Sheneer.

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So next, we will honor those who have been selected by their campus administrators and teachers to appear in our feature video series, the line to priority 3 of the balance scorecard.

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Our most recent rising rock stars of GPISD from WC Andrews Elementary School, this student is in the fifth grade and has attended GPE for the last three years.

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She loves playing soccer and spending time outside with her sister. She enjoys reading books and participating in WCA's pod squad cheer team.

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The robotics club running club and choir. Her favorite classes are reading in science. She says she's not sure what she wants to be when she grows up yet.

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Though has thought about maybe owning a business one day, which would make complete sense to us because she cares a lot about serving others.

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Please welcome our first rising rock star tonight, Katara, more.

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And as she's shaking hands, our next rising rock star is a seventh grader from GP middle school who enjoys advanced English, pre-Algebra, playing the trumpet and developing skills and percussion in our awesome GP band program.

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She's already planning for high school by focusing on her grades and hoping for advanced and

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honors classes as well as college courses offered through the GPHSP Tech program.

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So far she's narrowed her list of college and career interests to environmental science, forensic

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anthropology, or marine biology, and is interested in rice university.

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Helping the environment is extremely important to her and with the ambition she carries

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everywhere she goes, we know she's going to go on to make a monumental difference in

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world. Please welcome Lily Crystal.

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And our third rising rock star for the evening from GP High School

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is a senior this year has attended GP ISD since elementary school at East Cliff. He's taking

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some challenging courses including dual credit English, calculus, and robotics. This rising rock

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star has played football with some of his fellow wildcats since they were five years old. And really

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says he appreciates the support for athletes here in GP. He plans to play football and study

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aerospace engineering at the United States Air Force Academy. Please put your hands together

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for Mr. Brody Mitchell.

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Now as they gather together for a group photo, we'd once again like to

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extend congratulations to these exceptional students and now ask their families to stand and let us thank

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you for the difference that you make in their lives. Families of our rock stars.

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Thank you all. Congratulations

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So, if you've driven near GP high school recently and I'm sure most people in this room have, then you've noticed that we have an

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agressions facility that is nearly complete to support the growing interest in our ag courses and FFA program.

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As an example, just a few weeks ago, GP high school celebrated the fact that 22 of our FFA members competed in eight different events at the

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earning first and second-place titles at the district level are here tonight. So we would

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like to recognize them for bringing their best and excelling on behalf of their fellow students,

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their school and our district, as well as congratulate all of our Wildcats in the FFA program

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who competed and will continue to compete in years to come. Learning second-place and district

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for Senior Ag Advocacy, Kaylin Baker.

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And also, second place in district for Ag Advocacy, Agent Garcia,

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earning first place in district for senior FFA Broadcasting, Attie Linley.

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Also, first place in district for senior FFA Broadcasting, Kalani Dawson.

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And finally, first place in district for senior FFA Broadcasting, Maddie Carmichael.

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And as she's making her way through the school board, shaking hands with congratulations.

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we ask the parents and family members of these students to please stand and let us thank you

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for all you do and all you give to GPIC and the FFA program.

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Here comes Mrs. Ferguson and as their

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teacher and advisor and principal joins them perfect both teachers you let everybody okay

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congratulations

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everyone and

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now it is time to announce our GPIC employees of the month for the last month of this

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calendar year. I'd like to ask our director, our executive director, excuse me, if you

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have been a resources doctor, Daniel Sabayas, to join Dr. Kovasa in the board for these

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employee recognitions. Tonight's honorees were selected from among nominations submitted

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by their peers, supervisors, students, and community members, all of whom, everyone in this

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room, can submit a request for recognition at any time on our website. This evening, we

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The district's paraprofessional employee of the month is someone who nearly everyone in our district knows due to her dedication to the team as a payroll specialist.

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Please welcome Mrs. Jackie Aragon.

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Known for being approachable, fun-loving and kind, her dedication to her work and to our more than 750 employees district wide is highly valued and appreciated far more than she may realize.

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She truly lives the vision to educate, inspire, and empower each day in her role with GPISD.

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And recently, we have seen her name submitted by a fellow employee for positive praise due to the incredible customer service that she provides in a timely and attentive fashion.

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If you know her, then you know her commitment to her work makes her an integral part of our district.

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And those who know her extremely well know that when she's not decked out in GP, red, and blue, or that lovely sweater.

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She is in blue and orange, sing her Houston Astros through season after season.

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A true joy to work with a pleasure to know, please help us congratulate the one and only Miss Jackie Otagon.

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Our professional employee of the month is a dyslexia interventionist with a heart for helping students who struggle with reading.

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And through her important work, she transforms lives for the better each and every day at East Cliff Elementary.

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Please join us in recognizing Mrs. Carrie Novak.

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Ms. Novak is as compassionate as she is talented to consistently working to bring dyslexia awareness to our families and the best education possible

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as well as supports and services for her students.

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Her unwavering dedication is truly remarkable,

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and she daily goes the extra mile to ensure the well-being

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and academic success of those in her care,

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which is her absolute highest priority.

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She is their advocate and confident,

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seeking ways to foster collaboration among teachers

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and assist her peers in discovering valuable resources

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and activities for students who face challenges.

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Her kindness and respect toward her students make her an outstanding role model both to our

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Wildcats and colleagues, and the depth of knowledge that she has attained coupled with a passion

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for her invaluable work shines through her teaching and creates an inspiring learning environment

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for all. A treasure to her bride and beautiful students at school and her bride and beautiful

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children at home. She is one of a kind at East Cliff and at GPISD. Let's give a big round of applause

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for a true different smaker, miscarried event.

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And with the families of our employees of the month, please stand

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and let us give you a round of applause.

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We thank you for being here tonight.

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Thank you.

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And congratulations again to all of our honorees.

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Our final recognition is not for particular individual.

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However, for the entire district and leadership team

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who work to ensure that GPISD continues to excel

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as stewards of taxpayer dollars

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and taxpayer property throughout the district.

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Back in 2017-18, Hurricane Harvey caused a significant amount of damage to schools in our region.

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In the case of GP ISD, damage to the roof of GP High School and Steven F. Austin Elementary

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School were among the most significant issues we experienced.

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It has taken six years and a lot of time, talent, effort, patience, and thoughtful management

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to ensure that GPISD received the legal settlement agreement and subsequent millions of dollars owed to our taxpayers that resulted from Harvey roofing damages at these campuses.

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Thanks to the efforts specifically from our superintendent, Dr. Komosos, who doesn't know that we wrote that.

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Our school board, our Assistant Superintendent of Business Finance and Operations, Dr. Ismail

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Gonzalez III, and our teams supporting this effort in recent years in business finance

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and operations as well as our campuses. We are proud to announce that we have finally

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been able to close a chapter on a long-awaited settlement and cooperation with Pearson

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Legal Law firm. At this time, we invite those who were part of this process and who are part

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district, not to be shy, but to please come forward and join the board and superintendent.

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If you are in the room, as tonight, we will bring forward a check in the amount that the district

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has officially received as a final sediment settlement to GP ISD, inclusive of all fees and

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a donation from Pearson Legal, which totals $2,362,500 owed back to our GP taxpayers.

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Congratulations.

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Right, right.

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you.

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And the settlement in excess of 4 million?

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If I'm not mistaken.

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Ooh. Six million. Okay.

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Seven million. How many fingers were you holding at seven?

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Congratulations to the team working hard to make this possible.

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A feat not all districts have been able to achieve.

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And thank you to the team at Pearson Legal for your contribution.

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Trustees, friends and wildcats, this concludes the recognition portion of tonight's meeting.

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Thank you.

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As everybody is exiting the room after the recognition.

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Yes, we can take a break.

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However, I want to let the room settle down a little bit,

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because I forgot to recognize somebody that was with us tonight.

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A special guest.

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That's with us.

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Not yet.

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Not yet.

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Okay, my apologies, I forgot to recognize a couple of special guests in the room with us tonight.

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I'll try to talk over the noise I know everybody's leaving.

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We have our pork commissioner representing San Patricia County, Mr. West Hoskins.

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Thank you for being here tonight with your daughter and your lovely wife,

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who is on our Education Foundation Board.

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Thank you both for serving our community.

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Yes, and former trustee, Mr. Hoskins.

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Okay, we're going to take a short break, short recess at 626, 10 minutes, tops, tops.

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Number 8, public hearing for the financial integrity rating system of Texas.

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Yes, so I'm going to ask Dr. Gonzalez to come forward to do our public hearing. This is a requirement to do a public hearing on our first rating each year.

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begins on page six in your board book.

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If you're wanting to follow along.

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So welcome, Dr. Gonzalez.

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Good evening.

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All right, it's not.

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It is fallen.

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What page did you start with?

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Page six.

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Thank you.

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Good evening.

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Number of the board.

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Mr. Vice Chair.

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Dr. Kavasos.

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Tonight.

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I am here to present our public hearing for the first,

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which is a stand for financial integrity rating system of Texas.

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Just like academics, how the Texas Education Agency holds us accountable.

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We're also held accountable to meet specific financial standards at the state level.

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And through first, we're able to be rated at certain levels.

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So this was enacted back in 2001,

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And really, again, gives a clear visual or idea to the state that we're being

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a fiscally responsible with our finances, and its primary goal is to improve management

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of the school district's financial resources.

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So, a couple of objectives to the first ratings is assessing the quality of the financial

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management practices in Texas public schools and fairly evaluating the quality of financial

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management decisions at a public institution and openly reporting these results to the

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general public.

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These reports lag several years be back so today we're going to be looking at the 2021-222 data

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to find the results for the most up-to-date first rating for GPISD.

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Scores are based on a summation of points on 20 indicators.

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As you can see there, if you receive a 90 to 100, you get a superior achievement

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and then from there it breaks down different rankings.

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But, since the enactment of this accountability system, we have at GPI is the always received a superior achievement and plan to continue doing so, moving forward.

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So, spoiler alert, we did receive a superior achievement for the district.

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So, to go through the process.

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This accountability system, I'm going to run through the 20 indicators and if any questions emerge

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or you have something that you would like to ask, don't hesitate to raise your hand and we can answer

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as well for the public also that is here. Very many people are here for this report, but if any

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questions come up, feel free. So was the AFR, the annual financial report filed within one month after

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The November 27th or January 28 deadline for the fiscal year-end date.

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The answer to that question was yes for that year.

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Was there an unmodified opinion in the annual financial report on the financial statements as a whole?

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The answer was yes.

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So those two were yes, there are paths.

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Was the school district in compliance with the payment terms of all-depth agreements

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that fiscal year-end, the answer is yes, did the school district make timely payments to the TRS

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TWC and IRS and any other government agencies the answer was yes

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Was the average change in fund balance over three years less than a 25% decrease or did the current years a sign and an assigned fund balance

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Exceeded 75 days of operational expenditures

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Our ends we we answered yes or the past that ceiling

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I did add some data in there so you can gauge an idea of where

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We ended that year when it came to the fund balance, which was at 109 million, but highly, well over exceeded the 75 days of operational expenditures, which came out to that year at 12 million, 62,113 dollars.

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Was the number of days of cash on hand and current investments in the general fund for the school district sufficient to cover operating expenditures?

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We received 10 out of 10 points here. The answer was yes, you can see here cash

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Was at 105 million with our total expenditures that year equally 59.5 million

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But that year we had 657 days of fund balance and needing the formula was designed to exceed 90 days, so we exceeded it by a very many by a lot for that year.

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Number eight was a measure of current assets to current liabilities ratio for the school districts efficient to cover short term debt.

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Here, it's based on a ratio that is assets over liabilities came out to 9.4, which was greater than 3, which was the standard for the state that year.

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So we passed that with 10 out of 10 points.

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Number 9, the school district's general fund revenues equal or exceed expenditures.

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If not, was the school district's number of days cash on hand greater than or equal to 60 days.

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Well, we passed the one before, which 90 days, this one again, we had 657 days of fun balance

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in our general fund, which resulted in a 10 out of 10 points for the district.

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Number 11 was a ratio of long-term debt liabilities to total assets for the school district's

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sufficient to support long-term solvency.

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Here, liabilities over assets came out to 0.48, which was less than 0.60, which is

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the standard for the state to receive 10 out of 10 points, and we did meet that as

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well.

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Was the debt per hundred dollars of assessed property value ratio sufficient to support

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future debt repayments?

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This might be a typo, but I think it was 10 out of 10 points.

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I think last year was eight, but here we do have a 1.72, which is less than 4, which is a standard,

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but you can see the sources of values that they pull from mainly from our audit reports

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to come up with these final results and to grade the district.

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We can see that it all, the local intermediate sources divided into revenue, multiply by

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liabilities, and they divide that by the assessed property value, our assessed property

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value that year was 11.4 billion.

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This year it was, it went up to 16 billion, right?

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So, it moved, it moved very quickly in the last couple of years.

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This one's correct number 13 was the administrative cost ratio less than the threshold ratio.

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We did score here eight out of 10 points.

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This has to do with where we are with the administrative pay.

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We found this year that there was a lot.

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We have a coding inaccuracies and have made those clear those up in the last couple of years since. So we're hoping moving forward that we're able to score 10 out of 10 points here.

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But still, eight out of 10 points is great for the district.

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Did the comparison of teams' data to like information in the California report result in an aggregate variance of less than 3%.

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The expense of the expenditures per fund type answers, yes, actually 131 divided into 59 million.

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We're at zero, so we didn't have very many variances for teams data that year,

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basically how many adjustments were made.

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It's looking more at a data quality measurement to ensure that we're being as accurate as possible when

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during data into our student information system,

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our financial system throughout the year.

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And then it's basically pulling in,

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a certain formula to see if we have too much

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adjustments throughout the year or not.

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And we really don't.

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We have a great, and we still have great teams

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with the district that keep track of all the changes

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that are necessary.

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And if none are, then we continue with our practices.

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17, the external independent auditor report that the end of financial report was free

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of any instances of material weaknesses and internal controls over financial reporting

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and compliance for local state and federal funds answers yes the district was free

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of any material weaknesses or significant deficiencies in that school year.

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18 did the external independent auditor indicate the end of financial report was free of

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a material non-compliance for grants, contracts, and laws related to local state and federal funds.

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The answer was yes, we score 10 out of 10 points on that one.

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19 did the school district post the required financial information on the website,

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in accordance with government code, local government code, Texas education code, Texas administrative code,

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and other statute laws and rules that were in effect at the school district's fiscal year.

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This was a 5 out of 5.

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we scored five out of five, number 20 did the school board members discuss the district property

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values at a board meeting within 120 days before the district adopted its budget. Yes, I mean,

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obviously the board does adopt it and we go through several workshops before that to discuss

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what property values look like and direction we're going in for the upcoming year.

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So we ended up with the 98 out of a hundred possible points, which results in a superior

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achievement, some additional requirements for the first rating for the public hearing of

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the first rating as to show a annual financial management report that includes our school board

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our superintendents and specific expenditures that are mainly a travel and so you can see that

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report here and

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then the next piece is to share our superintendents contract with in this meeting

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and I'll go through it slowly I don't know if anybody's seen online but if anybody is interested

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or would like to see a copy it's on our website and we've always had it on our website.

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This district practice is that so and at the same time with anybody wants a copy of this entire

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presentation feel free to email me reach out to me by phone.

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So that's my report. Any questions

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from the board?

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Laura has a question. Can you just share where to find the contract online?

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Yes, so if you go to the district's website and go to, I can go pull it up right now.

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We're going to go to the Superintendents

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page.

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Here you'll see your hover over the third bullet or box in there.

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And when you click it, it comes right up.

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So for those at home, or curious,

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it's on the superintendent's page.

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Any other questions from the board?

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Okay, then we'll move on to the next item that's comments from the public.

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Thank you.

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Are there any comments from the public about the information that Dr. Gonzalez just shared for the public?

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Nobody, no comments for public hearing. Now, we'll move on to item number 10, comments from public and open form.

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And we have no one signed up to comment.

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So we'll move on to item number 11, consent agenda.

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Is there anyone that wants to remove any items out

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from consent agenda?

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And that might present an item D.

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D is in dog, correct.

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Mark, did you?

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E?

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E?

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New else?

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I'm going to pull out G.

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Okay, so we'll start with that empty, right?

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You can't even remember the motion.

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So you should make a motion on the ones that we're not.

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That's right.

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Thank you.

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And then go.

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Thank you.

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Okay.

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So do I have a motion for items A, B, C, F?

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Can we do that?

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Can we prove we can set the remaining consent in the first and then?

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That's what she's doing.

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Yeah.

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Is the remaining consent?

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Yeah.

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So do I have a motion for A, B, C, F and H?

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So move Nicole and ZAC, ABCDF and H, Nicole and ZAC,

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all in favor,

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signify by raising your hands.

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Is that really okay?

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Sorry about that.

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Okay, so items ABCDF and H, NAS, ABCF and ABCF and H.

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Maybe, oh, I'm sorry, I included D in their ABC F and H pass, unanimous,

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okay.

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So now item number D. That was Melissa's request. What questions do you have Melissa?

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So just, can somebody's eat regarding the mandate as I understand the legislatures asking

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as the board to vote before March, whether or not we would hire chaplains, as in place

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of certified counselors, but can you just explain the part volunteers for sure. So this item

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is actually on page 129 in board in the packet. And so the law, it's Senate Bill 763 that

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school districts have the option to hire religiously-villity chaplains to work alongside a

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replace school counselors. And so I think the question is whether they can volunteer.

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And so yes chaplains can volunteer in our school as volunteers, but not be chaplains

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in their role as a volunteer. Because we already employ school counselors and we have three social

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workers, but they can definitely come in and sign up for volunteer opportunities in our

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tools, as anyone else could come in as a volunteer, but they wouldn't be volunteering as a

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chaplain in that capacity.

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Thank you for that, Claire.

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Yes.

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Okay.

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Item any other questions on item D?

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Okay.

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Item E.

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That was Mark's request.

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Yes.

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Just a clarification for public purposes.

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The course.

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Yes.

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on page 134 in the board book, it is for considering for starting next year, and it is an approved course through TEA, and going down to, let's see, the course is our peer, you can see on page 136 peer assistance for students with disabilities.

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And so in the description it's for students and actually we're just talking about this on the break.

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It's for students who in the general education program can be appear a supportive peer to students who have disabilities and work alongside them.

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So it's an innovative course that we are adding to are requesting to add to our course guide for next year.

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Any other questions?

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No, I just wanted to...

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I like it.

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Consent agenda has tendency to be perceived by the public as sliding stuff under the rug.

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I make sense?

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I didn't have to, it was acceptable, because it makes sense.

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So...

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Yeah, and we did not prefer not to be caught in the HB store or Walmart,

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and hey, what are you all doing?

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So, anyway, that's...

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Okay, and I pulled out G.

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I don't have any questions on G. I was just out of an abundance of caution, planning on abstaining from that, so that's why I wanted to pull it out.

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Okay. Yeah. So if you guys are okay with it, I'd like to vote on D&E and G separately. Is that okay?

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Yeah, that makes sense.

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Okay. Okay. So do I have a motion to approve items D and E?

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So moved Nicole,

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second, all in favor,

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signify by raising your hands, and DNA pass by unanimous vote.

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And then just for disclosure purposes,

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the reason you're abstaining from voting on the speech

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in debate tournament is you have a student

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that would be directly impacted.

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Yes.

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A bit of it.

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Yeah, yes.

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A bit of it.

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But hopefully.

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Yeah, and you know, and in the past,

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legal has said that I can vote, but I just, you might as well, might as well let's say.

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So, okay.

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I just don't want anyone to think you're eight minutes deep to the day program.

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Oh, thank you.

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Thank you.

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I appreciate that.

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Any questions on that item, item G?

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Okay.

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Do I have a motion to approve item G on consent agenda?

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Laura?

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I'll second.

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And Zach, second.

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All in favor?

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I think they're looking forward to it.

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I'll say the discussion there.

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I personally think this is excellent.

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Yeah, it really is.

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I would say when I first saw it come through, I was very concerned because it is out of state

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and it is and making sure that they had the money in their account to do it.

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Because it would be needed and needs to be paid out of their accounts.

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And then I was also concerned about the numbers of days,

450
00:52:16,310 --> 00:52:18,650
number of days that we have school that would be missed.

451
00:52:19,010 --> 00:52:22,250
However, it's the Friday of it is a half day,

452
00:52:22,250 --> 00:52:24,530
early release, and then there's no school that Monday.

453
00:52:24,690 --> 00:52:27,010
So they're really only missing a day and a half of instruction.

454
00:52:28,570 --> 00:52:29,010
So.

455
00:52:29,290 --> 00:52:29,770
Good timing.

456
00:52:29,770 --> 00:52:29,970
Good timing.

457
00:52:30,070 --> 00:52:32,750
It'd be okay with me if they missed the whole week to load it up.

458
00:52:33,410 --> 00:52:34,690
That would be a GP at Harvard.

459
00:52:35,550 --> 00:52:42,740
Yeah, very, very, very, very, very, very, very excited for them.

460
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:50,700
So I had Laura made the motion exact seconded, all in favor, signify by raising your hands,

461
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:56,720
one, two, three, four motion passes, five in favor and one abstention.

462
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:06,860
Okay, when we move on 9 and 12, regular business action items, discuss and take possible action,

463
00:53:07,580 --> 00:53:09,660
a GPSD fund balance board resolution.

464
00:53:10,240 --> 00:53:15,540
Yeah, so I have a Dr. Gonzalez come forward, this is on page 159 in the packet or board

465
00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:24,460
So we're going to talk a little bit about how much we should have in there and what we are proposing to do.

466
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:25,460
All right, good deal.

467
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:27,880
Good evening again, members of the board.

468
00:53:29,180 --> 00:53:32,040
So what is a fun balance in simple terms?

469
00:53:32,460 --> 00:53:37,620
It's the difference between assets and liabilities in a governmental fund at the close of the fiscal year.

470
00:53:38,380 --> 00:53:43,900
So in simpler term, it's also known as what's in our savings.

471
00:53:43,900 --> 00:53:54,040
how much funding do we have access to as a district. In your packet I wrote a lot of, I wrote

472
00:53:54,040 --> 00:54:00,020
an explanation of GASB 54 through the governmental accounting standards board and specifically

473
00:54:00,020 --> 00:54:09,680
0.54 that addresses that a government tool governance body is, in a sense, recommended

474
00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:17,300
and required to manage the fund balance for the government to entity in a practice that allows

475
00:54:17,300 --> 00:54:25,000
the public to see where the funds are allocated and distributed throughout the fiscal year

476
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:33,660
or for the upcoming year. So one of the recommendations is that a board approves a resolution

477
00:54:33,660 --> 00:54:40,200
committing the fund balance, which is what was put into your packet this weekend for your

478
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:40,620
review.

479
00:54:43,180 --> 00:54:48,780
And through GASB 54 through that statement, what we would be requesting today is

480
00:54:48,780 --> 00:54:57,080
at the board adopt this resolution, which commits a fund balance at year end of this last

481
00:54:57,080 --> 00:54:59,100
earlier as followed.

482
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:17,220
Tonight, we have our financial auditors with us in the room and the next item, they're going to be presenting the annual financial report for the fiscal year and August 31, 2023.

483
00:55:17,220 --> 00:55:22,820
So you're getting a little glimpse of the fund balance before that report, because we tied

484
00:55:22,820 --> 00:55:29,260
there a number directly to this report, which our fund balance for the end of the fiscal year

485
00:55:29,260 --> 00:55:34,560
came out to $145 million, $5202,772.

486
00:55:36,820 --> 00:55:47,200
So, in looking at our district finances and what we have committed or assigned and what is

487
00:55:47,200 --> 00:55:48,560
required to be unassigned.

488
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:56,200
You can see here how I have, in meeting with Dr. Kavassos, and staff as well, broken out

489
00:55:56,200 --> 00:55:57,080
our fund balance.

490
00:55:57,900 --> 00:56:02,660
So I want to go to that committed section because that's the most important one to discuss

491
00:56:04,620 --> 00:56:10,900
because those funds are already committed and allocated towards those specific items.

492
00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:16,060
So looking at that committed section, you see the all-purpose practice facility, this is

493
00:56:16,060 --> 00:56:22,980
first one. There's a contract already signed with Fulton Construction to complete that and we are

494
00:56:22,980 --> 00:56:29,640
working with Turner Ramirez to design and build that. So those funds were committed through

495
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:39,040
the general fund, $50 million, $19,284 dollars in two different phases if you recall. First,

496
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:45,240
it was $29 million, $19,000, some around there. And then recently a couple of months ago, it was

497
00:56:45,240 --> 00:56:48,000
20 more million out of the fund balance that was approved.

498
00:56:49,720 --> 00:56:55,200
Then we, as a governing body approved two years ago,

499
00:56:55,700 --> 00:56:58,900
a budget amendment of $14.8 million, if you recall,

500
00:56:59,060 --> 00:57:02,200
for the roof projects at the high school in Stephen F. Austin,

501
00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:07,020
some demolition and some additional deferred maintenance projects.

502
00:57:07,620 --> 00:57:10,360
Well, since then, we have spent off about,

503
00:57:10,620 --> 00:57:14,060
we've spent off 4,800,000 around there.

504
00:57:14,060 --> 00:57:22,660
So the remaining committed balance at the end of the year was 10 million, 225 that has not been spent.

505
00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:28,960
That basically rose over, but is already allocated for specific projects that have been approved in the past.

506
00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:42,400
Then you have the early childhood center, the peer revisions, the change order number 22 that the board approved because of the soil issues that we were having there came out to 1.2 million.

507
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:49,980
And then Helis hadn't finished $436,000 of work for it with a track in field.

508
00:57:50,060 --> 00:57:51,840
That track was actually at about 104.

509
00:57:52,180 --> 00:57:59,340
The turf in track was about 1.4 million, but 436 was remaining to be completed after

510
00:57:59,340 --> 00:58:00,220
the fiscal year.

511
00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:06,060
And so that we have to show as a commitment for September 1 of this fiscal year.

512
00:58:06,060 --> 00:58:20,440
So in all 61,940,397 out of the 145 is committed to projects all approved by our board of trustees.

513
00:58:22,240 --> 00:58:27,660
So the remaining amounts of 48,510 is what you're seeing on the assigned.

514
00:58:27,660 --> 00:58:34,240
We have in their disaster recovery, which has been a line item, in the event that there's

515
00:58:34,240 --> 00:58:44,540
ever natural disaster here, or hurricane, more than likely, we're going to need to hash

516
00:58:44,540 --> 00:58:52,140
available to us to either renovate, restore, rehabilitate, or even make payroll.

517
00:58:53,420 --> 00:58:59,500
So, $18 million is what we're asking to commit to disaster recovery, and then we have litigation

518
00:58:59,500 --> 00:59:03,200
and tax settlements over the last couple of years and hearing a little bit, you're going

519
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:08,320
to have Robert Sincere, our cheaper praiser come in, because he's going to talk to you later

520
00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:15,240
today about just where we are with our property values, but in collaboration with our tax

521
00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:22,920
office, they're starting to see appeals from these industry partners on their property values

522
00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:29,840
and appraisals. So when that happens, it's a, it's a, it's a domino effect. So if they are

523
00:59:29,840 --> 00:59:36,720
successful on an appeal, those entities that they pay taxes to in prior years are required to

524
00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:44,140
refund them back through a tax settlement. So that's what that line item is there for. We've experienced

525
00:59:44,140 --> 00:59:50,880
already in the last year or two, some small minor ones, mainly with midway farms, and I believe

526
00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:55,220
one was lost applying, and I might not, that might be it, right?

527
00:59:56,360 --> 00:59:58,860
Popolyduc, popolyduc, there you go, that one right there.

528
00:59:59,240 --> 00:59:59,960
But they haven't been...

529
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:09,440
To agree that is significant for us to be alarmed, but they're coming and Roberts made that clear to us as far as how that works.

530
01:00:10,380 --> 01:00:18,080
Then we have insurance deductibles in the event. There is another roof damage or if what have you, there's deductibles.

531
01:00:18,400 --> 01:00:25,040
Our property insurance requires us to pay 2% of a name's storm and any buildings. So we would have that.

532
01:00:25,040 --> 01:00:52,380
We have minor fees here with claims and judgments, then in the last couple of years, we've been following a 10 year replacement plan, whether it's furniture for schools or equipment in our campuses, major capital equipment, uniforms, and anything related to operating a school district, we feel comfortable with 15 million in there.

533
01:00:52,380 --> 01:01:18,380
Then we notice that in the with all the bond projects we've come in several circumstances to the board for additional funds for construction projects so having a construction capital improvement contingency so that we can track any additional board approved items would help us in the future to know what we're

534
01:01:19,260 --> 01:01:40,140
improving and spending on above and beyond items that emerged that are either a lack of knowledge of knowing what's being done or something that is like the peer revisions that was out of our control didn't know what was under the ground.

535
01:01:41,420 --> 01:01:50,160
We also have considering going into next school year and with the situation we're dealing

536
01:01:50,160 --> 01:01:56,020
with up in Austin with the legislative stance on not approving the biennium.

537
01:01:56,540 --> 01:02:02,260
We've been talking with our human resources department and with senior cabinet about next year

538
01:02:02,260 --> 01:02:07,320
and the direction that we're going in with reoccurring cost and our situation financially.

539
01:02:07,320 --> 01:02:14,140
So in lieu of possibly paying raises, we're considering giving a retention stipend.

540
01:02:14,180 --> 01:02:22,320
Next year, all pending legislative action, but we all know that they still have not given

541
01:02:22,320 --> 01:02:26,920
additional funds to any public entities and the Bionium.

542
01:02:28,160 --> 01:02:33,580
The meeting started eight months ago, nine months ago, and they still after four sessions

543
01:02:33,580 --> 01:02:43,180
have left us with no answers and no direction, only an election to hope for the best upcoming

544
01:02:43,180 --> 01:02:50,720
in March. And then the board approved a, all kids eat free budget amendment this last year,

545
01:02:50,880 --> 01:02:56,360
so tracking that for this school year, which is a great investment for the district. We know that.

546
01:02:58,320 --> 01:03:02,840
And so all that money, all those funds, those are assigned funds.

547
01:03:03,640 --> 01:03:08,400
What that means is that they're not committed, but as a district, we want to assign them

548
01:03:08,400 --> 01:03:12,640
to specific areas, but they can always be modified.

549
01:03:13,300 --> 01:03:20,320
That money there, the 48.5 is available to us, and what have to be, even if we decided to

550
01:03:20,320 --> 01:03:25,180
do something with the capital improvement contingency, the district can not do anything without

551
01:03:25,180 --> 01:03:32,600
board approval. So the assigned dollars are at the government, governing bodies hands. This is

552
01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:38,920
just how we felt comfortable in designating them so that the board has an idea of what the

553
01:03:38,920 --> 01:03:46,140
district administration is considering and with these available funds. But they're assigned

554
01:03:46,140 --> 01:03:55,000
or we're asking the board to approve this resolution to assign them in this capacity. But if we

555
01:03:55,000 --> 01:04:01,340
still have to come to the board for approval to move them into a specific committed account

556
01:04:01,340 --> 01:04:06,920
for whichever project it is or expenditure item it may be.

557
01:04:07,140 --> 01:04:09,220
Then we have our unassigned fund balance.

558
01:04:09,800 --> 01:04:16,400
I put in there $35 million, $35 million is six months of operating expenditures.

559
01:04:16,400 --> 01:04:24,860
So, TEA recommends 90 days, three months of operating expenditures in your fund balance in total.

560
01:04:26,380 --> 01:04:33,180
And we felt comfortable adding six months of operating expenditures into our unassigned fund balance.

561
01:04:34,540 --> 01:04:41,060
So, those three with a small amount of inventory and prepaid and I think we might make some revisions on this before.

562
01:04:41,060 --> 01:04:48,580
But it's finalized, but we have some there that is equally in 50,766.

563
01:04:49,160 --> 01:04:55,380
That comes out to your total fund balance of 145,502,772 dollars.

564
01:04:55,380 --> 01:04:59,960
So if we reduce the 61.9, that comes out.

565
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:15,120
To a little over 80 million in change that is actually available to be allocated or spent, which is the assigned and the unassigned together.

566
01:05:17,060 --> 01:05:36,100
So this resolution, if you haven't went through it basically, gives you a synopsis of what I just explained and gives the district and the board something to work off of when it comes to what our goals are for our fund balance for this school year.

567
01:05:36,100 --> 01:05:42,900
And every single year we will come with a updated fund balance resolution because of course

568
01:05:42,900 --> 01:05:49,580
things change so next year it will look very different or a little different depending

569
01:05:49,580 --> 01:05:55,420
on where we are financially at the time so open it up to any questions.

570
01:05:56,280 --> 01:05:57,000
Any questions?

571
01:06:00,600 --> 01:06:01,660
Thank you for that.

572
01:06:01,660 --> 01:06:02,780
I just comment,

573
01:06:05,360 --> 01:06:12,280
having the assigned category is so smart because things that we know are likely

574
01:06:12,280 --> 01:06:15,080
to come up, right, but not necessarily committed.

575
01:06:16,400 --> 01:06:22,780
So when you look at the 145 million, you think, oh my goodness, you know, money's going

576
01:06:22,780 --> 01:06:23,320
on trees.

577
01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:27,640
It's like, well, well, wait a minute, we've got these things coming up that we know, so I

578
01:06:27,640 --> 01:06:33,560
appreciate that. So do I have a motion to for the board to accept the

579
01:06:33,560 --> 01:06:38,000
registration to approve a resolution? Classifying the General Floor

580
01:06:38,000 --> 01:06:43,340
Balance according to governmental accounting standards board G-A-S-B-54 as

581
01:06:43,340 --> 01:06:52,170
presented. So I'm going to call and a second. Is that all in favor?

582
01:06:55,660 --> 01:06:55,980
None of

583
01:06:55,980 --> 01:06:58,980
Motion passes 706.

584
01:06:59,620 --> 01:07:00,680
Six out.

585
01:07:03,790 --> 01:07:04,450
Any other things?

586
01:07:05,090 --> 01:07:05,110
Yeah.

587
01:07:05,110 --> 01:07:05,670
Any other things?

588
01:07:05,930 --> 01:07:06,010
Yeah.

589
01:07:06,330 --> 01:07:07,130
There's six it was here.

590
01:07:07,510 --> 01:07:08,970
Thank you.

591
01:07:11,090 --> 01:07:11,350
Okay.

592
01:07:11,590 --> 01:07:11,950
For the record.

593
01:07:12,230 --> 01:07:12,670
Six out.

594
01:07:13,370 --> 01:07:15,410
Disgusting take possible action.

595
01:07:15,730 --> 01:07:17,330
Item 12B.

596
01:07:17,510 --> 01:07:23,950
Disgusting take possible action of annual financial report for the 2223 fiscal year.

597
01:07:24,570 --> 01:07:27,490
So, yeah, we'll have, actually, Mr. Silgado.

598
01:07:28,490 --> 01:07:29,210
Well, introduce us.

599
01:07:29,210 --> 01:07:30,050
Thank you.

600
01:07:47,290 --> 01:07:48,990
Thank you, Ms. Gregory.

601
01:07:49,390 --> 01:07:51,230
Members of the Board and Dr. Kamasos.

602
01:07:51,970 --> 01:07:54,690
We're here to present our annual financial report.

603
01:07:54,810 --> 01:07:57,370
We have Jeff Smith, CPA from GMS.

604
01:07:58,250 --> 01:08:00,950
Our independent auditors, as you are probably familiar.

605
01:08:01,630 --> 01:08:05,790
We are required to obtain an independent audit report every year.

606
01:08:06,130 --> 01:08:09,330
And so, Mr. Smith, along with this firm,

607
01:08:09,330 --> 01:08:13,930
staff came and did our audit, and so they'll be presenting to you tonight.

608
01:08:14,710 --> 01:08:18,130
You had the schedule sees that we're passed out.

609
01:08:18,210 --> 01:08:24,570
This is the comprehensive report, but you'll also get an electronic version of that.

610
01:08:27,750 --> 01:08:27,990
Thank you.

611
01:08:28,450 --> 01:08:29,170
Good evening.

612
01:08:30,450 --> 01:08:31,270
To all of you.

613
01:08:31,630 --> 01:08:35,750
No, it's the first time I presented in front of you, so, you know, I asked for some information

614
01:08:35,750 --> 01:08:37,630
in feedback on what you guys like.

615
01:08:37,890 --> 01:08:40,750
This has given short, and everybody will be happy.

616
01:08:43,930 --> 01:08:51,930
First off, I'd like to take the opportunity to thank Albert Buffie and their team for the hard work that they put in to getting us out of prepared.

617
01:08:52,770 --> 01:09:01,430
As you all know, this is not a simple undertaking. It takes a lot and with a new audit staff, a group involved, everything is a little different.

618
01:09:03,270 --> 01:09:07,050
But they have performed very well and should be committed for their efforts.

619
01:09:07,410 --> 01:09:12,750
The whole team, I think, we had everybody on staff hopping to get things done.

620
01:09:13,050 --> 01:09:14,530
We kind of moved in for a few days.

621
01:09:14,630 --> 01:09:16,350
I know it was an exciting time for everyone.

622
01:09:18,190 --> 01:09:24,310
But I will try to make this fairly painless for you and just go through this very briefly.

623
01:09:24,410 --> 01:09:30,030
You all have the audit report in front of you and so I'm going to start on page number two.

624
01:09:30,030 --> 01:09:36,990
That's the end of an audit report and gives you just some brief brief information, so as we have audited the financial statements of the government

625
01:09:36,990 --> 01:09:44,190
Electivities each major fund and the aggregate remaining fund information of GPI's the as of and for the year in

626
01:09:44,190 --> 01:09:52,050
August 31, 23, and in our opinion the accompanying financial statements present fairly in all material respects the respective

627
01:09:52,050 --> 01:09:57,150
financial position of the government activities each major fund and the aggregate remaining

628
01:09:57,150 --> 01:09:59,670
fund information of GPIsD as well as 31.

629
01:10:00,430 --> 01:10:14,650
Turn over the next page. It's very, very briefly. I want to go over objectives of the auditor as what we're doing. Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement.

630
01:10:15,450 --> 01:10:23,570
And in performing that audit weeks exercise professional judgment and maintain professional skepticism, identify and assess the risk of material misstatement.

631
01:10:23,570 --> 01:10:28,690
to obtain an understanding of internal control relevant to the audit, evaluate the appropriateness

632
01:10:28,690 --> 01:10:32,930
of accounting policies, use, and conclude whether in our judgment there are conditions

633
01:10:32,930 --> 01:10:37,870
or events considered in the aggregate that raise substantial doubt about the district's ability

634
01:10:37,870 --> 01:10:40,710
to continue as we're going concerned for reasonable period of time.

635
01:10:42,960 --> 01:10:46,860
So, I'm not going to go over too much of the management discussion analysis, but just so you

636
01:10:46,860 --> 01:10:53,080
know starting on page 5 and continuing for a few pages, this is kind of your management's opportunity

637
01:10:53,080 --> 01:10:59,000
to give their highlights. So it kind of highlights the items that they want to point out to you guys.

638
01:10:59,400 --> 01:11:04,660
And so you can read these things. You know, it's me all kind of stole my thunder.

639
01:11:05,220 --> 01:11:09,960
Your fun balance there. We were really excited to present it and he kind of took it.

640
01:11:11,040 --> 01:11:17,140
But just to just to point out one of the things I highlighted is that the district general fund reported combined

641
01:11:17,140 --> 01:11:22,360
and then the fund balance was $145 million dollars, and so that was a great place to be.

642
01:11:22,480 --> 01:11:28,600
It was up about 36 from the year past, and just real quick, it's a point out the district's

643
01:11:28,600 --> 01:11:35,680
total revenues were $150 million, and a significant portion of those almost 43% are coming

644
01:11:35,680 --> 01:11:36,360
from taxes.

645
01:11:36,720 --> 01:11:40,780
So kind of keep that in relative terms as far as where your numbers are, where your money's

646
01:11:40,780 --> 01:11:43,340
coming from, and taxes are a big portion.

647
01:11:43,340 --> 01:11:50,420
If you turn over to page 12, this is information again provided by your management, it's economic

648
01:11:50,420 --> 01:11:52,700
factors and next year's budgets and rates.

649
01:11:53,240 --> 01:11:56,340
There are some factors there at the top you might want to take a look at.

650
01:11:56,720 --> 01:12:02,340
I think kind of give you some ideas of just some factors that are being considered as you go forward.

651
01:12:03,460 --> 01:12:06,360
Moving forward, I'm going to go over to page 16.

652
01:12:07,960 --> 01:12:16,360
So on page 16, we'll see it's a balanced sheet of all governmental funds, the only funds that I'm going to focus on for you is a very first column, it's the general fund.

653
01:12:17,160 --> 01:12:24,540
It's kind of a fund that you live in, it's kind of control where you operate, where you spend from and everything else, and I'm going to highlight just a couple numbers real quick.

654
01:12:25,980 --> 01:12:30,420
Cash and cash equivalents for the years at 143 million.

655
01:12:31,200 --> 01:12:34,280
Last year that number was 106 million.

656
01:12:34,660 --> 01:12:37,360
So it was increase of 37 million dollars in cash.

657
01:12:38,120 --> 01:12:39,240
So last that's overall.

658
01:12:40,120 --> 01:12:41,860
Your 156 million for the year.

659
01:12:41,960 --> 01:12:43,540
Prior year was 114 million.

660
01:12:43,540 --> 01:12:46,860
So you had a $41 million increase there.

661
01:12:47,080 --> 01:12:48,300
Coming down to total liabilities.

662
01:12:48,620 --> 01:12:50,520
Your total liabilities are 10 million.

663
01:12:50,900 --> 01:12:53,620
Last year they were 4.9 million.

664
01:12:53,620 --> 01:12:57,140
It's a little over $5 million increase there.

665
01:12:58,800 --> 01:13:04,680
So, you know, just some very, very small other numbers in there that you could point out.

666
01:13:04,920 --> 01:13:10,600
But again, the fund balance number, which we will discuss over on the next page on page 19.

667
01:13:11,000 --> 01:13:11,340
A couple of pages.

668
01:13:13,080 --> 01:13:18,040
Reven is just briefly point out your local and intermediate revenues,

669
01:13:18,860 --> 01:13:23,540
or 76 million for the year, prior year was 57 million.

670
01:13:24,120 --> 01:13:25,980
It's an increase of 19 million dollars.

671
01:13:26,280 --> 01:13:29,400
The majority of that increase is due to chapter 3313,

672
01:13:29,740 --> 01:13:30,780
and your interest income.

673
01:13:32,920 --> 01:13:34,140
Coming down to expenditures,

674
01:13:34,360 --> 01:13:36,840
I'm just going to point out a couple of items real quick.

675
01:13:37,880 --> 01:13:38,340
Instruction.

676
01:13:39,540 --> 01:13:42,860
Instruction was 33 million per year, prior year was 31 million,

677
01:13:42,860 --> 01:13:45,480
so that was an increase of about 2 million dollars.

678
01:13:46,280 --> 01:13:55,740
And capital outlay, current year is a 6.7 million prior year was that 859,000, so it was an increase of

679
01:13:55,740 --> 01:13:57,320
out 5.8 million.

680
01:13:58,340 --> 01:14:03,040
Overall, three lines from the bottom, net change in your fund bonds is 36 million.

681
01:14:03,960 --> 01:14:08,600
Fund balance beginning was 109 and fund balance ending is 145 million.

682
01:14:09,360 --> 01:14:11,000
It's not going to skip way to the back.

683
01:14:12,080 --> 01:14:18,910
We're going to go to page 75 and briefly just go to the independent audit report on internal

684
01:14:18,910 --> 01:14:19,550
control.

685
01:14:20,970 --> 01:14:25,270
So I'm planning and performing our audit of financial statements we consider GP ISD's internal

686
01:14:25,270 --> 01:14:30,690
control over financial reporting as a basis for designing procedures that are appropriate

687
01:14:30,690 --> 01:14:35,310
in the circumstances for the purpose of expressing our opinions on the financial statements.

688
01:14:36,010 --> 01:14:40,450
But not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the ISD's internal

689
01:14:40,450 --> 01:14:40,990
controls.

690
01:14:41,590 --> 01:14:47,070
Accordingly, we do not express an opinion on the effectiveness of GPIsD's internal control.

691
01:14:47,950 --> 01:14:56,950
But down at the bottom paragraph, you'll note that during our audit, we did not identify any deficiencies in internal control that we consider to be material weakness.

692
01:14:58,690 --> 01:14:59,610
Over to page 77.

693
01:15:01,520 --> 01:15:08,100
The independent audit report on compliance of each major federal program. Second, paragraph states is in our opinion.

694
01:15:09,080 --> 01:15:14,480
GPIsD, complied in all material respects with the compliance requirements referred to that could

695
01:15:14,480 --> 01:15:19,840
have a direct and material effect on each of its major federal programs for the year ended August 31, 23.

696
01:15:21,940 --> 01:15:26,240
All right, I'm going to go to page 80. It's kind of the summary of the audit results.

697
01:15:27,440 --> 01:15:30,960
Some of this, you kind of saw when they went through the first ratings that asked questions and the answers

698
01:15:30,960 --> 01:15:35,040
where yes or no, a lot of these questions come from this page and the audit.

699
01:15:36,600 --> 01:15:40,980
So with very top under financial statements, the type of audit report issued was an unmodified

700
01:15:40,980 --> 01:15:41,540
report.

701
01:15:41,800 --> 01:15:43,880
It's the best report that you can get.

702
01:15:44,780 --> 01:15:48,700
Internal controls or financial reporting, was there one or more material weakness identified?

703
01:15:48,860 --> 01:15:49,920
The answer is no.

704
01:15:51,060 --> 01:15:53,620
Was there one or more significant deficiencies identified?

705
01:15:54,420 --> 01:15:55,240
Answer is none.

706
01:15:56,100 --> 01:15:58,740
Was there any noncompliance from material to financial statements noted?

707
01:15:58,740 --> 01:16:00,040
The answer is no.

708
01:16:00,600 --> 01:16:03,780
Under federal awards and internal controls over major programs,

709
01:16:04,500 --> 01:16:06,220
whether any material weaknesses identified

710
01:16:06,220 --> 01:16:07,360
the answer is no.

711
01:16:08,360 --> 01:16:10,280
Was there any significant deficiencies identified?

712
01:16:10,360 --> 01:16:11,240
The answer is no.

713
01:16:11,980 --> 01:16:14,700
And the type of water report issue was an unmodified report.

714
01:16:15,860 --> 01:16:17,180
Were there any odd findings disclosed

715
01:16:17,180 --> 01:16:19,620
that a required to be reported the answer is no.

716
01:16:20,580 --> 01:16:22,060
And if you turn over to the next page,

717
01:16:22,260 --> 01:16:26,720
page 81, section I was B and C,

718
01:16:26,720 --> 01:16:31,420
And we're there any financial answers none, and we're there any federal

719
01:16:31,420 --> 01:16:34,000
award findings and questions, costs, answers none.

720
01:16:35,660 --> 01:16:38,400
And that's about as brief as I can make the audit report.

721
01:16:40,100 --> 01:16:42,040
Overall, it was a good year for the school district,

722
01:16:42,180 --> 01:16:43,740
I mean, you see the increase in fund balance.

723
01:16:45,640 --> 01:16:48,340
And again, for our first year at audit,

724
01:16:49,120 --> 01:16:52,820
you're keen to incredible job of helping us get through it.

725
01:16:52,960 --> 01:16:55,240
So we appreciate it.

726
01:16:55,240 --> 01:16:56,140
Any questions?

727
01:16:58,140 --> 01:16:59,220
Are you available?

728
01:17:00,040 --> 01:17:00,960
This is done.

729
01:17:01,200 --> 01:17:01,540
It's out there.

730
01:17:01,720 --> 01:17:02,020
Yes, sir.

731
01:17:02,280 --> 01:17:04,100
We will be sending an electric copy tomorrow.

732
01:17:04,420 --> 01:17:04,980
Like, Trump copy?

733
01:17:05,280 --> 01:17:06,780
It's pretty hot off the process after.

734
01:17:09,270 --> 01:17:09,970
Any other questions?

735
01:17:10,010 --> 01:17:10,370
Yes.

736
01:17:11,250 --> 01:17:15,130
There's a certificate if the board approves the audit to be signed.

737
01:17:15,750 --> 01:17:18,390
If you should, as well as the management, we'll rub it with this one.

738
01:17:22,560 --> 01:17:23,980
There's no other question.

739
01:17:25,460 --> 01:17:26,220
Go right ahead.

740
01:17:26,220 --> 01:17:31,980
I'd like to extend my deepest appreciation for absolutely incredible job that I've managed to

741
01:17:31,980 --> 01:17:32,480
partner with.

742
01:17:34,680 --> 01:17:35,300
As usual.

743
01:17:35,720 --> 01:17:35,840
Good job.

744
01:17:36,240 --> 01:17:36,320
Thank you.

745
01:17:40,540 --> 01:17:41,480
Thank you.

746
01:17:41,620 --> 01:17:42,040
Thank you.

747
01:17:42,080 --> 01:17:42,720
Thank you very much.

748
01:17:47,480 --> 01:17:47,820
Okay.

749
01:17:47,920 --> 01:17:52,180
Do I have a motion for the Board to approve the district's audited annual financial report for

750
01:17:52,180 --> 01:17:56,980
the year ending August 31st, 31st, 2023?

751
01:18:04,000 --> 01:18:06,720
Any last minute discussion?

752
01:18:08,860 --> 01:18:09,760
All in favor?

753
01:18:11,970 --> 01:18:12,810
Then none opposed.

754
01:18:12,910 --> 01:18:14,710
Motion passes six zero.

755
01:18:30,260 --> 01:18:32,180
We'll move on to 12c.

756
01:18:32,840 --> 01:18:35,720
Discuss and take possible action on CSP.

757
01:18:35,720 --> 01:18:41,600
Number 2324-011 administration roof restoration.

758
01:18:43,830 --> 01:18:45,650
Dr. Kovasa, members of the board.

759
01:18:45,810 --> 01:18:46,430
Thank you for the floor.

760
01:18:48,230 --> 01:18:55,210
This building roof is from 2001, so it succeeded its 20-year life

761
01:18:55,210 --> 01:18:56,030
expectancy.

762
01:18:58,170 --> 01:19:01,590
Images and issues that have come over the years,

763
01:19:01,590 --> 01:19:09,990
they have done repairs and patch work, and those have started to become ineffective.

764
01:19:10,990 --> 01:19:18,370
So therefore, with the Capital Improvement Projects Committee, the roof replacement on

765
01:19:18,370 --> 01:19:21,950
this building was one of the identified projects,

766
01:19:24,300 --> 01:19:27,900
and we utilized our new small projects

767
01:19:27,900 --> 01:19:33,820
architect, Lamar Wilmaque and Associates, to design this, they worked with the construction

768
01:19:33,820 --> 01:19:40,080
department, and they tested it, they specced it out, and we took it out to bid.

769
01:19:40,940 --> 01:19:45,120
We received those bids on Thursday of last week, the 14th.

770
01:19:45,620 --> 01:19:50,740
We opened them, we scored them, tabulated them, and everything on that same day.

771
01:19:50,740 --> 01:19:59,960
There were only two bids that were received, port enterprises, LTD and RGO roofing and construction LLs.

772
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:24,940
Dr. Gonzalez and myself represented the district in the scoring committee. We had assistance from non-scoring members, Todd Brandolin, of Lamar Wolmeck and Associates, our project architect, and Richard Garcia, Tremko Roofing Manufacturer, because those were the parts materials that were specced out in the project, but it came down to price.

773
01:20:24,940 --> 01:20:39,520
We had two reputable companies and the winning proposal that we are recommending tonight is port enterprises in the amount of $632,700 and $8.

774
01:20:40,780 --> 01:20:52,900
They scored 95 out of 100 on the rankings compared to the competitor who scored 84 and their bid was $238,000 more.

775
01:20:52,900 --> 01:20:56,920
So it made it fairly easy decision for us having two

776
01:20:56,920 --> 01:20:59,540
reputable companies, but that big of a price difference.

777
01:21:01,040 --> 01:21:03,480
The proposed funding would come out of deferred maintenance,

778
01:21:04,340 --> 01:21:07,260
which is from bond 2020 and bond 2023.

779
01:21:09,320 --> 01:21:11,620
And so administration would like to recommend

780
01:21:11,620 --> 01:21:16,500
to approve a contract with port enterprises in the amount of 632,700,

781
01:21:17,020 --> 01:21:20,040
and $78 for administrative roof restoration

782
01:21:20,040 --> 01:21:25,200
in accordance with CSP number 2324-01.

783
01:21:27,870 --> 01:21:28,550
Any questions?

784
01:21:31,940 --> 01:21:35,040
I've got a couple on this end.

785
01:21:36,820 --> 01:21:37,300
Nicole?

786
01:21:37,880 --> 01:21:38,280
I'm good.

787
01:21:38,580 --> 01:21:40,920
Oh, I thought I heard you say yet a question.

788
01:21:41,380 --> 01:21:41,860
Just mark me.

789
01:21:43,000 --> 01:21:43,040
Yeah.

790
01:21:43,400 --> 01:21:43,780
This is Mark.

791
01:21:44,200 --> 01:21:46,080
What kind of a route is on this building?

792
01:21:48,020 --> 01:21:49,040
You know that, sir?

793
01:21:49,040 --> 01:21:55,060
I don't know why I was making it with metal.

794
01:21:56,940 --> 01:21:58,500
It's a picture, right?

795
01:21:59,100 --> 01:22:00,760
It's a picture.

796
01:22:02,360 --> 01:22:04,520
Is it in a metal room?

797
01:22:06,210 --> 01:22:06,890
We're going

798
01:22:09,040 --> 01:22:11,580
to go into a room.

799
01:22:11,800 --> 01:22:11,980
We're going to a room.

800
01:22:12,880 --> 01:22:14,700
We're trying to go roofing.

801
01:22:14,960 --> 01:22:16,220
We're trying to go manufacture.

802
01:22:17,820 --> 01:22:18,440
I'll start.

803
01:22:19,620 --> 01:22:20,180
Any other questions?

804
01:22:20,180 --> 01:22:27,320
The budget came, the OPC that we had was 600,000, but it came in a little over that.

805
01:22:27,460 --> 01:22:33,860
After talking with Lamar Womack and Trimco who designed it for the district, well, we're

806
01:22:33,860 --> 01:22:37,380
getting is going to give us another 20 to 30 years.

807
01:22:37,900 --> 01:22:44,120
I think at this point now, we're also able after 20 years to do this separate process.

808
01:22:44,120 --> 01:22:54,320
We down the road, but to where it's very inexpensive, to get another 20 years out of that second somewhat of a refurbished roof.

809
01:22:55,180 --> 01:23:04,400
But after talking on the other day with them, they're finding a lot of corrosion up there on that metal, and it's just time.

810
01:23:04,960 --> 01:23:07,880
It's just, it's time to make this decision.

811
01:23:07,880 --> 01:23:11,060
Mike, when we're just talking in the back, it's going to be a lot of, it's going to be

812
01:23:11,060 --> 01:23:15,720
a noisy for us here at Central, so it's like Mike will said if kids can deal with it

813
01:23:15,720 --> 01:23:19,720
and Steven have Austin at the high school, we'll be perfectly fine here while they're working

814
01:23:20,500 --> 01:23:27,140
and accommodate as much as possible, but power will turn off, light will flicker through,

815
01:23:27,140 --> 01:23:30,080
We'll figure it out.

816
01:23:30,940 --> 01:23:32,340
So yeah.

817
01:23:39,690 --> 01:23:42,270
It's pretty rough up there for what we had to say.

818
01:23:43,270 --> 01:23:45,750
Now, we have never worked with these two companies,

819
01:23:46,670 --> 01:23:48,370
or Port Enterprise, this was being recommended,

820
01:23:49,450 --> 01:23:55,630
but they were vouched for by Trimco and Lamar Wolmak,

821
01:23:56,130 --> 01:23:58,350
who they currently have worked with them.

822
01:23:59,010 --> 01:24:00,550
We're looking forward to.

823
01:24:00,550 --> 01:24:06,030
We're enjoying seeing some new construction companies coming to bid on our projects.

824
01:24:06,450 --> 01:24:06,810
It's good.

825
01:24:07,910 --> 01:24:12,310
The aluminum is overwhelmingly the most popular roof for the coastal area.

826
01:24:12,710 --> 01:24:12,930
I'm sorry.

827
01:24:14,210 --> 01:24:14,830
All righty.

828
01:24:14,890 --> 01:24:16,690
Do I have a motion for the board to accept?

829
01:24:17,790 --> 01:24:22,790
Nation and award the contract to the highest rank contractor for administration roof restoration.

830
01:24:23,750 --> 01:24:28,550
In conjunction with SCSP number two three two four dash zero one.

831
01:24:28,550 --> 01:24:31,570
And that would be poor enterprises.

832
01:24:32,370 --> 01:24:35,950
So to frame a list, I'll be back in.

833
01:24:36,250 --> 01:24:37,690
I'll already reach down.

834
01:24:38,010 --> 01:24:40,650
Melissa's made the motion and Mark's second.

835
01:24:40,910 --> 01:24:41,270
Mark's second.

836
01:24:41,370 --> 01:24:41,910
You OK?

837
01:24:42,890 --> 01:24:43,670
She'd be.

838
01:24:44,570 --> 01:24:46,130
So we'll put Mark in seconds.

839
01:24:47,950 --> 01:24:48,550
All righty.

840
01:24:48,630 --> 01:24:48,990
All in favor?

841
01:24:50,730 --> 01:24:52,130
Motion passes six.

842
01:24:53,950 --> 01:24:54,590
OK.

843
01:24:56,670 --> 01:24:59,950
Okay, moving on to 13, report and...

844
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:02,280
Question, board score card.

845
01:25:03,940 --> 01:25:10,600
Yes, so I actually can't remember who's supposed to report out on their part of the board score card this month.

846
01:25:11,060 --> 01:25:18,540
But I will, on your behalf, indicate a four about advocating locally. You all have been everywhere.

847
01:25:19,600 --> 01:25:27,160
Like, you've been at so many great events out in the community and their schools, and that's a big part of our local advocacy work.

848
01:25:27,160 --> 01:25:33,300
So thank you all for your visibility and for all the things that you do to advocate on behalf of our school district.

849
01:25:33,500 --> 01:25:34,500
Thank you very much.

850
01:25:34,740 --> 01:25:39,880
And then I know a couple of even working on, you know, as a team you've met on your governance handbook.

851
01:25:40,260 --> 01:25:45,960
And then also working on which will come next month, probably a draft of the budget parameters memo.

852
01:25:46,160 --> 01:25:52,140
You saw the first part of that tonight with the fund balance resolution, but then seeing,

853
01:25:52,140 --> 01:26:02,640
And January really our budget parameters that you will all end up adopting to give us the guiderails as we build the budget for the 24 or 25 school year.

854
01:26:02,640 --> 01:26:08,740
As in Mark and I will be meeting with Dr. Gonzalez and you on Wednesday to work on the draft.

855
01:26:09,440 --> 01:26:11,680
Does you see where the weeds on that one?

856
01:26:12,600 --> 01:26:12,720
Yes.

857
01:26:14,680 --> 01:26:16,460
Wednesday morning, 8 a.m.

858
01:26:19,720 --> 01:26:26,100
Okay, yeah, we're going to see a preview here in a few minutes, so, so that is it for that.

859
01:26:28,520 --> 01:26:33,020
And then for the report, this month we'll do the 4.3 report.

860
01:26:33,460 --> 01:26:38,240
We normally, you know, as you know, we've been doing, we've tried to do a priority one report each month,

861
01:26:38,820 --> 01:26:44,140
but note in light of this, we have looked with the first rating and the financial report,

862
01:26:44,140 --> 01:26:49,620
it that tonight says just all party four. So we weren't going to add another

863
01:26:49,620 --> 01:26:57,220
thing. Yes. And so I think we had a little bit let's see on four point oh

864
01:26:57,220 --> 01:27:03,440
that's oh there's for the whole oh this is the tax report that's what we're

865
01:27:03,440 --> 01:27:06,880
going to go into that and I can do quickly I don't know did you guys put it in a

866
01:27:14,420 --> 01:27:21,860
And then the only other thing I was going to share on the legislative side and I know Dr. Gonzales mentioned it briefly.

867
01:27:23,260 --> 01:27:33,880
As you know we've gone to four special sessions and our legislature has not passed any bills out of either the House of the Senate that

868
01:27:33,880 --> 01:27:37,380
allocate funds to public school districts.

869
01:27:38,760 --> 01:27:43,520
They did, there were some that had proposals of significant amounts going to public education.

870
01:27:44,780 --> 01:27:51,100
And I will say with the bribe of accepting vouchers or education savings accounts with it.

871
01:27:51,760 --> 01:28:00,020
And so there's, we don't know if another session will be called historically three is the most special sessions that have ever been called.

872
01:28:00,020 --> 01:28:06,240
And we've already had four and it's been no in the regular session and no in all four special sessions.

873
01:28:07,040 --> 01:28:12,000
So, we'll see what happens in regard to that need.

874
01:28:12,300 --> 01:28:13,920
So let's just wait for you to know if you're going to be interested in that.

875
01:28:13,920 --> 01:28:14,280
Right.

876
01:28:14,700 --> 01:28:15,560
They don't know either.

877
01:28:16,100 --> 01:28:17,160
So there's a lot.

878
01:28:17,800 --> 01:28:22,460
But you know going back to your Ford score card and the really the importance of local advocacy.

879
01:28:23,580 --> 01:28:29,760
We really need to start looking at elections kind of like we've looked at our bond elections.

880
01:28:29,760 --> 01:28:32,500
and really making sure that people get out and vote,

881
01:28:32,880 --> 01:28:33,720
that people are registered.

882
01:28:34,700 --> 01:28:37,320
And they are using their voice by voting.

883
01:28:37,520 --> 01:28:39,720
Granted, we don't have a lot of numbers

884
01:28:39,720 --> 01:28:41,060
of representatives and senators.

885
01:28:41,280 --> 01:28:43,700
We have one representative, Jan Luzano,

886
01:28:43,880 --> 01:28:47,060
who represents us in one senator, Morgan LaMontia.

887
01:28:47,720 --> 01:28:49,760
And so there's some areas where they have two or three

888
01:28:49,760 --> 01:28:51,280
senators or representatives.

889
01:28:52,080 --> 01:28:54,360
But it is important for us.

890
01:28:54,540 --> 01:28:56,340
And really, I'd say, even all of our employees

891
01:28:56,340 --> 01:29:06,000
to vote. Traditionally around the state, less than about 2% of educators vote, and the

892
01:29:06,000 --> 01:29:11,980
legislators are aware of that. And so it makes it harder for the legislators as a collective

893
01:29:11,980 --> 01:29:19,600
body to, you know, release advocate on behalf of public schools. And so the more that we

894
01:29:19,600 --> 01:29:26,560
can get our people out to vote, you know, be informed and vote, the better that we can, you

895
01:29:26,560 --> 01:29:29,980
know, it's just that's really important for us to be able to do that.

896
01:29:30,320 --> 01:29:37,560
So then that's really it on the any comments or all those good.

897
01:29:40,740 --> 01:29:47,580
So the next thing we'll go to is the see that under the reports here, the link what tax report

898
01:29:47,580 --> 01:29:51,380
by Line Barger, Broken Blair, and Samson.

899
01:29:51,680 --> 01:29:52,920
So, Dr. Yeah.

900
01:29:53,260 --> 01:29:53,320
Yeah.

901
01:29:53,320 --> 01:29:55,080
Good evening. My name is Robert Queves,

902
01:29:55,180 --> 01:29:56,700
I'm the Obes Manager for Line Barger,

903
01:29:56,840 --> 01:29:57,660
and Broken Blair, and Samson.

904
01:29:58,300 --> 01:29:59,960
I had a corporate Christie, and I think Dr.

905
01:30:02,100 --> 01:30:06,180
And it's on page 191 in your packets.

906
01:30:15,190 --> 01:30:21,730
There's a cover page, the cover letter, Mr. Salseta, who is the attorney, that handles GPIC

907
01:30:21,730 --> 01:30:28,430
couldn't be here today. He's in San Antonio. Amy is the airy manager that handles your account.

908
01:30:28,430 --> 01:30:31,170
And she had an accident on the way over here, so I had told her

909
01:30:31,170 --> 01:30:33,150
don't even worry about coming to the meeting.

910
01:30:34,110 --> 01:30:35,370
I can present the report,

911
01:30:37,430 --> 01:30:38,550
but they both wanted to be here.

912
01:30:38,810 --> 01:30:40,110
They just couldn't make it.

913
01:30:40,110 --> 01:30:42,130
This report, I believe, was just all said,

914
01:30:42,270 --> 01:30:43,110
that was your last January.

915
01:30:43,950 --> 01:30:48,070
This report will bring you up to date from July, the data

916
01:30:48,070 --> 01:30:51,550
from July 20, 2022, through the end of November.

917
01:30:51,550 --> 01:30:59,930
During this period of time, we've collected over $820,000 dollars in the liquid tax

918
01:30:59,930 --> 01:31:00,910
of penalties and interests.

919
01:31:01,590 --> 01:31:05,530
We've pledged to continue to follow through its development to a sound collection program.

920
01:31:06,270 --> 01:31:10,970
This will include prosecuting the pending suits to conclusion, demanding writing to man letters

921
01:31:10,970 --> 01:31:13,370
on a regular basis and filing additional suits.

922
01:31:13,790 --> 01:31:19,070
In those cases where our letters and requests for payment are ignored, we will continue to

923
01:31:19,070 --> 01:31:23,830
We're closely with you to provide assistance and advice and all property tax matters, including

924
01:31:23,830 --> 01:31:26,690
changes in the law brought by the property tax code.

925
01:31:27,950 --> 01:31:33,090
The summary of the litigation looks like this.

926
01:31:33,430 --> 01:31:34,170
What page do you have?

927
01:31:36,390 --> 01:31:37,990
We're 93, 94.

928
01:31:38,890 --> 01:31:39,570
Thank you, sir.

929
01:31:39,790 --> 01:31:40,130
Here we go.

930
01:31:40,570 --> 01:31:44,610
So here's the litigation summary from July 1st of 2022 for the November.

931
01:31:45,250 --> 01:31:53,270
During this period of time, we filed 32 lawsuits over 35 tracks of property involving $117,000

932
01:31:53,270 --> 01:31:54,570
of the liquid taxes.

933
01:31:55,050 --> 01:31:59,850
Pentex and introduced to you, I asked you, in terms of the exhibit A, the exhibit A,

934
01:32:00,230 --> 01:32:04,630
that will give you all of any information regarding the lawsuit's file.

935
01:32:05,770 --> 01:32:07,130
And let me just go to that real quick.

936
01:32:08,310 --> 01:32:13,790
You'll see the lawsuit filed on the left, number, the solid case, the current status,

937
01:32:13,790 --> 01:32:22,790
when it was filed and the amount of the petition or tax that were due to GBI-SD, if I go to

938
01:32:22,790 --> 01:32:26,690
the Exhibit B, that's going to be a form of nonsense.

939
01:32:27,270 --> 01:32:27,710
That's a nonsense.

940
01:32:28,090 --> 01:32:33,030
When we collect all tax from these interests and for cost, we did not in the case.

941
01:32:33,310 --> 01:32:40,650
In some cases, in some cases, if a person falls a tax deferral, which protects them from

942
01:32:40,650 --> 01:32:44,170
closure, they either have to be over 65 or they have to be disabled.

943
01:32:44,650 --> 01:32:51,410
And if they qualify under the deferral exemption and the appraisal district grants that,

944
01:32:51,510 --> 01:32:53,110
then we dismiss the case that's been filed.

945
01:32:53,530 --> 01:32:55,830
And that's generally about 10% of the lawsuits that we file.

946
01:32:56,510 --> 01:32:59,430
And that involves a homestead, if it involves a homestead.

947
01:33:00,670 --> 01:33:04,850
Exhibit C, that would be those rejections.

948
01:33:04,850 --> 01:33:12,530
And we take a judgment on property when we complete a service on all the defendants in the case.

949
01:33:12,890 --> 01:33:15,550
And we feel we're ready to go to court, we'll enter a judgment.

950
01:33:15,930 --> 01:33:21,990
And at that point, that particular case is set for, can be set for a sale if we need to.

951
01:33:22,230 --> 01:33:23,530
We try to collect on that judgment.

952
01:33:24,550 --> 01:33:28,190
If for some reason we're not able to do that, then we will send a foreclosure letter out.

953
01:33:28,450 --> 01:33:33,010
If no activity occurs in terms of collections, then we go ahead and take it to sale.

954
01:33:33,550 --> 01:33:35,510
And I'll go over that a little later.

955
01:33:36,050 --> 01:33:38,750
Exhibit D, I'm not confusing you all.

956
01:33:39,490 --> 01:33:41,610
Exhibit D is going to be abstract adjustments.

957
01:33:42,050 --> 01:33:46,410
Abstractive judgments are when we enter a judgment on a text case.

958
01:33:46,970 --> 01:33:50,010
And we took two of those, three checks of property over $9,000.

959
01:33:52,210 --> 01:33:55,390
On a personal piece of property, whenever we take a judgment,

960
01:33:55,610 --> 01:33:56,510
we can abstract that judgment.

961
01:33:56,530 --> 01:34:00,790
We file it with the county clerk, and that creates a tax lien on every property,

962
01:34:00,790 --> 01:34:01,610
except to homestead.

963
01:34:01,610 --> 01:34:09,110
So down the road, if somebody tries to, and this happened, and I've gotten phone calls, somebody's trying to buy a house or buy a refrigerator,

964
01:34:09,670 --> 01:34:14,370
that's abstract a judgment pops up, and they have to go back and pay this for us to release it, so they can then borrow the money.

965
01:34:14,470 --> 01:34:16,970
So it does help collections down the road.

966
01:34:18,430 --> 01:34:25,070
Exhibity, releases of judgment, that's when we release the judgment, everything is paid all the taxes, court costs are paid.

967
01:34:25,070 --> 01:34:30,450
10 of those, 11 tracks over $38,000, and that's going to be under exhibit E.

968
01:34:31,170 --> 01:34:37,590
Now, under Exhibit F, their tax sales, we had 10 lawsuits or 10 judgments we took to

969
01:34:37,590 --> 01:34:42,950
sale, five tracks sold, over $61,000, we're involved.

970
01:34:43,670 --> 01:34:50,050
We had three tracks, we've all payment agreement, over $43,000, three, number three struck

971
01:34:50,050 --> 01:34:50,270
off.

972
01:34:50,270 --> 01:34:51,770
That's when the property is taken to sale.

973
01:34:52,090 --> 01:34:54,990
There are no bidders on the property and it struck off to the taxing units.

974
01:34:54,990 --> 01:34:59,350
We had two tracks over $4,600 dollars do.

975
01:35:01,120 --> 01:35:06,700
And then four poll, there was only one poll, one track, over 1700, and that's going to be an exhibit

976
01:35:06,700 --> 01:35:17,460
F. And you'll see all the different, the solid of the case and the description of the property.

977
01:35:17,520 --> 01:35:21,720
When it was taken to sale, what the minimum bid was and how much it sold for the package.

978
01:35:24,360 --> 01:35:33,820
Under Exit of G, we have, we're going to have to use the work plan, and that work plan is what will be implemented for this particular tax year.

979
01:35:35,760 --> 01:35:51,080
The taxes are turned over to us in July every year, and then at that point we sort all the data, we work on a work plan, we formulate, so called a plan of a tax so to speak, and what we do is we,

980
01:35:51,080 --> 01:35:53,260
We implement this particular work plan.

981
01:35:53,720 --> 01:35:55,220
Let me just go through it with you real quick.

982
01:35:55,680 --> 01:35:57,760
Number one would be all the delinquents.

983
01:35:58,140 --> 01:35:59,580
We do 80 years.

984
01:35:59,940 --> 01:36:04,380
July, August September, November, February, March, April, and May.

985
01:36:05,260 --> 01:36:06,240
And every letter is different.

986
01:36:06,440 --> 01:36:08,080
We mail on all the delinquents accounts.

987
01:36:08,840 --> 01:36:10,160
We just conclude the number of mailings.

988
01:36:10,200 --> 01:36:11,380
Our next mailings will be in February.

989
01:36:12,020 --> 01:36:15,060
I want to note that the mail letter is when we tell people

990
01:36:15,060 --> 01:36:19,860
that are delinquents at the time, that if you're delinquents

991
01:36:19,860 --> 01:36:24,540
As of June 30th and July 1st rolls around, you haven't paid your taxes, then that turned

992
01:36:24,540 --> 01:36:30,040
over to us, and that's when the turn 20% fee attaches to that particular year.

993
01:36:31,000 --> 01:36:35,000
So they have up until June 30th and pay it without having to pay us.

994
01:36:35,100 --> 01:36:40,220
Once July 1st hits, then our fee attaches and then they have to pay their taxes, including

995
01:36:40,220 --> 01:36:40,740
the turnee fee.

996
01:36:40,780 --> 01:36:43,380
Is that of the year that the taxes are due?

997
01:36:43,880 --> 01:36:44,300
That's correct.

998
01:36:44,940 --> 01:36:45,740
So we're kind of behind.

999
01:36:45,740 --> 01:36:49,140
So the taxes that went out in October of this year, 23,

1000
01:36:50,020 --> 01:36:53,020
will go to the link went in 24, February 1st of 24,

1001
01:36:53,880 --> 01:36:56,080
and then it gets turned over to his July of 24.

1002
01:36:56,620 --> 01:36:59,740
And that's from the 20%, that's from the 20% or 20 fee attaches.

1003
01:37:00,460 --> 01:37:01,640
So whoever's the link went at that time.

1004
01:37:01,740 --> 01:37:03,800
In generally, for the most part, it's about 5%

1005
01:37:03,800 --> 01:37:05,500
of your tax roll.

1006
01:37:06,080 --> 01:37:10,260
So most generally, whatever's not paid is about 5%

1007
01:37:10,260 --> 01:37:13,460
is what gets turned over to us, and then we add the fee,

1008
01:37:13,540 --> 01:37:14,900
and then that's what we start our work plan.

1009
01:37:14,900 --> 01:37:21,060
So, we target large direct council for GP ISD.

1010
01:37:21,220 --> 01:37:27,380
What we do is we sort that that a top dollar down and then what we do is we pursue those

1011
01:37:27,380 --> 01:37:27,800
collections.

1012
01:37:27,980 --> 01:37:33,280
It's advantageous to you and to us to try to collect a high dollar accounts first and then

1013
01:37:33,280 --> 01:37:40,340
work our way down and we mail on everything that's the link went and then we file lawsuits

1014
01:37:40,340 --> 01:37:43,920
and those accounts that have not responded to our letters or phone calls or visits.

1015
01:37:46,220 --> 01:37:47,720
We actively pursue phone bank collections.

1016
01:37:47,860 --> 01:37:50,760
We have collectors in our office and a phone bank out of Houston.

1017
01:37:51,320 --> 01:37:54,540
So we try to collect money via a phone bank, phone banks.

1018
01:37:54,920 --> 01:37:59,860
We continue prosecuting existing suits until payment is received or court judgments are obtained.

1019
01:38:00,740 --> 01:38:02,820
We initiate four tax foreclosures.

1020
01:38:03,260 --> 01:38:06,100
They're out throughout the year involving 20 tracks of property.

1021
01:38:06,820 --> 01:38:09,720
What we try to do is if we're not here to sell property,

1022
01:38:09,720 --> 01:38:15,360
But if we have to, we will, our goal is to collect first and not sell anything.

1023
01:38:15,680 --> 01:38:19,700
But if we do, we put it up for sale and if somebody comes in and says, hey, I can work out a payment plan.

1024
01:38:19,780 --> 01:38:21,180
Of course, we're going to work with them.

1025
01:38:21,860 --> 01:38:24,140
And there's some properties that people just say, you know what?

1026
01:38:24,240 --> 01:38:26,740
It doesn't happen a lot here because people want to live here.

1027
01:38:27,120 --> 01:38:29,880
But in other places, people just say, hey, you know what?

1028
01:38:29,880 --> 01:38:30,760
I was raised there.

1029
01:38:31,060 --> 01:38:33,120
I don't want to go back, sell it.

1030
01:38:33,620 --> 01:38:34,880
That doesn't really happen here.

1031
01:38:35,700 --> 01:38:38,680
People want to live here if they want to stay here and they want to work out the payment.

1032
01:38:38,680 --> 01:38:42,380
work out the property taxes through payments.

1033
01:38:43,300 --> 01:38:44,380
Work with tax payers.

1034
01:38:44,600 --> 01:38:48,860
We're willing to pay part of the taxes on a regular basis or avoid any for the legal action payment agreements.

1035
01:38:49,520 --> 01:38:52,740
We send those generally to the tax office to work out payment plans.

1036
01:38:53,260 --> 01:38:55,700
Respond to tax pay and queries with full and complete answers.

1037
01:38:56,060 --> 01:38:56,700
Explanation to research.

1038
01:38:57,200 --> 01:38:59,360
A lot of that time it's a owned a business.

1039
01:38:59,660 --> 01:39:00,560
Somebody owned a business.

1040
01:39:01,060 --> 01:39:03,240
They sold it or they closed it and there's still being taxed.

1041
01:39:03,300 --> 01:39:04,700
And we're trying to collect that money.

1042
01:39:04,700 --> 01:39:11,340
We direct them to the appraisal district try to work out why it's still on the tax roll and it should be removed or or mobile home

1043
01:39:11,340 --> 01:39:14,820
There's a mobile home and they sold it in person. We've been installing the tax roll

1044
01:39:14,820 --> 01:39:21,520
We direct them to the appraisal district. We have no authority to change the tax roll our job is to collect and guide people to the right office

1045
01:39:21,520 --> 01:39:25,380
Meaning the tax office or the appraisal district, and that's what we do we get those kind of phone calls

1046
01:39:26,440 --> 01:39:31,420
Hope identify here in assessment or inaccurate information anything that we that we take to sale

1047
01:39:31,420 --> 01:39:33,220
we ordered title on property.

1048
01:39:33,460 --> 01:39:36,760
Meaning we would have an abstract review that title, history.

1049
01:39:37,280 --> 01:39:39,740
And if that doesn't match up with what we have

1050
01:39:39,740 --> 01:39:42,500
and what's on the tax roll, we'll talk to the appraisal district

1051
01:39:42,500 --> 01:39:44,940
and we'll get them to look at it and review it.

1052
01:39:44,940 --> 01:39:49,300
Hopefully we can work out some kind of solution

1053
01:39:49,300 --> 01:39:53,100
as to why there's a discrepancy on the tax roll.

1054
01:39:54,080 --> 01:39:56,320
Help out the existing records with information

1055
01:39:56,320 --> 01:39:58,600
and leave more research for our return mail program.

1056
01:39:58,900 --> 01:39:59,960
Are you contact with TechSpaired?

1057
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:12,740
And there's a change of information. That's what the tax office had in the appraisal district, like I just mentioned, provide tax consultation on all tax related matters, for the board if something comes up. And you need our assistance from more than welcome to, I mean, we're willing to come over and help.

1058
01:40:12,900 --> 01:40:20,800
Whether whatever that may be. And the last, the last, is the collection chart?

1059
01:40:23,120 --> 01:40:28,500
It's a calendar year collection report, or chart, I'm sorry, January through December 22,

1060
01:40:28,760 --> 01:40:31,100
we collected 495,000.

1061
01:40:31,380 --> 01:40:36,960
Through November, we're at 495,084, so with one month left.

1062
01:40:37,700 --> 01:40:41,760
So we're going to exceed last year's calendar year collection, which is really good.

1063
01:40:43,500 --> 01:40:45,340
So that, in a nutshell, is the report.

1064
01:40:45,340 --> 01:40:54,040
I hope I didn't go too fast, but I didn't miss any with this and with it with the screen with the clicker.

1065
01:40:54,380 --> 01:40:56,440
Are there any questions regarding the report?

1066
01:40:56,880 --> 01:40:58,180
We're going to have to answer them.

1067
01:40:58,260 --> 01:40:58,660
Any questions?

1068
01:40:59,460 --> 01:41:06,440
This is a pretty small list on which we're going to see.

1069
01:41:06,560 --> 01:41:08,040
We're pretty fortunate in this different.

1070
01:41:08,040 --> 01:41:15,180
Oh, very, very, very, we've done, Dr. Gonzalez, we've done, I had a pair of report for

1071
01:41:15,180 --> 01:41:22,740
Jim Hawke County ISD, Odom ISD, Ricardo ISD, I think I ran this past ISD, yeah, so I look,

1072
01:41:22,740 --> 01:41:28,260
I see everything that we report on, all our clients, and you guys are in a really good position.

1073
01:41:29,320 --> 01:41:36,480
Over 60% or 70% of your delinquent tax roll is in the last four years, which makes it very

1074
01:41:36,480 --> 01:41:40,860
collectible. And like I said earlier, people want to live here. They want to stay here.

1075
01:41:40,860 --> 01:41:44,560
They want to pay their taxes. So we want to make sure that we work with them and get them,

1076
01:41:44,920 --> 01:41:48,120
you know, pay their taxes in a timely manner. We're not here to sell anything. People

1077
01:41:48,120 --> 01:41:52,500
think, oh, you want to know we do. It's the last thing we want to do. And now that real quick,

1078
01:41:52,620 --> 01:41:59,100
I just want to mention that we have gone online with our tax sales. So now whatever we do sell

1079
01:41:59,100 --> 01:42:03,740
is now open to the world because it's all online. So you just have to register and then

1080
01:42:06,480 --> 01:42:10,240
When the sale comes up, you can just make an offer online.

1081
01:42:10,480 --> 01:42:12,400
You don't have to ever go to the courthouse anymore.

1082
01:42:12,580 --> 01:42:15,420
Before the sales were conducted on the courthouse steps.

1083
01:42:15,620 --> 01:42:16,860
So you had to physically be there.

1084
01:42:16,920 --> 01:42:20,860
So it was hard for people who wanted to bid in multiple counties to show up.

1085
01:42:20,860 --> 01:42:21,500
You had to, you know, to shut up.

1086
01:42:22,020 --> 01:42:24,260
So now it's not nice of people to bid a bit, you know,

1087
01:42:24,460 --> 01:42:25,980
from their basically their living room.

1088
01:42:26,380 --> 01:42:27,440
So that helps a lot.

1089
01:42:27,660 --> 01:42:30,940
Because not only it makes it easier for them,

1090
01:42:31,660 --> 01:42:34,560
the people that are bidding the bidding goes up.

1091
01:42:34,560 --> 01:42:41,560
So if we collect more than what to do, we put that in the registry of the court after two years if no one claims it, it goes to you guys.

1092
01:42:42,560 --> 01:42:43,440
Let's do it.

1093
01:42:44,000 --> 01:42:45,580
No other questions?

1094
01:42:46,460 --> 01:42:48,340
Well, thank you.

1095
01:42:48,540 --> 01:42:49,520
It's a pleasure to be here.

1096
01:42:49,800 --> 01:42:52,580
I think we're going to be back here probably maybe next month.

1097
01:42:53,900 --> 01:42:57,220
On another matter, but have a merry Christmas.

1098
01:42:57,380 --> 01:42:57,880
Have a good holiday.

1099
01:42:58,380 --> 01:42:58,940
Thank you.

1100
01:42:59,480 --> 01:42:59,800
Thank you.

1101
01:42:59,840 --> 01:43:00,240
Thank you.

1102
01:43:00,240 --> 01:43:03,900
Thank you for your service to our district and your thoroughness and thoughtfulness.

1103
01:43:03,900 --> 01:43:06,000
Thank you. Thank you.

1104
01:43:06,140 --> 01:43:06,800
Have a good holiday.

1105
01:43:07,300 --> 01:43:07,620
You too.

1106
01:43:08,200 --> 01:43:14,780
We are going to take a very brief recess at 747 and

1107
01:43:17,630 --> 01:43:19,170
we will be backing up.

1108
01:43:38,190 --> 01:43:44,380
Okay, out of recess at 754 and we're going to resume.

1109
01:43:45,700 --> 01:43:46,740
Item 3.

1110
01:43:47,740 --> 01:43:49,980
And you'll update from San Pat County Chief of Priser.

1111
01:43:52,490 --> 01:43:53,630
Thank you all.

1112
01:43:54,370 --> 01:43:56,630
I'm glad I wasn't like I moved this a bit.

1113
01:43:56,630 --> 01:44:02,030
it and I do want the microphone so that I can play it for a minute.

1114
01:44:02,770 --> 01:44:03,330
There you go.

1115
01:44:04,150 --> 01:44:04,830
All right.

1116
01:44:05,510 --> 01:44:05,670
Yeah.

1117
01:44:05,850 --> 01:44:06,350
Good evening.

1118
01:44:07,050 --> 01:44:07,970
I'll try to be very brief.

1119
01:44:07,990 --> 01:44:12,190
I don't have a whole lot of, I have no audio visual aids or paperwork to give you all.

1120
01:44:12,270 --> 01:44:13,790
I don't want to put you to sleep or in a coma.

1121
01:44:16,930 --> 01:44:19,130
But thank you for letting me come and visit you all.

1122
01:44:19,270 --> 01:44:23,630
It's been a few years since I've actually been over to see the board here and I'm really not sure.

1123
01:44:24,150 --> 01:44:30,410
I want to say I don't remember if any of you all were on the board last time I came here was probably in 2017 or 18.

1124
01:44:31,150 --> 01:44:32,810
Dr. Chlor was here.

1125
01:44:33,270 --> 01:44:34,970
Do you remember me?

1126
01:44:35,270 --> 01:44:35,730
Not really.

1127
01:44:36,030 --> 01:44:36,430
Sort of.

1128
01:44:38,290 --> 01:44:41,590
So I feel like I go over a few things about myself first.

1129
01:44:41,890 --> 01:44:43,810
My background in history in this business.

1130
01:44:45,830 --> 01:44:47,630
I've graduated from Texas Tech University.

1131
01:44:51,430 --> 01:44:58,390
You'll forgive me, that was in 1976, don't do the math on how old I am, okay.

1132
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:05,960
I came straight to Corpus Christi. I got a job. I graduated with a degree in mass communications.

1133
01:45:08,400 --> 01:45:13,580
And one of the professors in the department knew the head guy at the caller times down here.

1134
01:45:13,820 --> 01:45:21,740
So I got a job as a retail advertising accounting executive, which is a pretty impressive title for a kid, just at a school, right?

1135
01:45:21,740 --> 01:45:28,860
So, I was assigned a territory and I was selling retail advertising for about three years there.

1136
01:45:29,420 --> 01:45:33,500
And part of my territory was actually Portland, Texas, across the river.

1137
01:45:34,360 --> 01:45:38,980
And so, I was here in the early, I'd say, in the mid and late 70s, driving over the bridge,

1138
01:45:39,080 --> 01:45:42,840
and visiting mostly the merchants at the crescent shopping center.

1139
01:45:44,360 --> 01:45:47,080
Most of them complained about how the color times ignored Portland,

1140
01:45:47,080 --> 01:45:49,540
and treat them like, I'll say, a reddit,

1141
01:45:49,820 --> 01:45:50,980
it's stepchild maybe or something.

1142
01:45:51,820 --> 01:45:53,900
So I did everything, I think I'd drag Mr. Hard

1143
01:45:53,900 --> 01:45:55,320
who is the publisher at the time.

1144
01:45:55,320 --> 01:45:58,320
Drag him over here for a little meeting with a group

1145
01:45:58,320 --> 01:46:03,060
at the Portland Business Person's Association.

1146
01:46:03,820 --> 01:46:07,040
But anyway, so that's why I got my start here.

1147
01:46:07,180 --> 01:46:10,320
1980 I went into work at the Praisal District

1148
01:46:10,320 --> 01:46:13,400
or at the Tax Office actually in New Ases County.

1149
01:46:14,640 --> 01:46:15,500
It's been a year and a half there

1150
01:46:15,500 --> 01:46:20,000
And then they created the brilliant idea of appraisal districts in 1979.

1151
01:46:21,300 --> 01:46:25,840
First year that the appraisal districts put out a appraisal role was in 1982, at least

1152
01:46:25,840 --> 01:46:31,960
in New ACES, I'm not sure in San Patricia, if it was 83 or one exactly, but everybody was

1153
01:46:31,960 --> 01:46:33,320
supposed to be on board in 1982.

1154
01:46:35,140 --> 01:46:40,040
And so I spent the rest of my entire career in adult life working in this business.

1155
01:46:40,040 --> 01:46:47,820
So I made my work my way through to the top position that I was at New Asus as the assistant

1156
01:46:47,820 --> 01:46:52,440
chief of praiser in 2012 under Ronnie Canales.

1157
01:46:54,440 --> 01:46:59,680
There was a brief moment in 2014, two years after he hired me that his license that expired

1158
01:46:59,680 --> 01:47:05,640
and he had to take an exam to pass and the time kind of ran out on him before he passed

1159
01:47:05,640 --> 01:47:06,280
the exam.

1160
01:47:07,220 --> 01:47:09,720
So I got to be Chief of Prazer for like 10 months.

1161
01:47:10,840 --> 01:47:16,200
And then as a gentleman, of course, when he finally did pass his test, I had to step back

1162
01:47:16,200 --> 01:47:16,400
down.

1163
01:47:16,480 --> 01:47:24,940
And so I continued to be the assistant chief over there until 2017 and 2017 Mr. Rufino

1164
01:47:27,710 --> 01:47:28,110
Luzano.

1165
01:47:28,410 --> 01:47:28,950
Thank you.

1166
01:47:29,970 --> 01:47:31,230
Hector, I knew him as hector.

1167
01:47:32,150 --> 01:47:35,490
He resigned from the Appraisal District here, and I thought, well, thank you for

1168
01:47:35,490 --> 01:47:36,750
me to go and see if I can get a job.

1169
01:47:36,750 --> 01:47:42,450
It's the hit guy, so luckily that my board members, I guess I impressed them just a little bit.

1170
01:47:42,450 --> 01:47:44,250
I kind of had an in with Dr. Matula.

1171
01:47:45,310 --> 01:47:50,410
I actually we had hired Dr. Matula years earlier for a project that we had going on at New

1172
01:47:50,410 --> 01:47:57,030
Aces the Prissel District and she was very good and she helped us fend off some accusations

1173
01:47:57,030 --> 01:48:04,010
from some other political factions that were making outlandish claims and so we overcame

1174
01:48:04,010 --> 01:48:04,650
that.

1175
01:48:04,650 --> 01:48:06,850
But, anyway, that's my background.

1176
01:48:07,970 --> 01:48:11,210
I think I like to start with a little bit of a,

1177
01:48:11,210 --> 01:48:13,750
some statistics and information about my office.

1178
01:48:13,870 --> 01:48:16,330
Of course, we have a five member board of directors,

1179
01:48:17,090 --> 01:48:20,410
Mr. Wilson, Mr. Curley, John Curley, Bill Wilson,

1180
01:48:21,290 --> 01:48:24,750
Marcy Thor Malin, who's the Texas or Collector.

1181
01:48:26,670 --> 01:48:28,150
Let me see you.

1182
01:48:28,590 --> 01:48:31,190
And thank you, Dr. Matilda, I already talked about her

1183
01:48:31,190 --> 01:48:32,230
and how could I forget her?

1184
01:48:32,490 --> 01:48:34,070
And then we have a new board member actually,

1185
01:48:34,070 --> 01:48:40,030
starting in January, Mr. Jaden Gonzalez, who I'd never have met, he's from the Odomaria.

1186
01:48:41,310 --> 01:48:44,050
But everyone's going to be starting a new two-year term.

1187
01:48:44,890 --> 01:48:46,290
The election results have come in.

1188
01:48:46,290 --> 01:48:50,930
You all cast all your votes for Dr. Matilda, of course, 1200 and so on votes.

1189
01:48:52,210 --> 01:48:56,030
And so, obviously, she's back on the board along with the, so we didn't really have any

1190
01:48:56,030 --> 01:49:00,430
turnover except for the one position where one of the other board members resigned last

1191
01:49:00,430 --> 01:49:00,690
year.

1192
01:49:00,690 --> 01:49:04,210
And so we had a temporary fill in, and then he resigned,

1193
01:49:04,470 --> 01:49:07,270
and so now we have Mr. Gonzalez from the Odomaria.

1194
01:49:09,410 --> 01:49:10,450
But anyway,

1195
01:49:14,560 --> 01:49:17,080
your entity pays 25% of my budget,

1196
01:49:17,740 --> 01:49:20,800
so you can call me anytime, and I'll pay attention to you.

1197
01:49:21,440 --> 01:49:22,680
That's quite a bit, right?

1198
01:49:23,780 --> 01:49:28,300
I'll get into a little bit about the numbers if you'd like.

1199
01:49:31,850 --> 01:49:34,630
Let me tell you about my budget for someone who

1200
01:49:35,590 --> 01:49:43,790
We just approved a couple of months ago, a $3.2 million budget, it was about $100,000.

1201
01:49:44,570 --> 01:49:48,630
We all suffer from when the budget time comes around.

1202
01:49:49,630 --> 01:49:52,630
Software vendors are increasing their cost from 5 to 10%.

1203
01:49:53,310 --> 01:49:54,890
Postage goes up.

1204
01:49:54,890 --> 01:49:58,850
I maintain three separate websites. I had to hire a second software.

1205
01:50:00,960 --> 01:50:11,560
I have one that's my own website, one that's the truth in taxation website that all the entities participate in, but I get to pay for it. You all get to pay for it, I guess, or 25% of it anyway.

1206
01:50:12,780 --> 01:50:29,280
And then the legislature just ensigned us to crank up yet another website that I think was instigated by property tax consultants, where I have to record and push out a database of appraisal review board hearings.

1207
01:50:29,280 --> 01:50:35,500
and all the details of how many and specific properties and what the decisions were and everything else,

1208
01:50:35,640 --> 01:50:44,360
which is another burden that we all suffer from the legislature every once in a while when they get together and give us additional work to do our jobs.

1209
01:50:46,480 --> 01:50:49,620
But I think that

1210
01:50:51,920 --> 01:50:59,460
in maintaining those websites we do get a course a lot of complaints from property owners and we love that sort of.

1211
01:50:59,460 --> 01:51:03,340
But I have 22 employees to deal with that.

1212
01:51:04,060 --> 01:51:08,540
And it's all of about 50,000 parcels in the account numbers,

1213
01:51:09,100 --> 01:51:13,760
really, 25,000 or so residential properties,

1214
01:51:14,420 --> 01:51:14,880
give you some citizens.

1215
01:51:15,060 --> 01:51:18,400
19,665 single family homes,

1216
01:51:20,740 --> 01:51:22,740
1653 commercial accounts,

1217
01:51:24,160 --> 01:51:31,000
429 industrial accounts and get to the value, the meat of it here.

1218
01:51:33,520 --> 01:51:35,880
Countywide, let me get my glasses off here.

1219
01:51:37,580 --> 01:51:44,960
Logo GP ISD, you all have $17.7 billion in market value.

1220
01:51:46,440 --> 01:51:48,720
Unfortunately, you don't get to collect on all of that.

1221
01:51:50,360 --> 01:51:56,080
I think your net INS is about 15.2 billion in your M&O is about 3.2 billion.

1222
01:51:56,260 --> 01:52:05,860
So it's still a lot of money in maintaining these values and keeping, I have to stay aggressive

1223
01:52:05,860 --> 01:52:07,940
about doing my appraisals.

1224
01:52:08,660 --> 01:52:11,060
We actually serve three masters in my job.

1225
01:52:11,420 --> 01:52:15,380
We of course have the taxing jurisdictions, and we have the property owners, but we also

1226
01:52:15,380 --> 01:52:16,700
have the controller's office.

1227
01:52:17,440 --> 01:52:21,140
Do you know they conduct a biennial property value study?

1228
01:52:21,140 --> 01:52:26,760
It's every other year and the purpose of the study is to make sure that my office is doing

1229
01:52:26,760 --> 01:52:35,360
my job to keep up with market value so that if an appraisal district is not doing a good job

1230
01:52:35,360 --> 01:52:40,620
of keeping up with firm market value then the controllers office is of having to make up

1231
01:52:40,620 --> 01:52:46,600
the difference and so they don't like having to pay for pay school districts for a poor job

1232
01:52:46,600 --> 01:52:49,200
perhaps on the part of an appraisal district or chief appraisers.

1233
01:52:49,920 --> 01:52:50,940
So it's kind of a circle.

1234
01:52:51,140 --> 01:52:53,300
So they do have a certain amount of authority and oversight

1235
01:52:53,300 --> 01:52:56,400
as to what we do in the form of the property value study.

1236
01:52:57,980 --> 01:53:00,660
And we're under a property value study this year.

1237
01:53:00,940 --> 01:53:03,260
Happy to say that since I came in in 2017,

1238
01:53:03,660 --> 01:53:05,940
we only had a little bit of trouble in 2019

1239
01:53:05,940 --> 01:53:07,480
with two of the smaller districts.

1240
01:53:08,980 --> 01:53:12,540
But every other district, and hopefully this time around as well.

1241
01:53:12,720 --> 01:53:13,300
Thanks, Francis.

1242
01:53:14,180 --> 01:53:15,480
You know, did I introduce you?

1243
01:53:16,680 --> 01:53:17,480
I'm sorry, I apologize.

1244
01:53:17,540 --> 01:53:19,340
This is my assistant, Chief of Prasor.

1245
01:53:19,860 --> 01:53:20,580
Francis Dale Allen.

1246
01:53:20,580 --> 01:53:23,220
She's been at the office for 10 years.

1247
01:53:25,060 --> 01:53:26,240
And maybe she'll take over my job.

1248
01:53:26,400 --> 01:53:27,180
Some day when I retire.

1249
01:53:32,240 --> 01:53:35,040
Anyway, the control is office does have a lot to do with what we,

1250
01:53:35,360 --> 01:53:37,700
and they wait until we're finished with our serious work

1251
01:53:37,700 --> 01:53:40,860
of getting our appraisals done, and then they come along and say,

1252
01:53:40,860 --> 01:53:55,800
Okay, send us all the data and we'll be down there to inspect everything and then we go through a process with them each year and it takes about almost a full year for them to come back around with their findings of how well we did or didn't do on our study.

1253
01:53:57,100 --> 01:54:08,720
But we've had to be very aggressive the last few years as we know the market has gone pretty crazy, especially with COVID coming along and people spending lots of money on homes and home deep.

1254
01:54:08,720 --> 01:54:11,240
I think did pretty well this past couple of years.

1255
01:54:11,740 --> 01:54:14,720
And it's just really been, in my business,

1256
01:54:14,900 --> 01:54:16,560
we call that rapidly changing market,

1257
01:54:16,660 --> 01:54:20,200
especially two years in our own, in 2021 and 22.

1258
01:54:21,720 --> 01:54:27,080
And sales in 22 affected what we did in 23, of course, as well.

1259
01:54:27,400 --> 01:54:29,920
But we call that rapidly changing market,

1260
01:54:30,980 --> 01:54:32,340
a cheaper pressure's worst nightmare.

1261
01:54:33,380 --> 01:54:35,040
Because we have to keep up with everything.

1262
01:54:35,040 --> 01:54:36,160
We have to answer the control.

1263
01:54:36,260 --> 01:54:37,500
We get the property value study.

1264
01:54:37,500 --> 01:54:41,180
And then, so we have to be aggressive, and I know that when you get the little notice from

1265
01:54:41,180 --> 01:54:42,840
us in April in your mailbox,

1266
01:54:45,000 --> 01:54:49,020
with possibly a property value increase, it doesn't necessarily

1267
01:54:49,020 --> 01:54:50,960
mean that your taxes will go up, right?

1268
01:54:53,220 --> 01:54:58,440
Well, it shouldn't, or maybe technically it doesn't, but invariably it doesn't, unfortunately,

1269
01:54:58,580 --> 01:54:58,960
happening.

1270
01:55:00,270 --> 01:55:10,710
But I know that you all take the pressure from that kind of public opinion and so do I, believe me.

1271
01:55:12,380 --> 01:55:14,180
But page

1272
01:55:16,260 --> 01:55:16,940
two,

1273
01:55:23,120 --> 01:55:24,180
I think I already covered this.

1274
01:55:26,440 --> 01:55:28,920
I think I did. I talked so much already finished early.

1275
01:55:29,340 --> 01:55:36,280
So I think I was just like at this point, I'll go ahead. I have a few minor things, but I think I covered it pretty much what I wanted to say in statistical information.

1276
01:55:37,000 --> 01:55:55,300
So I always encourage if there was a room full of people I would tell them to be sure to apply for a home set exemption if you own a home and you live and you should absolutely be getting the benefit of the regular home set exemption, which the legislature did generously increase the amount of the exemption this past year.

1277
01:55:56,200 --> 01:55:59,220
So it's been a really good thing and if you're over 65, it's even better.

1278
01:56:01,700 --> 01:56:07,360
They did do the calculations this year, were you smiling there?

1279
01:56:07,560 --> 01:56:14,600
Are you the one that got the burden of figuring out the, or checking Marcie's work on the,

1280
01:56:14,600 --> 01:56:19,720
the calculation for the, the five-year payback on the, what the calling?

1281
01:56:20,720 --> 01:56:24,300
The, it was, yeah, it was the,

1282
01:56:28,100 --> 01:56:37,560
They wanted to give everybody not only to increase the exemption but to pay them back by rolling back compression.

1283
01:56:38,900 --> 01:56:47,440
The maximum compression rate calculation was another little side nightmare to figure out how to do.

1284
01:56:47,440 --> 01:56:55,480
It's to calculate it was a one time discount on your taxes that would appear in your bill.

1285
01:56:57,620 --> 01:57:02,280
And so if you had an over 65 exemption and you were paying a certain amount of money each

1286
01:57:02,280 --> 01:57:06,780
year and it was at that frozen amount, suddenly it could have either disappeared or dropped

1287
01:57:06,780 --> 01:57:09,580
dramatically and you were like, what happened to my tax bill?

1288
01:57:09,780 --> 01:57:11,620
It's great, but I'm suspicious.

1289
01:57:13,060 --> 01:57:23,780
So, but it was only a one-time deal, and I have had to answer a lot of questions from a lot of people, especially how did you calculate this and how do I know it's right?

1290
01:57:24,380 --> 01:57:32,460
So, Martin, I've been working pretty closely this past year for the past couple of months to really try to figure out and make sure that what our software vendors have done,

1291
01:57:32,620 --> 01:57:37,880
because this has all really done in the computer and the software vendors had to go in and figure out how to take that,

1292
01:57:37,880 --> 01:57:44,300
the words of the law written by the legislature and converted into an actual correct calculation

1293
01:57:44,300 --> 01:57:47,700
so that everybody's tax bill would come out correctly.

1294
01:57:48,480 --> 01:57:54,340
And as near as we know, it did, we're keeping our fingers crossed and going back five years

1295
01:57:54,340 --> 01:58:02,000
and making an adjustment each tax year had like a 15-step calculation to it and then times

1296
01:58:02,000 --> 01:58:08,160
five years and they come up with a number and that was the amount that was the savings that

1297
01:58:08,160 --> 01:58:15,960
they experienced. Anyway, yeah, hopefully they won't do that again. But any questions? I think

1298
01:58:15,960 --> 01:58:19,540
I really don't have much else to say other than thank you all for letting me come here and I know

1299
01:58:19,540 --> 01:58:23,680
it's late. You've been here about three hours or more, so I'm happy to let you go home.

1300
01:58:26,530 --> 01:58:26,970
Any questions?

1301
01:58:27,810 --> 01:58:33,510
I think rather than I've had this conversation already, but he was just talking about the history

1302
01:58:33,510 --> 01:58:38,790
of the prairie district, I hate to say this, but I go all the way back to the gentleman

1303
01:58:38,790 --> 01:58:45,570
by the name of Benny Stewart, which is a very first chief prazer for Central County, when

1304
01:58:45,570 --> 01:58:53,610
the legislature legislated the prairie district into life. He was the very first one.

1305
01:58:54,350 --> 01:58:59,470
I remember his name. I never, certainly back then, he was pretty famous in our business.

1306
01:59:00,470 --> 01:59:05,170
And of course, Kathy of her million was also interesting for her.

1307
01:59:05,170 --> 01:59:06,410
Thank you very much.

1308
01:59:06,570 --> 01:59:06,890
Yes, ma'am.

1309
01:59:07,570 --> 01:59:09,910
Our district in the whole county.

1310
01:59:09,950 --> 01:59:10,550
Yes, ma'am.

1311
01:59:10,570 --> 01:59:11,870
I appreciate that.

1312
01:59:11,890 --> 01:59:13,210
I'll be happy to come back at any time.

1313
01:59:13,390 --> 01:59:16,090
If any of you don't have any questions or you want me to come talk again.

1314
01:59:16,670 --> 01:59:17,470
Just let us know.

1315
01:59:17,750 --> 01:59:18,050
Thank you.

1316
01:59:18,090 --> 01:59:18,870
I'll let Francis do.

1317
01:59:19,130 --> 01:59:20,550
Thank you.

1318
01:59:20,690 --> 01:59:20,970
All right.

1319
01:59:21,270 --> 01:59:23,210
Thanks a lot.

1320
01:59:23,650 --> 01:59:24,030
Okay.

1321
01:59:27,170 --> 01:59:29,210
We'll move on to item E.

1322
01:59:29,210 --> 01:59:31,110
budget parameter draft presentation.

1323
01:59:32,030 --> 01:59:35,410
Yeah, this is on page 216 in your packet.

1324
01:59:36,310 --> 01:59:39,670
And it's a work in progress.

1325
01:59:39,970 --> 01:59:40,490
This is a draft.

1326
01:59:40,710 --> 01:59:43,290
We wanted to be able to share with you a draft tonight.

1327
01:59:43,430 --> 01:59:48,690
Just to start thinking Ms. Gregory and has been working

1328
01:59:48,690 --> 01:59:52,930
with Dr. Gonzalez and myself to get the initial bones together

1329
01:59:52,930 --> 01:59:55,990
because she's a lead on this as indicator six on the governance

1330
01:59:55,990 --> 01:59:56,530
indicators.

1331
01:59:57,150 --> 01:59:58,830
and then Mark will be joining.

1332
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:09,740
We're going to get some more thoughts around this when we meet this week, but we wanted to bring a draft to you tonight, and then with the potential for you all approving the parameters in January.

1333
02:00:12,040 --> 02:00:15,260
This is what we're going to be looking at when you see them on.

1334
02:00:15,400 --> 02:00:26,000
This is really not to do a deeper dive on Wednesday. This is just kind of to the high level overview of what we've loaded out there for everybody to start looking at.

1335
02:00:26,580 --> 02:00:31,180
And so, you know, and you can see on this page that purpose, do we just say, have your stuff for you?

1336
02:00:31,580 --> 02:00:35,820
No, this is your, this is your, this is your, your work with so.

1337
02:00:35,820 --> 02:00:42,900
Yeah, and really, you know, the intent and this is it, you know, as a school district, the school district employees, we have these parameters already in mind.

1338
02:00:43,300 --> 02:00:49,100
Like I asked it, Dr. Gonzalez really to do a brain dump of when you're building our district budget, what is it that you consider?

1339
02:00:49,500 --> 02:00:51,160
You know, what are the kind of banks of the river?

1340
02:00:51,160 --> 02:00:58,080
And so this is formalizing it, you know, putting it in writing of what those banks are.

1341
02:00:58,480 --> 02:01:04,900
So you can see the purpose is just to get the parameters to make sure that we're providing a financially solvent budget.

1342
02:01:05,280 --> 02:01:10,640
That meets our short term and long term goals and obligations and is aligned to our score card.

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You can see there are the different items that are considered, there are six different factors that are considered in this.

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a big part being, you know, the enrollment demographic trends, the current budget revenue projections,

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and then our potential expenditures, and then compensation, because we know compensation

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is the biggest part of our biggest expenditure.

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And then going down, you'll see the different parts of the assumptions, so there's a section

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on our assumptions around enrollment and demographic trends, and then there's hyperlinks in

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here so that you can dig deeper in to get more information around our enrollment growth.

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So you can see that demographic studies hyperlinked in there, you know, I'm looking at what are we projecting for enrollment growth in the next year, and then financial implications, you know, right now there's not an increase in state funding, you know, we're there's no new money, so we're operating with no new money, you can see demographic changes are false snapshot from 2023 that was just taking a couple months ago.

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are you can see we're growing in our economically disadvantaged population or number of students

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or families or economically disadvantaged increase in our at risk population in our special education

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02:02:25,240 --> 02:02:31,200
program growth. So there may be need for additional supports for those different programs.

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02:02:32,420 --> 02:02:38,280
You can see you know the other considerations out of district transfers. We don't charge for anyone who

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02:02:38,280 --> 02:02:43,080
transfers in, you know, and we have more coming in than going out.

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You can see the continuing to improve our average daily attendance.

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When COVID hit, we, along with all the other districts in the state,

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02:02:52,340 --> 02:02:56,800
are still trying to rebound from with attendance and average daily attendance.

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We're on track and we're monitoring it every day and week around that.

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And then going down later and jump if there's anything you see that you won't

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02:03:08,260 --> 02:03:14,620
budget, this is on page 2-18, just looking at the assumptions. You know, that first one

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02:03:14,620 --> 02:03:20,540
there approximately a 30% cost increase for property insurance. That's something that's an

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02:03:20,540 --> 02:03:27,420
operational cost that is out of our control. You know, that is an increased expense. You can see

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02:03:27,420 --> 02:03:32,000
just the maintenance and operations costs we're seeing in our own homes. We just heard about

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02:03:32,000 --> 02:03:37,500
our tax collections and we're making that assumption that we still collected about 98% rate.

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and no changes in state funding.

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And then we'll talk more on this one,

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this is the child nutrition

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02:03:43,140 --> 02:03:44,840
about feeding our students.

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And when we look at the parameters,

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it's not saying that we're adopting one option or another yet,

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02:03:52,260 --> 02:03:54,340
but this is what we're thinking through.

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You know, when we're looking at these parameters,

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and we'll talk more about that one.

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You saw someone down in the highlight,

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how did you do this?

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I'll picture.

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And then going down to page 219,

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the revenue projections.

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So you can see the different areas

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02:04:06,440 --> 02:04:08,560
that we get revenue from, you know,

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any potentials changes in state funding,

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02:04:10,780 --> 02:04:13,680
again, nothing's changed yet.

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02:04:14,780 --> 02:04:17,220
So we kind of have to, we have to plan

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02:04:17,220 --> 02:04:19,200
as if there's not going to be any change.

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02:04:20,240 --> 02:04:22,060
If something changes, and we come back

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02:04:22,060 --> 02:04:24,440
and look at what impact does that have.

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02:04:24,720 --> 02:04:27,900
Our taxable value growth, just heard from Mr. Sencee

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about that, recapture.

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02:04:30,300 --> 02:04:32,320
You'll start to see, we'll see over in that far right.

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02:04:32,480 --> 02:04:35,740
We've got the program overview, but projected payment.

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02:04:36,960 --> 02:04:43,380
We've paid about half a million, up till now, and recaption, you can say for 2425, it's going

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02:04:43,380 --> 02:04:52,300
to go to 16 million, that's the projection, pending note changes, you can see that the Formula

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02:04:52,300 --> 02:04:57,320
Transition Grant expiring, and we're still considered a property wealthy school district

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as per tea.

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Okay. Sir, our compression tax rate is our property values go up. We have to compress our tax rate. You can see what the impact on that might be. And then federal funding, you know, federal dollars and their state dollars that are in addition to the general revenue. So there's some places there to look at to get more information around that. And then going to on page 220 are as around our 313 limitation agreements.

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You know, again, we're fortunate because of our location and the industry that is here that we do currently have 313 agreements, but these will expire at some point in time.

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And so this is a big chunk that we've been relying on these dollars and this is where we've continued to talk about the revenue that's generated from 313 agreements needs to be on non-recurring expenses

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rather than recurring expenditures.

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So look at how do we,

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02:05:55,480 --> 02:05:58,720
we can see in the far right on the revenue protection,

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02:05:58,720 --> 02:06:02,800
revenue protection payments on the future projections

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02:06:02,800 --> 02:06:04,640
for the next three years.

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02:06:04,640 --> 02:06:06,000
What that looks like.

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02:06:08,820 --> 02:06:10,700
And then any appeals,

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02:06:10,860 --> 02:06:13,200
which we mentioned, you know, when we looked at the resolution

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02:06:13,200 --> 02:06:15,420
earlier for our fund balance,

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02:06:15,980 --> 02:06:18,280
reserving some dollars for potential litigation.

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02:06:19,240 --> 02:06:26,780
And then any growth, you know, there's, we've, I do set on the EDC board and there's several more industries that are wanting to move into our county.

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And they will ask for a statement that is we know the new, the, the most recent abatement laws do not provide any revenue protection payments to school districts.

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So they will be taxed at their maximum value.

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02:06:40,220 --> 02:06:46,520
And so that the impacts of those should, should any move in to our county and in our, to our school district area.

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02:06:46,520 --> 02:06:54,440
And then on page 221, as we start looking at parameters around compensation, and really are long-range planning.

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02:06:55,180 --> 02:07:01,540
You know, we've been, you see our average staffing costs for each employee group.

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02:07:02,760 --> 02:07:06,660
We are in that we lead in the region, and that has been a benefit to us.

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02:07:06,660 --> 02:07:08,440
We've been able to be 100% staff.

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02:07:09,240 --> 02:07:13,360
And then looking at raises as a link to our current compensation handbook.

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02:07:13,360 --> 02:07:19,780
And then that we're looking at how do we manage our employee pay.

1419
02:07:21,660 --> 02:07:23,280
And then benefits as well.

1420
02:07:23,620 --> 02:07:26,280
Benefits is again kind of like the property insurance benefits.

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02:07:27,420 --> 02:07:32,320
We are in TRS as compens, I mean it benefits.

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02:07:33,200 --> 02:07:37,520
And the rates go up, but the coverage doesn't necessarily improve.

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02:07:37,860 --> 02:07:41,060
Mostly maintaining, we're trying to get the best, you know, for all of our employees.

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02:07:41,800 --> 02:07:48,560
And then our stipends, and looking around those, we do pay very hefty stipends.

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02:07:51,780 --> 02:07:57,200
And then the on page 222, which is the last page, is just looking at our operational

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02:07:57,200 --> 02:07:57,860
expenditures.

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02:07:58,500 --> 02:08:02,940
So as we continue to look at our budget and our expenditures are fine to come, we're really

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looking at everything before we look at people in compensation, making sure that we've gotten rid

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02:08:08,140 --> 02:08:14,300
of anything extra that doesn't impact the classroom directly.

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02:08:15,600 --> 02:08:21,340
And I've seen see campus budgets, department budgets, and prioritizing and making sure

1431
02:08:21,340 --> 02:08:26,060
that we're maximizing the expenditures in our federal and state programs and those dollars.

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02:08:30,100 --> 02:08:32,600
That's a fast, high level overview.

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02:08:35,980 --> 02:08:45,600
So basically the whole purpose of this indicator and this exercise is to, like you said, it's

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02:08:45,600 --> 02:08:51,460
what Dr. Gonzalez and your team already do, just formalizing it, putting it on paper,

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02:08:51,940 --> 02:08:56,640
for us to have as a guide to help us, but also for transparency for the community. We can

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02:08:56,640 --> 02:09:02,120
point to that point to this and say, this is our process. And we follow this process every

1437
02:09:02,120 --> 02:09:07,820
year like the information in each consideration might be different for me or a year, but so.

1438
02:09:07,980 --> 02:09:12,560
Yeah, if you look at your board score card, indicator six, is board is committed to resource

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02:09:12,560 --> 02:09:16,740
allocation, linked to strategic plan, and has a strong commitment to financial stewardship.

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And so, you know, there may be things that we're currently, like I mentioned stipends,

1441
02:09:21,560 --> 02:09:23,840
okay, that's been a prioro or you've been something that's important.

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02:09:24,280 --> 02:09:29,440
But we may find as we're, you know, we had our curriculum audit completed last year and we're

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02:09:29,440 --> 02:09:30,920
implementing some of the recommendations.

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02:09:31,700 --> 02:09:34,800
We may say, hey, we need to invest X amount of dollars

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02:09:34,800 --> 02:09:35,960
in another area.

1446
02:09:36,320 --> 02:09:39,960
What are we going to reduce our investment in another spot?

1447
02:09:40,800 --> 02:09:43,900
There's not more money, but what are the priorities

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02:09:43,900 --> 02:09:46,180
that are going to move the needle for our kids

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02:09:46,180 --> 02:09:47,820
and their academic outcomes?

1450
02:09:48,440 --> 02:09:50,640
And do we need to stop investing in one thing

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02:09:50,640 --> 02:09:51,960
and invest in something different?

1452
02:09:53,280 --> 02:09:55,980
And maybe we're investing in all the right areas already.

1453
02:09:58,920 --> 02:09:59,220
Thank you, yes.

1454
02:09:59,220 --> 02:09:59,820
I would just say

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02:10:00,000 --> 02:10:04,600
My team and I are, I'm thinking about like, I don't know why I'm thinking about like as a boxer,

1456
02:10:04,840 --> 02:10:09,420
like we need to start working out to get ready for our fight. Starting in January, which is actually

1457
02:10:09,420 --> 02:10:15,680
budget season, but as we prepare for budget season to start in January, where eventually we'll

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02:10:15,680 --> 02:10:20,980
come with to you with the budget calendar and a planning guide and with principles. This right

1459
02:10:20,980 --> 02:10:26,320
here was a great idea. I think it ties directly to the indicator six that Dr. Kavas was just mentioned,

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02:10:26,320 --> 02:10:29,960
but it allows, it gives us a roadmap to work through.

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02:10:30,780 --> 02:10:34,080
Dr. C, you just expressed everything that is in my head

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02:10:34,080 --> 02:10:38,140
as far as a layer of budget for what I do here for the district.

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02:10:39,200 --> 02:10:41,620
School finances, the most complex finance system

1464
02:10:41,620 --> 02:10:43,500
that I've ever come across to be honest with you

1465
02:10:43,500 --> 02:10:45,240
and I think everybody can agree to that.

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02:10:45,620 --> 02:10:50,500
There are so many variables that play a factor in school finance.

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02:10:50,500 --> 02:10:56,000
And the goal going forward is to be,

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02:10:58,220 --> 02:11:06,360
as I'm trying to use a big word, but as a cognizant

1469
02:11:06,360 --> 02:11:13,720
of where we're headed, but at the same time continuing to give the best education to the

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02:11:13,720 --> 02:11:21,600
entire student body and staff and faculty and and everyone involved in GPISD and the

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02:11:21,600 --> 02:11:29,800
cognizance is that we're headed and I've mentioned this towards a situation that we don't

1472
02:11:30,160 --> 02:11:41,820
want to head into and as a team collectively we can come up with strategies to avoid the road that

1473
02:11:41,820 --> 02:11:45,220
We'll put us in a very bad situation to make tough decisions.

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02:11:45,940 --> 02:11:49,360
So my team and I have already started working, and I've been sharing with Dr. Kavassos

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02:11:49,360 --> 02:11:52,400
on resource allocation studies, not only in operations.

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02:11:52,620 --> 02:11:55,600
I mean, we'll might go this week to talk about a resource allocation state that we're

1477
02:11:55,600 --> 02:11:59,100
doing into the entire operations department, because that's where we need to start first.

1478
02:11:59,540 --> 02:12:05,280
Before we get anywhere near instruction, we need to start at what we're spending in the

1479
02:12:05,280 --> 02:12:07,780
light bill, water bill, property insurance.

1480
02:12:07,780 --> 02:12:12,680
Do we need to maybe get covered for less, you know, so that we could meet a certain budget.

1481
02:12:12,780 --> 02:12:17,580
I mean, these questions are going to emerge and answers are going to be expected from leadership.

1482
02:12:18,440 --> 02:12:28,140
But what this does is it gives us a roadmap to follow and it gives you an idea of what we're at least primarily looking at,

1483
02:12:28,400 --> 02:12:32,640
aside from all the nuts and bolts of every single campus and department budget.

1484
02:12:34,120 --> 02:12:38,000
But lastly, just to mention, is that things are getting

1485
02:12:38,000 --> 02:12:43,940
expensive every single day, and every single department.

1486
02:12:45,480 --> 02:12:49,000
There are four major layers of spending in our district.

1487
02:12:49,160 --> 02:12:52,800
You have salaries, you have contracted services, you have general supplies,

1488
02:12:52,900 --> 02:12:53,840
and you have miscellaneous.

1489
02:12:54,360 --> 02:12:59,140
And in every single category, the prices are just rising.

1490
02:12:59,140 --> 02:13:05,500
We know we pay high wages and 93% of our budget without three-thirtines is salaries.

1491
02:13:06,140 --> 02:13:08,020
Contracted services are not cheap.

1492
02:13:08,360 --> 02:13:11,980
Just to come and fix this air condition, it's going to cost us an armament leg.

1493
02:13:12,540 --> 02:13:16,800
To go and check anything related to something instructional is very expensive.

1494
02:13:17,560 --> 02:13:22,040
It's $300 an hour now for professional services and up.

1495
02:13:23,140 --> 02:13:24,940
Then you have of course general supplies.

1496
02:13:24,940 --> 02:13:31,140
we all know the supply and demand issues that we've faced, but I know custodial supplies and

1497
02:13:31,140 --> 02:13:37,140
maintenance supplies and office supplies and overages and copiers, just recently, $8,000

1498
02:13:37,140 --> 02:13:43,100
in a matter of two to two and a half months of overages and copiers and then travel hotels

1499
02:13:43,100 --> 02:13:48,900
feel like they can get a piece of it too, so travel, mileage, gas, all those things, small

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02:13:48,900 --> 02:13:53,940
gains at up and the last thing we want to do is say, don't do any of those things because

1501
02:13:53,940 --> 02:13:57,220
we need to continue providing this type of business.

1502
02:13:59,240 --> 02:14:02,060
So the question is, how can we continue to be better?

1503
02:14:03,320 --> 02:14:06,700
That's my why I guess with the behavioral style.

1504
02:14:07,560 --> 02:14:08,580
There's a better way.

1505
02:14:08,980 --> 02:14:11,940
So we're looking for it in every single angle we can.

1506
02:14:12,620 --> 02:14:16,620
So just wanted to share all that with the state tune

1507
02:14:16,620 --> 02:14:17,400
for the next six months.

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02:14:17,440 --> 02:14:18,480
You'll be involved as well.

1509
02:14:19,360 --> 02:14:22,040
And we just, we want to be able to increase that transparency

1510
02:14:22,040 --> 02:14:26,140
for you all. I mean, it's not like we weren't being transparent, but just really putting it

1511
02:14:26,140 --> 02:14:30,380
more out, you know, just like providing greater clarity for you all. And then for our employees

1512
02:14:30,380 --> 02:14:34,660
and our community as a whole, too, how does a school district go about building their budget?

1513
02:14:35,400 --> 02:14:39,200
Because there's, like, you said a lot of moving parts to consider.

1514
02:14:39,540 --> 02:14:44,280
I think next year, I know that Dr. Ravasos wanted to have one day, and you said we would do one

1515
02:14:44,280 --> 02:14:49,240
day, and I think it's already set up, I saw it on the board calendar. It's like in March.

1516
02:14:49,240 --> 02:14:50,220
So I'm excited for that.

1517
02:14:50,240 --> 02:14:54,020
We might have one night together just to talk about budget workshop and budget.

1518
02:14:54,040 --> 02:14:58,260
Yeah, I want to do, like we did the C and I workshop, where it was just, so we don't

1519
02:14:58,260 --> 02:14:59,820
have any, what we've been doing in that.

1520
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:07,120
Also, our budget workshops are part of a regular meeting, and rather than do that, have a meeting that is just a budget workshop.

1521
02:15:07,340 --> 02:15:16,280
So we spend two to three hours just talking about budget in our finances. Instead of trying to put it in a little sprinkle a little bit here and a little bit there.

1522
02:15:16,400 --> 02:15:18,060
There'll be some of that, but really.

1523
02:15:18,480 --> 02:15:20,740
Well, our first two months on the board, we had a whole retreat.

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02:15:22,520 --> 02:15:22,960
Yes.

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02:15:23,640 --> 02:15:24,760
I'll try and make you fun.

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02:15:25,580 --> 02:15:32,800
It's always okay, and I just say Kudos to you know our finance team we I don't know I think you may be aware

1527
02:15:32,800 --> 02:15:38,580
But we do monthly business finance round tables NHR round tables with our district leaders

1528
02:15:38,580 --> 02:15:43,960
So we have two different sessions ones with principles and their budget their secretaries who manage their budget

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02:15:43,960 --> 02:15:47,640
And then the other one is with all of our other district department leads with their

1530
02:15:48,280 --> 02:15:54,080
Secretaries who manage their budget and so it's provide that just in time support and training

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02:15:54,080 --> 02:15:58,700
around the budget, and we're getting to, like, even the last, there were some games of name

1532
02:15:58,700 --> 02:16:07,220
that code, and just, it really making, it's demystifying budget, for those who are working

1533
02:16:07,220 --> 02:16:07,920
with it, too.

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02:16:08,320 --> 02:16:15,720
I think this is great, it's going to give the community, you know, a one stop place to see

1535
02:16:15,720 --> 02:16:19,600
the enormity of everything you guys have to consider when you're making the recommendations

1536
02:16:20,500 --> 02:16:21,640
to us for the budget.

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02:16:21,640 --> 02:16:23,200
I think this is going to be so useful.

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And so Mark and I are going to be meeting with you guys

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02:16:27,180 --> 02:16:29,320
Wednesday morning to take a little bit deeper dive.

1540
02:16:30,020 --> 02:16:33,760
So if anybody's bored between now and Wednesday morning,

1541
02:16:34,400 --> 02:16:36,640
look through this and if you have any questions,

1542
02:16:37,140 --> 02:16:40,500
shoot them to me or Mark or Dr. Kavasos or Dr. Gonzalez.

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02:16:42,860 --> 02:16:44,620
And we'll put it in the mix.

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02:16:45,720 --> 02:16:46,240
Thank you.

1545
02:16:46,260 --> 02:16:46,900
Thank you so much.

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02:16:47,060 --> 02:16:47,860
Thank you all.

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02:16:53,640 --> 02:16:54,120
Thank you.

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02:16:54,120 --> 02:16:55,200
8 a.m. Wednesday morning.

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02:16:55,760 --> 02:16:56,200
8 a.m.

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02:16:56,760 --> 02:16:57,280
here.

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02:16:57,740 --> 02:17:02,000
And I'll concur with Dr. Gonzalez, this cool business has got more movement pieces.

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02:17:02,780 --> 02:17:03,300
Right.

1553
02:17:03,960 --> 02:17:04,760
That's in my mind.

1554
02:17:06,440 --> 02:17:06,540
Yeah.

1555
02:17:07,420 --> 02:17:07,940
Okay.

1556
02:17:08,600 --> 02:17:10,200
We're on the home stretch here.

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13.

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It's in board instructions.

1559
02:17:17,280 --> 02:17:18,720
Board instructions to superintendent.

1560
02:17:19,260 --> 02:17:20,920
I'm not reading the Roman numerals.

1561
02:17:21,160 --> 02:17:22,940
We're not going to fit a number on it.

1562
02:17:23,080 --> 02:17:25,220
Board instructions to press in her superintendent.

1563
02:17:25,220 --> 02:17:27,180
but items of discussion, any point?

1564
02:17:27,900 --> 02:17:28,420
I don't know.

1565
02:17:30,130 --> 02:17:35,490
My, did we spend on the sound system in our high school camp?

1566
02:17:36,090 --> 02:17:37,210
I couldn't find that out.

1567
02:17:37,310 --> 02:17:39,050
I was back, I don't know when it was put in,

1568
02:17:39,230 --> 02:17:40,530
but back, and I can find that out now.

1569
02:17:40,530 --> 02:17:41,930
It's not high school camp.

1570
02:17:42,610 --> 02:17:43,550
It was a competition gym?

1571
02:17:44,110 --> 02:17:44,290
Yeah.

1572
02:17:44,710 --> 02:17:44,810
OK.

1573
02:17:44,910 --> 02:17:45,410
I have a competition.

1574
02:17:46,530 --> 02:17:50,330
And the reason I'm asking is I hope it would more

1575
02:17:50,330 --> 02:17:54,410
about 500 bucks, because it does not work well.

1576
02:17:57,130 --> 02:17:59,650
We will find out and add that to the matrix.

1577
02:18:03,050 --> 02:18:03,930
Anyone else?

1578
02:18:04,050 --> 02:18:06,050
The only thing I'd like to add is less meeting.

1579
02:18:06,290 --> 02:18:09,250
We discussed the possibility of going to governance.

1580
02:18:09,510 --> 02:18:11,010
I always want to call it winner governance,

1581
02:18:11,230 --> 02:18:12,850
because that's what we used to call it.

1582
02:18:14,090 --> 02:18:14,850
I pulled it up.

1583
02:18:16,050 --> 02:18:18,410
Yeah, it's been in the board highlights for several weeks.

1584
02:18:18,590 --> 02:18:18,890
Okay, good.

1585
02:18:19,070 --> 02:18:22,750
So, and I would like to give the deadline for housing,

1586
02:18:22,830 --> 02:18:24,530
or housing opens up in January.

1587
02:18:24,530 --> 02:18:29,950
So, like, just keep that on your radar if you want to, if anyone wants to go to that in Galveston.

1588
02:18:30,930 --> 02:18:39,390
Yeah, I think in the highly, yeah, just let Amy know and then we've got the deadline in there so that if you are interested then so we can get that'll take care for you.

1589
02:18:39,490 --> 02:18:42,710
Thank you. And then it says review board event calendar.

1590
02:18:44,050 --> 02:18:45,670
Any changes or anything?

1591
02:18:47,980 --> 02:18:51,440
Oh, that's actually it's not on, it's not on our formal agenda, but it's on us.

1592
02:18:51,440 --> 02:18:56,280
So like, yeah, all righty, well, then we will adjourn the meeting.

1593
02:18:57,080 --> 02:18:57,460
All righty.

1594
02:18:57,540 --> 02:18:58,680
Oh, ten is not here.

1595
02:18:58,740 --> 02:18:59,080
Hey, train.

1596
02:18:59,200 --> 02:19:01,400
You did not get to wear this sweater for us.

1597
02:19:01,460 --> 02:19:02,280
You want to wear this anymore.