[0:04] All right, this is the regular board meeting of Blair ISD, is now 6 p.m. on September 15, 2025. This meeting will be held in accordance with the Texas Subcommittee Act, and it's open to the public. We're recording this meeting and the minutes will be taken to document the proceedings. But the record show we have a quorum present, Mr. Cocker will give the invitation invocation followed by the pledge of allegiance.

[0:32] That would be pleased.

[0:34] First of all, I just want to come to you with a

[0:39] humility, but also a heavy heart.

[0:43] Our kids in this country are being assaulted by evil.

[0:50] Not only them, but all of us for what it's intended for here.

[0:56] So I just pray that we will conduct ourselves in a way,

[1:01] that would be beyond any of this mess that's going on right now.

[1:06] Social media seems to be just attacking

[1:09] and without moral standards and guidance

[1:12] and you're loved, you're mercy and grace.

[1:14] You're God, we are born to a really, really struggling.

[1:19] And as adults, we know that there are difficult times in line

[1:22] and that we face many, many challenges.

[1:25] But as we stand up against our challenges

[1:28] and we have a moral conviction that is an example for all of our kids.

[1:36] And when they come to our schools where I just pray that they are surrounded by peace and love and care,

[1:43] watch care from all the administrators and from their teachers and from all of the people that they are involved with.

[1:50] I don't know what their own life is like, that you do.

[1:52] So we pray for your protection, for your guidance, for your mercy and your grace, or we pray for an intervention in this country.

[2:02] And all of us that us, we've been passive in allowing a lot of things to be said and we think it will just pass away by itself.

[2:11] It doesn't happen. So Lord, it happens incrementally. So Lord, I pray that we would stand up, that we would hold ourselves accountable first of all.

[2:21] that there would be a spiritual way, but if you know I love you, I don't

[2:26] sorry if you like I shouldn't have, or I acknowledge you. I pray that we

[2:31] would do that, that it would make a difference in the soul, or that you'll

[2:36] must make the right decisions today for the benefit of this school and for your

[2:42] Lord to Your God.

[2:43] In Jesus' name.

[2:45] Amen.

[2:48] The way of dominion through the flag of the United States of America is the Supreme

[2:53] of Public, which stands one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for

[3:01] all.

[3:07] Has anyone signed up for open form?

[3:09] You have before you the consented agenda items minutes the rate of board meeting of August 18, 2025 and the bills and accounts and tax refunds for the month of August.

[3:24] I need a motion to approve the consented agenda item. Let's present it.

[3:28] Jeff and Gore. All in favor? That's a 7 million.

[3:39] Number four. So this month we had some

[3:43] donations. GPS in September the Mana House donated clothes. Burger King donated

[3:50] at the attendance king and queen. Waterburger had incentive coupons. First Christian

[3:56] in church of Longview, donated clothes

[3:57] and the Red House Road House book coupon.

[4:02] It welding, Marshall Streets Gate Park,

[4:05] donated school supplies.

[4:08] And at the high school, CMB has donated balls

[4:11] to the cheer squads, KYKX donated shirts

[4:15] for Game of the Week to be thrown at this week's peperally

[4:18] in game.

[4:19] Ace Hardware donated a small bag of fertilizer

[4:22] for plant nutrition, lessen an ag mouth

[4:25] and Gaila donated $50 for Bear Hugs donation and at the district we had a

[4:32] bunch of Burger King coupons for the students for perfect attendance grades

[4:36] and the King and Queen Burger King King and Queen again.

[4:42] The other thing that I

[4:44] have is tomorrow night well September the 18th that's Friday I guess. There will be

[4:52] a public hearing at the Gladewater City Council. One of our properties they're

[4:56] We're discussing rezoning from a residential to commercial property, the Melbourne Street

[5:02] property.

[5:03] So 6 o'clock, City Council meeting September the 18th, if any of you are interested

[5:09] in attending that.

[5:11] Which property is it?

[5:12] The Melbourne Street.

[5:15] Melbourne Avenue.

[5:16] Melbourne Avenue.

[5:18] But that, I don't have anything to do with this anymore, does it?

[5:21] It's still our property, but they're just talking about rezoning it into.

[5:25] But we sold the old house, we sold the school, but maybe that's a lot of work.

[5:31] The one that we had put up for, right after I got here, we put it up for bids and we didn't

[5:37] get any bids on it, so it's still ours.

[5:46] I don't know, number 4b,

[5:50] I don't know if he's missing anything, he was bagging it, I'm sorry.

[5:52] Yes sir. I will give you out in front of you the hospital three goals. They're

[5:58] a five year projection for early childhood literacy and progress measures.

[6:04] They have the current force that we use for 20 25 last year. And then we are

[6:20] We are currently using CLI and pre-K. We are using N-class and Kinder, and then starting

[6:31] this year, we're going to start using N-W-E-A all the way through A grade reading, so that we

[6:39] will have a line of literacy throughout and progress monitoring. On the map side of things,

[6:45] we will continue using CLI, which is required by the state for free K, and we'll begin using

[6:52] in-depth EDA map for hinder-thruvane grain for progress monitoring, but these goals go through

[7:00] third grade on the literacy and map side. And then we also have the CCMR goals projected

[7:07] in for the next five years also related to the high school. Over the outcomes of

[7:14] this criteria, using the 2023 RISE. We had the 25th and 25th and we're protecting all

[7:23] the way to 29th and then we will also track target

[7:32] goals also for the graduation rate or

[7:39] This aligns to Board Goal 1 that you guys passed when we had the four board goals that

[7:44] will go into our campus and district improvement plans.

[7:48] And so this is a look at the data for the board goal number 1.

[7:53] So we will continue to update you on these as we go throughout the year when we get our

[7:59] middle of the year scores.

[8:00] We'll come back and update you again to see if we're on track.

[8:04] and then at the end of the year we'll come back and give you the end of the year

[8:07] score to see if we met our 2025 goal.

[8:11] And one of the requirements that they now have is that we post this to the website.

[8:15] So it is now public. One of the things I hope to do as we gather day and this year

[8:21] updates you is the screen beside what the goal is. If it's green say on 2026

[8:27] that means we met our goal and then some, I'm not saying 92% or 12% if we don't

[8:35] mean it, it will be read outside it and so this will have you try, we'll also have

[8:40] the demographic pulled in there for you so you can see how we're doing on our

[8:44] set of populations.

[8:51] Number 4C Ms. Keller? Yes, give her August financials

[8:56] second of the summer. Our here today revenue for $1.7 million, $41,877

[9:05] expenditures are $1,875,532, venture 40 or cafeteria, revenue here today,

[9:15] $43,948, expenses, $95,066. That tends to be a sudden damage at the beginning of the year

[9:23] We have to put funded before we get revenue back.

[9:27] That service during the day revenue is $65,092.

[9:31] Tax collection here today for current $6,803,089.

[9:37] To link with taxes, $389,985.

[9:43] The collection rate, you look at grant taxes right now.

[9:47] 75.05, which is slightly up from last year, and the link went 32.77, which is slightly below last year.

[9:56] Cash, at the end of August, is 11,040,866 numbers, and utilities for August, 73,033.

[10:10] I'm number five, Ms. Keller.

[10:11] Yes, this is our annual investment policy and work policy, CDA, but we have to acknowledge

[10:21] that there is no change to our current investment program.

[10:26] I need a motion to approve the investment policy resolution for 2025 or 2026 as presented.

[10:32] So, Ross and Cory, all in favor, has a 7-0,

[10:42] item number 6, Ms. Keller?

[10:44] Yes, I'm headed to give you a hand out of the board.

[10:47] You said they all want an arm-to-face tax rate.

[10:50] Does it compare some of our preliminary values compared to what they've heard about values

[10:54] where the decrease?

[10:57] The immunotax rate is saying same compared to what we have last year,

[11:01] which is also what they use for budget. The only difference is that service tax rate is going

[11:07] to go down from what we've budgeted and then there's a side by side at the bottom to show what we

[11:14] use for the budget proposed and what we're actually going to adopt.

[11:22] So the actual tax rate is going to go down a little

[11:40] I need a motion to approve the tax rate resolution for 2025 through 2026 with an increase

[11:48] of the cell's text rate of 1.008.536 as presented.

[12:01] I need someone to read the motion of this

[12:02] Just like it is in the can you know, so I'll do the problem tax rate, the increase, the adoption of the tax rate of 1.2, 2.8, 5.3, 6, which is effectively a 2.55, which is an increase in tax.

[12:21] So, Garth, and then I'm going to get a second, Corey, all available.

[12:28] with? Passes 7-0.

[12:33] I remember 7 Miss Keller.

[12:39] Yes. It's just asking you to nominate a candidate

[12:45] for the board of directors for the Greg County appraisal district. We kind of talked

[12:48] about this last month and tabled it to determine if you had someone that you wanted to nominate.

[12:55] If we don't have any nominees, we don't have any nominees. That's fine. We'll just cast

[13:01] our votes from the nominees when they come in and we'll get a list of who the

[13:04] nominees are and then we can determine how we how many votes and where we want to

[13:09] place those votes when those come in. Does anybody have any nominations?

[13:15] Okay.

[13:16] So we'll just pass that right. All right. So item number eight, Miss Patty. I need a

[13:23] motion to approve the Upshire County 4-H resolution. At this time we don't have

[13:27] any 4-H kids showing but if there should be some that comes in throughout the

[13:32] year, we have a resolution that they can continue to show and that we will excuse their absences

[13:37] for showing under 4-H. We already currently do this for the students that are enrolled

[13:43] showing under Gladewater FFA, but if we had some smaller students, younger students that

[13:49] wanted to show for 4-H, this would cover their absences.

[13:54] I need a motion to approve the after county 4-H resolution as presented. We're all

[13:59] Ricky, all

[14:04] in favor? That's a seven o'clock.

[14:10] The next thing is just we have to determine how you guys want to evaluate me. I have given

[14:18] you the appraisal tool to look at. Are there any questions, any additions, subtractions?

[14:24] We're not appraising tonight, we're just approving the tool.

[14:31] Although I'll take any feedback

[14:32] back at any point.

[14:36] Was there anything on there that you saw we needed to take away or add or I don't

[14:42] Okay. Okay. I need a motion to approve the superintendent's evaluation towards presented.

[14:50] Jeff and Ricky. All in favor, S-7-0. I don't remember.

[15:00] 9, Ms. Patty, just the FFA trip. The FFA trip, again, they want to go back to the Catamons Congress on Oklahoma in January. I just went ahead and got it on the book so they can go ahead and get rooms reserved. Try to get a better rate if you agree they're out of state travel. I need a motion to approve the FFA trip to Oklahoma for the Catamons Congress as presented. Garth and Daniel,

[15:25] all in favor, passes 7.0.

[15:30] The board will now convene in close meeting to the

[15:32] discuss the following items close to our agenda this evening, allowed by the following Texas

[15:37] Government Code 551.074.

[15:41] Personal matters involving the resignation and employment of professional personnel and

[15:47] the Texas Government Code 551.072 discussing purchase exchange lease value of real property.

[15:54] No voting will take place in the closed meeting.

[15:56] Any action the board wishes to take as a result of discussion in the closed session will take

[16:01] place after the board reconvenes an open meeting. It is now 616.

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