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ALL RIGHT.

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WELL, WELCOME TO THE 2022-23 SCHOOL YEAR, EVERYBODY.

[1. CALL TO ORDER]

GOOD EVENING.

MY NAME IS DAVID STOLLE.

I'M THE BOARD PRESIDENT AND PRESIDING OFFICER.

NOTING THAT A QUORUM IS PRESENT, I CALLED ORDER THIS MEETING OF THE PLANO ISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES AT 6:00 PM ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 2ND, 2022.

AND ON THE BOARD'S BEHALF, I'D LIKE TO WISH ALL OF OUR VIEWERS AND ALL WHO ARE PRESENT HERE A WELCOME.

AT THIS TIME I ASK SUPERINTENDENT DR.

THERESA WILLIAMS TO VERIFY THAT WE ARE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE TEXAS OPEN MEETING ACT.

REGARDING THE NOTICE FOR THIS MEETING, PRESIDENT STOLLE I VERIFIED THAT THIS MEETING HAS BEEN POSTED IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT.

VERY GOOD.

THANK YOU.

I AM GOING TO INTRODUCE MY FELLOW TRUSTEES AND THOSE OF US HERE AT THE DAIS.

BUT BEFORE I DO SO, I'D LIKE TO INVITE WE HAVE SOME SPECIAL GUESTS IN THE BACK

[2. PLEDGES OF ALLEGIANCE]

OF THE ROOM, BOY SCOUT TROOP 25 FROM HERE IN PLANO.

AND THEY ARE GOING TO HELP US WITH THE PLEDGE.

SO AS I'M INTRODUCING FOLKS, IF Y'ALL DON'T, THE BOYS, IF Y'ALL WANT TO COME DOWN AND LINE UP RIGHT HERE IN FRONT, LET ME GET THROUGH THESE INTRODUCTIONS AND THEN WE'LL DO THE PLEDGES.

YOU HAVE PLENTY OF TIME.

WE HAVE LOTS OF INTRODUCTIONS.

SEATED TO MY LEFT, DR.

THERESA WILLIAMS, OUR SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.

DR. SELENDA ANDERSON, DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT FOR LEADERSHIP AND OPERATIONS TRUSTEE ANGELA POWELL.

TRUSTEE DR. HEATHER WANG.

TRUSTEE DR. LAUREN TYRA AND BOARD SECRETARY JERRI CHAMBERS.

TO MY RIGHT IS EMPTY SEAT.

THAT'S NANCY HUMPHREY, OUR BOARD VICE PRESIDENT, ON THE ZOOM ALONG WITH [INAUDIBLE].

BOARD TRUSTEE CODY WEAVER.

JONNY HILL IS OUR SUPERINTENDENT FOR BUSINESS AND EMPLOYEE SERVICES.

HE ALSO IS ON ZOOM.

HE'S THE ONE WITHOUT A CAT.

LISA WILSON, DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT FOR TEACHING, LEARNING AND LIFE READINESS.

PATRICK TANNER, ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT FOR TECHNOLOGY SERVICES.

DR. COURTNEY GOBER, ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT FOR STUDENT, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES.

DR. BETH BROCKMAN, ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT FOR EMPLOYEE SERVICES.

AND SHARON NOWAK, EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE SUPERINTENDENT AND THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

SO AT THIS TIME WE WILL DO THE PLEDGE.

AS I MENTIONED, BOY SCOUT TROOP 25 IS HERE AND THEY ARE GOING TO LEAD US IN THE PLEDGE.

SO IF YOU'D ALL PLEASE RISE.

THANK YOU ALL.

AND, GUYS, THANKS FOR COMING.

THANKS FOR BEING HERE.

WE APPRECIATE WE.

CODY AND I WERE TALKING JUST MOMENTS BEFORE THE MEETING THAT WE THINK MAYBE IT WAS WE HAD A COVID INTERRUPTION, BUT PRIOR TO COVID, WE WOULD HAVE A BOY SCOUT TROOP OR MEMBERS THEREOF AT ALMOST EVERY ONE OF OUR MEETINGS.

AND SO WE'RE GLAD TO SEE THE TROOP HERE AND GLAD TO SEE Y'ALL BACK.

[3.1. Recognition of 2022 - 2023 New Plano Independent School District Principals]

AT THIS TIME, WE WILL MOVE TO THE RECOGNITIONS PORTION OF OUR AGENDA AS WE BEGIN THIS NEW SCHOOL YEAR.

THE BOARD IS PLEASED TO HAVE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO MEET OUR NEWEST PRINCIPALS IN PERSON THIS EVENING.

ARE WE GOING TO DO THIS NOW OR ARE WE GOING TO DO THIS AFTER THE CONSENT? NOW.

OK VERY GOOD.

SO DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT FOR LEADERSHIP AND OPERATIONS DR.

SELENDA ANDERSON WILL INTRODUCE THIS RECOGNITION.

DR. ANDERSON.

THANK YOU.

PRESIDENT STOLLE WE ARE VERY EXCITED TONIGHT TO RECOGNIZE SOME OF OUR NEWEST PRINCIPALS IN PLANO ISD.

I'D LIKE TO WELCOME LARIZA LINER AND GLORIA MARTINEZ TO THE PODIUM.

THEY'RE ALREADY AT THE PODIUM.

HEY, YOU SEE, WE PRACTICED THAT.

THEY'RE EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS OF SCHOOL LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION, AND THEY ARE HERE TO ASSIST WITH THIS EVENING'S INTRODUCTIONS.

THANK YOU, DR. ANDERSON.

GOOD EVENING, PRESIDENT STOLLE, BOARD OF TRUSTEES, SUPERINTENDENT WILLIAMS AND CABINET.

I'M VERY PLEASED TO SHARE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT WITH YOU.

FOR OUR NEW PRINCIPALS THAT HAVE BEEN APPOINTED OVER THE SUMMER MONTHS, PRINCIPALS, AS I CALL YOUR NAME, PLEASE STAND WITH YOUR YES.

FIRST, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE JOHN TEDFORD, WHO IS THE NEW PRINCIPAL AT ARMSTRONG MIDDLE SCHOOL.

[APPLAUSE] JOHN BELIEVES THAT SUCCESS HAPPENS WHEN ALL STUDENTS FEEL CONNECTED, WELCOME AND SEEN BY THEIR TEACHERS AND STAFF AS HE AND HE'S EXCITED TO BEGIN HIS NEW PRINCIPAL JOURNEY AT ARMSTRONG MIDDLE SCHOOL AS A TIGER TONIGHT IN SUPPORT OF JOHN ARE HIS WIFE, ANN

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MARIE AND HIS CHILDREN, AUBREY, JACOB AND LUCAS.

I BELIEVE HIS MOM IS ALSO PRESENT.

YEAH, HIS MOM, MARGARET [INAUDIBLE], IS HERE ALONG WITH HIS MOTHER IN LAW, [INAUDIBLE] CONGRATULATIONS, JOHN.

[APPLAUSE] NEXT.

WE DO NOT HAVE PRESENT KATIE BRITTEN.

SHE IS A NEW PRINCIPAL AT FRANKFORD MIDDLE SCHOOL.

SHE'S UNABLE TO BE WITH US THIS EVENING.

HOWEVER, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DO RECOGNIZE HER.

SHE DIDN'T GO TOO FAR.

SHE ONLY WENT FROM ROSE HAGGER TO FRANKFURT.

SO SHE'S STILL STAYING IN THAT SAME FEEDER PATTERN FAMILY.

THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT.

I AM EXCITED TO SHARE THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF OUR NEW PRINCIPAL AT HOUSTON ELEMENTARY, AND THAT IS JENNIFER CAPLINGER.

[APPLAUSE] JENNIFER BELIEVES BEING AN EDUCATOR IS A CALLING AND HAS THRIVED AS AN ELEMENTARY PRINCIPAL FOR 11 YEARS IN PLANO.

SHE HIGHLY VALUES ENGAGING AND COLLABORATING WITH ALL STAKEHOLDERS.

TONIGHT IN SUPPORT OF JENNIFER ARE HER HUSBAND, MARTY, AND HER BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN, AVERY AND COLE.

ALSO HERE IS HER ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL, ELENA HELMS, AND A RETIRED PRINCIPAL AND DEAREST FRIEND, JANE SMITH.

PLEASE STAND WHO ARE ALSO HERE SUPPORTING HER TONIGHT.

CONGRATULATIONS.

[APPLAUSE] BUT I'M EQUALLY EXCITED TO ABOUT THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF OUR NEW PRINCIPAL AT ROSE HAGGER ELEMENTARY, MS. AMY WEEMS. [APPLAUSE] AMY IS EMBARKING ON HER FIRST YEAR AS A PRINCIPAL, BUT COMES WITH A WEALTH OF 20 YEARS OF EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE.

SHE IS EXCITED TO PARTNER WITH STAFF, STUDENTS AND THE COMMUNITY TO CONTINUE TO HELP ALL STUDENTS EXPERIENCE SUCCESS AND DEVELOP A LOVE FOR LEARNING.

TONIGHT, IN SUPPORT OF AMY ARE HER HUSBAND JOSH, HER CHILDREN, NOAH AND QUINN AND HER FAMILY.

CONGRATULATIONS.

[APPLAUSE] I'M BURSTING WITH EVEN MORE EXCITEMENT ABOUT THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF OUR NEW PRINCIPAL AT HICKEY ELEMENTARY, MICHELLE HERRERA.

MICHELLE IS UNABLE TO BE WITH US BECAUSE SHE IS AT HOME SICK TONIGHT, BUT SHE IS WATCHING ONLINE.

SO LET'S GIVE IT UP TO HER AND HER FAMILY.[APPLAUSE] MICHELLE LOOKS FORWARD TO MAKING POSITIVE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GREAT BODY OF WORK ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED AT HICKEY IN HER FIRST YEAR AS A PRINCIPAL.

THIS WILL BE HER 15TH YEAR IN EDUCATION, AND IT IS HER GOAL TO STRIVE DAILY TO MAKE POSITIVE DIFFERENCES IN THE LIVES OF STUDENTS.

ONLINE WATCHING WITH HER IS IN IS HER FAMILY, HER FIANCE JESSICA [INAUDIBLE] AND HER CHILDREN, MARLEY, MATHIAS AND MERRITT.

CONGRATULATIONS, MICHELLE.

AND FINALLY, I AM VERY, VERY, VERY EXCITED FOR THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF OUR NEW PRINCIPAL AT M ATTHEWS ELEMENTARY, MS. WENDY MILLER.

[APPLAUSE] WENDY BELIEVES IN PLANO ISD SO MUCH THAT HER OWN CHILDREN HAVE GONE THROUGH THE PISD SYSTEM.

SHE'S EXCITED TO CONTINUE TO POUR INTO THE WONDERFUL DISTRICT AND START HER 15TH YEAR OF EDUCATION AS A FIRST YEAR PRINCIPAL WHO CENTERS HER WORK AROUND RELATIONSHIP.

TONIGHT IN SUPPORT OF WENDY IS HER HUSBAND AARON AND HER CHILDREN, GRACE, CAITLIN AND ALYSSA.

CONGRATULATIONS.

[APPLAUSE] THANK YOU SO MUCH.

LET'S GIVE A WARM WELCOME TO ALL OF OUR PRINCIPALS.

THANKS.

OKAY.

ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU.

ALL WELCOME.

AND TRUSTEES.

DR. WILLIAMS, ANY COMMENTS? WOULD ANYBODY LIKE TO MAKE ANY COMMENTS? I WOULD.

I FEEL LIKE BECAUSE MICHELLE ISN'T HERE.

I WANT TO TALK ABOUT HER.

SO MICHELLE HAS BEEN THE PRINCIPAL AT MY SON'S ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SINCE HE STARTED.

AND WHEN I WHEN MY SON STARTED KINDERGARTEN, I JOINED THE SCHOOL BASED IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE FOR [INAUDIBLE] AND THE SBIC.

AND MICHELLE IS THE ONE WHO HAS LED THAT EFFORT.

SO I'VE GOTTEN TO KNOW HER REALLY WELL THROUGH THAT AND I'M JUST VERY EXCITED FOR HER TO BE TAKING THIS JOURNEY.

AND I'LL JUST SHARE ANECDOTALLY A STORY ABOUT MICHELLE.

AND, YOU KNOW, SHE'S VERY DATA DRIVEN AND I REALLY, REALLY APPRECIATE THAT IN PRINCIPAL.

AND ON THESE SBIC MEETINGS, SHE REALLY EMPHASIZES WITH THE STAFF, YOU KNOW, THE DATA AREN'T PERSONAL, THE DATA, OR THERE IS A TOOL TO HELP YOUR STUDENTS IMPROVE.

AND I JUST LOVE HER ATTITUDE AND I LOVE HER ENTHUSIASM.

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SO I'M SORRY YOU CAN'T BE HERE, MICHELLE, BUT I'M VERY EXCITED FOR YOU.

AND I'M EXCITED FOR ALL OF OUR PRINCIPALS AND ALL OF OUR NEW PRINCIPALS.

AND, YOU KNOW, KNOWING THE CALIBER OF, YOU KNOW, THE DISTRICT AND THE AP TRAINING PROGRAM AND WHERE YOU ALL HAVE BEEN AND WHERE YOU ALL ARE GOING, I'M JUST VERY EXCITED TO SEE THE WORK THAT YOU ALL DO.

AND CONGRATULATIONS.

THANK YOU.

I KNOW DR.

WILLIAMS WANTED TO MAKE SOME COMMENTS AS WELL.

WELL, FIRST, I THINK WE HAVE ONE MORE RECOGNITION.

AND SO WHILE WE'RE GATHERING IT TO MAKE THAT THAT RECOGNITION, I'LL JUST SAY A COUPLE OF THINGS.

FIRST, WE'RE SO EXCITED.

I KNOW YOU'RE MOVING INTO A NEW ROLE IN PLANO ISD AND INTO THE PRINCIPAL SHIP.

AND JENNIFER, IN YOUR CASE, YOU'RE MOVING FROM ONE CAMPUS TO ANOTHER CAMPUS.

SO WE'RE JUST INCREDIBLY EXCITED.

AND I THINK THE LEADERSHIP THAT YOU HAD HAS LED YOU TO THE NEW LEADERSHIP ROLE OF WHICH YOU'RE ALL EMBARKING UPON.

WHEN ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE SHARED OR I SHARED YESTERDAY WITH OUR NEW TEACHERS IS WHEN YOU JOIN THE PLANO ISD FAMILY, YOU'RE INHERITING A SUPPORT SYSTEM AND NOT JUST A SUPPORT SYSTEM AROUND THE DAIS, BUT ALSO SUPPORT SYSTEM OF ALL OF OUR TEAMS ACROSS THE DISTRICT.

WE'RE HERE FOR KIDS.

WE'RE HERE TO SUPPORT YOU IN YOUR NEW ROLE.

AND THERE'S THERE'S NOT A THING THAT YOU COULDN'T CALL ANY ONE OF US THAT WE'RE NOT READY WE STAND READY TO TO HELP AND SUPPORT YOU ALONG THE WAY.

I WANT TO ALSO THANK THE FAMILIES.

I KNOW THAT YOUR SPOUSES WILL SPEND A LOT OF TIME AT THEIR SECOND HOME, WHICH IS AT THEIR CAMPUS.

AND WE JUST APPRECIATE WE'RE GRATEFUL FOR FOR THE TIME AND THE PATIENCE AND SUPPORT THAT YOU PROVIDE THEM ALONG THE WAY.

I DON'T KNOW IF ANYBODY ELSE WOULD LIKE TO MAKE SOME COMMENTS, BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT I DIDN'T YOU DIDN'T LEAVE THIS EVENING WITHOUT HEARING FROM ME DIRECTLY.

AND WE'RE JUST SO GRATEFUL AND SO PROUD OF ALL OF YOU.

I'LL JUST ADD, I THINK WE'VE HAD CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THIS IN TERMS OF MISS MILLER AND MS. WEEMS, YOUR CAMPUSES ARE TWO CAMPUSES THAT I WOULD LOVE TO MAKE A COMMITMENT RIGHT HERE FROM THE DAIS THAT I WANT TO BE INVOLVED IN AND TALKING WITH THE PTA COUNCIL, TRYING TO GET THE WATCHDOG PROGRAM, AND JUST MORE VOLUNTEERS, MORE PARENTS ON CAMPUS TO HELP YOU HELP THE TEACHERS AND JUST TO DO MORE.

SO YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM ME.

I'M GOING TO SEND AN EMAIL TO YOU TO WORK WITH YOU DIRECTLY AND WOULD LOVE TO GET THAT PILOTED AND TRY TO GET THAT, YOU KNOW, GROW THAT AS MUCH AS WE CAN.

SO YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM ME.

WE'D ALSO LIKE TO WELCOME THIS EVENING THE DIRECTOR OF OUR ADULT TRANSITION CENTER OF THE SOLOMON CENTER, GWENDOLYN JOHNSON, IS WITH US WITH HER BEAUTIFUL FAMILY AS WELL.

MISS JOHNSON COMES TO US FROM THE SOLOMON CENTER, WHERE SHE HAS SERVED PLANO FAMILIES SO INCREDIBLY FOR THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS.

AND SHE ALSO HAS A GREAT BACKGROUND IN SERVING FAMILIES AND STUDENTS WHO ARE IN TRANSITION.

AND SHE JUST HAS SUCH A PASSION FOR OUR YOUNG ADULTS.

SO THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO.

AND WE'RE SO PLEASED THAT YOU'LL BE DIRECTING THE SOLOMAN CENTER.

WELCOME, Y'ALL.

I'VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR A LOT OF YEARS, OR AT LEAST SITTING HERE ON THE BOARD.

AND AND I'VE HEARD EVERY SINGLE ONE OF OUR SUPERINTENDENTS SAY THIS TO NEW PRINCIPALS, THAT IT IS THE FAMILIES ARE ALSO JOINING US AND IN THE FAMILY ROLE, BECAUSE Y'ALL ARE GOING TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR YOUR YOUR FAMILY MEMBER WHO IS NOW A NEW PRINCIPAL.

AND WE WANT TO SUPPORT YOU ALL AS WELL.

SO WELCOME ALL TO EITHER A NEW ROLE IN THE PLANO ISD FAMILY OR TO TO THE PLANO ISD FAMILY.

WE'RE GLAD TO HAVE YOU ALL.

ALL RIGHT.

SO IF YOU'LL GIVE ME JUST HALF A SECOND, I'LL TURN EVERYBODY LOOSE.

WE ARE NOW ON.

WE MOVE TO THE AGENDA ITEM NUMBER FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.

DO WE HAVE ANY COMMENTS? PRESIDENT STOLLE, WE DO NOT HAVE ANY SPEAKER CARS, SO WE HAVE NO SPEAKER CARDS TONIGHT.

SO LET ME TELL YOU WHAT'S ABOUT TO HAPPEN.

WE'VE GOT A LONG MEETING TONIGHT.

[5. CLOSED SESSION]

AND SO THE BOARD IS ABOUT TO GO INTO CLOSED SESSION, WHICH WE'RE GOING TO WE HAVE THREE ITEMS ON CLOSED SESSION WE NEED TO TAKE CARE OF.

WE WILL WORK THROUGH THOSE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE SO THAT WE CAN COME BACK AND GET THE REST OF THE MEETING STARTED.

AND SO, EXCEPT FOR YOU, PRINCIPALS DON'T GO ANYWHERE.

THE REST OF Y'ALL CAN SAY, NEW PRINCIPALS, GO HOME.

Y'ALL ENJOY.

THE COUNTDOWN IS ON FOR THE START OF SCHOOL, SO ENJOY WHAT LITTLE TIME IN THE

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SUMMER YOU HAVE LEFT.

I KNOW Y'ALL HAVE ALREADY STARTED WORKING, SO AGAIN, WE WILL BE BACK SHORTLY.

IF THERE ARE NO OBJECTIONS FROM THE BOARD, WE WILL ADJOURN TP CLOSED SESSION AS AUTHORIZED UNDER THE TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT FOR THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES.

SECTIONS 551.071.

551.072.

551.074 AND 551.129.

THE TIME IS 6:15.

WE'LL BE BACK AS QUICKLY AS WE CAN.

ALL RIGHT, GANG, WE APPRECIATE YOUR PATIENCE.

[6. RECONVENE OPEN SESSION]

NOTWITHSTANDING OUR BEST EFFORTS, THAT TOOK LONGER THAN EXPECTED.

THE BOARD IS NOW RECONVENED IN OPEN SESSION.

TODAY'S TUESDAY, AUGUST 2ND, 2022, AND THE TIME IS 7:49 P.M..

[7. CONSENT AGENDA]

CONSENT AGENDA WILL DO THE CONSENT AGENDA ITEM 7 CONSENT AGENDA CONSIST OF ROUTINE ITEMS GROUPED TOGETHER FOR APPROVAL WITH NO DISCUSSION.

BOARD MEMBERS ARE THERE ANY REQUESTS TO REMOVE ITEMS FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION? PRESIDENT STOLLE REQUESTS THAT ITEM 7.13 APPROVAL OF RATIFICATION OF ITEMS DECLARED AS SURPLUS BE REMOVED FROM CONSENT AGENDA.

OK.

SO TRUSTEE WEAVER REQUESTED THAT ITEM 7.13 BE REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA.

THIS ITEM WILL BE MOVED TO DISCUSSION AND ACTION ITEM 9.6 FOR DISCUSSION AT THAT TIME.

THERE WILL BE NO DISCUSSION AT THIS TIME.

ARE THERE OTHER REQUESTS TO REMOVE A CONSENT AGENDA ITEM? OK HEARING NONE.

WE WILL PROCEED TO VOTE ON THE CONSENT AGENDA.

DO I HAVE A MOTION? I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES THE CONSENT AGENDA, REMOVING ITEM 7.13 APPROVAL OF THE RATIFICATION OF ITEMS DECLARED A SURPLUS.

SECOND.

JERI WAS THAT YOU? OK.

SO I HAVE A MOTION BY CODY WEAVER.

SECOND BY JERI CHAMBERS THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES THE CONSENT AGENDA REMOVING ITEM 7.13 APPROVAL OF THE RATIFICATION OF ITEMS DECLARED A SURPLUS.

WE WILL NOW PROCEED TO VOTE.

ALL IN FAVOR PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.

WE HAVE VICE PRESIDENT HUMPHREY VIA ZOOM.

ARE YOU IN FAVOR OR OPPOSED? I'M IN FAVOR.

OK.

VERY GOOD.

THANK YOU.

THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.

AS MENTIONED, WE'LL COME BACK TO THAT ITEM AT 9.6 THAT HAS BEEN PULLED.

OK.

JUST A LITTLE BIT OF HOUSEKEEPING TO SET EXPECTATIONS HERE.

WE'VE GOT A FAIRLY LENGTHY REPORT COMING UP NOW.

AND THEN WE HAVE A A RELATED REPORT IN ITEMS 8.1 AND 8.2 THEY'RE SOMEWHAT RELATED.

AND SO WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A TEMPERATURE CHECK OF THE BOARD AFTER 8.2 TO SEE IF WE NEED TO TAKE A BREAK.

BUT WE'RE GOING TO GET THROUGH FIRST THE ITEMS 8.1 AND 8.2.

AND SO AT THIS TIME, WE HAVE OUR FIRST REPORT, THE 2022 FUTURE FORWARD TASK FORCE

[8.1. 2022 Future Forward Task Force Report Presenters: Rick Cinclair and Marshall Jackson, 2022 Future Forward Task Force Co-Chairs]

REPORT.

AND I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE OUR TASK FORCE CO-CHAIRS, RICK CINCLAIR AND MARSHAL JACKSON, WHO ARE HERE THIS EVENING TO PRESENT THE TASK FORCE RECOMMENDATIONS.

SO, GENTLEMEN, AND AS THEY MAKE THEIR WAY TO THE PODIUM FOR THEIR PRESENTATION, I'D ASK THE BOARD AGAIN THIS IF YOU'VE LOOKED AT THE PACKET, THIS IS ABOUT 50 SLIDES LONG, SO IT'S GOING TO BE SOME GOOD DISCUSSION FROM THE PRESENTERS.

AND BOARD MEMBERS I'D ASK IF YOU WILL PLEASE WRITE DOWN YOUR QUESTIONS, HOLD THEM TO THE VERY END, AND THEN WE CAN ASK QUESTIONS AT THAT TIME.

BUT LET'S LET THE PRESENTERS GET THROUGH THEIR ENTIRE PRESENTATION FIRST.

SO, GENTS, TAKE US AWAY.

THANK YOU, PRESIDENT STOLLE.

MY NAME IS RICK CINCLAIR.

YOU ALL ALREADY KNOW MARSHALL.

YOU ALL MET MARSHALL LAST TIME HE GAVE THE INTERIM REPORT.

WHAT, ABOUT SIX WEEKS OR SO AGO MARSHALL? WELL, IT FEELS LIKE SIX WEEKS.

SO YOU ALL KNOW, MARSHALL, I WANT TO INTRODUCE MYSELF.

A LOT OF YOU ALL ALREADY KNOW ME.

A LOT OF YOU ALL ALREADY KNOW ME.

BUT I JUST WANT TO WANT YOU TO KNOW WHO'S REPORTING TO YOU.

AND WE DO HAVE A LOT TO COVER, SO I'M GOING TO TRY TO TALK FAST.

I DON'T NORMALLY DO THAT, BUT THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TONIGHT.

THAT'S WHAT I'M GOING TO DO TONIGHT.

I MOVED TO PLANO IN 1976.

WE LIVED ON PARKER ROAD IN BETWEEN INDEPENDENCE AND COIT.

THAT WAS THE EDGE OF CIVILIZATION IN 1976, COIT WAS A DIRT ROAD.

WE MOVED HERE FROM SOUTH DAKOTA.

MY DAD WANTED TO LIVE IN A PLACE WHERE IT WAS POSSIBLE THAT HIS CHILDREN COULD END UP WHEN THEY GREW UP.

MY DAD LIVES A MILE NORTH OF ME.

MY BROTHER LIVES A MILE WEST OF ME, AND MY SISTER LIVES A MILE AND A HALF CATTY CORNER FROM ME.

SO MY DAD'S PLAN WORKED.

I WAS A SIGLER ROAD RUNNER.

I WAS A HOUSTON MUSTANG.

I WAS A HAGGARD EAGLE.

I WAS A CLARK COUGAR, AND I WAS A PLANO WILDCAT.

I WENT TO UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS.

I HAVE A DEGREE IN ENGLISH.

I MET MY WIFE, THE FORMER JAYA PRAKASH KRISHNA RAJ AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS.

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I SOMETIMES REFER TO MYSELF AS MARSHALL LITE.

MARSHALL MET HIS WIFE IN THE SECOND GRADE.

MY STORY IS NOT THAT GREAT.

I MET MY WIFE MY SOPHOMORE YEAR OF COLLEGE BECAUSE SHE WAS ROOMMATES WITH A GIRL FROM PLANO, ANNA SPANGLER WAS HER ROOMMATE.

I KNEW HER.

I MET MY WIFE.

THE REST IS HISTORY.

I WENT TO THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS LAW SCHOOL.

WE LOST TO THE AGGIES EVERY YEAR UNTIL 1990.

IF WE HADN'T BEATEN THEM IN 1990 I WAS LOOKING AT THE LBJ SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS WHEN I GRADUATED FROM LAW SCHOOL.

ONE THING I DON'T THINK ANY OF YOU ALL KNOW ABOUT ME I TAUGHT DEVELOPMENTAL WRITING AT BROOKHAVEN COLLEGE FOR TWO SEMESTERS.

WHAT DID I TEACH THEM? I TAUGHT THEM WHAT MR. BOROWITZ TAUGHT ME IN THE 11TH GRADE, THE PLANO PARAGRAPH AND THE PLANO THESIS.

MY MOTHER HAS A DOCTORATE IN EDUCATION.

SHE'S A COLLEGE PROFESSOR.

SHE'S 79 YEARS OLD AND SHE'S STILL SUBSTITUTE TEACHING.

MY FATHER HAS A PH.D.

IN HISTORY AND WAS A COLLEGE ADMINISTRATOR IN THE HOUSE I GREW UP IN EDUCATION AND THE ARTS WERE ALWAYS VERY IMPORTANT TO MY FAMILY.

WHY AM I HERE TODAY? I HAVE THREE BOYS THAT WENT THROUGH PISD 39 YEARS OF PISD.

THEY WERE ANDREW'S EAGLES, RICE RAVENS TWO WERE JASPER JAGUARS, ONE WAS A CLARK COUGAR AND ALL THREE PLANO WILDCATS.

THEY WERE INVOLVED IN BASKETBALL AND CHOIR.

A LOT OF TIMES I THINK BY THE END OF THIS PRESENTATION YOU MIGHT THINK THAT I'M A BIG ATHLETICS GUY AND I AM A BIG ATHLETICS GUY, BUT I'M EVERY BIT AS MUCH SO A BIG FINE ARTS PERSON.

BUT IN MY HOUSE, MY WIFE WAS ACTUALLY THE ATHLETICS PERSON.

SHE WAS A THREE YEAR VARSITY TENNIS PLAYER.

I WAS THE ONE THAT MADE SURE THAT THE GRADES WERE INTACT.

I WAS THE ONE THAT WAS THE HEAVY BECAUSE THAT WAS WHAT WAS IMPORTANT TO ME.

I AM HERE LARGELY BECAUSE I AM APPRECIATIVE OF THE EDUCATION THAT MY THREE BOYS GOT AND THAT I GOT GOING THROUGH PISD.

MY ELDEST SON IS A FOURTH YEAR MEDICAL STUDENT AT UT SOUTHWESTERN.

HE'S DOING A SUB INTERNSHIP IN PLASTIC SURGERY AT HARVARD AT THIS MOMENT.

MY MIDDLE SON JUST TOOK A JOB WITH GALLUP CAPITAL.

HE'S OPENING THEIR MIAMI OFFICE.

MY BABY IS A JUNIOR AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY.

I LOOK ON THE FACEBOOK AND I SEE PARENTS COMPLAINING HOW HARD IT IS.

IT'S THE NUMBER EIGHT RATED BUSINESS SCHOOL IN THE COUNTRY.

I CALL HIM AND CHECK IN ON HIM AND HE SAYS IT'S NOT HARD DAD.

HE SAID, WHEN I TOOK MY CLASSES AT PLANO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL AP THEY WERE HARDER.

THEY PREPARED ME.

SO I DON'T KNOW.

I ALWAYS GET CONFUSED IF I'M PAYING IT FORWARD OR I'M PAYING IT BACK.

BUT THAT'S WHY I'M HERE.

YOU ALL APPROVED A TASK FORCE TO STUDY A BOND PRESENTATION.

WE HAD A LUNCH WITH DR.

WILLIAMS AND FORMER SUPERINTENDENT SARA BONSER, AND THE FIRST THING THAT CAME OUT OF MS. BONSER'S MOUTH WAS, WE ARE A DISTRICT OF EXCELLENCE.

AND I SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT? MY GRADUATION DIPLOMA FROM PLANO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL SAYS A TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE.

IF WE'RE GOING TO TALK EXCELLENCE.

I'M IN.

YOU DON'T NEED TO SAY ANOTHER THING TO RECRUIT ME.

I'M IN.

MARSHALL THANKED YOU ALL LAST TIME.

WE KNOW THAT WE ARE BLESSED WITH AMAZING LEADERSHIP AT PISD.

WE KNOW THAT YOU ALL PUT IN A TON MORE TIME THAN WE HAVE.

WE ARE PLEASED TO BE ABLE TO PRESENT THIS TO YOU ALL AND LET YOU ALL CONSIDER IT.

BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT YOU ALL ARE SMARTER THAN WE ARE.

WE KNOW THAT YOU ALL WILL KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THIS OK.

BUT WE'RE GLAD THAT WE HAVE THIS OPPORTUNITY.

AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE WOULD REALLY LIKE, WE WORKED REALLY HARD ON THIS BOARD.

WE ARE REALLY HOPING THAT WE CAN GET A 7 0 VOTE TO SEND THE RIGHT MESSAGE TO THE COMMUNITY THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO HAVE FOR OUR DISTRICT.

MARSHALL.

ALL RIGHT.

RICK.

I'M ALL IN.

SIGN ME UP.

OKAY, SO FOR THE PEOPLE THAT MIGHT NOT KNOW ME, I'M MARSHALL JACKSON.

I'VE LIVED IN PLANO FOR 51 YEARS, AND I AM A PRODUCT OF THE PISD SYSTEM.

LIKE, RICK, YOU KNOW, I MET MY WIFE IN THE SECOND GRADE.

SHE'S ALSO A WILDCAT.

AND I THINK I FEEL LIKE I'VE BEEN TO EVERY SCHOOL IN THE DISTRICT BECAUSE WE WERE GROWING SO FAST BACK THEN THAT ONE YEAR YOU'D BE AT ONE SCHOOL, ONE YOU'D BE AT THE NEXT.

BUT WE JUST KEPT GROWING AND WE JUST KEPT HAVING FUN.

SO I'M ALL IN WHEN IT COMES TO PUBLIC EDUCATION, AND I'M THANKFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY HERE TO STEER THE TASK FORCE.

IT WAS TRULY A REMARKABLE EXPERIENCE.

SO WITH THAT SAID, DISTRICT SNAPSHOT, FOR THOSE THAT DON'T HAVEN'T LOOKED AT THE DISTRICT SNAPSHOT OR DON'T KNOW REALLY WHAT IT IS,

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PISD IS LIKE A LARGE COMPANY.

WE HAVE 70 PLUS SCHOOLS, SIX ACADEMIES, TWO STADIUMS, 50,000, GIVE OR TAKE STUDENTS, OF WHICH 35% ARE AT AN ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE.

AND WE HAVE ROUGHLY 6400 PLUS DISTRICT EMPLOYEES.

OUR DISTRICT BREAKS DOWN.

WE HAVE THREE EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOLS AND ONE HEAD START PROGRAM, 44 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS K THROUGH FIVE, 15 OF THOSE CAMPUSES ARE PRE K WITH ONE VIRTUAL ACADEMY K THROUGH FIVE.

WE HAVE 13 MIDDLE SCHOOLS, SIX THROUGH EIGHTH GRADE, SIX HIGH SCHOOLS, 9TH AND 10TH GRADE, ONE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL, WHICH IS 9 THROUGH 12.

WE HAVE THREE SENIOR HIGHS, 11TH AND 12TH GRADE AND ONE ADULT TRANSITION CENTER FOR OUR SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENTS.

WE START THEM YOUNG AND WE CONTINUE TO EDUCATE THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL AND BEYOND.

OUR MISSION AND OUR VISION.

AND YOU ALL CAN SEE THE SLIDE UP THERE.

AND ALL I CAN REALLY SAY, THESE ARE FANTASTIC.

IT'S A FANTASTIC VISION AND MISSION STATEMENT.

BUT ACROSS THE DISTRICT OUR VISION IS CLEAR AND OUR MISSION GUIDES AND DIRECTS US DAILY.

OKAY.

WHAT IS THE BOND ELECTION? IN THIS YOU KNOW, FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT SERVED ON THE TASK FORCE AND WE'LL GET INTO THAT IN THE NEXT FEW SLIDES REALLY DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT A BOND ELECTION WAS.

SO IT'S SUPER EDUCATIONAL.

FOR THOSE I WANT YOU ALL TO TO PICTURE IN YOUR HEAD A TRICYCLE.

IF EVERYBODY CAN PICTURE A TRICYCLE RIGHT NOW, THERE'S THREE WHEELS TO THE TRICYCLE.

OK.

PUBLIC EDUCATION OR SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE FUNDED THREE DIFFERENT WAYS.

YOU HAVE AN I&S YOU HAVE AN M&O AND YOU HAVE A BOND.

THE I&S IS INTEREST AND SINKING, WHICH PERTAINS TO THE FINANCIAL SIDE OF IT.

M&O IS MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION.

AND THEN WE HAVE THE BOND.

EVERY DISTRICT IN THE STATE HAS TO HAVE A BOND IN ORDER TO SURVIVE.

IT'S LIKE THE BIG FRONT TIRE ON THE TRICYCLE.

THE I&S AND THE M&O ARE THE TWO BACK TIRES.

SO ALL THREE OF THESE THINGS WORKING TOGETHER IS WHAT MOVES OUR DISTRICT FORWARD.

ALL RIGHT.

WHY HAVE A BOND? WELL.

THIS BOND WILL HELP KEEP PLANO COMPETITIVE WITHIN THE DISTRICTS AROUND US.

THE BOND WILL GIVE US THE ABILITY TO MEET THE GROWING DEMANDS FOR CTE AND OTHER IMPORTANT PROGRAMS. THIS BOND WILL ALLOW US TO UPGRADE OUR TECHNOLOGY TO ENHANCE OUR EDUCATION.

THIS BOND WILL GIVE US THE FUNDS TO MAKE ESSENTIAL UPGRADES TO IMPROVE OUR SAFETY AND SECURITY.

THIS BOND ALLOWS US TO CORRECT DEFICIENCIES AT DISTRICT SCHOOLS AND FACILITIES AND TO BUILD COMPETITIVE EXTRACURRICULAR SPACES.

THIS BOND GIVES US THE RESOURCES TO REPLACE OUR BUSSES AND WORK VEHICLES AT THE END OF THEIR LIFE.

THIS IS WHY WE HAVE A BOND.

IT TAKES CARE OF A LOT OF THINGS.

WHEN BEING EFFICIENT BECOMES A RISK.

THIS IS THE POSTER CHILD FOR WHY WE NEED THE BOND.

THIS IS ACTUALLY A BUS THAT TAKES OUR TENNIS TEAM FROM ONE MATCH TO ANOTHER.

THIS IS OUR TRANSPORTATION, OUR MODE OF TRANSPORTATION.

SO THERE'S MANY OTHER EXAMPLES LIKE THIS THAT WE HAVE.

WE JUST WE DIDN'T WANT TO PUT ALL OF THE SLIDES ON HERE.

BUT IF YOU CAN PICTURE THIS, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO FIX WITHIN OUR DISTRICT WITH THIS BOND.

OK OVER THE PAST 99 YEARS.

WE HAVE HAD 23 BONDS CALLED, OF WHICH THOSE 23 BONDS WE'VE ASKED OUR COMMUNITY TO STEP UP AND SUPPORT OUR SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND THEY HAVE.

SO THERE'S BEEN A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF SUPPORT OVER THE YEARS FOR ALL THE BONDS THAT WE'VE HAD GOING BACK TO 1923, THE COMMUNITY BUYS IN AND THEY STEP UP AND THEY HELP.

OK.

NEW SCHOOLS THROUGH THE DECADE.

FROM 1970 TO 2000.

I CALL THAT THE GROWTH YEARS.

WE BUILT 67 SCHOOLS.

NOW THAT OUR DISTRICT IS ALMOST BUILT OUT, BOND RESOURCES ARE WHAT KEEP THESE ASSETS RENOVATED, UPDATED AND COMPETITIVE WITH OTHER DISTRICTS AROUND US.

RICK, I THINK YOU WANTED TO SAY SOMETHING.

THANK YOU.

THANK YOU, MARSHALL.

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I WASN'T HERE LAST TIME.

I DID WATCH THE PRESENTATION ONLINE.

MR. WEAVER, I BELIEVE YOU POINTED OUT IN THAT PRESENTATION THAT REALLY, WHEN WE LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF OUR BONDS, WE WERE IN A GROWTH MODE AND WE WERE IN A GROWTH MODE FOR A LONG TIME.

AND AS MARSHALL SAID, REALLY, YOU KNOW, YOU CUT IT OFF AFTER THE 2000 GET INTO 2010 AND THAT'S WHEN WE SWITCHED.

AND WE REALLY NOW HAVE SWITCHED TO MORE OF A RENOVATION AND A MAINTENANCE MODE.

AS I WAS PREPARING AND I LOOKED AT THE NUMBER, I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, GENERALLY IN OUR FAMILY, MY WIFE IS THE ONE THAT MAKES THE BIG PRESENTATIONS.

MINE ARE GENERALLY THE SMALLER PRESENTATIONS.

MY WIFE WAS A COUNSEL FOR THE DEVELOPER THAT'S DEVELOPING COLLIN CREEK MALL.

ALL RIGHT.

AND I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, IT'S REALLY INTERESTING.

WHEN I MOVED HERE IN THE 70S, COLLIN CREEK MALL WAS A FIELD AND WE ACTUALLY PLAYED SOCCER THERE.

THEN THEY BUILT COLLIN CREEK MALL AND I'M TELLING YOU, COLLIN CREEK MALL WAS ABSOLUTELY EXCELLENT.

I THOUGHT IT WAS THE PERFECT MALL.

WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME THERE AND THEN IT WASN'T AND THEN IT BECAME A ZOMBIE MALL AND NOW THEY'RE GOING TO ESSENTIALLY SPEND $1,000,000,000, RIGHT? I MEAN, THE MALL WAS THERE.

IT WAS BUILT, IT WAS FUNCTIONAL, BUT IT WASN'T OPERATING ANYMORE.

THEY'RE GOING TO SPEND A BILLION DOLLARS FIXING IT.

TO ME, THAT'S THE PERFECT OR IT'S A VERY GOOD ANALOGY THAT WE BUILT THESE WONDERFUL SCHOOLS BUT PLANO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL IS OLD, HAGGARD MIDDLE SCHOOL IS OLD, AND IT'S BEEN COBBLED TOGETHER IN A FASHION THAT JUST DOESN'T WORK ANYMORE.

MUCH LIKE COLLIN CREEK MALL, THEY'RE SPENDING MONEY ON IT.

I THINK IT BEHOOVES US TO SPEND MONEY ON THE MAINTENANCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF OUR ASSETS.

THANKS, RICK.

OK TASK FORCE.

ONCE THE BOARD GOT TOGETHER AND SAID, LET'S DO A BOND, WE DEVELOPED A COMMUNITY TASK FORCE.

AND I WANT TO SAY I WAS A PART OF THE 2016 BOND AND THE PROCESS THAT WE WENT THROUGH BACK THEN.

YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT WHEN OUR FACILITATORS CAME IN AND INTRODUCED THEMSELVES AND SAID, THIS IS HOW WE'RE GOING TO DO IT, I WAS THINKING, OH, MY GOSH, THIS IS DIFFERENT.

LAST TIME IT WAS GREAT.

AND NOW I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THIS, BUT I GOT TO TELL YOU, THE FACILITATORS FROM N2 LEARNING WERE FANTASTIC.

AND I THINK THAT THIS PROCESS THAT THEY USE TO GUIDE AND DIRECT US REALLY MADE US FOCUS AND CHALLENGED US AND CHALLENGED THE PRESENTERS TO GET EXACTLY WHAT KIND OF INFORMATION WE NEEDED TO MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS AND THEN VOTE ON THEM.

SO I HAD I REALLY WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO KEN AND SHERI AT N2 LEARNING BECAUSE THEY'RE FORMAT AND THEIR DIRECTION AND HELP REALLY MADE IT FUN TO COME TO THESE MEETINGS AND ROLL UP OUR SLEEVES AND WORK.

AND I WANT TO THANK RICK.

BOY, IF YOU EVER NEED A CO CHAIR, RICK'S YOUR MAN.

ALSO, WE DIVIDE IT UP INTO SUBCOMMITTEES AND WE INVITED THE SUBCOMMITTEE HEADS TO SHOW UP TONIGHT.

AND IF YOU'RE HERE, CAN YOU STAND UP? OKAY.

SO THESE ARE THE ONES THAT ACTUALLY WENT AND LED THE SUBCOMMITTEES.

I KIND OF BOUNCED AROUND FROM MEETING TO MEETING TO MEETING, YOU KNOW, AND RICK WAS DOING KIND OF THE SAME THINGS, BUT.

SO IF WE HAVE QUESTIONS LATER.

THESE ARE THE IN THE WEEDS PEOPLE.

OKAY.

AND THEY CAN HELP ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS.

SO THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH FOR COMING.

OK.

OUR TASK FORCE.

WE HAD A GREAT TASK FORCE AND IT WAS A GREAT CROSS-SECTION OF WHAT OUR COMMUNITY IS.

WE HAD PARENTS, GRANDPARENTS, BUSINESS LEADERS, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MEMBERS, HOMEOWNER ASSOCIATION MEMBERS, PRINCIPALS, TEACHERS, PTA LEADERS, NONPROFIT LEADERS.

WE HAD PEOPLE FROM THE COMMUNITY THAT DIDN'T HAVE ANY KIDS IN THE COMMUNITY, BUT THEY WANTED TO BE A PART OF THIS FORCE SO THAT THEIR VOICES COULD BE HEARD ON HOW A SCHOOL DISTRICT AFFECTS THEM.

OK.

A TASK FORCE HERE'S A LIST OF OUR MEMBERS.

AND NOT ONLY DID WE HAVE 70 PEOPLE FROM THE COMMUNITY, WE ALSO HAD 36 MORE DISTRICT PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF KNOWLEDGE AND SUPPORT.

THEY HELPED US AT EVERY TURN.

THEY EXPLAINED THINGS TO US ON ON THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE DISTRICT.

IF WE NEEDED INFORMATION, THEY WOULD GO OUT AND GET US INFORMATION SO THAT WE COULD DO OUR JOB AS A COMMUNITY TASK FORCE TO GATHER AS MUCH INFORMATION AS WE CAN TO REALLY BRING OUT WHAT THE NEEDS OF THE DISTRICT WERE FROM A FACILITY STANDPOINT

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OR A BUS STANDPOINT OR SAFETY AND SECURITY STANDPOINT OR TECHNOLOGY, SO THAT IT REALLY MADE OUR JOBS EASIER, EASIER TO MAKE GOOD, WELL INFORMED DECISIONS.

ALL RIGHT.

OK THE PROCESS.

OK.

EVERYTHING THAT WE DID AS A TASK FORCE, WE HAD TO MAKE SURE EVERYTHING THAT WE STUDIED, ANALYZED AND DISCUSSED, ALIGNED WITH THE BOARD PRIORITIES.

AND THAT WAS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE WE HAD PRIORITIES THAT DID GUIDE AND DIRECT US.

AND WE ALSO MADE SURE IT ALL TIED BACK TO THE STRATEGIC PLAN, PILLARS AND BELIEFS.

AND, RICK, I THINK YOU WANTED TO.

I JUST CAME BACK A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO.

WE WERE ON OUR FAMILY TRIP.

WE WENT TO VANCOUVER AND I WAS ON VANCOUVER ISLAND.

I LIKE TO GIVE ANECDOTES IN CASE ANYBODY HASN'T.

I LIKE TO ADD A LITTLE COLOR TO MY PRESENTATION.

WE WENT TO A PLACE OFF OF VANCOUVER ISLAND AND IT WAS CALLED THE GRAVEYARD OF THE PACIFIC.

THERE WERE 18 SHIPS THAT HAD GONE DOWN OFF OF THE COAST OF A PLACE CALLED EUCLID ON VANCOUVER ISLAND.

WHAT DID THEY DO TO FIX IT? THEY PUT UP A LIGHTHOUSE SO THAT EVERYBODY KNEW WHERE THE ROCKS WERE TO KEEP EVERYBODY OFF.

I FEEL OUR VERY FIRST MEETING, OUR VERY FIRST TASK FORCE MEETING, THE DISTRICT PASSED OUT TO US WHAT I THINK IS REALLY A GUIDEPOST THAT WE GOT FROM YOU ALL, AND THAT'S PRIORITIES AND PARAMETERS SET BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ALIGNED TO PISD STRATEGIC PLAN.

AND AT THE RISK OF THIS IS FOUR PAGES, I'M NOT GOING TO READ ALL OF IT, BUT I'M GOING TO READ SOME OF IT BECAUSE IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT.

AND KEN MADE SURE THAT THE START OF EVERY MEETING TO REORIENT US AS WE CAME BACK, THAT WE READ THIS AT THE START OF EVERY MEETING, WE TALKED ABOUT THE PILLARS.

BUT HERE'S WHAT WERE THE PILLARS GUIDE US? GENERALLY, THEY SAY OUR COMMUNITY DEMANDS THAT PISD DEMONSTRATE QUALITY AND EXCELLENCE.

EVERY STUDENT ON EVERY CAMPUS SHOULD HAVE PRIDE FOR THEIR SCHOOL AND FOR THE FACILITIES THEY GET TO USE.

WE SHOULD PROVIDE FACILITIES AND RESOURCES THAT STRIVE TO MEET THE NEEDS OF ALL PISD STUDENTS, STAFF, CAMPUS COMMUNITY.

WE SHOULD MANAGE DISTRICT ASSETS RESPONSIBLY AND CONTINUE TO SAFEGUARD THE FINANCIAL HEALTH OF THE DISTRICT WITH A FOCUS ON SUSTAINABILITY, RESILIENCE, AND EDUCATION, FACILITIES AND DEBT MANAGEMENT.

OF OUR FIVE PILLARS, PILLAR ONE LEARNING AND TEACHING SAYS, AND I'M JUST GOING TO TAKE SOME EXCERPTS.

WE SHOULD PROVIDE A SAFE, ACCESSIBLE AND INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL STUDENTS AND STAFF.

PILLAR TWO LIFE READY.

WE SHOULD ENCOURAGE GREATER PARTICIPATION IN AND PROVIDE MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR FINE ARTS AND ATHLETICS.

FUTURE FOCUSED FUTURE PROOF.

WE SHOULD ENSURE THAT THE EDUCATION PROVIDED BY THE DISTRICT IS SUCH THAT THE SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE THE STUDENTS GAIN CAN BE APPLIED TO WORKFORCE TRENDS, ALIGN TO FUTURE CAREERS AND CHALLENGES.

PILLAR THREE TALENT ACQUISITION, SUPPORT AND GROWTH.

WE SHOULD EQUIP OUR TEACHERS AND OUR STAFF WITH THE MOST UP TO DATE TOOLS, TECHNOLOGY AND PROGRAMS. PILLAR FOUR CULTURE OF THE COMMUNITY.

WE SHOULD PROVIDE TOP OF THE MARKET INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS. PILLAR FIVE STRATEGIC RESOURCE MANAGEMENT.

WE SHOULD CONTINUE TO BUILD AND RENOVATE TO MAINTAIN A SAFE AND WELCOMING LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL OF OUR STUDENTS.

PLAYGROUNDS.

OUR PLAYGROUNDS SHOULD PROVIDE ACCESS FOR EVERY ELEMENTARY AGE STUDENT TO THEIR SCHOOL'S PLAYGROUND TO ENSURE THAT IT IS FUN, ENGAGING, SAFE AND ADA COMPLIANT.

CHILD NUTRITION.

WE SHOULD PROVIDE ADEQUATE CAFETERIA AND KITCHEN FACILITIES AS WE GO THROUGH AS WE GO FORWARD, YOU'LL SEE THAT THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM OUR TASK FORCE REALLY DOVETAIL WITH THE INSTRUCTIONS THAT WE GOT FROM ALL OF YOU ALL.

OK.

OKAY.

LET'S SEE HERE.

OKAY.

SO OUR 70 MEMBER COMMUNITY TASK FORCE WORKED OVER THE PERIOD OF FIVE MONTHS TO STUDY ALL PISD FACILITIES, SCHOOLS, BUSSES, STADIUMS, ETC.

EVERYTHING THAT WE HAVE IN OUR DISTRICT WE LOOKED AT IT FELL INTO ONE OF SIX CATEGORIES.

WE ALSO ANALYZED PROJECTS BASED ON CRITICAL OR WOULD JUST LIKE TO HAVE.

AND THEN OUR DISCUSSIONS TO BUILD OR RENOVATE ACROSS THE DISTRICT.

SO WE LOOKED AT EVERY FACILITY AND TRIED TO DETERMINE IS THIS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN SCRAPE AND REBUILD OR IS THIS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN COSMETICALLY FIX AND UPDATE IT TO MAKE IT LOOK A LITTLE BIT SHINIER? SO WE LOOKED AT ALL FACETS AND EVERYTHING THAT IN THE DISTRICT GOT LOOKED AT FROM

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FROM BUSSES TO FIELDS TO ASTROTURF TO DANCE AND ALL OF THE THINGS THAT IT TAKES TO RUN A SCHOOL DISTRICT.

HOW DID WE DO THIS? WE BROKE OUR TASK FORCE INTO SIX GROUPS.

WE HAD FACILITIES.

WE HAD INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS AND CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION WITH THE TECHNOLOGY, EXTRA AND CO-CURRICULAR PROGRAMS, SAFETY AND SECURITY AND TRANSPORTATION.

AND WE HAVE OUR COMMITTEE HEADS HERE TONIGHT IF THERE'S QUESTIONS THAT NEEDS TO BE ASKED.

WE ALSO WENT AND TOURED SOME OF THE FACILITIES THAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, RENOVATING OR SCRAPING AND REBUILDING, WENT TO THE SOCKWELL CENTER.

WE HAD A NICE BIG TOUR OVER AT PLANO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, AND WE WERE THERE A LONG TIME BECAUSE LET ME TELL YOU, THERE IS A LOT OF STUFF TO FIX OVER THERE.

I WENT TO FOREMAN ELEMENTARY, I WENT TO WILLIAMS HIGH SCHOOL, WHICH IS FOR THE LAST BOND, WENT THROUGH A LITTLE BIT OF RENOVATION AND IT LOOKS SUPER NICE OVER AT WILLIAMS. TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, OUR FACILITY IN THE OLD DAY, WE CALLED IT THE BUS BARN AND THERE'S A LOT OF DISCUSSION AND WORK THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE THERE.

AND THEN ALSO HAGGARD MIDDLE SCHOOL.

SO WE ALSO DID A COUPLE OF OFF OR OUT OF DISTRICT TOURS.

I THINK THERE WAS A GROUP THAT WENT TO BIRDSVILLE ISD AND LEWISVILLE.

RICK.

IT'S TIME FOR ANOTHER ONE OF MY ANECDOTES.

THE WILLIAMS HIGH SCHOOL OF THE OFF SITE.

RIGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO TAKE THESE OFF SITE TRIPS.

ESSENTIALLY, WE FOCUSED ON PLACES WHERE WE WERE LOOKING AT SPENDING A LOT OF MONEY.

IT'S GOOD TO GO AND SEE WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.

MY FAVORITE TRIP WAS WHEN WE WENT TO TO WILLIAMS HIGH SCHOOL.

ALL RIGHT.

I HAD BEEN THERE FOR BASKETBALL GAMES BEFORE.

I HAD BEEN THERE FOR MLK CELEBRATIONS IN THE THEATER ROOM.

I HAD NOT REALLY BEEN INTO THE SCHOOL ITSELF.

WHEN I PULLED UP TO IT AND SAW THE ENTRANCE, THE ENTRANCE TO WILLIAMS HIGH SCHOOL IS ABSOLUTELY STUNNING.

IT IS EXCELLENT.

IT IS SOMETHING FOR US TO BE PROUD OF WHEN YOU WALK IN THE LIGHTING IN THERE BELONGS IN ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST.

IT'S ABSOLUTELY.

BUT THAT'S NOT MY FAVORITE PART.

I STAYED LATE.

I TOOK A TOUR WITH THE LAST GROUP AND MY TOUR WAS WITH THE PRINCIPAL, JILL ENGEL KING.

HER FACE BEAMED WITH PRIDE WHEN SHE SHOWED OFF THE TILES ON THE WALL.

BUT THAT'S NOT MY FAVORITE PART OF THIS TOUR.

MY FAVORITE PART OF THIS TOUR IS IN OUR OFFICE.

I WAS SAT MOSTLY WITH THE FACILITIES GROUP AND WITH THE FACILITIES GROUP, SAT ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF FACILITY SERVICES TONY PIERSON, WHO'S HERE TONIGHT.

BECAUSE OUR GROUP RAN LONG HE ENDED UP IN THE TOUR WITH ME.

SO HE'S ONE OF THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE FOR THESE RENOVATIONS.

ALL RIGHT.

HE'S WALKING THROUGH LIKE A KID IN A CANDY STORE, LIKE I AM LOOKING AT ALL OF THE COOL STUFF THAT WE HAVE DONE AT WILLIAMS. THE PART OF WILLIAMS THAT WE'VE RENOVATED IS TRULY EXCELLENT.

THERE'S MONEY IN THIS BOND TO FIX THE REST OF IT.

BUT THAT WAS ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOMENTS IS WHEN I'M WALKING THROUGH AND SEE THE LOOK OF ADMIRATION ON THIS GENTLEMAN'S FACE.

AND I KNOW THAT WE'VE MADE A RECOMMENDATION.

HOPEFULLY Y'ALL ARE GOING TO GREENLIGHT IT AND HE'S GOING TO GO FIX EVERYTHING FOR US.

RICK.

I THINK THAT TAKES US TO.

SO.

ALL RIGHT.

THAT TAKES US TO THE TASK FORCE RECOMMENDATIONS.

NOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU SHOULD KNOW IS THAT THE TASK FORCE ANALYZED THE PROJECTS THAT WERE BROUGHT TO US INDIVIDUALLY.

YOU WILL SEE THAT THE TOTAL AMOUNTS OF ALL THE PROJECTS CONSIDERED WAS 2,244,348,000.

THE DISTRICT DID NOT GIVE US ANY GUIDANCE AS TO WHAT THE FINAL DOLLAR AMOUNT SHOULD BE THAT WE PRESENTED TO YOU.

WE LOOKED AT THREE DIFFERENT WAYS OF NEEDS FROM THE DISTRICT.

THINGS WERE LISTED AS CRITICAL, HIGH NEED, OR DESIRED.

ALMOST THE ONLY THINGS THAT WERE GREENLIGHTED OR RECOMMENDED BY THE COMMITTEE ARE ITEMS THAT FELL INTO THE CRITICAL THE CRITICAL CATEGORY, WHICH MEANS THE TASK FORCE ACTUALLY CUT $748 MILLION.

ALMOST THREE QUARTERS OF $1,000,000,000 IS WHAT THE TASK FORCE CUT.

THESE WERE GOOD PROJECTS THAT WOULD BE WONDERFUL TO DO.

BUT AGAIN, THE TASK FORCE CUT 33.35% OR RIGHT.

REALLY RIGHT AT A THIRD OF ALL THE PROJECTS PRESENTED TO THEM.

PROPOSITION SUMMARY.

THIS PROJECTS ARE PLACED INTO FOUR PROPS.

WE'VE HAD A DIFFERENCE FROM LAST TIME 2016.

WE ONLY HAD ONE PROP.

WE HAVE A CHANGE IN LEGISLATION AND THE PROJECTS THAT THE TASK FORCE WOULD LIKE TO SEE GO FORWARD HAVE BEEN SLOTTED INTO THESE FOUR PROPOSITIONS BY DISTRICT STAFF AND THEN

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APPROVED BY DISTRICT COUNCIL.

BOND PROPOSITIONS.

AGAIN, WE'VE GOT FOUR AND WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO ALL FOUR OF THOSE.

PROPOSITION A, THIS IS REALLY THE BREAD AND BUTTER, MAJOR AND MINOR, DISTRICT WIDE RENOVATIONS, SAFETY AND SECURITY, INFRASTRUCTURE AND TRANSPORTATION, FINE ARTS, TECHNOLOGY, SORRY, TECHNOLOGY, INFRASTRUCTURE, CAMPUS ATHLETICS, CTE AND INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS. DISTRICT WIDE RENOVATIONS.

$205 MILLION FOR SENIOR HIGH RENOVATIONS.

THAT'S FOR PLANO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.

IT BADLY NEEDS IT, 107 MILLION, ALMOST 108 MILLION FOR HIGH GRADE MIDDLE SCHOOL.

THE TRANSFER THE FACILITIES SUBGROUP DID NOT REALLY HAVE A LARGE APPETITE FOR SCRAPING AND STARTING OVER.

WE LOOKED AT IT WITH PLANO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.

MY RECOLLECTION IS IT WAS GOING TO BE $450 MILLION TO BUILD THE NEW PLANO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.

INSTEAD, THEY SAID, WE CAN RENOVATE IT FOR 205 MILLION.

NOT THE CASE WITH HAGGARD.

HAGGARD IS THE ONE SCHOOL THAT WHEN IT WAS LOOKED AT AND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RENOVATING IT AND COMPLETELY REPLACING IT, NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT IT HAS GOT LAND WHERE YOU COULD BUILD IT SORT OF IN THE PARKING LOT WHILE THE SCHOOL CONTINUED ON.

THAT'S THE ONE THAT THEY RECOMMENDED THAT THE RECOMMENDATION IS TO SCRAPE, $74 MILLION FOR HIGH SCHOOL RENOVATIONS.

THAT'S WILLIAMS AND CLARK HIGH SCHOOLS, 28, ALMOST 28.5 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KITCHENS.

THAT'S BEVERLY ELEMENTARY BOGGESS, CENTENNIAL, HIGHTOWER, STINSON, WYATT PLUS EARLY CHILD LEARNING CENTERS BEATY, ISAACS AND PEARSON DISTRICT WIDE MINOR RENOVATIONS ALMOST $55 MILLION FOR THE OTHER TWO HIGH SCHOOLS, PLANO EAST AND PLANO WEST ARE SENIOR HIGHS.

AND THEN SIGNIFICANTLY AGAIN, 6,330,000 FOR KITCHEN UPGRADES TO DAVIS, DULEY, HARRINGTON, HUNT, MCCALL AND WELLS.

SO BETWEEN THESE TWO MINOR AND MAJOR, WE'RE LOOKING AT TOUCHING 12 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS PLUS THREE EARLY CHILD LEARNING CENTERS.

INFRASTRUCTURE AND MAINTENANCE SYSTEMS AND COMPLIANCE IS THE FIRST ONE.

IT'S A BIG NUMBER, $156 MILLION.

THIS WILL TOUCH 62 CAMPUSES.

IT REPRESENTS REPLACEMENT OF COMPONENTS OF A BUILDING THAT IS VITAL TO ITS FUNCTIONALITY AS A STRUCTURE.

IT INCLUDES CONTROLS, ELECTRICAL FLOORING, HVAC PAINT, RESTROOMS, ROOF AND PLUMBING.

THE NEXT TWO CATEGORIES ARE SOMETHING THAT WE CAN BE REALLY PROUD OF IN THIS RECOMMENDATION.

THIS IS 88 STATE OF THE ART, ALL ACCESS PLAYGROUNDS, EVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, LOWER END, UPPER PART THE ONE K THROUGH THREE AND THE UPPER AND LOWER WILL GET THESE ALL ACCESS STATE OF THE ART PLAYGROUNDS.

THEY WILL BE EXCELLENT AND THEY WILL BE SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE FROM OTHER DISTRICTS WILL COME AND SAY, HEY, WE WANT TO TAKE PICTURES OF WHAT YOU HAVE BECAUSE WE WANT THAT.

AND AGAIN, IT'S ACROSS THE BOARD EVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN THE DISTRICT.

DISTRICT WIDE SAFETY AND SECURITY.

THIS IS WHAT I REFER TO MARSHALL AND I TALKED ABOUT SOME OF THESE SLIDES WILL MAKE YOU LAUGH, SOME WILL MAKE YOU CRY.

AND IN THE END, WE HOPE TO MAKE YOU ALL PROUD.

THIS IS ONE THAT MAKES YOU WANT TO CRY.

ALL RIGHT.

PEOPLE SEND THEIR KIDS TO SCHOOL.

THEY WANT THEIR KIDS TO BE SAFE.

ALL RIGHT.

WE ALL KNOW THAT THIS NUMBER IS $54 MILLION.

PARTLY IT IS.

WE CONSIDERED A LARGER NUMBER BECAUSE OF THE TRAGEDY IN UVALDE.

WE KNOW THAT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS HIRED EXPERTS TO COME IN AND ARE REVIEWING AND MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SAFETY AND SECURITY ACROSS THE BOARD.

THE DOLLAR AMOUNTS HERE THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, PARTICULARLY THE $40 MILLION TO START.

THE COMMITTEE IS ASKING THE BOARD TO APPROVE THAT.

IT COULD GO DOWN BASED ON STATE MONEY.

IT COULD GO DOWN BASED ON FEDERAL MONEY.

BUT THIS IS IMPORTANT MONEY TO KEEP OUR KIDS SAFE.

TECHNOLOGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE.

ESSENTIALLY, THIS IS THE TECHNOLOGY THAT'S ACTUALLY EMBEDDED WITHIN OUR BUILDINGS.

THE DISTRICT CANNOT FUNCTION WITHOUT THESE SYSTEMS. IT'S $61 MILLION TRANSPORTATION.

TRANSPORTATION IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE ONES BECAUSE AGAIN, THERE'S ANECDOTES HERE.

I WAS IN CHARGE OF TAKING MY KID, MY ELDEST, TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, AND THE FIRST SEMESTER WE WERE TARDY 18 TIMES.

AND I GOT A NOTICE THAT THEY WERE GOING TO SEND ME TO TRUANCY COURTS BECAUSE EVERY THREE EQUALS AN ABSENCE.

SO EVEN THOUGH AS I TRIED TO LATER EXPLAIN TO MY WIFE, HE WAS LATE, HE MISSED LIKE 25

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MINUTES OF SCHOOL.

THEY WERE GOING TO SEND ME TO THE TO THE TRUANCY JUDGE.

OKAY.

I CAN'T GET MY ONE KID TO SCHOOL ON TIME.

AND YET THE DISTRICT TAKES APPROXIMATELY 14,000 STUDENTS A DAY TO SCHOOL ON TIME.

NOT ONLY THAT, THE DISTANCE THAT THE SCHOOL YEAR THAT THE BUSSES RUN 2,750,000 MILES A YEAR, WHAT IS THAT? THAT IS 11 AND ONE HALF TRIPS TO THE MOON, LITERALLY.

ADDITIONALLY, EVERY DAY WE BASICALLY WHEN YOU TAKE ALL OF OUR BUSSES AND AGGREGATE THEM TOGETHER, IF YOU COULD, WE DRIVE FROM PLANO, TEXAS TO TOKYO EVERY DAY.

IT'S A LOT OF WORK AND A LOT OF WEAR AND TEAR THAT IS PUT ON THOSE BUSSES.

THE ONE OF THE LINE ITEMS IS 17,550,000 FOR THE TRANSPORTATION BUILDING ADDITION AND RENOVATION.

AGAIN, WE CALL IT THE BUS BARN.

IT'S GOD AWFUL.

ALL RIGHT.

AND LOOK.

AND I HATE TO SAY THAT, ALL RIGHT, BUT IT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED.

WE HAVE STRETCHED THE DOLLAR AS FAR AS IT CAN BE STRETCHED.

WE HAVE STRETCHED IT TOO FAR.

I ASKED HIM IF I COULD BRING THIS UP.

ANDRE DE VILLIERS IS ON THE TASK FORCE.

ALL RIGHT.

HIS SON IS THE STARTING QUARTERBACK FOR PLANO EAST.

HE IS A TCU BASEBALL COMMIT.

WHAT AM I SAYING? ANDRE'S INTERESTED IN ATHLETICS.

HIS WIFE TEACHES AP PSYCHOLOGY AT PLANO EAST.

WHAT AM I SAYING? ANDRE'S INTERESTED IN ACADEMICS.

WHAT SUB-COMMITTEE DOES ANDRE VOLUNTEER FOR? HE TELLS ME TRANSPORTATION.

I SAID, TRANSPORTATION? HE SAID, RICK, I CAN'T GET PAST THAT BUS BARN.

[LAUGHTER] I CAN'T CONSIDER ANYTHING ELSE UNTIL WE PAY FOR IT.

AND WE TALKED AND SAID BASICALLY, AS I SAY, THE TRANSPORTATION CENTER REALLY TOUCHED A NERVE WITH THE COMMITTEE.

CTE INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS. THE BIGGEST NUMBER WE'VE GOT HERE IS 103,810,000 FOR A CTE.

A CAREER IN TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION CENTER.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING AT HERE? AGAIN, THIS IS GOING TO COME BACK TO THE DISTRICT AND IT'S GOING TO BE IT'S NOT PART OF WE'RE WANTING TO GIVE THE FACILITY SO THAT THIS CAN BE PROVIDED PART OF OUR PILLARS.

WE'RE GOING TO PREPARE EVERY STUDENT, NO MATTER WHAT ROUTE THEY'RE TAKING, TO GO FORWARD WHEN THEY LEAVE OUR THREE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS OR ACADEMIES OR WHATEVER SCHOOL THAT THEY'RE IN AND BE PRODUCTIVE IN SOCIETY.

WE'RE LOOKING AT HIGH PAYING JOBS WITH THESE CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY CENTERED PROGRAMS. THE PROPOSALS THAT WE WERE SHOWN ARE ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION, ARTS, AUDIO, VIDEO, TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATIONS, HEALTH SCIENCE, HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM LAW AND PUBLIC SERVICE.

MANUFACTURING, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS, I.E.

STEM PROGRAMS, TRANSPORTATION, DISTRIBUTION AND LOGISTICS NEAR AND DEAR TO MR. JACKSON'S HEART.

AGAIN, THESE PROGRAMS SQUARELY ADDRESS THE PILLARS THAT WE WERE CHARGED WITH.

FINE ARTS AGAIN.

I TOLD YOU I'M A FINE ARTS GUY.

MY KIDS ALL SANG.

ALL RIGHT.

HERE'S A I'LL GIVE YOU THE SITE LATER.

THERE'S A 2021 USC ROGERS SCHOOL OF EDUCATION REPORT.

AND WHAT DOES IT SAY? THE MORE YEARS OF ART AND CLASSES A STUDENT IS ENGAGED IN, THE HIGHER HIS OR HER SAT SCORE.

THERE'S A SIGNIFICANT LINK BETWEEN MUSIC INSTRUCTION AND MATH ACHIEVEMENT.

ARTS EDUCATION NOT ONLY FOSTERS STUDENTS CREATIVITY AND ARTISTIC SKILLS, BUT ALSO CONTRIBUTES TO GREATER ACHIEVEMENT IN MATH AND READING.

WHAT ARE THE NUMBERS OF KIDS IN FINE ARTS? MIDDLE SCHOOL 11,950 KIDS HIGH SCHOOL 11,091 KIDS ADDED TOGETHER 23,041 STUDENTS OR 46.07% OF OUR DISTRICT.

THIS IS NOT A BIG NUMBER FOR A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF OUR KIDS.

ANECDOTE WHERE DID I GET THESE NUMBERS FROM? I GOT THESE FROM THE ATHLETIC DIRECTOR.

HE RESPONDS REALLY QUICKLY, AND I WAS ASKING HIM SOME OTHER QUESTIONS AND HE SAID, HEY, BY THE WAY, RICK, HERE'S THE NUMBERS YOU'RE LOOKING FOR, FOR FINE ARTS.

TO ME, AGAIN, THINGS THAT MAKE ME PROUD, IT MAKES ME PROUD THAT ATHLETICS AND FINE ARTS WORK HAND IN HAND WITH EACH OTHER.

THAT'S A REAL CREDIT TO THIS DISTRICT.

ATHLETICS.

WHY WAS I TALKING TO COACH? BECAUSE COACH SMITH IS TELLING ME.

I ASKED HIM HOW MANY STUDENTS ARE INVOLVED IN ATHLETICS.

HE TOLD ME LAST YEAR 5623 KIDS WERE INVOLVED IN ATHLETICS.

AND HE SAID, BUT DON'T FORGET, WE ALSO HAVE COMING OUT ONTO OUR FIELDS 338 CHEERLEADERS, 271 DRILL TEAM

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MEMBERS, 1475 MARCHING BAND KIDS, THAT IS 7707 KIDS WERE 15.41% OF OUR STUDENT POPULATION.

AGAIN, ONE OF OUR PILLARS IS ATHLETIC INVOLVEMENT.

IT'S IMPORTANT AS AN ASPECT OF STUDENT LIFE INVOLVEMENT AND IDENTITY.

MARSHALL AND I STILL IDENTIFY AS PLANO WILDCATS.

IF YOU LOOK AT THIS SPECIFICALLY WITH REGARD TO THE PLAINTIFFS, ALL THREE OF THE SCHOOLS, THE 27,000 550,000, 27,540,000, THAT IS THE GYM SPACES DO NOT WORK AT THOSE THREE HIGH SCHOOLS.

RIGHT.

I MEAN, IT WAS EFFICIENT AT ONE POINT, BUT WE NEED BETTER ALSO MIDDLE SCHOOLS, 14,720,000.

THAT IS FOR THE ADDITION OF 13 MIDDLE SCHOOL TRACKS.

NONE OF OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLS HAVE TRACKED THOSE KIDS.

GO AND RUN.

BY THE WAY, THE NUMBER OF MIDDLE SCHOOL ATHLETES, 2718, THOSE KIDS SHOW UP AND RUN HURDLES FOR THE FIRST TIME.

AND WHERE DO THEY RUN HURDLES? WELL, MY KID WENT TO A FRISCO SCHOOL TO USE THEIR TRACK BECAUSE THEY LEAVE THEM OPEN BECAUSE THEY HAVE TRACKS.

NONE OF OURS HAVE TRACKS.

WE'RE PUTTING TRACKS ACROSS ALL ACROSS THE DISTRICT.

CAMPUS ATHLETICS PROGRAM.

THERE'S A UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO JOURNAL OF SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL WORK AND RESEARCH, VOLUME EIGHT, NUMBER THREE, 2017.

CHRISTOPHER REDMAN.

RESULTS INDICATE THAT SPORTS PARTICIPATION WAS SIGNIFICANTLY ASSOCIATED WITH ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT POSITIVE IMAGE, POSITIVE BODY IMAGE AND SELF ESTEEM.

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT LOGO, MARSHALL? I LOVE THAT LOGO.

THAT IS EXCELLENT RIGHT THERE.

THAT IS THE EMBODIMENT OF EXCELLENCE.

A LOT OF WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE IS SPENDING MONEY TO HELP WITH OUR ATHLETICS PROGRAM.

BECAUSE WHY? BECAUSE ATHLETICS HAS BEEN IGNORED FOR A REALLY LONG TIME.

OUR LAST BOND, $8.8 MILLION FOR ATHLETICS.

WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHEN YOU WHEN YOU GO THROUGH THE ITEMS, THE VERY LAST ITEM WAS ATHLETICS.

YOU'LL HEAR PEOPLE SOMETIMES SAY, WE SPEND TOO MUCH MONEY ON ATHLETICS.

WE DO NOT IN PISD.

ATHLETICS HAS BEEN IGNORED FOR TOO LONG.

IF I WAS COACH SMITH MAN, I WOULD BE UNHAPPY BECAUSE WE'RE NOT GIVING THEM THE THINGS THAT THEY NEED IN ORDER TO BE COMPETITIVE AGAIN.

YOU'LL SEE BASICALLY THE SAME.

IT'S BASICALLY THE SAME.

PROGRAM A LITTLE BIT MORE FOR PLANO EAST AND THEN FOR PLANO WEST.

BY THE WAY, THE REDMOND ARTICLE GOES ON TO SAY THAT PARTICIPANTS IN ATHLETICS HAD A HIGHER GPA, LOWER ABSENTEEISM AND HIGHER GRADUATION RATES.

SINCE THIS IS THE PLANO EAST LOGO, I WILL ALSO MENTION THE FACT THAT BECAUSE I SAW THIS ON FACEBOOK, OF COURSE, BECAUSE I FOLLOW ANDRE'S KID.

ALL RIGHT.

EVEN THOUGH I WENT TO PLANO, I FOLLOW PLANO.

EAST FOOTBALL.

ALL RIGHT.

WHAT DID I SEE THAT THEY DO? THE PLANO EAST FOOTBALL TEAM WENT OUT AND THEY DO CHARITABLE EVENTS.

THEY DID A BED START PROGRAM.

I ASKED I TALKED TO I TALKED TO COACH SMITH.

THIS IS NOT A REQUIREMENT FROM THE DISTRICT.

THIS IS A THING THAT OUR COACHES DO.

THEY INSTILL.

VALUES IN THEIR FOOTBALL PLAYERS, ONE OF WHICH IS GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY, WHICH IS SUPPORTED THEM.

THAT IS EXCELLENT.

THAT MAKES MY HEART BURST WHEN I SEE STUFF LIKE THAT AGAIN.

NOW YOU'LL SEE A PLANO WEST.

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WILL STRESS ALSO IS EVERY SCHOOL IS GOING TO GET BRAND NEW TENNIS COURTS.

PART OF WHY I THINK ATHLETICS AND FINE ARTS ARE SO IMPORTANT AGAIN, WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR PILLARS AND WE'RE PREPARING KIDS FOR LIFE.

WHEN YOU'RE INVOLVED IN A TEAM OR WHEN YOU'RE INVOLVED IN ON A BAND OR IN A CHOIR, YOU'VE GOT A DIRECTOR WHO'S LIKE A BOSS.

YOU'RE GOING TO LEAVE EVENTUALLY.

YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A BOSS.

YOU'VE GOT SOME DIRECTORS WHO ARE LIKE DIVISION HEADS, ASSISTANT COACHES.

YOU HAVE TEAMMATES WHO ARE LIKE YOUR COWORKERS.

YOU HAVE A WHOLE HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM BASED ON SENIORITY WHERE SENIORS, JUNIORS, SOPHOMORES AND FRESHMEN, BASED ON HOW LONG YOU'VE BEEN THERE, YOU GET SOME SORT OF A PRIORITY.

THESE EXPERIENCES PREPARE OUR STUDENTS TO DEAL WITH LIFE, NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT IT PREPARES THEM TO DEAL WITH ADVERSITY.

PROPOSITION B IS INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY.

THIS IS HANDS ON MOVABLE EQUIPMENT, BASICALLY FROM COMPUTERS TO CALCULATORS.

THIS IS REPLACEMENT.

THINK TO YOURSELF HOW OFTEN YOU HAVE TO REPLACE YOUR CELL PHONE.

THINK HOW OFTEN YOU HAVE TO GO FIND A CABLE, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE THEY DISAPPEAR LIKE SOCKS IN THE DRYER.

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THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.

IT'S A BIG NUMBER, $173 MILLION.

BUT WE'RE A TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED SOCIETY NOW.

WE HAVE TO HAVE THIS STUFF FOR OUR STAFF AND OUR STUDENTS TO FUNCTION.

PROP C, PROP C IS THE PROPOSED PLANO ISD EVENT CENTER.

HOW DID WE GET HERE? EXTRACURRICULAR AND CO-CURRICULAR, WE'RE CONSIDERING BUILDING ARENAS ON EVERY SINGLE SENIOR HIGH CAMPUS.

REALLY? THIS IS WHAT I WANTED.

I WANTED TO SEE THAT THAT PRICE TAG WAS 74,635,000 EACH FOR A TOTAL OF 223,000 223,905,000.

THE COMMITTEE THAT SUBCOMMITTEE HAD A FAIR INTEREST IN DOING THAT.

THE PROBLEM IS THERE'S NO ROOM AT PLANO EAST, SO WE COULDN'T DO IT WITHOUT BUYING NEW LAND.

THE SOLUTION TO THIS PROJECT IS THE GROUP DECIDED THAT INSTEAD THEY PROPOSE THIS PISD EVENT CENTER.

IT'S SIGNIFICANTLY LESS EXPENSIVE THAN BUILDING ARENAS AT EVERY SCHOOL.

IT'S MULTIPURPOSE USE.

THEY'RE LOOKING AT 8500 SEATS, BY THE WAY.

THEY'RE LOOKING AT NO LAND ACQUISITION.

IT COULD BE PLACED SOUTH OF JASPER AND WEST OF ROBINSON, AND THEN WE COULD CROSS UTILIZE THOSE PARKING LOTS AT NIGHT.

HERE'S ONE THING THAT'S SIGNIFICANT.

IT COULD HOST OUR GRADUATIONS.

ALL RIGHT.

WHERE DO WE SIT AT PRESENT? WE HAVE TO WAIT FOR ALL 75 HIGH SCHOOLS IN FRISCO TO DECIDE WHEN THEY WANT TO GRADUATE.

ALL RIGHT.

AND WE LIKE THE POOR COUSINS WHOSE PANTS DON'T FIT AND OUR KNEES ARE TATTERED.

HAVE TO SAY, OH, PLEASE, MOTHER, WHEN CAN WE HAVE OUR GRADUATIONS? THAT IS NOT EXCELLENT.

THAT IS NOT WHAT WE ARE ABOUT.

WE COULD PICK OUR OWN DATES THAT WORKS WITH OUR SCHEDULES.

WE COULD HOST VOLLEYBALL GAMES THERE, WE COULD HOST BASKETBALL GAMES THERE, WE COULD HOST CONVOCATION THERE.

WE COULD HOST ROBOTICS COMPETITIONS.

WE COULD HOST DANCE COMPETITIONS.

REALLY WE'RE LOOKING AT MODELING THIS OR FOR COMPARATIVE PURPOSES.

ON THE CURTIS CULWELL CENTER IN GARLAND, THE THOUGHT IS THAT WE COULD PRODUCE REVENUE OUTSIDE REVENUE OF $2.4 MILLION A YEAR TO HELP PAY FOR THIS.

AND THIS WOULD GIVE OUR STUDENTS AND STAFF THINGS THAT OTHER DISTRICTS HAVE, NOT TO MENTION GARLAND AND DISD HAS SIMILAR FACILITIES.

PROPOSITION D, PROPOSITION D, I HATE THE WAY THAT THIS IS LABELED.

IT'S LABELED STADIUMS. THIS IS NOT STADIUMS. WE'RE NOT BUILDING ANY STADIUMS. THE FIRST THING THAT'S ON HERE IS $12 MILLION FOR THE CLARKE STADIUM PARKING LOT RESURFACING.

MARSHALL, DO YOU WANT TO ADDRESS THAT? SO IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN TO A WILDCAT GAME, WHICH OR A WOLF GAME OR PANTHER GAME PLAYED AT CLARK STADIUM, YOU'LL KNOW THAT.

WHAT'S OUT THERE NOW ON BOTH THE VISITOR'S SIDE AND THE HOME SIDE IS THE ORIGINAL.

GROUND IN THAT STADIUM WAS BUILT BACK IN THE SEVENTIES.

SO AND THERE'S NO LIGHTING IN THE PARKING LOT.

SO IF WHEN THE GAME IS OVER, IT IS COMPLETELY PITCH DARK AND THERE'S CARS GOING EVERY THERE'S FOUR ENTRANCES OR EXITS.

YOU CAN ONLY GET OUT FOUR WAYS.

AND IT IS A MAD DASH FOR THE EXIT.

AND I MEAN, I'VE LITERALLY SEEN CARS DRIVING OVER THE CURB AND GOING ACROSS THE BASEBALL FIELDS UP THERE TO CUT CORNERS.

BUT IT'S EXTREMELY DANGEROUS, IS THE POINT THAT WE'RE GETTING TO.

SO THE CLARK STADIUM PARKING LOT RESURFACING WILL PUT CONCRETE IN AND WE'LL PUT LIGHTING UP OUT THERE.

I PROMISE YOU, IT'S A DANGEROUS SITUATION AT NIGHT.

IT'S AMAZING HOW SOMEBODY HADN'T EITHER BEEN RUN OVER, YOU KNOW, OR ASSAULTED OR WHAT, BECAUSE IT IS PITCH BLACK, DARK.

SO THIS IS GOING TO FIX THAT PROBLEM.

AND THEN THE ASTRO TURF ALSO WE NEED TO RENOVATE THE STADIUM CONCESSIONS.

THEY'RE JUST NOT HOW THEY SHOULD BE FOR EFFICIENCY.

AND THEN WE WERE GOING TO PUT ROD IRON FENCE AROUND KIMBROUGH STADIUM, WHICH IS SIMILAR TO WHAT WE HAVE AT CLARK TO HELP A LOT OF THIS IS SAFETY AND SECURITY.

YOU KNOW, THE LIGHTING, THE COLOR LIGHTING, SAFETY AND SECURITY LIGHTS AT CLARK STADIUM.

CLARK WILL ALSO GET THE RESTROOMS UPDATED.

THEY'RE IN DIRE NEED OF RESTROOM RESTORATION OUT AT THE CLARK EAST, CENTRAL AND WEST FIELDS.

AND THEN ALSO WILLIAMS STADIUM IS GOING TO BE ADDING SECURITY LIGHTING BECAUSE WE DO HAVE SOME DARK AREAS OUT THERE.

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AND THEN WILLIAMS TRIPLE FIELD CAMPUS B AND SB INTERNET ADDED.

AND I THINK THEY NEED THAT FOR BROADCASTING THE GAMES AND OK FOR THAT.

SO THIS IT'S, REALLY MISLEADING WHEN YOU SEE IT ON THE PROP UNDER STADIUMS BECAUSE LIKE RICK SAID IT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SEE STADIUMS AND THINK, OH, WELL, WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE, BUT A, YOU CAN'T GET ONE FOR $27 MILLION, YOU KNOW, BUT WE CAN MAKE OUR STADIUM SAFER AND EXCELLENT, YOU KNOW, BY PASSING THIS PORTION OF THE BOND.

SO, AGAIN, A LOT OF THIS IS SAFETY AND SECURITY UNDER HERE.

I ALSO WANT TO ADDRESS THERE'S $11 MILLION FOR TURF, WHICH SEEMS LIKE A BIG NUMBER.

AND WE JUST DID IT LAST BOND.

ALL RIGHT.

AND SO WE SAID, COACH SMITH.

TELL US ABOUT THE TURF USAGE.

AND HE SAID, LET ME TELL YOU, BECAUSE I GOT THE NUMBERS OK HE SAID, EVERY YEAR WE PLAY 432 MIDDLE SCHOOL FOOTBALL GAMES.

WE PLAY 106 HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL GAMES.

SO THAT'S 538 FOOTBALL GAMES IN THE FALL, PLUS 18 MORE FOR SPRING FOOTBALL, WHICH BRINGS US UP TO 556 TIMES THAT WE USE THOSE JUST FOR FOOTBALL.

COACH SMITH, DON'T STOP THERE.

THINK ABOUT SOCCER.

WHO KNEW? I DIDN'T KNOW.

I'M SORRY.

HE KNOWS.

I DIDN'T KNOW.

WE PLAY 162 SOCCER GAMES ON THOSE FIELDS A YEAR, 718 GAMES OVERALL.

WE ARE USING THE HECK OUT OF THOSE FIELDS.

AND BECAUSE WE HAVE TURF, WE'RE NOT HAVING AS MANY RAIN OUTS.

WE'RE NOT TEARING UP THE GRASS.

WE'RE NOT HAVING TO WATER IT.

WE'RE NOT HAVING TO FERTILIZE IT AND WE'RE NOT HAVING TO MOW IT.

SO IT ACTUALLY WE'RE USING IT AND WE'RE USING IT WELL.

ALL RIGHT, THIS NEXT PART.

I CAN'T BELIEVE MR. HILL.

I'M GOING TO LOOK AT ON A SCREEN.

I WISH I'M REALLY NERVOUS ABOUT THIS PART, WHAT HIS REACTIONS ARE GOING TO BE.

THIS IS WHERE WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO WHAT I CALL THE ALPHABET SOUP.

RIGHT.

WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE M'S AND THE O'S AND THE THE I'S AND THE S'S AND MIND OUR PD CUES WHILE WE CROSS OUR T'S AND DOT OUR I'S.

ALL RIGHT.

MR. HILL WAS A MAJOR HELP TO US.

HE HELPED US REFERENCING WHAT COULD WHAT COULD WE DO, WHAT WAS POSSIBLE.

HE HIMSELF HAS SIX BOND CAMPAIGNS UNDER HIS BELT.

THIS HOPEFULLY WILL BE HIS SEVENTH.

HE LEADS AN AWARD WINNING DEPARTMENT.

YOU CAN SEE ALL OF THE AWARDS THAT THEY HAVE GOTTEN.

HIS DEPARTMENT WATCHES OUR MONEY LIKE A HAWK.

I WANTED TO SAY LIKE AN EAGLE, BUT I DON'T WANT TO MAKE AN ALLEN REFERENCE.

SO HE WATCHES IT LIKE A HAWK.

HE TAKES EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO MAXIMIZE OUR MONEY AND TO SAVE US MONEY.

WHEN INTEREST RATES FALL, HIS DEPARTMENT REFINANCES OUR DEBT AND SAVES US MILLIONS.

I KNOW THAT YOU ALL VOTE ON IT, BUT IN MY MIND WHAT HAPPENS IS MR. HILL WAKES UP IN THE MORNING AND SAYS, I BELIEVE WE'RE GOING TO REFINANCE TODAY AND SAVES US $10 MILLION OR MORE.

THESE GUYS IN YOU ALL DESERVE MEDALS FOR THE WAY THAT YOU RUN OUR FINANCES AND THE WAY THAT YOU MONITOR OUR CHECKBOOK FOR US.

HIS MIDDLE INITIAL IS A W.

I THINK IT STANDS FOR WIZARD.

WE CONSIDERED HAVING HIM MAKE THIS PART OF THE PRESENTATION.

WHY DIDN'T WE? BECAUSE HE'S TOO HUMBLE, AND YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HEAR THIS FROM HIM.

ON OUR NEXT SLIDE, WE LOOK AT THE COLLIN COUNTY TAX RATES AND OUR NEIGHBORING NEIGHBORING DISTRICTS.

AS YOU SEE, WE'RE SECOND TO LOWEST AND MAKING UP GROUND ON FRISCO.

THE NEXT SLIDE.

OUR TAX RATE HAS FALLEN ALMOST $0.18 OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS.

SO BASICALLY WHAT I COME TO HEAR IS NOT ONLY DOES ROBIN HOOD TAKE MORE MONEY FROM PISD THAN ANY DISTRICT EXCEPT AUSTIN, BUT WE STILL ARE REDUCING OUR TAX RATES.

THAT'S WHY I SAY IT'S WIZARDRY.

HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE THAT OUR NUMBERS ARE GOING DOWN AND ALL THIS MONEY KEEPS EVAPORATING FROM US? THIS IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF EXCELLENCE, AND IT'S AN EXAMPLE OF DOING MORE WITH LESS.

WE DO MORE WITH LESS.

WE STRETCH EVERY PENNY WE CAN OUT OF OUR DOLLARS I&S TAX RATE.

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT WITH THIS BOND.

OUR TAX RATE WOULD NOT CHANGE.

SIMILARLY, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN, WITHOUT THIS BOND, OUR TAX RATE WILL NOT CHANGE.

PASS THE BOND IN FULL.

DON'T PASS THE BOND AT ALL.

OUR TAX RATE STAYS THE SAME.

WHAT DOES THAT SAY TO ME? TO ME THAT SAYS WE CAN AFFORD THIS.

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WE CAN PAY FOR THIS WITHOUT RAISING TAXES.

ACTUALLY, NOT ONLY ARE WE NOT GOING TO RAISE TAXES, BUT WHAT MR. HILL AND HIS WIZARDRY HAS TOLD ME IS WITH THIS BOND AND WE CAN HAVE AN I AND S RATE REDUCTION OF JUST OVER $0.06, SO WE COULD ACTUALLY AFFORD 1,520,000,000.

SO WE'RE JUST UNDER THAT.

ACTUALLY, I THINK THAT'S INCREDIBLY INTERESTING THAT ORGANICALLY WHAT THE TASK FORCE CAME UP WITH WAS A TOTAL BOND PACKAGE AT 1,498,638,000.

THE TASK FORCE SELF GOVERNING CAME UP BASED ON THE PILLARS, CAME UP WITH A BOND PACKAGE THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE YOU ALL PASS.

THAT IS JUST SLIGHTLY LESS THAN THE MAXIMUM OF WHAT WE WHAT WE CAN AFFORD.

AND AGAIN, ESSENTIALLY WHAT THE TASK FORCE RECOMMENDED IS THE CRITICAL PROJECTS.

HERE IS A DEPICTION OF OUR DEBT.

AGAIN, WE WOULD HAVE A66 CENT REDUCTION ON THE IRS TAX RATE.

AND AGAIN, SIMPLE.

WHAT DOES THIS SAY TO ME? THIS SAYS THE BOND THAT THE TOTAL BOND THAT THE COMMITTEE HAS RECOMMENDED, WE CAN PAY FOR IT.

NOT RAISING TAXES, REDUCING TAXES.

THEN WE LOOK BACK AT TO OUR 2016 BOND PROGRAM.

AGAIN, THIS IS WHAT'S HELPFUL WITH MR. HILL IS WE WOULD GENERATE QUESTIONS AND HE CAN GIVE US THE ANSWERS, THINGS THAT WE CAN CONCEIVE OF, BUT HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO FIGURE OUT THE NUMBERS ON THIS.

SO WHAT THIS SLIDE SHOWS IS WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF WE HAD NOT PASSED THE 2016 BOND.

MARSHALL AND I TALK ABOUT KICKING THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD A LOT THAT WE PAY FOR WHAT WE CAN PAY FOR, AND SOMETIMES WE KICK THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD.

IF WE HAD NOT PASSED THAT $481 MILLION BOND PACKAGE, IT WOULD BE SIX AND A HALF YEARS AGO.

BY THE TIME WE WOULD COME TO VOTE ON THIS IN NOVEMBER, THAT PACKAGE WOULD COST $570 MILLION TODAY.

I THOUGHT THIS WAS ALSO AN INTERESTING QUESTION.

SO OUR BOND THE BOND THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS OVER $1,000,000,000.

HAVE OTHER DISTRICTS PASSED BILLION DOLLAR BONDS? THE ANSWER YES, THEY HAVE.

INTERESTINGLY, IT'S I THINK TO LOOK AT PROSPER IN 2019, PROSPER PASSED A BOND AT $1,000,337,000.

THEIR STUDENT POPULATION WAS 14,600, THEN ABOUT A THIRD OF OURS.

THEY'VE GOT 1,000,000,003 BOND FORNEY JUST PASSED A BOND THIS YEAR, 1,294,000,000.

THEY HAVE 12,765 STUDENTS AGAIN.

A QUARTER OF WHAT WE'VE GOT.

TO SUMMARIZE THIS PORTION.

MR. HILL.

GUIDES, OUR CHECKBOOK.

YALL GUARD.

GUARD OUR CHECKBOOK.

OUR DISTRICT IS AWARD WINNING THE WAY IT TAKES CARE OF ITS FINANCES.

AND WHAT MR. HILL IS TELLING US, WE CAN PAY FOR THIS AND REDUCE TAXES.

THE IMPLICATIONS OF NOT CONSIDERING A BOND.

I HATE TO EVEN BRING THIS ONE UP.

YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS WE TALK ABOUT IS COULD WE KICK THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD AND DO IT WHEN THINGS GET CHEAPER? THINGS ARE NOT GETTING CHEAPER.

THINGS DON'T EVER GET CHEAPER.

NOW, I DID TALK TO WILL HODGES TODAY.

WILL IS THE PRESIDENT OF CADENCE MCSHANE.

THEY'RE A CONSTRUCTION COMPANY.

THEY BUILD SCHOOL PROJECTS, THEY BUILD ARENAS, THEY BUILD ALL SORTS OF STUFF.

HE IS AND HE'S ALSO INVOLVED WITH ADVOCATING FOR GENERAL CONTRACTORS AND IS REALLY PLUGGED IN AT THE STATE LEVEL.

HE SAID MAYBE THERE MIGHT BE A VERY SLIGHT DECREASE IN THE BUILDING BEGINNING OF 2023.

BUT AFTER THAT IT'S RIGHT BACK UP.

THAT'S WHAT IS BEING FORECAST.

SO WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? IF WE PASS THIS, WE MIGHT HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO JUMP ON SOME LOWER RATES RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING OF 2023.

SO IT ACTUALLY BE REALLY FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE TO DO THIS NOW, NOT KICK ANY CANS DOWN THE ROAD BECAUSE THERE MIGHT BE A CHANCE TO GET IT SLIGHTLY CHEAPER RIGHT NOW.

MR. HILL TELLS ME THAT IN GENERAL THERE IS A 6% RISE IN THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX INDEX FOR THESE TYPES OF PROJECTS EVERY YEAR.

SO AGAIN, IF WE WERE TO WAIT SIX YEARS ON THIS, LET'S JUST SAY ALL THE PRICES ARE GOING TO GO UP BY ALMOST TO 42%.

ALL RIGHT.

SO THE THE THE ANALOGY THAT I CAME UP WITH HERE IS IF A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE PAYING FOR THIS NOW, IT SAVES TO 41.9%.

EFFECTIVELY.

THIS IS A BOND WITH NO SPLURGE THAT WE HAVE TO DO NOW EVERYTHING THAT THE

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COMMITTEE IS RECOMMENDING.

IS OUR CRITICAL NEEDS THAT WE CAN'T KICK DOWN THE ROAD ANY FURTHER.

I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU ONE LAST ANECDOTE.

WE TOOK A TOUR AT PLANO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.

ALL RIGHT.

MARSHALL TALKED TO.

TO US ON THE COMMITTEE, AND HE SAID.

ASK THE STAFF MEMBERS WHAT YOU NEED, WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR, PRESS THEM, GET INFORMATION, CHALLENGE THEM.

THAT WAS MARSHALL'S WORD.

CHALLENGE THEM.

I MET JEFF BANNER.

JEFF BANNER IS A NEW PRINCIPAL OVER AT PLANO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.

I LOVE SARA WATKINS.

FOR YEARS, SHE WAS UNFLAPPABLE.

I MEET JEFF, JEFF'S NEW.

I SAID, MR. BANNER, TELL ME.

HE SAT IN WITH US IN THE FACILITIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE MEETING.

I SAID, TELL ME THE BEST THING ABOUT PLANO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.

AND HE SAID, WELL, YOU KNOW, OUR KIDS, THEY'RE BRIGHT, THEY'RE HARDWORKING, THEY'RE EXCELLENT.

THEY DO AMAZING THINGS.

AND I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS LIKE WHEN I ASK AND SAY, WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE DAY? AND YOU SAY, WELL, IT'S WHEN I GOT MARRIED, IT'S WHEN MY KIDS BORN, RIGHT? AND SO I'M LIKE, WHAT ELSE? TELL ME WHAT ELSE HE TELLS ME.

THE SECOND THING HE SAYS, MY STAFF IS EXCELLENT.

THEY'RE FIRST CLASS, THEY'RE CREATIVE AND THEY'RE DILIGENT.

MIND YOU, I WROTE ALL THIS DOWN AS SOON AS OUR MEETING WAS OVER.

OK.

I SAID, THIS IS AS WE'RE TAKING THE TOUR OF PLANO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.

AND I SAID, I DON'T WANT TO PUT WORDS IN YOUR MOUTH, BUT WHAT I'M NOT HEARING IS I'M NOT HEARING YOU CRUMP, CROW OR TRUMPET ABOUT ANY OF THE FACILITIES THAT YOU HAVE HERE.

AND HE SAID, WELL, I'LL JUST SAY THAT WE DO MORE WITH LESS.

WE MAXIMIZE OUR RESOURCES.

THESE ARE HIS WORDS.

AND I ASKED, YOU KNOW, THAT'S TOO BAD.

I MEAN, I APPRECIATE WHAT YOU DO, BUT WHAT COULD YOU DO IF YOU HAD MORE? COULD YOU DO MORE WITH MORE? AND THIS IS WHAT HE SAID TO ME.

HE SAID, GIVE ME THE CHANCE.

AND WE'LL MAKE YOU PROUD.

THE HAIRS STOOD UP ON THE BACK OF MY NECK WHEN HE SAID IT.

I WOULD LIKE TO SEE OUR DISTRICT HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO MORE WITH MORE.

WE HAVE EXCELLENT STUDENTS.

WE HAVE EXCELLENT STAFF.

WE HAVE EXCELLENT TEACHERS AND LEADERSHIP.

LET'S GIVE THEM THE OPPORTUNITY AND SEE WHAT THEY COULD DO WITH MORE.

WE'RE READY FOR SOME QUESTIONS, IF YALL HAVE GOT QUESTIONS FOR US.

THANKS GUYS.

THAT WAS ENTERTAINING AS WELL AS INFORMATIVE AND THAT IS ALWAYS APPRECIATED.

THANK YOU.

I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR WORK AND YOUR LEADERSHIP AND I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR WORK AND YOUR LEADERSHIP AND THOSE COMMITTEE MEMBERS THAT ARE WATCHING.

I WANT TO ALSO THANK YOU ALL.

A BOND IS A BIG UNDERTAKING.

AND THIS IS A PROCESS THAT STARTED FOR US, FOR THE BOARD.

WE HAD STARTED CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THIS LAST FALL.

AND SO THIS IS THE CULMINATION OF A LONG AND ARDUOUS TASK FOR THE COMMITTEE TO GO THROUGH AND ANALYZE WHERE WE ARE AND WHAT WE NEED.

AND SO I HAVE A HANDFUL.

I HAVE SEVERAL QUESTIONS, BUT I'M GOING TO DEFER MY QUESTIONS.

I'M GOING TO TURN THIS OVER TO THE TABLE, I'M SURE, AND I APPRECIATE EVERYBODY I KNOW AS HARD AS IT PROBABLY WAS TO HOLD YOUR QUESTIONS.

BECAUSE WE HAVE A HORRIBLE HISTORY OF DOING THAT.

I APPRECIATE YOU ALL VERY MUCH.

SO NOW IS THE TIME TO PEPPER THE BOYS WITH QUESTIONS.

SO LET ME OPEN THE TABLE.

WELL, I'M A HUGE SUPPORTER OF TENNIS IN MY DAUGHTER'S AND JV TENNIS.

AND SO I'M REALLY GLAD THAT YOU PUT TENNIS COURT RELOCATION REPLACEMENT STORAGE IN [INAUDIBLE] RENDITION.

THE THING IS THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO ASK, YOU KNOW, WHY DO WE HAVE TO PUT A STORAGE CENTER OUTSIDE AND RESTROOM ADDITION? WHY CAN'T WE USE THE ONES INSIDE AND HAVE PEOPLE WALK INSIDE? CAN YOU EXPLAIN THAT? BECAUSE IT'S 5,670,000.

I THINK WHAT'S HAPPENED IS WE'VE HAD A MAJOR SHIFT WITH ATHLETICS.

INSTEAD OF HAVING THE SOPHOMORES STAYING AT THE HIGH SCHOOLS, AT THE SIX HIGH SCHOOLS, WE'RE MOVING THEM UP.

AND INSTEAD OF HAVING SOPHOMORE TEAMS, WE'RE HAVING A JV TWO TEAM.

AND SO MY UNDERSTANDING IS WHAT'S HAPPENING IS WE HAVE TAKEN ALL OF THESE EXTRA BODIES AND WE'VE MOVED THEM UP THERE AND WE'VE CLOGGED UP AND OVERCROWDED OUR LOCKER ROOMS AND OUR FACILITIES.

AND SO PART OF WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS SEPARATE THEM OUT SO THAT EVERYBODY'S NOT ON TOP OF EACH OTHER.

IS THAT FAIR? I WOULD ALSO SAY, IS THAT A FAIR AMOUNT OF THE ATHLETIC PORTION? I WOULD ANSWER THAT QUESTION WITH A QUESTION AND SAY, HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO A TENNIS MATCH OF INCREASING YOUR HIGHS AND HAVE GO TO THE BATHROOM?

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YES, I HAVE.

THAT WOULD ANSWER THAT QUESTION.

AND HOW FAR YOU HAVE TO WALK.

AND IF THE BUILDING WAS EVEN OPEN, THEN TO USE THE RESTROOM.

YES.

AND THAT'S THE REASON WHY I WANTED YOU TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION, BECAUSE I WANT OUR AUDIENCE TO HEAR THAT.

THANK YOU.

SO AGAIN, WHAT WE WOULD LIKE WE WOULD LIKE EXCELLENCE FOR OUR TENNIS PROGRAM.

WE WANT EXCELLENCE ACROSS THE BOARD.

AND WE WANT TO MAKE IT BETTER FOR OUR TENNIS KIDS.

WE WANT TO MAKE IT BETTER FOR OUR BASEBALL KIDS.

WE WANT TO MAKE IT BETTER FOR OUR SOFTBALL KIDS, NOT TO MENTION MAKE IT EASIER FOR THE FOOTBALL TEAMS AND THE BASKETBALL TEAMS AND THE VOLLEYBALL TEAMS THAT ARE IN THE GYM PROPER IN THE SCHOOL.

I HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION ABOUT TECHNOLOGY.

I HAVE RECENTLY TOURED THE TECHNOLOGY BUILDING ON THE SPRING CREEK PARKWAY, AND I NOTICED THAT TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE UNDER THAT TITLE, WE ARE SUGGESTING $20 MILLION AND 400 THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT.

SO FOR ME, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT IS GOOD BECAUSE I HAVE SEEN OUR TECHNOLOGY SOFTWARE IN THE TOWERS AND.

PATRICK, CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHY THIS IS A NECESSITY FOR THE $20 MILLION.

I WOULD SAY THAT THE 20 MILLION IS NOT JUST ONE FACILITY.

I MEAN, YOU LOOKED AT ONE OF THE PRIMARY FACILITIES THAT WE HAVE IN THE DISTRICT THAT HOUSES A LOT OF OUR INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND DATA ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS, THINGS LIKE THAT.

THE MONEY THAT WE SEE ALLOCATED IN THIS PROPOSITION, THOUGH, WOULD BE TO UPGRADE THE CONNECTIVITY AND INFRASTRUCTURE AT ALL OF THE CAMPUSES.

WHAT WE HAVE SO FAR THAT'S IN EXISTENCE TODAY WOULD BE TECHNOLOGY THAT HAS NOT BEEN UPGRADED.

THESE ARE THE PIECES BEHIND THE SCENE THAT HAVE NOT BEEN UPGRADED IN ABOUT TEN YEARS.

AND SO IN I.T.

WORLD, THAT'S ANCIENT.

WE'VE BEEN KIND OF KEEPING THAT TOGETHER.

BUT AS WE CONTINUE TO PUT MORE DEVICES AND STUDENTS HANDS, CONNECTIVITY BECOMES A TREMENDOUS FACTOR.

THINGS SUCH AS WI-FI, CONNECTIVITY, BANDWIDTH OUT TO THE INTERNET, AS MORE AND MORE OF OUR CURRICULUM MOVES ONLINE, TESTING, THINGS LIKE THAT, WE NEED MORE BANDWIDTH, WE NEED MORE CONNECTIVITY.

WE NEED MORE SPEED OUT TO THOSE CAMPUSES.

SO THAT MONEY IS DESIGNED TO IS ALLOCATED TO ENSURE THAT WE PROVIDE A GOOD USER EXPERIENCE FOR OUR STUDENTS ON THE CAMPUSES.

AND THANK YOU, BECAUSE I WANT OUR AUDIENCE WHO ARE WATCHING THIS AT HOME TO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE WAS A PURPOSE OF WHY WE NEEDED THAT $20 MILLION.

THANK YOU, PATRICK, FOR EXPLAINING.

AND I HAD TOURED THE TECHNOLOGY AREA AND I SAW THE WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, THE OUTDATED UNITS THAT HAVE BEEN TEN YEARS OLD.

SO THANK YOU FOR THAT CLEAR EXPLANATION.

SO I WANT TO JUMP IN REAL QUICK BECAUSE I LIED.

I'M NOT GOING TO LET EVERYBODY ELSE TALK FIRST.

2 TO 2 THINGS.

ONE IS, NANCY, IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION OR WANT TO POP IN, IF YOU'LL TEXT ME, THEN I'LL PAUSE.

I HAVE MY PHONE RIGHT HERE IN FRONT OF ME SO YOU CAN TEXT ME TO POP IN.

AND THE SECOND IS REALLY FOR YOU GUYS, BEFORE WE KIND OF GET INTO THE NITTY GRITTY OF SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ABOUT SPECIFIC TOPICS, I WANT TO GO BACK TO BIG PICTURE BECAUSE AGAIN, YOU ALL STARTED THIS PROCESS JANUARY.

AND CAN YOU ALL WALK US THROUGH THE PROCESS O DISCUSSING PROJECTS, HOW POTENTIAL PROJECTS INITIATED, HOW THEY WENT THROUGH THE COMMITTEE PROCESS, HOW THEY GOT FROM IDEA TO EITHER CONFIRMATION OR REJECTION AND IDENTIFY.

YOU SAID WE WERE TALKING ABOUT CRITICAL ITEMS ONLY PRETTY MUCH IN THIS THIS PROPOSAL KIND OF WALK US THROUGH AND FOR ANYBODY WHO'S WATCHING THE PROCESS OF GETTING FROM IDEA TO ON THIS LIST.

YEAH SO WHEN WE FIRST MET WE KIND OF WENT OVER THE SCOPE OF WHAT WE WERE TRYING TO ACHIEVE AND WE BROKE INTO SIX GROUPS AND THEN WE HAD A COMMITTEE HEAD ELECTED FOR THAT GROUP.

STAFF WOULD COME IN LIKE LET'S SAY FOR INSTANCE, YOU WERE ON THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE.

THE TRANSPORTATION GUYS WOULD COME OVER AND SAY, OKAY.

HERE'S THE CURRENT STATE OF OUR FACILITY.

WE NEED THIS, THIS, THIS, THIS AND THIS.

WE NEED BUSSES, WE NEED WORKSHOP, WE NEED TOOLS, EVERYTHING TO RUN A TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT.

LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT.

SO FIRST WE WOULD SAY WHAT DO YOU THINK IT WOULD TAKE TO BRING YOU UP TO JUST

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STANDARD, NOT BEST PRACTICE, BUT JUST STANDARD PRACTICE? WHAT WILL THAT LOOK LIKE? AND THEN WHAT WOULD IT LOOK LIKE IF WE WENT BEST PRACTICE? IF YOU HAD AN UNLIMITED AMOUNT OF FUNDS, WHAT WOULD YOU WANT YOURS TO BE? SO WE ASKED THEM WHAT THE NEED WAS AND THEN IF YOU COULD BUILD YOUR OWN RIGHT NOW, RIGHT THEN, WITHOUT ANY RESTRICTIONS, WHAT WOULD IT LOOK LIKE? SO THEN WE STARTED OUT, THEN WE WOULD TAKE THAT AND SAY, OKAY, LET'S LOOK AT WHAT OTHER FACILITIES HAVE THAT WE COULD USE AS A BENCHMARK AND WHAT WE HAVE.

AND THEN WE'D HAVE TO ALSO LOOK AT SPACE.

IF WE GREW THE FACILITY, WOULD WOULD IT FIT IN THE CURRENT FOOTPRINT? WOULD IT NOT WOULD WE HAVE TO GO OUT? WE LOOKED IN TRANSPORTATION TO THE TANK, THE GAS TANK IN THE GROUND.

THAT'S 20 SOMETHING YEARS OLD.

WE GOT TO GET THAT OUT.

36 YEARS OLD.

YEAH.

WE'RE FIXING TO BE UNINSURABLE BECAUSE IT'S IN THE GROUND SO LONG.

SO WE LOOKED AT EVERY ASPECT OF WHAT IS A GOOD TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT LOOK LIKE OR FACILITY LOOK LIKE.

AND THEN FROM THERE, WE STARTED TO GET COST, YOU KNOW, ALL RIGHT.

IF, WE WANT A BUCKY'S LOOKING FACILITY WITH 30 FOOT HIGH BAY DOORS AND LIFTS TO LIFT THE BUSSES UP TO WORK UNDER, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW WE LAY ON THE GROUND ON ONE OF THOSE BOARDS WITH WHEELS AND WE SLIDE UNDER THERE.

WE'RE TRYING TO FIX STUFF ON THE GROUND.

OTHER FACILITIES RAISE THEIRS UP AND IT'S SAFER AND THEY'RE WORKING ON IT EYE LEVEL.

SO WE PUT A NUMBER WITH IT.

TONY WOULD GO OUT AND GET BEDS AND WE WOULD LOOK AT OK.

NOW THAT WE HAVE OUR TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT KIND OF PUT TOGETHER AND WE CAN FIX BUSSES AND WE'VE GOT PLENTY OF MEETING SPACE WHERE WE'RE NOT ON TOP OF EACH OTHER.

AND WE SAW PICTURES OF FOUR OR FIVE GUYS IN ONE OFFICE AND, YOU KNOW, THINGS EVERYWHERE.

IT JUST IT DIDN'T HAVE A GOOD FLOW TO IT.

IT WASN'T EFFICIENT.

IT WAS JUST OLD.

SO ONCE WE GOT IT TO WHERE? IT WAS EXCELLENT.

THEN WE PUT A NUMBER TO IT.

THE COMMITTEE WOULD THEN BRING THEIR NUMBER BACK.

AND THERE WERE SIX OF US AND WE ALL MET BACK TOGETHER AS A GROUP.

AND AS THEY WERE.

LET ME BACK UP AS THEY WERE GOING THROUGH THEIR PROCESS, THEY MAY HAVE WE NEED 13 JACKS TO JACK THE BUSSES UP AND THEY'D HAVE A NUMBER NEXT TO IT.

THEY ALL THEIR NEEDS AND WANTS AND ASK WERE ON A BIG PIECE OF PAPER.

AND THEN WE HAD DOTS.

WE HAD GREEN DOTS, RED DOTS AND YELLOW DOTS, I THINK.

AND ONE, IF YOU GOT GREEN DOTTED, THAT WAS CRITICAL.

SO YOU WOULD GO BACK AS A GROUP AND THEY WOULD SAY, OKAY, WHAT CAN WE LIVE WITH? WHAT CAN WE LIVE WITHOUT? AND PEOPLE WOULD VOTE AND WE'D STICK GREEN DOTS UP ON NEW BUSSES, BAYS FOR STORAGE, FOR TIRES AND TOOLS AND EVERYTHING.

IF IT GOT A YELLOW DOT, THAT WAS A DISCUSSION POINT.

IF IT GOT A RED DOT, WE JUST MOVED ON FROM IT.

IT DIDN'T MAKE THE LIST.

SO IN ORDER TO MAKE IT BACK TO THE BIG GROUP AT THE END FOR A GROUP REVIEW, WE DID THE SAME THING WITH THE GIANT GROUP AS AS WE BROKE OUT OF SUBCOMMITTEES AND CAME BACK TOGETHER.

AND I GUESS THAT WAS TWO MEETINGS AGO OR THREE MEETINGS AGO THEN WE VOTED THE SAME WAY ON IT AS A BIG GROUP.

SO WE LET THE ATHLETIC PEOPLE LOOK AT THE TRANSPORTATIONS, NEEDS, WANTS AND DESIRES, AND WE VOTED ON IT AS A BIG GROUP, A 70 MEMBER TASK FORCE.

AND WE HAD TO IT HAD TO HAVE 90% APPROVAL IN ORDER TO MAKE IT ON THE FINAL LIST.

THAT WOULD BECOME OUR FINAL NUMBER THAT WE WOULD PRESENT TO YOU ALL.

SO IT WAS A LENGTHY PROCESS, BUT IN THE VERY BEGINNING I TRIED TO STRESS TO THE COMMITTEES REALLY CHALLENGE OUR PRESENTERS, CHALLENGE OUR STAFF, BECAUSE IF THEY DON'T BRING WHAT THEY REALLY NEED TO GET US JUST UP TO STANDARDS, THEN WE'RE NOT DOING A GOOD JOB.

WE'RE KICKING THE CAN DOWN THE STREET, AS I LIKE TO SAY, TO FUTURE BOND'S COMMITTEE.

SO I SAID, NO MATTER HOW BIG THE NUMBER IS, HOW BAD IT LOOKS OR HOW GOOD IT LOOKS, MAN, TO GET YOU UP AND RUNNING AND GET YOU TO A JUST A STANDARD.

LET'S TALK ABOUT IT.

LET'S LOOK AT IT.

SO THAT'S KIND OF HOW WE GOT EACH GROUP WENT THROUGH THE SAME PROCESS.

SO WE LOOKED AT ONCE THEY THEY DEVELOPED WHAT THEIR AREA REALLY NEEDS AND LIKES

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AND WANTS.

THEY VOTED ON IT.

THEY DISCUSSED, THEY'D CUT, THEY'D COME BACK, THEY'D CHANGE THIS, CHANGE THAT AND GET IT TO WHERE IT WAS GREEN DOTTED OR YELLOW DOTTED FOR DISCUSSION, AND THEN MOVE IT ON TO THE BIG GROUP.

AND THEN THE BIG GROUP WOULD VOTE ON IT AGAIN.

IF THEY COULDN'T GET THE YELLOW TO GREEN, IT GOT SLASHED.

SO IT WASN'T A PART OF THE FINAL NUMBER.

THAT'S HOW WE WERE ABLE TO WHITTLE DOWN FROM TWO POINT.

ONE OR 2.2 TO 1.5, WE CUT $707 MILLION BECAUSE WE JUST COULDN'T SELL THE YELLOW DOTS TO GET THEM TO THE GREEN DOTS.

THE CRITICAL.

SO ONLY CRITICAL MADE IT TO THE LIST.

SO THERE'S STILL THINGS OUT THERE THAT REALLY NEED TO BE FIXED AND LOOKED AT AND I'M SURE THEY'LL BE FOR THE NEXT BOND.

I DON'T THINK THE THINGS CAN WAIT ANOTHER SIX YEARS.

I THINK WE WE REALLY GOT A LOT OF STUFF TO FIX.

SO IT WAS A LENGTHY PROCESS, BUT IT WAS A REAL INFORMATIVE PROCESS.

AND THE STAFF ON THIS BOND, YOU KNOW, REALLY BROUGHT THEIR WANTS AND DESIRES TO US SO THAT WE COULD TAKE A LOOK AT IT AND GET IT TO WHERE WE COULD MAKE OUR DISTRICT EXCELLENT.

SORRY IF THAT'S A LONG ANSWER.

NO, THAT IS ABSOLUTELY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR.

AND THE IDEA OF GETTING FROM A YELLOW TO A GREEN TO MAKE SURE YOU'VE GOT CONSENSUS, TO THEN BRING TO THE BOARD.

I THINK IT IS AN IMPORTANT CONCEPT AND AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF YOUR WORK AS A LARGER GROUP OF 70 TO THEN PRESENT TO US.

SO I'VE GOT A HANDFUL OF THINGS THAT I'LL BE ABLE TO OFFER SOME PERSPECTIVE AS A BOARD.

ONE OF THE LONGER SERVING BOARD MEMBERS HERE, BECAUSE I THINK KICKING THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD IS PROBABLY AN APT DESCRIPTION OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN PLANO AND IF THAT'S POTENTIALLY A FAILING ON MY OWN PART OR PRIOR BOARDS FOR NOT ADDRESSING OUR NEEDS AND SOONER THE REASON WHY WE DIDN'T IS BECAUSE.

IN 2011, OUR RECAPTURE PAYMENT WAS $25 MILLION.

THIS YEAR, IT'S WELL OVER 220 MILLION.

AND WE WERE AFRAID OF WHAT WE WERE TRYING TO DEAL WITH THAT ANIMAL FIRST.

AND SO WE WENT WE STRETCHED THE DOLLAR FROM 2008 TO 2016.

THAT WAS AN EIGHT YEAR PERIOD BETWEEN BONDS.

AND NOW WE'RE SIX AND A HALF YEARS BETWEEN BONDS.

AND YOU GUYS ARE EXACTLY RIGHT.

WE ARE AT THE CRITICAL NEED STAGE OF JUST KEEPING UP.

AND YOU KNOW, RICK, LIKE YOU, I'M AN ANECDOTE PERSON.

I THINK.

FOR OUR COMMUNITY, FOR WHEN YOU HAVE AN AGING COMMUNITY, IT'S EASY TO LOOK AT A BOND LIKE THIS AND SAY, WELL, WHY DO THEY NEED ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF? IT WAS GOOD ENOUGH WHEN I GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL AND.

WHEN YOU START ADDING UP THE YEARS YOU GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL 30 YEARS AGO.

MY DAD LIVES IN EAST TEXAS IN A SMALL TOWN.

SO HERE'S MY ANECDOTE.

IN 2018, THAT SMALL TOWN WENT OUT FOR A BOND TO REPLACE THE NEW HIGH SCHOOL.

MY DAD IS 86 YEARS OLD AND HE GRADUATED FROM THE NEW HIGH SCHOOL.

IT FAILED AND THEY CAME BACK AGAIN THE NEXT YEAR AND IT FINALLY PASSED THAT TOWN HAD A MENTALITY OF, WELL, IT WAS GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME WHEN I GRADUATED FROM IT IN 1956 OR 66 OR 76.

AND THEN THEY HIT A CRITICAL THEY BECAME UNCOMPETITIVE ESSENTIALLY.

AND WE CAN'T ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN IN PLANO ISD.

IT'S HAPPENING.

YEAH, IT'S HAPPENING NOW.

PLANO USED TO BE THE PLACE WHERE PEOPLE WOULD WHEN THEY WERE LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO SETTLE DOWN AND SINK ROOTS.

YOU'D COME TO PLANO BECAUSE WE HAD THE BEST OF THE BEST.

AND THAT WAS DURING THE, YOU KNOW, THE GROWTH YEARS.

BUT NOW PEOPLE JUST PASS US BY BECAUSE WHEN THEY GO AND THEY SHOP A COMMUNITY TO LIVE IN, THEY GO TO FRISCO AND THEY SEE THAT, WOW.

IN EIGHTH GRADE, THEY GOT TRACKS.

IN PLANO, WE HAVE A GRASS FIELD.

YOU KNOW, WE'RE PLAYING EIGHTH GRADE FOOTBALL AND WE HAVE NICE ATHLETIC FACILITIES AND NICE THINGS RIGHT THERE AT AT THE EIGHTH GRADE, SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADE LEVEL.

WE DON'T HAVE THAT HERE.

SO THEY ARE PASSING US BY.

AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S SAD BECAUSE OF ALL THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE COME BEFORE US THAT'S WORKED HARD IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, YOU KNOW, TO BUILD IT UP TO BE THE BEST, YOU KNOW, THE MCCALL'S.

THE THE SHAPIRO'S.

YOU KNOW, AND WE'VE HAD OUTSTANDING SUPERINTENDENTS OVER THE YEARS, YOU KNOW,

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THAT THEY WORKED HARD TO GET US TO WHERE WE WERE.

AND THEN AND I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S THE POLITICS BEHIND IT OR WHAT, BUT IT JUST SEEMED TO, HEY, WE CAN'T SPEND MONEY ANYMORE.

WE CAN'T DO THAT.

THAT'S GOING TO BE TOO MUCH.

AND THEN PRETTY SOON, YOU KNOW, LIFE AND JUST KEPT GOING.

BUT WE PULLED BACK AND WE STOPPED.

SO WE STOPPED STAYING UP WITH THINGS, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, THE PEOPLE.

AND THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT ARE THAT ARE GOING TO SAY, WELL, YOU KNOW, OUR TAXES ARE TOO HIGH.

WELL, JOHNNY HILL CAN SHOW US A SLIDE THAT SAYS YOUR TAX HADN'T INCREASED AT ALL.

AS A MATTER OF FACT, IT'S GONE DOWN.

AND YOU HAVE PEOPLE THAT YOU KNOW WILL SAY, WELL, IT'S JUST TOO EXPENSIVE.

WELL, IT'S EXPENSIVE TO KEEP UP 70 SOMETHING SCHOOLS.

YOU KNOW, IT'S EXPENSIVE TO GIVE OUR KIDS THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE THE LATEST, GREATEST TECHNOLOGY.

YOU KNOW, YOU GO LOOK AT SOME SCHOOLS AROUND OUR NEIGHBORING DISTRICTS AND THEY HAVE ALL ELECTRONIC CHALKBOARDS.

WE STILL GOT CHALKBOARDS.

I MEAN, THAT'S A DISADVANTAGE.

AND FOR THE PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT MIGHT SAY, WELL, IT'S REALLY NOT THAT BAD.

WELL, IT REALLY IS.

YOU KNOW, CALL ME.

I'LL GO WITH YOU.

WE'LL GO LOOK AT SOME OF THIS STUFF.

AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST TIME.

IT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, 14 YEAR ONE BOND IN THE LAST 14 YEARS IS JUST TOO LONG TO GO.

AND JOHNNY, YOU CAN TALK ON THIS.

THIS DISTRICT CAN BE DEBT FREE IN, WHAT, THREE YEARS? IF WE DIDN'T TAKE ON ANOTHER BOND.

YES, SIR.

BETWEEN THREE AND ONE HALF FROM FOUR YEARS.

OK SO 490 MILLION.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE LAST BOND WAS.

RICK 481 MILLION OK AND FOR US, YOU KNOW, I THINK LEGALLY WE COULD GO OUT 40 YEARS PISD HAS A 20 YEAR TERM.

IS THAT RIGHT? OK SO, YES, OUR POLICY.

OK SO IN 2016, WHEN WE DID THE BOND, HERE WE ARE IN 2022 AND IN THREE YEARS WE'LL BE DEBT FREE IF WE DON'T DO ANOTHER BOND.

THAT'S HUGE.

THAT'S ABSOLUTELY HUGE.

HOW WE CAN PAY OFF BECAUSE OF OUR STRONG FINANCE GUYS THAT WE CAN PAY OFF THAT AMOUNT OF DEBT IN A SUPER SHORT TIME.

SO THE KICKER IS HERE AND WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS WHEN WE WERE LEARNING ABOUT HOW EVERYTHING WORKS.

IT'S REALLY NOT GOOD TO PUT BONDS OFF.

IS IT, JOHNNY? BECAUSE IT.

YEAH, I WOULD DEFINITELY CAUTION AGAINST IT.

AND YOU SHOWED THE ONE SLIDE WITH THE GOING OUT JUST SIX YEARS WITH THE TIME VALUE OF MONEY WILL DO ON COST OF CONSTRUCTION INFLATION.

YOU WAIT AT A PRETTY CONSERVATIVE CCI, YOU'RE LOOKING AT ABOUT 42% VERY CONSERVATIVELY OVER A SIX YEAR PERIOD.

SO IF YOU DON'T CONTINUE TO DO IT IN A CONSISTENT MANNER, THEN IT PILES UP ON YOU AND THEN YOU REALLY RUN INTO PROBLEMS BECAUSE IT'S JUST LIKE BUYING A BIG HOUSE AFTER THE COST HAVE GONE UP LIKE THEY HAVE JUST THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS.

YOU CAN'T ACTUALLY AFFORD TO DO WHAT YOU NEED TO DO AT THAT POINT.

SO BEFORE YOU MOVE ON, CAN I'VE BEEN NANCIED, CAN I? I'M SURE.

CAN I GIVE A LITTLE RESPONSE? JUST CAN I GIVE A RESPONSE TO YOUR QUESTION THERE? AND THAT'S PARTLY WHAT WE FOCUSED ON TONIGHT IS THE DOOM AND GLOOM PART.

BUT WE ARE A DISTRICT OF EXCELLENCE.

MY DIPLOMA AND ALL OF MY KIDS DIPLOMAS SAYS A TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE RIGHT ON THERE.

AND THAT IS SPOT ON.

WE ARE EXCELLENT.

SO WE'RE FOCUSING ON THE NEGATIVE.

AND I REALLY WISH THAT THIS WAS A LITTLE MORE CLOSED AND A LITTLE MORE PRIVATE, BECAUSE TO ME, THIS IS ALL FAMILY BUSINESS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE NEEDS THAT WE HAVE.

WE'RE SKIPPING OVER ALL OF THE PLACES THAT WE ARE EXCELLENT BECAUSE OUR PEOPLE ARE EXCELLENT AND OUR STUDENTS ARE EXCELLENT AND OUR STAFF IS EXCELLENT, AND WE ARE JUST NAILING IT IN SO MANY WAYS.

BUT WHAT WE'RE FOCUSING ON TODAY IS THERE ARE SOME PLACES THAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS IT.

IF THE AIR CONDITIONING BREAKS, THOSE KIDS CANNOT BE IN THAT SCHOOL AND WE HAVE TO PAY TO KEEP OUR FACILITIES AND OUR INFRASTRUCTURE UP.

THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.

WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IN A DISTRICT OF EXCELLENCE, SOME PLACES THAT WE NEED TO SPEND A LITTLE MONEY AND GIVE A LITTLE LOVE.

YEAH.

I WANT TO GO BACK TO THE ANECDOTE YOU TOLD ABOUT JEFF BANNER ABOUT WE'LL MAKE YOU PROUD.

WE ARE PROUD OF PLANO ISD.

WE ARE PROUD OF OUR STUDENTS.

AND WE ARE PROUD OF DOING MORE WITH THE LIMITATIONS WE HAVE.

AND LIKE YOU, I AM ANXIOUS TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DO, WHAT MORE WE CAN DO WITH MORE.

LET ME PAUSE HERE AND LET NANCY JUMP IN.

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HEY.

THANK YOU, GUYS.

CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN.

WELL, I CAN'T SEE YOU GUYS BECAUSE I'M ON THE ZOOM, SO I ONLY HAVE ONE CHANNEL.

I CAN'T LOOK AT THE ACTUAL ROOM AND THE SPEAKERS, BUT I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU GUYS FOR THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS THAT ARE THERE, THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS THAT ARE WATCHING, AND YOU TWO GENTLEMEN WHO LED THIS PROCESS, I'VE LOOKED AT EVERY SPREADSHEET AND INFORMATION, PILES OF INFORMATION THAT WE'VE BEEN GIVEN.

AND I JUST HAVE TO SAY, KUDOS TO YOU GUYS FOR GETTING THROUGH THIS PROCESS THE WAY YOU HAVE.

AND MARSHALL, YOU WEREN'T TOO LONG WINDED WHEN YOU DESCRIBED HOW YOU DID THE DETAILS.

AND I APPRECIATE YOU WENT INTO THAT.

SO FIRST OFF, THANK YOU FOR YOU GUYS, YOUR COMMITTEE.

AND THEN I HAVE TO GIVE A KUDOS TO OUR ADMINISTRATION BECAUSE THE 91 FACILITIES THAT WE HAVE IN THE DISTRICT HAVE ALL BEEN GRADED ON ALL THEIR SYSTEMS AND COMPLIANCE AND EVERY PIECE OF EQUIPMENT BASED ON ITS WARRANTY AND ITS LIFE, ITS USEFUL LIFE, ITS WORK HISTORY.

ALL OF THAT HAS BEEN DOCUMENTED FOR EVERY BUILDING IN THIS DISTRICT.

SO I HAVE TO GIVE HATS OFF TO OUR ADMINISTRATION FOR THE GUYS WHO DID.

TONY, YOU'RE OUT THERE.

YOU'RE PROBABLY PART OF THAT.

BUT THAT WORK IS AMAZING.

SO WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY IS THE DATA THAT WE HAVE, THE CRITICAL DATA THAT WE HAVE, AND THAT YOU'VE SUMMARIZED IN HOW MANY SLIDES? 50 SLIDES.

IT'S AMAZING.

SO ONE OF THE THINGS I WANTED TO ADD ON TO DAVID HAD TALKED ABOUT THE LAST BOND, THE $481 MILLION BOND IN 2016, AND WE STRETCHED FROM 2008 TO 2016 BECAUSE THERE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF A RECESSION IN THERE.

AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S ONLY GOING TO GET MORE EXPENSIVE AS WE LOOK FORWARD AND WE HAVE SYSTEMS AND COMPLIANCE AND THINGS THAT JUST HAVE TO BE, RICK SAID, YOU CAN'T GO WITHOUT AIR CONDITIONING AND THAT'S ONE OF THE BIGGEST COST DRIVERS IN THE SYSTEMS AND COMPLIANCE.

SO WE HAVE TO HAVE A MINDSET THAT WE'VE GOT TO LOOK AT THIS AND CONTINUE ON MAINTAINING THESE BUILDINGS.

SO THIS WORK HAS BEEN TREMENDOUS.

I'M SO IMPRESSED WITH WHAT YOU'VE DONE.

I HAD A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.

AND ONE IS WHEN YOU LOOKED AT OUTSIDE FACILITIES IN BIRDSVILLE, PROSPER AND LEWISVILLE, RICK AND MARSHALL, WHAT DID YOU LOOK AT? DID YOU HAPPEN TO LOOK AT CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY CENTERS? THAT'S AN AREA THAT I'M TRULY FOCUSED ON BECAUSE I THINK WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR STUDENTS TO BUILD THEIR FUTURE.

WHAT DID YOU SEE IN BIRDSVILLE? PROSPER AND LEWISVILLE? I THINK THAT I PERSONALLY DIDN'T GO TO BIRDVILLE.

I THINK THAT THERE WAS A VIDEO THAT THEY WHEN OUR TEAM WENT OVER THERE, THEY MADE A VIDEO THAT THEY BROUGHT BACK AND SHOWED THE GROUP.

AND IT WAS SUPER IMPRESSIVE.

I MEAN, IT WAS ALL STATE OF THE ART, HIGH TECH, HIGH END FACILITY.

I THINK THEY HAD A COOKING SCHOOL FACILITY.

AND I MEAN, IT WAS ALL THE HIGH END OVENS AND GAS RANGES AND, YOU KNOW, THE WAY THE KITCHENS WERE ALL LAID OUT, I MEAN, IT WAS I MEAN, IT WAS SPOTLESS.

IT WAS ALL STAINLESS STEEL.

I MEAN, IT WAS REALLY HIGH END.

AND THEY WENT THROUGH SEVERAL DIFFERENT COMPONENTS OF THEIR CTE FACILITY.

I WISHED.

AND THE LADY'S NOT HERE.

THAT WAS TARA.

TARA.

WELL, WHAT WAS THE STAFF LADY'S NAME? [INAUDIBLE] OK.

SHE I THINK SHE WAS THE ONE.

KAREN, COME ON.

WHY DON'T YOU ANSWER THIS QUESTION? BECAUSE YOU USED TO.

HI.

THANK YOU.

I WENT ON THE TOUR TO BIRDSVILLE ISD.

WHAT THEY HAVE IS LIKE.

IT'S ALMOST LIKE A MALL WHEN YOU WALK IN AND THE STUDENTS CAN GO TO THEIR SECTION.

SO THERE, AS MARSHALL DESCRIBES, THERE WAS THE CULINARY PROGRAM, THEN THERE WAS THE AUTO TECH PROGRAM.

AND THIS IS LIKE WHAT WE DO, BUT WE HAVE ON SEPARATE CAMPUSES AT THE MOMENT.

SO THERE'S COLLISION, THERE'S LEARNING, THE MECHANICS.

THEY HAD ALL OF THEIR WOODWORKING IN ANOTHER SECTION THAT WAS SO SUPER CLEAN BECAUSE THEY SPENT A LOT OF MONEY.

AND I'M SORRY, I'M CONFUSING.

THAT WAS I WAS ALSO IN LEWISVILLE, BUT THE SIMILARITIES WERE AMAZING.

YOU HAD FACILITIES FOR STUDENTS TO WORK, LIKE THEY WOULD WORK AS IF THEY WERE IN THE TRADE.

SO THESE ARE HIGH DEMAND, HIGH WAGE JOBS.

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THEN WHAT WE ALSO WITNESSED WAS SOME CORPORATE SPONSORSHIPS.

SO WHAT WE WOULD BE APPROVING IS THE CTE CENTER.

THAT THEN WOULD BE I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE RIGHT WORD IS LIKE FLESHED OUT IN THE FUTURE, BECAUSE WITH THE BOND, WE'RE JUST SAYING THIS IS A GREAT IDEA.

OUR STUDENTS ARE MISSING OUT.

AND THE OTHER THING THAT WOULD ALLOW US IN PISD TO DO IS CURRENTLY CTE IS SOMETHING WE ONLY OFFER FOR JUNIORS AND SENIORS.

AND SO IF WE HAVE A DEDICATED CTE CENTER, WE COULD EXPAND THAT TO NINTH IN 10TH GRADERS.

SO SORRY.

I HOPE I ANSWERED THAT, NANCY.

I MEAN, IT'S SUPER COOL TO WATCH THE STUDENTS.

THEY WERE COMING IN THROUGH BUSSES TO THE CTE CENTERS, AND THEN THEY WOULD GO TO THEIR RESPECTIVE CLASSES AND EVEN THE CULINARY PROGRAM.

AND I THINK THIS WAS IN BIRDSVILLE, THEY RAN LIKE A LITTLE CAFE SO THE STUDENTS COULD EAT THE FOOD THAT THE OTHER STUDENTS WERE PREPARING.

OH, THAT'S REALLY COOL.

AND YES, TARA AND THANK YOU, JAMES, FOR PUTTING THAT UP ON THE SCREEN.

NOW, I CAN SEE EVERYBODY.

THAT'S AMAZING.

AND I THINK YOU HIT ON SOMETHING THAT I THINK IS REALLY AN OPPORTUNITY THAT WE HAVE IN PLANO.

WE HAVE SO MANY AMAZING HEADQUARTERED BUSINESSES HERE THAT WANT TO PARTNER WITH OUR STUDENTS.

SO I THINK THIS WOULD BE AN AREA THAT WOULD BE AMAZING FOR OPPORTUNITY FOR KIDS.

ONE QUESTION I HAVE AND THIS IS THE LAST QUESTION HAS TO DO WITH THE CLARK STADIUM.

RESURFACING OF THE MOON, IF YOU WILL, BECAUSE IT IS LIKE CRATERS IN THE MOON.

IS THAT INCLUDING THE ROAD THAT GOES OUTSIDE OF THE STADIUM? DO YOU KNOW THAT? CAN YOU ASK THAT AGAIN? YEAH, SURE.

SORRY ABOUT THAT.

YOU KNOW, PARK STADIUM RESURFACING THE PARKING LOT.

IS THAT GOING TO INCLUDE THAT ROAD AS WELL THAT LEADS OUTSIDE? JEFF.

IT WILL.

OKAY.

SO I'M TALKING ABOUT THE ONE OVER BY THE THE ROAD THAT RUNS BESIDE TRANSPORTATION AND KIND OF GOES UP INTO THE PARK.

THE THE SOCCER FIELDS.

THE BASEBALL FIELDS AND ALL THAT.

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? THE ROAD ON THE BACK SIDE OR THE VISITORS SIDE? WELL, I THINK.

GO AHEAD, NANCY BECAUSE THEY STATED ANOTHER WAY, DOES THAT INCLUDE REPAVING OF ALL PISD PROPERTIES? SO ROADS, PARKING LOT, EVERYTHING? YES.

THAT TAKES CARE.

YEAH.

YEAH.

SO AND THAT IS REALLY, REALLY NEEDED.

THE WAY THAT YOU PUT THAT IT'S LIKE THE CRATERS OF THE MOON.

THAT IS SPOT ON.

YEAH.

SEA OF TRANQUILITY.

YEAH.

JER, I SHOULD POINT OUT THAT THE REPAVING OF THE CLARK PARKING LOT ALSO HAS A DEPENDANCE ON TRANSPORTATION, BECAUSE PART OF THE PLAN WITH TRANSPORTATION FACILITY WAS TO EXPAND INTO SOME OF THE SPACE THAT MAYBE IS TAKEN UP BY THAT ROAD NOW.

SO I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT WILL NECESSARILY GET RE ARCHITECTED, BUT THERE'S A DEPENDENCY BETWEEN WHAT WE WANT TO DO WITH THE FORMER BUS BARN AND THE PARKING LOT PAVING.

ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT.

SO I'M GOING TO REITERATE WHAT EVERYONE HAS SAID.

THE TIME THAT YOU ALL HAVE PUT INTO THIS HAS BEEN AMAZING.

I WILL ALSO SAY THAT I THINK FIRST FOR ALL THE TRUSTEES IS WE'VE SPENT A LOT OF TIME STUDYING WHAT YOU'VE GIVEN US SO FAR AND REALLY LOOKING AT THIS VERY SERIOUSLY, AND BUT IT DIDN'T COME ALIVE TO ME UNTIL YESTERDAY.

SO YESTERDAY WE WELCOMED OUR NEW TEACHERS.

AND IT WAS A GREAT THING YESTERDAY.

YES, IT'S TUESDAY, ISN'T IT? IT'S ALREADY WEDNESDAY HERE.

AND SO WE WELCOMED OUR NEW TEACHERS YESTERDAY.

AND PART OF THE WELCOMING OF THE NEW TEACHERS IS THAT THERESA HAD THE NEW TEACHERS WHO ARE PLANO GRADUATES STAND AT FOR US TO RECOGNIZE.

AND IT WAS GREAT.

AND IT WAS GREAT FOR ME PERSONALLY BECAUSE ONE OF MY DAUGHTER'S BEST FRIENDS FROM WHEN SHE WAS IN 18 MONTH MOTHER'S DAY OUT, WHO IS IN MY BIBLE STUDY GROWING UP, I MEAN, I'VE KNOWN THIS, THIS IS MY OTHER CHILD.

AND SHE STOOD UP AND IT WAS SO GREAT TO SEE HER.

AND SO SHE VERY DUTIFULLY KNOWS THAT SHE NEED TO COME OVER SO WE COULD TAKE A PICTURE TOGETHER.

AND I JUST SAID, OKAY, TELL ME, HOW'S IT GOING? AND SHE HAS HAD TEACHING EXPERIENCE BEFORE IN ANOTHER STATE, AND SHE IS GOING BACK TO THE MIDDLE SCHOOL THAT SHE WENT TO WHEN SHE WAS IN SIXTH, SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADE HERE IN PLANO.

AND I SAID, SO HOW'S IT GOING? I CAN BE HONEST.

YOU CAN TELL ME.

SHE SAID, JERI.

EVERYTHING IS SO MUCH BETTER HERE.

EVERYTHING.

EVERYTHING HAS BEEN DONE.

I KNOW WHERE THINGS ARE.

I KNOW WHAT TO DO.

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THE EXPECTATIONS ARE VERY CLEAR.

I'M THRILLED.

I'M JUST EXCEEDINGLY EXCITED.

I SAID GREAT.

AND I PAUSED AND SHE SAID.

WELL, THERE IS ONE THING.

I SAID, OKAY, TELL ME WHAT THE ONE THING IS.

SO SHE WAS A SIXTH GRADER AT THIS MIDDLE SCHOOL 14 YEARS AGO.

THAT HAPPENS TO BE 2008.

WE HAD A BOND.

WE HAD ANOTHER BOND SINCE THEN AT 2016.

SHE SAID IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT THAT I WAS IN, WHICH IS A STATE PERFORMING WAY LOWER THAN TEXAS.

AND WE HAD TECHNOLOGY THAT MADE MY TEACHING SO MUCH EASIER AND SO MUCH BETTER AND IS WONDERFUL.

AND I WAS SHOCKED WHEN I CAME INTO THE CLASSROOM WHERE I AM GOING TO BE NOW.

AND IT'S EXACTLY THE SAME AS IT WAS IN 2008.

IT JUST HAPPENED.

PATRICK WALKED BY AND I GRABBED HIM LISTEN TO THIS GIRL, THOUGH, AND THAT SOMBER.

ME TREMENDOUSLY.

AND SO I HAVE THE QUESTION FOR YOU ALL IS AND WE LAUD OUR GRADUATES.

WE THINK THAT OUR KIDS ARE GREAT.

RICK, YOU'VE TALKED ABOUT YOUR KIDS AND THEIR SUCCESS.

I'M VERY PROUD OF THE CHAMBERS CHILDREN AND WHAT THEY'VE DONE, AND I GIVE HEAPS OF CREDIT TO IT.

FOR PLANO ISD, WE ARE ABOUT LIFE READY AND WE'RE ABOUT WORKING TO CREATE A MODEL PORTRAIT OF A GRADUATE.

SO CAN YOU PLEASE ADDRESS FOR US HOW THIS BOND IS GOING TO IMPACT OUR KIDS ON THAT KIND OF PERSONAL LEVEL? GO AHEAD.

YOUR TWO KIDS WENT TO ONE WHERE GRADUATED FROM THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY AT WEST POINT.

YOUR YOUNGER ONE IS STILL THERE OR IS GRADUATING? .

THE MISSION STATEMENT OF WEST POINT.

AGAIN, EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE, YOU'LL HIT ON SOMETHING THAT I'M A MILE DEEP ON.

THE MISSION STATEMENT OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY IS TO EDUCATE, TRAIN AND INSPIRE THE CORPS CADETS SO THAT UPON GRADUATION, THE GRADUATES CAN GO FORTH AND PROPEL THE DUTY, HONOR COUNTRY.

RIGHT.

WHAT'S OUR MISSION STATEMENT? OUR MISSION STATEMENT IS ACTUALLY ALMOST THE SAME.

OUR MISSION STATEMENT IS THAT WE WILL EDUCATE, INSPIRE AND EMPOWER OUR KIDS TO PUSH THEM OUT, TO GET THEM READY TO GO OUT INTO AN EVER CHANGING AND DYNAMIC WORLD.

WHEN WE CONSIDER THE PILLARS THAT YOU ALL GAVE US, IT SAYS BASICALLY, TAKE CARE OF ALL OF OUR KIDS.

WE WANT TO FIND A WAY TO GET ALL OF OUR KIDS INVOLVED AND TO MAKE THEM READY TO GO OFF IN THE WORLD IN WHATEVER FORM THEY WANT TO GO, WHATEVER PATH THEY TAKE, WHETHER THEY JOIN THE MILITARY, WHETHER THEY GO TO A TRADE, WHETHER THEY GO TO COLLEGE, WHATEVER IT IS THAT THEY DO.

WE ARE GIVING OUR STAFF AND OUR KIDS THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET EVERY KID READY TO GO OUT INTO THIS WORLD.

AND SO HOW'S THIS BOND GOING TO DO THAT? THIS BOND IS GOING TO PAY FOR FACILITIES, CAREER, CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION TO GIVE ALL OF OUR TEACHERS AND OUR STUDENTS ALL OF THE OPPORTUNITIES, WHICHEVER PATH THEY CHOOSE, TO MAXIMIZE THEIR EDUCATION HERE SO THAT THEY'RE READY TO GO OFF INTO THE WORLD.

I THINK THIS BOND WILL FIX THAT.

YOUNG TEACHERS.

EXPERIENCE.

IN OTHER WORDS, THIS BOND IS GOING TO HELP FIX.

SO ANOTHER KID THAT GRADUATES THIS YEAR OR JUST GRADUATED, THEY DON'T COME BACK FOUR YEARS FROM NOW, FIVE YEARS FROM NOW AND A TEACHER AND WALK IN THE CLASSROOM AND GOES, OH, HEY, YEAH, THERE'S MY CALCULATOR.

I MUST HAVE LEFT IT THERE.

THIS BOND IS GOING TO FIX THAT.

IT'S NOT FAIR TO OUR WE'RE NOT DOING THEM A JUSTICE BY.

YOU KNOW, HOLDING WE'RE HOLDING THEM BACK, WE'RE CODDLING, THEY'RE HOBBLED.

THEY CAN'T MOVE FORWARD.

IT'S HARD TO MOVE FORWARD WITH KIDS THAT ARE LEARNING ON LATEST, GREATEST TECHNOLOGY.

AND WE'RE STILL OVER HERE, YOU KNOW, WITH OUR STUFF BECAUSE WE DIDN'T WANT TO SPEND THE MONEY TO, YOU KNOW, TO UPGRADE BECAUSE SOMEBODY MIGHT THINK, WELL, THAT'S JUST TOO MUCH, YOU KNOW, OH, WE CAN GET BY WITH THIS AGAIN.

WELL, WE KEEP GETTING BY.

AND THIS GOES BACK TO AND, YOU KNOW, IF IF I'M TALKING TOO LONG, I'M SORRY.

BUT IF WE KEEP PASSING THE BUCK AND KICKING THE CAN DOWN THE STREET, A, WE'LL NEVER GET TO THE END OF THE STREET.

THE SNOWBALL IS GOING TO BE TOO BIG AND WE'RE GOING TO START SEEING TWO AND A HALF, $3 BILLION BONDS.

AND THEN WHAT DO YOU THINK THE COMMUNITY IS GOING TO SAY TO THAT? SO WE JUST IMPLODE AT SOME POINT BECAUSE WE'RE NOT STAYING UP WITH IT.

YOU KNOW, I THINK IN MY OPINION AND IT'S JUST MY OPINION THAT WE SHOULD DO THIS BOND AND TURN RIGHT AROUND AND DO ANOTHER BOND AND THEN DO ANOTHER BOND

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UNTIL WE GET OUR FACILITIES, OUR ASSETS UP TO PAR.

NOT NOT GREAT, JUST GET THEM UP TO PAR.

WE'LL OUR TEACHERS, OUR STAFF AND EVERYBODY ELSE WWS WILL MAKE THEM EXCELLENT.

WE'LL STILL PRODUCE AN EXCELLENT PRODUCT.

A YOUNG PERSON READY TO GO OUT TO THE NEXT STEP OR READY TO GO OUT AND BE A PRODUCTIVE MEMBER OF SOCIETY, YOU KNOW? BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY GOT AT PISD.

AND I'LL SAY TO GO TO YOUR POINT, I GRADUATED SENIOR HIGH IN 19/93, 32 YEARS AGO.

WE TOOK A TOUR OF PLANO SENIOR HIGH A FEW MONTHS AGO, WHICH WAS GREAT BECAUSE I HADN'T BEEN THERE IN 32 YEARS.

BUT IT WAS DEPRESSING BECAUSE IT'S THE SAME SCHOOL.

THE OVERHEAD PROJECTORS ARE NEW.

THE COMPUTERS ARE NEW.

THAT'S ABOUT IT.

MY BREAKOUT MEETING WAS IN THE SAME ROOM THAT I TOOK ALGEBRA IN, AND I'M PRETTY SURE I SAT AT THE EXACT SAME DESK THAT I SAT IN 32 YEARS AGO.

I MEAN, IT'S JUST IT'S TIME.

FROM THE ATHLETIC LOCKER ROOMS TO THE FINE ARTS REHEARSAL ROOMS TO THE DRILL TEAM ROOMS, TO THE ROTC ROOMS, EVERYTHING.

IT'S THE SAME SCHOOL IT WAS 32 YEARS AGO WHEN I WAS THERE.

AND IT'S TIME TO IMPROVE, NOT JUST PLANO SENIOR HIGH, BUT THE ENTIRE DISTRICT.

HEY, TELL HIM ABOUT THE PICTURE.

MY PICTURE WAS STILL ON THE WALL, WHICH IS ALSO SAD BECAUSE IT'S STILL THERE FOR 32 YEARS.

BUT.

BUT MY POINT IS, IT'S JUST TIME.

HOW MUCH OF PLANO.

THE HOUSING EMPLOYMENT WAS BUILT IN THE SEVENTIES, EIGHTIES AND NINETIES.

PROBABLY 75 TO 80% OF OUR CITY.

AND WHAT'S EVERYBODY DO THAT HAS LIVED THERE AND GROWN UP IN THOSE HOUSES AND BOUGHT A HOUSE LIKE I HAVE.

WE'VE REDONE OUR KITCHEN.

WE'VE REDONE OUR BATHROOM.

WE'VE REDONE OUR OUTSIDE POOL AND RECREATION AREA.

WE HAVEN'T DONE THAT FOR OUR KIDS.

AND THERE'S NO REASON THAT AS PROUD AS I AM THAT MY SON IS IN THE SAME DISTRICT THAT I WENT INTO.

THERE'S NO REASON THAT HE HAS TO WORK OUT IN THE SAME LOCKER ROOM, AT MIDDLE SCHOOL, AT THE SAME RUSTED WEIGHTS, JUST LIKE I DID 30 SOMETHING YEARS AGO.

I JUST WANT TO ADDRESS THE TECHNOLOGY SIDE OF IT.

THIS BOND DOES INCLUDE THE.

INTRODUCE YOURSELF.

I'M SORRY.

MY NAME IS BOB KERR.

I'M ON THE TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE.

AND THIS BOND DOES ADDRESS THOSE THINGS AND MAKE SURE THAT THE TEACHERS HAVE THE RIGHT TOOLS THEY NEED TO DO THE JOB, THE STUDENTS HAVE THE RIGHT DEVICES, AND THAT CAN HANDLE THE PROCESSING, THE NEEDS.

IT ADDRESSES THE CAPACITY OF THE NETWORK AND THE FACILITIES TO MAKE SURE THEY CAN KEEP UP.

WE WILL NO LONGER HAVE A SITUATION WHERE WHEN IT'S TIME TO TAKE THE TEST THAT SOME PEOPLE CAN'T GET ON BECAUSE THEY'RE JUST NOT THE CAPACITY.

WE HAVE ADDRESSED THOSE THINGS.

TEACHERS WILL BE PROUD TO GO INTO THAT CLASSROOM AND AND TEACH.

THANK YOU.

TRUSTEES.

LOREN.

SO I HAVE A COUPLE OF THINGS.

FIRST, AM I THE ONLY PERSON IN THIS ROOM THAT WENT TO PLANO EAST? ALL Y'ALL WILDCATS.

AND I FEEL LIKE I'M THE ONLY ONE WINNING WITH CLASS HERE.

NO? OKAY.

EACH ONE OF THEM WAS A WILDCAT, BUT HIS OTHER TWO WENT TO PLANO EAST.

AND THEY'LL SAY, AND THIS IS JUST A LITTLE BIT JUST THIS IS OFF YOUR QUESTION.

BUT ONE OF THE THINGS WE DIDN'T COVER IS THAT THERE WAS REALLY AN EMPHASIS ON GETTING PEOPLE FROM ACROSS THE DISTRICT.

RIGHT.

Y'ALL EACH NOMINATED THREE PEOPLE.

SO THERE'S 21.

WE ENDED UP AT 70.

MARSHALL AND I NOMINATED SOME PEOPLE, BUT THEN THE STAFF WENT THROUGH AND SAID, OKAY, WE WANT PEOPLE FROM EVERYWHERE TO GET A GOOD BALANCE.

SO AN EXAMPLE IS ANDRE WOULD STAND UP AND SAY, WELL, WHAT ABOUT THE EAST SIDE? ARE WE SPENDING ENOUGH MONEY ON IT? RIGHT.

SO SO HE WAS A CHAMPION WHICH BROUGHT OUR OWN LIKES AND DESIRES AND PRIORITIES.

SO ANDRE WAS LIKE TEACHERS OVER.

[INAUDIBLE].

YEAH.

AND I THINK THAT THAT'S ONE IMPORTANT THING THAT HASN'T BEEN MENTIONED.

AND IN TERMS OF TASK FORCE COMPOSITION, SORT OF THE BALANCE BETWEEN THE CLUSTERS AND TRYING TO HELP ENSURE THAT EVERY CLUSTER, YOU KNOW, HAD GOOD REPRESENTATION.

I HAVE A COUPLE OF THINGS.

THE FIRST IS SINCE WE'RE ALL MAKING FUN OF THE CLARKE STADIUM PARKING LOT, ANECDOTALLY, HAVING SPENT A LOT OF TIME IN THE CLARK STADIUM PARKING LOT OR IN CLARK STADIUM, YOU KNOW, I GUESS IN THE LATE NINETIES AND EARLY 2000S, I'M PRETTY SURE IT'S GOT THE SAME POTHOLES.

AND I, WAS SITTING HERE THINKING LIKE, I WOULD LOVE TO TELL OUR TAXPAYERS, GO DRIVE AROUND THAT PARKING LOT.

LIKE, DON'T BELIEVE US, GO DRIVE AROUND THAT PARKING LOT.

BUT I THINK YALL ARE GOING TO GET LIKE SOME FLAT TIRES OR SOMETHING.

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SO MAYBE DON'T MAYBE PARK AT CLARK AND WALK OVER THERE AND TAKE A LOOK AT IT.

AND, YOU KNOW, SIMILAR TO ANGELA, HAVING GONE TO THE TECHNOLOGY CENTER, I'VE SORT OF BEEN WORKING ON THIS LITTLE PROJECT OF MY OWN SINCE WE STARTED TALKING ABOUT THIS BOND WHERE I TAKE MY KIDS AND I PUT THEM IN THE CAR BECAUSE MY THREE YEAR OLD IS NOT A GREAT NAPPER IN THE AFTERNOON.

AND I'VE BEEN DRIVING AROUND TO EACH OF OUR CAMPUSES, IN EACH OF OUR FACILITIES, JUST LOOKING AT THEM, DRIVING AROUND, DRIVING AROUND THE TRANSPORTATION FACILITY SEVERAL TIMES, WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY FALLING APART.

IT LOOKS LIKE WHEN YOU DRIVE AROUND IT, YOU KNOW, WENT OVER, DROVE AROUND PLANO SENIOR HIGH DROVE AROUND PLANO WEST.

SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT I THINK A LOT OF OUR COMMUNITY COULD REALLY BENEFIT FROM, PARTICULARLY IF YOU'RE ON THE EAST SIDE OR YOU'RE ON THE WEST SIDE OR YOU'RE IN THE CENTRAL CLUSTER.

GO DRIVE AROUND PLANO SENIOR HIGH, GO LOOK AT IT, LOOK FOR WINDOWS, BECAUSE THERE AREN'T THAT MANY.

AND I THINK THAT THAT CAN BE VERY HELPFUL.

I WANTED TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT TECHNOLOGY.

I WANT TO TALK ABOUT FUTURE BONDS, AND I WOULD LIKE TO TALK ABOUT PRIORITIES.

SO THOSE ARE MY MY THREE THINGS NOW THAT I'M DONE PONTIFICATING ABOUT POTHOLES.

BUT THE SPECIAL PROVISION FOR TECHNOLOGY PROBABLY IS DIFFERENT THAN THE TECHNOLOGY AND PROP A, AND I WOULD LIKE TO UNPACK THAT A LITTLE BIT AND AND JUST MAKE SURE THAT WE UNDERSTAND WHY THERE'S TECHNOLOGY AND PROP EIGHT AND WHY THERE IS DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGY IN PROP B AND WHY THAT IS A CRITICAL PROPOSITION FOR OUR STUDENTS EDUCATION.

IF I MIGHT.

WHAT I WOULD SAY IS IT'S DICTATED BY THE STATE THE WAY THE NEW LEGISLATION HAS BEEN WRITTEN.

AND BACK ME UP HERE.

ANYTHING THAT I WOULD CALL THE FIXTURE, ANYTHING THAT IS EMBEDDED WITHIN OUR BUILDING, THAT'S PROP EIGHT.

THAT'S BREAD AND BUTTER.

THAT'S PROPERTY.

ANYTHING THAT I WOULD REFER TO AS PERSONAL PROPERTY.

RIGHT.

SO WHEN A BUSINESS GETS TAXED, YOU'VE GOT YOUR YOU'VE GOT THE LAND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS, BUT THEN YOU'VE GOT THE THINGS, THE CONTENTS THAT MOVE AROUND CORRECTLY IS INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY.

THAT'S CONTENTS.

IT MOVES AROUND.

AND THEN BY STATE LAW, WE'RE REQUIRED TO WORK, REQUIRED TO BREAK IT OUT THAT WAY INTO A SEPARATE PROPERTY.

THAT IS CORRECT.

EXCELLENT EXPLANATION OF THAT.

THE STUFF THAT YOU SEE IN PROP EIGHT, THESE ARE THINGS THAT YOU NEED TO MAKE THE FACILITY RUN.

THESE ARE THINGS THINGS THAT HAVE TO BE THERE FOR IT TO BE FULLY FUNCTIONAL AND ACCOMPLISH ITS INTENDED PURPOSES.

SO IF YOU SEE IN PROP B, THESE ARE GOING TO BE THINGS THAT ARE GOING TO BE IN USER SPECIFIC.

THESE ARE GOING TO BE THINGS THAT ARE IN THE CLASSROOM.

AND BY LAW, WE HAVE TO SEPARATE THAT OFF INTO A SEPARATE PROPOSITION.

AND SO WHEN WE THINK ABOUT CAREER READINESS FOR OUR STUDENTS, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'VE LOOKED AT THESE CAREER FIELDS AND YOU HAD PEOPLE ON THE COMMITTEE, YOU KNOW, OUT AND CAREERS, YOU HAVE YOUR OWN CAREERS.

EVERYBODY ON THE COMMITTEE HAS THEIR OWN CAREERS.

I THINK THAT FOR ME THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT CAREER READINESS PIECE BECAUSE EVERYBODY'S USING SOME KIND OF LAPTOP OR PERSONAL DEVICE OR CELL PHONE OR SOMETHING.

IN MOST CASES IN THEIR CAREERS.

IT DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE YOU'RE WORKING IN A TRADE CAREER.

IF YOU'RE WORKING IN A PROFESSIONAL CAREER, YOU KNOW, THIS TYPE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY TECHNOLOGY.

RIGHT.

CAN BE REALLY CENTRIC TO STUDENTS HAVING A LEG UP ON CAREER READINESS.

SO I, I SORT OF PUT THOSE TWO THINGS TOGETHER AND I JUST WANTED TO MAKE THAT POINT.

THE SECOND THING I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT WAS SLIDE 50 AND I DON'T SEE JOHNNY.

AND IF WE NEED TO COME BACK TO THIS, WE CAN.

BUT SLIDE 50 IS THIS PC ALL OUTSTANDING GENERAL OBLIGATION DEBT WITH THE TEAL BARS AND THE GRAY BARS.

AND AND LET ME LET ME GET THAT PULLED UP.

HEY, RICK.

NANCY, AS WE SPEAK INTO THE MIC, SHE CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN WHEN YOU'RE FAR AWAY.

YES, SIR.

THERE'S JOHNNY OK.

COME HERE, OK.

I CAN DO THIS.

OH, THERE WE GO.

OH, RIGHT.

RIGHT THERE.

THERE WE GO.

HERE IT IS.

LET'S GO.

JOHNNY, GO AHEAD.

THIS.

THIS IS A GREAT THIS IS A GREAT SLIDE.

AND IT EXPLAINS A LOT OF THINGS.

LET ME ASK MY QUESTION FIRST.

AND I AM TRYING TO UNDERSTAND IF I'M INTERPRETING THIS SLIDE CORRECTLY, BECAUSE IF I'M LOOKING AT THIS, WE ARE MAXIMIZING OUR I&S TAX RATE UNTIL BASICALLY 2030 WITHOUT RAISING THAT TAX RATE.

AND THEN WE START HAVING THESE LIKE 20 MILLION A YEAR BLIPS IN CAPACITY FOR FUTURE BOND AND THEN IT GOES UP A LITTLE BIT, GOES UP A LITTLE BIT.

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MY QUESTION HERE IS WE HAVE SEVERAL SCHOOLS THAT ARE GETTING MAJOR MINOR RENOVATIONS.

THE REBUILD WITH HAGGARD THAT I THINK YOU ALL MADE A GREAT CASE THAT IT SORELY NEEDED AND THE RENOVATE PLANO SENIOR HIGH WHICH IS AGAIN GREAT CASE THAT SORELY NEEDED.

ARE WE GOING TO CREATE A PROBLEM FOR OURSELVES AND NOT BEING ABLE TO DO A BOND FOR CRITICAL RENOVATIONS IN THE NEXT 6 TO 10 YEARS? WITH THIS KIND OF PAYOFF SCHEDULE, ARE WE GOING TO HAVE CAPACITY OR IS IT GOING TO BE MORE THAN WHAT POTENTIALLY MORE THAN WHAT IS SHOWN ON THIS SLIDE? JOHNNY, CAN I PIGGYBACK ON THAT QUESTION TO YOU BEFORE YOU ANSWER IT? DOES DOES THIS CHART ASSUME THE ENTIRETY OF 1.4 BILLION IS ISSUED ON DAY ONE? NO, SIR.

IT'S ISSUED EVENLY OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.

SO IS IT OKAY IF I ANSWER? ARE YOU DONE? I'M DONE.

YEAH.

ANSWER AWAY.

I THINK FIRST OF ALL, I WOULD SAY THAT THAT IS AN EXCELLENT QUESTION BECAUSE YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT.

I'M TRYING TO PICK OUT OF THIS BAR GRAPH JUST THE DIFFERENCES BECAUSE THE QUESTION CAME UP.

WELL, I MEAN, HOW CAN YOU KEEP THE TAX RATE THE SAME IF YOU'RE ADDING ALMOST $1.5 BILLION OF DEBT? THIS PICTURE IS SHOWING THAT.

BUT WHAT IT DOESN'T SHOW IS THE FACT THAT OVER THE THAT THE VALUES WILL CONTINUE TO GO UP.

THIS IS DEPICTING IF THE VALUES DON'T GO UP AT ALL, IS THERE ENOUGH CAPACITY IN THIS TO ACTUALLY TAKE CARE OF THE 1.5 WITHOUT GOING UP ON THE DISTRICT'S TAX RATE? THAT'S WHAT THIS IS SHOWING.

WHAT IT DOESN'T SHOW AND WHAT WE HAVE A HISTORY OF DOING AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO IS AS VALUES GO UP.

AS THAT RED LINE GOES UP, WE WILL ACTUALLY TAKE THAT ADDITIONAL CAPACITY AND WE WILL START WE CALL IT REDEEMING OR DEFACING OUTSTANDING DEBT.

IN OTHER WORDS, IT'S JUST LIKE GETTING A RAISE ON YOUR HOUSE.

YOU PAY AN EXTRA PAYMENT, AN EXTRA PRINCIPAL PAYMENT.

WE WILL DO THAT IN THE FUTURE.

YOU CAN LOOK AT THE LAST FIVE YEARS ALONE AND WE HAVE EITHER REDEEMED, RESTRUCTURED, REFINANCED, OUTSTANDING ADDITIONAL DEBT OF ALMOST A HALF A BILLION DOLLARS IN JUST THE LAST FIVE OR SIX YEARS ALONE, WE'VE SAVED ALMOST OVER $100 MILLION BY DOING THAT.

SO JUST LIKE WHAT YOU SEE IN THE TEAL BLUE SECTION, WE WILL CONTINUE AS SOON AS WE GET STARTED, SOON AS WE PASS THIS BOND ELECTION EVERY YEAR.

AND WE'RE GOING TO COME TO THIS ON THE 16TH OF AUGUST WITH OUR BOARD HERE AS WELL.

WE'RE GOING TO PAY ALMOST $60 MILLION OF ADDITIONAL DEBT OFF THIS NEXT YEAR ALONE.

BECAUSE OF THE ADDITIONAL CAPACITY, WE'LL START TAKING THESE GRAY SECTIONS AND WE'LL START GOING OUT ON THE DEBT CAPACITY AND ACTUALLY PAYING THAT DEBT OFF EARLY.

SO IN ANOTHER FOUR OR FIVE YEARS, THAT GRAY SECTION OUGHT TO LOOK MORE LIKE WHAT YOU SEE IN THE TEAL SECTION.

SO THAT'S HOW WE CREATE.

SO WE'LL ACTUALLY HAVE THE BENEFIT IN TWO DIFFERENT WAYS.

WE KNOW THAT RED LINE WILL ACTUALLY GO UP BECAUSE VALUES THE LAST 30 YEARS, THE VALUES HAVE ONLY GONE DOWN ONCE WE KNOW THAT WILL GO UP SOMEWHAT, WHICH WILL CREATE CAPACITY.

THAT'S NUMBER ONE.

AND THEN NUMBER TWO IS WE'LL ACTUALLY REDEEM REFINANCE THE PHASE OUTSTANDING DEBT AND WE HAVE ADDITIONAL CAPACITY AND WE'LL ACTUALLY TAKE THESE GRAY BARS OUT ON THE DEBT SCHEDULE AND WE'LL REDUCE THEM AS WELL.

SO WE WILL ACTUALLY CREATE ADDITIONAL CAPACITIES BY ACTIVELY MANAGING THAT DEBT PORTFOLIO.

SO IF I'M UNDERSTANDING CORRECTLY, THIS IS THE ABSOLUTE MOST CONSERVATIVE VIEW OF WHAT THIS COULD POTENTIALLY LOOK LIKE.

AND HISTORICALLY, THE DISTRICT HAS DONE BETTER.

YES.

I MEAN, YOU CAN ACTUALLY.

THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT.

AND SO THAT'S WHY WE WERE ABLE TO DO THE LAST ELECTION WITHOUT GOING UP ON THE TAX RATE.

THAT'S HOW WE'RE ABLE TO DO THIS ONE, WITHOUT GOING UP ON THE TAX RATE.

IF YOU GO BACK TO THE 2008 WHEN WE HAD TO GO UP ON THE TAX RATE.

WHY? BECAUSE WE WEREN'T ACTUALLY MANAGING THAT DEBT BACK THEN.

SO TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, THIS WOULD BE THE MOST CONSERVATIVE APPROACH.

BUT WHAT I WAS TRYING TO DO DEPICT OUT OF THIS GRAPH CHART WAS SAY THE VALUES DON'T GO UP AT ALL.

WE CAN STILL KEEP THE I&S RATE THE EXACT SAME AND STILL ACTUALLY PUT IN 1.5, ALMOST $1.5 BILLION OF DEBT AND KEEP IT WITHOUT RAISING THAT TAX RATE.

THAT'S SO THIS WOULD BE THE MOST CONSERVATIVE APPROACH THAT WE WOULD LOOK AT AND WE KNOW IT'LL GET A LOT BETTER THAN THIS.

CAN I ASK A FOLLOW UP ON THAT? SURE, JOHNNY.

THIS IS MORE OF A PESSIMISTIC QUESTION, THAT RED LINE, THERE'S STILL THE POSSIBILITY THAT VALUES COULD GO DOWN.

IS THAT CORRECT? YES.

I MEAN, YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT.

IN WHICH CASE, I MEAN, I THINK THE IF YOU LOOK AT THE HISTORICALLY, THAT DOESN'T HARDLY EVER HAPPEN.

BUT YOU'RE RIGHT, IT DID GO DOWN WHEN WE HAD THE RECESSION.

I'D HAVE TO GO BACK AND LOOK.

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BUT WHEN WE HAD WHAT WE CALL THE GREAT RECESSION IN 2008, 2009, I THINK 2011, IT ACTUALLY DID DIP, BUT IT DIDN'T STAY THERE VERY LONG.

IT WENT RIGHT BACK UP AND THEN IT STARTED SHOOTING UP EVEN MORE.

SO, YES, IT ALWAYS COULD GO DOWN WHICH IN WHICH CASE YOU WOULD ACTUALLY HAVE TO TAKE SOME OF THAT CAPACITY THAT YOU SEE OUT ON THE DEBT, MORE ON THE DEBT STRUCTURE TO KEEP THE RATE THE SAME.

BUT I WILL SAY HISTORICALLY, THAT RARELY, RARELY HAPPENS.

IF WE HAD A YEAR WHERE THAT HAPPENED.

AND OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE PAYMENTS THAT ARE DUE ON PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST THAT WOULD HAVE TO COME OUT OF THE GENERAL FUND, WOULDN'T IT? NOT NECESSARILY.

SO HOW WOULD WE PAY THAT? YES, SIR.

SO WHAT WE DO BEST BEST PRACTICES.

WE MAINTAIN ABOUT A 20% FUND BALANCE.

AND SO IF YOU LOOK AT OUR ACTUAL DEBT SERVICE FUND, YOU'LL SEE THAT WE KEEP RIGHT AT A 20% FUND BALANCE TO OUR OPERATING EXPENSES.

THAT'S THE COVER.

IF WE EVER HAVE A LITTLE DOWNTURN IN ONE YEAR THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY MAKE THAT AND STILL MAINTAIN THE TAX RATE AND ALSO NOT HAVE TO GO INTO OUR GENERAL OPERATING FUND TO ACTUALLY PAY FOR THAT DIFFERENCE.

OK.

LAST QUESTION, AND THIS IS REALLY FOR YOU ALL.

YOU KNOW, WHEN I THINK ABOUT PRIORITIES OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AS A TRUSTEE, I SORT OF SEGMENT IT INTO PEOPLE, RIGHT.

WHICH IS ALWAYS OUR NUMBER ONE, OUR OUR STUDENTS, OUR OUR TEACHERS, OUR PEOPLE PROGRAMS. RIGHT.

WHICH ALL HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB TALKING ABOUT AND THEN PLACES.

AND I THINK IT'S REALLY APPARENT THAT WHAT THE WORK THAT THIS BOND CAN PUT INTO IN PARTICULAR OUR PROGRAMS AND IN OUR PLACES.

AND I THINK JERI TOUCHED ON THIS A LITTLE BIT, BUT I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY HAS THE OPPORTUNITY.

HOW DO YOU THINK THAT THIS BOND IS GOING TO IMPACT OUR PEOPLE? I'D LOVE TO BE ABLE TO PAY TEACHERS MORE.

WE CAN'T DO THAT WITH BOND MONEY.

AND, YOU KNOW, I WISH WE COULD TAKE CARE OF OUR PEOPLE BETTER IN THAT WAY.

BUT I'D REALLY JUST LIKE TO HEAR FROM YALL ON THE COMMITTEE.

HOW IS THIS GOING TO IMPACT OUR PEOPLE, IN PARTICULAR OUR TEACHERS? I THINK IT'LL HAVE A TREMENDOUS IMPACT ON IT.

IF YOU TAKE HAGGARD, IF YOU'RE THE PRINCIPAL OF HAGGARD OR LIBRARIAN AT HAGGARD OR COACH AT HAGGARD.

AND YOU GET UP IN THE MORNING AND YOU DRIVE TO A 50 YEAR OLD SCHOOL WITH 50 YEAR OLD LOCKERS AND ALL OF THAT.

AND THEN ONE DAY YOU WAKE UP AND YOU DRIVE TO A BRAND NEW SHINY ONE.

I THINK I DRIVE A LITTLE FASTER ON THAT DAY BECAUSE I'D BE EXCITED TO GET THERE.

SO OR IF YOU WALK INTO A CLASSROOM AND YOU HAVE THE LATEST, GREATEST TECHNOLOGY CHALKBOARDS, THAT YOU CAN ZOOM OUT THINGS AND SLIDE THINGS OVER AND UP AND KIDS ARE GOING, WOW, WHERE DID WE GET THAT? I THINK I'D BE HAPPY TO GO TO THAT CLASSROOM.

I THINK UPGRADING AND FIXING YOUR FACILITIES NOT ONLY MAKES YOU A GOOD STEWARD OF THE DISTRICT OR OF THE LAND, BUT YOU'RE DOING OUR KIDS AND YOU'RE DOING OUR TEACHERS AND OUR STAFF WHO HAVE TO WORK IN THOSE CONDITIONS.

YOU'RE REALLY TREATING THEM BETTER AND YOU MAY BE ABLE TO GET AWAY BECAUSE WE ARE SUCH AN EXCELLENT DISTRICT AND WE'RE VERY WELL RUN AND WELL RESPECTED.

I THINK YOU'LL BE ABLE TO RETAIN TALENT WITHOUT THEM HAVING TO GO TO OTHER DISTRICTS BECAUSE OF THEIR WORKING CONDITIONS.

THEY WANT TO STAY HERE BECAUSE THEY GET A GREAT PLACE TO WORK AND THEY GET ALL THE BENEFITS OF THE WHAT PISD HAS TO BRING.

SO, LAUREN, I'LL GIVE YOU AN ANECDOTE FROM THE LAST BOND.

WE REPLACED SOME OF THE OLDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN OLD DOWNTOWN PLANO.

AND WHEN THOSE NEW SCHOOLS OPENED, WE ACTUALLY SAW AN UPTICK IN STUDENT ENROLLMENT AT THOSE CAMPUSES.

SO IT DOES A RENOVATION CAN REVITALIZE A NEIGHBORHOOD.

CAN I ALSO ADD SOMETHING? AND, DR. WILSON, YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO HELP ADD TO THIS AS A CLASSROOM TEACHER.

IT'S ALL GREAT TO HAVE THE BELLS AND WHISTLES.

IT REALLY IS GREAT TO HAVE THE BELLS AND WHISTLES THAT BEING EFFICIENT AND BE ABLE TO DO THINGS FASTER AND TO BE ABLE TO BE NOT HAVING TO RECREATE THINGS.

I MEAN, I HAVE NIGHTMARES OF HAVING TO CLEAN OFF THE TRANSPARENCIES, YOU KNOW? I MEAN, SERIOUSLY, I WASN'T I WILL HAVE DREAMS ABOUT NOT HAVING CLEANED THE TRANSPARENCIES AND I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO WRITE ON.

AND I KNOW HOPEFULLY, HECK THE HECK, WE DON'T HAVE TO DO THAT ANYMORE.

BUT THAT EFFICIENCY AS A CLASSROOM TEACHER, JUST THE PROFESSIONALISM IT GIVES TO YOU TO BE ABLE TO DO THOSE THINGS.

AND DR. WILSON, PLEASE ADD MORE CURRENT.

IT CERTAINLY HELPS THAT IT ALLOWS TEACHERS TO WORK SMARTER AND NOT HARDER AND REALLY DO MORE IN THE TIME THAT WE HAVE WITH STUDENTS.

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YOU DIDN'T HAVE THAT TRANSPARENCY THING THAT YOU COULD ROLL IT UP AND, YOU KNOW, JUST SWEAT AND YOU'D ROLL IT UP AND THEN YOU UNROLL IT.

YOU HAVE BUBBLES.

YEAH, TERRIBLE.

AND I DO HAVE NIGHTMARES ABOUT THAT.

SO THAT'S THE QUESTIONS I HAD.

I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE COMMITTEE.

AND THIS HAS BEEN A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF WORK.

I MEAN, WE'VE GOTTEN Y'ALL SLIDE DECKS THAT YOU'VE GONE THROUGH AND GOTTEN YOUR WORK THAT YOU'VE GONE THROUGH.

AND IT'S A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF WORK AND A BIG COMMITMENT IN TIME THAT IS, YOU KNOW, UNCOMPENSATED AND EXCEPT FOR THE FIELDS THAT YOU GET FOR SUPPORTING THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

AND WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT.

THANK YOU.

YEAH.

I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THE EVENT CENTER.

FIRST QUESTION IS, EXCEPT FOR GRADUATION AND BASKETBALL, WHAT USE DO WE HAVE FOR THE EVENT CENTER? SECONDLY, THE EVENT CENTER I HEARD WILL BE LOCATED AT BETWEEN ROBINSON AND JASPER.

I MEAN, I DON'T SEE A LOT OF LAND OVER THERE.

SO WILL THERE BE I MEAN, DO WE HAVE RESEARCH DONE? I MEAN, LET ME SAY IT'S NOT A BIG PIECE OF LAND OVER THERE.

I THINK THAT.

THE EVENT CENTER WILL BE A MIXED USE FACILITY.

IT WILL BE LARGE ENOUGH TO HOUSE ALL OUR GRADUATIONS.

SO WE DON'T HAVE TO GO OUTSIDE THE DISTRICT, WHICH IS VERY EXPENSIVE.

WE'LL BE ABLE TO HAVE BASKETBALL TOURNAMENTS.

ALL OUR SCHOOLS WILL GET TO PLAY THERE.

WE CAN ALSO LEASE IT OUT FOR THINGS TO MAKE IT TURN IT INTO A REVENUE PRODUCING FACILITY SO IT CREATES AND ACHIEVES IT SOLVES PROBLEMS AND CREATES REVENUE FOR US.

WHERE WE LOOK TO PLACE IT AND I THINK WE NEEDED ABOUT 20 ACRES.

IS THAT WHAT WE HAVE IN BETWEEN THOSE BUILDINGS? OK OK AND SO THE LAND OVER BY JASPER GULCH.

AND WHAT'S THE OTHER? ROBINSON I THINK, TONY, WHEN YOU WHEN, WHEN WE LOOKED AT THE CALDWELL CENTER, YOU BASICALLY JUST PICKED IT UP AND SET IT DOWN AND IT FIT PERFECTLY WITHIN THAT AREA OVER THERE.

I MEAN, PARKING, PARKING.

HAVE UNDERGROUND PARKING.

HEATHER, LET ME JUMP IN AND JUST POINT ONE THING OUT.

BUT THERE'S THERE'S NO DECISION ON IF RIGHT NOW.

THE ONLY ASK IS THAT WHETHER OR NOT WE INCLUDE MONEY IN A BOND TO BUILD SUCH A FACILITY WHERE THAT FACILITY WOULD BE LOCATED WOULD BE A DECISION THAT THIS BOARD MAKES AT A LATER DATE.

SO THERE'S IF YOU'RE HEARING IN THE COMMUNITY SOMEBODY SAYING THEY'RE DEFINITELY GOING TO BUILD SOMETHING RIGHT THERE AND THAT SPACE.

THAT IS NOT FACTUALLY ACCURATE.

THAT DECISION AS TO WHERE ANY OF THIS MONEY IS GOING TO BE SPENT WOULD BE AT THE BOARD LEVEL AT A LATER DATE, AT A LATER VOTE.

CAN I OFFER A POINT OF CLARIFICATION? SO WE'RE BEING INFORMED ON WHAT THE BOND COMMITTEE DID, AND WE, AT A LATER DATE, I THINK THE 16TH, WILL VOTE ON WHETHER THE BOND, YOU KNOW, WHETHER WE WANT THIS BOND TO GO ONTO A BALLOT FOR THEN THE CITIZENS TO VOTE ON THAT.

AND IF THE CITIZENS VOTE AND APPROVE THAT, THEN THAT JUST GIVES US THE BOTH RESPONSIBILITY.

BUT THE DECISION MAKING ABILITY TO USE THOSE FUNDS FOR THOSE SPECIFIC THINGS OR NOT USE THEM.

IF WE DEEM THAT IT'S NO LONGER NECESSARY, WE CAN'T REPURPOSE THOSE.

SO IT'S WE'RE GOING TO VOTE TO ALLOW CITIZENS TO VOTE SO WE CAN EVENTUALLY THEN VOTE ON USING THE FUNDS.

AND SO THERE'S A LOT OF LAYERS TO THIS, BUT THE ACTUAL DETERMINATION OF LIKE $73 MILLION FOR 1 TO 1 RATIO ON TECHNOLOGY, WE'RE NOT SAYING THAT'S GOING TO BE CHROMEBOOKS.

WE'RE SAYING WE KNOW THAT WE NEED THAT MUCH MONEY.

AND THEN AS A BOARD, WE'RE GOING TO DECIDE WHAT'S THE APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY FOR OUR KIDS AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME.

AND SO JUST A LITTLE CLARIFICATION.

SO GO AHEAD, HEATHER.

FINISH YOUR QUESTION.

WELL, YEAH, I MEAN, IN FACT, WHAT I MEAN IS WE DON'T THE REASON WE DON'T BUILD OUR ARENA FIRST IS, FIRST OF ALL, IT'S EXPENSIVE.

SECOND OF ALL, YOU SAID WE DON'T HAVE LAND IN PLANO EAST TO BUILD ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

SO WHAT I'M WORRIED ABOUT IS LIKE, MAYBE WE NEED TO BUY LAND TO BUILD THE EVENT CENTER EVENTUALLY.

SO THERE MUST YOU KNOW, IF WE NEED TO BUY THE LAND TO BUILD THE EVENT CENTER, THEN WE NEED PROBABLY MORE MONEY.

SO JUST A FACTOR.

WELL, IT'S A LOT LIKE THE FOURTH EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER, WHICH I WASN'T ON THE BOARD WHEN THAT WAS VOTED ON, BUT WE DIDN'T BUILD IT BECAUSE IT WASN'T

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NEEDED.

AND SO, I MEAN, THAT'D BE DIFFERENT THAN IF WE DIDN'T HAVE LAND FOR SOMETHING THAT WE WANTED.

THAT'S A DIFFERENT SITUATION.

BUT YEAH, THAT'S A GOOD POINT.

AND THERE'S A LOT OF TIME TO TALK ABOUT KIND OF WHAT WE'VE DONE HISTORICALLY.

BUT, YOU KNOW, WE IN THE LAST BOND OR TWO BONDS.

AGO, WE HAD MONEY FOR AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OUT IN PARKER.

WE'VE NEVER BUILT OUT THERE, SO WE NEVER ISSUED THE MONEY WE LEFT IN 2016.

WE SAID, WELL, WE STILL MIGHT NEED AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN PARKER, SO LET'S PUT THAT IN THE BOND.

WE PUT THAT IN THE 16 BOND.

WE NEVER ISSUED THOSE BONDS BECAUSE WE DIDN'T NEED THAT MONEY IN THE 16 BOND.

WE HAD MONEY FOR LAND SOMEWHERE ON THE WEST SIDE OF TOWN IN A NEW ELEMENTARY POTENTIAL IN THE WEST SIDE OF TOWN THAT WE NEVER SPENT.

SO TO YOUR POINT KNOW, WE'RE ALL THIS IS JUST A PROPOSAL FOR THE BOARD TO CONSIDER SENDING IT TO THE VOTERS.

AND THEN IF WE GET APPROVAL FROM THE VOTERS, THEN WE DETERMINE AT A LATER DATE IF AND WHEN WE SPEND THOSE DOLLARS, DAVID, DO WE DECIDE WHERE TO BUILD OR DO WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH ALL THIS ZONING HEARING FROM THE CITY OF PLANO? NO, THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT BECAUSE WE'RE A GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY.

I DON'T KNOW THAT WE HAVE THE SAME TYPE OF RESTRICTIONS WITH REGARD TO ZONING, BUT I'M TALKING A LITTLE BIT OUT OF SCHOOL THERE, SO I DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT.

WE DO.

WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH P&C.

OKAY.

ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU.

[INAUDIBLE] HEY DAVID, CAN I JUMP IN? YEAH, NANCY HAD A COMMENT.

YOU KNOW, HEATHER, YOU BROUGHT UP A QUESTION THAT I HAD IN MY MIND AS FAR AS THE EVENTS CENTER GOES, A COUPLE OF THINGS.

I KNOW THAT WHEN WE DID THE ART CENTER, WE THE BOARD STIPULATED THAT WE WOULD FUNDRAISE OUTSIDE FOR OPERATIONS SO WE WOULDN'T SPEND M&O ON THE OPERATIONS.

THAT'S A COMMENT.

BUT MY QUESTION IS, DO WE HAVE AN IDEA IN THIS ANALYSIS WHAT KIND OF EXPENSES THAT WE WOULD FOREGO WITH GRADUATION OR RENTING OTHER FACILITIES FOR OTHER USES? WHAT KIND OF SAVINGS THIS WOULD PROVIDE FROM M&O? I CAN ANSWER THAT, NANCY.

I MEAN, WE HAVE WE ACTUALLY HAVE LOOKED AT IT.

REALLY, THE CLOSEST ANALYSIS THAT WE CAN DO IS OUR NEIGHBORS, OUR NEIGHBORS IN GARLAND WITH THEIR EVENT CENTER.

SO WE HAVE ACTUALLY VISITED WITH THEM THAT, OF COURSE, IT'S ROUGH ESTIMATES, BUT WE DO KNOW FOR A FACT THAT WE COULD SAVE ABOUT 250,000 A YEAR WITH WHAT I CALL COST AVOIDANCE.

THOSE ARE MONIES WE'RE ALREADY PAYING RIGHT NOW IN ORDER TO GO OUT AND RENT OTHER FACILITIES FOR GRADUATION AND THESE OTHER TYPE OF EVENTS THAT WE WOULD BE ABLE TO HOLD IN THIS EVENT CENTER.

SO COST AVOIDANCE WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, AND WE'RE CONSERVATIVE WITH THAT ESTIMATE, BUT IT'S ABOUT $250,000.

AND THAT'S MONEY THAT WE PAY RECAPTURE ON, ISN'T IT? IT IS.

IT'S AN OPERATING EXPENSE.

SO WE DEFINITELY HAVE TO PAY RECAPTURE ON THOSE TAXES THAT WE LEVY IN THAT FUND.

ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU.

YOU BET.

SO, JOHNNY, DOES THAT MEAN LIKE IN TEN YEARS, WE JUST, YOU KNOW, JUST GOT OUR MONEY BACK? THIS IS 200,000 IN A YEAR.

TEN YEARS? OH, NO.

DID I DO THE MATH? NO, IT'S.

YEAH.

I MEAN, THAT'S THE COST OF [INAUDIBLE] THAT WE WOULD GET OUT OF IT.

THAT'S AN OPERATING EXPENSE.

BUT THE PAYBACK ON IT, I MEAN, THIS IS NOT GOING TO, IN MY OPINION, ANY WAY.

AND DR. WILLIAMS, YOU CAN WEIGH IN ON THIS, BUT IN MY OPINION.

YOU'RE NOT GOING TO PAY IT BACK.

YOUR COST AVOIDANCE, IT'S DEFINITELY WILL HELP.

BUT THIS WILL BE JUST LIKE ONE OF OUR CAMPUSES, OUR EXTRACURRICULAR FACILITIES.

THIS WILL BE SOMETHING THAT WE'LL GET A LOT OF USE SAID OUT OF.

WE'LL BE ABLE TO USE IT FOR A CROSS SECTION OF EVENTS, NOT JUST ATHLETICS, BUT ALSO ACADEMICS AND EVEN SOME AGRICULTURAL TYPE OF EVENTS COULD BE COULD BE HOUSED HERE.

SO IT IS A CONVENIENCE.

THERE IS A COST AVOIDANCE COMPONENT TO THIS.

BUT JUST TO SAY THAT WE'RE GOING TO MAKE ENOUGH MONEY TO ACTUALLY PAY THIS THING BACK WITH JUST OUR COST AVOIDANCE, I THINK THAT'S NOT IN MY OPINION, THAT'S NOT REALISTIC.

JOHNNY MAYBE IF YOU COULD PUT PEN TO PAPER PRIOR TO THE NEXT MEETING AND KIND OF COME BACK WITH AN ESTIMATE AS TO WHAT YOU THINK THE COST AVOIDANCE WOULD BE FOR OUR OWN FACILITY.

CAN I ADD TO THAT REQUEST JUST IN TERMS, JOHNNY, THE M&O IMPACT I THINK YOU GUYS HAD MENTIONED IN TERMS OF RENTING OUT FOR A YEAR AND MAYBE I'M MISREMEMBERING THIS $2.4 MILLION, IS THAT WHAT YOU SAID? YES, SIR.

SO SO YOU'RE ANTICIPATING A REVENUE OF $2.4 MILLION? THAT'S CORRECT.

AND THEN SO BASICALLY WE NEED TO TAKE WHATEVER WE THINK THE OPERATIONAL COST WOULD BE AND BACK THAT OUT TO GET THE NET.

AND THEN THAT'S POTENTIALLY POSITIVE TO THE DISTRICT, I THINK.

I MEAN, JUST TO BE VERY TRANSPARENT, I MEAN, I'VE ACTUALLY LOOKED AT WHAT I

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THINK YOU'RE ASKING FOR.

I MEAN, IN GARLAND ISD, THEIR FACILITY OVER THERE, THEY'RE OPERATING COSTS.

I'M TALKING LABOR, UTILITIES, EVERYTHING TO OPERATE THAT ON AN ANNUAL BASIS IS ABOUT $3 MILLION.

THAT'S WHAT THEY PAY FOR TO SUSTAIN THAT FACILITY.

ON TOP OF THAT, THOUGH, THEY ACTUALLY DO BRING IN MONEY.

THEY ACTUALLY SELL PARKING AND THEY SELL ALL KINDS OF FOOD AND BEVERAGES THERE.

THEY ACTUALLY BRING IN, WE WERE TOLD BY THEIR MANAGER OF THE FACILITY, ABOUT $2.4 MILLION A YEAR, ABOUT 2.4.

AND THEN ON TOP OF THAT, YOU'RE LOOKING AT BETWEEN 250 AND 300,000 IN COST AVOIDANCE.

SO I DON'T THINK I MEAN, LIKE I SAID, AT THE END OF THE DAY, THIS WILL GET CLOSE.

IT WILL GET CLOSER TO BREAKING EVEN BECAUSE IT'LL BE A INCOME GENERATING FACILITY.

BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, I DON'T THINK AT LEAST FROM MY ANALYSIS, JUST LOOKING AT GARLAND ISD, I MEAN, IT'LL STILL COST SOME AMOUNT OF MONEY TO OPERATE NET TO OPERATE THIS FACILITY.

I CAN LIVE WITH BREAK EVEN.

YOU KNOW, THE POINT WOULD BE IF IT COMES CLOSE TO BREAK EVEN.

BUT WE HAVE OUR OWN FACILITY HERE, YOU KNOW, INSTEAD OF GOING TO ALLEN TO PLAY BASKETBALL GAMES OR INSTEAD OF GOING TO DISD OR AS I SAY, INSTEAD OF GOING UP IN MY PERSONAL OPINION, THE FORD FIELD IS A HORRIBLE PLACE TO HAVE GRADUATION.

IT'S A FOOTBALL FIELD.

IT DOESN'T FEEL LIKE POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE.

AND I CERTAINLY DON'T WANT TO WAIT FOR ALL 75 FRISCO HIGH SCHOOLS TO DECIDE WHAT DATE THEY WANT AND LEAVE US AT THE BACK OF THE BUS.

PISD SHOULD NEVER BE AT THE BACK OF THE BUS.

I LIKE HAVING GRADUATION A WEEK LATER THAN EVERYBODY ELSE.

BUT ALSO I WILL JUST ONE MORE POINT AND I'LL BE QUIET ABOUT THIS.

BUT I DO THINK THERE'S ALSO ANOTHER HIDDEN BENEFIT BY HAVING THIS EVENT CENTER, AND THAT IS WHAT I CALL SPIN OFF ECONOMY.

IN OTHER WORDS, WHENEVER WHEN WE HAVE 8000 PEOPLE SHOW UP FOR AN EVENT HERE, THEY'RE ALSO GOING TO FILL UP THEIR CARS WITH GAS.

THEY'RE ALSO GOING TO EAT AT THE LOCAL RESTAURANTS.

I WOULD RATHER THESE GUYS BE SPENDING THE MONEY HERE LOCALLY THAN SPENDING IT OVER IN FRISCO.

HEY, MAN, THAT'S JUST MY PERSONAL OPINION ON IT.

BUT I THINK THERE'S SOME HIDDEN BENEFITS AS WELL THAT THAT MAYBE NOT BE YOU CAN'T REALLY TALK ABOUT BECAUSE THEY'RE WHAT I CALL SPIN OFFS.

BUT I THINK THAT THERE'S ALSO SOME BENEFITS THAT WAY.

THE OTHER THING IS WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE OUR TEACHERS BE ABLE TO GATHER AT ONE TIME IN ONE PLACE, AND THIS WOULD ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN.

AND YESTERDAY'S EVENT, THEY HAD TO DO CREATIVITY BECAUSE WE PAID FOR A SPEAKER TO COME IN.

WE HAD TO DO EVERYTHING TWICE.

SO THIS WOULD ALLOW FOR OUR NEW TEACHERS TO ALL MEET AT ONE TIME.

IT WOULD ALLOW FOR US TO I MEAN, THERE'S LOTS OF EVENTS AND WE HAVE FUNDRAISERS.

THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION HAS THE EVENT EVERY YEAR THAT WE HAVE TO SPEND A LOT OF MONEY RUNNING THE PLACE.

WE HAVE OUR OWN FACILITY.

WE I MEAN, THERE'S IS A LOT OF THINGS I THINK WE'RE NOT EVEN THINKING OF THAT.

AND I DIDN'T WHEN I FIRST HEARD THIS, I WAS KIND OF LIKE, DO WE REALLY NEED THIS? AND THE MORE I THINK ABOUT IT AND THE MORE WE'RE ABLE TO HAVE, I THINK IT'S A REALLY IT CAN BE A REALLY PLUS FOR OUR DISTRICT.

IN A LOT OF WAYS.

I DON'T DISAGREE AND I THINK THE OPPORTUNITIES ARE ENDLESS.

AND I JUST THINK THIS IS THE TIME WHERE WE TALK.

WE'RE THIS IS THE MEETING WHERE WE BE.

I DON'T SAY PESSIMISTIC, BUT WHERE WE LOOK AT IT FROM ALL ANGLES AND MAKE SURE, YOU KNOW, AND MEETINGS RUNNING LATE, I THINK WE'RE TALKING ABOUT $1.5 BILLION ALMOST.

IF IT'S GOING TO BE A LONG MEETING TO BE A LONG MEETING, BECAUSE THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT MEETING AND WE DON'T GET TO REDO THIS.

YOU KNOW, MY FIRST THOUGHT IS, OF COURSE, IT'S COST AVOIDANCE.

I WAS THINKING, IF WE JUST SAVE 200,000, WE COULD HAVE RENTED PLACES FOR 100 YEARS WITH THIS MONEY.

RIGHT.

IT'S ABOUT 20 SOME MILLION.

BUT THEN, YOU KNOW, HEARING WHAT I JUST HEARD IS EYE OPENING, BECAUSE THIS IS A LOT MORE JUST THAN SAVING THE MONEY.

IT'S ABOUT BUILDING THE COMMUNITY.

IT'S A PLACE.

FOR LIKE, EVERYBODY TO GET TOGETHER.

I JUST FEEL THE PAIN.

WE HAD TO DO THE EVENT TWICE JUST BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE A PLACE.

WELL, BACK IN THE DAY WHEN MY DAUGHTER PLAYED BASKETBALL, THERE WAS NEVER A LARGE TOURNAMENT THAT COULD BE PLAYED IN PISD.

WE ALWAYS HAD TO GO TO DUNCANVILLE.

WE ALWAYS HAD TO GO TO DESOTO WHERE THEY HAVE OTHER BIG FACILITIES WHERE YOU COULD HAVE THESE BIG GIANT BASKETBALL TOURNAMENTS.

AND THAT ALONE COULD BE SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THOSE KINDS OF EVENTS HERE IN OUR OWN BACKYARD.

TRUSTEE WEAVER SAID.

I MEAN, IT'S THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS.

I MEAN, WE CAN SAY, OH, MY GOSH, YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING'S IN HOUSE.

WE COULD HAD A ONE EVENT, WE COULD HOST BASKETBALL TOURNAMENTS, WE CAN HOST ALL KINDS OF THINGS THAT ARE REVENUE GENERATING THING.

IT'S TO ME PERSONALLY AND I, YOU KNOW, 1.5, I DON'T THINK IT'S HIGH ENOUGH.

I WANTED A 2 BILLION.

I'M OKAY WITH A TAX INCREASE.

AND BUT I KNOW I'M PROBABLY THE VERY SMALL MINORITY, BUT IF YOU CAN GET ALL OF THIS,

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NOT RAISE THE TAX, IT WON'T HAVE AN EFFECT ON YOU.

NOT THIS YEAR.

NOT NEXT YEAR.

NOT THE YEAR AFTER.

WHY? I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE WHAT'S HOLDING US UP? LET'S GO.

YOU KNOW, IT'S GOING TO IMPROVE EVERYTHING IN AND AROUND OUR DISTRICT FOR OUR KIDS, OUR STAFF, YOU KNOW, AND THE COMMUNITY.

TO ME, IT'S A NO BRAINER.

BUT THAT'S SOMETHING YOU ALL HAVE TO DECIDE.

CAN I ASK ANOTHER QUESTION, JOHNNY? YOU'RE THERE ALSO, LIKE WE SEE WE'RE NOT RAISING TAXES, BUT WE LIKE LET'S SEE IF WE DON'T HAVE THE BONDS, WE WILL HAVE LESS TAXES, RIGHT? DEFINITELY CAN LESS? NO, SURE.

IT'S LIKE WHAT MARSHALL SAID EARLIER.

I MEAN, IF WE DON'T IF WE CHOOSE JUST TO LET THE FACILITIES GO DOWN AND NOT SPEND THE MONEY TO FIX THEM UP, YOU'RE RIGHT WITHIN THREE AND HALF TO FOUR YEARS, WE'LL HAVE THE DEBT PAID OFF.

AND YOU'RE RIGHT, THE OVERALL TAX RATE WILL GO DOWN ACCORDINGLY.

BUT THEN OUR SCHOOLS WILL GO DOWN, TOO, RIGHT? THEY WILL.

AND TO TRY TO GET IT BACK STARTED UP AND GET IT BUILT UP TO THE CAPACITY WHERE IT IS RIGHT NOW, IT'LL TAKE MORE.

YEAH, IT'LL TAKE 20 OVER 20.

I MEAN IT'LL TAKE YEARS AND YEARS DOWN THE ROAD AND IT'S, I WOULD DEFINITELY NOT RECOMMEND THAT YOU DON'T PASS A GAS STATION WHEN IT'S RIGHT ON THE E THINKING YOU KNOW YOUR CAR CAN GO A COUPLE EXTRA MILES.

I JUST WANT TO TELL YOU A STORY IT'S A SIMILAR ABOUT GAS I MEAN MY DAUGHTER WILL BE DON'T LIKE IT BUT SHE DOESN'T WATCH IT FOR ME.

YEAH, SHE LIKE BASICALLY DIDN'T PUT THE GAS IN WHEN SHE NEEDS IT.

SHE PARKED.

SHE GOT STRANDED.

CALL IT INSURANCE AND THEY TURNED OUT IT CAUSED MORE PROBLEM BECAUSE OF THE GAS RAN OUT.

SO WE ENDED UP PAYING A LOT MORE TO FIX THE CAR.

THEN JUST DOING ONE FIX THE CAR, THEN JUST FILL THE GAS TANK WHEN IT'S NEEDED.

SO, YEAH, THAT'S A FANTASTIC ANALOGY.

I THINK THAT WHEN YOU WHEN YOU DON'T TAKE CARE OF YOUR ROUTINE MAINTENANCE, IT ENDS UP COSTING YOU MORE IN THE LONG RUN.

CODY.

QUESTION? A FEW QUESTIONS AND I KNOW I'VE CHIMED IN ON SOME OTHER PEOPLE WITH SOME OTHER QUESTIONS, BUT I DO WANT TO TAKE THE TIME TO THANK BOTH OF YOU, THE COMMITTEE CHAIRS AND THE COMMITTEE AS A WHOLE, BECAUSE THAT'S TIME AWAY FROM YOUR FAMILY.

THAT'S TIME INVESTED IN OUR COMMUNITY.

AND I'M SURE THERE'S NOT A PERSON IN THERE OR HERE TODAY THAT ISN'T INTERESTED IN INVESTING IN OUR COMMUNITY.

SO I APPRECIATE ALL OF THAT.

I'M GOING TO ASK SOME QUESTIONS.

NOT MEANT TO BE TOUGH, JUST TRYING TO GET DETAILS.

YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY'S TALKED ABOUT THE GOSH, THE BUILDING, THE BUS BARN AND YEAH, IT LOOKS LIKE WHEN YOU DRIVE BY, IT LOOKS LIKE A TYPE OF PLACE WHERE YOU'RE STILL A NON SMOKING SECTION.

IT'S AND IT HAS SERIOUS NEEDS AND THAT'S PROPOSITION EIGHT.

AND I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF IMPORTANT THINGS IN PROPOSITION A.

I THINK THERE'S A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS I HAVE JUST IN TERMS OF TECHNOLOGY, BOTH IN PROP EIGHT AND PROP B THAT I MIGHT WANT TO DIRECT TO MR. TANNER.

THE $20,000 FOR, I THINK, THE INFRASTRUCTURE, GIVEN THE THREAT ENVIRONMENT THAT WE'RE IN WITH RANSOM ATTACKS AND OTHER DIGITAL THREATS, DO YOU THINK THAT'S ENOUGH MONEY FOR THE FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE TO PROTECT OUR INFRASTRUCTURE AND PROTECT OUR DIGITAL DATA? THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION, AND I NEVER WANT TO SAY THAT'S ENOUGH MONEY WHEN YOU START TALKING ABOUT THE SECURITY ASPECT OF IT.

BECAUSE IF YOU RECALL, YOU KNOW, AND JUST SOME OF THE PRESENTATIONS THAT WE HAD TALKING ABOUT CYBERSECURITY, YOU COULD GO BROKE TRYING TO PAY FOR CYBERSECURITY.

SO LET'S KEEP THAT IN THE RIGHT PERSPECTIVE.

DOES THIS ALLOW US TO MAINTAIN A VERY SECURE POSTURE? ABSOLUTELY.

DOES IT ALLOW US TO KEEP OUR EQUIPMENT UP TO DATE? ANY TIME YOU DO THAT, THAT'S ALWAYS AN ASSET.

THERES ALWAYS A PLUS.

IS IT GOING OVERBOARD? ABSOLUTELY NOT.

BUT IT DOES PUT US IN A VERY COMFORTABLE PLACE AND IT PUTS US IN A SITUATION TO WHERE WE CAN RESPOND, BUT MAKE SURE THAT WE'VE GOT OUR ASSETS WELL PROTECTED.

OKAY.

AND THEN I TOUCHED ON PROPERTY AND THE 73 MILLION THAT WOULD GO.

AND OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW THAT I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE A CONVERSATION THAT WE CIRCLE BACK AROUND DEPENDING ON THE OUTCOME OF THE BONDS FOR THE BOARD TO DECIDE IN TERMS OF THAT.

BUT I THINK IN THE FUTURE WE'D WANT TO GET MORE FEEDBACK ON DEVICES AND WHAT YOU THINK WOULD BE BEST.

AND FEEDBACK ON THE YEARS OF CHROMEBOOKS AND STUFF LIKE THAT.

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SO THAT'S PROBABLY NOT A CONVERSATION FOR HERE.

IN TERMS OF WHAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT WITH THE PLAYGROUNDS? I THINK ONE OF THE IMPORTANT THINGS THAT.

YOU'RE TRYING TO GET AT IS WE WANT TO ATTRACT MORE FAMILIES HERE.

I AGREE WITH THAT.

WE WANT MORE FAMILIES.

WE WANT MORE ENROLLMENT.

AND WE WANT TO IF WE WANT THAT, WE HAVE TO DO THE THINGS THAT WILL ATTRACT MORE FAMILIES.

I RECENTLY MOVED TO THE WELLS NEIGHBORHOOD AND I WAS PREVIOUSLY ZONED FOR SHEPHERD, AND PART OF THAT WAS I'M NOW WALKING DISTANCE TO THE PARKS THAT ARE THERE.

AND WITH TWO YOUNG KIDS THAT MATTERED TO ME, THAT WAS ENOUGH FOR ME TO MOVE FROM A HOUSE THAT I LOVED TO ANOTHER HOUSE THAT I NOW LOVE.

SO, YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE A POINT OF CONTENTION, BUT THAT GOES INTO THE BROADER THING OF WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT AND PROPOSITION A OF WHEN A STUDENT COMES TO THE SCHOOL ONE, DO THEY FEEL SAFE? THAT'S MY NUMBER ONE PRIORITY.

AND I KNOW WE'VE GOT THE MONEY IN THERE FOR SAFETY AND SECURITY.

BUT WHILE MAINTAINING SAFETY AND SECURITY, ARE WE PROVIDING A LEARNING ENVIRONMENT THAT MAKES THEM FEEL VALUED AND MAKES THEM FEEL, GIVES THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN? AND IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE'S MANY CAMPUSES THAT ARE LACKING IN THAT.

I WENT TO A MIDDLE SCHOOL THAT WAS A HIGH SCHOOL IN THE FIFTIES, AND THIS WAS BACK WHEN I LIVED IN FLORIDA.

AND YOU DON'T REALLY KNOW ANY BETTER.

AND I DIDN'T GO TO A LOT OF GREAT SCHOOLS.

WHEN I TOURED MCMILLEN HIGH SCHOOL, IT WAS LIKE A COMMUNITY COLLEGE.

IT SO UNDERSTANDING HOW THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH YOU LEARN AFFECTS YOUR ABILITY TO LEARN AND YOUR SELF PERCEPTION.

AND IF YOU'RE AT A SCHOOL IN PLANO ISD AND YOU VISIT ANOTHER SCHOOL THAT'S MORE RECENTLY RENOVATED, SUDDENLY YOU FEEL LIKE OTHER KIDS ARE VALUED MORE THAN YOU AND THE DISTRICT.

AND I THINK THAT'S A PROBLEM.

SO IT DEFINITELY NEEDS TO BE TAKEN CARE OF.

WE HAVE THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT.

JOHNNY DID AN AMAZING JOB.

WELL, I SAY JOHNNY, THE FACILITIES TEAM WITH RANDY AND I KNOW JOHNNY'S BEEN FOLLOWING UP THERE.

I THINK THREE YEAR IS IT 18 MONTH ASSESSMENT OF ALL FACILITIES? AND CREATING A BASICALLY THEY WERE ABLE TO TELL YOU WHAT THE DISTRICT'S CRITICAL NEEDS WERE.

AND WITHOUT THEIR HARD WORK THAT HAPPENED ALMOST TWO YEARS IN ADVANCE, WE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO SO CLEARLY SAY WHAT COULD BE CUT OUT THE SEVEN, SEVEN, $152 MILLION YOU CUT OUT AND WHAT WAS ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL.

SO ALL FOR THAT.

LET'S SEE.

WHILE YOU'RE THINKING ON THAT, I JUST WANT TO PIGGYBACK ON YOUR PLAYGROUND COMMENT.

AND YOU ALL MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, BEING ADA COMPLIANT AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S PERSONALLY IMPORTANT, I THINK, TO A LOT OF MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY THAT AS TIME HAS GONE ON, WE HAVE A GREATER ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THINGS LIKE NEURODIVERSITY OR NEEDS OF CHILDREN WHO MAY HAVE, YOU KNOW, A PHYSICAL DISABILITY.

AND THIS IS REALLY AN IMPORTANT ISSUE IN TERMS OF INCLUSIVITY AND ENSURING THAT EVERY ONE OF OUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KIDDOS HAS SOMETHING TO DO AT RECESS THAT IS ENRICHING AND ACROSS THE SPECTRUM OF THINGS LIKE NEURODIVERSITY OR DISABILITY STATUS.

SO IT'S A GOOD POINT BECAUSE YOU WANT EVERY KID TO FEEL LIKE.

THEY HAVE A PLACE AT THE TABLE AND THIS DOES THAT.

NOT ONLY THAT, IT'S GOING TO IT'S NOT JUST SOMETHING TO DO.

IT'S GOING TO BE COOL.

THEY'RE GOING TO ENJOY IT.

THEY'RE GOING TO LIKE IT.

IT'S GOING TO INCLUDE EVERYBODY HAVING ACCESS AT ALL TIMES.

MR. WEAVER.

IT'S ACROSS THE DISTRICT.

IT'S ALL FOR.

I MEAN, WE HAD 44 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.

IT'S EVERY SINGLE ONE.

AND IT'S NOT JUST THE LITTLE KIDS.

IT'S THE LITTLER KIDS AND THE BIGGER KIDS.

WE'RE DOING BOTH PLAYGROUNDS AT EVERY SINGLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

THE WELLS NEIGHBORHOOD, THAT'S WHERE I LIVED.

I LIVED ON SOUTH ECHO TRAIL OFF OF.

I PASSED BY IT EVERY DAY.

OFF OF MISSION RIDGE.

WELLS WAS BUILT IN ABOUT 1978.

THAT'S WHY I WENT TO HOUSTON BECAUSE IT WASN'T BUILT YET.

BUT AS WE WENT THROUGH OUR CYCLE, YOU KNOW, OF BUILDING THINGS OVER TIME.

NOW THEY'VE COME BACK TO US AND THEY SAID WITH THIS FACILITIES STUDY, WE GET ON A ROTATION.

AND SO ESSENTIALLY ABOUT A THIRD OF THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS I'M SORRY, A THIRD OF THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS ARE GOING TO GET TOUCHED WITH REGARD TO GETTING THEIR THEIR KITCHENS UPDATED.

YOU KNOW, AGAIN, RIGHT ON OUR HIERARCHY OF NEEDS, RIGHT? WE'VE GOT SHELTER, FOOD AND WATER.

WELL, WE'RE TOUCHING FOOD AT A THIRD OF THEM.

RIGHT.

AND WE GOT ON A ROTATION TO WHERE WE CAN FIX DIFFERENT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AT DIFFERENT TIME.

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AND AGAIN, WE'RE SPREADING THIS ACROSS THE DISTRICT.

SO AND I APPRECIATE SEEING THE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTERS ON THERE, BECAUSE EVEN WHEN I WAS A CANDIDATE ALMOST FOUR YEARS AGO, I REMEMBER GOING THERE AND SEEING WHERE THE KIDS ATE AND HOW THEY HAD TO BRING THE FOOD IN.

AND IF FOR SOME REASON THE THEY DIDN'T GET THERE IN TIME OR IF THE COOLER BROKE, THAT FOOD'S RUINED AND THEY'VE GOT TO FIGURE OUT ALTERNATIVES.

AND I REMEMBER KERRY COOPER WAS HERE AND WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THAT AND TALKING ABOUT THAT AND GLAD TO FINALLY SEE SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, THAT ON THERE.

AND I THINK THAT'S A VITAL NEED FOR THE DISTRICT AND FOR THOSE CHILDREN.

THERE ARE KIDS THAT WE NEED TO FEED SO THAT THEY CAN DO THEIR BEST IN SCHOOL.

SURE.

AND THAT'S PART OF WHAT THIS BOND IS GOING TO ADDRESS, IS THE INFRASTRUCTURE TO ALLOW EVERYBODY AND AGAIN, HERE'S AN ARMY TERM TO ALLOW EVERYBODY TO BE ALL THEY CAN BE.

YOU KNOW, SO NEXT QUESTION IS FOR JOHNNY.

REALLY.

YOU TALKED ABOUT HOW THIS IS GOING TO BE THE FUNDS ARE PROBABLY GOING TO BE DISTRIBUTED WITHIN A FIVE YEAR TIME FRAME FOR THE PROJECTS TO START.

AND MY QUESTION IS, IS THERE AN INFLATIONARY FACTOR BUILT INTO THE NUMBER WE'RE LOOKING AT? AND ALSO IS THE CCI BUILT INTO THAT NUMBER? I THINK YOU SAID ANTICIPATING A 6% PER YEAR INCREASE FOR THAT FIVE YEAR PERIOD.

SO I MEAN, THOSE ARE TWO REALLY GOOD QUESTIONS.

SO ONE IS OBVIOUSLY ON THE CAPACITY SIDE.

AND SO WE WORK WITH OUR BOND FINANCIAL ADVISORS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WE'RE ASSUMING OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE RATES ARE DOING.

SO WE'RE ASSUMING THEY'RE GOING TO THEY'RE GOING TO KEEP RATCHETING IT UP.

SO WE HAVE BUILT SOME CUSHION INTO THE DEBT AS WE ACTUALLY ISSUE IT OVER THAT FIVE YEAR PERIOD.

OBVIOUSLY, WE DON'T WANT TO ISSUE IT AT ONE TIME, ALTHOUGH WE MAY ADJUST IT DEPENDING ON WHAT THE RATES ARE DOING.

RIGHT NOW, WE'VE GOT IT EVENLY OVER THE FIVE YEARS AND THEN WE'LL ACTUALLY LOOK AT WHAT THE MARKET'S DOING TO FIND OUT THE BEST TIME TO ACTUALLY DO THAT.

ON THE OTHER FLIP SIDE OF THAT, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE CCI, WHICH IS COST OF CONSTRUCTION INFLATION.

AND SO BOTTOM LINE IS WE HAVE VERY MUCH FACTORED IN AN INFLATIONARY FACTOR.

I MEAN, WE'VE SEEN 6% A YEAR, BUT WE'VE ACTUALLY FACTORED IN ABOUT A 10% A YEAR INTO THESE CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS, JUST TO MAKE SURE WE'RE COVERING OURSELVES ON WHAT THE POTENTIAL COST COULD BE.

SO WE ACTUALLY HAVE BUILT IN INFLATION INTO THE COST OF THE PROJECTS.

AND THEN WE'VE ALSO BUILT IN CUSHION INTO THE DEBT ISSUE.

ISSUANCE OF THE DEBT AS FAR AS THE INTEREST RATES GO.

OKAY.

THANK YOU.

AND THEN I WAS GOING TO ASK IN TERMS OF SEE, WE KIND OF ALREADY COVERED THE M&O IMPACT ON THAT.

I GUESS LAST QUESTION, JUST GOING BACK TO MR. TANNER, I'M SORRY I'M BEATING UP ON YOU TONIGHT.

I MET WITH SOME TEACHERS AND THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT JUST HOW THE NETWORK CAN CONDUCT CONNECTIVITY ON SOME OF THE CAMPUSES.

THIS IS A HIGH SCHOOL OR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL CAMPUS WHERE SOME KIDS ARE ABLE TO GET ON IN 2 SECONDS AND SOME IT TAKES A LITTLE BIT LONGER.

AND SO THE BOND DOLLARS THAT ARE SET ASIDE FOR NETWORK CONNECTION, DO YOU THINK THAT WOULD SOLVE PRETTY MUCH ALL OF THOSE PROBLEMS ACROSS THE DISTRICT? YES.

EVERYTHING THAT WE'VE LOOKED AT FROM AN INFRASTRUCTURE PERSPECTIVE WOULD GO INTO LOOKING AT EVERYTHING FROM WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY TO HARDWARE CONNECTIVITY AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN.

AND WE WOULD BE LOOKING TO INCREASE THE BANDWIDTH AND CAPACITY ACROSS THE ENTIRE DISTRICT.

SO SITE SURVEYS WOULD BE CONDUCTED AT THESE CAMPUSES TO FIND OUT WHERE THE DECK SPOTS WERE.

WHERE DO WE NEED TO PUT ACCESS POINTS? WHAT DO WE NEED TO REINFORCE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'VE GOT NOT ONLY CONNECTIVITY, BUT MAKING SURE WE'VE GOT CAPACITY? SO DENSITY IN AREAS WHERE WE WOULD HAVE LARGE AMOUNTS OF STUDENTS CONGREGATING BUT STILL NEEDING CONNECTIVITY, WE WOULD MAKE SURE WE WOULD ADDRESS ALL THOSE ISSUES AT THAT TIME.

AND I'VE GOT PLENTY OF OTHER COMMENTS AND PONTIFICATING, BUT I'LL GO AHEAD AND JUST LEAVE IT RIGHT THERE.

ALL RIGHT.

NANCY HAS A QUESTION.

I HAD ONE.

IT'S MAYBE MORE OF A COMMENT, BUT A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, WE RECEIVED A REPORT THAT DAESH, WHERE I CAN'T SAY HIS NAME, DAS GAVE US THE TALKS ABOUT THE ACADEMIC IMPROVEMENT FOR STUDENTS WHO ARE IN EXTRACURRICULARS FOR THE FOUR YEARS THEY'RE IN HIGH SCHOOL.

IT MIGHT BE TIME TO REVISIT THAT WORK JUST SO WE HAVE THAT TOP OF MIND AS WE GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS.

SO THAT'S A PERFECT SEG WAY PROCESS TO WRAP THIS UP.

SO TONIGHT WAS A REPORT AND WE THANK YOU FOR THE LEVEL OF DETAIL AND WE THANK YOU FOR THE PATIENCE FOR OUR QUESTIONS.

WE MAY HAVE MORE QUESTIONS.

AND SO IF WE DO IN THE INTERIM, WE WILL REACH OUT TO YOU ALL OR OR THROUGH STAFF TO ASK ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS FOR ANY OF YOU WHO ARE STILL PAYING ATTENTION AT HOME.

AND THOSE OF YOU IN THE AUDIENCE, THE BOARD WILL CONSIDER THE RECOMMENDATION

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AT THE NEXT MEETING.

AND SO THIS WAS STEP ONE OF A TWO STEP PROCESS.

NOW WE ARE GOING TO HEAR THE SURVEY RESULTS.

I THINK THE YOU ALL DID SOME SURVEY WORK.

HOWEVER, WE'VE GOT SOME LEGS CROSSED UP HERE.

SO WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A VERY, VERY BRIEF RECESS.

AND BY BRIEF I MEAN SPRINT AND COME BACK BECAUSE WE STILL HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO.

SO WE WILL BE RIGHT BACK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

EVERYBODY TAKE TAKE TWO OR THREE.

NOT EVEN FIVE.

ALL RIGHT, SO ANGELA'S MAKING HER WAY BACK, SO LET'S GO AHEAD AND GET CRANKING AGAIN.

[8.2. Summation of a Polling Survey of the Plano ISD Community for a Potential Upcoming Bond Election Presenter: Johnny Hill, Deputy Superintendent for Business and Employee Services]

SO WE'RE GOING TO MOVE TO ITEM NUMBER 8.2, THE POLLING SURVEY OF THE PLANO ISD FOR A POTENTIAL UPCOMING BOND ELECTION.

SO THIS IS TIED TO THE PRESENTATION WE JUST HAD.

AND JOHNNY WONDER, ANYBODY WHO WANTED TO KNOW WHAT THE W WAS, IT'S NOT WIZARD, [LAUGHTER] BUT WE SHOULD MAKE IT WIZARD.

IT IS JOHNNY WONDER.

JOHNNY WONDER.

THAT'S, IT'S REALLY MY NAME.

I'VE BEEN GETTING MADE FUN OF IT FOR ABOUT 55 YEARS NOW, BUT I'M GOING TO BE I AM NOT OPPOSED TO CALLING YOU JOHNNY WIZARD FROM NOW ON.

PLEASE DON'T.

ALL RIGHT, TAKE IT.

TAKE IT AWAY, JOHNNY.

ALL RIGHT.

I'M GOING TO BE QUICK.

I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH THIS, BUT PLEASE STOP ME.

IF YOU'VE GOT ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS, I WANT TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE'S COMFORTABLE WITH THIS INFORMATION.

I THINK THIS IS A VERY IS A REALLY GOOD INFORMATION.

ONE THING THAT I WILL SAY, THIS COMPANY, WHICH IS A BASILISK AND ASSOCIATES, ACTUALLY DID THIS, ALMOST DID SOMETHING VERY SIMILAR FOR OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT WHEN WE HAD OUR LAST BOND ELECTION EIGHT YEARS AGO OR SIX YEARS AGO NOW.

AND SO I THOUGHT IT WAS INTERESTING THAT WE ACTUALLY HAD WE HAVE THE OPTION OF DOING EITHER 200 RESPONDENTS, 300 RESPONDENTS OR 400 RESPONDENTS.

WE CHOSE THE MAX AT 400 RESPONDENTS, WHICH YOU CAN SEE THE MARGIN OF ERROR.

THERE IS JUST A LITTLE UNDER 5%.

COMPARE THAT BACK WITH THE LAST ELECTION.

I THINK WE DID 300 RESPONDENTS AND I THINK THE THE DEVIATION THERE WAS ABOUT 5.7.

SO WE'RE ACTUALLY GIVEN GIVEN AS MUCH INFORMATION AS WE CAN SO WE CAN GET A GOOD READ BACK OUR BOND TASK FORCE THOUGHT THIS WAS REALLY NECESSARY.

AND I THINK OUR BOARD ALSO FEELS THAT IT WAS NECESSARY TO GET WE'RE TALKING A LARGE NUMBER, SO WE WANTED TO GET THE INFORMATION BACK, FEEDBACK FROM OUR COMMUNITY IF WE'RE ON THE RIGHT TRACK OR WE HAD SOME CHALLENGES COMING UP.

AS FAR AS LOOKING AT SOME OF THESE PROPOSITIONS THAT WE WERE THAT WE HAD THE BOARD CONSIDERING.

ON THE NEXT SCREEN.

THESE ARE THE OBJECTIVES OF THE THE POLLING SURVEY.

NUMBER ONE IS WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT? WHAT ARE OUR RESPONSE? WHAT DO OUR COMMUNITY THINK ABOUT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT? RIGHT NOW, WE KNOW THAT IT'S BEEN A TOUGH COUPLE OF YEARS.

AND OBVIOUSLY, I THINK JUST ABOUT ALL OF YOUR GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES HAVE TAKEN A HIT A LITTLE BIT.

SO WE WANTED TO WE WANTED TO JUST MEASURE THAT FEEDBACK.

NUMBER TWO IS, YOU KNOW, WHAT ABOUT INITIAL SUPPORT AND ALSO OPPOSITION TO THESE VARIOUS BOND PROPOSITIONS THAT THE TASK FORCE WAS ACTUALLY LOOKING AT CONSIDERING TO PRESENT TO THE BOARD? AND THEN NUMBER THREE, TO MEASURE THE SUPPORT OF VARIOUS POTENTIAL BOND PROJECTS.

AND ACTUALLY JUST DIGGING INTO THE WEEDS A LITTLE BIT AND TRYING TO FIND OUT A LITTLE MORE INFORMATION, HOW DID THE COMMUNITY FEEL ABOUT THOSE? NUMBER FOUR, TO MEASURE THE INFORMED LEVELS OF SUPPORT AND OPPOSITION TO THE VARIOUS BOND PROPOSALS.

AND THEN LASTLY, ASSESS OPINIONS OF BALLOT LANGUAGE.

WE KNOW IN 2019, OF COURSE, OUR LEGISLATORS MADE IT A LITTLE BIT HARDER TO PASS THE BOND ELECTION.

SO PUTTING THOSE NEW NEW REQUIREMENTS IN PLACE, IS THAT GOING TO MAKE IT HARDER OR EASIER? AND WE KNOW IT'S GOING TO BE HARDER.

SO JUST TO GET A LITTLE BIT OF A SENSE OF WHAT ACTUALLY HOW MUCH HARDER IS THAT GOING TO BE AS A RESULT OF THE NEW LAWS THAT CAME ABOUT IN 2019? I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT ON THE NEXT SLIDE TO ACTUALLY LOOK AT THIS IS OBVIOUSLY OUR THREE DIFFERENT CLUSTERS AND WHERE WE ACTUALLY GLEANED THE INFORMATION FROM.

YOU CAN SEE IT WAS PRETTY WELL DISTRIBUTED BETWEEN THE THREE DIFFERENT CLUSTERS.

ON THE NEXT SCREEN.

YOU COULD ACTUALLY LOOK AT THE VERY TOP.

THIS IS JUST TALKING SOME GENERAL DEMOGRAPHICS.

YOU CAN SAY, OF COURSE, WE'RE GOING TO BE HAVING THIS ELECTION IN A MIDTERM WHICH OBVIOUSLY WILL BRING OUT A LOT MORE FOLKS THAN WHETHER WE WERE HAVING IT IN AN OFF YEAR.

YOU CAN LOOK AT REGISTERED VOTERS AND LOOK AT THE ONES THAT ACTUALLY VOTED IN THE LAST MIDTERM, WHICH WAS IN 2018, 56% ACTUALLY VOTED IN THAT AND 44% DID NOT.

AND THEN OUT OF THE ONES THAT ACTUALLY RESPOND TO THOSE 400 RESPONDENTS BACK, YOU CAN SEE THAT 77% ACTUALLY VOTED IN THE LAST MIDTERM.

23% DID NOT.

AND THEN GOING ON TO THE BOTTOM SECTION, YOU CAN SEE AGE.

HOW DOES AGE MAKE UP OR REGISTERED VOTERS? IT'S PRETTY WELL SPLIT.

BUT THEN YOU CAN ACTUALLY LOOK AND SAY HOW THEY ACTUALLY CAME OUT ON THE

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ACTUAL ELECTIONS, THE LAST MIDTERM, WHAT WE CONSIDER A BIG ELECTION, THE BIG STATEWIDE ELECTIONS.

YOU CAN SEE THAT WE GET A LITTLE MORE AGE HEAVY AS WE GO TO WHO ACTUALLY SHOWS UP, NOT NECESSARILY WHO'S REGISTERED, BUT WHO ACTUALLY SHOWS UP TO ACTUALLY VOTE.

YOU CAN SEE THAT OVER HALF OF OUR VOTERS ARE SITTING IN 55 PLUS AGE RANGE.

I THOUGHT IT WAS INTERESTING AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS ONE SLIDE IS OUT OF THE 400 RESPONDENTS, YOU CAN SEE THAT 20 ONLY 25% ACTUALLY HAVE KIDS THAT ARE CURRENTLY PARTICIPATING IN SCHOOLS.

THAT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE I THINK WE'RE GOING TO GET THAT WHEN WE HAVE THIS ELECTION IN NOVEMBER.

I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT.

THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE HAVING TO ACTUALLY EDUCATE AND TRY TO TO ACTUALLY GET INFORMATION OUT TO.

ON THE NEXT SLIDE.

THIS IS, DO YOU HAVE A POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE IMPRESSION OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT? IN OTHER WORDS, DO YOU THINK WE'RE DOING A GOOD JOB? DO YOU NOT THINK WE'RE DOING A GOOD JOB? HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT IT? AND YOU CAN ACTUALLY SAY THAT 69% HAD A POSITIVE IMAGE OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND ONLY 12% HAD A NEGATIVE IMAGE.

IF YOU COMPARE THIS WITH JUST SIX YEARS AGO, I THOUGHT IT WAS INTERESTING, BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE SURVEY JUST SIX YEARS AGO, IT WAS THE POSITIVE OR AT LEAST THE SOMEWHAT POSITIVE WAS ABOUT 78%.

AND SO I THINK THAT WE'RE JUST IT'S A LITTLE HARDER ENVIRONMENT NOW.

I THINK A LOT OF THAT IS BECAUSE OF COVID.

AND JUST A LITTLE JUST THE A LOT OF THE COMMUNITY IN GENERAL IS IS JUST A LITTLE LESS TRUSTING THAN THEY WERE JUST A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO.

AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THE INSURED NUMBER, IT'S JUMPED ALMOST 10% TO 18% OF WHAT IT WAS JUST SIX YEARS AGO.

I THINK THAT WAS HOVERING AROUND SEVEN OR 8% TEN YEARS OR SIX YEARS AGO.

ON THE NEXT SLIDE.

THIS IS IF YOU WALK INTO THE BALLOT BOX AND YOU ARE COUNTING ON THAT BALLOT BOX TO ACTUALLY BE YOUR POINT OF EDUCATION, WHICH WE WOULD LIKE TO THINK THAT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN.

BUT IN REALITY, THAT HAPPENS A LOT AND IT REALLY HAPPENS A LOT IN WHEN YOU'VE GOT YOUR NATIONWIDE ELECTIONS OR WHEN YOU HAVE YOUR MIDTERM ELECTIONS, YOUR STATEWIDE ELECTIONS.

IT HAPPENS MORE THAN YOU WOULD THINK.

SO WHAT THIS IS TRYING TO DETERMINE IS THAT INITIAL THOUGHT.

WHENEVER SOMEBODY WALKS IN THE BALLOT BOX, THEY'RE READING THE BALLOT AND THEY'RE MAKING A DECISION JUST BASED ON WHAT THEY'RE READING IN THAT BALLOT.

AND YOU CAN SEE THIS IS PROPOSITION A, WHICH IS, OF COURSE, IS BY FAR THE LARGEST IT'S A LITTLE OVER $1.1 BILLION.

YOU CAN SAY THAT JUST READING THE BALLOT, THAT 52% WOULD ACTUALLY BE IN FAVOR OF PROP A AT THE $1.1 BILLION.

52% IS COMPARED WITH NEGATIVE AT 39%.

THIS IS PRETTY MUCH RIGHT IN LINE WITH WHAT IT WAS SIX YEARS AGO.

IT WAS I MEAN, IT WAS ALMOST EXACTLY IT WAS 52% AND 31% AT THE END SIX YEARS AGO.

SO I THINK THAT THIS IS PRETTY GOOD INFORMATION.

I WILL SAY THAT THE GUYS FROM BASILAN SAID THAT THEY WERE SURPRISED.

MOST OF THESE SURVEYS THEY DID DIDN'T START OFF QUITE AS HIGH AS WHAT THIS ONE HAS STARTED OFF AS.

SO THEY ACTUALLY MADE A COMMENT ABOUT THAT.

ON THE NEXT SLIDE.

BUT THERE WAS A QUESTION.

QUESTION FIVE OF THE SURVEY SIMPLY SAID, WELL, IF YOU AREN'T SUPPORTIVE OF PROP EIGHT, WHAT'S YOUR MAIN REASON WHY YOU WOULD BE AGAINST IT? AND I DON'T THINK IT COMES AS ANY BIG SURPRISE THAT THE MAIN REASON HERE IS THAT FOLKS JUST FEEL LIKE PROPERTY TAXES ARE ALREADY TOO HIGH AND THEY EQUATE BOND ELECTIONS WITH MORE TAXES.

AND SO THAT'S JUST THAT'S A NO GO FROM THERE.

IT'S A NONSTARTER.

AND SO YOU CAN SEE THAT 83% FELT THAT WAY.

IT'S A HUGE DROP OFF TO THE NEXT ITEM, WHICH IS JUST DON'T REALLY KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT IT.

SO I THINK THAT THAT'S THE HURDLE THAT WE'RE HAVING TO OVERCOME AS FAR AS EDUCATING OUR COMMUNITY.

ON THE NEXT SLIDE.

THIS IS THE EXACT INITIAL REACTION GOING INTO THE BALLOT BOX, NOT KNOWING ANY INFORMATION ABOUT IT OTHER THAN WHAT'S ON THE BALLOT.

THIS IS THE TECHNOLOGY ONE.

JUST THE PERSONAL WHAT RICK CALL, THE PERSONAL PROPERTY WITH TECHNOLOGY.

THIS IS THAT INFORMATION.

AND YOU CAN SEE THAT IT'S ALMOST 50/50%.

IT'S 48 TO 44% POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE, WHICH IS RIGHT AT 50%.

GO ON TO THE NEXT ONE.

THIS IS THE EVENT CENTER AND YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THE INITIAL REACTIONS, TALKING, GOING IN, JUST READING THE DESCRIPTION ON THE BALLOT AND LOOKING AT IT THAT IT WAS 31 AGAINST OUR HOUR FOR IT, 31% FOR IT AND 62% AGAINST.

SO THERE'S A 31% NET NEGATIVE VARIANCE THERE.

THAT'S A HUGE HURDLE TO OVERCOME JUST WITH THE INITIAL REACTION ON THE

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ADVANCED CENTER.

AND THEN THE NEXT ONE IS FINALLY THE ATHLETIC STADIUMS. YOU CAN SEE, JUST LIKE WITH THE EVENT CENTER, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT, HEY, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE MONEY, WE'RE ASKING FOR STATE ENFORCEMENT FOR MONEY FOR THE STADIUMS. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THAT OR ARE YOU FOR THAT OR AGAINST THAT? YOU CAN SAY THAT THE INITIAL REACTION IS A -37% VARIANCE, 29 FOR 66% AGAINST.

SO OBVIOUSLY, YOUR LAST TWO PROPOSITIONS, THE EVENT CENTER AND THE STADIUMS, THERE'S GOING TO HAVE TO BE A LOT OF WORK DONE ON THOSE TWO DIFFERENT PROPOSITIONS.

GO ON TO THE NEXT SET OF QUESTIONS.

WHAT THE SURVEYOR DID AFTER GETTING INITIAL REACTIONS IS THEY ACTUALLY SPENT SOME TIME AND I WILL SAY THIS ENTIRE SURVEY TOOK ABOUT 16 TO 17 MINUTES, 16 TO 17 MINUTES, WHICH TO ME SOUNDS A LONG TIME FOR SOMEBODY TO BE ABLE TO SIT THERE AND ACTUALLY GET INFORMATION.

BUT THAT'S ABOUT HOW LONG THESE SURVEYS LASTED.

WHAT THEY WERE DOING HERE IS ACTUALLY GOING INTO PROP A AND ACTUALLY GIVING THEM SPECIFIC INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT MADE UP THAT PROPOSITION.

AND WHENEVER THEY TALKED ABOUT EACH ONE OF THESE ITEMS THAT MADE UP THAT PROP A YOU CAN ACTUALLY SAY THAT, HEY, WE TALKED ABOUT HAGGARD MIDDLE SCHOOL AND EVERYBODY THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S REALLY THAT'S THAT'S GOOD INFORMATION.

I LIKE THAT.

THEY TALKED ABOUT WILLIAMS HIGH SCHOOL ADDRESSING THE REMAINING PART OF THE WILLIAMS HIGH SCHOOL.

YOU CAN SAY, YEAH, WE CAN.

THAT MAKES SENSE.

WE CAN DO THAT.

SO GOING ON DOWN THE LIST, YOU CAN SAY THAT ONCE THESE INDIVIDUAL ITEMS OR THESE INDIVIDUAL PARTS OF PROPOSITION A WAS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, YOU CAN SEE THAT PEOPLE ACTUALLY COULD THAT RESONATED.

THEY WERE IN FAVOR OF THAT.

THEN.

AND THEN THE NEXT.

THE NEXT SLIDE.

IT JUST TALKED ABOUT.

THIS IS JUST ABOUT DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE PROCESS.

IN OTHER WORDS, THIS COMMITTEE WAS VERY DIVERSE.

THERE WERE 70 MEMBERS.

THEY WERE CROSS SECTIONAL FROM ALL THE CLUSTERS.

THEY WERE PARENTS, THEY WERE NON PARENTS.

THEY WERE YOUNG PEOPLE, OLD PEOPLE.

I MEAN, JUST VERY CROSS SECTIONAL.

ARE YOU IN FAVOR OF THAT? YOU CAN SAY, YEAH, WE THINK THAT'S A GOOD IDEA.

EXCUSE ME.

YOU CAN ALSO SEE INCREASES IN PROPERTY VALUES, PAYING OFF DEBT EARLY.

YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE THINGS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT, ABOUT MAINTAINING THAT TAX RATE, KEEPING IT LOW BECAUSE YOU'RE PAYING OFF TAX EARLY.

DOES THAT RESONATE? YOU SAY MOST PEOPLE SAID, YEAH, THAT'S A GOOD IDEA.

AND REALLY, THE ONLY TWO ITEMS HERE THAT PEOPLE THOUGHT, NO, THAT'S NOT IT.

WE DON'T LOCK THAT WHENEVER IT WAS BROUGHT UP BY THE POSTER WAS TALKING ABOUT THAT, REALLY THE INCREASES IN APPRAISAL VALUES IS WHAT ACTUALLY IS NOT SET BY THE DISTRICT, IT'S ACTUALLY SET BY THE APPRAISAL DISTRICT.

THAT'S WHAT'S DRIVING THOSE INCREASES IN PROPERTY VALUES ON YOUR RESIDENCES.

THEY DIDN'T LIKE THAT.

SO OBVIOUSLY, IT MAKES SENSE THAT'S NOT GOING TO THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE IN FAVOR OF THAT.

AND THEN FINALLY TALKING ABOUT YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO USE THIS MONEY TO PAY FOR TEACHER SALARIES.

THIS IS FOR CAPITAL.

WHAT EXACTLY DOES CAPITAL MEAN? YOU CAN SAY THAT THEY DIDN'T LIKE THAT EITHER.

THEY THEY WANTED TO SUPPORT THE STAFF AND THE TEACHERS.

GET ON TO THE NEXT THE NEXT SLIDE.

SO WHAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT HERE IS TO ME, IT'S SHOCKING IF YOU CAN GET THE COMMUNITY TO SPEND 20, EVEN THE 16 TO 17 MINUTES.

WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HAVING SOMEBODY'S INITIAL REACTION ON THESE PROPOSITIONS AND THEN HAVING SOMEBODY WHO'S WILLING TO SPEND 16 OR 17 MINUTES TO GET ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT MAKES UP THESE PROPOSITIONS? AND THEN WHAT IS THAT DIFFERENCE? WHAT IS THAT DIFFERENCE IN REACTION? SO THAT'S WHAT THIS IS DOING.

IT'S BASICALLY THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN INITIAL BALLOT AND THEN COMING BACK AND ACTUALLY TAKING THAT SAME PERSON'S OPINION WHENEVER THEY'VE BEEN INFORMED ABOUT WHAT'S ON THAT BALLOT.

SO YOU CAN SAY THIS IS PROPOSITION A, WHICH IS THE 1.1 BILLION.

YOU CAN SEE THAT IT'S GOING FROM 52% POSITIVE ALL THE WAY UP TO 68% POSITIVE JUST BECAUSE OF 16 AND 17 MINUTES OF GETTING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.

NOW, WE'LL SEE IF YOU SEE THE LITTLE BOX ON THE ON THE RIGHT SIDE WHERE IT SAYS FOUR AND THEN NOT MENTION TAX AND THEN MENTION TAX.

THIS IS THE STATEMENT ON THAT BALLOT, HALF OF THESE INFORMED BALLOTS, THEY ASKED THEM, THEY DIDN'T MENTION THAT THIS IS A PROPERTY TAX INCREASE, WHICH IS IN 2019.

WE'RE REQUIRED TO BE ON EVERY ONE OF THOSE BALLOTS.

THEY ACTUALLY TOOK HALF OF THEM AND THEY MENTIONED IT AND THE OTHER HALF THEY DID NOT MENTION IT.

SO IF YOU LOOK AT THAT, THAT STATEMENT ACTUALLY MAKES A DIFFERENCE.

IT GOES FROM 73% WHEN YOU DON'T MENTION IT ALL THE WAY DOWN TO 64% WHEN YOU DO MENTION IT.

SO IT'S ANOTHER HURDLE THAT WE'LL HAVE TO OVERCOME.

WE KNOW THAT YOU'VE GOT TO WE HAVE TO EDUCATE.

NUMBER ONE IS WE HAVE TO SPEND THE 16 TO 17 MINUTES TO EXPLAIN IT.

AND THE NUMBER TWO IS WE HAVE TO EXPLAIN THAT STATEMENT.

THAT'S A SUPER IMPORTANT.

WHEN WE GO OUT AND VISIT WITH THE COMMUNITY, WE'VE GOT TO LET THEM KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THAT STATEMENT MEANS ON THE NEXT SLIDE.

THIS IS THE EXACT SAME INFORMATION, BUT THIS IS ON $173 MILLION FOR THE

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TECHNOLOGY.

YOU CAN SEE THAT IT WAS ALMOST 50% BEFORE WHENEVER THERE WAS THE INITIAL BALLOT AND THEN GOING TO AN EDUCATED ACTUALLY TELLING THEM ABOUT ALL OF THE THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH THAT TECHNOLOGY.

IT'S AMAZING.

YOU WENT FROM 48% FOR TO ALL THE WAY UP TO 68% FOR THAT'S A HUGE CLIMB BASICALLY JUST FINISHED ABOUT 15 TO 16 MINUTES EXPLAINING WHAT GOOD THAT TECHNOLOGY THAT TECHNOLOGY IS GOING TO DO FOR OUR STUDENTS AND STAFF.

GOING ON TO THE NEXT ONE.

THIS IS THE EXACT SAME THING.

BUT FOR THE EVENT CENTER AND THIS IS INTERESTING BECAUSE THIS SHOWS YOU THE EVENT CENTER.

IT WAS SO NEGATIVE BEFORE.

IT'S 31%.

ONLY 31% POSITIVE.

YOU'VE GOT JUST THE 15, 60 MINUTES.

YOU'VE RAISED IT ALL THE WAY UP TO 50%.

JUST GETTING THE WORD OUT, JUST EXPLAINING TO FOLKS EXACTLY WHAT YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO DO IN THAT EVENT CENTER.

AND THEN FINALLY ON THE NEXT SLIDE, TALKING ABOUT THE STADIUMS, TO ME, THIS WAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST SHIFTS WAS THE 29% ALL THE WAY UP TO THE 57%.

BECAUSE WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT WE NEED $27 MILLION FOR STADIUMS, THEY'RE THINKING YOU'RE GOING TO GO OUT AND BUILD A NEW STADIUM.

THAT'S IMMEDIATELY WHAT PEOPLE ARE THINKING.

THEY DON'T REALIZE THAT IT'S THE PARKING LOT THAT HASN'T BEEN REPLACED IN 40 YEARS, THAT WE HAVE TO WE HAVE TO REPAVE IT.

IT'S THE LOTS IN THE PARKING LOT.

IT'S REPLACING THE THE TURF THAT'S AT THE END OF USEFUL LIFE.

IT'S REPLACING THE SAFETY LIGHTS, IT'S REPLACING THE SECURITY FENCING.

AND ONCE YOU ACTUALLY EXPLAIN THAT TO THEM, I MEAN, IT'S AMAZING ALL THE WAY FROM 29% ALL THE WAY UP TO 57%, WHICH I THINK IS A HUGE, HUGE DIFFERENCE THERE.

THE KEY BEING, IT'S IMPORTANT THAT YOU TRY TO REACH AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN AND GET THEM TO ACTUALLY PAY ATTENTION FOR THAT 15 TO 16 MINUTES.

THE NEXT SLIDE.

SO THIS IS SIMPLY TALKING ABOUT THE BALLOT LANGUAGE.

AND I JUST MENTIONED IT EARLIER.

BASICALLY, IT'S TALKING ABOUT, HEY, IF I TOLD YOU THAT THE PROPERTY TAX RATE WOULD NOT INCREASE, WHICH WE ARE TELLING PEOPLE THIS AS A RESULT OF THIS BOND, EVEN THOUGH THE OFFICIAL BALLOT ACTUALLY HAS A STATEMENT ON THERE THAT SAYS THIS IS A PROPERTY TAX INCREASE.

WHAT WOULD YOU FIND THIS BELIEVABLE, NOT BELIEVABLE TO CONFUSING OR ENSURE YOU SEE WHAT THE RESULTS ARE THERE? AND OBVIOUSLY ONLY 29% WOULD ACTUALLY BELIEVE THAT.

IF I'M TELLING THEM THIS WILL NOT CAUSE YOUR PROPERTY TAX RATE TO GO UP.

AND ONCE I READ THE BALLOT, YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THAT I MEAN, 43% OF THEM, THE VAST MAJORITY WOULD NOT ACTUALLY BELIEVE THAT.

INTERESTING ENOUGH, THOUGH, EVEN THOUGH THEY WOULD NOT BELIEVE IT.

IF YOU LOOK AT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE FOR AND AGAINST, THIS IS PROP EIGHT.

YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE EVEN THOUGH THE 43% SAID THAT THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE IT, THEY WOULD ACTUALLY EVEN THOUGH THEY MIGHT NOT BELIEVE IT, YOU CAN SEE THAT 51% OF THOSE STILL WOULD VOTE FOR THE BOND.

SO I THINK THAT'S THAT'S ACTUALLY AN INTERESTING NUMBER THERE.

ON THE NEXT SLIDE.

THIS IS JUST THE PROCESSION OF TAXES, WHICH IS JUST A LITTLE DIFFERENT.

AND THIS IS REGARDLESS HOW YOU FILL OUT THE BONDS.

IF THE BONDS WILL BE FINANCED WITH PROPERTY TAXES BUT DID NOT INCREASE THE PROPERTY TAX RATE, WOULD YOU CONSIDER THIS TO BE A TAX INCREASE OR NOT A TAX INCREASE? SO BASICALLY THE SAME QUESTION ASKED JUST A LITTLE DIFFERENT WAY.

AND YOU CAN SEE THAT 37% WOULD SAY, YEAH, THIS IS STILL A TAX INCREASE.

AND THEN YOU SEE 58% WOULD SAY, NO, THIS IS NOT A TAX INCREASE.

SO THEY'RE BASICALLY BELIEVING WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.

SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE TOP, YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THAT OUT OF THE IF YOU ACTUALLY ASK FROM THE PREVIOUS QUESTION, QUESTION NUMBER 33 WHERE IT SAID BELIEVABLE, NOT BELIEVABLE OR TOO CONFUSING, IF YOU LOOKED AT THE ONES THAT SAID NOT BELIEVABLE, YOU CAN ACTUALLY SAY THAT 54% OF THOSE WOULD ACTUALLY SAY THAT ACTUALLY IS A TAX INCREASE.

BUT INTERESTING ENOUGH, IF YOU LOOK AT THE BOTTOM PART.

YOU CAN SAID THAT 51% OF THOSE WOULD ACTUALLY STILL VOTE FOR THE BOND, 51%, EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE NOT NECESSARILY BELIEVING YOU ABOUT THE ACTUAL STATEMENT.

YOU STILL HAVE OVER HALF OF WHAT ACTUALLY VOTE FOR THE BOND ON PROP A, WHICH IS, TO ME INTERESTING.

THE NEXT SLIDE.

I'M NOT GOING TO GET INTO TOO MUCH.

AND I KNOW THOSE ARE REALLY HARD TO READ.

THIS IS THIS IS BASICALLY JUST DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE DIFFERENT ITEMS OF OF THE PROPOSITION THAT RESONATED WITH THE THE THE RESPONDENTS.

THIS IS I'M NOT GOING TO GET INTO IT, BUT THIS IS REGRESSION ANALYSIS AND CORRELATION.

AND SO BASICALLY WHAT I WANTED TO DO JUST GO THROUGH AND LOOK AT THE HIGHLIGHTS, BUT YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE WHAT REALLY RESONATED WITH THE RESPONDENTS.

AND REALLY ONE OF THE BIGGEST ONES WAS THE WILLIAMS HIGH SCHOOL.

THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT JUST REALLY MEANT A LOT TO ACTUALLY FINISH THAT

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PROJECT, I'M ASSUMING SINCE THAT WAS ONE OF OUR ORIGINAL HIGH SCHOOL, THAT RESONATED WITH A LOT OF OR MAYBE SOME OF OUR OLDER, OLDER FOLKS.

ALSO, YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THAT CAFETERIAS THAT WAS THAT WAS IMPORTANT.

YOU CAN ACTUALLY SAY THAT THE TRANSPORTATION CENTER, YOU KNOW, RICK AND MARSHALL TALKED A LOT ABOUT TRANSPORTATION THAT ACTUALLY RESONATED WITH A LOT OF THE VOTERS.

AND THEN FINALLY, YOU CAN LOOK AT THE QUESTION 22.

A LOT OF THE RESPONDENTS REALLY IT RESONATED THE FACT THAT IT WAS A MIXED CROSS SECTIONAL TASK FORCE COMMITTEE.

THEY APPRECIATED THA LEADERSHIP, THE BOARD AND LEADERSHIP ACTUALLY PICKED FOLKS TO SERVE ON THAT COMMUNITY THAT WAS CROSS SECTIONAL ACROSS ALL THREE CLUSTERS AND THAT THEY WERE MADE UP OF A DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS.

ON THE NEXT SLIDE.

THESE ARE JUST THE CONCLUSIONS TO THE ACTUAL SURVEY.

NUMBER ONE, OVERALL, STILL A POSITIVE PERCEPTION OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

NUMBER TWO IS THAT THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GENERAL THE INITIAL REACTION TO THE GENERAL BONDS AND THE TECHNOLOGY BONDS.

THE GENERAL PROVISION IS WHAT THAT IS.

YOU CAN ACTUALLY SAY THAT THERE WAS THERE WAS STRONG SUPPORT INITIALLY AND THEN IT ACTUALLY GREW WITH THOSE TWO EXCUSE ME, WITH THE EVENT CENTER IN THE STADIUM.

IT'S GOING TO BE A BIGGER CHALLENGE THERE.

THE INITIAL THE INITIAL BALLOT TEST WAS VERY, VERY WEAK.

YOU CAN SEE THAT IT WENT UP.

BUT YOU NEED.

IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE ACTUALLY REACH AND EDUCATE THE COMMUNITY SPECIFICALLY ON THOSE TWO PROPOSITIONS.

ON NUMBER THREE CONCLUSION, YOU CAN ACTUALLY SAY THAT THIS IS BASICALLY THEM TALKING ABOUT THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE INITIAL AND THEN THE DIFFERENCE IS WHENEVER THEY WERE INFORMED, IT TALKS A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT.

AND THE NUMBER FOUR, IT SAYS ONLY 29% OF THE RESPONDENTS SAY THEY BELIEVE TAX RATES WILL NOT INCREASE DESPITE WHAT THE BALLOT SAYS.

AND THEN YOU CAN SAY THAT THERE IS SENSITIVITY TO THE TEXT LANGUAGE.

BOTTOM LINE IS WITH THEM, I HAVEN'T ACTUALLY HAVING THIS IS A PROPERTY TAX INCREASE.

THAT'S A HURDLE.

AND THEN FINALLY, NUMBER FIVE, ALL PROJECTS AND ELEMENTS ON THE BOND ARE SUPPORTED BY A MAJORITY OF RESPONDENTS.

AND THEN WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT IS THE REGRESSION ANALYSIS.

WE'RE JUST TALKING ABOUT WHAT REALLY RESONATED WITH THE RESPONDENTS.

AND THEN FINALLY ON THE VERY LAST SHEET.

THESE ARE JUST ITEMS THAT ACTUALLY STOOD OUT AND ACTUALLY RESONATED.

IT'S BASICALLY JUST THE NARRATIVE OF WHAT YOU SAW A WHILE AGO AND THE REGRESSION ANALYSIS THAT WAS HIGHLIGHTED IN BLUE.

THIS IS THESE ARE THE ITEMS THAT ACTUALLY REALLY RESONATED WITH THE RESPONDENTS TALKING ABOUT WILLIAMS, TALKING ABOUT TRANSPORTATION CENTER, TALKING ABOUT KITCHENS AND DIVERSE STEERING COMMITTEE.

AND THEN JUST TALKING ABOUT THE INCREASES IN PROPERTY VALUES AND PAYING OFF THE DEBT EARLY.

KNOW THOSE TYPES OF THINGS REALLY RESONATED WITH THESE RESPONDENTS.

THAT IS THE SURVEY.

VERY, VERY QUICKLY, I'LL STOP THERE AND ANSWER ANY KIND OF QUESTIONS THAT YOU GUYS MIGHT HAVE ON THE SURVEY.

THANKS, JOHNNY.

ANY QUESTIONS? COMMENTS, COMPLAINTS, QUERIES, CONCERNS.

ANYONE? ONE OF THE THINGS I FOUND REALLY MOST INTERESTING IN THIS DATA IS THE PRETTY WIDE VARIANCE BETWEEN PARENTS AND NON-PARENTS ON SOME OF THESE, LIKE THE INITIAL BOND BALLOT, YOU KNOW, MORE THAN 10% FOR OR AGAINST ON PROP A AND SOME EVEN LARGER VARIANCES WHEN YOU START LOOKING AT THE EVENT CENTER AND THE ATHLETICS AND THIS SORT OF THING.

AND SO, I MEAN, I DON'T.

IT'S NOT REALLY A QUESTION JUST SO MUCH AS IN TRYING TO EDUCATE VOTERS, NOT ONLY TRYING TO EDUCATE PARENTS, BUT GET OUR PARENTS TO EDUCATE THEIR PARENTS WHO MAY BE LIVING IN THE COMMUNITY OR, YOU KNOW, FRIENDS AT CHURCH OR IN ROTARY OR WHOMEVER.

RIGHT.

LIKE TRYING TO GET PARENTS WHO ARE EDUCATED TO THEN EDUCATE OTHERS MAY BE, YOU KNOW, REALLY CRITICAL.

TO GETTING THE WIDER COMMUNITY MORE EDUCATED.

YEAH, I THINK THAT'S A SIGN OF OUR COMMUNITY AND THE AGING OF OUR COMMUNITY.

WELL, I WAS GOING TO ADD, JUST IN TERMS OF THE ATTENTION SPAN THAT THEY HAD, PEOPLE THAT WOULD DO A 16 TO 17 MINUTE SURVEY.

THAT'S AN INVESTMENT IN TIME.

AND I THINK BEING ABLE TO BOIL DOWN SOME OF THESE REALLY IMPORTANT NARRATIVES THAT INFLUENCED DIFFERENT PEOPLE TAKING THE SURVEY.

I THINK IF YOU ONLY HAVE A MINUTE, YOU KNOW, BEING ABLE TO HAVE THREE OR FOUR TALKING POINTS, THAT'S STILL GOING TO BE MUCH MORE OR MUCH BETTER GOING INTO THE BALLOT BOX COMPARED TO NOTHING, AND ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET 16 MINUTES OF SOMEBODY'S TIME.

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IT'S GOOD TO KNOW WHAT RESONATES WITH PEOPLE.

ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU, JOHNNY.

YES, SIR.

DON'T GO FAR.

OH.

HE'S FROZEN.

AM I FROZEN ON THE SCREEN? OH, YOU'RE BACK.

YEAH.

WE THOUGHT MAYBE YOU DIDN'T DO YOUR HOMEWORK AND THAT YOU'RE TRYING TO FAKE US OUT BECAUSE YOU'RE NEXT ON 8.3.

[8.3. Benefits of a Voter-Approved Tax Rate Election (VATRE) Presenter: Johnny Hill, Deputy Superintendent for Business and Employee Services]

AND WE'RE GOING TO NOW TALK ABOUT WE'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM JONNY ANOTHER REPORT REGARDING THE BENEFITS OF A VOTER APPROVED TAX RATE ELECTION.

SO I THINK THIS IS I'M JUST GOING TO JUMP RIGHT IN.

STOP ME IF YOU'VE GOT QUESTIONS.

THIS IS OBVIOUSLY THE WHAT USED TO BE CALLED A TRE OR TAX RATIFICATION ELECTION WITH 2019 CHANGED THE ACTUAL TITLE TO A VOTER APPROVED TAX RATIFICATION ELECTION.

SO I THINK, FIRST OF ALL, IT'S SUPER IMPORTANT THAT YOU ANSWER THE QUESTION OR WE ANSWER THE QUESTION OF WHY? WHY WOULD WE BE CONSIDERING THIS? AND I THINK YOU KNOW WE TALK THE MAJORITY OF THE NIGHT ABOUT ON THE CAPITAL PROJECT SIDE THE BOND SIDE.

THIS IS ACTUALLY HITTING THE MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONAL SIDE.

WE KNOW THAT ON THE ON THE DEBT SIDE, ON THE CAPITAL PROJECTS, THE BOND SIDE THAT WE DON'T HAVE WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY OR WORRY ABOUT THE THE EFFECTS OF RECAPTURE.

THIS IS THE MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONAL SIDE.

AND WE DO HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE RECAPTURE.

SO OBVIOUSLY ALWAYS IT'S TO ME IT'S REALLY STRANGE BECAUSE WE TALK ABOUT HAVING A LOT OF CAPACITY ON OUR DEBT SIDE, BUT HAVING ALMOST NO CAPACITY BECAUSE OF RECAPTURE ON OUR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS SIDE.

SO I WANT TO SPEND JUST A FEW MINUTES TALKING ABOUT HOW WE CAN MAXIMIZE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HOW WE CAN MAXIMIZE OUR CAPITAL, OUR BOND FUND.

BUT IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE TRY TO MAXIMIZE WHAT WE CAN DO ON OUR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONAL SIDE, TOO.

AND SO THAT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO ANSWER THE QUESTION WHY.

NUMBER ONE IS WHY WOULD WE LOOK AT MAXIMIZING M&O TAX RATE? NUMBER ONE IS WE ARE DEALING WITH THIS PRETTY GOOD, PRETTY LARGE BUDGET DEFICIT.

THAT'S NOT GOING TO GO AWAY.

WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO PROACTIVELY MANAGE IT, NOT MANAGING NOT ONLY FROM ONE AT ONE POINT, BUT MANAGING IT FROM MULTIPLE POINTS.

THIS IS ONE WAY WE CAN ACTUALLY HELP AND ASSIST IN THAT IS BASICALLY DOING A VATRE OR MAXIMIZING OUR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONAL TAX RATE.

HOW DO WE DO THAT? WE GENERATE BASICALLY NINE MORE MILLION DOLLARS ANNUALLY ON OUR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONAL SIDE.

THAT'S WHAT WE GET TO TAKE IN NET REVENUE AS A RESULT OF A LATER ELECTION.

SO IT DOES HELP ON OUR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONAL BUDGET.

IT HELPS WITH THE DEFICIT.

ADDITIONALLY, WE KNOW THAT WE WILL BE LOSING OUR ESSER TWO AND ESSER THREE MONIES AND YOU CAN SEE ESSER TWO MONIES GOES AWAY IN 22, 20 OR 23, 24.

ESSER THREE MONIES GO AWAY IN 24, 25.

THOSE ARE SUPPLEMENTING OUR LOCAL OPERATING BUDGETS, AND THOSE WILL ACTUALLY BE GOING AWAY $17 MILLION OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS.

AND SO THIS WOULD ACTUALLY HELP OFFSET THE LOSS OF THOSE FEDERAL MONIES.

THOSE WHAT WE'RE SPENDING THOSE MONIES FOR, THOSE THINGS DO NOT GO AWAY.

BUT THE FUNDING WILL GO AWAY.

SO WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO TO SUPPLEMENT THE LOSS OF THOSE FEDERAL MONIES.

AND THEN WE KNOW THAT AT THE BOTTOM OF THAT SHEET THAT WE WANT TO CONTINUE TO OFFER QUALITY PROGRAMS FOR OUR STUDENTS.

ONE WAY TO DO THAT IS IN ORDER TO HAVE THE FUNDING SOURCES THERE TO TAKE CARE OF OUR STUDENTS.

AND THEN FINALLY, WE KNOW ON COMPETITIVE IN QUALITY WORKFORCE THAT IT TAKES MONEY TO TO ACTUALLY ATTRACT AND TRAIN AND RETAIN QUALITY STAFF.

IT ACTUALLY TAKES A COMPETITIVE SALARY.

SO THIS IS ONE THING WE TALKED ABOUT ON THE BONDS THAT YOU COULDN'T ACTUALLY USE THE BOND MONEYS TO PAY FOR STAFF.

WELL, THIS IS MONIES THAT YOU CAN ACTUALLY USE TO PAY FOR STAFF.

AND SO IT'S HITTING THOSE NEEDS.

ON THE NEXT SLIDE.

THE QUESTION THAT CAME UP SEVERAL, I GUESS SEVERAL MONTHS AGO WHEN WE STARTED TALKING ABOUT THIS WAS WHAT IS THIS ACTUALLY GOING TO DO? WHAT IS THIS SPECIFIC ELECTION? HOW IS IT ACTUALLY GOING TO AFFECT WHERE ARE YOU KIND OF COMING UP WITH THE MILLION DOLLARS THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, JOHNNY? AND THIS IS BASICALLY THE ANALYSIS AFTER CERTIFIED VALUES OF WITHOUT THE VATRE.

AND WITH THE VATRE, BOTTOM LINE IS YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THAT YOUR TAXES, YOUR CURRENT TAXES WILL GO UP AS A RESULT OF THIS VATRE.

IT'LL GO UP ABOUT $20.5 MILLION.

YOU CAN SEE THAT RECAPTURE GOES UP ABOUT 11.5.

AND THEN NET WHAT WE ACTUALLY GET TO TAKE HOME AND SPEND IN OUR OPERATING BUDGET, THE NET AMOUNT IS A LITTLE OVER $9 MILLION.

ON THE NEXT SLIDE.

I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW, AND THAT IS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MAXIMIZING OUR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONAL TAXES.

SO IT'S IMPORTANT TO SAY, WELL, HOW ARE WE HIGHER THAN ANYBODY ELSE IN OUR TAX RATES? IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE COMPARE OURSELVES TO OUR PEER DISTRICTS, AND THAT'S

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WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE IN COLLIN COUNTY.

THIS IS HOW WE ACTUALLY HOW WE ACTUALLY COMPARE.

WE ACTUALLY ARE COMPARING VERY, VERY FAVORABLE.

WE ARE SECOND TO THE LOWEST.

AND IN COLLIN COUNTY, THIS IS 21 TO 22.

OBVIOUSLY, OVER THE NEXT MONTH OR TWO, ALL OF THESE DISTRICTS WILL BE SETTING THEIR NEW TAX RATE.

WE WILL BE VERY FAVORABLE EVEN AFTER WE SET THIS NEXT TAX RATES.

I KNOW WE'LL BE NUMBER TWO.

I THINK WE'LL BE MAKING HOPEFULLY MAKING IT AROUND FRISCO.

SO THE NEXT SLIDE.

THIS IS OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS.

HOW HAVE WE ACTUALLY DONE WITH THE TAX RATE? AND YOU CAN SEE JUST OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS, A DECREASE IN THE TAX RATE IS ABOUT $0.18.

THAT'S REALLY, REALLY GOOD.

I WILL SAY A LOT OF IT HAS TO DO WITH A HOUSE BILL THREE IN TAX COMPRESSION LAWS.

AND I CAN STOP AND TALK ABOUT THAT A WHILE, BUT I WON'T TO NIGHT.

BUT THE RESULTS OF HOUSE BILL THREE TAX COMPRESSION LAWS, WHICH SIMPLY SAYS OVER 10% INCREASE IN VALUES, YOU'VE GOT TO START DECREASING YOUR TAX RATE.

THIS IS THE RESULT OF THAT.

THAT'S NOT GOING AWAY, AT LEAST FOR THE NEXT SESSION BECAUSE OF THE SURPLUS.

THE LEGISLATORS ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO BUY DOWN WHAT THEY CALL BUY DOWN THAT TAX RATE.

SO I CAN SEE OUR TAX RATE CONTINUING TO DECREASE OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS.

THE NEXT SLIDE.

SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE ACTUALLY TALK ALL OF THE COMPONENTS.

I KNOW THIS IS A REALLY, REALLY BUSY SLIDE, BUT I DO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE TALK ABOUT WHAT EXACTLY IS GOING UP AND WHAT'S GOING DOWN.

THIS IS A COMPARISON OF 20 TO 23, THE OVERALL TAX RATE AND COMPARING IT WITH THE PRIOR YEAR, YOU CAN SEE JUST AT THE OVERALL TAX RATE ON THE ROWS TOWARD THE BOTTOM, YOU SEE THE DOLLAR 32075.

THAT'S WHAT THE TAX RATE IS FOR 21, 22.

YOU CAN SEE THAT THE PROPOSED TAX RATE FOR THIS NEXT YEAR WITH THE VATRE IS $1.25 975.

THAT IS A DECREASE OF 6.1 CENTS WITH A SUCCESSFUL VATRE, THE TAX RATE WOULD GO DOWN 6.1 CENTS.

AND YOU COULD ACTUALLY LOOK AT THE DIFFERENT COMPONENTS AND SEE WHERE THAT'S HAPPENING.

JUST TO GO UP AND LOOK THE 6.1 CENTS, THIS IS KEEPING THE INTEGRITY OF WHAT SENATE BILL TWO WITH TAX COMPRESSION LAWS.

THIS IS KEEPING THAT INTEGRITY IN PLACE WITH THE VALUES GOING UP OVER TWO AND A HALF PERCENT TAX RATE STARTS GOING DOWN ACCORDINGLY.

THE EFFECT OF THAT IS A 6.1 TAX COMPRESSION.

THE ONLY OTHER DIFFERENCE HERE IS WE KNOW WE'RE GOING TO MAXIMIZE OR WE'RE TRYING TO MAXIMIZE THE TIER TWO LEVEL TOO THOSE IN RISK PENNIES.

SO WE'RE INCREASING THAT TO THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT SINCE WE'RE TAKING THAT 3.165 THAT WE'RE INCREASING ON THE M&O SIDE AND WE'RE DECREASING IT ON THE INSIDE.

AND BY DOING THAT, BOTTOM LINE IS WE ARE ACTUALLY KEEPING THE INTEGRITY OF THE TEXT COMPRESSION IN PLACE AT 6.1% DECREASE.

SO IT'S GOOD FOR OUR TAXPAYERS, BUT IT'S REALLY GOOD FOR OUR BUDGET AND FOR OUR STUDENTS AND STAFF BECAUSE AS A RESULT OF THAT, JUST LOOKING AT THIS HOLISTICALLY, WE ACTUALLY GENERATE A NET OF NINE ADDITIONAL MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR TO OUR BUDGET.

I THINK, MR. WEAVER, A BOARD MEMBER WAIVER HAD ACTUALLY ASKED THIS QUESTION THE LAST TIME I BROUGHT THIS UP, AND SO I WANTED TO MAKE SURE I ANSWERED IT.

AND THAT'S ON THE NEXT SLIDE.

AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS IF THIS IS UNSUCCESSFUL.

SO WE GO TO NOVEMBER AND WE ACTUALLY HAVE THE ELECTION AND THE ELECTION FAILS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS.

WELL, EVERYTHING STAYS EXACTLY THE SAME WITH THE EXCEPTION OF YOUR M&O TAX RATE.

THAT TIER TWO, LEVEL TWO HAS TO BE ROLLED BACK TO WHAT IT WAS PRIOR TO THE ELECTION.

SO BEFORE, YOU KNOW, IT WAS GOING TO GO 9 CENTS, NOW IT ROLLS BACK TO WHAT THE RATE WAS IN 2000, 20, 21, 22.

THE 5.8 $0.03.

WHAT THAT DOES TO THE BOTTOM LINE IS, INSTEAD OF GOING DOWN THE 6.1 CENTS, YOU'RE ACTUALLY GOING DOWN THE 9.2 TO $0.06, BASICALLY 9.3 CENTS.

NOW, THE UNFORTUNATE PART ABOUT THAT IS YOU LOSE OUT, THE DISTRICT LOSES OUT ON $9 MILLION.

SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR A RESIDENTIAL HOMEOWNER.

I THINK WE NEED TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION AND THAT'S ON THE NEXT SLIDE.

SO IN OUR DISTRICT, I'LL JUST TELL YOU AN AVERAGE HOMEOWNER IS A LITTLE BIT OVER 500,000.

SO I JUST WANTED TO RUN THE NUMBERS THAT ACTUALLY TO SHOW YOU WHAT THIS WOULD ACTUALLY MEAN FOR A HOMEOWNER YOU'VE GOT.

EXCUSE ME.

YOU'VE GOT THE $500,000 HOUSE.

21 22 AT THE TAX RATE OF $1.32075 WOULD MEAN PISD TAX LIABILITY OF $6,075.

WITH THE VATRE WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT GOING DOWN THE SIX CENTS THAT WOULD MAKE

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THE OVERALL TAX RATE WITH A VATRE OF A DOLLAR 25 975.

THAT WOULD ACTUALLY HAVE A TAX LIABILITY OF 5,007.95, WHICH IS A DECREASE OF ABOUT $280.60.

SO BASICALLY, JUST AS A RESULT OF THE TAX RATE GOING DOWN, THAT 6.1 CENTS, JUST AS A RESULT OF THE TAX RATE GOING DOWN, THAT THE AVERAGE HOMEOWNER WOULD ACTUALLY HAVE A DECREASE OF ABOUT $280.60.

NOW, WITHOUT THE VADER, IT WOULD ACTUALLY BE A LITTLE BIT MORE.

IT WOULD BE THAT 9.3 CENTS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT, WHICH WOULD ACTUALLY BE A DIFFERENCE IN TAX LIABILITY OF 400 AND BASICALLY $26.

SO THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A FOR A HOMEOWNER, BETWEEN A SUCCESSFUL VADER AND AN UNSUCCESSFUL VADER IS ABOUT $145 A YEAR.

THAT'S ON AN AVERAGE HOMEOWNER, $145 A YEAR.

IF YOU DIVIDE THAT BY 12 MONTHS AND DIVIDE IT BY FOUR WEEKS TO GET A WEEKLY DOLLAR AMOUNT, IT'S RIGHT AT $3 A WEEK FOR AN AVERAGE HOMEOWNER, ABOUT $3 A WEEK, WHICH IS I MEAN, I CAN'T EVEN BUY A HAPPY MEAL AT MCDONALD'S FOR THAT.

AND SO BASICALLY IT'S A FAST FOOD MEAL PER WEEK IS THE SAVINGS TO A AN AVERAGE RESIDENTIAL HOMEOWNER, BUT THE COST WOULD BE ABOUT $9 MILLION ANNUALLY TO OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT.

SO I WANTED TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE UNDERSTOOD THE IMPLICATIONS.

ON THE NEXT ON THE NEXT SLIDE.

I THINK THIS IS ALSO IMPORTANT BECAUSE I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT YOU LOOK AT THE BALLOT AND WHAT THE VOTERS WILL ACTUALLY BE LOOKING AT.

THIS IS JUST A DRAFT COPY OF A SAMPLE BALLOT.

AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE SPEND JUST A FEW MINUTES TALKING ABOUT IT BECAUSE JUST LIKE WITH THE BALLOT ON THE BOND ELECTION, THIS IS EXTREMELY CONFUSING TO ME AND REALLY NOT VERY FAIR.

FOR DISTRICTS THAT DO NOT PAY RECAPTURE, IT'S A VERY STRAIGHTFORWARD FORM TO FILL OUT BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE GROSS TAXES.

TO THEM WOULD BE EXACTLY WHAT THEY'RE COLLECTING AND GETTING SPENT.

FOR DISTRICTS LIKE PLANO ISD, AUSTIN ISD, DISTRICTS LIKE US.

THE BALLOT IS REQUIRING THAT YOU SHOW GROSS TAXES, NOT ONLY GROSS TAXES AS FOR THE VATRE ELECTION, BUT GROSS TAXES AS COMPARED WITH THE PRIOR YEAR.

IN OUR CASE AND I'LL SHOW YOU THE CALCULATION IN A SECOND, THIS IS NOT TAKING INTO ACCOUNT RECAPTURE AT ALL.

IT SIMPLY IS THE GROSS TAXES YEAR OVER YEAR.

AND A BIG PORTION OF THAT, OVER HALF OF THAT IS STRICTLY WITH CERTIFIED VALUES GOING UP.

AND RECAPTURE GOING.

OBVIOUSLY, WE'RE ONLY GETTING ABOUT $9 MILLION OF THIS AMOUNT.

BUT WHAT GOES IN THIS BALLOT IS $43.2 MILLION.

SO LET'S GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE AND I'LL SHOW YOU WHERE WE'RE GETTING THE 43.2 MILLION.

OBVIOUSLY AT THE TOP YOU'VE GOT WHAT THE TAXES WERE FOR 21, 22 COMPARED WITH WHAT THEY ARE WITH OUR CERTIFIED VALUES THAT WE RECEIVED ON THE 18TH OF JULY.

YOU CAN SEE THAT JUST BECAUSE OF VALUES GOING UP, OUR TAXES WILL BE GOING UP ALMOST $23 MILLION.

BUT YOU CAN ALSO SEE THAT RECAPTURE IS GOING UP.

OVER $23 MILLION WERE ACTUALLY JUST BECAUSE OF CERTIFIED VALUES GOING UP AND RECAPTURE GOING UP.

WE'RE LOSING ABOUT $700,000.

JUST IN THAT CALCULATION, WE HAVE NO CONTROL OVER THAT.

THAT IS SET BY THE CENTRAL APPRAISAL DISTRICT AND TAX COMPRESSION LAWS.

WE HAVE ZERO CONTROL OVER THAT.

SO OUT OF THAT 43 MILLION, ALMOST 23 OF THAT IS IN GROSS TAXES.

THAT IS PART OF THAT OF THIS SECTION RIGHT HERE IN THE MIDDLE SECTION.

THIS IS WHAT THE VATRE ELECTION WILL ACTUALLY BE DETERMINING.

AND THIS IS WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT A WHILE AGO.

YOU CAN SEE THAT THE CURRENT TAXES ARE GOING UP TO 20.5 MILLION, THE RECAPTURE IS GOING UP 11.5.

AND THEN THE NET AMOUNT THAT ACTUALLY COMES BACK TO THE DISTRICT IS A LITTLE OVER 9 MILLION.

SO BASICALLY TO GET TO THE $43.2 MILLION WERE SIMPLY COMPARING.

GROSS TAXES AS COMPARED WITH 21 22 AMENDED BUDGET WHERE WE ENDED THE YEAR AND THEN WHERE WE ARE, WHERE WE WILL BE WITH GROSS TAXES, WITH THE SUCCESSFUL VATRE.

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE GROSS TAXES IS THE $43.2 MILLION, AND THAT'S WHAT HAS TO BE ON THAT BALLOT.

SO THERE IS EDUCATION THAT'S GOING TO HAVE TO GO ON WITH THE VATRE ELECTION AS WELL.

THE NEXT SLIDE.

THIS IS THE JUST THE CALENDAR OF EVENTS THAT MAKING SURE THAT WE ACTUALLY MEET ALL OF THE DEADLINES AS THEY COME DUE.

EVERYTHING THAT'S BEEN GRADED OUT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED.

AND YOU CAN SEE AT THIS POINT, 78 DAYS PRIOR TO THE ELECTION, THE ORDER OF ELECTION HAS TO BE CALLED BY THE BOARD IN ORDER TO HOLD AN ELECTION ON NOVEMBER THE EIGHTH.

AND THAT DEADLINE, THAT 78 DAY IS AUGUST THE 22ND.

SO THIS WILL BE AN AGENDA ITEM ON THE 16TH OF AUGUST FOR BOARD AGENDA.

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OBVIOUSLY GOING ON DOWN.

THE ELECTION WILL BE HELD ON NOVEMBER THE EIGHTH.

THE NEXT SLIDE IS JUST QUESTIONS.

SO I KNOW THAT'S A LOT OF INFORMATION AND I'LL STOP AND ANSWER ANY KIND OF QUESTIONS THAT YOU GUYS MIGHT HAVE ON ANY OF THESE SLIDES.

I HAVE ONE QUESTION.

JOHNNY? YES, SIR.

ON A.

FOR THE BOND LANGUAGE REGARDING.

LET'S SEE THE.

INS TAX DECREASE.

I KNOW ON OTHER BONDS OR OTHER BOND LANGUAGE IT SAYS THIS IS A TAX INCREASE.

DOES IT SAY THIS IS A TAX DECREASE ON THE INS REDUCTION? NO, SIR.

NO, BECAUSE.

NO, IT DOES NOT.

AND THE REASON WHY IT DOESN'T, BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT THEY'RE NOT TAKING RECAPTURE INTO ACCOUNT HERE.

THEY'RE ACTUALLY BECAUSE WE ACTUALLY HAVE TO TAKE ALL OF THE TAXES AND WE RECORD IT AS REVENUE, AND THEN WE RECORD THE INCREASE IN RECAPTURE AS EXPENSES.

I MEAN, THE ONLY THING THAT THE BALLOT IS ACTUALLY CALCULATING AND FIGURING IS THAT GROSS TAXES AMOUNTS.

YOU KNOW, I GET THAT.

BUT THERE'S GOING TO BE TWO THINGS THEY'RE VOTING ON, RIGHT? THEY'RE VOTING ON THE VATER, WHICH WOULD INCREASE THE M&O AND THEN THEY'D ALSO BE VOTING ON A REDUCTION.

OR DO THEY NOT HAVE TO VOTE ON REDUCING? THEY WILL.

THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.

I UNDERSTAND YOUR QUESTION NOW.

SO OBVIOUSLY, THEY WILL BE VOTING ON THE OVERALL TAX RATE, THE DOLLAR 25 975 BUT THAT THE INS RATE IS ACTUALLY SET BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

IT'S YOU ACTUALLY SET THAT AND IT'S ACTUALLY WHATEVER YOU SET THAT AT IT'S GOING TO BE THAT FOR THE NEXT YEAR.

AND DO WE SET THAT? RELATIVELY YOU'LL SET THAT TAX RATE AT THE AUGUST 16TH BOARD BOARD MEETING.

SIR.

SO PRIOR TO THE ELECTION.

YES, SIR.

YOU'RE REQUIRED TO SET THAT ONCE THE CERTIFIED VALUES COME OUT, WHICH WE RECEIVED THEM ON THE 18TH OF JULY.

YOU HAVE 60 DAYS IN ORDER TO SET THOSE RATES.

NORMALLY THAT'S DONE IN SEPTEMBER, BUT BECAUSE OF THE UPCOMING ELECTIONS, YOU'VE GOT TO SET IT BY THE 78 DAYS PRIOR TO THAT ELECTION, WHICH WOULD BE YOU HAVE A DEADLINE BY AUGUST THE 22ND OF THIS YEAR.

THANK YOU, JOHNNY.

YES, SIR.

THANKS, JOHNNY.

I THINK YOU KNOW, THE ONE THING THAT STICKS OUT TO ME WITH THE SURVEY RESULTS FOR THE WHOLE EVENING.

RIGHT, BECAUSE THIS IS ALL KIND OF CONNECTED, IS THAT THERE'S AN EDUCATION COMPONENT TO BE ABLE TO TELL OUR TAXPAYERS THAT WHEN THEY SAY, WAIT A MINUTE, YOU'RE TELLING ME I CAN GET $1.5 BILLION IN BOND DEBT AND AN INCREASE M&O BY $9 MILLION AND STILL HAVE A TAX RATE DECREASE OF $0.06.

AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO SHOW THEM AND EDUCATE THEM THAT, YES, THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE ARE TELLING YOU WE CAN DO SO.

ALL RIGHT.

OTHER QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD.

ALL RIGHT.

THAT.

THANKS, JOHNNY, ON THAT.

YOUR MARATHON OF PRESENTATIONS HAS COME TO A CLOSE.

WE ARE NOW AT 8.4.

OUR NEXT REPORT IS THE BACK TO SCHOOL PLAN.

[8.4. Back to School Plan Presenter: Dr. Selenda Anderson, Deputy Superintendent for Leadership and Operations]

AND THIS IS OUR FINAL REPORT OF THE NIGHT BEFORE THE MEETING REALLY GETS INTERESTING.

AND SO WE'RE GOING TO TURN THIS OVER TO SELENDA.

THANK YOU, PRESIDENT STOLLE, BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

COMING IN LAST, BUT LAST BUT NOT LEAST, I WANTED TO TALK BRIEFLY ABOUT OUR BACK TO SCHOOL PLAN.

OUR PARENTS ARE GOING TO BE RECEIVING THIS INFORMATION THIS WEEK.

AND SO WE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE IMPORTANT TO JUST GIVE YOU A BRIEF UPDATE ON WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO BE RECEIVING.

OUR BACK TO SCHOOL PLAN THIS YEAR IS BROKEN UP INTO THREE SECTIONS.

WE HAVE SOME GENERAL INFORMATION.

WE HAVE AN EMPHASIS ON THE SAFETY AND SECURITY AND THEN OUR HEALTH PROTOCOLS.

IN SECTION ONE, WE HAVE A LOT OF GENERAL INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES SUCH AS THE SCHOOL CALENDAR, ATTENDANCE, STUDENT SERVICES AND INSTRUCTIONAL INFORMATION JUST TO NAME A FEW.

AND THEN WE HAVE A LOT OF LINKS.

ONE IMPORTANT THING THAT I'D LIKE TO JUST BRING UP, BECAUSE THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR FAMILIES, IS THAT WE WE NO LONGER HAVE THE WAIVER FROM THE US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

OR YOU MIGHT REMEMBER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO RECEIVE OR PROVIDE FREE LUNCH FOR ALL OF OUR STUDENTS.

THAT WAIVER HAS EXPIRED AND SO PLANO ISD IS GOING TO BE RESUMING CHARGING PARENTS FOR MEALS.

STUDENT ELIGIBILITY GOES BACK TO THE FREE AND OR THE FEDERAL MEAL APPLICATION AND

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PARENTS WILL NEED TO ACCESS THAT ON THE WEBSITE OR THROUGH THEIR PARENT PORTAL.

IT'S A REAL EASY APPLICATION, DOESN'T TAKE A LOT OF TIME, SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE PARENTS TO GO AND FILL THAT OUT AND JUST GET THAT TAKEN CARE OF BEFORE SCHOOL STARTS.

IN SECTION TWO OF OUR BACK TO SCHOOL PLAN, WE ARE COVERING A VARIETY OF TOPICS FOR PARENTS REGARDING PROTOCOLS AND RESOURCES.

WE'VE SPENT SOME TIME OVER THIS SUMMER ASSESSING AND UPDATING PIECES TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR CAMPUS ADMINISTRATORS AND STAFF ARE EQUIPPED TO BEGIN THE SCHOOL YEAR.

VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT PROTOCOLS AND WHAT TO DO IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY.

OUR CAMPUS STAFF WILL USE THE FIRST FEW DAYS OF SCHOOL TO TRAIN THEIR STUDENTS AND CONDUCT REQUIRED DRILLS THAT WE MUST DO WITHIN THE FIRST TEN DAYS OF THE SCHOOL YEAR.

PARENTS WILL BE ABLE TO ACCESS THIS BACK TO SCHOOL MANUAL FOR THE MOST UPDATED INFORMATION, AND THEY CAN ALSO VISIT THE DISTRICT WEBSITE AND SPECIFICALLY THE SAFETY AND SECURITY WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION.

WE ALSO HAVE OUR NEW DIRECTOR OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND SAFE SCHOOLS, MANDY MURPHY, AND SHE IS HERE WITH US TONIGHT TO JUST BRIEFLY REVIEW SOME OF THOSE VERY SPECIFIC THINGS AND OUR BACK TO SCHOOL PLAN REGARDING SAFETY AND SECURITY FOR OUR FAMILIES.

THANKS, MANDY.

FIRST OF ALL THIS.

ABOUT.

ON A REGULAR BASIS.

AND WE'RE SPENDING MOST OF OUR TIME IN MITIGATION, PREPAREDNESS AND PREVENTION.

I WANT YOU TO START GOING BOTTOM UP, PARTNERING WITH OUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THEN MONITORING OUR DRILLS AND OUR TRAININGS.

AUDITING THOSE CAMPUSES AND MAKING THE UPGRADES AS WE LEARN IS WHAT WE'RE DOING.

THE TRAINING IS A LOT, AND IT'S LOOKING PAST JUST THE SRP.

IT'S LOOKING TO GO PAST JUST A SET PLAN AND REALLY PERSONALIZING IT FOR EACH OF OUR CAMPUSES AND FOR OUR STUDENTS.

EACH OF THESE PROACTIVE MEASURES SAY SOMETHING.

KEEPING OUR DOORS LOCKED ARE THINGS THAT YOU'VE ALREADY BEEN DOING, BUT WE'RE UPGRADING IT.

WE REALLY NEED OUR STUDENTS TO UNDERSTAND HOW IMPORTANT THEY ARE IN HELPING US IDENTIFY STUDENTS THAT NEED HELP.

THEY NEED SOMEONE TO STEP IN AND AND INTEGRATE WITH THEM QUICKLY TO HELP THEM MAKE BETTER DECISIONS.

KEEPING THE DOORS LOCKED IS SOMETHING YOU'VE BEEN DOING ALREADY, BUT WE'RE SAYING IT'S A NON NEGOTIABLE.

THE EXTERIOR DOORS WILL BE LOCKED.

NOTHING'S PROPPED OUTSIDE OF THE BUILDINGS EVER.

AND OUR CLASSROOM DOORS ARE GOING TO BE LOCKED AT ALL TIMES.

AND IT'S A HARDSHIP, BUT IT'S SOMETHING YOU ALL SHOULD HAVE SEEN.

THE PRINCIPALS GO TO WORK IMMEDIATELY ON HOW WE CAN MAKE THAT WORK.

AGAIN, THIS IS ANOTHER THING THAT PLANO ISD HAS HAD IN PLACE, IS HAVING THOSE VIDEOS OF THOSE CAMERAS, BUT WE'RE WORKING ON REALLY UPGRADING THAT.

JUST IN USING WHAT WE ALREADY HAVE MORE EFFICIENTLY.

BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS IS WHAT TEACHERS DO BEST.

AND SO WE'RE JUST REMINDING THEM HOW IMPORTANT THAT IS.

YOUR FRONT DOORS HAVE THE MONITORS SO THAT PEOPLE CAN SPEAK TO THEM AS THEY'RE COMING UP.

THE BEHAVIOR THREAT ASSESSMENT SYSTEM WAS PUT INTO PLACE EARLIER.

IT'S BEEN THERE WITH US IN TEXAS IN GENERAL.

BUT YOU'RE SEEING ALL OF US ACROSS THE STATE REALLY TRYING TO UPGRADE THE PROCESSES OF THAT, MAKING SURE WE'VE GOT THE RIGHT PEOPLE ON THE COMMITTEES TO ONCE THOSE KIDDOS TELL US, HEY, SOMEBODY'S GOT AN ISSUE GOING ON OR WE'RE SEEING THEM NOT CONNECT WITH OTHER PEOPLE, WE'RE GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE REFERRING AND ASSESSING AND SUPPORTING.

AGAIN.

RAPTOR, YOU'VE HAD RAPTOR.

IT'S A GREAT PROGRAM.

WE'RE JUST GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE USING IT EXACTLY THE WAY IT NEEDS TO BE.

AUDITS ARE SOMETHING THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING ACROSS THE STATE.

YOUR YOUR CAMPUSES HAVE BEEN AUDITED ONCE EVERY THREE YEARS.

AND THEY'RE ALL GETTING AN AUDIT RIGHT NOW.

THEY'RE DOING AN AUDIT ON THEIR CAMPUSES, AND WE'RE DOING EXTERIOR DOORS RIGHT NOW.

AND THAT WILL CONTINUE ON THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL YEAR.

SO WE'RE GOING TO MAKE SURE WE'VE GOT AN ACTION PLAN.

WE'RE GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'VE GOT IMPLEMENTATION GOING ON.

BUT THE COMMUNICATION PIECE IS GOING TO BE HUGE TO US.

AND SO WE ARE REALLY FOCUSING ON THESE THREE BOXES OF COMMUNICATION.

ONCE SCHOOL GETS GOING, YOU WILL HEAR MORE FROM US ABOUT REALLY REACHING OUT TO OUR FAMILIES AND OUR COMMUNITY.

WE'VE GOT TO GET OUR TEACHERS READY RIGHT NOW.

WE'VE GOT TO GET OUR STUDENTS IN THE BUILDING.

THIS IS SOMETHING Y'ALL ARE GETTING USED TO SEE, RIGHT? Y'ALL KNOW THAT IT'S FIVE INSTEAD OF FOUR AND OUR STUDENTS ARE GOING TO KNOW IT WELL, TOO.

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I DESCRIBE THE STANDARD RESPONSE PROTOCOL.

I'M GOING TO GO BACK TO COACHING YEARS.

THIS IS A BASIC OFFENSE.

WHEN YOU'VE GOT A BASIC OFFENSE, EVERYBODY'S GOT TO KNOW WHAT THEY'VE GOT TO DO TO MAKE IT EVEN BETTER.

COMMUNICATION IS THE FIRST THING THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE WORKING ON TO IMPROVE.

THOSE ARE THE WAY WE'RE GOING TO DO IT.

OUR NEXT STEPS, YOU KNOW, LET'S SAY WE CALL AN EVACUATION.

TEACHERS NEED TO KNOW WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO DO, THAT EVACUATION, BUT THEY'VE GOT TO KNOW WHAT THEIR NEXT STEPS ARE.

WHAT AM I GOING TO DO IF THERE REALLY IS AN EMERGENCY? WHO AM I TALKING TO? WHO ARE MY TEAMS OF PEOPLE THAT I'M WORKING WITH? AND WE'RE GOING TO DEBRIEF AFTER EVERY TIME WE DO A DRILL, WE'RE GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE REPORTING ON THE THINGS THAT WE DID WELL.

WE'RE GOING TO KNOW THAT WE'RE USING OUR TACTICS FOR WHAT WE KNOW BECAUSE OF WHERE WE ARE.

THAT'S GOING TO CHANGE WHERE WE ARE.

WE'RE ACTING AS FAR AS OUR ENVIRONMENT.

THESE ARE THE NEW THINGS THAT ARE COMING INTO PLAY, AND THEY'RE ALREADY WORKING RIGHT NOW.

OUR ONGOING TRAINING HAS ALREADY STARTED.

PRINCIPALS WILL BE IMPLEMENTING THAT WITH TEACHERS THIS WEEK.

OUR EMERGENCY COMMUNITIES ARE MONITORING OUR PROCESS AND WE'LL BE COLLABORATING WITH FOLKS THAT CAN HELP GUIDE AND DIRECT US AS WELL.

OUR DEBRIEF EXPECTATIONS IS GOING TO BE WE'RE GOING TO FOLLOW UP WITH EVERYTHING WE DO.

AND WE'VE GOT THOSE NON-NEGOTIABLES.

WE'RE WEARING OUR BADGES.

OUR VISITORS ARE GOING TO BE COMING TO OUR FRONT DOORS.

THEY'RE GOING TO BE FOLLOWING OUR PROTOCOLS, AND WE'RE ALWAYS GOING TO BE IMPLEMENTING THE CHANGES WE NEED TO.

COMMUNICATION IS HUGE, ESPECIALLY IF WE CALL A DRILL.

IF SOMETHING HAPPENS, THIS IS GOING TO BE THE PLACES THAT WE'RE GOING TO MAKE IT A HIGH STANDARD FOR US TO COMMUNICATE.

THE BIGGEST THING THAT I WANT TO MAKE SURE PARENTS KNOW IS THAT AS WE IMPLEMENT THESE PROTOCOLS AND WHERE WE'RE SHOWING THESE CLEAR EXPECTATIONS, THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE DON'T WANT YOU ON OUR CAMPUS.

WE DO.

WE NEED VOLUNTEERS TO BE A PART OF IT.

BUT WHEN WE IMPLEMENT THESE THE WAY THEY SHOULD BE, IT MAKES IT EASIER FOR US TO KNOW WHEN PEOPLE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE ON OUR CAMPUSES AND WHEN THEY'RE NOT.

WE'RE MAKING IT POSSIBLE.

MAKE IT BY MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE EMPOWERING ONE ANOTHER TO SAY SOMETHING WHEN WE NEED SOMETHING AND LIKE CRAZY.

THERE WILL BE COURSES THAT WE CAN IMPLEMENT WITH OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS, AND THOSE ARE PRETTY POWERFUL FOR ALL OF US.

RESOURCES FOR FAMILIES.

WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO PASS THIS OUT.

BUT THIS IS A GREAT PLACE TO START.

AND I'LL JUST TELL YOU, FROM A RESEARCH PERSPECTIVE, EACH OF THESE HAVE TONS AND TONS OF INFORMATION.

SO THANK YOU SO MUCH.

THANK YOU, MANDY.

SO SECTION THREE OF OUR HEALTH AND SAFETY PROTOCOLS JUST A FEW THINGS.

IT CONTAINS OUR MOST UPDATED INFORMATION TO MITIGATE THE SPREAD OF COVID 19 AS WELL AS OTHER ILLNESSES.

WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO FOLLOW THOSE BEST PRACTICES AND RECOMMENDATIONS FROM COLLIN COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT, CDC, AS WELL AS OUR THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS.

JUST YESTERDAY, WE WERE GIVEN GUIDANCE, UPDATED GUIDANCE THAT STUDENTS EXCLUSIONARY PERIOD WHEN THEY'VE TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID 19 HAS NOW MOVED TO FIVE DAYS WHERE IT WAS PREVIOUSLY TEN.

SO THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW WE ARE UPDATING IT.

AS SOON AS WE GET THAT INFORMATION, WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT IT GOES INTO OUR BACK TO SCHOOL PLAN AS WELL.

THIS FIVE DAY MOVE FOR OUR STUDENTS REALLY NOW ALIGNS WITH WHAT WE ARE ALREADY DOING WITH ADULTS.

SO AS WE HAVE BEEN DOING SINCE THE VERY BEGINNING, WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO MONITOR AND ADJUST ANYTHING THAT WE NEED TO AS NEW GUIDANCE COMES OUR WAY.

THERE ARE A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT I JUST WANT TO BRING UP BEYOND THE PLAN.

THAT WAS A VERY QUICK OVERVIEW AND IT'S A LONG DOCUMENT, BUT IT'LL BE ON THE WEBSITE AND IT WILL BE ACCESSIBLE TO OUR PARENTS.

LIKE I SAID THIS WEEK, LOTS OF LINKS, LOTS OF RESOURCES.

SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE OUR PARENTS TO DEFINITELY GO TO THE WEBSITE BUT DO WANT TO SPEND A FEW MINUTES ON BEYOND THE PLAN, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT SAFETY AND SECURITY HAS BEEN A BIG INITIATIVE AND A TOP PRIORITY FOR US AND WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON LOTS OF THINGS.

SO GOVERNOR ABBOTT HAD SENT THIS LETTER.

I'M SURE A LOT OF YOU HAVE SEEN THIS BY NOW.

HE SENT THIS LETTER ON JUNE ONE TO THE TEXAS SCHOOL SAFETY CENTER, AND THERE WERE SEVERAL ORDERS IN THAT LETTER THAT CAMPUSES OR I'M SORRY, SCHOOL DISTRICTS NEEDED TO ADDRESS BY SEPTEMBER ONE.

THESE ARE THE BULLETS OF THE THINGS THAT WERE IN THAT LETTER THAT WE ARE REQUIRED

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TO BE TO COMPLETE BY SEPTEMBER ONE.

WE HAVE MET WITH OUR SCHOOL SAFETY AND SECURITY COMMITTEE ON JUNE 30TH, AND THEN WE SPENT THE SUMMER ENSURING THAT ALL OF THESE BULLETS LISTED HERE HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED.

MANY OF THESE REQUIREMENTS HAVE BEEN IN PLACE EVEN PRIOR TO GOVERNOR ABBOTT'S LETTER.

HOWEVER, HE DID PUT A VERY STRICT DEADLINE IN PLACE WITH THAT SEPTEMBER ONE DATE AND THEN DISTRICTS HAVE TO CERTIFY COMPLETION BY SEPTEMBER 9TH.

I KNOW MANDY HAS ADDRESSED SOME OF THESE IN HER OVERVIEW.

WE'VE WE'VE MADE SURE THAT EVERYBODY HAS THAT BEHAVIORAL THREAT ASSESSMENT TEAM TRAINED UP AND READY TO GO.

WE WE DO HAVE AN EXPECTATION THAT ALL OF OUR CAMPUSES AND A PROCESS FOR THEM TO SUBMIT THEIR DRILLS PRIOR TO THE SEPTEMBER ONE DATE.

THAT WAY, OUR SAFETY AND SECURITY DEPARTMENT CAN BE INVOLVED IN THOSE DRILLS AND LIKE MANDY HAD MENTIONED, DO AN AFTER ACTION REVIEW WITH THEM SO THAT WE ARE ALWAYS ON A CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT CYCLE, EVEN WITH OUR SAFETY AND SECURITY, OUR TEAM, OUR SAFETY AND SECURITY TEAM ALSO.

DID THE SUMMER TARGETED PARTIAL SAFETY AUDITS THIS SUMMER? IT'S A LOT OF WORDS, BUT THAT WAS A REQUIREMENT TO BE DONE FROM TEXAS SCHOOL SAFETY CENTER.

AND THEY ARE WRAPPING THOSE UP NOW AND COMMUNICATING THEIR FINDINGS TO THE CAMPUSES.

AND THEN AN EXTERIOR DOOR SAFETY AUDIT WAS ALSO COMPLETED THIS SUMMER.

LASTLY, THERE ARE JUST A FEW OTHER SECURITY MEASURES THAT I THINK WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT JUST TONIGHT.

ON THE CONSENT AGENDA, WE HAVE APPROVAL TO DO THE SECURITY AUDIT.

THIS SECURITY AUDIT IS GOING TO BE CONDUCTED BY PBK.

AND IT IT IT INCLUDES EACH CAMPUS.

AND THEY'RE GOING TO PROVIDE THEY'RE GOING TO WALK CAMPUSES, MEET WITH PRINCIPALS, WORK WITH OUR SAFETY AND SECURITY TEAM, AND THEN THEY'RE GOING TO PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EACH OF THE FACILITIES, INFRASTRUCTURES AND ANY ADDITIONAL WAYS THAT WE CAN HARDEN OUR CAMPUSES.

THAT'S ALL OF THE CAMPUSES IN PLANO THAT HAVE STUDENTS PRESENT AND INCLUDING THE ADMIN BUILDING.

THE UNANNOUNCED SAFETY AND SECURITY INSPECTIONS.

WE HAVE DONE THESE IN THE PAST, BUT WE ARE GOING TO INCREASE THE FREQUENCY OF THEM.

AND OUR GOAL IS TO DO AT LEAST OUR SECURITY SPECIALIST, TO DO THOSE AT LEAST ONCE A MONTH AT EACH OF OUR CAMPUSES AND THEN BE ABLE TO DO THAT AFTER ACTION REVIEW WITH PRINCIPALS.

SO THAT WHEN WE DO SEE SOMETHING THAT NEEDS IMPROVEMENT, WE CAN WORK WITH THEM BY DOING THESE SWEEPS EACH MONTH.

THEN THE INTRUDER ASSESSMENTS, YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD OR READ SOME OF THAT IN GOVERNOR ABBOTT'S LETTER.

HE HAS MADE THAT CHARGE TO THE TEXAS SCHOOL SAFETY CENTER TO INCREASE THE INTRUDER ASSESSMENTS.

THAT IS STILL UNDER THE WORKS OF TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW THAT WOULD ACTUALLY WORK.

BUT OUR SAFETY AND SECURITY DEPARTMENT IS COMMITTED TO ALSO DOING FREQUENT INTRUDER ASSESSMENTS, AND THEY HAVE A MEETING THIS FRIDAY AS A TEAM TO REALLY FLUSH OUT ALL OF THE DETAILS ABOUT HOW THAT IS GOING TO WORK AND WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO PUT THAT IN PLACE.

AND THEN THE K-9 DETECTION SWEEPS.

WE HAVE DONE THIS IN THE PAST.

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TYPICALLY, WE HAVE VISITS ABOUT ONCE A MONTH FOR EACH OF OUR SECONDARY CAMPUSES FOR THE CANINE DETECTION SWEEPS.

WE ARE GOING TO TRY TO INCREASE THAT A LITTLE BIT AND HAVE AT LEAST ONE, IF NOT TWO PER MONTH.

AND THEN LASTLY, WE ARE ENHANCING OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH OUR POLICE DEPARTMENTS.

WE HAVE FIVE THAT WE WORK WITH.

THERESA AND I AND SOMETIMES KEVIN HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN GOING OUT AND MEETING WITH EACH OF THESE DEPARTMENTS, THEIR CITY MANAGERS, THEIR MAYORS, AND REALLY TALKING ABOUT WAYS THAT WE CAN SUPPORT EACH OTHER.

MANY OF THE THINGS AROUND SAFETY AND SECURITY THAT WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT AND WE HAVE GOTTEN PLANS TOGETHER FOR OUR COMMUNITY POLICING PROTOCOL THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING WITHIN OUR SCHOOLS, WITHIN PLANO.

WE ALSO ARE GOING TO CONTINUE WITH SOME OF OUR CAMPUS PATROL OFFICERS AT SPECIFIC CAMPUSES WHERE WE NEED THEM.

AND THESE ARE REALLY FOR ELEMENTARY CAMPUSES.

WE'RE GOING TO EVERYONE HAS BEEN VERY COMMITTED TO DOING MORE FREQUENT VISITS TO OUR ELEMENTARY CAMPUSES WHERE WE DO NOT HAVE SROS.

AND THEN WE'RE WORKING ON THINGS LIKE ACCESS BADGES FOR OUR POLICE OFFICERS IN OUR CITIES SO THAT THEY CAN ACCESS OUR SCHOOLS IMMEDIATELY DURING AN EMERGENCY THAT THEY DO NOT HAVE TO WAIT TO BE BUZZED IN, OR THEY WILL BE ABLE TO GET INTO THE SCHOOL BECAUSE THEY WILL HAVE A BADGE TO DO SO.

SO THOSE ARE SOME OF OUR BIG ITEMS THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS SUMMER, AND I'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

THANKS TO LINDA QUESTIONS.

ANYBODY? WELL, IT'S NOT REALLY A QUESTION BY COMMENT.

I MEAN, I'VE HAD A LOT OF PARENTS AND FAMILIES CALL ME AND ASK ME ABOUT THE SAFETY CHANGES.

AND I'M GLAD THAT WE'RE DOING IT TODAY BEFORE THE SCHOOL STARTS, BECAUSE I THINK THEY NEED TO KNOW THAT WE ARE DOING AN INTENSIVE SAFETY AUDIT.

NOBODY CALLED ME, BUT I GUESS I GOT TO MAKE SOME MORE FRIENDS.

BUT I KNOW THIS IS SOMETHING YOU'VE BEEN WORKING ON ALL SUMMER.

THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THE SAFETY AND SECURITY DEPARTMENT WORKS ON YEAR ROUND.

AND OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE SOME MANDATES AND IT LOOKS LIKE UNFUNDED MANDATES COMING DOWN, WHICH IS NOT A NEW THING FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION.

BUT I APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT YOUR TEAM DID ALL SUMMER TO DO MORE OF WHAT WE'VE ALREADY BEEN DOING.

AND, YOU KNOW, THE BOARD GETS UPDATED A LITTLE MORE IN DEPTH THAN THIS MEETING.

AND FOR OBVIOUS REASONS, THOSE THINGS AREN'T DIVULGED BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO PROTECT THE SAFETY AND SECURITY OF THE STUDENTS AND THE CAMPUSES AND OUR PROTOCOLS.

AND SO JUST TO ANYBODY WATCHING OR LISTENING, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT A DOSE AND UNDERSTANDING OF HOW MUCH THE DISTRICT HAS BEEN DOING, HOW LONG THEY'VE BEEN DOING IT, AND WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO GOING FORWARD.

BUT KNOW THAT THERE ARE LAYERS AND LAYERS OF DETAIL AND ADDITIONAL MAN HOURS AND MANPOWER GOING INTO KEEPING OUR STUDENTS AND OUR CAMPUSES SAFE AND SECURE.

AND WE'VE HAD THE, YOU KNOW, THE CHANCE TO BE EDUCATED ON THAT.

AND ME, PERSONALLY, I FEEL VERY CONFIDENT IN OUR SAFETY AND SECURITY TEAM AND VERY GRATEFUL FOR OUR PARTNERSHIPS, NOT JUST WITH PLANO POLICE DEPARTMENT, BUT THE OTHER POLICE DEPARTMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN GREAT TO WORK WITH.

YEAH.

I THINK AFTER THE UVALDE TRAGEDY, WE HAD SOME INQUIRIES FROM PARENTS AS TO WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO MAKE SCHOOLS SAFER OR WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MAKE SCHOOLS SAFER? AND SO NOW IN HINDSIGHT, WE CAN TELL PARENTS WHAT WE HAVE DONE, NOT WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO.

WHAT WE HAVE DONE IS WE HAVE ANALYZED, WE HAVE TAKEN THE SUMMER.

WE HAVE ANALYZED ALL OF OUR CAMPUSES.

WE HAVE ANALYZED REEVALUATED SAFETY AND SECURITY MEASURES.

WE'VE DONE AUDITS.

WE HAVE HAD SPECIAL CALLED MEETINGS OR A SPECIAL CALLED MEETING, WHERE THE BOARD WAS BRIEFED IN CLOSED SESSION ON INFORMATION THAT, FOR AS OBVIOUS REASONS, AS CODY MENTIONED, CANNOT BE MADE PUBLIC.

WE'VE NOW ARE HAVING OUR BACK TO SCHOOL MATERIAL SAFETY AND SECURITY MEASURES THAT HAVE BEEN ENHANCED OR IMPROVED IN THE DISTRICT IS GOING TO PUBLISH SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AS WE GO INTO THE WEEK BEFORE SCHOOL SO THAT PARENTS CAN SEE WHAT WE HAVE DONE AND HOPEFULLY REBUILD SOME OF THAT COMFORT THAT WHEN YOU SEND YOUR KID TO US THAT THEY WILL BE AS SAFE AND SECURE AS IF THEY WERE IN THEIR OWN HOME.

SO THANK YOU ALL FOR THAT WORD.

I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, CODY MADE A REALLY SALIENT POINT THAT IT'S MULTILAYERED, RIGHT.

AND THAT IT'S NOT JUST ANY ONE THING, BUT THERE'S DEFINITELY BEEN A LOT OF COMMUNITY FOCUS ON ONE THING, WHICH IS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLASSROOMS THAT DON'T HAVE DOORS, THAT SOME HAVE DOORS AND SOME DON'T HAVE DOORS.

AND AND, YOU KNOW, THERE IS THIS MULTILAYERED APPROACH.

BUT I I'M WONDERING IF YOU WOULD JUST COMMENT A LITTLE BIT ON THAT, SINCE WE'VE DEFINITELY GOTTEN SOME COMMUNICATION ABOUT IT.

AND IT'S.

TOP OF MIND FOR A LOT OF OUR ELEMENTARY PARENTS.

[INAUDIBLE] .

THE ELEMENTARY DOORS, THE ELEMENTARY CLASSROOMS IN THE PODS.

SOME HAVE DOORS, SOME DON'T HAVE DOORS.

AND, YOU KNOW, THAT'S SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE WORKING ON WITH OUR ELEMENTARY PRINCIPALS WHO ARE GOING TO BE WORKING WITH THEIR TEACHERS COMING BACK, IS THAT ALL CLASSROOM DOORS WILL BE LOCKED.

SO LET'S ADDRESS THE ELEMENTARY PODS, FOR EXAMPLE, THE POD DOORS WILL BE LOCKED AND CLOSED.

THAT BECAUSE THAT IS THE BEST WAY AND I KNOW IT'S INCONVENIENT, BUT THEY ARE WORKING ON WAYS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN OVERCOME SOME INCONVENIENCES FOR THE INTEREST OF SAFETY.

THE DOORS THAT ARE IN THE PODS, CLASSROOM DOORS, SOME HAVE THEM, SOME DON'T.

THEY WILL WORK ON THEIR PROTOCOLS AND THEY WILL DRILL THOSE THAT DO NOT HAVE

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DOORS AND THOSE THAT DO, THEY WILL KNOW THEY'RE ASSIGNED CLASSROOM THAT UNDER A LOCKED DOWN, THEY WILL GO AND LOCK DOWN BEHIND A LOCKED CLOSED DOOR IN THAT POD.

SO CAMPUS PRINCIPALS ARE WORKING ON THAT TRAINING AND MAKING SURE THAT ALL THE TEACHERS IN THEIR PODS ARE NOTIFIED, AWARE AND KNOW WHERE TO GO IN THOSE EMERGENCIES.

MANDY AND KEVIN AND I HAVE SPENT LOTS OF TIME IN THE OFFICE TALKING ABOUT OK.

IF I'M BEHIND A LOCKED CLASSROOM DOOR AND MANDY IS NOT AND WE GO INTO LOCKDOWN AND SHE'S ACROSS THE HALL, THEN I HAVE COMMUNICATED WITH HER.

I KNOW MY JOB IS TO GO OVER, OPEN THE DOOR, GET HER CLASS IN, LOCK THE DOOR.

SO WE'RE WORKING ON THOSE PIECES AND THEN THE AUDIT IS GOING TO ADDRESS THAT TOO.

SO WHEN PBK WALKS EACH OF THOSE CAMPUSES AND LOOKS AT THAT, THEY'LL BE ABLE TO PROVIDE US SOME RECOMMENDATIONS IF WE NEED TO CONSIDER MORE DOORS.

IF WE WHAT IS IT THAT WE NEED TO DO DIFFERENTLY? I JUST WANT TO ECHO THAT.

IT'S MULTILAYERED, MULTIFACETED, IT'S VERY COMPLEX.

TRAINING IS KEY AND COMMUNICATION IS KEY OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DID THE VERY NEXT DAY, WE STARTED GETTING PHONE CALLS ABOUT DOORS AND THAT WE I MEAN, TONY AND I MEAN, THAT WAS AT THE TOP OF OUR AT THE TOP OF OUR LIST, LIKE, CAN WE GET DOORS? HOW FAST CAN WE GET DOORS? THAT IN ITSELF IS VERY COMPLICATED.

IT REQUIRES ARCHITECTS, IT REQUIRES CITY PERMITS, IT REQUIRES CONSTRUCTION.

AND OUR, YOU KNOW, IS THE LABOR AVAILABLE AND THE SUPPLIES.

AND SO WE DID HAVE A GRANT, I THINK MAYBE 2017, THAT IT TOOK 18 MONTHS TO GET THE DOORS THAT WE DO HAVE.

SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, WHICH IS WHY THIS AUDIT FACILITY AUDIT WITH PBK IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN, YOU GUYS ARE ALLOCATING FUNDS TO SECURE OR FURTHER SECURE OUR BUILDINGS, THAT WE'RE ACTUALLY SPENDING THE MONEY WHERE WE NEED TO SPEND IT, THAT WE'RE NOT JUST MAKING AN ASSESSMENT THAT, OH, WE NEED DOORS EVERYWHERE.

PERHAPS WE DO, BUT PERHAPS THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE.

AND SO TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE DESIGN OF THE BUILDING IS A HUGE PART OF THIS.

SO THANK YOU FOR MAKING THE INVESTMENT AND APPROVING THE AUDIT THAT WILL GO FORTH IN CONDUCTING.

I'VE HAD A PARENT WHO SPOKE TO ME IN PERSON AND SHE SAID THAT SHE WAS CONCERNED BECAUSE HER KIDS ARE IN HIGH SCHOOL, A SENIOR HIGH.

AND THE THING IS THAT WHEN YOU GO IN BETWEEN CLASSES AND THE BELL RINGS AND YOU GET THAT THE 5 MINUTES TO GO IN BETWEEN CLASSES.

I MEAN, SHE SAID SHE'S WORRIED ABOUT IN BETWEEN CLASSES BECAUSE ALL THOSE DOORS ARE OPEN.

I MEAN, THAT IS ONE OF THE CHALLENGES.

OUR SENIOR HIGHS HAVE MULTIPLE BUILDINGS AND SO STUDENTS HAVE TO TRAVEL FROM ONE BUILDING TO THE OTHER.

AND I'M NOT REALLY SURE WHAT THE PASSING PERIOD IS THAT FIVE, SEVEN, 5 TO 7 MINUTES.

BUT WE HAVE TO ALLOW DURING THAT PASSING PERIOD STUDENTS TO MOVE FROM ONE BUILDING TO THE OTHER STUDENTS ARE SUPPOSED TO WEAR ID BADGES.

THAT'S WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT.

I KNOW THAT MANDY HIT ON BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS, SO WE NEED TO KNOW WHO OUR KIDS ARE.

WE, I BELIEVE A COUPLE OF YEARS, MAYBE ONE OF MY FIRST, MAYBE MY FIRST YEAR.

AND THE SECOND YEAR WE ADDED THE SAFETY MONITORS AT EACH OF OUR CAMPUSES.

SO WE HAVE ADDITIONAL SAFETY MONITORS.

AND KEVIN, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT TO STEP UP AND ADDRESS ANY OF WHAT WE'VE PUT IN PLACE AT OUR SENIOR HIGHS, BECAUSE THERE ARE LOTS OF BUILDINGS ON ONE CAMPUS.

IT'S.

YEAH.

IT'S GREAT.

CAN YOU HEAR ME? AT EACH SENIOR HIGH.

WHO CONTROL THE DOORS WHEN IT'S NOT PASSING PERIOD.

BUT YOU'RE CORRECT.

EVERY PASSING PERIOD.

I THINK IT'S 7 MINUTES, ALL THE DOORS ARE UNLOCKED, BECAUSE WITHOUT THAT, THERE'S REALLY NO WAY TO MOVE THAT MASS AMOUNT OF STUDENTS FROM ONE BUILDING TO THE OTHER.

THEN THEY THEN THEY RE LOCK.

AND THEN FROM THAT POINT, ALL CAMPUS SAFETY MONITORS WHO ARE IN A SEPARATE OFFICE WITH CAMERAS CONTROL ACCESS.

BUT IT DOES PRESENT CHALLENGES.

AS DR. WILLIAMS SAID, IT'S AN OPEN CAMPUS.

KIDS LEAVE FOR LUNCH, COME BACK.

SO THERE'S A LOT OF GOING BACK AND FORTH.

AND IT'S IT PRESENTS CHALLENGES, BUT THAT'S HOW WE'RE HANDLING IT RIGHT NOW.

I MEAN, WE HAVE THE DOORS LOCKED FOR MOST OF THE DAY, BUT THEY HAVE TO UNLOCK DOWN DURING PASSING PERIODS OR KIDS WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO TRAVEL FROM BUILDING TO BUILDING.

AND I KNOW WHEN WE'VE BEEN ROOT CAUSING A LOT OF THESE SCENARIOS, THERE ARE SOME

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THINGS THAT AREN'T IN OUR CONTROL, LIKE KIDS NEEDING TO GET FROM ONE BUILDING TO ANOTHER TO GET TO THEIR CLASSES.

BUT THERE ARE THINGS THAT WE CAN INFLUENCE.

AND ONE OF THEM IS ONCE THEY'RE IN THOSE CLASSROOMS, THOSE DOORS ARE LOCKED.

SO WHEN AT ALL POSSIBLE, WE'RE MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE PUTTING THOSE THINGS IN PLACE SO THAT WE CAN INFLUENCE GOOD SAFETY PRACTICES.

CAMPUSES LIKE PLANO EAST LOOKS LIKE A COLLEGE CAMPUS.

SO IT'S KIND OF HARD TO KEEP THOSE DOORS LOCKED DURING PASSING PERIODS.

JERRY, I HAVE A QUESTION, BUT IT'S OFF THE SAFETY SECURITY QUESTIONS BECAUSE I HELD MY QUESTION THAT WAS EARLIER IN THE PRESENTATION.

FOR NOW, PLEASE ASK.

SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE YOU NOTICED THAT TOO.

THANK YOU FOR DOING SO.

IT WAS ALL THE WAY BACK AT SLIDE FOUR IN CASE ANYONE WANTS TO KNOW.

BUT IT IS AN IMPORTANT QUESTION AND I'M CONCERNED ABOUT THE USDA WAIVER ENDING.

AND MY QUESTION IS, SO WE HAD THESE TWO YEARS, TWO SCHOOL YEARS WITHOUT WITH THE WAIVER.

AND HOW IS THE APPLICATION PROCESS OR IS THE APPLICATION PROCESS DIFFERENT NOW THAN BEFORE? BECAUSE WE'VE GONE ALL ONLINE.

AND SO CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO ME ABOUT THAT AND OUR CONCERNS ABOUT MAKING SURE WHEN WE SAY WE'RE 35% FREE AND REDUCED LUNCH, I'M CONCERNED THAT WE MAKE SURE WE GET THAT NUMBER MAY GO UP GIVEN THE CURRENT ECONOMICS AND CLIMATE.

AND PIGGYBACK ON THAT REAL QUICK.

IF PARENTS NEED ADDITIONAL SUPPORT, WHETHER LANGUAGE BARRIERS OR OTHERWISE, WHERE CAN THEY GET IT? SO WHEN SCHOOL STARTS, THEY WILL STILL BE ABLE, LIKE IF YOU HAD QUALIFIED IN 2020 OR 2021.

I HAVE TO GO BACK AND LOOK IN THE MANUAL NOW.

YOU ARE STILL ELIGIBLE TO GET RECEIVE YOUR YOUR MEALS UNTIL THE END OF OCTOBER OR END OF OCTOBER OR OCTOBER ONE, ISN'T IT, JOHNNY? I THINK OCTOBER ONE IS THE DEADLINE.

IT'S THE FIRST YEAH.

FIRST 30 DAYS.

YES.

SO THEY STILL WILL HAVE TIME.

BUT WE ALWAYS ENCOURAGE GO AHEAD AND FILL THAT OUT.

IT IS A SHORT APPLICATION.

IT IS ONLINE.

THEY CAN THEY CAN STILL GET A PAPER COPY OF IT AT AT THEIR CAMPUS.

IT'S PUSHED OUT.

WE PUT IT EVERYWHERE.

SOME FAMILIES ALREADY KNOW THEY NEED TO FILL THAT OUT BECAUSE THAT APPLICATION CARRIES OVER TO SOME OTHER SERVICES THAT THEY QUALIFY FOR.

SO SOME OF THEM DO THAT APPLICATION ANYWAY, EVEN THOUGH WE'VE SAT FOR TWO YEARS WITHOUT IT.

BUT WE DO NEED A HUGE COMMUNICATION PUSH TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE GETTING THOSE SERVICES FOR EVERY FAMILY THAT NEEDS IT.

AND THE SERVICES ALSO INCLUDE FOR OUR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS GETTING DISCOUNTS ON DUAL CREDIT.

I MEAN, IT'S NOT JUST FOOD AND THAT IT'S SO IMPORTANT FOR US TO MAKE SURE THAT, YEAH, IT'S FREE OR REDUCED LUNCH.

BUT THEN YES, THERE ARE OTHER BENEFITS THAT THEY CAN RECEIVE, LIKE THE DISCOUNTS.

AND LAUREN, YOU TALKED ABOUT LANGUAGE BARRIERS.

WE WILL FIND WHOEVER WE NEED TO FIND TO COMMUNICATE.

WE'VE WE'VE USED TRANSLATORS FOR LOTS OF THINGS LIKE THAT BECAUSE THE IMPORTANT PIECE IS TO GET THAT INFORMATION FILLED OUT SO THAT THEY CAN QUALIFY.

ALL RIGHT, THANKS.

[INAUDIBLE].

THAT OFFICIALLY ENDS THE REPORT SECTION OF THE NIGHT.

WE'LL NOW MOVE TO DISCUSSION AND ACTION.

AND SO WE'RE MOVING NOW TO 9.1, WHICH IS THE AUTHORIZATION OF THE

[9.1. Authorization of the Advertisement of Notice of Public Meeting to Discuss the Budget and Proposed Tax Rate Presenter: Johnny Hill, Deputy Superintendent for Business and Employee Services]

ADVERTISEMENT OF NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING TO DISCUSS THE BUDGET AND PROPOSED TAX RATE.

JOHNNY W.

YOU'RE UP AGAIN.

ALL RIGHT.

REAL QUICKLY, THIS MIGHT LOOK FAMILIAR OR AT LEAST THE PRESENTATION WILL LOOK FAMILIAR BECAUSE WE DID THIS IN IN MAY IN LIEU OF OUR JUNE MEETING.

NORMALLY, THIS HAPPENS JUST ONCE A YEAR.

WE HAVE TO NOTIFY.

WE HAVE TO ACTUALLY RUN AN AD IN THE PAPER, AND THEN WE, OF COURSE, DO IT.

AND RIGHT BEFORE OUR JUNE BOARD MEETING AND WE ACTUALLY ADOPT THE BUDGET, THE REASON WHY WE'RE DOING IT A SECOND TIME IS BECAUSE OF THE VATRE ELECTION, THE VOTER APPROVED TAX RATIFICATION ELECTION.

WE CAN'T ACTUALLY DO THAT UNTIL WE GET OUR CERTIFIED VALUES IN.

AND SO THAT'S WHY WE HAVE TO DO IT A SECOND TIME.

JUST JUST THIS YEAR, IT'S NORMALLY JUST ONCE A YEAR BECAUSE OF THE VATRE ELECTION COMING UP THAT WE HAVE TO DO IT TWICE.

THIS IS JUST SHOWING EVERYONE CURRENT VERSUS PROPOSED TAX RATES.

THESE ARE THE RATES WE SAW A WHILE AGO.

OBVIOUSLY, 21, 22 ACTUAL RATES AT THE VERY BOTTOM IS A DOLLAR 3275.

AND THAT'S GOING DOWN WITH THE VOTER TO DOWN 6.1 CENTS TO $1.25, 975.

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ON THE NEXT SLIDE.

THIS IS THE EXACT SAME INFORMATION, BUT IT ALSO TAKES INTO ACCOUNT THE VOTER APPROVED TAX RATE.

AND SO ANY TIME THAT YOU GO OVER THE VOTER APPROVED TAX RATE, WHICH IS WHAT YOU HAVE IN THE MIDDLE, THEN IT AUTOMATICALLY TRIGGERS THAT VATRE ELECTION.

SO THAT'S ANYTHING OVER THE DOLLAR 22 EIGHT 815 THAT YOU SEE IN THE MIDDLE WILL TRIGGER THE ELECTION.

AND OBVIOUSLY WE'RE GOING UP ON THE M&O OR THE OVERALL TAX RATE.

AND SO THAT'S WHAT'S GOING TO TRIGGER THE ELECTION WHEN WE HAVE THE BOARD WHEN YOU GUYS APPROVED THE DOLLAR.

25 975.

THE NEXT SLIDE.

THIS IS ONCE AGAIN JUST A HISTORY OF OUR TAX RATES OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS.

AND OBVIOUSLY, YOU CAN SEE JUST THE LAST FIVE YEARS ALONE GOING DOWN $0.18.

ON THE NEXT SLIDE.

NOW THIS IS THE OVERALL VALUES.

THIS IS ALL FOUR CERTIFIED VALUES THAT WE RECEIVED ON JULY THE 18TH.

A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK THAT WE'RE TAXED OR WE'RE ACTUALLY GETTING TAXES OFF OF THE APPRAISED VALUE.

YOU CAN SEE THAT THE APPRAISED VALUES ARE NOW OVER $82 BILLION, WHICH IS QUITE A BIT.

BUT WE'RE NOT THERE'S A LOT OF EXEMPTIONS AND CAPS THAT COME OFF OF THAT AND FROZEN VALUES THAT COME OFF OF THAT.

SO WHAT WE'RE ACTUALLY GETTING TO TAX ON IS THE TOTAL TAXABLE VALUE, WHICH WAS 91.9 BILLION, AND IT'S NOW GOING UP A LITTLE OVER 68 BILLION.

AND THAT IS ACTUALLY THE 9.83% INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR.

9.3% INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR IS WHAT THAT IS.

ON THE NEXT SLIDE.

THIS IS THE TAX LIABILITY ON AN AVERAGE VALUE HOUSE, WHICH IS RIGHT AT 508,000.

YOU CAN SEE THE INCREASE IS GOING FROM THIS LAST YEAR AND THE 5037 UP TO 5161.

AND THEN, OF COURSE, THIS IS THE TEXT CURRENCY, WHICH IS BASICALLY JUST SHOWING YOU WHAT WE ACTUALLY THAT 5161 AND HOW MUCH OF THAT WE'RE ACTUALLY GETTING TO KEEP, WHICH IS THE 3319.

AND OBVIOUSLY THE 1842 ARE 36% OF WHAT WE'RE ACTUALLY TAKING IN ON THE GROSS TAXES HAS TO BE REPORTED BACK OUT INTO THE STATE IN THE FORM OF RECAPTURE, WHICH IS RIGHT AT 36.

IT'S GOING TO BE 36% OF EVERY DOLLAR OF THIS NEXT YEAR, 36%.

AND OF COURSE, THIS IS JUST WHAT'S COMING UP, THE BUDGET, THE TAX RATE CALENDAR.

AND YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THAT THE ONLY THING LEFT ON THIS BUDGET AND TAX RATE CALENDAR IS THE ADOPTION OF THE TAX RATE, WHICH WILL BE ON AUGUST THE 16TH.

AUGUST THE 16TH.

I BELIEVE THAT'S IT.

IS THERE ANY QUESTIONS? WITH A NOTIFICATION.

THE NOTIFICATION IS GOING OUT THIS AND IT WILL BE WILL BE, I THINK, ON SUNDAY AND SUNDAY'S PAPER.

I HAVE A CLARIFICATION QUESTION.

YES, THE MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS IS GREAT, IS DETERMINED BY COMPRESSION.

WE HAVE NO CHOICE IN THAT, CORRECT? WELL, YES.

PART OF THE MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION TAX RATE IS DETERMINED BY COMPRESSION.

SO.

YOU'VE GOT THE MAIN PART OF IT IS DETERMINE ON TOP OF THAT, YOU'VE GOT THE GOLDEN AND THE COPPER PENNIES THAT GO ON TOP OF THAT.

SO PART YOUR TIER ONE ARE PART OF YOUR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION IS WHAT'S CALLED THE MAXIMUM COMPRESSED RATE.

AND SO THEN ON TOP OF THAT, YOU HAVE THAT'S YOU'VE GOT THE GOLDEN PENNIES AND THE COPPER FITTINGS ON TOP OF THAT, WHICH IS YOU CAN GO UP TO $0.17 ON TOP OF THE MAXIMUM PRICE.

RIGHT.

THE INTEREST IN SINKING RATE THOUGH WE ARE CHOOSING WE DO HAVE AND WE ARE CHOOSING TO LOWER WE ARE GETTING THE CHOICE TO TO MAKE THAT RATE LOWER, CORRECT? YES.

AND SO WHAT THE LAW SAYS THAT YOU'VE GOT TO SET THAT RATE BASED ON WHAT YOUR YOUR DEBT EXPENSE IS JUST FOR THAT NEXT 12 MONTHS.

BUT THAT CAN FLUCTUATE DEPENDING ON WHETHER YOU BRING IN DEBT OUTSIDE OF THE YEAR, THE 12 MONTHS INTO THAT CURRENT PERIOD, THAT'S WHAT WE DO WHEN WE PAY OFF DEBT EARLY.

AND SO, YES, THE BOARD ACTUALLY SETS THAT RATE ONCE A YEAR.

THEY'LL SET IT ON THIS AND THIS YEAR, ON AUGUST THE 16TH, AND IT'LL BE SET NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS WITH THE OUTCOME OF THE ELECTION.

THAT RATE WILL BE SET ON AUGUST THE 16TH.

AND THAT RATE IS WE'RE JUST MAKING THE DECISION TO MOVE IT FROM 0.2690 TO POINT OR NOT SINCE SORRY, I'M NOT SAYING IT RIGHT.

.

2690 0 TO 0.23735.

THAT IS CORRECT.

SO JOHNNY, JUST TO PUT A NAIL IN THAT WE'RE POTENTIALLY VOTING ON THE 16TH

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TO LOWER THE I&S TAX RATE AND THEN IN THE FUTURE, THERE'S GOING TO BE ANOTHER VATRE WHERE WE'RE POTENTIALLY HAVING THE PUBLIC VOTE ON INCREASING M&O.

WHICH WOULD EVEN IT ALL OUT AND GIVE A NET $9 BILLION TO THE DISTRICT.

THAT IS CORRECT.

I'D LIKE TO POINT OUT ONE THING IN YOUR SLIDE.

LAST YEAR, OUR RECAPTURE RATE WAS 34%.

AND WHAT YOU JUST TOLD US, IT'S GOING UP TO 36%.

SO JUST HAVE TO POINT OUT THAT FUN FACT.

THAT IS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.

THANKS, JOHNNY.

DO I HAVE A MOTION? THANKS, GUYS.

YES.

IT'S LONG.

I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AUTHORIZES ADMINISTRATION TO ADVERTISE THE NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING TO DISCUSS THE BUDGET AND TAX RATE TO BE HELD DURING THE PLANO ISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES WORK SESSION ON AUGUST 16, 2022, WHICH WILL BEGIN AT 6 P.M.

AND INCLUDES PROPOSED TAX RATES CONSISTING OF MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS.

$1.02240 INTEREST AND SINKING $0.23740 AND PER TOTAL PROPOSED TAX RATE OF $1.25975.

AND SECOND, ANGELA, THANK YOU.

I HAVE A MOTION BY LAUREN TARAS, SECOND BY ANGELA POWELL THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AUTHORIZES ADMINISTRATION TO ADVERTISE THE NOTICE OF PUBLIC.

NOTICE A PUBLIC MEETING TO DISCUSS THE BUDGET AND TAX RATE TO BE HELD DURING THE PLANO ISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES WORK SESSION ON AUGUST 16, 2022, WHICH WILL BEGIN AT 6 P.M.

AND INCLUDES PROPOSED TAX RATES CONSISTING OF MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS 1.02240 INTEREST AND SINKING 0.237404.

A TOTAL PROPOSED TAX RATE OF 1.25975.

IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? HEARING? NONE.

LET'S VOTE ALL IN FAVOR.

PLEASE RAISE YOUR HANDS.

NANCY, I THINK YOU HAVE TO VOTE ORALLY.

I'M SORRY.

I APPROVE.

OK NANCY APPROVES THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.

THANK YOU.

WE WILL MOVE NOW TO ITEM 9.2 APPROVAL OF A PURCHASE AND SALE AGREEMENT FOR THE SALE

[9.2. Approval of that Certain Purchase and Sale Agreement for the Sale of 5.6 Acres of Land, More or Less, Known as 3540 14th Street, Plano, Texas, 75074 (the Shiloh Property) to Shawn S. Ali (the Purchaser) Presenter: Johnny Hill, Deputy Superintendent for Business and Employee Services]

OF 5.6 ACRES OF LAND AT 3540 14TH STREET, PLANO, TEXAS.

IS THIS A? JOHNNY! YOU'RE UP AGAIN.

THIS IS.

YES, SIR.

AND I'LL BE BRIEF ON THIS ONE.

I DON'T HAVE A PRESENTATION.

THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE BROUGHT BACK TO THE BOARD WAY BACK IN OCTOBER OF THIS PREVIOUS YEAR.

AND ONE THING THAT WE'VE LOOKED AT IS AS WE HAVE FACILITIES THAT ACTUALLY NEED TO BE UPDATED OR RENOVATED, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE TRY TO DO IS TO MAKE THE DETERMINATION GOING FORWARD.

IS THIS A FACILITY THAT IS WORTH LONG TERM INVESTED MONEY IN OR IS IT SOMETHING THAT WE CAN BE MORE EFFICIENT BY SELLING THAT PROPERTY AND LIVING WITHIN THE STRUCTURES OF FACILITIES THAT WE CURRENTLY ALREADY HAVE, EXCLUDING THAT? AND SO THAT DETERMINATION WAS MADE WITH THIS PROPERTY BACK IN OCTOBER AND IT WAS REQUESTED TO THE BOARD OF SURPLUS THAT PROPERTY THE BOARD DID THAT, WHICH STARTED THE PROCESS OF AT LEAST DUE DILIGENCE, FINDING OUT WHETHER THIS PROPERTY, IF WE COULD ACTUALLY HAVE A NICE RETURN ON THIS PROPERTY.

AND SO WE ACTUALLY HIRED ACTUALLY WENT OUT AND HIRED A REAL ESTATE COMPANY THAT WE'VE USED IN THE PAST, CBRE, WHICH HAS DONE A GREAT JOB FOR US.

THEY WENT THROUGH JUST TO DETERMINE WHETHER THERE WAS INTEREST IN THIS PROPERTY.

THERE WAS WE RECEIVED A LOT OF INTEREST AND HAD A COUPLE OF REALLY COMPETITIVE OFFERS.

THE BEST OFFER FOR THE DISTRICT WAS FROM ANGEL CELLULAR AND IT WAS FOR 7,142,000.

AFTER CLOSING EXPENSES, THE NET PROCEEDS TO THE DISTRICT WOULD BE $6,000,921.

659 AND THIS MONEY WOULD OFFSET OUR CURRENT OUTSTANDING BUDGET DEFICIT THAT WE HAVE IN THIS YEAR, WHICH IS GOOD NEWS.

AND SO WE WOULD BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS.

I WILL SAY THAT THIS PROPERTY WAS ORIGINALLY PURCHASED FROM ALBERTSON GROCERY IN 1997 FOR 1,950,000.

AND SO WE'RE TRIPLING OUR MONEY OUT OF THIS OF THIS PROPERTY.

WE'LL SAY THAT EVEN BACK IN FEBRUARY OF 22, WE DID A SURVEY, DID AN APPRAISAL OF THIS PROPERTY AND A PRICE FOR A LITTLE OVER $4 MILLION.

SO WE'RE ACTUALLY HITTING IT JUST THE RIGHT TIME.

OBVIOUSLY, THE PRICES WITH INTEREST RATES ARE BASICALLY TURNING AND HEADED BACK

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DOWN.

SO I CAN HONESTLY SAY THAT I THINK WE'RE HITTING THE SELL OF THIS PROPERTY AT JUST ABOUT THE PERFECT TIME.

I'M MORE THAN HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY KIND OF QUESTIONS THAT ANYBODY MIGHT HAVE ON THIS SELL AGREEMENT.

I JUST HOPE THE BUYER'S NOT WATCHING.

YEAH, THE BOARD'S BEEN BRIEFED ON THIS NUMEROUS TIMES IN CLOSED SESSION, AS IS PERMITTED BY LAW WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE PURCHASE AND SALE OF REAL PROPERTY.

ANY QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT.

DO I HAVE A MOTION? I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AUTHORIZES THE SUPERINTENDENT OR DESIGNEE TO EXECUTE THE CONTRACT AND ALL OTHER NECESSARY DOCUMENTS TO SELL THE PROPERTY TO THE PURCHASER AND AUTHORIZES THE BOARD, PRESIDENT OR DESIGNEE TO EXECUTE THE DEED TO CONVEY THE PROPERTY TO PURCHASER IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONTRACT.

I HAVE A MOTION BY JERI CHAMBERS, A SECOND BY DR.

HEATHER WANG THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AUTHORIZES THE SUPERINTENDENT OR DESIGNEE TO EXECUTE THE CONTRACT AND ALL OTHER NECESSARY DOCUMENTS TO SELL THE PROPERTY TO THE PURCHASER AND AUTHORIZES THE BOARD, PRESIDENT OR DESIGNEE TO EXECUTE THE DEED TO CONVEY THE PROPERTY TO PURCHASER IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONTRACT.

IS THERE FURTHER DISCUSSION? AND TO TO CLARIFY.

PURCHASER ON THIS CONTRACT WILL BE SEAN AS ALI FURTHER QUESTIONS COMMENTS COMPLAINTS QUERIES CONCERNS.

HEARING NONE.

LET'S VOTE ALL IN FAVOR.

PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.

NANCY.

I APPROVE.

ALL RIGHT.

THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY AS WELL.

THANK YOU ALL.

[9.3. Approval of the Recommendation to Send Notice of Proposed Termination and Suspension Without Pay Pending Discharge to Chapter 21 Term Contract Employee Robert Robinson Presenter: Dr. Beth Brockman, Assistant Superintendent for Employee Services]

MOVING ON TO 9.3 DISCUSSION AND ACTION ITEM FOR THE APPROVAL OF THE RECOMMENDATION TO SEND NOTICE OF PROPOSED TERMINATION AND SUSPENSION WITHOUT PAY PENDING DISCHARGE TO CHAPTER 21 TERM CONTRACT EMPLOYEE ROBERT ROBERTSON.

THIS WILL BE PRESENTED BY DR.

BETH BROCKMAN.

YES.

THE ADMINISTRATION IS RECOMMENDING AND REQUESTING THE BOARD CONSIDER SENDING NOTICE OF PROPOSED TERMINATION AND SUSPENSION WITHOUT PAY PENDING DISCHARGE TO THE NAMED CHAPTER 21 TERM CONTRACT EMPLOYEE FOR GOOD CAUSE.

THANK YOU, BETH.

DO I HAVE A MOTION? I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES THE RECOMMENDATION TO SEND NOTICE OF PROPOSED TERMINATION AND SUSPENSION WITHOUT PAY PENDING DISCHARGE TO CHAPTER 21 TERM CONTRACT EMPLOYEE ROBERT ROBINSON.

THANK YOU.

I HAVE A MOTION BY CODY WEAVER AND A SECOND BY ANGELA POWELL THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES THE RECOMMENDATION TO SEND NOTICE OF PROPOSED TERMINATION AND SUSPENSION WITHOUT PAY PENDING DISCHARGE TO CHAPTER 21 TERM CONTRACT EMPLOYEE ROBERT ROBINSON.

ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? HEARING NONE.

WE WILL PROCEED TO VOTE.

ALL IN FAVOR.

PLEASE RAISE YOUR HANDS.

NANCY.

I APPROVE.

ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU.

THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY 9.4 APPROVAL OF BOARD MEMBER LIAISONS AND

[9.4. Approval of Board Member Liaisons and Review of Board Subcommittee and Committee Appointments Presenter: David Stolle, Board President]

REVIEW OF BOARD, SUBCOMMITTEE AND COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS.

SO EVERY YEAR WE HAVE BOARD MEMBER LIAISON POSITIONS AND SUBCOMMITTEE AND COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS.

EVERY YEAR THE TRUSTEES SEND THEIR DESIRED POSITIONS TO THE BOARD PRESIDENT AND THE BOARD PRESIDENT GETS IT ALL UP ON A CHALKBOARD AND MOVES NAMES AROUND TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY GOT WHAT THEY WANT.

AND I HOPE I WAS ABLE TO DO SO TO AT LEAST GET EVERYBODY THERE FIRST OR SECOND.

AND EVERYBODY HAS ONE THEY PROBABLY DON'T WANT, BUT THAT'S JUST PART OF BEING ON THE BOARD, INCLUDING ME.

SO WITH THAT, I'LL CALL FOUR QUESTIONS IN A MINUTE.

LET'S FIRST DO THIS WILL BE, BY THE WAY, THE WAY THAT OUR BOARD OPERATING PROCEDURE WORKS.

LIAISONS ARE APPROVED BY THE BOARD AND IN SUBCOMMITTEE AND COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS ARE REVIEWED.

AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING TONIGHT.

SO DO I HAVE A MOTION? I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES THE APPOINTMENT OF BOARD OF TRUSTEE LIAISONS AS PRESENTED FOR THE 2022 2023 SCHOOL YEAR.

A SECOND.

WAS THAT JC DOWN THERE? ALL RIGHT.

I HAVE A MOTION BY LOREN TYRA, SECOND BY JERI CHAMBERS AT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, APPROVES THE APPOINTMENT OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES LIAISONS AS PRESENTED FOR THE 2020 223 SCHOOL YEAR.

IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL RIGHT.

HEARING NONE.

WE WILL PROCEED TO VOTE.

ALL IN FAVOR.

PLEASE RAISE YOUR HANDS.

NANCY? APPROVE.

ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU.

THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.

OK 9.5 IS DISCUSSION AND ACTION ITEM.

[9.5. Approval of the Endorsement of a Candidate for Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) Board of Directors Presenter: David Stolle, Board President]

THE APPROVAL OF THE ENDORSEMENT OF A CANDIDATE FOR TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL BOARDS OR TASB BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

SO AGAIN, ON AN ANNUAL BASIS, WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE AN ENDORSEMENT RELATIVE TO TASB BOARD MEMBERS.

WE HAVE BEEN PRESENTED WITH AA112345666 POTENTIAL CANDIDATES WHO ARE SEEKING RECOMMENDATION OR ENDORSEMENT BY THE BOARD THAT WAS IN YOUR PACKET.

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WE'RE NOT OBLIGATED TO MAKE AN ENDORSEMENT, BUT WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO MAKE THESE ENDORSEMENTS SHOULD WE SO CHOOSE.

AND SO LET ME PAUSE THERE AND BEFORE WE EVEN.

HAVE A MOTION.

IS DOES ANYBODY WANT TO MAKE ANY COMMENT REGARDING ANY OF THE CANDIDATES? I WILL.

CAN YOU HEAR ME? WE CAN HEAR YOU.

OKAY.

OKAY.

WELL, THERE'S A COUPLE OF REALLY GOOD QUALIFIED CANDIDATES.

I KNOW THEM.

AND THERE'S ONE RISING STAR OUT OF THE BUNCH.

AND HER NAME IS ANDREA FLEMING.

AND I KNOW HER THROUGH THE LADY TRUSTEES.

SHE IS ON THE DESOTO ISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

SHE'S CURRENTLY THEIR BOARD PRESIDENT AND SHE WAS ONLY ELECTED IN 2018.

SHE'S A ROCK STAR AS FAR AS BEING A SUPPORTER OF PUBLIC EDUCATION.

AND SHE'S NO SHRINKING VIOLET.

SHE WILL STAND UP FOR PUBLIC ED AND SHE'S TESTIFIED AT THE CAPITOL.

SO, I MEAN, I KNOW HER.

SHE'S GREAT.

SO SHE IS THE ONLY ONE THAT HAS REACHED OUT AND ASKED FOR AN ENDORSEMENT.

AND I FEEL LIKE IF SOMEBODY IS ON THE BALLOT AND THEY DON'T ASK FOR AN ENDORSEMENT, I'M LIKE, WHY DIDN'T YOU ASK? SO THAT'S MY 2 CENTS.

I WAS GOING TO ASK, YOU KNOW, I THINK LAST YEAR IT WAS LINDA GOOCH WHO WE HAD RECOMMENDED.

AND I WASN'T SURE IF THERE WAS A REASON WE IF THERE WAS SOMETHING SHE DID THAT WE DIDN'T LIKE, THAT WE'RE NOT RECOMMENDING HER THIS YEAR.

NO.

I THINK SHE'S IN A DIFFERENT SPOT.

ISN'T SHE IN 10 A.

SHE'S ON HERE.

SHE'S A CANDIDATE.

OH, IS SHE? MY MISTAKE.

I JUST KNOW I'VE WORKED WITH D'ANDREA AND I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY DISRESPECT FOR ANY OF THE OTHER CANDIDATES.

THAT WAS JUST MY FEELING.

I'VE SEEN THE WORK SHE'S DONE, SO NO DISRESPECT TO ANYONE ELSE.

THAT'S MY OPINION.

I'M KIND OF THE ILK.

IF YOU TAKE THE TIME TO PUT TOGETHER A REQUEST FOR ENDORSEMENT, THAT GOES FURTHER.

NONE OF THE OTHER CANDIDATES DID.

I THINK THAT'S KIND OF INTERESTING.

I WAS WAITING TO SEE IF ANYONE KNEW HER PERSONALLY.

SO, NANCY, I'M GLAD YOU SPOKE UP ABOUT HER.

YEAH.

SHE'S A STRONG CHARACTER AND SHE'S VERY BIG SUPPORTER OF PUBLIC ED AND SHE'LL GO TOE TO TOE WITH THE COMMISSIONER IF NEEDED.

OTHER COMMENTS.

OKAY.

SO JUST KIND OF GENERAL DISCUSSION OVER DOES ANYBODY WANT TO MAKE A MOTION FOR AN ENDORSEMENT? I MOVE TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES THE ENDORSEMENT OF DEANDRA FLEMING TO FILL REGION TEN POSITION B ON THE TASB BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

I'LL SECOND THAT.

OKAY.

SO I HAVE A MOTION BY JERI CHAMBERS AND A SECOND BY NANCY HUMPHREY.

THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES THE ENDORSEMENT OF DEANDREA FLEMING TO FILL REGENT TEN POSITION B ON TASB BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

IS THERE FURTHER DISCUSSION? HEARING? NONE.

LET'S PROCEED TO VOTE.

ALL IN FAVOR.

PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.

AND NANCY, I APPROVE.

ALL OPPOSED? ALL ABSTAINING? DO YOU HAVE DO YOU WANT TO EXPRESS A REASON FOR ABSTENTION ON THAT? OKAY.

VERY GOOD.

THAT'S NOT A PROBLEM.

OKAY.

SO THAT MOTION PASSES FIVE, FOUR ONE AGAINST AND ONE ABSTENTION.

GOT THAT, SHARON.

ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT.

OUR FINAL DISCUSSION IN ACTION ITEM OF THE NIGHT IS THE ITEM THAT CODY ASKED TO

[9.6. Approval of the Ratification of Items Declared as Surplus Presenter: Johnny Hill, Deputy Superintendent for Business and Employee Services]

BE PULLED FROM CONTENT YESTERDAY.

SO IT'S MIDNIGHT, RIGHT? I CAN SAY THAT.

SO THE ITEM WAS THE APPROVAL OF THE RATIFICATION OF ITEMS DECLARED A SURPLUS.

THIS WAS REMOVED BY TRUSTEE WEAVER AT THE BOARD MEETING ON JUNE 21ST.

THE BOARD APPROVED 2022.

THE BOARD APPROVED THAT SUPERINTENDENT'S DESIGNEE BE GRANTED THE AUTHORITY TO DECLARE ITEMS OF SURPLUS AND TO DISPOSE OF THEM IN THE MOST COST EFFECTIVE MANNER.

FOR THE PERIOD OF JUNE 22ND, UNTIL AUGUST 2ND, THE BOARD IS NOW BEING ASKED TO RATIFY THE ITEMS DECLARED A SURPLUS DURING THAT TIME FRAME,

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AND CODY ASKED FOR THIS ONE ITEM TO BE REMOVED.

SO CODY.

YES.

SO I WANT TO START A PREFACE WITH ASKING JOHNNY A QUESTION.

I KNOW HE HAS AN ANSWER TO JOHNNY WHEN BOOKS, PALLETS OF BOOKS ARE TYPICALLY PUT UP FOR SURPLUS AND THEN TAKEN TO AUCTION ON AVERAGE.

HOW MUCH DOES A PALLET OF BOOKS SELL FOR? IF IT'S NEXT TO NOTHING, WE NORMALLY GET ABOUT $10 PER PALLET AND SO WE'VE GOT EIGHT PALLETS THAT ARE AVAILABLE.

THESE ARE BOOKS THAT ARE COMING OFF OF THE SHELVES OF PLANO ISD LIBRARIES AS NEW BOOKS ARE COMING IN.

OR THEY MIGHT BE MAYBE NOT IN THE BEST CONDITION.

AND SO THE REASON THAT I WANTED TO PULL IT OFF TONIGHT IS WE'RE GOING TO VOTE ON IT AND IT WILL HAVE TO BE RATIFIED IN ORDER TO DO THIS.

BUT THERE'S OTHER PLACES THESE BOOKS COULD GO.

AND I THINK PLANO ISD, IF THE BOARD IF ITS THE WILL OF THE BOARD THAT THESE BOOKS, AFTER BEING DECLARED SURPLUS, COULD BE DONATED TO THE COLLIN COUNTY JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER.

THEY HAVE A LIBRARY, THEY HAVE AREAS FOR BOOKS FOR KIDS.

AND THIS COULD BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY RATHER THAN WHO KNOWS WHAT HAPPENS TO THESE BOOKS.

THERE'S NOT A LOT OF AFTERMARKET VALUE.

THEY COULD GO BACK INTO OUR COMMUNITY INTO AN AREA THAT IS IN DIRE NEED OF GOOD BOOKS.

AND SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I WANTED TO KIND OF THAT'S MY $0.02 TO TRY TO HELP OUR COMMUNITY.

AND YEAH, WELL, I'LL JUST ADD THAT'S A LOT OF BOOKS.

IT IS.

AND DO THE COLLIN COUNTY JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER WANT THEM? THEY DO WANT BOOKS.

THEY WANT BOOKS.

THEY WANT BOOKS.

WE HAVE A REVIEW PROCESS BECAUSE WE'VE ALREADY DONATED, NOT WE AS AN PLANO ISD, BUT LEADERSHIP PLANO CLASS 38 HAS ALREADY DONE A BOOK DRIVE AND DONATED BOOKS.

WE HAVE THEIR CRITERIA, SO THERE WOULD BE A REVIEW PROCESS PRIOR TO THE BOOKS THAT WE KNOW THEY WOULD WANT OR THAT ARE APPROVED TO GO TO THEM.

BUT WE DO KNOW THERE'S A NEED, NOT EIGHT PALLETS WORTH.

WELL, AND SO WHAT WE DO AFTER THAT BECOMES A LEADERSHIP PROBLEM AND NOT A PLANO ISD PROBLEM.

THAT'S SOMETIMES THE NATURE OF A.

IT'S A NONPROFIT, BUT THE IF THERE'S ONLY IF THERE'S 1000 BOOKS AND 200 HUNDRED OF THEM WORK OUT FOR THEM.

AND WE'VE GOT TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO WITH 800 OTHER BOOKS.

THAT'S A PROBLEM I'M WILLING TO HAVE IF IT'S SOMETHING THAT HELPS THEM.

SO I'M SUPPORTIVE OF THIS.

I THINK THIS IS A GOOD IDEA.

CODY AND IM PROBABLY SHAMED THAT IN 11 YEARS.

I DIDN'T COME UP WITH THIS IDEA.

SO I'M SUPPORTIVE OF THIS.

AND SO LET ME ASK A PROCEDURAL QUESTION, PROBABLY, SHARON.

OR MAYBE THIS IS A JOHNNY QUESTION.

SO WE'RE GOING TO VOTE AND APPROVE THESE BOOKS AS SURPLUS.

DO WE NEED TO HAVE A SEPARATE VOTE TO INSTRUCT THE DISTRICT TO OFFER THESE BOOKS TO THE COLLIN COUNTY JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER? OR DOES THE DISTRICT HAVE THE DISCRETION? AND IF THE REST OF THE BOARD KIND OF GIVES THE KNOWING NOD OF, YEAH, THIS IS A REALLY GOOD IDEA THAT THE BOARD, THE DISTRICT CAN THEN OFFER THOSE BOOKS TO.

THE COUNTY, AND TO THE EXTENT THE COUNTY DOESN'T WANT THEM, THEN WE SELL THEM.

I'M GOING TO DEFER TO JOHNNY BECAUSE THERE'S A BOARD POLICY THAT'S IN PLAY THERE.

RIGHT, JOHNNY? YES, MA'AM.

SO OBVIOUSLY THERE'S A BOARD POLICY CALLED CI LOCAL THAT ACTUALLY TALKS ABOUT ADMINISTRATION.

SO YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT.

PRESIDENT STOLLE THAT THE BOARD WOULD VOTE TO RATIFY THE SURPLUS OF THESE OF ALL OF THE SURPLUS OVER THE SUMMER, INCLUDING THESE BOOKS.

THE BOARD WOULD TAKE THAT VOTE AND THEN AND THEN YOU COULD DIRECT DR.

WILLIAMS IN OR HER DESIGNEE TO ACTUALLY WORK WITH THE COLLIN COUNTY JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER TO ADMINISTRATIVELY DONATE THOSE BOOKS SO IT IS NOT REQUIRED OR WE DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING EXTRA.

THE ONLY MOTION THAT'S REQUIRED IS WE JUST HAVE TO DECLARE THESE AS SURPLUS.

AND SO ANYBODY HAVE OR WANT TO COMMENT OR EITHER YAY OR NAY ON THOUGHTS ON OFFERING THOSE BOOKS UP FOR DONATION.

I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA.

THANK YOU FOR BRINGING IT TO US, CODY.

YEAH.

I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA TO.

[INAUDIBLE].

BUT I ALSO WANT TO KNOW, LIKE FRIENDS OF LIBRARY, LIKE PLANO ISD.

BUT NO CITY OF PLANO HAVE THIS YEARLY SALES AND PARENTS ARE ALL VERY EXCITED ABOUT THOSE OPPORTUNITIES.

SO IF THEY DON'T WANT IT, CAN WE OFFER IT TO LIBRARIES FOR SALE? YEAH, I THINK WE COULD AT THAT POINT IS PROBABLY AT THE DISCRETION OF THE ADMINISTRATION.

AND YEAH, I THINK THAT'S A GOOD IDEA, HEATHER.

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I MEAN, IF WE'RE GOING TO MAKE 80 BUCKS ON EIGHT PALLETS OF BOOKS, I THINK MAYBE WE'D RATHER SAY, LET'S TRY TO FIND A GOOD HOME FOR THOSE BOOKS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY.

OKAY.

WELL, I'M DOWN WITH THAT.

OKAY.

SO WITH THAT CONVERSATION.

YOU WANT TO MAKE A MOTION THERE? MR. WEAVER? I WOULD.

THANK YOU.

YOU BET.

I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES THE RATIFICATION OF THE ITEMS DECLARED AS SURPLUS AS PRESENTED.

I'LL SECOND.

I HAVE A MOTION BY CODY WEAVER, SECOND BY LAUREN TYRA, THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES THE RATIFICATION OF THE ITEMS DECLARED A SURPLUS AS PRESENTED.

IS THERE FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR.

PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.

NANCY APPROVE.

ALL RIGHT.

FANTASTIC.

THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

THANK YOU.

THANKS, CODY.

GOOD IDEA.

WE ARE NOW DOWN TO POLICIES 10.1 ADOPTION OF THE TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL BOARDS

[10.1. Adoption of Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) Localized Policy Manual Update 119, Affecting (LOCAL) Policies as Indicated on the Policy Action List and Review of (LEGAL) Policies, Exhibits, and Regulations included in the Policy Update on First and Final Reading Presenter: Dr. Selenda Anderson, Deputy Superintendent for Leadership and Operations]

LOCALIZED POLICY MANUAL UPDATE 119 AFFECTING LOCAL POLICIES AS INDICATED ON THE POLICY ACTION LIST AND REVIEW OF LEGAL POLICIES, EXHIBITS AND REGULATIONS INCLUDED IN THE POLICY UPDATE ON FIRST AND FINAL READING.

SO LINDA DREW THE SHORT STRAW ON POLICIES.

TAKE IT AWAY.

THANK YOU, PRESIDENT.

SALLY UPDATE 119 WAS REVIEWED BY DISTRICT STAFF AND THE DISTRICT'S LEGAL COUNSEL.

LOCAL POLICIES INCLUDE IN THE UPDATE ARE PRESENTED FOR ADOPTION UNDER THE FIRST AND FINAL READING THIS EVENING.

THANK YOU.

DO WE HAVE A MOTION? I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ADDS, REVISES OR DELETES LOCAL POLICIES AS RECOMMENDED BY TASB POLICY SERVICE AND ACCORDING TO THE INSTRUCTION SHEET FOR TASB LOCALIZED POLICY MANUAL UPDATE 119 UNDER FIRST AND FINAL READING.

THANK YOU.

SECOND? BECAUSE HE MIGHT WANT A.

I'LL SECOND.

OKAY.

I HAVE A MOTION BY JERI CHAMBERS, A SECOND BY CODY WEAVER AT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ADDS REVISES OR DELETES LOCAL POLICIES AS RECOMMENDED BY TASB POLICY SERVICE AND ACCORDING TO THE INSTRUCTION SHEET FOR TAB LOCALIZED POLICY MANUAL UPDATE 119 UNDER FIRST AND FINAL READING.

IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? I WANT TO ASK WHEN WILL THIS BE REFLECTED IN OUR WEBSITE? ON OUR WEBSITE? THE POLICY MENU OUR LAND POLICY MENU.

I AM NOT SURE.

I THINK AFTER YOU TAKE A VOTE, THEN GLORIA NOTIFIES TASB THAT IT'S BEEN VOTED UPON AND THEN TASB THEN UPDATES OUR POLICY ONLINE.

SO I'M NOT USUALLY I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE TURNAROUND PERIOD IS.

IF YOU COULD ASK GLORIA ON THAT, WE CAN TRY AND FIND OUT FOR THAT.

THANK YOU.

IT LOOKS LIKE LESLIE'S ASKING NOW.

I HOPE GLORIA DOESN'T RESPOND WITH THAT.

THANK YOU, HEATHER, FOR THE QUESTION.

WE WILL NOW VOTE ALL IN FAVOR.

PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.

NANCY APPROVE.

ALL RIGHT.

THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.

THANK YOU.

10.2 POLICIES ADOPTION OF POLICY, CFC LOCAL ACCOUNTING AUDITS UNDER FIRST AND FINAL

[10.2. Adoption of Policy CFC(LOCAL) Accounting: Audits under First and Final Reading Presenter: Dr. Selenda Anderson, Deputy Superintendent for Leadership and Operations]

READING CYLINDER REVISIONS TO POLICY TO THE POLICY LANGUAGE IN CFC LOCAL WERE MADE TO SUPPORT THE DISTRICT'S REVISED ORGANIZATIONAL CHART.

THIS POLICY IS PRESENTED FOR ADOPTION UNDER FIRST AND FINAL READING.

VERY GOOD.

THANK YOU.

DO I HAVE A MOTION? I MEAN, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ADOPTS POLICY CFC LOCAL ACCOUNTING AUDITS UNDER FIRST AND FINAL READING.

I HAVE A MOTION BY JERI CHAMBERS, A SECOND BY CODY WEAVER THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ADOPTS POLICY CFC LOCAL ACCOUNTING AUDITS UNDER FIRST AND FINAL READING.

IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? HEARING NONE.

LET'S VOTE ALL IN FAVOR.

PLEASE RAISE YOUR HANDS, NANCY.

APPROVED.

ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU.

THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.

10.3 POLICIES DELETION OF POLICY.

[10.3. Deletion of Policy EF(LOCAL) Instructional Resources under First and Final Reading Presenter: Dr. Selenda Anderson, Deputy Superintendent for Leadership and Operations]

EF LOCAL INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES UNDER FIRST AND FINAL READING SELENDA FOLLOWING ONE OF THE TASB RECOMMENDED OPTIONS TO ADDRESS THE SELECTION AND REVIEW OF INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES.

THE ADMINISTRATION RECOMMENDS SPLITTING POLICY EF LOCAL INTO TWO POLICIES TO SEPARATELY ADDRESS INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND LIBRARY MATERIALS WITH YOUR APPROVAL OF THE PROPOSED NEW POLICIES, WHICH WILL BE PRESENTED MOMENTARILY.

BOARD ACTION WOULD REQUIRE TO REPEAL POLICY EF LOCAL TO AVOID DUPLICATION OR INCONSISTENCIES IN POLICY POLICY LANGUAGE.

THE DELETION OF POLICY EF LOCAL IS PRESENTED FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION UNDER FIRST AND FINAL READING.

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THANK YOU.

IS THE DO I HAVE A MOTION? I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES DELETES POLICY EF LOCAL INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES UNDER FIRST AND FINAL READING AND I SECOND AGAIN.

ALL RIGHT THANK YOU.

HAVE A MOTION BY JERRY CHAMBERS, THE SECOND BY CODY WEAVER AT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES DELETES POLICY EF LOCAL INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES UNDER FIRST AND FINAL READING.

IS THERE FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL RIGHT, HEARING.

THEN WE'LL PROCEED TO VOTE.

ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HANDS.

NANCY.

I APPROVE.

ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU.

THE MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.

[10.4. Adoption of Policy EFA(LOCAL) Instructional Resources: Instructional Materials under First and Final Reading Presenter: Dr. Selenda Anderson, Deputy Superintendent for Leadership and Operations]

ALL RIGHT.

10.4 POLICIES ADOPTION OF POLICY EFA LOCAL INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES, INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS UNDER FIRST AND FINAL READING CYLINDER.

AS PREVIOUSLY REFERENCED, PROPOSED POLICY EFA LOCAL WILL ADDRESS THE SELECTION AND REVIEW OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS.

THIS POLICY IS PRESENTED FOR ADOPTION UNDER FIRST AND FINAL READING THIS EVENING.

OKAY.

THANK YOU.

DO I HAVE A MOTION? I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

ADOPTS POLICY EF LOCAL INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS UNDER FIRST AND FINAL READING SECOND.

I HAVE A MOTION BY CODY WEAVER, SECOND BY JERI CHAMBERS AT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ADOPTS POLICY EFA LOCAL INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS UNDER FIRST AND FINAL READING.

IS THERE FURTHER DISCUSSION? YES.

I WANT TO THANK THE ADMINISTRATION AND EVERYBODY THAT WORKED ON THIS POLICY, BECAUSE LOOKING AT THE TEA RECOMMENDATIONS AND OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS THAT HAVE COME OUT AND HEARING A LOT ABOUT IT, WHAT THEY CAME UP WITH AND THIS IS IN REGARDS TO B LOCAL AS WELL, I FIND TO BE A GREAT IMPROVEMENT ON WHAT WE HAD FROM EF AND THE PROCESS THAT ULTIMATELY ENDS AT THE BOARD I THINK IS THE RIGHT PROCESS.

AND SO A LOT OF HEARTBURN THAT ANYBODY MIGHT HAVE HAD BEFORE.

I THINK THIS IS A GREAT IMPROVEMENT AND I'M VERY HAPPY TO SEE THIS BEFORE THE BOARD TONIGHT.

THANKS.

OTHER COMMENTS.

WE WILL PROCEED TO VOTE ALL IN FAVOR.

PLEASE RAISE YOUR HANDS.

NANCY.

APPROVE.

OKAY.

EXCELLENT.

THANK YOU.

THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.

AND OUR FINAL POLICY, THE COMPANION ADOPTION OF POLICY, EFP, LOCAL

[10.5. Adoption of Policy EFB(LOCAL) Instructional Resources: Library Materials under First and Final Reading Presenter: Dr. Selenda Anderson, Deputy Superintendent for Leadership and Operations]

INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES, LIBRARY MATERIALS UNDER FIRST AND FINAL READING CYLINDER.

THE PROPOSED POLICY EFB LOCAL WILL ADDRESS THE SELECTION AND REVIEW OF LIBRARY MATERIALS.

THIS POLICY IS PRESENTED FOR ADOPTION UNDER THE FIRST AND FINAL READING.

I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ADOPTS POLICY EFB LOCAL INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES, LIBRARY AND MATERIALS UNDER FIRST AND FINAL READING SECOND.

THANK YOU.

DO I HAVE A MOTION? I HAVE A MOTION BY CODY WEAVER, SECOND BY JERI CHAMBERS AT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ADOPTS POLICY EFB LOCAL INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES LIBRARY MATERIALS UNDER FIRST AND FINAL READING.

IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION HERE? ALL RIGHT.

HEARING NONE.

WE'LL PROCEED TO VOTE.

ALL IN FAVOR.

PLEASE RAISE YOUR HANDS.

NANCY APPROVED.

ALL RIGHT.

THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.

THANKS.

WE HAVE NO NON CONSENT AGENDA RELATED ITEMS. SO IF THERE IS NO FURTHER BUSINESS NOR ANY OBJECTIONS FROM MY COLLEAGUES, WE'RE GOING TO CALL.

THIS MEETING ADJOURNED AT 12:14 A.M., SETTING A NEW RECORD.

WAY TO GO, GANG.

ARE YOU SURE?

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.