[1. CALL TO ORDER]
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GOOD EVENING. I'M DAVID STOLLE, BOARD PRESIDENT AND PRESIDING OFFICER.
ON THE BOARD'S BEHALF, I WISH TO WELCOME OUR VIEWERS AND ALL WHO ARE PRESENT WITH US THIS EVENING.
THIS TIME, I ASK SUPERINTENDENT DR.
THANK YOU. LET ME INTRODUCE MY FELLOW TRUSTEES AND STAFF SEATED UP HERE AT THE DAIS.
TO MY LEFT, SUPERINTENDENT DR.
THERESA WILLIAMS. DR. LINDA FREEMAN, DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT FOR LEADERSHIP AND OPERATIONS.
TRUSTEE ANGELA POWELL IS ON HER WAY UP.
LAUREN TYRA. SO I'M GOING TO SKIP LAUREN BOARD SECRETARY JERI CHAMBERS.
LISA WILSON, DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT FOR TEACHING, LEARNING AND LIFE READINESS.
PATRICK TANNER, ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT FOR TECHNOLOGY SERVICES.
[2. PUBLIC COMMENT SESSION]
MOVING ON TO AGENDA, ITEM NUMBER 2.DR. FREEMAN, DO WE HAVE ANY REQUESTS FOR SPEAKER? WE DO NOT HAVE ANY SPEAKERS.
OKAY. LET ME REMIND EVERYONE, RELATIVE TO OUR PUBLIC COMMENT SESSIONS THAT WE HEAR, I JUST WANT TO REMIND EVERYONE THAT WE ARE PILOTING AN ONLINE SPEAKER SIGN UP PROCESS.
THROUGHOUT THIS PILOT PERIOD ANYONE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK AT A BOARD MEETING MAY CONTINUE TO OBSERVE OUR CURRENT PUBLIC COMMENT PROCESS BY SIGNING UP IN PERSON WITHIN ONE HOUR LEADING UP TO THE START OF THE MEETING, OR TAKE ADVANTAGE OF AN ONLINE PROCESS WHICH IS AVAILABLE AS FOLLOWS.
THE ONLINE SIGN UP PERIOD FOR BOARD MEETINGS AND WORK SESSIONS WILL BE OPEN FROM 8 A.M.
TO 5 P.M. THE DAY OF A MEETING.
FOR ALL OTHER BOARD MEETINGS ONLINE SIGN UP WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM 8 A.M.
TO 5 P.M. THE BUSINESS DAY PRIOR TO THE SCHEDULED MEETING, AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE WILL BE AVAILABLE HERE IN THE LOBBY OF THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING DURING THE ONLINE SIGN UP PERIOD FOR ANYONE WISHING TO SPEAK WHO DOES NOT OTHERWISE HAVE ACCESS TO A COMPUTER OR MOBILE PHONE.
OUR TARGET DATE FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS NEW ONLINE SIGN UP PROCESS IS AUGUST 2023.
WE DON'T HAVE ANY SPEAKERS, SO WE ARE GOING TO MOVE ALONG TO CLOSED SESSION.
[3. CLOSED SESSION]
IF THERE ARE NO OBJECTIONS FROM THE BOARD, WE WILL ADJOURN TO CLOSED SESSION AS AUTHORIZED UNDER TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT FOR THE FOLLOWING PURPOSE.[4. RECONVENE OPEN SESSION]
ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE.THE BOARD IS RECONVENED IN OPEN SESSION.
TODAY IS TUESDAY, APRIL 18TH, 2023.
[5. CONSENT AGENDA]
MOVING ON TO OUR CONSENT AGENDA.CONSENT AGENDA CONSISTS OF ROUTINE ITEMS GROUPED TOGETHER FOR APPROVAL AND NO DISCUSSION .
BOARD MEMBERS ARE THERE ANY REQUESTS TO REMOVE ITEMS FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL RIGHT. HEARING NONE. MAY I HAVE A MOTION? I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED.
WOULD ANYBODY CARE TO SECOND THAT? I SECOND.
ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.
THANK YOU. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
MOVING ON TO WE HAVE THREE REPORTS TONIGHT.
[6. REPORTS]
OUR FIRST REPORT IS GOING TO BE A DOOZY AND IN A GOOD WAY.WE'RE GOING TO DO OUR STRATEGIC CONTINUE WITH OUR STRATEGIC ROAD MAPPING.
AND WE'RE GOING TO TURN THIS OVER TO LISA TO GET US STARTED.
BUT BEFOREHAND, I WANTED TO KIND OF JUST LAY OUT A FEW SUGGESTED GROUND RULES FROM US HERE AT THE TABLE BECAUSE WE'RE ABOUT TO GET A LOT OF INFORMATION.
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PRESENTED. AND SO IF YOU COULD TAKE YOUR NOTES HERE, ASK CLARIFYING QUESTIONS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, IF YOU NEED CLARIFYING QUESTIONS, BUT SAVE DEEPER CONVERSATIONS FOR EXPECTATIONS, DESIRES, ETCETERA, FOR TOMORROW.ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. PRESIDENT STOLLE, BOARD OF TRUSTEES, DR.
DAVID JUST MENTIONED YOU HAVE A NOTE CATCHER THAT'S SEPARATE AND YOU HAVE A NOTE CATCHER THAT IS IN THE FRONT OF YOUR HANDY, THANK YOU SHARON, BOOKLET THAT WE HAVE FOR YOU.
I'M GOING TO REQUEST JUST TO TRY TO EXPEDITE THINGS TOMORROW EVENING.
IF YOU WOULD, TAKE YOUR NOTES ON THE SEPARATE ONE.
SO IF YOU DON'T MIND USING THE SEPARATE ONE SO WE CAN COLLECT THOSE TONIGHT, THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
ALL RIGHT. SO WE ARE READY TO START.
THE FIRST THING WE NEED TO DO, THOUGH, BEFORE WE GET STARTED ON THE LARGER CELEBRATION OR REPORT, IF YOU WILL, OF THE INFORMATION, IS THIS IS OUR THIRD WORKGROUP UPDATE.
IF YOU WILL RECALL, WE GAVE YOU A CTE WORKGROUP UPDATE AND AN ACADEMICS UPDATE.
WE HAD THE THIRD GROUP, THE INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY GROUP, COMPLETED THEIR WORK.
THANK YOU. AND PATRICK, YOU CAN JUMP IN ANYTHING I MISS ON THIS ONE.
THIS ONE WAS FACILITATED BY MATT FREY, OUR WONDERFUL INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR, AND HE WORKED WITH THE GROUP LOOKING AT SEVERAL THINGS TECHNOLOGY STANDARDS, 1 TO 1 DEVICES.
WE TALKED A LOT ABOUT UNTETHERED TEACHING, AND WE'LL GET TO THAT IN JUST A MOMENT.
AND WE HAD ABOUT 30 PARTICIPANTS IN THIS GROUP AND MATT CERTAINLY PUT THEM TO WORK.
WE HAD SEVERAL QUESTIONS THAT WE WERE EXPLORING.
HOW DO WE WANT TO IMPROVE TEACHING AND LEARNING THROUGH TECHNOLOGY? WHAT ARE OUR EXPECTATIONS FOR OUR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS? AGAIN, CO-CURRICULAR PIECES.
AND THEN JUST GETTING DOWN TO SOME QUESTIONS LIKE WHEN WILL STUDENTS TAKE THEIR COMPUTERS HOME? WHAT SHOULD WE PROVIDE FOR THEM TO TAKE HOME OR LEAVE AT SCHOOL? AND JUST SEVERAL OF THOSE CONVERSATIONS, WHAT DOES THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT LOOK LIKE FOR EACH CLASSROOM? WHAT SHOULD BE THE STANDARD FOR EACH CLASSROOM AND HOW DO WE USE THOSE INSTRUCTIONALLY? WE HAD TWO MEETINGS WITH THIS WORK GROUP, NOT BECAUSE OF WEATHER, BUT BECAUSE WE ACTUALLY PLANNED TO DO THIS 1 IN 2 MEETINGS.
IN THE FIRST EVENING, MATT DEMONSTRATED SOME GREAT INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY TOOLS AND WE HAD IT WAS ACTUALLY KIND OF A FUN DISPLAY OF SOME OF THE TOOLS THAT ARE AVAILABLE. BUT IN THOSE ACTIVITIES, WE IDENTIFIED OUR HOPES AND FEARS ABOUT TECHNOLOGY, WHAT WE BELIEVE, LOOKED AT THE KEY QUESTIONS AND REALLY WORKED THROUGH SOME PROTOCOLS THE SECOND TIME TO GET TO SOME CONSENSUS STATEMENTS.
THESE ARE THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THAT WORK GROUP.
AND TO DO THAT, WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE AN INTERACTIVE FLAT PANEL IN EACH CLASSROOM ALONG WITH A MOBILE DEVICE FOR THE TEACHER TO USE SO THAT EVEN IF TECHNOLOGY IS OFTEN WHEN TECHNOLOGY IS BEING USED WE'RE TIED TO A COMPUTER AND WE'RE SITTING UP IN FRONT AND WE'RE DRIVING FROM THE COMPUTER, BUT IF WE HAVE THE MOBILE DEVICE WHERE THE TEACHER CAN BE WALKING AND STILL WALKING THROUGHOUT THE CLASSROOM AND STILL DISPLAYING AT THE SAME TIME, THAT WAS THE CONVERSATION ABOUT UNTETHERED TEACHING.
AND YOU'LL SEE AN EXAMPLE OF THAT IN JUST A MOMENT.
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DIFFERENTIATE FOR STUDENTS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE WHEN STUDENTS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO INTERACT OR PRACTICE WITH WITH TECHNOLOGY.AND THEN ON THE FAR END, THE HIGHEST LEVEL, THE HIGHEST COGNITIVE LEVEL, WHEN THEY'RE APPLYING THAT AND DEMONSTRATING THEIR LEARNING, HOW CAN WE USE TOOLS TO DO THOSE THINGS AS WELL? WE TALKED ABOUT PROFESSIONAL LEARNING AND HOW WE GET THAT PROFESSIONAL LEARNING TO ALL OF OUR TEACHERS TO HELP THEM BE GREAT USERS OF THE INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY TALKED ABOUT CO-CURRICULAR OPPORTUNITIES AND WAYS TO INCREASE STUDENT ENGAGEMENT.
AND OF COURSE, LOOKING AT THE 1 TO 1 STRATEGY ACROSS THE DISTRICT.
AND REALLY THAT NEEDS TO BE DIFFERENTIATED BY LEVEL BECAUSE DIFFERENT LEVELS NEED DIFFERENT TOOLS.
THIS IS THE HIGH SCHOOL EXAMPLE.
ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE, WE WOULD LIST THE TECHNOLOGY TOOLS THAT WE WOULD EQUIP FOR EACH CLASSROOM AND THEN AGAIN, TALKING ABOUT THE PURPOSE OF USING A TECHNOLOGY TOOL IN A VARIETY OF COGNITIVE INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES, WHETHER THAT'S WHOLE GROUP, SMALL GROUP PRACTICE OR DEMONSTRATION OF LEARNING. AND REALLY WHAT THOSE PRODUCTS COULD LOOK LIKE, WHAT THAT TEACHER EXPERIENCE WOULD BE AND WHAT THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE WOULD BE.
SO WE'RE EXCITED TO BE WORKING ON SOME OF THAT.
BUT WE WANTED YOU TO KNOW WHAT THAT GROUP SPECIFICALLY HAD BROUGHT TO THE TABLE.
PATRICK DID I MISS ANYTHING? NO. I THINK YOU COVERED EVERYTHING WELL AND AGAIN, JUST LOOKING AT IT, NO ACTUAL DECISIONS WERE MADE AS PART OF THAT PROCESS.
OKAY, SO WE WILL MOVE RIGHT ON TO THE DOOZY AS IT WAS DESCRIBED.
AND WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT OUR PROCESS, THE RECOMMENDATIONS WE'RE BRINGING TO YOU.
WE WILL BE ASSISTED, OF COURSE, BY ROSS AND DALANE HERE IN JUST A MOMENT.
BUT YOU'VE SEEN THIS SLIDE MULTIPLE TIMES.
BUT JUST TO GIVE YOU A VISUAL, YOU ARE HEARING TONIGHT THE CULMINATION OF PHASES 2A 2B AND 2C, WHICH HAVE RESULTED IN A LIST OF INITIAL RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE'RE BRINGING TO YOU.
AGAIN, JUST REMINDING YOU THE NUMBER OF MEETINGS, THE VOLUME OF INFORMATION.
WE GAVE YOU A LOT OF INFORMATION.
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THERE'S EVEN MORE.
JUST WANTED TO REMIND YOU, ALTHOUGH YOU ALL HAVE ATTENDED A COMMUNITY MEETING, SO I KNOW YOU'VE SEEN THESE QUESTIONS BEFORE, BUT JUST AS A POINT OF A REMINDER, THESE WERE THE QUESTIONS WE ASKED OUR COMMUNITY, OUR STAFF, OUR PRINCIPALS HAD A LITTLE BIT OF A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT SET OF QUESTIONS BECAUSE WE USED THOSE PRINCIPAL ROUNDS FOR MULTIPLE PURPOSES. BUT WE DID ASK THESE QUESTIONS TO LOTS OF FOLKS AND RECEIVED LOTS OF INPUT, BOTH FOR FACE TO FACE IN WRITING THROUGH FORMS. I'VE HAD EMAILS, SO THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF SOURCES OF THIS INFORMATION COMING IN.
SO WE ASKED A SERIES OF CTE QUESTIONS.
WE ASKED A SERIES OF ACADEMIC PROGRAMING QUESTIONS AND AGAIN, YOU HAVE THESE IN YOUR PACKET.
BUT I WANTED TO JUST REMIND YOU THE INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY QUESTIONS.
AND THEN WE ASKED A SERIES OF THE PORTRAIT OF A GRADUATE QUESTIONS.
NOW BEFORE I SHOW YOU THE NEXT SLIDE, WHICH GIVES YOU A SUMMARY OF SOME OF THE TOP THEMES THAT WE HEARD, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE SOME OF THE THEMES KIND OF FIT THESE FOUR AREAS.
BECAUSE THOSE WERE THE QUESTIONS WE WERE POSING.
THERE ARE OTHER THINGS WE KNOW ARE IMPORTANT THAT WE'VE RECEIVED INFORMATION FROM STAFF.
SO THOSE HELPED SHAPE SOME OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE'RE BRINGING FORTH TONIGHT.
BUT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THESE QUESTIONS HAVE GUIDED THE TOP.
WE'LL GIVE YOU THE KIND OF TOP TEN THAT WE RECEIVED IN THERE.
FIRST THING, THEY WANT A CARING CULTURE.
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FOR THEM, THAT WE'RE LISTENING TO THEM, THAT WE'RE HEARING WHAT, YOU KNOW, THE DIFFICULTIES OR THE CELEBRATIONS THAT THEY'RE GOING THROUGH.WE HEARD MULTIPLE TIMES AND IN MULTIPLE WAYS.
AND SO WE'VE HAD A KIND OF AN INCREASE IN BEHAVIOR.
AND SO WE'RE LOOKING AT WAYS AND OF COURSE WE'RE WORKING ON THAT.
BUT WE DID HEAR INPUT ABOUT THAT.
HEARD SOME GREAT STORIES ABOUT SOME OTHER COUNTRIES.
BUT THAT WAS DEFINITELY A THEME.
WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS FOR OUR STUDENTS? LOVED HEARING FROM STAFF, FROM PARENTS ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCES IN HIGH SCHOOL, THE THINGS THAT MADE THEM EXCITED ABOUT GOING TO SCHOOL AND MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE A WIDE STRETCH OF PATHWAYS FOR OUR STUDENTS.
SO THAT KIND OF GOES ALONG WITH THE WORK THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING WITH OUR MIDDLE SCHOOL RESEARCH TEAM.
SO WE WOULD BE TALKING ABOUT THINGS.
THOSE TYPES OF HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT THE OPTIONS ARE FOR OUR STUDENTS? SO WE NEED TO DO A BETTER JOB OF COMMUNICATING AND HAVING INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO HELP STUDENTS AS YOUNG AS MIDDLE SCHOOL AT LEAST GET EXCITED ABOUT THE OPTIONS THAT ARE AVAILABLE.
SO WE REALLY HEARD, YOU KNOW, PLANO DOES A LOT OF GREAT THINGS.
WOW. I WISH I HAD KNOWN ABOUT THAT.
WE ALSO HAD A THEME OF SPECIAL EDUCATION AND BILINGUAL SERVICES.
AGAIN, WE ASKED QUESTIONS SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THAT.
SO THAT PROBABLY WENT TO HEARING ABOUT THAT.
BUT JUST HEARING ABOUT STRUGGLES TO FIND CERTIFIED STAFF, HAVING TO PROVIDE MULTIPLE SERVICES AND HOW WE DO THAT, WHAT IS THE EQUITY OF SERVICES, THOSE TYPES OF THINGS.
SO A LOT OF FEEDBACK ON SPECIAL EDUCATION AND BILINGUAL SERVICES.
OF COURSE, EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES.
YOU ASK FOLKS ABOUT WHAT MADE THEM EXCITED ABOUT GOING TO SCHOOL WHEN THEY WERE YOUNGER AND WE GOT TO HEAR ABOUT ALL KINDS OF THINGS THAT MADE STUDENTS EXCITED ABOUT GOING SO MANY OF THOSE WE ALREADY OFFER.
AND THEN WE HEARD THINGS THAT WE DON'T NECESSARILY OFFER, AGAIN, PARTICULARLY FROM FOLKS WHO HAD EXPERIENCES GOING TO SCHOOL IN OTHER COUNTRIES AND THOSE TYPES OF THINGS. SO LOTS ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF ALLOWING KIDS TO BE ENGAGED IN OTHER THINGS OTHER THAN THEIR CLASSROOM.
EQUITY OF ACCESS WAS A BIG THEME.
IT WAS A THEME FOR ALL OF OUR GROUPS, MAKING SURE THAT IF WE HAVE GREAT THINGS GOING ON IN PLANO, THAT ALL OF OUR STUDENTS HAVE EQUAL ACCESS TO THOSE SERVICES.
BUT THERE ARE OTHER STUDENTS WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN DIFFERENT PATHWAYS.
SO HEARING ABOUT THOSE PEOPLE WERE EXCITED ABOUT THAT AND WANT TO SEE ADDITIONAL CAREER SKILLS ON THE PLATE OR ABLE FOR KIDS TO ACCESS . HEARD A LOT ABOUT PROJECT BASED LEARNING ENGAGING RELEVANT ACTIVITIES AND HOW KIDS GET EXCITED WHEN THEY'RE HANDS ON AND THEY'RE ENGAGING IN THINGS THAT SEEM RELEVANT TO THEIR LIVES AND ALSO HEARD QUITE A BIT ABOUT DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP AND PROBABLY AGAIN ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT TECHNOLOGY, BUT MAKING SURE OUR STUDENTS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN HOW TO BE RESPONSIBLE USERS OF TECHNOLOGY AND TO STAY SAFE WHEN THEY'RE USING TECHNOLOGY AND ALL OF THOSE PIECES ABOUT DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP.
SO AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, WE HEARD A LOT.
AGAIN, THESE WERE KIND OF THE COMMON THEMES WE HEARD THROUGHOUT.
THE BEAUTIFUL PART OF ALL OF THE FEEDBACK IS WE'RE NOW SIFTING AND SORTING IT INTO DEPARTMENTS.
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TO RELY ON AND GO BACK TO FOR THE DETAILS.KIND OF THE DEVIL'S IN THE DETAILS TYPE WORK.
SO WE ARE EXCITED TO HAVE ALL OF THAT TO GO BACK TO.
GREAT GRAPHIC HERE TO SHOW YOU THIS PROCESS.
OUR STRATEGIC ROADMAP HAS A VISION, MISSION, BELIEFS AND OF COURSE, STRATEGIC PILLARS.
TONIGHT, WE'RE BRINGING YOU A SLIGHTLY REVISED VERSION OF THE STRATEGIC PILLARS.
WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE WERE ABLE TO ENCOMPASS EVERYTHING WE WANTED TO ACCOMPLISH.
AND WE'RE BRINGING YOU SOME SUGGESTED STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES.
AND WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH SOME OF THOSE.
THAT WILL MOVE US ONE STEP CLOSER TO THE STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE.
AND SO JUST WANT TO REMIND YOU, WHEN YOU SEE THESE THINGS, ALL OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS, WE ALL WANT THEM TO HAPPEN YESTERDAY, BUT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO USE SOME THOUGHT AND SOME CONSIDERATION OF THIS IS A MARATHON, NOT A SPRINT.
AND WHAT'S GOING TO COME FIRST AND WHAT'S GOING TO COME NEXT AND SO ON.
AND JUST AS A REMINDER, PART OF THAT PLAN OF WORK THAT WILL BRING YOU EVERY YEAR WILL ALSO INCLUDE THOSE PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES FROM OUR DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PLAN THAT WILL HAVE VERY SPECIFIC GROWTH TARGETS THAT WE USE FOR THE STATE.
AND OF COURSE, THE STRATEGIES THAT WE'LL USE TO INCORPORATE THOSE AS WELL.
WILLIAMS, DID I MISS ANYTHING ON THIS? OKAY. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T LIKE GRAPHICS, BUT A LOT OF WORDS, THIS SAYS THE EXACT SAME THING.
SO WE'RE GOING TO BRING ALL OF THIS TO YOU AND THAT'S HOW THAT WILL BREAK DOWN.
WHEN WE BRING YOU THE PLAN OF WORK, YOU WILL NOTICE THAT IT STARTS WITH A PILLAR.
IT WILL HAVE THE OBJECTIVE THAT'S ALREADY BEEN APPROVED BY THE BOARD.
EACH YEAR WE'LL PUT THE TARGETS AND THE STRATEGIES IN PLACE, AND WE'LL HAVE ACTION PLANS EACH YEAR.
WE'LL HAVE OUR DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PLAN GOALS.
AND THEN OUR CAMPUSES WILL ALSO HAVE THEIR IMPROVEMENT PLANS THAT TIED ALL OF THAT.
SO THAT'S JUST TO SHOW YOU HOW IT ALL WORKS TOGETHER.
NOW. THEY'VE BEEN VERY PATIENT OVER THERE.
I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO DR.
PRESIDENT STOLLE, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, DR.
WILLIAMS, IT IS A PLEASURE TO BE BACK WITH YOU.
THE LAST TIME WE WERE HERE, WE WERE REPORTING ON THE WORK THAT YOU DID AS A BOARD OF TRUSTEES DURING OUR CURATION PROCESS, AND IT HAS BEEN A LOVELY ADVENTURE GETTING TO KNOW THE STAFF, YOUR EXPERTS IN THE COMMUNITY, AND IT'S BEEN A VERY REWARDING PROCESS.
AND I'M VERY EXCITED, TOO, THAT SO MANY OF YOU WERE ABLE TO JOIN US AT DIFFERENT MEETINGS.
SO HOPEFULLY YOU WERE ABLE TO GLEAN A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT WAS BEING SAID DURING THOSE TIMES.
SO LET'S START WITH WHAT DRIVES THIS STRATEGIC ROADMAP.
SO WE'VE BEEN TALKING A LOT ABOUT VISION AND MISSION AND BELIEFS, BUT BEFORE EVEN ANY OF THAT, WE'VE GOT TO THINK ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT THE DISTRICT'S BEEN DOING THAT'S GOING TO INFORM WHAT IT IS THAT WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT TO SHARE WITH YOU, FOR YOU TO THEN PROBLEM SOLVE.
AND SO THOSE THINGS INCLUDE THINGS LIKE YOUR LONG RANGE FACILITY PLAN, YOUR BUILDING ASSESSMENTS AND EFFICIENCIES, YOUR CURRICULUM AUDIT THAT'S PENDING RIGHT NOW, A TRANSPORTATION AUDIT, YOUR DEBT MANAGEMENT, ALL OF THOSE THINGS THAT ARE GOING TO INFORM WHAT THE DECISIONS NEED TO BE WHEN WE THINK ABOUT HOW ACADEMICS COME TOGETHER WITH FACILITY NEEDS.
OKAY. SO ALL OF THAT WILL BE A PART OF YOUR ULTIMATELY THIS WE ENVISION VERY, VERY LARGE DELIVERABLE TO YOU THAT WILL INCLUDE ALL OF THOSE PIECES. WE DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO BE CONSIDERED IN ISOLATION, BUT ALL OF IT TOGETHER, INFORMING EACH PIECE.
SO YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THIS PYRAMID AGAIN THAT YOU'VE SEEN BEFORE.
AND THIS TIME I WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT THE WORK THAT YOU STARTED WITH US WITH THE BOARD CURATION.
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AND WE DID THAT IN DECEMBER.WHENEVER WE ASK DIFFERENT COMMUNITY GROUPS, WHAT IS IT NOW THAT WE NEED TO DO BASED ON WHAT YOUR BOARD IS ASKING? SO YES, WE START WITH VISION MISSION BELIEFS, BUT THEN WE SHOW THE OUTCOMES OF CURATION THAT YOU DID IN DECEMBER.
SO THOSE THEN DRAW OVER TO THAT.
YOU'LL SEE WHERE IT'S DRAWN OVER THERE TO THE STRATEGIC ROADMAP TARGETS.
SO ALL OF THESE PIECES COME TOGETHER AND WE'RE GOING TO ACTUALLY SHOW YOU A DRAFT OF OBJECTIVES THIS EVENING THAT WILL ENCOMPASS THE MAJOR RECOMMENDATIONS THAT CAME OUT OF THESE GROUPS.
OKAY. SO TOMORROW NIGHT, I UNDERSTAND YOU ALL HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO.
YOU'RE GOING TO BE DOING A CROSSWALK AND CHECKING THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE AND YOU'RE GOING TO BE CHECKING IT AS IT COMPARES TO THE WORK THAT YOU DID IN THE CURATION PROCESS.
SO YOU'RE GOING TO GET TO THINK ABOUT ALL THE THINGS THAT YOU FIRST STARTED TALKING TO US ABOUT IN DECEMBER, CONSIDERING THE THEMES THAT MS. WILSON JUST SHARED AND ALL OF THOSE DOVETAIL INTO A COLLECTIVE MENAGERIE OF THINGS THAT WERE IMPORTANT TO EVERYONE IN YOUR DISTRICT, STARTING WITH YOU DOWN TO YOUR STUDENTS, YOUR PARENTS, ALL OF THOSE QUESTIONS THAT WERE ASKED, AS WELL AS THE QUESTIONS THAT WE ASK IN YOUR COMMUNITY GROUPS AND YOUR STAFF GROUPS.
WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT ACADEMIC SERVICES, BILINGUAL SPECIAL EDUCATION, CTE, VERY, VERY DISTINCTLY CTE IN THE PROGRAMS THERE.
SO THEN YOU'RE GOING TO BE THINKING ABOUT ALL OF THE THINGS THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE SEEING TONIGHT AND THEN COMPARING THOSE TO THE OBJECTIVES THAT WE'RE SHARING TONIGHT TO ENSURE THAT YOU THINK THOSE ENCOMPASS WHAT IT IS THAT YOU WOULD HOPE THAT THE DISTRICT WOULD THEN COME UP WITH IN REGARD TO WHAT THOSE TARGET OUTCOMES ARE GOING TO BE? THAT'S THAT MARATHON PIECE THAT MS. WILSON WAS TALKING ABOUT.
I WAS TRYING TO REMEMBER TO WORK IN MY DOOZY LIKE PRESIDENT STOLLE SAID.
SO HERE COMES MY PART OF THE DOOZY PART.
SO ON OUR RECOMMENDATIONS AGAIN, WE STARTED WITH VISION AND MISSION THAT LOOKS FAMILIAR TO YOU.
WE MADE SURE EVERYBODY IS FOCUSED ON WHAT IS ALREADY IN PLACE IN PLANO ISD BEFORE WE STARTED ASKING THOSE QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT NOW? WE ALSO HAVE TAKEN YOUR WORK AND ALIGNED EACH OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS WITH YOUR PILLARS BECAUSE THAT MAKES SENSE FOR YOU TO THEN NOT THINK OF AN ACADEMIC PROGRAM IN ISOLATION.
BUT HOW DOES THIS FIT WITHIN OUR OVERALL PLAN FOR PLANO ISD? SO THE STRATEGIC PILLARS THAT ARE BEING SHOWN TONIGHT FOR CONSIDERATION ARE TEACHING AND LEARNING, LIFE READY, TALENT ACQUISITION, SUPPORT AND GROWTH, CULTURE OF COMMUNITY SAFETY AND WELLNESS, AND FINALLY, PARTNERSHIPS AND STRATEGIC RESOURCE MANAGEMENT. SO UNDER EACH OF THOSE, HERE IS THE DRAFT FOR THE OBJECTIVES THAT WOULD ALIGN WITH EACH PILLAR.
SO UNDER TEACHING AND LEARNING, I'LL GIVE YOU A SECOND TO LOOK AT THOSE, BUT YOU'LL SEE THAT WE HAVE FOUR OBJECTIVES DRAFTED FOR CONSIDERATION AND THEY SPEAK TO THE GLOBAL RECOMMENDATIONS THAT I'M GOING TO SHARE WITH YOU NEXT IN THE NEXT SLIDE.
SO LIKE OBJECTIVE ONE, IT'S ABOUT REMOVING BARRIERS FOR ACADEMIC PROGRAMING, MAKING SURE THAT EVERYTHING'S ACCESSIBLE, OFFERING DIFFERENTIATION FOR STUDENTS, AND YOU'RE FOCUSED ON HIGH LEVELS OF LEARNING.
SO AS YOU CAN SEE, THAT'S A LARGE OBJECTIVE AND THERE MAY BE MANY THINGS THAT FALL UNDER THAT.
OBJECTIVE TWO WOULD BE ABOUT SYSTEMS THAT ARTICULATE EXPECTATIONS AND PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR STAFF, CAMPUS ADMINISTRATORS AND DISTRICT OFFICE LEADERS TO ENSURE ENGAGING HIGH LEVELS OF LEARNING FOR ALL STUDENTS.
MAY I ASK A QUESTION? IF WE WANT TO TWEAK THIS, THIS IS WHAT OUR SHEET IS ABOUT, RIGHT? YES. I JUST WANT TO CONFIRM THAT IF WE HAVE QUESTIONS OR THIS IS THE POINT OF THAT.
OKAY. I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE.
AND YOU WILL HAVE TIME TOMORROW NIGHT.
WE'RE GOING TO SPECIFICALLY SPEND TIME ON THE LANGUAGE OF THESE THESE AS WELL.
AND THAT'S A GREAT TIME FOR A COMMERCIAL BREAK.
I'M NOT GOING TO READ YOU EACH OF THESE, BUT YOU'LL SEE HOW THOSE OBJECTIVES ARE BROAD.
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THOSE. SO UNDER PILLAR ONE, THIS IS THE CULMINATION OF THEIR MAJOR RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WOULD ALIGN WITH TEACHING AND LEARNING.YOU MAY HEAR SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU ACTUALLY SAID DURING THE CURATION PROCESS IN SOME OF THESE.
BUT I ALSO WANT TO POINT OUT THAT IN YOUR PACKET THERE ARE TWO HANDOUTS AT THE BACK OF YOUR PACKET.
ONE HANDOUT THAT THE NEXT TO THE LAST ONE CONTAINS ALL OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS.
SORRY. NO, THANK YOU FOR THAT, MS. WILSON. SO YOU'LL HEAR SOME STRONG RECOMMENDED LANGUAGE.
THE VERBS HERE WERE INTENTIONAL, LIKE THE FIRST ONE REDESIGN K-12 MATHEMATICS PROGRAM AND PATHWAYS.
SPEAKING SPECIFICALLY TO MATH ROCKS AND HONORS.
EXPANDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR BILINGUAL, EVALUATING THE IMPLEMENTATION AND IMPACT OF READING ACADEMY STRATEGIES IN THE K 3 LITERACY INSTRUCTION PROGRAM AND REFINING INSTRUCTIONAL EXPECTATIONS TO ENSURE STUDENTS ARE DEMONSTRATING THE ANNUAL GROWTH THAT IT'S EXPECTED.
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT A DIGITAL LEARNING PLAN THAT ARTICULATES EXPECTATIONS FOR TECHNOLOGY FOR BOTH TEACHERS AND STUDENTS, INCLUDING THAT DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP THAT YOU HEARD ABOUT EARLIER IN THE MEETING.
ESTABLISH A CENTRALIZED APPROACH FOR INSTRUCTIONAL COACHING, DESIGN SUPPORT AND DELIVERY.
DEFINING CAMPUS SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES WITH THE LEARNING CONTINUUM, SPECIFICALLY ARD PREPARATION AND MEETINGS, DATA COLLECTION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORT.
LASTLY ON THESE MAJOR RECOMMENDATIONS IS TO IMPLEMENT UIL AND OTHER CO-CURRICULAR OPPORTUNITIES IN ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL LEVELS TO INCREASE ACCESS AND STUDENT INVOLVEMENT K-12.
SPEAK TO CAREER EXPLORATION AND OPPORTUNITY ACADEMIES, YOUR CEO ACADEMIES FOR PATHWAYS FOR STUDENTS THAT LEAD TO HIGH WAGE, HIGH DEMAND CAREERS. THAT'S WHAT WE SPOKE TO THROUGH THAT WHOLE PROCESS IS ENSURING THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT HIGH WAGE, HIGH DEMAND FOR YOUR STUDENTS.
AGAIN, THAT WAS PART OF THE COMMUNICATION THAT YOU HEARD EARLIER IN THIS MEETING.
AND THEN THE MAJOR RECOMMENDATIONS THAT ALIGN WITH THOSE OBJECTIVES ARE LISTED NEXT.
DEVELOP A MASTER PLAN OF CTE PROGRAMS FOR EACH CAMPUS AND THE CEO ACADEMY.
ESTABLISH AND MONITOR A SYSTEM FOR PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT TO ENHANCE MENTORING AND INTERNSHIP FOR ALL CTE PROGRAMS. DESIGN AND OPEN A FACILITY TO HOUSE ADVANCED SEO OPPORTUNITIES, WHICH WOULD BE A CTE CENTER.
YOU HEARD MISS WILSON SPEAK TO THAT EARLIER IN THE MEETING AS WELL.
DEVELOP AND MARKET A CONSISTENT COMMUNICATION AND TRAINING PLAN FOR STUDENTS, STAFF AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS ON PATHWAYS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR PRE K 12 SO STUDENTS AND FAMILIES HAVE CLARITY AROUND PATHWAY OPTIONS FOR THEIR STUDENTS AT A VERY EARLY AGE.
INCREASE CERTIFICATION OPPORTUNITIES.
PROVIDE ADDITIONAL TEST PREP OPPORTUNITIES AND DEVELOP A SUPERINTENDENT SCHOLAR PROGRAM.
THAT'S YOUR NATIONAL MERIT QUALIFYING PROGRAM THAT WOULD ALSO BE DEVELOPED.
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THERE'S THREE.THIS IS TALENT ACQUISITION, SUPPORT AND GROWTH.
HERE WE'RE SUGGESTING THAT YOU DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT AN EMPLOYEE RECRUITMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND RETENTION PLAN TO ENSURE A HIGH QUALIFIED CERTIFIED STAFF MEMBER IN EVERY CLASSROOM AND LEADERSHIP POSITION.
AND THAT WOULD BE FOR ALL LEVELS OF YOUR ORGANIZATION.
THOSE MAJOR RECOMMENDATIONS ARE SUPPORTED WITH DEVELOPING NEW RETENTION STRATEGIES FOR STAFF.
AND THERE YOU'RE HAVING TO CONSIDER TIME DEMANDS AND COMPENSATION.
DEVELOPING A PLAN TO SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE THE NUMBER OF UNFILLED VACANCIES.
PROVIDING A COMPETITIVE COMPENSATION PACKAGE.
INCREASED STAFF APPRECIATION EVENTS.
ALL OF THESE SPEAK TO THAT CULTURE THEME THAT YOU HEARD EARLIER.
CONDUCT REGULAR STAFF LISTENING ROUNDS FOR CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT IN WORKING CONDITIONS.
DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING A COMPREHENSIVE TRAINING PROGRAM.
AND THIS WAS SPECIFIC TO INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES FOR BILINGUAL AND SPECIAL EDUCATION BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT, AS WELL AS THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS CONNECTED TO THE LEARNING TARGETS.
AND THEN FINALLY IMPLEMENTING SYSTEMS THAT RESULT IN A MINIMUM OF THREE READY LEADERS FOR EVERY LEADERSHIP VACANCY.
PILLAR FOUR IS YOUR CULTURE OF COMMUNITY SAFETY AND WELLNESS.
AND THERE ARE FOUR OBJECTIVES THERE IMPLEMENTING SAFETY MEASURES AND PROTOCOLS AT ALL FACILITIES AND EVENTS, IMPLEMENTING SYSTEMS OF INTERVENTIONS AND SUPPORT FOR A CULTURE OF BELONGING AND ORDERLY LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS.
OBJECTIVE THREE SPEAKS TO A CULTURE OF BELONGING.
AND FOUR IS ABOUT ENGAGING COMMUNITY THROUGH CONSISTENT AND INNOVATIVE COMMUNICATION.
AND THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE TO PRIORITIZE FEEDBACK FROM THE SAFETY AUDITS TO IMPLEMENT THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS SPECIFICALLY. CREATE COMPREHENSIVE SAFETY AND SECURITY PLANS FOR ALL DISTRICT FACILITIES INCLUSIVE OF REQUIRED APPENDICES.
DEVELOP A DISTRICT WIDE DISCIPLINE MANAGEMENT PLAN, EXCUSE ME, DEVELOP A POSITIVE BEHAVIOR INTERVENTION AND SUPPORT SYSTEM AT THE DISTRICT LEVEL TO BE IMPLEMENTED ON EACH CAMPUS.
AND THAT'S FOR CONSISTENT BEHAVIOR EXPECTATIONS.
OPEN A WELCOME CENTER ON THE WEST SIDE AND DUPLICATE WRAPAROUND SERVICES.
INCREASE ENROLLMENT THROUGH RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION STRATEGIES.
ALIGN YOUR ATHLETIC AND FINE ARTS BRANDING IN EACH OF THE FEEDER SYSTEMS. TELL THE PLANO ISD STORY MEANING HIGHLIGHTING AND MARKETING YOUR ORGANIZATION.
AND THEN LASTLY, YOUR PILLAR FIVE IS ABOUT PARTNERSHIPS AND STRATEGIC RESOURCE MANAGEMENT.
AND THERE ARE TWO OBJECTIVES THERE.
AND THE SECOND IS TO DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT PLANS TO MAXIMIZE YOUR DISTRICT FACILITIES AND RESOURCES TO REDUCE BUDGET EXPENSES AND INCREASE OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS. SO SPECIFICALLY SPEAKING TO FACILITY NEEDS AS WELL.
THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE TO DESIGN A ROBUST SYSTEM TO BUILD THE PARTNERS IN EDUCATION PROGRAM.
INCREASE RECOGNITION FOR COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND VOLUNTEERS FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO YOUR DISTRICT.
DEVELOP A SYSTEM TO RECRUIT PARTNERS, DEVELOP PARTNER AGREEMENTS, AND FOSTER LONG TERM PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE MUTUAL BENEFIT OF YOUR STUDENTS, AS WELL AS THE STAFF AND THE PARTNER RECOGNIZING THAT THAT'S RECIPROCAL.
REVIEW OPEN ENROLLMENT OPTIONS AS THEY CURRENTLY ARE, AND REVISE CLASSROOM TECHNOLOGY STANDARDS IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE A GREATER FLEXIBILITY THROUGH MOBILITY AND INCREASE FUNCTIONALITY.
WE WANT TO UNTETHER TEACHING AND USE INTERACTIVE FLAT PANELS AND MOBILE DEVICES IN EACH CLASSROOM.
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SO NOW YOU SEE THAT PYRAMID AGAIN.AND SO WHAT HAPPENS NOW IS CLEARLY YOU WOULD BE WORKING THROUGH YOUR WORK TOMORROW NIGHT AND THEN ULTIMATELY APPROVING AGAIN THE VISION, MISSION BELIEFS, THE PILLARS IN THE WAY THAT THEY'VE MAYBE BEEN PROPOSED TO YOU FOR A LITTLE BIT OF A TWEAK AS WELL AS THOSE STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES BASED ON THE CONVERSATIONS THAT YOU HAVE.
AND THEN THOSE TARGETS COME FROM THE WORK GROUPS.
AND THOSE ARE THE PIECES THAT ROSS AND I HELPED TO FACILITATE.
SO NOW I'M VERY HAPPY TO TURN IT OVER TO MY COLLEAGUE, ROSS RIVERS.
IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU GUYS AGAIN.
SO THE FACILITIES GROUP, SO TO SPEAK, HAS BEEN TALKING AND CONVERSING THROUGH ALL OF THIS.
WHAT OUR FOCUS WAS IS FOCUSING ON THE DATA THAT THE DISTRICT HAS ALREADY PUT TOGETHER, YOUR FACILITIES ASSESSMENTS, YOUR SAFETY AND SECURITY AUDIT, YOUR BOND PROGRAM, TIMELINES AND SCOPES OF WORK, AS WELL AS YOUR LATEST DEMOGRAPHICS AND HOUSING REPORTS, AND REALLY GOING THROUGH THAT DATA AND SEE HOW THAT MAY OR MAY NOT AFFECT WHAT COMES OUT OF THESE OTHER FOCUS GROUPS FOR CTE AND ACADEMICS AND TECHNOLOGY.
AND I GUESS THE ULTIMATE REALIZATION OF THAT GROUP, WE'VE MYSELF AND JONNY HILL KIND OF HEAD UP, HEADED UP THIS GROUP AND WE'VE MET BACK IN FEBRUARY WITH SOME OF YOUR NEW FACILITIES FOLKS, YOUR NEW CONSTRUCTION FOLKS, AS WELL AS YOUR CLUSTER MANAGERS AND TALK THROUGH SOME DIFFERENT THINGS.
SO AFTER ANALYZING ALL OF THIS DATA, IT LED TO SOME CONVERSATIONS ABOUT HOW DOES THE DISTRICT MAKE THE BEST USE OF THE EXISTING FACILITIES AND CONTINUE TO BE FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE AT THE SAME TIME? AND IN LOOKING THROUGH ALL THAT, IT WAS DETERMINED THAT YOUR 2022 BOND PROGRAM THAT YOU HAVE NOW, IT ALREADY ADDRESSES A LOT OF YOUR SAFETY AND SECURITY THINGS THAT CAME OUT OF THAT AUDIT.
IT ADDRESSES THE REQUIRED MAINTENANCE AND LIFE CYCLE ISSUES THAT YOU HAVE ONGOING THAT ARE A CONTINUAL THING THAT YOU HAVE TO ADDRESS ON FACILITIES.
AND IT ALSO LOOKED AT EXPANDING SOME EXISTING CAMPUSES.
AND I THINK THAT SPEAKS VERY WELL TO WHAT IS ULTIMATELY GOING TO COME OUT OF THE CTE AND ACADEMICS, GROUPS, WHATEVER THOSE PROGRAMS ARE, THAT MAY IMPACT THESE FACILITIES. YOU'VE ALREADY GOT SOME STUFF BUILT IN THERE FOR EXPANSION OF FACILITIES.
I WILL POINT OUT, THOUGH, IT'S GOING TO BE VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOUR DESIGN TEAMS ARE FAMILIAR WITH THIS WORK, THIS ROADMAP THAT'S PUT TOGETHER, BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO DIRECTLY IMPACT WHAT HAPPENS WITH THE DESIGN OF THOSE FACILITIES AS WELL AS YOUR CONSTRUCTION TEAMS. SO THAT'S JUST ONE THING TO POINT OUT THERE, THAT THIS IS ALL THIS WORK IS GREAT, RIGHT? BUT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE IT GETS IMPLEMENTED WHEN IT'S TIME TO IMPLEMENT FROM A FACILITY STANDPOINT.
ANOTHER PARTICULAR AREA OF FOCUS THAT I'LL ELABORATE ON A LITTLE BIT MORE HERE IS JUST LOOKING AT YOUR FACILITIES AND YOUR ENROLLMENT, WHAT IT'S BEEN IN THE PAST AND WHAT IS TRENDING AND LOOKING AT WHAT IT MAY BE DOING IN THE FUTURE, WHETHER IT'S GOING UP OR DOWN AND HOW THAT IMPACTS YOUR FACILITIES AS WELL.
WHAT WE KIND OF DISCOVERED IN THIS NEXT SLIDE.
IS IT THE GREEN BUTTON? GO RIGHT. OKAY.
SO THIS IS A GREAT PIECE THAT SHOWS WHAT YOUR ENROLLMENT HAS BEEN DOING.
YOU HIT YOUR PEAK ENROLLMENT BACK IN THE 2011, 2012 SCHOOL YEAR AND AS MANY DISTRICTS SIMILAR TO THE SIZE AND OF PLANO ISD, WHEN YOU HIT YOUR PEAK AND YOU'VE GONE THROUGH YOUR GROWTH TRYING TO KEEP UP WITH THAT FOR YEAR AFTER YEAR AFTER YEAR.
ULTIMATELY YOU KIND OF LEVEL OFF AND THEN AT SOME POINT YOU MAY START TO DECLINE.
SO THAT'S WHAT THIS IS SHOWING HERE.
IT'S SHOWING WHAT YOUR PROJECTED ENROLLMENT IS OUT TO THE YEAR 28, 27, 28 SCHOOL YEAR.
THE RED LINES SHOWING WHAT THE AVAILABLE SEATS IN THE DISTRICT ARE.
SO THIS IS KIND OF A SNAPSHOT, 30,000 FOOT VIEW OF THE EFFICIENCY OF THE DISTRICT AS IT STANDS NOW.
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SO WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT? WELL, WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT YOUR FACILITIES AND IT'S BEEN TALKED ABOUT EARLIER TONIGHT IN SEVERAL OF THESE SLIDES OF JUST BEING RESPONSIBLE WITH YOUR FACILITIES AND HOW THAT IMPACTS SOME OF THESE OTHER THINGS THAT YOU'RE TRYING TO IMPLEMENT.SO IN LOOKING AT EFFICIENCIES, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE KIND OF CAME TO THE SURFACE THAT WE REALIZED IS THAT LOOKING AT AND THIS IS USING KIND OF A 65% CAPACITY OR LESS IS KIND OF IS WHERE WE STARTED TO LOOK AT THINGS. BUT YOU'VE GOT SEVERAL CAMPUSES AT THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, THE MIDDLE SCHOOL AND THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL THAT ARE OPERATING AT 65 OR LESS PERCENT CAPACITY. SO THAT MEANS THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES TO LOOK AT WHAT TO DO ABOUT THAT.
WE'RE NOT GETTING INTO THAT TONIGHT, BUT WE'RE POINTING OUT THAT THIS DEFINITELY IS SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE LOOKED AT SOON BECAUSE THE CONSIDERATIONS OF THE POTENTIAL IMPACT, YOU'RE LOOKING AT AN IMPACT OF YOUR M&O EVERY YEAR FUNDS AS WELL AS YOUR I&S.
YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE POTENTIAL FINANCIAL IMPACTS WHEN YOU SUNSET A CAMPUS OF TRANSPORTATION ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF, AS WELL AS YOUR FOOD SERVICE, YOUR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS.
ALSO IN ALL OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, THE PROGRAMS TO BE THE MOST EFFICIENT AND BE ABLE TO OFFER THE MOST TO YOUR STUDENTS AND THE MOST ROBUST IN THE PROGRAMS, YOU NEED TO BE OPERATING AT ABOUT 80 TO 85% OR MORE EFFICIENCY AND CAPACITY AT YOUR CAMPUSES.
AND A LOT OF THOSE PROGRAMS CAN BECOME A LOT MORE ROBUST BY DOING THAT.
LOOKING AT COST POTENTIAL COST IMPACTS.
YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF DATA THAT HAS BEEN LOOKED AT, A LOT OF ANALYSIS OF IT.
AND, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE LOOKING ON THE LEVEL OF M&O BUDGETS.
IF YOU'RE SUNSETTING CAMPUS, YOU'RE LOOKING AT A SAVINGS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS A YEAR IN M&O.
WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT COST AVOIDANCE POTENTIALLY IN PROJECTS THAT YOU MAY NOT DO IN FUTURE BONDS AND I&S FUNDS, YOU'RE LOOKING AT MULTIPLE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS.
IF YOU'RE NOT YOU KNOW IF YOU'RE SUNSETTING CAMPUSES AND BECOMING MORE EFFICIENT IN YOUR DISTRICT.
SO I KNOW THIS IS A A BIG DEAL.
ALLEN HAS GONE THROUGH IT VERY RECENTLY.
OTHER DISTRICTS VERY NEAR HAVE GONE THROUGH IT.
SO WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE POINTED THAT OUT TO YOU GUYS AND MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE AWARE OF HOW ALL OF THIS IS IMPACTING EACH OTHER FROM NOT JUST A COST AND PROGRAM STANDPOINT, BUT HOW THAT IMPACTS YOUR FACILITIES AND HOW YOU CAN USE THEM AND MAY OR MAY NOT USE THEM IN THE FUTURE.
SO THAT IS, DID I LEAVE ANYTHING OUT, JOHNNY? NO, SIR. THAT WAS GOOD.
THANK YOU. I THINK THAT WRAPS UP WHAT I'VE GOT WITH MY ONE SLIDE.
THIS IS BACK TO WHAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING TOMORROW NIGHT.
TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION ALL OF THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE AND PRESENTED WITH YOU TONIGHT.
AND UTIMATELY WHAT YOU GUYS DECIDE IS GOING TO BE GREAT.
WE'RE EXCITED TO SEE WHAT WHAT YOU GUYS PUT TOGETHER.
AND WE ARE SO LOOKING FORWARD TO TOMORROW NIGHT.
SOME PEOPLE HERE MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE BEEN MAKING FUN OF ME TODAY AT HOW EXCITED I AM ABOUT BEING ABLE TO FACILITATE A WORKSHOP AND GIVE YOU ALL A CHANCE TO PROCESS ALL THE INFORMATION AND PROVIDE FEEDBACK.
WE DEFINITELY WANTED TO KIND OF DO AN INFORMATION DUMP ON YOU SO YOU COULD THINK ABOUT IT OVERNIGHT.
NOT THAT THAT'S A LONG TIME, BUT AND I KNOW YOU'VE HAD A PREVIEW OF SOME OF IT, BUT HOPEFULLY THE CONTEXT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO PUT TO ALL OF THIS HAS HELPED A LITTLE BIT TO EXPLAIN WHAT YOU'VE SEEN.
BUT WE WILL BE DOING SEVERAL ACTIVITIES TOMORROW NIGHT, NOT ONLY LOOKING AT LANGUAGE LIKE JERI HAS POINTED OUT, ALSO LOOKING AT THE RECOMMENDATIONS, WHAT'S MISSING, DOING SOME CROSS WALKING AND ALL OF THOSE PIECES.
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SO I THINK YOU HAD MENTIONED SOMETHING, DAVID, ABOUT CLARIFYING QUESTIONS.DR. WILLIAMS, IS THERE ANYTHING THAT BECAUSE I THINK THAT WE'VE ABOUT PROVIDED IT ALL? JUST A COUPLE OF THINGS. ONE, I WANT TO THANK BOTH DALANE AND ROSS FOR YOUR WORK AND YOUR FACILITATION OF OUR GROUPS.
I WANT TO THANK THE TEAM FOR THE MANY, MANY, MANY, MANY HOURS THAT YOU PUT IN.
ALSO WITH FACILITATION AND HAVING 118 POINTS OF MEETING, WHETHER IT'S AT A CAMPUS AT A VARIOUS TIME, A SATURDAY MORNING, SEVERAL TIMES AFTER SCHOOL, SEVERAL TIMES.
I MEAN, IT HAS BEEN AN ONGOING EFFORT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE CAPTURING AS MANY VOICES AS WE POSSIBLY CAN, NOT ONLY IN A FACE TO FACE OPPORTUNITY, BUT ALSO TOO IF YOU'RE NOT PRESENT AND AND PEOPLE WANTED TO STILL GIVE INPUT, THAT INFORMATION WAS SENT OUT TO FAMILIES AND THEY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO IN AND PROVIDE THAT INPUT THROUGH THE USE OF QR CODES AND COMMUNICATIONS.
SO THANK YOU FOR CAPTURING ALL OF THAT AND PUTTING THAT TOGETHER.
THE SECOND THING I WANT TO SAY IS PART OF CAPTURING YOUR NOTES TONIGHT IS WE'RE GOING TO WALK THROUGH THIS BACKWARDS AND YOU HAVE IT IN YOUR NOTEBOOK ON HOW WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH AND NOT ONLY CAPTURE THE QUESTIONS THAT YOU TOOK NOTES ON TONIGHT AND STARTING WITH THAT, BUT THEN WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH AND LOOK AT THEN SOME OF THE SUMMARIES FROM STUDENTS, FROM PARENTS, FROM THE WORKGROUPS, FROM THE FAMILY COMMUNITY GROUPS AND THOSE SESSIONS AND SPEND SOME TIME THERE.
AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING.
SO WHAT WAS IT THAT YOU SAID BACK IN DECEMBER? I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE.
AND WHAT WERE THE QUESTIONS THAT YOU LOOKED AT WHEN YOU CAME UP WITH THAT INITIAL CURATION PHASE? SO KIND OF BEGINNING WITH THE END IN MIND AND THEN THE BEGINNING AND WORKING IT BACKWARDS TO THEN CAPTURING ALL THE NOTES THAT YOU CAME UP WITH TONIGHT.
IT'S IMPORTANT THAT THESE WERE CRAFTED ON WHAT WE HAD.
AS WE CAPTURED 118 INPUT POINTS FROM FROM THE VARIOUS TEAMS. WHAT'S MISSING? WHAT NEEDS TO BE WORDSMITH ALONG THE WAY.
AND SO THERE WILL BE TIME TO DO THAT.
TOMORROW NIGHT WE WILL NOT BE SITTING AT THE DAIS.
THIS IS PROBABLY LISA'S GIDDIEST POINT OF ALL OF IT IS WE WILL BE ON THE FLOOR AND AND WE WILL HAVE SCHOOL FACILITATED BY OUR LEAD TEACHER LISA, AS SHE WALKS THE THE TEAM THROUGH ALL OF THESE STEPS TO THEN HOPEFULLY, NOT HOPEFULLY, BY THE END OF THE NIGHT AND IT WILL BE I THINK WE CALCULATED AT LEAST 3.5 HOURS WITH ALL OF THE PROTOCOLS TO THEN HAVE A WELL CRAFTED REPORT AND A FINAL DRAFT OF THAT WHEN WE COME BACK IN MAY.
AND THANKS FOR LEADING US THROUGH THIS TONIGHT.
WELL, I WANT TO THANK ALL THE STAFF AND PARENTS AGAIN, WHO HAVE PROVIDED INFORMATION.
I KNOW WE DIDN'T GIVE YOU THE PAGES AND PAGES AND PAGES TO MAKE YOU POUR THROUGH, BUT IT HAS BEEN SO WONDERFUL TO READ ALL OF THAT AND TO HEAR ALL OF THAT AND HAVE THE CONVERSATIONS AND, YOU KNOW, CONTINUING TO GET EMAILS FROM PARENTS AND STAFF.
AND THEY'RE JUST SO APPRECIATED BECAUSE THIS WORK DOESN'T STOP.
WE'RE JUST NOW STARTING THE WORK, RIGHT.
SO THAT ALL OF THAT CONTINUES TO INFORM US.
CAN I JUST ASK ONE CLARIFICATION? SO ON THE PYRAMID THAT HAS THE WHAT THE BOARD APPROVES VISION, MISSION, BELIEFS, STRATEGIC PILLARS, STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE. SO FOR STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIC TARGETS, THOSE ARE ALSO BOARD APPROVED? SO WHAT YOU WILL APPROVE MAY 2ND WILL BE EVERYTHING ABOVE THAT DOTTED LINE.
OKAY. WHAT WE BRING TO YOU ANNUALLY IS THE PLAN OF WORK THAT YOU APPROVE EACH YEAR.
SO THE BOARD WOULD APPROVE THOSE ACTION PLANS AND TARGETS EACH YEAR.
OKAY. SO ALL OF IT IS BOARD APPROVED.
BUT IN TERMS OF WHAT WE'RE VOTING ON MAY 2ND, THAT'LL BE WHAT'S ABOVE THE DOTTED LINE.
YEAH. AND THEN YOU HAVE THE STRATEGIC ROADMAP WHICH IS THE BOARD APPROVE IS ALSO HALFWAY IT'S A SHARED AND IT'S YOU'RE APPROVING THOSE TARGETS BUT YOU'RE GOING TO APPROVE THEM EVERY YEAR BECAUSE WE HAVE TO TAKE TIME PROJECT COST FINANCIAL ALL IN.
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AND THEN SOMETHING HAPPENS AND THREE YEARS DOWN THE ROAD, PERHAPS IT'S NOT FEASIBLE FROM A FINANCIAL STANDPOINT.SO THESE ARE THE TARGETS THAT WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS.
BUT EVERY YEAR WHEN YOU'RE APPROVING THE PLAN OF WORK, THE BOARD IS TAKING ACTION THAT THIS YEAR WE ARE GOING TO IMPLEMENT MIDDLE SCHOOL IB, I'M JUST USING THAT AS AN EXAMPLE.
THAT WOULD BE A VERY DETAILED APPROVAL PROCESS.
AND THEN THE LAST ARE THE STRATEGIES AND THAT'S ADMINISTRATIVE OPERATIONS.
SO IF THE BOARD HAS APPROVED THIS PARTICULAR OBJECTIVE, THEN OUR JOB IS AND HOW ARE WE GOING TO ACCOMPLISH THAT OBJECTIVE? AND THOSE AGAIN, WE ALWAYS BRING OUR STRATEGIES FORWARD.
AND, YOU KNOW, IN OCTOBER WE NEED TO CHANGE TO A NEW ONE.
THANK YOU. I JUST WANT TO SAY ONE THING.
I SEE PEOPLE IN THE ROOM WHO PARTICIPATED.
I SEE STAFF WHO HELPED LEAD THIS.
AND I KNOW THERE ARE PEOPLE WATCHING.
SO THANK YOU FOR ALL OF THE INPUT.
I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT I WAS PREACHING EARLY IN THE PROCESS.
YOU GOT TO COME TO THE MEETINGS.
YOU GOT TO COME. SO THANK YOU GUYS FOR COMING.
I JUST HAVE A REQUEST, SO WE'RE GOING TO TURN THESE IN.
CAN WE GET THEM BACK TOMORROW NIGHT? SO I JUST I'M THINKING TO MYSELF, I'LL JUST USE THE SAME ONE IN A DIFFERENT COLORED PEN.
YOU'RE GOING TO BE THINKING ABOUT THIS SO YOU CAN PUT THIS ON YOUR NIGHTSTAND.
AND SO WHEN YOU WAKE UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, YOU'VE GOT A PLACE TO TAKE ADDITIONAL NOTES.
SO WHEN WE COME BACK, WHAT ELSE DO YOU HAVE THAT YOU THOUGHT OF PERHAPS AFTER YOU LEFT THE MEETING? WE'LL ADD TO THAT LIST.
GOT IT. SO JUST ECHO THE THANK YOU TO EVERYONE THAT PARTICIPATED.
I HAVE HEARD IT DESCRIBED BEFORE THAT, YOU KNOW, THE MAJOR CONSULTANCIES WILL COME IN AND DO THIS GIANT SCOPE OF WORK FOR COMPANIES, AND THE COMPANIES PAY HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO THE BIG THREE CONSULTING FIRMS TO DO THIS STUFF.
AND THEN YOU TAKE YOUR PACKAGE AND IT'S LIKE THE END OF RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, RIGHT? WHEN THEY'RE GOING INTO THE WAREHOUSE AND THEY'RE PUTTING THE ARK IN THE WAREHOUSE AND CLOSING IT UP NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN.
AND SO, A, I WANT TO I HOPE OUR PUBLIC IS REASSURED AND OUR STAKEHOLDERS AND EVERYBODY THAT PARTICIPATED IN THIS UNDERSTANDS THAT THIS, IN ESSENCE, IS SORT OF A LIVING, BREATHING PLAN THAT WE'RE GOING TO CARRY FORWARD.
AND I APPRECIATE THE TEAM'S INTENTIONALITY OF, OKAY, THIS IS A FIVE YEAR PLAN, BUT HERE'S HOW IT FEEDS INTO THE WORK THAT WE DO EVERY SINGLE YEAR AND WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IN TERMS OF OBJECTIVE SETTING AND GOAL SETTING EVERY YEAR AND THEN GOING BACK YEAR OVER YEAR AND REVIEWING THOSE OBJECTIVES AND GOALS.
SO THANK YOU FOR, YOU KNOW, NOT BEING LIKE INDIANA JONES, I GUESS.
AND JUST ADD ONE MORE THING TOO.
I THINK THE OTHER THING THAT I REALLY APPRECIATED THAT IT'S NOT.
IT'S REALLY WHAT ARE THINGS THAT ARE STILL WORKING WELL OR THINGS THAT WE HAVEN'T ACCOMPLISHED YET.
AND SO THERE'S SOME CONTINUITY FROM THE PREVIOUS STRATEGIC PLAN TO THE NEW STRATEGIC PLAN.
AND THEN THE OTHER IS THAT YOU SEE A LOT OF CONNECTION.
SO AND I THINK THAT CAME FROM THE FACILITATION OF BEING ABLE TO THREAD ALL OF THE THEMES TOGETHER SO THAT YOU START TO SEE IF THIS WAS THE FEEDBACK THAT WE RECEIVED FROM A PARENT GROUP OR FROM THE GROUPS, THOSE COMMON THEMES, YOU START TO SEE THEM EMBEDDED IN THE OBJECTIVES . YOU START TO SEE THEM EMBEDDED IN AND THE WAY THE PILLARS IS WRITTEN.
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AND THEN OVER HERE, WE'VE GOT SOMETHING THAT CAME OUT OF NOWHERE.THERE'S A LOT OF THE COMMONALITY AND THE VISION COMING TOGETHER.
AND I'M GRATEFUL TO TO SEE THE OUTCOME OF, WOW, ALL OF THIS FACILITATION, BECAUSE IN MY MIND, I'M THINKING, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO PUT 118 DIFFERENT FEEDBACK GROUPS TOGETHER? SO WELL DONE.
BOTH. SO JUST ONE COMMENT AND THEN A REQUEST.
I THINK THE COMMENT BEING JUST YOU KNOW, THIS IS CALLED A ROAD MAP FOR A REASON, RIGHT? THAT IS A ROAD MAP THAT A VISION THAT THIS PARTICULAR GROUP OF SEVEN, ALONG WITH THIS PARTICULAR CABINET, WILL PUT TOGETHER ADOPT.
AND SO THIS IS, LIKE IT WAS SAID, A LIVING, BREATHING PLAN TO TAKE US FROM POINT A TO POINT B, AND THERE WILL BE LOTS OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE BOARD TO WEIGH IN ON HOW THOSE PLANS GET IMPLEMENTED.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, WHERE THE DISTRICT GOES FROM THERE.
BUT THIS IS WHERE WE HOPE TO GO.
I DO WANT TO GIVE MY SINCERE THANKS TO YOU ALL AS WELL.
THIS HAS BEEN A GREAT PROCESS.
WE DID NOT NEED TO THROW OUT THE WORK WE DID FIVE YEARS AGO.
THIS IS A GREAT ADDITION TO MY REQUEST.
AND I DON'T KNOW, I'M JUST WEIRD LIKE THAT.
SO IF WE COULD GET COPIES, THAT'D BE GREAT.
ALL RIGHT. OTHER QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, COMPLAINTS, QUERIES, CONCERNS BEFORE WE MOVE ON? ALL RIGHT. SO, LIKE I SAID, BUCKLE UP.
THIS WAS STEP ONE OF THE DOOZY.
ALL RIGHT. MOVING ON THEN, TO OUR PRELIMINARY BUDGET.
WE HAVE THE GREAT JOHNNY WONDER.
THANK YOU, PRESIDENT STOLLE, DR.
WILLIAMS, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD'S AND CABINET.
THANK YOU. I DO WANT TO POINT OUT THIS IS JUST ANOTHER UPDATE ON OUR BUDGET.
WE'RE GOING TO FOCUS A LITTLE BIT MORE ON JUST DEPARTMENT BUDGETS THIS EVENING.
I PROMISE YOU I WILL NOT TAKE VERY LONG.
I DO WANT TO POINT OUT THAT WE HAVE A COUPLE OF FOLKS IN THE AUDIENCE THAT I CAN'T DO BUDGET PRESENTATIONS WITHOUT ACKNOWLEDGING THEM BECAUSE THEY DO ALL THE HEAVY LIFTING WHEN IT COMES TO BUDGETS.
THANK YOU GUYS FOR ALL THE WORK THAT YOU'VE DONE ON THIS.
LET'S GO THROUGH THIS REALLY QUICKLY AND I THINK YOU'LL BE HAPPY.
WE'LL GO THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT BUDGETS.
I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT MORE THAN HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS YOU MIGHT HAVE.
IS THAT FAIR ENOUGH? EVERYBODY LIKES GOOD NEWS, RIGHT? BUDGET CALENDAR.
YOU'RE PROBABLY SICK OF SEEING THIS, BUT I DO THINK IT'S GOOD THAT WE REMIND OURSELVES WHERE WE'RE AT IN THE PROCESS BECAUSE WE ARE ROUNDING THE BACK STRETCH AND WE CAN JUST SEE THE FINISH LINE IN THE DISTANCE.
BUT WE'RE STILL RUNNING ON A LOT OF ENERGY.
AND SO I'M EXCITED WHERE WE'RE AT IN THE PROCESS.
NUMBER ONE IS THE ZERO BASED BUDGETING THAT WE'VE STARTED IN 2019.
ALSO WITH OUR CAMPUS ALLOCATIONS, OF COURSE, WE KNOW THAT THOSE ARE BASED ON OUR PROJECTED ENROLLMENTS FROM OUR DEMOGRAPHER, BUT ALSO WE INSERT DIFFERENT ALLOCATIONS WHEN WE NEED TO FROM OUR STATE MANDATED PROGRAMS. AND SO AS A STUDENT HAS HIGHER NEEDS, OF COURSE WE ALLOCATE ADDITIONAL RESOURCES TO MEET THOSE NEEDS.
SO OBVIOUSLY WE'RE IN A DISTRICT THAT IS DECLINING OVERALL IN ENROLLMENT.
WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR STAFFING ALLOCATIONS ACTUALLY PARTNERS WITH THOSE DECLINES.
A COUPLE OF KEY BUDGET ASSUMPTIONS.
ONCE AGAIN, WE TALK A LOT ABOUT THIS, BUT I THINK IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO COME BACK AND JUST REMIND OURSELVES WHAT OUR BUDGET IS BASED ON, AT LEAST THE BUDGET MODELS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW.
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REPLACING THOSE WITH BASICALLY ABOUT 1000 LESS KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS.SO OBVIOUSLY WE'RE STILL GAINING STUDENTS FROM OUTSIDE.
BUT NET WISE, WE'RE THAT'S WHY YOU SEE A LITTLE BIT OF A DECLINE IN OUR OVERALL ENROLLMENT.
WE STILL ARE LOOKING AT A PROPERTY VALUE GROWTH OF ABOUT 2%.
I WILL SAY THAT WE WILL REPLACE OUR BUDGET MODELS AT THE END OF THIS MONTH HERE, COMING UP IN ABOUT A WEEK, BECAUSE EVERY YEAR OUR CHIEF APPRAISER IS REQUIRED BY LAW TO GIVE A WHAT'S CALLED A CERTIFIED ESTIMATE.
WE ARE BASING THE BUDGET STILL ON THE M&O TAX RATE COMPRESSION LAWS FROM HOUSE BILL THREE FROM 2019.
ALTHOUGH I WILL SAY THERE'S A LOT IF YOU KEEP UP LEGISLATIVELY WITH THE TAX, THE PROPERTY TAX RELIEF YOU CAN SEE ON THE HOUSE AND ON THE SENATE SIDE, THERE ARE BIG CHUNKS THAT THEY ARE WANTING TO DO WITH PROPERTY TAX RELIEF.
ALSO, A NET RESULT WILL PROBABLY BE PRETTY NEGLIGIBLE TO OUR BOTTOM LINE, TO OUR BUDGET.
OKAY. JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE'S AWARE OF THAT.
AS OF RIGHT NOW, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF WE DO KNOW THAT OUR TIER TWO OUR ENRICHED PENNIES HAVE GONE UP FROM .9856 TO A LITTLE OVER $1.26, WHICH IS GREAT BECAUSE WE DID A VATRE IN THE FALL.
SO WE MAXIMIZE THOSE TIER TWO PENNIES, WHICH IS REALLY TIMELY ON THE SCHOOL DISTRICT'S PART.
I ALSO WANT TO TALK JUST REAL BRIEFLY ABOUT THAT.
RIGHT NOW IN OUR MODELS, WE ACTUALLY HAVE A 3% ACROSS THE BOARD INCREASE ON COMPENSATION.
IT IS QUITE A BIT HIGHER ON OUR AUXILIARY STAFF, OUR PARA PROFESSIONAL STAFF, BECAUSE IN THESE MODELS WE ACTUALLY HAVE A MINIMUM GOING UP TO A MINIMUM BASE OF AT LEAST $15 RAISE ON EVERY ONE OF OUR STAFF MEMBERS, WHICH ON THOSE STAFF, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE LOOKING AT ANYWHERE BETWEEN AN 8 AND 15% RAISE, MAINLY JUST TO GIVE THEM UP TO A COST OF LIVING RAISE.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CALL $15 AN HOUR COST OF, YOU KNOW, A BASICALLY A STANDARD.
WE'RE IN SOME CASES LESS THAN THAT.
SO WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE RAISE THAT BOTTOM, THAT FLOOR AMOUNT.
AND THEN ON NON PAYROLL BUDGETS REFLECT A 7% INCREASE.
IT'S A LOT SMALLER, IT'S A LOT SMALLER BUDGET ON OUR NON PAYROLL.
BUT IT BECAUSE IT'S ALSO VERY, VERY REFLECTIVE AND SENSITIVE TO INFLATION.
SO WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT HERE IN JUST A SECOND.
ALL RIGHT. SO GOING INTO THE DEPARTMENT BUDGETS, ONE THING THAT I DO WANT TO POINT OUT, THESE ARE THE ZERO BASED BUDGETING OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS SINCE WE'VE BEEN DOING ZERO BASED BUDGETING BACK IN 2019, YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE IN THAT LEFT HAND COLUMN THE ANNUAL ADJUSTMENTS.
YOU CAN ACTUALLY WHAT WE CALL LOW LYING FRUIT.
WE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ALL OF THOSE EARLY ON.
YOU CAN LOOK INTO THIS YEAR OUR DEPARTMENT BUDGETS HAVE GONE UP ABOUT $5.3 MILLION DOLLARS.
BUT ONE THING THAT I'LL POINT OUT IS IF YOU LOOK CUMULATIVE OVER THAT LAST FIVE YEAR PERIOD, IT'S ABOUT IT'S ABOUT $4 MILLION TOTAL THAT ALL THOSE DEPARTMENT BUDGETS HAVE GONE UP. AND THAT'S ABOUT A 5% INCREASE OVER THAT ENTIRE FIVE YEAR PERIOD.
I WILL SAY THAT 6.4 IS BASED ON SO FAR THIS CALENDAR YEAR.
OBVIOUSLY, WE'RE ONLY ABOUT ABOUT THREE AND A HALF MONTHS THROUGH.
BUT IF THAT STAYS TRUE, THAT'LL BE ABOUT A 6.4%.
THAT'S ABOUT A 22% INFLATION FOR THE YEAR FOR THOSE FIVE YEARS CUMULATIVE.
AND SO I THINK WE'RE STILL DOING A REALLY, REALLY A NICE JOB WITH A ZERO BASED BUDGETING.
SO GETTING INTO THE DEPARTMENT BUDGETS, I'M JUST GOING TO POINT OUT SOME OF THESE BIGGER SHIFTS.
I JUST WANT TO WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS EACH OF THE THREE DIVISIONS.
THE FIRST ONE THAT I'LL TALK ABOUT IS TEACHING, LEARNING AND LIFE READINESS.
THIS IS MS. WILSON'S DIVISION.
AND ONE THING THAT YOU'LL SEE ON THE VERY FAR RIGHT COLUMN, YOU MIGHT SEE SOME SWINGS.
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I WILL SAY THIS, THAT WE STILL ARE IN THE PROCESS.SO YOU MAY SEE A REAL LARGE AMOUNT OF ONE AND THEN A REAL SMALL ONE ON ANOTHER.
SO I'LL JUST POINT OUT, IF YOU LOOK AT GOING DOWN AND LOOK AT THE SPECIAL EDUCATION, THE 157, YOU CAN SEE THAT WHAT WE DID IS WE ACTUALLY REDUCED WE HAD OUR STUDENTS IN RESIDENTIAL CARE AND WE WERE ABLE TO REDUCE SOME OF THOSE CONTRACTS.
AND SO THAT'S A THAT'S A GOOD THING.
AND SO THAT'S WHY YOU SAW A DECREASE IN THAT.
AND SO THAT'S WHY YOU SEE A LITTLE BIT OF A DECREASE THERE YOU SEE THE INSPIRE PROGRAM.
MS. WILSON AND HER TEAM WAS ABLE TO FIND SOME EFFICIENCIES WITH HOW WE OPERATE THOSE SERVICES.
AND SO THAT'S WHY YOU SEE IT GOING DOWN $79,000 AS WELL WITH THE SECONDARY AS WELL.
WE'VE LOOKED FOR SOME OPPORTUNITIES TO JUST BE EFFICIENT WITH HOW WE OPERATE THOSE SERVICES.
ON DYSLEXIA INTERVENTION, YOU SEE A DECREASE OF $286,000.
I WANT TO POINT OUT THAT WE'RE NOT DECREASING OUR DYSLEXIA SERVICES BY ALMOST $300,000.
WE WERE ABLE TO FIND A GRANT THAT ACTUALLY TO PAY FOR PART OF THOSE SERVICES.
AND SO THAT'S WHY YOU SEE THAT GOING DOWN SUBSTANTIALLY.
IT WAS PAID WITH A READING HORIZONS GRANT, WHICH IS GOOD NEWS.
WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR THOSE OPPORTUNITIES TO TRY TO SAVE SOME MONEY WHEREVER WE CAN.
HEY, JOHNNY, HOW LONG IS THAT? GRANT I'M SORRY.
OKAY. IS IT MULTIPLE YEAR? IT IS MULTIPLE YEARS SORRY. I WISH I KNEW THAT.
AND THEN OBVIOUSLY, IF YOU LOOK AT THE MTSS 504 SERVICES WHENEVER WE CAN, WE TRY TO RECLASSIFY AS MUCH AS THESE LOCAL OPERATING EXPENSES INTO A FEDERAL PROGRAM.
AND SO WE WERE ABLE TO RECLASSIFY SOME OF THOSE SERVICES TO ESSER FUNDS.
AS WE FINISH UP, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE ONE MORE YEAR OF THE ESSER FUNDS.
SO WE WERE ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE AND RECLASSIFY SOME OF THOSE UNDER THE ESSER FUNDS.
OKAY. GOING ON INTO SOME OF THESE OTHER ONES ADVENTURE CAMP IS A, I THINK, THE FIFTH GRADE FIFTH GRADERS, WHICH WE, I THINK IS A LONG TRADITION. I'VE TALKED ABOUT HOW WE FEEL ABOUT THAT AND I WAS TOLD THAT WAS A TRADITION AND SOMETHING THAT OUR KIDS REALLY LOOK FORWARD TO.
BUT AS OBVIOUSLY AS TRANSPORTATION COSTS HAVE GONE UP AND ALSO SECURITY HAS GONE UP, WE'VE HAD TO UP THOSE BUDGETS ACCORDINGLY TO TAKE CARE OF THOSE THOSE KIDDOS WHEN THEY'RE AWAY FROM OUR SCHOOLS.
THE HOLYFIELD, I THOUGHT THIS WAS JUST INTERESTING AND THAT IS, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THAT'S FOOD COST.
THAT'S FEED GOING UP TO FEED THOSE ANIMALS.
ACADEMIC SERVICES IS JUST THE COST OF OUR MATERIALS GOING UP.
AND THEN OF COURSE, ON SECONDARY, YOU CAN SEE THAT GOING DOWN $58,000.
GOING ON DOWN. I WANT TO I WANT I DO WANT TO POINT OUT COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE GOING UP.
THAT IS NOT US GOING UP THAT MUCH ON OUR COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE.
ALL RIGHT. GOING ON DOWN THROUGH HERE.
AVID EXCEL. YOU SEE THE $65,000.
THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE ACTUALLY PAID FOR OUT OF THE FOUNDATION IN THE PAST.
AND SO WE'RE TRYING TO TAKE THOSE ON WITH OUR LOCAL OPERATING FUNDS.
WE FEEL LIKE THAT IS SOMETHING WE NEED TO DO GOING FORWARD WITH THOSE SERVICES.
YOU LOOK AT ASSESSMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY.
WISSINGER. I SAW HIM A SECOND AGO, BUT HE LEFT.
BUT THAT IS BASICALLY [INAUDIBLE].
I WAS GOING TO CALL HIM OUT AND HE WAS JUST THERE.
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HE PROBABLY JUST WENT TO USE THE RESTROOM.DON'T STARE AT HIM WHEN HE WALKS BACK IN.
SORRY. I LOST MY TRAIN OF THOUGHT THERE FOR A SECOND.
OKAY. ASSESSMENT. ACCOUNTABILITY.
THAT'S TESTING. TESTING MATERIALS GOING UP.
SO YOU SEE THE THE BIG REDUCTION THERE.
OKAY. THE 234 STUDENT MANAGEMENT SERVICES.
THAT IS A SAFE AND SIMPLE TRAINING.
IT WAS IN A SPECIAL EDUCATION BUDGET AND NOW WE'RE [INAUDIBLE] AND NOW WE'RE HAVING TO PULL THAT OUT BECAUSE THAT THAT PORTION IS NO LONGER WE'RE OUT OF THOSE THAT COMPLIANCE ISSUES.
SO THAT'S WHY WE HAVE THAT IN THERE.
ALL RIGHT. GOING THROUGH COMMUNICATIONS.
I SHOULD HAVE DEFINITELY DONE THAT.
OKAY, SO, ACTUALLY, MISS LISA WILSON IS THE BIG WINNER IN THE DIVISION.
SHE DEFINITELY WANTS TO TAKE CREDIT FOR THIS.
SO YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THAT IN HER ENTIRE DIVISION ACTUALLY WENT DOWN ABOUT $20,000.
SO THAT'S THAT'S REALLY GOOD NEWS.
AND LIKE I SAID, YOU SAW SOME BIG SWINGS IN THERE.
IT WAS I REALLY WANT TO POINT BACK TO JUST ZERO BASED BUDGETING REALLY, REALLY DOES WORK.
WE ACTUALLY AND THE LADIES IN THE BACK CAN ATTEST WE ACTUALLY BRING EVERY DEPARTMENT IN AND ACTUALLY GO THROUGH EVERY ONE OF THESE NOT ONLY BUDGETS, BUT EVERY ONE OF THESE LINE ITEMS, JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE REALLY NEED TO BE DOING THAT YEAR.
I HEARD TWO GRANTS IN THAT DEPARTMENT AND I KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO HAVE TO WRITE A GRANT.
SO I'M THANKFUL THAT YOU GUYS ARE TAKING THE TIME TO DO THAT.
ALL RIGHT, LET'S GO TO LEADERSHIP AND OPERATIONS.
EMPLOYEE LEARNING AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES GOING DOWN $22,000.
THIS IS SOME DECREASES IN EFFICIENCIES.
SO THAT'S JUST AN ADVANTAGE OF SOFTWARE GOING DOWN.
LEGAL SERVICES, THE $276,000 THAT'S TAKING ADVANTAGE OF SOME OF THE AREAS THAT WE'VE ACTUALLY HAVE BUDGETED FOR ON LEGAL SERVICES THAT WE ANTICIPATE HAVING SOME EFFICIENCIES ON THIS NEXT YEAR, WHICH IS GREAT.
WE HAVE THE FINE ARTS BUDGET GOING UP $219,000.
I WILL SAY THAT WE'RE TAKING ON A LOT MORE OF THE RESPONSIBILITIES WITH INSTRUMENT REPAIRS, MAINLY JUST TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE EQUITY AMONGST ALL OF THE STUDENTS AND HOW WE ACTUALLY DO THOSE.
ALSO, WE HAVE STUDENT TRAVEL THAT'S GONE UP.
YOU'LL SEE THAT HOLDING TRUE THROUGH ALL OF IT.
AND THAT IS JUST THE COST OF TRAVEL WITH GASOLINE HAS GONE, GONE UP.
AND SO YOU'LL SEE THAT REFLECTED THROUGH THESE THROUGH ALL OF THESE BUDGETS.
I DO WANT TO POINT OUT THAT WE ACTUALLY HAVE THE ROBINSON FINE ARTS CENTER.
AND THAT IS ALSO GOOD NEWS, DR.
WILLIAMS, THAT WE ACTUALLY HAVE A BUDGET FOR THAT NOW, AN OPERATING BUDGET GOING FORWARD.
SO THAT'S THE OPERATING BUDGET FOR THAT FOR THIS NEXT YEAR.
AND THEN SAFETY AND SECURITY, I WILL SAY THAT IT'S ONE OF THOSE THOSE WE TALK ABOUT, THOSE FIXED CONTRACTED SERVICES THAT ARE A LITTLE BIT OUT OF OUR CONTROL JUST BY THE MARKET AND WHAT'S GOING ON WITH INFLATION.
AND SO THAT'S THAT CONTRACT WITH HOW MUCH WE'RE HAVING TO GO UP ON OUR SRO OFFICERS AND OUR AFTER DUTY DOLLAR AMOUNTS THAT WE'RE HAVING TO GO UP ON THOSE CONTRACTED SERVICES.
ALL THE WAY DOWN TO $100,000, PROBABLY.
SO SO WE ACTUALLY HAVE IT HERE IN A SECOND.
WHEN WE GET INTO THE BUDGET, YOU'LL SEE AN AREA FOR RENTAL FACILITY RENTALS.
THAT'S WHERE THAT MONEY WILL GO.
THIS IS WHAT IT'S ACTUALLY COSTING US TO OPERATE THAT FACILITY.
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BUT I WILL SAY THIS. WE DO PLAN ON OPENING THAT FACILITY UP FOR OUTSIDE USES.ALL RIGHT. SO KEEP GOING ON HERE.
ATHLETICS. YOU SEE THAT GOING UP SLIGHTLY.
THAT IS ALL THAT IS, IS FOR STUDENT TRAVEL.
THAT'S THE GASOLINE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT EARLIER.
THOSE GUYS GO A LOT OF MILES EACH EACH YEAR GOING ON DOWN INTO LOOKING AT SUMMER SCHOOL.
THAT'S A LITTLE BIT OF A MISNOMER.
WE'RE NOT ACTUALLY DECREASING.
WE'RE DOING THE SUMMER SCHOOL, BUT WE ARE.
IT'S JUST THE WAY IT FELL THIS YEAR THAT WE ARE DOING THE SUMMER SCHOOL ALL IN JUNE AND NOT IN JULY.
BUT THIS YEAR IT'S JUST ALL GOING INTO THIS FISCAL THIS THIS FISCAL YEAR.
SO THAT IS JUST A TIMING, A TIMING ISSUE.
OKAY. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE TO EVERYBODY? OKAY.
IT IS OUR FISCAL YEAR END IS JUNE 30TH.
AND SO EVERYTHING'S BEING PUSHED INTO THIS CURRENT YEAR JUST FOR THIS THIS ONE YEAR.
NOW THAT IS A VIRUS ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE THAT WE'RE IMPLEMENTING ON OUR TECHNOLOGY.
I MEAN, THAT'S A PATRICK SAYS THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT.
SO WE'RE GOING TO SO WE ARE WE'RE LISTENING TO HIM.
SO. WE HAVE $179,000 THAT YOU SEE AT THE BOTTOM ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS. THAT IS JUST WHAT OUR FRONT LINE SERVICES HAS GONE UP.
TECHNOLOGY SERVICES, THAT'S REVIEW 360, WHICH IS JUST ANOTHER SOFTWARE THAT WE USE.
GOING DOWN IN INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY.
INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY THAT IS OBVIOUSLY WITH THE IMA FUNDS.
THOSE WERE THE LAST TWO YEARS.
AND SO ANY OPPORTUNITY WE HAVE, THOSE ARE GOING BACK UP THIS NEXT BIENNIUM LEGISLATIVELY.
THAT'S THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH THAT.
I WANT TO STOP THERE AND ACTUALLY POINT OUT DR.
FREEMAN'S BUDGET AN INCREASE OF $860,000.
AND THEN OF COURSE, PATRICK'S JUST THE TECH.
AND THOSE ARE THE TWO MAIN DRIVERS.
THOSE ARE FIXED BASED VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY SENSITIVE TO INFLATION FACTORS.
SO THAT'S THAT'S REALLY WHY IT'S GOING UP.
SORRY. GUESS WHO'S NOT GETTING A NEW PC.
ALL RIGHT. LET'S GO TO THE MOST IMPORTANT PART, WHICH IS THE BUSINESS AND EMPLOYEE SERVICES.
I KNOW THAT'S HARD TO LOOK AT, BUT THAT IS UTILITIES.
THAT'S UTILITIES AND CUSTODIAL.
AND YEAH, THAT'S WHAT THOSE TWO ARE.
[INAUDIBLE] AND I WILL SAY THIS.
WE'VE JUST WENT THROUGH A VERY STRINGENT RFP PROCESS ON OUR UTILITIES.
AND SO WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS THE INCREASE IN UTILITIES.
EVEN AFTER GOING THROUGH A RFP PROCESS.
WE DO HAVE THAT RFP NOW FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.
BUT I WILL SAY, YOU KNOW, IT IS WHAT IT IS, BUT THE UTILITY COSTS HAVE GONE UP SIGNIFICANTLY AS WELL AS CUSTODIAL COSTS HAS GONE UP SIGNIFICANTLY SO THAT'S WHAT YOU SEE THERE. TRANSPORTATION IS STRICTLY JUST FUEL GOING UP.
AND THEN YOU GO DOWN AND LOOK AT RISK MANAGEMENT.
THAT'S JUST GETTING RID OF A THERE'S SOME SUBSTITUTE CALLS THAT I THINK THAT THERE THEY HAVE BASICALLY WHAT WE DO WITH ALL OF OUR NOT NOT SALARIES BUT OUR SUPPLEMENTALS LIKE SUBSTITUTE PAY, PART TIME PAY.
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WE DO TRENDS ANALYSIS.AND SO WE JUST TRY TO SHORE THOSE UP WITH WHAT WE'VE ACTUALLY BEEN SPENDING.
WE'RE ABLE TO DO THAT AND SAVE ABOUT $60,000.
SO I AM THE I'M EMBARRASSED TO SAY I AM I AM THE BIGGEST INCREASE.
I'M THE I'M THE BIGGEST GUY THERE.
SO ANYWAY, THAT'S THAT'S ON ME.
HEY, JOHNNY. YES, MA'AM? I HAVE ONE QUESTION ON THE PROPERTY CASUALTY.
IT IS. IT'S MORE THAN JUST WHAT'S GOING ON RIGHT AROUND HERE, TOO.
BUT I WILL SAY, OUT OF THE LAST THREE YEARS, WE'VE HAD MAJOR WINTER STORMS, TWO OF THE LAST THREE YEARS WHERE WE'VE HAD DAMAGE MULTIPLE, MULTIPLE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF DAMAGE TO 20 PLUS OF OUR CAMPUSES TWO OF THE LAST THREE YEARS.
IT'S UNFORTUNATE, BUT IT IT SEEMS LIKE WE HAVE MORE AND MORE DRASTIC MEASURES.
I DO WANT TO POINT OUT THAT WE LAYER OUR INSURANCE.
WE GO THROUGH A VERY, VERY STRINGENT RFP PROCESS ON OUR PROPERTY AND CASUALTY INSURANCE, AND WE BID OUT 25 LAYERS OF OUR INSURANCE JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE AS COMPETITIVE AS WE CAN BE. THAT IS WHAT WE ANTICIPATED GOING UP.
OKAY. HEY, JOHNNY ON THE FACILITY SERVICES.
YES, SIR. SO THAT'S A 9% INCREASE ON THAT.
AND IT'S A BIG BUDGET LINE ITEM NUMBER.
IS THERE DO WE NEED TO START THINKING ABOUT ALTERNATIVES THERE? I MEAN, YOU SAID IT WAS UTILITIES AND CUSTODIAL.
ARE YOU ALL LOOKING AT WHETHER OR NOT IT MAKES SENSE TO BRING CUSTODIAL IN-HOUSE OR IF THERE'S ALTERNATIVES FOR FOR UTILITIES THAT WE COULD INVEST IN OUR BUILDINGS. SO IT GOES HAND IN HAND WITH THE REVIEW AND OUR LONG RANGE FACILITY MASTER PLAN ON WAYS THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY BECOME MORE EFFICIENT WITH OUR OVERALL EFFICIENCIES. SO OBVIOUSLY WE WILL BE DISCUSSING THAT OVER THE NEXT YEAR OR SO.
WELL, FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, WE ARE DOING IT AS EFFICIENT AS WE CAN.
I WILL SAY THAT WE DO COMPARE PEER GROUPS WITH HOW MUCH WE'RE COSTING PER SQUARE FOOT WITH ALL OF OUR SURROUNDING DISTRICTS, AND WE STILL ARE AS FAR AS WHAT WE PAY PER SQUARE FOOT FOR CUSTODIAL.
WE ARE THE CHEAPEST RIGHT NOW.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING WE DO WITH UTILITIES.
OBVIOUSLY, WE'RE DEREGULATED, YOU KNOW, IN AREAS, CERTAIN AREAS OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS, YOU CAN'T BE DEREGULATED BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IF YOU HAVE A MUNICIPALITY THAT ACTUALLY OFFERS THOSE SERVICES OR COOPERATIVE, BUT WE'RE NOT IN THOSE SITUATIONS.
SO WE WE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT AND WE BID OUT THOSE SERVICES.
WELL, YEAH. AND YOU KNOW, AS I WAS THINKING THROUGH THE PROCESS, I SUSPECT THAT THERE'S NOT A WAY TO DO, FOR EXAMPLE, CUSTODIAL IN HOUSE MORE EFFICIENTLY THAN A THIRD PARTY PROVIDER CAN DO. BUT AS LONG AS WE ARE THINKING THROUGH THAT, GOING THROUGH THAT CALCULUS EVERY YEAR BECAUSE WE'RE JUST WE'RE NOW JUST SQUEEZING LEMONS, RIGHT? WE ARE. AND THE MAIN DIFFERENCE THAT I'VE FOUND OVER THE YEARS WITH WITH JUST THE CUSTODIAL IS THE FACT OF, TO BE JUST PERFECTLY FRANK, IS IF WE TAKE THEM IN HOUSE WITH THE AMOUNT OF MONIES THAT WE APPLY TOWARD BENEFITS IN RETIREMENT THAT WE OFFER IN HOUSE VERSUS OUT HOUSE, YOU KNOW, EXTERNALLY WE THAT'S WHERE WE CAN [INAUDIBLE] SORRY THOSE SERVICES.
SO QUICK QUESTION, BECAUSE YOU SAID THAT UTILITIES WAS A BIG PART OF THIS.
AND I THINK A COUPLE OF OUR FACILITIES HAVE GEOTHERMAL.
IS THAT CORRECT? JUST TWO JUST TWO CAMPUSES.
JUST TWO CAMPUSES. ROBINSON AND I THINK MITCHELL ARE THE ONLY TWO.
YEAH. AND SO THERE'S THERE'S SAVINGS THERE.
AND, YOU KNOW, I'M THINKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, BUDGET VERSUS I&S BUDGET AND THINKING OF SOLAR.
AND I'M CURIOUS, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE SOLAR WOULD BE DOES THAT QUALIFY FOR SOMETHING ON A FUTURE BOND? I MEAN, IT WOULD WE'VE LOOKED AT I MEAN, WE'VE TALKED WITH OUR WITH OUR ARCHITECTS ABOUT THAT.
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SO, I MEAN, SOLAR IS VERY, VERY EXPENSIVE STILL TO PUT IN.IT'S IT'S COME DOWN QUITE A BIT.
BUT OBVIOUSLY WE'RE TAX EXEMPT.
AND SO WE DON'T QUITE GET THE BENEFIT.
BUT WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT THAT.
EVEN WITH LED LIGHTING, THERE'S A HUGE UTILITY SAVINGS WITH THAT.
SO WE'RE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF ANY OPPORTUNITY WE HAVE TO ACTUALLY RETROFIT.
WE'RE LOOKING AT ALL OF THOSE WAYS THAT YOU CAN USE BOND MONIES TO ACTUALLY SAVE ON THE BUDGET.
RIGHT. AND THAT'S JUST MY POINT.
SO IF THEY PAY FOR THEM, WE'LL ACTUALLY LOOK AT PILOTING THEM.
SO WHENEVER WE DO THAT, I THINK IT'S GOOD THAT WE START PILOTING THAT.
BUT WE DEFINITELY WANT TO LOOK AT REPLACEMENT AND THE COST.
AND WE'RE STILL NOT QUITE IN MY OPINION, WE'RE NOT QUITE THERE WITH THE ELECTRIC BUSSES YET, IN MY OPINION, ALTHOUGH I THINK IT DEFINITELY SOMETHING WORTH PILOTING AND START TO EDUCATE OURSELVES ON WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE.
WELL, IT WILL BE THE FUTURE, BUT RIGHT NOW WE HAVE TO GET THOSE FUEL TANKS UNDERGROUND FIXED.
ABSOLUTELY. AND THAT IS PART OF OUR BOND, THANK GOODNESS.
SO WE'VE GOT THAT IN OUR BOND TO DO SO.
ALL RIGHT. REALLY GOOD QUESTIONS.
I DON'T WANT I WANT TO DON'T WANT TO SPEND TOO MUCH TIME ON THIS.
REALLY GOOD QUESTIONS, THOUGH.
OBVIOUSLY, THESE ARE LEADERSHIP DEPARTMENTS.
THESE ARE OUTSIDE OF THEIR DEPARTMENTS.
BUT SUPERINTENDENT DEPARTMENT GOING DOWN CONSIDERABLY, BOARD OF TRUSTEES GOING DOWN A LITTLE BIT ALSO FOR A TOTAL DISTRICT LEADERSHIP OF ABOUT A NEGATIVE, ABOUT $24,000.
I DO WANT TO POINT OUT PERCENTAGE WISE, THE BIGGEST ONE ACTUALLY.
OKAY, PROBABLY THE BOARD IS ACTUALLY GOING DOWN THE THE MOST.
AND THAT IS IN A LEGISLATIVE YEAR, THESE GUYS THAT YOU SEE UP ON THE ON THE DAIS SPENT A LOT OF TIME RUNNING BACK AND FORTH TO AUSTIN GOING TO GOING TO ADDITIONAL MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS TRYING TO TRYING TO EFFECT ADVOCACY AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
AND ALTHOUGH WE DON'T SPEND A TON OF MONEY DOING THAT, IT DOES COST SOME MONEY.
SO OBVIOUSLY THIS YEAR YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THOSE COSTS A LITTLE BIT HIGHER.
NEXT YEAR YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THAT DIP DOWN A LITTLE BIT AND THEN UNFORTUNATELY, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THAT RISE BACK UP BECAUSE THIS IS A BOARD THAT IS EXTREMELY ACTIVE IN THOSE PROCESSES. OKAY.
SO OVERALL, THIS IS JUST THE DEPARTMENT BUDGETS.
YOU CAN SEE THAT'S WHERE THE 5.3%, THAT'S ABOUT A 7% OVERALL INCREASE IS WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT.
SO THESE ARE THE SIGNIFICANT ONES OBVIOUSLY, YOU SAW UP AND DOWN.
SO UTILITIES, $2 MILLION GOING UP.
YOU. YOU SEE INSURANCE GOING UP ABOUT $1.4, CUSTODIAL CONTRACT GOING UP $875,000, TECHNOLOGY CONTRACTS GOING UP $861,000, SRO AND SECURITY CONTRACTS GOING UP ABOUT $560.
AND THEN FINALLY, JUST THE FUEL.
THOSE ARE THE CATALYSTS FOR WHY YOU SEE INCREASES IN OUR OVERALL BUDGET.
OKAY. AND THEN, OF COURSE, YOU SEE JUST THE OTHER OTHER DISTRICT ALLOCATIONS.
YOU SEE THE CAMPUS ALLOCATIONS ARE GOING DOWN.
WE DID NOT. THAT IS JUST STRICTLY BASED ON A PER STUDENT ALLOCATION.
AND SO WHEN YOU SEE THE STUDENTS GOING DOWN, YOU'LL SEE THAT GOING DOWN THE TAX OFFICE APPRAISALS, THAT IS BECAUSE THEY ACTUALLY BILL US ON OUR VALUES AND OUR VALUES ARE PROJECTED TO GO UP. SO THAT'S WHY YOU SEE THAT GOING UP.
DISTRICT GOVERNANCE, THAT'S MAINLY ELECTIONS.
OBVIOUSLY WE HAD A BOND ELECTION AS WELL AS A BOARD ELECTION LAST YEAR AND ALSO NOT ALL OF A SUDDEN, BUT NEXT YEAR WE WILL NOT HAVE THOSE ELECTIONS BECAUSE WE HAVE THOSE EVERY OTHER YEAR. THAT'S WHY YOU SEE THAT GOING DOWN AND OTHER DISTRICT ALLOCATIONS GOING DOWN.
CAN I ASK A QUESTION ABOUT THAT LAST SLIDE? SURE. SO IF WE POTENTIALLY MOVED OUR ELECTIONS TO NOVEMBER, WE COULD POTENTIALLY BE SAVING $700,000 EVERY TWO YEARS.
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YEAR IN NOVEMBER, WE HAVE THEM EVERY OTHER YEAR IN MAY.SO WHETHER YOU'VE GOT IT IN NOVEMBER OR MAY, YOU'RE STILL DOING ONE YEAR ON AND ONE YEAR OFF.
OKAY. SO, SO WHENEVER WE HAD A BOND ELECTION, IF WE MIRRORED THAT WITH A BOARD ELECTION, IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING? NO, NO, I'M SAYING LIKE FOR US TO NO LONGER HAVE ELECTIONS IN IN MAY, IN MAY AND ONLY HAVE THEM IN NOVEMBER, LIKE WOULD THAT BE A COST SAVINGS? ONLY IN ONLY IN THE YEARS THAT WE ACTUALLY HAD BOARD ELECTIONS AND BOND ELECTIONS IN THE SAME YEAR, WHICH ONCE EVERY SIX YEARS YOU COULD SAVE MONIES.
SO BOND ELECTIONS, NO MATTER WHAT, WOULD BE IN MAY? NO, OUR OUR LAST TWO BONDS LAST NOVEMBER HAVE BEEN IN NOVEMBER.
OKAY. SO SO, I MEAN, WE HAVE TO PAY EITHER WAY, RIGHT? WE HAVE TO PAY OUR PORTION OF THE ELECTION COSTS, WHETHER IT'S IN NOVEMBER OR MAY.
AND IT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE IT'S A DIFFERENT COST.
YEAH. NOW, THERE IS A BILL IN THE HOUSE TO TRY TO PUSH BOND INVADERS JUST STRICTLY TO NOVEMBER.
BUT I MEAN, OUR PRACTICE HAS IT SHOWED.
WE DID NOVEMBER ON THAT ELECTION.
RIGHT. I KNOW. I KNOW THIS YEAR WE DID IT IN NOVEMBER.
RIGHT NOW, THERE'S TWO UNIFORM ELECTION DAYS.
BUT BOND ELECTIONS STILL CAN BE IN NOVEMBER OR MAY.
AND SO SOME DISTRICTS DO PARTNER THEM UP.
I KNOW AT LEAST THIS ONE, WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT EACH STOOD ON THEIR OWN MERITS.
WE ARE THERE'S A COST TO THAT.
THERE IS. AND THEN THERE'S A MAY 1ST AND WE HAVE TO PAY FOR THAT.
I'M TALKING ABOUT IF WE ELIMINATED ANY KIND OF MAY AND ANY ANYTHING THAT REQUIRED A VOTING FOR SCHOOL BOARD OR BONDS OR ANYTHING WAS IN NOVEMBER THAT WOULD RESULT IN A SAVINGS.
YES. SO RIGHT NOW, THIS YEAR, WE WOULD PAY THE NORMAL PRICE.
TWO YEARS FROM NOW, WE'D PAY THE NORMAL PRICE.
IF WE'RE GOING TO DO A BOND ELECTION ON THE SIXTH YEAR CYCLE, WE WOULD SAVE.
SO WE WOULD SAVE THAT MONEY EVERY SIX YEARS, RIGHT? THAT'S RIGHT. WE WOULD SAVE THE ACTUAL ONE ELECTION, WHICH SAVES $350,000 TO YOUR POINT, EVERY SIX YEARS, YOU COULD SAVE ABOUT $350,000, BUT ONLY IN THE YEARS THAT YOU ACTUALLY HAVE A BOND ELECTION AND A BOARD ELECTION IN THE SAME YEAR.
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? I GUESS IT DOES. BUT I'M STILL IF YOU IF YOU DON'T HAVE AN ELECTION IN MAY, YOU SAVE MONEY RIGHT? LIKE IF YOU DON'T HAVE A BOARD ELECTION IN MAY, YOU SAVE MONEY, BUT YOU STILL HAVE TO PAY FOR IT IN NOVEMBER.
RIGHT. BUT AREN'T WE ALREADY PAYING FOR THAT IN NOVEMBER? NO, I ASKED THAT QUESTION.
I ASKED, DO WE IN A NORMAL YEAR WHERE THERE'S NO BOND AND IT'S JUST A NORMAL NOVEMBER ELECTION.
WE DON'T WE DON'T PAY ANYTHING. WE DON'T PAY ANYTHING.
OKAY. BECAUSE WE'RE NOT HOLDING AN ELECTION.
OKAY? SO WE THEY USE OUR FACILITIES AND WE DON'T PAY FOR THAT.
OKAY. WE DON'T. THAT WAS MY QUESTION.
NO, THAT'S. I SEE WHERE YOU'RE GOING NOW.
AND SO WE ACTUALLY ARE GOOD PARTNERS WITH THE COUNTY AND LET THEM USE OUR FACILITIES.
BUT IN NOVEMBER, WE DO NOT HAVE TO PAY FOR THEM TO USE OUR FACILITIES.
WE ONLY PAY WHEN THERE'S SOMETHING PLANO ISD RELATED ON UP FOR ELECTION.
YES, WE DO. OTHERWISE COST SHARING.
OKAY. WITH THE OTHER ENTITIES THAT ARE HOLDING ELECTIONS.
WELL, IT STILL FALLS WITHIN YOUR FISCAL YEAR SO.
YEAH. THEN YOU GET DOUBLE WHAMMY IN THE NEXT YEAR.
AND JENNY, I THINK WHAT WE WONDER IS WHETHER WE CAN SHARE THE COST WITH THE COUNTY FOR THE NOVEMBER.
SO WE SHARE THE COST WITH THE COUNTY.
SO WE MARRY OUR ELECTION WITH THEIR, YOU KNOW.
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SO DO WE ONLY COST SHARE WITH THE CITY OF PLANO FOR OUR LOCAL ELECTION.BUT BUT IN REALITY, WE SHARE A COST WITH ANYBODY, ANY OTHER ENTITY.
BUT THEY SHARE WITH US LIKE IF WE HAVE AN ELECTION, DO THEY SUPPORT US? I MEAN, IT'S JUST WE EACH PAY OUR OWN SHARE BASED ON AND IT'S BASED ON REGISTERED VOTERS.
SO OBVIOUSLY WE'RE THE BIG ANIMAL.
I MEAN, WE'RE THE WE'RE THE BIGGEST ENTITY THAT ACTUALLY WILL PAY THE LION'S SHARE OF THAT.
BUT IT'S BASED ON HOW MANY REGISTERED VOTERS YOU HAVE THAT'S VOTING IN YOUR IN YOUR ENTITY.
AND IT REALLY STRUCK ME AS WHY ARE WE BEING REALLY HIT SO HARD HERE? WELL, WE LOOKED INTO IT AND IT'S BECAUSE THAT'S THE WAY THE LAW IS WRITTEN THAT WE BEAR OUR SHARE OF THE REGISTERED VOTERS.
IT'S JUST OUR SHARE OF OF THAT PARTICULAR ELECTION.
SO BUT LET ME REFOCUS HERE, BECAUSE THAT'S SOMETHING WE'VE GONE WAY DOWN A BUNNY TRAIL.
THIS IS JUST WE'RE TALKING ABOUT JUST THE BUDGET HERE.
ALL RIGHT. AND THEN JUST TO FINISH UP, I PROMISE.
GOOD NEWS, RIGHT? SO LET'S FINISH THIS SUCKER UP.
THIS IS JUST AN UP TO DATE ESTIMATE.
THIS IS OUR ESTIMATED REVENUES.
WELL, WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE ON THIS BUDGET? YOU'RE GOING TO SEE TAX REVENUE, PROPERTY TAXES GO WAY DOWN, WHICH IS REALLY BAD.
BUT YOU'LL ALSO SEE THAT SAME AMOUNT GO DOWN ON OUR RECAPTURE.
SO YOU'RE GOING TO SEE IT GO DOWN ON THE REVENUES, GO DOWN ON THE EXPENSES NET RESULT TO US WITH THAT TAX COMPRESSION TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND OUR AND OUR BUDGET IS WHICH SHOULD BE A NET OR NEGLIGIBLE.
IT'LL BE CLOSE TO ZERO NET EFFECT FOR US.
OKAY. SO I JUST WANT TO POINT THAT OUT.
YOU SEE STATE REVENUES AND THEN YOU SEE AT THE BOTTOM THE FEDERAL REVENUES.
THANK YOU FOR ANYBODY WHO WORKED ON THAT.
WE'LL GET THAT FOR A TEN YEAR PERIOD, WHICH IS REALLY, REALLY GOOD NEWS.
THIS IS THE FIRST YEAR FOR THAT.
ALL RIGHT, THEN. I WANT TO JUST GO OVER REAL QUICKLY ON THE EXPENDITURE SIDE OF THE BUDGET.
WHICH IS JUST YEAR OVER YEAR, THAT BUDGET GOING UP.
YOU CAN LOOK AT THE STAFFING REDUCTIONS.
AND WE DO THAT THROUGH ATTRITION.
SO AS WE HAVE TURNOVERS IN STAFF, WE LOOK AT THE PROJECTED STUDENTS AND WE MATCH THAT UP.
WE LOOK AT ADJUSTING POSITIONS BASED ON WHAT OUR NEEDS ARE.
THAT'S THE $2.6 COST OF SALARY INCREASES IS THE $12.4.
THAT'S THE 3% AND THE $15 AN HOUR.
AND THAT'S WHERE THAT'S COMING IN.
YOU SEE THE NON PAYROLL BUDGET GOING UP SLIGHTLY THERE.
BUT I WILL SAY THAT'S THE THE $5 MILLION WE TALKED ABOUT ON THE DEPARTMENTS.
AND THEN WE ALSO WE HAD A $9 MILLION THAT WE ACTUALLY HAD IN A IN ESSER TWO THAT WE ACTUALLY HAD TO, YOU KNOW, WE SUPPLEMENT SUPPLANTED OUR BUDGET.
THIS IS ESSER TWO PUTTING THAT BACK IN.
SO THAT'S THAT'S $9 MILLION OF THAT.
AND THEN YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THE NET OF REVENUES FOR YOUR THE BOTTOM LINE.
OKAY. PROJECTED BUDGET, ABOUT $33 MILLION.
THAT'S THAT'S REALLY, REALLY PRETTY GOOD.
I'M VERY, VERY HAPPY WITH WHERE WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW.
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I WANT TO SAY THAT IF YOU LOOK AT OUR BUDGETS AND YOU GO ALL THE WAY BACK TO 2019 AND YOU EXTRAPOLATE OUR BUDGETS BASED ON INFLATION, WE WOULD BE ABOUT $32 MILLION.THAT WOULD BE AN ADDITIONAL REVENUE FOR US OF ABOUT $32 MILLION.
IF YOU LOOKED AT OUR BUDGETS BACK IN 2019 AND JUST EXTRAPOLATE THAT OUT.
SO IF YOU LOOK AT WHAT YOU SEE UP THERE, WE WOULD BE VERY, VERY CLOSE TO A BALANCED BUDGET IF OUR WHAT WE WERE ABLE TO KEEP OUR TAXES WERE INDEXED FOR INFLATION, WE WOULD WE WOULD BE REALLY, REALLY CLOSE TO A BALANCED BUDGET.
I THINK THAT'S REALLY GOOD NEWS.
WE TALKED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE ACTUALLY AFFECT THAT OR CHANGE THAT VADER.
YOU REMEMBER THE VADER HELPED US ABOUT ABOUT $9 MILLION.
WE WERE HOPING WE WOULD GET ABOUT $20 MILLION FROM THIS LEGISLATIVE SESSION.
OKAY. SO $32 MILLION WOULD MAKE US WHOLE.
[INAUDIBLE] WE'RE HOPING $20 MILLION WITH LEGISLATIVE.
WE THINK WE'RE GOING TO MAYBE GET BETWEEN $10 AND $11.
IS THERE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BUDGET? THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. NO QUESTIONS.
YOU CAN ALSO OFFER COMMENTS, COMPLAINTS, QUERIES OR CONCERNS IF YOU'VE GOT COMPLAINTS.
DID I POINT OUT THE TWO LADIES IN THE BACK? I THINK WE JUST HAVE TO WATCH WHAT INFLATION DOES.
THANK YOU. JOHNNY, DID DASH EVER COME BACK? I DO NOT BELIEVE HE DID. OKAY.
OKAY. JUST. JUST WANTED TO UPDATE THE SPREADSHEET.
THANKS, JOHNNY. WE ARE GOING ON TO OUR BOARD MEMBER LIAISON REPORTS, AND WE HAVE TWO TONIGHT.
WE HAVE JERI WITH THE FOUNDATION AND NANCE WITH THE LEGISLATIVE UPDATE.
MINE IS BRIEF. JUST WANTED TO UPDATE.
THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION IS DOING THE SAME EXACT WORK THAT WE'RE DOING RIGHT NOW, WORKING ON BUDGET.
AND THEN ALSO BEGINNING THE PROCESS OF ESTABLISHING THE STRATEGIC PLAN.
SO GOOD, GOOD WORK, BORING WORK, BUT GOOD WORK.
SO JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU ALL KNOW THAT'S MOVING FORWARD.
ALL RIGHT. SET YOUR STOPWATCH.
UM. HAVE A GREAT TEAM THAT HAS HELPED WORK ON THIS SLIDE DECK.
THANK YOU, LISA, THERESA, SELENDA, LESLEY, THE WHOLE TEAM.
SO LET'S SWITCH WHO HAS THE THINGY? CAN I HAVE IT, PLEASE? THANK YOU, SIR.
WHAT DO I PUSH? THE LITTLE ARROW? LET'S SEE IF I CAN MAKE IT WORK.
ALL RIGHT. OKAY, SO THIS IS A THIS IS AN INTERESTING SLIDE.
IT SORT OF SUMMARIZES THINGS BY THE NUMBERS.
AND A KEY DATE HERE IS MAY 8TH.
THAT IS THE LAST DAY FOR COMMITTEE REPORTS FROM THE HOUSE.
SO IF IT HASN'T HAPPENED, THEN WE'RE GOING TO BE IN A WORLD OF HURT.
MAY 12TH IS THE LAST DAY FOR THE HOUSE TO CONSIDER BILLS IN ITS THIRD READING.
AND THAT WOULD THAT'S THE LAST DAY THEY CAN VOTE ON A BILL.
MAY 24TH IS THE LAST DAY FOR THE CHAMBERS TO COLLECTIVELY PASS BILLS.
SO IT'S A FAST TRAIN ROLLING DOWN THE TRACK RIGHT NOW.
DR. COURTNEY GOBER IS NOT IN HIS CHAIR BECAUSE HE'S DOWN IN AUSTIN RIGHT NOW.
I DON'T KNOW WHERE HE IS. HAS ANYBODY HAD AN UPDATE? I. WELL, THAT WAS A COUPLE OF HOURS.
YEAH. HE SAID HE WOULD TEXT ME WHENEVER HE GOT OUT AND HE HASN'T TEXTED.
WELL, I APPRECIATE HIM GOING DOWN THERE BECAUSE I COULDN'T GO TODAY.
YOU'LL SEE THAT THERE'S OVER 32 EDUCATION BILLS SCHEDULED FOR COMMITTEE THIS WEEK ALONE.
100 BILLS HAVE PASSED OUT OF COMMITTEE.
31 ARE OUT OF THE ORIGINATING CHAMBER.
SO THE BILL GOES FROM ONE BODY TO THE OTHER.
AND SO IT'S REALLY GOOD NEWS WHEN WE SEE AT LEAST 31 HAVE MOVED TO THE NEXT CHAMBER.
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MOVE. I'LL JUST SAY THAT, YES, IT'S ON THE MOVE.AND THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT THAT IS IT FAILED IN THE HOUSE IN THE LAST BIENNIUM THAT IT WAS HEARD.
AND SO IF WE CAN GET IT THROUGH THE HOUSE INTO THE SENATE, MAYBE WE'LL GET IT PASSED THIS TIME.
AND ONE HAS PASSED OUT OF BOTH COMMITTEES.
ALL RIGHTY. SO LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITIES AND STRATEGIES.
WE SEVERAL OF US WENT DOWN TO PTA RALLY DAY IN FEBRUARY.
THERE WAS PLANO LEGISLATIVE DAYS IN LAST WEEK OF FEBRUARY WHERE WE WENT DOWN WITH OUR CITY AND CHAMBER PARTNERS. AND THEN IN MARCH WE WENT DOWN TO COLLIN COUNTY LEGISLATIVE DAYS.
I ACTUALLY GOT TO SPEAK ON A PANEL THAT IN ONE OF THOSE DAYS IT WAS KIND OF FUN.
AND THEN I WENT DOWN LAST WEEK IN A GROUP CALLED TRUSTEES UNITED CAPITAL ACTION DAY, AND IT JUST IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR LEGISLATORS TO SEE, THERE WERE 70 TRUSTEES FROM ACROSS THE STATE THAT SHOWED UP AND WERE PRESENT.
AND IT JUST LETS THEM KNOW THAT WE'RE IN THIS WITH THEM AND WANT TO SUPPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION.
AND GUESS WHAT? IT'S NOT THERE IN THE SENATE SIDE.
HOUSE BILL 3555 I TESTIFIED ON THAT IN FRONT OF WAYS AND MEANS, AND THAT'S ON THE MOVE.
SENATE BILL 1261, WHICH IS A REVISION TO THE HOUSE BILL, 4545 BILL FROM THE 87TH LEGISLATIVE SESSION, WHICH IS TALKING ABOUT HELPING STUDENTS, YOU KNOW, ACCELERATE LEARNING, IF YOU WILL.
AND THERE WERE SOME SOME ISSUES WITH THE WAY THE BILL WAS WRITTEN.
IT WASN'T REALISTIC IN SOME WAYS.
AND LISA WENT DOWN AND PROVIDED TESTIMONY LAST WEEK.
IS THAT RIGHT? AND THEN SENATE BILL 2088, I BELIEVE THAT IS ANGELA PAXTON'S BILL, IS IT? SENATOR CREIGHTON'S BILL? YES, BUT THEY HAVE A VERY SIMILAR.
AND THAT WOULD PROVIDE $18 TO $20 MILLION.
THAT WOULD BE SIGNIFICANT IF THAT COULD PASS.
SO IF YOU WILL, LOOK, YOU SEE THE LITTLE DOTTED LINE THERE.
IT'S VISIT LEGISLATIVE WEB PAGE.
AND YOU CAN GO THERE AND SEE WEEKLY UPDATES.
YOU CAN SEE OUR LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES AND ALL THAT REALLY GOOD STUFF.
SO HERE ARE THE PRIORITIES BY UPDATE, I MEAN BY HERE'S OUR UPDATE BY PRIORITY.
THE STATE HAS A $33 BILLION SURPLUS, THE LARGEST IN STATE'S HISTORY.
A LOT OF THAT HAS TO DO WITH FUEL REVENUES AND OIL AND GAS TAX REVENUES, SAVINGS FROM PUBLIC EDUCATION FUNDING AND ALSO ON SALES TAX INCREASES OVER THE LAST YEAR.
THEY'RE TRYING TO DETERMINE WHETHER THEY'RE GOING TO DO THAT THROUGH THE HOUSING.
WHAT AM I TRYING TO SAY? WHAT IS THE EXEMPTIONS? THERE WE GO. THE EXEMPTIONS.
SO, YES, DAN PATRICK SUPPORTS THE YES. AND SO THE HOUSE IS LOOKING AT TAX COMPRESSION.
THERE IS $10 BILLION OF STATE SURPLUS THAT CAME FROM RECAPTURED DOLLARS.
AND I CAN EXPLAIN THAT IN A MINUTE.
THAT'S THROUGH THAT'S PUSHED THROUGH SENATE BILL 30, WHICH IS THE SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS BILL.
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US IN TOTAL.AND SO $8.2 BILLION WAS REALLOCATED FROM PUBLIC EDUCATION TO THE STATE'S GENERAL FUND.
AND IN THAT AMOUNT OF THE $8.2 BILLION, PLANO ISD PAID 211 MILLION LAST YEAR.
AND WE'RE PROJECTED TO PAY ALMOST A QUARTER OF $1 BILLION, $247 MILLION IN THIS JULY.
AND SO WE'LL PROBABLY LOOK AT THAT IN ANOTHER SLIDE AS WELL, JUST TO MAKE SURE WE HIT THAT HOME.
WE'VE GOT FUEL INCREASES, PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE INCREASES, ALL OF THESE AMAZING INCREASES AND YET WE DON'T HAVE REVENUE INCREASES. SO OUR COSTS ARE GOING UP THROUGH THE 22% COLLECTIVE INFLATION SINCE 2019. AND YOU LOOK AT THE VERY SMALL PRINT, THEIR SCHOOLS NO LONGER HAVE THE SAME BUYING POWER AS THEY DID IN 2019.
WE HAVE THIS VERY SIMILAR SAME BUYING POWER THAT WE DID TEN YEARS AGO.
AND SO IN ORDER TO HAVE THAT SAME BUYING POWER AS WE DID AFTER HOUSE BILL THREE WAS PASSED IN 2019, OUR BASIC ALLOTMENT WOULD NEED TO BE OVER $7,100.
AND I THINK JOHNNY POINTED THAT OUT VERY.
YES, $32 MILLION WOULD HAVE WE WOULD HAVE A BALANCED BUDGET HAD THEY TIED THE BASIC ALLOTMENT TO INFLATION RATE. SO THIS IS A GREAT INFOGRAPHIC HERE.
AND THERE AGAIN BECAUSE OF INFLATION, THE BUYING POWER.
IS DIMINISHED, CAN NOT STATE THAT ENOUGH.
SO THERE ARE CERTAIN THREATS TO PLANO ISD'S BUDGET.
YOU'LL SEE THE RECAPTURE HAS BEEN GOING UP.
AND I KNOW THAT WITH HOUSE BILL THREE, THEY THOUGHT THEY HAD FIXED IT, BUT IT JUST BECAUSE OF PROPERTY VALUE GROWTH IN THE STATE OF TEXAS, IT JUST CONTINUES TO INCREASE. AND I THINK WE'LL SEE SOME PROPERTY TAX RELIEF OUT OF THIS LEGISLATIVE SESSION.
THE CURRENT BASIC ALLOTMENT OF $6,160 AGAIN, IF WE KEPT IT UP WITH INFLATION, IT WOULD BE $7,100.
IN THE SECOND YEAR OF THE BIENNIUM, IT WILL ADD AN ADDITIONAL $50.
SO IN THE TOTAL BIENNIUM IT WILL GO UP $140.
THAT WILL NOT STILL GET TO $7,100.
SO WE'RE STILL NOT BEING MADE WHOLE WITH INFLATION.
SO BUT AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, SENATE BILL TWO HAS NO RELIEF IN IN ITS ANY ADDITIONAL REVENUE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION.
SO THOSE ARE THREATS RIGHT THERE.
HERE'S ANOTHER THREAT IS CHARTER FUNDING AND RECAPTURE.
THIS IS JUST AN IRONIC SLIDE BECAUSE IF YOU LOOK AT THE RATE OF RECAPTURE AND THE AMOUNT THAT THE STATE IS SPENDING ON CHARTER FUNDING FUNDING, YOU'LL SEE THAT OUR RECAPTURE IS BASICALLY PAYING FOR CHARTER SCHOOLS.
AND THIS IS A SLIDE I HAVE TO GIVE CREDIT TO DAVID THOMPSON WITH THOMPSON AND HORTON, AND THESE ARE NUMBERS OUT OF THE TEAS WEBSITE. SO THEY'RE VERIFIED NUMBERS.
IT'S NOT ANYTHING THAT'S A MYSTERY HERE.
FACTS ABOUT TAX RELIEF, STATE DOLLARS THAT ARE DEDICATED TO PROPERTY TAX RELIEF MAY COUNT ON PAPER, BUT THOSE DOLLARS DON'T REACH THE CLASSROOMS. AND WE ALL WANT TO SEE PROPERTY TAX RELIEF.
I GUARANTEE YOU, I JUST GOT MY APPRAISAL YESTERDAY AND I ALMOST FELL OUT OF MY CHAIR.
AND SO CREATING AN ESA EDUCATION SAVINGS ACCOUNT OR A VOUCHER PROGRAM WILL PULL EVEN MORE DOLLARS AWAY FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLS AT A TIME WHEN OUR LEGISLATORS ARE NOT GIVING US ADDITIONAL FUNDING TO KEEP UP WITH THOSE INFLATION COST, INFLATION DRIVEN COSTS, FUEL, UTILITIES AND OTHER.
SO AGAIN, TAX RELIEF REDUCES RECAPTURE, BUT IT DOESN'T EQUATE TO ADDITIONAL DOLLARS IN THE BUDGET AND THE LOSS OF STUDENTS TO OTHER EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM OUTSIDE OF PUBLIC ED WILL INCREASE OUR RECAPTURE BECAUSE OUR ENROLLMENT GOES DOWN.
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SO OUR DENOMINATOR IS DIVIDING THE NUMBER INTO OR IT'S DIVIDING THE TOTAL REVENUE BY A SMALLER NUMBER.SO HERE'S THAT SENATE BILL 30 THAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT.
THAT'S SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS.
THAT'S THE FUND THAT IS KIND OF WHERE IT TAKES ALL THE REMAINING UNENCUMBERED APPROPRIATIONS FROM THE PRIOR SESSION AND PUTS IT ALL INTO ONE BILL, SENATE BILL 30 SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS.
AND WE TALK ABOUT THAT ALL THE TIME WHEN WE TALK ABOUT RECAPTURE AND THE FACT THAT OUR TAXPAYERS ARE WRITING A CHECK AND THEY THINK IT'S GOING TO PLANO ISD AND IT'S SOME OF IT, 38% OF IT IS GOING TO RECAPTURE.
AND WHAT IS MOST DISHEARTENING ABOUT THAT IS A PORTION OF THAT RECAPTURE IS AN EXCESS OF WHAT THE STATE BUDGETED. SO IN THE LAST BIENNIUM, THE LBB BUDGETED $6 BILLION FOR THE TWO YEARS IN THE BUDGET, BUT THEY COLLECTED BECAUSE THE PROPERTY VALUE INCREASES $8.4 BILLION. SO WHAT YOU'RE SEEING IS EXCESS RECAPTURE AND THEY CALL RECAPTURE, WE USE THAT TERM, BUT IT'S TRULY WHAT THEY CALL REVENUE IN EXCESS OF ENTITLEMENT.
AND SO WE HAVE EXCESS REVENUE IN EXCESS OF ENTITLEMENT.
IT'S HARD TO SAY, BUT 40% OF TAXPAYERS DOLLARS COLLECTED FOR RECAPTURE ARE IN THIS SLUSH FUND THAT MAY BE SPENT ON PRIORITIES OTHER THAN EDUCATION.
AND I HOPE THAT ANYONE WHO IS SEEING THIS ON, YOU KNOW, ONLINE LATER OR IS WATCHING IT LIVE.
I HOPE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THIS POINT AND I'M TRYING TO DRIVE IT HOME.
AND THAT'S WHAT OUR LITTLE TAX APPARANCY BILL WILL DO IF WE CAN GET THAT THROUGH THE HOUSE.
BUT WE NEED TO KNOW THAT THIS IS HAPPENING AND THEY NEED TO COLLECT LESS IN UPFRONT.
SORRY, BUT ANYWAY, RECAPTURE IS HURTING US, SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THERE'S A RIGHT BALANCE STRUCK BETWEEN CONTROLLING PROPERTY TAXES AND GIVING SCHOOLS THE RESOURCES THEY NEED TO EDUCATE KIDS.
AND THIS IS FROM CHRISTY ROME WITH TEXAS SCHOOL COALITION.
SHE REPRESENTS THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS WHO FIND THEMSELVES IN CHAPTER 49, WHICH IS RECAPTURE.
AND SO NOW AND IN THE FUTURE, STATE DOLLARS THAT ARE SPENT TO HOLD DOWN PROPERTY TAXES ARE NOT REACHING THE CLASSROOMS. AND THAT'S THAT'S THAT'S DISHEARTENING.
SO THIS IS A WORDY SLIDE AND I DON'T WANT TO I BROKE THE RULE, LISA, ON SLIDES, BUT IT TALKS ABOUT FULLY FUNDING PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND IT TALKS ABOUT HOW TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS ARE GOVERNED BY TRUSTEES.
AND THE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS IS VERY HIGH.
WE HAVE TEA RULES, [INAUDIBLE] RULES, FEDERAL RULES THAT WE HAVE TO BE ACCOUNTABLE TO.
AND OUR STUDENTS ALL TAKE THE STAAR EXAM.
AND SO THERE IS ACCOUNTABILITY, BOTH TRANSPARENCY WISE AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT WISE.
AND WHEN WE TALK ABOUT SENDING FUNDING OUT OF TRADITIONAL PUBLIC ED AND PROVIDING FUNDING FOR EDUCATION SAVINGS ACCOUNTS, THAT ACCOUNTABILITY IS NOT THERE WITH THE TAXPAYERS DOLLARS WITH THOSE ESA PAYMENTS.
AND SO HOW DO VOUCHERS INCREASE THE ROBINHOOD RECAPTURE? I THINK I JUST MENTIONED THAT I'M NOT GOING TO DRIVE THAT POINT HOME ANY FURTHER, BUT IT HAS TO DO WITH THE NUMBER OF REVENUE MINUS OR DIVIDED BY THE STUDENTS.
AND IF THAT NUMBER IS DECLINING, YOU SEE RECAPTURE GOES UP.
AND IF A DISTRICT'S ENROLLMENT DECREASES, DOESN'T IT NEED LESS REVENUE? WELL, THAT'S THAT'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFICULT TO EXPLAIN BECAUSE IT COSTS THE SAME TO EMPLOY SOMEONE TO TEACH A CLASS OF 21 STUDENTS AS IT DOES TO TEACH A CLASS OF 23 STUDENTS.
BUT A SCHOOL DISTRICT RECEIVES MORE FUNDING FOR 23 STUDENTS THAN IT DOES FOR 21 STUDENTS.
SO THERE ARE FIXED COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH EVERY STUDENT THAT LEAVES THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND GOES INTO AN ALTERNATIVE PRIVATE SCHOOL OR HOME SCHOOL. AND THOSE COSTS DO NOT DIMINISH INCREMENTALLY AS THE STUDENTS LEAVING.
SO YOU STILL HAVE TO RUN THE AIR CONDITIONER.
YOU STILL HAVE TO DRIVE THE SAME BUS ROUTES.
BUT THAT'S THAT'S KIND OF A POINT OF WHY WE'RE REALLY HARMED BY ESAS AND VOUCHERS.
AND SO THIS THIS DRIVES THE POINT A LITTLE BIT FURTHER.
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WE NUMBER ONE IN PUBLIC SCHOOL, WE MUST ENROLL AND ACCEPT EVERY STUDENT THAT CHOOSES TO APPLY FOR OUR SCHOOLS.THAT'S OUR CONSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENT IN THE STATE OF TEXAS AND SENATE BILL 8, WHICH IS WHAT HAS BEEN PASSED THROUGH THE SENATE. AND I GUESS I'M NOT SURE WHERE IT IS IN THE PROCESS OF GETTING OVER TO THE HOUSE.
BUT ANYWAY, IT CURRENTLY WOULD AUTHORIZE AN $8,000 PAYMENT PER YEAR TO FAMILIES WANTING TO ATTEND A PRIVATE SCHOOL OR HOME SCHOOL, AND THE BILL WOULD PROVIDE A $10,000 PER STUDENT PAYMENT TO DISTRICTS WHO HAVE ENROLLMENT LESS THAN 20,000.
I'M NOT SURE WHERE THEY GOT THE 20,000, BUT I DO HAVE SOME NUMBERS ON THAT.
WHAT'D YOU SAY? I'M TRYING TO FIND MY NOTES ABOUT THAT.
THERE ARE 5.5 MILLION STUDENTS IN THE STATE OF TEXAS.
1141 SCHOOL DISTRICTS HAVE LESS THAN 20,000 ENROLLMENT.
AND THE REMAINING 71 DISTRICTS HAVE ENROLLMENT GREATER THAN 20,000.
SO WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT IS THE THE 1,141 DISTRICTS THAT HAVE THAT FEWER THAN 20,000 ENROLLMENT.
REPRESENTS 43% OF THE 5.5 MILLION STUDENTS IN THE STATE.
AM I GETTING IN THE WEEDS? I'M SORRY. ARE YOU GOING TO TELL ME TO STOP? NOT YET.
BUT THE 71 DISTRICTS OF WHICH WE ARE PART OF THAT 71 THAT HAVE GREATER THAN 20,000 STUDENTS IN THEIR DISTRICT REPRESENT 57% OF ALL STUDENTS IN THE STATE.
SO THAT'S WHERE THEY GOT THE 20,000, I GUESS.
BUT IF A STUDENT LEAVES PLANO ISD.
AND GOES TO ANOTHER SCHOOL OUTSIDE OF OUR DISTRICT.
THEN WE DON'T GET THAT $10,000 AND THAT $10,000 IS PAID TO THE DISTRICTS THAT HAVE LESS THAN 20,000 ENROLLMENT FOR FIVE YEARS.
SO IT'S REALLY AN INCENTIVE FOR THE RURAL DISTRICTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ESAS AND VOTE FOR IT.
IT'S ESTIMATED THAT 25,000 STUDENTS WOULD PARTICIPATE IN THE FIRST YEAR, AND THAT ESTIMATE WOULD BE A $527 MILLION DECREASE.
BUT GUESS WHAT? BY 2028, THAT COST OUT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION WOULD BE MORE THAN $1 BILLION.
SO SENDING PUBLIC DOLLARS TO PRIVATE SCHOOLS WILL CAUSE ROBIN HOOD TO INCREASE.
AND WE ALL JUST HEARD MY WHOLE LECTURE ON ROBIN HOOD.
ALSO, I THINK I HAVE ANOTHER NOTE HERE.
OKAY AFTER HOUSE BILL THREE AND 2019 INCREASE THE INVESTMENT IN SCHOOLS.
HOWEVER, TEXAS STILL RANKS IN THE BOTTOM TEN OF STATES IN PER PUPIL SPENDING.
I THINK WE'RE AT 42 IN THE NATION ON SPENDING.
IT'S $4,000 BEHIND THE NATIONAL AVERAGE.
AND THOSE NUMBERS ARE BASED THEY'RE EQUALIZED FOR COST OF LIVING DIFFERENCES.
SO IT'S AN APPLES TO APPLES DIFFERENCE.
AND SO ONE POINT THAT I ALWAYS LIKE TO SAY IS THAT OUR LAWMAKERS AND COMPTROLLER ARE ALWAYS QUICK TO POINT OUT THAT TEXAS IS THE NINTH LARGEST ECONOMY IN THE WORLD.
AND THAT'S ABOUT ALL I CAN SAY THERE.
IF YOU RECALL EARLIER IN THE YEAR, BACK IN, I THINK SEPTEMBER OR OCTOBER, WE WE UNVEILED OUR LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES BASED ON OUR PILLARS IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN.
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THE THREE BULLETS AT THE TOP ARE THE PRIORITIES THAT WE HAVE IN SPECIFIC.AND THEN WHAT I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU HERE IS AN UPDATE ON THE BILLS THAT ARE ON THE MOVE, I WILL SAY.
SO SENATE BILL 11 GIVES AN ALMOST $10 PER STUDENT SAFETY ALLOTMENT IN PLANO.
THAT WOULD EQUATE TO ABOUT $476,000 IN A YEAR.
HOUSE BILL THREE OFFERS A $10 PER STUDENT SAFETY ALLOTMENT AND INCLUDES A $15,000 PER CAMPUS ALLOTMENT. AND LIKE I SAID, ALL OF THESE BILLS ARE PASSED IN THEIR RESPECTIVE CHAMBER, BUT THEY HAVEN'T BEEN HEARD IN THE OPPOSITE CHAMBER. HOUSE BILL 13 $100 PER ADA SAFETY ALLOTMENT.
AND THAT INCLUDES A GUARDIAN PROGRAM, AN AND THAT INCLUDES ARMING INDIVIDUALS ON CAMPUSES.
SENATE BILL 30 WE WENT THROUGH THERE IS A $1.6 BILLION STUDENT SAFETY ALLOTMENT, BUT THAT COMES FROM THE EXTRA REVENUE FROM THE PRIOR BIENNIUM THAT'S PUSHED INTO SENATE BILL 30 AND THEN SENATE BILL 113 AND HOUSE BILL 98 ARE VERY SIMILAR BILLS. I THINK THEY MIRROR EACH OTHER AND THEY PROVIDE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR MEDICAID ELIGIBLE STUDENTS.
HOUSE BILL 1147 ADDS BLEEDING KITS TO ALL CLASSROOMS. AND I THINK THAT THE INTENT THERE IS AMAZING.
AND I KNOW WE HAVE THEM ON EVERY CAMPUS, BUT THERE BECOMES UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES THERE.
AND I CAN'T TALK. I'VE GOT TO DRINK.
AND THEN SENATE BILL 999 REQUIRES PROVIDERS OF ACTIVE SHOOTING, TRAINING, TRAINING BE CERTIFIED.
SO ALL OF THESE HAVE PASSED THROUGH THE CHAMBER AND WE'RE WATCHING THEM MOVE.
NOW, POLICY PRIORITY NUMBER TWO IS TO ADDRESS THE INEQUITIES OF RECAPTURE.
THE FOUR BULLETS ABOVE ARE OUR PRIORITIES AND THE BILLS.
AND ON THE MOVE YOU'LL SEE THAT OF HOUSE BILL 3555 AND 1749.
I LOVE 1749, BUT THAT'S NOT EVEN GOING TO GET A HEARING.
IT LIMITS THE RECAPTURE SO A DISTRICT DOESN'T RECORD A DEFICIT.
BUT THAT'S REPRESENTATIVE MORGAN MEYERS BILL.
BUT IT WON'T EVEN GET A HEARING.
THOSE ARE CREDIT AGAINST RECAPTURE FOR.
THAT'S NOT THE CREDIT THAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT BEFORE.
THIS IS A CREDIT AGAINST RECAPTURE FOR EXCESS FACILITY COSTS AND THEN THOSE LONG LIST AT THE BOTTOM.
I'M NOT GOING TO READ EVERY NUMBER, BUT YOU'LL SEE UNDERLINED IS SENATE BILL 2088, WHICH IS THE ONE THAT MR. HILL TESTIFIED ON THAT WILL GIVE US THE EARLY PAYMENT DISCOUNT IF WE PAY OUR RECAPTURE EARLY.
3555 AND SENATE BILL 2088 HAVE ALL BEEN HEARD IN COMMITTEE.
ADEQUATELY FUNDING SCHOOLS AND YOU'LL SEE THAT PRIORITY NUMBER THREE HAS MULTIPLE BULLETS.
THE RELATED BILLS THAT ARE CURRENTLY IN MOTION, SENATE BILL TWO, IT DOESN'T ADD ANY ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR THE BASIC ALLOTMENT, BUT IT DOES PROVIDE $17 BILLION IN PROPERTY TAX RELIEF FOR OUR TAXPAYERS IN TEXAS, AND THAT IS THROUGH THE EXEMPTION HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION.
IS THAT CORRECT? THAT'S RIGHT. YEAH. THERE'S TWO PARTS OF THAT.
OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THE I FORGOT THE TAX COMPRESSION YOU'RE RIGHT.
ALL RIGHT. I'LL POINT OUT THAT ABOUT A WEEK AGO, HOUSE BILL ONE, WHICH IS THE BUDGET, IT CAME OVER FROM SENATE BILL TWO AND IT WAS HEARD IN COMMITTEE OR WELL ON THE FLOOR. THEY HAD AN AMENDMENT.
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SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S THAT THAT'S IN THE HOUSE.BUT THE INTERESTING THING TO POINT OUT THERE IS THAT IT SHOWS INTENT REGARDING VOUCHERS OR ESA'S.
HOUSE BILL 100 WE TALKED ABOUT THAT.
IT'S $140 IN THE BASIC ALLOTMENT COLLECTIVELY OVER THE NEXT BIENNIUM.
AND THEN THE HOUSE BILL 1605 INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY ALLOTMENT, $843 MILLION.
CAN WE PAUSE FOR A SECOND AND TALK ABOUT HOUSE BILL 100? YES, BECAUSE WHEN WE THINK ABOUT IF WE USE A NICE ROUND NUMBER LIKE 50,000 STUDENTS BECAUSE WE'RE JUST A LITTLE BIT UNDER 50,000 STUDENTS.
A $90 INCREASE IN THE BASIC ALLOTMENTS, $4.5 MILLION NEXT YEAR AND A $50 INCREASE IN THE BASIC ALLOTMENT ON TOP OF THAT WOULD BE ABOUT $2.5 MILLION THE FOLLOWING YEAR.
RIGHT. AND SO AS WE THINK BACK TO OUR ZERO BASED BUDGETING PROPOSAL THAT WE JUST WENT OVER OUR BUDGET INCREASES DUE TO INFLATION JUST FOR NEXT YEAR.
THAT $4.5 MILLION INCREASE IN THE BASIC ALLOTMENT DOES NOT EVEN COVER OUR VERY STRINGENT ZERO BASED BUDGETING BUDGET INCREASE IN THE YOU KNOW, AND THE NON PAYROLL ITEMS THAT WE JUST WENT OVER, MUCH LESS ANY SORT OF INCREASES IN PAYROLL, WHICH I KNOW THAT THERE'S SOME STRINGS ATTACHED TO THIS IN TERMS OF 50% OF IT GOING TO DECOMPENSATION.
SO I JUST I WANT TO, YOU KNOW, TRY AND TIE THOSE TWO THINGS TOGETHER IN TERMS OF $90 SOUNDS GREAT, BUT. IT'S GOING TO BE A LITTLE BIT LESS THAN $4.5 MILLION IN IN BUDGET IMPACT, HALF OF WHICH IS GOING TO GO TO COMPENSATION.
SO IT'S IT'S LESS MEANINGFUL THAN ONE WOULD HOPE FOR GIVEN THE BUDGET PRESENTATIONS THAT WE'VE BEEN WE'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH. ALL VERY GOOD POINTS.
AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT COMPENSATION AND AN ESTIMATED 3% RAISE, THAT'S NOT JUST IN ONE YEAR, THAT AMOUNT CONTINUES BECAUSE THE SALARY INCREASES.
SO INFLATION IS JUST REALLY TAKEN A BITE OUT OF EVERYTHING.
DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE TO ADD? THAT'S A REALLY GOOD POINT.
TYRA. BUT HERE IN A SECOND YOU'LL SEE THERE'S MORE THAN JUST THE BASIC ALLOTMENT WITH HB 100.
AND WE OUTLINED THAT IN ANOTHER SLIDE HERE IN A SECOND.
HB 100 HAS ABOUT $7 MILLION IN IT.
ALL RIGHT. SO UNDER THE THE FUNDING, WE'VE FINISHED THAT SLIDE.
AND I THINK THERE'S A FEW MORE COMMENTS HERE.
AND I'LL POINT THIS I'LL POINT SOMETHING OUT HERE.
THAT 5% CAP ON APPRAISAL GROWTH IS ALL PROPERTIES.
THAT INCLUDES COMMERCIAL AS WELL AS RESIDENTIAL.
AND SO WHEN THE SENATE IS TALKING ABOUT TAX RATE COMPRESSION AND NOT APPRAISAL.
WHAT? HOUSE EXEMPTION, SORRY, THE EXEMPTIONS ARE ONLY ON HOMES.
IT'S NOT ON COMMERCIAL PROPERTY.
SO THIS 5% CAP ON APPRAISAL GROWTH IS REALLY GOING TO IMPACT SCHOOL DISTRICTS ON THEIR I&S TAX RATE.
THAT'S THAT'S GOING TO BE A DIFFICULT PROCESS FOR FUTURE BONDS.
IT MIGHT BE DIFFICULT FOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS THAT ARE IN A HIGH GROWTH PROCESS AND THEY MAY ALREADY BE AT THE TOP OF THEIR I&S TAX RATE AND THEY WON'T HAVE THE FUNDING FROM THE APPRAISAL GROWTH TO HELP THEM WITH THEIR I&S PAYMENTS.
SO I THINK BOND INDEBTEDNESS IS GOING TO GO UP, INTEREST RATES WILL GO UP.
AND THERE MAY BE KIDS IN PORTABLES ALL OVER TEXAS.
IT CAPS IT TO 5% ON YOUR APPRAISAL GROWTH.
AND THEN SENATE BILL 3 IS THAT HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION THAT MR. HILL MENTIONED. IT'S GOING FROM $40,000 A YEAR TO $70,000.
THAT IS WHAT WILL POTENTIALLY PULL STUDENTS OUT OF THE TRADITIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
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AND SO SENATE BILL 8 IS HAS TWO ARTICLES IN IT.IT'S ARTICLE ONE, WHICH IS ABOUT PARENT EMPOWERMENT.
AND I KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, IN PLANO ISD, WE ALWAYS WANT OUR PARENTS TO BE PARTNERS IN EDUCATION BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT STUDENTS SUCCEED WHEN THEIR PARENTS ARE INVOLVED.
ARTICLE TWO IS THE ESA OR VOUCHER PROGRAM, AND THAT'S THE ONE I DESCRIBED A MINUTE AGO WITH THE $8,000 FOR FAMILIES AND THEN THE $10,000 REPAYMENT TO SCHOOLS WITH ENROLLMENT LESS THAN 20,000.
AND THEN THERE IS ALSO HOUSE BILL 619, WHICH IS AN INSURANCE PREMIUM AND TAX CREDIT VOUCHER PROGRAM.
THAT ONE IS AT ABOUT $500,000 A YEAR.
AND THEN HOUSE BILL 3781 IS THE SPECIAL EDUCATION VOUCHER PROGRAM.
I DON'T HAVE A FISCAL NOTE ON THAT, BUT IT YOU KNOW, IT HAS A LOT OF SUPPORT.
I WILL SAY, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT HOUSE BILL 4340 IS THE BIG ONE.
THAT IS REPRESENTATIVE FRANK'S VOUCHER PROGRAM AND IT STARTS AT $500 MILLION AND THAT'S THE ONE WE TALKED ABOUT IN 2028 WILL GROW TO $1 BILLION.
AND THEN HOUSE BILL 407 IS ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE INSURANCE PREMIUM TAX CREDIT VOUCHER PROGRAMS. AND I THINK IT IS LARGER THAN THE HOUSE BILL 619.
BUT IT'S NOT NEARLY AS IMPACTFUL AS HOUSE BILL 4340 ESA.
AND THEN RESOURCES TO ATTRACT AND RETAIN TEACHERS.
THAT FALLS RIGHT INTO THE ADEQUATELY FUND SCHOOLS.
THESE ARE THE DIFFERENT TOPICS WITHIN.
SENATE BILL NINE IS ABOUT TEACHERS RIGHTS.
AND IT ALSO ALLOWS FOR TEACHERS TO HAVE THEIR STUDENTS IN A PRE-K PROGRAM IN THEIR DISTRICT.
TEXAS IS THE NINTH LARGEST ECONOMY IN THE WORLD I'VE SAID THAT BEFORE.
THE BOTTOM TEN FOR PER PUPIL SPENDING IN 50 STATES, THERE'S A $33 BILLION STATE BUDGET SURPLUS, ONLY 5% [INAUDIBLE] ONLY $5 BILLION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION AND THERE WILL BE $17 BILLION FOR PROPERTY TAX RELIEF.
WE'LL SEE SOME RECAPTURE RELIEF IN THAT, AS MR. HILL POINTED OUT IN THE BUDGET PRESENTATION.
BUT IT'S GOING TO CONTINUE TO CLIMB AS ENROLLMENT DECREASES AND PROPERTY VALUES INCREASE.
SO WE ARE MOVING ON TO PRIORITY NUMBER FOUR, WHICH IS MEANINGFUL.
REAL QUICK, BEFORE YOU MOVE ON TO PRIORITY FOUR, LET ME GO BACK.
AND WE'RE ONE OF A HANDFUL OF STATES IN THE COUNTRY THAT STILL DOES THAT.
THERE ARE SIX STATES IN THE UNITED STATES.
ANYTHING HAPPENING WITH BILLS OF THAT NATURE BECAUSE THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT THAT? WELL, THERE IS.
AND I'M GOING TO GET MY NUMBERS WRONG, BUT I WANT TO SAY IT'S HOUSE BILL 2.
IT'S SOME OF THE WEIGHTED ALLOTMENTS.
SO THERE IS A MOVEMENT TOWARDS BASED ON ENROLLMENT, BUT IT'S TOO EXPENSIVE FOR THE STATE TO JUMP INTO TO TO FUND IT BASED ON ENROLLMENT IN THIS ONE LEGISLATIVE SESSION.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT NUMBER IS STATEWIDE? I KNOW WHAT IT IS HERE.
RIGHT. IF WE WERE FUNDED BASED ON ENROLLMENT.
OKAY. BUT THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.
BUT I KNOW THAT IT'S A VERY, VERY HIGH PRICE TAG.
SO BECAUSE HERE IT WOULD BE FOR US OVER $20 MILLION.
I THINK IT WAS $18 MILLION FOR US.
I THINK THEY WOULD LIKE TO GO.
THEY'RE LOOKING AT TRYING TO START IMPLEMENTING THAT.
YEAH, BUT THAT'S A REALLY GOOD POINT.
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THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF TALK ABOUT IT.IT COMES WITH A BIG HEFTY PRICE TAG THAT I DON'T KNOW THAT THEY FEEL IS SUSTAINABLE.
SO THIS ONE HAS TO DO WITH ASSESSMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY.
RIGHT HERE IS OUR PRIORITY NUMBER FOUR.
AND IT GOES TO THE NEXT PAGE AS WELL.
BUT THESE WERE PRESENTED TO US BACK IN SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER.
THESE ARE OUR LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES FOR MEANINGFUL ASSESSMENTS AND ACCOUNTABILITY.
UNFORTUNATELY, THERE'S NOT TOO MANY BILLS THAT HAVE BEEN I DON'T KNOW.
LET'S SEE. WE HAVE ONE THAT WAS HEARD.
I'VE GOT TO GET MY NOTES HERE.
I'M SORRY. PRIORITY FOUR AND THEN YEAH.
AND SO LISA WILSON TESTIFIED ON SENATE BILL 128.
WAIT, IT'S NOT 126, IS IT? 1261 I'VE GOT A TYPO IN MY NOTES AND DO YOU WANT TO SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THAT ONE? WE WERE THE BILL IS IT WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN, SENATOR PAXTON REDUCED IT TO READING AND MATH, WHICH WE WERE ENCOURAGED BY THAT SO WE COULD FOCUS OUR OUR RESOURCES ON THOSE PRIORITY SUBJECTS.
YOU KNOW, WANTING TO DO WHAT'S RIGHT FOR KIDS AND CLOSE GAPS.
SO WE'RE HOPING WE'RE HOPING THAT WE GET SOME RELIEF AND CAN STILL DO GREAT WORK.
WE HAVE A LOT OF STUDENTS THAT COULD USE THEIR PSAT SCORE AS THEIR STAAR SUBSTITUTE.
THE PROBLEM IN LAW PRIOR TO WELL, IT'S STILL CURRENTLY THE PROBLEM.
THE FIX THAT THIS PROPOSED IS THAT IF A STUDENT QUALIFIES OR WANTS TO USE THEIR PSAT, THEY ARE NOT HELD TO THE LAW THAT WAS WRITTEN UNDER HOUSE BILL 4545.
AND CURRENTLY, IF A STUDENT MET THE CRITERIA ON THEIR PSAT NINE AND USED IT AS A SUBSTITUTE UNDER THE CURRENT HOUSE BILL 4545, YOU HAVE TO SCORE THAT THEY FAILED AND THEN THEY ARE HELD UNDER HOUSE BILL 4545 FOR INTERVENTION AND IT DOES NOT ALLOW PARENTS THE RIGHT TO THEN WAIVE THOSE SERVICES, WHICH IS VERY CONTRADICTORY.
AND THAT WAS PROBABLY AN UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE.
AND SO WE'RE VERY GRATEFUL THAT THAT 1261 DOES PROPOSE TO FIX THAT.
YEAH. BECAUSE THOSE THOSE TESTS, PSAT, THAT MEANS THEY'RE COLLEGE READY.
AND SO JUST BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T TAKE THE STAAR DOESN'T MEAN THEY'RE A FAILURE.
OKAY. SO OF THESE BILLS HERE, THERE'S MODIFICATIONS TO HOUSE BILL 45 THAT LISA DESCRIBED.
THERE'S HOUSE BILL 337, WHICH ELIMINATES A COUPLE OF THE COURSES THAT ARE NOT REQUIRED BY THE FEDERAL EVERY STUDENT SUCCEEDS ACT.
AND SO THAT'S ENGLISH TWO AND US HISTORY EOC AND MEASURE WHAT MATTERS IS OUR HOUSE BILL 3517.
IT ADDS A FOURTH DOMAIN FOR RE TESTERS AND IT ADDS INDICATORS SUCH AS COURSE COMPLETION IN FINE ARTS, EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES ET CETERA. AND THEN HOUSE BILL 1988 AND SENATE BILL 2236.
THOSE EXPAND READING INSTRUMENTS FOR ON THE STATE APPROVED LIST AND YOU'LL SEE THE ONLY ONE THAT'S HAD A HEARING IS THE SENATE BILL 1261 THAT LISA TESTIFIED ON.
AND ANOTHER ONE, ANOTHER ONE SNUCK IN THIS MORNING, HOUSE BILL 4402, I BELIEVE.
OKAY. THAT ALSO ELIMINATES SOME OF THE REQUIRED ASSESSMENTS, ACTUALLY REDUCES TAKES OUT THE GRADUATION REQUIREMENT AND SOME AND ALLOWS SOME OTHER PIECES FOR ACCOUNTABILITY.
SO WE'LL SEE, IT WASN'T ON THE ORIGINAL LIST FOR HEARING, BUT IT GOT STUCK IN AT THE LAST MINUTE.
SO WE'LL BE WATCHING. SO WE MIGHT SEE A HEARING ON THAT.
THAT'S GOOD. UM, ANYWAY, IT'S JUST IT'S REMEMBER MAY 8TH IS THE DAY, THE LAST DAY TO GET A HEARING.
SO THAT DATE IS FAST APPROACHING.
AND WE'RE NOT SEEING A LOT OF ASSESSMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY, HEARING OR BILLS AND HEARINGS.
SO ACCOUNTABILITY AND COLLEGE CAREER, MILITARY READINESS CHANGES, CCMR. WE SEE THAT THERE WAS A NEW STAAR REDESIGN THIS YEAR.
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YEAR. AND SO THE TEA HAS HEARD A LOT FROM OUR LEGISLATORS, FROM OUR SCHOOL DISTRICTS.AND SO THEY'VE THEY'VE AGREED TO PROVIDE WHAT IF SCENARIOS WHEN THE SCORES ARE RELEASED THIS YEAR.
BUT I'M NOT CERTAIN THAT OUR COMMUNITY IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO GO, WELL, WAIT A MINUTE.
THAT SCHOOL WAS AN A LAST YEAR AND THIS YEAR IT'S A C, BUT IT COULD HAVE BEEN THIS.
DO YOU WANT TO SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THIS ONE? I THINK WE JUST AS A REMINDER, WE WE TALKED ABOUT THIS DASH AND LISA BROUGHT FORWARD, GOSH, SOMETIME LATE JANUARY, EARLY FEBRUARY, JUST WHAT THE IMPACT THAT WE'RE FACING.
AND I JUST I CAN'T REITERATE ENOUGH THAT WE APPRECIATE THE WE'RE ALL ABOUT RIGOR.
THE COMMISSIONER SAID THAT HE IS WANTS TO HAVE A VERY FAIR AND TRANSPARENT PROCESS.
HOWEVER, WE ARE GETTING A CUT SCORE ON ON STUDENTS WHO HAVE ALREADY GRADUATED.
SO THERE ISN'T IF WE HAD KNOWN THAT BEFORE THEY GRADUATED, PERHAPS WE COULD HAVE INTERVENED EARLIER.
THE SECOND HIT IS WE FOUND OUT WE FIND OUT IN JANUARY FOR CURRENT SENIORS AGAIN, HAD WE KNOWN, PERHAPS WE COULD HAVE INTERVENED EARLIER BECAUSE WE WERE FOLLOWING WITH WHAT WAS PUT IN PLACE.
SO WE APPRECIATE THE THE ATTEMPT FOR RIGOR.
ALSO, I WANT TO JUST THANK OUR REPRESENTATIVES.
I THINK THIS IS ONE AREA WHERE THEY HAVE VOICED THEIR CONCERNS.
I KNOW WE'VE RECEIVED FEEDBACK FROM MATT SHAHEEN.
THAT'S RIGHT ON. HERE'S THE LETTER.
HERE'S THE LETTER I SENT PERSONALLY AND HERE'S THE RESPONSE THAT I GOT FROMTEA.
SO I'M SURE HE IS PROBABLY GOING TO COME BACK AND WATCH TONIGHT'S BOARD MEETING.
BUT JUST A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO OUR REPRESENTATIVES THAT HAVE THAT TOOK THE ADDITIONAL TIME TO VOICE ALSO THEIR CONCERNS ALONG THE WAY.
I KNOW WE'RE PROBABLY RUNNING LONG ON TIME, BUT WE PUT A CAMPAIGN TOGETHER TO HIGHLIGHT OUR KIDS ARE MORE THAN A SCORE AND OUR KIDS ARE DOING MAGNIFICENT, AMAZING THINGS AND WE DON'T MEASURE THOSE THINGS AS PART OF OUR ACCOUNTABILITY.
WE WE BELIEVE IN ACCOUNTABILITY.
THERE IS NO DISAGREEMENT ACROSS ANY OF THAT.
BUT OUR KIDS ARE MORE THAN THAT.
AND OUR KIDS SHOW UP EVERY DAY FOR THE THINGS THAT THEY BECOME PASSIONATE ABOUT.
AND SO THERE IS A VIDEO LINKED IN HERE.
AND I MEAN IF THAT'S OKAY WITH THE GROUP.
YEAH, IT'S A REALLY GOOD VIDEO HI, MY NAME IS YOUCEF DADDI.
I'M A SENIOR AT PLANO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL AND I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT MY PLANO ISD JOURNEY.
BECAUSE OF WHAT PLANO HAS TO OFFER FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS, I'VE BEEN A CADET IN THE PLANO WILDCAT BATTALION, AND I'M NOW HELPING TO LEAD THE BATTALION AS THE OPERATIONS AND TRAINING OFFICER.
NOW, WHAT YOU MAY NOTICE IS NEVER ONCE DID I MENTION MY TEST SCORES, MY SAT SCORES OR MY CLASS RANK, BECAUSE WHAT MATTERS IS NOT THE SCORES WE GET ON A TEST, BUT WHAT WE WORK SO HARD TO ACCOMPLISH.
I'M MORE THAN A SCORE, AND SO ARE YOU.
FOR THE FUTURE BELONGS NOT TO THOSE WHO DOUBT, BUT TO THOSE WHO DREAM.
WE HAVE SEVERAL OF THOSE THAT WE'RE HIGHLIGHTING ALONG THE WAY.
AND THAT MAKES ME SO VERY PROUD.
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BUT YEAH, OUR KIDS ARE MORE THAN A SCORE FOR SURE.SO PRIORITY FIVE IS TO PRESERVE LOCAL CONTROL.
AND WHO KNOWS BETTER HOW TO MANAGE A SCHOOL DISTRICT THAN THE PEOPLE WITHIN THE COMMUNITY.
AND THE BILLS THAT ARE RELATED TO LOCAL CONTROL THAT I WILL POINT OUT AND FEEL FREE IF YOU KNOW ANY MORE, THAT I'VE OMITTED PARENT INVOLVEMENT AND SCHOOL CHOICE THAT HAS TO DO WITH SENATE BILL EIGHT.
IT RESTATES THE PARENT RIGHTS THAT ALREADY EXIST IN SCHOOL DISTRICTS POLICIES AND IT DOES ESTABLISH AN ESA OR A VOUCHER OF $8,000 PER FAMILY FOR PER STUDENT.
AND IT DOES THAT IN REIMBURSEMENT TO SMALLER DISTRICTS OVER FIVE YEARS.
THERE'S A THERE'S A SENATE BILL 946, WHICH HAS TO DO WITH ELECTIONS.
CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT, DAVID? WHEN DID WE PASS DISTRICT OF INVASION? WAS THAT 2015? I CAN'T REMEMBER. ANYWAY, HOUSE BILL 2546 IS TRYING TO TAKE AWAY THE LOCAL CONTROL OF SCHOOL START DATE AND IT HAS TO DO WITH THE LOBBY FOR ALL OF THE VACATIONING INDIVIDUALS, HOTELS, TRAVEL INDUSTRY, ALL OF THAT. AND THEY YOU KNOW, I ALWAYS SAY PUT YOUR EDUCATION BEFORE YOUR VACATION.
BUT ANYWAY, THAT'S MY LITTLE PLUG.
OKAY. AND THEN FINALLY, LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY, SENATE BILL 175 AND HOUSE BILL 3538 AND SENATE BILL 425 ARE WANTING TO PRECLUDE THE FUNDING FOR ADVOCACY GROUPS THAT ASSIST TRUSTEES IN THEIR ROLE IN ADVOCACY.
AND I WILL POINT OUT THAT OUR ROLE OF ADVOCACY IS REQUIRED BY THE TEA AND IT I WILL SAY THAT TASB FOR SOME REASON HAS TAKEN A LOT OF HEAT NOW, BUT IT PROVIDES A LOT OF SERVICES.
AND WHAT'S IRONIC ABOUT SENATE BILL 175 IS IT INCLUDES PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THAT PRECLUSION OF SPENDING ON ADVOCACY GROUPS.
HOWEVER, CHARTER SCHOOLS ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THAT.
SO, YOU KNOW, WE TALK ABOUT UNLEVEL PLAYING FIELD SOMETIMES, AND THERE'S ONE I CAN POINT OUT.
ALL RIGHT, THIS WHERE DO WE WANT TO GO WITH THIS, LISA? WE HAD A LOT OF OTHER BILLS.
I TELL YOU WHAT, YOU GO THROUGH HOUSE BILL 100.
I'M NOT GOING TO JUST READ THROUGH ALL OF THESE.
THESE ARE ALL OF THE MAIN POINTS WITH HB 100.
I WILL SAY THAT THIS IS THE ONLY SCHOOL FINANCE BILL THAT'S OUT THERE.
THERE'S NOT ANYTHING ON THE SENATE SIDE.
AND SO THIS WILL ACTUALLY GO THROUGH.
IT'LL GET APPROVED. IT'LL GO OVER TO THE SENATE SIDE.
I THINK THAT IT'LL GO THROUGH THE SENATE SIDE, TOO.
BUT THERE'LL BE A LOT OF THERE'S A LOT OF SPECULATION ABOUT WHAT WILL BE HELD HOSTAGE ON THIS ON THIS PARTICULAR BILL, SINCE IT IS ONE IT IS THE ONLY FINANCE BILL GOING THROUGH.
TYRA MENTIONED, I MEAN, THERE'S $90, ABOUT $4.5 MILLION FROM THE THE BASIC ALLOTMENT INCREASE.
AND THEN, OF COURSE, THAT GOES UP TO $50 PER BASIC ALLOTMENT FOR THE SECOND YEAR OF THE BIENNIUM.
BUT THERE ARE SOME OTHER INCREASES OUT OF THIS.
THERE'S ALSO SOME ADDITIONAL ALLOTMENTS HERE, LIKE AN ADVANCED MATH, A REALLY BIG FINE ARTS RIGHT THERE, A 0.0008 PER ADA FOR FINE ARTS, WHICH AT LEAST IS A HEY, IT'S A IT'S A START.
SO THERE ARE SOME GOOD COMPONENTS OF THIS BILL.
IT WON'T YIELD THAT $20 MILLION THAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THAT WE KIND OF THOUGHT MIGHT HAPPEN.
NOT QUITE. NOT QUITE CLOSE, BUT NO CIGAR.
OTHER BILLS OF CONCERN AND THEN HOUSE BILL 2.
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DO YOU WANT TO TAKE THAT ONE ON SINCE IT'S GOT A LOT OF BULLET ITEMS UNDER IT? I THINK THIS IS I MEAN, OF COURSE, THIS WILL REQUIRE AN ELECTION IN IN NOVEMBER OR I GUESS.NO, NO, IT'LL BE IN NOVEMBER WHEN THIS WILL GO BEFORE EVERYBODY TO VOTE FOR.
OBVIOUSLY, IT'S TAX RELIEF, SO I'M ASSUMING IT'LL PASS.
SCARY PART ABOUT THIS BILL FROM A SCHOOL STANDPOINT IS THE EFFECT, LONG TERM EFFECT THAT IT'LL HAVE ON THE I&S TAX RATE, BECAUSE NOT ONLY ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT RESIDENTIAL, BUT YOU'RE ALSO TALKING ABOUT A CAP 5% ALL THE WAY UP TO 10%, I'M SORRY, FROM 10% DOWN TO 5%.
IN THE STATE OF TEXAS, ABOUT 90% OF THE VALUE IS IN REAL PROPERTY.
SO IT SAYS 5% FOR ALL REAL PROPERTY, WHICH MEANS JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING WILL BE CAPPED WITH GROWTH AND THE ENTITIES, THERE ARE ENTITIES THAT DEPEND ON THAT GROWTH TO ACTUALLY TO FUND INFRASTRUCTURE AHEAD OF GROWTH.
AND SO YOU'VE GOT THE GROWTH COMING.
AND THEN FOR DISTRICTS LIKE US, YOU'LL HAVE THE PROPENSITY FOR THE URGE.
YOU'LL YOU'LL SEE I&S RATES PROBABLY GO UP AS A RESULT OF THAT.
RIGHT. UM, CAN I ASK A CLARIFYING QUESTION? SORRY. I KNOW WE'RE SUPPOSED TO SAVE OUR QUESTIONS TILL THE END, BUT THIS IS VERY DENSE PRESENTATION WITH A LOT OF GOOD INFORMATION.
SO APOLOGIES FOR BREAKING THE RULES.
IS THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY INCLUDED IN THAT IN THAT COMMERCIAL REAL PROPERTY VALUE? I KNOW A LOT OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS, PARTICULARLY, YOU KNOW, IN THE PERMIAN, HAVE A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF THEIR REVENUE TIED UP IN IN OIL AND GAS.
THAT'S A REALLY GOOD QUESTION.
AND BECAUSE I'M NOT 100% SURE OF THE ANSWER, I'M NOT GOING TO I'LL SAY I'M NOT 100% SURE.
ALL RIGHT. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THIS DENSE SLIDE? ALL RIGHTY. SO I THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE A GREAT PICTURE FOR SOMEONE IN THE AUDIENCE TO TAKE ON THEIR PHONE BECAUSE IT'S A WAY FOR YOU TO REACH OUT TO YOUR LEGISLATORS.
AND SO THESE ARE THE SEVEN LEGISLATORS THAT REPRESENT PLANO ISD.
AND SO YOU'LL SEE THAT LITTLE PERCENTAGE NUMBER UNDER EACH ONE OF THEM.
SO, FOR INSTANCE, SENATOR ANGELA PAXTON IN SENATE DISTRICT EIGHT, SHE REPRESENTS 74% OF PLANO ISD.
AND THEN SENATOR BOB HALL REPRESENTS THE BALANCE OF THAT AND HE'S IN SENATE DISTRICT TWO.
AND THEN ALSO CONTACT YOUR COMMITTEE CHAIRS.
THESE ARE THE TWO COMMITTEE CHAIRS FOR IN THE SENATE.
SENATE DISTRICT FOUR IS CHAIR OF THE EDUCATION COMMITTEE, WHICH ALSO INCLUDES HIGHER ED, SO IT'S PUB ED AND HIGHER ED IN ONE COMMITTEE THAT THEY'VE THEY'VE DONE THAT THIS YEAR OR THIS BIENNIUM.
AND SO THOSE ARE THEIR INDIVIDUAL EMAIL ADDRESSES AND PHONE NUMBERS.
AND SO IF YOU FEEL STRONGLY OR PASSIONATELY ABOUT AN ISSUE SUCH AS EDUCATION, SAVINGS ACCOUNTS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, YOU'RE FREE TO VOICE YOUR OPINION AND YOU ARE LOGGED IN AS HAVING GIVEN YOUR OPINION.
SO THEY THEY WANT TO HEAR FROM THEIR CONSTITUENTS AND THEY DO RESPOND.
ALL RIGHT. I WILL SAY, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? BECAUSE I KNOW I HOGGED THE MIC AND I'M VERY SORRY, BUT WE'VE BEEN BUSY.
WE'VE BEEN BUSY THE LAST FEW MONTHS.
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AND SO I REALLY APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT YOU DO TIRELESSLY ON BEHALF OF PLANO ISD STUDENTS, STAFF AND AND STUDENTS IN TEXAS.SO I WANT TO GIVE A SPECIAL SHOUT OUT TO OUR COMMUNICATIONS TEAM.
SO THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF HANDS ON DECK.
ALL RIGHT. OTHER QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT. THANKS.
BEFORE YOU. BEFORE WE ADJOURN.
YOU CAN EITHER A LEAVE THESE FOR TOMORROW AND WE'LL HAND THEM BACK OUT OR TAKE THEM HOME.
BUT PLEASE BRING THEM BACK TOMORROW BEFORE.
THANKS. IF THERE IS NO FURTHER BUSINESS OR ANY OBJECTIONS FROM THE BOARD, THE MEETING IS ADJOURNED.
ON TUESDAY, APRIL 18TH.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.