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Mike, thank you very much. The board will recess in a closed meeting into the board support conference room, as
Permitted by the texas open meetings act code.

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chapter 551072 and 551074. The board and the superintendent will discuss personnel and land matter and we will go
Into closed session at 6:02 p.m..

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can I just recognize real quick, I want to recognize mrs. Bieber for being here. So thank you so much for for letting us have ken.

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I know it's going to be at least one monday evening a month.

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so thank you so much. I appreciate you. Plus a tuesday coming up for sure.

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all right. Thank you. He's already sworn in, so. Yeah. All right. We will go into closed session at 6:02 p.m..

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somebody knew it was 7:00. All right. We will go ahead and reconvene into open session at 7 p.m.

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and we will start with our pledge of allegiance.

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it's like the united states.

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are.

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right.

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thank you. And I do believe as pastor john wolf here.

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oh, mr. Wolf, you will come up for invocation. We appreciate it.

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thank you so much. Thank you, lord. Thank you. And I should say from crossroads church.

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thank you, carl church. That's right. Yes. If you mind waiting, let's pray.

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most graciously. Heavenly father, we thank you so much for this evening. Father, I thank you for this privilege.

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and it's an honor, father, to be here, to be involved. God, I thank you for this night where work is being done.

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god, we come before you. We humbly ask for your favor. We ask for your leading, your guidance.

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father god, as I thank you for this this group of people who who lead and govern the
Leading of our school.

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I thank you for those who are interested, who come wanting to be part and putting their
Input in.

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and father we were excited about this school year, father, but not just about what takes
Place tonight.

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but god, we ask your favor upon this school year. Father, may our students be educated.

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may our objectives be met. Father and god, I pray that you'd give these folks wisdom, discernment and knowledge as
They lead our schools.

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father, I ask for your favor once again this year. Father, protect us and bless.

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and we pray this in jesus name. Amen. Thank you.

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thank you, mr. Wolf. Appreciate that. As far as introduction and roll call.

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here. Here.

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here. Here.

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thank you. We'll go into the reports of the superintendent. Mr. Gallagher. Yeah.

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president olsen and board members. First, I want to thank mr. Wolf for being here tonight and also welcome him home.

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this was his high school. For those that may not know, he went to high school here.

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and I had the pleasure of touring this building with him and reliving a lot and relive
He'd relive some of some of the memories from his day as a student here and shared

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about the rock wall. So lots of fun things happen at the rock hall back in the day.

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so thank you, mr. Wolfe. Yeah. Mr. Roberts is going to present on the first day of school give a brief summary of how the
First school went.

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yeah. Thank you, mr. Gallagher. President olson, board of trustees.

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superintendent gallagher, first, I want to start off and say congratulations to mr.

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bieber. There wasn't very much time at all. Put him right to work and he's ready to go.

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and I'll take a few minutes. This time of year, we always summarize and share experiences that we had the first day of
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I will say first couple of days. Talk about thursday and friday directly.

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and just like pastor wolfe, I will say that we are very excited about this upcoming
School year and I'll start my quick presentation, by this way,

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and I think it sums it up. So thursday afternoon at dismissal time at oak point elementary, I was helping some kids
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saw two first grade boys walking by with a teacher.

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and I heard the teacher say, did you have a great first day? And the young boy said it was the best day ever.

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and so I think that is what we saw consistently on all of the campuses that we attended.

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there were several of us that made it to every campus multiple days, and we had teams out
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we when we could. And so very involved in getting students to and from classes and getting them settled.

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I'll use a page to really wrap up our my summary.

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our week started on monday, august 8th with prep the pack.

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that is every transition that we have with our students. We have them come in early before the first traditional day.

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so incoming kinder incoming sixth graders and incoming ninth graders, we have a day with
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them in their routines, getting them to know their classroom teacher, so on and so forth.

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and so our great start to the school year started on monday and then it finished
Obviously at the end of the day on friday, where we had

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incredible experiences and opportunities for our students.

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I will conclude my quick update and I'll use a page from really the high schools
Blueprint, which they are really

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talking about thriving, not just surviving and really taking it to the next level and
Really growing and really working to be

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successful. And I think all of the adults that we came across on thursday and friday are
Really creating that environment and those experiences for our

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students, that thriving mentality. And that's one thing that made us so excited to look forward to this new school year.

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so anyway, it was a great time and a great first two days and we're headed in the right
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so any questions from anyone?

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all right. Thank you guys for your support. Thank you, sir robert. All right.

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next, I would like to ask rick martin, our executive director for construction, to
Provide an update for the board and for the community.

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good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for the opportunity to share this information with you.

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we will. Show you our numbers first. Program is still healthy.

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I'll skim through these and get you to the bottom line.

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everything that was in the bond has been identified and price tag put to it.

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some of it is still being scoped, but we appear to have the funds to be able to complete
Everything that was in that in that program.

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and this is just a list of completed programs, things that we've done projects,
Renovations, conversions, new stuff, projects nearing

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completion, the district wide spc three, we are in close out for that and we should
Receive our closeout documents this week.

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the indoor facility. I can talk more when we take a look at that, as well as the welding shop expansion.

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there is your indoor facility. Walk through it today.

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we have our tco for the indoor field portion today.

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we expect to have the first floor with the locker room and the major coaches, football
Coaches offices, the weight room.

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I expect to have that by the end of this week and then another week we'll have the second
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so by the end of this month, we expect to have full occupancy on that facility.

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this is a good shot because it shows some of the other things that were involved in this
Program the football, the track, the turf fields, the two baseball, the baseball softball,

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the tennis court resurfacing. Those are all items that were in this bond that have all been completed.

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some more. Different looks.

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this. This was taken two weeks ago when they were still putting in the field and stripes.

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that's all completely done now.

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and the welding the welding shop expansion. This is also done.

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they have already done the punch work in there. We expect to get our occupancy there this week as well that we added a classroom, we took
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half and put two classrooms. This will now support all the indoor sports, whereas the new indoor facility will support
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this was the space a couple of weeks ago. It's all completely finished now and furnished.

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it's still under construction. We're actually probably pretty much done or got some final things that are being done.

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we have a few things that didn't are still in transit that haven't made it here yet, but
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we've had some pretty good operations plus.

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meetings, a lot of training. This place has been absolutely packed the last couple of weeks and we're still here.

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this front lot. Don't know if you noticed coming in. It's now been striped.

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there's a decision being made here lately or shortly about replacing perhaps the rest of
The asphalt parking that's out front there, not just repairing it, but

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maybe replacing it with concrete to match. That may be something that comes to you here next month, I would think, or if not before.

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the space that we're in now.

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this will probably be my last report on this one just because there's not that much more
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ok lebanon access drive. If you've been over by strike, you've noticed the construction work that's happening
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you didn't see any activity there in the last few days, and that's because they have to
Let the lime that they've mixed in with the soil after they've cut down to the

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right level, it has to cook. It has to sit there at work for 48 hours before they do anything.

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so I suspect they'll be able to get in there and start doing their forming by the end of
This week.

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and we'll probably start seeing some of that stuff coming back together in the next few
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I should have some finished pictures for you. The next report. Zelda's early childhood, we have started the deconstruction of some of
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finishes on the inside. If you want to go over there and take a look at the mob, you need to go now because
Another week it's going to all be gone.

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we're working. We're on schedule for that. We started our oic meetings that we meet every week and have walked through it several
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it's able to take a group of our future teachers through it.

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and I think none of them throw anything at us. So I think they like what they saw.

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other activities. Again, closeouts we do have we finally finalized all the closeouts for
Walker middle school.

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still working on them. On strike. Prestwick we're done.

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closeout procedures and phase two. We're done with that. We'll receive phase three, close out documents this week.

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still have some safety and security items that need to be scoped. No, we have funds left available to do some of that, as well as some additional exterior
Campus improvements and playground expansions covers that kind of thing.

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additional high school work revolving around the athletic areas that will be vacated.

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we still have to do some design work there and get it scoped out as to what it's going to
Convert to.

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feature bond planning. You'll hear more about that tonight.

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it leaves me with that.

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any questions? Thank you.

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appreciate it. All right. Thank you, mr. Martin. Next, I would like to ask our facilitator and presenter for the long range facilities
Planning committee, mrs.

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serrano. Winfrey if you would come up and share with the board the recommendations from
The long range facilities planning committee.

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good evening. Do, and we got it loaded. Okay, great. Thank you, mr.

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gallagher. I appreciate that. Again, I am sirona winfrey representing the long range facilities planning committee.

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since the bond. Did not pass.

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sadly, in may, we got back together to discuss our options moving forward.

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and I believe we have a couple committee members, if you would stand because you worked
On it, too.

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you worked hard. I would like them to be recognized.

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so obviously this was a commitment, you know, of time. And, you know, we were lucky to have folks that were dedicated to trying to come up with
Ways for us to meet

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the challenges and demands that we are probably going to be seeing here with our
Attendance.

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we're already actually starting to see. And. Next.

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we had three meetings. Obviously we met before when we did the presentation to you back in, I believe it was
February.

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so we reconvened. We met. Over the three months this summer.

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kind of what our options might be moving forward in terms of bonding capacity.

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we, you know, had to take into consideration inflation, escalating construction costs.

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we discussed project priorities, what changes might be needed.

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and we were also able to study the results of a recent poll, which was talking with
Voters about issues that were included in the last bond

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election. And these were some of the.

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considerations. View the highlights from our discussions, including, as I said, the
Escalating project costs.

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obviously we've missed out on a few months and so the things that we wanted to include
Initially, some we could, some we could not.

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we wanted to look at reducing the overall total of the bond package, make it a little less
Expensive.

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reduce the time frame. And we thought it was important to add safety and security projects, you know, which is
Something obviously we're always concerned about and the district has

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addressed. But even as mindful as we are after the recent uvalde, the situation,
Obviously it's very top of mind for a lot of a lot

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of the voters here in the district.

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so here I'm going to show you and I know you are familiar with all of this, but these are
The enrollment projections.

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obviously, it's steadily increasing, projected to go from nearly 8300 to more than 10,000
By the 2020 627 school year.

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and so while we all talk about projections and looking to the future, I think we are also
Equally concerned that, you

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know, we're already there. We're already impacted. You know, many of the schools.

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we are already seeing the growth that we're going to be seeing across the board.

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and here are. Some of the numbers.

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the green area that you see there that indicates where we will exceed functional
Capacity, which includes oak point, elementary strike middle school next year.

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the yellow shows where we are exceeding maximum capacity and we are actually already
There at the high school this year.

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and were it not for some well-placed portables at point elementary, we would already be
There at oak point as well.

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one of the pieces of information that we had to work with, which was very helpful, was a
Survey that was conducted of voters here in the district.

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and. It showed us where their actual concerns were because we initially thought that maybe
It was specific projects or things within the bond package

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that people were not for or voting against and that kind of thing. And. What we actually found out.

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was that the voters didn't really have an issue with any of the items in the package per
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they. They were for building schools. They did not want to see portables.

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everything that was in there. Was favorable, anywhere from 65 to 84% favorable.

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and once they understood more about each of these elements of the initiative, they were
Even more favorable.

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so you sit there and kind of scratch your head and say, well, if everybody's for
Everything, then you know what possibly happened.

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and what we found out. Perhaps no great surprise is that those voting against the bond, the majority cited taxes
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being the reason for for not voting in favor. They simply don't want to pay more money, don't want to see their taxes go up, can't
Afford paying more.

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we actually saw some specific comments from voters.

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they talked about the counties increasing our home values so much, it's gotten very
Expensive. I don't want any more increases, especially when I don't have children.

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it's getting too expensive to live here. I know they say it doesn't raise our taxes, but how could that be?

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I don't want my taxes raised. Bonds are not a good way to address the issue, which I thought was interesting, since
Ironically, that's the only way we can address the issue.

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but again, that goes to sort of the knowledge and what's out there and trying to educate
The voters on what we're trying to do, how this works, and that it actually

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will not raise their taxes the way we are proposing it.

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so from the survey, some of the recommended messaging and these are the highlights here,
Obviously to focus on growth because that is really everyone

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understands growth. You drive around little elm, you understand growth.

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so again, two more elementary schools. A big expansion at the high school, which is desperately needed.

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again, talking about the capacity that we are already reaching and will be reaching in
The next few years at our other other schools and

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also the financial part of it, which is the other component that, again, the survey was
Telling us is very important.

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so we are cutting the initial proposal by more than 100 million.

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and. To do that. Of course, we had to make some changes.

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and there it is. You can see the. Kind of the summary there.

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those things I was just discussing. And here's what we gave to you back in may, which you are familiar with, which included
The high school renovations, three new elementary schools,

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a third middle school, the relocation of the daycare employee, daycare, orchestra,
Technology, playground busses.

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so that's what we went out with back in may. And sadly. Did not pass.

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so going back to the drawing board and after discussion throughout the summer.

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what we are now recommending is what you see here. And we have included the escalated costs.

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we would table the daycare relocation at this time.

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we would reduce the timeline. So we would take out elementary school number nine in middle school number three, which
Would be towards the end of the initial period that we had gone out for, which was

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about nine or ten years. So we've scaled that back to more.

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I'll say near-term things that we need. We have to have that we really need right now.

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and you can see we've kept in the technology, the playground, the busses and added, this
Is the new part, the safety and security, which we believe is very important

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part of this bond initiative.

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and again, you can see the total there to 89 five, which again is about 100 million less
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the package we went out with. Back in may. And here's the adjusted timeline.

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and you can see where everything again, the same as what we had proposed before with the
High school editions, elementary school, seven and eight that would be included in this

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initiative. And even though we still know that we will most likely need elementary number
Nine and middle school number three, that would have to be part of a separate bond

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initiative in the coming years.

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so the bonding capacity. This is something else we.

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we want to stress and we tried to stress, but we obviously need to stress it a little
More, is that this can all be accomplished without raising the tax rate.

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and everyone focuses on. Yes, but my taxes are going up.

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but we need to be able to message and get people to understand that, yes, although your
Taxes may be going up, the tax rate is not.

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and for instance, as we know, had this passed in may, everyone would still be paying the
Same taxes they're paying this year.

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and the bond would have already passed and we would have already been underway and
Nothing would have been any different for anyone.

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but when you see the language that says this is a tax increase, then people immediately
Say, well, I don't want to pay more.

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and so we think it's important to to not raise the tax rate.

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and we want to be able to hopefully convey this information to the voters.

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again, the tax rate history. You can see that we have consistently dropped.

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it is the lowest tax rate that we've had in more than 14 years, and that includes bond
Packages in the interim, including the one, in fact, that rick was just presenting on that

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we passed back in 2017. So you can see the 2018 19 school year, we increased it by $0.10.

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on the debt service side, but we've continued to drop it on the math side.

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so our tax rate is better than it has been, as I said, in 14 years, which is which is a
Good message, because it speaks well to how the district is handling its finances, which

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is important. And I think people need to understand that, that the districts being good
Stewards of the of the tax dollars that they are being given.

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so here in a nice, clean version without all of our our work.

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this is the the package as we would propose it to the board should you decide to bring it
Up for a vote in november.

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again the high school additions and renovations, which would start right away.

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elementary, seven and eight. Interior and exterior updates as needed. Safety and security as we as we discussed, which would include all existing buildings and
The new buildings as they are being built.

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so everything would be brought up and it would have the same security measures that each
And every campus, the technology infrastructure, again, not

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computers that we're talking about, the the wi fi and the other technical capabilities
And upgrades that are needed.

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as we know, those change almost daily, it seems. Playground equipment orchestra again something that is equitable with other six a.

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districts and, of course, busses that we would need as we continue to grow and have
Additional schools.

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and again, the total would be to 80, 95, which is about 100 million less.

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then what we proposed last time. It focuses on growth and how to accommodate that growth.

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it is less than what we went out for last time. And again, we can do this without increasing the tax rate.

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and then these are just sort of the the highlights, the dates that are coming up.

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obviously, this is a decision that would have to be made fairly quickly so that it can be
Placed on hopefully on the ballot this november.

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any questions? 14 questions.

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as winfrey appreciate much. I think key some key things you pointed out there that I'd
Like to highlight again was we cut the bond by 109 million from the last one.

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but it's actually more than that because we have $25 million in escalations for the same
Projects.

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plus, on top of that, we've actually added a package of safety and security, which is
Very well needed at this point in time.

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but I think it's even more than 109 million at this point in time. And also the other key factor I saw there is over the last 20 years, we've passed two
Bonds and our taxes are lower than they were back in 2002.

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our actual tax rate is is better with all the bonds.

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and the thing for the public to remind them is that at this point in time, that $0.47 on
The I.n.s., the interest and sinking side was not

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going to change. It's going to stay $0.47 for the next probably 15 to 20 years.

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that part of the is not going to change the m&a side, which is the maintenance and
Operations.

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that's a formula from the state. We have very little control over that. So that could go up or down a little bit.

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but to your point, taxes are going up from a house value perspective, not necessarily
What the district is taxing.

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we're actually going down.

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any other questions from board members or anything?

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ahead. Go ahead. One, I want to thank your committee for coming back to the table after our first go at it
Did did not go.

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this was an enormous project for you to figure out when we couldn't we didn't want to
Lose anything.

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right. And I just want to be clear that now we are saying we're delaying some things
Because we've had to take such a

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massive. As you said, it's more than one. It's a massive hit.

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and we did need the extra schools, right? We still still will. And we still will. Number nine in the third.

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yes, we will still need. But to make it more palatable to the voters, it's one of those things.

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it's like ok. It's very important that we again, those near-term things that we have to have really
Like today.

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yes. That we can pair it down and do it in bite sized chunks.

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right. As opposed to write the whole package. It would have been nice to have it done and not have to go back.

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but did did a lot with very little but very little. I hope that people will pay attention to the green and yellow indicators.

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yes, because those are just the numbers that we have to live with. The children are here, more are coming.

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and we were already hitting capacity at capacity, and we really did need those numbers.

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and so when people are looking at that particular part of the report, that's the reality.

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and we have to we have to provide an education for the children who are here. Well, and it's it's something that we discussed, too.

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the irony is, you know, people say, yes, we need the growth.

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you know, we need the schools, and no, we don't want portables. And we're talking about safety and security and we're adding portables.

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and there's no way to really make those portables part of what we're trying to do to the
Schools.

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and so it's really important and we know that, and we're just hoping that we can convey
That urgency to the voters.

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thank you, mr. Flores. Yes.

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so you're in your research when you were interviewing voters, right?

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I think it was 47% of the voters were concerned about their tax rate or increasing
Correct as a committee if we call for a bond.

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have you all discussed ways that we can defuze some of those concerns and how we can
Address it with with the community?

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and if not, maybe it's something we want to you all want to talk about. Well, it's something that we will be meeting.

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beyond select committee members who are you know, we're going to continue to work
Together to try to get the information out through direct mail, door to

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door, you know, social media. You know, when we passed the bond back in 2017, there was there was a lot of

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pushback. You know, then as you get with any with any bond.

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but of course, now we understand that. This is the time that we're in.

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and with the economy and inflation and potential recession and all of these things that
Are happening, it's understandable that people are concerned about writing

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a check for whatever reason. So we're really going to try to hone in on the.

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it's not it's not raising your tax rate. If this is what you were going to pay, this is what you're still going to pay, whether
The bond passes or not.

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so it's just trying to sort of kind of hold their hand and walk through a lot of that
Because, again, understanding that the language on the on the ballot has to say this is a

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tax increase. I mean, that's hard to because somebody just quickly looks at that and thinks, well,
Who's lying to me here?

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if it says it's a tax increase, how am I going to vote yes for that? So it's going to take some time and hopefully the board of you decide to move forward
With this.

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that's the messaging to that. You'll be talking with your the folks in in your part of the district.

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mr.. Montemayor well, you actually led right into what I was going to say is one of the
Things that I heard over and over again is who's lying?

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right. I mean, people came up to me and said, you're telling me there's no tax increase? The ballot says they're ballots as it is.

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and I think that's going to be a big thing to overcome for all of us, is bridging that
On. Well, neither one of us are.

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it's just how you look at it, etc.. So, yeah, that'll definitely be next steps. But the other thing that I also wanted to point out is I can already I can already fast
Forward to 26 when we go out again.

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and the criticism then is going to be we just did this this, we just did this. Didn't we just do this? You're absolutely right.

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we did. Why didn't you plan? Why? And we did. Why are you so shortsighted, etc.?

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good news is we have video now. We did and it will be archived.

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it'll still be shown. But I just want to highlight that too is that through the work of
Your committee and the community members within it, I mean, the planning is there and like

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mr. Thompson said, the kids are here and the kids are coming. So hopefully this will be one step to get us there and then we can move forward past
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but those are some things hopefully stay out in the ether. Well, and I say it'll knock wood, it'll obviously be smaller.

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I mean, if we're just looking just looking at those two, I understand there may be other
Needs by that time, but those those two items, elementary number nine in the middle

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school, number three would be the main focus of the next one. So. Fingers crossed.

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mr. Gallagher? Yeah. Just. I want to take a minute to thank ms..

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winfrey. Thank members of the long range facilities planning committee for being here.

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it was it's been a lot of work in this group, has spent many evenings here in this
Building, as well as zellers.

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we're over there and at several of our campuses. So thank you for your work and we appreciate each one of you all for everything you've
Done.

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thank you, mary. I want to say again, thank you.

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and she's walking off. You're fine. Go ahead. I want to say thank you for working on the community.

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and I think as a trustee, I have the unique perspective because I was on the 2017 long
Range facilities planning committee and on the first

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2022 long range facility planning committee. And one of the aspects because we are putting hopefully this up with a midterm election,
We're going to need to really get the education out as well as spread the word because

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we're going to have a lot of voters coming to the polls, hopefully.

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thank you. Ms.. Flores any citizen input?

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I'll remind everybody. We'll call your name up. If you'll come to the front podium. We will give you 5 minutes.

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I will have a timer going when there's one minute left. I will give you a one minute warning. And so that way you can have your full 5 minutes.

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so the first person I have is. Or is it on here?

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garrett ghali. Growly. Sorry, gravely.

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garrett. Garrett going once. Garrett going twice.

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gear it's not here. Ty phillips.

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yeah. My name is ty

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phillips. And right now, social media is blowing up. So I'm going to go ahead and make a public statement.

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I have started the process for making a formal complaint that this district is in
Violation of its own policy.

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may 15th school board meeting at the 2:00 hour mark. There is a discussion where mr.

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gallagher asks for a broad policy change that would allow the superintendent to pull
Books off the shelf during a challenge.

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it's a very in-depth discussion, but I'm going to focus on the fact that mr. Gallagher and mr. Blackwood clarified that b policy does not allow for library books to
Be removed from circulation unless it violates the penal

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code or has been shown to hold no student interest during an annual maintenance.

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if a challenge book goes to the formal review process, then the policy states.

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a parent's ability to exercise control over instruction and instructional resources,
Including library materials, extends only to his or her own

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child as set forth in education code. Chapter 26.

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mr. Gallagher made it clear that it was not about banning books, and he made it clear in
His interpretation of this policy stating, quote, it will not be available for that

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parent's child and quote, we are not going to pull it and ban it for all students.

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now, in regards to the penal code, if anybody was paying attention when I addressed this
Board in june, section c of the penal code states very clearly that it is not a

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violation unless in c taken as a whole lacks serious literary, literary, artistic,
Political or scientific value.

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all elements of a penal code must be met. So during the may meeting, dr.

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thompson point blank asked mr. Gallagher if any book had already been removed from the shelf and reviewed in
Anticipation of the board approving the policy change.

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mr. Gallagher eventually responded that he did not know where the challenge books were,
But imagine that they were in the library.

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days before that meeting, I was made aware by a now former employee of the school
District that perks of being a wallflower was taken from the shelf for review.

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now, mr. Gallagher denied in june that any books were rendered in secret, but it was in
Fact confirmed that that book was being reviewed without public knowledge.

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so therefore, in june I gave my own review of the book to the school board.

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that book is now one of several books that have now been removed from circulation.

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that book has won multiple awards, such as the number one new york times bestseller for
More than a year, three local best books awards and numerous awards for the movie

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adaption. The author has a very vivid writing style.

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I myself recommended the book to my teenage son so that he could understand some of the
Mental health issues that I have dealt with.

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because, like the main character, I too was sexually abused as a child and I too dealt
With post-traumatic stress disorder.

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now librarians with master's degrees are supposed to be part of both the informal and
Formal process.

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thus, they are there to offer reconsideration committee a list of merits for the books in
Defense of the section c of the penal code.

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simply put, the district is violating its own policy by removing challenge books from
Circulation of all students, when the policy only allows it to be denied access to a

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specific parents child. Thus, I am starting the process for a formal complaint.

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instructions have already been sent out to school employees that books violating the
Penal code or deemed inappropriate by the committee shall not be allowed in classrooms or

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libraries. And this now puts the burdens on teachers to review their classrooms at a time
When we're already having a teacher shortage.

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I have requested open records in regards to these reviewed books.

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the school district needs to be transparent in how the decisions were made and the
Justifications for removing them from total circulation.

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now I do understand that the board looked at some of this policy last week.

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however, I'm also going to state that the books were removed from circulation prior to
Last week, as according to the website.

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thank you, mr. Phillips. Phillip bagby.

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mr. Bagby, you coming down? Remember, 5 minutes, and I'll give you a one minute warning. Thank you much. Hello, everyone.

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good evening. Thank you for letting me speak to you today. I am the father of a former varsity football player, a current honor student and host
Parent to a foreign exchange student, as well

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as husband to a food nutrition manager, as well as son in law to one of your custodial
Workers.

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so. Family, right?

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over a year ago, my wife wrote this letter and submit it to rene pentecost and leslie,
And I wanted to kind of read it to you guys in case you didn't weren't aware.

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and again, she read this over a year ago.

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she wrote, and I want to make sure she wrote this not for herself, but for her
Department, her department of just food nutrition.

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this past year has been the most challenging year for all of us in the school district. And again, she was speaking of the year prior.

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ignore that in child nutrition our numbers are sort of serving have almost doubled the
School year, yet our staffing has decreased.

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it's very challenging to keep your staff motivated when everyone is doing extra work,
Barely hanging on by a string.

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I printed serving numbers from last year in current year including staff members and
Enrollment for a visual picture representation.

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the main concern or complaint from our employees across the board. We do not pay enough.

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really, we don't. The cost of living always increases, but the wages barely trickle
Uphill.

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every single year since I've been here, I saved these little elm isd. 2021 2022.

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auxiliary salary schedules for every single position in our district for reference.

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I am on year six and our child nutrition days have slowly become less. Currently not 178 when it used to be 182.

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it is currently 173. These are the only positions that lose days.

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I get that 75600 minutes are required for our students, but it is less school days.

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so why isn't it less workdays for everyone's school district? If we just take a transparent business view of money that can be saved and moved
Elsewhere, less days across all departments would in fact save money.

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yet it only happens in the one. All of my employees will not be here next year, and I'm thankful I have them now.

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some of them have been called from friends, trying to recruit them elsewhere. For example, mcdonald's, because they are paying $18 an hour.

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and I cannot compete with that as I have zero control over the hourly wages. One of my employees works almost all of the football games because they pay $15 an hour
And it's more than she makes in her day job.

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I asked that we take a look at many others that work those games and see if it's the same
For them as well.

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so why aren't people applying for child nutrition in our district? Well, if we break down the starting for our position at 1125 an hour over 175 days.

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4 hours, time's 1125 a day is $45 a day. That time, 175 days a year is $7,875 a year.

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divide that by 12 months, they are making $656.25 a month before taxes or insurance.

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not including the month they have to wait to proceed their first check or paying the $50
Out of pocket for fingerprinting.

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now, it bothers me personally. She wrote that. Bothers me that child nutrition department had zero meetings over that
Past year, not even as in meeting, but with among the

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management. However, my wife, above and beyond, she was a sikh member.

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I had many meetings. She attended those meetings. And she did tell me at some point, child nutrition, a bundt cake, was brought into her
Kitchen as a way to say thank you.

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it was not entirely well received.

355
00:45:46,870 --> 00:45:46,870
and as I said, my mother in law also works in the school district as a custodial.

356
00:45:51,130 --> 00:45:54,320
they work 240 days a year. But they need more time off than that.

357
00:45:55,850 --> 00:45:55,850
I believe if you did a survey, I believe most of them would agree, especially in the
Summertime when kids are not in school and there's less foot traffic and less mass.

358
00:46:03,350 --> 00:46:03,350
now, I'm not saying take money away from them.

359
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:11,580
just give him some more days off and it will help to their quality of life. So she wrote over a year ago, we need to take care of the people that are here.

360
00:46:15,210 --> 00:46:15,210
first and foremost. We have so many wonderful people that truly care and love little elm
With all their hearts.

361
00:46:20,100 --> 00:46:20,100
if you offer $1,000 for a new person to join, what about those who have been here through
Thick and thin?

362
00:46:24,720 --> 00:46:28,270
they'll be the ones training our new employees. So I understand that that actually happens.

363
00:46:30,580 --> 00:46:34,300
right. We get we're giving $1,000 to everyone in the district. That's too late.

364
00:46:36,210 --> 00:46:38,790
my wife's kitchen herself. She is at half staff.

365
00:46:40,980 --> 00:46:40,980
we saw the numbers that they're increasing every year and where you can expect strike
Middle school to be.

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00:46:45,270 --> 00:46:48,670
she's running the kitchen with four people. One more is leaving this week.

367
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:54,720
we are not being competitive in this district to bring people in. I understand other districts have done more.

368
00:46:57,090 --> 00:46:59,640
I know she's done that research. She's not looking to leave herself, but offers come to her because she's good at her job.

369
00:47:05,570 --> 00:47:08,490
so my timer. All right. So essentially, it was awesome to see how we are managing our money very well, this
Meeting.

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I assume that some of that can go to the people who do best and take the best care of our
Kids.

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those are the moms and sisters that work here. What does it feel? Thank you.

372
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:23,400
thank you, mr. Maggie. Appreciate it.

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00:47:27,940 --> 00:47:31,540
we're going to item number nine, approval of minutes. Hopefully, everybody's had a chance to review those.

374
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do I have a motion from the board to accept the minutes as submitted?

375
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so, mr. Flores, do I have a second, david?

376
00:47:44,950 --> 00:47:44,950
do you have any questions?

377
00:47:49,530 --> 00:47:51,320
I see. So I will. All those in favor of approving the july minutes.

378
00:47:53,820 --> 00:47:53,820
please raise your hand. All those opposed motion passes.

379
00:47:58,400 --> 00:47:58,400
thank you. We will go into our action items.

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00:48:03,410 --> 00:48:06,950
first one is consider approval of resolution authorized and redemption of bond. Ms.. Addams. Good evening, board members and audience.

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this first item, as described in your agenda book, is really action that fulfills the
Debt section or the debt series and strategy of finance

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00:48:26,130 --> 00:48:26,130
for our portfolio and to manage that plan for the district, creating as many savings as
Possible.

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00:48:31,890 --> 00:48:31,890
and that is especially important now as we know that we're going to have future debt at
Some point.

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and so we are trying to make sure that we mitigate any debt that we can.

385
00:48:42,240 --> 00:48:42,240
and so this resolution authorizes the redemption of bonds that we issued in 2020.

386
00:48:48,270 --> 00:48:48,270
and I'll entertain any questions.

387
00:48:53,610 --> 00:48:57,410
any question from any board members. Do I have a motion to approve the resolution authorizing the redemption of the bonds?

388
00:49:01,370 --> 00:49:04,550
I move on a second. Second from david.

389
00:49:05,990 --> 00:49:05,990
any questions for miss adams?

390
00:49:10,530 --> 00:49:10,530
so, you know, so I will ask if everybody is in favor of this, please raise your hand.

391
00:49:15,710 --> 00:49:15,710
all. All right, miss adams, again, consider approval of adoption of the tax rate for 2020
To 2023.

392
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:24,840
all right. This one will be a little bit more involved, but want to go ahead and note
That the action that you just took to redeem those bonds is already included in the

393
00:49:32,700 --> 00:49:34,530
calculations that have been presented to you here. And they have been included all along during our budget process here in the spring.

394
00:49:40,020 --> 00:49:43,830
I want to walk through the fact that we did adopt the budget. You did adopt the budget in june.

395
00:49:45,870 --> 00:49:49,110
that started on july 1st and for our fiscal year. So the tax recommendation that you have here has not changed since we proposed that back
In the spring.

396
00:49:54,210 --> 00:49:54,210
this is just formalizing the tax rate that supports the budget that you adopted.

397
00:49:59,010 --> 00:49:59,010
but I know that it begs a lot of questions in some of the required publications that we
Have that are quite frustrating.

398
00:50:05,430 --> 00:50:09,060
I wanted to walk through a few of those with you. Always our decisions when we are developing budget and making recommendations, that we
Are making recommendations that are guided by the values,

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vision and mission that the board has adopted. And so I try to include that any time I'm presenting to you.

400
00:50:24,030 --> 00:50:24,030
you'll notice on the right side a little tiny mini ad copy that was published in the
Paper in the required

401
00:50:34,590 --> 00:50:38,190
venues that we have to put that out into a circulated newspaper. We also put that on our website and posted it in our agendas, and that was published
Prior to our hearing on june the 20th.

402
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:48,450
and the hearing was for both the budget and the tax rate. And we do not need to repeat that process because we're recommending a tax rate that is
Equal to or below what that was.

403
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:55,080
so in the event that during the spring we were to recommend a tax rate that was higher
Than that, we recommended a tax rate that was lower than what we came to you now

404
00:51:04,950 --> 00:51:08,250
and said, okay, we need a higher rate. We would go through that entire process again. So we try to make sure that we have solid information, but it is liquid information that
Moves in and out.

405
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:19,100
I included this because the formulas that we're going to talk through are complicated. There's just absolutely no avoiding that.

406
00:51:21,230 --> 00:51:22,320
they're complicated. Even before you apply the calculations for truth and taxation, the funding mechanisms
Themselves, and then you apply truth and taxation from the comptroller.

407
00:51:30,830 --> 00:51:30,830
and as I told ms.. Watkins earlier today, it's truly ironic that these required legal
Notices are really intended to clarify, but they tend to confuse instead.

408
00:51:40,580 --> 00:51:40,580
and so I want to provide as much clarity as I can and explanation as I can.

409
00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:49,530
and we're going to try to untangle this this ball of yarn. And I'm going to do so really reverting back to to try to simplify and untangle it.

410
00:51:54,180 --> 00:51:54,180
I want to revert back to the glass illustration because I think that resonates most,
Especially with our audience, but also with our board members.

411
00:52:00,780 --> 00:52:00,780
and that is, you know, you'll see an explanation there on the right side of the screen
About how a district's entitlement formula from the state is calculated.

412
00:52:08,580 --> 00:52:12,360
and it gets pretty involved, even though that's pared down. But let's just look at the glass itself.

413
00:52:14,460 --> 00:52:14,460
and the biggest message that we have here is that the way that the state formulas are
Written and these are solidified in house bill three that was passed back in 1718

414
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:26,670
and began in 1819. The way that the formulas are written, the glass amount is set, the size of the glass is
Set by the state.

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00:52:33,210 --> 00:52:34,920
it does not grow. It doesn't change in a district, can't adopt a tax rate lower than our voter approved tax
Rate without financial penalty for the district, not only currently, but in the

416
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:44,400
future. And so absent legislative changes, we won't get more revenue per student.

417
00:52:49,830 --> 00:52:51,870
it just depends on where it comes from. And thus we use this class illustration.

418
00:52:55,010 --> 00:52:56,540
higher property values. And I know how counterintuitive this is, but higher property values do not mean more
Overall revenue for the district.

419
00:53:04,340 --> 00:53:04,340
it means that the state gives us less because we earn more locally.

420
00:53:09,350 --> 00:53:09,350
and that's why we really use that glass illustration in the water, because the first
Thing that we pour in are our property taxes.

421
00:53:15,770 --> 00:53:15,770
so as we earn more of those to fill our set amount in our glass, then the state adds less
To it to bring us to the top of that glass.

422
00:53:24,950 --> 00:53:24,950
and then if we earn enough revenue that the glass overflows, that's when we go into what
We call recapture or robinhood.

423
00:53:32,210 --> 00:53:32,210
and our district has entered that era a few years ago under the new laws.

424
00:53:36,980 --> 00:53:40,190
and so that net local funding stays flat. And really the only thing that will grow is the spillover, if you will, as the tax values
Increase.

425
00:53:45,890 --> 00:53:45,890
so to put that in a little more perspective, the local property taxes are 86% for 22, 23,
86% of our

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00:53:55,850 --> 00:53:55,850
glass. And our glass is calculated through that tangled formula I showed you at the
Beginning that that mess I won't go through all that calculation with you, but I'm happy

427
00:54:04,370 --> 00:54:06,980
to, if anyone's just interested in that. But that calculation spits out that for our district, the amount we're going to get per
Student, 86% of that is going to come from the taxpayers and little elm isd as our

428
00:54:16,850 --> 00:54:16,850
taxable values increase, not our tax rate is actually decreasing, but as our taxable
Values increase, more of that is being more.

429
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:25,040
the glass is being filled locally, therefore less of the glass 14% is going to be filled
By the state.

430
00:54:31,460 --> 00:54:33,440
our recapture for next year has gone up. It's going to be about $1.1 million.

431
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:36,320
and even since we review this in the spring, we thought that this was going to be an
8020.

432
00:54:42,590 --> 00:54:42,590
but since that time, we've even had more clarification and more certifications of our
Taxable values.

433
00:54:49,130 --> 00:54:49,130
and so the heart of the confusion that I was talking about earlier, surrounding the
Required motion that you'll have to make in order to adopt a tax rate, is that an

434
00:54:58,040 --> 00:54:58,040
effective tax rate increase is because the state portion of this formula that 14% is not
Part of the truth and taxation

435
00:55:07,070 --> 00:55:07,070
calculation. And so, yes, it is an increase in property tax value collections, but that
Does not result in an increase in funding for the students

436
00:55:17,030 --> 00:55:18,680
in little elm isd. And so that's why it tends to confuse more than clarify.

437
00:55:21,890 --> 00:55:25,640
I don't like it. There's many things about it I don't like. I do think that it was a mr.

438
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:30,590
gallagher has said this so many times when we were during the bond election. I think that the intentions were good, that the tax that the state was trying to make
Sure that taxpayers understood.

439
00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:36,560
but you would have to really understand the entire state formulas to understand the
Motion that you're going to have to make, that this is a tax increase, even though you're

440
00:55:44,750 --> 00:55:44,750
going to be making a motion here in a bit if you adopt our tax rate to lower our tax
Rate.

441
00:55:50,830 --> 00:55:50,830
you know, as crazy as it is during a bond election that we have to say this is a tax
Increase when this staying the same.

442
00:55:56,170 --> 00:55:59,920
you actually now have to say it's an increase when it's going down. And so it's important for for me to try to walk through and explain this to you.

443
00:56:03,940 --> 00:56:03,940
and in a nutshell, this rate represents the rate that would generate the levy this year
That is similar to the last year's levy.

444
00:56:10,030 --> 00:56:10,030
assuming that this year's base adjusted included a subset of taxable property that is the
Same as last year's taxable.

445
00:56:17,380 --> 00:56:21,370
and it doesn't. It just there's all these if, ands and buts that go in it. And the calculation represents the effect of the of the value growth, but disregards the
State formulas.

446
00:56:27,910 --> 00:56:27,910
and so I'm sorry and I'm sorry to interrupt, but what's really eye opening here,
Especially for the taxpayers, I think if I remember on the slide,

447
00:56:37,750 --> 00:56:37,750
it will show how much of a.

448
00:56:43,190 --> 00:56:46,920
increase that local tax revenue. Is covering for that glass, correct?

449
00:56:49,140 --> 00:56:49,140
yes. I love whenever you are listening, whenever I'm going over this with you.

450
00:56:53,530 --> 00:56:55,310
this is perfect timing. Yes. This shows this wasn't planned at all, but this shows that mr.

451
00:57:00,240 --> 00:57:02,730
gallagher gets it. And so that makes me very, very happy. I mean, of course he gets it. He's part of these calculations as well.

452
00:57:05,250 --> 00:57:05,250
and we and we go over it often, but it really shows that five years ago.

453
00:57:09,870 --> 00:57:09,870
and so this shows the impact of our property tax values growing.

454
00:57:14,700 --> 00:57:14,700
and so five years ago, 70% of our money came from local and 30% came from the state, and
Our recapture was less than half of what it is for

455
00:57:24,450 --> 00:57:24,450
2223. If we take that a step further and go ten years ago, look at the difference there.

456
00:57:31,130 --> 00:57:33,830
48% came from their local taxes. 52% came from state aid.

457
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:36,320
and so once that glass is set and you can look at it from 18, 19 across even statewide,
There's not movement and how much the formulas are set to provide

458
00:57:46,100 --> 00:57:47,180
per student. Really, the only way that you can increase the amount of funding that you're getting is
To increase the number of students that you have and how often they come to school because

459
00:57:54,860 --> 00:57:57,290
it's based on average daily attendance. And so thank you for that.

460
00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:00,410
great segue, mr. Gallagher. So ten years ago, this is part of the reason that the state has a $2 billion
Surplus right now, because locally the property taxes are

461
00:58:10,130 --> 00:58:11,300
filling more of the glass. Therefore, the state doesn't have to put as much in and that is really directly related
To our property tax values, not our property tax rate.

462
00:58:20,870 --> 00:58:20,870
yet we can't decrease our property tax rate below what the voter approved tax rate is
Without catastrophic means to the to the district and penalties and our

463
00:58:30,830 --> 00:58:33,650
funding not only now, but in the future. So speaking of property tax rates, I thought this was interesting.

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I just wanted to share it to put in perspective kind of the management and that the board
Has adopted over the years.

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00:58:43,190 --> 00:58:47,120
this is statewide. This is not little elm isd, this is state wide. How property taxes across the state have gone down since 18, 19, and I only have through
21, 22 on there because 20 to 23 people are adopting those tax

466
00:58:57,080 --> 00:59:00,020
rates the same as you are right now. So we don't have that information. But over that four year period since house bill three was implemented statewide, the tax
Rates have gone down over $0.15.

467
00:59:07,940 --> 00:59:07,940
and that's directly related to tax relief that's been given from austin and the shift in
Where the tax burden is

468
00:59:18,230 --> 00:59:18,230
in little elm, because we are growing faster than a lot of the parts of the state, the
Whole state is growing, but we're growing faster.

469
00:59:25,010 --> 00:59:25,010
so in that same four year period, the little elm isd tax rate has gone down almost $0.21.

470
00:59:31,340 --> 00:59:31,340
that was through 2122 that we've declined or $0.05, if you want to put it this way, 5.3
Cents more than the average across the state.

471
00:59:40,100 --> 00:59:40,100
and after tonight, we'll go down another 1.7 $0.04 for a decline over five years of 22.7
Cents on the side.

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00:59:49,070 --> 00:59:51,540
does that make sense? So our current tax rate for the 2122 school year was $1.40 303, with $0.96 on the m&a
Side,

473
01:00:01,290 --> 01:00:04,500
the same $0.47 on the inside. But we're recommending and the projected tax rate that the budget was built upon is a 94
To 29 on the m&a side.

474
01:00:11,850 --> 01:00:11,850
and that's about, again, 1.7 $0.05 decrease from the previous year, same interest and
Sinking rate.

475
01:00:19,500 --> 01:00:19,500
and it's important to note that that 94 to $0.29 is not a number that the district comes
Up with.

476
01:00:25,380 --> 01:00:25,380
it is a number that is assigned by the texas education agency to keep us within a two and
One half percent band across the state to keep districts with an equal amount.

477
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:34,320
and so they assign us a rate after our july 25th values come out, they assign us a rate
We apply to that what our our voter approved tax rate

478
01:00:44,250 --> 01:00:44,250
is, and that that's what sets our expectation for how much of the class that we feel.

479
01:00:49,530 --> 01:00:49,530
yes, sir. Yes. Can you address really quickly, which I know the answer, but for voters
And I think tonight, if the board does call for a bond,

480
01:00:59,310 --> 01:00:59,310
can you explain for the voters watching, we're currently at a dollar 43.

481
01:01:04,140 --> 01:01:04,140
if the board adopts the lower rate will be at a dollar 41.

482
01:01:09,180 --> 01:01:12,720
how will that impact the tax rate? Because we've been telling voters we're not going to change the tax rate.

483
01:01:16,950 --> 01:01:18,300
it won't go up. Well, now we're talking about lowering it.

484
01:01:21,510 --> 01:01:21,510
so how will that impact a potential bond for $289?

485
01:01:27,390 --> 01:01:27,390
so the tax rate, the right side that you see in blue there that you saw for last year was
$0.47.

486
01:01:32,370 --> 01:01:36,330
this year, we're projecting or asking and recommending $0.47. The item that you had just before this item to redeem those bonds is included in that so
That we can use that $0.47 to redeem those bonds.

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01:01:44,400 --> 01:01:44,400
if you were to call for a bond and it were successful, if it were successful for 289
Million, next year's tax rate for the right side is still going to be $0.47.

488
01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:54,000
and the year after that and the year after that, unless there is a some huge change in
Our taxable values, it will remain at $0.47.

489
01:02:03,150 --> 01:02:03,150
if there is a huge change in our taxable values upward, then at some point in the future
That number could go down.

490
01:02:09,480 --> 01:02:09,480
but we would not promise that to the voters because we can't read the future.

491
01:02:13,530 --> 01:02:13,530
we do those projections based on a 5% growth over the next five years, but that number
Will not change.

492
01:02:18,840 --> 01:02:22,440
and that's a really good point. The 47 cent side will not change. The math side is mandated to us from the from the state.

493
01:02:26,010 --> 01:02:29,160
and. And thank you for thank you for clarifying that. But I just know, as people are watching this, we're talking about a potential bond going
Up for potential bond, but at the same time looking at lowering the

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01:02:39,090 --> 01:02:41,430
overall tax rate. So that helps. Yes. So and just this was new in 2021 that we include an appendix to the district's
Budget that shows all of these

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01:02:50,860 --> 01:02:54,310
calculations that I've talked about. And the tangled piece of that. Jesse works with the tax assessor's office in the district to get the values and to
Calculate the required calculations, their pages that are included in your

496
01:03:04,090 --> 01:03:04,090
agenda. And we are required to attach those to our budget adoption.

497
01:03:09,370 --> 01:03:09,370
and so we'll amend that budget adoption to include those that are included in your tax
Rate adoption process tonight.

498
01:03:19,370 --> 01:03:22,540
are there any questions? I know that's a lot to chew on.

499
01:03:24,700 --> 01:03:28,540
I know you're mostly already familiar with it because it's not the first time we've
Talked about it. And for our audience, this isn't something that's thrown onto the agenda.

500
01:03:31,510 --> 01:03:31,510
we've been talking about this exact same thing since february on a monthly basis and the
Rate has not the recommended rate has not changed since that time.

501
01:03:41,620 --> 01:03:41,620
and I need to read it with the two sentences in capital letters.

502
01:03:45,630 --> 01:03:47,960
I just want to make sure. Okay. I got to read it as is ok on august 15, 22.

503
01:03:53,550 --> 01:03:53,550
on this date, we, the board of trustees, let alone my independent school district, hereby
Levy.

504
01:03:58,410 --> 01:04:01,640
I'm sorry. Let me read you. Do I have any emotion? On this date, the board of trustees of little elm independent school district hereby levy
Or set the tax rate on $100 valuation for the district for the tax year

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01:04:10,730 --> 01:04:10,730
2022, at a total tax rate of one dollars 0.412 $0.09 to be assessed and collect by the
Duly specified

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01:04:20,150 --> 01:04:23,600
assessor and collector as follows. .942 $0.09 for the purpose of maintenance and operations and 0.4 $0.07 for the purpose of
Payment of principal and interest on debts.

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01:04:33,080 --> 01:04:33,080
such taxes are to be assessed and collected by the tax officials designated by the
District.

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01:04:37,880 --> 01:04:37,880
this tax rate will raise more taxes for maintenance and operations in the last year's tax
Rate.

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01:04:42,980 --> 01:04:42,980
the tax rate will effectively be raised by 16% and will raise taxes for a maintenance and
Operations on a $100,000 home by approximately

510
01:04:51,500 --> 01:04:51,500
$194.90. So do I have a second?

511
01:05:00,020 --> 01:05:00,020
second by marriage? Do I have any questions from the board for miss adams?

512
01:05:05,460 --> 01:05:08,910
I am seeing none. All those in favor of raise your hand. All those opposed motion passes.

513
01:05:12,630 --> 01:05:15,870
thank you. Thank you, miss adams. Miss adams doesn't get to go that far. She gets to stay here one more time for the consider approval of election order, calling
A bond election on november 8th, 2022.

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01:05:24,270 --> 01:05:24,270
all right. As theron is so graciously presented to you earlier tonight, the
Administration has conducted extensive work with the community based long range facilities

515
01:05:33,690 --> 01:05:33,690
planning committee, and that group has recommended the need for additional facilities to
Deal with the student growth and student needs in general.

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01:05:40,110 --> 01:05:40,110
and the fpc reconvened for a series of meetings after the unsuccessful may 22 bond
Election and have recommended this modified bond package that addresses the more immediate

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01:05:49,200 --> 01:05:52,380
needs, the most immediate needs of the district. The administration supports the work and the recommendation of the rfp to call upon.

518
01:05:57,510 --> 01:05:57,510
and so I will entertain any questions that you may have specific to the district.

519
01:06:03,730 --> 01:06:03,730
first, let me get a motion to have a motion for the board to approve the election order
Calling for a bond election on november 8th, 2022.

520
01:06:09,970 --> 01:06:09,970
as presented, I moved the board approve the election or order calling for a bond election
On november eight, 2022.

521
01:06:16,420 --> 01:06:19,750
as presented. Do I have a second? Second, second from david.

522
01:06:21,670 --> 01:06:23,860
now, do we have any questions about the bond? We've had to present it earlier from a long range planning committee for 298.5 or to 89.5
Excuse to $89.5 million.

523
01:06:33,460 --> 01:06:36,930
do we have any questions? Cnn. So all those in favor of raise your hand.

524
01:06:40,200 --> 01:06:42,690
all those opposed, motion passes. We will go out for a bond election on november 8th, 2022.

525
01:06:45,540 --> 01:06:46,860
thank you. Thank you. And thank you again once again to the long range planning facility committee and all of
Its members.

526
01:06:50,250 --> 01:06:52,530
thank you all for all your hard work and your dedication for the district. We do appreciate it.

527
01:06:55,190 --> 01:06:55,190
so now we're going to consider approval of tassie conference delegate and alternate.

528
01:06:59,960 --> 01:06:59,960
so this is coming up again for tabby.

529
01:07:04,970 --> 01:07:04,970
and we do have a person, I believe, that has graciously volunteered.

530
01:07:09,930 --> 01:07:13,590
to do this. I'm trying to get down here to it. So, of course, this is for the naacp official delegate for san antonio this year, right?

531
01:07:19,140 --> 01:07:19,140
correct. Okay. And so we do have one person that has put their name in the hat.

532
01:07:23,940 --> 01:07:26,490
dr. Thompson would like to do that. So I'd like to ask if there's any other nominations.

533
01:07:30,570 --> 01:07:34,230
we do need to have a primary member and an alternate. So if anybody would like to oc everybody.

534
01:07:38,370 --> 01:07:39,690
good. All right. So do I have a motion from the board to accept dr.

535
01:07:44,220 --> 01:07:47,430
monique thompson as our tasi official delegate and ms.. Mary watkins as our alternate?

536
01:07:50,280 --> 01:07:51,810
I have that from david. Do I have a second? Second I have a second from alex.

537
01:07:54,930 --> 01:07:58,920
any questions about that or the process or what fun they get to do? Oh, no fun in that.

538
01:08:01,710 --> 01:08:05,520
all those in favor of raise your hand. All those opposed. Motion passes. Congratulations, dr.

539
01:08:07,050 --> 01:08:10,710
thompson and merry y'all going to have fun down there in san antonio. All right. We'll go to item consider approval of tasb board of directors endorsement.

540
01:08:15,330 --> 01:08:15,330
so if you guys received in your packet, we have four people that have emailed either
Daniel sonia or myself asking for our board's

541
01:08:24,600 --> 01:08:24,600
endorsement for the tab board of directors.

542
01:08:28,740 --> 01:08:28,740
there is a new position for our region, position a that I think has been approved now.

543
01:08:33,660 --> 01:08:33,660
and so we're they're asking for our kind of support and backing behind them to run for
This position.

544
01:08:38,910 --> 01:08:42,870
so we have max belmonte from lake worth, we have dr. Patsy sosa sanchez from denton isd.

545
01:08:46,050 --> 01:08:47,460
we have tammy. I hope I don't butcher this nakamba from grapevine colleyville isd and julie cole from
Hurst, euless, bedford isd.

546
01:08:55,620 --> 01:08:55,620
so hopefully you guys have had a chance to read through the packets, look at their
Qualifications.

547
01:09:01,020 --> 01:09:01,020
each of them is very well deserving of this, but I would ask if there's anyone at this
Point in time that would like to make a motion to move for one of these if we want to, we

548
01:09:10,410 --> 01:09:10,410
don't have to if we want to endorse one of these candidates for region 11, position a to
Represent us at task.

549
01:09:24,180 --> 01:09:24,180
so. I've met dr.

550
01:09:29,840 --> 01:09:29,840
patsy sanchez, and I would like to have her considered as our endorsed candidate.

551
01:09:38,570 --> 01:09:38,570
perfect. Do I have a second to that motion?

552
01:09:43,520 --> 01:09:43,520
I got married. Do you have any other questions about that?

553
01:09:50,100 --> 01:09:52,110
about any of the other candidates? No. Well, then we have a motion in a second.

554
01:09:54,360 --> 01:09:57,050
all those in favor, please raise your hand. All those opposed.

555
01:09:58,830 --> 01:10:00,360
six. Oh, all right. Dr. Patsy sanchez, denton of denton isd will get our endorsement for the region 11
Position.

556
01:10:05,730 --> 01:10:05,730
hey. Now, I do know on the conservative agenda as we go to item number 11, ms..

557
01:10:10,750 --> 01:10:14,230
flores, we are pulling item b, correct. We're going to pull that to another meeting. Correct. And I believe we've got questions on another one.

558
01:10:17,620 --> 01:10:20,170
yeah, that's cool. I see. Step further, explanation item c ok.

559
01:10:23,890 --> 01:10:23,890
all right. So we're going to go and pull item c, so if we can, can we go and have miss
Brown?

560
01:10:28,500 --> 01:10:30,480
come up to the podium for a second. So before we go through the consent agenda, we will ask that you go ahead and.

561
01:10:35,280 --> 01:10:39,090
I guess I need a sonia. I need a motion in a second. Right. With that one out.

562
01:10:40,200 --> 01:10:40,200
okay. So do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda minus item b?

563
01:10:45,270 --> 01:10:45,270
we're pulling that for another meeting.

564
01:10:49,300 --> 01:10:51,850
antsy. Antsy. Sorry. I'd be antsy.

565
01:10:54,890 --> 01:10:54,890
you have a motion? Alex, do I have a second?

566
01:10:59,570 --> 01:11:03,130
second. I heard david first. Okay. So questions so we have we have now questions right.

567
01:11:06,850 --> 01:11:09,340
to see. Oh, no, we're just doing the consent. All right. So do we have any questions about any other content items?

568
01:11:14,050 --> 01:11:15,820
okay, have all those in favor. Raise your hand. Well as opposed.

569
01:11:20,240 --> 01:11:21,470
okay. Motion passes. So now we'll go back to the consent to agenda item c consider approval of
Reclassification of the l, n, l, v and position.

570
01:11:30,110 --> 01:11:32,930
thank you. So a little bit of background information. So lv ins are licensed vocational nurses.

571
01:11:35,750 --> 01:11:35,750
over about the past 3 to 4 years, the district has been moving away from licensed
Vocational nurses as our nurse or medical

572
01:11:45,740 --> 01:11:47,810
professional on the campuses. We've brought several reclassifications to move those lv ins to registered nurses.

573
01:11:54,920 --> 01:11:54,920
we only have one remaining lv in position in the district and that's this one at oak
Point just recently.

574
01:12:01,130 --> 01:12:04,850
this person resigned about two weeks ago or so. And so this is the perfect opportunity.

575
01:12:06,650 --> 01:12:06,650
this is what we've kind of been waiting for via attrition, like as they get vacated,
Resigned from that, we then bring it to you for consideration for reclassification so that

576
01:12:16,400 --> 01:12:16,400
we can have it's just an identified best practice to have a registered nurse rather than
An lvn at all of our campuses.

577
01:12:23,150 --> 01:12:23,150
so this is the last one that we're bringing to hopefully have a registered nurse at all
Nine of our campuses.

578
01:12:29,760 --> 01:12:33,340
we just want to make sure that the public. There it is public.

579
01:12:35,850 --> 01:12:35,850
so do I have a motion to accept the considered approval of the reclassification of the
Lvn position?

580
01:12:42,810 --> 01:12:45,990
so, david, do I have a second? Alex, any further questions for miss brown?

581
01:12:50,500 --> 01:12:51,520
all those in favor. Raise your hand. All those opposed.

582
01:12:55,500 --> 01:12:56,690
the motion passes. Thank you, ms.. Brown. Appreciate it. No problem.

583
01:13:00,600 --> 01:13:03,660
look, we'll go into board president comments. A couple items for me.

584
01:13:04,680 --> 01:13:07,920
I am extremely saddened that I was not able to attend convocation. I heard it was a great time.

585
01:13:08,970 --> 01:13:12,780
great speaker. Fortunately, a business trip got my way, so I do apologize. But I'm glad the board members that could be there were there.

586
01:13:15,600 --> 01:13:19,410
so thank you very much for showing up and showing our support from the board. Do you want to remind everybody we've got a workshop next tuesday.

587
01:13:21,930 --> 01:13:21,930
so to the community, if anybody would like to come and enjoy 3 hours of fun with us, we'd
Greatly appreciate you coming next tuesday when we have our board workshop.

588
01:13:31,750 --> 01:13:34,480
through our board members. Also, I know ms.. Flores has sent the email out, but there is training we can do right now virtually.

589
01:13:37,660 --> 01:13:37,660
you have about two more weeks, I believe he goes through the 27 or 26, 26 online
Training.

590
01:13:43,900 --> 01:13:43,900
I will tell you, please screenshot the certificate real quick before it disappears off
Your screen because I had to redo one twice because I didn't take a picture quick enough

591
01:13:51,190 --> 01:13:51,190
of the code. So when you're doing your training word to the wise, take a picture of the
Screenshot, so you got the four digit code.

592
01:13:57,490 --> 01:13:59,260
other than that, it's a great time. Most of the sessions I've been doing are about an hour.

593
01:14:01,600 --> 01:14:01,600
so you can take two or three sessions, get a couple of hours in towards your training
Towards the end of the year.

594
01:14:06,070 --> 01:14:06,070
so I want to make sure all of our board members know that because we have paid for it, we
Paid for one registration for all of us, so we can all take as many classes as you want.

595
01:14:12,970 --> 01:14:12,970
there's a lot of good ones out there, so please take some time and look into that.

596
01:14:18,050 --> 01:14:20,000
also with that just to the community. I know it's been a lot out here about the bond.

597
01:14:22,190 --> 01:14:22,190
just, you know, I just want to make sure that everyone knows that the language that's on
The bond and the way it's written is thanks to house bill three.

598
01:14:30,770 --> 01:14:30,770
so whether you like it or don't like it, you can thank your state legislators for that,
Saying that we have to raise our taxes even though we are not raising our taxes and our

599
01:14:38,150 --> 01:14:39,740
tax rate is going to stay the same. You can thank your state legislator for that language on the ballot.

600
01:14:43,100 --> 01:14:46,220
so making it so confusing, that is all for me. Other than that, I'll go to the board comments and I started on my own.

601
01:14:48,720 --> 01:14:52,460
I'm almost start on my right. It's his first meeting. So mr. Beaver, we will start with you down there for board comments.

602
01:14:55,820 --> 01:14:55,820
anything, sir? Well, first off, thank you for having me.

603
01:14:59,930 --> 01:14:59,930
it was great going through the interview process and definitely I'm excited to get
Started.

604
01:15:06,800 --> 01:15:06,800
I will approve more things coming up here once I get it's only been a week so.

605
01:15:12,710 --> 01:15:13,910
but thanks for the opportunity. I'm excited. I did serve on the long range planning committee, so it's nice to see that
Bond come back on the ballot and excited to get those schools

606
01:15:23,690 --> 01:15:25,580
going if it passes here in november. So thanks for having me. Thank you, david.

607
01:15:30,230 --> 01:15:33,740
also, I'm a little disappointed that for his first meeting, we're going to be done so
Early. It should be a midnight meeting.

608
01:15:35,810 --> 01:15:35,810
but but I wanted to thank everybody for all the hard work.

609
01:15:40,760 --> 01:15:40,760
it's nice being on non officer side of things.

610
01:15:45,140 --> 01:15:45,140
you know, I did miss last month's meeting, but I know so much of that work, you know,
It's funny.

611
01:15:49,670 --> 01:15:53,510
people often ask, it's like, oh, summers must be a breeze for you guys. And we're like, no, that's when most of the work has to happen in front of the
Administration side and the board and budgets and approvals and all the above.

612
01:16:01,610 --> 01:16:01,610
so I did want to kind of take the time to say thank you for all that work.

613
01:16:05,960 --> 01:16:09,590
I do apologize for missing convocation as well. I did see that the football players were there to throw out the t shirts that ordinarily
Jason and I love have such a great time doing and the rest of us board members as well.

614
01:16:18,470 --> 01:16:20,780
but I think they more than picked up the slack there. So thank you, everybody, and welcome aboard.

615
01:16:24,770 --> 01:16:26,990
and also mary officially as well. I was not at the first your first full meeting either.

616
01:16:29,510 --> 01:16:29,510
so welcome on board.

617
01:16:36,540 --> 01:16:39,270
well, I just want to really, really tell the long wait. That was amazing that you guys came back together.

618
01:16:42,450 --> 01:16:42,450
try it again. And I really, really, really hope that our family, our little community
Will take into account our growth.

619
01:16:52,350 --> 01:16:55,470
we are outpacing texas. Not just the area, but we're outpacing texas.

620
01:16:59,370 --> 01:16:59,370
and please notice the clarity that was provided by miss adams about the $0.47 that after
The bond passes, it would still be

621
01:17:08,130 --> 01:17:09,780
$0.47. And I'm hoping that our community will just believe that your decision makes a difference
And that the impact is significant to

622
01:17:19,560 --> 01:17:23,220
our kids. They have to have a place to learn. We have to provide that.

623
01:17:25,110 --> 01:17:25,110
and right now, we're looking at a portable.

624
01:17:29,170 --> 01:17:31,480
I'm sorry the portables bothered me. I hope that they bother you guys too, so that when you go november 8th is what we just
Decided on november 8th, that you will think about the portables and help us make sure

625
01:17:40,270 --> 01:17:44,170
that our kids have a safe place to learn. Thank you. Thank. Dr. Thompson. Merry. First, I want to welcome ken bieber to your first meeting as a
Trustee.

626
01:17:51,010 --> 01:17:52,570
welcome aboard. I am looking forward to serving with dr.

627
01:17:55,450 --> 01:17:55,450
thompson at tsb and finishing up some training, and I'd like to thank everybody sitting
In the audience sitting on this side.

628
01:18:04,570 --> 01:18:04,570
it's nice to look out and see people who took the time out of their schedules to come and
See what's going on in our schools.

629
01:18:11,530 --> 01:18:15,160
because when we take time to educate ourselves, we can do. We make our district stronger and we've got a lot of work to do to get our bond passed in
November.

630
01:18:20,560 --> 01:18:22,630
so, again, thank you, everybody, for coming. And that's all I've got.

631
01:18:26,530 --> 01:18:26,530
same here. I want to welcome ken to the board and I look forward to serving along your
Side.

632
01:18:32,320 --> 01:18:34,360
mr. Gallagher, as you know, the t.a. Scores came out and they dropped it a little bit.

633
01:18:37,270 --> 01:18:37,270
so maybe in the future we want to have a discussion about what we're going to do as a
District to be able to maybe increase those numbers again.

634
01:18:43,810 --> 01:18:45,010
I know we're all hard at work. There's been a lot going on over the last two years that have maybe changed our focus a
Little bit.

635
01:18:50,170 --> 01:18:50,170
but I'd love to hear some some ideas and.

636
01:18:55,340 --> 01:18:58,460
set it. Thank you, mr. Gallagher. First comments.

637
01:19:00,440 --> 01:19:03,290
first, I want to also congratulate mr. Beber. Welcome to the board.

638
01:19:04,880 --> 01:19:07,100
I think you're going to be a great addition, a wonderful board. It's a great group to work with.

639
01:19:09,650 --> 01:19:09,650
and I also want to take a second again to thank the long range facilities planning
Committee, a wonderful job.

640
01:19:15,110 --> 01:19:18,530
they did a great job, worked very hard on revising the bond. And dr.

641
01:19:19,550 --> 01:19:19,550
thompson, I appreciate your words, because at the end of the day, it is for the students.

642
01:19:24,770 --> 01:19:28,400
and I said that all the time for the students. So. Mr. Flores yes.

643
01:19:29,660 --> 01:19:33,620
we actually will have a podcast coming up tomorrow. For those of you that haven't seen, we do a it's not really a weekly it seems like it's
Been a weekly podcast with mrs.

644
01:19:40,670 --> 01:19:42,980
jones and mr. Roberts was in one with us.

645
01:19:45,650 --> 01:19:49,370
mrs. Adams but we'll have one tomorrow with dr. Tramel and it will be about our rating.

646
01:19:51,320 --> 01:19:51,320
so yes, our rating unfortunately did drop, you know, we we were a b district while our
Rating dropped to a 79.

647
01:20:00,380 --> 01:20:04,040
and, you know, that one point, you know, obviously hurts. But more importantly, we want to focus on what we can do to raise that.

648
01:20:09,050 --> 01:20:09,050
I've told people this for years, you know, this school district is much more than a
Rating, just as any district, even a district that's an a, those

649
01:20:18,920 --> 01:20:18,920
districts that are aid districts still have things to work on, you know, maybe even
Outside of academics.

650
01:20:24,080 --> 01:20:27,050
so we'll talk more about that tomorrow with the podcast. And then we also have a public hearing coming up.

651
01:20:30,560 --> 01:20:33,920
I don't know the exact date probably at the next board meeting where dr. Tramel will present on the accountability that we just received from the state.

652
01:20:39,050 --> 01:20:39,050
so look for the podcast that will come out tomorrow afternoon.

653
01:20:44,330 --> 01:20:45,710
so thank you all very much. Thank you, mr. Gallagher. I want to go back to ms..

654
01:20:50,200 --> 01:20:52,780
thompson for one more quick comment. I wanted to tell ken welcome.

655
01:20:54,730 --> 01:20:57,460
and I meant to say that, but I was fired up about the bond. I'm sorry. That's okay.

656
01:20:59,680 --> 01:21:02,680
yes. Thank you. And welcome to the moon. Yes, welcome, ken.

657
01:21:03,940 --> 01:21:07,210
so with that, we are down to adjournment. So do I have a motion to adjourn this meeting?

658
01:21:10,760 --> 01:21:13,880
mr. Bieber beavers first motion. He gets to adjourn it. Do I have a second?

659
01:21:16,280 --> 01:21:17,810
second from alex. All those in favor because I'm assuming there's no questions.

660
01:21:21,420 --> 01:21:23,250
all those opposed motion passes. We will officially adjourn at 8:20 p.m..

661
01:21:26,550 --> 01:21:26,550
thank you to everybody.

662
01:21:34,810 --> 01:21:34,810
now. Fun time.