[1. CALL TO ORDER] [00:00:02] GOOD EVENING. I'M NANCY HUMPHREY, BOARD PRESIDENT AND PRESIDING OFFICER. 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, OCTOBER 22ND, 2024. ON THE BOARD'S BEHALF, I WISH TO WELCOME EVERYONE AT THIS TIME. I ASK SUPERINTENDENT WILLIAMS TO VERIFY THAT WE ARE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT REGARDING THE 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 WITH ME THIS EVENING. TO MY LEFT, SUPERINTENDENT DR. TERESA WILLIAMS, DR. LINDA FREEMAN, DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT FOR LEADERSHIP AND OPERATIONS, BOARD SECRETARY TARA LANTZ, TRUSTEE JERRY CHAMBERS, TRUSTEE KATHRYN GOODWIN. AND TRUSTEE MICHAEL COOK. SEATED TO MY RIGHT, VICE PRESIDENT. DR. LAUREN TYRA, TRUSTEE ANGELA POWELL. LET ME TURN THE PAGE. 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, 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. SO WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM TWO, WHICH IS OUR RECOGNITIONS FOR THIS EVENING. [2. RECOGNITIONS] TONIGHT WE HAVE ONE VERY SPECIAL RECOGNITION, AND I WILL NOW TURN IT OVER TO SUPERINTENDENT DR., DR. WILLIAMS. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT HUMPHREY. THIS EVENING, WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO RECOGNIZE ONE OF OUR ONE OF OUR VERY OWN LEADERS IN THE DISTRICT. A VERY SPECIAL RECOGNITION. SO I'D LIKE TO INVITE TO THE PODIUM, CHIEF COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER LESLIE STANTON, IF YOU'LL COME FORWARD. WE CAN'T REALLY HEAR, SO WE CAN TURN UP THE MIC. THAT WOULD BE GREAT. DO YOU WANT TO GIVE SPECIAL RECOGNITION TO. CAN WE GIVE HER A ROUND OF APPLAUSE? TRULY, I CANNOT THINK OF A MORE DESERVING PERSON. WELL. THANK YOU. THIS WAS A TOTAL SURPRISE. YOU GUYS GOT ME. [00:05:02] TOTALLY. THANK YOU, LADIES, FOR COMING. I GUESS BACK AT YOU. OKAY. WELL, MY GOODNESS, I THOUGHT WE HAD A DIFFERENT RECOGNITION, SO LET'S. I GUESS WE'RE MOVING ON TO 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. PRESIDENT HUMPHREY, WE DO NOT HAVE ANY SPEAKERS REGARDING ANY AGENDA ITEMS. OKAY. WE'LL GET THAT FIGURED OUT. LET ME MOVE FORWARD. WE WILL THEN MOVE ON TO ITEM FOUR, WHICH IS OUR CLOSED SESSION. [4. CLOSED SESSION] IF THERE ARE NO OBJECTIONS FROM THE BOARD, WE WILL NOW ADJOURN TO CLOSED SESSION AS AUTHORIZED UNDER THE TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT FOR THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES. SECTIONS 551.0715, 551.072, 551.074, 551.0821, 551.087 551.089 AND 551.129, AND THE TIME IS 6:06. ALL RIGHT. THE BOARD WILL NOW RECONVENE OPEN SESSION AND THE TIME IS 9:15 P.M. [5. RECONVENE OPEN SESSION] WE'LL MOVE TO OUR PUBLIC HEARING. [6. PUBLIC HEARING] ITEM NUMBER SIX THIS EVENING. THE BOARD IS CONDUCTING A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE SCHOOL'S FIRST INTEGRITY RATING SYSTEM OF TEXAS, WHICH IS ALSO KNOWN AS THE FIRST RATING, WILL BEGIN THE PUBLIC HEARING WITH A PRESENTATION FROM DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT JOHNNY HILL AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER COURTNEY REEVES, AFTER WHICH I WILL INVITE TO THE PODIUM MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WOULD LIKE TO COMMENT REGARDING THE SCHOOL'S FINANCIAL INTEGRITY RATING SYSTEM OF TEXAS. THE FIRST RATING. MR. HILL, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO YOU. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT HUMPHREY. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD AND CABINET. I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER PRETTY QUICK TO COURTNEY, OUR CFO, TO LET HER GO OVER THIS GREAT NEWS. I DON'T WANT TO STEAL ANY OF HER THUNDER, EVEN THOUGH I'D LIKE TO, BUT ANYWAY, A LOT OF GOOD NEWS WE GET. I JUST WANTED TO POINT OUT WE DO HAVE COMMENTS PERIODICALLY ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HOW WE'RE MANAGING THE FINANCES OF THE DISTRICT. AND I THINK PROBABLY ONE OF THE BEST WAYS THAT WE ACTUALLY CAN ACTUALLY TRACK THAT IS, IS THROUGH THE FIRST SYSTEM THIS IS AN AUDIT SYSTEM, BY THE WAY, ON HOW WE'RE DOING WITH OUR FINANCES. AND SO IF ANYONE HAS COMMENTS FROM THE COMMUNITY, THIS IS A GREAT REPORT TO ACTUALLY FOLLOW AND ASK QUESTIONS OR, OR ANY KIND OF MISUNDERSTANDINGS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE. BUT ANYWAY, THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR 21 YEARS. I CAN HONESTLY SAY IT'S VERY IN DEPTH AND IT'S A PROCESS THAT'S GOTTEN MORE STRENUOUS OVER TIME. AND SO I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO COURTNEY TO GO OVER IT THIS EVENING. THANK YOU, COURTNEY. THANK YOU, JOHNNY. PRESIDENT HUMPHREY, DR. WILLIAMS, BOARD OF TRUSTEES, IT'S ALWAYS MY PLEASURE TO BRING YOU OUR ANNUAL FIRST REPORT. SO, AS JOHNNY SAID, THIS IS ACTUALLY THE 21ST YEAR OF THE SCHOOL. FIRST AND FIRST STANDS FOR FINANCIAL INTEGRITY RATING SYSTEM OF TEXAS. AND IT'S A FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM FOR TEXAS SCHOOL DISTRICTS. AND IT WAS DEVELOPED BY TI IN RESPONSE TO SENATE BILL 875 OF THE 76TH LEGISLATURE IN 1999. THERE'S A COUPLE OF OBJECTIVES, OF COURSE, OF SCHOOL. SCHOOL FIRST REPORTING. AND OF COURSE, THE PRIMARY GOAL, AS YOU CAN SEE ON THIS SLIDE, IS TO ACHIEVE QUALITY, PERFORMANCE AND THE MANAGEMENT OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT'S FINANCIAL RESOURCES. ANOTHER OBJECTIVE OF FIRST IS TO HAVE A RATING SYSTEM THAT IS FAIRLY AND EQUITABLY EVALUATES THE QUALITY OF OUR FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT DECISIONS AND PRACTICES. AND SO ALL 1200 SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND CHARTER SCHOOLS ARE MEASURED AGAINST THE SAME 21 UNIFORM INDICATORS. WE DO HAVE SOME REQUIREMENTS FOR OUR SCHOOL. FIRST, WITHIN TWO MONTHS AFTER RECEIVING OUR FINANCIAL OUR FINAL FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY RATING, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES MUST HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING ON OUR ANNUAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT REPORT. WE DO HAVE TO PREPARE A FIRST FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT REPORT WITH REQUIRED DISCLOSURES, WHICH ARE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC. WE HAVE TO HAVE A NOTICE OF OUR PUBLIC MEETING, NO MORE THAN 30 DAYS AND NO LESS THAN TEN DAYS BEFORE OUR PUBLIC MEETING, WHICH WE DID ADVERTISE OUR PUBLIC MEETING AND OUR PLANO STAR COURIER ON SEPTEMBER 29TH. AND OF COURSE, TONIGHT IS TO HOLD OUR PUBLIC MEETING TO DISCUSS THE RATING. SO THIS IS OUR 2023-2024 SCHOOL FIRST. BUT THE BASIS OF THE RATING IS ACTUALLY IT'S A LITTLE BIT DATED OF THE DATA. THIS IS BASED ON 2022 2023 DATA. SO OUR STAFF AND STUDENT DATA IS FROM OUR FALL TEAM SNAPSHOT OF 22. OUR BUDGET FINANCIAL DATA AS WELL FROM OUR FALL TEAM SNAPSHOT OF 2022. [00:10:05] AND THEN OUR ACTUAL FINANCIAL DATA IS FROM OUR ACT FOR YEAR END JUNE 30TH, 2023. IT'S HAD THE SAME FOUR TIER RATING SYSTEM FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS. OF COURSE, YOU CAN SEE UP THERE THERE'S A, B, C, AND F A IS THE HIGHEST FROM 90 TO 100 POINTS, WITH THE SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT ABOVE STANDARD 80 TO 89 POINTS WITH A, B, C IS MEET STANDARDS AT 70 TO 79 POINTS. AND THEN OF COURSE, ANYTHING BELOW 70 POINTS IS A SUBSTANDARD ACHIEVEMENT, WHICH IS ALSO FAILING. THIS SLIDE IS JUST KIND OF A QUICK OVERVIEW OF THE DETERMINATION OF POINTS. AGAIN THERE'S 21 INDICATORS. THE FIRST FOUR INDICATORS ARE WHAT THEY CALL CRITICAL INDICATORS. THE NEXT TEN INDICATORS FIVE THROUGH 14 ARE SOLVENCY INDICATORS AND 15 THROUGH 21. THE LAST SEVEN ARE FINANCIAL COMPETENCE INDICATORS. TO KIND OF JUST CUT TO THE CHASE, DON WAS TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT NOT WANTING TO STEAL MY THUNDER. THIS WAS ACTUALLY THE FIRST TIME IN SIX YEARS THAT THE DISTRICT HAS RECEIVED A SCORE OF 100. OF COURSE WE GOT WE SAID YES TO ALL FOUR CRITICAL INDICATORS. WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THOSE INDICATORS LATER. AND THEN THE NEXT 17 WE GOT A MAXIMUM SCORE OF 100. AND OF COURSE WE RECEIVED 100 POINTS ON THOSE 17 INDICATORS. AGAIN THE LAST TIME WE ACTUALLY RECEIVED A 100 ON OUR SCHOOL FIRST WAS OUR 2017-2018 REPORT. SO JUST REALLY QUICKLY WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH SOME OF THE INDICATORS. WE DEFINITELY WON'T GO THROUGH ALL 21, BUT JUST KIND OF HITTING SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS. WE'LL GO THROUGH OUR CRITICAL INDICATORS. THEY ARE EXACTLY WHAT THEY SAY. THEY ARE CRITICAL INDICATORS. MEANING IF WE DO NOT SAY YES TO THESE FOUR, THEN WE AUTOMATICALLY FAIL, EVEN IF WE HAD 100 POINTS ON THE REST OF THE INDICATORS. SO JUST REALLY QUICKLY. INDICATOR NUMBER ONE IS A VERY SIMPLE INDICATOR. JUST ASKING WAS OUR ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT FILED BY THE DEADLINE. WE ACTUALLY HAVE 30 DAYS FROM NOVEMBER 27TH DEADLINE TO FILE A REPORT. AND WE FILED OUR REPORT ON NOVEMBER 22ND OF 2023. INDICATOR TWO IS DID WE RECEIVE AN UNMODIFIED OPINION FROM OUR EXTERNAL AUDITORS? AND WE DID RECEIVE AN UNMODIFIED OPINION FROM WEAVER AND TIDWELL. THIRD INDICATOR IS DID WE PAY ALL OUR BILLS AND OBLIGATIONS ON TIME? SO DID WE PAY ALL OUR BILLS? DID WE SEND OUR BOND PAYMENTS ON TIME? DID WE SEND OUR PAYMENT BACK TO THE STATE ON TIME? YES, WE DID ALL THOSE THINGS. AND FOUR IS DID WE FULFILL THE REQUIREMENTS OF OUR PAYROLL OBLIGATIONS, WHICH IS TO TRS, TEXAS WORKFORCE COMMISSION AND THE IRS? AND YES, WE DID. AND OF COURSE, THE LAST ONE IS THAT WE HAD NO WARRANT HOLDS THAT WERE ISSUED TO THE DISTRICT, AND THAT WAS A CEILING INDICATOR THAT WE PASSED. INDICATOR SIX IS A THREE YEAR CHANGE IN OUR FUND BALANCE, AND THIS INDICATOR MEASURES OVER THREE YEARS THE PERCENTAGE CHANGE IN OUR FUND BALANCE TO SEE WHETHER OUR FUND BALANCE IS DECLINING TOO QUICKLY AND IF IT IS DECLINING, WHETHER WE HAD SUFFICIENT FUND BALANCE TO OPERATE THE DISTRICT FOR AT LEAST 75 DAYS. WE DID PASS THIS INDICATOR. WE DIDN'T HAVE A DECREASE. WE HAD AN INCREASE OF 1.76% INCREASE. AND JUST FOR KIND OF FOOD FOR THOUGHT, EVEN THOUGH IT WASN'T, WE PASSED BASED ON THE FACT THAT IT WAS INCREASING. WE ACTUALLY HAD A VERY, VERY MUCH SUFFICIENT MORE THAN 75 DAYS WORTH OF OPERATING, 75 DAYS WORTH OF OPERATING AND EXPENDITURES WAS JUST OVER 152 MILLION. AND OF OUR FUND BALANCE OF THE UNASSIGNED AND ASSIGNED, WE HAD OVER 278 MILLION. SO MORE THAN 75 DAYS. INDICATOR EIGHT IS OUR CURRENT ASSETS TO OUR CURRENT LIABILITY. OF COURSE IT'S AGAIN, IT'S A FORMULA WHICH IS OUR CURRENT ASSETS OVER OUR CURRENT LIABILITIES. THIS INDICATOR MEASURES WHETHER THE DISTRICT HAS SUFFICIENT SHORT TERM ASSETS AT THE END OF OUR FISCAL YEAR, TO PAY OFF OUR SHORT TERM LIABILITIES. THIS WAS A RATIO WE HAD TO HAVE GREATER THAN THREE TO RECEIVE ALL TEN POINTS. OUR RATIO WAS 3.424. THIS WAS A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT INCREASE FROM LAST YEAR'S FIRST REPORT IN 2021 2022. THAT RATIO WAS 1.9106. AND OF COURSE, THAT MAIN INCREASE WAS DUE TO AN INCREASE IN OUR CURRENT ASSETS DUE TO AN INCREASE IN OUR CASH AND OUR DISTRICT'S CAPITAL PROJECT FUND. WE PASSED OUR BOND IN NOVEMBER AND THEN ISSUED BONDS IN FEBRUARY. INDICATOR NINE IS JUST ASKED WHETHER OUR DISTRICT HAS SPENT MORE THAN IT'S EARNED. IF FOR SOME REASON OUR GENERAL FUND REVENUES DID NOT EXCEED OUR GENERAL FUND EXPENDITURES, THEN WAS OUR NUMBER OF DAYS CASH ON HAND GREATER THAN 60 DAYS. AND THIS YEAR WE DID GET WE EARNED ALL TEN POINTS OUT OF TEN, BECAUSE OUR ACTUAL REVENUES DID EXCEED OUR EXPENDITURES BY JUST OVER $15.5 MILLION. JUST AGAIN, HOW MANY DAYS? ON HOW MANY DAYS CASH ON HAND DID WE HAVE? WE HAD ACTUALLY 278.9. INDICATOR 13 IS THE ADMINISTRATIVE COST RATIO. AND THIS ACTUALLY MEASURES THE PERCENTAGE OF THE DISTRICT'S BUDGET SPENT ON ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS. OF COURSE THERE IS A CAP, BUT. [00:15:01] WELL, IT'S BASED ON IT'S A SLIDING SCALE. AND DID THE DISTRICT EXCEED THE CAP A LOSS BASED ON SIZE. SO THIS ONE IS BASED ON THE SIZE OF THE DISTRICT PER ADA. AND WE ARE ACTUALLY IN THE GROUP THAT IS GREATER THAN 10,000. AND SO IN ORDER TO RECEIVE ALL TEN POINTS, WE NEEDED A RATIO THAT WAS LESS THAN 0.0855 OR JUST OVER 8.5%. WE ACTUALLY RECEIVED ALL TEN POINTS WITH A RATIO OF 0.05027. AND JUST KIND OF A LITTLE FURTHER INFORMATION. I DID SOME COMPARISONS TO SEVEN OTHER DISTRICTS IN THE AREA, AND WE WERE BY FAR THE LOWEST OF THOSE DISTRICTS. AND AGAIN, ALL OF THOSE HAVE ADA OVER 10,000. INDICATORS 16. THIS ONE GETS A LITTLE WEEDY. AND I'LL BE HONEST, I KIND OF NERD OUT A LITTLE BIT ON THIS ONE. THIS ONE IS AN INDICATOR THAT MEASURES THE QUALITY OF OUR DATA. AND THIS IS OUR TEAM'S DATA TO OUR DISTRICT ACFR DATA. AND IT ACTUALLY COMPARES THESE TWO DATA TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY MATCH UP. AND THAT DIFFERENCE ACTUALLY HAS TO BE LESS THAN 3%. JUST KIND OF. SO OUR TOTAL EXPENDITURES FOR 2223 WAS JUST OVER $741 MILLION. AND SO 3% OF THAT WE HAD TO HAVE LESS THAN 3% OF THAT, 3% OF THAT WAS JUST OVER $22.2 MILLION. THE VARIANCE BETWEEN THAT WE ACTUALLY HAD. SO WE COULD HAVE HAD A VARIANCE OF $22 MILLION. WE HAD A VARIANCE OF $547. THAT PERCENTAGE, IT'S BASICALLY ZERO. SO THAT VARIANCE WAS A 0.00007 PERCENTAGE VARIANCE, WHICH THAT'S A MAJOR SHOUT OUT TO MY ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT. MY DIRECTOR OF ACCOUNTING, ANGELA MARKS COSBY, WHO DOES AN AMAZING JOB. SHE GOES THROUGH THAT AND DOES IT WITH A FINE TOOTH COMB. SO AGAIN THAT GETS A LITTLE NERDY AND A LITTLE WEEDY. BUT I'M VERY, VERY PROUD OF OF THAT PARTICULAR PERCENTAGE INDICATOR. 1718 OUR MATERIAL WEAKNESS AND NONCOMPLIANCE 17 IS BASICALLY JUST SEEING IF WE HAD A CLEAN AUDIT, AGAIN, THAT NO MATERIAL WEAKNESSES IN OUR INTERNAL CONTROLS, ANY WEAKNESSES WOULD CREATE RISK TO OUR DISTRICT. AND OF COURSE, WEAVER DOES OUR ANNUAL AUDIT AND THEY FOUND NO MATERIAL WEAKNESSES. 18 IS AN INDICATOR THAT MEASURES WHETHER THE DISTRICT IS COMPLYING WITH LAWS, RULES AND REGULATIONS RELATED TO EXPENDITURES FOR GRANT FUNDS AND CONTRACTS AND OTHER STATE AND FEDERAL FUNDS. OF COURSE, WE WERE IN COMPLIANCE AND WE RECEIVED TEN OUT OF TEN POINTS THERE. AND THIS LAST SLIDE IS JUST JUST KIND OF A COMPARISON FROM OUR DISTRICTS WHO WERE IN WHO DID THEIR STATE FIRST LAST YEAR COMPARED TO THIS CURRENT YEAR. I DO THINK THAT IT'S EASY TO SAY IT IS GETTING HARDER, AS YOU CAN SEE, COMPARED TO PRIOR YEAR. 49 DISTRICTS ACTUALLY FELL OUT OF THE SUPERIOR RATING, AND THEN ABOVE STANDARD IT INCREASED BY 32. AND OF COURSE MEET STANDARDS INCREASED BY NINE. AND THEN LASTLY YOU CAN SEE ACTUALLY SEVEN MORE DISTRICTS ACTUALLY FAILED SCHOOL FIRST IN 2324 COMPARED TO 2223. AND THAT IS MY PRESENTATION. THANK YOU. HEY COURTNEY, I HAVE A QUICK ASK. COULD YOU PLEASE REPEAT INDICATOR NUMBER 13? I WOULD LOVE AND I ONLY DO THIS BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. EVERY TIME WE GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO POINT OUT TO OUR COMMUNITY WHAT OUR ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS ARE I? THIS WAY WE CAN GO RIGHT TO THE DATA. SO. RIGHT. IT'S COMPARED TO IT'S OUR ADMINISTRATIVE COST COMPARED TO OUR INSTRUCTIONAL COST. AND SO AGAIN JUST LOOKING AT BASICALLY HOW MUCH WE SPENT COMPARED TO OUR INSTRUCTIONAL COSTS. SO ULTIMATELY WE NEED FOR THIS PARTICULAR CAP. AGAIN THIS IS COMPARING JUST FOR US FOR DISTRICTS OF 10,000 ADA OR MORE, WE HAD TO HAVE AT LESS A PERCENTAGE, LESS THAN 8.55. THE DISTRICT, THE PLANO ISD HAD A 5.027%. I WILL TELL YOU OF THE GROUP THAT I COMPARED IT TO. I WON'T NAME ANY NAMES, BUT I WILL NAME NAMES. I DO, DON'T LOOK AT IT, MICHAEL. YOU CAN'T DON'T DON'T RAT ME OUT. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BETWEEN THE TOP ONE TO US WAS 2.6%. YES, THE TOP ONE WAS 7.7%. SO YES, BUT THEY WERE STILL WITHIN THE CAP. CORRECT. THEY STILL DID GET ALL TEN POINTS, BUT QUITE A BIT HIGHER. THAT JUST MEANS WE HAVE AN EFFECTIVE WAY TO GET ECONOMIES OF SCALE. CORRECT? CORRECT? YES. ALL RIGHT. WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM BOARD MEMBERS BEFORE WE GO TO THE HEARING? OKAY. ALL RIGHT. I NOW INVITE TO THE PODIUM WE HAVE A PODIUM OVER THERE ACROSS THE ROOM. ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO COMMENT SPECIFICALLY ON THE SCHOOL'S FINANCIAL INTEGRITY RATING SYSTEM OF TEXAS, OR OUR FIRST RATING FOR THE PRESENTATION [00:20:09] THAT MISS REEVES JUST WENT THROUGH. IF THERE'S ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A COMMENT ABOUT THE FIRST RATING. THE FLOOR IS YOURS. THE HEARING IS OPEN. ALL RIGHT. I DON'T SEE ANYONE JUMPING TO THE PODIUM, SO I'LL CLOSE THE HEARING. THANK YOU SO MUCH. MISS REEVES, APPRECIATE IT. ALL RIGHT, SO THIS CONCLUDES THE PUBLIC HEARING. AND NOW WE WILL MOVE ON TO ITEM SEVEN, ONE OF OUR DISCUSSION, WHICH IS DISCUSSION AND ACTION. [7. DISCUSSION AND ACTION] THE ITEM SEVEN ONE IS TO CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE SUPERINTENDENT TO TERMINATE MR. DAVID ALDER, A TERM CONTRACT TEACHER, FOR GOOD CAUSE AS DETERMINED BY THE BOARD PURSUANT TO SECTION 21.211 OF THE TEXAS EDUCATION CODE. AND SO I WILL ASK. THERE YOU ARE, DR. KENDALL, WHAT IS THE RECOMMENDATION FROM THE ADMINISTRATION? COMPANY PRESIDENT HUMPHREY, BOARD DR. WILLIAMS. AT THIS TIME, ADMINISTRATION RECOMMENDS TABLING SEVEN. ITEM 7.1 UNTIL NO LATER THAN APRIL OF 2025. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. NOW, DO I HAVE A MOTION REGARDING THAT RECOMMENDATION TO TABLE ITEM 7.1 UNTIL NO LATER THAN APRIL 2025? I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES TABLE ITEM 7.1 UNTIL NO LATER THAN APRIL 2025. ALL RIGHT. IS THERE A SECOND? I'LL SECOND. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. I HAVE A MOTION BY ANGELA POWELL AND A SECOND BY TARRAH LANTZ THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES TABLES ITEM 7.1 UNTIL NO LATER THAN APRIL OF 2025. I WILL CALL FOR A VOTE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, RAISE YOUR HAND, AND I SEE SEVEN HANDS. SO THE MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU, DR. KENDALL. NOW WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM SEVEN TWO OF OUR DISCUSSION AND ACTION, WHICH IS CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH THE WITH THE CITY OF PLANO REGARDING THE OFFER OF THE FOLLOWING SURPLUS REAL PROPERTY SALE FOR THE CITY TO THE CITY AFTER THE END OF THE 2024 2025 SCHOOL YEAR. THOSE PROPERTIES ARE ARMSTRONG MIDDLE SCHOOL, WHICH IS AT 3805 TIMBERLINE DRIVE. DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, WHICH IS LOCATED AT 2701 PARK HAVEN DRIVE, AND OR FOREMAN ELEMENTARY, WHICH IS LOCATED AT 3600 TIMBERLINE DRIVE. BOARD MEMBERS, DO I HAVE A MOTION? DO WE HAVE A PRESENTATION WITH THE PRESENTATION? I DO. OH. I'M SORRY. I DID NOT GET TO THAT, DID I? THAT'S THE AGENDA ITEM, AND I NEED TO HAND IT OVER TO YOU. JOHNNY. MY MISTAKE. NO PROBLEM. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT HUMPHREY. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD AND CABINET. DR. WILLIAMS. SO JUST REAL QUICKLY, THIS IS OBVIOUSLY AN ITEM THAT WE HAVE DISCUSSED BEFORE AND THAT WE'RE MOVING ALONG. I DO HAVE JUST A COUPLE SLIDES I DO WANT TO GO OVER JUST REAL BRIEFLY BEFORE YOU CONSIDER THIS ITEM. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT OBVIOUSLY WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT LONG, LONG RANGE FACILITY PLANNING AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SURPLUS REAL PROPERTY, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT THE COMMUNITY KNOW THAT THIS HAS BEEN A VERY TRANSPARENT PROCESS. AND SO I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT SOME MILESTONES THAT WE'VE WE'VE GONE THROUGH OVER THIS LAST YEAR TO GET TO THIS POINT THIS EVENING. AND THE FIRST, THE FIRST THING, OBVIOUSLY, AS WE WERE DOING EVEN BEFORE WE FINISHED AND ASKED YOU TO CONSIDER, YOU KNOW, LONG RANGE FACILITY PLANNING AND POTENTIALLY RETIRING OF CAMPUSES, IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO THIS BOARD THAT YOU WAS RESPONSIVE TO THE COMMUNITY WITH. WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO WITH THE SURPLUS PROPERTIES. IF WE HAD PROPERTIES ON CAMPUSES THAT WE RETIRE THOSE CAMPUSES, WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN TO THOSE THOSE SITES SUPER, SUPER IMPORTANT? IT WAS A QUESTION WE RECEIVED OVER AND OVER OVER THE COURSE OF THIS LAST YEAR AS A AS A RESPONSE TO THAT, OF COURSE, YOU PASSED A RESOLUTION ON MAY THE 7TH OF 2024, SPECIFICALLY IDENTIFYING THE STEPS INVOLVED WITH SURPLUS OF THOSE PROPERTIES. AFTER THAT, OBVIOUSLY, IN SEPTEMBER, YOU ACTUALLY TOOK THE STANCE AFTER EVALUATING THOSE PROPERTIES. THERE WAS FOUR PROPERTIES OF RETIRED CAMPUSES. YOU ACTUALLY EVALUATED LONG TERM SUSTAINABILITY, WHETHER WE WERE GOING TO NEED THOSE PROPERTIES IN THE FUTURE OR NOT. AND YOU GUYS, THROUGH A RESOLUTION SURPLUS THREE PROPERTIES DAVIS ELEMENTARY, FORMAN ELEMENTARY AND ARMSTRONG MIDDLE SCHOOL. AFTER THAT, OF COURSE, THERE'S A VERY SPECIFIC LAWS THAT ARE REQUIRED WITH STEPS ON SURPLUS PROPERTY, ON REAL PROPERTY, ON REAL PROPERTY. [00:25:06] AND SO ONE OF THOSE STIPULATIONS WAS UNDER TEXAS EDUCATION CODE, CHAPTER 11, THAT THOSE PROPERTIES HAD TO BE AT LEAST OFFERED ON CHARTER SCHOOLS THAT WERE LOCATED WITHIN OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT. WE CURRENTLY HAVE NINE CHARTER SCHOOLS LOCATED WITHIN OUR DISTRICTS. WE WERE VERY, VERY TRANSPARENT WITH HOW WE WENT THROUGH THAT PROCESS. WE ADVERTISED WE EVEN SENT CERTIFIED LETTERS TO EACH OF THOSE THOSE CHARTER SCHOOLS, AFTER EVALUATING THE THOSE PROPERTIES, WE DID NOT HAVE A SINGLE CHARTER SCHOOL LOCATED WITHIN OUR DISTRICT TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL. AND SO THAT BRINGS US TO THE NEXT STEP OF THE RESOLUTION THAT WAS PASSED ON MAY THE 7TH, WHICH WE WOULD ENTERTAIN GOING THROUGH A PROCESS WITH THE CITY OF PLANO TO SEE IF THEY ARE INTERESTED IN PURCHASING THESE PROPERTIES FOR FAIR VALUE. SO THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT THAT WE'RE ASKING YOU TO CONSIDER THIS EVENING SIMPLY LAYS OUT EXPECTATIONS FOR THE THE CITY OF PLANO, AS WELL AS THE PLANO INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT. SO THAT IS THE LAST ITEM WE HAVE ON THERE. JUST TO SUMMARIZE, WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THAT INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT IS THAT THE DESIRE WOULD BE THAT THIS, THAT BOTH PARTIES WOULD INTEND TO CLOSE ON THOSE PROPERTIES BY THE END OF AUGUST 2025. THAT ANY KIND OF ANY KIND OF INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WOULD BE, WOULD ACTUALLY BE BASED ON THE FACT THAT IT WOULD END UP BEING EXECUTED WITH A MUTUALLY MUTUALLY APPROVED REAL ESTATE CONTRACT, WHICH THIS BOARD WOULD HAVE TO ALSO CONSIDER AND APPROVE. THE PARTIES WOULD AGREE THAT THE SALE TO THE CITY WOULD BE CONTINGENT ON THE CITY USING THOSE PROPERTIES. THAT WAS CONSISTENT WITH THE RESOLUTION THAT WAS ADOPTED ON MAY THE 7TH, 2024. INCLUDED IN THOSE CONTINGENCIES WITH THE MANNER, THERE WERE THREE MAIN, MAIN THOUGHTS THAT WERE PUT OUT. NUMBER ONE IS THOSE PROPERTIES MUST BE CONSISTENT WITH THE SURROUNDING PROPERTIES. NUMBER TWO, THAT IT MUST BENEFIT THAT COMMUNITY OR THAT SCHOOL DISTRICT WAS LYING. AND NUMBER THREE, IT MUST MAINTAIN THE INTEGRITY AND SECURITY OF THAT NEIGHBORHOOD. ALSO, IT IS A PENDING BOARD APPROVAL THAT THOSE CAMPUSES, ALL FOUR OF THE CAMPUSES, BUT SPECIFICALLY THESE THREE THAT ARE MENTIONED IN THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT, WOULD BE DEMOLISHED AT THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR. AND THEN FINALLY, THE PURCHASE PRICE WOULD ACTUALLY HAVE TO BE AT FAIR VALUE. THAT FAIR VALUE WOULD BE DETERMINED THROUGH A JOINT A JOINT EVENT WHERE WE WOULD BOTH GO OUT AND LOOK AT GETTING AN INDEPENDENT APPRAISAL OF THOSE PROPERTIES. THAT IS THE PRESENTATION. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT. DO YOU WANT A MOTION BEFORE THE DISCUSSION OR. YOU'RE RIGHT. SO MAY I PLEASE. I'M SORRY I GOT OUT OF SYNC ON MY SCRIPT. DO I HAVE A MOTION? I MOVE THAT THE BOARD. I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY OF PLANO REGARDING THE OFFER FOR THE FOLLOWING SURFACE REAL PROPERTY FOR SALE TO THE CITY AFTER THE END OF THE 2024 2025 SCHOOL YEAR. ARMSTRONG MIDDLE SCHOOL, DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, AND FOREMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. I SECOND. ALL RIGHT. NOW WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE TABLE. I HAVE A MOTION BY JERI CHAMBERS AND A SECOND BY LAUREN TYPEKIT THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY OF PLANO REGARDING THE OFFER OF THE FOLLOWING SURPLUS REAL PROPERTY FOR SALE TO THE CITY AFTER THE END OF THE 20 2524, 2025 SCHOOL YEAR. ARMSTRONG MIDDLE SCHOOL, DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, AND FOREMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. NOW, IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? I HAVE A COUPLE OF THINGS, AND I'M I'M GOING TO SEEM VERY OBTUSE, AND I APOLOGIZE, BUT I THOUGHT WE WENT OVER SOME OF THIS AT THE LAST MEETING, AND I'M STILL GETTING A LOT OF QUESTIONS AND FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMUNITY THAT MAYBE WE WEREN'T EXPLICIT ENOUGH. SO WE HAVE EXPLICITLY STATED WE'RE GOING TO DEMOLISH THESE THREE PROPERTIES OR THESE THREE BUILDINGS BEFORE SELLING THEM, POTENTIALLY CREATING A SALE TO THE CITY OF PLANO, WHICH WILL HAVE TO COME BACK TO THE BOARD. WE WILL ALSO BE IT IS ALSO THE DISTRICT'S INTENTION TO DEMOLISH CARPENTER AND HOLD THAT PROPERTY LONG TERM. OKAY. JOHNNY IS NODDING. I JUST THAT IS CORRECT. OKAY. THE SECOND ONE IS ON THE THE FAIR MARKET VALUE. THIS IS ANOTHER ONE THAT WE COVERED LAST MONTH THAT I'VE, I'VE SEEN SOME MISINFORMATION IN THE COMMUNITY ABOUT THAT. I WOULD LIKE TO CLEAR UP. WE WILL GET AN APPRAISER. THE CITY OF PLANO WILL GET A DIFFERENT APPRAISER, AND WE WILL HAVE SEPARATE APPRAISALS DONE. AND THEN BASED ON THOSE APPRAISALS THAT ARE DONE, THERE WILL BE A NEGOTIATING PROCESS FOR WHAT IS FAIR MARKET VALUE OF THESE PROPERTIES? [00:30:03] IS THAT CORRECT? THAT IS ALSO CORRECT. OKAY. THANK YOU. TRYING TO SPELL SOME THINGS OUT EXPLICITLY TO COMBAT THE MISINFORMATION THAT'S OUT IN THE COMMUNITY. I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE ADMINISTRATION FOR GOING REALLY HARD ON THIS. AND AT THE AT THE SAME TIME, AS YOU KNOW, WE HAVE STUDENTS IN THESE BUILDINGS THAT LOVE THESE BUILDINGS AND FAMILIES THAT LOVE THESE SCHOOLS. YOU KNOW, THE NUMBER ONE THING IS JOHNNY SAID, WE HEARD BEHIND PLEASE NOT MY SCHOOL WAS WHAT ABOUT THE BUILDINGS? PLEASE DON'T LEAVE EMPTY BUILDINGS IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD. AND FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE ABLE TO GET BEHIND, THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS IS VERY AGGRESSIVE PAYWALL. YOU MAY HAVE SEEN SEVERAL ARTICLES RECENTLY ABOUT THE SAME SCHOOL AS EMPTY SCHOOL IN DALLAS. CATCHING FIRE MULTIPLE TIMES. RIGHT? LIKE, THERE IS SOME SIGNIFICANT RISK TO HAVING EMPTY BUILDINGS, NOT ONLY FROM A SAFETY SECURITY STANDPOINT, BUT WE HAD ALL OF THESE COMMUNITY MEETINGS, AND HERE WE ARE RESPONDING TO COMMUNITY FEEDBACK. SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE THAT POINT THAT THIS AGGRESSIVE DISCUSSION AND TIMELINE AND THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING HERE IS A DIRECT RESPONSE OF COMMUNITY ADVOCACY AT THOSE MEETINGS. SO I THINK IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT TO NOTE, YOU KNOW, ON THE TIMELINE HERE, AND THIS IS NOT A SECRET. THE CITY HAS ADVERTISED FOR A BOND COMMITTEE THAT THEY'RE CONSIDERING OR THEY ARE PUTTING TOGETHER A CITIZEN BOND COMMITTEE TO POTENTIALLY ESTABLISH, YOU KNOW, WHAT THEIR NEXT BOND PROJECT LOOKS LIKE. AND I THINK THAT IT'S REALLY A VERY POSITIVE BENEFIT THAT WE ARE ABLE TO WORK WITH THE CITY OF PLANO IN THIS WAY SO THAT OUR BOTH OUR, YOU KNOW, TAXPAYERS AND THE CITY'S TAXPAYERS, MANY OF WHICH OVERLAP, BUT NOT ALL CAN UNDERSTAND THAT WE ARE HAVING A FAIR AND AN OPEN AND A TRANSPARENT PROCESS TO TAKE THESE COMMUNITY ASSETS AND ENSURE THAT THEY CONTINUE TO BE COMMUNITY ASSETS, EVEN IF THEY'RE NOT PLANO ISD ASSETS. SO I JUST I APPRECIATE THE INTENTIONALITY WITH WHICH Y'ALL ARE DOING THE WORK AND THE OPENNESS AND TRANSPARENCY. AND I ALSO APPRECIATE THE PARTNERSHIP OF THE CITY OF PLANO. I'VE I'VE BEEN ASKED ABOUT THIS, AND I'M NOT A REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER. I'M NOT A CITY PLANNER. RIGHT. LIKE, YOU KNOW, IS A TRUSTEE. I DON'T NECESSARILY WANT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF HAVING TO SAY WE SHOULD SELL TO THIS DEVELOPER, NOT THAT DEVELOPER, BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THAT. RIGHT. AND SO I, I REALLY, REALLY APPRECIATE THE CITY'S INTEREST IN THESE PROPERTIES AND, AND INTEREST IN THAT PARTNERSHIP. SO FOR MY OWN PART, THANK YOU. CITY OF PLANO. TO MAKE LAWRENCE QUESTION EVEN MORE SIMPLE THIS IS NOT A SALES CONTRACT. IT MERELY LAYS OUT NEXT STEPS. CORRECT? YES, MA'AM. THAT IS CORRECT. THERE WILL BE A SALES CONTRACT THAT ACTUALLY COMES OUT OF THIS, THIS, THIS WORK UNDER THIS AGREEMENT. AND THE BOARD WILL ACTUALLY HAVE FINAL SAY ON THAT SALES CONTRACT. AND THAT SALES CONTRACT WILL BE BASED ON FAIR MARKET VALUE APPRAISALS. YES, IT WILL WILL MIRROR. SO PART OF THIS AGREEMENT SAYS THAT THEY'LL SHARE THEIR APPRAISER WITH US AND WE'LL SHARE OURS WITH THEM. SO THERE YOU GO. IT'LL BE A VERY TRANSPARENT PROCESS. ALL RIGHT. ANYONE ELSE? ALL RIGHT. WE WILL NOW VOTE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND. AND I SEE SEVEN HANDS. AND SO THE MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU, MR. HILL. WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM SEVEN THREE, WHICH IS ALSO DISCUSSION AND ACTION. AND IT'S THE APPROVAL OF AMENDMENT NUMBER SIX TO THE 2025 GRADUATION VENUE. AND I WILL TURN THIS OVER TO DR. FREEMAN TO PRESENT. I ACTUALLY THINK IT'S LESLIE, SO. OH, THANK YOU THOUGH. SORRY. MY SCRIPT IS INCORRECT. WHERE IS MISS RYAN STANTON? SORRY, SOMEBODY TYPED THE WRONG NAME. YEAH. YOU FREAK. I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I WANT. SORRY ABOUT THAT. OKAY, YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU A COPY OF THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT THAT THE. I'M SORRY. THAT'S WHAT WE JUST TALKED ABOUT. THE AMENDMENT TO THE CONTRACT THAT ORIGINALLY WAS INITIATED IN 2017 WITH THE VENUE, THE STAR IN FRISCO FOR GRADUATION. WITH THAT APPROVAL, WE CAN CLAIM OUR DATES THAT ARE LISTED IN THE AGREEMENT, ALONG WITH PROPOSED DATES. THREE OPTIONAL DATES FOR 2026. [00:35:02] ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. WITH THAT INFORMATION, DO I HAVE A MOTION? I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES AMENDMENT NUMBER SIX TO THE 2025 GRADUATION VENUE CONTRACT. SHOULD THAT BE 2025 OR 2026? BECAUSE THIS IS FOR IT IS AMENDMENT TO THE 2017 CONTRACT, BUT IT'S FOR 2025 AND 2026. OKAY. SO I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVE AMENDMENT NUMBER SIX TO THE 2017 GRADUATION VENUE CONTRACT FOR THE SCHOOL YEARS OF 2025 AND 2026. YES. ALL RIGHT. IS THERE A SECOND? I'LL SECOND THAT. YOU LEFT THAT FOR ME TO HAVE TO READ. OKAY. I HAVE A MOTION BY DR. LAWRENCE SARA. A SECOND BY JERRY CHAMBERS THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES AMENDMENT NUMBER SIX TO THE 2017 GRADUATION VENUE CONTRACT FOR THE YEARS 2025 AND 2026. IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL RIGHT. WE'LL NOW VOTE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND. AND LOOKS LIKE IT'S UNANIMOUS. SO THE MOTION PASSES. AND NOW WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM SEVEN FOUR OF DISCUSSION AND ACTION, WHICH IS THE APPROVAL OF COURSE, RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE 2025 2026 SCHOOL YEAR. AND I WILL LET LISA WILSON PRESENT THIS. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT HUMPHREY, SUPERINTENDENT WILLIAMS AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES, I'D LIKE TO TURN THIS OVER TO DR. KRISTEN HEBERT, AND SHE WILL SHARE WITH YOU OUR ANNUAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR COURSE UPDATES AND NEW COURSES. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING, PRESIDENT HUMPHREY. DR. WILLIAMS, BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND CABINET MEMBERS. I AM DELIGHTED FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE WITH YOU THIS EVENING OUR NEW COURSE, RECOMMENDATIONS AND UPDATES FOR THE 2526 SCHOOL YEAR. I HOPE THAT AS I HIGHLIGHT SOME CONTEXT AROUND THIS PROCESS, THAT IT REALLY HONORS THE THE COURSE RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM THAT WE USE IN PLANO ISD AND ILLUMINATES THE SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF THOUGHT AND INTENTION SURROUNDING WHAT THE COMMITTEE CONSIDERS AS WE THINK THROUGH WHAT OUR OFFERINGS ARE GOING TO BE FOR OUR STUDENTS AS THEY ARE AT THE HEART OF ALL OF OUR DECISIONS, LET'S GO AHEAD AND START BY JUMPING INTO WHAT THAT PROCESS LOOKS LIKE. YOU CAN SEE THAT OUR PROCESS IN TIMELINE ALLOW FOR A STRONG SYSTEM AND INTENTIONALITY TO GUIDE THE WORK OF THE NEW COURSE COMMITTEE. ONCE THE PROPOSAL WINDOW OPENS AND PROPOSALS ARE SUBMITTED, THE COMMITTEE CONVENES TO REVIEW AND CONSIDER THESE PROPOSALS. AN EXTENSIVE RUBRIC FOR CALIBRATION IS USED IN THE PROCESSES UNDERGIRDED WITH THE GOAL OF EXPANDING AND TIGHTENING TIMELY AND RELEVANT OFFERINGS FOR OUR LEARNERS. FROM THERE, OUR NEW COURSES ARE BROUGHT TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR APPROVAL. ONCE APPROVED, ONCE APPROVED, THESE COURSES ARE UNVEILED AND COMMUNICATED TO OUR STAFF AND OUR PUBLIC FACING COURSE CATALOG RESOURCES AND MADE AVAILABLE TO OUR STUDENTS TO SELECT FROM FOR THE 2526 SCHOOL YEAR UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND START OFF WITH OUR CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION OFFERINGS, AND SHARE SOME EXCITING COURSE UPDATES THAT ALIGN WITH OUR CTE. LONG RANGE PLANNING. AS YOU KNOW, THE WORLD OF CTE IS CONTINUOUSLY EVOLVING TO KEEP PACE WITH INDUSTRY ADVANCEMENTS AND CHANGING NEEDS IN THE WORKFORCE. AS A RESULT OF OUR COURSE, OFFERINGS ARE REGULARLY UPDATED TO ENSURE BLESS YOU TO ENSURE THAT STUDENTS GAIN RELEVANT SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE THAT ALIGN WITH CURRENT JOB MARKET DEMANDS. SOME OF OUR NEWEST OFFERINGS THAT WILL BE AVAILABLE TO OUR STUDENTS BEGINNING THIS COMING SCHOOL YEAR INCLUDE INTRO TO COMPUTER AIDED DRAFTING AND DESIGN FOUNDATIONS OF CYBERSECURITY. I'M GOING TO SAY THAT AGAIN BECAUSE THAT'S HUGE. FOUNDATIONS OF CYBERSECURITY AND DISASTER RESPONSE. WHILE THESE NEW COURSES ARE MAKING THEIR WAY INTO SCHOOLS, WE ALSO HAVE SOME THAT WILL BE REVISED TO BETTER MEET THE NEEDS OF OUR GRADE NINE AND TEN [00:40:03] STUDENTS. WHILE SOME OF THESE COURSES HAVE OR ARE NEW TO THE HIGH SCHOOL, OTHERS HAVE BEEN OFFERED AT THE 10TH GRADE LEVEL, AND NOW THEY WILL BE OFFERED AT THE NINTH AND 10TH GRADE LEVEL. AND THOSE ARE PRINCIPLES OF APPLIED ENGINEERING. CHILD DEVELOPMENT DOLLARS AND CENTS LIFETIME NUTRITION AND WELLNESS, PRINCIPLES OF BUSINESS, MARKETING AND FINANCE. AND WE DO HAVE SOME COURSES. I FORGOT TO CLICK THE SLIDE. MY APOLOGIES. JUST HIT ME NEXT TIME. MICHAEL. PRINCIPLES OF BUSINESS AND MARKETING AND FINANCE. AND THEN WE HAVE A COUPLE OF COURSES THAT DUE TO LOW ENROLLMENT AND ALSO CHANGES WITH THE TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY, WE WILL NO LONGER BE OFFERING AND THAT THOSE ARE EQUINE SCIENCE AND INTRO TO ENGINEERING DESIGN, ALSO KNOWN AS PROJECT LEAD THE WAY. ALL RIGHT. WELL, THERE ARE CERTAINLY SOME EXCITING UPDATES IN THE CTE ARENA, BUT WE ALSO HAVE SOME EXCITING UPDATES TO SHARE IN OTHER CONTENT AREAS. I KNOW THAT YOU RECEIVED THIS INFORMATION, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT A FEW NEW COURSE OFFERING OFFERINGS THAT REALLY OPEN UP OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR STUDENTS. FIRST YOU WILL SEE THAT WE ARE REALLY TRYING TO ROUND OUT AND BUILD OUT OUR IB OFFERINGS, AND WE'LL BE ADDING IB ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS AND SOCIETIES, AND THAT'S A HIGHER LEVEL CLASS WITHIN OUR IB ACADEMY. ALONG THAT SAME VEIN, WE'RE DELIGHTED TO EXPAND OUR ADVANCED ACADEMIC OFFERINGS TO A WIDER AUDIENCE. AND THIS YEAR WE ADDED ON RAMPS FOR US HISTORY. AND WE WILL ROUND THAT, OFFERING OUT WITH ON RAMPS FOR COLLEGE ALGEBRA AND BIOLOGY. AS A REMINDER, THESE COURSES ARE A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN AND UT PARTNERS, WITH ROUGHLY OVER 400 K-12 LEAS TO RAISE THE BAR ON DYNAMIC EXPERIENCES THAT ADVANCE STUDENT SUCCESS WHILE LOWERING BARRIERS TO ACCESS AND OPPORTUNITY. AND THIS IS BIG. WE ARE THRILLED TO BE ABLE TO BE BRINGING THESE COURSES TO PLANO ISD AND MOVING ON TO OUR REVISED COURSES, WE ARE LOOKING TO REVISE THE FOLLOWING LOAD CLASSES FOR A FEW REASONS. NUMBER ONE, WE WANT TO ENSURE THAT WE EQUIP STUDENTS WITH THE LANGUAGE, SKILLS AND CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE NEEDED FOR ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES. WE PROVIDE MORE ENGAGING AND RELEVANT LANGUAGE COURSES THAT CONNECT WITH STUDENTS INTERESTS AND NEEDS, AND OFFER COURSES AND SUPPORT, EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, AS WELL AS OUR STUDENTS IN THESE COURSES WILL BE CHALLENGED TO REALLY ANALYZE LANGUAGE PATTERNS, MAKE CONNECTIONS, AND SOLVE LINGUISTIC PROBLEMS. AND THIS APPROACH REALLY BOOSTS COGNITIVE COGNITIVE ABILITIES AND BUILDS CONFIDENCE AND ENCOURAGING OUR STUDENTS TO CONTINUE THEIR PURSUIT OF LEARNING A SECOND LANGUAGE. AND FINALLY, WE ARE LOOKING TO SUNSET A COUPLE OF COURSES, OUR AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE TWO AND SPANISH TWO. AS A RESULT OF REALLY PRIORITIZING COURSES AND MATERIALS THAT PROVIDE THE MOST VALUE TO OUR STUDENTS LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT, AND THESE COURSES WILL TRANSITION TO HONORS LEVEL COURSES. AND THIS CHANGE WILL OFFER STUDENTS A MORE RELEVANT AND HIGH QUALITY LEARNING EXPERIENCE. AND FINALLY, WE WILL BE TRANSITIONING. WE WILL BE SUNSETTING OUR TRADITIONAL DUAL CREDIT BIOLOGY COURSE THROUGH COLLIN COLLEGE. AS A RESULT OF THE ON RAMPS COURSES COMING ON BOARD AND AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL LEVEL, WE HAVE SOME EXCITING CHANGES THERE AS WELL. AND OUR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS WILL CONTINUE TO EXPERIENCE CHOICE AND EXPLORATION ACROSS THE DISTRICT WITH THE LAUNCH OF SPANISH TWO FOR SPANISH SPEAKERS, SPANISH FOR AP IS REALLY A BETTER FIT AT THE HIGH SCHOOL, AND THE NEW MIDDLE SCHOOL COURSES WILL FOCUS ON IMPROVING LITERACY SKILLS, EXPLORING FORMAL LANGUAGE AND STRUCTURES, AND EXPANDING ACADEMIC VOCABULARY IN THOSE LANGUAGES. THESE COURSES ARE DESIGNED FOR STUDENTS WHO ALREADY ARE PROFICIENT IN SPOKEN SPANISH AND WANT TO FURTHER DEVELOP THEIR READING, WRITING, AND FORMAL LANGUAGE SKILLS. THE REVISIONS IN NOT YET CTE COURSES CONSIST OF PRINCIPLES OF APPLIED ENGINEERING, AND THIS COURSE [00:45:10] WILL REPLACE THE GATEWAY TO TECHNOLOGY AND BE OFFERED AT GRADES SEVEN THROUGH TEN AND PRINCIPLES OF BUSINESS, MARKETING AND FINANCE. THIS COURSE WILL BE MOVED FROM BEING ONLY OFFERED AT THE GRADE NINE AND TEN LEVEL TO GRADE 7 TO 10. I WILL SAY THAT AGAIN. WE'RE MOVING FROM 910 DOWN TO 7 TO 10. THAT'S BIG. AND THAT OPENS UP MUCH OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS. REVISIONS TO LOAD INCLUDE FRENCH TWO AND SPANISH TWO. AND ALL OF OUR FOCUSES AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL LEVEL ARE NOW ONE YEAR COURSES. AND THESE COURSES WILL BE AVAILABLE AT MIDDLE SCHOOL. PREVIOUSLY, THEY WERE ONLY AVAILABLE AT HIGH SCHOOL BECAUSE LOW COURSES AT MIDDLE SCHOOL WERE TWO YEAR COURSES, SO THEY WERE TAKING ONE CLASS OVER THE COURSE OF TWO YEARS. AND FRENCH EIGHT AND SPANISH EIGHT, AGAIN WITH ALL THE COURSES AT MIDDLE SCHOOL NOW BEING ONE YEAR COURSES. THESE COURSES WERE PART OF A PREVIOUS TWO YEAR OFFERING AT MIDDLE SCHOOL. SO THEY ARE BEING REVISED AND OUR AP SPANISH FOR AT MIDDLE SCHOOL IS MOVING FROM MIDDLE SCHOOL TO HIGH SCHOOL. AND WE HAVE SOME FINE ARTS REVISIONS. AND REALLY, THESE REVISIONS OF THESE COURSES STEM FROM MOVING FROM A SEMESTER OPTION TO A FULL YEAR OFFERING AND ALIGNING FINE ARTS COURSES ACROSS ACROSS THE BOARD AS FULL YEAR COURSE OFFERINGS. WE ARE SUNSETTING SOME CTE COURSES THAT ARE A RESULT OF BEING REPLACED WITH STRONGER COURSE OFFERINGS THAT ARE MORE CLOSELY ALIGNED WITH WORKFORCE IN THESE PATHWAYS. MUCH OF WHAT WAS COVERED IN PROJECT LEAD THE WAY IS NOW ENVELOPED IN OUR PRINCIPLES OF APPLIED ENGINEERING AND INFORMATION. COMPUTER TECH HAS BEEN ABSORBED AND ENHANCED IN THE BUSINESS AND MARKETING AND FINANCE OFFERING. SO THAT IS ALL THAT I HAVE FOR YOU THIS EVENING. WE APPRECIATE YOUR CONSIDERATION OF THESE COURSES. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. GREAT PRESENTATION. BOARD MEMBERS, DO I HAVE A MOTION? YES. I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES THE COURSE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE 2025, 2026 SCHOOL YEAR. ALL RIGHT. IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND. WAS THAT TARRAH? YEAH. OKAY. I HAVE A MOTION BY ANGELA POWELL AND A SECOND BY TARRAH LANTZ THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES THE COURSE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE 2025 2026 SCHOOL YEAR. NOW, IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? YES. WHEN YOU'RE SAYING THAT WE'RE DOING DUAL CREDIT BIOLOGY, WE'RE SUNSETTING THAT AND THEN WE'RE DOING ON RAMPING BIOLOGY. THE THING IS THAT WE'RE DUAL CREDIT. PARENTS PAY FOR THE DUAL CREDIT COSTS. IS THERE A COST FOR ON RAMPS BIOLOGY. I WOULD HAVE TO LOOK INTO THAT. BUT TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE, I DON'T BELIEVE SO. IT'S IT'S JUST ANOTHER IT'S ANOTHER WAY TO OFFER COLLEGE CREDIT. SO I DO YOU KNOW IF THE ON RAMPS. I CAN'T REMEMBER THE NICE PART ABOUT ON RAMPS IS THEY HAVE A HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER AND THEY HAVE A TEACHER AT THE UNIVERSITY WHO PARTNER TOGETHER. SO IT'S A REALLY EXCITING OPPORTUNITY FOR KIDS. THERE'S NOT A TUITION COST, BUT THERE MAY BE A COST TO THE TEXTBOOK AND THAT'S BUT WE CAN PUT THAT IN A BOARD UPDATE. OKAY. THANK YOU. I'VE TALKED TO DR. WILLIAMS ABOUT THIS ONE BEFORE. BECAUSE I LOVE THAT OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLERS HAVE HAD THE OPTION IF THEY SPEAK SPANISH TO TAKE THE AP TEST, BECAUSE REALLY, THAT'S THEIR SUPERPOWER. THEY HAVE, YOU KNOW, A NATIVE LANGUAGE THAT THEY SPEAK AND CAN TAKE THE AP, TEST, EXCEL, AND USE THAT AS A WAY TO PROPEL THEM INTO HIGH SCHOOL WITH THE KNOWLEDGE THAT THEY CAN TAKE THESE COLLEGE LEVEL COURSES. HOWEVER, THIS IS NOT A DECISION THAT WAS MADE BY PLANO ISD TO NOT ALLOW CREDIT FOR OUR STUDENTS WHO TAKE AP CLASSES AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL LEVEL. CAN YOU SPEAK TO THAT A LITTLE BIT THAT IT WAS A DECISION? SO ONE OF OUR GOALS IS TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERY SINGLE STUDENT HAS A COLLEGE CAREER MILITARY READINESS INDICATOR. AND AS THE STATE HAS CONTINUED TO MAKE THOSE ADJUSTMENTS THAT THAT CREDIT IS NOT AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS UNTIL THEY GET TO HIGH SCHOOL, WHICH IS WHY OUR RECOMMENDATION WAS ADDING A SPANISH TO FOR NATIVE SPEAKERS AND SO THAT THEY'RE ABLE TO GO AHEAD AND GET THE PRE-AP [00:50:04] SUPPORT. AND THEN THEY WOULD MOVE INTO THE AP REALM ONCE THEY HIT NINTH GRADE. SO REALLY, IT'S JUST POSTPONING IT PROBABLY A YEAR. AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE BUILDING THE FUNDAMENTALS AS THEY'RE IN MIDDLE SCHOOL AND REALLY PREPARING THEM FOR THE ASSESSMENT THAT THEY WOULD TAKE THEN IN NINTH GRADE. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. ANY MORE DISCUSSION OR QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT. WE WILL NOW VOTE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND. AND I SEE SEVEN HANDS. SO IT PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. ALL RIGHT. WE WILL NOW MOVE ON TO ITEM SEVEN FIVE OF OUR DISCUSSION AND ACTION, WHICH IS THE APPROVAL OF THE RENEWAL OF INNOVATIVE COURSE, MULTILINGUAL ACCULTURATION STUDIES FOR NEWCOMER NEWCOMERS, WHICH IS MULTI-CLASS FOR NEWCOMERS. I CAN'T WHY AM I PUTTING A B IN THAT FOR NEWCOMERS? AND I WILL TURN THIS OVER TO LISA. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT HUMPHREY. THIS IS A A REALLY JUST A RENEWAL. THIS COURSE WAS APPROVED BY THE BOARD SEVERAL YEARS AGO. IT IS A COURSE FOR NEW NEWCOMER STUDENTS FOR ACCULTURATION AND GETTING THEM USED TO ALL KINDS OF THINGS IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS. WE DID OFFER THIS COURSE IN 2324. I'LL BE HONEST WITH YOU, WE DID NOT OFFER IT THIS YEAR, BUT WE WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE TO HAVE IT APPROVED. IT HAS TO BE APPROVED EVERY FEW YEARS BECAUSE IT IS AN INNOVATIVE COURSE AT THE STATE LEVEL. AND WE ALSO HAVE HAD REQUESTS FROM OTHER DISTRICTS WHO DO USE THIS COURSE BASED ON OUR PROPOSAL. AND IF WE DON'T GET IT APPROVED, THEN NO ONE IS ABLE TO USE IT. SO WE'D LIKE TO BE A GOOD PARTNER IN THE STATE AND CONTINUE TO OFFER THIS COURSE. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. BOARD MEMBERS, DO I HAVE A MOTION? I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEE APPROVES THE RENEWAL OF INNOVATIVE COURSE MULTILINGUAL ACCULTURATION STUDIES FOR NEWCOMERS. M U C M U L T I L A S FOR NEWCOMERS. ALL RIGHT. IS THERE A SECOND? I'LL SECOND. OKAY. THANK YOU. I HAVE A MOTION BY ANGELA POWELL AND A SECOND BY CATHERINE GOODWIN THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES THE RENEWAL OF THE INNOVATIVE COURSE, WHICH IS MULTILINGUAL ACCULTURATION STUDIES FOR NEWCOMERS, ALSO KNOWN AS MULTI CLASS FOR NEWCOMERS. IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? I HAVE A LITTLE BIT AND I MEAN I THINK THAT THIS IS REALLY RELEVANT, RIGHT. BECAUSE WE HAVE ADDED SUCH AN EXTRAORDINARY NUMBER OF NEWCOMERS, PARTICULARLY ON THE WEST SIDE IN THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS. AND I WAS LOOKING AT THIS AND IT IS GRADES NINE THROUGH 12. RIGHT. AND SO FOR NEWCOMERS, WE HAVE DUAL LANGUAGE SUPPORT AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL. THIS IS A NINE THROUGH 12 PIECE. AND I'M NOT SURE HOW EXPANSIVE IT IS. IF I COULD GET YOU TO TALK ABOUT HOW BROAD THIS IS A LITTLE BIT. AND THEN I WAS CURIOUS. 6 TO 8. ARE WE ARE WE LIKELY TO SEE ANYTHING? MAYBE 6 TO 8. JUST BECAUSE THIS IS I MEAN, THIS IS A VERY TIMELY TOPIC. WE DO HAVE SOME OTHER COURSES THAT ARE SIMILAR IN SIX THROUGH EIGHT FOR THIS PARTICULAR COURSE. WHEN WE OFFERED IT THE FIRST TIME, WE HAD 107 STUDENTS IN THE DISTRICT WHO ENROLLED IN THE COURSE AND FOUND IT VERY HELPFUL, HAD VERY POSITIVE REVIEWS ON THAT. AS WE LOOK AT DESIGNS AND PLANS FOR A POTENTIAL NEWCOMER PROGRAM NEWCOMER DESIGN, THIS COURSE COULD BE SOMETHING THAT WE INCORPORATE INTO THAT IF IT'S STILL ON THE TABLE FOR US. I WAS JUST CURIOUS. YOU SAID WE DIDN'T OFFER THIS THIS LAST SCHOOL. I DON'T BELIEVE ENOUGH STUDENTS SIGNED UP FOR IT THIS YEAR, BUT IT'S WE STILL HAVE IT IN OUR COURSE CATALOG. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. SO I HAVE THE MOTION ON THE FLOOR, SO I WILL NOW CALL FOR A VOTE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND. AND WE HAVE SEVEN. WHO? I'M LOOKING AT THE WRONG THING. WE APPROVE, AND SO THE MOTION CARRIES. WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM SEVEN SIX OF DISCUSSION AND ACTION, WHICH IS THE APPROVAL OF THE PLANO ISD LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES FOR THE 89TH SESSION. AND I WILL TURN THIS OVER TO DANNY STOCKTON TO PLEASE PRESENT. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT HUMPHREY. DR. WILLIAMS BOARD, I'M EXCITED TO BRING TO YOU TONIGHT RECOMMENDED LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES FOR THE 89TH LEGISLATIVE SESSION, WHICH WILL BEGIN IN JANUARY. BEFORE I JUMP INTO SOME INFORMATION THAT KIND OF SETS THE STAGE FOR THESE PRIORITIES, I DO JUST WANT TO MENTION THAT WE TOOK A LITTLE BIT OF A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO DEVELOPING [00:55:05] THESE, THIS, THIS SESSION THAN WE HAVE IN THE PAST. SO WHEN I CAME IN LAST OCTOBER. ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT WAS THE IMPORTANCE OF MAKING SURE THAT OUR COMMUNITY WAS INVOLVED IN THIS PROCESS. AS WE MOVE FORWARD, WHEN WE TALK TO OUR LEGISLATORS, AND WE WANT THEM TO KNOW WHAT OUR PRIORITIES ARE FOR THEM WHEN THEY'RE ADDRESSING PUBLIC EDUCATION ISSUES AT THE STATE LEVEL, WE KNOW THAT IT HELPS WHEN WE CAN SAY, THIS IS WHAT OUR COMMUNITY WANTS, AND WE KNOW THAT BECAUSE WE'VE TALKED TO THEM AND THEY'VE BEEN INVOLVED IN DEVELOPING THESE. SO OVER THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS, THE BOARD, LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE, MYSELF, DR. WILLIAMS HAVE WORKED WITH A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS, FROM PARENTS TO TEACHERS TO BUSINESS LEADERS, OTHER COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO GET FEEDBACK ON THE DRAFT, THE PROPOSED PRIORITIES THAT YOU WILL HAVE BEFORE YOU TONIGHT. SO I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THESE. I'M EXCITED ABOUT THE FEEDBACK THAT WE GOT AND THE PROCESS WE WENT THROUGH. AND SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO TAKING YOU THROUGH ALL OF THESE, JUST TO SET THE STAGE FOR THE TWO PRIMARY AREAS THAT WE FOCUSED IN, THE FIRST BEING FUNDING AND THE SECOND BEING ASSESSMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY. I'LL GO THROUGH A COUPLE OF PIECES OF INFORMATION FOR FUNDING THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTANDING WHY WE CHOSE THAT AS A FOCUS AREA. I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION ON THIS SLIDE. THIS IS ESSENTIALLY A PICTURE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION FUNDING IN THE STATE OF TEXAS OVER THE PAST SIX YEARS, AND REALLY THE YEAR PRIOR TO HOUSE BILL THREE, IN 2019, AND THEN SINCE THEN. THIS DATA COMES DIRECTLY FROM THE LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD, WHICH IS A LEGISLATIVE AGENCY THAT PUTS OUT INFORMATION PRIOR TO EACH LEGISLATIVE SESSION IN WHAT'S CALLED THE FISCAL SIZEUP, WHERE THEY DOCUMENT HOW MUCH FUNDING WE RECEIVE IN FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION ACROSS THE STATE. AND THEN THEY ALSO ADJUST THAT FUNDING FOR INFLATION. SO ON THE SCREEN IN FRONT OF YOU, YOU CAN SEE THESE BLUE BARS ARE THE ACTUAL DOLLARS THAT WERE SPENT ON PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE STATE OF TEXAS IN TERMS OF FUNDING FOR EACH OF THOSE YEARS. AND THERE'S A KEY AT THE TOP. SO YOU CAN SEE EACH OF THOSE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES. I WILL JUST NOTE THAT IN 2021, THERE'S A VERY LARGE KIND OF REALLY PALE BLUE BAR. THAT'S COVID MONEY, ESSENTIALLY. AND THAT'S WHY IT'S JUST THE ONE YEAR AND THEN GOES BACK DOWN. THE RED LINE SHOWS YOU THAT TOTAL FUNDING ADJUSTED FOR INFLATION. SO YOU CAN SEE THAT WHILE OVERALL FUNDING HAS INCREASED OVER THIS SPAN BY THE TUNE OF ABOUT $5.4 BILLION SINCE HB THREE PASSED. WHEN YOU ADJUST THAT FOR INFLATION, WHEN THE STATE ADJUSTED THAT FOR INFLATION THE BUYING POWER OF DOLLARS SPENT ON PUBLIC EDUCATION TODAY IS NEARLY $10 BILLION A YEAR LESS THAN WHAT IT WAS WHEN THE STATE SET THE FUNDING LEVEL THEY DID IN HOUSE BILL THREE. SO THIS IS THIS IS A A MAJOR ISSUE THAT SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE FACING. THIS IS NOT OF THE MAKING OF THE LEGISLATURE. IT IS A IT IS A IT IS A RESULT OF INFLATION WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY SOMETHING THAT HAS HIT EVERYBODY NATIONWIDE. AND WE'VE ALL FELT IT PERSONALLY, AND WE CERTAINLY HAVE FELT IT IN THE DISTRICT AS WELL. AND SO IT'S, BUT IT'S BECOMING A SERIOUS PROBLEM FOR US. AND, AND IT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING THAT WE NEED THE LEGISLATURE'S HELP TO SOLVE IN PLANO ISD. THIS IS KIND OF OUR STORY SPECIFICALLY. SO THOSE WERE STATEWIDE NUMBERS. THESE ARE PLANO ISD NUMBERS. YOU CAN SEE THAT THE LBB DOESN'T DO THIS, DOESN'T DO THEIR THEIR CHART ON A PER STUDENT BASIS. SO IT'S A LITTLE BIT HARD TO TRANSLATE THAT TO INDIVIDUAL DISTRICTS. BUT THIS IS OUR STORY USING THE STATE SUMMARY OF FINANCES, WHICH IS HOW WE KIND OF DETERMINE HOW MUCH MONEY WE'RE GETTING FROM THE STATE. AND SO IT IS IT IS A DIFFERENT DATA SET. SO I JUST WANT TO POINT THAT OUT. BUT BUT IT TELLS THE SAME STORY. AND SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS YOU CAN SEE THE YELLOW BARS ARE OUR ACTUAL FUNDING PER STUDENT FROM 2019 THROUGH 2024. AND THAT'S THE LATEST DATA WE HAVE FISCAL YEAR 2024. IN TERMS OF WHAT WE'RE GETTING FROM THE STATE. SO THAT'S WHY THERE'S NO FISCAL YEAR 25. THE LBB DOES PROJECTIONS, THE STATE SUMMARY FINANCES DON'T INCLUDE PROJECTIONS. SO SO THAT YELLOW BAR IS THE ACTUAL DOLLARS. AND SO YOU CAN SEE IF YOU LOOK AT THAT YELLOW BAR, WE HAD A LITTLE BIT OF AN INCREASE KIND OF A BIGGER JUMP IN 2023. AND I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT THAT THAT'S DUE TO THE GENEROSITY AND SUPPORT OF OUR COMMUNITY, WHO APPROVED OUR VOTER APPROVED TAX RATIFICATION. SORRY. VOTER APPROVAL. TAX RATE ELECTION. THEY'VE MADE THAT A REALLY COMPLICATED TITLE NOW OR VADER IN IN 2020 AND NOVEMBER 2022. SO THAT'S WHY WE HAVE THAT INCREASE IN ACTUAL FUNDING IN 2023. BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE RED LINE, THAT'S THE INFLATION ADJUSTED PER STUDENT NUMBER OR OUR BUYING POWER IN $2,019. AND SO YOU CAN SEE THAT WHILE OUR ACTUAL NUMBER, OUR ACTUAL DOLLAR PER STUDENT FUNDING HAS GONE UP $810 SINCE HOUSE BILL THREE, WHEN YOU ADJUST THAT FOR INFLATION, OUR BUYING POWER IS ACTUALLY $606 PER STUDENT, LESS TODAY THAN IT WAS AT THAT LEVEL THAT WAS SET BY HOUSE BILL THREE. AND THAT'S EVEN WITH VOTERS APPROVING THAT TAX RATE ELECTION FOR US IN 2023. SO AGAIN, WE'RE SEEING THE SAME EFFECTS HERE IN PLANO THAT DISTRICTS STATEWIDE ARE SEEING AND THAT WE'RE SEEING AT THE SYSTEM LEVEL. [01:00:01] STATEWIDE. THESE ARE A FEW KEY FUNDING APPS THAT WE HAVE IN OUR DISTRICT. THIS IS FOR FISCAL YEAR 23. AND THE REASON WE USE FISCAL YEAR 23 IS BECAUSE THAT'S THE LAST YEAR OF AUDITED DATA THAT WE HAVE FROM THE STATE, AND WE WANT TO USE THE STATE'S INFORMATION AS MUCH AS WE CAN SO THAT THERE'S NO NO KIND OF QUIBBLING OVER THE DATA. THIS IS THESE ARE STATE NUMBERS THAT HAVE BEEN AUDITED BY THE STATE. SO THESE ARE THE NUMBERS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2023. AND SO THIS SHOWS YOU OUR GAPS IN THESE AREAS AS OF THAT YEAR. SO YOU CAN SEE WE HAD WE SPENT NEARLY $40 MILLION MORE ON STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES OR THOSE RECEIVING SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES THAN WE DID THAN WE RECEIVED IN FUNDING IN THE 2223 SCHOOL YEAR. WE SPENT 15 MORE THAN $15 MILLION MORE ON TRANSPORTATION THAN WE RECEIVED SECURITY. WE SPENT 4.3 MILLION, BUT THAT WAS IN 22, 23. AND WE HAD A REALLY BIG THING HAPPEN IN THE SPRING OF 2023, WHICH WAS THE PASSAGE OF THE NEW HB THREE, WHICH REQUIRES ARMED SECURITY OFFICERS AT EVERY CAMPUS. AND SO WE HAVE SINCE SINCE THIS NUMBER, WE HAVE IMPLEMENTED A ROBUST SCHOOL MARSHAL PROGRAM, WHICH WE'RE VERY PROUD OF, BUT WHICH IS VERY EXPENSIVE. AND SO WE ANTICIPATE THAT THAT NUMBER WILL DOUBLE. THAT GAP WILL DOUBLE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE TOTAL COST OF IMPLEMENTATION FROM HOUSE BILL THREE. HOUSE BILL THREE DID INCLUDE A LITTLE BIT OF ADDITIONAL MONEY FOR SCHOOL SAFETY. BUT IT WAS NOWHERE NEAR SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE COST OF IMPLEMENTING THE REQUIREMENTS IN THAT BILL. SO WE EXPECT THAT GAP TO BE CLOSER TO $8 MILLION FOR THE 2425 SCHOOL YEAR. SO JUST TO BE CLEAR, SO THAT EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS THESE ARE NUMBERS THAT PERTAIN TO OUR DISTRICT. ABSOLUTELY. THESE ARE PLANO ISD FUNDING GAPS, ALTHOUGH THE SOURCE IS THE STATE. CORRECT? IT'S THE STATE. WELL, IT'S THE STATE SUMMARY OF FINANCES, WHICH IS TO WHICH IS BUT IT'S FOR PLANO ISD SPECIFICALLY. YEAH. YOU CAN YOU CAN DO THE SAME THE SAME MATH FOR THESE NUMBERS STATEWIDE. AND THEY LOOK VERY SIMILAR. THESE ARE THE FOUR LARGEST FUNDING GAPS STATEWIDE, AS WELL AS THE FOUR LARGEST FOR US HERE IN PLANO ISD. THE SPECIAL EDUCATION GAP IS ABOUT $2.2 BILLION. THE STATEWIDE. SO WE ALSO HAVE EARLY EDUCATION, PRE-K. THAT'S A GAP OF OF ALMOST $2 MILLION. ONE OF THE THINGS I THINK IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE WITH PRE-K IS THAT WE ARE FOR WE ARE REQUIRED TO OFFER A FULL DAY PROGRAM FOR ELIGIBLE FOUR YEAR OLDS, BUT WE ONLY RECEIVE HALF DAY FUNDING FOR THOSE STUDENTS. BACK IN 2019, WHEN THE STATE ADDED THAT REQUIREMENT, THEY MADE UP THE GAP, OSTENSIBLY WITH ADDING WHAT THEY CALLED THE EARLY EDUCATION ALLOTMENT, WHICH IS BASED ON YOUR K THROUGH THREE STUDENTS. AT THE TIME, IT WAS SUPPOSED TO SUPPOSEDLY COST THE SAME AMOUNT STATEWIDE, AND THE IDEA WAS IT GAVE DISTRICTS THE MONEY EARLY BEFORE THEY ACTUALLY HAD THE PRE-K STUDENTS SO THAT THEY COULD SET UP THE PROGRAMS, WHICH WAS GOOD IN THEORY, NOT SO GREAT IN PRACTICE FIVE YEARS LATER. AND ONE OF THE REASONS FOR THAT IS BECAUSE AND THIS IS A TREND WE'RE SEEING STATEWIDE, WE'RE CERTAINLY SEEING IT HERE. K THROUGH THREE STUDENT POPULATIONS ARE DECLINING, PRE-K POPULATIONS ARE INCREASING, AND NOT BECAUSE THERE ARE MORE PRE-K STUDENTS, BUT BECAUSE MORE PRE-K STUDENTS, PRE-K AGE STUDENTS ARE ELIGIBLE NOW FOR A FULL DAY PROGRAM. AND SO JUST AS OUR PRE-K POPULATION HAS GONE UP, WHILE K THROUGH THREE STUDENTS HAVE DECLINED, THE FUNDING DOESN'T MATCH THE ENROLLMENT. AND SO THAT'S THAT'S CAUSED THAT CAUSES PRESSURE ON THAT GAP AS WELL. I JUST WANT TO BE SUPER EXPLICIT ABOUT THIS POINT. WE ARE REQUIRED BY LAW TO OFFER SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES, TO OFFER SECURITY, TO OFFER EARLY EDUCATION, TRANSPORTATION. I'M ACTUALLY NOT SURE WHAT WE'RE NOT ARE AND ARE NOT REQUIRED BY LAW, BUT THERE ARE THINGS ON THIS SLIDE, MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF THINGS THAT WE ARE REQUIRED BY LAW TO OFFER. AND THIS IS WHAT OUR SHORTFALL IS, NOT WHAT IT COSTS TO OFFER THOSE THINGS. THIS IS WHAT OUR SHORTFALL IS BETWEEN WHAT WE RECEIVE IN FUNDING TO COMPLY WITH THE LAW. AND IT'S SO IT'S THE GAP BETWEEN WHAT WE WHAT WE RECEIVE IN FUNDING AND WHAT WE NEED TO SPEND TO COMPLY WITH THE LAW. YES, THAT'S ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. THE ONLY ONE ON THERE THAT TRANSPORTATION IS NOT REQUIRED BY LAW. HOWEVER, I'M NOT AWARE OF ANY SCHOOL DISTRICT THAT DOESN'T OFFER TRANSPORTATION, AND I'M NOT SURE HOW WE WOULD TEACH THE STUDENTS IF THEY WEREN'T IN OUR SCHOOLS. SO. SO CERTAINLY TRANSPORTATION IS A IS A REALLY LARGE FUNCTION OF OF VIRTUALLY EVERY SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THE STATE OF TEXAS AND IS SOMETHING THAT WE DEFINITELY NEED TO CONTINUE TO PROVIDE. AND SO, YES, BUT BUT FOR ALL OF THE OTHER THREE, THAT IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE. THIS IS THE GAP BETWEEN WHAT WE RECEIVE AND WHAT WE SPEND TO COMPLY WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THESE PROGRAMS. AND I OH, I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY, AND I WOULD JUST POINT OUT THAT OUR ADOPTED BUDGET DEFICIT FOR THIS YEAR WAS 35 MILLION. $35 MILLION. SO JUST THE STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES IS AT 40 MILLION OF A OF A DEFICIT, BASED ON THE FUNDING WE RECEIVE VERSUS WHAT WE HAVE TO SPEND ON THOSE SERVICES. THAT'S WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY. BUT I WILL ALSO SAY YOU YOU PUT SUCH A NICE TITLE ON THIS KEY FUNDING GAPS. I WOULD HAVE CALLED IT UNFUNDED MANDATES. [01:05:02] THE ONLY REASON I DIDN'T SAY THAT WAS BECAUSE TRANSPORTATION IS NOT TECHNICALLY A MANDATE. BUT YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. FOR THE OTHER THREE, IT ABSOLUTELY IS. THESE ARE THESE ARE UNDERFUNDED MANDATES. ABSOLUTELY. ADDITIONALLY, OVER THE PAST TEN YEARS, WE'VE SEEN AN INCREASE IN STUDENT NEEDS. WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS QUITE A BIT THROUGH THE LONG RANGE FACILITY PLANNING PROCESS, AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT I CONTINUE TO POINT TO BECAUSE THIS IS ALSO HAPPENING STATEWIDE. IT LOOKS THE PERCENTAGES LOOK A LITTLE DIFFERENT STATEWIDE, BUT IT'S STILL LARGE INCREASES IN THESE THESE POPULATIONS, EVEN WHEN WE HAVE DECLINING ENROLLMENT OVER THAT SAME TIME PERIOD, WE'VE ACTUALLY INCREASED THE NUMBER OF ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS, EMERGING BILINGUAL STUDENTS AND STUDENTS RECEIVING SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES THAT WE HAVE IN PLANO ISD OVER THE PAST TEN YEARS. THE SAME IS TRUE STATEWIDE. EVEN WHEN ENROLLMENT IS FLAT, THESE STUDENT POPULATIONS ARE INCREASING BY VERY SIGNIFICANT NUMBERS. IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, THE STATEWIDE SPECIAL EDUCATION NUMBER IS 70 SOMETHING PLUS PERCENT OF AN INCREASE OVER THAT SAME TIME PERIOD. SO THESE ARE THESE ARE STUDENTS WHO HAVE A LOT OF NEEDS THAT WE NEED TO PROVIDE FOR THAT AND THOSE AND THAT REQUIRES RESOURCES. AND SO WHILE WE'RE WHILE WE'RE DEALING WITH INFLATION, WE'RE ALSO DEALING WITH THESE INCREASED STUDENT NEEDS. SO THAT'S THE FUNDING PIECE OF THIS I'M GOING TO SHIFT NOW TO ACCOUNTABILITY AND THESE NEXT FEW SLIDES. THIS IS ALL INFORMATION YOU ALL HAVE ALREADY SEEN IN PREVIOUS PRESENTATIONS. SO I'M NOT GOING TO GO OVER IT IN A LOT OF DETAIL. I'M JUST GOING TO QUICKLY HIT THE HIGH POINTS. BUT THIS IS THE THE THE FOUNDATION OF KIND OF WHY WE HAVE AN ACCOUNTABILITY PRIORITY. THIS IS THE THESE ARE THE COMPONENTS OF THE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM. THE MAIN THING IN THIS SLIDE IS THE NUMBER OF TIMES STAR IS LISTED ON HERE. IT IS THE PRIMARY INPUT. IN A LOT OF CASES IT IS THE ONLY INPUT TO OUR ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM. THIS IS THAT TIMELINE OF ACCOUNTABILITY RATINGS THAT WE'VE SEEN THAT YOU ALL HAVE SEEN BEFORE AND IT AND IT JUST SHOWS. SINCE WE'VE HAD THE A THROUGH F SYSTEM, WE'VE REALLY ONLY HAD ONE YEAR WHERE WE'VE HAD FULL RATINGS AND THAT WAS IN 2018, 2019, BOTH IN 2017, 2018. WE HAD SOME RATINGS, BUT NOT ALL OF THEM BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE CAMPUS RATINGS. AND THEN IN 2122, WHEN RATINGS RESUMED AFTER COVID, WE DIDN'T RATE ANY SCHOOLS THAT WERE D OR F STATEWIDE. SO THAT'S WE'VE REALLY HAD ONE YEAR WHERE WE'VE HAD A FULL RATING SYSTEM UNDER THE A THROUGH F BEFORE THE TEAM DECIDED TO REFRESH, REFRESH THE SYSTEM, AND WE HAVE NOT HAD RATINGS THE PAST TWO YEARS DUE TO LITIGATION THAT ALLEGED THE THE STATE HAS VIOLATED SEVERAL STATUTES, ACTUALLY, WITH REGARD TO HOW THE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM IS SET UP AND ALSO HOW THE ASSESSMENT IS EVALUATED TO ENSURE THAT IT'S A VALID AND RELIABLE WAY TO MEASURE OUR SCHOOL'S PERFORMANCE. DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING YOU WANTED TO? OKAY. SO AGAIN, JUST ONE OF THE THINGS WE KEEP REMINDING PEOPLE IS THAT 2024 RATINGS, WHICH AGAIN HAVE NOT BEEN RELEASED, BUT IF THEY ARE EVER RELEASED, THEY WERE CALCULATED USING DIFFERENT METHODOLOGIES THAN THOSE USED FOR PREVIOUS RATINGS. THAT THAT PRIMARY INPUT STAR WAS CHANGED PRETTY DRAMATICALLY BECAUSE IT WAS COMPLETELY REDESIGNED INTO STAR 2.0. WE DON'T HAVE A THIRD PARTY INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION OF ITS VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY, AND THERE ARE SOME SIGNIFICANT CONCERNS RELATED TO THAT. AS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IN PREVIOUS MEETINGS, GROWTH AND SUBPOPULATIONS WERE EMPHASIZED IN THE ACCOUNTABILITY RATING SYSTEM. AND YOU CAN HAVE A SITUATION WHERE A SCHOOL HAS IMPROVED PERFORMANCE SINCE THEY RECEIVED A RATING IN 2122, BUT THEY ACTUALLY GET A LOWER RATING UNDER THE NEW SYSTEM. THESE ARE NOT APPLES TO APPLES COMPARISONS, WHICH WHICH PRESENT SEVERAL CONCERNS FOR US AS WE LOOK AT HOW ARE WE MEASURING OUR SCHOOL PERFORMANCE IN THE STATE OF TEXAS? SO WITH THAT, AND YOU ALL HAVE A HANDOUT OF THESE, I THINK, I HOPE IT GOT PRINTED FOR YOU. BUT AT THE VERY LEAST, I KNOW YOU HAVE AN ELECTRONIC COPY BECAUSE I KNOW THE TEXT UP THERE IS PRETTY SMALL. BUT BUT WE ARE BRINGING YOU A THREE RECOMMENDED PROPOSED LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES BEFORE WE GET TO THOSE PRIORITIES, I DO WANT TO MENTION WE ADDED A STATEMENT TO THESE, THIS DRAFT PRIORITIES THAT WE'VE KIND OF PUT AT THE TOP, WHICH REALLY GOES TO THE HEART OF OUR DESIRE TO HAVE TWO THINGS. ONE, FAIR, RIGOROUS AND TRANSPARENT ACCOUNTABILITY FOR ANY ENTITY RECEIVING PUBLIC DOLLARS FOR EDUCATION. AND THEN ALSO TO A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD, IF WE'RE GOING TO BE PROVIDING FUNDING FOR EDUCATION, THE FUNDING SHOULD HAVE THE SAME EXPECTATIONS ATTACHED TO IT, NO MATTER WHO IT'S GOING TO. AND SO THAT'S THAT STATEMENT UP AT THE TOP THAT WE BELIEVE ALL ENTITIES RECEIVING PUBLIC DOLLARS FOR EDUCATION MUST BE HELD TO THE SAME RIGOROUS FINANCIAL AND ACADEMIC TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY STANDARDS. IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE HAVE OUR THREE PRIMARY PRIORITIES IN THE WAY WE STRUCTURED OUR PRIORITIES THIS YEAR IS WE HAVE THREE KIND OF REAL SIMPLE STATEMENTS. AND THEN UNDERNEATH THAT, WE HAVE SOME MORE DETAILED EXPLANATION OF THOSE OR THE IMPACT OF THOSE STATEMENTS. SO THE FIRST ONE IS INCREASED PER STUDENT FUNDING FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF STUDENTS AND INDEX IT TO INFLATION. AGAIN, WE MENTIONED WE HAVE THAT MAJOR GAP FROM INFLATION. SO TO AVOID THAT IN THE FUTURE, WE NEED TO INDEX THE FUNDING TO INFLATION. ONCE WE GET BACK TO WHERE WE WERE IN HOUSE BILL THREE. WE WILL START TO FALL BEHIND AGAIN IF WE DON'T HAVE AN INDEX TO INFLATION. AND THIS IS ALL REALLY ABOUT MEETING OUR STUDENTS NEEDS. THAT'S WHY WE WE NEED THIS ADDITIONAL FUNDING. [01:10:02] AND THIS WOULD INCREASE PAY FOR TEACHERS. IT WOULD REDUCE PROPERTY TAX RATES. IT WOULD ALLOW US TO ADD CAMPUS SUPPORT STAFF TO TO REDUCE BURDENS ON TEACHERS AND MEET STUDENT NEEDS, HELP US COVER INFLATIONARY INCREASES TO THINGS LIKE FUEL, UTILITIES, PROPERTY, CASUALTY INSURANCE AND MORE. IT WOULD ACTUALLY REDUCE OUR RECAPTURE. THERE ARE TWO WAYS TO REDUCE RECAPTURE COMPRESSING PROPERTY TAXES AND RAISING THE BASIC ALLOTMENT. THE ONLY ONE OF THOSE THAT ACTUALLY PUTS MORE DOLLARS IN CLASSROOMS IS RAISING THE BASIC ALLOTMENT. AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR HERE. IT WOULD INCREASE OPPORTUNITIES FOR US TO PROVIDE ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS FOR ALL OF OUR STUDENTS. A LOT OF WHAT WE WANT TO DO WITH EXPANDING DUAL CREDIT CTE PROGRAMS, THOSE KINDS OF THINGS THAT ALL COSTS MONEY. THE IB PROGRAM, ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT PIECES, THESE ARE THINGS THAT COST MONEY. AND WE WANT TO PROVIDE THOSE OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR STUDENTS, BUT WE NEED THE RESOURCES TO DO THAT. IT WOULD ALSO ALLOW US TO INCREASE CLASSROOM SUPPORT FOR STUDENT ACADEMIC AND BEHAVIORAL NEEDS. SECOND IS TO FULLY FUND THOSE PROGRAMS AND REQUIREMENTS ENACTED BY THE STATE LEGISLATURE THAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT A FEW SLIDES AGO. SO YOU'LL SEE ON THERE FULLY FUNDING THE ARMED SECURITY OFFICERS, FULLY FUNDING REQUIRED PRE-K, FULLY FUNDING PROVISION OF SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES. AND THEN ONE OF THOSE MAIN PIECES OF FEEDBACK WE GOT FROM OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS WAS LOOKING AT FUNDING BASED ON ENROLLMENT INSTEAD OF ATTENDANCE. WE DON'T GET FUNDED FOR 100% OF THE STUDENTS WHO ARE ENROLLED IN OUR DISTRICT, EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE TO, WE HAVE TO SPEND FOR 100% OF THE STUDENTS ENROLLED IN OUR DISTRICT, AND SO ASKING FOR FUNDING BASED ON ENROLLMENT INSTEAD OF ATTENDANCE IS IMPORTANT TO US. THAT'S ATTENDANCE STATEWIDE HAS NOT FULLY REBOUNDED SINCE COVID 19. AND SO THAT'S ANOTHER IMPACT TO TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS. OUR FINAL PRIORITY THAT WE'RE RECOMMENDING IS TO PROVIDE MEANINGFUL ASSESSMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY THAT HOLISTICALLY MEASURES MEASURE SCHOOL PERFORMANCE. WE MENTIONED BEFORE THAT WE DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE THAT RIGHT NOW, IN LARGE PART BECAUSE WE HAVE AN ASSESSMENT THAT MAY NOT BE VALID AND RELIABLE. EXCUSE ME. SO WE ARE REALLY LOOKING FOR A SYSTEM THAT RECOGNIZES THE EXPECTATIONS OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES BY INCLUDING MEASURES THAT ARE JUST BEYOND PERFORMANCE ON STATE ASSESSMENTS. WE WANT SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT MORE HOLISTIC THAN WHAT WE'VE GOT RIGHT NOW. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ACCURATELY MEASURING STUDENT GROWTH AND REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS FOR EACH SUBJECT. AGAIN, NOT SURE WE'VE GOT THAT RIGHT NOW WITH THE STAR. WE WANT TO ACCOUNT FOR CHANGING STUDENT NEEDS AND TIME SPENT WITHIN A SCHOOL DISTRICT PRIOR TO ASSESSMENT. SO THERE ARE VERY LIMITED KIND OF INFLUENCES ON OUR ACCOUNTABILITY IN TERMS OF WHERE A STUDENT CAME FROM, HOW FAR BEHIND THEY ARE, THAT KIND OF THING. BEFORE THEY START COUNTING AGAINST OUR ACCOUNTABILITY RATINGS. WE HAVE A VERY LIMITED AMOUNT OF TIME, IN SOME CASES TO GET A STUDENT CAUGHT UP. AND THEN WE WANT TO ALIGN OUR INDUSTRY BASED CERTIFICATIONS WITH REGIONAL WORKFORCE NEEDS. THOSE CMR COMPONENTS. DR. WILLIAMS TALKED ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT BEFORE. THE STATE HAS BEEN CHANGING THOSE LEFT AND RIGHT, AND THEY DON'T ALWAYS REALLY ALIGN TO WHAT OUR REGION NEEDS IN TERMS OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. AND THEN FINALLY AND PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANTLY, PROVIDING CONSISTENCY AND TRANSPARENCY FOR BOTH SCHOOLS AND OUR COMMUNITY. SO THOSE ARE OUR PROPOSED LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES. REALLY, REALLY QUICKLY. AND I WILL GET THROUGH THESE LAST FEW SLIDES VERY QUICK. I DO WANT TO JUST KIND OF SET UP THE STAGE FOR WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING AS WE MOVE INTO THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION. SO WE HAVE INTERIM CHARGES FOR BOTH THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE THAT THE COMMITTEES HAVE BEEN MEETING LESS THAN THEY USUALLY DO BECAUSE WE HAD SO MANY SPECIAL SESSIONS AFTER THE LAST SESSION. BUT THEY HAVE THEY HAVE HELD SOME MEETINGS. AND SO THOSE INTERIM CHARGES HAVE INCLUDED THINGS LIKE TESTING REFORM. AND THAT WAS IN THE SENATE, WHICH IS UNUSUAL. SO THAT'S POTENTIALLY AN OPPORTUNITY FOR SOME, SOME GOOD DISCUSSIONS AROUND TESTING REFORM THAT THAT MAYBE WE HAVEN'T HAD IN THE PAST. READING AND MATH READINESS, EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY, AND TEACHER CERTIFICATION. WE KNOW AS WE HEAD INTO NEXT SESSION THAT VOUCHERS ARE GOING TO BE A MAJOR TOPIC OF DEBATE. WE EXPECT THAT TO BE SOMETHING THAT IS ADDRESSED RIGHT UP FRONT. I WOULD ANTICIPATE THE GOVERNOR WILL CALL THAT AS AN EMERGENCY ITEM, WHICH MEANS IT WILL BE ONE OF THE FEW THINGS THAT LEGISLATORS CAN ACTUALLY PASS BILLS ON IN THE FIRST 60 DAYS OF SESSION. AND WE ALSO KNOW, THOUGH, THAT THE STATE IS PROJECTED TO HAVE MORE THAN $20 BILLION OF SURPLUS WHEN THEY MEET IN JANUARY. BUT AS I CONTINUE TO POINT OUT TO PEOPLE, THE SURPLUS IS ONE TIME MONEY. THEY ARE ALSO GOING TO HAVE A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE THAT THEY DID LAST SESSION, AND THAT WILL CONTINUE IN THEIR ONGOING FUNDING THAT THEY'RE PROJECTING BECAUSE AS INFLATION RISES, SO DO SALES TAX RECEIPTS FOR THE MOST PART. AND THAT IS PRIMARILY WHERE STATE FUNDING COMES FROM. SO WE WOULD EXPECT THE STATE TO HAVE A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF ADDITIONAL RESOURCES THAT THEY COULD PROVIDE TO SCHOOLS. WE KNOW THEY'LL HAVE MULTIPLE PRIORITIES THAT ARE IMPORTANT WATER FLOOD PLANNING, SOME OTHER THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON. BUT BUT WE REALLY WANT THEM TO FOCUS ON USING RESOURCES THAT THEY HAVE TO FUND SCHOOLS. IS THIS A $20 BILLION SURPLUS ON TOP OF THE SURPLUS THAT THEY HAD LAST TIME THAT WAS NOT SPENT? OR THIS IS THIS IS HOW MUCH MONEY THEY'LL HAVE IN THE BANK WHEN THEY COME IN. SO OUT OF THE 37 BILLION, A SIGNIFICANT PORTION FROM LAST SESSION OR 32 BILLION, I CAN'T I THINK IT WAS 33, 32.7 IS I THINK WHAT IT WAS A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF THAT WENT INTO THE RAINY DAY FUND, THE ECONOMIC STABILIZATION FUND, WHICH IS NOW MAXED OUT. BUT THEY ALSO SPENT QUITE A BIT OF IT ON THE SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET AND SOME OTHER THINGS THAT THEY DID PROPERTY TAX RELIEF, SOME OF THAT KIND OF STUFF. [01:15:05] SO BUT THEY'LL THEY'RE EXPECTED TO HAVE ABOUT 20 BILLION LEFT IN THE BANK, WHICH IF WE HADN'T HAD 33 BILLION LAST SESSION, WE'D BE TALKING ABOUT HOW HISTORIC THIS NUMBER IS. 20 BILLION IS A LOT OF MONEY TO BE GOING INTO THE SESSION WITH. IT WAS 33 BILLION THE LAST BIENNIUM. CORRECT? CORRECT. YEAH. 32.7. YEP, YEP. SO AS WE MOVE INTO THE SESSION. THIS IS KIND OF MY PLAN FOR HOW I'LL BE OPERATING AND KEEPING YOU ALL UP TO DATE, KEEPING THE COMMUNITY UP TO DATE. WE WILL BE REVIEWING PUBLIC EDUCATION RELATED LEGISLATION AS IT MOVES THROUGH THE PROCESS. WE IDENTIFY THEM BASED ON PRIORITY, AND THAT PRIORITY ISN'T ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT IT'S GOOD OR BAD FOR US, IT'S REALLY JUST ABOUT ITS IMPACT TO US AND WHETHER AND OR WHETHER IT HAS A WHETHER IT'S GARNERING A LOT OF PUBLIC ATTENTION, WHETHER IT IS A STATE PRIORITY BILL, WHETHER IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S TIED TO OUR LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES, THOSE KINDS OF THINGS. SO WE WILL PRIORITIZE OUR BILLS AND THEN WE WILL WE WILL CREATE CUSTOM SUMMARIES FOR THOSE. SO I WILL READ THE LEGISLATION AND I WILL SUMMARIZE THE LEGISLATION AS IT MOVES THROUGH THE PROCESS, SO THAT WE KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WE BELIEVE EACH BILL IS GOING TO DO IN TERMS OF ITS IMPACT TO US AND TO TO PUBLIC EDUCATION MORE GENERALLY. I DO PRIORITIZE THOSE. I DON'T SUMMARIZE 100% OF THEM. SOME OF THEM NEVER MOVE. SO I KIND OF WATCH TO SEE WHAT'S MOVING AND SUMMARIZE THE ONES THAT ARE MOVING. BUT BUT I'LL SUMMARIZE AS MANY OF THEM AS I CAN AS QUICKLY AS I CAN, AND WE'LL MOVE FORWARD THERE. AND THEN WE'LL BE PROVIDING UPDATES TO YOU ALL, BUT ALSO TO THE COMMUNITY AS WELL AS WE MOVE FORWARD. AND THEN WE'LL ALSO UPDATE THE SUMMARIES AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE PROCESS. AND CHANGES ARE MADE BY COMMITTEES OR THE THE BODY AT LARGE. WE'LL ENGAGE WITH OUR LEGISLATORS WILL BE A RESOURCE FOR THEM TO PROVIDE THEM INFORMATION ABOUT OUR NEEDS AND WHERE WE'RE AT. WE WILL ALSO PARTNER WITH THEM TO DO WHATEVER WE CAN TO MAXIMIZE INVESTMENT IN PUBLIC EDUCATION. WE'RE GOING TO WE WILL HAVE A WEEKLY NEWSLETTER THAT THAT PEOPLE CAN SIGN UP FOR THAT WILL TALK ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE LEGISLATURE AND WHERE WE'RE GOING WITH WITH DIFFERENT BILLS. WE'LL HAVE SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS TO KEEP OUR COMMUNITY INVOLVED AND INFORMED. AND THEN WE ALSO WORK WITH OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ALIGNED, THAT WE'RE PROVIDING THE SAME INFORMATION TO OUR LEGISLATORS, SAME TYPES OF INFORMATION TO OUR LEGISLATORS. AND THAT'S IT. ALL RIGHT. GREAT PRESENTATION. YOU REALLY LAWNMOWER THROUGH THAT? BOARD MEMBERS, DO I HAVE A MOTION. I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES THE PLAN AND LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES FOR THE 89TH LEGISLATIVE SESSION. ALL RIGHT. DO I HAVE A SECOND? I'LL SECOND. TARRAH. TARRAH. I'M SORRY. I NEVER CAN TELL WHOSE VOICE THAT IS. I HAVE A MOTION MADE BY DR. LAWRENCE AND A SECOND BY TARRAH LANTZ THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES THE PLANO ISD LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES FOR THE 89TH LEGISLATIVE SESSION. NOW, IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? I HAVE A DISCUSSION. THE THING IS, I HAVE A CONCERN ABOUT IS THAT UNDER ENGAGEMENT AND IT'S WRITTEN IN OUR IN THE SLIDE, WE WILL PUBLISH A WEEKLY NEWS NEWSLETTER, PARTICIPATE IN EVENTS WITH THE COMMUNITY. WELL, THE THING IS THAT I'M A LITTLE BIT CONCERNED, ACCORDING TO SECTION 255.003, ACCORDING TO THE TEXAS EDUCATION CODE, THAT IF WE SPAN A, POLITICAL SUBDIVISION MAY NOT KNOWINGLY SPEND OR AUTHORIZE THE SPENDING OF PUBLIC FUNDS FOR POLITICAL ADVERTISING. WOULD THAT WEEKLY NEWSLETTER CONSIDER BE PUBLIC ADVERTISING? NO. ABSOLUTELY NOT. ADVERTISING? ABSOLUTELY NOT. SO POLITICAL ADVERTISING IS ONLY WHEN YOU ARE PUBLISHING A COMMUNICATION TO ADVOCATE FOR OR AGAINST A CANDIDATE, PARTY OR MEASURE. THIS NEWSLETTER WILL SAY, HERE'S THE LEGISLATION, HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH IT. AND IN THE SESSION, HERE'S A SUMMARY OF IT. IT WILL BE 100% FACT BASED. IT WILL NOT EXPRESS AN OPINION, ONE WAY OR THE OTHER ON ANY OF THE LEGISLATION OR ANY CANDIDATE OR ANY PARTY AT ALL. BUT WE WE BY DOING THIS, WE ARE ENCOURAGING OUR COMMUNITY TO TAKE PART IN A PROCESS THAT THEY SHOULD BE, AND THAT IS WE'RE PROVIDING INFORMATION, FACTUAL INFORMATION, HOPEFULLY IN BITE SIZED PIECES WHERE THEY CAN UNDERSTAND IT. AND THEN WE'RE ENCOURAGING THEM BY WAY OF DOING THAT, TO SPEAK TO THEIR LEGISLATORS IF THEY HAVE AN OPINION ABOUT THAT, AND THEY SHOULD BE DOING THAT, AND WE SHOULD BE PROVIDING THAT SERVICE TO OUR COMMUNITY. AND I'LL JUST ALSO NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT NEW. WE DID HAVE A NEWSLETTER LAST SESSION AS WELL. I DON'T KNOW THAT IT WAS WEEKLY. I WASN'T SINCE I WASN'T HERE. IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. I'M NOT SURE, BUT I DO KNOW THAT WE HAD A NEWSLETTER THAT WAS PUBLISHED LAST SESSION. PEOPLE HAVE A CHOICE TO SIGN UP FOR IT OR NOT. AND SO THIS IS NOT A NEW THING, BUT IT'S IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WILL CONTINUE TO DO JUST TO PROVIDE FACTUAL INFORMATION. THERE'S ONE THING, DANNY, THAT ABOUT THE PROCESS THAT WE AS A LEGISLATIVE SUBCOMMITTEE WENT THROUGH THAT I DON'T KNOW IF I MISSED IT, BUT THE FEEDBACK SESSIONS. [01:20:02] YOU SORT OF ALLUDED TO US HAVING A DIFFERENT PROCESSES HERE. ONE OF THE CHANGES IN THE PROCESS WAS THESE FEEDBACK SESSIONS. COULD YOU GIVE US A REAL QUICK SUMMARY ON ON HOW WE WENT ABOUT THAT? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. SO YES, LIKE LIKE I SAID AT THE BEGINNING, IT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT TO THE BOARD THAT WE HAVE COMMUNITY FEEDBACK. AND THAT'S REALLY POWERFUL FOR LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES IN TERMS OF YOUR ENGAGEMENT WITH LAWMAKERS. AND SO WE DID WE HAD WE HAD THREE DIFFERENT COMMUNITY LISTENING SESSIONS. THE FIRST WAS WITH OUR PTA. SO OUR PARENTS, WHICH WAS A GREAT SESSION WHERE WE WENT OVER THE DRAFT PRIORITIES AND GOT FEEDBACK FROM THEM. AND WE DID MAKE SOME CHANGES BASED ON THAT. OUR SECOND SESSION WAS WITH OUR TEACHERS AND THROUGH OUR TEACHER LEADERSHIP COUNCIL, WE SPENT TIME WITH THEM GOING THROUGH THE SAME INFORMATION, GETTING FEEDBACK FROM THEM. AND OUR FINAL SESSION WAS WITH MEMBERS THAT HAVE GONE THROUGH OUR LEADERSHIP AND AMBASSADOR PROGRAM. AND SO THESE ARE COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN PLANO ISD, WHO CAME BACK AND DECIDED TO SPEND AN EVENING WITH US TO GO OVER THIS INFORMATION AND AGAIN, GIVE US FEEDBACK. AND WE MADE ADDITIONAL ADDITIONAL CHANGES TO OUR DRAFT PRIORITIES BASED ON THAT FEEDBACK. AND THAT'S WHAT WE KIND OF LANDED ON IN TERMS OF THE PROPOSED PRIORITIES THAT WE BROUGHT YOU TONIGHT. THANK YOU. I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT. AND IT WAS A IT WAS A GOOD I WAS ABLE TO ATTEND TWO OF THE THREE OF THEM. AND WE GOT A LOT OF VERY LOUD AND CLEAR FEEDBACK THAT I FEEL LIKE WE RESPONDED TO AND INCORPORATED AND MADE CHANGES. JUST HAVING BEEN ON THIS COMMITTEE, I'M REALLY PROUD OF THE WORK THAT WE DID THIS YEAR. I FEEL LIKE IT IS VERY LASER FOCUSED ON WHAT WE NEED AS A PUBLIC EDUCATION ENTITY. IT'S VERY LASER FOCUSED ON OUR PAIN POINTS. I, YOU KNOW, COMPLETELY BIPARTISAN. I DON'T FEEL LIKE ANY OF THIS SHOULD BE CONTROVERSIAL. VERY, VERY VERY RIGHT DOWN THE FAIRWAY FOR EXACTLY WHAT WE NEED TO SERVE OUR DISTRICT. AND IN ADDITION TO THE COMMUNITY FEEDBACK LISTENING CIRCLES, I THINK WE AS TRUSTEES, ALL TAKE MEETINGS WITH MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY, MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY EMAIL, WHETHER THEY'RE PARENTS OR STAFF OR PARENTS AND STAFF OR WHOMEVER. I KNOW I DO SEVERAL OF THESE MEETINGS AND JUST TO LISTEN TO THE PULSE OF THE COMMUNITY AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAS STUCK WITH ME THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS IS I TALKED TO A TEACHER THAT HAS A LOT OF NEWCOMER STUDENTS IN THEIR CLASSROOM, AND ONE OF THE THINGS THEY SAID IS THEY THEY SAID, YOU KNOW, UNLESS YOU ARE IN THE CLASSROOM WITH THESE STUDENTS, IT CAN BE REALLY HARD TO APPRECIATE HOW MUCH GREATER THEIR NEED IS COMPARED TO OUR STUDENTS THAT HAVE GROWN UP HERE OR STUDENTS THAT HAVE BEEN IN REGULAR EDUCATION, CONSISTENT EDUCATION, AND THE LEVEL OF SUPPORT THAT SOMETHING LIKE HAVING A NEWCOMER PROGRAM OR HAVING MORE BILINGUAL TEACHERS REALLY, REALLY MEANS. AND YOU KNOW, THE OTHER THING ON ACCOUNTABILITY, YOU MENTIONED THE STAR TEST, AND I THINK IT'S WORTH MENTIONING AGAIN. I DON'T THINK I HAVE A SINGLE CONVERSATION WITH PARENTS WHERE THEY'RE POSITIVE ABOUT THE STAR TEST. I DON'T KNOW ANY PARENT THAT HAS EVER CALLED ME AND SAID, HEY LAUREN, I LOVE THE STAR TEST. LET'S ADVOCATE FOR THAT, RIGHT? IT IS VERY, VERY CONSISTENTLY CONCERNS WITH THE STAR TEST. CONCERNS WITH THE HIGH PRESSURE TESTING. CONCERNS FROM BOTH PARENTS AND STAFF. AND SO I HOPE THAT THE COMMUNITY ARE PROUD OF THE WORK WE'VE DONE HERE. WE HAVE TRIED TO BE INTENTIONAL AND RESPONSIVE TO COMMUNITY FEEDBACK AND REALLY TRY AND ZERO IN ON EXACTLY THE THINGS THAT WE NEED WITHOUT EXTRA FLUFF. AND I'D LIKE TO JUST ADD TO WHAT YOU SAID, LAUREN, THIS IS VERY POIGNANT. AND WE DO HEAR FEEDBACK FROM FAMILIES ABOUT THE MAP. SO IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO SAY WE ARE LEANING INTO ASSESSING OUR STUDENTS. WE ARE LEANING IN TO MAKING SURE THAT THEY'RE GROWING AND WE'RE HOLDING OURSELVES ACCOUNTABLE TO THEIR LEARNING. THERE ARE BETTER WAYS TO DO IT, AND UNFORTUNATELY, A LOT OF MONEY HAS BEEN SPENT ON THE STAR. TO YOUR POINT, THAT IS NOT A HELPFUL MEASURE FOR FAMILIES. IT'S MORE PUNITIVE ON THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND EVEN PUNITIVE IN FOR KIDS, WHEREAS WE HAVE OTHER OPTIONS PUNITIVE TO TEACHERS FOR SURE. SO IT'S IMPORTANT TO TO SAY WE'RE NOT IT'S IMPORTANT TO SAY THAT THIS IS WHAT THE DISTRICT'S DOING. THAT'S AN ALTERNATIVE. WELL, I HAVE ANOTHER CONCERN. THE OTHER CONCERN I HAVE ABOUT THIS IS, I THINK THE LAST YEAR OR SO, I HAD A CONCERN THAT WHEN WE WHEN WE WROTE OUT THE NEWSLETTER OR INFORMATION THAT WE THAT I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT DOESN'T SEND LINKS TO CERTAIN ORGANIZATIONS SO THAT IF THIS IS ACTUALLY JUST TO INFORM OUR PARENTS, OUR COMMUNITY. ARE YOU PLANNING TO PUT SPONSORS AND LINKS ONTO THAT NEWSLETTER? SO THE ONLY LINKS THAT I WOULD HAVE IN THERE WOULD BE LINKS TO THE ACTUAL LEGISLATION. SO IF WE WERE IF I PROVIDE A SUMMARY OF A BILL, I ALWAYS LINK TO THE BILL FROM THE STATE. [01:25:03] TEXAS LEGISLATURE ONLINE WEBSITE, SO THAT IF PEOPLE WANT TO GO READ THE ACTUAL BILL, THEY CAN. OUTSIDE OF THAT, IT WOULD ONLY BE LINKS BACK TO OUR OWN STUFF, BECAUSE WE'LL HAVE A WE'LL HAVE AN ONLINE, ESSENTIALLY SPREADSHEET OF ALL OF THE PUBLIC EDUCATION RELATED BILLS AND THEIR SUMMARIES. SO WE'LL LINK BACK TO THAT. BUT AGAIN, THAT'S HOUSED ON OUR WEBSITE AND IT IS COMPLETELY CONTROLLED BY US. SO I WOULDN'T HAVE ANY THIRD PARTY OR EXTERNAL LINKS ON THERE EXCEPT FOR TO THE STATE'S WEBSITE FOR BILL SUMMARY OR FOR BILL ACTUAL BILL TEXT. OKAY. BECAUSE I WAS JUST A LITTLE CONCERNED IF WE WERE GOING TO ADVERTISE OTHER ORGANIZATIONS. SO I WOULDN'T DON'T, WOULDN'T WANT ANY EXTRA LINKS TO A NEWSLETTER THAT EXPLAINS THE BILL. THERE WOULDN'T BE ANY LINKS. THE ONLY OTHER THING I COULD THINK OF IS WE'LL PROBABLY HAVE A SECTION IN THERE ABOUT, LIKE IF WE GO TO THE LIKE, WE'RE PLANNING TO GO TO THE CAPITOL FOR TEXAS PTA RALLY DAY, RIGHT? SO WE MIGHT HAVE A LITTLE SUMMARY OF THAT TRIP OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, WHERE WE WOULD REFERENCE THAT TYPE OF THING, OR LIKE WE GO TO TO AUSTIN FOR PLANO DAYS WITH THE PLANO CHAMBER AND THE CITY OF PLANO. SO WE'D REFERENCE THEM. IT WOULDN'T BE THE LINKS NECESSARILY, BUT JUST INFORMATION ABOUT THESE ARE THE TRIPS THAT WE'RE TAKING. THAT'S THE ONLY OTHER THING THAT WOULD BE IN THERE THAT WOULD REFERENCE THIRD PARTIES OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S TOTALLY TRUE THOUGH, BECAUSE IF WE WE ARE PARTICIPATING IN THE RAISE YOUR HAND TEXAS TRUSTEE ADVOCACY PROGRAM. AND SO HAVING ATTENDED OUR SESSIONS PREVIOUSLY, I KNOW THAT I PLAN ON ATTENDING WITH OTHER TRUSTEES THAT ARE PART OF OUR COHORT TO GO TO THE CAPITOL. THAT WILL BE PART OF ONE OF OUR SESSIONS. SO THERE MIGHT BE LIKE A PICTURE THAT SAYS, HERE'S TRUSTEE LANTZ, AND HERE'S OTHER TRUSTEES FROM OTHER DISTRICTS AS PART OF THE RAISE YOUR HAND TEXAS ADVOCACY TRUSTEE PROGRAM. SO THAT MAY BE MENTIONED BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S WHAT YOU MIGHT BE GETTING AT, BECAUSE THERE'S A MISNOMER IN SOME CERTAIN CORNERS OF OUR STATE THAT CERTAIN ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE NONPARTISAN ARE PARTIZAN WHEN THEY'RE NOT. AND SO THAT THAT I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IF WE DO ADD RAISE YOUR HAND TEXAS LIKE WE'RE DOING SO BECAUSE THEY'RE NONPARTISAN. YEAH. AND WELL AND THAT'S YES THAT THAT WOULD BE ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE TRIPS. YOU'RE RIGHT, I DIDN'T THINK ABOUT THAT ONE. BUT YES, ANY TRIPS THAT WE'RE TAKING TO AUSTIN, WE'LL PROBABLY REFERENCE IN THE NEWSLETTER. BUT AGAIN, IT WOULDN'T BE LINKS OUT TO THOSE ORGANIZATIONS. IT WOULD JUST BE REFERENCING, YOU KNOW, WE WENT TO AUSTIN AND FOR THIS EVENT OR FOR THAT EVENT OR WHATEVER TO JUST MAKE SURE WE'RE BEING TRANSPARENT WITH OUR COMMUNITY ABOUT HOW WE'RE ENGAGING WITH OUR LAWMAKERS IN THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS. SO THAT WOULD BE THE ONLY OTHER THING. THE ONLY I AM REMEMBERING ONE OTHER GROUP THAT THAT MAY HAVE A RESOURCE THAT WE MIGHT LINK TO SOMETIMES, WHICH WOULD BE THE NORTH TEXAS COMMISSION, WHICH IS AN ORGANIZATION THAT WE'RE A PART OF. AND THEY HAVE INFORMATION SOMETIMES ABOUT FUNDING AND HOW FUNDING IMPACTS THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY, SCHOOL FUNDING IMPACTS THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY AND THAT KIND OF STUFF. WE MIGHT REFERENCE SOME OF THEIR INFORMATION, BUT AGAIN, IT WOULD ONLY EVER BE IF IT WAS FACTUAL INFORMATION. THAT WAS THAT WAS WOULDN'T QUALIFY AS ANY KIND OF POLITICAL ADVERTISING OR ANYTHING ELSE LIKE THAT WOULD ONLY EVER BE FACTS, ONLY JUST TO ADD TO THAT TO ON OCCASION WE ARE A PART OF THE TEXAS SCHOOL COALITION THAT REPRESENTS OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS THAT ARE CHAPTER 49 SCHOOL DISTRICTS. AND SO FROM TIME TO TIME, YOU'LL SEE THEY'VE DONE A REALLY GOOD JOB OF EITHER PUTTING OUT A REPORT OR VISUAL THAT THAT DETAILS INFORMATION WITH REGARD TO THE IMPACT OF FUNDING, AND THAT WOULD BE ON OCCASION. BUT WE WILL MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE VERY MINDFUL OF NOT ADDING OTHER ORGANIZATION LINKS AND REALLY KEEPING IT TO WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE IN PLANO. OKAY. THANK YOU. AND I WOULD SAY, ADDITIONALLY, WE ARE VERY CAREFUL THAT ALL THESE OTHER ORGANIZATIONS THAT WE WORK WITH, THAT WE COLLABORATE WITH, ARE NONPARTISAN ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE PART OF THE REGULAR COMMUNITY, SUCH AS THE NORTH TEXAS COMMISSION. AND I'D ALSO SAY WE ARE PROBABLY WE'RE PLANNING ON, ON PTA RALLY DAY. AND WE WOULD MENTION THAT BECAUSE WE'D ENCOURAGE OUR, OUR PTA FOLKS AND OTHER PARENTS COMMUNITY MEMBERS. IF THEY WANT TO COME DOWN TO RALLY DAY WITH US, WE WE WOULD BE. BUT THAT'S NOT POLITICAL. THAT'S PTA, WHICH IS A NONPARTISAN ORGANIZATION, AND WE ENCOURAGE ENGAGEMENT BY OUR PARENTS AND OUR COMMUNITY. AS EVERYBODY ELSE. OKAY. I HAVE A COUPLE OF THINGS. JUST WANT TO TOUCH ON ENROLLMENT VERSUS ATTENDANCE. YOU MENTIONED THAT THAT'S ONE OF OUR PRIORITIES. AND I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT THAT WE'RE ONE OF SIX STATES IN THE, IN THE NATION THAT GET FUNDED BASED ON ATTENDANCE RATHER THAN ENROLLMENT. AND YOU DID POINT OUT THAT POST COVID, OUR ATTENDANCE HAS SLID DOWN. I THINK THAT HABITS CHANGED A LITTLE BIT. AND IT'S HARD WHEN YOU'RE PREPARING FOR A CLASSROOM OF KIDS THAT YOU HAVE ENROLLED AND YOU'VE GOT THE TEACHER THERE AND ALL THE SUPPLIES, AND YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR [01:30:02] ALL THAT. BUT IF THEY DON'T SHOW UP, YOU YOU'VE STILL INVESTED IN THAT. SO I THINK THAT ENROLLMENT VERSUS ATTENDANCE PERHAPS MIGHT COME BACK AS AN ISSUE THIS YEAR. I THINK SOME OF THE LEGISLATORS LAST YEAR. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. I YOU KNOW, THERE'S THERE'S THE BASIC ALLOTMENT AND THEN THERE'S SEVERAL OTHER ALLOTMENTS AS WELL. MOST OF THEM ARE ATTENDANCE BASED. THERE ARE A COUPLE THAT ARE ALREADY ENROLLMENT BASED. ONE OF THE ONES THAT'S ATTENDANCE BASED IS THE SAFETY ALLOTMENT. SO I THINK THERE WILL LIKELY BE A PUSH TO MAKE AT LEAST SOME OF THE ALLOTMENTS ENROLLMENT BASED. I DON'T THINK THE BASIC ALLOTMENT WILL GET SWITCHED FROM ATTENDANCE TO ENROLLMENT, MOSTLY BECAUSE THAT'S THAT'S EXPENSIVE TO DO THAT. AND IF YOU DO IT IN A FUNDING NEUTRAL WAY, YOU END UP ESSENTIALLY TAKING FROM SOME SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND GIVING TO OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS. SO IT MAY OR MAY NOT BE A WAY THAT THEY CHOOSE TO INCREASE FUNDING FOR SCHOOLS, BUT GENERALLY SPEAKING, IT'S NOT. IT WOULDN'T. IT WOULD RESULT IN A LOT LESS CONTROL FROM THE LEGISLATURE, WHICH THEY DON'T GENERALLY WANT TO DO. THEY WANT TO DIRECT THE FUNDING MORE. AND SO I WOULD EXPECT THAT IF THEY CHOOSE TO DO ANY KIND OF SWITCH FROM ATTENDANCE TO ENROLLMENT, IT WOULD HAPPEN IN SOME OF THESE KIND OF SIDE ALLOTMENTS, LIKE THE SECURITY ALLOTMENT, WHICH WOULD BE ONE THAT WOULD MAKE A LOT OF SENSE TO SWITCH TO ENROLLMENT. OKAY. AND THEN EARLIER YOU TALKED ABOUT HOW IF THEY DO INCREASE THE BASIC ALLOTMENT, IT DOES HAVE AN IMPACT ON OUR RECAPTURE BECAUSE IT GOES DOWN WHEN YOUR ENTITLEMENT GOES DOWN, THE AMOUNT THAT YOU SEND BACK IN EXCESS OF ENTITLEMENT GOES DOWN. SO THAT'S LOGICAL. AND THEY ALSO CAN INVEST IN BUYING DOWN THE TAX RATE, WHICH THEY DID LAST YEAR. I WANT TO SAY WAS THAT ABOUT 18 BILLION BETWEEN BUYING DOWN THE TAX RATE AND INCREASING THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION, IT WAS 18 BILLION OKAY. WITH THAT $100,000 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION FROM 40 TO 60. 100,000. YEAH. SO I'D LOVE TO HEAR YOU ELABORATE. AND I KNOW YOU BROUGHT IT UP, BUT HOW DO YOU ELABORATE ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THAT DIRECT INVESTMENT INTO THE BASIC ALLOTMENT, WHICH DOES LOWER OUR RECAPTURE, AND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHEN THEY INVEST IN BUYING DOWN THE TAXPAYER'S RATE? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. COMPRESSION. ABSOLUTELY. SO WHEN THEY BUY DOWN THE PROPERTY TAX RATE, WE COLLECT LESS PROPERTY TAXES. AND THAT GAP IS MADE UP WITH STATE FUNDING. SO THAT'S WHY IT COSTS THE STATE MONEY TO BUY DOWN THE PROPERTY TAX RATE. HOWEVER IT DOESN'T CHANGE THE FORMULA THAT SAYS HOW MUCH MONEY WE'RE ALLOWED TO HAVE. SO WE'RE JUST GETTING THE MONEY FROM A DIFFERENT PLACE. AND ACTUALLY IN OUR CASE, IT ALL REALLY COMES OUT OF RECAPTURE BECAUSE WE PAY SO MUCH IN RECAPTURE. PRIMARILY THERE IS A LITTLE BIT THAT THAT COMES IN TIER TWO. BUT SO THAT'S BUYING DOWN THE PROPERTY TAX RATE DOESN'T GIVE US ANY MORE MONEY. IT JUST SHIFTS WHERE WE GET IT FROM. RAISING THE BASIC ALLOTMENT ACTUALLY INCREASES THE SIZE OF THE CUP, SO TO SPEAK, THAT WE'RE FILLING AND ALLOWS US TO AGAIN, IT WOULDN'T RAISE PROPERTY TAXES BECAUSE WE WOULD JUST KEEP MORE OF THE TAX COLLECTIONS THAT WE ARE ACTUALLY ALREADY COLLECTING, INSTEAD OF HAVING TO SEND IT BACK TO THE STATE IN THE FORM OF RECAPTURE. AND THAT MONEY WOULD THEN BE INVESTED HERE IN OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY, IN OUR CLASSROOMS. AND SO THAT'S THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO. ONE THING I DO WANT TO NOTE, THOUGH, AGAIN, IS THAT WHEN YOU DO INCREASE PROPERTY, I MEAN WHEN YOU DO INCREASE THE BASIC ALLOTMENT, IT ACTUALLY ALREADY HAS A BUILT IN PROPERTY TAX COMPRESSION COMPONENT AS WELL. SO THAT THOSE ADDITIONAL CENTS THAT WE WENT OUT, ADDITIONAL PENNIES, WE WENT OUT AND GOT IN OUR VADER IN 2022. AND THE REASON WE HAD THOSE WAS BECAUSE IN HOUSE BILL THREE, THEY COMPRESSED THAT PORTION OF EVERYBODY'S TAX RATE WITH THE BASIC ALLOTMENT INCREASE. IF THEY INCREASE THE BASIC ALLOTMENT AGAIN, THAT WOULD HAPPEN AGAIN. SO OUR TAX RATE WOULD ACTUALLY DROP JUST BY FUNCTION OF THE BASIC ALLOTMENT INCREASING BECAUSE THEY MAINTAIN THE AMOUNT OF REVENUE WE GET IN THAT LAST PORTION OF OUR TAX RATE. AND WE WOULD HAVE TO HAVE FEWER PENNIES TO COLLECT THAT. SO IT WOULD REDUCE PROPERTY TAX RATES FOR DISTRICTS LIKE US THAT ARE ARE MAXED OUT ON OUR TAX RATES. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. AND THEN THE LAST PIECE WE TALKED ABOUT THIS AND YOU MENTIONED THE BUDGET SHORTFALL. THAT IS ABOUT 35 ISH MILLION. IS THAT RIGHT? AND WHEN WE LOOKED AT THE KEY FUNDING GAPS, WHICH YOU SAID IT SO NICELY, I SAY IT DIFFERENTLY. 39.7 MILLION IS OUR SHORTFALL, OUR GAP BETWEEN WHAT THE STATE FUNDS US FOR AND WHAT WE SPEND FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES. AND I THINK THAT WAS IT LAUREN, DID YOU MENTION HOW IT'S DIFFICULT, IF YOU WILL, FOR CERTAIN STUDENTS THAT ARE EMERGENT, BILINGUAL, THAT ARE NEWCOMERS? THE TEACHER SAID YOU DON'T KNOW UNTIL YOU'VE GOT THAT STUDENT IN YOUR CLASSROOM. YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE HARDSHIPS THAT ARE THE NEEDS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO MEET. I THINK THAT PROBABLY IS EVEN SOMEWHAT MORE EMPHASIZED IN OUR CLASSROOMS WITH SOME OF OUR HIGHEST NEED STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL EDUCATION DISABILITIES. SO I THINK THAT WE'VE GOT TO HAMMER BACK ON GETTING THOSE FUNDING MECHANISMS BACK UP. I MEAN, IT'S REALLY HARD TO HEAR THAT THEY'VE GOT A $20 BILLION SURPLUS AND THAT WE ARE IT'S LIKE 60% OF THE DISTRICTS IN THE [01:35:09] STATE ARE FUNDING A DEFICIT BUDGET OR A ADOPTING. RIGHT. WE'RE NOT FUNDING IT, ADOPTING A DEFICIT BUDGET. SO I THINK THOSE ARE JUST SOME TALKING POINTS THAT I THINK IT'S REALLY AMAZING THAT WE ARE ABLE TO BE THIS SUCCINCT AND DIRECT, AND I HOPE THAT THEY GET THE MESSAGE. AND YOU'VE GOT SOMETHING ELSE TO SAY. BUT THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. JUST A GREAT JOB ON THE PRESENTATION AND THE SUBCOMMITTEE AND OF COURSE, ALL OF OUR PARTICIPANTS AS WE HAD OUR LISTENING ROUNDS. AND I THINK JUST THE THE THE BIG THING IS JUST WHEN YOU LOOK AT OUR KEY FUNDING GAPS AND IF WE WERE MADE WHOLE AND FULLY FUNDED ON. ON WHAT? BY STATUTE, AS YOU POINTED OUT EARLIER, WE'RE REQUIRED TO OFFER THESE SERVICES. WE'RE MEETING THE NEEDS OF OUR DISTRICT, AND BY DOING SO, WE HAVE AN ALMOST $60 MILLION SHORTFALL JUST IN PLANO ISD. SO IT'S NOT CLEARLY A LACK OF, OF OF HOW WE'RE ALLOCATING OUR RESOURCES OR OUR SPENDING OR MANAGING OUR DOLLARS. I THINK AS WE HAVE A 100 ON OUR FIRST RATING CLEARLY WE'RE AS A DISTRICT AND JOHNNY AND HIS TEAM, WE'VE GOT THAT IN CHECK. BUT THERE REALLY IS A SIGNIFICANT NEED WITH HERE'S WHAT IS EXPECTED OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND THE NEED TO BE MADE WHOLE SO THAT WE ARE NOT IN IN A DEFICIT STANDPOINT LIKE WE ARE IN MANY OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE AT THIS POINT. SO. WELL, AND I'LL EMPHASIZE WHAT WE WE HEARD FROM COURTNEY REEVES EARLIER, THE ADMINISTRATIVE COST RATIO IS. WE'RE THE LOWEST OF SEVEN DISTRICTS IN THE AREA. SO I THINK THAT WHEN YOU LOOK AT OUR KEY FUNDING GAPS AND YOU YOU SEE THAT WE GOT 100 ON THE FIRST REPORT, THERE'S A DISCONNECT THERE BECAUSE WE ARE REALLY FOLLOWING A VERY STRICT BUDGET AND SPENDING VERY SMARTLY, AS EVIDENCED AS 100 SCORE IN THAT. BUT YET WE'RE STILL STRUGGLING BECAUSE WE'RE NOT GETTING FUNDED FOR THESE AREAS THAT ARE BIG SHORTFALLS, SPECIAL ED TRANSPORTATION SAFETY AND SECURITY AND EARLY EDUCATION, JUST TO NAME THE TOP FOUR. WELL, I THINK, NANCY, TO THE OTHER POINT TO THAT IS THAT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THOSE MANDATES, HB THREE IS MORE THAN JUST ARMED GUARDS. THERE ARE A TON OF OTHER REQUIREMENTS THAT ARE PART OF HB THREE THAT WE NEED TO SATISFY FOR SAFETY AND SECURITY REASONS FOR OUR STUDENTS AND FOR OUR SCHOOLS. AND THEN IF SPECIAL EDUCATION NUMBERS ARE ONLY GOING TO KEEP GROWING, AS WE'VE SEEN IN THE CHARTS, THOSE NUMBERS ARE JUST A STATIC SNAPSHOT OF WHEN THAT SLIDE WAS MADE, BUT THOSE NUMBERS WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY. AND WHAT IF THEY TAKE NO ACTION IN TWO YEARS? IT WOULD BE INCREDIBLE TO SEE HOW HIGH THOSE NUMBERS WOULD BE. I'LL JUST SAY ONE LAST THING, BECAUSE I KNOW WE'RE GETTING A LITTLE LONG HERE ON THIS, BUT AS YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT EXPERIENCE IN A, IN A SPECIAL EDUCATION CLASSROOM AND HOW IT'S HARD TO UNDERSTAND THE NEED, I WAS SITTING HERE THINKING, YOU KNOW, AS A COMMUNITY, WE HAVE A REALLY GOOD RESOURCE OF THOUSANDS OF EXPERTS, AND THEY'RE CALLED TEACHERS AND PARAPROFESSIONALS AND THE STAFF THAT ARE ON OUR CAMPUSES EVERY DAY. AND SO YOU KNOW, AS MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY ARE THINKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, REACHING OUT AND TALKING TO OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS DURING THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION AND POTENTIALLY ADVOCATING FOR SOME OF THESE THINGS OR TRYING TO TALK TO THOSE ELECTED OFFICIALS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HOW DIFFICULT IT IS IN A SPED CLASSROOM, HOW DIFFICULT IT IT. HOW MUCH OF A CHALLENGE OUR NEWCOMERS HAVE AND OUR STAFF HAVE TRYING TO HELP THOSE NEWCOMERS. HOW MUCH OF THESE THESE THINGS ARE CHALLENGING, YOU KNOW, NOBODY ELECTIONEER OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. SO THERE'S SOME SORT OF LEGAL CAVEAT HERE THAT I'M NOT GOING TO WORD PROPERLY. BUT, YOU KNOW, IF IF YOU ARE WANTING AN EXPERT TO TALK TO YOU, TALK TO A CLASSROOM TEACHER, TALK TO A PARAPROFESSIONAL, YOU KNOW, REACH OUT TO SOMEONE IN YOUR NETWORK AND SAY, HEY, WHAT IS IT? WHAT IS IT LIKE? WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES YOU'RE FACING ON YOUR CAMPUSES, AND WHAT ARE YOU SEEING? LIKE, YOU DON'T HAVE TO TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, BECAUSE THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN THIS COMMUNITY THAT ARE IN OUR CLASSROOMS EVERY SINGLE DAY THAT CAN, YOU KNOW, CAN AND, AND I'M SURE WILL BE VERY GLAD TO TALK TO MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY ABOUT WHAT IT'S LIKE TO, TO BE FACING SOME OF SOME OF THESE, THESE CHALLENGES THAT WERE NOT ADEQUATELY FUNDED TO ADDRESS. ALL RIGHT. AND JUST TO ADD TO YOUR POINT, TARA, YOU TALKED ABOUT SAFETY AND SECURITY. OUR DEFICIT FOR THAT WILL BE OVER 8 MILLION THIS YEAR. BUT I HAVE TO SAY, KUDOS TO THE HR DEPARTMENT AND OUR SAFETY AND SECURITY TEAM FOR MAKING THE HIRES THAT THEY MADE TO GET INTO COMPLIANCE WITH OUR GOOD CAUSE EXCEPTION. SO BIG HATS OFF TO BOTH OF THOSE DEPARTMENTS. [01:40:04] SO ANY OTHER COMMENTS? ALL RIGHT. WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE THE THE TABLE HERE FOR APPROVING OUR 89TH LEGISLATIVE SESSION. PRIORITIES. WE WILL NOW VOTE ALL OF THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND. AND IT LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE SEVEN HANDS UP. AND THE MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. [8. REPORTS] NOW WE HAVE ANOTHER ITEM. AND IT IS IN. WE'RE AN ITEM EIGHT ONE, WHICH IS OUR REPORTS. WE HAVE A REPORT FOR THE LONG RANGE FACILITY TRANSITION PLAN. AND I'LL TURN THIS OVER TO JONNY HILL. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT HUMPHREY. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD CABINET, DR. WILLIAMS. I'M GOING TO AS STEVE MAKES HIS WAY UP HERE, HE'S GOING TO START OFF THE PRESENTATION TONIGHT. THIS IS OBVIOUSLY A VERY LARGE GROUP EFFORT. AND SO WE'RE GOING TO COVER LOTS OF THINGS. WHENEVER I WAS LOOKING OVER THIS I KEEP THINKING ABOUT YOU'VE EVER SEEN THE PICTURE OF THE DUCK ON THE TOP OF A POND AND HOW THEY'RE JUST GOING NICE AND SMOOTH, AND ALL YOU SEE IS THE BODY OF THE DUCK, AND IT LOOKS LIKE SO GRACEFUL. BUT THEN YOU SEE A PICTURE OF WHAT'S GOING ON UNDERNEATH THE WATER, AND THAT DUCK IS JUST GOING AS HARD AND AS FAST AS IT CAN. BUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LONG RANGE FACILITY TRANSITION PLANNING, WE WERE GOING TO TALK. WE'RE GOING TO WE'RE GOING TO GO UNDERNEATH THE WATER. WE'RE GOING TO AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE HOW WHAT'S GOING ON, WHAT'S GOING ON WITH ALL THE WORK THAT GOES INTO THIS. AND SO I THINK YOU'LL SEE TONIGHT THAT ALTHOUGH IT LOOKS LIKE EVERYTHING'S GOING SMOOTH AND IT IS IT REALLY IS. THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE DOING A LOT OF WORK BEHIND THE SCENES TO MAKE THIS AS, IN MY OPINION, AS SMOOTH A PROCESS THAT WE CAN MAKE IT FOR OUR STUDENTS AND OUR STAFF IN OUR COMMUNITY. SO, STEVE, WHY DON'T YOU LEAD US OFF AND THEN WE'LL ALL JUMP IN WHERE WE NEED TO? ABSOLUTELY. THANK YOU. JOHNNY. GOOD EVENING. PRESIDENT HUMPHREY BOARD OF TRUSTEES, EXTENDED CABINET AND AUDIENCE MEMBERS TONIGHT. I ACTUALLY ENJOYED LISTENING TO THE END OF YOUR DISCUSSION A WHILE AGO WITH THE, YOU KNOW, THE EXPERTS, THE COLLABORATION, THE TEAM. AND THIS REPORT IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF A MASSIVE COLLABORATION AND TEAMWORK. A LOT OF OUR TEAMMATES ARE HERE TONIGHT. I'D ALSO LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT TONY PEARSON, OUR DIRECTOR FOR PLANNING AND NEW CONSTRUCTION AND OUR OTHER TEAMMATES THAT YOU'VE ALREADY HEARD FROM TONIGHT. SO I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU GUYS FOR BEING HERE TONIGHT. SO THE LONG RANGE FACILITY PLAN. TRANSITION. EXCUSE ME. LONG RANGE FACILITY PLAN. TRANSITION PLANNING. SECOND, I WANT TO START OUT BY INTRODUCING TONIGHT'S REPORT. WITH OUR FOUNDATION THAT DRIVES OUR WORK. AND SO, FOR EXAMPLE, OUR STRATEGIC PLAN. OUR PILLAR, OBJECTIVE 5.3, DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT PLANS TO EFFICIENTLY USE DISTRICT FACILITIES THAT WILL PROVIDE EXPANDED OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS. AND SO THAT DEVELOPS OUR PRIORITY BY THE END OF THE 20 2425 SCHOOL YEAR, AS A PART OF THE LONG RANGE FACILITY PLAN, THE DISTRICT WILL IMPLEMENT A COMPREHENSIVE TRANSITION PLAN TO SUPPORT STUDENTS IMPACTED BY SCHOOL CLOSURES AND ATTENDANCE BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENTS. AND THEN OUR TARGETS. EACH CAMPUS WILL HAVE A TRANSITION PLAN TO ENGAGE ALL IMPACTED STUDENTS AND FAMILIES, RETAIN HIGHLY EFFECTIVE STAFF THAT ARE REASSIGNED AS A RESULT OF CLOSURES OR ATTENDANCE BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENTS. ATTENDANCE BOUNDARY CHANGES FOR THE 2526 SCHOOL YEAR. AND THEN STUDENTS WHO ARE ELIGIBLE FOR TRANSPORTATION WILL BE ASSIGNED A BUS ROUTE FOR THE 2526 SCHOOL YEAR AT THE END OF THE DAY. THE EXPECTED RESULT. STUDENTS, FAMILIES AND STAFF WILL FEEL WELCOMED AT THEIR NEW CAMPUSES. AND SO THE TRANSITION EXCUSE ME, THE TRANSITION PLANS BY TEAM. AND AGAIN, THESE ARE CERTAINLY OUR DEPARTMENTS THAT ARE REPRESENTED HERE. ACADEMIC SERVICES, BUSINESS SERVICES, EMPLOYEE SERVICES STUDENT FAMILY, COMMUNITY SERVICES, TECHNOLOGY SERVICES, SAFETY AND SECURITY AND COMMUNICATIONS. AND THEN YOU CERTAINLY SEE OUR TEAM LEADERS. THERE ARE OUR LEADERS FOR OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT. BUT AGAIN, THEY ARE ALSO A REPRESENTATION OF THE MANY BEHIND THE SCENES LEADERS AND FRONT IN THE TRENCHES LEADERS WITH THIS PLAN AND THE NEXT. THERE WE GO. THANK YOU. THE NEXT SLIDE IS OUR CURRENT ENROLLMENT, BUT ALSO THE IMPACT OF OUR ON THE ON THE NUMBER OF KIDDOS. SO, FOR EXAMPLE, AT ARMSTRONG, WE KNOW WE HAVE 564 STUDENTS CURRENTLY ENROLLED. AND THEN THE RECEIVING SCHOOLS, BOWMAN, MURPHY AND OTTO. THOSE ARE THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS THAT WILL BE RECEIVING AT EACH OF THOSE SCHOOLS. [01:45:06] AND THEN CARPENTER. AGAIN, CURRENT ENROLLMENT. AND THEN HAGGARD, HENDRICK AND SCHIMMELFENNIG. NUMBER OF STUDENTS THAT WILL BE THAT THOSE SCHOOLS WILL BE RECEIVING. DAVIS ELEMENTARY. AND THEN YOU SEE THE ENROLLMENT AND THEN HARRINGTON AND SIEGLING ELEMENTARY AS WELL, AND THEN FOREMAN AND THEN YOU'LL SEE THAT IN ADDITION TO THE SCHOOLS THAT WILL BE RECEIVING STUDENTS AS A RESULT OF THE CLOSURE THERE, BUT WE ALSO HAVE SOME STUDENTS THAT ARE AFFECTED BY BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENTS, AND I PUT ASTERISKS BY THAT TO NOTATE WHICH WHICH SCHOOLS AND THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS THAT THEY WOULD BE RECEIVING AT THIS TIME. THIS IS A COLLABORATIVE REPORT. AND SO AT THIS TIME, I WILL ALSO TURN THIS OVER TO LISA WILSON TO, TO DISCUSS ACADEMIC SERVICES INVOLVEMENT IN THIS PLAN. THANK YOU, STEVE. AND AS A REMINDER, WE'LL BE PROVIDING THE BOARD SEVERAL UPDATES THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. SO THIS IS JUST AN UPDATE WHERE WE ARE. THIS IS CERTAINLY NOT EVERYTHING. SO IF YOU FEEL LIKE WE'RE SPENDING TOO MUCH TIME ON ONE THING AND NOT ANOTHER, IT'S BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE WE ARE IN THE PROCESS. SO HAVING SAID THAT, ACADEMIC SERVICES CURRENTLY IS SPENDING A LOT OF TIME LOOKING AT TRANSITIONING STUDENTS AND FAMILIES SPECIFICALLY FOR THE REGIONAL DAY SCHOOL PROGRAM FOR THE DEAF. OVER TO HARRINGTON, BECAUSE WE WANT TO BE VERY THOUGHTFUL ABOUT THAT PROCESS. LOOKING AT THE PROFESSIONAL LEARNING THAT WILL BE NECESSARY FOR THAT STAFF AT HARRINGTON, COORDINATING WITH BUSINESS SERVICES ON THE FACILITY NEEDS AND ACCOMMODATIONS. AND THEN FOR ALL OF THE MOVEMENTS, COORDINATING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND RESOURCES FOR REDISTRIBUTION. SPECIFICALLY, LOOKING AT THE TRANSITION PLANNING FOR THE REGIONAL DAY SCHOOL PROGRAM FOR THE DEAF. WE REALLY WANTED TO START THINKING ABOUT OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS AND FAMILIES AT HARRINGTON TO LEARN MORE ABOUT DEAF, DEAF, AND HARD OF HEARING STUDENTS AND DEAF CULTURE. ONE OF THE THINGS WE HEARD IN MANY OF OUR LISTENING ROUNDS WAS HOW IMPORTANT THAT DEAF CULTURE IS AS PART OF DAVIS, SO WE HAVE BE WE'VE WE'VE STARTED OFFERING SIGN LANGUAGE CLASSES, AND THERE ARE SOME ACTUALLY STAFF AND FAMILIES PARTICIPATING IN THOSE ON MONDAY NIGHTS AS ARE CURRENTLY IN SESSION. WE ALSO ARE PLANNING TO START A SIGN LANGUAGE CLUB AT HARRINGTON FOR STUDENTS WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN LEARNING SOME SIGN LANGUAGE. WE HAVE OUR OUR DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING STUDENTS AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL ARE GOING TO GO OVER AND WORK WITH OUR ELEMENTARY STUDENT LEADERS. DURING THE SECOND SEMESTER, WE ARE ORGANIZING A DEAF SIMULATION ACTIVITY FOR OUR STUDENTS AND STAFF AT HARRINGTON, AND WE'RE DOING THAT WITH THE STATE OUTREACH CENTER, WHICH IS CONNECTED TO THE TEXAS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF. SO A GREAT RESOURCE FOR US. AND THEN I'VE BEEN SO IMPRESSED WITH THE TA'S AT BOTH HARRINGTON AND DAVIS. THEY ARE WORKING TOGETHER TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR FAMILIES AS THAT PROGRAM MOVES OVER. IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE'RE REALLY COGNIZANT OF THE TRAINING NEEDS FOR THE HARRINGTON STAFF TO UNDERSTAND REALLY WHAT IT'S LIKE TO WORK WITH STUDENTS WITH HEARING LOSS, HAVING ADDITIONAL INTERPRETERS OR DEAF TEACHERS IN THE CLASSROOM, AND HOW TO WORK WITH THAT, UNDERSTANDING THOSE SPECIFIC LEARNING NEEDS OF STUDENTS WHO ARE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING AND MAKING SURE THAT WE UNDERSTAND DEAF CULTURE AND USING THE RESOURCES THAT ARE AVAILABLE, NOT ONLY THE STATE OUTREACH CENTER, BUT ALSO THE DEAF ACTION CENTER IN DALLAS IS ALSO PARTNERING WITH US. SO YOU'LL SEE ON THE SCREEN SOME OF THE TOPICS THAT WE'RE PLANNING TO WORK WITH STAFF TO MAKE SURE WE ARE READY TO GO IN AUGUST OF 25. AND I WILL TURN IT OVER TO JOHN HILL. THANK YOU LISA. I'M GOING TO JUMP ON IN AND KEEP THIS BALL ROLLING. SO BUSINESS SERVICES OBVIOUSLY LOTS OF FOLKS THAT ARE ON THIS TEAM. SO FIRST OF ALL THE MAIN THING IS BUSINESS SERVICES TEAM IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FOLLOWING. EXCUSE ME. MEETING FACILITY NEEDS FOR ALL STUDENTS AND STAFF FOR THE RELOCATIONS. RETROFITTING HARRINGTON ELEMENTARY HAS BEEN A BIG PROJECT SO FAR THAT WE SPENT QUITE A BIT OF TIME ON STORAGE AND MAINTAINING INVENTORY OF ALL RESOURCES. YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE ALL OF THE RESOURCES THAT GO INTO MAKING UP A CAMPUS, SPECIFICALLY ONE THAT'S BEEN BEEN ON THE GROUND FOR OVER 50 YEARS. AND SO THAT'S THAT'S GOING TO BE A CHALLENGE. AND I KNOW COURTNEY REEVES BACK THERE JUST SMILING BECAUSE SHE'S SHE'S LOVING THAT WORK. AND THEN MOVING AND REDISTRIBUTING RESOURCES BASED ON CAMPUS FACILITY NEEDS OF VERONICA COUSINS AND HER TEAM DOING AN AMAZING JOB SO FAR. I WILL SAY, I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT THE FACT THAT WE SOLD THE SHALLOW BUILDING WITH ABOUT 180 ITINERANT STAFF ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO HAS BEEN A MAJOR BLESSING NOW BECAUSE IT IT WAS REALLY A GOOD RUN ON SOME OF THE CHALLENGES THAT WE MIGHT BE FACING. SO THAT'S REALLY HELPED US A LOT IN HOW TO ORGANIZE AND NOT ONLY HOW TO ORGANIZE, BUT WE BETTER GET OFF THE FENCE AND GET STARTED REALLY QUICK BECAUSE TIME GOES BY IN A IN A [01:50:05] HURRY. SO JUST REALLOCATING THOSE ASSETS, REALLOCATING ALL OF THOSE THE PEOPLE IS JUST IT'S A LOT OF LOGISTICS THAT GO INTO THAT. AND THEN PROCURING ALL THE RESOURCES NECESSARY FOR THE TRANSITION. LOTS OF BOXES. LOTS OF TAPE. JUST JUST A LOT OF WORK THAT YOU REALLY DON'T THINK ABOUT UNTIL YOU GET INTO IT. AND THEN TRANSPORTATION OBVIOUSLY IS A BIG ONE. WE TALK ABOUT TRANSPORTATION IN THE TRANSITION, BUT REALLY TRANSPORTATION ON THE TRANSITION IS FOLDING INTO A MUCH LARGER CONVERSATION THAT WE'RE HAVING BY GOING, YOU KNOW, WE DID AN AUDIT TWO YEARS AGO WHERE NOW WE TRY TO PARTNER BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT TO MAKE MULTIPLE DECISIONS DIFFERENT TIMES. YOU WANT TO TRY TO MIRROR THOSE AND MAKE THOSE DECISIONS ALL IN RELATION. SO WE'VE MIRRORED THOSE TRANSPORTATION TRENDS, TRANSPORTATION DISCUSSIONS WITH THE LONG RANGE FACILITY PLANNING. STEVE IS DOING A GREAT JOB, AND MARK SKINNER HAS DONE A GREAT JOB OF LEADING US THROUGH THE DISTRICT THROUGH THOSE DISCUSSIONS. SO JUST ON THE FACILITIES, JUST SPECIFICALLY ON FACILITIES, AND OBVIOUSLY THE REGIONAL DAY SCHOOL FOR THE PROGRAM FOR THE DEAF. PROBABLY ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES THAT WE'RE FACING RIGHT NOW IS HOW DO YOU MAKE HARRINGTON NOT ONLY MAKE IT WHERE IT CAN TAKE ON THE NEW PROGRAM, BUT HOW CAN YOU ENHANCE IT AND MAKE IT BETTER? AND THAT WAS A CHALLENGE THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO, TO WORKING ON THAT. SO THAT'S OUR GOAL IS NOT JUST TO TO MOVE IT OVER, BUT HOW CAN WE MAKE THAT PROGRAM EVEN BETTER? DESIGNING THOUGHTFUL LAYOUTS LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES, SITUATIONAL AWARENESS CLUES INCORPORATING SOCIAL SPACES THAT ENCOURAGE COLLABORATION, PROVIDING WELCOMING, STIMULATING, VISUALLY APPEALING APPROACHES TO TO NATURAL AND INTERIOR LIGHTING, PROVIDING A SAFE AND INCLUSIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT. STIMULATION AND GROWTH WITH THE DIFFERENT MATERIALS AND JUST THE FURNITURE THAT WE WERE OFFERING OVER THERE. AND THEN, OF COURSE, JUST THE WAYFINDING AND SAFETY SYSTEMS ACOUSTICAL TECHNICAL ACCOMMODATIONS, LOTS AND LOTS OF DISCUSSIONS WITH THE EXPERTS IN THAT FIELD HAVE GONE IN SO FAR. WE'VE HAD MULTIPLE MEETINGS. I KNOW LISA AND HER STAFF ARE DOING A GREAT JOB OF SITTING DOWN WITH OUR ARCHITECT AND ALREADY STARTING THOSE CONVERSATIONS WITH THE WITH THAT STAFF OVER THERE. SO THIS IS JUST A LAYOUT. THANK YOU. TONY. WONDERFUL. PICTURE THERE JUST KIND OF GIVES YOU A PICTURE OF WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT. THAT'S A TOP DOWN LOOK AT HARRINGTON. AND OF COURSE, IF YOU LOOK AT THE RED LINES TO THE SOUTH, I GUESS THE SOUTHWEST CORNER, YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THAT'S A FIELD RIGHT NOW. BUT ONE THING THAT WITH ALL THE ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL STAFF THAT WILL BE GOING OVER THERE WHAT WE FOUND OUT PRETTY QUICKLY IS THERE'S NOT GOING TO BE ENOUGH PARKING AT THIS PLACE. AND IT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT BROUGHT UP. SO OBVIOUSLY WE'RE LOOKING AT ADDING AN ADDITIONAL 60 SPACES. WHAT THAT ALLOWS US TO DO IS BECAUSE THE REGIONAL DAY SCHOOL PROGRAM FOR THE DEAF ALSO BRINGS OVER NOT JUST OUR DISTRICT, BUT BRINGS OVER SURROUNDING DISTRICTS AS WELL. WE HAVE LOTS OF BUSSES AND VANS THAT SHOW UP AT THE SAME TIME. SO HOW CAN WE CUE ALL OF THOSE AND GET THEM IN AND OUT IN A SPEEDY WAY? LOOKING AT WITH THE ARCHITECT OF MAYBE CUEING EVEN ON THE ADDITIONAL PARKING SPACES WAYS THAT YOU CAN ACTUALLY EXTEND GET THOSE THOSE VEHICLES OFF OF THE ROADS. AND SO LOOKING AT DOING THAT, IF YOU LOOK AT THE YELLOW CIRCLES, THOSE ARE THE UPPER AND LOWER PLAYGROUNDS OVER AT HARRINGTON. AND WE HAVE SPED UP THOSE PROCESSES IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE RENOVATIONS HAPPEN BEFORE THE START OF THE 25, 20 SCHOOL YEAR. I THINK THAT'S GREAT. THESE THESE PLAYGROUNDS WILL BE FULLY, I MEAN, FULLY ACCESSIBLE IN EVERY WAY YOU CAN IMAGINE. AND SO I'M EXCITED ABOUT THAT AS WELL. IF YOU LOOK AT THE, THE, THE RED LINE THAT GOES AROUND THE EXTERIOR OF THE, OF THE PLAY, THOSE PLAYING FIELDS, THOSE ARE SECURITY FENCES. SO I'M SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THAT AS WELL. THIS IS A IT WAS INTERESTING BECAUSE LISA AND I ACTUALLY CORNERED OUR ARCHITECT WHEN WE WERE AT THE SCHOOL BOARD CONVENTION, AND WE END UP SPENDING, I GUESS, JUST AN ALMOST AN AFTERNOON WITH HIM. AND WE ACTUALLY WERE DRAWING IT OUT. YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS WORK? BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY WE KNOW CAPACITY WISE IT WORKS. BUT JUST TO SAY, JUST HAVING ENOUGH KIDS TO GO INTO THAT BUILDING AND SAYING, HEY, WE KNOW THAT THE NUMBERS WORK OUT IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT THAN ACTUALLY DRAWING IT OUT AND SAYING, OKAY, IT WORKS NUMBER OF KIDS WISE, BUT DOES IT WORK? DOES IT WORK LOGICALLY WITH HAVING, YOU KNOW, THE REGIONAL DAY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF PROGRAM? DOES IT WORK LOGICALLY THAT THOSE THOSE STUDENTS ARE ACTUALLY HOUSED IN RELATION TO THEIR PEERS ON THAT CAMPUS? DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? I MEAN, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE KIDS. AND SO A LOT OF TIME AND EFFORT BY BY NOT ONLY OUR ARCHITECT, BUT ALSO BY LISA AND HER TEAM, AMAZING JOB OF TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT IT WORKS OUT. AND I CAN TELL YOU, THERE'S PROBABLY NO ONE HAPPIER THAN REALIZING THAT WE WERE GOING TO BE ABLE TO MAKE IT WORK OUT THAN ME, BECAUSE THE WORST THING YOU COULD DO IS IS, IS OBVIOUSLY MOVE STUDENTS OVER AND THEN, OH, WE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH, WITH THE FACILITIES AS FAR AS HOUSING THEM APPROPRIATELY. [01:55:03] SO I'M SUPER EXCITED. AND THERE'S A LOT OF WORK THAT'S GONE INTO THIS ON ON THIS SLIDE. THIS IS WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT, MOVING STAFF AND WELL, JUST MOVING STAFF. THAT'S A CHALLENGE. SO BOTTOM LINE IS VERONICA, REALLY, IT'S. COURTNEY. AND VERONICA HAVE REALLY PICKED UP THE TORCH ON THIS ONE AND HAVE DONE A LOT OF WORK ALREADY GETTING READY FOR THIS JUST ACTUALLY CATALOGING. CATALOGING WHAT ALL NEEDS TO HAPPEN. I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY OTHER PROFESSIONAL INDUSTRY THAT I'M AWARE OF, SUCH AS TEACHERS. AS FAR AS PACK RAT AND STUFF THEY DON'T WANT TO THROW ANYTHING AWAY. AND SO I'M, I'M A LITTLE NERVOUS ABOUT WHAT WE'RE GOING TO UNCOVER WHEN WE START THE PURGING PROCESS. BUT BUT THAT IS, THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN HERE IN A SECOND. I'LL SHOW YOU A TIMELINE OF, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S GOING ON. BUT I WILL SAY THIS VERONICA COUSINS DOES AN AMAZING JOB, AND SHE CAN, WITH A SMILE ON HER FACE, SHE CAN ACTUALLY BE PRODDING YOU ALONG IN A PRETTY GOOD WAY. SO I THINK THAT THEY'VE ALREADY STARTED THAT PROCESS. BUT THESE ARE JUST SOME OF THE ITEMS THAT THEY'VE ACTUALLY PUT DOWN, THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ACTUALLY GO THROUGH AND MAKE SURE WE'RE THINKING ABOUT. AND IT'S JUST NOT MOVING THE STAFF. BUT IT'S IT'S THERE'S A LOT OF STUFF TOO, LIKE EQUIPMENT, FURNITURE, INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS. AND IT'S NOT JUST GETTING RID OF IT FROM THE THE RETIRING CAMPUS. IT'S MAKING SURE YOU SAW A WHILE AGO WHEN STEVE ACTUALLY PUT RECEIVING CAMPUSES A NUMBER OF STUDENTS. SO WE'VE GOT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'VE GOT THE RIGHT THE NUMBER OF RESOURCES THAT ARE ALLOCATED TO THE APPROPRIATE CAMPUSES. AND SO THERE'S A LOT OF THOUGHT AND WORK THAT'S GOING ON TO THAT AS WELL. THIS IS A TIMELINE OF ONE THING. WE DO KNOW THAT TIME GETS AWAY FROM US. IF WE'RE IF WE'RE NOT DILIGENT AND WE'RE NOT STRATEGIC WITH HOW WE'RE USING IT. AND SO SOMETIMES THE BEST WAY TO DO THAT IS ACTUALLY DRAW OUT A TIMELINE AND ACTUALLY, OKAY, ARE WE HITTING THESE MARKS AS WE GO THROUGH THESE MONTHS. SO OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE A PLAN BY BY THE END OF AUGUST TO BE ABLE TO TURN OVER THESE PROPERTIES. AND THAT'S, THAT'S OUR DIRECTIVE FROM DR. WILLIAMS, NOT JUST DR. WILLIAMS. THAT IS, IF YOU LOOK AT THE DIRECTIVES FROM THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT AND THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS. I'M SORRY, DR. WILLIAMS. IT'S IT IS GETTING IT IS GETTING LATE. YEAH. THAT'S RIGHT, I MISSPOKE I APOLOGIZE. AND THEN OF COURSE, JUST TRANSPORTATION IN GENERAL. WE COULD SPEND A LOT OF TIME ON THIS. BUT AS YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING THROUGH THE HAZARDOUS HAZARDOUS ROADWAYS, A LOT OF WORK, A LOT OF REALLY GOOD WORK. TO BE PERFECTLY HONEST WITH YOU, A WHILE AGO, YOU SAW THE DISCREPANCY IN FUNDING GAPS. IT'S IT'S INCUMBENT UPON US. AND YOU HEARD DANNY SAY IT'S ONE OF THE AREAS THAT YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT IT IS A THERE'S A MANDATE. IT'S AN EXPECTATION THAT WE OFFER TRANSPORTATION. BUT WE DO HAVE A FUNDING GAP. BUT IT IS REALLY INCUMBENT UPON US AS A AS A DISTRICT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE DOING THAT IN THE MOST EFFECTIVE, EFFICIENT WAY THAT WE CAN. AND SO I REALLY APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT STEVE'S DOING IN THAT AREA. AND THERE'S A LOT OF WORK THAT'S GOING TO BE GOING COINCIDING WITH THE WORK OF THIS LONG RANGE FACILITY PLANNING WITH TRANSPORTATION YOU'RE GOING TO BE HEARING FROM HIM A LOT OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS ON THAT. SO SO I MEAN, BOTTOM LINE IS IT'S HARD. THIS THIS IS A SLIDE THAT IT'S HARD TO READ. BUT LESLIE AND HER STAFF HAVE DONE AN AMAZING JOB. IF YOU GO BACK, YOU KNOW, WE ACTUALLY ACTUALLY HAD A, A WEB PAGE THAT WE ACTUALLY KEPT EVERYBODY UP TO DATE WITH WHAT'S GOING ON WITH OUR LONG RANGE FACILITY PLANNING. BUT IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN ON THAT WEBSITE LATELY, THERE'S A LOT OF UP, REALLY UP TO DATE GOOD INFORMATION, DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON EACH ONE OF THOSE CAMPUSES. IF YOU REMEMBER, IT'S PISD, DOT EDU, EVERYONE KNOWS OUR OUR WEBSITE AND THEN FORWARD SLASH FACILITY PLAN. I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO GO TO THAT SITE AND ACTUALLY GO THROUGH AND SEE, OKAY. WHAT'S CHANGED? WHAT WHAT'S BEEN UPDATED. THESE GUYS ARE STILL WORKING TO KEEP EVERYBODY IN OUR COMMUNITY UP TO DATE WITH WHAT'S GOING ON IN THIS PROCESS. I APPRECIATE THE TRANSPARENCY THAT THEY'RE GOING THROUGH AND THE WORK THEY'RE DOING ON THAT. AND I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER MR.. OUR DR. NOT MR.. BUT DR. THANK YOU JOHNNY. WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT STUDENT ENROLLMENT AND STUDENT TRANSFERS AS IT'S IMPACTED BY THE LONG RANGE FACILITY PLAN. WE'RE GOING TO START OFF WITH ENROLLMENT. SO NEXT SCHOOL YEAR, THOSE STUDENTS WHO HAVE WHO WILL EXPERIENCE ANY KIND OF CHANGE DUE TO THE REZONING, THEY DON'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT ANYTHING THAT'S GOING TO BE DONE AUTOMATICALLY FOR THEM WITHIN OUR SYSTEM. AND WE REFER TO THAT AS THE NEXT YEAR LINE. AND THAT NEXT YEAR LINE WILL POPULATE BASED ON THEIR ADDRESS LOCATION. AND ABOUT TWO WEEKS ISH STUDENTS WILL START SITTING DOWN AT COMPUTERS AND SELECTING THEIR COURSES FOR NEXT SCHOOL YEAR. THEY MAY SEE IN THAT COURSE REGISTRATION PROCESS THAT THEIR NEXT SCHOOL YEAR OF SCHOOL CAMPUS IS SOMETHING DIFFERENT. AND SO WE'RE PREPARING COMMUNICATION TO REMIND STUDENTS AND PARENTS OF THAT. BUT OTHER THAN THAT ENROLLMENT, THERE'S REALLY NOTHING ANYBODY, ANY FAMILY NEEDS TO DO IN TERMS OF IF THEY'RE IMPACTED BY A CHANGE, THEY DON'T NEED TO DO ANYTHING. [02:00:07] EVERYTHING WILL BE TAKEN CARE OF. THEY JUST NEED TO CONTINUE TO DO THEIR BACK TO SCHOOL PAPERWORK AND LIFE WILL MOVE ON. IN TERMS OF TRANSFERS, WE LAST OR THIS PAST JUNE, I'M TRYING TO SAY CAME TO THE BOARD WITH A PROPOSAL TO, TO ALLOW US SOME, SOME LITTLE LATITUDE WITH OUR TRANSFER GUIDELINES. AND YOU APPROVED SOME SPECIAL GUIDELINES FOR US TO TO HONESTLY JUST GIVE THE STUDENTS IMPACTED BY THE REZONING AND CLOSURE SOME SPECIAL TREATMENT WHEN IT CAME TO TRANSFERS. SO THAT'S STILL IN EFFECT THIS SCHOOL YEAR. TRANSFER WINDOW OPENS UP IN JANUARY. WE ENCOURAGE FAMILIES THAT DO WANT TO APPLY FOR A TRANSFER TO GET THAT DONE AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE, BECAUSE IF THEY GET IT DONE BEFORE THE END OF JANUARY, WE CAN PROBABLY GET THAT APPROVED THERE IN FEBRUARY. IF IT'S NOT APPROVED BY FEBRUARY, THEN THEY'RE PROBABLY GOING TO HAVE TO WAIT ON APPROVAL UNTIL THE SUMMER. WHY IS THAT? BECAUSE STAFFING DECISIONS ARE MADE, AND THEN WE HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL SORT OF THE STAFFING AND STUDENTS SETTLE BEFORE WE KNOW WHAT SEATS ARE OPEN. SO IT'S BETTER TO GET IT DONE EARLY. WE TALKED ABOUT THOSE GUIDELINES THAT THE BOARD APPROVED IN JUNE. THAT'S A FAR AWAY SHOT OF THAT, BUT I'LL ZOOM IN A LITTLE CLOSER. WE HAD STUDENTS THAT WILL BE THIS IS TIER ONE. THESE ARE THE SORT OF THE THE SITUATIONS THAT RECEIVE THE THE HIGHEST ORDER IN TERMS OF TRANSFER PRIVILEGES, IF YOU WILL. THESE STUDENTS. I'M GOING TO SAVE MYSELF FROM READING ALL OF THESE EXAMPLES AND SCENARIOS BECAUSE THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT. BUT LONG STORY SHORT, THESE ARE THE STUDENTS THAT ARE DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY ANY KIND OF REZONING OR CLOSURE, AND SO THEY WILL GET FIRST PRIORITY WHEN IT COMES TO TRANSFER. THESE STUDENTS ARE SORT OF SECONDARY IMPACTED BY CLOSURES OR REZONING. I DO WANT TO JUST SPEND A MINUTE ON THIS, BECAUSE THIS IS ONE THAT I JUST THINK COULD SNEAK UP ON SOME PARENTS OR FAMILIES THAT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN FULLY ENGAGED. AND SO IF I'M A NINTH GRADER AT CLARK AND I'M A NINTH GRADER THERE BECAUSE I GREW UP, WENT TO HARRINGTON AFTER HARRINGTON, I WENT TO CARPENTER AND THEN CLARK. AND SO I'M SITTING AT CLARK AS A NINTH GRADER RIGHT NOW. YOU WON'T BE SITTING AT CLARK AS A 10TH GRADER UNLESS YOU TRANSFER. AND SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT IT'S BEEN ON MY MIND. I KNOW IT'S BEEN ON ALL OF OUR BOARD AND OTHER CABINET MEMBERS MINDS. SO WE'RE WE'RE WE'RE AWARE OF THAT. THAT'S A TIER TWO CHANGE. AND SO IF THAT STUDENT AND WHAT THEY'D BE DOING I KNOW IT SOUNDS A LITTLE CRAZY. THEY'RE GOING TO APPLY FOR A TRANSFER TO STAY AT THE SCHOOL THAT THEY'RE AT. IT SOUNDS BACKWARDS BUT THAT'S WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN. AND SO WE'RE PREPARED FOR THAT. WE'RE AWARE OF THAT. AND WE'RE GOING TO TRY OUR BEST TO GIVE OR BRING MORE AWARENESS TO THAT. OTHER THAN THAT, THE OTHER TRANSFERS ARE SORT OF TRANSFERS AS BUSINESS AS USUAL. I WANT TO MOVE BECAUSE THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER, AND WE'RE PREPARED FOR THOSE AS WELL. JUST A QUICK QUESTION. SO THEY SHOULD REGISTER FOR THEIR CLASSES AS IF THEY'RE GOING TO THE NEW SCHOOL THEN REQUEST THE TRANSFER. AND THEN THOSE CLASSES WILL AUTOMATICALLY GO BACK TO THE SCHOOL THEY'RE AT. THAT IS CORRECT. AND FOR THE MOST PART, I MEAN, LIKE 90% OF THE CLASSES ARE GOING TO BE OFFERED AT WHATEVER SCHOOL YOU WENT TO WITHIN OUR DISTRICT BECAUSE OF GRADE LEVEL. TO GRADE LEVEL, THERE'S VERY LITTLE CHANGE FROM CAMPUS TO CAMPUS. THANK YOU. JUST REALLY QUICKLY ON THAT POINT ABOUT THE THAT CHANGE THAT, YOU KNOW, MAY SNEAK UP ON PEOPLE, WE'RE GOING TO MAKE SURE IT DOESN'T SNEAK UP ON PEOPLE. WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF PREPARING DIRECT COMMUNICATION TO ANY FAMILY WHO WOULD BE REZONED. THAT WILL SAY YOUR STUDENT, YOUR FAMILY IS NOW REZONED TO THIS CAMPUS, AND THAT WILL GO OUT BEFORE THE TRANSFER WINDOW OPENS IN JANUARY. SO PEOPLE WILL THEN HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO REQUEST THAT TRANSFER FOR NEXT YEAR IF THEY DECIDE THAT THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT TO DO. SO WE WE ARE WORKING ON THAT SO THAT WE WILL HAVE AN INDIVIDUAL COMMUNICATION TO A FAMILY SO THAT THEY WILL KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THEIR STUDENT IS ZONED FOR THE NEXT YEAR. FOR ANY STUDENT WHO'S IMPACTED, EVEN IF IT'S ONE OF THESE KIND OF UNIQUE SITUATIONS, ARE WE GOING TO SEND THAT HOME AS A PAPER NOTICE FOR OUR PARENTS WHO HAVE UNSUBSCRIBED FROM THE SCHOOL DISTRICT EMAILS? YEAH, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ALL OF THE DIFFERENT METHODS THAT WE'RE GOING TO USE TO MAKE SURE THAT FAMILIES RECEIVE THAT INFORMATION. YEAH. ALL RIGHT. I'M JUST GOING TO PLACE BETS THAT THE BAND PARENTS ARE GOING TO KNOW ABOUT THIS. [02:05:02] IF THEY'RE IN BANDS. THEY ARE GOING TO KNOW THAT THEY WANT TO STAY WHEREVER BAND THEY'RE IN. ALL RIGHT. I'M GOING TO KEEP JUMPING, GOING THROUGH THIS ON THE SERVICES. DR. KENDALL AND HER TEAM HAVE DONE AN AMAZING JOB SO FAR OF GETTING READY FOR THIS. I WANT TO SAY WE WANT TO KEEP EVERY ONE OF THE FOUR CAMPUSES THAT WE ARE THAT ARE RETIRING, THE BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENTS THAT WE ARE MAKING, OUR DESIRE AND OUR OUR EMPHASIS IS TRYING TO KEEP AS MANY OF THOSE STAFF MEMBERS AS WE CAN. THERE'S SEVERAL WAYS THAT WE'RE GOING ABOUT TRYING TO DO THAT. SO LET'S SEE. SO THERE WILL BE A PRIORITY PLACEMENT CONSIDERED FOR THE 25, 26 SCHOOL YEAR BEFORE ANY KIND OF GENERAL STAFF TRANSFER PROCESS. THAT PROCESS NORMALLY TAKES PLACE IN FEBRUARY, SO THERE WILL BE A SPECIFIC ENCOURAGEMENT ON ALL OF THOSE FOLKS IN ORDER TO PLACE THEM PRIOR TO ANY OTHER FORM OF TRANSFER REQUEST. OKAY. HERE, IN A SECOND, I'LL TALK ABOUT THE DATES THAT THAT'S GOING TO TAKE PLACE. STAFF SURVEY OPPORTUNITY. THERE WILL BE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE STAFF MEMBERS ON THOSE CAMPUSES TO ACTUALLY VOICE THEIR OPINION OF WHERE THEY WOULD LIKE TO GO. WE'LL HAVE DIFFERENT OPTIONS THAT THEY'LL IN AS MUCH AS WE CAN. WE'LL TRY TO ACCOMMODATE THAT. THERE ARE SESSIONS THAT EACH ONE OF THOSE STAFF MEMBERS Q&A SESSIONS THAT THEY CAN GO THROUGH. THERE'S A COUPLE, I THINK, ONLINE. WE'LL GO THROUGH THAT. THE DATES ON THOSE HERE IN A SECOND. BUT THEY CAN ANY OF THESE STAFF MEMBERS CAN ASK QUESTIONS, ANY KIND OF CONCERNS THEY HAVE. THEY'LL VISIT BACK AND FORTH WITH OUR HR STAFF, AND THEN THERE'LL BE A VERY THERE'LL BE A FACILITATED INTERDISTRICT INTERVIEW PROCESS. AND THEN EVEN MORE THAN THAT, OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IT SPECIFICALLY. YOU KNOW, EVEN THE STAFF THAT HAVE SPECIAL PROGRAMS, LIKE GOING FROM DAVIS OVER TO HARRINGTON, WHERE THE HR STAFF WILL BE ACCOMMODATING TO TRY TO FACILITATE CAPACITY IN THE IN THOSE PROGRAMS. IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE DO KNOW THAT THOSE CAMPUSES WE'VE TALKED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S STEPS THAT ARE GOING TO START PLACE IN JANUARY AT THESE CAMPUSES THAT ARE RETIRING. THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME WORK INVOLVED, NOT ONLY DISTRICT WIDE, BUT THERE WILL BE A LITTLE BIT OF WORK INVOLVED AT THE CAMPUS LEVEL, TOO. AND SO THERE IS A PROCESS OF INCENTIVIZING THOSE EMPLOYEES. YOU GUYS ARE WELL AWARE OF THAT. BUT THERE'S A $3,000 STIPEND, 15 PAID, 1500 PAID AT THE END OF THE FIRST SEMESTER, 1500 PAID AT THE END OF THE SECOND SEMESTER TO ACTUALLY HELP WITH THAT, THAT PROCESS. SO THESE ARE THE DATES, THE PERTINENT DATES COMING UP. YOU KNOW, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE LONG RANGE PLANNING TRANSFER WINDOW. YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THAT IT'S STARTING IN HERE PRETTY QUICK. THE FIRST PART OF DECEMBER. DECEMBER THE 9TH INFORMATION WILL BE DISTRIBUTED TO ALL AFFECTED STAFF. AND THEN THE 10TH AS WELL AS THE 16TH. THERE WILL BE SOME ONLINE Q&A SESSIONS THAT BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN ANYBODY WHO'S INTERESTED THERE CAN ANSWER QUESTIONS, MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE ANY CONCERNS ADDRESSED AT THAT TIME. WHEN THEY COME BACK FROM JANUARY, THERE'LL BE A THERE'LL BE AN IN PERSON SESSION TO ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, GET READY FOR THAT PROCESS. AND THEN YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE JANUARY THROUGH FEBRUARY, THERE WILL BE INTERVIEWS AND PLACEMENTS TRYING TO GET THAT DONE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. WE KNOW THAT THESE EMPLOYEES HAVE OPTIONS. WE WANT TO KEEP THEM HERE IN OUR DISTRICT. AND SO WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO HIT THEM EARLY AND HIT THEM OFTEN IN ORDER TO ACCOMMODATE THAT THE BEST WAY WE CAN. AND THEN WE'RE HOPING BY THE 10TH OF THE 21ST THAT THOSE AS MANY PLACEMENTS AS AS POSSIBLE HAPPEN. THIS IS JUST A LITTLE EACH ONE OF THOSE DATES THAT WE JUST WENT OVER, THIS IS JUST GIVING A LITTLE MORE IN DEPTH DESCRIPTION OF WHAT'S GOING ON, WHAT'S TO BE EXPECTED AT EACH ONE OF THOSE THOSE MEETINGS. AND WE'LL TURN IT OVER TO TECHNOLOGY. THANK YOU JOHNNY. NEXT WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THE TECHNOLOGY SERVICES ITEMS THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE SUPPORTING FOR OUR RETIRING CAMPUSES OVER THIS NEXT YEAR. REALLY AT THE FOREFRONT OF OUR, OUR PLANNING WORK WAS TAKING A LOOK AT THE INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES THAT ARE IN USE AT THESE CAMPUSES. HOW THOSE WILL WORK OVER THIS NEXT YEAR. AND WHAT ARE THE PLANS FOR THOSE TECHNOLOGIES AS WE RETIRE THESE CAMPUSES, AND THEN CERTAINLY MAKING SURE WE SUPPORT THE TECHNOLOGY NEEDS AND ACCOMMODATIONS FOR OUR STUDENTS THAT WILL BE TRANSFERRING, ALONG WITH THE REGIONAL DAY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF. I REALLY WE KIND OF LOOKED AT THIS IN REALLY TWO PRIMARY PHASES AS WE LOOKED AT THE FOUR CAMPUSES THAT ARE GOING TO BE RETIRING OUR BIG MOVE FOR THIS [02:10:05] YEAR. OF COURSE, NUMBER ONE IS TO ENSURE THAT THE TECHNOLOGIES THAT ARE AT THESE CAMPUSES ARE REMAIN FUNCTIONAL AND OPERATIONAL THROUGHOUT THIS SCHOOL YEAR AND THAT THEY'RE PERFORMING AS INTENDED. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, WE'RE ALSO MAKING SURE THAT WE GO THROUGH AND WE ASSESS THE TECHNOLOGIES THAT ARE AT THESE CAMPUSES TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY EXTENDED LIFE EXPECTANCY WHERE WE COULD REUSE THESE TECHNOLOGIES SOMEWHERE ELSE. FOR INSTANCE, WE KNOW IN RECENT YEARS, WE WENT THROUGH AND WE REPLACED CHROMEBOOKS FOR ALL OF OUR STUDENTS THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT. OBVIOUSLY, AS THESE STUDENTS TRANSFER TO OTHER CAMPUSES, THESE ARE DEVICES THAT CAN GO ALONG WITH THEM AS WE MOVE THEM TO THEIR NEXT CAMPUS. SAME THING WITH STAFF DEVICES. WE IMPLEMENTED OUR PHASING AT THE START OF SCHOOL THIS YEAR. WE IMPLEMENTED OUR PHASE ONE OF OUR NEW STAFF, 1 TO 1 COMPONENT. SO CERTAINLY AS OUR STAFF MOVE TO THEIR NEXT DESTINATION, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE TAKE THOSE TECHNOLOGIES ALONG WITH THEM BECAUSE THOSE WERE NEW FOR THIS YEAR. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, WE ALSO KNOW THAT AT THESE CAMPUSES THERE ARE A LOT OF INFRASTRUCTURE TYPE COMPONENTS, A LOT OF SAFETY AND SECURITY COMPONENTS THAT WERE ALREADY NEARING END OF LIFE. SO AS IT COMES TO SUPPORTING THOSE, THOSE WILL ONLY BE REPLACED AS NEEDED. OTHERWISE WE WILL ASSESS THE VALUE OF WHAT THOSE TECHNOLOGIES ARE AND THEN LOOK TO SURPLUS THOSE OVER THE SUMMER ONCE WE MOVE ON TO CLOSING THOSE SCHOOLS. AND WE ALSO KNOW, I MEAN, MANY OF THESE TECHNOLOGIES WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. I MEAN, WILL WILL PROBABLY BE THE LAST ONES IN THERE. THINGS LIKE SECURITY CAMERAS AND ACCESS CONTROL. THESE ARE THINGS THAT WILL STILL BE REQUIRED TO SECURE THAT FACILITY UNTIL WE ACTUALLY TURN THOSE OVER TO THE NEXT PEOPLE. AND THEN THE SECOND ONE IS, YOU KNOW, WE REALLY NEED TO TAKE A VERY CLOSE LOOK AT WHAT TECHNOLOGIES FROM AN INSTRUCTIONAL STANDPOINT, AS WELL AS THOSE SPECIFIC TECHNOLOGIES THAT WERE SERVING THE NEEDS OF OUR STUDENTS OVER AT DAVIS. SO AS WE PREPARE TO MOVE THOSE STUDENTS OVER TO HARRINGTON ARE REALLY GOING IN, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE ONE OF THE VERY SPECIFIC TECHNOLOGIES THAT THEY USE THERE WAS THEIR PHONAK SOUND SOUND FIELD SYSTEM, WHICH IS VERY UNIQUE AND SPECIFIC TO THAT CAMPUS. AND SO WE'RE CURRENTLY EVALUATING THOSE SOLUTIONS. RIGHT NOW, WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF SETTING UP PILOT CLASSROOMS TO INTRODUCE THOSE INTO THAT NEW CAMPUS SO THAT WE CAN SEE HOW THEY'RE GOING TO WORK WITH THE NEWEST TECHNOLOGIES THAT WE'RE PUTTING IN. WE'RE REALLY TARGETING PRIOR TO THE NEXT SCHOOL YEAR HAVING THEM OUTFITTED WITH THE NEWEST INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE CLASSROOMS, INCLUDING THE 86 INCH INTERACTIVE FLAT PANELS INTEGRATING THAT THAT SOUND FIELD SYSTEM WITH THAT INTERACTIVE FLAT PANEL AND JUST MAKING SURE THEY'VE GOT THE LATEST AND GREATEST IN THOSE CLASSROOMS WHEN THOSE STUDENTS GO IN THERE. ANOTHER BIG ONE IS TAKING A VERY STRONG LOOK AT THE JUST REALLY SOME OF THE SAFETY AND SECURITY PIECES AS WE GO THROUGH AS WE'VE BEEN PILOTING SOME OF THE NEW SAFETY AND SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES THAT ARE GOING IN ONE OF THE BIG ONES WAS, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE PUT MASS NOTIFICATION SYSTEMS THROUGHOUT THE FACILITY? THAT WOULD ALSO INCLUDE BOTH AUDIO AND VISIBLE ALARM SYSTEMS FOR OUR STUDENTS THAT'S GOING TO BE THERE. AND SO WHILE WE'RE DOING THAT, WE'RE ALSO GOING TO TAKE A LOOK AT ALL THE SECURITY CAMERAS. WE'RE BRINGING OUR CONSULTANTS NOW AND WE'RE LOOKING AT WHAT ARE THE PLACEMENTS OF OUR CAMERAS WHERE OUR BLIND SPOTS. DO YOU KNOW, AS WE'RE REARRANGING THOSE SPACES AROUND THE BUILDING, WHAT DO WE NEED MORE VISIBILITY? DO WE NEED TO ADD MORE CAMERAS? SO WE'RE GOING THROUGH AND ASSESSING THOSE THINGS RIGHT NOW. AND SO WE KNOW AS WE DO THAT THAT MEANS ALSO UPGRADING THE CABLING INFRASTRUCTURE AND ANY OTHER TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE PIECES THAT WILL ENHANCE HOW THESE TECHNOLOGIES OPERATE. AND SO WE FEEL THAT AS WE MOVE INTO THE NEXT SCHOOL YEAR, THEY'RE GOING TO BE VERY WELL EQUIPPED TO DO WHAT THEY NEED TO DO AT HARRINGTON. SO IN ADDITION TO WHAT PATRICK WAS TALKING ABOUT WITH THE SAFETY AND SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES THAT I KNOW, BOTH TECHNOLOGY AND SAFETY AND SECURITY HAVE BEEN WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP ON THAT FOR QUITE SOME TIME. SAFETY AND SECURITY TEAM IS ALSO GOING TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR UPDATING CROSSWALK PLANS AND MAKING SURE THAT ANY OF THE SCHOOLS THAT HAVE BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENTS OR THAT ARE CLOSING, THAT THOSE ARE UP AND READY TO GO WHEN THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR BEGINS. THEY'RE GOING TO BE PLANNING FOR THE APPROPRIATE SIGNAGE. I THINK JOHNNY MENTIONED SOME OF THE SIGNAGE THAT WE'VE RECOMMENDED FOR OUR DEAF ED PROGRAM. BUT ANY OTHER TYPES OF SIGNAGE THAT NEEDS TO GO AND GET IN PLACE THAT NEEDS TO BE PLANNED OUT AHEAD OF TIME AND THEN ALERT SYSTEMS, [02:15:10] SORT OF WHAT PATRICK WAS MENTIONING THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT GETTING THOSE IN PLACE. SO CURRENTLY AND STILL IN THE PLAN WILL BE ALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS WILL HAVE A SCHOOL MARSHAL, AND ALL OF THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS STILL HAVE HIGH SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS AND THAT WILL BE THE SAME EVEN WITH TWO MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND TWO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS CLOSING. SCHOOL ZONES AROUND AND ALL RECEIVING CAMPUSES, THEY WILL BE REEXAMINED TO MAKE SURE THAT IF THERE'S ANY CHANGE TO POTENTIAL WALKING PATTERNS OR WE HAVE NEW ENROLLMENT, WHICH WE KNOW WE WILL, THEN WE'VE GOT TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE ARE IN PLACE. AND THEN, OF COURSE, LIKE I MENTIONED, THE THE CROSSWALKS WILL NEED TO BE REEXAMINED AS WELL. SPECIFICALLY TO DAVIS, TO HARRINGTON, BECAUSE THERE IS THE THE DEAF ED PROGRAM GOING IN OVER THERE. WE HAVE TO MAKE SOME WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT THINGS ARE REALLY IN PLACE FOR THEM. AND THEY WILL LOOK AT THIS. THERE ARE ALREADY SPEED CUSHIONS THERE, BUT THEY ARE LOOKING AT SAFETY AND SECURITY, AS WORKED WITH PLANO PD TO MAKE SURE THAT THE CROSSING GUARDS ARE PRIORITIZED, PARTICULARLY FOR THE HARRINGTON COMMUNITY. FOR DAVIS, MOVING OVER THAT WAY AND THEN THE INSTALLATION OF THE DEAF CHILDREN NEAR SIGNS AROUND THE CAMPUS PRIOR TO THE SCHOOL YEAR BEGINNING. PATRICK MENTIONED THE SAFETY AND SECURITY TECHNOLOGY UPGRADE THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT WITH OUR BOND, BUT THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT FOR HARRINGTON, BECAUSE IT DOES HAVE THE AUDIO AND VISUAL MESSAGING, WHICH I THINK WILL BE REALLY GOOD FOR THAT CAMPUS. LIKE ALL OF THEM. I MEAN, WE'VE WE'VE TALKED A LOT ABOUT THE OPERATIONS AND THE LOGISTICS OF THINGS, BUT WE'VE GOT TO TAKE CARE OF OUR PEOPLE TOO. SO SLY AND COMMUNICATIONS ARE HEAVILY INVOLVED IN TRANSITION ACTIVITIES FOR, STUDENTS, FAMILIES AND STAFF ON THOSE NEWLY ASSIGNED CAMPUSES, AND THEN THEY ARE HARD AT WORK WITH LEGACY COMMITTEES AND TRANSITION COMMITTEES TO MAKE SURE THAT IT IS AS SMOOTH AS POSSIBLE. SO GOING INTO NOVEMBER, ACTUALLY, SLY WILL BE WORKING WITH PRINCIPALS WHO ARE ON A CAMPUS THAT IS GOING TO BE IMPACTED IN SOME WAY, WHETHER THEY ARE RECEIVING STUDENTS OR WHETHER IT'S A CLOSING CAMPUS. WHEN THEY GET TOGETHER, THEY ARE GOING TO DISCUSS THE TYPES OF EVENTS THAT NEED TO BE HELD IN THE SPRING SEMESTER TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE WE'RE MERGING THOSE COMMUNITIES AND FAMILIES TOGETHER. AND THE STUDENTS. SOME OF THE TOPICS THAT THEY'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT WHAT TYPES OF EVENTS DO WE NEED? WHAT ORIENTATIONS? MEET THE TEACHERS PTA SPONSORED EVENTS OR ACTIVITIES AND THEN SOMETIME IN DECEMBER, EARLY DECEMBER, ONCE THE PRINCIPALS HAVE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO COLLABORATE ON THAT, THEY WILL BE INVITING THEIR VERY DEDICATED PTA PRESIDENTS TO COME AND MEET WITH THEM AND JUST GIVE SOME INPUT AND HELP THEM HELP PLAN. SO ALL THE ACTIVITIES THAT THEY ARE PLANNING FOR IN THESE SESSIONS WILL TAKE PLACE SECOND SEMESTER. AND LIKE I MENTIONED, WE'VE GOT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE HONORING THE HISTORY AND OF OF THE CLOSING CAMPUSES. AND SO THE LEGACY COMMITTEES HAVE BEEN A HUGE PRIORITY TO GET LIFTED OFF IN SEPTEMBER. SLY AND THE PRINCIPALS OF THE CLOSING CAMPUSES MADE SURE THAT THEY CAME TOGETHER AND WERE VERY DILIGENT ABOUT SELECTING AND GATHERING A PEOPLE FOR THESE LEGACY COMMITTEES. THEY'RE MADE UP OF, OF COURSE, THE PRINCIPALS, SOME STAFF, THEY HAVE ALUMNI, COMMUNITY MEMBERS, PTA, JUST A LOT OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THAT. AND THEY DO HAVE SOME VERY KEY INITIATIVES, SOME SPECIFIC THINGS THAT THEY WANT TO WORK ON. THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE DOCUMENTING HISTORY BECAUSE THESE CAMPUSES ARE PART OF OUR COMMUNITY AND BEEN AROUND A LONG TIME. SO WHETHER THAT'S IN STORIES, ARTIFACTS, DISPLAYS, THEY'RE THEY'RE WORKING THROUGH IN THOSE COMMITTEES ABOUT WHAT THAT NEEDS TO LOOK LIKE. THEY'RE WORKING ON COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WITH THOSE ACTIVITIES TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS LAST YEAR, I KNOW THAT THERE'S LEGACY SHIRTS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN [02:20:06] SOLD. AND I KNOW ONE OF THE CAMPUSES IS PLANNING AN EVENT, I THINK TOMORROW, ACTUALLY. YEAH. AND SO THIS HAS BEEN BEEN REALLY GOOD. THEY'VE THEY'VE WORKED ON A LOT OF THOSE THINGS. AND THEN OF COURSE, COMMEMORATIVE EVENTS WHERE ESPECIALLY IN THE SPRING SEMESTER, WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO TO JUST CELEBRATE AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE A GOOD YEAR. LASTLY, THE COMMUNICATION TEAM, BECAUSE REALLY, ALL OF THIS CAN'T HAPPEN UNLESS WE'RE MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY AND EVERYBODY IS IN THE KNOW. SO OCTOBER WE'VE WE'VE OF COURSE DONE OUR UPDATES TO THE BOARD AND THE COMMUNITY AROUND LONG RANGE FACILITY PLANS. BUT THEN IN NOVEMBER, THEY CAN EXPECT TO SEE THE COMMUNICATION. AS DR. GRUBER WAS TALKING ABOUT ON ENROLLMENT AND NEW CAMPUS ASSIGNMENTS, DECEMBER WILL WILL HAVE ANOTHER BOARD UPDATE AROUND PROGRAM RECOMMENDATIONS AND ADJUSTMENTS, ESPECIALLY TO OUR WEST CLUSTER, SO YOU GUYS CAN GET EXCITED ABOUT THAT. AND THEN WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE ONGOING COMMUNICATION IN THE BOARD MEETINGS AND BOARD UPDATES AND CERTAINLY WITH WITH OUR COMMUNITY AND WITH YOU GUYS ON THAT. THAT'S IT. I HAD A COUPLE QUESTIONS. ON THE LEGACY COMMITTEE FOR THE SCHOOLS. I'VE HAD A COUPLE PEOPLE ASK ME LIKE, HEY, HOW CAN I GET ON THAT COMMITTEE? IS IT TOO LATE? AND WHO SHOULD THEY REACH OUT TO? SO I DON'T. GLORIA AND FERNANDEZ ACTUALLY WORKED WITH THE PRINCIPALS TO HELP ESTABLISH THE COMMITTEES, AND THERE WAS A PERIOD OF TIME WHERE THEY WERE COLLECTING, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY'S NAMES THROUGH A GOOGLE FORM, AND THEN THEY ESTABLISHED THEM. I KNOW THAT THEY DON'T WANT TO GET THEM SO BIG. AND THEY WERE TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE WAS A NICE CROSS SECTION OF PEOPLE ON THE ON THE COMMITTEE. I WOULD RECOMMEND REACHING OUT TO SLY OR TO GLORIA AND AND FINDING OUT CAMPUS PRINCIPAL EVEN TO SEE IF IT'S TOO LATE. I'M SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, AS LONG AS IT'S NOT 100 PEOPLE WANTING TO JOIN, I'M SURE THEY'D WELCOME. YEAH, NO, IT'S A HANDFUL OF PEOPLE. AND I THINK ONE WAS LIKE THE CHILD OF A LONG TERM CARPENTER PRINCIPAL. AND AND THEY MAY ALREADY HAVE GOTTEN ON THE COMMITTEES, BUT SURE. I DIDN'T REALIZE THEY HAD BEEN CONSTITUTED YET. THESE SORT OF END OF YEAR EVENTS, DO YOU ALL ANTICIPATE THESE MOSTLY BEING FUNDED BY PTA FUNDRAISING, AND IF SO, CAN YOU KEEP US ABREAST OF THAT JUST SO THAT MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY WHO WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT CAN OR EDUCATION FOUNDATION OR ACTIVITIES FUND OR SO PART OF PLANNING FOR THIS YEAR, WE'VE ACTUALLY ALLOCATED A LINE ITEM IN OUR BUDGET TO SUPPORT COMMEMORATING EACH OF THE CAMPUSES AS WE GET READY TO CLOSE THEM AT THE END OF THE YEAR. SO THERE IS THERE ARE ALLOCATED DOLLARS TO EACH CAMPUS. PERFECT. AND NOT REALLY A QUESTION, BUT A COMMENT. STEVE CALLED THIS A TRANSITION AT ONE POINT, AND I THINK THAT YOU WERE NOT MEANING TO, BUT I'M GOING TO START USING THAT TERM REGULARLY NOW. BECAUSE I, I LOVE IT. TRANSITION. I, YOU KNOW, WITH BOTH THIS AND THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY, AS I WAS DOING PACKET REVIEW THIS WEEK, I SORT OF WAS THINKING, YOU KNOW, I'VE EXPRESSED CONCERNS IN THE PAST ABOUT TWO THINGS IN REGARDS TO THIS PROCESS. ONE IS FEAR AND ONE IS MISINFORMATION THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS AND STAFF AND KIDS THAT HAVE A LOT OF FEAR IN TRYING TO MINIMIZE THAT FEAR FOR THIS TRANSITION, BY GIVING THEM ALL OF THIS INFORMATION AND BEING TRANSPARENT IN THIS PROCESS. AND THEN THE SECOND IS IS OBVIOUSLY TRYING TO MINIMIZE AND COMBAT THE MISINFORMATION THAT'S GOING AROUND THE COMMUNITY ABOUT, YOU KNOW, CERTAIN THINGS HAVING TO DO WITH THIS PROCESS. AND SO JUST SAYING I APPRECIATE THE REALLY THOROUGH UPDATE, AND I HOPE THAT OUR COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS ARE GETTING THEIR QUESTIONS ANSWERED. AND, YOU KNOW, IF NOT, YOU NOW HAVE A LIST OF PEOPLE WHO ARE WORKING ON THIS PROCESS AND, AND SOME, SOME GUIDING FOLKS THAT YOU CAN HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH. I JUST WANT TO MAKE A COMMENT ABOUT THAT. AND ONE I APPRECIATE THE TEAM IS YOU CAN SEE ON THE SECOND OR THIRD SLIDE, THIS IS A THIS IS NOT A ONE DEPARTMENT OR ONE MAN SHOW. IT IS IT IS ALL HANDS COMING TOGETHER AS ONE TEAM TO SUPPORT THIS WORK. AND IT'S IT'S BEEN A HEAVY LIFT, YOU KNOW, FOR THE PAST YEAR WITH THE LONG RANGE FACILITY WORK. [02:25:02] AND SO I'M JUST VERY GRATEFUL TO THE TEAM. SO I WANT TO SAY THAT. BUT TO YOUR POINT ON COMMUNICATION, I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. WE HAVE A DEDICATED WEBSITE WITH INFORMATION. WE HAVE A WE HAVE SOCIAL MEDIA, OUR OWN FACTUAL SOCIAL MEDIA POST THAT WE MOST OF THE TIME WE HAVE A LOT OF GREAT THINGS HAPPENING IN PLANO ISD. SO WE CERTAINLY WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THAT. BUT WE ALSO POST INFORMATION THAT'S THAT'S IMPORTANT TO OUR COMMUNITY ON ALL OF OUR SOCIAL MEDIA SITES. SO THAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT. YOU DO HAVE THE CONTACT FOLKS FROM THIS PRESENTATION, WHICH IS ALSO ON OUR WEBSITE. AND I WOULD SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, MISCOMMUNICATION IS CAN CAN REALLY BE DETRIMENTAL IN A LOT OF WAYS, ESPECIALLY ADDING TO FEAR AND ANXIETY AROUND THIS. AND SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE ANYONE AND EVERYONE TO PLEASE COME DIRECTLY TO THE SOURCE WITH ANY AND ALL QUESTIONS, RATHER THAN MAKE ASSUMPTIONS OR SPECULATE. I KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF PARENT GROUPS AND AND THAT IS THAT IS GREAT. I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF USEFUL INFORMATION. AT THE SAME TIME, WE'VE SEEN QUITE A BIT OF AN UPTICK ON MISINFORMATION. AND SO, AGAIN, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ALWAYS TRANSPARENT, THAT WE'RE WE'RE AS, AS COMMUNICATIVE OR THAT WE'RE ABLE TO PUT INFORMATION IN THE HANDS OF, OF PARENTS AS THEY NEED IT. AND SO WE JUST REALLY ENCOURAGE FAMILIES, IF THERE ARE QUESTIONS TO, TO COME FORTH SO THAT WE CAN HELP SUPPORT ANY TRANSITION AS WE MOVE THROUGH THIS. I JUST WANT TO ADD I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO TALK ABOUT THAT FEAR PART AND WHAT WE LEARNED WHEN WE HEARD THE LISTENING SESSIONS BACK IN THE SPRING. ON SLIDE NINE, YOU DON'T HAVE TO PULL IT UP. BUT WHAT STOOD OUT FOR ME ON THAT PAGE WAS THE STATEMENT ALLOWING FOR VIBRANCY. AND THIS IS A REFERENCE TO HARRINGTON. AND SO MY QUESTION IS, AND IT WAS IMPLIED. AND THERE'S A THREAD, BUT I WONDERED IF SOMEONE FROM THE TEAM OR A COUPLE OF YOU FROM THE TEAM COULD SAY, AND CAN YOU SHARE HOW THE ENHANCEMENTS AT HARRINGTON COMPARED TO THE CURRENT FEATURES THAT DAVIS OFFERS? ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT QUITE A BIT IS BEING IN A NEW CAMPUS CAN BE VERY SCARY FOR ANY STUDENT, BUT PARTICULARLY WHEN YOU'RE UNABLE TO HEAR OTHERS TALKING ABOUT WHICH DIRECTION TO GO AND WHATNOT. AND SO WE TALKED ABOUT WAYFINDING BEING A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF THAT CAMPUS AND KNOWING IF YOU'RE IN THE FIFTH GRADE SECTION OR THE FOURTH GRADE SECTION OR WHICH DIRECTION TO GO TO MUSIC AND ART AND THINGS. SO WAYFINDING IS SOMETHING WE'VE WORKED REALLY, REALLY HARD TO, TO THINK ABOUT WHAT THAT WILL LOOK LIKE. WE ALSO HAD THE ARCHITECTS GO THROUGH AND FIND SPACES WHERE ACOUSTICALLY, WE NEEDED TO CHANGE THE ACOUSTICS OF THAT CAMPUS TO MAKE SURE THAT IT WAS APPROPRIATE. BUT TO DO THAT, YOU CAN DO THAT IN VERY NICE WAYS THAT THAT ADD SOME NICE TOUCHES TO THE CAMPUS AS WELL. SO WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THOSE KINDS OF THINGS. I DON'T KNOW, BECAUSE IT'S REALLY LATE. I DON'T KNOW IF I ANSWERED YOUR QUESTION. WELL, I GUESS WHAT THE IMPLICATION I'M SAYING IS THAT THERE'S A WHOLE LOT OF EFFORT GOING INTO HARRINGTON. AND I HEARD PATRICK SAY, NEW TECHNOLOGIES. YOU KNOW, I JUST THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO LAY A FOUNDATION OF THAT. WE'RE NOT JUST TAKING DAVIS AND MOVING IT. IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE WERE LOTS OF EXAMPLES AND YOU DIDN'T. IT WAS YOUR PRESENTATION WAS PERFECT. BUT I KEPT SEEING THERE WAS A THREAD ABOUT ALL THE THINGS THAT WERE HAPPENING AT HARRINGTON. I JUST WANTED TO SEE IF THERE WAS A WAY OF ENCAPSULATING THAT SO THAT OUR PARENTS CAN HAVE IT IN ONE. THIS IS HOW IT'S GOING TO BE DIFFERENT. OR, YOU KNOW, WELL, I THINK ONCE WE BRING THE PLANS FORWARD FROM THE ARCHITECTS. I MEAN, RIGHT NOW THEY'RE DRAWING THAT OUT. I THINK THAT WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT, THAT ALL THE SPECIFICS BEFORE THE BOARD THAT IT'S ON THAT WE CAN REALLY DETAIL A KIND OF SIDE BY SIDE. I THINK JUST A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT WE'VE SEEN. ONE, THERE'S GREAT INTENTIONALITY OF EVERY SINGLE THE WAY HARRINGTON'S FLOOR PLAN LAYS OUT. I MEAN, THERE'S ALMOST I DON'T WANT TO CALL THEM PODS, BUT MAYBE WINGS OR SECTIONS WHERE, YOU KNOW, KINDERGARTEN, FIRST, SECOND, THIRD. THE CLASSROOMS WILL BE FULLY INTEGRATED IN EACH. AND EACH GRADE LEVEL NEW, UPGRADED. THE NEWEST TECHNOLOGY THAT'S AVAILABLE IS CERTAINLY ONE. OF COURSE. THERE ARE THERE WILL BE SOME RECONFIGURATIONS TO MAKE SURE THAT IT IS COMPREHENSIVE, WRAPAROUND, FULLY INCLUSIVE AND FULLY INTEGRATED AT EVERY GRADE LEVEL. SO I'M EXCITED TO SEE WHAT THE WHAT THE PLANS. I KNOW THAT WE'VE HAD A COMMITTEE AND WE'RE STILL NOT DONE. I KNOW THAT WE'VE GOT SOME STAKEHOLDERS THAT ARE PROVIDING INPUT AS FAR AS WHAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT AND WHAT ARE THOSE [02:30:06] ENHANCEMENTS THAT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE? WELL, IT JUST SOUNDS LIKE THERE'S A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY. I MEAN, CHANGE IS HARD, BUT IT ALMOST SOUNDS LIKE THIS IS GOING TO BE A GREATLY IMPROVED, VERY INTENTIONAL FACILITY THAT WILL REALLY BE GREAT FOR OUR KIDS FROM THE DAY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF. BUT ALSO HOW EXCITING FOR THE KIDS WHO ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO BE A PART OF THAT INTEGRATION. SO, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF FEAR BACK IN MAY, BUT I'M STARTING TO SENSE NOT ONLY JUST SOME HOPE, BUT EVEN SOME SOMETHING TO BE VERY EXCITED ABOUT. AND THAT'S THAT'S VERY EXCITING. YOU KNOW, ONE THING THAT WE HEARD WAS ABOUT COMMUNITY. AND I THINK THAT THE COMMUNITY WILL CONTINUE TO BE STRONG. AND TALKING TO I KNOW THE PTAS ARE ALREADY COLLABORATING WITH ONE ANOTHER. PROFESSIONAL LEARNING HAS STARTED. THERE IS THE COMMUNITY ASPECT IS CONTINUES AND I THINK WILL CONTINUE TO BE STRONG AS, AS THESE PLANS UNFOLD, YOU KNOW, FOLLOWING ALONG WITH WHAT GERRY WAS SAYING. I THINK WE CAN BRING THAT BACK TO WHEN WE MADE OUR COMMITMENT ON WHAT WE WERE LOOKING FOR, OUR GUIDELINES FOR WHAT WE WERE LOOKING FOR IN THIS ENTIRE PLAN, AND THAT WAS THAT, ALL OF OUR STUDENTS, THIS WAS A WAY FOR ALL OF OUR STUDENTS TO GET THE BEST ENVIRONMENT AND THE MOST PRODUCTIVE FACILITIES FOR THEM TO LEARN IN. AND SO I THINK IT'S EXCITING TO SEE THAT. LOOK, WE'RE DOING THIS. IT'S HARD. WE UNDERSTAND. BUT LOOK, YOU KNOW, THIS IS GOING TO BENEFIT YOU. YOU'RE GOING TO GET THE LATEST TO ACCOMMODATE YOUR NEEDS AND YOUR NEW FRIENDS AT HARRINGTON WHO ARE WELCOMING YOU GET TO GET TO HAVE A BETTER SCHOOL TOO. SO, YOU KNOW, SO IT'S EXCITING FOR THEM, TOO. SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE TOUCH BACK AND REALIZE THAT PART OF WHAT WE WANTED TO HAPPEN BECAUSE WE WERE DOING THIS IS WHAT IS A RESULT OF, OF THIS WHOLE LONG PROCESS. ALL RIGHT. GREAT REPORT. LOTS OF INFORMATION. AND SO THANK YOU FOR ALL THE TEAMS THAT ARE COMING TOGETHER TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN. OUR LAST REPORT IS WHERE ITEM 8.2 AND IT'S OUR BOARD MEMBER LIAISON SUBCOMMITTEE AND COMMITTEE UPDATES. AND SO I WILL TURN THIS OVER TO BOTH ANGELA AND MICHAEL TO PRESENT. YEAH. I'LL MAKE IT VERY QUICK. I KNOW IT'S LATE. ANGELA AND I MET WITH CAROL MENDELSOHN. FOR ABOUT AN HOUR, WE TALKED ABOUT A NUMBER OF THINGS A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT I THINK ARE IMPORTANT TO MENTION. SHE DID ALSO MENTION HERE IN DALLAS THAT THEY'RE SEEING AN UPTICK OF VENEZUELAN IMMIGRANTS. AND THAT AS WE THINK ABOUT OUR SORT OF BILINGUAL PROGRAMS SHE DOES. EXPECT THAT TO CONTINUE. SHE'S SEEING THAT IN ALL PARTS OF DALLAS. AND SO JUST FOOD FOR THOUGHT. SHE DID EXPRESS SOME INTEREST IN LOOKING AT SOME OF THE LAND THAT WE HAVE JUST FROM A DEVELOPMENT STANDPOINT. AND THERE WAS ONE OTHER REALLY IMPORTANT THING. IT'S LATE. I CAN'T THINK OF IT. BUT, YEAH, THOSE ARE THE TWO. YEAH, YEAH, I THINK THAT'S RIGHT. ULTIMATELY, I THINK SHE OH. OH, THAT'S THE THIRD THING WAS SHE WAS JUST WANTING TO EXPRESS HER SUPPORT FOR US DEVELOPING IN DALLAS. I KNOW SHE HELPED WITH THE WRAPAROUND CENTER, AND IF THERE WAS ANYTHING ELSE THAT WE WERE DEVELOPING, SHE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE COME TO HER FIRST, JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT WE POTENTIALLY MITIGATE SOME DELAYS. SO THAT WAS IT. THAT WAS THE CRUX OF THINGS. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE APPRECIATE YOUR LIAISON WITH THE CITY OF DALLAS. SO WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM NINE, ADJOURNMENT. AND IF THERE'S NO FURTHER BUSINESS NOR ANY OBJECTIONS FROM THE BOARD, THE BOARD MEETING IS ADJOURNED AND THE TIME IS 11:43 STILL ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22ND, 2024. * This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.