Feb 27, 2024 Board Work Session

AND LIKE I USED TO KNOW.

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ARE Y'ALL READY? YEP.

I'M GOING. GOOD EVENING.

[1. CALL TO ORDER]

NOTING THAT A QUORUM IS PRESENT, I CALL TO ORDER THIS WORK SESSION OF THE PLANO ISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES AT 6 P.M.

ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH, 2024.

ON THE BOARD'S BEHALF, I WISH TO WELCOME OUR VIEWERS AND ALL WHO ARE PRESENT WITH US THIS EVENING.

AT THIS TIME, I ASK SUPERINTENDENT WILLIAMS TO VERIFY THAT WE ARE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT REGARDING NOTICE FOR THIS MEETING.

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

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU.

I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE MY FELLOW TRUSTEES AND STAFF SEATED AT THE DAIS TO MY LEFT, SUPERINTENDENT DR.

THERESA WILLIAMS, DR.

LINDA FREEMAN, DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT FOR LEADERSHIP AND OPERATIONS.

BOARD SECRETARY.

JERI CHAMBERS, TRUSTEE TARRAH LANTZ, TRUSTEE KATHERINE GOODWIN.

AND TRUSTEE MICHAEL COOK.

SEATED TO MY RIGHT, VICE PRESIDENT DR.

LAUREN TYRA. I THINK ANGELA POWELL IS ON HER WAY.

SO SHE'LL BE HERE SHORTLY.

JOHNNY HILL, DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT FOR BUSINESS AND EMPLOYEE SERVICES.

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

DR. PATRICK TANNER, ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT FOR TECHNOLOGY SERVICES.

DR. COURTNEY GOBER, MAN, I CAN'T TALK.

ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT FOR STUDENT, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES DANNY STOCKTON, CHIEF OF STAFF.

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

THERE'S ANGELA AT WORK SESSIONS.

WE'LL MOVE INTO ITEM TWO PUBLIC COMMENT SESSION.

AT WORK SESSIONS THE BOARD PERMITS PUBLIC COMMENT REGARDING AGENDA ITEMS ONLY.

DR. FREEMAN, DO WE HAVE ANY SPEAKERS REGARDING AGENDA ITEMS? PRESIDENT HUMPHREY WE DO NOT HAVE ANY SPEAKERS THIS EVENING.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU.

SO WE WILL MOVE TO ITEM THREE WHICH IS OUR CLOSED SESSION.

[3. CLOSED SESSION]

SECTIONS 551.071, 551.072 AND 551.

129, AND THE TIME IS 6:02 P.M..

ALL RIGHT, WE'RE AT ITEM FOUR.

[4. RECONVENE OPEN SESSION]

AND WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM 5.1 REPORTS AND THE DEMOGRAPHIC REPORT.

[5. REPORTS]

ALL RIGHT. WELL, I NOTICED HE'S ALREADY HEADED UP THIS WAY.

AND SO WE'VE GOT ROCKY GARDNER WITH US TONIGHT WHO IS A PRINCIPAL OWNER OF USED TO BE TEMPLETON DEMOGRAPHICS NOW ZONDA EDUCATIONAL DEMOGRAPHICS.

SO I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO ROCKY.

HE'S GOING TO GO THROUGH OUR ANNUAL REPORT, AND THEN WE'LL OPEN IT UP FOR ANY KIND OF DISCUSSION YOU GUYS MIGHT WANT TO HAVE ROCKY.

THANK YOU, MR. HILL. IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE BACK.

BOARD DR.

WILLIAMS, IT'S GOOD TO SEE EVERYBODY.

ONE CORRECTION, I DON'T REALLY HAVE OWNERSHIP IN ZONDA ANYMORE, BUT.

SO THAT'S WHY I'M STILL HERE, I THINK.

RIGHT. SO, YEAH, I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH THIS.

THIS IS A FOURTH QUARTER REPORT.

SO THE RESEARCH AND DATA RESEARCH BEGAN, YOU KNOW, IN LIKE OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER.

THAT'S WHEN THEY WERE DOING THE REPORT.

THEY CLOSED IT OUT IN DECEMBER.

THE HOUSING DATA TAKES ABOUT 4 OR 5 WEEKS TO COME OUT.

SO THAT'S WHY WE KIND OF DELIVERED THIS IN FEBRUARY.

SO JUST TO KIND OF GIVE YOU A HEADS UP ON THE TIMING OF THINGS, BECAUSE I MIGHT MENTION THAT IN A FEW SLIDES.

FIRST OF ALL, I JUST WANT TO START OUT WITH, YOU KNOW, DALLAS FORT WORTH IS THE HOTTEST HOUSING MARKET IN THE COUNTRY.

SO WE'RE NUMBER ONE, FOLLOWED BY HOUSTON.

AND REALLY, IF YOU LOOK AT NUMBER THREE THERE THOSE NEXT THREE, FOUR AND FIVE TOGETHER ALMOST AREN'T STARTING AS MANY HOMES AS WE ARE IN DALLAS FORT WORTH.

SO DALLAS FORT WORTH, EVEN THOUGH STARTS HAVE BEEN DOWN, IS NUMBER ONE.

I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND.

THAT'S NOT NECESSARILY TRANSITIONING TO STUDENTS IN PLANO.

WE'LL TALK SOME ABOUT THAT, BUT IT IS THE MARKET AND ABSORPTION RATES ARE STRONG.

THESE NEXT COUPLE OF CHARTS ARE NEW.

WE FINALLY OUR RESEARCH TEAM DECIDED WE NEED TO GET SOME MORE IN DIFFERENT INFORMATION.

THIS IS A COMBINATION OF DATA THAT WE PUT TOGETHER FROM AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY, WHICH IS WHAT THE CENSUS BUREAU USES FOR.

THEY USED TO HAVE A LONG FORM WHERE THEY ASKED ALL KINDS OF QUESTIONS BACK IN THE DAY, AND THEY STOPPED USING THE LONG FORM, AND THEY STARTED THIS ACS.

I DON'T KNOW THAT I LOVE IT.

ACS IS ONLY 3.5 MILLION PEOPLE SURVEYED IN THE WHOLE COUNTRY ALL YEAR, AND THAT BECOMES STATISTICALLY VALID.

SO THAT'S WHERE SOME OF THE CHALLENGES ARE.

THERE'S A MARGIN OF ERROR, BUT YOU CAN SEE A FEW THINGS THERE.

THE OVERALL POPULATION OF PLANO 367,000.

I THOUGHT THE BREAKDOWN OF BY GENERATIONS WAS INTERESTING.

25.3% OF YOUR POPULATION IS MILLENNIAL WHICH IS, I THINK, WHERE A LOT OF OUR STUDENTS ARE GOING TO COME FROM THE MILLENNIAL POPULATION RIGHT NOW, THE BABY BOOMERS WHERE

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THOSE TOP THREE ARE NOT GENERATING AS MANY STUDENTS.

AND THAT LAST THOSE LAST COUPLE ALSO ARE NOT GENERATING STUDENTS YET.

RIGHT. SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE KIND OF KEEPING AN EYE ON THERE.

NOW, WE DID USE SOME OF THIS DATA TO CREATE WHAT WE'RE CALLING CAPTURE RATE SLIDES.

AND WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO UNDERSTAND IS WE KNOW, ESPECIALLY SINCE CENSUS, THAT WE'RE NOT NECESSARILY CAPTURING ALL THE STUDENTS IN THE DISTRICT.

WE NEVER HAVE. THERE'S ALWAYS BEEN A PRIVATE SCHOOL IMPACT, CHARTER SCHOOL IMPACTS.

SO THIS IS ACS DATA BY AGE.

AND THEN WE COMPARE IT TO WHAT PLANO'S ENROLLMENT WAS IN THAT SAME SCHOOL YEAR.

SO WE'RE SHOWING THAT A 72% CAPTURE RATE, YOU KNOW, IN 2020 AT THE TIME OF THE CENSUS, THAT IT COULD BE DOWN NOW TO ABOUT 68%.

I THINK THERE'S A PLUS OR MINUS IN THE ACS DATA OF ABOUT 5% IN THE ACS DATA.

NOW, THE SCHOOL AGE POPULATION, I MEAN, THE PISD ENROLLMENT, THERE'S NOT A PLUS OR MINUS THERE.

THAT'S YOUR ACTUAL ENROLLMENT.

BUT UNDERSTANDING THAT WE HAVE SEEN SOME DECLINES THERE AT THE AGE 15 TO 19, THAT IS LIKELY I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S A PART OF IT'S A THEY'RE LEAVING POSSIBLY FOR PRIVATE SCHOOL.

BUT IF WE SEE SOME SLIDES LATER IN CHARTER SCHOOLS, BUT YOU'LL SEE MY SLIDES LATER WHERE OUR COHORT SURVIVAL OR SURVIVAL RATES ARE DISPLAYED.

AND SOME OF THOSE ARE AT THAT 97, 98%, WHICH MEANS NOT EVERY SEVENTH GRADER IS BECOMING AN EIGHTH GRADER.

SO WE'LL KIND OF TALK MORE ABOUT THAT.

SO THAT DECLINING CAPTURE RATE IS SOMETHING WE'RE SEEING ACROSS THE STATE.

IT'S NOT A UNIQUE TO PLANO THING AT ALL.

YOU KNOW, IT'S REALLY IS A KIND OF A MAYBE A SINCE COVID THING A LITTLE BIT WITH SOME DECISIONS.

ONE THING THAT WE WISH WE KNEW A LOT MORE ABOUT IS HOME SCHOOLING.

IT'S STILL VERY THERE'S NO DATA RELEASED ON HOME SCHOOLING.

AND I THINK MAYBE SOMEDAY THERE WILL AS THE STATE ADDS REQUIREMENTS TO IT.

I THINK WE MIGHT SEE THAT, BUT RIGHT NOW WE'RE NOT.

SO AGAIN, DFW HOME STARTS 46,273 CLOSINGS 43,311 STARTS.

THAT'S ANNUALIZED.

SO OVER A TRAILING 12 MONTHS.

YOU CAN SEE THERE THAT THEY'RE BEGINNING TO CONVERGE AGAIN.

WE THOUGHT THE STARTS WOULD GO UP.

INSTEAD THEY KIND OF WENT DOWN A LITTLE BIT THIS QUARTER.

SO THEY'RE WE THOUGHT MAYBE IT MIGHT CONVERGE UP AROUND 46 47,000.

AND IT LOOKS LIKE NOW IT'S GOING TO BE DOWN AROUND 45,000 IN PLANO.

THE HOME SALES.

SO THIS IS BASED ON DEED TRANSACTIONS.

WE STARTED TRACKING THIS A FEW YEARS AGO.

THESE ARE ACTUAL DEED TRANSACTIONS FOR PLANO ISD.

YOU CAN SEE THAT THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS TURNOVER HAS BEEN A LITTLE LOW.

THE 3,959 HOMES, THESE ARE BOTH EXISTING AND NEW.

NOW WE THINK WHAT'S HAPPENED HERE OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS WITH INTEREST RATES GOING UP.

SO PEOPLE ARE KIND OF HUNKERED DOWN.

SO IT'S CAUSING PROBLEMS ACROSS THE BOARD.

WE'RE NOT GETTING NEW. PEOPLE ARE NOT MOVING.

SO WE'RE NOT GETTING THOSE HOMES.

THEY'RE NOT REGENERATING.

AND OF COURSE FROM A BUILDER PERSPECTIVE, THEY'RE NOT GETTING THOSE MOVE UP BUYERS JUST YET EITHER.

IF WE LOOK AT THEM. BUT WE ARE SEEING VALUATIONS EXTEND.

WE SEE THE NEW HOME VALUES ARE NOW AT 800,000 IN PLANO.

I THINK THAT'S A LITTLE HIGH IN 2023.

AND THAT USUALLY GETS IT THEY'LL BRING IT DOWN A LITTLE BIT AFTER A LITTLE BIT OF TIME BECAUSE IT'S STILL SO NEW.

THOSE TRANSACTIONS ARE SO NEW.

YOU'LL PROBABLY SETTLE IN AROUND 750.

BUT THAT'S STILL STRONG GROWTH FROM 376 BACK IN 2010.

589,000 FOR AN EXISTING HOME.

IF YOU REMEMBER, ON THE SLIDE BACK AT THE FRONT WHERE THEY SAID THE AVERAGE I THINK HOME VALUE IN PLANO WAS I THINK $415,000.

THAT'S A BIG DIFFERENCE.

KEEP IN MIND ONE IS HOME VALUE AND ONE IS HOME SALES PRICE, AND THAT'S QUITE A BIT DIFFERENT.

I LOOKED ON ZILLOW TODAY, JUST KIND OF DID A QUICK GOOGLE SEARCH OF HOME VALUES IN PLANO ISD.

AND ZILLOW SAID $505,000.

SO THERE'S OBVIOUSLY A PRETTY BIG RANGE THERE.

IF WE LOOK AT HOME STARTS AND CLOSINGS IN PLANO 188 IN THE LAST YEAR, YOU CAN SEE STARTS ARE TRAILING CLOSINGS BY ALMOST 100, 279 CLOSINGS.

INVENTORY. THAT'S HOMES THAT ARE UNDER CONSTRUCTION OR FINISHED.

BUT VACANT IS 202.

AND WE STILL GOT 854 VDL.

SO WE HAVE A LOT OF VACANT DEVELOPED LOTS OUT THERE THAT CAN STILL BE DEVELOPED.

YOU KNOW, IF WE STAY ON PACE FOR 2 TO 300 PER YEAR, ALTHOUGH I THINK WE'RE NOT GOING TO DO QUITE THAT FOR A LITTLE WHILE.

AND OF COURSE WE HAVE A LOT OF FUTURES OUT THERE THAT WE'LL TALK ABOUT AS WELL.

LAST QUARTER.

THE LAST TWO QUARTERS, 79 STARTS, 69 STARTS, THAT WAS A PRETTY GOOD LITTLE THIRD AND FOURTH QUARTER CLOSINGS ARE STAYING RIGHT UP AT 279.

BUT AS YOU CAN SEE, IF WE ONLY START 188 HOMES, WE CAN'T CLOSE TO 279.

SO I THINK THERE'S A PRETTY GOOD CHANCE THAT YOUR CLOSINGS NEXT YEAR COULD DROP BELOW, COULD DROP INTO THAT MID 200 OR LOW TWO HUNDREDS POSSIBLY WHEN IT'S ALL SAID

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THESE ARE THE LITTLE GREEN POLYGONS.

SO IN SOME CASES BIG POLYGONS.

AND WE GOT 35 FUTURE SUBDIVISIONS.

SO THE FUTURE ONES ARE IN VARIOUS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT.

THERE'S GROUNDWORK UNDERWAY IN 120 LOTS.

WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT IT'S GOING FROM A FUTURE LOT TO A VACANT DEVELOP LOT.

SO THOSE WILL GET DELIVERED THIS SUMMER.

SO WE DO HAVE SOME ACTIVITY.

IT'S A DIFFERENT PRODUCT THAN WHAT WE WERE SEEING TEN YEARS AGO IN PLANO.

YOU KNOW, THESE ARE A LOT MORE DENSE HOMES, A LOT OF TOWNHOME PRODUCTS.

SO IT'S CERTAINLY A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT THAN WHAT WE USED TO SEE.

SO QUICK QUESTION ABOUT THAT.

YEAH. YOU'VE GOT THE GREEN IS ACTIVE AND THE RED OUTLINE IS GROUNDWORK UNDERWAY.

AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE VERY FAR RIGHT TOP IN THE HUNT NEIGHBORHOOD, IT HAS BOTH IT'S GREEN OUTLINED IN RED.

CAN YOU EXPLAIN. SO WHAT HAPPENS THERE THEY HAVE FUTURE PHASES.

SO THEY'VE BEGUN WORK ON A FUTURE PHASE OUT THERE OKAY.

YES. THANK YOU.

I SHOULD HAVE MENTIONED THAT. MAY I ALSO ASK A QUICK QUESTION? I'M PRESUMING THAT DOOLEY ON THAT SLIDE IS NOT INTENDED TO BE ENTIRELY UNDER ACTIVE IT.

I'M SORRY. IF YOU LOOK AT DOOLEY ELEMENTARY, THE COLOR FOR IT IS VERY SIMILAR TO ACTIVE.

OH. OH YEAH.

YEAH. IT DOES LOOK LIKE. NO, YOU'RE RIGHT.

THAT'S OKAY. I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

YEAH. OUR SYSTEM THAT DOES THE MAPS, IT PICKS THE COLORS FOR US.

AND IT'S A FRUSTRATING THING WHEN THEY, THEY CAN'T SEEM TO FIGURE OUT THE TECHNOLOGY.

RESTORE THE GRASSLANDS ADDITION.

THIS IS ONE THING THAT'S NEW TO US.

WE GOT AN EMAIL ON IT A FEW WEEKS BACK.

WANTED TO DO A LITTLE RESEARCH.

THEY THOUGHT MAYBE THIS WAS POTENTIAL.

WAS THAT [INAUDIBLE] THERE.

IT'S STILL OWNED BY THE RESTORE GRASSLANDS, LLC.

THE PERMIT FOR WATER TREATMENT PLANT HAS BEEN, YOU KNOW, THAT HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR NO TIME FRAME FOR DEVELOPMENT ON THIS, BUT 666 LOTS.

THAT'S A REALLY DENSE THAT WOULD BE SOME REALLY DENSE PRODUCT.

I LOOKED RIGHT BELOW IT.

SO IT'S PROBABLY NOT GOING TO YIELD A LOT.

AND WE DON'T HAVE A TIME FRAME FOR IT.

TO DO ENROLLMENT FORECASTING WE USUALLY WAIT TILL WE AT LEAST HAVE A PLAT IN PLACE BEFORE WE ADD THEM TO THE FORECAST.

I CAN'T TELL YOU THAT HICKEY CAN HANDLE THE 666 HOMES THAT THEY YIELD FROM THAT.

I DON'T THINK THAT WOULD BE A PROBLEM.

OF COURSE, HUNT'S RIGHT THERE.

AND IF WE HAD TO MOVE IT BEFORE IT WAS EVEN STARTED, HUNT HAS PLENTY OF ROOM AS WELL.

ENVISION OAK POINT.

I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE HERE REMEMBERS I WAS HERE THE NIGHT ENVISION OAK POINT LAID OUT THEIR BIG PLAN.

HAS IT BEEN FIVE YEARS? I FEEL LIKE IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME AGO.

NOTHING'S COME FROM THAT YET.

NOW IT IS DEVELOPMENT THAT IT'S GOING TO BE THE WAY THEY HAD IT LAID OUT INITIALLY, OR THE WAY THE LAND IS LAID OUT.

IT'S IN THREE DIFFERENT ATTENDANCE ZONES.

RIGHT. SO THEY'VE GOT ABOUT 700 IN IF I GOT TO GET THEM ALL RIGHT.

NOW WE GOT MCCALL.

THAT KIND OF WRAPS AROUND THERE.

BARRON AND HICKEY.

RIGHT. SO THEY'RE ALL RIGHT THERE TOGETHER.

WE DON'T HAVE A TIME FRAME ON THAT.

THERE IS A ZONING BEING REVIEWED AND SO WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS THERE.

THEY MAY COME OUT WITH A NEW PLAT FOR THAT.

AGAIN I THINK THAT THOSE CAMPUSES CAN HANDLE THAT GROWTH WHEN IT BEGINS.

I ALSO LIKE TO MENTION THAT ON FUTURE GROWTH, IT'S USUALLY A TWO YEAR WINDOW FROM THE TIME THEY START MOVING DIRT UNTIL WE SEE THE FIRST HOME COMPLETED.

SEE LIKELY. SO WE'LL HAVE A REALLY GOOD WARNING.

YOU KNOW, IF WE DO HAVE AN ISSUE, I'M GONNA TRANSITION TO MULTIFAMILY 88.3% OCCUPANCY ACROSS THE BOARD IN DALLAS FORT WORTH, DOWN WELL BELOW WHAT THEY WOULD SAY IS WELL BELOW 90%.

NOW, THESE APARTMENT COMPLEXES, THEY'D LIKE TO BE IN THE 90 TO 93% OR HIGHER TO BE FULLY OCCUPIED.

THEY'RE HAVING SOME SOME CHALLENGES NOW.

SOME OF THAT IS THE ABSORPTION.

OVER 8000 UNITS WERE ABSORBED IN DALLAS FORT WORTH.

SO THAT'S GOING TO BRING DOWN THE OCCUPANCY ACROSS THE BOARD.

BUT WHAT YOU'RE ALSO SEEING THERE, YOU SEE THE GREEN AND ORANGE LINE.

YOU CAN SEE WHERE RENTS HAVE ALSO DECLINED SIGNIFICANTLY TOO.

SO SO WE'VE SEEN SOME RENTS COMING DOWN, DIFFERENT PRODUCTS BEING BUILT.

IT'S TAKING A LITTLE BIT LONGER.

IT'S REALLY NICE PRODUCT, A LOT MORE ONE BEDROOMS THAN THEY USED TO DO.

SO NOW MOST OF THESE ARE MAJORITY ONE BEDROOMS. SO WE'RE GOING TO YIELD MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH.

IS THAT GOOD THINGS. IT'LL YIELD LOWER STUDENTS.

WE'RE GOING TO SEE FEWER STUDENTS.

WE DO HAVE A FEW OF THESE.

YOU KNOW I SAID 5800 UNITS UNDER CONSTRUCTION RIGHT NOW.

THAT'S A LOT OF UNITS.

BUT IT'S GOING TO TAKE A LOT OF TIME.

THEY'RE NOT ALL GOING TO GET DONE IN ONE YEAR OKAY.

SO THEY'RE IT'S KIND OF A MOVING TARGET.

WE DID PUT A FEW OF THESE IN HERE.

BEACON SQUARE. SO THIS IS OVER IN JACKSON 1144 UNITS.

I LOOKED AT THE YIELDS OF THE APARTMENT COMPLEXES RIGHT AROUND THIS TO SEE WHAT THEY WERE YIELDING.

THEY'RE YIELDING ABOUT A 0.04.

SO THAT WOULD BE FOUR STUDENTS FOR EVERY 100 UNITS.

OKAY. AND THEY'RE NOT ALL GOING TO BE ELEMENTARY STUDENTS.

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IT'S JUST NOT GOING TO BE A LOT OF STUDENTS THERE.

POTENTIALLY, BUT THEY HAVE A LOT.

AND YOU CAN SEE IN THIS PICTURE ON THE LEFT WHAT WAS COMPLETED IN FEBRUARY OF 24.

THE REST OF THAT PROPERTY WILL STILL GET BUILT IN ORDER TO GET TO THAT 1100.

IT'S GOING TO IT'S GOING TO TAKE SEVERAL YEARS.

WE'VE GOT THE ANNABEL ASSEMBLY PARK.

THIS IS A SMALLER ONE, 304 UNITS.

I LIKE THAT IT'S HERE, THOUGH, BECAUSE IT'S ACTUALLY THAT AREA OF THE DISTRICT YIELDS QUITE A BIT HIGHER.

SO YOU COULD SEE MORE STUDENTS IN THIS ONE LITTLE DEVELOPMENT THAN WE WILL IN ALL OF THE PREVIOUS ONE, BECAUSE THEY'RE PROBABLY YIELDING ABOUT 0.25 OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT UP THERE. AND I DO HAVE A REPORT I SHARED WITH MR. HILL TODAY THAT KIND OF SHOWS THE YIELDS AND THE YIELD CHANGE THAT I THINK HE MAY HAVE SHARED OR HAS AVAILABLE.

SO WE CAN SEE YIELDS OVERALL.

SO WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO UNLESS THERE'S QUESTIONS WE CAN TAKE QUESTIONS LATER.

I'M GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT PROJECTIONS THIS YEAR.

THE SNAPSHOT. WE WERE 47,909 STUDENTS.

SO WE DECLINED ABOUT 929 STUDENTS.

THIS IS ABOUT 174 STUDENTS LOWER THAN WHAT I FORECASTED, ABOUT 0.4%.

SO YOU KNOW, I'M NOT I KNOW IT'S I WISH YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN ON THE OTHER SIDE OF IT.

BUT, YOU KNOW, MY TARGETS ALWAYS TO BE WITHIN 1% OVERALL AND 5% AT ANY INDIVIDUAL GRADE LEVEL.

SO I FELT PRETTY GOOD ABOUT IT.

UNFORTUNATELY, THE KINDERGARTEN DID NOT COME IN WHERE I'D HOPED IT WOULD, AND I THINK ALL YOUR ENROLLMENT IS DRIVEN BY IT'S ALL DRIVEN BY KINDERGARTEN.

IF YOUR KINDERGARTEN DOESN'T GET UP, WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET THE OTHER GRADES UP.

AND I LIKE TO SHOW THIS SLIDE WITH THE COHORTS, BECAUSE IF YOU LOOK AT THE BOTTOM, THOSE COHORTS ARE HOW MANY FIRST GRADERS BECOME SECOND GRADERS? THIRD BECOME FOURTH.

THAT'S KIND OF A CAPTURE RATE GOING FORWARD OR A PERCENTAGE.

LIKE FOR FIRST GRADE YOU CAN SEE THAT THIS YEAR THAT THEY HAD A 3.5% GROWTH.

SO A 3.5% GROWTH FROM KINDERGARTEN TO FIRST.

AND IF YOU LOOK AT YOUR ELEMENTARY OVERALL, WE'RE HOLDING ON TO STUDENTS ONCE WE GET THEM THEY'RE HERE, YOU KNOW, ONCE YOU GET THEM THEY'RE HERE.

AND THAT'S WHY I'M TALKING ABOUT THAT KINDERGARTEN CLASS.

IF IT GETS BACK UP TO, YOU KNOW, IT'S 3400 JUST PRE-COVID, THAT'S WHAT'S GOING TO DRIVE ENROLLMENT GOING FORWARD 15 YEARS FROM NOW, 20 YEARS FROM NOW, WHEN THAT STARTS TO BOUNCE BACK, WE'RE GOING TO SEE SOME CHANGES.

RIGHT NOW, THE CHALLENGE IS YOU HAVE 800 STUDENTS, 3800 STUDENTS LEAVING AND 3000 STUDENTS COMING IN SO THAT YOU'RE LOSING 700 BEFORE WE EVEN START.

AND THAT'S. SO YOU HAVE TO KEEP IN MIND THAT WE ARE WATCHING THAT AS WELL.

THE KINDERGARTEN CLASS IS WHAT I'M LOOKING AT NOW AFTER THIS YEAR.

I'M KIND OF I'M USING THAT 82% AS A CAPTURE RATE, IF YOU WILL.

WE'RE LOOKING AT THE BIRTH BY ZIP CODES BECAUSE THAT'S THE SMALLEST GEOGRAPHY THAT WE CAN FIND IT.

AND THEN WE'RE LOOKING FIVE YEARS LATER AT THEIR KINDERGARTEN ENROLLMENT.

AND THEN I'M USING THAT FOR MY FORECAST.

SO I DO THINK WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO SEE A LITTLE BIT OF A DIP IN KINDERGARTEN, SIMPLY BECAUSE THE BIRTHS HAVE DROPPED OFF.

YOU KNOW, WE WERE DOING 3800 BIRTHS BACK IN 2019, I THINK ALMOST 4000.

WE'RE DOWN TO 3500 IN 2020.

I THINK THE STATE WAS DOWN 10,000 IN 2020 BIRTHS OVERALL.

SO WE HAVE BEEN DECLINING NOT JUST IN PLANO BUT IN THE STATE.

WE'LL SEE IF IT'LL BEGIN TO COME BACK A LITTLE BIT.

SO WITH THAT, MY FORECAST IS ANOTHER DROP IN ENROLLMENT CONTINUED TO SEE DECLINES SIMPLY JUST BECAUSE OF THIS ATTRITION.

IF YOU LOOK AT THE OVERALL COHORTS FIRST, A SECOND, SECOND TO THIRD, AND YOU DID THAT MATH, I'M GROWING THE DISTRICT BY A COUPLE OF HUNDRED STUDENTS EACH YEAR.

BUT WE'RE LOSING IT BECAUSE OF THAT ATTRITION FOR THE MOST PART.

I'VE GOT SOME SLIDES WITH THESE CAMPUS.

I KNOW THESE ARE PRETTY SMALL HERE, BUT YOU CAN LOOK AT THOSE YOU CAN SEE THAT WE BEGIN TO SEE THE ELEMENTARY ENROLLMENT BEGINS TO GROW A LITTLE BIT IN ABOUT 6 OR 7 YEARS.

AND THAT'S FOR THE SAME REASON.

RIGHT NOW, YOU'VE GOT 3,500 5TH GRADERS AND 3000 KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS.

SO WE'RE LOSING 500 STUDENTS AT ELEMENTARY EACH YEAR AS WELL FOR THAT SAME REASON.

AGAIN, THIS THIS IS SHOWING YOUR HIGH SCHOOLS AND YOUR YOUR MIDDLE SCHOOL CAMPUSES, 43,079 STUDENTS IN 33, 34 SO TEN, TEN YEARS OUT, NEW HOME STARTS IN 2023, DROPPED BELOW TWO 200.

WE FINISHED THE YEAR WITH 279 CLOSINGS.

VDL SITS JUST OVER 850 HOMES.

SO THE HOMES ARE THERE AND THE BUILDERS ARE GOING TO KEEP YOU KNOW, THEY SEEM TO STILL WANT TO BUILD THEM.

THERE'S GOING TO BE A DIFFERENT PRODUCT, A LOT OF TOWNHOMES THE 35 FUTURE SUBDIVISION WITH 4000 LOTS, 28 LESS WITH LESS THAN 100.

THAT NUMBER IS ACTUALLY A LITTLE DIFFERENT SINCE WE DID THE INITIAL RESEARCH BECAUSE I ADDED THAT GRASSLANDS.

SO THERE'S EIGHT.

SO I THINK I GOT A QUESTION ABOUT THAT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE HOW MANY THAT WERE OVER 100.

FOR ONE THING, WE USE THE VISION OAKS.

WHAT I JUST LOST TRACK OF THE NAME.

THANK YOU. YES, I USED THAT THREE TIMES BECAUSE THEY HAVE IN THREE DIFFERENT ATTENDANCE ZONE.

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SO THAT IS ACTUALLY USED THREE TIMES.

AND SO WE HAVE LIKE EIGHT THAT ARE HAVE A LITTLE OVER 100 HOMES.

SO WE THINK THAT YOUR FORECAST SEES CONTINUED DECLINES IN LARGE 12TH GRADE CLASSES EXIT.

IT'S ALL GOING TO BE ABOUT KINDERGARTEN GOING FORWARD.

YOUR JUMP IN PRE-K THIS YEAR IS ENCOURAGING I THINK THOUGH A LITTLE BIT, BECAUSE THEN THAT'S WE HOPE WE CAN TRANSITION THOSE TO KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS AS WELL.

THAT WAS ALL A LOT I KNOW.

I'M HAPPY TO TALK.

YES, SIR.

PAINFUL QUESTIONS.

ON CAN YOU GO BACK TO SLIDE FOUR FOR ME ON SLIDE FOUR DO YOU HAPPEN TO KNOW THE CHANGES BY AGE COHORT THERE? DO YOU KNOW IF THAT PERCENTAGE IS THE SAME OR SIMILAR ACROSS COHORTS, OR IS IT DIFFERENT BY COHORTS? SO THE CAPTURE. SO REALLY IT'S.

YEAH. SO WE'VE GOT ABOUT SAY 70% CAPTURE RATE.

SO WE HAVE 30% GOING SOMEWHERE ELSE RIGHT.

YEAH. WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS BECAUSE WE USE THE OVERALL ENROLLMENT FOR THAT.

SO WE DON'T WE COULD BREAK WE COULD TECHNICALLY BREAK YOUR THAT DOWN.

THAT WOULD BE KIND OF INTERESTING.

BECAUSE WE COULD GET WE HAVE IT WE DO IT BY GRADE.

SO LIKE WE COULD DO LIKE KINDERGARTEN THROUGH FIFTH GRADE I GUESS WOULD BE 5 TO 9.

SO I COULD LOOK AT SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND SHARE IT WITH JOHNNY.

I'M SORRY, SORRY, SORRY.

MY FAULT. I KNOW YOU MENTIONED, LIKE, ONCE WE GET THEM, WE KEEP THEM.

I JUST WANT TO SEE IF THAT SORT OF BORN OUT IN THE DATA OR IF WE'RE SEEING SORT OF JUST VARIANCES THERE, RIGHT? YES. YES, SIR.

ALSO, DO YOU HAPPEN TO HAVE A LONGER HISTORY OF THIS? YOU'RE SHOWING THAT 2023 TO 2020, I'M WONDERING, IS THERE IS THIS A TREND OF WE WERE AT 80 IN LIKE 2010 AND NOW WE'RE AT 67.

OH CAPTURE RATE? YEAH. NO, WE DON'T HAVE A TREND FOR THAT BECAUSE WE WELL WE DON'T HAVE A WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO FIND A 2010 NUMBER IF.

OKAY. IF I USE THE 2010 CENSUS.

OH, IT MIGHT BE SOMETHING WE COULD WE COULD LOOK AT THAT 2010 CAPTURE RATE.

SEE HOW THAT COMPARES? I'M SURE IT'LL BE HIGHER FOR SURE.

I'M JUST CURIOUS IF IT'S LIKE 80% OR IF IT'S LIKE 73, JUST TO UNDERSTAND SORT OF IF IT'S A SOMETHING THAT'S MORE DRASTIC OR DIFFERENT.

AND THEN THE LAST THING IS, AND I KNOW YOU DIDN'T HAVE ANY OF THIS DATA, BUT DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING ON THE SPECIFIC LIKE RACE OR LANGUAGE OR SPOKEN OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT AROUND THE PERCENTAGES OF THE KIDS THAT ARE SORT OF HERE TODAY VERSUS WHERE YOU'RE PROJECTING TOMORROW.

WE DO NOT PROJECT BY RACE, ETHNICITY OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

NOW, WE I MEAN, THE DISTRICT HAS IT HAS THE DATA.

SO WE HAVE HISTORICAL INFORMATION ON IT, BUT WE DON'T REALLY HAVE ANYTHING THAT WE PROJECT THAT WAY.

OKAY. THANKS.

YES, SIR. I'LL START BY SAYING, JUST THANK YOU FOR THE EXTRA INFORMATION.

I KNOW WE SUBMITTED A BUNCH OF QUESTIONS AHEAD OF TIME.

I KNOW STRESSES YOU OUT, BUT LIKE, I WOKE UP AT 3:00 IN THE MORNING SUNDAY MORNING AFTER DOING PACKET REVIEW ON SATURDAY STRESSED OUT ABOUT THIS TOO.

YOU TOUCHED ON THE BIRTH RATE JUST A LITTLE BIT, AND I WAS HOPING WE COULD EXPAND ON THAT JUST A BIT.

YOU KNOW, THAT IT WENT UP 2% STATEWIDE LAST YEAR.

BIRTH RATE. BIRTH RATE DID.

AND IT WAS VARIABLE AMONG DEMOGRAPHICS.

AND I HAVE NOT SEEN WHETHER IT HAS BEEN VARIABLE AMONG LIKE REGION, LIKE IF IT'S A REGIONAL VARIABILITY OR IF IT'S NOT.

AND SO I'M CURIOUS SORT OF WHAT YOUR THOUGHTS ARE AND IF WE SHOULD EXPECT TO SEE A BUMP FROM THIS BIRTH RATE CHANGE OR IF MOST OF THAT IS CONCENTRATED, FOR EXAMPLE, IN SOUTH TEXAS, BECAUSE OF COURSE AMONG LATINOS IT WENT UP 5%, WHEREAS STATEWIDE IT WAS 2%.

I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND, SHOULD WE BE THINKING ABOUT HOW MUCH THAT WILL IMPACT US OR NOT? YEAH, I'M NOT REAL SURE.

I'M JUST NOT REAL SURE. WE ONLY GET THE LIKE THE SINGLE NUMBER BY ZIP CODE.

SO OF COURSE.

YEAH. 23 DATA WILL BE COMING OUT IN ABOUT, I THINK IT GETS CLOSER TO SUMMER BEFORE THE 23 DATA COMES OUT.

THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.

I DON'T KNOW, IT'LL BE A SIGNIFICANT JUMP HERE, BUT I THINK IT SHOULD TREND WITH THAT 2%.

I WOULD SAY, YOU KNOW, BUT I'M NOT REAL SURE.

OKAY. I HAD TWO OTHER QUESTIONS.

ONE SORT OF LOOKING AT DATA.

AND OF COURSE WE'RE DOING THE FACILITY WORK THIS YEAR.

AND SO I'M TRYING TO THINK ABOUT WHAT WHAT WE MAY BE INTERESTED IN SEEING IN ORDER TO COMFORTABLY MAKE SOME DECISIONS POTENTIALLY ON THE FACILITIES.

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SO LIKE AS YOU TALKED ABOUT THESE APARTMENTS AND THE JACKSON APARTMENTS HAVE, YOU KNOW, 0.04 YIELD.

AND THEN THE OTHER SET OF APARTMENTS, YOU EXPECT TO HAVE A 0.25 YIELD.

UNDERSTANDING YIELD TRENDS BY ZONE OVER TIME WOULD BE VERY VERY HELPFUL.

THE OTHER THING I'VE WONDERED A LOT ABOUT, AND I WONDER IF THERE'S ANY WAY YOU CAN START LOOKING AT THIS AS REGENERATION.

AND HOW DO YOU HOW CAN WE BUILD A MODEL TO QUANTIFY THAT.

RIGHT. AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS I'VE THOUGHT ABOUT IS IF IT'S POSSIBLE TO LIKE TAKE A NEIGHBORHOOD AND UNDERSTAND HOW MANY HOUSES IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD HAVE SOLD IN THE LAST 15 YEARS, IN THE LAST 20 YEARS AND THE LAST 30 YEARS.

I DIDN'T KNOW IF GATHERING THAT SORT OF DATA THROUGH THE COUNTY OR IF THAT THAT KIND OF DATA IS AVAILABLE.

BUT UNDERSTANDING, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN IN A HOME FOR 30 YEARS PROBABLY DON'T HAVE YOUNG CHILDREN, RIGHT? SO YOU'RE MAKING SOME ASSUMPTIONS, BUILDING THAT KIND OF MODEL.

BUT ANYTHING UNDERSTANDING CAN WE CORRELATE THAT TO WITH YIELD RATE.

SO IF WE SEE A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT 60% OF THE HOMES HAVE A MORTGAGE, MORE THAN OR HAVEN'T SOLD IN THE LAST 20 YEARS, IS THE YIELD LOWER THAN.

YOU KNOW, ONE THAT HAS MORTGAGES THAT MANY OF WHICH ARE TEN YEARS OLD AND HAS A HIGHER YIELD, LIKE CAN WE IS THERE AN INVERSE CORRELATION THERE, OR IS THERE SOME WAY WE CAN LOOK AT THAT? I'LL HAVE TO LOOK AND SEE IF WE CAN GET OUR DEED TRANSACTION DATED IF IT GOES BACK THAT FAR.

OKAY. NOW ONE THING WE'RE LOOKING AT TRYING TO ACQUIRE, TRYING TO ADD WOULD BE OVER 65 EXEMPTIONS.

THAT WOULD BE GREAT TOO YEAH. BECAUSE IF WE HAD THAT I FEEL LIKE THAT WOULD BE YOU KNOW, WE COULD YOU WOULD KNOW.

YEAH. YEAH. THERE'S AND THERE'S ONLY A CERTAIN TIME FRAME FOR THAT.

RIGHT. I MEAN IT SOUNDS MORE IT DOESN'T SOUND RIGHT.

BUT THEY'RE GOING TO BE MOVING LIKELY.

RIGHT. SO THAT'S ONE I WROTE THAT DOWN TOO.

BUT I'LL CHECK THE NEIGHBORS SALES WITH SEE IF WE EVEN HAVE THAT.

YEAH I FEEL LIKE WE HEAR STORIES ABOUT THIS QUALITATIVELY ALL THE TIME.

AND IT'S MY PARENTS, RIGHT.

MY PARENTS STILL LIVE IN THE HOUSE I GREW UP IN, IN THE HARRINGTON NEIGHBORHOOD.

RIGHT. AND THEY'RE NOT MOVING BECAUSE THE INTEREST RATE IS RIDICULOUS AND THEIR HOUSE IS PAID OFF AND THEY LIVE TEN MINUTES FROM THEIR GRANDKIDS.

YOU KNOW, THEY PICK MY KIDS UP FROM SCHOOL TODAY, SO THEY'RE NOT GOING TO MOVE.

AND SO HOW CAN WE QUANTIFY THE PEOPLE LIKE THAT WHO ARE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS THAT UNFORTUNATELY AS THEY AGE, MAY BE MOVING OUT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS? YEAH, THAT'S GREAT, BECAUSE I MEAN REGENERATION IS A TIMING THING AND IT USED TO BE A LITTLE BIT EASIER TO TRACK IT, AND IT ISN'T RIGHT NOW.

AND I THINK IT IS BECAUSE OF OUR INTEREST RATES.

WE ARE SEEING A LOT OF PEOPLE. I THINK WE'RE GOING TO SEE WHEN INTEREST RATES DROP, DROP BACK DOWN TO THAT 5% RANGE.

I THINK WE COULD SEE A LOT, A LOT OF THINGS HAPPEN.

I JUST DON'T KNOW WHEN THAT'S GOING TO BE JUST YET.

BUT I THINK THAT'S A REALLY GOOD POINT.

GREAT. AWESOME.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

YES, MA'AM. IS THERE A POSSIBILITY? I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT SLIDE THIS WOULD APPLY TO, BUT POSSIBLY THE TEN YEAR FORECAST ON THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AT THE END ON THE ELEMENTARY PERCENTAGE GROWTH, IT'S SLIDE NUMBER 21. WE SEE ON THE VERY BOTTOM ROW THAT THE NUMBERS VERY SLIGHTLY TREND UP A LITTLE BIT.

AND YOU DID TALK ABOUT THIS, BUT IS THERE A POSSIBILITY IN 20 30 YEARS YOU KNOW WE DIP BUT THEN WE GO BACK UP AS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT REGENERATING I MEAN AND THIS IS ALL, YOU KNOW, SPECULATIVE.

RIGHT. I CERTAINLY BELIEVE THAT.

I THINK ONCE ONCE WE FIGURE OUT WHERE THAT ONCE THAT BOTTOM HITS, RIGHT.

YOU KNOW, MAYBE MY HOPE IS WE'RE THERE NOW, 3000 KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS.

IT'S ALL GOING TO START GOING UP NOW AND THEN THAT THAT'S GOING TO CHANGE EVERYTHING.

IT'S JUST FIGURING OUT WHERE THAT IS AND IT'S GOING TO BE REGENERATION.

IT'S GOING TO BE KIND OF CONTINUED YIELD SHIFTS JUST THROUGH TIME.

AND THEN OF COURSE HOME SALES.

BUT I DO THINK IT'S VERY POSSIBLE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE COULD SEE THAT HAPPEN BY 2030, YOU KNOW, BUT OR IT COULD HAPPEN IN 2045.

YOU KNOW, WE JUST DON'T WE JUST DON'T KNOW YET.

BUT I DO BELIEVE THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.

IT'S GOING TO START GOING THE OTHER DIRECTION.

IT'S JUST IT'S JUST WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.

AND THEN I WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU FOR INCLUDING SLIDES 11 AND 12 IN REGARDS TO THAT WETLANDS PROJECT.

THAT IS MY NEIGHBORHOOD.

AND THESE ARE THE CONCERNS OF PARENTS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS ABOUT, OH MY GOODNESS, IF 666 HOMES ARE BUILT, WHAT DOES THAT EQUATE INTO STUDENTS THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO FEED INTO OUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL? OR IF LAVON FARM SELLS AND THE HOMES ARE DEVELOPED THERE, CAN OUR EAST SIDE SCHOOLS ABSORB THESE? AND I'VE ASSURED THESE PARENTS WE COULD.

BUT I MEAN, CAN YOU REITERATE THAT FOR THEM TO HELP ALLEVIATE ANY FEAR THAT THEY HAVE? THAT'S WHY I KIND OF WANT TO THAT'S WHY I LIKE SHOWING SOME OF THOSE THAT'S 1100 UNITS.

AND PEOPLE HEAR THAT LIKE, OH MY GOODNESS.

BUT WE'RE HAVING 5800 UNITS UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

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THEY'RE GOING TO BE WE COULD ADD 5000 MULTIFAMILY UNITS AND SEE 700 STUDENTS, WHICH IS NOT VERY MANY WHEN YOU THINK OF HOW MANY UNITS ARE BEING BUILT.

SO I DO THINK WE CAN ABSORB THOSE FOR SURE.

ALL RIGHT. WELL, ROCKY, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.

WE ALWAYS LOOK FORWARD TO THIS REPORT EVERY YEAR.

YEAH, WELL, I'LL STAY IN TOUCH WITH WITH JOHNNY AND WE'LL GET SOME.

I'LL RESEARCH SOME OF THIS FOR THIS SPRING.

THAT'LL GIVE US SOMETHING TO KIND OF LOOK AT.

OKAY. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

TAKE CARE. OKAY, WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM 5.2 OF THE REPORTS.

AND IT'S THE BUDGET REPORT, OUR PEER STAFFING REVIEW.

AND MR. HILL, I WILL TURN IT OVER TO YOU.

THANK YOU, PRESIDENT HUMPHREY.

I'M GOING TO HAVE COURTNEY.

COURTNEY REEVES, OUR CFO, COME UP AND GO OVER THIS.

THIS IS SOMETHING WE'VE DONE.

HAS IT BEEN 3 OR 4 YEARS NOW IN A ROW? 4 YEARS THAT WE'VE DONE THIS SPECIFIC PEER STAFFING REVIEW.

I THINK THIS IS INTERESTING.

IT'S AS UP TO DATE AS YOU CAN MAKE IT BECAUSE MOST OF THIS DATA IS WITH 22, 23.

BUT IT'S INTERESTING JUST TO LOOK AT THE TRENDS OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS NOW THAT WE'VE WE'VE SHOWN IT FOR SEVERAL YEARS.

AND SO I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO COURTNEY AND LET HER GO THROUGH IT.

I MAY INTERJECT HERE OR THERE IF YOU GUYS DON'T MIND.

SO THANK YOU, MR. HILL. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT HUMPHREY.

DR. WILLIAMS, BOARD OF TRUSTEES, CABINET.

IT'S ALWAYS MY PLEASURE TO COME UP AND TALK ALL THINGS FINANCE AND BUDGET WITH YOU.

AS JOHNNY JUST SPOKE ABOUT, WE'VE BEEN DOING I KNOW WE'VE BEEN COMPARING TO OUR PEERS FOR FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.

AND ABOUT FOUR YEARS AGO WE KIND OF NARROWED THAT SCOPE AND REALLY KIND OF FOCUSED ON DOING SOME COMPARATIVE ANALYTICS SURROUNDING STAFFING.

AND JUST I FEEL LIKE JOHNNY KIND OF GAVE THE DISCLAIMER.

I MEAN, THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF A LAG IN THE DATA THAT WE'RE PROVIDING.

IT IS 22, 23.

THAT WAS OUR LAST COMPLETE DATA YEAR.

SO JUST PLEASE KEEP THAT IN MIND AS WE START TALKING THROUGH THIS.

IT ISN'T OUR CURRENT LIKE FTE NUMBERS FOR 23-24.

SO I JUST WANT TO TALK ABOUT WHO OUR GROUPS ARE.

WE DO HAVE A DFW PEER GROUP THAT I BELIEVE THIS PEER GROUP HAS BEEN THIS GROUP FOR QUITE SOME TIME I KNOW IT'S BEEN SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE, AND I THINK EVEN THIS PEER GROUP BEFORE I EVEN CAME, YOU CAN SEE IT'S CARROLLTON, FARMERS BRANCH, FRISCO, GARLAND, IRVING, LEWISVILLE, MESQUITE AND OF COURSE, RICHARDSON.

OUR STATEWIDE PEER GROUP WE DID TRY TO KIND OF FIND SIMILAR ENROLLMENT NUMBERS.

AND THEN OF COURSE ALSO TARGETING SIMILAR THOSE SPECIAL POPULATIONS, THOSE STUDENT POPULATIONS, SPECIFICALLY OUR LOW INCOME PERCENTAGE AND THE ELL PERCENTAGE. SO AGAIN, KIND OF ACROSS THE STATE, KIND OF TRYING TO GET THAT SIMILAR CUT.

AND THAT'S CLEAR CREEK ISD, CONROE, HUMBLE, LEWISVILLE AGAIN, MANSFIELD AND THEN ROUND ROCK.

SO OBVIOUSLY I'M NOT GOING TO GO TOO MUCH INTO OUR ENROLLMENT STORY.

THIS COMING ON THE HEELS OF WHAT ROCKY JUST PRESENTED.

AGAIN, THIS WAS FOR 22, 23.

AND YOU ALL SAW ALL THE INFORMATION THAT HE PROVIDED.

AGAIN, JUST KIND OF KNOWING WHAT'S GOING ON AND THAT SOME OF THE STAFFING CHALLENGES THAT DECLINING ENROLLMENT PRESENTS, JUST KIND OF AGAIN, LOOKING AT OUR GRADE 12 WAS RIGHT AROUND 4000. AND THEN, OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, OUR KINDERGARTEN COMING IN AT THAT YEAR, JUST AROUND 3000.

THIS IS OUR KIND OF A DIFFERENT CUT OF LOOKING AT OUR ENROLLMENT TRENDS.

THIS ONE, I THINK IN PREVIOUS YEARS HAD ONLY BEEN ABOUT SIX YEARS.

THIS YEAR THEY KIND OF EXPANDED THE YEAR FOR THIS ENROLLMENT TREND.

WE ACTUALLY USE A COMPANY CALLED FORECAST FIVE.

THEY DO A LOT OF COMPARATIVE ANALYTICS, A LOT OF TREND ANALYSIS.

THEY ACTUALLY DO PRETTY MUCH ALL THE WORK.

THEY PULL ALL THE DATA FOR US FROM THE PAPER, FROM THE, EXCUSE ME TAPR FROM PEIMS REPORTING.

THEY EVEN DO REQUESTS FROM TEA TO GET ALL THIS DATA FOR US.

AND SO IT'S REALLY NICE THAT THEY ACTUALLY COMPILE IT FOR US.

AND SO THIS ONE, THEY'VE EXPANDED THIS OUT TO 16 YEARS.

AND AGAIN YOU CAN SEE OBVIOUSLY OUR ENROLLMENT TREND.

BUT ALSO VERY INTERESTING OUR ECONOMIC STATUS LOOKING WHAT THAT'S DONE OVER THE PAST 16 YEARS.

OUR ELL STATUS.

AND THEN OF COURSE AT THE BOTTOM OUR SPECIAL ED STATUS.

SO CAN I JUST MAKE ONE POINT RIGHT HERE, COURTNEY.

SO OBVIOUSLY YOU SEE THAT SPECIAL ED HASN'T GONE UP SIGNIFICANTLY OVER THOSE YEARS, BUT WE DO EXPECT IT TO BUMP UP AGAIN BECAUSE OF OUR DYSLEXIA, WHICH WAS NOT CONSIDERED UNDER THE SPECIAL.

NOT ALL OF IT WAS.

NOW IT'S GOING TO BE ROLLED UNDERNEATH.

SO WE DEFINITELY EXPECT THAT TO BUMP UP QUITE A BIT THIS NEXT YEAR.

AND THIS IS ANOTHER COMPARATIVE DATA.

IT'S JUST THIS IS ACTUALLY JUST FOR OUR GENERAL FUND.

NOW THIS ONE'S A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A LAG BECAUSE AGAIN TIMING OF WHEN PEIMS REPORTS HAPPEN FOR EXPENDITURE REPORTING.

SO THIS IS ACTUALLY GENERAL FUNDS FOR 2022.

OF COURSE JUST LOOKING AT THOSE SPENDING COMPARED TO THE STATE, THE PERCENT OF TOTAL OBVIOUSLY IS ON YOUR LEFT SIDE.

AND THEN THE ACTUAL GENERAL AMOUNT ON THE AVERAGE PER STUDENT ON YOUR RIGHT.

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I THINK WE KIND OF TALK ABOUT THIS EVERY YEAR.

WE KIND OF TOUCH ON IF YOU LOOK AT OUR, OF COURSE OUR BIGGEST COST FOR ALL OF US IS OUR STAFFING, OUR PAYROLL COST.

FOR US, IT'S JUST OVER 87%.

AND FOR THE STATE IT'S 82.5%.

I THINK WE KIND OF TALK ABOUT THAT.

MOST OF THE DISTRICTS IN THE STATE OF TEXAS ARE RURAL.

THOSE SMALLER DISTRICTS AND THE COMPETITION AS FAR AS STAFFING AND I MEAN, ESPECIALLY FOR TEACHERS IN YOUR LARGER, DENSER METRO AREAS, AGAIN, FOR LIKE HOUSTON, DALLAS, THERE'S A LOT MORE COMPETITION.

SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO NECESSARILY PAY AS MUCH BECAUSE THEIR COMPETITION IS NOT THERE.

WHERE WE DO HAVE TO TO RETAIN AND RECRUIT OUR TEACHERS AND OUR STAFF DO HAVE TO PAY A LITTLE, INVEST A LITTLE BIT MORE OF OUR BUDGET INTO OUR PAYROLL COSTS.

AND THEN, OF COURSE, ON THE OTHER SIDE, IF YOU LOOK AT THE AVERAGE PER STUDENT, YOU'LL SEE WE'RE ACTUALLY RIGHT IN LINE WITH THE STATE, JUST BOTH OF US, OVER $9,500.

NOW THIS ONE LOOKS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.

AGAIN THIS IS FROM 22.

THIS IS A LITTLE BIT LARGER NUMBER.

YOU'RE PROBABLY WONDERING WHY. NOW THIS IS ACTUALLY ALL FUNDS.

SO THIS INCLUDES FEDERAL FUNDS.

THE ONLY THING THAT THIS DOES EXCLUDE IS IT DOES EXCLUDE OUR RECAPTURE.

FORGIVE ME. THE GENERAL FUND ALSO DID EXCLUDE RECAPTURE.

IT ALSO IS EXCLUDING OUR DEBT SERVICE AND OUR CAPITAL OUTLAY, BUT IT INCLUDES OUR FEDERAL FUNDS AND ANY OTHER LOCAL FUNDS.

SO IT IS A LITTLE BIT MORE PER STUDENT.

AND AS YOU CAN SEE, WE KIND OF SIT TOWARDS IN THE MIDDLE.

FOR OUR STATEWIDE PEERS.

LET ME JUST INTERRUPT YOU REAL QUICK ON THE LAST ONE? YES MA'AM. ABSOLUTELY. I WAS STRUCK THAT THIS IS BASICALLY INVERSELY CORRELATED WITH DISTRICT SIZE.

RIGHT. SO WHEN I WAS LOOKING THROUGH THIS DATA, I WAS LOOKING AT THIS AND CURIOUS HOW MUCH OF THIS IS DRIVEN BY ANYTHING WE'RE DOING OR IF IT REALLY IS TIGHTLY ALIGNED WITH THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS THAT WE HAVE.

RIGHT. BECAUSE IT'S, YOU KNOW, FRISCO IS THE BIGGEST AND THEN RICHARDSON IS SMALLER THAN US.

IT'S THE COMPLETE INVERSE CORRELATION OF DISTRICT SIZE, RIGHT? YEAH. VERY GOOD.

COME TO FINANCE.

SO ECONOMIES OF SCALE IN ACTION, RIGHT? NOT THAT KIND OF DATA, COURTNEY.

COME ON, DR. TYRA.

COME ON.

WE'LL WELCOME YOU.

AND THEN, OF COURSE, JUST KIND OF LOOKING.

I THINK IT'S INTERESTING. OF COURSE, OUR STATEWIDE PEERS, IT'S AND I DEFINITELY DO NOT THINK THIS IS A BAD THING.

I THINK THAT BEING ON THE TOP OF OUR COST PER STUDENT ON HERE IS, IS VERY INTERESTING.

AGAIN, WE'RE AT THE TOP VERSUS TOWARDS THE MIDDLE WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT OUR STATEWIDE PEERS.

NOW JUMPING INTO OUR ACTUAL ROLE IDS.

AND AGAIN, WE HAVE SEVERAL THAT WILL KIND OF GO THROUGH.

AND AGAIN, JUST KEEP IN MIND THIS IS 22-23 DATA.

AND SO OUR FTES FOR THAT YEAR FOR ARE JUST OUR TEACHER ROLE WERE 3,511.22.

SEEING WHERE WE KIND OF SIT IN COMPARISON WITH OUR DFW PEERS.

WE KIND OF RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE.

OF COURSE, THIS IS OUR STUDENTS TO TEACHER RATIO.

SO WE'RE SITTING AT 13.9.

OUR AVERAGE FOR OUR DFW PEERS IS JUST OVER 14 AT 14.3.

STATEWIDE, IT DOES GO UP JUST A TINY BIT.

THAT AVERAGE IS 14.7.

WE DID LOOK AT KIND OF WE ALWAYS LIKE TO KIND OF LOOK AT BOTH GROUPS TOGETHER.

AND THAT ALL PEER AVERAGE WAS RIGHT AT 14.6.

COUNSELORS. WE HAD 153.98 FTE TOTAL.

AGAIN, KIND OF SITTING TOWARDS THE MIDDLE AT 317.5.

THAT DFW AVERAGE IS 338.2.

STATE, THE AVERAGE GOES UP JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE TO 366.4 OR ALL PEER AVERAGE WAS ACTUALLY 359.9.

FOR OUR NURSES.

WE JUST HAD 70.55 TOTAL FTES.

THIS ONE. WE ARE ACTUALLY RIGHT ABOVE OUR DFW PEER AVERAGE.

WE'RE AT SIX 693, OUR AVERAGE OF 690.3.

AND THEN A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.

OBVIOUSLY, COMPARED TO OUR STATEWIDE PEERS, THAT AVERAGE JUMPS UP TO 848.8.

ALL PEER AVERAGE WAS ACTUALLY 776.3.

EDUCATIONAL AIDES WERE 572.67 FTE.

AND AGAIN, WE ARE ABOVE OUR DFW PEER AVERAGE.

WE'RE AT 85.4.

THE AVERAGE WAS 81.9.

WE'RE ALSO ACTUALLY ABOVE THE STATEWIDE AVERAGE AS WELL.

THE AVERAGE FOR THAT WAS 84.6.

OUR ALL PEER AVERAGE WAS 83.5.

AGAIN, WE WERE ABOVE ALL OF THOSE AT 85.4.

PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT IS ACTUALLY A LITTLE SIMILAR TO OUR CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION IN THAT IT'S A LITTLE BIT MORE SUBJECTIVE, WHERE OUR TEACHER IS A TEACHER, A COUNSELOR IS A COUNSELOR. HOW THOSE ROLE IDS ARE, THERE'S NOT SUBJECTIVITY OR PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT.

AND OUR CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION, THERE CAN BE A LITTLE BIT OF SUBJECTIVITY IN THESE JUST KIND OF WANT TO GIVE THAT WHERE WHEN WE GO IN AND PULL THIS COMPARATIVE DATA FROM FORECAST

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BUT FOR THIS GROUP, WE HAD 563.77 PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT.

AND THIS CAN BE OT PT YOUR LIBRARIANS IT ACTUALLY PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT AT YOUR TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES.

THINGS NOT NECESSARILY SPECIFIC TO CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION.

SO WE ARE WE ARE ABOVE OUR DFW PEER AVERAGE OF 74.2.

WE ARE AT 86.7.

STATEWIDE AGAIN, A LITTLE BIT, BUT WE'RE REALLY CLOSE TO THAT AVERAGE OF 88.7.

AND THEN OUR ALL PEER AVERAGE, WE ACTUALLY WOULD BE ABOVE OF THAT 80.2.

CAMPUS ADMINISTRATION, WHICH IS, OF COURSE, YOUR ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS AND YOUR PRINCIPALS.

THERE'S 189.39 FTES.

SITTING AT A LITTLE BIT BELOW THE DFW AVERAGE AT 258.1, AND THE AVERAGE OF 266.3.

STATEWIDE A LITTLE BIT HIGHER AT 305.

AND THEN ALL PEER AVERAGE 289.5.

AGAIN, THE CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION.

THIS ONE ALWAYS LOOKS A LITTLE BIT WONKY.

I KNOW WE LOOK AT IT EVERY YEAR, AND THEN WE KIND OF GO BACK AND COMPARE IT TO OUR INDICATOR BECAUSE WE KIND OF HAVE A COUPLE OF OUTLIERS.

AND SO RIGHT NOW YOU CAN SEE AGAIN, KIND OF ADJUSTING A LITTLE BIT.

THE AVERAGE IS 543.2.

WE ARE SITTING AT 485.8.

WE ALWAYS LIKE TO KIND OF POINT OUT THAT AGAIN, THERE'S A LOT OF SUBJECTIVITY WHEN IT COMES TO PICKING THESE ROLES AND DECIDING ON MAYBE WHAT DISTRICT DECIDES WHO'S IN CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION AND WHO IS NOT.

BUT THE ONE THING THAT IS AUDITED AND IS NOT SUBJECTIVE IS ACTUALLY OUR FIRST RATING INDICATOR 13 AND OBVIOUSLY, TO GET ALL THE POINTS, YOU HAVE TO HAVE A RATIO THAT'S LESS THAN THE .0855.

AND OF COURSE NOT TRYING TO PICK ON THE TWO OUTLIERS, BUT JUST TO KIND OF POINT OUT THAT FOR THEIR INDICATOR 13 FOR OUR 22-23 FIRST GARLAND ACTUALLY HAD A 0.0692 MESQUITE A .076.

AND THEN OF COURSE, OUR INDICATOR WAS MUCH LOWER AT .0461.

AND THAT'S OUR FUNCTION, 41 EXPENDITURES TO OUR ACTUAL INSTRUCTIONAL EXPENDITURES.

SO IT'S DEFINITELY IT'S AN AUDITED NUMBER AND A LITTLE BIT NOT SO SUBJECTIVE.

A LITTLE BIT AGAIN.

OF COURSE, CONROE LOOKS LIKE A LITTLE BIT OF AN OUTLIER.

AGAIN, WE ARE BELOW THAT AVERAGE OF 564.6.

AND THEN OUR ALL PEER AVERAGE WAS 565.6.

AND THEN OUR SPECIAL ED FTE.

SO TOTAL FTE OF 1,278.95.

AND THIS IS JUST SPECIAL ED STUDENTS AND SPECIAL ED STAFF.

SO JUST A LITTLE BIT BELOW THE AVERAGE.

OUR DFW PEERS ON THE AVERAGE IS 5.9.

OUR AVERAGE IS 5.1.

AND THEN A LITTLE BIT BELOW OUR AVERAGE, EVEN ON OUR STATEWIDE PEERS OF THE AVERAGE OF 5.4.

AND THEN OUR ALL PEER AVERAGE OF TAKING ALL THOSE TOGETHER WAS 5.6.

HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS FOR YOU.

THERE WERE A COUPLE OF THEM, LIKE WITH THE COUNSELOR AND EDUCATIONAL AIDE, THAT FRISCO LOOKED LIKE AN OUTLIER.

AND AS I ALLUDED TO EARLIER, THAT THAT FIRST SLIDE WAS INVERSELY CORRELATED BASICALLY WITH DISTRICT SIZE.

BUT THEN AS YOU GO THROUGH THE SORT OF VERTICAL BAR GRAPHS ARE MIXED UP IN THERE, RIGHT, LIKE YOU SEE A SHIFT IN POSITIONS.

AND SO I WAS CURIOUS ON COUNSELOR AND EDUCATIONAL AIDES, IS IT LIKE, WHY DO WHY ARE WE SEEING SOME OUTLIERS THERE? AND IS IT AGAIN YOU KNOW, AN ISSUE WITH CATEGORIZATION OR IS IT A SCALE THING THAT LIKE CAMPUS SIZE OR? I THINK IT COULD BE CAMPUS SIZE FOR SURE, DEPENDING ON HOW THEY MAYBE ALLOCATE THEIR COUNSELOR PER STUDENT? THAT IS ONE OF THE ROLE ID'S THERE'S NO SUBJECTIVITY THERE.

IT IS A COUNSELOR IS A COUNSELOR IS A COUNSELOR AND THE SAME ACTUALLY FOR EDUCATIONAL AIDE AS WELL.

SO MY ASSUMPTION AND PLEASE, JOHNNY INTERJECT.

[LAUGHTER] I THINK WE'D HAVE TO GO AND VISIT WITH FRISCO AND CARROLLTON FARMERS BRANCH, BUT I KNOW THAT WE HAVE ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENT SIZES OF CAMPUS.

AND SO YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT SCALABILITY.

SO WE PROVIDE IF YOU'VE GOT AN ELEMENTARY CAMPUS, WE'RE GOING TO PROVIDE AN X NUMBER OF STAFF FOR THAT WHICH YOU HAVE IN SOME OTHER DISTRICTS IS THEY MAY PROVIDE SO MANY PER STUDENTS. AND SO YOU MAY HAVE ONE COUNSELOR THAT'S SITTING TWO DIFFERENT DISTRICTS WHERE WE MAY HAVE ONE COUNSELOR BECAUSE OF IT'S A CAMPUS THAT'S SITTING THERE.

SO I THINK THE SCALABILITY THAT'S A GOOD I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY A GOOD EXPLANATION, WOULDN'T KNOW 100% UNLESS WE WENT AND DUG INTO THOSE CAMPUSES.

BUT THIS IS ONE THAT THERE'S IT IS IT'S NOT SUBJECTIVE AT ALL.

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IT'S HARD TO GET AROUND THAT.

GREAT. THANKS.

YES, MA'AM.

ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

THAT WAS A GREAT REPORT.

WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM 5.3 OF OUR REPORTS.

AND IT'S THE SKYWARD ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING AND STUDENT INFORMATION SYSTEM.

AND SO, DR. PATRICK TANNER, I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO YOU, PLEASE.

THANK YOU, PRESIDENT HUMPHREY.

DR. WILLIAMS, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD AND CABINET.

WE'RE HAPPY TO BRING FORWARD TO YOU THIS EVENING AN UPDATE ON OUR SKYWARD IMPLEMENTATION, WHICH WE BEGAN BACK IN THE FALL.

WE'RE A LITTLE OVER SIX MONTHS INTO THIS PROCESS AND THOUGHT IT'D BE A GOOD TIME TO COME BACK AND SHARE WITH YOU JUST SOME OF THE MILESTONES THAT WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED OVER THE PAST SIX MONTHS AND THEN GIVE YOU A FORECAST OF SOME THINGS THAT ARE TO COME.

SO I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO MR. GREG GRIMES, WHO IS OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS. HE'S ALSO THE PROJECT LEAD, PROJECT MANAGER ON THIS PARTICULAR IMPLEMENTATION.

AND HE'S GOING TO TAKE YOU THROUGH THE REPORT.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, BOARD AND CABINET.

GOING TO START OUT TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT WE HAVE INSTALLED AS FAR AS THE SKYWARD SYSTEM.

SO WE ACTUALLY HAVE FIVE DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF OF SKYWARD INSTALLED CURRENTLY.

SO THE FIRST ENVIRONMENT IS OUR TRAINING ENVIRONMENT.

SO THIS IS DATA THAT SKYWARD PROVIDED THAT IS FAKE DATA.

SO IT'S AVAILABLE FOR TRAINING.

THERE'S NO PII IMPLICATIONS.

WE CAN RECORD IT. WE CAN SHOW IT.

WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT WHO WE SECURE IT FROM BECAUSE IT'S NOT REAL STUDENT DATA.

SO IT'S A LOW BARRIER FOR TRAINING THAT WE CAN USE FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE.

THEN THE NEXT TWO ARE OUR PRELIMINARY ERP AND PRELIMINARY SIS.

THESE ARE FULL SETS OF THE SKYWARD SOFTWARE, BUT THEY'RE SET UP FOR US TO DO TESTING OF OUR MIGRATED DATA.

SO WE'RE LOOKING IN TEAMS AT ABOUT 4.6, 4.7TB OF DATA.

SO THERE'S AN AWFUL LOT OF DATA.

AND WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT IN A COUPLE OF SLIDES ABOUT HOW WE'RE SEGMENTING THAT AND MOVING IT ACROSS.

BUT IT'S GOING IN PHASES.

SO EACH OF THOSE PHASES WILL GO INTO THE PRELIMINARY EITHER ERP OR SIS DATABASE.

THAT IS OUR CHANCE TO TAKE A LOOK AT HOW SKYWARD IS MAPPING THE TEAMS DATA INTO THE SKYWARD SYSTEM.

IT'S OUR CHANCE TO DOUBLE CHECK TO LOOK AT THE MAPPINGS.

IF THERE'S ANYTHING CORRECT, ANYTHING THAT NEEDS TO BE ADJUSTED.

THAT'S WHERE WE WOULD TAKE CARE OF THOSE BEFORE WE GO INTO LIVE.

IT MAY BE DATA THAT DOESN'T MAP CORRECTLY.

WE NEED TO CHANGE WHAT FIELD IT IS.

SOMETIMES THERE'S SOME INCOMPATIBILITIES WHERE A FIELD LENGTH MAY BE DIFFERENT.

SO WE MAY HAVE TO CHANGE SHORTEN UP SOME DESCRIPTIONS.

AND THOSE AREAS ARE WHERE WE FIND THAT KIND OF INFORMATION.

THE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT IS COMBINED.

IT'S ERP AND SIS TOGETHER.

IT'S OUR BACKUP OF OUR LIVE SYSTEM.

BUT IT'S WHERE WE CAN DO TESTING FOR INTEGRATIONS SO WE CAN GO IN AND WE CAN WE CAN TEST SOFTWARE WE'RE WRITING.

WE CAN TEST EXTRACTIONS.

IF WE NEED TO SEE HOW SOMETHING OPERATES ON A SETUP, IT'S OUR AREA WITH OUR DATA TO GO IN AND PLAY.

THE LAST SYSTEM IS OUR LIVE SYSTEM.

THIS IS WHAT OUR END USERS.

THIS IS WHAT MOST PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SEE.

THIS IS WHAT THE CAMPUSES WILL BE IN.

AND THAT'S THE PERMANENT LIVE DATA.

ONCE EVERYTHING'S MIGRATED THAT THE CAMPUSES AND OUR DISTRICT DEPARTMENTS WILL USE FOR DAY TO DAY BUSINESS.

WE STARTED BACK IN END OF SEPTEMBER, GOING THROUGH THE CONSULTING PROCESS WITH SKYWARD.

AND THAT WENT THROUGH A NUMBER OF PHASES.

SO ONE OF THOSE IS DETERMINING OUR CURRENT PROCESSES.

SO THAT CAME IN MET WITH A LOT OF DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS, STAKEHOLDERS SOME OF OUR CAMPUS PEOPLE, TO DETERMINE HOW WE CURRENTLY DO BUSINESS.

THEY WENT THROUGH ALSO SHOWED US SOME ADDITIONAL PROCESSES IN SKYWARD.

SO SOME AREAS THAT WE MAY HAVE TO CHANGE SOME BUSINESS PROCESSES.

SO IT WAS A WAY TO LOOK AT WHAT WE'RE DOING, FIGURE OUT HOW THAT FITS INTO SKYWARD.

MAKE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS ABOUT THINGS THAT MAY BE A LITTLE MORE EFFICIENT IN A DIFFERENT WAY WITHIN SKYWARD.

THOSE FINDINGS WERE TRANSLATED INTO INITIALLY OUR SETUP DATABASE, WHICH WAS WHERE WE STARTED TO DO CONFIGURATIONS.

THAT HAS SINCE BECOME OUR LIVE DATABASE.

AND THEN THEY'RE ALSO WORKING WITH US TO MODIFY TRAINING AGENDAS AS NEEDED.

SO THERE ARE CERTAIN MODULES WHICH MAY NOT BE USING FULLY OR AT LEAST USING FULLY IN THE FIRST YEAR.

AND WE'RE CUSTOMIZING OUR TRAININGS ONLY FOR WHAT WILL BE IMPLEMENTED IN YEAR ONE.

IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF AN OVERVIEW OF WHERE WE'VE DONE WITH THE CONSULTING PROCESSES.

ON THE ERP SIDE, WE'VE GONE THROUGH 39 TOTAL SESSIONS TOTALING 121 HOURS.

SO WE'VE BEEN THROUGH TOPICS INCLUDING FINANCE, PAYROLL THE EMPLOYEE RECORD POSITIONS HUMAN RESOURCES, TIME OFF WHAT ONLINE FORMS WILL LOOK LIKE ON THE EMPLOYEE SIDE? EXTERNAL INTERFACES.

SO OTHER SYSTEMS WE CONNECT TO.

SETTING UP OUR SECURITY AND THEN OUR VENDORS FOR FINANCE.

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I'VE GONE THROUGH TOPICS INCLUDING SCHEDULES, GRADE BOOK GRADE PROCESSING, ONLINE FORMS THAT WOULD INCLUDE THE ONLINE ENROLLMENT FORMS, THE ENROLLMENT PROCESS, OUR HEALTH MODULES, FEE MANAGEMENT SO FEES THAT ARE ASSIGNED TO STUDENTS, AND PAYMENT FOR THOSE ATTENDANCE DISCIPLINE.

AGAIN EXTERNAL INTERFACES.

WE INTERFACE WITH HUNDREDS OF OTHER SYSTEMS. AND SO WE HAVE TO WORK ON GETTING ALL OF THAT DATA THAT'S COMING FROM TEAMS COMING OUT OF SKYWARD SO THAT WE DON'T LOSE ANY FUNCTIONALITY WITH THOSE OTHER PROGRAMS, AND THEN SETTING UP OUR SECURITY.

THE OUTCOMES OF THAT CONSULTING RESULTED IN ANOTHER NUMBER OF OTHER SYSTEMS WE'RE GOING TO BE IMPLEMENTING.

ONE OF THOSE IS VANCO REV TRAK, WHICH IS A PAYMENT SYSTEM THAT'S GOT A VERY TIGHT INTEGRATION WITH SKYWARD.

WE'RE NOT CERTAIN YET EXACTLY HOW MUCH OF THAT WE WILL USE VERSUS SOME OF THE EXISTING THINGS WE HAVE.

WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FEWER SYSTEMS, BUT YEAR ONE, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO PROBABLY KEEP SOME THINGS THAT MAY NOT LAST LONG TERM, BUT WE WILL DEFINITELY BE IMPLEMENTING FOR FOR CERTAIN FUNCTIONS, FOR SURE, THAT WE'RE STILL DETERMINING EXACTLY HOW MANY THINGS WE CAN ROLL UNDER THAT UMBRELLA.

WE WILL IMPLEMENT A NEW CALL, A SUBSTITUTE CALLING SYSTEM, RED ROVER, WHICH IS A SKYWARD CERTIFIED PARTNER.

THAT'S THE SYSTEM THAT WHEN A TEACHER PUTS IN AN ABSENCE, WE'LL GO OUT, START CALLING, CONTACTING TO GET A SUB IN AND FILL THAT POSITION.

WE HAVE AN RFP OUT FOR A BENEFIT SOFTWARE.

THIS IS THE ENROLLMENT PROCESS.

SO WHEN A NEW EMPLOYEE COMES ON OR THE YEARLY ENROLLMENT FOR EMPLOYEES EACH YEAR, THEY SELECT THEIR VISION, THEIR DENTAL, THEIR HEALTH.

WE HAVE A RFP THAT'S OUT, THAT CONTRACT IS VERY CLOSE TO BEING DONE, BUT IT'S NOT QUITE DONE YET.

WE WILL BE REPLACING OUR TIME CLOCKS.

THERE'S A COMPANY CALLED SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATES WHO'S PARTNERED WITH SKYWARD.

THEY'VE TESTED OUR BADGES.

EVERYTHING IS COMPATIBLE, BUT WE WILL BE REPLACING EACH OF THE TIME CLOCKS TO BE COMPATIBLE WITH THE NEW TIME SYSTEM IN SKYWARD.

AND THEN THE COPY CENTER SOFTWARE THAT WAS AVAILABLE IN TEAMS. SKYWARD DOES NOT HAVE THAT FUNCTION.

SO THERE'S A COMPANY CALLED PAGEDNA.

WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF WORKING THROUGH THAT IMPLEMENTATION TO GET THAT COPY CENTER FUNCTIONALITY STILL AVAILABLE.

THERE'LL BE A FEW THINGS THAT WE WILL BE RETIRING.

SO IN TEAMS, TEAMS WE DID NOT USE THE TEAMS BUILT IN GRADEBOOK.

WE USE PINNACLE FOR THE GRADEBOOK.

SKYWARD HAS ITS OWN BUILT IN GRADEBOOK WE WILL BE UTILIZING, SO PINNACLE GRADEBOOK WILL BE GOING AWAY.

PARENT PORTAL AND CAMPUS PORTAL WERE WRITTEN IN HOUSE FOR THE FACT THAT THE FUNCTIONALITY DIDN'T EXIST IN TEAMS THAT WE NEEDED.

WITH SKYWARD, WE HAVE FAMILY ACCESS.

SO THOSE TWO PIECES WILL BE REPLACED WITH THE SKYWARD FAMILY ACCESS.

ONE OF THE KEY PARTS OF THE IMPLEMENTATION IS THE DATA MIGRATION.

AS I MENTIONED, THERE'S A LOT OF DATA HAS TO BE MOVED IN PHASES.

AND FOR EACH SECTION OF DATA THERE'S ACTUALLY A COUPLE OF PHASES.

SO WE'LL HAVE A PRELIM PHASE WHERE WE TALKED ABOUT EARLIER THE PRELIMINARY DATABASES AND THAT CHANCE TO GO THROUGH AND GET THE TEST DATA AND THEN A GO LIVE.

THAT IS THE PERMANENT MIGRATION OF EACH TYPE OF DATA ONCE IT'S DONE AND IT'S PERMANENT IN OUR LIVE DATABASE.

THE ANCILLARY PHASE WILL BE THINGS THAT COME AFTER THE START OF SCHOOL.

SO THE PRIORITY FOR EVERYONE ON BOTH THE PLANO TEAM AND THE SKYWARD TEAM IS TO HAVE US READY TO GO FOR THE START OF THE FISCAL YEAR AND THE START OF THE SCHOOL YEAR.

SO ANYTHING THAT'S REQUIRED FOR THAT IS THE PRIORITY.

SOME OTHER THINGS. WHEN WE GET INTO HISTORICAL DATA THAT WILL BE MOVED AFTER THE START OF THE SCHOOL YEAR THAT WE NEED LONG TERM, BUT ISN'T A REQUIREMENT FOR DAY ONE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR OR THE SCHOOL YEAR.

SOME OF THE DATA MIGRATIONS WE'VE ALREADY COMPLETED ARE IN PROGRESS.

THE FIRST TWO WERE PRELIMINARY STARTING BACK IN NOVEMBER, GOING THROUGH DECEMBER AND JANUARY, WHICH WAS OUR INITIAL CUT OF STUDENT DATA, WHICH WAS FOR SCHEDULING THE THINGS THAT WERE REQUIRED FOR SCHEDULING STUDENTS FOR THE 24-25 SCHOOL YEAR AND OUR FIRST CUT OF ERP DATA, WHICH WAS A LIMITED SUBSET TO GET IN SOME OF OUR ACCOUNTS, POSITIONS AND PAY TYPES.

BOTH THOSE PRELIMINARIES WERE COMPLETED.

THE SIS SCHEDULING HAS SINCE BEEN DONE AND ALIVE, SO AS OF THE END OF JANUARY, THAT LIMIT IS STUDENT DATA FOR SCHEDULING IS IN LIVE AND IS AVAILABLE TO OUR CAMPUSES.

SIS DEMOGRAPHICS THAT PRELIMINARY IS DONE.

THAT IS THE MORE COMPLETE VERSION OF OUR STUDENT DEMOGRAPHICS WHERE IT INCLUDES FAMILY INFORMATION.

SOME OF THE OTHER INFORMATION BEYOND THE NAME GRADE CAMPUS THAT WAS NEEDED JUST FOR SCHEDULING.

AND THAT IS COMPLETE AND PRELIMINARY FOR ERP 1 BUSINESS THAT IS A LARGER SET OF OUR ERP DATA, AND THAT WE JUST GAVE THE DATA TO SKYWARD A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO.

AND THAT'S IN PROCESS OF THEM GOING THROUGH AND WORKING ON THAT MAPPING PROGRESS.

AND THAT WILL BE DONE IN PRELIM TOWARDS THE END OF MARCH.

A COUPLE OF THE BIGGER UPCOMING DATA MIGRATIONS.

WE WILL HAVE OUR SIS DEMOGRAPHICS DATA LIVE MIGRATED AVAILABLE FOR CAMPUSES TO SEE TOWARDS THE END OF APRIL.

THEN WE'LL HAVE AN ADDITIONAL ERP PRELIMINARY MIGRATION.

WE WILL GET TIME OFF INFORMATION WAREHOUSE AND OPEN PURCHASE ORDERS.

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ERP 2 BUSINESS IS GOING TO BE A REPEAT OF WHAT WERE THE ERP 1 BUSINESS THEY'RE CURRENTLY WORKING ON.

AND THAT WILL BE KIND OF A DRY RUN FOR OUR GO LIVE.

THAT WILL HAPPEN END OF APRIL INTO MAY.

AND THEN OUR LIVE CUT OF ERP DATA WILL HAPPEN END OF MAY INTO THE MIDDLE OF JUNE.

AND THAT GIVES US A COUPLE OF WEEKS AHEAD OF THAT JULY 1ST FISCAL YEAR TO HAVE EVERYTHING READY TO TO CUT OVER.

THIS IS KIND OF A HIGH LEVEL TIMELINE OF OF WHAT WE'RE USING IN SKYWARD VERSUS TEAMS, AND WHEN WE'LL CUT SOME THINGS OVER.

SO THE FIRST LINE IS NEXT YEAR SCHEDULING THAT IS LIVE.

OUR CAMPUSES ARE ACTIVELY SCHEDULING FOR THE 24-25 SCHOOL YEAR IN SKYWARD.

SO THERE'S NOTHING LEFT IN TEAMS FOR NEXT YEAR SCHEDULING FOR THE CURRENT YEAR, THOSE NEXT TWO LINES, STUDENT ENROLLMENT FOR CURRENT YEAR AND CURRENT YEAR SCHEDULING THAT WILL REMAIN IN TEAMS TO THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR.

SO A NEW STUDENT MOVES IN NOW THEY ARE GOING TO BE ENROLLED IN TEAMS. THEY'RE GOING TO ENROLL THROUGH TEAMS. THEY'RE GOING TO BE SCHEDULED IN TEAMS. ALL OF THAT WILL HAPPEN IN TEAMS. SO THE REMAINDER OF THE SCHOOL YEAR.

SO THAT'LL BE THROUGH THE END OF MAY, ESSENTIALLY 1ST OF JUNE.

STUDENT PRE-REGISTRATION FOR NEXT YEAR WILL CONTINUE TO HAPPEN IN TEAMS AND LASERFICHE.

SO THAT PROCESS IS OPEN.

WE ARE PRE-REGISTERING FOR NEXT YEAR.

THAT JUST OPENED UP.

SO THOSE STUDENTS ARE CURRENTLY BEING ENTERED INTO TEAMS AND WILL BE MOVED OVER INTO SKYWARD LATER.

SUMMER SCHOOL WE WILL COMPLETE SUMMER SCHOOL IN TEAMS. SO THAT WILL BE DONE AT THE END OF JULY, I'M SORRY, AT THE END OF JUNE.

SO IN JULY THAT WILL BE DONE IN TEAMS. AND THEN FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING WHEN WE GO TO A NEW FISCAL YEAR, JULY 1ST, WE'LL BE LIVE IN SKYWARD FOR THAT.

UP UNTIL THAT POINT, ANY PURCHASE ORDERS, ANY FINANCIAL ACTIVITY ALL OF THAT WILL BE CONTINUING TO HAPPEN IN TEAMS. OUR PAYROLL CUT OVER.

THERE'S TWO DATES THERE.

ONE IS JULY, ONE IS SEPTEMBER.

THE REASON FOR THAT IS, IS THAT FOR JULY, START EMPLOYEES THEY WILL BE PAID IN JULY OUT OF SKYWARD FOR PAYROLL.

FOR THOSE WHO ARE STILL GETTING PAID, PRIMARILY TEACHERS OUT OF THE CURRENT SCHOOL YEAR, THEY WILL BE GETTING PAID STILL OUT OF TEAMS ON THAT JULY AND AUGUST TIME FRAME. SO IT'LL BE PHASED IN DEPENDING ON WHEN THE EACH EMPLOYEE CONTRACT START DATE WAS, WHEN THEY WILL START TO BE PAID OUT OF SKYWARD.

SO WE'LL HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF AN OVERLAP THERE.

OUR PAYROLL DEPARTMENT WILL HAVE TO DO A COUPLE OF PAYROLL THAT HAVE A COUPLE OF SYSTEMS FOR JULY AND AUGUST.

THE HISTORICAL DATA FOR STUDENT INFORMATION SYSTEM WILL BE COMPLETED BY NOVEMBER.

THAT'LL HAPPEN LIVE IN SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER.

BY NOVEMBER, THAT SHOULD BE FULLY INTO SKYWARD.

AND THEN THE LAST PIECE ON THE ERP SIDE TO MOVE ACROSS WILL BE THE APPLICANT TRACKING AND ONBOARDING.

SO WE WILL CONTINUE TO POST POSITIONS IN TEAMS, HIRE PEOPLE INTO TEAMS, AND THEN THAT DATA WILL BE MOVED INTO SKYWARD ONCE A RECOMMENDATION TO HIRE IS MADE.

AND THEN THERE WILL ACTUALLY BE SCHEDULED INTO CLASS A GRADE BOOK ON THE SIS SIDE OR PAID THROUGH SKYWARD.

ONE THING I WANT TO MENTION ON THIS IS OUR TEAM IS DOING A LOT OF WORK TO TRY TO SYNC THOSE AREAS WHERE WE'RE BRINGING THINGS INTO TEAMS THAT ARE GOING TO BE NEEDED IN SKYWARD NEXT YEAR.

THE SKYWARD RECOMMENDATION TYPICALLY IS TO DO DUAL ENTRY SO THAT A NEW EMPLOYEE COMES ON, YOU ENTER THEM IN TEAMS, YOU ENTER THEM IN SKYWARD.

WE ENROLL A NEW STUDENT FOR NEXT YEAR.

YOU ENTER THEM IN TEAMS, YOUR INTERIM IN SKYWARD.

WE'RE WORKING WITH THE APPLICATION PROGRAMING INTERFACE THAT SKYWARD IS PROVIDED TO TRY TO AUTOMATE AS MUCH OF THAT AS POSSIBLE.

WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO AUTOMATE 100%.

THERE IS GOING TO BE SOME AREAS THAT WILL BE DUAL ENTRY WE ARE WORKING VERY, VERY HARD TO MINIMIZE THAT AMOUNT AND TRY TO MAKE IT AS EFFICIENT AS POSSIBLE FOR OUR STAFF.

AND I HAVE TO SIT THERE AND DO DUAL ENTRY.

SO THERE WILL BE A COUPLE OF SHORT PERIODS THAT'S REQUIRED.

BUT WE'RE CERTAINLY DOING AN AWFUL LOT.

AND THE FIRST PIECE OF THAT IS ALREADY ACTIVE.

IF A STUDENT ENROLLS FOR THE CURRENT YEAR THEY'RE ENROLLED IN TEAMS, BUT WE'RE MOVING THAT DATA OVER TO SKYWARD NIGHTLY TO BE ABLE TO THEN DO THE SCHEDULING FOR THE NEXT YEAR. SO NOBODY'S HAVING TO GO ENTER THAT DATA TWICE, AND THAT'LL CONTINUE FORWARD INTO NEXT YEAR, ENROLLMENT AND INTO THE HR SYSTEM AND THE FINANCE SYSTEM AS THINGS ARE ADDED THERE IN TEAMS. TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT TRAINING.

SKYWARD PROVIDES WHAT THEY CALL A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER.

THAT'S AN ONLINE ACCESS TO TRAINING.

ALL USERS ARE GOING TO HAVE ACCESS TO THAT.

THEY HAVE QUICK START AS WELL AS MASTERY COURSES.

THE MASTERY COURSES ARE THE MORE IN DEPTH.

THEY SAY YOU CAN START ANYTIME AND TAKE YOUR TIME.

ONE THING THAT'S IMPORTANT ABOUT SKYWARD IS THEY ARE A K-12 FOCUSED DISTRICT.

THEY DON'T SERVE HIGHER ED.

THEY DON'T SERVE BUSINESSES.

THEY ARE DESIGNED AROUND K-12, AND THE LEARNING IS DESIGNED AROUND THAT AS WELL.

SO THEY ARE VERY SMALL BITE SIZES.

TYPICALLY EACH LITTLE MODULE IS ONLY, YOU KNOW, MAYBE 3 TO 5 MINUTES.

AND THEY'RE DESIGNED TO YOU KNOW, THEY KNOW WE'RE GOING TO BE INTERRUPTED ON CAMPUSES.

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IT'LL TAKE YOU RIGHT BACK TO WHERE YOU FINISHED.

AND THERE ARE VERY SHORT SEGMENTS.

SO IF YOU'VE GOT FIVE MINUTES BEFORE THE NEXT THING THAT HITS ON THE CAMPUS, YOU CAN GO GET ANOTHER MODULE DONE.

SO THEY ARE, AS I SAID, SEGMENTED INTO SHORT LESSONS.

THEY INCLUDE STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS.

THEY INCLUDE VIDEOS AND SIMULATIONS.

AND AT THE END OF A LOT OF THEM, THERE'S A SHORT QUIZ TO ASSESS KNOWLEDGE.

ONE THING THAT'S REALLY NICE IS THAT YOU CAN BOOKMARK SPECIFIC SESSIONS.

SO SOME OF THE SECURITY TRAININGS I'VE DONE ACTUALLY IN MY NOTES, PUT A BOOKMARK BACK BECAUSE I KNOW I WAS GOING TO COME BACK TO THIS LATER, BUT I PROBABLY WOULDN'T NEED IT FOR A FEW MONTHS OR MAYBE EVEN TILL A YEAR IN.

AND SO IT'S VERY EASY TO GO BACK AND REFERENCE THOSE TRAININGS.

OVERALL, THE INITIAL TRAINING WILL BE THROUGH PDC.

WE ACTUALLY STARTED ROLLING THAT OUT TO, TO DIFFERENT DISTRICT PERSONNEL IN NOVEMBER AND THE CAMPUS PERSONNEL AS WELL.

SO FAR WE'VE HAD OVER 4,500 ACTIVITIES COMPLETED BY DISTRICT STAFF.

THE CORE PDC COURSES ARE GOING TO BE ASSIGNED BASED ON ROLE.

EMPLOYEES DO HAVE THE ABILITY TO GO IN AND ADD ADDITIONAL COURSES.

SO IF THEY'RE CURIOUS ABOUT AN AREA THEY CAN GO ADD ADDITIONAL COURSES AS WELL.

WE'LL HAVE A COMBINATION OF IN-PERSON TRAININGS, SOME OF WHICH WILL BE TRAINED.

THE TRAINER SOME WILL BE PISD LED AND SOME WILL BE SKYWARD LED.

NOW WE ARE ALSO OFFERING A LOT OF SUPPORT AND LAB TIME THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS.

SO THOSE ARE VIRTUAL SESSIONS POST TRAINING THAT AS PEOPLE START TO HAVE QUESTIONS, WE HAVE STAFF AVAILABLE AT A SCHEDULED TIME THAT WILL BE AVAILABLE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS AND WALK THEM THROUGH ANYTHING THEY MAY HAVE NEED ADDITIONAL SUPPORT ON.

NOW, WE WILL HAVE SOME SKYWARD STAFF ON SITE FOR THE START OF THE SCHOOL YEAR.

JUST HERE TO HANDLE ANYTHING THAT POPS UP AT THE LAST MINUTE.

ANY QUESTIONS, ANY LITTLE TWEAKS WE NEED TO MAKE.

AND WE HAVE PUBLISHED THE FULL CALENDAR OF THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER, OUR IN-PERSON TRAININGS, AND ALSO JUST OUT OF TRANSPARENCY, OUR CONSULTING SESSIONS.

SO ANYBODY IN THE DISTRICT THAT GOES TO AND I'LL SHOW THAT IN JUST A MINUTE.

THE INTERNAL WEBSITE WE'VE SET UP CAN GO SEE AT ANY GIVEN TIME WHAT WE HAVE GOING ON TRAININGS AVAILABLE AND WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE PROCESS.

SO THIS IS THE INTERNAL WEBSITE WE'VE SET UP.

SO YOU HAVE TO BE A PISD EMPLOYEE TO GET TO THIS AREA.

BUT IT DOES HAVE THE PRIMARY COMMUNICATION FOR THE PROJECT TO THE DISTRICT AND CAMPUS STAFF.

SO IT TALKS A LITTLE BIT ABOUT CUMULATIVE YOU'LL SEE THAT ON A NUMBER OF THESE SLIDES.

SKYWARD HAS TWO PRODUCTS THEIR OLDER PRODUCT IS SMS. THE ONE THAT WE'RE ON IS OUR NEWER PRODUCT CUMULATIVE.

SO IF YOU SEE THAT YOUR SKYWARD Q OR SKYWARD CUMULATIVE, THAT'S THE PARTICULAR PRODUCT THAT WE'RE WE'RE IMPLEMENTING.

SO WE TALK ABOUT WHY SKYWARD.

YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS. WHY ARE WE GOING TO IT.

WE'VE GOT THE TRAINING CALENDAR LINKED THERE.

WE'VE GOT A SERIES OF FAQS THAT ARE CURRENTLY LIVE AND WE'RE ADDING TO ALL THE TIME AS WE GET QUESTIONS, WE'RE TRYING TO PUT THOSE UP SO PEOPLE CAN GO IF WE GET A QUESTION THAT'S REPEATED, THEY CAN GO GET THAT ANSWER.

OUR NEWS, AND THEN THE IF THEY HAVE A QUESTION THAT'S NOT ADDRESSED, WE'VE GOT I THINK ABOUT 20 DIFFERENT LET'S TALK TOPICS OUT THERE.

THEY CAN GO CLICK ON AND THAT WILL COME IN AND WE CAN GET THEM ANSWERS ON ANY QUESTIONS THEY MAY HAVE.

WE'VE ALSO ROLLED OUT A PUBLIC WEBSITE, AND THIS IS GEARED TOWARDS PRIMARILY PARENTS AND OR STUDENTS.

AND SO NOT QUITE AS MUCH INFORMATION YET.

THERE'S NOT QUITE AS MUCH TO SHARE THERE.

BUT IT DOES HAVE THE BASICS OF FAMILY ACCESS.

A LITTLE BIT OF A HEADS UP OF WHAT'S COMING, A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT THEY'LL BE ABLE TO SEE.

WE DO HAVE A LET'S TALK AN FAQ SECTION FOR THE PARENTS THERE AS WELL.

SOME ADDITIONAL COMMUNICATIONS THAT WE'VE GONE THROUGH IN JANUARY AND FEBRUARY.

FOR PARENTS, WE SEND OUT EMAIL UPDATES.

WE'VE SENT OUT THROUGH THE FAMILY UPDATE INFORMATION FOR STAFF THROUGH THE STAFF UPDATE.

AND WE'VE ALSO WE DID A COUPLE OF PRINCIPAL MEETING PRESENTATIONS IN JANUARY.

FEBRUARY WE DID ANOTHER FAMILY UPDATE FOR PARENTS.

STARTED RELEASING SOME SKYWARD INFORMATIONAL VIDEOS.

GIVE LITTLE ONE MINUTE CLIPS ABOUT WHAT WILL BE IN FAMILY ACCESS AND WHAT THEY'LL BE ABLE TO EXPECT AND TO SEE.

AND THEN WE HAVE A ANOTHER PRINCIPAL PRESENTATION TOMORROW TO GIVE THEM AN UPDATE.

WE DO HAVE BROKEN OU, TOUR COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN WORKING WITH US IN TECHNOLOGY AND WITH SKYWARD ON A COMMUNICATION PLAN.

SKYWARD GAVE US SOME RECOMMENDED TOPICS AND TIMELINES.

AND SO WE DO HAVE MAPPED OUT MONTH BY MONTH THROUGH GO LIVE HOW WE'RE GOING TO COMMUNICATE WITH PARENTS, HOW WE'RE GOING TO COMMUNICATE WITH STAFF TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT'S COMING AND WHAT THE NEXT STEPS ARE.

WANT TO COVER OUR FIRST REALLY MAJOR MILESTONE, WHICH WAS GOING LIVE WITH THE 24-25 SCHEDULING PROCESS.

SO WE HAVE THAT DATA THAT WAS GONE THROUGH THE PRELIM MIGRATION, THROUGH THE FINAL MIGRATION, AND IS NOW AVAILABLE TO CAMPUSES.

WE THEN IMPORTED STUDENT SCHEDULE REQUESTS FOR 24-25 INTO SKYWARD.

GOT THE ACCOUNTS AND SECURITY SET UP FOR ALL THE STAFF INVOLVED IN BUILDING MASTER SCHEDULES.

THAT ONLINE TRAINING WE FIRST MADE AVAILABLE IN NOVEMBER.

WAS COMPLETED, AND THEN WE HAD IN-PERSON TRAINING RELATED TO MASTER SCHEDULES FROM FEBRUARY 13TH TO 15TH.

WE HAD A REALLY GOOD TURNOUT, I BELIEVE, AT ALMOST 200 PEOPLE TRAINED, AND I THINK ONLY SIX.

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AND THEN WE HAVE STARTED OUR FIRST COUPLE OF ROUNDS OF THOSE VIRTUAL SUPPORT LABS FOR MASTER SCHEDULE TRAINING, WHEREAS THEY RUN INTO ANY QUESTIONS OR NEED A LITTLE BIT OF EXTRA HELP. WE HAVE THOSE TIMES PUBLISHED.

OBVIOUSLY THEY HAVE QUESTIONS OUTSIDE OF THOSE TIMES, WE'LL ANSWER GET THEM AND ANSWER AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.

BUT IT IS NICE FOR THEM TO BE ABLE TO SCHEDULE THOSE TIMES ON THEIR CALENDAR WHEN THEY KNOW THAT THERE'LL BE SOMEBODY AVAILABLE.

A COUPLE OF OTHER RECENT MILESTONES.

WE DID FINISH THE VERY FIRST ERP PRELIMINARY DATA MIGRATION.

I FINISHED THE PRELIM OF THE FULL DEMOGRAPHICS FOR THE STUDENT INFORMATION SYSTEM.

WE HAD A FEW WEEKS BACK SKYWARD COME ON SITE, AND WE RAN A MOCK PAYROLL.

SO THAT WAS PARTIALLY A TESTING PROCESS, PARTIALLY A TRAINING PROCESS.

BUT TO MAKE SURE THAT AS EVERYTHING COMES THROUGH, THAT EVERYTHING WE WOULD NEED TO RUN PAYROLL WILL BE SUCCESSFUL.

AND BOTH HOW WE DO THE PROCESS AND ANYTHING WE MAY NEED TO CHANGE ON OUR DATA MAPPINGS.

AND WE DID GET SINGLE SIGN ON ENABLED.

SO WE USE WEBDESK, CLASSLINK WEBDESK.

SO THERE'S A TILE THAT ANYBODY WHO'S IN THE MASTER SCHEDULE PROCESS WILL BE ABLE TO GO IN AND CLICK ON.

THERE'S NO EXTRA LOGIN, NO EXTRA PASSWORD TO REMEMBER, IT'LL BE PART OF THE NORMAL PROCESS.

WE'VE NOT PUBLISHED THAT FOR THE ENTIRE DISTRICT YET BECAUSE MOST PEOPLE AREN'T USING IT.

BUT AS WE ADD MORE GROUPS, THEY'LL BE ABLE TO USE THAT SINGLE SIGN ON AND GET INTO SKYWARD WITH THEIR NETWORK LOGIN AND PASSWORD.

A FEW OF THE UPCOMING MILESTONES.

WE HAVE OUR ERP PRELIMINARY ONE MIGRATION BEING COMPLETED IN MARCH, AND WE'LL GO THROUGH THE VALIDATION PROCESS AGAIN.

ON THAT, WE'LL GET INTO SETUP AND CONFIGURATION STARTING ON GRADEBOOK AND ATTENDANCE.

AND THAT'S WHERE WE'LL GO START TO SET UP THE ACTUAL CODES AND PROCESSES THAT WE'LL USE FOR GRADEBOOK AND ATTENDANCE SO THAT THOSE THINGS ARE CONFIGURED ONCE OUR DATA IS THERE.

AND WE WILL DO THE VALIDATION ON THE SIS PRELIMINARY DEMOGRAPHICS.

GOING INTO APRIL, SKYWARD WILL BE BACK ON SITE FOR A SECOND MOCK PAYROLL THAT WILL BE BASED OFF THE DATA AND THE ERP PRELIMINARY ONE MIGRATION.

WE'LL ALSO HAVE THE LIVE FULL STUDENT DEMOGRAPHICS MIGRATION WHERE WE HAVE THE LARGER SET OF STUDENT DATA GOING INTO THE LIVE DATABASE WILL BE PERMANENT DATA THERE.

WE'LL GO THROUGH OUR HEALTH CONFIGURATION SKYWARD WILL DO SOME TRAIN THE TRAINER WITH THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT FOR THEM TO BE ABLE TO THEN TRAIN THE NURSES ON CAMPUSES A LITTLE BIT LATER, AND WE'LL HAVE OUR PRELIMINARY TIME OFF, WAREHOUSE AND OPEN POS MIGRATION STARTING.

THIS LAST SLIDE IS JUST A LITTLE BIT OF A HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW OF KIND OF WHERE WE ARE.

YOU CAN SEE WHERE WE STARTED BACK IN OCTOBER ON ERP AND SIS.

A LITTLE BIT OF A STAGGERED DATE THERE, BUT WE'RE ROUGHLY ABOUT A QUARTER TO A THIRD OF THE WAY THROUGH EACH OF THESE.

SO WE'VE COME A LONG WAY.

WE STILL HAVE QUITE A WAYS TO GO.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

THAT WAS WONDERFUL INFORMATION.

SO AS A PARENT YOU MENTIONED A GO LIVE DATE, AND I'M ALREADY MAKING MY SUMMER PLANS WHERE MY KIDS ARE GOING TO CAMP.

AND I KNOW THAT BY THE END OF JULY, I NEED TO GET ONLINE AND UPDATE MY BLUE CARD.

SO WILL I HAVE TO CREATE A NEW LOGIN? I MEAN, I'M PRETTY SURE I WILL RIGHT SKYWARD'S GOING TO REQUIRE ALL PARENTS AND GUARDIANS WILL HAVE TO CREATE A NEW LOGIN.

YES, AND WE'LL COMMUNICATE THAT OUT.

WE'RE STILL WORKING ON EXACTLY WHAT THAT PROCESS WILL LOOK LIKE.

WE'RE TRYING TO, I THINK, MAKE A COUPLE OF ADJUSTMENTS TO HOW SKYWARD TYPICALLY DOES THINGS THAT'LL BE A LITTLE BIT BETTER FOR HOW WE WANT THOSE ACCOUNTS TO FLOW, BUT THERE WILL BE A NEW ACCOUNT REQUIRED.

BUT WE'RE MAKING IT AS SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE, AND WE'LL HAVE THAT PUBLISHED WELL AHEAD OF TIME AS FAR AS WHAT THE PROCESS IS.

SUPER COOL. SO IF THEY HAVE MULTIPLE STUDENTS, THEY'LL BE ABLE TO GO IN AND LIKE ON THE DASHBOARD, CLICK ON STUDENT A, STUDENT B YES, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO TO CHANGE BETWEEN IF YOU'VE GOT MULTIPLE STUDENTS SKYWARD HAS WHAT THEY CALL A FAMILY.

SO IF YOU'VE GOT MULTIPLE STUDENTS, THEY'LL BE ATTACHED TO YOU.

YOU CAN GO IN AND CHANGE BETWEEN FROM ONE TO THE OTHER.

AND SO THE TIMELINE IS REALLY THE SAME AS IT'S ALWAYS BEEN LATE JULY, EARLY AUGUST.

YES. IT'LL BE READY.

YEAH. OKAY. COOL.

THANKS FOR WORKING SO HARD.

WELL, WE HAVE A WE HAVE AN AWFUL LOT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE, THAT ARE WORKING ON THIS PROJECT.

WE'VE GOT A LOT OF STAFF.

AND I WILL SAY I WANT TO BRAG A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE STAFF.

WE DO HAVE. WE'VE BEEN TOLD REPEATEDLY BY SKYWARD HOW IMPRESSED THEY ARE THE LEVEL OF QUESTIONS WE HAVE, THE PREPAREDNESS WE HAVE WE QUITE OFTEN CATCH THEM UNPREPARED FOR WHERE WE ARE, AND THEY'RE EXPECTING TO WALK US THROUGH THINGS, AND WE END UP SPENDING QUITE A BIT OF OUR SESSIONS, ACTUALLY KIND OF AD LIBBING ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS BECAUSE THEY'RE LIKE, WELL, Y'ALL ARE ALREADY AHEAD OF WHERE WE PLAN TO GET TO TODAY.

SO WHAT DO YOU HAVE? AND SO THEY HAVE BEEN VERY COMPLIMENTARY ON THE LEVEL OF WORK WE'VE DONE AND THE INTELLIGENCE AND QUESTIONS ON THE STAFF WE HAVE.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? YES.

OH. DO YOU WANT TO GO? OKAY, WELL, I'M VERY VERSED IN SKYWARD BECAUSE I USE SKYWARD.

AND THE THING IS THAT I WANT PARENTS TO KNOW THAT THEY'RE A VERY POSITIVE MOVING FORWARD WITH SKYWARD THAT WE DON'T HAVE CURRENTLY IN PARENT PORTAL BECAUSE ISN'T IT

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AND YOU CAN WHAT WHAT'S SO GOOD ABOUT SKYWARD IS THAT YOU CAN SEE UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS IN SKYWARD, THAT THEY WILL BE ABLE TO SEE THIS.

YES. AND THEY'LL BE YOUR PARENTS WILL BE ABLE TO SEE MORE IN SKYWARD THAN THEY DO CURRENTLY IN PARENT PORTAL.

IS THAT TRUE? I THINK A LOT OF IT WILL BE THE SAME INFORMATION.

I THINK QUITE A BIT. IS THERE IN PARENT PORTAL, IT'LL LOOK A LITTLE DIFFERENT.

BUT I THINK IT'LL BE A LITTLE BIT EASIER PROCESS ON THE ACCOUNTS AND THE SUPPORT FOR THE PARENTS.

I THINK IT'LL BE AN EASIER PROCESS AND THERE MAY BE A LITTLE BIT MORE, BUT A LOT OF IT WILL BE, THE CORE INFORMATION WILL BE THE SAME.

OKAY. AND ALSO FOR OUR TEACHERS TOO, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT SKYWARD, THE GRADEBOOK IS VERY EASY TO TO MANEUVER AROUND FOR SKYWARD.

SO WOULD YOU SAY THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE EASIER FOR TEACHERS TO PUT IN GRADES? I DON'T KNOW IF.

I THINK IT'LL BE SIMILAR.

IT'LL DEFINITELY BE A LOT EASIER ON ON THE CAMPUS STAFF AND THE DISTRICT STAFF TO HAVE THE GRADEBOOK INTEGRATED.

RIGHT NOW WE HAVE TO DO A LOT OF KIND OF JUMPING THROUGH HOOPS TO GET DATA FROM PINNACLE BACK INTO TEAMS, AND THERE'S A LAG ON SOME OF THE DATA THAT WE CAN PULL BECAUSE THE CURRENT GRADES ARE NOT IN THE SIS.

SO IT'LL DEFINITELY BE EASIER ON, ON CAMPUS STAFF LOOKING AT THAT, HAVING THE GRADE BOOK INTEGRATED AND WE'LL BE ABLE TO PULL DATA A LOT FASTER AND SPEND LESS TIME TRYING TO MOVE DATA BACK AND FORTH BECAUSE IT'LL BE TOGETHER.

IT'LL LOOK A LITTLE DIFFERENT.

I THINK THERE ARE SOME THINGS IN SKYWARD, THAT'LL BE A LITTLE BIT MAYBE EASIER ON SOME OF THE GRAPHICAL PIECES, YOU KNOW, LIKE THE SEATING CHARTS AND SOME THINGS THEY HAVE IN THERE. BUT FOR THE CORE ENTRY FOR THE GRADE BOOKS, IT'LL BE VERY SIMILAR.

IT'LL BE A PRETTY SMALL LEARNING CURVE.

IT'LL BE VERY, VERY, VERY SIMILAR.

AND I ALSO KNOW THAT THE MESSAGE CENTER IS IN SKYWARD.

SO THEREFORE THEY CAN DO THE GRADE BOOK IN SKYWARD ATTENDANCE IN SKYWARD.

AND THEN THEY DO THE MESSAGE CENTER IN SKYWARD WHERE THEY CAN ACTUALLY SEND OUT EMAILS TO ALL THE PARENTS IN ONE EMAIL, WHICH WILL BE INTEGRATED INTO SKYWARD, WILL BE VERY EASY. YEAH, THE MESSAGE CENTER WILL BE A COMPONENT WE HAVE IN SKYWARD AND FAMILY ACCESS.

THANK YOU.

BUT IN MY OPINION, I THINK THAT OUR MOVE TO SKYWARD WILL MAKE THINGS A LOT EASIER FOR THE DISTRICT, FOR OUR PARENTS AND OUR TEACHERS.

WOULD YOU AGREE? I WOULD AGREE, YES.

SO I JUST HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT MULTIPLE LANGUAGE.

I'M GOING TO MAKE THE ASSUMPTION THAT THERE'S A REASONABLE TRANSITION AND THERE SHOULDN'T BE ANY BUMPS FOR OUR FAMILIES AND OUR EMPLOYEES WHO ARE HAVE MULTIPLE LANGUAGES OVER ENGLISH, FOR FAMILY ACCESS.

YES. WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO, TO PUBLISH FORMS IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES.

REBECCA, THIS IS REBECCA, SHE'S OUR PROJECT LEAD ON THE SIS SIDE.

YES. SO FOR FAMILY ACCESS, I WILL SAY THAT SKYWARD COMES WITH SOME REALLY ROBUST VIDEOS OFFERED IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES.

THAT IS SOMETHING WE PLAN TO PUBLISH TO OUR FAMILIES, TO ASSIST THEM IN THE TRANSITION OF MAKING A FAMILY ACCESS ACCOUNT, WALKING THROUGH WHAT THOSE STEPS ARE.

IN ADDITION, WE DO PLAN TO TRAIN BOTH OUR HELP DESK WITH OUR INTERNAL EMPLOYEES TO HELP FIELD A LOT OF THOSE QUESTIONS IN ADDITION TO OUR WELCOME AND ENROLLMENT CENTER. AND EVEN OUR ASSESSMENT DEPARTMENT CURRENTLY FIELDS A LOT OF THOSE QUESTIONS FROM PARENTS, BECAUSE THAT'S ALL INFORMATION THAT'S AVAILABLE THROUGH PARENT PORTAL CURRENTLY.

SO WE PLAN TO GET ALL OF OUR STAFF TRAINED, BUT IN ADDITION HAVE AMPLE RESOURCES OUT THERE FOR PARENTS IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES TO BE ABLE TO ASSIST THROUGH THAT PROCESS.

OKAY. AND THIS IS A QUESTION THAT'S PROBABLY GOING TO BE WEIRD BECAUSE I DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE CHILDREN IN SCHOOL RIGHT NOW.

I'VE NOTICED THAT A GREAT DEAL OF PARENTS TEND TO USE THEIR THESE DAYS, THEIR PHONES MORE SO THAN A LAPTOP OR A DESKTOP.

IS THEIR APP THAT A PARENT WOULD USE FOR PARENT PORTAL? IS IS IT COMPARABLE? IS IT? I ACTUALLY WOULD SAY IT'S EVEN BETTER.

AND HERE'S THE REASON WHY IS BECAUSE SKYWARD COMES WITH AN APP THAT NUMBER ONE IS SUPPORTED BY SKYWARD DIRECTLY.

SO WHEN WE RUN INTO SNAGS OR ISSUES WE'RE NOT HAVING, NOT THAT OUR TECHNOLOGY STAFF HERE DELAYS.

WE CERTAINLY TREAT EVERYTHING WITH URGENCY.

BUT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SOMEBODY THAT'S THERE LOOKING AT IT IMMEDIATELY AND NOT HAVING TO WAIT FOR OUR TECHNICAL STAFF TO BE HERE ON CONTRACT THINGS OF THAT NATURE.

SO THAT'S ONE THING THAT'S GOING TO BE BENEFICIAL TO US AS WELL AS OUR PARENTS.

IN ADDITION TO THAT, I WOULD SAY ONE OF THE BIGGEST REASONS WHY THE APP IS BETTER THAN WHAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE PERSONALLY SPEAKING, THAT OUR CURRENT APP IS A PINCH, WHAT WE CALL

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SO YOU'RE NOT IT DOESN'T FORMAT TO AN IPHONE.

YOU'RE HAVING TO CONSTANTLY PINCH AND ZOOM TO GET IT TO FIT ON YOUR SCREEN THE RIGHT WAY.

AND WITH SKYWARD, THAT FORMATTING IS ALREADY THERE.

IT IS COMPATIBLE WITH BOTH APPLE ANDROID APPLICATIONS.

WE'VE HAD SOME FUN TESTING THAT OUT.

SO YEAH, AND IPADS, MACS, EVERYTHING.

SO OKAY, GREAT.

I THINK ANOTHER BIG POINT THAT WE WANT TO MAKE ABOUT THE SKYWARD TOOLS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS JUST THE UNIFICATION OF THE VARIOUS APPLICATIONS THAT WE'RE USING TODAY, PARENT PORTAL PINNACLE, A LOT OF DIFFERENT THIRD PARTY APPLICATIONS THAT WERE COMBINING TOGETHER TO TO FORM A.

STUDENT INFORMATION SYSTEM.

NOW WE'RE MOVING TO A SYSTEM THAT'S FULLY INTEGRATED, FULLY UNIFIED WITH ONE VENDOR THAT'S SUPPORTING THAT APPLICATION END TO END.

AND SO WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE IS TIGHTER INTEGRATION WITH HOW QUICKLY YOU'RE GOING TO GET YOUR DATA, HOW QUICKLY YOU'RE GOING TO SEE UPDATES, THE MESSAGING THAT'S INCLUDED IN THAT, AND THE FACT THAT SKYWARD IS A VERY INTUITIVE APPLICATION THAT WE'RE USING.

SO THERE'S GOING TO BE EASY FOR OUR PARENTS TO USE AND EASY FOR THEM TO LEARN AND PICK UP THIS TOOL.

ONE SMALL QUESTION.

I DIDN'T SEE THE SCHOOL CAFÉ IN THERE.

IS THAT ALSO GOING TO BE A PART OF THE SKYWARD TRANSITION? NO WE DO STILL PLAN TO USE PRIMEROEDGE, WHICH IS OUR CURRENT APPLICATION FOR OUR FOOD SERVICES.

WE DO PLAN TO INTEGRATE THAT WITH OUR STUDENT INFORMATION SYSTEM, SO THAT STUDENTS THAT ARE ELIGIBLE FOR FREE OR REDUCED LUNCH ARE STILL ELIGIBLE TO BE REPORTED FOR STATE FUNDING PURPOSES. AND I THINK ANOTHER THING TOO, THAT THAT I WOULD ADD, IS GREG SHOWED SOME APPLICATIONS THAT WE'RE USING FOR GO LIVE IN YEAR ONE.

THOSE MAY BE TEMPORARY.

IT JUST DEPENDS. SKYWARD IS VERY ACTIVELY DEVELOPING AGAINST THE VARIOUS MODULES IN THEIR SYSTEM, AND WE BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE GOING TO BE SOME OTHER OPPORTUNITIES FOR US TO AT SOME POINT PULL THE THAT INFORMATION BACK INTO SKYWARD.

BUT FOR THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE, YES.

WE ARE USING SOME OTHER THIRD PARTIES TO KIND OF HELP US GET OVER THAT HUMP, BUT THEY'VE DEMONSTRATED THAT THEY ARE VERY ACTIVELY DEVELOPING AGAINST THIS PLATFORM.

AND I THINK WE'RE GOING TO SEE SOME MORE CONSOLIDATION IN THE YEARS TO COME.

THEY'VE BEEN VERY, VERY RECEPTIVE ON ON SUGGESTIONS.

AND WE'VE ACTUALLY SEEN SOME OF THOSE ALREADY IMPLEMENTED, SOME OF THEM THAT THEY'VE BEEN VERY RECEPTIVE TO BUT WILL BE LONGER TERM, MAYBE, YOU KNOW, A YEAR OR TWO OUT.

I HAD TWO QUESTIONS.

ONE WAS THERE WAS A SLIDE ABOUT SEVERAL VENDORS THAT WERE SWITCHING BECAUSE WE'RE SWITCHING TO A SKYWARD COMPATIBLE VENDOR.

IS THERE A NET BUDGET IMPACT ON THAT? ARE WE INCREASING COSTS SIGNIFICANTLY OR IS IT PRETTY EVEN? DO WE KNOW THERE'S THERE'S NOT IN SOME CASES THERE'LL BE A LITTLE BIT OF AN INCREASE LET'S SAY FOR INSTANCE WELL, I TAKE THAT BACK.

IT'S PROBABLY IT'S PROBABLY GOING TO BE A WASH BECAUSE WE'RE NOT NECESSARILY ADDING A NEW SYSTEM.

WE'RE WE'RE DOING A SYSTEM THAT'S MORE COMPATIBLE WITH SKYWARD.

SO FOR INSTANCE, LIKE THE PAYMENT SYSTEM.

WE'RE CURRENTLY USING [INAUDIBLE] AS OUR PAYMENT SYSTEM, SO THE FUNDS THAT WE'RE USING TO PAY FOR THAT IS JUST GOING TO BE SHIFTED OVER TO PAY FOR THE VAN CODE THAT WE'RE USING. SAME THING WITH OUR.

A RED ROVER THAT WAS THAT'S ONE THAT'S KIND OF INTEGRATED WITH WHAT WE'RE DOING.

BUT WE'LL SHIFT THOSE FUNDS OVER.

SO WE'RE NOT SEEING A BUDGET INCREASE IN TERMS OF WHAT WE'RE DOING TO IMPLEMENT THESE ADDITIONAL PRODUCTS.

ONE ONE GOOD THING THOUGH, IS WE ALL HAVE.

WE ALSO HAVE PUT THE PROCESS OF THIS CONVERSION IN OUR BOND PROGRAM.

SO WHICH IS GOOD.

YEAH. VERY HELPFUL.

PROBABLY THE ONLY ONE THAT WOULD BE AN INCREASE MAY BE THE BENEFITS BECAUSE OUR BENEFITS WAS INITIALLY TIED IN WITH FRONTLINE THAT ONE MAY BE A SLIGHT INCREASE.

BUT WE DO HAVE BUDGET LIKE LIKE JOHNNY SAID IN THE IN THE BOND TO PAY FOR THAT.

PERFECT. THE SECOND QUESTION WAS I SAW A COUPLE OF MOCK PAYROLLS ON THERE.

AND CONSIDERING THAT THAT'S WHERE WE SPEND MOST OF OUR MONEY, THAT SEEMS LIKE A LIKE A NO FAIL ISSUE, RIGHT TO MAKE SURE THE PAYROLL TRANSITIONS, ARE WE SETTING UP A HELP LINE OR DO WE HAVE LIKE A PLAN IN CASE TEACHERS OR OTHER STAFF MEMBERS ENCOUNTER ISSUES WITH THAT TRANSITION? LIKE DO WE HAVE A SOMEONE THAT TEACHERS CAN GO TO IF WE HAVE ANY SORT OF PAYROLL GLITCHES IN THIS TRANSITION.

THEY WOULD STILL BE ABLE TO TO CONTACT THE HELP DESK IF THERE WAS ANY, ANY ISSUES.

TEACHERS WILL BE A COUPLE OF PAYROLLS DOWN.

SO WE'LL START WITH THE JULY START CONTRACTS MOSTLY GOING TO BE ADMINISTRATION.

SO WE WILL KIND OF RAMP UP A LITTLE BIT.

SO WE WILL NOT GO STRAIGHT INTO, YOU KNOW, 6000 COMING RIGHT OUT OF THE PAYROLL.

SO WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF TIME THERE.

BUT YES, SKYWARD IS VERY, VERY FOCUSED ON ON THOSE.

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AND IF THERE'S OBVIOUSLY JUST LIKE ALWAYS, IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS WITH PAYROLL, PROBABLY ONE OF THE BEST PLACES TO GO IF YOU'RE GOING TO GET HELP WOULD BE WITH OUR FINANCIAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT TOO.

SO THERE'S NO DIFFERENT THAN IF THEY HAD QUESTIONS RIGHT NOW.

SO THESE GUYS ARE WORKING WITH THE TECHNOLOGY STAFF TO DO THESE MOCK RUNS.

AND HOPEFULLY BY IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS, THEY'LL HAVE IT DOWN PRETTY, PRETTY WELL.

AND WE'LL HAVE TRAININGS OUT THERE ON THE AS WELL.

AS WE TALKED ABOUT FAMILY ACCESS, THERE'S ALSO EMPLOYEE ACCESS, WHICH WILL BE THE COMPONENT WHERE EMPLOYEES GO LOG IN.

SO WE'LL HAVE TRAINING ABOUT HOW TO GO IN AND MAKE SURE THEY CAN SEE THEIR, YOU KNOW, THEIR THEIR PAYCHECKS AND GET TO THAT INFORMATION.

BUT EVERYTHING IS GOING TO AS FAR AS THEIR CURRENT DEDUCTIONS, THEIR YOU KNOW, CHECKING ACCOUNTS, ALL OF THAT STUFF'S BEING MIGRATED OVER AND BEING VALIDATED AHEAD OF TIME.

I WOULD ADD ONE THING TO THAT TOO [INAUDIBLE] IS THAT NOT ONLY ARE WE TAKING THE STEPS TO MAKE SURE WE DO THESE DRY RUNS AND MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE CAN GET PAID ON TIME SKYWARD IS GOING TO BE ON SITE ONCE WE START SCHOOL FOR LITTLE ISSUES LIKE THIS, WHETHER IT'S ON THE STUDENT SIDE OR WHETHER IT'S ON THE ERP SIDE, THEY'RE GOING TO BE THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE ACTUALLY HAVE THEIR STAFF ON SITE TO KIND OF HELP US SUPPORT THIS APPLICATION TO GET OUR SCHOOL YEAR STARTED OFF.

AND SO THAT'LL BE ANOTHER LAYER OF SUPPORT THAT OUR FINANCE TEAM CAN, CAN REACH OUT TO AND GET ASSISTANCE WITH BUT THE SAME THING ON OUR STUDENT SIDE, IF WE'RE HAVING ISSUES OR EXPERIENCING SOME ISSUES, WE'VE GOT THEM ON HAND TO KIND OF HELP OUT TO GET THE SCHOOL YEAR STARTED.

AND ONE THING THAT HELPS IN THE WAY THAT SKYWARD IS DOING IT AS WELL IS BOTH ON THE ERP SIDE AND ON THE SIS SIDE.

WE HAVE A COUPLE OF FROM SKYWARD, A COUPLE OF PRIMARY ANALYSTS FOR EACH.

SO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE BEING MADE AVAILABLE FOR SUPPORT AT THAT TIME ARE THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE DONE ALL OF OUR CONSULTING ARE SET UP HELPING US THROUGH SOME OF THE TRAINING.

SO THEY ARE VERY, VERY VERSED AT THIS POINT WITH THE WAY WE'RE SET UP AND HOW WE DO EVERYTHING.

SO IF SOMETHING DOES HAVE A HICCUP, IT'S NOT A MATTER OF CALLING SOMEBODY ON A SKYWARD SUPPORT LINE THAT WE HAVE TO EXPLAIN WHO WE ARE OR WHAT WE'RE DOING.

IT'S THE PEOPLE THAT HELPED US THROUGH THE ENTIRE PROCESS THAT WILL KNOW, OH, OKAY, I KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THIS IS.

YOU KNOW WHAT WE SET UP, WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DO SO THAT WE WON'T HAVE ANY OF THAT TIME EXPLAINING BECAUSE WE ARE THE SUPPORT WILL HAVE AT THAT TIME, OR THE PEOPLE WHO GOT US SET UP TO THIS POINT.

GREAT. THANK YOU. WHEN WHEN WE SET UP THE CAMPUS PORTAL, WILL THE CAMPUS PORTAL ALSO HAVE, LIKE, ONLINE TEXTBOOKS? OR DOES IT CURRENTLY HAVE THE CAMPUS PORTALS? DO THEY HAVE THAT CURRENTLY OR NO.

NO, THEY DO NOT. NO.

SO IT'S JUST IT'S A DIFFERENT APP LIKE THE HMED THE STUDENTS GO INTO.

YES. THAT IS CONSIDERED A DIGITAL RESOURCE FOR A STUDENT.

AND THAT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT IS GOING TO BE GOING AWAY.

OKAY. ALL RIGHT.

GREAT REPORT AND GREAT ANSWERS.

THANK YOU BOTH FOR BEING HERE.

THANK YOU. NOW WE WILL MOVE ON TO 5.4 OF OUR REPORTS.

AND IT'S AN ATHLETIC UPDATE.

AND I WILL TURN THIS OVER TO DR.

SELENA FREEMAN.

THANK YOU, PRESIDENT HUMPHREY BOARD OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

PERIODICALLY, WE LIKE TO COME BACK AND BRING YOU GUYS UPDATES ON THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING IN THE ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT, PARTICULARLY AROUND OUR STUDENT ATHLETE PARTICIPATION, OUR ALIGNMENT WORK.

AND A VERY SPECIAL UPDATE THAT OUR ATHLETIC DIRECTOR, JEFF, IS PROBABLY WANT TO WANTING TO GIVE US BEFORE WE EVEN DIVE INTO THE SLIDES, BECAUSE WE HAD THIS MEETING GOING ON SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH A VERY BIG GAME TONIGHT.

SO I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO OUR ATHLETIC DIRECTOR, JEFF, AND LET HIM GIVE US ALL THAT FUN NEWS.

THANK YOU, DR. FREEMAN.

THANK YOU, DR. WILLIAMS. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT HUMPHREY AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND CABINET.

ALWAYS EXCITING. WE GOT SOME GOOD STUFF TONIGHT, BUT I'M GOING TO I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND GIVE YOU A SCORE UPDATE.

SO PLANO EAST OVER ALLEN TONIGHT 79 TO 52 [APPLAUSE].

SO YEAH.

SO THE PLANO PANTHERS IF YOU DON'T KNOW ARE NOW 36 AND 0 AND NUMBER ONE IN STATE OF TEXAS IN 6A.

AND SO NUMBER THREE IN THE MAXPREPS NATIONAL RANKING.

SO THEY'VE HAD THAT ALL YEAR LONG.

AND I LOVE HEARING ALL THE POSITIVE COMMENTS ABOUT THEM FROM JUST NEIGHBORING FRIENDS AND DISTRICTS THAT HAVE SEEN THEM PLAY.

IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THEM PLAY, THEY'RE ALL HOMEGROWN YOUNG MEN, ALL FROM PLANO.

AND JUST PLAY SO WELL TOGETHER.

AND IT'S A THING OF BEAUTY TO WATCH THEM PLAY.

SO IF YOU HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE, I'LL HAVE INFORMATION, YOU KNOW, IN THE BOARD UPDATE THIS WEEK JUST WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO BE PLAYING NOW.

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AND THE SECOND GAME WILL BE 1:00 ON SATURDAY.

AND THEN YOU WIN THAT GAME, WHICH WE PLAN TO THEN YOU'LL ADVANCE TO THE STATE TOURNAMENT DOWN IN SAN ANTONIO, WHICH WOULD BE THE NEXT WEEKEND.

SO WE'LL HAVE ALL KINDS OF GOOD INFORMATION ABOUT THAT.

AND SO VERY, VERY EXCITED FOR THE PANTHERS.

TONIGHT WAS A BIG GAME OVER AT THE CURTIS CULWELL CENTER IN GARLAND.

WHAT A GREAT VENUE. AND I SAW SOME PICTURES.

WE HAD A BIG CROWD THERE. SO AWESOME STUFF.

WE'VE GOT SOME MORE AWESOME INFORMATION TO TALK ABOUT TONIGHT.

SO THANKS FOR ALLOWING US TO, TO SHARE.

AND I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT.

AGAIN, WE SAY THIS EVERY TIME, BUT IT'S THE TRUTH.

WE CAN'T DO ALL THESE THINGS.

OUR OUR KIDS WOULDN'T HAVE THESE OPPORTUNITIES WITHOUT YOU AND YOUR SUPPORT AND YOUR ENCOURAGEMENT.

VERY PROUD OF THE WORK WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO DO IN THE RECENT YEARS FOR OUR KIDS AND OUR COMMUNITY.

AND SO WE'RE GOING TO TOUCH ON A LITTLE BIT OF THAT TONIGHT.

SO I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND JUMP INTO THIS WITH JUST SOME PARTICIPATION NUMBERS.

AND THIS IS FROM FALL AND WINTER.

SO SPRING IS NOT INCLUDED IN THIS.

SO WE'VE GOT, WE'VE GOT A FEW SPORTS THAT WILL NOT BE ON HERE.

BUT FOR THE MOST PART WE'RE GOING TO HAVE EVERYBODY.

AND SO YOU CAN KIND OF SEE FROM 22 TO 23 WHERE OUR NUMBERS WERE COMPARED TO THIS YEAR AND WHERE THEY ARE.

AND I WILL SAY THIS, A LOT OF THESE SPORTS ON HERE ARE HAVE TRYOUTS AND THEY ALSO HAVE A CUT PROCESS.

AND SO THOSE NUMBERS ARE USUALLY GOING TO STAY ABOUT THE SAME.

THEY MAY BE A LITTLE UP A LITTLE BIT OR DOWN A LITTLE BIT DEPENDING.

WE DO HAVE SOME GROWTH IN WRESTLING.

WRESTLING IS A GROWING SPORT.

WENT DOWN TO THE STATE TOURNAMENT DOWN IN [INAUDIBLE] ISD A COUPLE OF WEEKENDS AGO AND SAW SOME OF OUR KIDS BRING HOME SOME HARDWARE, SO YOU'LL GET A CHANCE TO SEE THAT HERE, I THINK MARCH 19TH BOARD MEETING.

AND THEN ALSO GOT TO SEE SOME SWIMMERS LAST WEEKEND DOWN IN AUSTIN.

SO YOU CAN KIND OF SEE WE'RE A LITTLE BIT LOW LOWER THIS YEAR THAN WE WERE LAST YEAR.

BUT AGAIN, THAT THAT KIND OF FLUCTUATES A LITTLE BIT FROM YEAR TO YEAR.

SOMETIMES UP, SOMETIMES DOWN.

SO OVERALL WE'RE HOLDING VERY, VERY STEADY.

IN MIDDLE SCHOOL WE, WE'VE GOT GIRLS AND BOYS BASKETBALL RIGHT NOW.

WE, YOU KNOW, WE FINISHED FOOTBALL AND VOLLEYBALL AND WE JUST FINISHED OUR GIRLS AND BOYS BASKETBALL SEASONS HERE AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL LEVEL.

WE HAD OUR TOURNAMENTS THE LAST TWO WEEKENDS.

SO THEY PLAY AT PSA THEY PLAY TOURNAMENTS AND KIDS WIN TROPHIES.

AND SO IT'S BEEN PRETTY AWESOME.

OUR NUMBERS AGAIN ARE VERY, VERY SIMILAR IN FROM LAST YEAR TO THIS YEAR WHICH IS GOOD HOLDING STEADY.

AND THEN IN GIRLS AND BOYS TRACK, WE STILL DON'T HAVE THOSE NUMBERS BECAUSE WE'RE JUST NOW STARTING TRACK.

SO WE WILL HAVE THOSE COMING SOON.

I WILL SAY THIS JUST ABOUT THESE NUMBERS.

AND YOU DON'T SEE THIS BECAUSE SOME OF THESE SPORTS ARE TRYOUT SPORTS AND HAVE CUTS.

AND LET ME TELL YOU, AS COACHES, WE HATE CUTS.

I MEAN, THAT'S LIKE THE WORST DAY OF THE YEAR WHEN YOU HAVE TO HAVE TO HAVE TRYOUTS AND.

WE HATE TELLING KIDS THAT, YOU KNOW, HEY, IT DIDN'T WORK OUT.

AND SO BUT WITH THAT BEING SAID, I THINK THAT WHAT YOU DON'T SEE ON THIS CHART IS OUR SEVENTH GRADE NUMBERS HAVE GONE UP QUITE A BIT, AND WE FEEL LIKE A LOT OF THAT HAS TO DO WITH SIXTH GRADE PRE ATHLETICS.

WE'VE ADDED THAT A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO.

AND SO WE HAVE SOME DATA THAT WILL REALLY BE ABLE TO STUDY EVEN MORE AND MORE HERE IN THE NEXT YEAR OR TWO.

THAT JUST SHOWS THOSE IMPROVEMENTS.

BUT BUT YOU KNOW, THAT THAT PROGRAM AND YOU GUYS KNOW IT HAS JUST BEEN PHENOMENAL.

AND WE FEEL LIKE WE SEE THAT EFFECTS OF THAT THROUGH OUR SEVENTH GRADE.

WE'RE SEEING OUR NUMBERS UP, MORE PARTICIPATION.

I THINK OUR KIDS ARE MORE PREPARED.

THEY'RE MORE CONFIDENT.

SO SO GREAT PROGRAM.

SO THAT'S NOT REALLY SHOWN ON HERE.

WE ALREADY SHARED THE PRE ATHLETICS NUMBERS EARLIER THIS YEAR.

AND SO I DIDN'T WANT TO SHOW THEM AGAIN.

BUT BEEN A VERY GREAT A GREAT PROGRAM.

THESE ARE JUST A SLIDE THAT JUST KIND OF SHOWS SOME OF THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS THIS YEAR.

YOU KNOW FROM EACH EACH CLUSTER, EACH SENIOR HIGH AND IT KIND OF SHOWS I JUST PUT PLAYOFF THINGS ON HERE TYPE OF AWARDS.

THERE ARE A LOT OF OTHER ACCOLADES THAT I DON'T HAVE ON HERE.

QUITE HONESTLY WE HAVE A LOT OF OF ACADEMIC ALL DISTRICT KIDS THAT WE WILL HIGHLIGHT TOWARD THE END OF THE YEAR.

ACADEMIC, ALL STATE KIDS.

WE HAVE A LOT OF OTHER GREAT THINGS THAT WE DON'T HAVE ON HERE, BUT THIS IS JUST SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS FROM.

AND I WON'T READ ALL OF THIS, BUT YOU CAN KIND OF SEE SOME STATE QUALIFIERS IN WRESTLING AND IN CROSS COUNTRY.

OBVIOUSLY OVER AT PLANO WEST, WE HAD A TENNIS TEAM THAT GOT DOWN TO THE STATE FINALS THIS YEAR.

WE HAD SOME REALLY GOOD VOLLEYBALL TEAMS THIS FALL THAT DID VERY, VERY WELL IN THE PLAYOFFS AND THEN BASKETBALL.

WE JUST TALKED ABOUT THAT. PLANO WE STILL PLAYING TODAY? AND THEN WRESTLING AND SWIMMING ARE FINISHED UP.

SO WHAT'S NOT ON HERE WILL BE SOME OF OUR SPRING SPORTS.

WE'RE JUST NOW GETTING AND BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL TRACK SEASON GOLF, TENNIS IN THE SPRING.

SO WE'RE JUST NOW GETTING INTO THOSE SEASONS.

THIS IS IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE PEOPLE TALK A LOT ABOUT, MAN, IT'S NOT FOOTBALL SEASON.

I BET YOU'RE KIND OF GETTING A LITTLE BIT OF REST, AND I'M LIKE, NO, NO, NO, QUITE THE OPPOSITE.

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BUT THIS HONESTLY, FEBRUARY AND MARCH AND A LITTLE BIT OF APRIL ARE THE BUSIEST TIME OF THE YEAR FOR OUR STUDENT ATHLETES AND OUR COACHES AND OUR IN OUR SCHOOL, IN OUR SCHOOLS.

SO BUT IT'S A FUN TIME.

YOU KNOW, IT'S IT REALLY IS.

AND WE'VE GOT A LOT OF TALENTED KIDS, AS YOU GUYS KNOW, SO VERY, VERY PROUD OF THESE OF THESE ACCOLADES AND WHAT OUR TEAMS HAVE DONE.

AND WE WILL JUST CONTINUE TO ADD TO THIS LIST, HOPEFULLY A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP OR TWO.

YOU GUYS ALSO KNOW THAT WE JUST REALIGNED, YOU KNOW, EVERY TWO YEARS WE HAVE A BIANNUAL BIENNIAL REALIGNMENT.

AND THIS IS OUR NEW DISTRICT AND THE NEW 6-6A AND SO YOU CAN KIND OF SEE WE REJOINED SOME OLD NEIGHBORING DISTRICTS HERE THAT WE USED TO BE WITH.

WE'RE NOT WITH THE LEWISVILLE OR COPPELL ANYMORE.

WE'VE MOVED UP WITH ALLEN AND THE TWO MCKINNEY'S, AND WE HAD A PRINCETON.

PRINCETON MOVED UP IN ALIGNMENT THIS YEAR AS A AS A SINGLE SCHOOL THERE.

AND THEN TWO PROSPER SCHOOLS.

AND SO THAT IS OUR DISTRICT.

IT IS A NINE TEAM DISTRICT, WHICH IS RARE.

YOU KNOW, A LOT OF TIMES THEY DON'T LIKE PUTTING TOGETHER NINE TEAM DISTRICTS.

USUALLY IT'S EIGHTS MAYBE A SEVEN EVER SO OFTEN.

AND SO IT, IT MAKES BY WEEKS AND SOME SCHEDULING A LITTLE BIT MORE CHALLENGING LESS NON-DISTRICT OPPONENTS TO MORE DISTRICT OPPONENTS.

SO. BUT WE'RE VERY EXCITED.

YOU GUYS KNOW THESE ARE ALL GREAT DISTRICTS, GREAT COMPETITORS.

WE'RE EMBRACING THAT CHALLENGE AND LOOK FORWARD TO IT OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS.

AND THEN WE'LL SEE WHERE IT TAKES US AFTER THAT.

BUT I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU GUYS SAW THAT RIGHT NOW.

WHAT'S GOING ON AT DISTRICTS WE'RE HAVING MEETINGS RIGHT NOW, SETTING POLICY FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS FOR OUR DISTRICT.

YOU KNOW, WE'RE SETTING HANDBOOKS AND YOU KNOW, WHAT TOURNAMENTS LOOK LIKE AND WHAT, YOU KNOW, SCHEDULES LOOK LIKE.

AND SO RIGHT NOW, THIS DISTRICT IS STARTING TO MEET ON THE SIDE IN THE SPRING TO GET READY FOR NEXT FALL.

REALLY EXCITED. JUST KIND OF GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON THE NINTH GRADE ATHLETIC UNIFICATION.

YOU KNOW, WE HAD COMMUNICATION COME OUT AGAIN ABOUT THIS.

AND WE'VE BEEN HARD AT WORK ON THIS FOR FOR A REALLY LONG TIME AS YOU GUYS KNOW BEHIND THE SCENES ALSO YOU KNOW, MORE PUBLICLY IN THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS OUR PRINCIPALS, OUR ATHLETIC COORDINATORS, OUR EVERYONE HAS BEEN JUST WORKING VERY, VERY HARD TO YOU KNOW, TO BRING OUR NINTH GRADERS TOGETHER. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? YOU KNOW, I'LL GO AHEAD AND SAY IT AGAIN.

WE'RE ACTUALLY TAKING OUR NINTH GRADERS FROM BOTH OF OUR 9/10 CAMPUSES AND COMBINING THEM ATHLETICALLY.

AND SO, YOU GUYS KNOW BUT I KNOW WE'VE HAVE A LOT OF LISTENERS OUT THERE.

WE OFFER WE OFFER VOLLEYBALL, FOOTBALL, GIRLS AND BOYS BASKETBALL AT OUR NINE, TEN CAMPUSES EVERYTHING ELSE IT IS OUR SENIOR HIGHS.

AND SO OUR, OUR GOAL FOR A LONG TIME IS TO TRY TO GET OUR KIDS TOGETHER AND COMPETING TOGETHER.

WHY? AND THAT'S AND I HAVE THE PURPOSE ON HERE YOU KNOW, CLUSTER AND PROGRAM COHESION, GUYS, EVERY TIME, THE SOONER WE CAN GET KIDS TOGETHER TO BE ON A TEAM TOGETHER, THE MORE SUCCESSFUL THEY'LL BE, THE MORE THEY KNOW EACH OTHER, THE BETTER THEY PLAY AS A TEAM.

MUCH LIKE THESE PLANO EAST PANTHERS THAT WE'RE WATCHING RIGHT NOW THE SOONER THEY GET TOGETHER AND CREATE BONDS THE BETTER.

AND INSTEAD OF WAITING TILL THEIR 10TH OR 11TH OR 12TH GRADE, WE'RE.

WE'RE TRYING TO GET TO GETTING THEM TOGETHER AS NINTH GRADERS.

AND SO THAT'S WHAT THIS.

A BIG PART OF THIS ATHLETIC UNIFICATION IS ALSO JUST CREATING A WINNING CULTURE.

THERE'S GOING TO BE SUCCESS WE'RE GOING TO SEE FROM THIS WITH OUR TEAMS AND WITH JUST CULTURE.

YOU'RE GOING TO SEE CULTURE SUCCESS.

YOU'RE GOING TO SEE BETTER VERTICAL ALIGNMENT.

I KNOW WE'VE TALKED A LOT ABOUT VERTICAL ALIGNMENT OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS.

I FEEL LIKE THIS IS A HUGE STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION WITH OUR VERTICAL ALIGNMENT.

THEY'RE GOING TO HEAR OUR VARSITY COACHES MORE.

THEY'RE GOING TO BE SPEAKING THE SAME LANGUAGE.

THEY'RE GOING TO BE USING THE PLAY THE SAME PLAYBOOKS SO OUR ALIGNMENTS GOING TO IMPROVE.

WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A DEVELOPMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE TEAMS AGAIN THAT JUST THAT TEAM CONCEPT.

JUST WE'VE HAD POSITIVE COMMUNITY FEEDBACK.

YOU KNOW, OUR SURVEYS THAT WE DID JUST A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, A YEAR AND A HALF AGO WHERE WE GOT WE SAW A LOT OF COMMUNITY FEEDBACK.

WE HAD OVER 100 COMMENTS ABOUT, HEY, WE REALLY LIKE THE 9 TO 12 COMPREHENSIVE ATHLETIC MODEL.

CAN WE CAN WE SOMEHOW DO THAT? WHAT WHAT CAN WE DO TO FIX THIS? WHAT? WE HAD JUST A LOT OF AN OVER AN OVERABUNDANCE OF COMMENTS ABOUT THAT.

AND WE HEARD THAT VERY LOUD AND CLEAR.

AND, AND SO WE DID HAVE A LOT OF FEEDBACK THAT WAS VERY POSITIVE ABOUT THIS.

SO WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS.

THE TIMELINE OF THIS IS THE 24-25 SCHOOL YEAR.

SO WE'VE BEEN WORKING AS WE SPEAK AND WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? SO I'M GOING TO KIND OF JUMP INTO THAT A LITTLE BIT.

AND FIRST OF ALL, JUST, YOU KNOW, I TALKED ABOUT FOOTBALL, VOLLEYBALL, BOYS AND GIRLS BASKETBALL.

SO WHAT THAT'S GOING TO LOOK LIKE IS WE'RE GOING TO HAVE IN FOOTBALL NINTH A, B AND C TEAMS, IF POSSIBLE.

WE'LL TRY TO HAVE A C TEAM.

AS YOU KNOW, FOOTBALL IS NOT A TRYOUT CUT SPORT.

SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE AS MANY TEAMS AS WE CAN IN FOOTBALL.

VOLLEYBALL AND BASKETBALL ARE DIFFERENT.

YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SO MANY UNIFORMS, SO MANY TEAMS. AND QUITE HONESTLY NEIGHBORING DISTRICTS DON'T HAVE C TEAMS. YOU KNOW IT'S REALLY A AND B TEAMS. AND SO THAT'S THAT'S WHY YOU SEE A AND B ONLY IN VOLLEYBALL AND BASKETBALL.

BUT BUT WE'RE BASICALLY GOING TO BE BRINGING THOSE KIDS TOGETHER FROM LIKE VINES AND CLARK OR MCMILLON AND WILLIAMS OR SHEPHERD AND JASPER BRINGING THOSE KIDS TOGETHER TO MAKE ONE

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NOTHING WILL CHANGE. WE'LL STILL PLAY AT OUR STADIUMS. THE GAME LOGISTICS, THE THINGS THAT OUR FANS ARE USED TO WILL BE THE SAME.

IT JUST WILL ALL YOU GUYS KNOW, WE JUST CHANGED OUR ALIGNED OUR COLORS AND MASCOTS, SO WE'LL BE WEARING THE SAME UNIFORMS. ALL ONE NINTH GRADE TEAM, MAYBE IN C.

VOLLEYBALL WILL BE TWO TEAMS, A NINTH A AND B, THE GAMES ARE GOING TO BE SPLIT.

WE TALKED A LOT ABOUT THIS.

WE WANT OUR GAMES TO BE SHARED AT BOTH 19 CAMPUS.

WE FEEL LIKE THEY NEED TO PLAY ON THEIR HOME CAMPUS, RIGHT, AT LEAST HALF THE GAMES DURING THE YEAR SO THEY CAN PLAY CLOSE TO WHERE THEY LIVE IN FRONT OF, YOU KNOW, SOME NEIGHBORING NEIGHBORS, YOU KNOW, AND PEOPLE THEY LIVE BY.

AND SO WE WE'VE WORKED OUT THE LOGISTICS.

YOU CAN IMAGINE THERE'S A LOT OF LOGISTICS BEHIND THE SCENES ON HOW THIS ALL WORKS.

AND WE'VE GOTTEN WITH OUR COORDINATORS, OUR COACHES GOTTEN FEEDBACK.

WE'VE GOT BUSSING. NOW, I'M GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT, BUT WE'VE GOT IT ALL DOWN AND WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT IT.

GIRLS AND BOYS BASKETBALL THE SAME OKAY.

SO THAT'S GENERALLY OKAY SPEAKING RIGHT THERE.

WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE AGAIN OTHER SPORTS YOU SAY WHAT ABOUT CROSS COUNTRY.

WHAT ABOUT TENNIS. WHAT ABOUT THAT'S ALREADY AT THE SENIOR HIGH.

WE'RE ALREADY DOING EVERYTHING AT THE SENIOR HIGH FOR THOSE SPORTS.

GIRLS SOFTBALL. ALL OF OUR TEAMS ARE AT THE SENIOR HIGH.

SO AND THAT'S BEEN THAT WAY FOR A REALLY LONG TIME.

THESE ARE THE ONLY SPORTS THAT HAVE BEEN KIND OF SEPARATED AND DOWN AT OUR NINE TENS.

AND SO WE'RE GETTING THEM TOGETHER.

WE'RE VERY, VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT.

LET'S SEE HERE ADDITIONAL LOGISTICAL STUFF YOU KNOW, INFORMATION, JUST SO YOU KNOW, TO HOPEFULLY ANSWER A FEW QUESTIONS.

OUR HIGH SCHOOL STAFFS WILL BE COMBINED.

YOU CAN IMAGINE WE HAVE COACHES AT EACH 910.

SO WE'RE BRINGING THOSE COACHES TOGETHER AND THEY'RE GOING TO BE COACHING TOGETHER.

AND, AND FOR THE, FOR THE PROGRAMS. AND SO WE HAVE ALSO A LOT OF NEEDS WHERE WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO UTILIZE THOSE COACHES AND EXCITED ABOUT THAT.

SO WE'RE WORKING ON THAT.

WE HAVE A CLEAR PROCESS FOR HOW WE'RE DOING THAT AND WE'RE WORKING THROUGH THAT NOW WITH CAMPUS ADMIN.

TRANSPORTATION. YOU GUYS KNOW WE HAVE A BIG DISTRICT, SO BUSSING WILL BE HUGE.

YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION BETWEEN CAMPUSES, MAKE SURE KIDS CAN GET WHERE THEY NEED TO BE.

AND SO THAT WILL NOT BE A PROBLEM.

WE'VE GOT A PLAN FOR THAT.

WE'VE WORKED WITH MARK SKINNER AND TRANSPORTATION.

THEY'VE BEEN WONDERFUL TO WORK WITH, AND OUR COACHES ARE GOING TO BE PREPARED TO HELP PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION AS WELL FOR THESE KIDS.

EQUIPMENT AND UNIFORMS. THAT'S THEY'RE GOING TO BE COMBINED AND UTILIZED.

SO THERE'S NO BUDGET.

THAT'S A THERE'S NO BUDGETARY ISSUE THERE, ACTUALLY.

WE'RE JUST TAKING WHAT WE HAVE AND WE'RE, WE'VE ALREADY WEAR THE SAME COLOR SO WE'RE COMBINING IT.

SO THAT'S GOING TO BE EXCITING AND NO STRUCTURAL CHANGES.

I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE I POINT THIS OUT.

OUR FINE ARTS PROGRAMS ARE GOING TO HAVE THE SAME OPPORTUNITIES THEY'VE ALWAYS HAD.

WE'RE NOT NOTHING'S CHANGING WITH FINE ARTS.

THIS IS AN ATHLETIC CHANGE.

OKAY. STRUCTURAL CHANGE.

AND SO OUR BAND WILL PLAY ON THURSDAY NIGHTS.

IF YOU GO TO SOME OF OUR JV OR JV TWO GAMES, YOU SEE THEM COMPETE.

AND IT'S AN AWESOME EXPERIENCE SEEING ALL OF THEM OUT THERE COMPETING AND DOING THEIR THING.

AND SO THAT WILL STAY THE SAME.

NOTHING'S GOING TO CHANGE THERE.

SO OUR BAND [INAUDIBLE] ENSURE SAME OPPORTUNITIES.

NOTHING'S GOING TO CHANGE.

WHERE ARE WE NOW? YOU KNOW, JUST SO YOU GUYS KNOW, KIND OF WHERE WE'RE AT.

WE'RE WE'RE FINALIZING CLUSTER LOGISTICS WITH FACILITIES, TRANSPORTATION AND COACHING PERSONNEL.

SO WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT.

THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING IN MARCH, FEBRUARY AND MARCH.

A LOT OF IT'S DONE, BUT WE'RE KIND OF FINISHING THINGS UP WITH SOME OF THOSE LOGISTICS.

WE STILL HAVE A LOT OF COMMUNICATION TOO.

I KNOW WE SENT OUT GENERAL COMMUNICATION TO OUR COMMUNITY.

WE SIGNED AN FAQ.

WE HAVE SOME INFORMATION OUT THERE, BUT WE ALSO HAVE BEEN PUTTING TOGETHER ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO ANSWER A LOT OF QUESTIONS.

IT'S GOING TO BE GOING OUT VERY, VERY SOON.

FROM OUR HEAD COACHES IN OUR CLUSTERS WE'RE ALSO GOING TO HAVE BIG CLUSTER NIGHTS WHERE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE ALL THE FRESHMEN OVER TO THE SENIOR HIGHS AND, AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE ALL THE SPORTS THERE, AND THEY'RE GOING TO GET A CHANCE TO MEET THE HEAD COACHES.

WE'RE DOING THAT IN APRIL.

AND SO WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO ANSWER A LOT OF QUESTIONS, GET EVERYBODY EXCITED ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING, GET EVERYBODY AT THE SENIOR HIGHS.

AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO GET DOWN TO THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS OBVIOUSLY, AND VISIT WITH KIDS AND MAKE SURE THEY HAVE CAMP INFORMATION.

THEY HAVE FALL TRYOUT INFORMATION.

THEY HAVE EVERYTHING THEY NEED TO GET READY AND GET EXCITED ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING AT THE 19 CAMPUSES.

GOT SOME MORE. HERE WE ARE MAKING SOME SOME SOME STRUCTURAL CHANGES WITH CHEER.

OKAY. AND YOU GUYS KNOW WE'VE HAD VERY SIMILAR TO ATHLETICS.

WE'VE HAD NINTH GRADE CHEER TEAMS, 10TH GRADE CHEER TEAMS. THEY'VE ALL KIND OF BEEN SEPARATE.

WE'RE ACTUALLY FOR GAME DAY CHEER, WHICH WOULD YOU WOULD SEE ON A ON A AT A FOOTBALL GAME WHERE WE HAVE CHEERLEADERS ON OUR SIDELINE CHEERING AND TUMBLING AND DOING STUNTS AND THOSE TYPES OF THINGS.

WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO BE COMBINING OUR NINTH AND 10TH GRADE CHEER TEAMS AT EACH HIGH SCHOOL CAMPUS INTO ONE JV TEAM.

AND SO WE WILL HAVE, YOU KNOW, TEAMS AT EACH 910 FEEDER, OKAY.

BUT THEY WILL ACTUALLY BE COMBINING AND CHEERING TOGETHER ON THURSDAY NIGHT AT JV FRESHMEN OR JV TWO GAMES.

SO THAT'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.

THEY'VE WE'VE HAD TWO DIFFERENT TEAMS. ALL RIGHT. NOW THEY'RE TOGETHER AND WE'RE BRINGING THEM TOGETHER.

OUR 11TH AND 12TH WE'LL ALSO COMBINE.

AND THEY WILL BE ONE VARSITY CHEER TEAM OKAY.

USED TO OUR JUNIORS WERE THE JV.

ALL RIGHT. IS IS WHAT IT WAS.

AND WE'RE ACTUALLY MAKING ONE VARSITY TEAM.

WHAT'S THAT GOING TO CHANGE THE NUMBER OF SPOTS AS FAR AS CHEER.

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SO PLEASE, PLEASE KNOW THAT WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THAT.

FEEL LIKE THAT'S, AGAIN GOING TO BRING COHESION, THAT'S GOING TO BRING OUR TEAMS TOGETHER AND GIVE THEM A, YOU KNOW, IT'S IT'S GOING TO LOOK BETTER.

IT'S GOING TO FEEL BETTER.

AND I'LL BE HONEST, THE FEEDBACK FROM OUR CHEER COACHES AND OUR, OUR, OUR PARENTS AND KIDS HAS BEEN VERY, VERY POSITIVE.

THEY'RE VERY, VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS.

I'LL TELL YOU ANOTHER THING THEY'RE GOING TO BE REAL EXCITED ABOUT IS THE WAY WE'RE COMPETING AS CHEER TEAMS. THIS IS NEW TOO AND WE HAVE YOU KNOW, WE'VE, WE'VE COMPETED IN THE PAST BUT WE HAVE SOME VERY TALENTED UNDERCLASSMEN, FRESHMEN, SOPHOMORES THAT ARE VERY, VERY TALENTED CHEERLEADERS THAT HAVE JUST REALLY BEEN CHEERING AND COMPETING AT THE NINTH GRADE LEVEL OR THE 10TH GRADE LEVEL.

WE'RE GOING TO CREATE A COMPETITIVE CHEER TEAM THAT COULD BE 9 TO 12.

IF YOU'RE GOOD ENOUGH TO BE ON IT, YOU CAN BE ON IT.

AND WE GO AND WE COMPETE AND TRY TO WIN TROPHIES AND COMPETE IN THE UIL.

AND THAT'S A 9 A FRESHMAN, SOPHOMORE, JUNIOR, SENIOR CAN BE ON THAT COMPETITIVE CHEER TEAM.

BUT WE ALSO WANT TO KEEP OUR OPPORTUNITIES THERE.

SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A JV COMPETITIVE CHEER TEAM TOO.

SO SO AGAIN, WE'RE NOT WE'RE NOT LOSING OPPORTUNITIES THERE.

WE'RE JUST GOING TO HAVE A VARSITY AND JV.

BUT THAT JV WILL BE NINTH AND 10TH GRADERS ONLY ALL RIGHT FROM THEIR FEEDER.

SO THAT'S A LITTLE BIT ABOUT COMPETITION.

SO REALLY TWO TWO DIFFERENT TWO FACETS OF CHEER.

YOU KNOW WE HAVE THE SIDELINE CHEER OR THE GAME DAY CHEER WE WOULD LIKE TO CALL IT.

AND THEN THE COMPETITION CHEER OKAY.

AND I KNOW YOU'LL HAVE QUESTIONS.

SO WE'LL COME BACK TO THAT. BUT THAT'S THAT'S WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT.

AGAIN, VERY GOOD FEEDBACK ABOUT THAT.

AND MY GOODNESS.

LOOK AT THIS.

I MEAN, ATHLETIC BOND PROJECTS.

YOU GUYS WE WORKED SO HARD ON THE BOND.

YOU GUYS WORK SO HARD ON THE BOND.

OUR COMMUNITY OUR TASK FORCE.

JUST EVERYBODY THIS IT'S REALLY COOL TO SEE THOSE BOND DOLLARS AT WORK, YOU KNOW, AND YOU GET TO SEE SOMETHING.

AND I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU IF YOU DIDN'T, YOU KNOW, THE SPRING GO TO A BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL GAME AT PLANO EAST OR PLANO WEST PLANO SENIORS COMING.

IT'S NOT HERE YET.

YOU KNOW, THEY'RE DOING A BIG PROJECT AT PLANO SENIOR HIGH ON THE WHOLE CAMPUS, RIGHT? THEY'RE DOING A BIG CAMPUS RENOVATION, SO IT'LL GET DONE.

IT'S JUST GOING TO BE A BIGGER PROJECT THAT'S GOING TO TAKE A LITTLE MORE TIME.

BUT THIS IS DONE HERE AT PLANO EAST AND PLANO WEST.

AND THAT'S RIGHT THERE. YOU SEE THE SOFTBALL FIELD ON THE TOP AND THAT TOP PICTURE AND THEN THE BASEBALL FIELD DOWN BELOW KIDS ARE ALREADY LET ME TELL YOU WHAT.

YOU SHOULD SEE THE KIDS.

I MEAN, YOU SHOULD SEE HOW EXCITED THEY ARE TO BE PLAYING ON THESE FIELDS.

THEY ARE THRILLED.

AND THE COACHES ARE, TOO.

AND SO YOU KNOW, YOU OUGHT TO COME OUT HERE'S PLANO WEST.

IT LOOKS IT LOOKS AWESOME AS WELL.

AND SO YOU CAN KIND OF SEE YOU KNOW, IN THE PAST PART OF THESE, THESE WERE HALF TURF, HALF DIRT OR HALF TURF, HALF GRASS.

AND SO THEY WERE REPLACED OVER THE FALL AND PART OF THE SUMMER.

SO VERY EXCITING.

AND THIS IS JUST A TOUCH I KNOW WE'VE BEEN HAVING A LOT OF CONSTRUCTION MEETINGS ABOUT ABOUT ALL OF OUR SENIOR HIGHS AND, AND ANOTHER BIG PROJECT OUR MIDDLE SCHOOL TRACKS.

IF YOU'VE BEEN OVER TO ROBINSON, THIS IS ROBINSON'S TRACK RIGHT HERE.

THIS COMING ALONG THIS THAT'S GOING TO BE SUPER FOR OUR COMMUNITY, BUT FOR OUR SCHOOLS IN PARTICULAR WE HAVE TRACKS GOING INTO WILSON RIGHT NOW AND AT BOWMAN.

AND SO EACH CLUSTER IS GETTING A NEW TRACK AND A MIDDLE SCHOOL, AND THEN WE'RE ALREADY PREPARING FOR THE NEXT THREE THAT WILL BE HAPPENING NEXT YEAR IN NOVEMBER AND STARTING IN NOVEMBER. SO THIS IS A GREAT A GREAT THING TOO OUR KIDS ARE SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS AS WELL.

JUST SOME THINGS THAT MAY SEEM MINOR BUT ARE NOT.

YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT SOME, SOME BUILDINGS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO JUST YOU KNOW, GET PEOPLE EXCITED, YOU KNOW, AND WE, WE USE BOND DOLLARS SOMETIMES TO BRAND OUR SCHOOLS.

AND I KNOW WE'VE TALKED A LOT ABOUT BRANDING NINE, TEN CAMPUSES, BUT WE'RE WORKING ON OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLS, TOO.

WE WANT THAT MIDDLE SCHOOL EXPERIENCE TO BE AWESOME.

WE HAVE COACH ATHLETE OF THE MONTH AWARDS BOARDS, AND WE HAVE DOORS THAT WE'RE BRANDING AND GETTING KIDS EXCITED ABOUT THINGS.

AND SO THIS HAS HAPPENED ALL ACROSS THE DISTRICT.

AND SO AGAIN, WE APPRECIATE YOU GUYS.

APPRECIATE OUR COMMUNITY FOR VOTING BECAUSE THIS IS THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS.

AND THERE'S A LOT OF PRIDE IN THESE TYPES OF PROJECTS.

AND OUR KIDS GET EXCITED AND THEY'RE EXCITED ABOUT COMING TO ATHLETICS, EXCITED ABOUT COMPETING FOR OUR SCHOOLS AND OUR TEAMS. WHAT'S NEXT? THIS IS A BIG ONE.

SO YOU KNOW, I TALKED I THINK WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS A LITTLE BIT A LOT IN SOME MEETINGS, BUT MIDDLE SCHOOL SOCCER.

SO WE FEEL LIKE MIDDLE SCHOOL SOCCER.

AND WE APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT.

ON YOU KNOW, SO MUCH AND, YOU KNOW, MIDDLE SCHOOL SOCCER IS SOMETHING THAT OUR COMMUNITY HAS REALLY, REALLY WANTED FOR A VERY LONG TIME.

AND WE'VE HEARD THAT AND WE'VE HEARD FROM LOTS OF PEOPLE.

WE'VE HEARD FROM OUR SCHOOLS, OUR ADMINISTRATORS, OUR COACHES AND SO WE, YOU KNOW, EFFECTIVE 24-25, WE'RE GOING TO BE ADDING MIDDLE SCHOOL SOCCER.

SO THAT'S YOU GUYS ARE HEARING THAT FIRST.

THAT'S NOT BEEN NOBODY'S RELEASED.

WE HAVEN'T RELEASED THAT.

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AND THIS OBVIOUSLY WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS BEHIND THE SCENES.

AND WE FEEL LIKE WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO REALLY TOUCH A LOT MORE KIDS.

I MEAN, WE HAVE A POPULATION OF KIDS THAT, THAT DON'T THAT DO NOT PLAY FOOTBALL OR DO NOT PLAY BASKETBALL, BUT MAN, THEY PLAY SOCCER.

YOU KNOW, SOCCER IS THAT THAT INTERNATIONAL SPORT THAT EVERYBODY LOVES.

AND SO WE HAVE A LOT OF KIDS THAT WE THINK THIS IS GOING TO IMPACT.

AND THE CHANCE FOR THEM TO BE ON A TEAM AND BE WITH TEAMMATES AND LEARN LIFE LESSONS THROUGH ATHLETICS IS THE GOAL, RIGHT? AND, YOU KNOW, LEARN ABOUT, YOU KNOW, KEEPING THE GRADES UP AND BEING A GOOD TEAMMATE.

SO SO WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT WHAT THIS IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE.

HERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF SNAPSHOT OF WHAT THIS IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE.

WE'RE GOING TO HAVE BOYS AND TEAMS BOYS AND GIRLS TEAMS. WE'RE GOING TO COMBINE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADE.

MOST DISTRICTS DO THIS.

WE STUDY THIS PRETTY HARD.

SO THE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADERS WILL ACTUALLY PLAY TOGETHER, AND WE'LL HAVE TWO TEAMS. WE'LL HAVE AN A AND A B TEAM.

WE WILL HAVE TO HAVE TRYOUTS FOR THIS.

WHEN WILL THIS BE? THIS WILL BE USUALLY IN ABOUT APRIL, EARLY APRIL.

WE'LL HAVE TRYOUTS.

THE SEASON WILL BE ABOUT 5 TO 6 WEEKS LONG.

WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO MOVE CROSS COUNTRY TO THE FALL.

THAT'S WHERE WE'VE HAD CROSS COUNTRY.

BUT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE IT IN THE SPRING.

SO IT WOULD BE AS SOON AS TRACK IS OVER, WE START SOCCER TRYOUTS.

THEY'LL BE IN PRETTY GOOD SHAPE FROM TRACK, SO IT WORKS OUT PRETTY WELL, AND THEY'LL GO RIGHT INTO SOCCER.

AND SO EXCITED ABOUT THAT.

THE GREAT THING IS, IS, IS WE'RE GOING TO BE IT'S GOING TO BE A LOT LIKE FOOTBALL.

WE'RE GOING TO USE OUR DISTRICT STADIUMS. SO WE'LL BE PLAYING AT THE CLARK TRIPLE FIELDS, WE'LL BE PLAYING AT WILLIAMS, WE'LL BE PLAYING AT KIMBROUGH, AT CLARK STADIUM UNDER THE LIGHTS.

AND IT'S GOING TO BE AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME TOURNAMENTS TOO, AND SOME TROPHIES, AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A LOT OF FUN.

SO WE'RE WE AGAIN, WE WE APPRECIATE YOU AND YOUR SUPPORT IN THIS.

AND JUST ALLOWING US TO, YOU KNOW, LOOK AT THIS.

AND SO TIMELINE AGAIN IS THE 24 AND 25 SCHOOL YEAR.

AND WE'VE HAD THIS SLIDE BEFORE.

BUT JUST JUST THE POWER OF UNITY, THE POWER OF COHESION, THE POWER OF, OF A VERTICAL BRAND, AND YOU KNOW, ALL WILDCATS, PANTHERS AND WOLVES.

AND WE FEEL LIKE, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THESE THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT IN THIS PRESENTATION ARE STEPS TOWARD THAT.

AND YOU'VE GOT WE'VE MADE THAT COMMITMENT A LONG AGO, BUT APPRECIATE THE EFFORTS OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS AND JUST INCREASING THIS.

WE FEEL LIKE IT'S IT'S A HUGE DIFFERENCE.

AND SO APPRECIATE AGAIN THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK.

AND, AND I KNOW WE'LL HAVE SOME QUESTIONS.

SO WE'D LOVE TO ANSWER SOME.

I'LL START. I WOULD LIKE TO SAY I WAS ON PLANO EAST BOYS BASKETBALL BEFORE ANYBODY ON THIS TABLE.

I WAS, I WAS I WAS UP THERE EARLY.

SO I'M VERY EXCITED TO SEE THEM CONTINUE THE RUN.

CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT PRE ATHLETICS IN SIXTH GRADE.

WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE FOR THOSE WHO AREN'T AWARE OF IT.

HOW DO THEY GET INVOLVED? I THINK THAT IT'S REALLY CRITICAL, OBVIOUSLY AS PEOPLE SORT OF ENTER THE MIDDLE SCHOOL, THAT THEY REALLY UNDERSTAND ALL THE OPTIONS THAT ARE OUT THERE.

SO IF YOU COULD JUST TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT, THAT'D BE GREAT.

NO, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.

SO IT I KNOW THAT OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND OUR COUNSELORS AND WE TRY TO WORK REALLY HARD TO GET DOWN TO THOSE FIFTH GRADERS AND MAKE SURE THEY GET THAT INFORMATION.

I KNOW MANY CAMPUSES SET UP MEETINGS TO GET DOWN THERE AND TALK ABOUT PRE ATHLETICS.

I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT OUR COACHES WILL GO WITH COUNSELORS DOWN THERE TO TALK TO KIDS AND TO TALK, GET IN FRONT OF THEM AND SAY, HEY, THIS IS WHAT PRE ATHLETICS IS ABOUT.

YOU KNOW, AND WHAT THAT IS ABOUT IS WE'RE, YOU KNOW, PRE ATHLETICS IS GOING TO FOLLOW.

THEY'RE GOING TO THEY'RE GOING TO FOLLOW A LOT OF THE SEASONS THAT WE PLAY.

SO IN THE FALL THEY'LL LEARN VOLLEYBALL AND FOOTBALL.

WHAT'S REALLY AWESOME ABOUT PRE ATHLETICS IS WE HAVE A LOT OF STUDENTS THAT THAT QUITE HONESTLY YOU GUYS KNOW WE HAVE A WIDE RANGE OF STUDENT.

AND WE HAVE SOME THAT CAN'T AFFORD TO GO TO A CLUB.

YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. AND SO PLAYING SIXTH GRADE PRE ATHLETICS AND LEARNING VOLLEYBALL MIGHT BE THE FIRST CHANCE THEY GET.

THEY GET TO LEARN VOLLEYBALL.

AND SO THE ADVANTAGE OF BEING IN PRE ATHLETICS AND LEARNING SKILLS TO GET THEM READY FOR THE SEVENTH GRADE TRYOUT IS HUGE.

SO IT REALLY GIVES THEM CONFIDENCE.

AND SO WE'RE GOING TO MIRROR OUR SPORTS THROUGH PRE ATHLETICS.

BUT IN ADDITION TO THAT WE KIND OF DO AN INTRODUCTION TO A LOT OF THE SPORTS THAT WE OFFER.

AND THEN WE WE TEACH STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING.

WE TEACH SAFETY IN THE WEIGHT ROOM.

WE DON'T PUT A LOT OF WEIGHT ON THE BAR.

WE USE PVC PIPE AND TEACH, TEACH, TEACH A LOT OF SKILLS IN THE WEIGHT ROOM.

WE TALK ABOUT DRESSING OUT, ABOUT UNLOCKING YOUR LOCKER, ABOUT STRETCHING.

I MEAN, WE YOU KNOW, WE'RE TRYING TO TEACH THEM WHAT ATHLETICS.

AND WE ALSO WANT TO HAVE A GOOD TIME, RIGHT? WE WANT TO SHOW THEM THAT ATHLETICS IS FUN AND IT'S GOING TO BE GREAT.

AND SO THE WAYS THAT WE TRY TO GET PEOPLE THE WORD OUT IS REALLY THROUGH OUR COACHES, THROUGH THE COUNSELORS, THROUGH GETTING DOWN THERE TO THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, THROUGH GETTING INFORMATION TO THEM, TO WHERE THEY KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON.

AND THEN ONE OTHER QUESTION.

SO WITH THE MIDDLE SCHOOL SOCCER, I ASSUME THEY'D BE ONLY PLAYING OTHER MIDDLE SCHOOLS IN THE PLANO ISD.

IS THAT CORRECT? THAT'S CORRECT.

THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.

AND YEAH, WE'VE ALREADY MADE THE SCHEDULE.

YOU KNOW ALREADY GOT THAT GOING AND WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE.

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NOW, HERE'S THE THING WITH, WITH A 5 OR 6 WEEK SEASON THE UL KIND OF, KIND OF THEY SET PARAMETERS ON HOW MANY DAYS YOU CAN, 80 DAYS TO GET FOOTBALL IN THIS, MANY DAYS TO GET BASKETBALL IN. SO WE'RE KIND OF WE'RE WE'RE IN A BOX AS FAR AS SOMETIMES WITH OUR SPORTS AND WHAT WE CAN OFFER.

AND IN 5 OR 6 WEEKS IS ABOUT ALL WE CAN GET.

AND THAT'S WHAT MOST DISTRICTS DO.

THEY DO SOCCER IN THE SPRING, LIKE WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING.

AND IT'S ABOUT 5 OR 6 WEEKS.

AND SO WE'RE GOING TO PLAY FIVE GAMES AGAINST OTHER OPPONENTS IN TOWN, AND THEN WE'LL PLAY A BIG TOURNAMENT AN A TOURNAMENT AND A B TOURNAMENT AND HAVE TROPHIES AND, AND I IT'S GOING TO BE A SIGHT TO SEE BECAUSE I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A LOT OF EXCITEMENT.

WE USED TO HAVE A CLUB, YOU KNOW, AND DR.

FREEMAN, I KNOW BEING THE PRINCIPAL AT WILSON, I KNOW SHE HAD IT.

YOU KNOW, WE'VE DONE IT WHERE WE HAD, LIKE, KIND OF A CLUB THING WHERE WE WOULD TRY TO PLAY GAMES IN THE PAST.

AND WE HAD SUCH A SUCH AN INTEREST IN SOCCER DURING THAT TIME, AND THAT KIND OF MET THE NEED.

BUT THIS IS REALLY GOING TO MEET THE NEED.

EVERY SCHOOL WILL HAVE UNIFORMS WE'LL HAVE, WE'LL GET GOALS.

WE'RE WORKING ON THAT RIGHT NOW.

AND YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO GET THOSE UNIFORMS OUT OF MONEY THAT WE ALREADY SET ASIDE.

SO WE'RE NOT SPENDING EXTRA MONEY REALLY.

THERE WILL BE SOME EXTRA EXPENSES.

WE'VE GOT TO BUY SOME GOALS THAT WE CAN THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH JOHNNY AND HIS TEAM ON.

BUT BUT REALLY WE'VE GOT A GREAT PLAN FOR IT.

SO IT'S GOING TO BE GREAT.

AND I'M EXCITED ABOUT IT.

THANK YOU. YES, SIR.

JEFF, I'M GOING TO GO BACK TO THE PRE ATHLETICS IN SIXTH GRADE.

WHEN WE FIRST STARTED IT WAS VERY HEAVY ON MOST OF THE KIDS WERE WANTING TO DO THE PRE ATHLETICS.

ARE WE STILL SEEING REALLY LARGE NUMBERS IN THE PRE ATHLETICS PROGRAM? WE ARE WE WE ARE SEEING HEAVY NUMBERS IN FACT I MEAN WE AND WE DON'T TURN THEM AWAY BUT WE HAVE LARGE CLASSES. WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO ADD SOME STAFFING TO WHERE WE HAVE A SENIOR HIGH COACH ABLE TO COME DOWN AND HELP A LITTLE BIT, WHICH HAS BEEN REALLY GOOD FOR VERTICAL ALIGNMENT.

WHEN THEY SEE A SENIOR HIGH COACH HELPING OUT WITH PRE ATHLETICS, THAT'S BEEN A HUGE SHIFT.

AT EACH AT EACH MIDDLE SCHOOL'S GOT ONE SENIOR HIGH COACH THAT HELPS WITH THAT PRE ATHLETICS THAT'S HELPED.

BUT THE NUMBERS ARE STILL THEY'VE GONE UP IF ANYTHING.

I MEAN WE'VE GOT SOME THAT ARE OVER 200, YOU KNOW YOU KNOW THAT AND YOU KNOW AND THAT'S GIRLS AND BOYS AND, AND THEN SOME SCHOOLS BREAK IT UP A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY.

THEY, THEY MAY HAVE THREE SECTIONS OF PRE ATHLETICS TO SPACE IT OUT A LITTLE BIT DEPENDING ON.

BUT THE NUMBERS ARE STILL.

YEAH VERY VERY HIGH.

THEY'RE GOING UP.

AND AS I SAID THE RESULT OF THAT IS SEVENTH GRADE NUMBERS ARE UP.

YOU KNOW THE EXCITEMENT IN SEVENTH GRADE IS UP.

THE COMFORT, THE CONFIDENCE THAT YOUNG STUDENT ATHLETES HAVE GOING INTO SEVENTH GRADE IS BETTER.

THEY MAN, OUR COACHES TALKED A LOT ABOUT IT'S UNBELIEVABLE TO SEE THE ONES THAT ARE IN ATHLETICS BECAUSE THEY WALK IN THE FIRST DAY AND THEY KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON.

YOU KNOW, IN THE PAST WHEN YOU HAVE SEVENTH GRADERS THAT DON'T KNOW, YOU'RE TEACHING THEM ABOUT AN ATHLETIC LOCKER, HOW TO DRESS OUT, WHAT IS STRETCHING LOOK LIKE? THESE KIDS ARE IN PRE ATHLETICS IT'S LIKE YOU'RE STARTING DAY ONE AND THEY KNOW THEY'RE READY.

I MEAN, THEY'RE READY TO GO.

AND SO WE'RE YOU KNOW, I THINK WHAT YOU'RE SEEING IS OUR COACHES ARE ABLE TO GET EVEN DEEPER WITH OUR KIDS.

THEY'RE ABLE TO COACH THEM MORE DEEPLY IN THE FUNDAMENTALS, AND THEY'RE JUST GOING TO BE BETTER.

AND I THINK THAT DATA WILL BE INTERESTING TO KIND OF TRACK AND WATCH OVER THE YEARS AND HOW IT WILL HELP ALL OF OUR TEAMS. THERE'S ANOTHER PIECE TO THAT, THOUGH, IS THE YIN AND THE YANG, THE STUDENTS WHO ARE NOT IN THE ATHLETICS CLASS, BECAUSE NOT EVERY KID WANTS TO BE IN ATHLETIC ATHLETICS, BUT EVERY KID NEEDS TO HAVE AN APPRECIATION FOR BEING PHYSICALLY FIT.

SO WE ARE THE CURRICULUM FOR THE OTHER STUDENTS WHO ARE NOT.

ARE THEY GETTING A MORE OF A WELL-ROUNDED OR, YOU KNOW, MORE OF A HEALTH, HEALTH, HEALTH AND WELLNESS VERSION OF A PE CLASS? OR IS IT IS IT MUCH DIFFERENT? NO, IT'S IT'S IT'S DIFFERENT.

YOU KNOW, INSTEAD OF TARGETING SOME OF THE SPORTS THAT WE MIMIC IN SEVENTH GRADE OR EIGHTH GRADE A LITTLE MORE HEAVILY, IT'S GOING TO BE A LITTLE BIT MORE WELL ROUNDED, YOU KNOW, VERSION OF OF ALL THE SPORTS.

BUT OBVIOUSLY WE'RE GOING TO BE FOLLOWING THE STATE TEKS AND ALL THE, ALL THE STUFF BOTH CLASSES DO.

BUT BUT YEAH, IT'S GOING TO BE IT'S GOING TO BE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT VERSION.

BUT YOU STILL MEETING ALL THE REQUIREMENTS.

IT'S STILL VERY HEALTHY. WE HAVE LOTS OF NUMBERS IN THOSE CLASSES TOO.

AND I MEAN, I TAUGHT SIXTH GRADE ATHLETIC OR PE I LOVED IT.

THOSE WERE MY FAVORITE CLASSES.

THEY'RE SO FUN. SIXTH GRADERS ARE.

THEY ARE SO FUN AND FULL OF ENERGY AND BUT NO, I THINK IT'S IT'S WE'RE STILL OFFERING A VERY GOOD PRODUCT IN, IN REGULAR PE TOO.

AND SOME OF THEM, THE WAY THEY HAVE IT SET UP IS WE SEE A LOT OF KIDS THAT WILL START OUT IN REGULAR PE AND THEY'RE LIKE, HEY, I THINK I WANT TO BE IN PRE ATHLETICS AND THEN WE'RE ABLE TO SLIDE THEM OVER INTO OR SOMETIMES EVEN VICE VERSA.

THIS IS A LITTLE MUCH I MIGHT NEED TO GO BACK TO REGULAR SIXTH GRADE.

AND WE HAVE IT SET UP TO WHERE THEY CAN DO BOTH.

AND THAT'S GREAT.

THEY CAN LEARN THAT THEN SOME THINGS.

AND SO IT'S IT'S BEEN A GREAT PROGRAM.

GREAT. I ALSO HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT CHEER.

I HAVEN'T BEEN A CHEERLEADER SPONSOR FOR TWO YEARS OF MY LIFE.

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FOR THE GAME DAY CHEER AND THE COMPETITION CHEER DO.

ARE THE ATHLETES REQUIRED TO DO GAME DAY CHEER IN ORDER TO DO COMPETITION CHEER? OR COULD IT BE ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE YOU COULD HAVE TWO TOTALLY DIFFERENT SET? YOU COULD HAVE ONE SQUAD THAT'S DOING THE GAME DAY AND A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SQUAD IS DOING THE.

THAT'S EXACTLY I MEAN, THEY'RE NOT SOLELY EXCLUSIVE.

THEY'RE NOT LINKED WHERE YOU HAVE TO DO ONE TO DO THE OTHER.

IF YOU WEREN'T IN SIDELINE CHEER, YOU CAN DO COMPETITION CHEER OR VICE VERSA OR BOTH.

YOU KNOW, IT'S IT'S YEAH, WE REALLY STUDY THAT HARD WITH OUR CHEER COACHES AND OUR AND JUST FEEDBACK FROM THEM AND OUR KIDS AND, AND, YOU KNOW, WE ALSO DON'T WANT IT TO BE A REAL SCHEDULING CHALLENGE BECAUSE WE WANT TO WE DON'T WANT TO BE DRIVING ALL OVER THE PLACE.

THERE'S GOING TO BE AN ELEMENT OF TRAVEL WITH COMPETITION CHEER, BECAUSE THEY ARE GOING TO NEED ALL.

WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT NINTH AND 10TH GRADERS THAT CAN DO THIS TOO, THEY'RE GOING TO NEED TO ALL GET TOGETHER AND DO THAT TOGETHER.

AND IS COMPETITION SPRING? IT IS. SO DOES THAT MEAN THAT SOME OF OUR ATHLETES IN THE FALL MALE CAN THEN PARTICIPATE? BECAUSE A BIG ELEMENT OF COMPETITION CHEER IS HAVING THE STRENGTH, THE BASES, WHETHER IT'S MEN OR WOMEN BASES TO BE ABLE TO DO SOME OF THE FANCY STUFF.

YES. NO, THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT.

IT THEY THERE'LL BE GOOD OPPORTUNITIES FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE FALL THAT CAN DO IT IN THE SPRING.

I THINK, YOU KNOW, AND WE SAID IT, I MEAN WE'VE GOT SOME REALLY TALENTED UNDERCLASSMEN THAT ARE GOING TO BE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS, YOU KNOW, THE CHANCE TO COMPETE WITH OLDER, OLDER STUDENTS. AND THAT'S EXCITING, YOU KNOW, TO TO, YOU KNOW, COMPETE TOGETHER.

SO IT'S GOING TO BE GREAT.

AND WE'RE ALSO GOING TO HAVE A JV TEAM.

SO THAT'S GOOD. SO WE'LL HAVE THAT THE JV TEAM AS WELL COMPETING.

THEY'RE GOING TO GET THE CHANCE TO GO COMPETE LIKE THE VARSITY JUST AT THE JV LEVEL.

SO WE'RE DEVELOPING KIDS ALSO WE'RE NOT JUST HAVING A VARSITY.

SO VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT.

GREAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YES MA'AM.

SO JEFF, YOU GAVE US A VERY INFORMED AND A VERY POSITIVE OUTLOOK OF A FUTURE FOR ATHLETICS WITH SUCH A POSITIVE OUTLOOK FOR ATHLETICS.

I KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, WITH MORE STUDENTS FEELING, YOU KNOW, JOINING SPORTS, YOU KNOW HOW ARE WE FEELING? OUR COACHES. SO THAT NUMBER IS GOING TO GO UP, TOO.

SO ARE WE USING OUR COACHES IN TWO DIFFERENT CAMPUSES OR HOW ARE YOU HOW ARE WE DOING THAT? IT'S A GREAT QUESTION.

YOU KNOW, WE'VE FOR FOR YEARS I WAS ONE OF THESE WHEN I COACHED HERE AS WELL.

BUT, YOU KNOW, I WOULD TEACH ON ONE CAMPUS AND I WOULD GET IN MY CAR AND I WOULD DRIVE TO ANOTHER CAMPUS.

AND THAT'S BEEN GOING ON SINCE THE 90S.

THAT'S BEEN GOING ON A LONG TIME.

AND THAT NUMBER HAS JUST GONE UP WITH COACHES DOING THAT.

AND AS WE'VE COMBINED TEAMS OR WE'VE BROUGHT MORE KIDS UP EITHER COACHES WILL CATCH A BUS OVER THERE OR THAT'S PART OF THEIR, YOU KNOW, THAT'S PART OF THEIR COMPENSATION. THAT'S PART OF WHAT THEY DO.

PART OF THEIR JOB IS TO START OUT AT PLANO WEST AND THEN GET OVER AND TEACH AT SHEPTON.

SO THOSE, THOSE, THINGS HAPPEN.

OBVIOUSLY WE WANT TO TRY TO MAKE IT AS GOOD AS IT CAN BE FOR OUR COACHES AND TAKE CARE OF THEM.

AND NOT MAKE IT TOO MUCH, TOO MUCH TRAVEL.

BUT BUT YEAH, THERE IS THAT ELEMENT, AND THEY WILL BE DOING THAT.

YES, MA'AM. OKAY.

MICHAEL, WHILE MICHAEL TOTALLY IS ALL OVER THE SPORTS IN A WAY THAT THE REST OF US ARE NOT, I WILL SAY MY DAD HAS BEEN KEEPING ME INFORMED ABOUT PLANO EAST BASKETBALL, AND I'LL JUST.

WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS BEFORE THE MEETING, BUT AT THE GAME LAST WEEK THAT SEVERAL OF US WERE AT, YOU KNOW, I WAS REALLY KIND OF DISHEARTENED TO SEE SOME OF THE BOOING AND THE JEERING, NOT FROM OUR PLANO STUDENTS, BUT FROM THE OTHER TEAM, AND LOOKING OVER AT OUR STUDENT SECTION AND SEEING HOW OUR PLAYERS WERE CONDUCTING THEMSELVES.

I WAS JUST SO IMPRESSED, RIGHT, THAT, YOU KNOW, WE WEREN'T SEEING THAT SAME KIND OF UNSPORTSMANLIKE BEHAVIOR OUT OF OUR STUDENT SECTION.

AND, YOU KNOW, THAT'S TONE AT THE TOP, RIGHT? THAT'S THE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP AND THE COACHES AND OUR PLAYERS BEING GOOD ROLE MODELS AND GOOD CITIZENS.

AND SO JUST A SHOUT OUT TO PLANO EAST FOR BEING CLASSY.

YOU KNOW, OUR OUR STUDENTS REALLY WINNING WITH CLASS AND HAVING HAVING PRIDE.

AND YOU KNOW, AS AN ALUMNA, IT MAKES ME PROUD THAT THAT THEY WERE SO GREAT.

ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE THINGS AND YOU WENT INTO THE BOND PROGRAM A LITTLE BIT, BUT AS WE'RE UPGRADING SOME OF THESE FACILITIES, I'M GETTING A LOT OF QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMUNITY ABOUT ACCESS.

AND IN PARTICULAR, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THESE AREAS WHERE WE'RE UPGRADING THE TURF OR WE'RE PUTTING TENNIS COURT, NEW TENNIS COURTS IN OR OTHER THINGS, SPECIFICALLY THE SENIOR HIGH.

AND SO ARE THERE SITUATIONS WHERE WE'RE TRYING TO LIMIT ACCESS TO SOME OF THESE UPGRADED FACILITIES TO KEEP THEM IN GOOD SHAPE AND TO KEEP OUR OUR BOND DOLLARS WHERE THEY NEED TO BE FOR OUR STUDENT ATHLETES.

AND THEN DO YOU HAVE SUGGESTIONS FOR PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY WHO MAY WHO MAY BE LOOKING FOR ALTERNATIVES TO SOME OF THE SITES THEY MAY HAVE

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LET ME LET ME FIRST SAY THANK YOU FOR THAT SHOUT OUT.

WE'RE VERY PROUD OF OUR OF OUR STUDENT, OUR STUDENT BODY, OUR MR. JONES, ALL OF OUR PRINCIPALS.

MR. BANNER, MISS WILLIAMS IT DOES.

IT STARTS AT THE TOP.

I KNOW SPECIFICALLY THAT GAME.

WE HAD A CRAZY HEAD FOOTBALL COACH NAMED TONY BENEDETTO THAT WAS IN A SOME TYPE OF A SEQUINED GOLD JACKET IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STUDENTS.

SO I WOULD SAY HE WAS PROBABLY KEEPING TABS ON THEM, TOO WHILE HE WAS DOING THAT.

BUT. YES, MA'AM.

THANK YOU FOR THAT.

AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S IMPORTANT TO US THAT WE WANT TO CHEER FOR OUR TEAM.

NOT NOT BOO THE OTHER TEAM.

SO ANYWAY, I APPRECIATE THAT AND PROUD OF THEM, BUT, YEAH, THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.

YOU KNOW, I THINK HOLISTICALLY, YOU KNOW AS WE UPDATE AND THIS HAS BEEN THE STANDARD, OUR SENIOR HIGH'S ARE SHUT DOWN PRETTY GOOD.

I MEAN, THEY'RE LOCKED UP PRETTY GOOD.

WE DO HAVE A RIGHT NOW AN AGREEMENT WITH TENNIS, AND WE HAVE OUR TENNIS FACILITIES OPEN RIGHT NOW, OR PEOPLE CAN COME.

BUT BUT FOR THE MOST PART, WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THAT SOFTBALL FIELD, THAT BASEBALL FIELD, OUR KIDS USE THAT, AND THAT'S IT AND OUR COACHES, THEY'RE LOCKED DOWN FOR THAT REASON. AND SO AND THAT'S REALLY, YOU KNOW, WHEN IT COMES TO OUR SENIOR FACILITIES, WE PUT MONEY INTO THAT, BEING FINANCIALLY RESPONSIBLE, TAKING CARE OF WHAT WE HAVE, AND REALLY UTILIZING IT FOR OUR KIDS IS REALLY IMPORTANT.

AND SO I THINK WE'RE THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR COMMUNITY ARE ARE AT THE 910 AND IN MIDDLE SCHOOLS, YOU KNOW, AS WE'RE BUILDING THESE TRACKS, YOU KNOW THOUGH WE MIGHT BE, YOU KNOW, NOT BE ABLE TO WALK THAT TRACK AT THE SENIOR HIGH AS MUCH.

YOU KNOW, WE'VE HAD SOME FENCES AND, AND MADE THINGS A LITTLE BIT BETTER UP THERE, MORE SECURE.

AND WE DO THOSE THINGS REALLY TOO JUST FOR, FROM A SECURITY STANDPOINT, WE WANT OUR KIDS TO BE SAFE.

AND SO THERE'S A LOT OF ELEMENTS TO THAT.

BUT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE THESE MIDDLE SCHOOL TRACKS THAT WE'RE PUTTING IN AND WHENEVER I GET THAT QUESTION A LOT, I LIKE TO WALK THE TRACK.

YOU KNOW, WHAT ROBINSON'S ABOUT TO PUT A TRACK IN, SO JUST HANG ON, ALL RIGHT? WE'VE ALSO GOT SOME OLD CINDER TRACKS.

I KNOW IT'S SOME OF OUR NINE TENS THAT ARE STILL AVAILABLE, BUT THOSE THOSE FACILITIES ARE A LITTLE BIT MORE OPEN THOSE TENNIS COURTS ARE OPEN.

AND WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO TO WORK ON THOSE TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE COMMUNITY TO USE THOSE AS MUCH AS, YOU KNOW, AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.

AND SO THERE'LL BE OPPORTUNITY THERE.

AND SO A LOT OF TIMES WHEN I GET QUESTIONS HEY, THOSE THOSE NINE, TEN TENNIS COURTS, NOW, THEY'RE COMPETITIVE.

NOW, YOU BETTER GET OUT THERE EARLY BECAUSE THERE'S THEY'RE LINED UP.

YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WANT TO PLAY TENNIS.

PEOPLE WANT TO GET OUT THERE.

BUT BUT THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME GOOD OPPORTUNITIES WHERE WE ARE GOING TO HAVE MORE ACCESS TO THE COMMUNITY TO WHERE THEY CAN USE THAT.

WHEREAS THE SENIOR HIGH, IT MAY BE LOCKED DOWN BECAUSE WE HAVE A LOT OF MONEY INVESTED IN THAT.

WE'VE GOT A, YOU KNOW, THERE'S THINGS THAT CAN HAPPEN AND WE GOT TO KEEP THINGS SAFE AND LOCKED UP.

ONE MORE QUESTION.

YOU KNOW, WITH THE GROWTH OF POPULARITY IN CRICKET IN THE US, AND THERE'S NOW A CRICKET TEAM IN GRAND PRAIRIE, AND THE CITY OF PLANO JUST ANNOUNCED THAT ONE OF THE EITHER ONE OR MULTIPLE OF THE REC CENTER ARE GOING TO HAVE CRICKET FIELDS.

I'M CURIOUS IF IF ANYBODY IS TRYING TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, CRICKET AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL AND IF WE'RE, YOU KNOW, KEEPING AN EYE OUT FOR THAT, BECAUSE I JUDGING BY THE STATE OF OUR PARKS ON THE WEEKENDS IT SEEMS LIKE IT MIGHT BE A VERY POPULAR SPORT WITH OUR FAMILIES.

I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT. AND I THINK IF YOU TALK TO MOLLY AND YOU TALK ABOUT PE, WE DO.

WE'VE ADDED A LOT OF CRICKET IN SOME OF OUR CURRICULUM AND SOME OF THE STUFF IN THE PE DEPARTMENT BECAUSE OF THAT, WE HAVE A LARGE PART OF OUR POPULATION THAT LOVES CRICKET, AND SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ADD SOME OF THOSE ELEMENTS AND SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE DO.

SO WE DO HAVE THAT.

I'VE, YOU KNOW, I'VE SEEN EVIDENCE WHERE THERE'S BEEN SOME CRICKET PLAYED AT SOME OF OUR FIELDS A LITTLE BIT.

SO ON THE WEEKENDS.

YOU KNOW, BECAUSE YOU CAN KIND OF TELL HOW THEY, HOW THEY SET IT UP.

AND SO I KNOW AGAIN, THINGS ARE SOME OF OUR FACILITIES ARE OPEN.

SO, SO I KNOW THAT THEY'RE UTILIZING SOME OF THOSE FOR SOME OF THOSE THINGS, BUT THAT YOU'RE RIGHT, THAT IS FAST GROWING.

AND I AND I APPRECIATE MOLLY BECAUSE SHE'S TRYING TO SEE WHAT OUR COMMUNITY LOVES AND TRYING TO FIND WAYS TO MAKE SURE WE'RE INCLUSIVE, AND THAT WE'RE TRYING TO FIND WAYS TO TAP INTO TO, TO INTEREST OF THOSE STUDENTS AS WELL THROUGH PE.

GREAT. THANK YOU JEFF.

YES, MA'AM. I HAD A KIND OF A QUESTION AND AN OBSERVATION.

I WAS AT THAT GAME ON FRIDAY NIGHT AND THAT WAS REALLY EXHILARATING.

I AGREE WITH YOU ABOUT THE CROWD.

THE KIDS WERE REALLY WELL BEHAVED.

I NOTICED THAT THE PLANO EAST GIRLS CHEER SQUAD WAS SIGNIFICANTLY LARGER THAN THE OPPOSING TEAM.

IS THAT BECAUSE WE'RE ALREADY IMPLEMENTING THIS COMBINED? NO, MA'AM. WE I I THAT'S JUST CURRENTLY THEY'VE GOT THAT THAT NUMBER OF KIDS OUT.

THEY'VE GOT A GREAT A STRONG PROGRAM OVER THERE.

ALL THREE DO. BUT I KNOW PLANO EAST THEY'VE GOT A STRONG PROGRAM.

AND SO WE'VE NOT WE'VE NOT ACTUALLY STARTED.

THAT'LL START NEXT FALL.

AS FAR AS NOW WE'VE ALREADY STARTED PLANNING AND YOU KNOW WITH THE CHEER COACHES FOR NEXT FALL, BUT WE'VE NOT STARTED THAT YET.

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AND THEY'RE ABOUT TO JUST TAKE OFF.

AND SO IT'S GOING TO BE MORE COMPETITIVE.

WE'RE GOING TO HAVE YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE GREAT NUMBERS.

WE'RE GOING TO HAVE GREAT COACHING.

THAT'S ONE THING THAT I'M EXCITED ABOUT WITH THE ATHLETIC ALIGNMENT.

JUST SOME OF THE NINTH GRADE STUFF IS WE'RE GOING TO REALLY GET OUR COACHES TOGETHER.

IT'S NOT JUST OUR STUDENTS.

THEY'RE GOING TO GET TOGETHER AND GET TO GET TO USE THEIR TALENTS TOGETHER.

SO YOU GUYS KNOW WHEN YOU GET EVERYBODY TOGETHER ALL ON THE SAME PAGE, IT MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE.

GREAT. WELL, THAT WAS AN AMAZING REPORT.

I'M EXHILARATED.

ARE YOU GUYS. WELL, THANK YOU FOR THAT UPDATE.

THANK YOU. APPRECIATE YOU MA'AM.

AND WE WILL MOVE ON TO 5.5 OF OUR REPORTS.

AND IT'S THE BOARD MEMBER LIAISON SUBCOMMITTEE AND COMMITTEE UPDATES.

LET'S SEE.

BOARD AUDIT COMMITTEE.

I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO YOU DR.

LAURA TYRA. SO WE MET BOARD AUDIT COMMITTEE IN JANUARY WITH OUR INTERNAL AUDITOR JENNA ENSLEY.

AND SO JUST A COUPLE OF QUICK THINGS THERE.

FIRST, WE WERE VERY EXCITED TO SEE JENNA FEATURED IN THE WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF THE TASBO WEEKLY ROUNDUP SO, TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL BUSINESS OFFICERS, I'VE GOT THE RIGHT ACRONYM.

JOHNNY'S NODDING AT ME, SO I'VE GOT THAT RIGHT.

WE GOT A STATUS UPDATE ON SOME QUARTERLY AUDIT REPORTS AND THEN ALSO SOME AUDIT PLANNING THAT'S HAPPENING IN THE FUTURE.

THAT'S PART OF HER USUAL WORK.

AND THEN THERE HAVE BEEN SOME ADOPTION OF SOME CHANGES IN PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS WITHIN THE AUDIT COMMUNITY THAT ARE GOING TO IMPACT THE WAY THAT JENNA DOES HER WORK AND SOME OF OUR POLICIES AND PROCEDURES.

AND SO, JUST AS A HEADS UP AS A BOARD, WE MAY BE WORKING THROUGH SOME CHANGES ON THE POLICY AND PROCEDURE FRONT JUST WITH OUR, OUR AUDIT STANDARDS IN RESPONSE TO CHANGES IN PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS GOING FORWARD.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU.

AND WHEN YOU SAY POLICIES AND PROCEDURES, DO YOU MEAN ACTUAL BOARD POLICY OR ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT OPERATING PROTOCOL? MAYBE A LITTLE OF BOTH.

OKAY, OKAY. THAT'S FINE.

YEAH. YOU NEED TO BE ON AUDIT COMMITTEE AGAIN NEXT YEAR BECAUSE THE RETIRED CPA TO HELP US WORK THROUGH THIS, I THINK I'M ROLLING OFF SO YOU CAN HAVE MY SPOT.

OKAY. RECOVERING CPA IS THE PROPER TERM.

ALL RIGHT. I WILL TURN OVER TO BOARD SECRETARY JERI CHAMBERS TO TALK ABOUT THE PLANO ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND LEADERSHIP TASB WHICH IS TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL BOARDS.

THANK YOU, PRESIDENT HUMPHREY.

YES. I WANTED TO JUST MAKE A PUBLIC SHOUT OUT TO EVERYONE WHO WAS INVOLVED IN [INAUDIBLE] PLANO WITH THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION.

IT WAS A VERY, VERY, VERY FUN NIGHT, VERY WELL ATTENDED AND WELL SUPPORTED.

AND IT WAS GREAT TO SEE SO MANY OF YOU ALL HERE AT THE DAIS AT THE EVENT.

AND WE'RE JUST SO LUCKY TO HAVE A COMMUNITY THAT IS SO INCREDIBLY SUPPORTIVE OF ALL THAT WE DO.

AND SO THAT WAS GREAT.

AND THEN, YES I AM IN THE LEADERSHIP TASB CLASS OF 2024, AND I JUST WANTED TO SPEAK TO IT.

WE HAVE, FORTUNATELY, A SCHOOL DISTRICT THAT HAS BEEN PARTICIPATING IN IN THIS FOR A WHILE.

PRESIDENT HUMPHREY IS A MASTER TRUSTEE, AND SHOULD I FINISH THE PROGRAM, WHICH I PLAN TO IN EVERY WAY THIS SUMMER, THEN I WILL ALSO BECOME ANOTHER MASTER TRUSTEE FOR OUR TEAM.

SO THAT'LL BE GREAT. BUT I ALSO WANT TO ENCOURAGE ALL OF YOU WHO ARE AT THE DAIS WHO HAVEN'T TO, TO PARTICIPATE.

IT IS A INCREDIBLE PROGRAM.

AND I GAVE YOU ALL A REAL SPECIFIC UPDATE.

BUT I WANTED TO JUST SAY A COUPLE OF THINGS.

IT IS ABOUT CONNECTING WITH OTHER TRUSTEES.

IT'S WONDERFUL TO UNDERSTAND SEE HOW OTHER PEOPLE CAN, HOW THEY DO THINGS AND LEARN FROM THAT.

AND LEARNING ABOUT DIFFERENT DISTRICTS.

SO EACH SESSION WE DO OUR HOMETOWN NEWS.

AND THIS PAST SESSION I GOT TO DO THE HOMETOWN NEWS ABOUT PLANO, AND I WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO IT WITHOUT OUR COMMUNICATIONS TEAM, WHO DID AN AMAZING JOB OF OFFERING SUPPORT. SO TO LESLIE AND HER TEAM, GREAT THANKS FOR THAT.

AND WE ALSO GET TO GO A DEEPER DIVE.

THIS LAST SESSION WE WERE IN CORPUS CHRISTI AREA AND WE GOT TO SEE GREGORY-PORTLAND ISD.

WE GOT TO SEE GET TO SEE [INAUDIBLE] WHICH IS PART OF KING RANCH, AND IT'S A FASCINATING SCHOOL DISTRICT.

AND WE GOT TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME WITH THE KINGSVILLE ISD SUPERINTENDENT AND TRUSTEES.

AND KINGSVILLE ISD IS THE TRUSTEE, IS THE SCHOOL DISTRICT THAT INITIATED THE ACCOUNTABILITY LAWSUIT.

AND IT WAS JUST FASCINATING TO KNOW DAY BY DAY, LIKE LITERALLY DAY BY DAY, MOMENT BY MOMENT, WHY THEY CAME TO THAT UNDERSTANDING AND WHY THEY MADE THE DECISION THAT THEY

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AND I KNOW.

RIGHT. AND SO MANY OF THEM WENT BACK TO THEIR SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO EITHER SEE ABOUT WHAT THEY CAN DO TO BE ADDED OR AT LEAST DO RESOLUTIONS TO SHOW SUPPORT.

SO THAT'S ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS AND REALLY IMPORTANT THE OTHER OUTCOMES ARE THINGS THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT ABOUT THIS IS REALLY REMEMBERING AND HONING IN ON OUR ROLE AS GOVERNANCE.

SO SOME REALLY GREAT EXAMPLES OF THAT ONE SCHOOL DISTRICT, GREGORY-PORTLAND DID A BOOK CLUB BOOK STUDY TOGETHER ON SOMETHING CALLED GOVERNANCE CORE.

AND IS SOMETHING THAT MAYBE WE MIGHT WANT TO CONSIDER IN A FUTURE YEAR IS TO DO A AND THEY THEY TAKE 5 TO 10 MINUTES EVERY WORK SESSION AND TALK ABOUT THE CHAPTER THAT THEY THE CHAPTERS THAT THEY HAD READ IN A PUBLIC FORMAT, WHICH I THINK IS KIND OF AN INTERESTING.

AND THEY THOUGHT IT WAS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR COMMUNITY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT GOVERNANCE IS.

SO I THOUGHT THAT WAS INTERESTING.

AND THEN ALSO, THE OTHER THING IS THE IMPORTANCE OF ADVOCACY AND UNDERSTANDING HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO WHEN YOU NEED TO MAKE DO SOMETHING AS AS IMPORTANT AS WHAT KINGSVILLE DID FOR INITIATING THE LAWSUIT, BUT ALSO BEING ABLE TO SPEAK FOR THE STATE AND SPEAK TO EACH OTHER ABOUT WHAT WE CAN DO TO TALK ABOUT WHAT GREAT THINGS PUBLIC EDUCATION IS DOING AND THE GREAT THINGS WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO BE SUCCESSFUL.

SO THAT'S THE HIGHLIGHTS.

I APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK.

WE'LL BE GOING TO HOUSTON IN APRIL.

THAT SHOULD BE VERY, VERY INTERESTING.

AND WE'RE GOING TO BE GOING TO KATY ISD MOSTLY, WHICH IS WHERE OUR SHARON CAME FROM.

AND THEN GRADUATION WILL BE AT SLI IN FORT WORTH, AND ALL OF Y'ALL WILL BE INVITED TO COME.

OH, YES, WE WILL BE THERE.

YOU KNOW, I'M SO HAPPY THAT YOU'RE IN THIS PROGRAM.

IT'S A REALLY GOOD EXPERIENCE.

I DID IT IN 2015, AND I STILL HAVE CONNECTIONS ACROSS TEXAS WITH TRUSTEES, FELLOW TRUSTEES FROM AROUND. AND IT'S A GREAT WAY TO SHARE BEST PRACTICES.

AND IT'S A GREAT WAY TO BRING THINGS IN THAT WE LEARN FROM OTHER DISTRICTS.

AND ALL IT DOES IS HELP US SERVE OUR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS AND FAMILIES IN THE DISTRICT.

SO GREAT JOB.

PROUD OF YOU FOR DOING THAT AND WE WILL GIVE YOU A HARD TIME AT GRADUATION.

COWBELLS. COWBELLS OKAY.

ALL RIGHT.

IF THERE'S NO FURTHER BUSINESS NOR ANY OBJECTIONS FROM THE BOARD, THE BOARD MEETING IS ADJOURNED.

THE TIME IS 9:30 P.M.

ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH, 2024.

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.