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ALL RIGHT, GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE, I AM DAVID STOLLE, BOARD PRESIDENT AND
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PRESIDING OFFICER, NOTING THAT A QUORUM IS PRESENT.I CALL TO ORDER THIS WORK SESSION OF THE PLANO ISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES AT 6:01 P.M.
ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 25TH, 2022.
UNBELIEVABLY ON THE BOARD'S BEHALF, I WISH TO WELCOME OUR VIEWERS AND ALL WHO ARE PRESENT WITH US THIS EVENING.
AT THIS TIME, I ASK SUPERINTENDENT BONSER TO VERIFY THAT WE ARE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE TEXAS OPEN MEETING ACT REGARDING THE NOTICE FOR THIS MEETING.
I VERIFIED THAT THIS MEETING HAS BEEN POSTED IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT.
I'LL INTRODUCE MY FELLOW TRUSTEES AND STAFF SEATED AT THE DAIS.
TO MY LEFT, SARA BONSER, SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
DR. THERESA WILLIAMS, DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT AND CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER.
TRUSTEE ANGELA POWELL, TRUSTEE DR.
LAWRENCE TYRA AND BOARD SECRETARY JERI CHAMBERS.
AND SEATED TO MY RIGHT VICE PRESIDENT NANCY HUMPHREY, TRUSTEE CODY WEAVER, JOHNNY HILL, OUR CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER.
PATRICK TANNER, ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT FOR TECHNOLOGY SERVICES, DR.
KATRINA HASLEY, ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT FOR ACADEMIC SERVICES.
DR. COURTNEY GOBER, ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT FOR STUDENT, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES.
DR. SELENDA ANDERSON, ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT FOR STUDENT ENGAGEMENT AND DISTRICT SERVICES.
BETH BROCKMAN, ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT FOR EMPLOYEE SERVICES.
AND SHARON NOWAK, THE EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE SUPERINTENDENT AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
TONIGHT WE DO HAVE A RECOGNITION ON THE AGENDA, AND I AM GOING TO TURN THIS
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ONE OVER TO OUR SUPERINTENDENT.SO, IT IS WITH GREAT PLEASURE THAT WE HAVE A VERY SPECIAL RECOGNITION THIS EVENING AND THAT IS THAT WE'RE GOING TO HONOR OUR BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
AND SO TYPICALLY WE RECOGNIZE MEMBERS OF OUR STAFF AND STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY.
BUT BECAUSE THIS MONTH IS SCHOOL BOARD APPRECIATION MONTH AND JANUARY HAS BEEN DESIGNATED AS SCHOOL BOARD RECOGNITION MONTH IN THE STATE OF TEXAS.
TONIGHT WE HAVE THE DISTINCT HONOR AND PLEASURE OF RECOGNIZING YOU, OUR BOARD OF TRUSTEES, AS OUR SEVEN DISTINGUISHED LEADERS FOR PLANO PLANO ISD.
AND SO I'M GOING TO ASK THERESA TO SAY A FEW WORDS AND THEN YOU ALL JUST HAVE TO SIT HERE AND ENJOY THE MOMENT.
SO GOVERNOR ABBOTT DECLARED JANUARY 2022 AS SCHOOL BOARD RECOGNITION MATH WITH A RESOLUTION IN TRIBUTE TO THE HARDWORKING SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS WHO PLAY SUCH AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN TEXAS COMMUNITIES AND ESPECIALLY IN PLANO ISD.
ANYONE WHO'S ATTENDED OUR BOARD MEETINGS OR HAS WATCHED OUR BOARD MEETINGS ON LINE KNOWS AND UNDERSTANDS THE HARD WORK, THE LONG HOURS THAT YOU GUYS PUT IN TO SUPPORT.
Y'ALL ARE SELFLESS IN YOUR LEADERSHIP AND YOU DO ALL THIS WITH NO PAY FOR LONG HOURS.
SO OUR PLANO ISD BOARD IS VITAL TO THE EXCELLENT EDUCATION THAT WE OFFER HERE IN PLANO AND THAT WE PROVIDE TO OUR STUDENTS.
THIS YEAR IN PARTICULAR, THEY CONTINUE TO DEMONSTRATE THEIR UNWAVERING SUPPORT AND DEDICATION TO PLANO ISD, TO OUR TEACHERS, TO OUR PRINCIPALS, TO OUR STUDENTS AND TO OUR COMMUNITY.
THE BOARD HAS CONTINUED TO PROVIDE STRONG LEADERSHIP DURING THESE UNPRECEDENTED TIMES DURING THESE CHALLENGING TIMES, KEEPING THE FOCUS ON STUDENT LEARNING, KEEPING OUR STUDENTS FIRST, WHILE CONTINUING TO SUPPORT FAMILIES AND STAFF ALONG THE WAY.
SO EVERY YEAR WE OFFER OUR THANKS AND APPRECIATION FOR OUR BOARD MEMBERS AND THEIR TIME AND DEDICATION TO PLANO ISD.
BUT THIS YEAR, THIS YEAR WE ARE AWESTRUCK BY YOU, YOUR PASSION FOR STUDENTS AND STAFF IN PLANO, ISD HAS SHOWN THROUGH THROUGH THE MOST DIFFICULT OF TIMES, AND NAVIGATING THESE PAST MONTHS HAVE BEEN AN INCREDIBLE UNDERTAKING DURING WHICH WE HAVE SHARED AND THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE VALUE OF EDUCATION, THE IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION AND OUR BOARD IS A MOTIVATING FORCE FOR THIS DISTRICT IN THEIR DEDICATION OF TIME AND RESOURCES TO ENSURE THAT OUR STUDENTS RECEIVE THE MOST OUTSTANDING EDUCATION POSSIBLE AND ONE THAT WE KNOW THEY DESERVE.
OUR STUDENTS ARE THE FUTURE OF PLANO.
THEY ARE THE FUTURE OF OUR COMMUNITY AND OUR STATE AND OUR NATION, AND WE CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR CHOOSING TO BE HERE FOR THEM AND FOR US.
I WOULD LIKE TO NOW INVITE THE CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION DIRECTOR KAREN BUECHMAN TO THE PODIUM, ALONG WITH SOME VERY SPECIAL GUESTS WHO ARE GOING TO JOIN US OVER ZOOM.
YOU KNOW, WE HONORED YOU A LITTLE BIT AT THE LAST MEETING AND TODAY IS THE CONTINUATION OF THE CELEBRATION OF YOU.
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I'M INDEED HONORED TO BE ACCOMPANIED BY SOME SPECIAL GUESTS TONIGHT ON ZOOM.IN HONOR OF OUR DEDICATED BOARD OF TRUSTEES, CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION STUDENTS HAVE PROVIDED TRUSTEES WITH A FEW TOKENS OF APPRECIATION MADE BY OUR STUDENTS IN THE CLASSROOM.
SO, I BELIEVE ON THE SCREEN YOU WILL SEE AT YOUR LAST MEETING OUR CULINARY ARTS STUDENTS FROM PLANO EAST SENIOR HIGH, OUR FLORAL DESIGN STUDENTS FROM PLANO WEST SENIOR HIGH PREPARED A COUPLE OF SPECIAL ITEMS FOR ALL OF YOU GUYS, SO I HOPE THAT YOU ENJOYED THEM.
TONIGHT, YOU ARE GOING TO BE RECEIVING ONE MORE GIFT AND THAT IS GOING TO BE A WOODEN PLAQUE THAT IS DESIGNED AND FABRICATED BY PLANO SENIOR HIGH STUDENTS AND THAT YOU SHOULD HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU.
SO-- [INAUDIBLE] LET THEM TAKE A PICTURE.
SO, WE ACTUALLY HAVE TWO PEOPLE JOINING US TONIGHT.
THAT IS MR. WADE ODUM, WHO IS OUR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE TEACHER AT PLANO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
AND THEN WADE, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO, I GUESS I JUST SAW YOU GIVE US A WAVE AND IF OUR STUDENT THERE WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE THEMSELVES AND TELL A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE PROGRAM.
HI, MY NAME IS COLE [INAUDIBLE].
I'M A JUNIOR IN PLANO, AND I HELPED ALONG WITH TWO OTHER STUDENTS MAKE THOSE PLAQUES FOR YOU ALL AS A THANK YOU AND OUR PROGRAM IN FFA AS REALLY A HUGE PART IN MY EVERYDAY LIFE.
I'M THE VICE PRESIDENT, SO I FEEL LIKE I'M ALWAYS UP AT THE SHOP.
BUT I LOVE THIS PROGRAM BECAUSE WE'RE ABLE TO GO OUT.
AND IF I HAVE A LONG DAY OR IF I'M WORRIED ABOUT A TEST OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, I NEED A PLACE TO CALM DOWN.
I ALWAYS GO INTO THE SHOP AND IT'S KIND OF WORK OR MAKE SOMETHING OR, FOR EXAMPLE, LIKE SOMETHING-- I HAVE A PIG, I'M RAISING A PIG FOR FFA AND I HAD SOMETHING BREAK AT THE BARN AND BE ABLE-- AND ME HAVING ACCESS TO THE SHOP, I WAS ABLE TO GO UP THERE AND MAKE THE PIECE IN ORDER TO FIX INSTEAD OF HAVING TO GO OUT AND BUY A NEW ONE.
AND I CAN TELL YOU ALL, THIS IS MR. ODOM'S FIRST YEAR WITH US, AND WE'RE EXCITED TO HAVE HIM, AND HE'S DOING A TREMENDOUS JOB WITH OUR STUDENTS AND I LIKE TO POP IN OUR CLASSROOMS EVERY NOW AND THEN.
AN AG IS ALWAYS COMFORTABLE TO ME SINCE I WAS A FORMER AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE TEACHER.
AND SO EVERY TIME THAT I'M OVER THERE, THOSE KIDS ARE WORKING HARD, THEY'RE BUILDING THINGS, THEY'RE GIVING ME A HARD TIME, THEY'RE GIVING THEIR TEACHER A HARD TIME, WHICH IS FUN FOR THEM AND KEEPING THEM ON THEIR TOES [LAUGHTER] AND-- SAW THAT.
AND THEY ACTUALLY COMPETED THIS LAST WEEK AT THE FORT WORTH STOCK SHOW AND RODEO WITH THEIR AG MECHANICS PROJECT, AND THEY WERE FIRST.
[APPLAUSE] YEAH, SO THEY WERE SHOWING A BARBECUE TRAILER AND SO-- THAT THE KIDS HAVE BUILT AND NOW THEY HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW IT.
AND I BELIEVE IT'S GOING TO STAY IN THE PROGRAM IN HOPES OF HAVING A BARBECUE TEAM IN THE FUTURE.
SO, WE MAY NEED SOME TASTE TESTERS COMING IN NEXT YEAR.
SO YES, WE HAVE A COUPLE OF HANDS UP MR. ODOM.
SO, OUR OTHER STUDENTS WEREN'T ABLE TO JOIN US TONIGHT.
OUR CULINARY STUDENTS ARE-- ACTUALLY THE TWO THAT WE'RE GOING TO JOIN US ARE EMPLOYED BY THE FOOD INDUSTRY.
SO, THEY WERE AT WORK THIS EVENING, BUT I WANTED TO SHARE A STORY ABOUT THOSE TWO STUDENTS.
WE HAD AN EVENT OVER THERE A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO AND I WALK IN THERE AGAIN.
I JUST KIND OF WALK INTO CLASSROOMS AND I KIND OF SEE WHAT'S GOING ON.
AND THIS YOUNG LADY THAT WAS IN THERE HAD THIS PLACE LIKE RUNNING LIKE A FINE OILED MACHINE, LIKE SHE WAS IN CONTROL.
AND I WAS LIKE, IS THAT A STUDENT TEACHER OR IS THAT A KID? I WASN'T REALLY SURE WHAT WAS GOING ON, BUT HER EXPERIENCE, SHE IS READY TO GO INTO ANY RESTAURANT AND RUN IT.
THE YOUNG MAN THAT WAS THERE, THIS WAS THE ONE THAT JUST KIND OF HIT HOME THAT WAS REALLY SPECIAL TO ME.
I ASKED HIM, I SAID, WHY DID YOU GET IN THIS CLASS? AND HE SAID, WELL, MY MOM TOLD ME THAT I NEEDED TO GET IN THIS CLASS BECAUSE I NEEDED TO KNOW HOW TO COOK, TO GO TO COLLEGE.
I SAID, WELL, THAT'S A REALLY GREAT OPPORTUNITY AND A GREAT THING TO LEARN.
AND I SAID, SO WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO NEXT YEAR? AND HE SAID, I LOVE THIS CLASS SO MUCH.
I'VE JUST BEEN ACCEPTED TO THE CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA, AND I NOW KNOW WHAT I'M GOING TO BE DOING IN MY LIFE.
AND SO I THINK-- IS THERE ONE IN NEW YORK? I MIGHT HAVE JUST MADE THAT UP.
BUT I BELIEVE THAT'S WHERE HE'S GOING.
YES, BUT IT'S JUST IT'S STORIES LIKE THAT WITH OUR CTE STUDENTS, OUR FLORAL DESIGN KIDS AS WELL.
BUT YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE OUR STUDENTS THAT DO OUR FLORAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR ALL OF OUR DISTRICT EVENTS.
YOU KNOW, I THINK THEY HELPED OUT AT SOME OF THE FOOTBALL GAMES, BUT THOSE ARE KIDS THAT ARE GETTING EITHER SKILLS THAT THEY CAN USE IN THEIR CLASSROOM, IN THE WORKFORCE,
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OR THAT THEY CAN JUST USE LATER IN LIFE.SO, I BELIEVE THAT-- I JUST WANT TO THANK OUR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS WHO JOINED US TONIGHT AND FOR ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK AND HELP TO ABLE TO HONOR THE BOARD AND EVERYTHING THAT YOU GUYS DO FOR US IN OUR PROGRAM [INAUDUIBLE].
THANK YOU, KAREN, AND THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US THIS EVENING.
MR. ODOM AND FOR ALL THE HARD WORK AND MAKING THE PLAQUES, THEY LOOK GREAT.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING A PART OF OUR CELEBRATION OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES THIS EVENING.
I KNOW IT MEANS A LOT TO THE BOARD TO HEAR FROM STUDENTS AND TO RECEIVE A GIFT FROM A STUDENT MEANS A LOT.
AND SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT.
BOARD, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.
IT'S A PLEASURE TO CELEBRATE YOU.
WE SHOULD ALL BE DOING IT EVERY DAY.
BUT FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEART AND I KNOW I SPEAK FOR THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE STAFF OF PLANO ISD AS WELL, WE COULDN'T DO ALL THIS WITHOUT YOU AND WE TRULY APPRECIATE ALL THAT YOU DO IN SUPPORT OF STUDENTS AND STAFF IN THIS DISTRICT.
WELL, I APPRECIATE THAT, AND I APPRECIATE THE COMMENTS FROM EVERYBODY.
AND BEFORE I TURN IT OVER TO MY COLLEAGUES ON THE BOARD TO HAVE ANY COMMENTS, I JUST WANT TO SAY, YOU KNOW, WE-- FOR ONE, THIS IS THE FIRST I'M HEARING THERE'S NO PAY.
[LAUGHTER] SO, WE DO THIS BECAUSE WE BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF PUBLIC EDUCATION AND REALLY IT'S YOU GUYS WHO WE ARE HERE TO SUPPORT AND IT'S Y'ALL WHO DO THE HEAVY LIFT.
AND SO I-- AS MUCH AS I APPRECIATE ALL OF THE KIND WORDS, I THINK WE ALL UNDERSTAND OUR PLACE AND THE IMPORTANCE LIES IN THE CLASSROOM AND WITH THE INSTRUCTION AND WITH OUR STUDENTS AND WITH OUR STAFF.
AND THAT'S OUR JOB IS TO MAKE SURE THAT Y'ALL CAN HAVE THE ABILITY TO PROVIDE THE GREAT EDUCATION AT PISD DOES.
SO THANK YOU FOR THE KIND WORDS, BUT REALLY TO ME, Y'ALL ARE THE HEAVY LIFT HERE.
SO COLLEAGUE'S, COMMENTS? I'LL JUMP IN AND SAY I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING, DAVID SAID.
I MEAN, WE WOULDN'T BE HERE IF Y'ALL WEREN'T HERE, RIGHT? AND THANK YOU TO THE STUDENTS WHO MADE ALL OF THESE WONDERFUL THINGS.
I LOVE THIS PLAQUE AND I LOVE THE NAMES ON THE BACK AND THIS WILL HANG IN MY OFFICE.
AND I'M SO THANKFUL FOR ALL THE FLOWERS THAT WE'VE GOTTEN OVER THE SEMESTER.
LIKE THE LITTLE MUMS, I HAVE THOSE HANGING ON THE WALL IN MY OFFICE AND I STILL HAVE SOME OF THE REMNANTS OF THAT BOUQUET THAT WAS TWO WEEKS AGO, BUT I STILL HAVE PARTS OF IT THAT ARE STILL ALIVE.
I JUST REARRANGED IT IN A SMALLER VASE AND I WAS SO EXCITED TO HAVE ALL THOSE YUMMY TREATS BECAUSE I DON'T NEED TO EAT THOSE CALORIES, BUT I SURE ENJOYED THEM AND I WAS REALLY SURPRISED BY THAT PINEAPPLE MANGO SALSA THAT WAS YUMMY.
AND YOU'RE RIGHT, WE REALLY DO ENJOY GETTING THINGS FROM THE STUDENTS THAT ARE MADE BY THEM.
YOU KNOW, I WANTED TO FIRST SAY THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS AWESOME PLAQUE, I MAY HANG IT BACKWARDS TO SHOW THAT FFA LOGO.
[LAUGHTER] I ACTUALLY HAD A FRIEND-- I WENT TO TEXAS A&M AND I GRADUATED FROM THE SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE AND ONE OF THE GIRLS THAT WAS IN MY CLASS, SHE RAISED A COW AND SHE WON AT COUNTY, AND THEN SHE WON AT STATE.
AND SHE GOT THIS SCHOLARSHIP FROM KROGER.
AND THEN KROGER SAID, YEAH, AND YOU CAN KEEP THE COW.
YOU KNOW, PART OF IT WAS, YOU KNOW, THEY'LL TAKE THE COW AND CONGRATULATIONS.
WELL, SHE WENT ON TO SELL THAT COW ANYWAYS, AND THAT MONEY WENT TOWARDS COLLEGE.
THAT ONLY HAPPENS IF THEY GO THROUGH FFA.
AND YOU KNOW, ON ANOTHER NOTE, WE TAKE A LOOK AROUND AT THE COUNTRY AT RISING BEEF PRICES AND WE SEE ALL THESE OTHER THINGS GOING ON.
AND IT'S THE SKILLS THAT YOU LEARN IN FFA THAT ARE GOING TO, YOU KNOW, HELP THOSE FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA TO CONTINUE TO SUSTAIN OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY AND INFRASTRUCTURE.
SO APPRECIATE ALL THAT YOU'RE TEACHING.
I APPRECIATE ALL THAT YOU'RE LEARNING AND DOING, AND THANK YOU FOR THE GIFT.
OH, I JUST WANT TO LET EVERYBODY KNOW FROM FFA THAT I'M ACTUALLY AN HONORARY FFA MEMBER FROM PLANO EAST HIGH SCHOOL.
I RECEIVED THAT AWARD LAST YEAR, 2020-21.
SO I LOVE FFA AND THANK YOU, KAREN.
I GOT AN AWARD UNDER HER NAME TOO.
I-- YOU KNOW WHAT? SINCE THIS IS MY SECOND TERM NOW AND THE FIRST TERM WAS, I THINK, A LEARNING EXPERIENCE, THE LEARNING CURVE FOR ME.
BUT ON THE SECOND TERM, I WANT TO SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, AS A BOARD TRUSTEE, THE ADMINISTRATION, THE ADMINISTRATION, WE HAVE MAKES MY JOB AS A BOARD MEMBER A LOT EASIER.
AND IT'S THEN THAT I REALLY APPRECIATE AND I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE ADMINISTRATION HERE AND THANK YOU TO ALL THE STAFF WHO GIVES ME THE INFORMATION, THE DATA THAT I ASKED FOR, TOO.
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SO THANK YOU, DASH AND DASH GROUP.SO, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING IT EASIER FOR ME TO REPRESENT OUR DISTRICT.
AND THANK YOU, SARA, THERESA, FOR YOUR HARD WORK.
AND THE REST OF YOU GUYS, THANK YOU.
I'D LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE STUDENTS AS WELL, AND THE TREATS FROM PLANO EAST, I BROUGHT THAT LITTLE BOX HOME AND I SET IT ON MY COUNTER.
AND BY THE TIME I GOT BACK FROM KID DROP OFF THE NEXT MORNING, MY HUSBAND HAD EATEN EVERYTHING IN THAT BOX, SO I'M SURE THEY WERE PRETTY TASTY.
THE FLOWERS THOUGH, I ACTUALLY-- THE SECOND WEEK OF JANUARY, IS MY BUSIEST WEEK OF THE YEAR PROFESSIONALLY.
I HAD DOZENS OF MEETINGS ON ZOOM BACK TO BACK AND I PUT THOSE FLOWERS BEHIND ME SO THAT WHEN I HAD ALL THESE ZOOM CALLS AND I SPOKE ON THIS PANEL ABOUT BIOTECH INVESTING ENTREPRENEURS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, THESE BIOTECH CEOS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY GOT TO SEE THESE BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS AND PEOPLE WERE SAYING, WHERE DID THOSE FLOWERS COME FROM? AND I WAS ABLE TO SAY, WELL, YOU KNOW, OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT REALLY VALUES TEACHING KIDS LIFE SKILLS AND TEACHING KIDS, YOU KNOW, CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION.
AND SO IT WAS A GREAT POINT OF CONVERSATION.
AND THEN-- THANK YOU GUYS FOR THE PLAQUE.
AND I'LL JUST SAY ABOUT THIS BARBECUE TRUCK IDEA.
WHEN I GOT MARRIED, MY HUSBAND WAS BEING MOBILIZED BACK TO ACTIVE DUTY FROM THE ARMY RESERVE, AND SO WE DID NOT HAVE TIME FOR A BIG HONEYMOON.
AND SO WE DID A DRIVING BARBECUE TOUR OF TEXAS, AND WE DROVE TO EVERY MAJOR CITY AND TRIED THE BARBECUE IN EVERY CITY IN THE STATE.
AND SO I CONSIDER MYSELF A BIT OF A BARBECUE CONNOISSEUR, AND MY HUSBAND OBVIOUSLY WILL EAT ANYTHING THAT STUDENTS MAKE.
SO, WE WOULD BE HAPPY, MORE THAN HAPPY TO HELP OUT WITH THAT BARBECUE TRUCK.
AND THANK YOU AND [INAUDIBLE] ANGELA'S COMMENTS.
I MEAN, THE LEADERSHIP TEAM HERE MAKES IT EASY, AND SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE I'M THE QUESTION FAIRY AND, YOU KNOW, JUST CAN'T LET ANYTHING GO WITHOUT ASKING MORE QUESTIONS OR ASKING FOR MORE DATA.
AND SO JUST THANK YOU TO YOU GUYS FOR MAKING IT EASY AND, YOU KNOW, HELPING US OUT ON THAT.
ALL RIGHT, WELL, THANKS, EVERYBODY.
AND THANK YOU ALL FOR JOINING US TONIGHT.
IT IS TIME FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.
DO WE HAVE ANY? NO SPEAKERS THIS EVENING.
OKAY, WELL, THEN GOOD, WE COULD SKIP ALL THAT.
OK, IF THERE ARE NO OBJECTIONS FROM THE BOARD, WE'LL NOW ADJOURN THE CLOSED
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SESSION AS AUTHORIZED UNDER TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT FOR THE FOLLOWING PURPOSE SECTION 551.074.[5. RECONVENE OPEN SESSION]
ALL RIGHT, THANKS, EVERYBODY, FOR YOUR PATIENCE.THE BOARD IS NOW RECONVENED IN OPEN SESSION.
TODAY'S TUESDAY, JANUARY 25TH, 2022, AND THE TIME IS 7:55 PM.
CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS ARE ROUTINE ITEMS GROUPED TOGETHER FOR APPROVAL WITH
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NO DISCUSSION.BOARD MEMBERS, ARE THERE ANY REQUESTS TO REMOVE ITEMS FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL RIGHT.
HEARING NONE, MAY I HAVE A MOTION.
IS THERE A SECOND? I SECOND, ANGELA POWELL.
I HAVE A MOTION BY JERI CHAMBERS, A SECOND BY ANGELA POWELL THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEE APPROVES THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED.
ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.
SUPERINTENDENT BONSER [INAUDIBLE] WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO MEET OUR NEWEST HIRE? WE ONLY BRING PRINCIPLES AND WE DON'T BRING ANYBODY THAT'S NOT A PRINCIPLE SPEAKERS].
EVERYBODY [INAUDIBLE] OK, GOT IT.
ALL RIGHT, WE WILL, AFTER THAT AWKWARD PAUSE, MOVE ON TO
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REPORTS.[LAUGHTER] OUR FIRST REPORT THIS EVENING PERTAINS TO THE BOND 2016 UPDATES PRESENTED BY DR.
AND WE'RE GOING TO JOHNNY FIRST?
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OK.THIS IS WHERE I WAS SUPPOSED TO GO TO JOHNNY FIRST.
ALL RIGHT, I'M GOING TO JUMP IN REAL QUICKLY.
SO OBVIOUSLY, BACK IN NOVEMBER, WE CAME AND WE STARTED THE PROCESS OF UPDATING BOND UPDATES FROM THE PREVIOUS 2016 BOND ELECTION IN PROGRAM.
AND SO TONIGHT, OF COURSE, WE'RE GOING TO TURN OUR ATTENTION.
WE DID FACILITIES BACK IN NOVEMBER AND TONIGHT WILL LOOK AT AUXILIARIES, WE'LL LOOK AT TRANSPORTATION, WE'LL LOOK AT FOOD SERVICE, WE'LL LOOK AT SAFETY AND SECURITY AND THEN, OF COURSE, TECHNOLOGY.
BUT FIRST, I THOUGHT IT WAS RELEVANT THAT WE ACTUALLY JUST STOPPED FOR A FEW MINUTES AND REFLECT BACK OVER THE LAST 25 YEARS OF BOND PROGRAMS THAT WE'VE HAD HERE IN PLANO ISD.
AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THIS SCREEN, OF COURSE, THERE IS A PRETTY GOOD HISTORY OF PROMISES MADE AND PROMISES KEPT.
YOU CAN SEE SUCCESSFULLY THE VARYING BOND PROGRAMS OVER THOSE 25 YEARS AND HOW EACH ONE OF THOSE BOND PROGRAMS WERE COMPLETED ON TIME WITHIN BUDGET AND HAD A SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION.
I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT ON THIS LAST BOND PROGRAM, THE 2016 BOND PROGRAM, THAT IT-- WAS FOR THE FIRST TIME WE WERE ABLE TO DO A BOND PROGRAM WITHOUT COMPLETELY GOING UP ON A TAX RATE.
AND OF COURSE, THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN BY CIRCUMSTANCE.
IT HAPPENS BY A LOT OF EFFORT THAT GOES INTO THOSE PROGRAMS. IT HAS TO BE THOUGHTFUL.
THERE HAS TO BE A LOT OF MANAGEMENT ON THE DEBT SIDE OF THE PROGRAM IN ORDER TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
I THINK, YOU KNOW, STUDYING THE DEBT SIDE OF THE BOND PROGRAMS PRETTY THOROUGHLY OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS.
OBVIOUSLY, WE'RE WELL ON THE WAY OF BEING ABLE TO DO THE NEXT BOND PROGRAM WITHOUT GOING UP ON THE TAX RATE AS WELL.
AND I THINK THAT'S REALLY, REALLY GOOD NEWS.
ON ALL OF OUR DEBT, OF COURSE, THAT DEBT IS RATED.
THERE ARE COMPANIES OUT THERE.
THAT'S ALL THEY DO, BELIEVE IT OR NOT.
OF COURSE, WE KNOW THE THREE BIG COMPANIES IT'S FITCH, IT'S STANDARD & POOR'S AND ITS MOODY'S.
AND MOST SCHOOL DISTRICTS-- ALL SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE RATED BY AT LEAST TWO OF THOSE THREE.
I THINK IT'S UNIQUE IN OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT THAT THE HIGHEST RATING THAT THESE UNDERLYING RATING AGENCIES GIVE, STANDARD & POOR'S IS A DOUBLE A-PLUS RATING.
MOODY'S IS A TRIPLE-A AND PLANO ISD IS JUST ONE OF FOUR DISTRICTS ACROSS THE STATE, OVER A THOUSAND SCHOOL DISTRICTS THAT ACTUALLY HAVE THE HIGHEST RATING UNDER BOTH OF THESE RATING AGENCIES.
AND SO I THINK THAT'S THAT SPEAKS A VERY, VERY HIGHLY OF THE BOND PROGRAMS, THE HISTORY OF THE BOND PROGRAMS AND THEN LOOKING FORWARD TO FUTURE BOND PROGRAMS HERE AT PLANO ISD.
SO, I THOUGHT IT WAS WORTH A FEW MINUTES JUST TO REFLECT ON THE PAST SUCCESSES.
ALL RIGHT, SO WE'RE GOING TO HAND IT OFF NOW TO PATRICK.
THANK YOU, PRESIDENT STOLLE, BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
IT'S OUR PLEASURE TO COME TO YOU THIS EVENING AND PRESENT TO YOU FIRST AN UPDATE FROM THE TECHNOLOGY PORTION OF THE 2016 BOND AND THEN TALK TO YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOME OF THE LONG RANGE PLANNING THAT WE'RE DOING AS WE ASSESS THE TECHNOLOGY NEEDS IN THE DISTRICT.
SO FIRST AND FOREMOST, I'M GOING TO HAVE MR. MATT FREY TO COME UP, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY, AND HE'S GOING TO TALK TO US ABOUT THE ITEMS THAT WE HAD LISTED UNDER THE TECHNOLOGY PORTION OF THE BOND AND GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON WHERE WE STAND TODAY.
JUST BRIEFLY WANT TO CAPTURE SOME OF THE PAST FIVE YEARS THAT'S REPRESENTED ON THIS SLIDE AND IS, AS MR. HILL ALLUDED TO EARLIER, DIDN'T JUST ALLUDE TO IT, POINTED IT OUT SPECIFICALLY THE FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY ONE MILLION DOLLAR BOND PACKAGE THAT WAS ON THAT TWO SLIDES BACK.
FROM THAT ABOUT 15 PERCENT, OR ROUGHLY $73 MILLION, WAS ALLOCATED TO ADDRESS WHAT WAS THEN FIVE YEARS AGO, SORT OF OUR-- REPRESENTED OUR MANY AND VARIED TECHNOLOGY CONCERNS AND BEYOND CONCERNS, EVEN OUR TECHNOLOGY ASPIRATIONS.
AND THEN FROM THAT $73 MILLION ALLOCATION, WE'VE ALREADY PROCESSED REQUISITIONS, ISSUED PURCHASE ORDERS, ENCUMBERED FUNDS ACCOUNTING FOR LITTLE MORE THAN $53 MILLION.
AND IT'S THAT FIGURE THE $53 MILLION AND NOT THE $73 MILLION THAT YOU'LL SEE REPRESENTED IN THAT BIG OLD PIE CHART.
AND THEN WITHIN THAT PIE CHART, WITHIN THAT $53 MILLION, ABOUT 60 PERCENT OF THAT AMOUNT HAS GONE TOWARD, AS YOU MIGHT GUESS, BUYING COMPUTERS OF ALL SORTS.
BUYING THE STATIONARY KIND THAT PLUG INTO WALLS, AS WELL AS THE MOBILE KIND THAT YOU PICK UP AND TAKE WITH YOU.
WE'VE REPLACED THOUSANDS OF OBSOLETE DESKTOP COMPUTERS AND LAPTOPS, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME INTRODUCING ABOUT FIFTY SEVEN THOUSAND NEW STUDENT CHROMEBOOKS, NOT REPLACING ANYTHING BUT SORT OF INTRODUCING THOSE TO OUR ENVIRONMENT.
WE'VE REPLACED ANTIQUATED PROJECTORS IN CLASSROOMS AND COORDINATED STRUCTURED
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CABLING PROJECTS TO REPLACE ALL THE OUTDATED OLD SCHOOL ANALOG VGA CONNECTIONS WITH SORT OF CONTEMPORARY DIGITAL HDMI CONNECTION SORT OF BRINGING US UP TO STANDARD.WE INSTALLED NEW SOUND FIELD AMPLIFICATION SYSTEMS TO PROVIDE HIGHER LEVELS OF SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY AND TO DISTRIBUTE SOUND MORE EVENLY THROUGHOUT EACH OF OUR CLASSROOMS. SAID MORE PLAINLY TO MAKE SURE THE KIDS IN THE BACK OF THE ROOM CAN HEAR INSTRUCTION JUST AS WELL AS THE KIDS IN THE FRONT OF THE ROOM NEXT TO THE TEACHER.
WE'VE ADDED MORE IPADS AND APPLE TVS TO ART CLASSROOMS. WE'VE REPLACED AND REPAIRED KILNS, K-I-L-N-S.
I RECOGNIZE FIVE LETTER WORDS MORE RECENTLY.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT RESONATES WITH ANY OF YOU OR NOT.
WE'VE REPLACED THOUSANDS OF GRAPHING CALCULATORS IN MATH CLASSROOMS, BOUGHT NEW PROBE WEAR FOR OUR SECONDARY SCIENCE LABS.
WE'VE INSTALLED NEW AV EQUIPMENT IN ALL OF OUR GYMNASIUMS AND EQUIPPED OUR PE TEACHERS WITH NEW SETS OF HEART RATE MONITORS.
ALL OF THAT FROM THOSE BOND FUNDS.
EVERY CAMPUS HAS RECEIVED A NEW MODERN BROADCASTING SYSTEM, AND WE WERE EVEN ABLE TO DESIGN AND INSTALL PLANO ISD'S FIRST OFFICIAL ESPORTS COMPUTER LAB AT ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL, WHERE THOSE STUDENTS PROMPTLY COMPETED FOR A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP IN ROCKET LEAGUE, FINISHING AS RUNNER UP IN JUST THEIR FIRST SEASON.
SO GO TITAN ESPORTS, THAT'S THEIR TWITTER HANDLE.
AND SO WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO A LOT, BUT TIME INEVITABLY AND INVARIABLY MARCHES ON, RIGHT? SO, THE STUDENT AND TEACHER MOBILE DEVICES THAT WE PURCHASED IN EARLY 2017 WILL SOON BE ELIGIBLE FOR THEIR FIVE YEAR SERVICE PIN OR WHATEVER OTHER EUPHEMISM YOU WANT TO ASSIGN TO THOSE THINGS THAT SORT OF QUICKLY TRANSITION FROM ASSET TO, UNFORTUNATELY, LIABILITY.
THOSE-- IT'S JUST THE NATURE OF COMPUTERS, RIGHT? THE REMAINING UNENCUMBERED 2016 TECHNOLOGY BOND FUND BALANCE.
SO, WE SAID WE HAD SEVENTY THREE MILLION AND WE'VE SPENT OR OTHERWISE MADE USE OF FIFTY THREE MILLION.
SO, THERE IS SOME REMAINING THAT WE WILL USE LARGELY TO REFRESH THOSE DEVICES AS THEY AGE OUT OF THEIR USEFULNESS.
THEY'RE AGING TODAY, AND WE'LL BEGIN TO REPLACE THOSE ON A SCHEDULE.
SO, WE HAVE A PLAN FOR THE SHORT TERM AS WELL AS THE LONG TERM.
AND PATRICK IS GOING TO LEAD US THROUGH THE REST, SORT OF OFFERING A GLIMPSE INTO OUR TECHNOLOGY FUTURE IF I UNDERSTOOD THE ASSIGNMENT CORRECTLY.
HEY, MATT, I HAVE A QUICK QUESTION.
YOU KNOW, YOU MENTIONED SOME OF THOSE ARE GOING TO GET THEIR FIVE YEAR SERVICE PINS, AND I KNOW WE DO SURPLUS-- YOU KNOW, WE SELL OFF SURPLUS SUPPLIES AND SUCH.
DO WE KNOW IF, FOR INSTANCE, WE HAVE A THOUSAND IPADS THAT ARE GOING TO MEET THE RAINBOW BRIDGE, DO THEY GET RECYCLED APPROPRIATELY OR DO WE HAVE ANY IDEA HOW THAT-- WHAT HAPPENS TO THAT SURPLUS STUFF? THEY-- WE WILL-- I DON'T-- I CAN'T SPEAK TO IPAD SPECIFICALLY.
BUT AS A GENERAL RULE, YES, THEY GET PROCESSED APPROPRIATELY TO REMOVE, THROUGH OUR CONTRACTS WITH WHOMEVER, THAT THEY WILL WIPE OUT THE HARD DRIVES AND OTHERWISE TAKE CARE OF THOSE.
SO, THERE'S NO SEMBLANCE OF OUR STUFF REMAINING ON THEM.
PATRICK MAY BE ABLE TO SPEAK TO THAT BETTER, BUT I KNOW THAT TO BE THE CASE FOR OUR-- TYPICALLY FOR A HARDWARE THAT WE--.
IT IS A REQUIREMENT AS PART OF THE DISPOSAL PROCESS.
NOT ONLY DO THEY REMOVE AND WIPE HARD DRIVES, BUT ALSO THAT THEY ARE RESPONSIBLY DISPOSING OF MONITORS AND DEVICES OF THAT NATURE.
CAN YOU REMIND ME THAT, YOU SAY THE FIVE YEAR PIN, IS THAT THE RECOMMENDED USABLE LIFE OF A CHROMEBOOK.
THAT IS-- FIVE YEARS IS THE MINIMUM PERIOD OF TIME THAT GOOGLE SAYS THEY WILL SUPPORT THAT OPERATING SYSTEM, PROVIDE UPDATES TO IT AND ALLOW IT TO BE CONTINUALLY MANAGED WITHIN YOUR FLEET.
NOW, WEAR AND TEAR AND OTHERWISE YOU KNOW, THE USE ON BATTERIES, THEY MAY BEGIN TO, YOU KNOW, DECLINE EVEN BEFORE THAT FIVE YEAR, THAT SUPPORT PERIOD, BUT BY AND LARGE, I MEAN, THEY'RE HANGING IN THERE TOUGH.
BUT AT FOUR AND A HALF YEARS, WE'RE RECEIVING MORE AND MORE TICKETS, WORK ORDERS TO REPAIR AND REPLACE AND SOME AGING EQUIPMENT.
SO IT'S-- AND THOSE NUMBERS HAVE GONE UP SHARPLY OVER THE PAST YEAR.
HAVE WE IDENTIFIED ALTERNATIVE OR UPDATED DEVICES, NEWER CHROMEBOOKS, THAT MAY BE SOMETHING WE LOOK AT IN THE FUTURE?
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THAT IS A POINT OF RESEARCH FOR US RIGHT NOW TO DETERMINE THE NEXT ITERATION OF STUDENT DEVICE.THE PIE IS 53 MILLION AND THERE'S A MISCELLANEOUS IS 4.1 PERCENT.
THAT'S ABOUT OVER, A LITTLE BIT OVER TWO MILLION.
SO, I JUST WONDER, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE WE HAVE LIKE 1.9 OR TECHNOLOGY LISTED PRETTY IN DETAIL.
SO WHY SO, THOSE ARE THOSE THINGS-- I WOULD SAY THE BIGGER NUMBERS ARE ENTERPRISE WIDE DEPLOYMENTS WHERE WE'RE GETTING CHROMEBOOK DEVICES FOR EVERYBODY AND THAT MISCELLANEOUS [INAUDIBLE], IT'S A BUNCH OF SMALLER PROJECTS, FOR EXAMPLE, THE HEART RATE MONITORS FOR PE.
IT'S A BUNCH OF VERY SMALL AND I EVEN HAVE-- IT MAY BE PARTLY SOME DEAF EDUCATION ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY IS ONE CATEGORY OF SOMETHING THAT WOULD-- WE DIDN'T SPEND A TON OF MONEY, BUT ALL OF THOSE LITTLE PROJECTS COMBINED TO MAKE IT A FOUR PERCENT.
SO, WE HAVE THAT DETAIL, I DIDN'T, FOR THE SAKE OF CLARITY ON THIS SLIDE, I DIDN'T INCLUDE EACH OF THOSE ITEMS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THAT NUMBER.
AND SO FROM THE 2016 BOND, WE BEGAN TO TRANSITION AND TO LOOK FORWARD TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE NEXT ITERATION OF OUR TECHNOLOGY PLAN AND PROCESSES WOULD LOOK IN THE YEARS TO COME BACK.
A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO IN 2018, THE DISTRICT COMPLETED A FULLY COMPREHENSIVE TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT WHERE BASICALLY WE WENT OUT TO EACH AND EVERY CAMPUS TO LOOK AT ALL THINGS TECHNOLOGY, AND THEY COMPLETED A FULL REPORT FOR US, LETTING US KNOW INVENTORY WISE WHAT WE HAVE IN PRODUCTION.
AND FROM THAT, WE BEGAN TO CHIP AWAY AT THAT USING SOME OF THE 2016 BOND.
FROM THAT, WE'VE NOW GONE BACK OVER THIS PAST YEAR AND BEGAN TO ASSESS WHAT'S REMAINING FROM THAT COMPREHENSIVE TECHNOLOGY PLAN.
HOW DO WE PLAN LONG RANGE TO GO BACK AND COMPLETE THOSE THINGS THAT WERE IN NEED AS PART OF THAT COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT? AS WE BEGAN TO LOOK AT IT, BASICALLY, WE WERE ABLE TO CONSOLIDATE THAT DOWN INTO THREE PRIMARY FOCUS AREAS.
OBVIOUSLY, LOOKING AT TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE, ASSESSING ALSO OUR BUSINESS SYSTEMS AND SOLUTIONS THAT HELP US TO RUN THE BUSINESS OF THE DISTRICT.
AND THEN OBVIOUSLY, WE'LL LOOK AT THE INSTRUCTIONAL COMPONENT AND THOSE THINGS THAT WOULD MAKE UP OUR CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM TECHNOLOGIES.
SO, WE THOUGHT IT'D BE GOOD TO KIND OF GIVE YOU SOME HIGHLIGHTS IN TERMS OF BY THE NUMBERS WHERE WE SIT WITH SOME OF THE ITEMS THAT WE SUPPORT THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT FROM OUR DESKTOPS, LAPTOPS, CHROMEBOOKS.
AS YOU CAN SEE, WE'VE GOT A PRETTY FULL INVENTORY OF THINGS THAT FALL UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF TECHNOLOGY SERVICES THAT REQUIRE OUR ATTENTION.
IN MANY OF THESE CASES, AS MATT TALKED ABOUT, THE STATUS OF SOME OF THESE ITEMS WE BEGAN PURCHASING ALL THE WAY BACK IN 2017.
AND SO, AS WE ALSO MAP OUT WHAT WOULD BE OUR LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT STRATEGY, WE'RE LOOKING AT WHAT IS THE USEFUL LIFESPAN OF EACH OF THESE DEVICES AND WHEN THEY NEED TO BE REPLACED .
SO, THAT WE GET OUR FULL MONEY OUT OF IT, BUT ALSO NOT TO PUT OURSELVES IN A SITUATION WHERE THESE ITEMS BEGIN TO FAIL BEFORE WE CAN GO OUT AND START TO REPLACE THEM.
ALSO, AS WE BEGAN TO LOOK AT THE SUPPORT MECHANISMS THAT WE USE TO MAINTAIN THESE ITEMS, STAFF AND STUDENTS FROM AROUND THE DISTRICT ARE ABLE TO SUBMIT WORK ORDERS WHEN THESE ITEMS ARE IN REPAIR.
AND YOU CAN SEE JUST THROUGH THE 2021 SCHOOLS SCHOOL YEAR, WE INQUIRED NEARLY 30000 WORK ORDERS TO GO OUT AND COMPLETE REPAIRS.
AS YOU CAN SEE, THE BULK OF THOSE CENTERED AROUND CHROMEBOOK REPAIR ITEMS AS THOSE DEVICES BEGIN TO AGE OUT, THAT BECOMES, BY AND LARGE, THE FULL WORKLOAD.
WE SPEND THE BULK OF OUR TIME WORKING ON AND REPAIRING REPLACEMENT PARTS ON THESE TYPES OF DEVICES.
AS I TALK TO YOU GUYS EARLIER, AS YOU KNOW, AS WE BEGIN TO BRING THOSE CHROMEBOOKS BACK FROM THE PANDEMIC ERA, A LARGE PORTION OF OUR REPAIRS TOOK PLACE OVER THE SUMMER IN TERMS OF GETTING THOSE PREPPED AND READY TO GO FOR THE UPCOMING SCHOOL YEAR.
ALSO ALONG WITH THAT, WE TALK ABOUT INFRASTRUCTURE PIECES.
THE DISTRICT BEGAN INSTALLING ITS OWN PRIVATE FIBER IN THE EARLY 2000S.
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TODAY, WE HAVE WELL OVER 80 MILES OF FIBER LAID THROUGHOUT THE CITY, AND OUR GUYS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING THAT.AND SOMETIMES THAT'S DAMAGED BECAUSE OF JUST WEAR AND TEAR.
BUT A LOT OF TIMES IT COULD BE RELATED TO PROJECTS WITH THE CITY OR SOMEBODY DIGGING IN AREAS WHERE WE'RE NOT BEING CAREFUL.
WE HAVE TO GO OUT AND MAINTAIN THAT AND MAKE SURE WE KEEP OUR CONNECTIVITY UP AND GOING.
AND SO AS WE DIVE IN AND WE START TALKING ABOUT INFRASTRUCTURE, OBVIOUSLY THIS IS REALLY THE SUPERHIGHWAY FOR PISD AND HOW OUR CAMPUSES FROM AROUND THE CITY CONNECT UP TO OUR DATA CENTERS AND OUT, ULTIMATELY, TO THE INTERNET.
WE BUILT OUR WIDE AREA NETWORK BASICALLY AROUND THE BACKBONE CONSISTING OF FIVE HUB SITES, AND THAT'S ABOUT A 20 GIG PATHWAY THAT WE SHARE.
THE REST OF OUR CAMPUSES, AT SOME POINT, CONNECT OFF OF THESE FIVE HUB SITES TO GET CONNECTIVITY BACK TO THE DATA CENTERS AND THEN OUT TO THE INTERNET.
PART OF OUR ASSESSMENTS INCLUDE HOW DO WE INCREASE THE BANDWIDTH ON THAT? AS MORE AND MORE OF OUR INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS ARE ONLINE, MORE AND MORE OF OUR ASSESSMENTS, TESTING AND THINGS LIKE THAT MOVE ONLINE.
IT BECOMES RELEVANT FOR US TO MAKE SURE THAT WE KEEP THAT BANDWIDTH OPTIMAL AND PERFORMING AT ITS BEST, BUT NOT TO BE MISSED IN THIS IS THE FIREWALLS AND THE CONTENT FILTERING.
THESE ARE GOING TO BE THOSE DEVICES THAT SIT AT THE EDGE AND MAKE SURE THAT WE KEEP OUR INTERNAL DATA SYSTEMS AND STUDENTS.
WE KEEP THEM SAFE FROM THOSE THINGS THAT ARE HARMFUL OUT ON THE INTERNET.
SO ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, WE HAVE EACH ONE OF THOSE INTERNET TYPES THAT YOU SEE THERE, WE'RE LOOKING AT ABOUT 10 GIG GOING FOR EACH ONE OF THOSE OUT.
AND SO PART OF THE PLAN IS LOOK AT HOW DO WE EXTEND THAT ACCESS AND CREATE MORE BANDWIDTH? THERE ARE CERTAINLY METRICS OUT THERE THAT TALK ABOUT WHAT'S REQUIRED FOR EACH STUDENT TO HAVE OPTIMAL USER EXPERIENCE WHEN THEY'RE OUT SURFING AND RESEARCHING ON THE INTERNET.
WE'RE BELOW THAT STANDARD RIGHT NOW, BASED OFF OF THE 20 GIG THAT WE HAVE OUT THERE AND 50000 STUDENTS THAT WE SUPPORT.
AND SO WE'RE LOOKING AT HOW WE CAN GO BACK AND MAYBE ONE OF THESE OTHER HUB SITES EXTEND OUT THAT BANDWIDTH GOING OUT TO THE INTERNET.
SO PATRICK, LAST YEAR, WITH A LOT OF STUDENTS TAKING STAAR ONLINE, THERE WERE SOME ISSUES AND I KNOW WE WEREN'T THE ONLY DISTRICT THAT HAD ISSUES WITH THAT.
AND I'M JUST WONDERING IF ANYTHING IN THIS IS NEEDING TO BE UPGRADED FOR THAT KIND OF TESTING OR IF THERE'S ANY COMMENT THERE? SO, I WOULD SAY YES TO THAT FROM THE STANDPOINT OF WE BELIEVE WE'VE NARROWED IT DOWN AS WE CONTINUE TO TROUBLESHOOT AND WORK WITH OUR TESTING VENDORS TO UNDERSTAND WHY WE HAD THOSE DELAYS WITH ONLINE TESTING.
WE THINK WE FOUND WAYS TO PROHIBIT THAT AS WE MOVE FORWARD, BUT CERTAINLY INCREASING THAT BANDWIDTH AND MAKING SURE WE CAN DIVIDE THAT WORKLOAD ACROSS THE ENTIRE DISTRICT WILL CERTAINLY HELP OUT WHEN WE HAVE ONLINE TESTING.
AND SO AS WE MOVE ON FROM THE WIDE AREA NETWORK, WE HONE IN DOWN TO THE CAMPUS NETWORKS AND WE BEGIN TO SEE THE THINGS THAT CONNECT UP THE SERVICES THAT WE NEED TO ACTUALLY RUN THE CAMPUS AND WE GET INTO WHAT WE CALL OUR ACCESS SWITCHES OR THESE ARE THE MAIN COMPONENTS THAT WE CONNECT UP.
THIS IS WHERE YOUR COMPUTERS ARE CONNECTING INTO THE NETWORK, BUT THERE'S ALSO WHERE YOUR WIRELESS ACCESS POINTS ARE CONNECTING AND OTHER SERVICES AROUND THE CAMPUS THAT ARE NEEDED FOR THE SAFETY AND SECURITY OF OUR STAFF AND STUDENTS.
SO, SECURITY CAMERAS ARE CONNECTING IN, OUR TELEPHONES ARE CONNECTING IN TO THESE TYPES SWITCHES AS WELL.
PRETTY MUCH IT IS THE SOURCE OF ALL CONNECTIVITY AT THE CAMPUS LEVEL.
THE CURRENT DEVICES THAT WE HAVE OUT THERE IN MOST CASES ARE OVER 10 YEARS, TYPICAL USEFUL LIFESPAN AS WE TALK ABOUT THESE TYPE DEVICES OR ANYWHERE FROM 8 TO 10 YEARS.
SO CERTAINLY, WE'RE LOOKING AT THE ASSESSMENT OF HOW WE INCREASE THAT CONNECTIVITY.
ANOTHER THING THAT WE-- THAT YOU SEE AS PART OF A SHIFT, WHEN WE LOOK AT THESE TYPE OF DEVICES, THESE DEVICES ARE NOW BEING USED TO POWER SMALLER DEVICES ON THERE.
AND SO YOU TAKE THE IP SECURITY CAMERAS, FOR INSTANCE.
WE DON'T HAVE TO GO FIND A SEPARATE POWER SOURCE TO POWER THOSE CAMERAS.
THEY'RE GOING TO BE POWERED BY THOSE SWITCHES, AND SO, UPGRADING THOSE TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE THE POWER AND THE BANDWIDTH THAT WE NEED TO ADEQUATELY SUPPORT LIFE SAFETY SYSTEMS AROUND THE CAMPUS.
THAT'S GOING TO BE PARAMOUNT AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
ANOTHER THING THAT WILL BE IMPORTANT AS WE LOOK AT THIS IS THE ABILITY TO HAVE BACKUP POWER IN THESE LOCATIONS AS WELL.
IN THE EVENT THAT WE HAVE POWER OUTAGES, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE KEEP A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF RUNTIME SO THAT THESE DEVICES CAN STAY ONLINE.
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FROM THE LOCAL AREA NETWORK, WE MOVE INTO SOME OF OUR DATA CENTER OPERATIONS.OBVIOUSLY, THE SERVERS AND STORAGE AND BACK UP SCENARIOS ARE GOING TO BE IMPORTANT.
THESE ARE GOING TO BE THE SYSTEMS THAT RUN OUR ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS.
OUR INSTRUCTIONAL APPLICATIONS, THEY'RE GOING TO BE HOUSED IN OUR DATA CENTER FACILITIES.
CURRENTLY, WE HAVE CAPACITY SOMEWHERE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF ABOUT 100 TERABYTES OF DATA THAT WE MAINTAIN ACROSS OUR ENTERPRISE.
AS PART OF THIS ASSESSMENT IS GOING TO BE IMPORTANT IF WE LOOK AT THE AMOUNT OF APPLICATIONS AND DATA THAT WE KEEP ON SITE VERSUS LEVERAGING THE TECHNOLOGIES OF CLOUD COMPUTING.
OBVIOUSLY, THERE'S A TRADEOFF THERE WHERE WE'RE LOOKING AT MOVING SOME THINGS THAT ARE COST EFFECTIVE TO THE CLOUD VERSUS KEEPING SOME THINGS ON PREM.
AND SO THAT WILL BE A BALANCING ACT.
BUT ALL OF THAT PLAYS INTO WHAT WE CALL OUR DISASTER RECOVERY AS WELL AS BUSINESS CONTINUITY.
AND SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ABLE TO KEEP THE AVAILABILITY, THE RELIABILITY AND THE UPTIME THAT WE NEED FOR OUR CRITICAL SYSTEMS. ANOTHER THING THAT'S OF INTEREST, AS WE LOOKED AT DATA CENTER OPERATIONS IS GOING TO BE OUR NEED TO HAVE BACKUP POWER AND GENERATION.
CURRENTLY AS WE SPEAK, WE DO NOT HAVE GENERATED POWER ON THESE CRITICAL SYSTEMS. AND SO OUR ABILITY TO SUSTAIN AN EXTENDED OUTAGE DOES NOT EXIST TODAY.
AND SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'VE GOT THE PROPER RESOURCES THAT WE CAN DO THAT.
SO FROM THERE, WE TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT HOW ARE WE RUNNING THE BUSINESS OF THE DISTRICT, TAKING A CLOSE LOOK AT OUR ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SYSTEMS TO OUR STUDENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS. WE BELIEVE AS WE'VE BEGUN THIS ASSESSMENT, THERE ARE SOME OPPORTUNITIES HERE TO INCREASE EFFICIENCIES, TO INCREASE SECURITY AUTOMATIONS.
RIGHT NOW, WE EMPLOY A MULTITUDE OF THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS THAT KIND OF HELP US IN AREAS SUCH AS GRADE BOOK AND DISCIPLINE AND ENROLLMENT.
WE'RE UTILIZING THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE DISTRICT, BUT A LOT OF TIMES THESE ARE THINGS THAT SHOULD BE INCORPORATED INTO OUR ERP AND STUDENT INFORMATION SYSTEM.
SO, ASSESSING THAT TO SEE CAN THERE BE SOME COST SAVINGS, AS WELL AS EFFICIENCIES THAT WE GAIN BY EITHER UPGRADING OR POSSIBLY AT SOME POINT TRANSITIONING TO A NEW SYSTEM ALTOGETHER? ULTIMATELY, THAT'S GOING TO HELP US WITH OUR REPORTING AS WE'RE ALWAYS STRIVING TO BE A DATA DRIVEN DECISION MAKING TEAM AND THAT'S GOING TO AFFECT OUR ANALYTICS AS WELL.
THEN, AS MATT TALKED ABOUT, A LARGE PORTION OF THE DOLLARS THAT WE'VE RECEIVED THROUGH BOND INITIATIVES, A LOT OF THAT IS GOING TOWARDS OUR STUDENT ONE TO ONE PROGRAMS AS WELL AS DEVICES THAT WE USE FOR OUR STAFF.
AND IF THE PANDEMIC TAUGHT US NOTHING ELSE, THE ABILITY TO BE MOBILE AND FLEXIBLE REALLY PAID DIVIDENDS AND OUR ABILITY TO TRANSITION FROM CLASSROOM LEARNING INTO REMOTE SCENARIOS.
AND SO AS WE GO BACK AND REASSESS WHAT IS GOING TO BE OUR POSTURE MOVING FORWARD, CERTAINLY OUR STUDENT ONE TO ONE PROGRAMS ARE TRANSITIONING MORE FROM AN IN CAMPUS OR IN SCHOOL TYPE ONE TO ONE TO A MOBILE TAKE HOME TYPE OF ONE TO ONE INITIATIVE.
AND SO IT'S GOING TO BE IMPORTANT FOR US TO LOOK AT WHAT'S GOING TO BE THE RIGHT TOOLS TO PUT IN THE HANDS OF OUR STUDENTS.
BUT ALSO, WE'VE NOTICED THAT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE'RE LOOKING VERY CLOSELY AT THE TOOLS THAT OUR TEACHERS ARE USING AS WELL.
YOU KNOW, A LOT OF TIMES YOU LOOK AT RESOURCES THAT MAY BE ADEQUATE IF EVERYBODY IS IN A PERFECT SCENARIOS AND EVERYBODY'S IN THE CLASSROOM AND LEARNING, BUT THEN THAT SCENARIO CHANGES WHEN YOU GET HOME AND NOW TEACHERS NEEDING TO RENT A ZOOM SESSION, YOU KNOW, WITH 30 STUDENTS ON THAT.
OBVIOUSLY MORE RESOURCES ARE REQUIRED TO MAKE THAT A GOOD EXPERIENCE FOR EVERYONE, AND WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE EQUIPPING OUR STAFF AND STUDENTS WITH THE RIGHT TOOLS TO BE ABLE TO DELIVER INSTRUCTION ANYWHERE AND ANY TIME.
ANOTHER THING WE LEARNED IS WE LOOK AT STUDENT ONE TO ONE PROGRAMS, IF THAT-- THEIR PROGRAM ALSO TRANSITIONS NOW TO ONE TO ONE TAKE HOME CHARGING STATIONS IN THE SCHOOL STILL BECOME A VERY RELEVANT RESOURCE.
SOMEBODY IS GOING TO COME TO SCHOOL AND DEVICES ARE NOT GOING TO BE CHARGED, AND WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE'VE GOT A WAY TO ACCOMMODATE THAT AND ABLE TO KEEP INSTRUCTION GOING THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
AND ALL OF THIS IS GOING TO BE TAILORED AROUND HOW DO WE ESTABLISH THE RIGHT LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT STRATEGY FOR THESE TOOLS? AGAIN, SO THAT WE GET THE USEFUL LIFE SPAN OUT OF THEM, BUT ALSO KNOW WHEN
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IT'S TIME TO GO BACK AND BEGIN THE REPLACEMENT CYCLE.ALSO, AS WE LOOK AT THE CLASSROOM, A LOT OF MONEY, A LOT OF FUNDS THAT WERE UTILIZED IN THE 2016 BOND WAS AROUND INSTRUCTIONAL TOOLS AT THE FRONT OF THE CLASSROOM.
OUR PROJECTION SYSTEMS. BUT NOW, AS WE BEGAN TO LOOK AT TECHNOLOGY SUCH AS FLAT PANEL DISPLAYS AND WE LOOK AT HOW THAT TECHNOLOGY HAS BEGUN TO CATCH UP FROM A COST POINT.
BUT CERTAINLY FROM A PERFORMANCE STANDPOINT, IT HAS BECOME A MORE FEASIBLE SOLUTION.
WE LOOK AT THE TYPICAL BULB HOURS THAT WE WOULD TYPICALLY GET FROM SOME OF THE PROJECTORS THAT WE HAVE.
AND YOU HAVE WHAT THEY CALL LAMP HOURS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF, LET'S JUST SAY, SIX TO EIGHT THOUSAND HOURS.
AS WE BEGAN NOW AND WE'RE RESEARCHING AND WE'RE LOOKING AT OUR FLAT PANEL DISPLAYS, THOSE HOURS JUMP UP WELL BEYOND 50000 HOURS.
AND SO WE STARTED LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, THE WARRANTIES AND RETURN ON INVESTMENT, THE AMOUNT OF MAINTENANCE THAT WOULD NORMALLY GO INTO MAINTAINING PROJECTION SYSTEMS. THAT DOESN'T EXIST WITH THE FLAT PANEL DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT.
AND SO WE BELIEVE WE WILL EXTEND THE LIFE OF THESE TYPE TECHNOLOGIES IN THE CLASSROOM AND MAKE IT MORE EFFECTIVE FOR STUDENT LEARNING.
AND THEN, AS MATT ALLUDED TO, SOME OF THE NEWER TECHNOLOGIES THAT WE IMPLEMENTED THIS YEAR, WE WERE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THE EA SPORTS TEAM THAT WE HAVE OVER AT ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL.
AND AGAIN, THAT'S JUST WITHIN THIS FIRST YEAR.
THEY'VE TRANSITIONED OVER NOW TO THE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS AS WE START THIS SESSION.
BUT WITH THE SUCCESS AND THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF THINGS, A LOT OF LESSONS LEARNED.
HOW TO PROPERLY SET UP THE ARENAS AND THE PRACTICE AREAS AND THE DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGIES THAT ARE USING.
AND IT'S VERY EXCITING TO SEE.
WE'VE TAKEN SOME FIELD TRIPS OVER TO TAKE A LOOK AT IT AND THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE IN AND THEY'RE GAME PLANNING AND THEY'RE SCOUTING THE COMPETITION AND THEY'VE GOT THIS ALL PULLED UP AND THIS-- PRETTY COOL IF YOU HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO SEE IT.
AND WE CERTAINLY FORESEE THIS AS SOMETHING THAT COULD VERY EASILY TRANSITION TO OTHER CAMPUSES THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT AND FROM WHAT WE'VE LEARNED.
WE WANT TO INVEST A LITTLE MORE TIME AND RESEARCHING AND SEE HOW WE CAN MAKE IT SUCCESSFUL FOR THE REST OF OUR CAMPUSES OUT THERE.
SO VERY GOOD EXPERIENCE IN YEAR ONE.
AND SO FROM THAT, THAT'S KIND OF WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, THAT'S A HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW OF THE TECHNOLOGY FOCUS AREAS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, BUT WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THE FUTURE AND WHERE WE'RE GOING FROM A TECHNOLOGY SERVICES STANDPOINT.
AND I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE AT THIS POINT.
YOU MENTIONED WE DON'T HAVE A GENERATOR OR GENERATED POWER SYSTEM RIGHT NOW.
WHAT ARE YOU ENVISIONING THAT WE WOULD-- IS THAT FOR THE DATA CENTER SO THAT WE'RE UP AND RUNNING IN CASE THERE'S ANOTHER, YOU KNOW, TERRIBLE WINTER STORM? IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT? THAT'S ONE USE CASE, BUT WE'VE GOT SEVERAL WHAT I WOULD CALL CRITICAL POINTS IN OUR NETWORK, WHERE IF WE HAVE POWER OUTAGES, WE EITHER TAKE THE ENTIRE DISTRICT DOWN OR CERTAINLY LARGE PORTIONS OF THE DISTRICT.
WHEN YOU TAKE A LOOK AT OUR HUB SITES THAT ARE KEY COMPONENT IN OUR CONNECTIVITY FOR A LOT OF THE CAMPUSES THAT ARE OUT THERE.
AND SO WE JUST WANT TO BE MINDFUL OF THAT BECAUSE IN SOME CASES YOU MAY ONLY BE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE AN HOUR RUNTIME.
BUT DEPENDING ON THE SITUATION, AND WE KNOW THAT COULD GO WELL PAST THAT.
AND SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE AVAILABILITY IS A HIGH PIECE ON OUR, YOU KNOW, AS WE LEVERAGE THESE DATA CENTER TECHNOLOGIES.
PATRICK, CAN YOU EXPLAIN BRIEFLY WHAT KIND OF CAREER OPPORTUNITIES EA SPORTS WILL BRING OUR STUDENTS? THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.
CAREER WISE, I MEAN, AS WE'RE SEEING OUT THERE, YOU KNOW, THESE EA SPORTS ARENAS, THEY FILL UP JUST LIKE, YOU KNOW, ANY OTHER PROFESSIONAL SPORTS ARENA WITH PRIZES THAT ARE CONTINUING TO INCREASE.
I THINK OVER THE PAST YEAR, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE MAJOR COMPETITIONS THAT THEY'VE HAD OUT THERE, HAD TAKE HOME PURSES WHERE THEY WERE HANDING OUT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO THESE ATHLETES THAT ARE OUT THERE.
THAT'S NOT TO MENTION, EVEN ON THE COLLEGIATE LEVEL, WE CONTINUE TO SEE THIS EXPANDED.
SO, A HOST OF SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES AS WELL ARE BEING SHELLED OUT TO THESE STUDENTS WHO ARE PERFORMING IN THIS LEAGUE.
AND SO I THINK THERE'S A WEALTH OF OPPORTUNITIES THAT EXIST FOR STUDENTS WHO CERTAINLY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THIS AREA.
IS PISD LIKE LEADING IN THIS SPORT OR WE WERE JUST CATCHING UP.
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THERE ARE A FEW DISTRICTS OUT THERE THAT WE HAVE-- THAT ARE VERY MATURE IN THEIR PROGRAMS, THEY'VE BEEN DOING IT FOR A FEW YEARS.AND SO WE'RE IN OUR FIRST YEAR AND FIRST TO GO IN AND ACTUALLY MAKE IT TO STATE AND TO BE A RUNNER UP IS PRETTY IMPRESSIVE BECAUSE THERE ARE SOME DISTRICTS OUT THERE THAT HAVE BEEN DOING THIS FOR A WHILE.
AS A MATTER OF FACT, WE KIND OF PARTNERED WITH ONE OF THE MAIN PLAYERS HERE IN THE AREA WHO REALLY KIND OF HELPED PIONEERS, YOU KNOW, WHERE WE ARE TODAY WITH EA SPORTS AND JUST KIND OF WORKING WITH THEM TO KIND OF UNDERSTAND WHAT WERE SOME OF THE PITFALLS THEY WENT THROUGH WHEN THEY ESTABLISHED THEIR PROGRAMS AND KIND OF HELPING US TO GET OURS OFF THE GROUND SUCCESSFULLY.
SO, HOW STRONG IS A STUDENT'S INTEREST IN THIS? VERY STRONG.
THEY, YOU KNOW, ENGAGED, THEIR PRINCIPAL AND SAY, HEY, WE HAVE A PROPOSAL, WE WANT TO SEE THIS ON OUR CAMPUS.
THEY PUT TOGETHER A FULL PRESENTATION AND REALLY CAME AND MADE A CASE FOR IT.
AND IT WAS VERY IMPRESSIVE BECAUSE THE CAMPUS PRINCIPAL THEN TURNED AROUND AND REACHED OUT TO MR. FREY, AND HE CAME IN MY OFFICE AND SAID, HEY, WE NEED TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN.
AND SO WE BEGAN TO ENGAGE SOME OF OUR PARTNERS TO SEE HOW CAN WE GET THE EQUIPMENT IN HERE AND GET IT STARTED.
SO, I THINK THERE'S A TON OF INTEREST IN THIS, BUT WHEN YOU BEGIN TO LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, HOW BIG OUR DISTRICT IS AND EVEN JUST THAT ACADEMY, I MEAN, IT'S NOT EVEN OUR LARGEST HIGH SCHOOL.
YOU KNOW, THERE'S NOT ENOUGH ROOM TO ACCOMMODATE EVERYBODY WHO MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN DOING THIS.
AND SO I THINK IT'S GOING TO CONTINUE TO GROW.
MICROSOFT WITHIN THE LAST WEEK ANNOUNCED THAT THEY'RE PAYING ABOUT 70 BILLION, WITH A B, DOLLARS FOR ACTIVISION BLIZZARD.
SO THIS ONLINE GAMING, EA SPORTS, I MEAN, WE [COUGH] START UP COMMUNITY ALL THE TIME, RIGHT? DIFFERENT STARTUPS LOOKING TO MONETIZE EA SPORTS.
THIS IS A HUGE THING, AND THE PROGRAMING SKILLS AND OTHER THINGS THAT KIDS LEARN THROUGH DOING THESE EVENTS.
THOSE ARE HIGHLY, HIGHLY MARKETABLE, HIGH PAID JOB PROGRAMING SKILLS.
THAT'S A GREAT POINT BECAUSE I DIDN'T EVEN TAP INTO THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR SPONSORSHIP, YOU KNOW, AS THESE STUDENTS BEGAN TO REALLY ENGAGE IN THAT.
SO, WE'RE JUST TALKING ABOUT THE PAYOUTS FOR THE ARENAS, BUT THERE'S MANY AVENUES THAT A STUDENT CAN EARN COMPENSATION.
I KNOW A FRIEND WHO SOUNDS LIKE THE CHAIRS [COUGH] LIKE PERIPHERALS FOR ALL THOSE E-SPORTS AND MAKING A LOT OF MONEY TOO.
I WAS LIKE, WOW, IT'S CERTAINLY SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, I'M GLAD WE'RE EXPLORING FOR OUR STUDENTS.
SO, WHEN WE'RE READY TO DO A GALAGA TEAM, GIVE ME A SHOUT.
[LAUGH] SEE, I MIGHT TAKE YOU UP ON THAT.
PATRICK, THE I DO HAVE A QUESTION, A REAL QUESTION.
I KNOW WE'VE GOT A DATA CENTER AND I THINK I'M HEARING A REAL RISK IF WE HAVE A POWER OUTAGE THERE.
LET ME PREFACE THIS BY SAYING, I KNOW THAT THERE ARE PRIVATE COMPANIES WHO WILL SPREAD THEIR DATA ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO AVOID THIS TYPE OF THING.
IS THERE A WAY FOR US TO SPREAD OUR DATA ACROSS THE DISTRICT OR DO WE NEED TO LOOK INTO A SECONDARY SITE? SO, WE DO HAVE A SECONDARY SITE AND WE DO SPREAD OUR DATA AROUND.
THERE-- YOU KNOW, WE MINIMIZE THE RISK BY DOING THAT.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME, WE WANT TO BE CAREFUL, YOU KNOW, GENERATION-- HAVING HAVING THE POWER GENERATORS THERE, ONE OF THE BENEFITS OF THAT IS, YES, WE MAY BE REPLICATING DATA ACROSS MULTIPLE SITES, BUT IF YOU HAD TO DO A FULL CUT OVER, THAT COULD POTENTIALLY EXCEED THE TIME THAT YOU HAVE FOR RUNTIME TO GET EVERYTHING SAFELY MOVED OVER.
AND SO JUST SOMETHING ELSE WE WANT TO BE MINDFUL OF AS WE LOOK AT HOW WE SECURE THIS INFORMATION.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR PATRICK? ARE WE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT POTENTIAL BOND FUNDS TO HELP WITH OUR EA SPORTS? [INAUDUIBLE] THAT? I COULD VERY EASILY SEE THAT BEING A WAY THAT WE COULD ADDRESS THAT NEED.
OBVIOUSLY, HARDWARE COMPUTING DEVICES ARE GOING TO BE, I MEAN, THAT'S THE CRITICAL TOOLSET FOR THESE ATHLETES.
AND SO CERTAINLY THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING WE WOULD HAVE ON OUR INITIATIVE.
ALL RIGHT, I THINK WE'RE GOING TO TRANSITION OVER TO DR.
GOOD EVENING, BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
TONIGHT, THE SECOND PART OF THE PRESENTATION IS IN REGARDS TO THREE VERY CRITICAL AREAS IN DISTRICT SERVICES.
SO, SAFETY AND SECURITY, TRANSPORTATION, AND FANS ARE GOING TO REVIEW THE 2016 BOND AND GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF WHAT WAS ALLOCATED, WHAT WAS COMPLETED AND WHAT MAY BE STILL PENDING, AS WELL AS SOME OF THEIR LONG RANGE PLANS.
I AM MOST PLEASED THAT WE HAVE THE EXPERTS AND LEADERS OF THESE DEPARTMENTS IN THE
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ROOM WITH US TONIGHT TO PRESENT TO YOU GUYS, SO WE ARE GOING TO START WITH SAFETY AND SECURITY.AND THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF SAFETY AND SECURITY, BART ROSEBURE.
AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO FOLLOW WITH OUR DIRECTOR OF TRANSPORTATION, MARK SKINNER.
AND THEN LAST BUT NOT LEAST, ASHLEY HIPP, OUR DIRECTOR OF FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICES.
GOOD EVENING, I WAS ASKED TO KIND OF TALK THROUGH OUR 2016 BOND AND SAFETY AND SECURITY AND THEN ALSO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE LONG RANGE NEEDS AND ASSESSMENTS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT.
SO, JUST TO TALK ABOUT THE 2016 BOND, THERE WAS ABOUT TWELVE POINT TWO MILLION ALLOCATED AND YOU'LL SEE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE DID.
THE SECURITY CAMERA PROJECT UPDATED SEVENTY FIVE PERCENT OF THE CAMPUSES AND FACILITIES.
SO WHAT THAT WAS PRIOR TO 2016, THE DISTRICT HAD ALREADY STARTED TRANSITIONING FROM OLD ANALOG CAMERAS TO DIGITAL CAMERAS.
AND SO WHEN THE 2016 BOND CAME AROUND, IT WAS TO FINISH THE PROJECT WHERE ALL OF OUR CAMERAS WOULD BE DIGITAL CAMERAS AND WE ARE PRETTY MUCH THERE.
THERE'S A FEW CAMPUSES LEFT THAT ARE STILL ANALOG AND THOSE PROJECTS ARE ALREADY FUNDED AND ARE PLANNING TO BE DONE.
THOSE ARE WILLIAMS, BRINKER AND WEATHERFORD.
SO, SOME OF THE OTHER THINGS WE DID WAS ACCESS CONTROL UPDATES WITH-- THAT AS OUR CARD ACCESS SYSTEM AND ALSO AT THE AT THE SENIOR HIGHS WHERE WE HAVE THE PUSH BUTTON ENTRY SYSTEMS AT ALL OF THE BUILDINGS AND THOSE TYPE THINGS.
SO, WE DID THOSE WITH THE ACCESS CONTROL.
ANOTHER PART THAT WE'VE DONE IS THE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION CAPABILITIES FROM THE BOND IN 2016, AND THAT IS OUR CAMPUS EMERGENCY RADIOS AND OUR DISTRICT LEVEL RADIOS.
THOSE ARE TWO SEPARATE THINGS.
SO OUR CAMPUS RADIOS OR WHAT THE CAMPUSES WOULD USE TO TALK JUST ON THE CAMPUSES TO EACH OTHER FOR EMERGENCIES.
AND THEN WE HAVE A MOTOROLA, A LARGE RADIO THAT WE CAN TALK THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT TO MANAGE EMERGENCIES THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT.
SO, WE HAVE UPDATED ALL OF THOSE.
WE STILL HAVE SOME FUNDS THAT WE LOOK AT THAT ARE THERE FOR US, FOR LIFE CYCLE REPLACEMENT BECAUSE THEY ARE ELECTRONICS AND THOSE THINGS, YOU KNOW, WE DO HAVE TO REPLACE WITH NEEDS FOR THAT.
CAN I ASK A QUESTION ABOUT THAT? ARE THOSE ENCRYPTED OR SECURED? LIKE IF THERE IS SOME SORT OF EMERGENCY SITUATION, CAN ANYBODY WITH A MOTOROLA RADIO LISTEN TO YOU TALKING TO CAMPUSES MANAGING THAT SITUATION? SO, THE CAMPUS LEVEL RADIOS ARE NOT ENCRYPTED AND NEITHER IS THE DISTRICT LEVEL RADIOS.
HOWEVER, THAT BEING SAID, I DON'T KNOW THAT, THAT CREATES A GREAT RISK FOR US OR A VULNERABILITY WITH WHAT WE WOULD COMMUNICATE ON THOSE RADIOS.
THAT'S A VERY GOOD QUESTION, I'M GLAD YOU ASK THAT.
ALSO SOMETHING ELSE WAS A SAFETY AND SECURITY UPGRADED AT CLARK STADIUM.
AND SO THAT WAS SOME SAFETY RAILING THAT WAS INSTALLED THERE AT CLARK STADIUM.
ALL RIGHT, SO WE'RE GOING TO MOVE INTO THINGS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT AS ASSESSING THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IN A SAFETY AND SECURITY SENSE THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT.
SO ONE THING THAT YOU'LL SEE RIGHT THERE AT THE BEGINNING IS EXTERIOR LIGHTING IN OUR PARKING LOTS AND THE EXTERIOR OF THE BUILDINGS.
YOU KNOW, THE DISTRICT HAS DONE A GOOD JOB OVER THE YEARS, MAINTAINING LIGHTING AND REPLACING LIGHT FIXTURES.
WE HAVE ALREADY BEEN IN THE PROCESS WHERE THERE ARE LED LIGHTING GOING INTO VARIOUS AREAS IN THE DISTRICT ON THE EXTERIOR.
WE STILL NEED TO WORK ON SOME OF THOSE AREAS, BUT WE ALSO NEED TO ASSESS THE ILLUMINATION, THE FOOT CANDLE READINGS AND THOSE TYPE THINGS AND DO AN ASSESSMENT THAT WE'RE MEETING STANDARDS FOR LIGHTING, FOR THE EXTERIOR OF THE BUILDINGS.
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SO PARKING LOTS AND THOSE TYPE THINGS FOR SAFETY AND SECURITY OF SIGHTLINES AND THOSE TYPE THINGS FOR THE LIGHTING, BUT ALSO SAFETY OF PATHWAYS AND THOSE TYPE THINGS.SO THE OTHER THING IS EXTERIOR SECURITY CAMERA COVERAGE.
IN PATRICK'S PRESENTATION, YOU MENTIONED WE HAVE APPROXIMATELY 6100 CAMERAS THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT.
SOME OF THOSE ARE ALREADY ON THE EXTERIORS OF BUILDINGS AND SHOW SOME COVERAGE OF THE PARKING LOTS AND THINGS.
HOWEVER, WE REALLY DON'T HAVE DEDICATED COVERAGE OF SOME OF THE PARKING AREAS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
OUR GOAL WOULD NOT TO HAVE COMPLETE COVERAGE BY ANY MEANS, BUT HAVE SOME STRATEGIC COVERAGE WHERE WE FELT LIKE WE WOULD NEED TO MITIGATE SOME RISK OR THOSE TYPE OF THINGS.
PHYSICAL SECURITY, PROTECTION ENHANCEMENTS.
BASICALLY, THAT'S AREAS WE WOULD LOOK AT WHERE WE WOULD NEED TO MITIGATE RISK FOR, YOU KNOW, THINGS WHERE THERE MIGHT BE A SAFETY CONCERN OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT WHERE WE USE SOME TYPE OF BARRIER DEVICE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT FOR PROTECTION.
ALSO A CENTRALIZED EMERGENCY OPERATIONS LOCATION, REALLY SOMETHING WHERE WHEN THERE'S HAZARDOUS WEATHER OR THOSE TYPE THINGS, THE ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM CAN WORK FROM A CENTRAL LOCATION AND COMMUNICATE, HAVE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS ON WEATHER AND SECURITY CAMERAS AND ALL THOSE TYPE THINGS IN ONE LOCATION.
THE NEXT THREE THINGS REALLY ARE ON THE PAGE ARE REALLY KIND OF TIED TOGETHER WHEN YOU LOOK AT ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM AGAIN, THAT'S OUR CARD ACCESS SYSTEM.
THAT'S ALSO LIKE TIMED ACCESS, WHERE WE CAN LOCK DOORS REMOTELY AND THOSE TYPE THINGS.
SO ADDING INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS TO THAT IS GOING TO BE, YOU KNOW, A FUTURE GOAL.
THINGS WOULD LOOK AT TOO, IS DOOR PROP DETECTION.
SO, THAT'S WHERE IF A DOOR IS PROPPED OPEN, IT WOULD NOTIFY US AND THOSE TYPE THINGS ON AN EXTERIOR DOOR.
SO, I'VE SEEN PEOPLE PUT THE, YOU KNOW, THE BACKPACK THERE.
SO, WHEN THAT HAPPENS, IT WOULD JUST SIGNAL SOMETHING AND THEN SOMEONE COME OUT WITH SECURITY, COME OVER AND CHECK IT OUT.
SO THERE'S-- PART OF THE PROCESS IS ADDING SENSORS IN THE DOORS.
AND WHAT THAT DOES IS IT, DEPENDING ON THE SYSTEM, HOW IT WOULD SIGNAL SOMEONE TO CHECK THE DOOR.
AND THEN PART OF THAT ALSO IS ENHANCED LOCKDOWN CAPABILITY, AND PART OF THAT IS WITH ACCESS CONTROL AND HAVING CAPABILITIES TO RAPIDLY LOCK DOORS AND THOSE TYPE THINGS GIVES US SOME EXTRA CAPABILITIES IF NEEDED.
THE NEXT THING, JUST BRIEFLY TALK ABOUT SHATTER RESISTANT WINDOW FILM.
SEVERAL YEARS AGO, THE USE OF SHATTER RESISTANT FILM HAS BEEN ADDED IN SOME LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY AT SCHOOLS, THIS IS SOMETHING WE LOOK AT IN A LIMITED SCOPE, LOOKING AT PLACES WHERE WE MIGHT NEED TO MITIGATE SOME RISK ON THE WINDOW FILM.
BUT IT'D BE A VERY LIMITED SCOPE, BUT SOMETHING THAT WE WOULD LOOK AT APPLYING IN SOME LOCATIONS.
PATRICK'S ALREADY MENTIONED BACKUP EMERGENCY POWER.
THAT'S IMPORTANT TO SAFETY AND SECURITY FOR OUR SYSTEMS ALSO.
IF WE'RE ABLE TO HAVE IT EMERGENCY OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT OUR ABILITY TO, YOU KNOW, OPERATE WITHOUT POWER FOR A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME IS ALSO IMPORTANT.
SO, THE NEXT THING, TRANSPORTATION GPS SYSTEMS, THAT'S WHERE WE WOULD BE ABLE TO KNOW WHERE THE BUSSES ARE.
AND SO THAT KIND OF WORKS WITH EMERGENCY OPERATIONS.
SO, IF WE WERE HAVING SOME SORT OF EMERGENCY, WE COULD PULL UP THE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS OF WHERE ALL THE BUSSES WERE.
AND WE TALKED ABOUT SECURITY CAMERAS A LITTLE BIT, BUT SOME OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS ON MEMORY UPDATING SERVERS AND THOSE TYPE THINGS IN THE LONG TERM, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WOULD NEED TO LOOK AT.
AND THEN LIFE CYCLE MAINTENANCE AND REPLACEMENT OF SECURITY CAMERAS.
AND THEN THE LAST THING THAT WE HAVE IS OUR PATROL CARS THAT WE HAVE WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
THAT OUR [INAUDIBLE] AND OUR CPO PROGRAM JUST LIFE CYCLE REPLACEMENT ON THAT.
BUT I DID WANT TO PRESENT SOME OF THESE THINGS FOR ALL.
ANY QUESTIONS-- QUESTIONS OR? THANKS BART.
CAN I ASK ONE QUESTION? YES, SIR.
IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, JUST FUTURE THOUGHTS, MAYBE WHAT'S GOING ON WITH OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS OR WHAT DO YOU SEE ONE OF THE LARGER OR MORE PRICIER INNOVATIONS IN SCHOOL SAFETY AND SECURITY THAT WE MAY INVEST IN A FUTURE BOND? WELL, I DON'T KNOW THAT THERE'S ANY ONE SPECIFIC THING.
SAFETY AND SECURITY KIND OF WORKS IN SYSTEMS, SO AS WHERE THE SECURITY CAMERAS ARE HELPFUL FOR OUR SITUATIONAL AWARENESS AND WHERE THE PHYSICAL SECURITY COMPONENTS.
ALL THOSE THINGS WORK TOGETHER AS A SYSTEM.
I WOULDN'T SAY THAT THERE'S ANY ONE THING OUT THERE THAT I WOULD THINK WOULD BE MORE THAN OTHERS IN [INAUDIBLE] PRICING THAT WE WOULD NEED TO LOOK AT.
OBVIOUSLY, OUR CAMERA SYSTEM IS LARGER IN SCOPE.
AND SO THERE'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE SOME SYSTEM COSTS THERE AND OUR ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS. VERY GOOD QUESTION.
HEY, BART, I'M SORRY, I JUST--.
YES, SIR, I KEPT HAVING THIS ONE QUESTION ROLL THROUGH MY HEAD.
SO THE TRANSPORTATION GPS SYSTEM, WOULD THOSE BE SOMETHING THAT WOULD PERMANENTLY PLACED ON, FOR EXAMPLE, A BUS? OR IS THAT SOMETHING THAT'S MOBILE THAT YOU COULD TAKE FROM A BUS TO A VAN TO WHEREVER YOU NEED IT? YES SIR.
TYPICALLY THAT'S MOUNTED TO THE BUS.
IT'S A SYSTEM THAT IS INSTALLED ON THE BUS.
SO, YOU MAY NOT BE THE RIGHT PERSON TO ASK THIS QUESTION.
[LAUGHTER] WE ACTUALLY DIRECT THIS TO OUR LAWYERS.
ARE WE ALLOWED TO REQUIRE BUS DRIVERS OR STAFF WHO ARE DRIVING BUSSES TO SHARE THEIR LOCATION ON THEIR PHONE? IS THAT PERMITTED UNDER THE LAW? I MEAN, THAT'S-- I KNOW YOU'RE NOT IN LAW SCHOOL OR GOING TO LAW SCHOOL OR ANYTHING OF THAT NATURE, BUT I MEAN, THAT SEEMS LIKE A VERY EFFICIENT WAY OF GETTING TO THE SAME BIT OF DATA RIGHT NOW.
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WE WOULD THEN HAVE TO PROVIDE THE PHONES.AND THE DATA PACKAGE AND ALL OF THAT.
OK, WELL, YOU KNOW, JUST TRYING TO DO SOMETHING FOR FREE HERE.
MARK IS GOING TO COME UP AND TALK ABOUT TRANSPORTATION.
SO, WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE PAST AND THE FUTURE, SO KIND OF GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF WHAT WE DID IN OUR LAST 2016 BOND, PRIMARILY A YELLOW BUS SUPPORT TEN POINT FOUR MILLION DOLLARS.
WE PURCHASED 99 YELLOW BUSSES, WHICH WE BROKE DOWN INTO 18 BUSSES A YEAR AND WE DON'T BUY THEM ALL UP FRONT.
WE DO A ROTATION WITH A 15 YEAR LIFE CYCLE, WHICH IS ACTUALLY A LONG LIFE CYCLE COMPARED TO SOME DISTRICTS TO A 10 YEAR.
WE DO A 15, SO WE REALLY TRY TO PUSH THE LIFE OF THOSE BUSSES AS FAR AS WE CAN IN A ROTATION.
AND SO WE DID 99 THEN AND THEN THE ONLY THING PENDING WAS THE TRANSPORTATION AND MOTOR POOL BUILDING UPGRADES.
I'LL KIND OF SHARE THIS IN THE NEXT SLIDE ABOUT PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE, BUT WE HAD SOME LIMITATIONS OF BEING ABLE TO UTILIZE THOSE FUNDS BASED ON STRUCTURAL ISSUES, AND IT JUST WASN'T POSSIBLE, SO THAT'S WHY WE DIDN'T UTILIZE THOSE FUNDS.
THIS IS THE FACILITY OFF OF ALMA BETWEEN SPRING CREEK AND LEGACY IS--.
SO, MOVING FORWARD WITH THAT 15 YEAR ROTATION AND TRYING TO KEEP OUR VEHICLE SAFE AND CURRENT AND UP TO DATE, WE CURRENTLY HAVE A FLEET OF AROUND 285 YELLOW BUSSES, AND THAT'S GENERAL EDUCATION AND SPECIAL NEEDS BUSSES IN OUR CURRENT INVENTORY.
AND WHEN WE REVIEWED IT, WE'RE BEHIND.
SO TO CATCH UP, TO MAKE SURE ALL OF OUR VEHICLES ARE WITHIN THAT 15 YEAR CYCLE, WE'RE LOOKING AT ABOUT 179 BUSSES THAT WE NEED TO START INVESTING FOR OUR FUTURE.
AND THAT COULD BE BROKEN DOWN AROUND 120 GEN ED AND 60 SPECIAL NEEDS BUSSES.
AVERAGE COST FOR BUS, I PUT $120K IN THERE BECAUSE WITH OUR CURRENT SITUATION OF JUST EVERYTHING'S GETTING MORE EXPENSIVE RIGHT NOW BECAUSE OF JUST FROM PARTS TO DELIVERIES, IT TAKES EVEN LONGER TO EVEN GET THE BUSSES DELIVERED.
WE'RE LOOKING AT ABOUT $120,000 PER VEHICLE.
SO IT ADDS UP QUICK, BUT THAT'S KIND OF TO JUST GET US CAUGHT UP.
SO THAT'S-- YOU KNOW, BEING BEHIND, THAT'S GOING TO BE IMPERATIVE TO CATCH OURSELVES UP THERE.
CAN I ASK YOU A QUESTION ABOUT THE SCHOOL BUSSES? YEAH, I KNOW A FEW YEARS BACK THEY REQUIRED SEATBELTS.
WHERE ARE WE IN THAT LIFE CYCLE WITH HAVING SEATBELTS ON OUR BUSSES? I'D HAVE TO GET BACK TO YOU ON THE TOTAL NUMBER OF VEHICLES, BUT I KNOW SINCE THEY PUT THE LAW THROUGH EVERY NEW BUS THAT WE ORDER THAT COMES WITH SEATBELTS, WE MAKE SURE THEY'RE ALL ORDERED TO SEATBELTS.
WE HAVE SEATBELTS FOR THREE PER SEAT.
OK, SO THE MAXIMUM NUMBER I THINK ON LIKE THE GENERAL ED IS AT 77, SO 72-77 STUDENTS AND WE DON'T STRIVE FOR THAT.
BUT LEGALLY AND SAFELY, WE CAN DO THAT, BUT YES, ALL NEW BUSSES COME WITH SEATBELTS.
EXCUSE ME, I HAVE ONE QUESTION ABOUT THE BUSSES.
WHAT IS-- 120 FOR GEN ED, 60 FOR SPED.
SO YOU KNOW HOW MANY-- HOW DO WE SERVE SPED STUDENTS? SO IN TERMS OF NUMBER OF BUSSES, WHY THEY NEED SO MANY BUSSES? WELL, THE SPECIAL NEEDS ARE SPECIFICALLY BASED ON WHERE THE PROGRAMS ARE AND THE STUDENTS THAT NEED THOSE SPECIFIC PROGRAMS. SO, THERE'S QUITE A FEW MORE GENERAL ED STUDENTS THAT WE TRANSPORT, SO IT REQUIRES MANY MORE BUSSES TO COVER.
WE HAVE A HUGE AREA IN PLANO TO COVER, SO WE HAVE TO DISPERSE ALL THOSE GENERAL ED BUSSES ALL OVER THE DISTRICT WHERE THE SPECIAL NEEDS BUSSES ARE GOING DOOR TO DOOR, BUT GOING TO SPECIFIC CAMPUS PROGRAMS SO YOU DON'T NEED-- IT'S NOT THE SAME QUANTITY OF STUDENTS THAT YOU'RE DELIVERING [INAUDIBLE].
SO, I MIGHT BE TRAVELING, YOU KNOW, THE 120 BUSSES WITH 60 KIDS.
BUT ON THE SPECIAL NEEDS, I COULD HAVE THREE TO FOUR OR FIVE SPECIAL PROGRAM.
OK, SO MOVING TO WHITE FLEET, THESE ARE SUBURBANS, OUR VANS.
WE'RE LOOKING AT QUITE A FEW IN THAT INVENTORY THAT NEED TO-- WE HAVE SOME OLD
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VEHICLES, SO WE'RE LOOKING AT TRYING TO REALLY TRY TO UPGRADE THOSE, I'M NOT SAYING WE'RE GOING TO DO 93.I'M JUST LETTING YOU KNOW WE HAVE 93 THAT NEED ATTENTION.
BUT ANYWAY, I TRY TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA.
CAMPUSES HAVE 10 VEHICLES, FACILITIES 42, FOOD NUTRITION 2, SPECIAL EDUCATION 16, WE IN TRANSPORTATION HAVE SERVICE TRUCKS, ET CETERA.
BUT WE ALSO HAVE THE SUBURBANS THAT WE USE THAT EITHER THE DISTRICT CAN CHECK OUT AND USE OR WE USE A LOT FOR MCKINNEY VENTO OR THOSE KIND OF SMALL TYPE DELIVERIES FOR THOSE.
THIS ISN'T ALL OF THEM UNDER THE LIST, BUT THESE ARE THE HIGHER QUANTITIES.
THERE'S LIKE SEVERAL DIFFERENT OTHER AREAS THAT HAVE ONE VEHICLE, BUT I DIDN'T LIST THOSE JUST HIGHLIGHTED THESE.
WITH THE FLEETS THAT WE HAVE WITH THE WHITE FLEET AND ALSO THE YELLOW FLEET, DO WE SERVICE OUR BUSSES AND OUR DIFFERENT TYPES OF VEHICLES ON OUR OWN? OR DO WE SEND IT OFF TO SOMEONE ELSE FOR [INAUDIBLE]? ONE OF THE THINGS I TOUCH ON THE NEXT SLIDE IS WE HAVE OUR OWN IN-HOUSE SERVICE DEPARTMENT WHERE WE REPAIR EVERYTHING.
[INAUDIBLE] OUR LIMITATIONS TO THAT.
WE DON'T OVERHAUL ENGINES OR BIG, BIG HIGH DOLLAR ITEMS LIKE THAT.
WE DO ALL OUR PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE INSPECTIONS AND SMALL REPAIRS, SOME SMALL BODY WORK, BUT A LOT OF LARGER ITEMS WE SEND OUT FOR SERVICE.
I'D SAY OVER THE PAST THREE OR FOUR YEARS, WE'VE SHOWN GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN TRYING TO CENTRALIZE AND BRING THE DISTRICTS SOME SAVINGS.
I THINK WE WERE LOOKING, THERE HAS BEEN A SAVINGS OVER $100000, I THINK, OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS THAT WE WERE ABLE TO SAVE THE DISTRICT FROM OUTSOURCING TO BRING IT IN-HOUSE.
BUT THAT'S A PERFECT TRANSITION FOR ME TO GO INTO OUR SHOP.
OUR CURRENT SHOP WAS BUILT IN 1986.
I'M TRYING TO THINK A HIT MOVIE THAT CAME OUT BACK THEN, BUT I COULDN'T COME UP WITH SOMETHING, BUT-- I KNOW I WAS IN COLLEGE.
BUT WE'RE RUNNING INTO, YOU KNOW, WE ARE LANDLOCKED WHERE WE ARE.
AND WITH THE SHOP BEING BUILT IN 1986, WE JUST HAVE LIMITATIONS.
WE ARE UNABLE TO RAISE A VEHICLE TO ITS FULL LENGTH.
YOU KNOW, IN A PERFECT WORLD, ESPECIALLY TODAY WITH NEW CODES AND REGULATIONS YOU WANT TO CHECK, YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO LIFT THAT VEHICLE SO YOU CAN LITERALLY WALK UNDERNEATH IT AND DO QUICK CHECKS ON SOME VITAL AREAS FOR SAFETY.
OUR CEILINGS ARE SO LOW WE CANNOT EVEN-- WE CAN MAYBE RAISE IT FIVE FEET OFF THE GROUND.
SO, IT'S JUST NOT EFFICIENT AND THE AGE OF THE SHOP AND THE LIMITATIONS.
WE HAVE VERY TIGHT CLOSE QUARTERS FOR REPAIR BAYS.
JUST TO REPLACE THE TIRE IS NOT SAFE.
WE HAVE A LOT OF SAFETY CONCERNS.
SO, YOU KNOW, DEFINITELY INTERESTED IN EXPLORING SOME OPPORTUNITIES THERE TO MAKE SOME IMPROVEMENTS BECAUSE I THINK WE WANT TO CONTINUE TO NOT DO LESS IN-HOUSE MAINTENANCE.
WE WANT TO CONTINUE TO DO MORE.
ON THAT, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY, BECAUSE OF THE LOW CEILINGS, IT'S HARD TO LIFT THOSE.
WHAT'S THE POSSIBILITY OF DIGGING DOWN TO GET UNDERNEATH THEM? I THINK ANYTHING'S POSSIBLE, I THINK THE AREAS-- THE INVESTMENT OF DOING THAT, I THINK, WOULD JUST HAVE TO BE ANALYZED TO SEE THE DIFFERENCE OF THE PROS AND CONS OF DOING THAT, I MEAN-- COMPARED TO ALTERNATIVES? CONSTRUCTION.
BUT I THINK, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU COMPARE THE COST OF OUTSOURCING, THIS MAINTENANCE TO WHAT WE CAN PROVIDE IN HOUSE IS, I MEAN, YOU'RE TALKING $150 AN HOUR VERSUS, YOU KNOW, $50 AN HOUR BY THE TIME YOU BREAK DOWN THE COST.
SO, IT'S DEFINITELY MORE EFFICIENT.
IT'S JUST A MATTER OF HOW WE WANT TO INVEST OUR DOLLARS AND MAKE IT WORK.
NOW, IF WE CAN USE OUR IMAGINATIONS.
THERE'S A FEW DOMINO FACTORS THAT HAVE TO OCCUR IF WE WERE TO ENTERTAIN THE IDEA, TO DO A SHOP BECAUSE WE ARE LANDLOCKED AND WE HAVE SOME CHALLENGES.
SO, WE ARE STORING TIRES AND ANYTHING FROM CHAIRS IN THE BUS WASH, BECAUSE WHEN YOU HAVE CERTAIN BUSSES, WE SOMETIMES HAVE TO PULL EXTRA CHAIRS OFF.
THERE'S NO-- WE ARE DESPERATE FOR STORAGE SPACE, [INAUDIBLE] PARKING SPACE, ET CETERA.
SO REALLY, THE ONLY WAY I CAN FORESEE US UNDER OUR CURRENT STRUCTURE, LET'S SAY WE WERE COMMITTED TO DOING THE SHOP.
WELL, THE ONLY WAY WE COULD DO THAT IS POTENTIALLY LOOK AT EXPANDING OUR PARKING.
WELL, BY EXPANDING THE PARKING THAT CREATES AN AREA FOR US TO EITHER BUILD OR MODIFY, CREATE A NEW SHOP, RIGHT? WELL, WE CAN'T DO THAT WITHOUT LOOKING AT EXPANDING POTENTIALLY THE PARKING.
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OUR FUEL STORAGE AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM WAS PLACED, IT'S AN UNDERGROUND SYSTEM THAT WAS INSTALLED IN 1986, AND IT HAS A 35 TO 40 YEAR LIFESPAN, WHICH WE'RE RIGHT ON THE CUSP OF .SO, IF WE'RE GOING TO DO SOMETHING BIG PICTURE, LIKE WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SHOP AND THE FUEL, PERFECT TIMING, BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO TAKE SOME EFFORT TO PULL ALL THAT STUFF OUT OF THE GROUND AND MAKE SURE WE'RE UNDER CODE AND WE'RE NOT DEALING WITH LEAKY FUEL AND FEES AND CODES, AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST BAD NEWS.
SO KEEPING THAT IN MIND, WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXPAND THE PARKING, POTENTIALLY LOOK AT A DIFFERENT SHOP, WHEREAS AN EFFICIENT, MAYBE A MORE EFFICIENT WAY TO SET UP OUR NEW AND POTENTIALLY NEW FUEL ISLAND STATION THAT'S MORE EFFICIENT.
HIGHER CEILINGS FOR THE BIG RIGS TO COME THROUGH ANOTHER DISTRICT VEHICLES TO EASILY COME IN, IN AND OUT.
SAFETY FACTORS WOULD BE GREAT.
AND LET'S SAY BECAUSE WE ARE LANDLOCKED AND WE ARE DESPERATE FOR STORAGE SPACE, AND WE'RE BASICALLY-- THERE'S SOME AREAS WHERE WE HAVE THREE OR FOUR PEOPLE IN A ROOM THAT SHOULD REALLY HAVE TWO.
WE COULD POTENTIALLY RENOVATE THE OLD SHOP INTO SOME MEETING SPACE AND SOME OFFICE SPACE, WHICH WOULD BE-- AND STORAGE THAT WE DESPERATELY NEED THAT WE DO NOT HAVE.
I MEAN, AGAIN, WE'RE STORING TIRES ON THE PARKING LOT AND, YOU KNOW, AND EQUIPMENT AND THINGS THAT WE STRICTLY DON'T HAVE ROOM FOR.
AND IT'S BEEN A SAFETY HAZARD, WE HAVE RUN INTO SOME CHALLENGES THERE WHERE IT'S DARK AND WE TRY TO CONE IT OFF, BUT THERE'S SOME SAFETY CHALLENGES THERE.
THE OTHER CONSIDERATION WOULD BE OUR SMART-TAG STUDENT TRACKING AND MAINTENANCE SYSTEM, HARDWARE, TABLETS AND CARD SYSTEM.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU RECALL, WHEN WE-- I THINK IT WENT THROUGH LAST YEAR.
WITH THE MEDICAID [INAUDIBLE] REPORTING AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR REPORTING INTO THAT PROGRAM, WE NEEDED AN EFFICIENT WAY TO TRACK OUR STUDENTS.
YOU KNOW, HOW MANY ARE RIDING, WHERE ARE THEY RIDING, ET CETERA, ET CETERA.
SO, THE DISTRICT INVESTED IN THE SMART-TAG SYSTEM, AND JUST AS A QUICK REMINDER, THAT'S A TABLET SYSTEM LIKE A LITTLE IPAD OR SOMETHING THAT'S RIGHT THERE BY THE DRIVER AND AS STUDENTS BOARD, YOU DIGITALLY LOAD THEM AND THEN YOU UNLOAD THEM, AND IT'S ALL TRACKED DIGITALLY, AND THAT REPORTING GOES REAL EFFICIENTLY DIRECTLY TO OUR PARTNERS THAT HELP US PROCESS THAT.
IN ADDITION TO THAT SYSTEM, WHICH IS A BENEFIT FOR US, IT ALSO PROVIDES OUR PRE TRIP AND POST TRIP RECORD KEEPING, I DON'T KNOW [INAUDIBLE], YOU KNOW, THERE'S POTENTIAL IN-HOUSE PORTAL TRACKING WHERE YOU CAN TRACK WHERE THE BUSSES ARE.
IN A PERFECT WORLD, YOU CAN PULL UP THAT PORTAL, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE IT'S SPECIAL NEEDS AND I CAN KNOW WHO'S ON WHAT BUS AND WHEN.
SO, I CERTAINLY WANT TO ENTERTAIN THE IDEA OF HOW WE MIGHT UTILIZE THE OTHER HALF OF THE FLEET TO LOCATE AND KNOW WHERE OUR STUDENTS ARE, BECAUSE AGAIN, IN A PERFECT-- WHEN IT WORKS PERFECTLY LIKE WE WANT EVERYTHING TO WORK.
I COULD CHECK-- I MEAN, I COULD KNOW WHEN DR.
ANDERSON, WHERE SHE GOT ON THE BUS, WHERE SHE GOT OFF THE BUS AND WHICH BUS IT WAS.
TO ME, THAT'S A VERY VALUABLE TO KNOW.
NOW THERE'S A LOT OF COMPLEX LAYERS TO THAT, WHAT WE DO AND WE DON'T WANT TO DO.
BUT IT'S IMPORTANT FOR ME AND MY STAFF.
THE WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD IS WHERE IS THAT STUDENT? AND MINUTES FEEL LIKE HOURS, AND THERE'S A LOT OF INTERNAL TRAINING THAT WE GO THROUGH AND DO THAT, BUT THAT PEACE OF MIND CERTAINLY SHOULD BE EXPLORED AND CONSIDERED, AND I'D JUST-- IF WE'VE ALREADY GOT HALF THE FLEET FROM A SPED STANDPOINT, LET'S AT LEAST INVESTIGATE DOING THE GENERAL ED WORKING THROUGH ALL THE MINUTIA DETAILS OF WHAT DO WE WANT TO DO? HOW WOULD THAT WORK, ET CETERA, ET CETERA.
HEY, MARK, IS THAT A LOCAL SYSTEM OR WOULD THAT BE KIND OF IN PLACE OF THE GPS SYSTEM THAT BART TALKED ABOUT? WELL, I THINK IT DEPENDS ON A FEW MAJOR FACTORS OF WHAT THE FLEXIBILITY OF WHAT HIS SYSTEM CAN DO AND WHAT MY SYSTEM CAN DO.
SO, I THINK THOSE ARE DISCUSSIONS THAT WE WOULD HAVE BECAUSE I THINK WE WOULD, PERFECT WORLD, DO ONE OR THE OTHER.
BECAUSE IT'S A VERY-- I'M NOT SURE COMPLETELY WITHOUT REALLY PARTNERING WITH BART THROUGH THE WHOLE PROCESS OF THE BOND DEVELOPMENT OF HOW ACCESSIBLE WHAT HIS NEEDS WOULD BE VERSUS WHAT I COULD SEE.
BECAUSE RIGHT NOW AT A VERY TERTIARY LEVEL, WHICH IS A WONDERFUL I CAN PULL UP A MAP AND I CAN SEE THAT BUS AND I CAN SEE HOW FAST IT'S GOING.
I CAN SEE WHERE IT'S GOING AND WHO'S ON IT RIGHT, THEN LIVE.
BUT HOW HE WOULD TRACK THAT IN AN EMERGENCY SITUATION?
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I DON'T KNOW.I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT WOULD WORK, BUT I KNOW WE WOULD INVESTIGATE THAT TOGETHER AND FIGURE THAT OUT.
ANOTHER ITEM, WHICH I THINK, FOR A DISTRICT OUR SIZE, THERE'S NOTHING MORE VALUABLE THAN VIDEO ON A BUS.
AND FOR THAT SECURITY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON WHEN AND HOW AND THE SPEED OF WHICH WE CAN COLLECT THAT DATA.
SOMETIMES IS NEVER FAST ENOUGH.
A LOT OF DISTRICTS DO IT THIS WAY, BUT AT OUR SIZE, I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO PURSUE A WIRELESS NETWORK SOLUTION.
MEANING WHEN THAT-- I CAN PREPROGRAM OR WHENEVER THAT BUS PULLS INTO THE LOT, IT WOULD IMMEDIATELY START DOWNLOADING THAT VIDEO AND I COULD LOOK AT IT AND CALL THE CAMPUS, DR.
ANDERSON, WHOEVER WITHIN A FEW MINUTES BECAUSE IT'S INSTANTANEOUS.
I COULD GO, LET'S SAY I GOT A CALL AT EIGHT O'CLOCK AT NIGHT.
WE NEED A BUS VIDEO FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, I CAN HANG UP THE PHONE AND LOG INTO THE SYSTEM AND SET IT UP.
S, WHEN THAT BUS STARTS THAT MORNING AT 6:00 A.M., IT WILL BEGIN DOWNLOADING THAT VIDEO AND WE HAVE CURRENTLY A ROTATION OF THREE OR FOUR PERSONNEL SPECIALISTS THAT RUN OUT TO THE BUS, SWITCH OUT THE HARD DRIVE, RUN BACK, PLUG IT IN.
HOPEFULLY THAT WORKS AND YOU'RE DEALING WITH, EXCUSE ME, YOU'RE DEALING WITH THE CHALLENGES OF JUST DOES THE HARD DRIVE WORK AND HARD DRIVE FAILURES.
BECAUSE GUESS WHAT? WHAT HAPPENS MOST OF THE TIME THAT? ONE VIDEO THAT YOU NEEDED WAS ON A HARD DRIVE THAT'S 10 YEARS OLD AND DUSTY, AND IT'S THE-- ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS ON A BUS.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT YOUR BASIC SAFETY, BUT WITHOUT VIDEO.
I MEAN, THERE'S JUST-- IT'S JUST SO IMPORTANT.
SO, I THINK HAVING THAT ABILITY TO HAVE THAT WIRELESS DOWNLOAD ABILITY, I THINK IS JUST IMPERATIVE.
AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, PARTNERING WITH TECHNOLOGY AND WITH SAFETY AND SECURITY, WE COULD FIND A SOLUTION THAT I THINK WOULD BENEFIT US.
BUT JUST, THE VALUE OF IT, I PROBABLY COULDN'T PUT A PRICE TAG ON.
I THINK THAT'S-- YEAH, THAT'S IT, QUESTIONS FOR ME? FOR YOUR, AND I GUESS THIS IS KIND OF LIKE A GENERAL QUESTION FOR ANY ANY DEPARTMENT, BUT FOR THE FUTURE BUS NEEDS AND REALLY, THE NUMBER OF BUSSES AND VEHICLES.
ARE YOU FACTORING IN THE DECLINING ENROLLMENT? YOU ARE.
OK, SO YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY, IT'S NOT JUST REPLACEMENT, BUT SOME THINGS WON'T NEED TO BE REPLACED BECAUSE THEY WON'T BE USED.
I THINK THE ANSWER IS AN ABSOLUTE YES WITH THE BALANCING CAVEAT OF WE'RE MAYBE [INAUDIBLE] AND DEALING WITH THOSE STUDENT NUMBERS, BUT WE'RE ALSO HAVING TO REASSESS AND ADDRESS PROGRAMS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE THE NEEDS THAT THEY REQUIRE FOR SERVICE BECAUSE OF, YOU KNOW, ANY CERTAIN SPED PROGRAM OR ANY CERTAIN BILINGUAL PROGRAM OR ANYTHING IS GOING TO REQUIRE SOME CREATIVE THINKING, WHICH I THOUGHT [INAUDIBLE] CUT 10 BUSSES, BUT I MIGHT HAVE NEEDED TO MOVE THOSE 10 BUSSES TO SOLVE ANOTHER PROBLEM, SIMPLY BECAUSE OF HOW WE'VE STRUCTURED OURSELVES.
SO, WE TAKE THAT COMPLETELY-- BUT IN MIND, IT'S JUST WE'RE SO BEHIND TO GET CAUGHT UP TO MAKE SURE ALL THE BUSSES HAVE THAT LIFE.
THAT'S KIND OF FIRST STEP AS WE TRY TO SOLVE THOSE PROBLEMS. I KNOW IT'S NOT E-SPORTS, BUT IT'S.
I'VE GOT TWO MORE THINGS FOR YOU.
JUST JUST ONE SHORT QUESTION DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW MANY STUDENTS DO WE HAVE IN THE YEAR OF NINETEEN? EIGHTY SIX? OH, NO IDEA.
I'M JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHY THE THE STORAGE OF THE FACILITY WAS THE WAY IT IS NOW.
I MEAN, PLANO HAD LESS THAN 100000 PEOPLE LIVING IN IT IN THE MID-EIGHTIES, RIGHT? SO WE THINK WE ARE GROWING.
YEAH, BUT WHAT YEAR WAS PLANO EAST BUILT? WAS THAT EIGHTY ONE? EARLY 80S? YEAH.
ONE THING I JUST JUST WANT TO THROW OUT THERE, WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT EXPANDING THE PARKING AGAIN, THERE'S SOME CREATIVE WAYS WE CAN TRY TO DO THAT.
BUT AGAIN, THE TIMING OF THIS, I THINK, IS ALMOST PERFECT IN THE SENSE OF.
CLARKE STADIUM'S PARKING LOT, YOU KNOW, THE VISITOR SIDE AND THE HOME SIDE, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO THERE? ARE WE GOING TO REPAVE THAT? WELL, WE'RE GOING TO START GETTING BULLDOZERS OUT THERE, BUT THEN LET'S KIND
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OF AND CREATE A LITTLE MAGIC, YOU KNOW, AND EXPAND THAT.I THINK THERE'S SOME GREAT OPPORTUNITY THERE.
SO I'VE GOT A COMMENT AND A QUESTION.
WHICH TOP GUN TWO IS COMING OUT THIS YEAR? SO I THINK THE LESSON IS YOU GET A NEW FACILITY EVERY TIME A NEW TOP GUN MOVIE COMES OUT.
THE QUESTION I HAVE IS REALLY ACTUALLY FROM MY COLLEAGUES HERE.
RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU'RE DRIVING A BUS ON A DAILY BASIS.
SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR STEPPING INTO THE VOID.
THAT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT FOR THOSE OF YOU WATCHING IS IS WITHIN HIS ACTUAL DAILY DUTIES, BUT HE IS STEPPING UP AND DRIVING BUSSES ON A DAILY BASIS BECAUSE WE HAVE THE NEED.
WELL, EVERY AND EVERYTHING MAINLY, YOU KNOW, SPECIAL NEEDS AND OR, YOU KNOW, GEN-ED IS NEEDED, TYPICALLY IT'S THE NEED OF THE MOMENT, SO AS IF YOU'RE CALLING IN SICK DUE TO VARIOUS REASONS.
SO AND HOW I'M LEARNING, HOW MUCH WILL A BUS DRIVER BE MAKING PER AN HOUR RIGHT NOW? A BUS DRIVER HOURLY RATE IS TWENTY ONE AN HOUR.
JUST WANTED TO THROW THAT OUT THERE.
YEAH, GUESS ANYBODY WAS INTERESTED.
AND OUR BUS ASSISTANTS MAKE THIRTEEN AN HOUR.
IF THERE'S NO MORE QUESTIONS, I'D AT AT LEAST LIKE TO SHARE THIS.
THE IMPACT THAT YOUR APPRECIATION GIFT GAVE TO MY TEAM.
WE'RE WE'RE NOT YEAR ROUND PAY, AND SOME OF OUR POSITIONS AND TRANSPORTATION MAINLY ARE BUS DRIVERS AND ASSISTANCE WHEN THEY'RE GONE FOR THOSE TWO WEEKS AND CHRISTMAS AND THEY COME BACK, THEY MIGHT BE GETTING A CHECK WITH ONE DAY A HALF A DAY.
ON THAT CHECK, THEY GOT A SPECIAL GIFT.
I MEAN, YOU HAVE NO IDEA THE IMPACT OF THAT, AND I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THAT BECAUSE WE TALK ABOUT PEOPLE.
AND I KNOW ON BEHALF OF MY DEPARTMENT AND ESPECIALLY THOSE THOSE FOLKS THAT DIDN'T JUST GET THAT ONE DAY ON THEIR PAYCHECK, THANK YOU BECAUSE IT MADE YOU JUST YOU JUST HAVE NO IDEA.
I MEAN, THERE'S A DIFFERENCE OF ATTITUDE CHANGE.
YOU CHANGE, YOU CHANGE LIVES AND LITERALLY OF, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, WE'VE ALL BEEN THERE AND YOU MADE A DIFFERENCE.
AND I JUST WANTED TO SAY, THANK YOU FOR THAT.
THE STUDENT ENROLLMENT IN NINETEEN EIGHTY SIX WAS TWENTY EIGHT THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND ONE.
GOOD EVENING, THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS FOOD SERVICE PROJECTS FROM THE TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN BOND.
AND I KNOW MY STAFF SAID THAT WE COULD HAVE PROBABLY MADE A TIK TOK VIDEO BECAUSE THERE WERE SOME OF THEM THAT WERE SO EXCITED WITH THAT MONEY.
SO BUT THEY WERE LIKE, WE DIDN'T HAVE OUR VIDEO READY.
WE DIDN'T KNOW THEY WERE GOING TO GET SO EXCITED, BUT THEY WERE REALLY EXCITED.
SO IN TWO THOUSAND AND SIXTEEN FANS WAS ALLOCATED FIVE POINT FOUR MILLION DOLLARS.
SO WITH THIS FUNDING, WE COMPLETED FULL KITCHEN RENOVATION PROJECTS AT BOWMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL AND WILSON MIDDLE SCHOOL.
WE ALSO DID KITCHEN ENHANCEMENT PROJECT AT THE ADULT TRANSITION CENTER, WHICH INCLUDED LARGE EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT SUCH AS A WALK-IN COOLER COOKING UNITS, HOT HOLDING UNITS AND A NEW SERVING LINE.
AND BY COMPLETING THIS ENHANCEMENT, WE WERE ABLE TO START FEEDING THE STUDENTS AT THE ADULT TRANSITION CENTER AT THAT CAMPUS SITE AND NOT SATELLITE FOOD ANYMORE.
WE ALSO COMPLETED A REFURBISHMENT PROJECT AT SEVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, AND THIS INCLUDED AN EXPANSION OF THE WALK-IN COOLER AND FREEZER.
AND THIS ADDED ADDITIONAL SQUARE FOOTAGE TO THE KITCHEN BECAUSE THOSE WERE BUILT ON THE OUTSIDE.
THEY HAD ENTRY FROM THE INSIDE OF THE KITCHEN, BUT THEY WERE EXTENDED OUT TO ADD THAT SQUARE FOOTAGE.
ALSO, WE HAD LARGE AND SMALL EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT CEILING TILE UPGRADES, STAFF BATHROOM MANAGER OFFICE AND THE KITCHEN WALLS WERE ALSO UPDATED DURING THE REFURBISHMENT PROPER PROJECTS.
WE ALSO COMPLETED UPGRADES AT ONE HIGH SCHOOL AND THREE MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, AND THIS JUST INCLUDED SOME LIMITED REPLACEMENT OF LARGE EQUIPMENT AT THOSE SITES.
AND WE WERE ALSO ALLOCATED SOME FUNDING TO REPLACE EQUIPMENT, AND THE MAJORITY OF THIS FUNDING WAS USED TO REPLACE NON-OPERATIONAL EQUIPMENT,
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SO THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN OUTDATED, LARGE AMOUNT OF MAINTENANCE, WORK, ORDER, REQUEST AND JUST THE LIFESPAN OF THE EQUIPMENT.AND RIGHT NOW, WHAT'S PENDING IS WE CURRENTLY HAVE A SMALL REMAINING BALANCE THAT WILL BE UTILIZED AS WE EVALUATE AND CONTINUE TO EVALUATE EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT.
AND THAT IS AGAIN JUST BASED ON THE MAINTENANCE REQUESTS AND THE LIFESPAN.
SO MOVING FORWARD WITH OUR LONG RANGE PLANNING IT BEGINNING OF THE SCHOOL YEAR, 2020-2021, THERE WAS MORE PRE-K STUDENTS THAT STARTED TO ATTEND SCHOOL FULL TIME.
AND SO THAT REQUIRED US TO SERVE BREAKFAST AND LUNCH MEALS TO THOSE STUDENTS.
AND CURRENTLY, THE THREE EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOLS DO NOT HAVE FULLY OPERATIONAL KITCHENS OR CAFETERIAS.
SO WHAT WE ARE CURRENTLY DOING IS WE'RE SATELLITING MEALS FROM GOUIN'S SPECIAL PROGRAMS OVER TO THOSE THREE FEEDING SITES, AND THAT DOES LIMIT THE CHOICES THAT THE STUDENTS CAN HAVE AS FAR AS THEIR MENU OPTIONS.
AND CURRENTLY AT THE ISAAC EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER, WE ARE OPERATING WITH A TEMPORARY HEALTH PERMIT.
AND SO WITH THAT, WE WE DON'T KNOW IT'S ON A YEAR TO YEAR BASIS.
SO THERE COULD BE AT ANY POINT IN TIME WHERE THEY COULD COME BACK AND SAY, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE MEETING HEALTH STANDARDS SO YOU CAN NO LONGER FEED AT THAT SITE.
SO IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE HIGHLY RECOMMENDING ADDITIONS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DO MEET THE DISTRICT IN THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT STANDARDS AS FAR AS FEEDING THOSE STUDENTS AT THOSE SITES.
AND ALSO, WE'RE LOOKING AT BASED ON AGE, WE'RE RECOMMENDING FULL KITCHEN RENOVATIONS AT PLANO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, WILLIAMS HIGH SCHOOL, CARPENTER MIDDLE SCHOOL, HAGGARD, FRANKFURT AND FORMAN.
AND THAT'S PRETTY MUCH JUST BASED ON THE AGE OF THE EQUIPMENT, BUT ALSO WITH PLANO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
WE DID ADD THEM BACK TO THE NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH AND SCHOOL BREAKFAST PROGRAM.
SO WITH THAT BEING A TD RAND PROGRAM, THERE ARE SOME MORE REQUIREMENTS AS FAR AS BEING IN COMPLIANCE AT THAT CAMPUS SITE, LOOKING AT THE SERVING AREAS AND THE ADDITIONAL SPACE THAT WOULD BE NEEDED AT THE SENIOR HIGH.
CAN I ASK A QUESTION WHAT'S KIND OF A TIME FRAME FOR A FULL KITCHEN RENOVATION? SO WHEN IS THE LAST TIME THAT MAYBE SOME OF THESE KITCHENS WERE COMPLETELY REFURBISHED? RENOVATED, I THINK IT WAS LIKE A 20 YEAR.
AND WE WOULD DO SMALL KITCHEN EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT AS IT WEARS OUT OR THINGS LIKE THAT, BUT A LARGE KITCHEN RENOVATION IS 20 YEARS.
AND WE'RE ALSO RECOMMENDING KITCHEN REFURBISHMENTS AT ONE MIDDLE SCHOOL AND SIX ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, AND THIS WOULD INCLUDE JUST THE ADDITION LOOKING AT THE WALK-IN COOLERS AND FREEZERS.
POSSIBLE LARGE EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT AND ADDITIONAL UPGRADES.
AND AT SIX OF OUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, WE'RE LOOKING ADD KITCHEN UPGRADES, AND THESE UPGRADES WOULD BE SPECIFIC TO THAT CAMPUS SITE.
USUALLY WHAT WE'LL DO IS WE'LL WALK THE CAMPUS SITE WITH A WITH A FOOD SERVICE CONSULTANT OR SOMEBODY AND TELL US KIND OF LIKE THESE, THESE PIECES OF EQUIPMENT NEED TO BE REPLACED AND THEN WE REPLACE PORTIONS OF THE EQUIPMENT JUST BASED ON THE NEEDS AND THE AGE.
I JUST WANTED TO TOUCH ON ISAACS FOR A SECOND.
WHEN I WAS A CANDIDATE, I TOURED ISAACS AND THE AREA THEY HAVE TO HAVE LUNCH WITH STUDENTS AND HOW THEY ARE ABLE TO SERVE FOOD, IT'S THEY'RE WALKING A TIGHTROPE.
AND I REMEMBER WHEN CARY COOPER WAS STILL HERE THAT THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS TOP OF MIND FOR HIM.
AND WE KNEW WHEN EITHER IF WE HAD EXTRA BOND FUNDS OR IF, YOU KNOW, ANOTHER BOND CAME ALONG, THAT'D BE SOMETHING THAT WAS CRITICAL AND REMAINS TOP OF MIND.
AND SO I'M GLAD TO SEE IT ON THERE.
SO GLAD TO SEE IT ON THERE, AND I KNOW THAT THEY'RE DOING THE BEST THEY CAN WITH WHAT THEY'VE GOT AND WE'VE GOT A GREAT TEAM OVER THERE AND I REALLY HOPE WITH THE NEXT BOND AND THAT'S AN AREA WHERE MONEY COULD BE WELL SPENT.
SO I WANT TO JUST MAKE MY PASSION KNOWN ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S CONSIDERED ON THE NEXT BOND.
YES, THEY'RE FEEDING A LOT OF MEALS OVER THERE, AND THEY WORK MAGIC, SOMETIMES WITH WHAT THEY HAVE.
AS WE ADDITIONAL LONG-RANGE PLANNING AND ASSESSMENTS OF NEEDS.
MY RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE THAT WE LOOK AT THE NEEDS FOR POSSIBLY PLANO, EAST MEADOWS AND HUFFMAN, AND THESE SCHOOLS ARE FEEDING MORE STUDENTS.
AND JUST SO WE WOULD LIKE TO ASSESS THE SPACE IN THE AREA AND JUST MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, IF THERE WAS ANY RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WOULD NEED TO BE MADE FOR
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ADDITIONAL SERVING AREA AND KITCHEN EQUIPMENT THAT WOULD BE NEEDED.AND WE STILL WOULD LIKE ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR LARGE EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT.
AND THAT'S JUST ON A LIFE CYCLE OF HOW LONG A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT CAN CONTINUE WORKING AND EVALUATING THE MAINTENANCE AND REPLACEMENT FOR THAT EQUIPMENT.
WE'D LIKE TO ASSESS OUR CURRENT WORK AREA AND OPTIONS FOR MAXIMIZING THE SPACE.
RIGHT NOW, WE'RE CURRENTLY SHARING A TRAINING ROOM WITH THE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES.
AND AS YOU KNOW, HE WAS SAYING, THERE SPACE IS LIMITED.
SO WHEN WE GO OVER THERE, WE'RE JUST REALLY LIKE, WHAT ARE YOU ALL DOING OVER HERE BECAUSE THEY NEED THE SPACE TOO, BUT WE'RE ALSO TRAINING, SO WE'RE SHARING, SHARING THAT SPACE WITH THEM AND A WORK ROOM.
THIS ALSO WOULD ALLOW US THE OPTION TO, YOU KNOW, WHEN COULD WE PLAY IN OUR PROFESSIONAL LEARNING BECAUSE WE'RE COORDINATING WITH THEIR SCHEDULES TOO? WE WOULD WANT TO INCLUDE POSSIBLE RESTROOM UPGRADES WITH FLOORING AND FIXTURES, COUNTERTOPS AND ADDITIONAL STALLS, AND ALSO ASSESS THE NEEDS FOR UPGRADES AND BREAK ROOM AND CONFERENCE AREAS.
AND AT THE BIRD EDUCATION CENTER, WE'RE CURRENTLY FEEDING A SMALL NUMBER OF INSPIRE STUDENTS AT THE BIRD EDUCATION CENTER.
AND THESE MEALS ARE BEING TRANSPORTED FROM MENDENHALL BIRD DOES NOT HAVE A FULLY OPERATIONAL KITCHEN.
SO DEPENDING ON WHAT THE DISTRICT'S FUTURE PLANS ARE FOR THIS BUILDING, WE WOULD NEED TO DETERMINE WHAT THE KITCHEN NEEDS ARE FOR THE BIRD CENTER.
AND THAT PRETTY MUCH CONCLUDES THE FOOD AND NUTRITION PORTION, I ALSO HAVE CONCESSIONS FOR CLARK AND KIMBROUGH THAT I WOULD JUST LIKE TO DISCUSS SOME NEEDED AREAS THERE FOR POTENTIAL UPGRADES AND EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT.
SO AT KIMBROUGH SPECIFICALLY, WE WOULD LIKE TO EVALUATE THE WORKFLOW, THE HOT AND COLD STORAGE, LARGE EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT, THE ADDITION OF A WALK IN COOLER AND FREEZER, MAJOR PLUMBING ISSUES WHERE THERE'S A LOT OF LEAKING AND GETS ON OUR BOXES AND OUR PIECES OF EQUIPMENT AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
THE AIR CONDITIONING ADDITION TO THE HOME AND VISITOR'S SIDE.
AND THAT'S PRETTY MUCH WHAT WE WOULD WANT TO LOOK AT AT KIMBROUGH AND THEN AT CLARK CONCESSION, ADDING AIR CONDITIONING TO THE VISITOR'S SIDE AND ALSO ASSESS THE AREA FOR WORKFLOW.
BECAUSE CURRENTLY AT CLARK, ON THE VISITOR'S SIDE IS VERY SMALL WHERE WE'RE BRINGING MEALS OVER AND RUNNING THOSE BACK AND FORTH FOR THE VISITOR'S SIDE AND THE UPGRADING OF THE CASH HANDLING TECHNOLOGY.
SO RIGHT NOW, WE JUST HAVE A SELF-STANDING REGISTER THAT DOESN'T REALLY COMMUNICATE OR HAVE ANY REPORTING KIND OF MECHANISM AT CLARK.
AND WE DO HAVE A COMPUTER SYSTEM AT KIMBROUGH AND JUST EVALUATING THE LARGE EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT AT CLARK IN GENERAL.
SO THAT IS WHAT I HAVE FOR FOOD AND NUTRITIONAL SERVICES.
SO DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS THAT Y'ALL WOULD LIKE TO ASK? YEAH, I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY, DO YOU THINK WE MIGHT BE GIVING UP ANY KIND OF COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE BY TAKING CARE OF THE VISITOR SIDE SO MUCH? I WOULD HOPE NOT.
I WOULD HOPE NOT, BECAUSE WHEN ALLEN COMES, WE FOR SURE IF THEY EVER CAME BACK, WE WOULDN'T BE SERVING THEM ANYTHING GOOD.
YOU CAN ALWAYS TURN THE AIR OFF.
WAS THAT, THAT'S OUR LAST PART OF THAT REPORT, CORRECT? ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU, GUYS, EVERYBODY, FOR ALL OF THE WORK ON THAT, AND WE THANKS FOR THE REPORT.
ALL RIGHT, MOVING ON TO REPORT 7.2.
IT'S TIME FOR ALL OF THE NERDS TO REALLY START PAYING ATTENTION BECAUSE THIS IS WE'RE GOING TO MOVE INTO OUR BUDGET REPORT STARTING NOW AND ENDING WHEN WE ACTUALLY ADOPT A RATE SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE.
SO THIS IS STEP ONE AND A HALF, I GUESS WE STARTED IN DECEMBER.
ALL OF US UP HERE WHO PAY ATTENTION TO THIS STUFF.
I WILL TRY TO GO THROUGH THIS RATHER QUICKLY, BUT PLEASE FEEL FREE TO STOP ME.
AND IF YOU HAVE ANY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS, I'M MORE THAN HAPPY TO VISIT WITH EACH OF YOU ABOUT ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE.
I WILL SAY THIS IS A PRELIMINARY PREVIEW OF THE BUDGET.
THERE'S A LOT OF WORK THAT'LL GO INTO THIS PROCESS.
BUT AS MR. STOLLE WAS VISITING ABOUT FROM THIS POINT, ALL THE WAY UP TO WHEN WE ASKED YOU TO APPROVE A BUDGET IN THE JUNE THE JUNE WORKSHOP.
SO THIS IS JUST A VERY PRELIMINARY VIEWING OF THIS.
AND OF COURSE, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO STOP IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
FIRST OF ALL, I KNOW THAT'S SMALL WRITING, BUT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE START
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AND TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT KEY UNDERLYING BUDGET ASSUMPTIONS.OBVIOUSLY, WHEN WE START LOOKING AT THIS, THERE ARE CERTAIN DRIVERS THAT ACTUALLY THE BUDGET IS BUILT UPON.
THESE ARE SOME OF THOSE DRIVERS THAT YOU SEE IN FRONT OF YOU.
NUMBER ONE IS STUDENT ENROLLMENT.
THE STUDENT ENROLLMENT GOING UP? IS IT GOING DOWN? THE BUDGET IS SOME ASSUMPTION FOR OUR BUDGET AND WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE IN DETAIL HERE IN A SECOND.
IS THAT BASED ON DEMOGRAPHER PROJECTIONS THAT WE ARE CONTINUING TO GO DOWN SLIGHTLY? THAT IS WHAT THIS BUDGET IS BUILT ON.
OF COURSE, PROPERTY VALUES IS ANOTHER CATALYST FOR UNDERLYING BUDGET ASSUMPTIONS, AND THAT IS WHAT IS OUR VALUES DOING.
ARE THEY GOING UP OR ARE THEY GOING DOWN? EARLY INDICATIONS ARE THAT THEY'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO GO UP SLIGHTLY.
ONE THING THAT I'LL POINT OUT WITH WITH THE VALUES IS BY LAW, WE'RE REQUIRED TO HAVE FROM THE CHIEF APPRAISER A CERTIFIED ESTIMATE BY THE END OF APRIL.
SO WE'LL MAKE ADJUSTMENTS WHEN WE GET THAT INFORMATION.
AND THEN, OF COURSE, THE ACTUAL CERTIFICATIONS ARE REQUIRED BY THE END OF JULY, WHICH IS A LITTLE BIT AFTER OUR OUR FISCAL YEAR BEGINS.
AND SO WE'LL MAKE ADJUSTMENTS AFTER WE ASKED YOU TO APPROVE THE BUDGET BASED ON THE FINAL NUMBERS THAT YOU FIND.
OF COURSE, STARTING IN 2019, THERE ARE SOME COMPRESSIONS WHICH IS GOOD FOR OUR TAXPAYERS.
AS YOU KNOW, WE'LL TALK MORE ABOUT THAT IN A SECOND, TOO.
BUT JUST ROUGHLY AS VALUES GO UP MORE THAN TWO AND A HALF PERCENT REQUIRED TO START COMPRESSING THOSE RATES DOWN.
SO THE BUDGET IS BUILT ON THOSE THOSE CURRENT UNDERSTANDINGS OF THE LAW, AS WELL AS ANY KIND OF STATE ALLOCATIONS WITH THOSE PER STUDENT ALLOCATIONS ARE IT'S BASED ON OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THIS LAST LEGISLATIVE SESSION WITH WHAT WE GET.
AND THEN, OF COURSE, RECAPTURE, WHICH IS A BIG ONE IN PLANO ISD.
RECAPTURE IS BASED ON US GOING DOWN ONE PERCENT ON OUR STUDENT ENROLLMENT AND GOING UP TWO PERCENT ON OUR VALUES.
AND THEN FINALLY, I THINK IT'S A IT'S RELEVANT THAT WE ACTUALLY PLACE AT LEAST A PLACEHOLDER FOR POTENTIAL COMPENSATION INCREASE.
AND SO RIGHT NOW, IN THE BUDGET THAT WE'RE SHOWING YOU THE PRELIMINARY LOOK, WE HAVE PUT A PLACEHOLDER OF A TWO PERCENT INCREASE ON COMPENSATION.
OBVIOUSLY, WE WILL DO A LOT MORE DISCUSSING AND HAVE PRESENTATIONS IN THE MARCH WORKSHOP SURROUNDING THAT.
AND THEN AS FAR AS NON-PAYROLL INCREASES, THERE'S A PLACEHOLDER OF A THREE PERCENT INCREASE.
NOW WE'LL SAY A LOT OF THE DRIVER I WAS LOOKING AT.
THE CPI INCREASES INFLATION OVER THE YEAR.
AND OF COURSE, YOU'VE HEARD IN THE MEDIA WHAT'S GOING ON WITH INFLATION.
IT'S THE HIGHEST INFLATION HAS GONE UP IN THE LAST 30 YEARS.
WE'RE LOOKING HOVERING ABOUT A SEVEN AND A HALF PERCENT INCREASE ON OUR CPI INFLATION FOR THIS YEAR ALONE.
SO JUST SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT AS WE ACTUALLY START WORKING THROUGH THE BUDGET PROCESS AND ACTUALLY TAKING THESE ESTIMATES AND MAKING THEM REALITY.
JOHN, I WAS GOING TO ASK A QUICK QUESTION FOR WHEN YOU BRING THE OR WHEN WE HAVE THAT TALK IN MARCH ABOUT THE PERCENTAGE FOR TEACHER INCREASES OR SALARY INCREASES.
COULD YOU ALSO IF OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE HAVING THESE MEETINGS PUBLICLY, I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT SOME OF OUR PEER DISTRICTS WILL BE DOING.
BROCKMAN, ACTUALLY, I THINK DOES THAT ON A YEARLY BASIS.
SO THAT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO LOOK AT.
WE WE ALWAYS WANT TO MAKE SURE WHAT OUR PEER DISTRICTS TO MAKE SURE WE CONTINUE TO HAVE A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE OVER OUR SURROUNDING DISTRICTS.
BUT I KNOW THAT'S SOMETHING THAT DR.
THIS IS JUST THE BUDGET CALENDAR.
WE BROUGHT THIS BACK IN DECEMBER.
SO IT'S JUST FOR YOUR INFORMATION THIS EVENING.
OBVIOUSLY, WE BROUGHT THE CALENDAR IN THE GOALS IN DECEMBER.
WE ARE IN JANUARY, WHICH IS JUST LOOKING AT A PRELIMINARY BUDGET ESTIMATES.
SO RIGHT NOW, WE'RE JUST TALKING ABOUT ESTIMATES AND THEN YOU CAN SEE HOW WE PROGRESS AS PRESIDENT, STOLLE SAID EARLIER DOWN INTO THE ACTUAL IMPROVEMENT IN JUNE AND THEN SETTING OF THE TAX RATE IN SEPTEMBER.
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW SPECIFIC DATES WHEN DEPARTMENT AND CAMPUS BUDGETS ARE DUE BACK, THAT HAS A SPECIFIC BUDGET TIMELINE IS THERE WITH THOSE DATES.
AND THEN ALSO, THERE IS A VERY WELL THOUGHT OUT BUDGET PROCESS THAT WE HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN DOING FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND IN PLANO ISD, BUT WE ACTUALLY DO.
I'M SURE YOU GUYS ARE VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE PROCESS, BUT ZERO BASED BUDGETING ON ALL CAMPUS BUDGETS.
IT'S BASICALLY IN A NUTSHELL WHERE WE START WITH A ZERO BUDGET AND THEN YOU HAVE TO JUSTIFY, YOU KNOW, WHAT YOU NEED FOR YOUR DEPARTMENT ON ANY GIVEN YEAR.
THERE'S BEEN SOME GOOD SAVINGS AS A RESULT OF THAT PROCESS.
ADDITIONALLY, ON CAMPUS ALLOCATIONS, OBVIOUSLY WE WANT TO MAINTAIN INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND IN INSTRUCTIONAL FUNDING FOR CAMPUSES.
AND SO WE GIVE A PER STUDENT ALLOCATION THAT'S ACTUALLY TAKEN AT THAT CAMPUS BASED DECISION, AND THEY FIGURE OUT BEST WAYS TO SPEND THAT MONEY ON THEIR CAMPUSES AS YOU HAVE SPECIAL POPULATIONS.
IN OTHER WORDS, IF YOU HAVE STUDENTS THAT ARE HIDING IN SPECIAL NEEDS, GT'S, BILINGUAL,
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ANY OF THOSE THERE ARE ADD ON ALLOCATIONS PER STUDENT BASED ON THOSE SPECIAL POPULATIONS.SO THAT'S HOW WE DEAL WITH CAMPUS ALLOCATIONS.
BROCKMAN HAS A VERY THOROUGH PROCESS THAT SHE GOES THROUGH AS FAR AS HOW MANY STUDENTS PER FOUR INSTRUCTIONAL STAFF.
AND SO WE ARE ACTUALLY START OFF VERY CONSERVATIVELY AND ADD WHENEVER WE HAVE STUDENTS ACTUALLY SHOW UP.
I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE ONE OF THE MAIN DRIVERS SINCE HOUSE BILL THREE IN 2019 IS BASICALLY ON THE M&O BUDGET.
IT'S DRIVEN BY STUDENT RIGHT, AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE.
AND SO IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE TRACK STUDENT ATTENDANCE AND HOW THAT IS REFLECTED IN OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT.
AND SO THIS IS JUST A LITTLE SNIPPET OF WHERE WE'RE ANTICIPATING TO BE FOR THE 22-23 SCHOOL YEAR.
YOU CAN SEE ACTUAL ENROLLMENT FOR LAST YEAR, WHAT WAS PROJECTED FOR THIS YEAR AND THEN THE SNAPSHOT ENROLLMENT FOR THIS YEAR.
THERE'S ABOUT 1400 STUDENTS LESS THAN WHAT WAS PROJECTED AND THEN PROJECTION GOING FORWARD INTO THE 22-23 YEAR, WHICH IS DOWN ABOUT JUST A LITTLE UNDER 500 STUDENTS.
TO ME, A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS, AND SO TO ME, I ALWAYS LIKE TO LOOK, OK.
WHERE ARE WE ACTUALLY AT, IF NOT ONLY THIS YEAR, BUT LET'S LOOK AT IT PREVIOUS YEARS AND WHAT KIND OF HISTORICAL TRENDS CAN WE, YOU KNOW, GET OUT OF THIS? SO OBVIOUSLY, YOU CAN SEE WE WERE ACTUALLY ACTUALLY LOSING STUDENTS PRIOR TO THE PANDEMIC.
NOT A WHOLE LOT, BUT, YOU KNOW, AT THREE OR FOUR HUNDRED STUDENTS A YEAR AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU SEE WHERE WE HIT THE PANDEMIC, BUT WE DROPPED ABOUT 2400 KIDS AND THEN WE HAD A TWO YEAR WHERE WE HAD DROPS AND THEN THEN WE'RE BACK PROJECTED THIS NEXT YEAR.
THAT LITTLE SLOW SLIDE, AGAIN, THIS IS PREDOMINANTLY WE ACTUALLY STILL HAVE NEW STUDENTS COMING INTO PLANO ISD.
BUT WHAT WE DO HAVE HAPPENING IS A SHIFT, A DECREASE IN OUR SHIFT.
WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS WE HAVE 12TH GRADERS CLASSES THAT ARE MAYBE A LITTLE OVER 4000 STUDENTS.
WELL, REPLACING THOSE 4000 SENIORS WITH ABOUT 3200 KINDERGARTENS, SO AS WE GO THROUGH THE PROCESS OF SHIFTING THROUGH GRADE LEVELS, WE'RE ACTUALLY REPLACING THESE 12TH GRADERS WITH SMALLER, SMALLER CLASS SIZES COMING THROUGH THE KINDERGARTEN AND COMING THROUGH THE SYSTEM.
SO THAT'S KIND OF WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH RIGHT NOW.
WE DO WORK VERY, VERY CLOSELY WITH THE DEMOGRAPHER.
AND SO WE ARE ANTICIPATING CONTINUE TO GO DOWN SLIGHTLY AND THEN LEVELING OFF AT ABOUT FORTY SIX TO FORTY SEVEN THOUSAND STUDENTS.
I JUST [INAUDIBLE] WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS FOR A SECOND, BECAUSE I CERTAINLY THINK THAT THERE ARE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY THAT ARE WRITING A DIFFERENT NARRATIVE ABOUT THIS, THAT IT'S NOT A PARTICULAR TYPE OF ATTRITION, LIKE YOU'RE SAYING, WHERE WE JUST HAVE FEWER INCOMING KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS BECAUSE THE DISTRICT HAS FEWER FIVE YEAR OLDS AS A WHOLE.
AND SO I'M WONDERING IF YOU COULD COMMENT ON THE RETENTION WITHIN THE SYSTEM, RIGHT? ONCE THOSE KINDERGARTNERS START, SORT OF WHAT IS WHAT IS OUR RETENTION IN THE SYSTEM LOOK LIKE COMPARED TO OTHER DISTRICTS? BECAUSE I THINK THERE'S PEOPLE DEFINITELY OUT THERE TRYING TO SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE LEAVING THE SCHOOLS.
AND IT'S NOT MY IMPRESSION THAT THIS THESE ENROLLMENT CHANGES ARE DUE TO THAT.
I THINK, DR. TARA, THAT'S AN EXCELLENT POINT.
AND OF COURSE, I MEAN, WE HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH AND WE DO HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR DEMOGRAPHER ABOUT THIS.
BUT OBVIOUSLY THE REASON WHY WE HAVE SO FEWER STUDENTS ENTERING KINDERGARTEN IS BECAUSE WE HAVE FEWER BIRTHRATES HAPPENING IN PLANO ISD.
THEY ARE DEMOGRAPHER ACTUALLY DOES TRACK RETENTION OF STUDENTS ONCE THEY ACTUALLY START SCHOOLS AT PLANO ISD AND WHAT THEY HAVE FOUND OUT THAT WE ACTUALLY DO AN EXCELLENT JOB OF RETAINING STUDENTS AS THEY GO THROUGH THE SYSTEM.
THEY ACTUALLY TRACK THAT FROM YEAR TO YEAR.
AND IT'S AN EXTREMELY HIGH COMPARED WITH OUR NEIGHBORS, PLANO ISD IS STILL A DESTINATION DISTRICT WHEN WHENEVER STUDENTS GET HERE, THEY WANT TO STAY HERE.
NOW WE DO HAVE AN ISSUE WITH OUR PRICING OF OUR HOUSING.
I MEAN, THAT'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE AN ISSUE AS OUR PRICES GO UP.
WE ARE, I MEAN, IT'S JUST NOT AS AFFORDABLE FOR A YOUNG FAMILY TO MOVE INTO TO OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT.
AND THAT'S WHY YOU SEE SOME OF THESE MORE THESE FURTHER DISTRICTS THAT ARE OUT GOING OUTSIDE NORTH A LITTLE BIT THAT ARE GROWING SO FAST IS BECAUSE JUST AFFORDABILITY OF HOUSING.
SO YOU'RE GOING TO FIND SOME OF THAT.
BUT OUR DEMOGRAPHER IS VERY ADAMANT AND HE'LL COME IN ANOTHER MONTH AND PRESENT TO THE BOARD.
BUT ACTUALLY, WE WERE ON A CALL.
DR. TYLER AND I WERE ON THE CALL AND WE ACTUALLY HAD THIS DISCUSSION WITH HIM ABOUT, OK, ONCE STUDENTS ACTUALLY GET INTO OUR SYSTEM, WHAT IS OUR RETENTION AND HOW DOES IT COMPARE WITH OUR SURROUNDING SCHOOL DISTRICTS? AND IT WAS HE WAS VERY ADAMANT THAT WE, ONCE WE GET STUDENTS STARTED INTO OUR SCHOOL SYSTEMS, THEY WANT TO STAY.
SO ONE OR TWO THINGS I REMEMBER ROCKY TALKING ABOUT AT ONE POINT WE WERE LOOKING
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AT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN STUDENT RETENTION FROM K TO EIGHT.AND HE SAID, I THINK FOR STUDENTS THAT LIVE IN SINGLE FAMILY HOMES, IT WAS EITHER SEVENTY FIVE OR SEVENTY EIGHT RETENTION RATE AND THEN IT WAS CLOSER TO FIFTY TWO PERCENT FOR MULTIFAMILY STUDENTS.
AND SO SO OBVIOUSLY, ANYTIME YOU HAVE MULTIFAMILY HOUSING, YOU'LL HAVE A HIGHER MOBILITY RATE.
THAT'S JUST THAT'S JUST A FACT.
AND THAT IS ONE OF THE REASONS CITY OF PLANO IS NOT THAT I'M GOING TO SAY THEY'RE DISCOURAGING A MULTIFAMILY HOUSING, BUT IT IS AN ISSUE THAT HAS COME UP IN THE ENTIRE COLLIN COUNTY AS FAR AS MULTIFAMILY HOUSING AND PURSUING THAT OR NOT.
AND THE OTHER THING I WAS GOING TO MENTION, I THINK AS A BOARD AND I THINK WE'VE TALKED AND JOKED ABOUT THIS, ABOUT THE REPLACEMENT RATE AND ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE IMPROVE THE BIRTH RATE, RIGHT? AND WE KNOW WE KNOW HOW.
BUT YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT SOCIETY, LESS PEOPLE, I MEAN, THE MILLENNIAL GENERATION, LESS OF US ARE GETTING MARRIED, EVEN LESS THAN THEM ARE HAVING KIDS.
AND SO WE'VE GOT TO ALSO REALIZE LIKE THIS MAY NOT BE JUST SOME BUBBLE THAT, YOU KNOW, IS GOING TO CHANGE.
I MEAN, THERE'S JUST LESS PEOPLE HAVING CHILDREN AND THE PEOPLE HAVING CHILDREN ARE HAVING LESS CHILDREN THAN PEOPLE USED TO.
SO THIS MAY NOT BE SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO SWOOP RIGHT BACK UP.
AND THERE'S SOME LONG TERM IMPLICATIONS BASED ON WHAT WE'RE SEEING IN SOCIETY IN TERMS OF THE LIFE DECISIONS THAT MY GENERATION IS MAKING, AND WE DON'T KNOW HOW THAT MIGHT CHANGE WITH GEN Z OR WHATEVER'S AFTER THAT.
BUT YOU KNOW, THIS IS AGAIN, THE NARRATIVE IS NOT THEIR GOING TO THIS SCHOOL OR THEY'RE GOING TO THAT SCHOOL.
AND SO I THINK THAT'S JUST SOMETHING TO KEEP IN MIND AS WE MAKE DECISIONS FOR A BOND, AS WE MAKE JUST OTHER DECISIONS.
THIS TREND MAY JUST CONTINUE, AND IT'S NOT FROM ANY FAULT OF OUR OWN.
IT'S MILLENNIALS FAULTS, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST THE KIDS AREN'T THERE.
I DO THINK IT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I STILL HAVE VERY, VERY IMPORTANT TO TO ACTUALLY CONTINUE TO USE A DEMOGRAPHER.
DEMOGRAPHER WILL ACTUALLY DO A PRETTY GOOD PICTURE FOR A 10 YEAR CLIP.
WE WORK WITH A DEMOGRAPHER ON AN ANNUAL BASIS.
I WILL SAY TEN YEARS IS A LITTLE, A LITTLE YOU KNOW, A LITTLE BLURRY.
BUT THEY DO A VERY, VERY GOOD JOB AS YOU GET IN WITHIN A FIVE YEAR PERIOD WITHIN A BOND CYCLE.
THEY DO AN EXCELLENT JOB OF MONITORING THAT AND STAYING ON TOP OF THAT.
AND SO AND I WILL SAY TEMPLETON, THE DEMOGRAPHER THAT WE USE IS ONE OF THE VERY, VERY BEST IN THE ENTIRE STATE.
SO THEY'VE GOT A LOT OF EXPERIENCE.
AND I THINK MOST OF YOU KNOW, ROCKY GARNER THAT ACTUALLY HEADS THAT.
SO JUST ONE REAL QUICK COMMENT ON SOMETHING CODY SAID, THIS IS NOT FOR THIS CONVERSATION, BUT THE RETENTION RATE OF OUR HIGHLY MOBILE POPULATION IS SOMETHING THAT WE WERE TRYING TO FOCUS ON AND THEN PANDEMIC HIT.
BUT I THINK THAT IS SOMETHING AS A BOARD AND AS A STAFF THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT IS IMPORTANT IF WE CAN GET THESE KIDS, ESPECIALLY LOW SOCIOECONOMIC KIDS WHO PARENTS MAY NEED TO MOVE FOR A BETTER DEAL WHEN WE GET THEM.
WHAT WE HAVE FOUND IN THE PAST IS WHEN WE CAN GET THOSE KIDS INTO OUR SYSTEM AND KEEP THEM IN OUR SYSTEM, WE CAN HAVE A LOT OF SUCCESS.
AND SO TRYING TO BALANCE A PARENT'S ECONOMIC NEEDS WITH THE NEEDS OF THEIR CHILD, WHICH WE THINK THAT WE CAN BEST PROVIDE FOR THEM.
THE PUBLIC EDUCATION THAT WE CAN GIVE IS SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO REFOCUS ON AS WE GET OUT OF DEALING WITH FIRES CREATED BY PANDEMICS.
THERE'S JUST AN EXTRA SIDEBAR.
ALL RIGHT, SO OBVIOUSLY TAX COMPRESSION AND I COULD SPEND A LONG TIME TALKING ABOUT THIS, AND I KNOW YOU DON'T WANT ME TO.
SO I'LL BE QUICK IN A NUTSHELL, LET ME JUST SAY, SINCE 2019, THERE'S BEEN TAX COMPRESSION.
TAX COMPRESSION IS GOOD FOR OUR TAX PAYERS.
AND THE REASON WHY IS BECAUSE TAX COMPRESSION IS ON THE MAXIMUM COMPRESSED TAX RATE.
IT NET DOESN'T HURT OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT.
TAX COMPRESSION HAPPENS WHENEVER THE LOCAL YOUR LOCAL VALUES.
OUR STATE AVERAGE VALUES GO OVER TWO AND A HALF PERCENT.
ANYTHING OVER THAT TWO AND A HALF PERCENT? YOU'RE LOWERING OR COMPRESSING THE TAX RATE.
THE STATE LEGISLATIVELY, THEY ACTUALLY ESTIMATE WHAT THE STATE AVERAGE IS GOING TO BE EVERY BUY ANYMORE, THEY MEET.
THEY HAVE SET THAT AT FOUR POINT THREE SIX PERCENT FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
THE CONTROLLER WILL COME OUT AND DO AN ESTIMATE, AN UPDATE, IF YOU WILL, TWICE A YEAR.
THEY DO IT IN OCTOBER AND THEN IN APRIL, AND THEY THEY MAY MAKE ADJUSTMENTS
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ACCORDINGLY.SO EVEN THOUGH I THINK THAT WE MAY HAVE MORE THAN TWO PERCENT THAT YOU SEE ON THE BUDGET FOR LOCAL TAX IMPRESSION, I MEAN, FOR OUR INCREASE IN VALUES, I DON'T THINK WE'RE GOING TO WE'LL GO OVER THE FOUR FOUR POINT THIRTY SIX PERCENT.
SO THE COMPRESSION YOU SEE HERE IS, I'M PRETTY SURE, UNLESS THE CONTROLLER ADDRESSES IT RADICALLY, WHICH I DON'T THINK YOU WILL.
I THINK WE'LL HAVE COMPRESSION OF ALMOST TWO CENTS LOWERING ON OUR M&O TAX RATE, WHICH IS A GOOD THING AND THAT'S REFLECTED IN THIS BUDGET.
DOES EVERYONE UNDERSTAND THAT? OK.
SO OBVIOUSLY, WE GET ASKED THIS ALL THE TIME BECAUSE WE HAVE RECAPTURE.
WHY DON'T WE JUST LOWER OUR TAX RATE AND WE'LL SAVE RECAPTURE? THE REASON WHY WE CAN'T DO THAT IS BECAUSE OF THIS RIGHT HERE, OUR TAX RATE IS ACTUALLY BROKEN DOWN INTO THREE DIFFERENT LEVELS.
IF WE COULD JUST CHOOSE TO LOWER OUR TIER ONE COMPRESSED RATE AT WILL, THEN WE COULD DO THAT, LOWER OUR RECAPTURE AND NOT AFFECT OUR FUNDING.
UNFORTUNATELY FOR US TO LOW US, TO LOWER OUR TAX RATE OUTSIDE OF THE COMPRESSION LAWS, WE WOULD HAVE TO LOWER OUR ENHANCED PENNIES, THE TIER TWO PENNIES.
AND AS A RESULT, WE WOULD BE TAKING A PENALTY FROM THE STATE.
WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO RECOVER THESE ENHANCED OR ENRICHED PENNIES.
SO THAT'S WHY WE CAN'T JUST LOWER IT.
THE ONLY WAY WE CAN LOWER OUR M&O TAX RATE IS THROUGH THIS STATE COMPRESSION LEVELS.
IF WE LOWER IT ADDITIONAL TO THAT, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A PENALTY ON IT.
HOW MUCH OF A PENALTY FOR EVERY ONE CENT WE LOWER IT? IT'S ABOUT THREE $3 MILLION TO OUR BUDGET.
FOR EVERY ONE CENT, WE LOWER OUR TIER TWO PENNIES.
IT'S ABOUT THREE DOLLARS TO OUR BUDGET.
THOSE ARE ENRICHED PENNIES, WHICH MEANS OUR ENRICHED PROGRAMS, WHICH MEANS THE TIER ONE IS SUPPOSED TO PAY FOR BASIC INSTRUCTION.
THAT'S WHAT IT WAS SET UP FOR.
TIER TWO WAS SUPPOSED TO PAY FOR ENRICHED OUR ADDITIONAL FLEXIBLE PROGRAMS THAT WE CAN OFFER OUR STUDENTS.
AND SO THAT'S WHY THAT'S THE MAIN REASON IN A NUTSHELL, WE, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T RECOMMEND LOWERING THOSE TIER TWO PENNIES.
IF YOU LOOK AT THOSE RATES AND LOOK AT LOOK AT HOW IT WORKS, IS ANYTHING OVER THAT COMPRESSED RATE THAT YOU SEE IN THE VERY TOP ROW? IT'S CALLED TIER TWO PENNIES, AND WE'RE LEGALLY THERE'S ONLY SO MANY OF THOSE PENNIES THAT WE CAN LEVY.
YOU SEE THE TIER TWO, WHICH IS CALLED GOLDEN PENNIES, THE MOST YOU CAN LEVY AT THAT TIER TWO.
WE CALL IT TIER TWO, LEVEL ONE LEVEL IS EIGHT CENTS.
WE'RE MAXED OUT ON THAT LEVEL.
THE TIER TWO, LEVEL TWO, WHICH IS THE COPPER PENNIES, YOU CAN GO UP TO NINE CENTS.
IF WE WANTED TO, YOU KNOW, AS A DISTRICT, YOU AS A BOARD, WE COULD ACTUALLY INCREASE THAT FROM THE FIVE EIGHT THREE FIVE UP TO NINE CENTS.
TO DO THAT, WE WOULD WE WOULD HAVE TO GO THROUGH WHAT'S CALLED A VOTER APPROVED TAX RATIFICATION ELECTION.
YOU'D HAVE TO HAVE VOTER APPROVAL TO DO THAT.
ANYTHING IN TIER TWO OVER FIVE CENTS REQUIRES VOTER APPROVAL.
BUT I JUST I WANT TO HANG IT OUT THERE THAT IF YOU DO GO THROUGH THAT PROCESS AND DISTRICTS ARE GOING THROUGH THAT TO MAXIMIZE THAT TIER TWO FUNDING, YOU COULD ACTUALLY GENERATE IT ABOUT AN ADDITIONAL $10 MILLION OF M&O FUNDING AS A RESULT OF THAT.
SO I JUST WANT TO I WANT TO THROW THAT OUT THERE AND LEAST GET YOU THINKING ABOUT MAXIMIZING THAT M&O FUNDING.
ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT? ALL RIGHT, SO LET'S JUST TALK ABOUT PROPERTY TAX RATES, I'M NOT GOING TO SPEND A WHOLE LOT OF TIME HERE, BUT I DO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT SINCE WE ACTUALLY HAD TAX COMPRESSION, WHICH IS AT TIER ONE LEVEL, OUR TAX RATES IN THE LAST SIX YEARS ARE REALLY I MEAN, REALLY, IF YOU JUST LOOK AT THE LAST FOUR YEARS SINCE HB3 CAME ABOUT, WE'VE LOWERED THE OVERALL M&O TAX RATE BY ABOUT 14 CENTS.
THAT'S WHAT THAT COMPRESSION HAS DONE IS OUR VALUES HAVE GONE UP LOCALLY.
TAX COMPRESSION HAS LOWERED THOSE RATES BY ABOUT 14 CENTS, THAT'S A GOOD THING.
WHEN YOU LOWER THE RATES, SOME PEOPLE THINK, WELL, YOUR TAX COMPRESSION, SO YOU'RE LOSING THAT FUNDING.
BUT BOTTOM LINE IS WHAT THAT HAPPENS IN OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT.
YOU LOWER TAX COLLECTIONS AND YOU LOWER RECAPTURE ACCORDINGLY A LITTLE BIT.
SO THE REASON WHY YOU'RE NOT SEEING RECAPTURE JUST TAKE OFF HERE IN A SECOND IS BECAUSE OF THAT.
THOSE TAX COMPRESSIONS IS ONE THING THAT WILL KEEP THAT RECAPTURE LOWER, OK? NOW WE'LL SAY WE DO HAVE RECAPTURED GOING UP, THOUGH, AND THE REASON ONE OF THE REASONS WE HAVE RECAPTURED GOING UP IS, OF COURSE, THE VALUES THAT TWO AND A HALF PERCENT.
AND THEN BASICALLY EVEN ON TOP OF THAT, WE HAVE LOWERING OF STUDENTS THAT ADA, AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE WHICH CAUSES RECAPTURE TO GO UP.
AND WHAT'S REALLY FRUSTRATING ABOUT RECAPTURE IS WHAT WE'RE IS THE PERCENTAGE OF RECAPTURE IN OUR OVERALL TAX COLLECTIONS.
IS TAKING OFF, IT'S BECOMING A BIGGER AND BIGGER PART OF OUR BUCKET OF TAX COLLECTIONS.
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SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE RED SECTION, I MADE IT RED BECAUSE I WANTED YOU TO REALLY SEE IT.BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE BOTTOM PART OF THE OF THE OF THE TAX COLLECTIONS ON THE FAR RIGHT, THE BOTTOM PART IS WHAT WE ACTUALLY GET TO KEEP OUT OF OUR TAX COLLECTIONS.
COMPARE THAT TO THOSE LEFT COLUMNS.
THERE IS A MAJOR PROBLEM, WHICH IS HOUSE BILL THREE CAME ABOUT AND YOU COULD SEE, YOU KNOW, WHAT WAS GOING ON WITH AS A RESULT OF THAT, YOU COULD SEE WE WERE ONLY GETTING TO KEEP 407 MILLION OUT OF OUR LEVEE.
BUT THIS NEXT YEAR, GUESS WHAT WE'RE GETTING TO KEEP OUT OF OUR TAX LEVY.
FOUR HUNDRED AND SIX, IT'S LESS THAN WE'VE EVER BEEN ABLE TO KEEP OF OUR TAX LEVY.
WHAT WE'RE GETTING TO KEEP OF OUR TAX LEVY IS GOING DOWN.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE PERCENTAGE OF EVERY DOLLAR THAT WE'RE LEVYING, THAT'S THE PERCENTAGE THAT YOU SEE AT THE VERY TOP OF RECAPTURE.
YOU SEE THAT OUR PERCENTAGE OF RECAPTURE IS STEADILY GOING UP.
THIRTY FIVE PERCENT OF EVERY DOLLAR LEVIED WILL GO BACK IN THE FORM OF RECAPTURE THIS NEXT YEAR.
JOHNNY, BEFORE YOU LEAVE OFF THIS, I THINK IT'S, YOU KNOW, I LOOK AT THIS AND I'M LOOKING AT WHERE HOUSE BILL THREE WAS IMPLEMENTED AS THE GREAT SAVIOR OF PUBLIC EDUCATION FUNDING AND WHAT A GREAT, YOU KNOW, TRANSITION TRANSITION THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE TO SOMETHING NEW AND BETTER.
AND JUST FOUR YEARS LATER, WE ARE EXACTLY WHERE WE WERE IN TWENTY EIGHTEEN.
WE'RE GETTING FOUR HUNDRED AND SIX MILLION.
WE WERE AT FOUR HUNDRED SEVEN.
WE'RE THIRTY FIVE PERCENT OF OUR TAXABLE REVENUE GOING TO M&O GOING TO RECAPTURE VERSUS THIRTY FOUR PERCENT THERE.
THE AMOUNTS ARE ACTUALLY HIGHER.
THE DIFFERENCE OR THE REALLY FRUSTRATING COMPONENT OF THIS IS WHAT HAS BEEN THE RATE OF INFLATION SINCE 2018-2019 BECAUSE OUR FOUR HUNDRED AND SIX MILLION DOLLARS IN 2023 NOT GO AS THE SAME DISTANCE THAT FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS WENT IN TWENTY EIGHTEEN.
AND I THINK THAT I THINK OUR COMMUNITY DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THAT AND THIS IS WHAT IS GOING TO THE DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN PLANO, NOT TEXAS IN PLANO ISD IS THAT.
I AGREE, I AGREE 100 PERCENT, I MEAN, IF YOU'RE GOING TO MELT IT DOWN AND JUST MAKE IT AS SIMPLE AS YOU CAN.
THE PROBLEM WITH OUR SYSTEM IS IT HAS NO ROOM TO GROW.
I MEAN, YOU ACTUALLY HAVE TO REPORT MORE STATE REVENUES, YOU REPORT MORE TAX REVENUES.
BUT THE PROBLEM IS WE DON'T GET TO KEEP ANY OF THAT TO TO ACTUALLY HELP COMBAT INFLATION.
ALL OF THAT IS OFFSET ONE TO ONE WITH RECAPTURE BRING IN MORE MONEY, RECAPTURE GOES UP.
AND THAT'S WHY YOU SAY THERE'S NO THERE'S NO WAY FOR THE APPROPRIATIONS OR THE EXPENDITURE BUDGET TO ACTUALLY TAKE CARE OF INFLATION.
THE ONLY WAY FOR YOUR BUDGET TO INCREASE NOW IS THROUGH ADDITIONAL IDA DISTRICTS LIKE US THAT ARE SLIGHTLY GOING DOWN.
I MEAN, WE'RE WE'RE ACTUALLY LOSING OVERALL MONIES.
WE LOSE THAT BY ADDITIONAL INCREASES IN RECAPTURE.
YEAH, WHEN THEY PASSED THIS, THE STRUCTURE THAT IS CURRENTLY IN PLACE, WE TOLD THEM AT THAT TIME DISTRICTS THAT ARE DECLINING AND ENROLLMENT AND INCREASING IN PROPERTY VALUES ARE GOING TO GET SCREWED AND THAT IS WHAT HAS HAPPENED NOW.
WELL, AND THE LAST MEETING WE TALKED ABOUT THIS, IT ALSO INCLUDES TRANSPARENCY.
AND WHEN THEY COLLECT ALL THIS RECAPTURE FROM ALL OF THE DISTRICTS THAT PAY INTO RECAPTURE AND THEY SEND OUT THE FUNDS TO THE DISTRICTS THAT SHOULD RECEIVE IT.
THERE'S A DIFFERENTIAL, AND LAST YEAR IT WAS AT ONE POINT FOUR BILLION DOLLARS THAT DIDN'T GO INTO PUBLIC ED NECESSARILY.
AND SO OUR AS YOU TALK ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY, OUR COMMUNITY NEEDS TO KNOW THAT AND BE PRETTY MUCH FIGHTING MAD OVER IT.
THEY SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN A REFUND AND THAT MONEY IS NOT NECESSARILY BEING SPENT ON WHAT THEY WHEN THEY WROTE THE CHECK TO THE TAX ASSESSOR COLLECTOR.
IT DIDN'T GO FOR THAT PURPOSE.
I WAS JUST GOING TO ASK IN TERMS OF THE SO YOU SAID IT WAS ONE POINT FOUR BILLION THAT WAS IN EXCESS AND THAT WENT TO THIS IN ONE YEAR AND THAT WENT INTO THE STATE GENERAL FUND.
AND SO I GUESS MY QUESTION IS BASED ON THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF RECAPTURE.
WHAT PERCENTAGE IS AT ONE POINT FOUR BILLION? AND IN TERMS OF BOILING THIS DOWN TO A TAXPAYER, I WANT TO SAY THIRTY FIVE CENTS OUT OF EVERY DOLLAR WENT TO THE STATE IN RECAPTURE.
AND OUT OF THAT, THIRTY FIVE CENTS, 20 CENTS OR 10 CENTS WENT TO THE STATE GENERAL FUND.
I'M JUST THROWING NUMBERS OUT THERE.
YEAH, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING IN TERMS OF EDUCATING PEOPLE AND BE LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T MIND THAT 15 CENTS.
IT'S GOING TO HELP OTHER SCHOOLS THAT, YOU KNOW, CAN'T DO THAT, BUT THAT OTHER 10 CENTS THAT COULD BE PUT TO USE HERE IN PLANO ISD, IT'S JUST GOING INTO A SLUSH FUND FOR THE STATE.
THAT'S NOT PUBLIC EDUCATION DOLLARS.
THEY DON'T GET TO, YOU KNOW, SAY HOW GREAT THEY ARE WITH HOUSE BILL THREE, WHEN ALL
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THEY'RE DOING IS JUST DOING THE SHELL GAME.AND SO THEY'RE GOING TO CONTINUE SAYING THAT STUFF.
BUT WE JUST ANY WAY WE CAN ARTICULATE IT TO THE PUBLIC, I THINK WE NEED TO.
WE'RE TRYING AS MANY OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE HAVE, I KNOW WE HAVE STARTED A PUSH OF DOING THIS.
ANY TIME THAT WE'RE OUT SPEAKING, WE'RE TRYING TO PUSH THE RECAPTURE.
TRYING TO EXPLAIN IT, TRYING TO SHOW HOW MUCH RECAPTURE WE'VE PAID, HOW IT'S IMPACTED OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT, HOW IT'S GOING TO CONTINUE TO IMPACT OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT.
SO WE HAVE MADE AN EFFORT AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO MAKE AN EFFORT TO EDUCATE NOT ONLY OUR LEADERSHIP, BUT ALSO EVEN OUR OWN STAFF IN OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT ON THIS ISSUE.
BUT I ALSO THINK IT'S MENTIONED AND YOU'VE SAID IT BEFORE, BEFORE JOHNNY, WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE DISTRICT'S BUDGETS OR ARE RECAPTURE OF WHAT PERCENTAGE IS IT? SO RIGHT NOW, THERE'S ABOUT TWO HUNDRED OUT OF THE THOUSAND SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN STATE OF TEXAS.
THERE ARE ABOUT TWO HUNDRED OR TWENTY PERCENT THAT ARE RECAPTURED.
BUT I WILL SAY OVER BECAUSE I WENT BACK TO LOOK AT THIS BECAUSE I WANTED TO MAKE SURE I WAS ACCURATE ON IT.
BUT OVER HALF OVER HALF A RECAPTURE IS COMING FROM JUST THREE SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
AND OBVIOUSLY, YOU GUYS KNOW WHO THOSE ARE, I'M SURE, BUT YOU GOT AUSTIN ISD THAT'LL PAY 600 MILLION THIS YEAR.
YOU'VE GOT HOUSTON ISD THAT I THINK WILL PAY ABOUT 400 MILLION THIS YEAR.
AND THEN YOU'LL HAVE PLANO ISD, WHICH IS, WE'RE LOOKING AT TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN MILLION THIS YEAR.
SO THREE OUT OF TWO HUNDRED WILL PAY OVER HALF OF THE RECAPTURE IN THE STATE.
SO AN INTERESTING ENOUGH I SAW IT A MEDIA ARTICLE THE OTHER DAY THAT AUSTIN ISD LOOKING AT A $60 MILLION BUDGET DEFICIT THIS NEXT YEAR BECAUSE THEY CAN'T AFFORD, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, THEY'RE THEY'RE IN THE SAME BOAT AS A LOT OF DISTRICTS LIKE PLANO ISD.
AND THE FACT THAT THERE IS NO ROOM FOR THAT M&O BUDGET TO GROW.
AND SO WHENEVER THEY DO COLLECT ADDITIONAL TAXES, IT'S BEING COLLECTED REPORTED AS REVENUE.
BUT THIS HAS BEEN EXPENSED OUT AS RECAPTURE BACK TO THE STATE.
DO YOU KNOW WHO NUMBER FOUR IS AND HOW WHAT THEIRS IS? JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY? I THINK IT'S HIGHLAND PARK.
IT'S EITHER FRIENDSWOOD OR HIGHLAND PARK OR WESTLAKE.
RIGHT, I WAS JUST CURIOUS IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, IF IT'S AN INTERESTING NUMBER, YOU SAID SIX HUNDRED AND THEN YOU SAID 400, THEN YOU SAID 200 FOR US AND THEN WEST, I THINK AIMES ISD IS A GOOD BECAUSE I THINK THEY'RE PAYING 60-70 MILLION DOLLARS IN SALES AND THEY ONLY HAVE 8000 STUDENTS.
I THINK IT'S A PRETTY SMALL DISTRICT.
SO WELL, WE'RE GOING TO SEE THIS COMING UP.
THE BIGGEST CONCERN IS WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OUR FUND BALANCE.
I MEAN, WE'RE COVERING IT AND WE'LL SEE IT A SECOND, BUT THAT'S AN IMPORTANT THING FOR US TO CONTINUE TO POINT OUT, RIGHT? ALL RIGHT, SO I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE WHEN YOU LOOK AT OUR BUDGET.
ONE THING THAT I THOUGHT I'D BE ABLE TO COME INTO PLANO ISD AND RIDE ON MY WHITE HORSE AND DO ALL KINDS OF REALLY GOOD WORK AND WHAT I FOUND OUT PRETTY QUICK.
THERE'S A LOT OF GOOD WORK THAT'S ALREADY BEEN GOING ON.
AND SO I STARTED LOOKING AT THE NUMBERS.
I'M THINKING, OH MAN, I MEAN, THE DISTRICT HAS BEEN DOING A LOT OF HARD WORK ON THE BUDGET BEING EFFICIENT WITH THE BUDGETS WE ALREADY HAVE.
AND SO I WANTED TO GO THROUGH JUST A COUPLE OF THESE, YOU KNOW, NUMBERS THAT ACTUALLY SHOW THIS IS JUST OVERALL STAFFING.
SO IF YOU LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, 2019 HOUSE BILL THREE, WHENEVER THEY ACTUALLY LOCK DOWN IN THE APPROPRIATIONS, OUR EXPENDITURES DIDN'T REALLY GROW ANYMORE OR COULDN'T GROW ANYMORE.
YOU CAN SEE THAT THE CUTS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE, THIS IS AN OVERALL STAFFING ALL THE WAY FROM OVER A THOUSAND F TO E'S DOWN ABOUT A LITTLE OVER SIXTY FIVE IN JUST FOUR SHORT YEARS.
I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE.
AND THEN ON INSTRUCTIONAL STAFFING, THESE ARE JUST TEACHING STAFFING AS STUDENTS HAVE GONE DOWN.
THESE ARE THE INSTRUCTIONAL STAFF THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN CUT OVER JUST THE LAST THREE YEARS.
YOU CAN SEE THE SIXTY EIGHT AND THEN THE SEVENTY FOUR AND THEN THE HUNDRED AND TWO, AND THEN YOU CAN SEE HOW THAT BREAKS DOWN BY CAMPUS LEVEL OR GRADE LEVEL.
ADDITIONALLY, ON CAMPUS, A DEPARTMENT BUDGETS, OR NOT CAMPUS, BUT I'M SORRY, JUST DEPARTMENT BUDGETS, NON-PAYROLL DEPARTMENT BUDGETS.
ALSO, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF WORK THAT'S BEEN CUT OUT AND THIS IS BASICALLY I MEAN, YOU CAN LOOK AT THE REDUCTIONS, BUT YOU WANT TO REALLY TALK ABOUT ZERO BASED BUDGETING.
WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF ZERO BASED BUDGETING? THERE'S BEEN A LOT ALREADY TAKING OUT AND CUT FROM THOSE BUDGETS.
YOU CAN SEE THE DOLLAR AMOUNTS.
THREE YEARS AGO, OVER $2 MILLION LAST YEAR, ONE POINT SIX THIS YEAR.
I CAN TELL YOU IT'S GOING TO BE A LOT HARDER WITH THE CPI GOING UP LIKE IT IS.
WE HAVE CONTRACTS IN PLACE THAT ARE GOING TO ARE GOING TO BE HIT BECAUSE OF THE CPI GOING UP.
AND WHEN I TALK ABOUT CONTRACTS, I'M TALKING ABOUT CONTRACTS WE ALREADY HAVE IN PLACE THAT HAVE INFLATIONARY FACTORS BUILT INTO IT.
I'M TALKING ABOUT CUSTODIAL CONTRACTS AS OUR CONTRACTS, PROPERTY AND CASUALTY
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INSURANCE.ANY KIND OF SOFTWARE CONTRACTS, THOSE HAVE INFLATIONARY FACTORS BUILT INTO IT.
SO WE'LL DO ZERO BASED BUDGETING.
BUT OBVIOUSLY SOME OF THOSE OR WE'RE GOING TO BE OUR FIXED CONTRACTS THAT WILL AUTOMATICALLY HAVE AN INFLATIONARY FACTOR BUILT INTO IT.
SO GOING ON AND JUST LOOKING AT BIG PICTURE AND LOOKING AT THE REVENUE.
I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO LOOK AT THE RIGHT PIE CHART HERE, THAT BLUE SECTION.
WHEN WE RECEIVE OUR BUDGET, IF YOU DO IT, NET OR RECAPTURE NINETY TWO PERCENT IS IN IS BASICALLY PROPERTY VALUES, IS IN PROPERTY TAX COLLECTIONS.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE ONE THING THAT WE, YOU KNOW SOMEBODY A WHILE AGO MENTIONED FUND BALANCE IN WHILE, WELL, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULDN'T HAVE ANY PROBLEMS BECAUSE WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, WE'VE BUILT UP A FUND BALANCE, BUT IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW IN DISTRICTS THAT HAVE SO MUCH OF THEIR BUDGET, THAT'S IN TAX REVENUE.
YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT WE ACTUALLY RECEIVE OUR MONIES IN DECEMBER, IN JANUARY AND THEN A LITTLE BIT OF FEBRUARY.
SO WE RECEIVED NINETY TWO PERCENT OF OUR MONEY IN THREE MONTHS.
WE'RE REQUIRED TO CASH FLOW OR PAY BILLS THROUGHOUT THE REMAINING 12 MONTHS.
THE REMAINING NINE MONTHS OF THE YEAR, THROUGHOUT THE EVENLY, THROUGHOUT THE 12 MONTHS.
AS A RESULT, WE ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE A PRETTY GOOD FUND BALANCE JUST TO PAY OUR BILLS ON A MONTHLY BASIS.
SO I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE AS WELL.
AND JUST FOR JUST FOR COMMENT, IT'S ABOUT ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY MILLION TO CASH FLOW THE REST OF THE YEAR.
YES, MA'AM, IT'S BETWEEN 160, 170 MILLION IS JUST JUST BASICALLY TO PAY OUR BILLS FOR THE YEAR.
THERE'S THAT OLD SAYING, YOU KNOW, TWO PEOPLE WALK UP TO A FENCE.
ONE OF THEM SAYS, KNOCK IT DOWN.
THE OTHER ONE ASKS, WELL, WHY IS IT THERE? THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE, MAYBE EVEN STATE LEGISLATORS, THAT LOOK AT FUND BALANCES AND SAY, WELL, THAT'S A LOT OF MONEY.
AND THEN YOU HAVE MAYBE THE FEW SAYING, WELL, DON'T YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY IT'S THERE? AND THAT THAT CASH FLOW, THAT THAT'S THE WHY IT'S THERE.
NOT EVERYBODY'S ASKING THE WHY, BUT YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOCK THAT FENCE DOWN AND LET THE COWS GO OUT TO PASTURE.
IT'S GOING TO BE REAL HARD TO GET THEM BACK.
SO I HOPE THAT THE NEXT NEXT, YOU LIKE THAT ONE? I'VE BEEN WATCHING YELLOWSTONE AND WE WHEN WE MET IN OUR LEGISLATIVE ONE ON ONES WITH OUR DELEGATION, WE ACTUALLY COVERED THAT WITH THEM.
LIKE WHAT IS OUR CASH MONTHLY CASH FLOW CYCLE LOOK LIKE IN A YEAR? AND SO WE HAVE CHARTS AND DIAGRAMS. AND, YOU KNOW, WE GAVE THEM THE THE LEGISLATIVE BLUEPRINT WITH ALL THE INFORMATION IN IT.
SO WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE THAT NOW PROBABLY NEEDS PROBABLY BEARS WORTH REPEATING.
THEN JUST GOING ON, GOING ON WITH THE REVENUE AND LOOKING AT IT, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT ACTUALLY JUST TO GIVE A JUST A PRELIMINARY VIEW OF WHAT IT COULD LOOK LIKE BASED ON OUR ASSUMPTIONS THAT WE'VE BUILT THE BUDGET ON ON THE LEFT HAND.
AND OF COURSE, YOU SEE BASELINE, THAT'S THE AMENDED BUDGET AS OF AS OF RIGHT NOW WHERE WE'RE AT.
AND THEN, OF COURSE, PRELIMINARY GOING TO THE TWENTY TO TWENTY THREE.
YOU CAN ACTUALLY GO DOWN AND LOOK AT LOCAL REVENUE.
OF COURSE, THAT'S THAT TAX INCREASE.
THE INCREASE IN VALUES THAT TWO PERCENT STATE REVENUE.
OF COURSE, THAT'S WHENEVER I'M TALKING ABOUT STATE REVENUE, I'M TALKING ABOUT THE PER CAPITA ALLOCATION AND WHAT THAT'S GOING TO BE THE SECOND YEAR OF THE BIENNIUM.
THE REASON WHY THAT'S GOING UP IS THE SECOND YEAR OF THE BIENNIUM THAT PER CAPITA IS ALWAYS MORE.
IT'S ABOUT FOUR HUNDRED AND I THINK IT'S ABOUT FOUR HUNDRED SIXTY DOLLARS PER ADR.
THAT'S WHY YOU SEE THAT GOING UP FEDERAL REVENUE IS ANTICIPATING TO STAY PRETTY LEVEL.
AND THEN, OF COURSE, OTHER SOURCES AND OTHER TRANSFER INS IS WE HAD TO TAKE OUT THE BUDGET FOR ACTUALLY GETTING SOME TRANSFERS IN ON SOME OF OUR OUR OTHER OTHER PROGRAMS, LIKE OUR AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS AND STUFF.
WE'VE ALWAYS BEEN ABLE TO ACTUALLY COLLECT SOME OF THAT BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC.
WE'RE HOPING TO BE ABLE TO GET A LITTLE BIT OFF OF THAT THIS NEXT YEAR.
AND THEN, OF COURSE, IF YOU ACTUALLY TAKE OUT THE RECAPTURE TO GIVE YOU A NET REVENUE IN OTHER SOURCES, YOU CAN SAY THAT ON OUR ANTICIPATED REVENUES, WE'RE ANTICIPATING GOING DOWN ABOUT A HALF A HALF A MILLION DOLLARS, ABOUT HALF A MILLION DOLLARS BEFORE WE EVEN TALK ABOUT APPROPRIATIONS.
OUR EXPENSES SIDE, OK, JOHNNY, THE SIX POINT ONE, FIVE MILLION FROM THE FEDERAL REVENUE.
I'VE TALKED TO SOME PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY THAT DON'T QUITE UNDERSTAND WHAT HOW WE BENEFIT FROM THAT, AND I WANT TO SEE IF YOU COULD MAYBE EXPLAIN WHAT THAT MONEY IS.
SO THE FEDERAL REVENUE IS, I MEAN, WHENEVER, WHENEVER IT'S RECOGNIZED ON THE GENERAL OPERATING FUND, IT'S PRETTY LIMITED OF WHAT YOU WHAT YOU ACTUALLY GET, MAJORITY OF WHAT WE GET ON OUR FEDERAL REVENUES.
THAT'S REPORTED GENERAL OPERATING IS WHAT'S CALLED A SURCHARGE PROGRAM, WHICH IS BASICALLY SERVICES THAT WE'RE ALREADY PROVIDING FOR SPECIAL NEEDS.
WE'RE ABLE TO ACTUALLY REPORT THAT AND ACTUALLY GET SOME FUNDING TO HELP THOSE PROGRAMS. THERE'S NOT NECESSARILY STRINGS ATTACHED TO THAT MONEY.
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AND BECAUSE WE'RE DOING THAT, WE CAN GET THOSE FUNDS BACK FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.ALL OF YOUR ONES THAT HAVE SO-CALLED STRINGS ATTACHED ARE COMPLIANCE ISSUES ARE REQUIRED TO BE REPORTING WHAT'S CALLED A FEDERAL OR SPECIAL REVENUE FUND, A SEPARATE FUND ENTIRELY.
AND THAT'S NOT SOMETHING WE EVER SEE IN OUR BUDGET.
NO, IT'S NOT REQUIRED TO BE A BUDGETED FUND BECAUSE IT ALREADY HAS REQUIREMENTS THAT ARE AUDITED ANYWAY.
SO REALLY, THE ONLY THREE FUNDS THAT THE BOARD ARE REQUIRED BY LAW TO TO ACTUALLY BUDGET AND APPROVE, OF COURSE, AS YOUR GENERAL, OPERATING YOUR DEBT SERVICE AND YOUR FOOD SERVICE, GREAT.
SO GOING ON TO THE APPROPRIATIONS ARE THE EXPENSE SIDE.
I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT JUST TO LOOK AT A COUPLE OF THESE PIE CHARTS.
SO BASICALLY WHAT YOU SEE ON THE LEFT IS YOUR BUDGET BROKEN DOWN BY FUNCTION.
I WILL SAY A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT STOOD OUT TO ME JUST REALLY QUICKLY.
LOOKING AT THIS IS THE INSTRUCTIONAL RELATED.
IT'S ALMOST SIXTY SIX PERCENT.
I WILL SAY THAT'S THAT'S REALLY, REALLY UNHEARD OF.
A FEW YEARS AGO, THE FIRST REPORT THAT, YOU KNOW, WE REPORT OUT, WHICH IS BASICALLY OUR REPORT CARD BY TEA..
THEY WERE REQUIRING EVERYBODY TO GET TO SIXTY FIVE PERCENT.
THEY DID THAT FOR ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE YEARS EARLY ON WHEN THEY WERE DOING THE FIRST REPORT.
THEY STOPPED THAT REQUIREMENT BECAUSE NOBODY COULD GET TO THE SIXTY FIVE PERCENT.
AND SO IT WAS JUST IT WASN'T REALISTIC.
AND SO WHENEVER I LOOKED AT THIS, I'M THINKING, WOW, WE'RE AT SIXTY FIVE PERCENT INSTRUCTIONAL.
THERE IS A HUGE POINT OF EMPHASIS IN OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT TO ACTUALLY PUT OUR FUNDING INTO CLASSROOMS. AND I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT TO ACTUALLY JUST TO POINT OUT WHENEVER WE'RE BUILDING THE BUDGET.
I GUESS THE SECOND THING THAT REALLY REPORTED OUT TO ME IS WHEN PEOPLE GET UPSET WITH SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGETS, THEY ALWAYS POINT TO ADMINISTRATION BEING TOP HEAVY.
AND SO I ALWAYS LOOK AT THAT NATURALLY, I ALWAYS LOOK AT THAT FUNCTION.
YOU SEE THE ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT THAT YOU SEE THE TWO POINT THREE.
THAT'S EXTREMELY LOW FOR FOR A DISTRICT OUR SIZE, IT'S NORMALLY THREE TO FOUR PERCENT.
AND THERE'S ALSO ANOTHER REPORT.
I KNOW WE GO OVER IT WHEN WE DO FIRST REPORT, BUT IT'S CALLED AN ADMINISTRATIVE COST RATIO.
WE ACTUALLY REPORT THAT OUT TO THE BOARD ONCE A YEAR IN OCTOBER.
I'M SURE THAT ALREADY WENT OVER THAT THIS LAST YEAR.
BUT BASICALLY WHAT IT SAYS IS ADMINISTRATION COSTS AS A RELATION TO INSTRUCTIONAL AND IT'S GOT TO BE IN A DISTRICT OUR SIZE.
IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE EIGHT PERCENT OR LESS.
OUR ADMINISTRATIVE COST RATIO IS LIKE FOUR POINT FIVE PERCENT BY FAR THE LOWEST IN COLLIN COUNTY.
THERE'S NOT ANY OF THAT ARE AS CLOSE AS WE YOU ARE.
I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE AS WELL.
AND I THINK IT'S ONE OF THE LOWEST IN THE STATE, SO WE'RE DOING PRETTY WELL HERE, AND IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THAT KIND OF BEHAVIOR AND CHOICES SHOULD BE REWARDED, BUT IT'S NOT.
INSTEAD, I MEAN, TECHNICALLY, WE'RE GETTING PUNISHED FOR BEING SO EFFICIENT.
AND THOSE THOSE COST RATIOS ARE ACTUALLY BROKEN DOWN BY SIZE OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
SO OBVIOUSLY YOU GET SOME ECONOMIES OF SCALE.
BUT OUR RATIO THAT EIGHT PERCENT OR LESS IS BUILT ON THE LARGE SCHOOL DISTRICT, THE LARGEST SCHOOL DISTRICT.
SO ANYWAY, WE'RE IN GOOD SHAPE ON THOSE.
THOSE ARE THE TWO THINGS ON THE FUNCTIONS THAT REALLY STOOD OUT TO ME ON THE RIGHT.
IT IS A LITTLE SCARY THAT SO MUCH OF OUR BUDGET IS IN PERSONNEL COST, AND THAT'S JUST A NATURAL PROGRESSION AS YOU CUT, START CUTTING EVERYTHING OUT OF THE NON-PAYROLL LIKE WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING THE LAST FEW YEARS.
OBVIOUSLY, THE PERCENTAGE OF PAYROLL WILL GROW, RIGHT.
SO IF YOU LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE, THE PURCHASES AND CONTRACTS, I MENTIONED THOSE FIVE AREAS THAT ARE PRETTY FIXED PURCHASES AND CONTRACTS IS A PRETTY FIXED FUNCTION.
BUT IF YOU LOOK AT WHERE WE HAVE DISCREPANCIES, IT'S ONLY ABOUT FIVE POINT FOUR PERCENT, WHICH IS THE SUPPLIES, THE OTHER OPERATING THE CAPITAL.
THAT'S ONLY FIVE POINT FOUR PERCENT OF OUR OVERALL BUDGET, WHICH YOU HAVE GOT A LITTLE BIT OF FLEXIBILITY WITHOUT GETTING INTO YOUR PERSONNEL.
SO IF YOU WANT TO SHRINK YOUR BUDGET, I'M JUST TELLING YOU IT'S HARD TO DO THAT WITHOUT GETTING INTO THAT BIG BLUE SECTION.
SO I JUST WANT TO POINT THAT OUT.
JOHNNY, CAN YOU CAN YOU DEFINE STUDENT SUPPORT WITH THE ELEVEN POINT FIVE PERCENT? SURE.
SO I MEAN, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION, ANGELA.
SO STUDENT SUPPORT IS ANYTHING WE CALL WHAT WE CONSIDER TO BE A FUNCTION.
SO YOU'VE GOT THIRTY ONE, WHICH IS COUNSELORS.
THIRTY TWO, WHICH IS SOCIAL WORKERS.
THIRTY THREE, WHICH IS NURSING, THIRTY FOUR, WHICH IS A TRANSPORTATION.
THIRTY FIVE, WHICH IS A FOOD SERVICE.
THOSE ARE EVERYTHING THAT GOES INTO YOUR STUDENT SUPPORT.
OK, SO, JOHNNY, I THINK JUST ONE COMMENT ON THE THE PAYROLL COST.
YOU SAID IT WAS I FORGOT WHAT WORD YOU SAID, SCARY.
I THINK THAT IT WAS THAT MUCH GOING INTO PAYROLL, BUT THAT'S WHAT WE ARE A PEOPLE BUSINESS AND WE THAT'S THAT NUMBER IS TIED TO THE NUMBER THAT GOES INTO INSTRUCTIONAL RELATED MATERIALS BECAUSE WE WANT MORE PEOPLE, RIGHT? YEAH.
WELL, IF YOU GO BACK, YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO BACK, BUT I JUST DID THE MATH.
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YOU KNOW, WE ARE DOWN SEVEN PERCENT ON INSTRUCTIONAL STAFF SINCE WHATEVER YEAR, IT WAS 2019.SO THAT'S ONLY REALLY THREE YEARS.
WE'RE DOWN SEVEN PERCENT INSTRUCTIONAL STAFF BECAUSE WHEN YOU ARE LOSING MONEY, EXPENDABLE DOLLARS IN BUDGET AND YOU ARE A PEOPLE BUSINESS, THE ONLY WAY TO CUT COSTS IS TO CUT PEOPLE.
AND AGAIN, WE'VE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR A LONG TIME, AND I JUST WISH PEOPLE, I HOPE PEOPLE START LISTENING.
WHAT THAT MEANS IS WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THE SAME LEVEL OF SERVICE THAT WE HAVE PROVIDED IN THE PAST IF WE HAVE TO START CUTTING PEOPLE.
AND THAT'S JUST THAT'S THE FACT OF THE SITUATION.
I MEAN, THAT'S ABSOLUTELY TRUE.
IT'S A VERY LABOR INTENSIVE BUSINESS THAT WE'RE IN.
AND YET IF YOU POLLED TEACHERS, THEY WOULD TELL YOU ABOUT HOW WE NEED MORE STAFF TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE WHAT THE NEED IS IS ACTUALLY MORE OR THEY WOULD LIKE TO HAVE MORE HELP OR, YOU KNOW, BREAKING DOWN THOSE RATIOS.
AND I THINK IF YOU ASK SEVEN BOARD MEMBERS, WE SAY WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE THE MONEY THAT WE'RE PAYING INTO RECAPTURE BACK SOME OF IT SO THAT WE COULD HIRE MORE PEOPLE.
THAT'S WHAT WE DO WITH OUR MONEY.
AND TO YOUR POINT, YOU GET PUNISHED FOR DOING THE RIGHT THING, WHICH IS WHAT JUST FRUSTRATES THE HECK OUT OF ME AND I'M, I DID THAT WAS PURPOSEFUL.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THE PIE CHARTS? THAT'S.
ALL RIGHT, SO LET'S LET'S DO THIS SAME PROCESS AS WE DID WITH THE REVENUE.
LET'S TAKE THE BASELINE, WHICH IS WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW ON OUR AMENDED BUDGET THE OVERALL APPROPRIATIONS OF SEVEN HUNDRED AND THREE POINT SEVENTY FOUR MILLION DOLLARS.
AND THEN LET'S JUST WALK IT FORWARD WITH OUR UNDERLYING BUDGET ASSUMPTIONS.
INCREASE IN RECAPTURES, THAT'S THE FIVE POINT TWENTY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS.
COMPENSATION INCREASE, OF COURSE, THAT'S A PLACEHOLDER RIGHT NOW.
WE'RE GOING THROUGH AN INTENSIVE PROCESS.
WE'LL BRING BACK INFORMATION IN MARCH ON THAT.
RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE A PLACEHOLDER OF A SEVEN POINT SEVEN FOUR MILLION DOLLARS.
THAT'S THE TWO PERCENT, A NET, TWO PERCENT INCREASE ON ALL COMPENSATION.
LET ME EXPLAIN JUST REAL QUICKLY WHAT THAT IS.
SO OBVIOUSLY, WHEN WE RECEIVED FEDERAL MONIES WITH THE ESSER 2.
ESSER 2 WAS ORIGINALLY PUT OUT THERE TO SUPPLANT ANY KIND OF LOSS AS A RESULT OF THE PANDEMIC.
ESSER 2 WAS, THAT'S DIFFERENT THAN ESSER THREE.
ESSER TWO WAS WAS THERE FOR A SUPPLANT.
AND SO WHEN WE AMENDED THE BUDGET IN JANUARY, WE BASICALLY USED PART.
WE WERE ALLOCATED ABOUT $19 MILLION OF ESSER 2.
WE ACTUALLY THE PART THAT WE WERE LOSING AS A RESULT OF ENROLLMENT AND PERCENTAGE OF ATTENDANCE.
WE REPLACED ONE TIME WITH ESSER 2 SUPPLANT IN THE CURRENT YEAR BUDGET, WHICH BASICALLY MEANS WE TOOK SEVEN AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS OF EXPENSES OUT OF OUR GENERAL OPERATING, AND WE RECLASSIFIED IT TO AN ESSER ACCOUNT, A FEDERAL ACCOUNT.
WHEN WE GET TO THIS NEXT YEAR, EITHER WE HAVE TO PUT THAT MONEY BACK WHAT WE TOOK OUT BECAUSE IT'S A FINITE NUMBER OF DOLLARS, WE EITHER HAVE TO REPLACE THAT MONEY IN THE GENERAL OPERATING OR WE HAVE TO CUT PERMANENTLY CUT OUT THAT $7.5 MILLION.
SO THIS IS JUST MAKING US BACK WHOLE TO WHAT WE WERE PROUD OF THAT TWENTY TO TWENTY TWENTY ONE TWENTY TO SUPPLANT.
DOES EVERYONE UNDERSTAND THAT? THAT'S WHAT YOU SEE RIGHT HERE.
YOU HAVE A TRS ON BEHALF, WHICH IS A BOOKKEEPING ENTRY.
THAT'S WHAT THE STATE ACTUALLY MAKES US REPORT FOR ADDITIONAL TRS BENEFITS.
WE HAVE NON-PAYROLL INFLATIONARY FACTOR AND THAT'S JUST A PLACEHOLDER.
WE'LL GO THROUGH THE BUDGET PROCESS AND WE'LL FIND OUT EXACTLY WHAT THAT IS TO THAT PROCESS.
BUT WE PUT A THREE PERCENT PLACEHOLDER ON IT.
I THINK PRESIDENT STOLLE GOT ON TO ME A LITTLE BIT WHEN WE WERE GOING OVER THIS BECAUSE HE THOUGHT THAT WAS LOW BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY, IF YOU KNOW WHAT THE INFLATIONARY FACTOR IS THIS YEAR, WE'RE SITTING AT SEVEN POINT FIVE PERCENT RIGHT NOW.
AND SO WE'RE HOPING THAT WE'LL STILL BE ABLE THROUGH A ZERO BASED BUDGETING TO ACTUALLY GET SOME EFFICIENCIES AND MAYBE NET AT THAT THREE PERCENT.
THAT'S THE TWO POINT THREE ONE MILLION.
YOU DO ALL OF THOSE TOTAL EXPENDITURES TOGETHER, YOU GET THE SEVEN HUNDRED TWENTY SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS BACK OUT RECAPTURED TO GET A NET OF RECAPTURE.
YOU GET FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHT POINT EIGHTY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS.
AND THE BOTTOM LINE, JUST PRELIMINARY, WHAT DOES THAT DO TO OUR BOTTOM LINE? NO, YOU TAKE NET REVENUES MINUS NET EXPENDITURES.
IT SHOWS US WITH ABOUT A $40 MILLION DEFICIT THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT ON A PRELIMINARY BUDGET.
OK, NOW I DON'T WANT TO STOP THE PRESENTATION RIGHT THERE BECAUSE YOU MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO SLEEP TONIGHT.
AND SO WHAT I DO WANT TO DO IS, OK, SO WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? OBVIOUSLY, WE'LL GO THROUGH THE BUDGET PROCESS WILL BE AS EFFICIENT AS WE CAN TO TRY TO IMPROVE ON THAT BOTTOM, THAT BOTTOM NUMBER.
BUT GOING BACK TO SUCH AND JUST LOOKING AT SOME, WHAT CAN WE DO TO GET BIG DOLLARS, YOU KNOW, A BIG, BIG THINGS THAT WE CAN DO TO IMPROVE THAT BOTTOM LINE?
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WELL, WE DO HAVE THE ABILITY TO DO ONE MORE YEAR OF SUPPLANT WITH ESSER 2.IT'S ABOUT $9 MILLION THAT WE STILL HAVE TO THAT WE CAN SUPPLANT.
THAT WOULD ACTUALLY HELP US IN THE 22-23 YEAR BUDGET, ABOUT $9 MILLION.
THAT MONEY GOES AWAY AFTER THIS, THE 22-23 YEAR, TOO.
SO I MEAN, IT'S WORTH IT FOR US TO USE IT SO WE DON'T LOSE IT.
OK, SO THAT'S AN THAT'S A PRETTY EASY ONE, TO BE HONEST WITH YOU.
THE SECOND THING REQUIRES MORE WORK AND SOMETHING THAT I'VE MENTIONED EARLIER IN THE PRESENTATION, AND THAT IS WHAT CAN WE DO TO LOOK HOLISTICALLY? AND DR. WILLIAMS WAS AND WAS TALKING EARLIER WITH DISCUSSIONS ABOUT WHAT CAN WE DO HOLISTICALLY TO LOOK AT OUR BUDGET.
ONE WAY WE CAN DO IS LET'S MAXIMIZE OVERALL OUR OVERALL TAX RATE.
ONE WAY TO DO THAT IS WE'RE ABOUT TO DO A LOOK AT CONSIDER A MODEL S.
DO WE HAVE A CAPACITY TO LOWER OUR RATE IN THAT CAPACITY AND ACTUALLY LOOK AT MAYBE RAISING OUR M&O TO MAXIMIZE THOSE, ELIMINATE THOSE M&O PENNIES THAT FROM THE FIVE POINT EIGHT THREE TO THE NINE AT THE SAME TIME WILL LOWER OUR INS.
SO OUR TAXPAYER IS STILL STILL SEE THE BENEFIT WHERE THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE HURT AS A RESULT BY LOOKING AT HOLISTICALLY AND GOING THROUGH A VOTER APPROVED TAX RATIFICATION ELECTION.
WE CAN ACTUALLY ADD ABOUT $10 MILLION TO OUR M&O BUDGET.
IT REQUIRES A LOT OF EDUCATION WITH OUR COMMUNITY IN A LOT OF TRUST WITH OUR COMMUNITY.
BUT IF THEY'RE WILLING TO DO THAT, WE CAN ACTUALLY HELP OURSELVES $10 MILLION.
CAN THOSE TWO ELECTIONS BE AT THE SAME TIME? YES, MA'AM.
THERE ARE TWO SEPARATE ELECTIONS, SO DON'T LET ME.
THEY'RE BOTH CONSIDERED A SPECIAL ELECTION.
YOU CAN HOLD THEM THE SAME DATE.
IN FACT, RIGHT NOW, YOU'RE REQUIRED TO HOLD WHAT'S NOW CALLED A VATR.
YOU'RE REQUIRED TO HOLD IT IN NOVEMBER NOW, BUT YOUR BOND ELECTIONS STILL CAN BE MAY OR NOVEMBER.
BUT NO, IN FACT, THE LAST TIME I.
BUT YES, TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, YES, YOU CAN.
AND THEN, OF COURSE, THEN GETTING TO PRESIDENT'S STOLLE'S POINT EARLIER, THEN, YOU KNOW, THE ONLY OTHER AREAS THAT YOU CAN ACTUALLY GET BIG MONIES IN AFTER THAT POINT IS TO LOOK IN WHAT I CALL THE BIG BLUE AREA, WHICH IS PERSONNEL.
AND SO THERE IS A WAY TO ACTUALLY LOOK AT THAT AND THAT IS EXTRA ANY KIND OF EXTRA DUTIES.
IT'S IT'S HARD TO REALLY LOOK AT THAT FOR THIS.
I THINK FOR THIS NEXT YEAR, WITHOUT AFFECTING PROGRAMS, YOU CAN REEVALUATE STIPENDS.
THOSE ARE THOSE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT PERSONNEL.
AND THEN THE REAL REALIGNMENT OF PROGRAMS IS BASICALLY GETTING INTO PERSONNEL.
SO TO HAVE A REAL CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW CAN WE GET THE BIG DOLLARS, THEN BASICALLY, I MEAN, THIS NEXT YEAR, OBVIOUSLY, IF YOU DO HAVE ANY LOW LYING FRUIT, IT WOULD BE THE ESSER 2 SUPPLANT AND THEN REALLY STILL A LOWER LYING FRUIT.
BUT MORE WORK WOULD BE A VTR, A VOTER APPROVED TAX RATIFICATION ELECTION.
AND THEN AFTER THAT, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, POTENTIALLY AFFECTING YOUR PROGRAMS. SO THAT'S THAT'S WHERE WE'RE AT PRELIMINARY AND OBVIOUSLY A LOT OF WORK STILL TO BE DONE.
OK, WELL, THAT'S FUNNY QUESTIONS.
I DO WANT TO TOUCH ON ONE THING, YOU KNOW, YOU LOOK AT THIS AND, YOU KNOW, WE ALL HAVE JOBS, WE ALL HAVE BUDGETS WITH OUR FAMILY AND WE ALL WE ALL TRY TO MAKE GOOD FINANCIAL DECISIONS AND WE LOOK AT INFLATION AND WE REALIZE IT'S NO LONGER TRANSITORY, AS WE WERE TOLD OR LED TO BELIEVE.
AND YOU KNOW, TEACHERS ARE LOOKING AT THEIR DOLLAR JUST THIS YEAR ALONE, GOING FIVE PERCENT LESS FAR THAN IT DID BEFORE.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S PART OF IT IS WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE KEEP TEACHERS AND WE WANT TO STAY COMPETITIVE.
BUT THE OTHER PART IS, YOU KNOW, WE GOT TO UNDERSTAND THAT NO MATTER HOW COMPETITIVE WE ARE WITH THE CURRENT FINANCIAL SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY, IT'S GOING TO BE REAL DIFFICULT.
TEACHERS AND PEOPLE IN ALL LINES OF WORK ARE GOING TO HAVE A DIFFICULT TIME WITH THIS AND THEIR MONEY NOT GOING AS FAR.
AND SO I KNOW THAT OUR ADMINISTRATION AND OUR BOARD IS DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO PUT MORE DOLLARS IN OUR TEACHERS POCKETS AND INTO THE CLASSROOM.
AND IT DOES SEEM LIKE THE ONLY OPTION WE HAVE LEFT IS LEGISLATIVE.
AND I KNOW WE'RE WE'RE BOARD THAT'S ON THAT TRAIN.
WE'RE ON THAT BANDWAGON 100 PERCENT.
BUT IT'S JUST GOING TO HAVE TO BE THE DRUM WE BEAT UNTIL WE BREAK IT, BECAUSE THAT'S ALL WE'VE GOT LEFT AND WE KNOW THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN.
I MEAN, JOHNNY JUST SHOWED US HOW BROKEN THE SYSTEM IS AND IT'S GOING TO BE REALLY DIFFICULT AND GET REALLY BAD, NOT JUST FOR OUR TEACHERS, BUT FOR OUR STUDENTS AND THE FAMILIES.
WHEN WE'RE, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT THIS TYPE OF FINANCIAL SITUATION THAT IS
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AVOIDABLE, I BELIEVE IS AVOIDABLE WITH GOOD STATE LEGISLATORS TAKING A LOOK AT THIS AND ACTUALLY DOING THE RIGHT THING.BUT I'M I'M CONCERNED AND I UNDERSTAND THAT OUR TEACHERS, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT SIX THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED EMPLOYEES THAT ARE GOING TO BE FEELING THE CRUNCH EVEN IF WE'RE INCREASING THEIR SALARY BECAUSE INFLATION.
YEAH, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WORRIES ME FOR THEM, AND IT WORRIES ME FOR THE STUDENTS, AND YOU WANT TEACHERS TO FEEL LIKE THEY'RE TAKEN CARE OF SO THEY CAN TAKE CARE OF THEIR STUDENTS.
AND IF THEY'RE WORRIED ABOUT HOW THEY'RE PUTTING THE GROCERIES ON THE TABLE FOR THEIR FAMILY, THAT'S GOING TO BE REAL HARD TO SHOW UP AT SCHOOL THE NEXT DAY AND CARE ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE'S KIDS WHEN YOUR KIDS AREN'T TAKEN CARE OF.
WELL AND WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT IT BEING ABOUT TAKING CARE OF KIDS, YOU KNOW, IF THEY CAN'T, IF OUR LEGISLATORS CAN'T SEE THAT PIECE OF IT, MAYBE THEY WILL SEE IT AS WE'VE GOT TO TAKE CARE OF OUR KIDS THROUGH EDUCATION SO THAT WE HAVE A VIABLE, VIBRANT STATE ECONOMY.
AND IF YOU PUT IT IN THAT LENS, PERHAPS MAYBE THEY MIGHT GET MORE EXCITED ABOUT HELPING US FUND SCHOOL PUBLIC SCHOOLS ADEQUATELY, I JUST I'M AT A LOSS OF WORDS, BUT IT WILL HAVE A DETRIMENTAL ECONOMIC IMPACT ON THE STATE'S ECONOMY IF WE DO NOT HAVE HIGH QUALITY OPPORTUNITIES FOR KIDS.
AND THAT'S KIND OF WHAT YOU WERE SAYING.
I JUST I'M NOT REALLY GREAT ABOUT REMEMBERING THE NUMBERS, BUT THIS IS MY FIFTH BUDGET PROCESS TO GO THROUGH.
AND THE FIRST YEAR I THE FIRST YEAR, WE DID A $3 MILLION DEFICIT.
SECOND YEAR, WE DID A $7 MILLION DEFICIT.
THE THIRD YEAR, IT WAS TEN MILLION.
FOURTH YEAR, 19 MILLION AND NOW, JOHNNY, SAYING THIS ONE COULD BE 40 MILLION.
JUST REMEMBER JERI WHEN HOUSE BILL THREE WAS PASSED, WE LOST CEI WHICH WAS THE COST OF EDUCATION INDEX, WHICH HELPED US.
WE LOST PRIOR YEAR VALUES WHICH HELPED US.
YEAH, WE LIKE ALL OF THE ALL OF THE MECHANISMS IN THE FORMULA THAT HELPED PLANO ISD OR DISTRICTS LIKE US WERE TAKEN OUT OF THE SYSTEM AND IN WHAT WAS PUT BACK IN NONE OF THOSE THINGS WERE, AS THEY SAY, IN ONE OF THOSE MOVIES, WE'RE NOT IN OUR FAVOR.
JERI, WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO SAY IS THIS IS ALL STARTED WHEN YOU JOINED THE BOARD.
I'M GLAD YOU MADE THAT CORRELATION.
SO BUT AT THE SAME TIME, YOU KNOW, AT THE SAME TIME, IT'S HARD FOR ME.
SURE, A DEFICIT BUDGET IS NOT SOMETHING THAT I FEEL GOOD ABOUT EVER.
EVER, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR TEACHERS ARE COMPETITIVE, THAT THEY GET THE RESOURCES THAT THEY NEED, AND SO WE HAVE BEEN VERY I MEAN, WE NEED TO BE VERY THANKFUL FOR THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE US.
I HATE TO GIVE DAVID AND NANCY CREDIT AGAIN, BUT FOR US HAVING A SUBSTANTIAL FUND BALANCE TO BEGIN WITH SO THAT WE HAVE.
WE GOT TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO PAY BACK.
YEAH, LOOK, I HAD TO GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT TO THIS IS THE MACKEN IN EFFECT.
RICHARD MACKEN PLANNED FOR THIS A DECADE AGO AND IT IS NOW COMING TO FRUITION.
AND ALL OF THE THINGS THAT JOHNNY WAS SAYING ABOUT THE WAY THAT THE BUDGET'S BEEN SCRUBBED.
RICHARD SAT ALL OF THIS IN MOTION.
AND SO THE REASON THAT WE ARE STILL ABLE TO REMAIN AFLOAT IS BECAUSE OF RICHARD AND THAT AND SOLELY RICHARD.
WELL, OUR OTHERS, YES, STEVE AND RANDY AND NOW JOHNNY ARE CARRYING THAT FORWARD.
BUT IT WAS THE PLAN THAT RICHARD CAME UP WITH AND IT REALLY WAS THE RIGHT, THE RIGHT APPROACH.
I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE'RE I'M NOT GOING TO SAY WE I'M SAYING I AM REAL GOOD ABOUT GETTING UP HERE AND POUNDING THE TABLE AND CRYING, YOU KNOW, BLOODY MURDER.
BUT WE NEED ACTIONABLE EVENTS HERE.
AND SO I THINK WHAT I'M GOING TO ASK IS THAT OUR LEGISLATIVE SUBCOMMITTEE TAKE THIS PRESENTATION IN EITHER THROUGH STAFF OR THE SUBCOMMITTEE THEMSELVES.
I THINK IT'S FAIR FOR US TO REACH OUT TO EVERYBODY WHO IS RUNNING IN A PRIMARY TO DELIVER THIS INFORMATION ALONG WITH EXPLANATION AND TO ASK THEM WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? AND I THINK IT'S FAIR FOR OUR CONSTITUENTS TO ACCESS THOSE EXACT SAME QUESTIONS BECAUSE IT IS TIME TO ELECT PEOPLE WHO CAN HELP US.
AND IF THAT'S WHAT WE NEED, AND SO OUR ACTION NEEDS TO BE TO EDUCATE THOSE FOLKS, ASK THEM WHERE THEY STAND ON IT, WHAT THEY CAN DO, WHAT THEIR PLAN IS.
AND I HOPE THAT OUR CONSTITUENCY DOES THE SAME.
WELL, I AGREE WITH YOU, BUT THEY HAVE TO UNDERSTAND IT TO BE ABLE TO HELP ASSESS WHAT OUR JOB WILL BE BECAUSE IT'S INTENTIONALLY COMPLEX.
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AND THAT'S WHY THAT'S I THINK THAT'S THE TASK OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE.IF Y'ALL WILL TAKE THAT AND PUSH THAT FORWARD WITH THE CANDIDATES.
WELL, AND I ALSO THINK JUST TALKING MAYBE TO CHRISTIE OR ANYBODY ELSE, YOU KNOW, AS WE BEAT THE DRUM, I THINK IF WE HAVE SOME MODEL LEGISLATION, YOU KNOW, YOU SEE SO MANY PEOPLE, WE NEED TO CHANGE THIS.
OK, WELL, HOW DO YOU WANT TO CHANGE IT? AND IT'S LIKE, OK, GREAT QUESTION.
AND YOU KNOW, I KNOW WE HAVE A COUPLE OF IDEAS.
AND YOU KNOW, WAS IT THE COST OF LIVING? AND THERE'S ALL KINDS OF THINGS AND CHANGES THAT YOU KNOW, WE COULD RECOMMEND.
BUT IF THERE'S MODEL CHANGES TO HOUSE BILL THREE THAT WE ALREADY KNOW THINGS THAT WE CAN TELL THEM, HERE ARE THE HERE'S THE BILL, YOU KNOW, OR HERE'S A SOMETHING YOU CAN WORK OFF OF.
I THINK THAT WOULD BE IMPORTANT, SOMETHING THAT WE KNOW WE WOULD SUPPORT.
THAT WOULD STILL BE GOOD FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION FOR THE STATE, BUT ALSO FOR LARGE DISTRICTS LIKE OURSELVES.
I THINK THAT JUST GOING IN WITH ALL THE AMMUNITION WE MIGHT NEED, I WANT TO COVER ANY KIND OF OBJECTION OR ANY KIND OF QUESTIONING.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, EVEN IF WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING SOLID, JUST SOMETHING WE CAN BREAK.
AND SO I THINK THAT'S THE THE Y'ALL ON THE THREE OF YOU ON THE SUBCOMMITTEE, IF Y'ALL COULD TAKE THAT FORWARD, THAT WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.
I MAY BUY CAPS FOR EVERYONE AT THIS BOARD DAIS SO WE CAN CAP RECAPTURE.
OH MY GOODNESS, THAT'S THE WORST, THE WORST DAD JOKE OF THE NIGHT.
ANY ARE THERE ANY FINAL QUESTIONS FOR JOHNNIE? JOHNNIE, THANK YOU, I GUESS, FOR THAT PRESENTATION.
YEAH, I JUST WANT I DO WANT TO THANK YOU, JOHNNIE, THAT THAT WAS A GREAT I SAID, I TOLD THERESA IT FEELS LIKE JOHNNIE JUST TAUGHT A GRADUATE COURSE IN SCHOOL FINANCE IN ONE HOUR.
I'M NOT KIDDING AND MADE IT UNDERSTANDABLE.
AND IT'S IT'S A COMPLEX FINANCIAL SITUATION HERE AND YOU'VE JUST STEPPED RIGHT IN AND FEELS LIKE YOU'VE BEEN HERE FOREVER.
WE HAVE ONE MORE REPORT AND THOSE ARE OUR BOARD MEMBER LIAISON AND COMMITTEE UPDATES, AND WE'VE GOT FOUR REPORTS THIS EVENING.
SO LET'S START WITH ANGELA AND THE CITY OF DALLAS.
I'VE I MET WITH OUR CITY OF DALLAS LIAISON AND HER NAME IS KARA MENDELSON, AND KARA MENDELSON IS THE DISTRICT TRIAL REPRESENTATIVE.
SHE WAS REELECTED IN MAY 2019.
AND I'M NOT SURE THAT MOST OF EVERYBODY KNOWS KNOW FOR THE DISTRICT.
BUT KARA, YOU HAD THE PLANO PTA COUNCIL PTA LIFE MEMBER AWARD, AND THEN SHE ALSO WON THE PTA LIFE MEMBER AWARD FROM HUFFMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
SO SHE WAS ONE OF OUR MOMS HERE IN PLANO ISD.
SHE GAVE ME 11 ITEMS TO READ TO OUR TO OUR DISTRICT, AND THIS IS WHAT SHE WROTE FOR PLANO UPDATE.
NUMBER ONE, PLANO ISD HAS THREE SCHOOLS WITHIN THE CITY OF DALLAS.
THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY 51000 RESIDENTS IN THE CITY OF DALLAS IN THE PLANO ISD ATTENDANCE BOUNDARY, AND THERE ARE ZONED TO MITCHELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, ROSE HAGER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, JACKSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, FRANKFORD MIDDLE SCHOOL, RENDER MIDDLE SCHOOL, SHEPTON HIGH SCHOOL AND PLANO WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
IN RECENT YEARS, WE ESTABLISHED A STRONG RELATIONSHIP WITH THE DALLAS CITY COUNCIL MEMBER FOR DISTRICT 12, WHICH IS KARA AND [INAUDIBLE] THE PLANO ISD BOUNDARY IN DALLAS IS IN DISTRICT 12.
CURRENTLY, THE CITY IS EVALUATING THE PURCHASE OF A PIECE OF LAND ALONG MAPLE SHADE NEAR PLANO ISD LAND FOR A HIKE AND BIKE TRAIL.
ADDITIONALLY, THE CITY OWNS A PIECE OF LAND NEXT TO THE LAND PLANO ISD IS DEVELOPING AND THE MAPLE SHADE, AND THERE ARE OPEN TO A CONVERSATION ABOUT PROVIDING A PLAYGROUND ON THEIR LAND TO SUPPLEMENT THE CENTER.
WE ARE BUILDING AS A MEANS OF PARTNER WITH PLANO ISD.
I HOPE WE WILL PURSUE THIS OPPORTUNITY THAT IS A WIN FOR OUR STUDENTS AND DALLAS RESIDENTS AND BEFORE RENNER FRANKFORD LIBRARY WAS DAMAGED LAST YEAR IN THE STORM AND HAS BEEN REPAIRED AND UPDATED.
THEY ADDED STUDY ROOMS THAT WILL BE A GREAT ADDITION FOR OUR STUDENTS.
WE ORGANIZED THE FLOOR PLAN AND GOT SOME REALLY COOL FURNITURE.
THERE ARE DISCUSSING REMOVING THE EMERGENCY EVICTION ORDINANCE THAT WAS PUT IN PLACE BECAUSE OF COVID.
AND SINCE WE HAVE A LOT OF STUDENTS THAT LIVE IN MULTIFAMILY HOUSING IN THE CITY OF DALLAS, THAT COULD BE A CONCERN.
THEY HAVE RENTAL ASSISTANCE DOLLARS TO HELP RESIDENTS.
BUT WE MAY WANT TO MAKE A TARGETED EFFORT TO MAKE SURE FAMILIES OF AT RISK STUDENTS ARE AWARE OF THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDING.
NUMBER SIX, DART'S COTTON BELT SILVER LINE RAILROAD IS GETTING CLOSER TO STARTING CONSTRUCTION.
THIS WILL BE VERY DIFFICULT ALONG [INAUDIBLE] DICKERSON, MCALLEN, HILLCREST, DAVENPORT AND FRANKFORT.
WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE ARE STAYING UP TO DATE WITH LANE AND STREET CLOSURES, DETOURS AND SAFETY ISSUES FOR STUDENTS OF VEHICLES.
THIS CONSTRUCTION DOESN'T HAVE A START DATE YET, BUT IT'S EXPECTED TO LAST
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THROUGH THE END OF 2024.THE FAMILY GATEWAY NORTH HOMELESS SHELTER, WHICH WAS CONVERTED FROM THE KENNEL WOOD SUITES HOTEL, HAS BEEN GOING VERY SMOOTHLY AND NUMBER EIGHT, THERE ARE SOME IMPROVEMENTS TO DOUSE WATER UTILITIES HAPPENING IN THE AREA.
RECONSTRUCTION, A PART OF FRANKFORD ROAD BETWEEN PRESIDENT COREY, IS IN THE WORKS.
ADDITIONAL LIGHTING AT FRANKFORD PARK.
ADDITIONAL PICNIC TABLES, TRASH CANS AND BENCHES AT [INAUDIBLE] PARK.
NUMBER NINE AND ADDITIONAL FULL TIME AMBULANCE WAS ADDED AT STATION 13 TO PROVIDE QUICKER RESPONSE TIMES.
THE STATION IS LOCATED NEAR FRANKFORT MIDDLE SCHOOL ON THE CORNER OF FRANKFORT AND HILLCREST.
NUMBER 10, THE FAR NORTH DALLAS AREA IS JUST GOT A NEW POLICE COMMANDER FOR THE NORTH CENTRAL STATION.
HIS NAME IS MAJOR HARRIS AND HE STARTED HIS ROLE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20TH.
AND THEN THE LAST ITEM, THAT KARA WROTE, IS THAT THE CITY IS GOING THROUGH THEIR REDISTRICTING PROCESS.
SO WE'LL HAVE TO SEE IF ALL THE COLLIN COUNTY, PART OF DALLAS, REMAINS IN ONE DISTRICT OR THEY WILL BE SPLIT IN TWO.
SO THANK YOU AND THANK YOU, KARA, FOR WRITING THIS REPORT FOR US FOR PLANO ISD.
OUR SECOND REPORT WILL BE LAUREN ON HEAD START, SO I WILL BE A LITTLE BIT MORE BRIEF.
I'M SURE MY SON IS STILL AWAKE AND PROBABLY WAITING FOR ME TO GET HOME, WHICH IS NOT GREAT FOR A SIX YEAR OLD.
SO HEAD START POLICY COUNCIL, UM LAST BOARD MEETING THAT WE GAVE AN UPDATE ON THE HEAD START POLICY COUNCIL.
I MENTIONED THAT THE HEAD START PROGRAM HAD LOST THEIR SPONSOR FOR A COAT DRIVE, AND SO TARA LANTZ FROM THE COUNCIL OF PTA REACHED OUT TO MYSELF AND WE GOT CONNECTED WITH DARA OVER AT HEAD START.
AND SO THE PISD COUNCIL OF PTA IS JUST SORT OF HURRICANE INTO ACTION AND GOT MORE THAN THE ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY SIX COATS THAT WERE NEEDED TO SERVE THE HEAD START STUDENTS.
AND SO SOME OF THEM, THEIR SIBLINGS WERE ALSO ABLE TO BE SERVED THROUGH THAT PROGRAM.
AND SO I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO TARA THE PLANO ISD COUNCIL OF PITAS, EVERYBODY THAT PARTICIPATED IN THAT COAT DRIVE.
I THINK BOTH OF YOU DONATED MONEY TO THAT EFFORT AND ANYBODY ELSE, IF YOU DID AND I'M LEAVING YOU OUT, I APOLOGIZE.
ANOTHER EFFORT THAT THEY HAD THAT I WOULD LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT BECAUSE IT'S COMMUNITY PARTNERS, IS THEY HAD A CHRISTMAS DRIVER HOLIDAY TOY DRIVE SO THAT SO THAT THESE FAMILIES COULD GET HOLIDAY ITEMS FOR THEIR CHILDREN, PEPSI AND CUSTER ROAD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH.
BOTH WERE MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS TO THAT AND MAKING THESE THESE KIDS, YOU KNOW, HOLIDAY SEASON VERY SPECIAL.
PRETTY LATE IN THE SEMESTER, THE HEAD START PROGRAM GOT LINKED UP WITH LOVE PACKS, AND AGAIN, THIS WAS ANOTHER MASSIVE HURRICANE AND A MOTION WITH THE LOVE PACKS PROGRAM HERE IN PLANO, ENSURING THAT THESE CHILDREN HAD FOOD AND THEIR FAMILIES HAD FOOD OVER THE WINTER BREAK.
SO THOSE WERE KIND OF THREE BIG TAKEAWAYS FROM THE LAST POLICY MEETING FOR ME THAT AREAS WHERE OUR COMMUNITY REALLY DUG IN AND REACHED OUT TO HELP SOME OF OUR NEEDIEST FAMILIES IN PLANO.
AND IT'S VERY EXCITING AND THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO WAS INVOLVED IN THIS PARTICIPATED AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS.
THE REST OF THE MEETING WAS TRAININGS FOR THESE PARENTS AND UNDERSTANDING THE HISTORY OF HEAD START AND PLANO ISD AND THE GOAL OF THE PROGRAM.
SO THE BIGGEST TAKEAWAYS ARE JUST THANK YOU TO EVERYONE'S GENEROSITY, PARTICULARLY DURING THE HOLIDAY SEASON.
OUR LAST TWO REPORTS ARE FROM JERI.
WE'VE GOT THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND THE PLANO CHAMBER.
SORRY, I DON'T HAVE ANY KIDS AT HOME, SO I'M GETTING OKAY.
AND THE FOUR PLANO EDUCATION FOUNDATION, THE BIG ONE IS SKI PLANO.
I HOPE THAT ALL OF US ARE ABLE TO ATTEND MAKE MAGIC HAPPEN IS THE THEME.
FOR ANYONE WANTING TICKETS STILL, IT'S SKIPLANO.ORG.
THEY ARE VERY COGNIZANT OF PEOPLE NOT WANTING TO NECESSARILY BE IN PUBLIC WITH A BUNCH OF OTHER PEOPLE, SO THE SILENT AUCTION WILL BE AVAILABLE TO ANYONE WHO WANTS TO PARTICIPATE.
AND THAT AUCTION WILL OPEN ON WEDNESDAY, THE FEBRUARY, THE SECOND YOU CAN GO TO THE WEBSITE AND FIGURE OUT HOW TO PARTICIPATE.
IT FEATURES A SPECIAL PROGRAM OF PISD TO HAVE EXTRA FUNDING, AND NEXT YEAR THAT PROGRAM IS AVID.
I WANT TO GIVE A HUGE SHOUT OUT.
I'VE HAD THE HONOR WHEN I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO MAKE THE SKI PLANO MEETINGS IS A ARMY OF PEOPLE THAT ARE PARTICIPATING IN THIS GROUP.
HEATHER COLEMAN AND TIFFANY DAKIN ARE THE CHAIRS AND THEY'VE DONE A FANTASTIC JOB.
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AND I ALSO WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO OUR STAFF, BRITTNEY ESRY AND JENNIFER DAVIS, WHO HAVE PICKED UP THE GANTLET AND HAD DONE AN AMAZING JOB OF SUPPORTING THIS ON A DIME OF SORTS AND GETTING IT DONE.SO I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE A VERY FUN EVENT AND I LOOK FORWARD TO HOPEFULLY SEEING MANY OF YOU THERE.
FOR PLANO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, WE USUALLY HAVE PUBLIC POLICY MEETINGS THE WEDNESDAY AFTER THIS MEETING AND IT WAS LAST TIME SO I CAN GIVE YOU A VERY UP TO DATE UPDATE.
THE ANNUAL MEETING WILL BE THIS THURSDAY.
IT IS VIRTUAL FROM 10:00 AT 10 A.M.
I HOPE YOU ALL CAN REGISTER AND BE ABLE TO SEE THAT AS IT IS A GREAT PARTNERSHIP AND HIGHLIGHTING THE CHAMBER, THE CITY AND THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AT ONE TIME AND CODY AND THE POINT ABOUT LEGISLATIVE AND MAKING SURE LEGISLATIVE FOLKS KNOW ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON.
EARLY VOTING DOES START FOR THE PRIMARY ON FEBRUARY THE 14TH, AND THE CHAMBER IS HOSTING TWO FORUMS THAT DAY FOR DISTRICT THIRTY THREE.
THAT FORUM WILL BE AT THE CHAMBER OFFICE FROM 9:30 TO 11:00.
THEY ARE LIMITING THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE, SO IF YOU WANT TO BE IN PERSON, YOU NEED TO REGISTER FOR THAT.
OTHERWISE IT WILL BE AVAILABLE THROUGH ZOOM AND THE FOUR HOUSE DISTRICT 70.
THAT FORUM IS FROM THREE TO FIVE.
I'VE ALREADY REGISTERED FOR THAT ONE, SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO SHOW OUR FACES AS WE WERE ABLE TO FOR THAT REASON.
AND THEN THE CITY OF PLANO IS STARTING A LISTENING TOUR IN FEBRUARY.
I'VE GOTTEN MY INVITATION AND I'VE SIGNED UP TO PARTICIPATE IN ONE OF THOSE, I SAID.
ALL OF US PLANO RESIDENTS TO DO THE SAME AND THE TWO OTHER THINGS THAT ARE INTERESTING THAT WERE MENTIONED AT THE PUBLIC POLICY MEETING THAT I'M FASCINATED WITH.
AND DR. ANDERSON, THIS IS IS IN YOUR PURVIEW AND THAT IS DART HAS RESCHEDULED THEIR TRANSPORTATION ROUTES.
AT ONE POINT, WE ONLY HAD TWO SCHOOLS THAT HAD ANYWHERE NEAR ACCESS FOR DART.
THAT WOULD BE VINE'S AND THE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL, AND I JUST REALLY BE INTERESTED TO KNOW IF OUR FAMILIES AND OUR STUDENTS MIGHT HAVE MORE ACCESS TO OUR PISD FACILITIES NOW THAT THE ROUTES HAVE BEEN REDONE.
SO IF YOU HAVE IN YOUR SPARE TIME, IF YOU WOULD LOOK, THAT WOULD BE REALLY AWESOME TO SEE IF WE HAVE THAT.
AND THEN THE OTHER ONE, WE HEAR VERY MUCH ABOUT OUR SOCIAL EMOTIONAL SUPPORT FOR OUR STUDENTS AND FAMILIES.
LIFEPATH, WHICH SERVICES THE COUNTY FOR ITS PUBLIC HEALTH, HAS BEEN APPROVED BY THE COLLIN COUNTY [INAUDIBLE] TO EXPAND AND HAVE FACILITIES OUT BY THE COUNTY JAIL AND AREAS TO BE ABLE TO SERVE OUR STUDENTS.
JUVENILES WHO ARE NEEDING THAT EXTRA SUPPORT.
SO THAT IS ALSO SOMETHING THAT I FOUND INTERESTING AND HELPFUL.
SARA, IS THERE ANYTHING I MISSED THAT YOU THINK IS IMPORTANT TO ADD? OK, WELL, THANKS, EVERYBODY.
DON'T FORGET TO TAKE YOUR PLAQUES HOME.
THANKS YOU ALL AGAIN FOR THE PRESENTATIONS TONIGHT.
AND IF THERE IS NO FURTHER BUSINESS NOR ANY OBJECTIONS FROM THE BOARD, THE MEETING IS ADJOURNED.
THANKS, EVERYBODY.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.