[00:00:03] GOOD EVENING. I'M LAUREN [1. CALL TO ORDER] TYRA, BOARD PRESIDENT AND PRESIDING OFFICER. NOTING THAT A QUORUM IS PRESENT, I WILL CALL TO ORDER THIS BOARD MEETING IN A PLANO ISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES AT 5:30 P.M. ON TUESDAY, MAY 5TH, 2026. HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO. ON THE BOARD'S BEHALF, I'D LIKE TO WELCOME EVERYONE. AT THIS TIME, I WILL ASK SUPERINTENDENT DR. THERESA WILLIAMS TO PLEASE VERIFY THAT WE ARE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT REGARDING THE NOTICE FOR THIS MEETING. PRESIDENT TYRA, I VERIFY THAT THIS MEETING HAS BEEN POSTED IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT. THANK YOU. THIS SEGMENT IS BEING RECORDED IN COMPLIANCE WITH TEXAS SENATE BILL 413, WHICH AMENDS SECTION 11.0621 OF THE TEXAS EDUCATION CODE. THE MINUTES OF THIS MEETING WILL REFLECT EACH MEMBER'S ATTENDANCE AND THEIR VOTE ON ANY ITEM. ADDITIONALLY, THE APPROVED MINUTES, ANY ADOPTED RESOLUTIONS, AND THE RECORDING OF THIS MEETING WILL BE POSTED ON THE DISTRICT'S WEBSITE NO LATER THAN SEVEN CALENDAR DAYS AFTER TODAY'S MEETING. BOARD MEMBER, WE WILL NOW PROCEED WITH THE ROLL CALL. PLEASE KINDLY RESPOND WHEN YOUR NAME IS ANNOUNCED. LAUREN TYRA, I AM PRESENT. NANCY HUMPHREY? I'M PRESENT. TARRAH LANTZ? PRESENT. SAM JOHNSON? PRESENT. MICHAEL COOK? PRESENT. ELISA KLEIN? PRESENT. KATHERINE GOODWIN? PRESENT. ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU, TRUSTEES. I'D ALSO LIKE TO INTRODUCE ALL OF THE STAFF SEATED AT THE DAIS. TO MY LEFT, SUPERINTENDENT DR. THERESA WILLIAMS, DR. SELENDA FREEMAN, DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT FOR LEADERSHIP AND OPERATIONS. SEATED TO MY RIGHT, JOHNNY HILL, DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT FOR BUSINESS, EMPLOYEE SERVICES, AND TECHNOLOGY. LISA WILSON, DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING. DR. PATRICK TANNER, ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT FOR TECHNOLOGY SERVICES. DR. COURTNEY GOBER, ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT FOR STUDENT SUCCESS. AND IVAN CANTU, ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT FOR STRATEGY AND INNOVATION. MOVING ON TO ITEM TWO, [2. PLEDGES OF ALLEGIANCE] THIS EVENING WE ARE HONORED TO HAVE SOME SPECIAL GUESTS, AWARD-WINNING STUDENTS AND THE HOSA FUTURE HEALTH PROFESSIONS ORGANIZATION HERE TO LEAD US IN THE PLEDGES OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE UNITED STATES AND TEXAS FLAGS. WOULD EVERYONE PLEASE STAND? ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU TO OUR STUDENTS FOR LEADING THE PLEDGES THIS EVENING AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO VISITING WITH Y'ALL A LITTLE BIT MORE IN A FEW MINUTES. MOVING ON [3. RECOGNITIONS] TO ITEM THREE, WE WILL NOW MOVE TO RECOGNITIONS. WE ARE SO PROUD TO RECOGNIZE SEVERAL OF OUR STUDENTS AND STAFF MEMBERS EXCELLING AT STATE, NATIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL LEVELS. EACH RECOGNITION WILL BE DISPLAYED ON THE MONITORS. FIRST, THREE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WERE SELECTED FOR THE INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND NASA HUNCH LAST WEEK IN HOUSTON AND PRESENT THEIR WORK TO NASA PROFESSIONALS. THEY REPRESENTED THEIR CAMPUS AND DISTRICT WITH PROFESSIONALISM, CREATIVITY, AND CONFIDENCE, SHOWCASING THE INNOVATION AND PROBLEM SOLVING THAT MAKE ACADEMY STUDENTS STAND OUT. BIG CONGRATULATIONS TO DANA, JAVIER, AND SUMEDHA. SKAGGS ELEMENTARY THIRD GRADE STUDENT DAVID BAY WAS NAMED A TOP FIVE NATIONAL FINALISTS FOR GOOGLE'S 17TH ANNUAL DOODLE FOR GOOGLE COMPETITION, THIS YEAR'S ONLY FINALIST FROM THE STATE OF TEXAS. THE ANNOUNCEMENT CAME DURING A SURPRISE CEREMONY AT SKAGGS ELEMENTARY ON APRIL 16TH AND INCLUDED DAVID'S FAMILY, CLASSMATES, AND SCHOOL STAFF, ALONG WITH PLANO ISD BOARD VICE PRESIDENT NANCY HUMPHREY, BOARD SECRETARY TARRAH LANTZ, AND TRUSTEE ELISA KLEIN. SUPERINTENDENT DR. THERESA WILLIAMS AND CITY OF PLANO MAYOR JOHN MUNS WERE ALSO IN ATTENDANCE. DAVID'S WAS SELECTED FROM THOUSANDS OF ENTRIES IN THE ANNUAL COMPETITION FOR HIS ARTWORK TITLED SLOW AND STEADY WINS THE PEAK, FOCUSED ON HIS ENDURANCE AND NOT GIVING UP, AND INCLUDED AN ODE TO THE STORY OF THE TORTOISE VERSUS THE HARE. DAVID WILL RECEIVE A $10,000 COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP, AND HIS PIECE IS FEATURED ON THE DOODLE FOR GOOGLE CONTEST PAGE. THE NATIONAL WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON MAY 12TH, AND WE WISH DAVID THE BEST OF LUCK. PLANO ISD'S TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT COMPETED IN THE TEXAS ASSOCIATION FOR PUPIL TRANSPORTATION TAPT 2026 SCHOOL BUS SAFETY RODEO ON APRIL 25TH IN HOUSTON, TEXAS, THE RIGHT CITY FOR A RODEO. THIS STATEWIDE SAFETY DRIVING COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS THE [00:05:01] EXCEPTIONAL OPERATIONS AND WRITTEN TEST SKILLS OF SCHOOL BUS PROFESSIONALS. PLANO ISD EARNED FIRST PLACE IN TWO OF THE THREE CATEGORIES TAKING TOP HONORS IN CONVENTIONAL GENERAL EDUCATION BUSING OUT OF 43 CONTESTANTS AND IN SPECIAL NEEDS OUT OF 21 TEAMS. THE TEAM WILL ADVANCE TO THE NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION AND STA CONTEST FOR LARGE SCHOOL BUSES IN AUSTIN IN JUNE AND FOR SPECIAL NEEDS BUSING IN NOVEMBER IN FRISCO. BEST OF LUCK TO THESE AWARD-WINNING BUS DRIVERS AND BUS ASSISTANTS AT NATIONALS. ALL RIGHT. I AM NOW PLEASED TO WELCOME KIM CHANDLER, CTE COORDINATOR FOR HEALTH SCIENCE, TO THE PODIUM TO LEAD OUR FIRST RECOGNITION. MS. CHANDLER. A FEW MOMENTS TONIGHT TO RECOGNIZE AND CONGRATULATE AN OUTSTANDING GROUP OF STUDENTS WHO HAVE REPRESENTED PLANO ISD WITH EXCELLENCE, PROFESSIONALISM, AND PRIDE. THESE STUDENTS COMPETING COMPETED AT THE FUTURE HEALTH PROFESSIONALS OR HOSA STATE COMPETITION, EARNED RECOGNITION THROUGH THEIR PERFORMANCE, AND HAVE NOW ADVANCED TO THE NATIONAL HOSA IN JUNE. TONIGHT, WE ARE PROUD TO RECOGNIZE STUDENTS FROM PLANO EAST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL AND JASPER HIGH SCHOOL HAVE EARNED THE OPPORTUNITY TO COMPETE ON THE NATIONAL STAGE. FROM PLANO EAST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, WE CONGRATULATE THE THIRD-PLACE PUBLIC HEALTH TEAM OF ANNIE JO JERLAND-PETER, ARYANNA PARIKH, SAHANA ANAND, AND ZAINA ZAIDI. PARENTS, DON'T BE SHY ABOUT TAKING PICTURES. WE ALSO WANT TO RECOGNIZE SEVERAL OUTSTANDING STUDENTS FROM JASPER HIGH SCHOOL. FIRST, WE CONGRATULATE RIYA KADAM, WHO PLACED FIRST IN HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATION AND IS ADVANCING TO NATIONAL HOSA. RIYA. YEAH. NEXT, WE CONGRATULATE PRAJNA PRAVEEN, WHO PLACED THIRD IN EXTEMPORANEOUS WRITING AND IS ADVANCING TO NATIONAL HOSA AS WELL. WE ALSO CONGRATULATE ANISHKA TRICHY, WHO PLACED SECOND IN WORLD HEALTH AND DISPARITIES AND IS ADVANCING TO NATIONAL HOSA AS WELL. STUDENTS, CONGRATULATIONS ON PLACING AT STATE AND ADVANCING TO NATIONAL HOSA. YOU'VE EARNED THIS MOMENT. ENJOY IT, BE PROUD OF IT, AND CARRY THAT CONFIDENCE WITH YOU INTO JUNE. AND I'D ALSO LIKE TO RECOGNIZE AMY SCOTT, WHO IS OUR HOSA ADVISOR FROM JASPER HIGH SCHOOL. SHE'S HERE WITH US TONIGHT, TOO. COME ON UP AND GET PICTURES. Y'ALL WAIT FOR YOUR PARENTS. THANK YOU. I WOULD NOW LIKE TO INVITE ZOHEB HASSANALI, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, AND LESLEY RANGE-STANTON, CHIEF COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT, TO PLEASE LEAD OUR NEXT RECOGNITION. OKAY, GOOD [00:10:03] EVENING PRESIDENT TYRA, SUPERINTENDENT WILLIAMS, BOARD AND CABINET. WITH NATIONAL SCHOOL COMMUNICATORS DAY COMING UP ON MAY 8TH, WE ARE GRATEFUL TO CELEBRATE OUR SCHOOL PR LIAISONS. THIS PROGRAM IS NOW IN ITS SIXTH YEAR AND MY COLLEAGUE ZOHEB HASSANALI WHO MANAGES THE PROGRAM IS GOING TO SHARE MORE ABOUT THE IMPACTFUL PROGRAM AND THE PROFESSIONALS WHO HELP US TELL OUR CAMPUS STORIES. GOOD EVENING. TONIGHT WE'RE PROUD TO RECOGNIZE A SMALL BUT DEEPLY MEANINGFUL GROUP OF STAFF MEMBERS WHO GIVE THEIR TIME AND ENERGY TO HELPING US SHARE THE GREAT STORIES HAPPENING ACROSS PLANO ISD. AT THIS TIME, I INVITE YOU TO VIEW THE SLIDES ON THE SCREENS WHICH INCLUDE THE NAMES OF OUR 71 SCHOOL PR LIAISONS BEING HONORED. MANY OF THEM ARE JOINING US VIRTUALLY FROM HOME. THIS PROGRAM PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN EXPANDING HOW WE TELL THE STORIES OF OUR SCHOOLS WHILE STRENGTHENING COMMUNICATION WITH OUR COMMUNITY. IN ADDITION TO THEIR REGULAR RESPONSIBILITIES, THESE DEDICATED STAFF MEMBERS GO ABOVE AND BEYOND IN CREATING SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT SUCH AS PHOTOS, GRAPHICS, AND SHORT FORM VIDEO, MANAGING STUDENT MEDIA PERMISSIONS, AND HELPING KEEP CAMPUS WEBSITES CURRENT. LIAISONS ALSO WORK CLOSELY WITH COMMUNICATIONS TO FOLLOW OUR EDITORIAL CALENDAR, SUPPORT DISTRICT CAMPAIGNS AND INITIATIVES, AND ATTEND QUARTERLY TRAININGS AND COLLABORATE ON PROJECTS THAT SUPPORT THEIR CAMPUSES AND CLUSTERS. MUCH OF THIS WORK HAPPENS OUTSIDE OF THEIR NORMAL DAY. OUR LIAISONS SPEND COUNTLESS HOURS BEFORE SCHOOL, DURING THEIR CONFERENCE PERIODS, AND AFTER SCHOOL TO ENSURE THEIR CAMPUSES ARE REPRESENTED WITH CARE, ACCURACY, AND PRIDE. FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW, THE COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT RECOGNIZED THE OUTSTANDING EFFORTS OF OUR LIAISONS BY AWARDING THE TRAVELING PR TOUCHDOWN HELMET YOU SEE IN FRONT OF YOU. EACH MONTH, LIAISONS SUBMITTED SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYTICS REPORTS ALONG WITH A CHECKLIST TO DEMONSTRATE THEIR WORK AND GROWTH. AFTER REVIEWING EACH REPORT, AND THERE WERE A LOT OF NUMBERS, IMPRESSIVE NUMBERS INVOLVED, OUR DEPARTMENT NOTIFIED PRINCIPALS AND SURPRISED THE WINNERS ON THEIR CAMPUS. THE WINNING LIAISON GOT TO PROUDLY DISPLAY THE HELMET IN THEIR CLASSROOM, THE FRONT OFFICE, OR IN THE SCHOOL'S TROPHY CASE. EACH WINNING SCHOOL IS REPRESENTED ON THE HELMET WITH A STICKER OF ITS LOGO, AND EVERY RECIPIENT WAS RECOGNIZED ON THE DISTRICT'S SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS. TONIGHT, WE'RE HONORED TO HAVE FOUR OF THESE OUTSTANDING LIAISONS WITH US, AND WHEN I CALL YOUR NAME, PLEASE COME FORWARD TO RECEIVE YOUR CERTIFICATE AND REMAIN STANDING FOR A GROUP PHOTO. FROM CARLISLE ELEMENTARY, SECOND GRADE TEACHER SABRINA KHOJA. AND FROM MURPHY MIDDLE SCHOOL, ENGLISH TEACHER JACKIE REEVES. REPRESENTING WILSON MIDDLE SCHOOL, ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS TEACHER PAIGE ARVIZO, AND FROM VINES HIGH SCHOOL, CTE TEACHER SHASTA CARWELL-HALL. YEAH, LESLEY, COME ON. I'M GOOD. AND IF YOU ALL DON'T MIND, JUST STAY STANDING FOR ANOTHER MINUTE. I'D ALSO LIKE TO CELEBRATE THOSE IN ATTENDANCE WHO ARE SUPPORTING THESE HONOREES. SO, IF YOU ARE A PRINCIPAL OR A FAMILY MEMBER, PLEASE STAND AND BE RECOGNIZED. AND AS WE FINISH THE YEAR OUT STRONG, WE REMAIN GRATEFUL FOR THE CONTINUED GUIDANCE FROM OUR BOARD AND LEADERSHIP TEAM. YOUR SUPPORT ALLOWS US TO HIGHLIGHT THE EVERYDAY MOMENTS THAT MAKE PLANO ISD A DISTRICT OF EXCELLENCE. PLEASE JOIN ME IN CONGRATULATING THESE OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUALS ONCE [00:15:01] MORE. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, ZOHEB. I WOULD NOW LIKE TO INVITE KAREN BUECHMAN, DIRECTOR OF CTE, TO LEAD OUR NEXT RECOGNITION. GOOD EVENING, PRESIDENT TYRA, DR. WILLIAMS, CABINET, AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES. WE ARE EXCITED TONIGHT. FOR THE LAST 20 YEARS, OUR STAFF HAS BEEN HONORED TO WORK WITH TEXAS INSTRUMENTS FOUNDATION AND THE PLANO ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION TO RECOGNIZE OUTSTANDING PLANO ISD TEACHERS OF SECONDARY SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS. THE INNOVATIONS IN STEM TEACHING AWARDS ARE MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE GENEROUS DONATION FROM THE TI FOUNDATION. THE TI FOUNDATION'S TOP PRIORITY IS EDUCATION, SPECIFICALLY STEM OR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATH, AND WHAT CAN BE MORE IMPACTFUL TO SUPPORT TEACHERS ALONG THE WAY. AS A TEACHER, WE'LL TOUCH HUNDREDS, IF NOT THOUSANDS, OF STUDENTS THROUGHOUT HIS OR HER CAREER. WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE FOUNDATION, ANDY SMITH, WHO'S UNABLE TO BE HERE TONIGHT, AND WE'RE INCREDIBLY GRATEFUL FOR HIM FOR CHAMPIONING THIS HIGH-LEVEL RECOGNITION LIKE THIS FOR OUR HARD-WORKING TEACHERS ACROSS THE DISTRICT. SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, WE HAD 22 DESERVING TEACHERS THAT WERE NOMINATED FROM ALL OF OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLS, HIGH SCHOOLS, SENIOR HIGHS, AND ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL. EACH NOMINEE RESPONDS TO AN APPLICATION SHARING ABOUT THEIR INSTRUCTIONAL APPROACH, WHY THEY BELIEVE THEIR FIELD OF STUDY IS IMPORTANT, AND HOW THEY MEASURE STUDENT SUCCESS BEYOND TEST SCORES. IT'S ALWAYS SO INSIGHTFUL AND INSPIRING TO READ WHAT THEY HAVE TO SHARE WITH US. FROM THOSE RESPONSES, WE IDENTIFY SIX FRONTRUNNERS, AND AS A COMMITTEE, WE GO AND VISIT THEIR CLASSROOMS IN MARCH. SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, WE'RE GOING TO SHOW YOU A LITTLE PICTURE OF OUR TIME IN THE CLASSROOMS, OR VIDEO. ALL RIGHT, SO I THINK I CAN SPEAK [00:20:01] ON BEHALF OF MYSELF AND THE WHOLE COMMITTEE THAT GOING IN THE CLASSROOMS EVERY YEAR IS TRULY MOTIVATING AND INSPIRING AND FOR THOSE OF Y'ALL THAT KNOW ME, I AM NOT AN EMOTIONAL PERSON BUT I LEAVE THESE CLASSROOMS WITH TEARS IN MY EYES AND JUST JOYS IN MY HEART BECAUSE WE HAVE SUCH AMAZING TEACHERS DOING AMAZING THINGS ACROSS THE DISTRICT. SO AFTER WE VISIT THE SIX CLASSROOMS, WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PICK THREE FINALISTS AND THEN THREE WINNERS. SO TONIGHT, WE WOULD LIKE TO START BY CONGRATULATING OUR THREE FINALISTS. AS I CALL YOUR NAME, IF YOU WILL COME FORWARD TO BE RECOGNIZED. DANIEL TRIPOLICH, A SCIENCE TEACHER FROM RENNER MIDDLE SCHOOL. HOLD ON REALLY QUICK. I'M GOING TO. IF YOUR PRINCIPAL'S HERE, IF YOU WILL COME AND GET THE PICTURE. AND THEN ALSO I SEE ASHLEY AND KRISTIN HEBERT IN THE BACK. CAN YOU ALL ALSO COME AND BE PART OF IT? AMY AND KAREN TOO. YES. YEAH. OUR NEXT FINALIST IS MICHELLE MANN, WHO IS A SCIENCE TEACHER FROM MURPHY MIDDLE SCHOOL. AND THEN NOT WITH US TONIGHT, BUT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE TO RECOGNIZE HIM AS SHANE HEMBY, A CTE TEACHER, ONE OF OUR ENGINEERING TEACHERS FROM PLANO WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. SO NOW WE'D LIKE TO RECOGNIZE OUR THREE WINNERS OF THE 2026 TEXAS INSTRUMENTS FOUNDATION'S INNOVATION IN STEM TEACHING AWARD. THESE TEACHERS WERE SURPRISED WITH THE NEWS ON THEIR CAMPUS IN LATE MARCH WITH NOISEMAKERS, CONFETTI, COWBELLS YOU NAME IT THEY HAD IT AND WE WERE JOINED WITH OUR COMMITTEE THE PRINCIPALS MEMBERS OF THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION BOARD SUPERINTENDENT WILLIAMS, CABINET MEMBERS ALONG WITH STUDENTS AND OTHER TEACHERS CHEERING THEM ON AS I ANNOUNCE YOUR NAME I INVITE YOU TO COME FORWARD AND EACH WINNER THIS YEAR IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT YOU WILL RECEIVE TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS IN CASH AND AWARDS A $10,000 PERSONAL CASH REWARD AND A $10,000 AWARD TO GO TO THEIR SCHOOL TOWARDS THEIR CLASSROOM TECHNOLOGY OR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES WE ALSO HAVE A PLAQUE TO PRESENT TO YOU THIS EVENING SO IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER OUR FIRST AWARD NOMINEE TONIGHT IS ANDREW COLEMAN A SCIENCE TEACHER AT SHEPTON HIGH SCHOOL. SO AS YOU TAKE PICTURES, I'M GOING TO TALK TO YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT HIS PRINCIPAL, ANDY JACOB, HAD TO SAY. IT IS A PLEASURE TO RECOGNIZE MR. COLEMAN, A DEDICATED CHEMISTRY AND IPC TEACHER AT SHEPTON HIGH SCHOOL. MR. COLEMAN IS TRULY A STUDENT-CENTERED EDUCATOR WHO IS DEEPLY RESPECTED AND LOVED BY HIS STUDENTS AND COLLEAGUES. KNOWN FOR HIS CALM AND SUPPORTIVE PRESENCE, HE HAS A REMARKABLE ABILITY TO BREAK DOWN COMPLEX SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS AND MAKE THEM ACCESSIBLE AND ENGAGING FOR ALL LEARNERS. HIS CLASSROOM IS A PLACE WHERE STUDENTS FEEL ENCOURAGED, SUPPORTED, AND CONFIDENT TO ASK QUESTIONS AND GROW. STUDENTS REMIND THE ADMINISTRATION OFTEN THAT MR. COLEMAN IS ONE OF THEIR FAVORITE TEACHERS ON CAMPUS. BEYOND THE CLASSROOM, MR. COLEMAN SERVES AS AN OUTSTANDING ROLE MODEL, A COMMITTED PROFESSIONAL, A DEVOTED FAMILY MAN, AND A POSITIVE INFLUENCE ON CAMPUS. HIS CONSISTENT CONTRIBUTIONS HELP STRENGTHEN SHEPTON HIGH SCHOOL'S CULTURE OF EXCELLENCE, CARE, AND COLLABORATION. WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THE LASTING IMPACT HE HAS ON HIS STUDENTS, HIS COLLEAGUES, AND THE ENTIRE SHEPTON COMMUNITY. ALL RIGHT, SO OUR SECOND AWARD HONOREE TONIGHT IS LISA ARRIAGA, THE SCIENCE TEACHER FROM FRANKFORD MIDDLE SCHOOL. NO [00:25:12] CRYING AGAIN. LISA'S PRINCIPAL, FELIPE VARGAS, SAYS THAT MS. A'S SERVICE TO SCIENCE HAS MADE A PROFOUND AND LASTING IMPACT ON THE SCIENCE COMMUNITY, THE STUDENTS SHE TEACHES, AND PLANO ISD. SHE'S AN OUTSTANDING EDUCATOR AND A HIGHLY RESPECTED LEADER. SHE SERVES IN MULTIPLE LEADERSHIP ROLES AT FRANKFORD MIDDLE SCHOOL, INCLUDING SCIENCE DISTRICT CURRICULUM WRITER, SEVENTH GRADE HONORS SCIENCE TEACHER, NJHS COORDINATOR, AND A MENTOR TEACHER. AS A 7TH GRADE HONORS SCIENCE TEACHER AND SPONSOR OF THE PLANO INVESTIGATION EXPLORATION SCIENCE FAIR, SHE GUIDES ALL 6TH THROUGH 8TH GRADE STUDENTS THROUGH A FOUR-MONTH PROCESS THAT PROMOTES EXPLORATION, CRITICAL THINKING, PRACTICAL PROBLEM SOLVING AS THEY DESIGN AND COMPLETE THEIR SCIENCE FAIR PROJECTS. BEYOND THE CLASSROOM, MS. A SERVES AS A UTD UTEACH PROGRAM MENTOR DEVOTED TO RECRUITING, MENTORING, AND RETAINING THE NEW GENERATION OF MATH, SCIENCE, AND COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATORS. HER 13 YEARS OF SERVICE, DEDICATION, AND LEADERSHIP AT BOTH FRANKFURT AND ACROSS PLANO HAVE AN INVALUABLE IMPACT ON OUR STUDENTS, STAFF, AND BROADER SCHOOL COMMUNITY. AND OUR FINAL AWARD HONOREE TONIGHT IS KRISTEN ZHANG, MATH TEACHER FROM VINES HIGH SCHOOL. KRISTEN'S PRINCIPAL, NAMISHA BACA, SAYS THAT KRISTEN IS AN EXCEPTIONAL EDUCATOR AND LEADER WHO BRINGS OVER 22 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AS A MATH TEACHER AND A DEPARTMENT CHAIR. SHE HAS GONE ABOVE AND BEYOND IN MANY ROLES, HAVING SERVED AS A GIRLS ATHLETIC COORDINATOR, SPONSOR FOR MATH COUNTS AND PALS AND MENTOR TO BOTH NEW AND NEW STUDENTS AND TEACHERS. HER DEDICATION HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED THROUGH HONORS SUCH AS PISD COACH OF THE MONTH, CAMPUS TEACHER OF THE YEAR FINALIST, STATE LEVEL SUCCESS AS A LONE STAR CHALLENGE COACH, AND A PTA LIFE MEMBERSHIP AWARD WHICH REFLECTS HER STRONG PARTNERSHIPS WITH STUDENTS, FAMILIES, AND THE BROADER COMMUNITY. WHAT TRULY SETS MS. ZHANG APART IS HER ABILITY TO MAKE MATH COME ALIVE FOR HER STUDENTS BY CONSTANTLY INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY USING TOOLS LIKE IPAD AND BENQ BOARDS IN HER DAILY INSTRUCTION, AND SHE CREATES ENGAGING, INTERACTIVE LESSONS THAT DEEPEN UNDERSTANDING AND SPARK CURIOSITY. HER COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE, LEADERSHIP, AND STUDENT CONNECTION MAKES A LASTING IMPACT BOTH IN AND OUT OF THE CLASSROOM. ALL RIGHT, SO WE WILL GIVE EVERYBODY A BIG ROUND OF APPLAUSE TO THESE AMAZING PLANO ISD TEACHERS. WE ALSO WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE TEXAS INSTRUMENTS FOUNDATION, THE PLANO ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION, AND THE PLANO ISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES, AND ALL THE AMAZING TEACHERS, STUDENTS, AND STAFF HERE. NOW THE BOARD WILL SHARE THEIR CONGRATULATIONS, AND WE'LL ASK FOR OUR HONOREES AFTER THIS IS DONE TO JOIN US IN THE LOBBY. THANK YOU, KAREN. CAN WE HAVE THE FAMILIES STAND? IF YOU'RE HERE TO SUPPORT ONE OF THE TI HONOREES, CAN YOU ALL PLEASE STAND AND BE RECOGNIZED? WONDERFUL. THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE TONIGHT. AND THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE RECOGNITIONS OF THE YEAR IS THE TEAM SCIENTIST WHO DID MATH COUNTS, WHO DID SCIENCE FAIR, WHO DID ALL OF THESE THINGS IN PLANO SCHOOLS AND IT MADE SUCH A DIFFERENCE IN MY LIFE. THANK YOU ALL FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO AND OUR ENGINEERING TEACHER WHO COULDN'T JOIN US THIS EVENING. AND THANK YOU AGAIN TO TI FOUNDATION FOR SPONSORING THIS EVERY YEAR. I THINK IT'S A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL AWARD. TRUSTEES, ANY OTHER ANY OTHER CONGRATULATIONS THIS EVENING? WELL, I WAS AT A RICHARDSON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE LUNCHEON TODAY AND ALL I CAN DO IS BRAG ON HOW WONDERFUL OUR TEACHERS ARE. AND IN THE CLASSROOM, YOU GUYS ARE HEROES, AND WE JUST WISH THE WORLD UNDERSTOOD ALL OF THE WORK THAT YOU DO AND THE IMPACT YOU HAVE ON ALL OF YOUR STUDENTS. AND SO THANK YOU FOR THE WORK YOU DO. YOU GUYS TRULY ARE SUPERHEROES. WE APPRECIATE IT. AND I ALSO WANTED TO SAY CONGRATULATIONS TO THE HOST OF KIDDOS. AND YAY, [00:30:01] YOU'VE GOT A HUGE FUTURE AHEAD OF YOU. AND SO THAT IS SO AMAZING THAT YOU'RE IN THAT. CAREER PATH AND YOU KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO DO SO CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU FOR ALL OF OUR HONOREES AND FAMILIES FOR JOINING US THIS EVENING. Y'ALL ARE ALL WELCOME TO EXIT THE BOARDROOM AT THIS TIME AS WE PREPARE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. ALL RIGHT. WE WILL NOW MOVE ON TO AGENDA ITEM FOUR, PUBLIC COMMENT SESSION, AGENDA ITEMS ONLY. AT BOARD MEETINGS, THE BOARD PERMITS PUBLIC COMMENT REGARDING AGENDA ITEMS. AGENDA-RELATED COMMENTS WILL BE HEARD AT THIS TIME. DR. FREEMAN, DO WE HAVE ANY SPEAKERS REGARDING AGENDA ITEMS? PRESIDENT TYRA, WE DO NOT HAVE ANY SPEAKERS THIS EVENING. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. IF [5. CLOSED SESSION] 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. SECTION 551.071, SECTION 551.074, AND SECTION 551.076. THE TIME IS NOW 6:02 P.M. [6. RECONVENE OPEN SESSION ] OKAY. THE BOARD WILL NOW RECONVENE OPEN SESSION. THE TIME IS 8:42. P.M WE WILL NOW [7. CONSENT AGENDA ] MOVE TO AGENDA ITEM SEVEN THE CONSENT AGENDA WHICH CONSISTS OF ROUTINE ITEMS GROUPED TOGETHER FOR APPROVAL WITH NO DISCUSSION BOARD MEMBERS ARE THERE ANY REQUESTS TO REMOVE AN ITEM FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION? NOPE, SEEING AND HEARING NONE WE WILL PROCEED WITH THE CONSENT AGENDA. TRUSTEES MAY I PLEASE HAVE A MOTION? I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES THE CONSENT AGENDA. I'M LOOKING AT THE WRONG THING. WE'RE NOT REMOVING ANYTHING. NO, NOTHING'S BEING REMOVED. OKAY. PERIOD THERE. AND I'LL SECOND. OKAY. OKAY. PERIOD. THANK YOU, TRUSTEES. I HAVE A MOTION BY BOARD VICE PRESIDENT NANCY HUMPHREY AND A SECOND BY SECRETARY TARRAH LANTZ THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES THE CONSENT AGENDA. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND. THANK YOU. THAT'S SEVEN HANDS UP. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE CONSENT AGENDA, I WILL NOW WELCOME DR. JENNIFER PEARSON AND LARIZA LINER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS FOR SCHOOL LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION, TO PLEASE INTRODUCE SOME NEW ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS FOR US. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TYRA, BOARD OF TRUSTEES, AND SUPERINTENDENT WILLIAMS AND CABINET. DR. PEARSON AND I ARE SO EXCITED TO SHARE THE ANNOUNCEMENTS OF OUR NEW PRINCIPAL APPOINTMENT, SPANNING FROM OUR YOUNGEST SCHOLARS AT BEATTY TO OUR OLDER SCHOLARS AT WILLIAMS HIGH SCHOOL. I AM HONORED TO SHARE THAT MS. CORINNE DIAS HAS BEEN SELECTED AS THE NEW PRINCIPAL OF BEATTY EARLY CHILDHOOD. CORINNE, WILL YOU PLEASE STAND? MS. DIAS BRINGS 30 YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE, ALL FROM PLANO ISD, WITH EXPERIENCE THAT SPANS FROM A FULL SPECTRUM OF STUDENTS' AND STAFF'S SUPPORT. SHE BEGAN HER CAREER AS A SPECIAL EDUCATION PARAPROFESSIONAL AND WENT ON TO SERVE AS A TEACHER AND TEAM LEADER AT SIGLER ELEMENTARY, A COUNSELOR AT WYATT ELEMENTARY, AND MOST RECENTLY AS AN ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AT ANDREWS ELEMENTARY. SHE HAS ALSO SERVED AS PRINCIPAL OF THE PRE-K K MULTILINGUAL SUMMER ACADEMY. THROUGHOUT HER CAREER, MS. DIAS HAS DEMONSTRATED AN UNWAVERING COMMITMENT TO THE PLANO ISD COMMUNITY AND THE STUDENTS, STAFF, AND FAMILY SHE SERVES. MS. DIAS EARNED HER MASTER'S DEGREE IN EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP FROM DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY. SHE IS DEEPLY COMMITTED TO CREATING SCHOOLS WHERE EVERY CHILD FEELS VALUED, SUPPORTED IN BOTH THEIR ACADEMIC AND SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL GROWTH, AND INSPIRED TO BECOME LIFELONG LEARNERS. WE'RE EXCITED TO WELCOME MS. DIAS TO BEATTY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL. HER LEADERSHIP WILL BUILD UPON. THE STRONG FOUNDATION ALREADY IN PLACE WHILE ENSURING HAPPY, HEALTHY, AND SAFE ENVIRONMENT WHERE EVERY STUDENT CAN REACH THEIR FULLEST POTENTIAL. IN TRUE EARLY CHILDHOOD FASHION, I'LL CLOSE WITH A RHYME. AT BEATTY, WE GIVE OUR STUDENTS STRONG ROOTS TO GROW AND WINGS TO FLY, AND WITH MS. DIAZ LEADING THE WAY, THEY WILL SOAR HIGH. JOINING [00:35:05] HER TONIGHT, JOINING HER TONIGHT, HER HUSBAND, REGGIE, PLEASE STAND. HER CHILDREN, CHEYENNE. WITH HER FIANCE JAKE AND HER SON ADRIAN LISTENING ONLINE, HER BROTHER CARL, AND HER CURRENT PRINCIPAL MISS ELISE DALY. THANK YOU. CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR NEW APPOINTMENT. I NOW WILL INTRODUCE DR. PEARSON FOR OUR NEXT PRINCIPAL APPOINTMENT. THANK YOU, MS. LINER. WE ARE EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THAT MR. NICK CONRAD WILL SERVE AS THE NEXT PRINCIPAL OF WILLIAMS HIGH SCHOOL. PLEASE STAND. THERE YOU GO. DR. CONRAD BRINGS MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS OF PROVEN CAMPUS LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE ACROSS BOTH MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL SETTINGS WITH A STRONG TRACK RECORD IN PLANO ISD AND COPPELL ISD. HE IS CURRENTLY SERVING AS AN ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AT FRANKFORD MIDDLE SCHOOL, WHERE HE IS KNOWN AS A SERVANT LEADER WHO BUILDS COLLABORATIVE SCHOOL CULTURES, STRENGTHENS TEACHER CAPACITY THROUGH COACHING AND FEEDBACK, AND PRIORITIZES BOTH ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND THE SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING OF ALL STUDENTS. HIS LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE INCLUDES OVERSEEING CAMPUS OPERATIONS, SUPPORTING INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMMING, DEVELOPING PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES, AND CONTRIBUTING TO CAMPUS IMPROVEMENT PLANNING AND MASTER SCHEDULING. DR. CONRAD HOLDS A MASTER'S DEGREE IN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP FROM THE HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND A DOCTORATE IN K-12 EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP FROM DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY. HE BRINGS A DEEP COMMITMENT TO CONTINUOUS LEARNING AND STUDENT-CENTERED LEADERSHIP. HIS DIVERSE EXPERIENCES ACROSS URBAN AND SUBURBAN CAMPUSES POSITION HIM WELL TO LEAD WILLIAMS HIGH SCHOOL WITH A FOCUS ON EXCELLENCE, SAFETY, AND STRONG COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS. I DO NOT HAVE A POEM BECAUSE AT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR IN THE SECONDARY WORLD, IT PROBABLY WOULD NOT BE APPROPRIATE. SO, WE WILL MOVE ON TO INTRODUCING YOUR BEAUTIFUL FAMILY. HIS WIFE, ASHLYN, IS HERE AND JOINING THEM ARE THEIR DAUGHTER CAROLINE, HIS SON BROOKS, AND HIS PARENTS BOB AND MARLENE KENNY. SO PLEASE JOIN ME IN CONGRATULATING NICK CONRAD ON HIS NEW APPOINTMENT AS PRINCIPAL OF WILLIAMS HIGH SCHOOL. WE ARE EXCITED TO SEE THE IMPACT THAT HE WILL MAKE. CONGRATULATIONS. ALL RIGHT. CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU BOTH. AND I THINK IT'S A TESTAMENT TO THE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND PIPELINE WORK THAT Y'ALL HAVE OBVIOUSLY PARTICIPATED IN WITHIN THE DISTRICT. SO THANK YOU FOR STICKING AROUND TONIGHT. WE KNOW IT'S SORT OF A LATE NIGHT. CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU BOTH. AND WE REALIZE YOU'VE GOT LITTLE ONES TO GET TO BED. SO WE WILL NOT BE OFFENDED IF Y'ALL SKEDADDLE THIS EVENING. ALL RIGHT. WE WILL MOVE ON. AT THIS TIME, AS CURRENT [8.1 Organization of the Board (Election of Officers) ] PRESIDENT AND PRESIDING OFFICER, I WILL ANNOUNCE THAT IT'S TIME FOR THE ANNUAL ORGANIZATION OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND THE ELECTION OF OFFICERS. BOARD OPERATING PROCEDURES STATES THAT THE SUPERINTENDENT WILL PRESIDE OVER THE ELECTION OF THE BOARD PRESIDENT, AND THE NEWLY SEATED BOARD PRESIDENT WILL OFFICIATE THE ELECTION PROCESS FOR THE TWO REMAINING OFFICER POSITIONS. I WILL NOW HAND THE GAVEL OVER TO SUPERINTENDENT DR. THERESE WILLIAMS. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TYRA, AND FOR MY ONE TIME A YEAR THAT I GET TO HAVE THE WHOLE OF THE GAVEL. IN ACCORDANCE WITH BDAA REGULATION AND BOARD OPERATING PROTOCOL, I WAS DULY NOTIFIED BY THE FOLLOWING BOARD MEMBERS OF THEIR INTENT TO SEEK AN OFFICER POSITION ON THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. I RECEIVED NOTIFICATION OF THE INTENT FROM DR. LAUREN TYRA FOR THE POSITION OF BOARD PRESIDENT, NANCY HUMPHREY FOR THE POSITION OF BOARD VICE PRESIDENT, AND KATHERINE GOODWIN FOR THE POSITION OF BOARD SECRETARY. THE NOMINATION PROCESS IS NOW COMPLETE, AND QUALIFICATIONS HAVE BEEN VETTED. WE WILL BEGIN THE ELECTION PROCESS STARTING WITH THE POSITION OF PRESIDENT. WE HAVE ONE NOMINATION FOR BOARD PRESIDENT. MAY I HAVE A MOTION? I MOVE TO, I GUESS, IS THERE WORDING FOR US? YES. I APOLOGIZE. WHERE AM I? OKAY. I [00:40:04] MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, SORRY, IT SAID SUPERINTENDENT WILLIAMS, THAT'S WHY I DIDN'T THINK IT WAS ME. I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ELECTS DR. LAUREN TYRA TO THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT OF THE PLANO ISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR THE 2026-2027 YEAR. I SECOND. I HAVE A MOTION BY NANCY HUMPHREY AND A SECOND BY ELISA KLEIN FOR THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ELECTS DR. LAUREN TYRA TO THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT OF THE PLANO ISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR THE 26-27 SCHOOL YEAR. IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL RIGHT ALL THOSE IN FAVOR IF YOU WOULD RAISE YOUR HAND. ALL RIGHT, I SEE SEVEN HANDS UP, SO THE MOTION PASSES SEVEN TO ZERO. CONGRATULATIONS, BOARD PRESIDENT TYRA. I'M TURNING OVER THE GAVEL BACK TO YOU, AND I WILL NOW TURN OVER THE REMAINDER OF THE MEETING FOR YOU TO PRESIDE OVER. THANK YOU, DR. WILLIAMS. THANK YOU, DR. WILLIAMS. TRUSTEES WILL NOW MOVE TO THE ELECTION OF THE VICE PRESIDENT. WE HAVE ONE NOMINATION FOR BOARD VICE PRESIDENT, WHICH IS VICE PRESIDENT NANCY HUMPHREY, CURRENT VICE PRESIDENT. TRUSTEES, MAY I PLEASE HAVE A MOTION? I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ELECTS NANCY HUMPHREY TO THE OFFICE OF VICE PRESIDENT OF THE PLANO ISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR THE 2026-2027 SCHOOL YEAR. SECOND. THANK YOU TRUSTEES I HAVE A MOTION BY TRUSTEE ELISA KLEIN AND A SECOND BY BOARD SECRETARY TARRAH LANTZ THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ELECTS NANCY HUMPHREY TO THE OFFICE OF VICE PRESIDENT OF THE PLANO ISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR THE 2026 2027 SCHOOL YEAR. TRUSTEES IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? SEEING AND HEARING NONE I WILL CALL FOR A VOTE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND. I SEE SEVEN HANDS UP. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. CONGRATULATIONS TO BOARD VICE PRESIDENT NANCY HUMPHREY. WE HAVE ONE NOMINATION FOR BOARD SECRETARY, WHICH IS TRUSTEE KATHERINE GOODWIN. TRUSTEES, MAY I PLEASE HAVE A MOTION FOR THE ELECTION OF BOARD SECRETARY? I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ELECTS KATHERINE GOODWIN TO THE OFFICE OF SECRETARY FOR THE PLANO ISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR THE 2026-2027 SCHOOL YEAR. SECOND. THANK YOU, TRUSTEES. I HAVE A MOTION BY BOARD VICE PRESIDENT, NANCY HUMPHREY, AND A SECOND BY OUTGOING BOARD SECRETARY TARRAH LANTZ PERHAPS THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ELECTS KATHERINE GOODWIN TO THE OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF THE PLANO ISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR THE 2026-2027 SCHOOL YEAR. IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL RIGHT SEEING AND HEARING NONE I WILL CALL FOR A VOTE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND. OKAY, THAT'S SEVEN HANDS UP. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. CONGRATULATIONS TO BOARD SECRETARY KATHERINE GOODWIN. ALL RIGHT. THIS CONCLUDES THE ORGANIZATION OF THE BOARD FOR THE 2026-2027 SCHOOL YEAR. BOARD MEMBERS, Y'ALL CAN SWITCH SEATS. SO, TARRAH AND KATHERINE, IF Y'ALL COULD ROTATE. AND IF ANYBODY ELSE WANTS TO CHANGE SEATS, YOU CAN LET US KNOW. NOT AT THE MOMENT, BUT THAT'S ALWAYS AN OPTION IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE SEATS. LET'S SEE. [8.2 Consider and take possible action to propose to terminate the probationary contract employment of Jordan Giesen for both good causes, and alternatively, terminate the probationary contract in the best interest of the District in accordance with Board Policies DFAA (LOCAL) and DFAB (LOCAL), respectively.] OKAY, WE WILL NOW MOVE ON TO ITEM 8.2 WHILE THEY'RE GETTING SETTLED. THIS IS CONSIDER AND TAKE POSSIBLE ACTION TO PROPOSE TO TERMINATE THE PROBATIONARY CONTRACT EMPLOYMENT OF JORDAN BEESON FOR BOTH GOOD CAUSES AND ALTERNATIVELY TERMINATE THE PROBATIONARY CONTRACT IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE DISTRICT IN ACCORDANCE WITH BOARD POLICY DFAA LOCAL AND DFAB LOCAL, RESPECTIVELY. WE HAVE DR. KENDALL WITH AN UPDATE ON THIS SITUATION. THANK YOU, DR. TYRA. AT THIS TIME, THE DISTRICT IS RESCINDING THE RECOMMENDATION FOR TERMINATION AS MS. GIESEN HAS RESIGNED EFFECTIVE AT THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR, WHICH IS ACCEPTED AUTOMATICALLY UNDER LAW. THEREFORE, NO ACTION IS NECESSARY FOR THE BOARD TO TAKE AT THIS TIME, AND THE DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION PULLS THIS ITEM FROM THE AGENDA. THANK YOU, DR. KENDALL. IF THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS FROM THE TRUSTEES OR CONCERNS FROM THE TRUSTEES ON ITEM 8.2, WE WILL MOVE ON TO REPORTS. OKAY, NOT SEEING AND HEARING ANY QUESTIONS, SO THAT WILL CONCLUDE DISCUSSION [9.1 2026 - 2027 Department Budget Update ] AND ACTION. WE WILL NOW MOVE TO THE REPORT SECTION OF THE MEETING. WE WILL BEGIN WITH ITEM 9.1, THE 2026-2027 DEPARTMENT BUDGET UPDATE. I WILL INVITE COURTNEY REEVES, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, TO PLEASE PRESENT. THANK YOU [00:45:02] AND GOOD EVENING, PRESIDENT TYRA, DR. WILLIAMS, BOARD OF TRUSTEES, CABINET. I ALWAYS APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE YOU WITH AN UPDATE ON OUR BUDGET PROCESS. SO TONIGHT I'M GOING TO BEGIN WITH AN UPDATE WITH OUR DEPARTMENT BUDGETS, HIGHLIGHTING SOME OF OUR KEY ADJUSTMENTS, AND THEN FROM THERE I'M GOING TO WALK YOU THROUGH OUR OVERALL PROJECTIONS FOR THE 26-27 BUDGET TO PROVIDE A BROADER OVERVIEW OF OUR CURRENT OUTLOOK. SO IF YOU, I'M SORRY, I HOPE YOU'LL JUST INDULGE ME FOR JUST A MOMENT. I JUST WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO EXPRESS MY APPRECIATION FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH SO MANY AMAZING AND OUTSTANDING DEPARTMENTS. I MEAN, ACROSS THIS DISTRICT. AS YOU KNOW, WE USE ZERO-BASED BUDGETING, AND OF COURSE THAT MEANS THEY START AT ZERO, AT GROUND LEVEL, AND THEY BUILD THEIR BUDGETS BASED ON THE UPCOMING BUDGET YEARS, DEPARTMENT NEEDS, GOALS OF THE DISTRICT, OBJECTIVES. AND FROM THERE, WE BRING IN ALL OUR DEPARTMENTS, THEN THEY MEET WITH OUR BUDGET DEPARTMENT, AND WE SIT DOWN AND WE GO THROUGH EVERY SINGLE EXPENDITURE, EVERY LINE, EVERY COST. AND I WILL TELL YOU THAT IT CAN BE PRETTY COMPLEX AND HONESTLY PROBABLY A LITTLE TEDIOUS, BUT THAT PROCESS INSTEAD THIS YEAR, I WILL SAY, HAS BEEN COLLABORATIVE AND THOUGHTFUL. SO I'M VERY GRATEFUL TO THE LEADERS THAT ARE SITTING IN THIS ROOM. AND THOSE THAT ARE STILL THAT ARE BEHIND THE SCENES AS OUR DEPARTMENT HEADS BECAUSE I APPRECIATE THEM FOR THEIR DEDICATION AND ALL THE HARD WORK THAT THEY HAVE DONE. I TRULY APPRECIATE THEIR PARTNERSHIP THEIR PROFESSIONALISM AND THEIR SHARED COMMITMENT TO DOING WHAT'S BEST FOR STUDENTS AND THE DISTRICT I MEAN THIS YEAR WE WE PUSHED THEM WE PUSHED OUR DEPARTMENTS A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN WE HAVE AND THEY RESPONDED WITH FLEXIBILITY AND CREATIVITY SO I'M VERY GRATEFUL FOR ALL THE HARD WORK OF OUR DEPARTMENTS I'D ALSO LIKE JUST A MOMENT TO RECOGNIZE MY BUDGET DEPARTMENT. THEY ARE EXCEPTIONAL, AND THEIR ATTENTION TO DETAIL AND UNWAVERING COMMITMENT THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESS HAS BEEN, I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW AWESOME THEY ARE. A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO OUR DIRECTOR OF BUDGET AND COMPLIANCE, ASHLEY WESTBROOK, AND OUR SENIOR BUDGET MANAGER, KATHERINE HUMPHREY. THEIR EXPERTISE AND DEDICATION IS ABSOLUTELY INVALUABLE, AND I COULD NOT DO THIS WITHOUT THEM. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JUST INDULGING ME FOR A MINUTE. AND SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT OUR DEPARTMENT BUDGETS. AGAIN, AS YOU ALL KNOW, WE DO ZERO-BASED BUDGETING. THIS IS ACTUALLY OUR EIGHTH YEAR FOR ZERO-BASED BUDGETING. AND, OF COURSE, RIGHT NOW WE JUST HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A SNAPSHOT LOOKING AT THE FIVE PRIOR YEARS. RIGHT NOW WE ARE LOOKING AT THE 26-27 PROPOSED DEPARTMENT BUDGET SITTING AT $86.7 MILLION. OF COURSE, YOU CAN SEE ALL OUR PRIOR YEAR DEPARTMENT BUDGETS, THAT PRIOR YEAR DIFFERENCE IN THE NEXT COLUMN, THAT PERCENTAGE INCREASE, AND THEN ALL THE WAY IN THAT RIGHT-HAND COLUMN, YOU WILL SEE THAT CPI. OF COURSE, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE ITEMS WITHIN OUR DEPARTMENT BUDGETS, THOSE THINGS ARE GOING TO, AGAIN, INFLATION IS SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO AFFECT, AND THOSE PRESSURES. JUST WANT TO KEEP THAT IN MIND AS WE'RE WORKING THROUGH SOME OF THESE ITEMS. AS MUCH AS WE WORK TO DECREASE AREAS, THERE'S JUST UNFORTUNATELY SOME AREAS THAT ARE GOING TO RESPOND TO, ARE GOING TO BE IMPACTED BY INFLATION. SO THE BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS ACTUALLY RELEASED AN UPDATED CPI AS OF, I BELIEVE IT WAS APRIL 10TH. THERE WILL BE AN ACTUAL NEWS UPDATE, I THINK IT'S NEXT WEEK. BUT THAT ACTUAL CPI WENT UP 0.9% FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH. IT WENT FROM 2.4 TO 3.3. BUT KEEPING THAT IN MIND, WE JUST HAD A LITTLE OVER $144,000 INCREASE IN OUR BUDGETS, OUR DEPARTMENT BUDGETS, AND THAT WAS ACTUALLY LESS THAN A .2% OVERALL FOR THOSE DEPARTMENT BUDGETS. ALSO, JUST A LITTLE BIT OF FOOD FOR THOUGHT, WE ASK OUR DEPARTMENTS TO SUBMIT THEIR BUDGET REQUESTS BEFORE WE GO INTO OUR BUDGET MEETINGS. THOSE BUDGET REQUESTS ACTUALLY STARTED OUT AT $92.3 MILLION, AND ALL THAT HARD WORK, WE WERE ABLE TO REDUCE THOSE BUDGETS BY $5.6 MILLION DURING OUR BUDGET MEETINGS. I WANT TO WALK YOU THROUGH SOME OF THE CHANGES IN OUR PROPOSED 26-27 DEPARTMENT BUDGETS AS COMPARED TO OUR 25-26 AMENDED DEPARTMENT BUDGETS. I PROMISE YOU I'M NOT GOING TO GO THROUGH EVERY SINGLE ONE, BUT I AM GOING TO HIGHLIGHT SOME OF OUR MOST SIGNIFICANT INCREASES AND DECREASES. BUT PLEASE KEEP IN MIND, MOST OF THE DECREASES, I WILL TELL YOU THAT IF I DON'T COVER THEM, MOST OF THEM ACTUALLY REFLECT OUR CONTINUED EVALUATION OF DEPARTMENT SPENDING TRENDS. I KNOW YOU ALL PROBABLY REMEMBER LAST YEAR WE TALKED A LOT ABOUT THREE-YEAR TRENDSPINS. WE'VE CONTINUED THAT AGAIN THIS YEAR. THE FURTHER WE'VE GOTTEN OUT FROM COVID AND, OF COURSE, IN RESPONSE TO DECLINING ENROLLMENT, WE CONTINUE TO SEE SOME VALUE IN UTILIZING THOSE TRENDSPINS. SO JUST KEEP IN MIND THAT MOST OF THE OTHER DECREASES THAT I DON'T GO OVER THIS EVENING, MOST OF THOSE ARE ACTUALLY DUE TO THAT THREE-YEAR TRENDSPIN ANALYSIS THAT WE'VE PUT IN PLACE. SO JUST HITTING THE [00:50:01] HIGHLIGHTS, AS YOU CAN SEE, TEACHING AND LEARNING DEPARTMENT, YOU CAN SEE A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT DECREASE THERE. THAT ACTUALLY WAS FOR OUR CURRENT YEAR. WE HAD SOME ONE-TIME COSTS THAT ARE NOT BEING CARRIED INTO OUR CURRENT PROPOSED BUDGET. THOSE WERE SPECIFICALLY SOME PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES, SOME FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP, PROFESSIONAL LEARNING, AND THEN FOR COACHING CYCLE REVIEW FOR INSTRUCTIONAL COACHES. AGAIN, THAT DECREASE WAS JUST, AGAIN, WE'RE NOT GOING TO CONTINUE THOSE PRIORITIES IN THE NEXT, IN THE CURRENT, OR THE PROPOSED BUDGET YEAR. SPECIAL EDUCATION REDUCED TO INCREASE OR DECREASE IN EMPLOYEE TRAVEL. AGAIN, THAT WAS SPECIFICALLY SURROUNDING THREE-YEAR TREND SPEND. WE ALSO ALIGNED SOME OTHER AREAS OF A THREE-YEAR TREND SPEND ANALYSIS. AND THEN THERE WAS SOME STRATEGIC USE OF SOME ALTERNATIVE FUNDING SOURCES, INCLUDING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS ALLOTMENT AND IDEA B FOR SOME SELECT EXPENDITURES. OF COURSE, WITH SPECIAL ED, WE DO HAVE TO BE CAREFUL. WE HAVE A THING CALLED MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT. SO WE DO HAVE TO WATCH THAT SPENDING. SO THAT SPENDING, AGAIN, THOSE REDUCTIONS WERE REALLY BASED ON TRENDS, SPENDS, AND NOT JUST TRYING TO CUT CERTAIN PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS OUT OF SPECIAL ED. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY ACADEMICS DEPARTMENT, THAT ACTUALLY WAS A STANDALONE BUDGET FOR OUR PREVIOUS CHIEF OF ACADEMIC SERVICES. AND MS. WILSON AND HER TEAM WERE ABLE ACTUALLY TO ABSORB THOSE THINGS WITHIN, SO WE'RE ABLE TO BASICALLY COLLAPSE THAT BUDGET DOWN. AND THEN LASTLY, VIRTUAL SCHOOL IS NEW FOR 26-27 SO THEY HAVE ESTABLISHED A NEW DEPARTMENT. CONTINUING ON WITH TEACHING AND LEARNING WE HAVE SUMMER SCHOOL. THAT INCREASE WAS DUE TO A RESTRUCTURING OF OUR HIGH SCHOOL SUMMER SCHOOL PROGRAM WHICH WILL NOW BE OFFERED AT THREE CAMPUSES INSTEAD OF ONE. THIS CHANGE WAS INTENDED TO IMPROVE ACCESSIBILITY AND BETTER SERVE A LARGE NUMBER OF OUR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. AND THEN SECONDARY ACADEMICS DEPARTMENTS, YOU'LL SEE QUITE A NICE REDUCTION THERE. THAT REDUCE WAS BASED ON THREE-YEAR TREND SPENDS AGAIN, A DECREASE IN SOME PROJECTED SOFTWARE COSTS, AND AGAIN SOME STRATEGIC ALLOCATION OF CERTAIN SOFTWARE EXPENSES TO ALTERNATIVE FUNDING THROUGH INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS ALLOTMENT. ASSESSMENT IN THE ACCOUNTABILITY DEPARTMENT, THAT INCREASE ACTUALLY REFLECTS THE EXPENSES ASSOCIATED WITH REQUESTED RESCORING STATE ASSESSMENTS. STUDENT AND FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES DEPARTMENT, THIS DECREASE WAS ACTUALLY DUE TO A REALLOCATION OF SOFTWARE. ACTUALLY, IT WAS SOFTWARE THAT WAS ACTUALLY ALREADY CAPTURED IN ANOTHER DEPARTMENT, SO WE DIDN'T WANT TO DUPLICATE. SO WE WERE ACTUALLY ABLE TO SEE A REDUCTION IN THAT DEPARTMENT BUDGET. THE BONSER AND THOMAS WELCOME CENTER, THAT REDUCTION THERE WAS JUST TO BETTER ALIGN WITH ACTUAL OPERATIONAL EXPENDITURES. AGAIN, JUST TRYING TO FIND THAT SWEET SPOT. OF COURSE, WE DON'T HAVE A THREE-YEAR TRENDSPIN FOR OUR BONSER, THOMAS WELCOME, AND ENROLLMENT CENTER YET, BUT WE'RE STILL TRYING TO FIND, BUT WE FELT THROUGH OUR MEETINGS THAT WE COULD ACTUALLY REDUCE THAT BASED ON SOME MORE ACTUAL TANGIBLE EXPENDITURES. AND SO OVERALL, OUR TEACHING AND LEARNING DIVISION HAD A DECREASE OF JUST OVER $662,000, REPRESENTING A 5.15% REDUCTION ACROSS THE DIVISION. MOVING ON TO LEADERSHIP AND OPERATIONS, YOU CAN SEE AN INCREASE IN COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT. THAT INCREASE ACTUALLY REFLECTS AN ENHANCED INVESTMENT IN TARGETED DISTRICT MARKETING EFFORTS TO RECRUIT AND RETAIN MORE STUDENTS TO THE DISTRICT. ALSO, WE UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE A RETURN ON INVESTMENT ON THAT SPECIFIC ITEM, AND SO WE KNOW THAT AS WE WORK THROUGH AND WORK WITH THE MARKETING COMPANY, WE'LL BE ABLE TO REPORT BACK BECAUSE WE DO EXPECT A RETURN ON THAT INVESTMENT. POLICY AND LEGAL, THAT INCREASE IS PRIMARILY DUE TO ANTICIPATED COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE MAY 2027 TRUSTEE ELECTION. THAT'S ONE ACCOUNT THAT GOES DOWN ONE YEAR, WILL GO UP ONE YEAR, OF COURSE, BASED ON THOSE ELECTIONS. SO NEXT YEAR WE'LL SEE IT DROP OFF. SO JUST KEEP THAT IN MIND. INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY, WHILE THAT ONE IS NOT AN OVERALL REDUCTION IN TOTAL COST, WE DID HAVE CERTAIN EXPENDITURES THAT HAVE BEEN REALLOCATED TO THE TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT, AND WE'LL SEE SOME OF THOSE INCREASES WILL BE REFLECTED IN SOME AREAS OF TECHNOLOGY LATER IN THE PRESENTATION. PROBABLY OUR BIGGEST ADJUSTMENT ON THIS SLIDE, ON SLIDE 8, IS OUR COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE. YOU'LL SEE THAT BUDGET REFLECTS THE TRANSITION OF SERVICES PREVIOUSLY PROVIDED BY COMMUNITIES AND SCHOOL, THAT WHICH WILL BE DISCONTINUED WITH ALL SERVICES NOW BEING DELIVERED DIRECTLY BY DISTRICT STAFF. CTE, THAT REDUCTION ACTUALLY WAS, AGAIN, THROUGH THREE-YEAR TRENDSPIN ANALYSIS. AND THEN, OF COURSE, TARGETING SOME OF OUR FEDERAL FUNDS, CARL PERKINS, AS AN ALTERNATE FUNDING SOURCE FOR CTE PROGRAMS. AND THEN, OF COURSE, OUR CTE CENTER, WHICH IS NOT NECESSARILY A NEW DEPARTMENT, BUT OPENING OF OUR CTE CENTER IN 26-27. SO, WE DID SEE AN INCREASE FOR THAT, AGAIN, FOR A FULL YEAR [00:55:01] OF CTE SPENDING FOR OUR CTE CENTER. AND SO AVID AND AVID EXCEL, YOU SEE THAT INCREASE IS ACTUALLY DUE TO ADDING AN ADDITIONAL ELEMENTARY AND THEN ALSO A NEW FIELD TRIP OPPORTUNITY TO CAMP JOLT. AND SO, OUR LEADERSHIP AND OPERATIONS DIVISION ACTUALLY SAW A REDUCTION OF THEIR OVERALL BUDGET OF JUST OVER $595,000, REPRESENTING A 2.99% DECREASE. FOR BUSINESS EMPLOYEE SERVICES AND TECHNOLOGY, WE HAVE A FEW INCREASES ON HERE THAT ARE NOTABLE. SO, TRANSPORTATION, THEY DID HAVE AN INCREASE THAT REFLECTS SOME HIGHER COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH MCKINNEY-VENTO CONTRACTED TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, AS WELL AS AN INCREASE IN SOME SOFTWARE COSTS. OUR RISK MANAGEMENT, THAT'S ACTUALLY WHERE OUR PROPERTY CASUALTY PREMIUMS ACTUALLY LIVE. AND SO, OF COURSE, THAT'S ONE OF THOSE AREAS THAT'S GOING TO BE DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY THOSE INFLATIONARY PRESSURES OR SO WE ARE EXPECTING AN INCREASE IN THAT, AND THAT'S OUR VEHICLES AND OUR CYBERSECURITY INSURANCE PREMIUM. SO, WE DO EXPECT THOSE COSTS TO RISE THIS NEXT YEAR FOR 26-27. FACILITY SERVICES, THAT INCREASES, AGAIN, UTILITY COSTS, ELECTRICITY, WATER, AND, OF COURSE, MATERIALS FOR THINGS LIKE OUR HVAC. THOSE ARE SEEMING TO BE INCREASING. AND THEN, OF COURSE, I WILL SAY THAT THE INCREASES WERE PARTIALLY OFFSET BY SAVINGS OF JUST OVER HALF A MILLION DOLLARS FROM OUR NEW CUSTODIAL SERVICES CONTRACT. MOVING ON TO EMPLOYEE SERVICES, SO MOST NOTABLE REDUCTION HERE IS OUR HR RECRUITMENT. DR. KENDALL AND HER TEAM WERE ABLE TO REDUCE THIS BUDGET FOLLOWING SOME IDENTIFICATION OF SOME CERTIFICATION-RELATED FEES THAT ARE ACTUALLY NO LONGER NECESSARY, AND WERE ABLE TO DO SOME TARGETED REDUCTION IN THE EMPLOYEE TRAVEL. TECHNOLOGY SERVICES, THERE WERE SEVERAL EXPENDITURE REALLOCATIONS WITHIN TECHNOLOGY DUE TO SOME REORGANIZATIONAL RESTRUCTURING IN DR. TANNER'S AREA. BUT THE NET IMPACT IS AN OVERALL INCREASE OF ABOUT $305,000, AND PRIMARILY THOSE ARE DRIVEN BY SOME SOFTWARE RENEWALS, WHICH OF COURSE ARE SUBJECT TO INFLATIONARY FACTORS, ADDITION OF SOME NECESSARY NEW APPLICATION, AND THEN ALSO REMEMBER WE DID REALLOCATE SOME EXPENSES FROM OUR INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY INTO THESE OTHER TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENTS. SO THAT EXPLAINS WHY WHAT'S GOING ON THERE. JUST KIND OF THERE WAS A LOT OF MOVEMENT, BUT OVERALL WE KNEW THAT THERE WAS A FEW THINGS THAT, AGAIN, SPECIFIC TO SOME INFLATION FACTORS THAT DID AFFECT OUR TECHNOLOGY SERVICES. OVERALL, BUSINESS, EMPLOYEE SERVICE, AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION REFLECTED AN INCREASE OF JUST OVER $1.3 MILLION, OR 2.38%, BUT DOES STILL REMAIN BELOW THE CURRENT CPI OF 3.3. ROUNDING OUT OUR DEPARTMENT BUDGETS IS OUR LEADERSHIP DEPARTMENTS. AND, OF COURSE, AS YOU CAN SEE THERE, AGAIN, JUST A LITTLE BIT OF, AGAIN, EVERY YEAR, OF COURSE, EVERYBODY'S BUDGET STARTS AT ZERO, SO THERE MAY BE A FEW PRIORITIES. ALSO, IF WE'RE LOOKING AT TRENDSPINS, SOME REDUCTIONS THERE. BUT OVERALL, OUR TOTAL DISTRICT LEADERSHIP WAS ABLE TO BE REDUCED BY JUST OVER $5,000. SO, AGAIN, OUR PROPOSED 26-27 DEPARTMENT BUDGETS ARE ENDING AT JUST OVER $86.7 MILLION. AGAIN, THAT DECREASE IS JUST UNDER $145,000, AND THAT IS A 0.17% INCREASE OVER OUR 25-26 AMENDED DEPARTMENT BUDGET. WE HIT MOST OF OUR SIGNIFICANT EXPENDITURES AS WE'VE WALKED THROUGH OUR DEPARTMENTS, JUST KIND OF HIGHLIGHTING THOSE THINGS. JUST KEEP IN MIND, OBVIOUSLY, IF YOU SEE AN EXPENDITURE LIKE UTILITIES, THAT MAY, WHEN YOU GO AND LOOK AT FACILITY SERVICES, YOU WON'T NECESSARILY SEE THAT AMOUNT. THERE ARE REDUCTIONS THAT WORKED WITHIN EACH ONE OF THOSE DEPARTMENTS THAT HELPED OFFSET THOSE, BUT WE JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT SOME OF OUR MAJOR CHANGES. CAN YOU SEE THAT INCREASE IN UTILITIES, THE INCREASE FOR MCKINNEY-VENTO TRANSPORTATION, THE INCREASE FOR OUR PROPERTY CASUALTY VEHICLE AND CYBER INSURANCE PREMIUMS, INCREASE OF OUR TRANSPORTATION SOFTWARE, OUR MARKETING COSTS, INCREASE FOR OUR SUMMER SCHOOL PROGRAM CHANGE, ADDING OF OUR REASSESS THE ASSESSMENT RESCORING COSTS. THE SPRING TRUSTEE ELECTION, AN INCREASE IN THOSE TECHNOLOGY SOFTWARES, OUR ADDING OF OUR CTE CENTER, HVAC MATERIALS, ADDITION OF OUR VIRTUAL SCHOOL. WE DID HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF AN INCREASE FOR OUR CHARTER BUS, FOR OUR FINE ARTS, FOR UIL EVENTS. AND THEN OUR NOTABLE DECREASES ARE THAT DECREASE TO OUR CUSTODIAL CONTRACT WITH SERVICEMASTER, THE DECREASE OF COMMUNITY AND SCHOOL SERVICES, AND THEN THE DECREASE IN OTHER PAYROLL. AND THAT OTHER PAYROLL, THERE IS OTHER PAYROLL THAT'S BUILT INTO OUR DEPARTMENT BUDGET, SPECIFICALLY EXTRA DUTIES, SUB COSTS, SOME ADULT, WHAT WE CALL TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES. AGAIN, THAT WAS JUST COMING TOGETHER WITH OUR DEPARTMENTS, WORKING WITH THEM, FINDING AREAS THAT WE COULD [01:00:01] REDUCE, AND ALSO LOOKING AT THOSE TREND SPENDS THAT WE'RE ABLE TO REDUCE ON A TREND SPEND ANALYSIS. THESE, OF COURSE, ARE NOT DEPARTMENT RELATED, BUT CAMPUS AND OTHER DISTRICT ALLOCATIONS. AS YOU CAN SEE, OUR CAMPUS ALLOCATIONS ARE REDUCING. OF COURSE, THOSE ALLOCATIONS ARE DIRECTLY TIED TO STUDENT ENROLLMENT. SO AS THE STUDENT ENROLLMENT DECREASES, THEIR ALLOCATIONS WILL DECREASE AS WELL. OUR TAX OFFICE IS AN APPRAISAL DISTRICT THAT, IT'S GOOD NEWS THAT ACTUALLY SET TO DECREASE FOR 26-27 AND THEN OTHER DISTRICT ALLOCATIONS WE DO HAVE LIKE A SHARED SERVICE ARRANGEMENT AND THEN WE DO HAVE INTERPRETING COSTS FOR THE DISTRICT UNDER BUT OVERALL OUR TOTAL CAMPUS AND OTHER DISTRICT DISTRICT ALLOCATIONS ARE REDUCING ABOUT 6.42% $676,000 SO THAT CONCLUDES MY OVERVIEW OF OUR DEPARTMENT BUDGETS AND ANY KEY CHANGES FOR OUR 26-27 YEAR. NEXT I'M GOING TO TRANSITION INTO A SUMMARY OF OUR PROPOSED BUDGET BEGINNING WITH AN OVERVIEW OF OUR GENERAL FUND REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES TO PROVIDE A BROADER PICTURE OF THE DISTRICT'S OVERALL PROPOSED FINANCIAL POSITION. STARTING WITH OUR LOCAL REVENUE SUMMARY, OF COURSE I'M JUST GOING TO GO THROUGH THE AREAS OF CHANGES IF THAT'S OKAY. OUR DECREASE IN OUR TAX REVENUE IS PRIMARILY ATTRIBUTED TO THE REDUCTION IN OUR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS TAX RATE. RIGHT NOW, OUR PROPOSED TAX RATE IS SET TO REDUCE FROM A .80220 TO A .79540, WHICH IS RESULTED FROM OUR STATE-MANDATED TAX RATE COMPRESSION. IN ADDITION, OUR LOCAL CERTIFIED PROPERTY VALUE ESTIMATE FROM THE COLLINS CENTRAL APPRAISAL DISTRICT AFFECTS THAT REFLECTS GROWTH OF ONLY APPROXIMATELY A HALF OF 1%. WHICH, OF COURSE, THAT LIMITS OUR OVERALL INCREASE IN OUR TAX COLLECTIONS. WE ALSO ANTICIPATE LOWER INVESTMENT EARNINGS AS INTEREST RATES CONTINUE TO DECLINE. I KNOW WE HAD A COUPLE OF INTEREST RATE REDUCTIONS THIS LAST YEAR, TRYING TO READ THE TEA LEAVES, AND WE'RE HOPING THAT THEY'LL STAY, BUT AGAIN, WE'RE KIND OF PLANNING FOR THE WORST AND A REDUCTION TO OUR INTEREST EARNINGS. AND THEN LASTLY, YOU SEE A SLIGHT INCREASE TO OUR DONATION REVENUE, AND OF COURSE THAT'S JUST AN ADJUSTMENT THAT'S BASED ON A THREE-YEAR TRENDSPIN ANALYSIS. SO OVERALL, YOU SEE THOSE LOCAL REVENUES DECREASING BY $4.7 MILLION. MOVING ON TO OUR STATE REVENUES AND OUR FEDERAL REVENUES. FOR OUR STATE REVENUES, THE INCREASE IN OUR AVAILABLE SCHOOL FUND OR PER CAPITA FUNDING IS PRIMARILY DUE TO THE RISE IN OUR ESTIMATED PER CAPITA RATE BASED ON AND IT'S BASED ON OUR PRIOR YEAR ADA THAT RATE IS SET TO IT'S ACTUALLY AN ESTIMATE RIGHT NOW BUT RIGHT NOW THAT RATE IS ESTIMATED TO INCREASE FROM 471 PER PRIOR YEAR ADA TO 600 PER PRIOR YEAR ADA SO THAT EXPLAINS THAT INCREASE THERE OUR DECREASE IN OUR FOUNDATION SCHOOL PROGRAM REVENUE IS LARGELY DRIVEN BY OUR PROJECTED ENROLLMENT DECLINE OF APPROXIMATELY 2008 STUDENTS. BECAUSE STATE FUNDING, OF COURSE, IS CLOSELY TIED TO STUDENT ATTENDANCE AND RELATED FORMULAS, THE LOWER PROJECTED ENROLLMENT, OF COURSE, DIRECTLY IMPACTS OUR ESTIMATED FSP ENTITLEMENT. AND THEN YOU'LL SEE ACTUALLY AN INCREASE FOR $1 MILLION FOR OUR TRS ON BEHALF REVENUE. THIS ACTUALLY REFLECTS THE STATE PAID CONTRIBUTION RECOGNIZED ON BEHALF OF THE DISTRICT FOR RETIREMENT-RELATED COSTS. BUT IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE, ACTUALLY, THAT THERE'S A CORRESPONDING $1 MILLION ON THE EXPENDITURE SIDE AS WELL. SO, BECAUSE THAT REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE OFFSET ONE, IT'S A NET ZERO EFFECT TO THE BUDGET, THE BOTTOM LINE. FOR OUR FEDERAL REVENUES, THERE'S ONE NOTABLE DECREASE, AND THAT'S ACTUALLY OUR SHARS, WHICH IS OUR SCHOOL HEALTH AND RELATED SERVICES REVENUE. DURING 25-26, THE DISTRICT ACTUALLY RECEIVED A ONE-TIME INCREASE RELATED TO A LAGGED PRIOR COST REPORT SETTLEMENT. AND AS A RESULT, THAT YEAR, OF COURSE, WE WERE COLLECTING A HIGHER THAN NORMAL COLLECTIONS. AND SO FOR 26-27, WE EXPECT THE SHAR'S REVENUE TO RETURN TO A MORE TYPICAL ANTICIPATED LEVEL UNDER THE CURRENT REIMBURSEMENT METHODOLOGY FOR QUALIFIED EXPENDITURES. SO THAT BRINGS OUR TOTAL REVENUE FOR 26-27 TO JUST $634.6 MILLION. AND OF COURSE, THAT TOTAL REVENUE IS DECREASING JUST UNDER $2.5 MILLION. ROUNDING OUT OUR REVENUE SUMMARY, OUR PROPOSED BUDGETS INCLUDE AN INCREASE TO TRANSFERS IN. THIS IS PRIMARILY DRIVEN TO HIGHER ANTICIPATED PROCEEDS FROM OUR SURPLUS REAL ESTATE SALES, AND THEN ALSO AS WELL AS AN INCREASE IN REVENUE RECOVERY FROM OUR AFTER-SCHOOL FASAR PROGRAM. AND THEN WHEN LOOKING AT REVENUES NET OF RECAPTURE, YOU'LL SEE THAT OUR RECAPTURE [01:05:01] PAYMENTS ARE PROJECTED TO INCREASE FROM JUST OVER 118 MILLION TO APPROXIMATELY 132.5 MILLION. OF COURSE, THE PRIMARY DRIVER INCREASE OF THIS PROJECTION IS THE REDUCTION OF OUR 208 STUDENTS. OF COURSE, AS ENROLLMENT DECLINES WHILE STILL MAINTAINING A STRONG PROPERTY WEALTH BASE, OF COURSE, THIS RESULTS IN HIGHER RECAPTURE OBLIGATION UNDER THE CURRENT STATE FUNDING FORMULA. SO AS YOU CAN SEE, OUR REVENUES NET OF RECAPTURE ARE FROM ACTUALLY REDUCED OR DECREASED FROM $531.7 MILLION IN 25-26 TO $517.1 MILLION PROPOSED FOR 26-27, AND THAT'S A DECREASE OF $14.6 MILLION. NOW MOVING ON TO OUR EXPENDITURE SUMMARY. OF COURSE, AS YOU CAN SEE, OUR BIGGEST, OF COURSE, WE TALK ABOUT EVERY YEAR, THE BIGGEST PORTION OF OUR BUDGET IS OUR PAYROLL EXPENDITURES. AS YOU CAN SEE, OUR ESTIMATED PAYROLL EFFICIENCIES INCREASED BY ABOUT $10.5 MILLION FROM 25-26 TO 26-27. THESE EFFICIENCIES WILL BE ACHIEVED STRATEGICALLY THROUGH ATTRITION AND THE EVALUATION OF VACANT POSITIONS. IMPORTANTLY, THESE ADJUSTMENTS EXTEND BEYOND ENROLLMENT DRIVEN STAFFING CHANGES. THESE EFFICIENCIES ARE TIED TO DECLINING ENROLLMENT, AGAIN, ALL THROUGH ATTRITION, BUT WE ALSO CONDUCTED A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF CENTRAL OFFICE AND AUXILIARY STAFF POSITIONS TO ENSURE ALIGNMENT WITH CURRENT OPERATIONAL NEEDS. THIS APPROACH REFLECTS A DELIBERATE EFFORT TO MAINTAIN HIGH-QUALITY SERVICES FOR OUR STUDENTS WHILE RESPONSIBLY MANAGING STAFFING LEVELS AND OVERALL EXPENDITURES. YOU CAN ALSO SEE A DECREASE IN THE AREA OF OUR NEW STAFFING AND PAY ADJUSTMENT AS WELL AS A REDUCTION IN OUR 26-27 COST FOR SALARY INCREASES, PROVIDING AN OVERALL REDUCTION IN OUR PAYROLL EXPENDITURES OF JUST UNDER $6 MILLION. YOU'LL SEE THAT SLIGHT INCREASE TO OUR NON-PAYROLL EXPENDITURES OF $188,000. AS DISCUSSED, MOSTLY OUR DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW ARE THE PRIMARY DRIVERS OF THE INCREASE WILL BE WITHIN OUR CONTRACTED SERVICES PARTICULARLY LIKE UTILITIES, AGAIN, SOFTWARE COSTS, WHICH CONTINUE TO BE IMPACTED BY OUR INFLATIONARY PRESSURES. AND THEN LASTLY, THERE'S AN INCREASE OF $1.8 MILLION IN OUR OPERATING TRANSFERS OUT, AND THIS IS ACTUALLY RELATED TO FUNDING FOR OUR REGIONAL DAY SCHOOL PROGRAM FOR THE DEAF. PREVIOUSLY, THIS PROGRAM WAS SUPPORTED THROUGH A SEPARATE STATE GRANT. HOWEVER, UNDER HOUSE BILL 2 FROM OUR MOST RECENT LEGISLATIVE SESSION, FUNDING ACTUALLY TRANSITIONED TO A STAND-ALONE ALLOTMENT. AND THIS IS RESULTING IN WE ACTUALLY HOUSE THAT IN A SEPARATE FUND, SO WE WILL BE TRANSFERRING THOSE FUNDS RECEIVED IN THAT ALLOTMENT OUT BY $1.8 MILLION. SO EVEN WITH THESE TARGETED INCREASES, THE DISTRICT'S OVERALL EXPENDITURES REFLECT A NET DECREASE OF JUST UNDER $4 MILLION, JUST DEMONSTRATING CONTINUED EFFORTS TO MANAGE COSTS WHILE MAINTAINING ESSENTIAL SERVICES. AS WE WRAP UP, I JUST WANT TO HIGHLIGHT A FEW KEY POINTS FROM OUR PROPOSED 26-27 BUDGET. OUR TOTAL EXPENDITURES ARE APPROXIMATELY $562 MILLION, WHICH REFLECTS A REDUCTION OF ABOUT $4 MILLION FROM OUR CURRENT YEAR. OF COURSE, THIS JUST DEMONSTRATES THE WORK FROM THE DISTRICT TO MANAGE COSTS AND ALIGN SPENDING WITH ACTUAL NEEDS. ON THE REVENUE SIDE, REVENUES NET OF RECAPTURE ARE PROJECTED AT APPROXIMATELY $517 MILLION. WHICH IS A DECREASE OF ABOUT $14.6 MILLION FROM 25-26. OF COURSE WHEN YOU COMBINE THESE FACTORS THE DISTRICT IS PROJECTING A BUDGET DEFICIT OF APPROXIMATELY 44.8 MILLION DOLLARS WHICH IS AN INCREASE OF ABOUT 10.6 COMPARED TO THE CURRENT YEAR. SO, WHILE WE'VE MADE MEANINGFUL REDUCTIONS ON THE EXPENDITURE SIDE WE CONTINUE PRESSURES FROM DECLINING ENROLLMENT AND INCREASING RECAPTURE CONTINUES TO IMPACT OUR OVERALL FINANCIAL OUTLOOK. AND THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION. I KNOW MR. HILL AND I WOULD BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. THANK YOU, COURTNEY. THIS IS A REPORT. SO, TRUSTEES, WHAT QUESTIONS DO YOU HAVE? I JUST HAVE A COUPLE OF COMMENTS. AND SO, I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT SLIDE IT WAS, BUT THE DEPARTMENT BUDGETS, WHAT WAS THE TOTAL INCREASE, 1.7? IS THAT RIGHT? PERCENT? 0.17%. 1.17%. AND THEN. INFLATION WAS? 3.3 AS OF APRIL 10TH. OKAY. SO, I JUST WANTED TO POINT OUT THAT YOU GUYS HAVE DONE SUCH DILIGENT WORK TO REALLY SHAVE OFF EVERYTHING YOU COULD, AND THE ZERO-BASED BUDGETING IS EVIDENCE OF THAT. SO, THANK YOU. THE TEAM HAS DONE REMARKABLE WORK TO GET THOSE, ESPECIALLY WITH RISING INFLATION. SO, THANK YOU TO ALL THESE PEOPLE SITTING HERE TODAY. KUDOS TO YOU FOR THAT. AND THEN I [01:10:01] JUST WANT TO POINT OUT, IT'S JUST LIKE SO GLARING TO ME THAT OUR DECREASE IN REVENUES NET OF RECAPTURE FROM THE 25-26 BUDGET, THE AMENDED BUDGET, COMPARED TO THE PROPOSED 26-27 PROPOSED BUDGET, THE SHORTAGE IS VERY SIMILAR TO THE AMOUNT OF RECAPTURE. I JUST HAD TO POINT THAT OUT. I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ANY RELEVANCE THERE. BUT THERE YOU GO. THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY. CAN I JUST ASK? I MEAN, YEAH, CAN I ASK A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS? AND I KNOW I ASK THIS EVERY YEAR, BUT. THIS YEAR, WE JUST APPROVED IN OUR CONSENT AGENDA THIS BUDGET THAT'S GOT A FAIRLY LARGE CLOSING DEFICIT. HOW DO WE FUND THOSE THINGS? I MEAN, I KNOW IT'S OBVIOUS, BUT PLEASE TELL ME AGAIN HOW WE FUND THE $34 MILLION THAT WERE GOING TO BE NEGATIVE THIS YEAR. DO YOU WANT TO JUMP IN? I DO. I'M MORE THAN HAPPY TO ANSWER THAT. THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. SO, DISTRICTS, YOU KNOW. HOPEFULLY OVER TIME I'VE BUILT UP A FUND BALANCE. A LOT OF PEOPLE LOOK AT THAT SO MUCH AS A SAVINGS ACCOUNT. AND SO, WE ACTUALLY HAVE BUILT UP OVER TIME A FUND BALANCE OF APPROXIMATELY $276 MILLION. AND SO, ANYTHING THAT WE ARE REQUIRED TO GO OVER AND ACTUALLY GO INTO A DEFICIT WILL COME OUT OF THAT SAVINGS OR THAT FUND BALANCE. AND SO, I WILL SAY, ACCORDING TO OUR CE LOCAL POLICY, WE ARE REQUIRED TO KEEP A CERTAIN BALANCE. AND THE PREDOMINANT DRIVER FOR THAT IS CASH FLOWING IN YOUR DISTRICT, SPECIFICALLY DISTRICTS LIKE OURS, BECAUSE WE GET OVER 94% OF OUR REVENUES IN PROPERTY TAXES. AND SO, PROPERTY TAXES COME IN PREDOMINANTLY OVER A TWO, TWO-AND-A-HALF-MONTH PERIOD. WE'RE REQUIRED TO KEEP A HIGHER BALANCE IN THAT FUND BALANCE IN ORDER TO YOU KNOW, MEET THOSE OBLIGATIONS OF CASH FLOW IN THE DISTRICTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION IN SHORT, IT COMES OUT OF THE UNDESIGNATED FUND BALANCE OR THE AMOUNT THAT WE'VE KEPT AND BUILT UP OVER THE YEARS. AND WE NORMALLY, I KNOW IN PREVIOUS YEARS, WE START WITH A FAIRLY LARGE DEFICIT, BUT WE'RE ABLE OVER THE SCHOOL YEAR TO KIND OF REIN IT IN. I KNOW THIS WILL BE THE FIRST YEAR WHERE WE CERTAINLY HAVE RUN THIS LARGE A DEFICIT. IS THAT SOMETHING WE SHOULD BE CONCERNED ABOUT? AND 2027 AS WELL? SO, A LOT OF THAT IS DRIVEN BY JUST ADA, OR AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE. I CAN SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'VE HAD DEFICIT FOR YEARS. I WOULD NOT CALL THAT NECESSARILY A STRUCTURAL DEFICIT. A STRUCTURAL DEFICIT IS, HEY, WE NEED TO CHANGE THE STRUCTURE OF OUR BUDGET ACCORDINGLY. I WOULD SAY FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE OVER THE LAST FIVE OR SIX YEARS, WE'RE GETTING INTO THAT PART THAT WE'RE NEEDING TO LOOK AT THE ACTUAL STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS OF OUR BUDGET AND MAKE SOME SIGNIFICANT CHANGES GOING FORWARD IF WE DON'T IF WE CONTINUE TO LOSE STUDENTS AT THE RATE THAT WE HAVE. I DO THINK THAT WE'VE DONE A GOOD JOB THE ZERO-BASED BUDGETING HAS BEEN VERY SIGNIFICANT BUT THE ZERO-BASED BUDGETING IS PREDOMINANTLY FOR ALL NON-PAYROLL ITEMS AND IF YOU LOOK AT OUR BUDGET THAT'S YOU KNOW 15-16 PERCENT OF OUR BUDGET SO TO MAKE SIGNIFICANT INROADS INTO STRUCTURAL DEFICIT YOU NEED TO LOOK AT. UNFORTUNATELY, EVENTUALLY YOU NEED TO LOOK AT PROGRAMS AND STAFFING. AND SO I THINK WE'VE TRIED TO GO BACK AND REVISIT THAT. I KNOW DR. WILLIAMS HAS PUT SOME ITEMS TO START LOOKING AT THAT AND ACTUALLY LOOKING AT MAKING SOME CHANGES WITH THAT. WE HAVE DONE WELL WITH OUR TEACHING STAFF, I BELIEVE, OVER THE LAST FIVE OR SIX YEARS. OUR PERCENTAGE OF DECREASE IN STUDENTS, WE'VE ALMOST MIRRORED EXACTLY WITH DECREASE OF TEACHING STAFF. AND SO IT'S ALL THIS, YOU KNOW THE OTHER THE SUPPORT STAFF THAT WE NEED TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT I DO WANT TO POINT THIS OUT THAT AS YOU LOSE STUDENTS YOU REALLY NEED TO TAKE A LOOK AT FACILITIES AND HOW YOU'RE USING YOUR FACILITIES BECAUSE IF YOU TAKE OFF THE 84 PERCENT PAID TOWARD COMPENSATION THE NEXT BIGGEST COMPONENT OF THAT BUDGET IS TAKING CARE OF YOUR FACILITIES IT'S ABOUT 11 PERCENT GOING UP ON ALMOST 12 PERCENT THAT'S ABOUT 96 PERCENT OF YOUR BUDGET SO IN PEOPLE AND THEN TAKING CARE OF YOUR FACILITIES AND SO IN ORDER TO GET YOUR STRUCTURAL DEFICIT IN LINE, YOU NEED TO LOOK AT PEOPLE THROUGH ATTRITION, IF AT ALL POSSIBLE, AND THEN YOU NEED TO LOOK AT HOW YOU'RE USING YOUR FACILITIES. AND SO THOSE ARE CONVERSATIONS THAT OBVIOUSLY WE ARE HAVING AND THAT WE'LL CONTINUE TO HAVE A STRATEGIC PLAN GOING FORWARD. VERY THOROUGH. I APPRECIATE THAT. AND MY LAST THING IS IT LOOKS LIKE EVERY YEAR WE ARE SELLING SOME PIECE OF LAND. I KNOW THAT ALSO CAN'T LAST FOREVER. SO CAN [01:15:03] YOU HELP ME A LITTLE BIT AT LEAST UNDERSTAND HOW WE WERE THINKING ABOUT SORT OF MANAGING OUR LAND PORTFOLIO AS WELL? I'M MORE THAN HAPPY TO ANSWER THAT AS WELL. SO WE HAVE OVER THE YEARS HAVE COLLECTED WHAT I CALL ONE-OFF FACILITIES. WE HAVE ACTUALLY IDENTIFIED AND HAVE A LONG-TERM PLAN ON TRYING TO CONSOLIDATE A LOT OF THOSE, SPECIFICALLY AS WE RIGHT-SIZE OUR DISTRICT WITH OUR WITH OUR STUDENT ENROLLMENT. AND SO WE ACTUALLY HAVE A FOUR-YEAR PLAN THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED PROPERTIES THAT WE WOULD, WE DON'T WANT TO JUST ALL OF A SUDDEN HIT THE BRAKES AND ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU NO LONGER HAVE PROPERTY TO SELL. SO WE ACTUALLY HAVE IDENTIFIED PROPERTIES, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW WE'RE GOING BACK AND WE'RE DOING AUXILIARY CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS. AND A LOT OF THE EXCESS SPACE THAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW, WE'RE USING AS SWING SPACE. IN OTHER WORDS, WE'RE PUTTING STUFF IN THERE AS WE'RE REMODELING IT AND THEN WE'RE MOVING THEM OUT. WE'RE HOPING TO HAVE MOST OF THOSE PROJECTS DONE WITHIN THIS NEXT YEAR. AND SO AS WE ACTUALLY GO FORWARD, AT LEAST FOR THE NEXT, I THINK, THE NEXT TWO YEARS, DR. WILLIAMS, WE HAVE A SURPLUS PROPERTY THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO ACTUALLY RIGHT-SIZE IN OUR DISTRICT. SO EVENTUALLY YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. THOSE ARE ONE-TIME INFLUXES OF ESTIMATED REVENUES INTO OUR DISTRICT. BUT WE DO HAVE A PLAN. FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS ON HOW WE CAN WE CAN CONTINUE TO TRY TO RIGHT-SIZE SOME OF THOSE AUXILIARY FACILITIES THAT WE DO OWN. THANKS. YOU BET. I HAVE A QUICK QUESTION. WELL, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S GOING TO BE A QUICK ANSWER, BUT I'M WONDERING IF YOU CAN HELP EXPLAIN HOW THIS IMPACTS PLANO ISD. IN THE LAST LEGISLATIVE SESSION, THE SENATE WAS PUSHING THROUGH PROPERTY TAX LEGISLATION THAT WAS GOOD FOR HOMEOWNERS, RIGHT, BECAUSE IT LOWERS OR, I'M SORRY, INCREASES THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION FOR THEM AND ULTIMATELY LOWERS THEIR SCHOOL TAX BILL OR PROPERTY TAX BILL, WHICH MOST OF US, IT'S HEAVY ON THE SCHOOL TAXES, RIGHT? HOW DOES THIS IMPACT, LIKE THAT LEGISLATION, IMPACT THIS BUDGET AND THIS OVER $44 MILLION DEFICIT? I WAS LIKE, YOU WANT TO. I CAN SEE IT. I WANT TO ANSWER THIS ONE. OKAY, AND I'LL TRY TO BE BRIEF HERE BECAUSE I COULD GO ON AND ON ABOUT THIS ONE. SO WHENEVER THIS LAST NOVEMBER, OR LET'S GO BACK TO THE 89TH LEGISLATIVE SESSION. THERE ARE A LOT OF, I MEAN, SO THE BIG THRUST FROM STATE LEADERSHIP WAS TAX RELIEF. YOU KNOW, HOW CAN WE COMPRESS AND GET THE TAX RELIEF EVEN DOWN FURTHER? THAT'S GREAT. WE ARE VERY MUCH IN FAVOR OF TRYING TO LOWER PROPERTY TAXES BECAUSE WE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A LOT OF PROPERTY OWNERS IN OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT. THAT'S A GOOD THING. ONE OF THE COMPROMISES THAT THEY'VE MADE IS, OKAY, NO LOSERS. IN OTHER WORDS, IF WE'RE GOING TO COMPRESS YOUR PROPERTY TAXES, WE'RE GOING TO HOLD YOU HARMLESS AND WE'RE GOING TO PUT WHOLE HARMLESSNESS IN PLACE. I CAN TELL YOU THOUGH, RIGHT NOW THERE'S EIGHT OR NINE. DEPENDING ON HOW YOU LOOK AT IT, WHOLE HARMLESSNESS THAT ARE BUILT INTO THE SYSTEM, AND I THINK THAT THERE IS WHOLE HARMLESS FATIGUE BY OUR LEGISLATORS. AS A RESULT, WHENEVER THEY ACTUALLY GOT DOWN TO ACTUALLY DOING THE CALCULATIONS OF WHOLE HARMLESSNESS, THEY ARE NOT COMPLETELY MAKING US WHOLE. AND SO, THESE WHOLE HARMLESSNESS THAT WE WERE TOLD DURING THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION THAT WE WERE GOING TO BE MADE WHOLE HAVE NOT COME TO FRUITION. SO, PART OF WHAT YOU SEE TONIGHT DURING THE, THE BOARD PRESENTATION FOR A BUDGET AMENDMENT, THERE WERE ALMOST $4 MILLION SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED THAT WE THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO GET THROUGH WHOLE HARMLESS CALCULATIONS THAT WE HAVE NOT RECEIVED. I WILL SAY ALSO THE $10.6 OF THE $18 MILLION THAT YOU SAW IN THE BUDGET AMENDMENT TONIGHT HAS TO DO WITH THE WAY THAT THE STATE IS ACTUALLY COMING ABOUT AND ACTUALLY DOING CALCULATIONS ON HOW WEALTHY THEY THINK WE ARE. SO, IF YOU DON'T MIND, I DON'T WANT TO GO DOWN A RABBIT HOLE, BUT I DO WANT TO EXPLAIN REAL QUICKLY. THIS IS A GREAT RABBIT HOLE TO GO DOWN BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT TAXPAYERS, LIKE I WAS ALL IN FAVOR OF PROPERTY TAX REDUCTION FOR HOMEOWNERS, BUT I DID NOT WANT THIS TO HAPPEN AT THE EXPENSE OF OUR SCHOOL DISTRICTS, ESPECIALLY DISTRICTS LIKE OURS THAT ARE PROPERTY WEALTHY. SO WE'RE GOING TO SEE THE LOWER TAXES, BUT IF AROUND 90% OR MORE OF WHAT WE RECEIVE AS REVENUE IS PROPERTY TAX COLLECTIONS, THIS IS NOT GOOD FOR PLANO ISD, AND I JUST WANT TAXPAYERS TO UNDERSTAND THAT WHILE YOU MAY BE CHEERING, THERE ARE REAL-WORLD IMPLICATIONS TO THIS SORT OF LEGISLATION, ESPECIALLY IF, LIKE, THE RESOLUTION AND THE WAY TO RECONCILE THIS IS, OH, WELL, WE'LL JUST HOLD YOU HARMLESS, AND THEN NEXT LEGISLATIVE SESSION THAT HOLD HARMLESS MIGHT GO AWAY AND NOBODY THINKS OTHERWISE. I'M ON A WORK, I MEAN, WE'RE ON WORK GROUPS ACROSS THE STATE THAT ARE ACTUALLY VERY, VERY CONCERNED WITH A WHOLE HARMLESS IS GOING AWAY IN THIS NEXT LEGISLATIVE SESSION. SO, THERE IS TALK. [01:20:02] SO, WE'RE WORKING WITH OUR ADVOCACY GROUPS IN ORDER TO TRY TO COMBAT THAT. BUT ONE POINT THAT I DO WANT TO MAKE, BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T, I DON'T THINK, REALIZE THAT WE ACTUALLY HAVE CERTIFIED LOCAL VALUES. AND WE COLLECT TAXES ON THAT. BUT WE ALSO HAVE A BIG COMPONENT IN RECAPTURE. AND EVERY YEAR, THE STATE COMPTROLLER ACTUALLY DOES THEIR OWN ASSESSMENT OF WHAT OUR PROPERTY VALUES ARE. AND SO, WE CALL THOSE CPTD VALUES OR COMPTROLLER'S TAX DIVISION VALUES. A LOT OF PEOPLE CALL THOSE T2 VALUES BECAUSE THAT'S HOW THEY DENOTE IT. BUT THEY COME ALONG AND THEY'LL DO AN AUDIT, AND THEY ACTUALLY WILL LOOK AT THEIR NUMBERS, THOSE T2 NUMBERS, AND THEY'LL SAY, OKAY, THIS IS WHAT WE THINK YOUR VALUES WERE. THEY'VE ALWAYS BEEN CLOSELY ALIGNED UNTIL THEY STARTED DOING TAX COMPRESSION. FOR THIS YEAR, OUR LOCAL VALUES, WHICH WE COLLECT TAXES OFF, WE LEVY TAXES OFF OF, WAS ABOUT 3.5% LOWER THAN WHAT THE STATE CAME IN AND SAID OUR VALUES WERE. THOSE STATE VALUES COME IN IN FEBRUARY OF EVERY YEAR, SO WE'RE ALWAYS BASING THAT ON AN ESTIMATE. AND THEN WE RECONCILE IT. WE'VE NEVER HAD TO DO A BUDGET AMENDMENT ON IT BECAUSE IT'S ALWAYS BEEN LOCKSTEP IN LINE WITH EACH OTHER. 3.5%, WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT BILLIONS OF DOLLARS THAT WE HAVE? YOU TAKE THAT DIFFERENCE, WHICH IS ABOUT $1.8 BILLION OF VALUE, DIVIDE IT BY 100, MULTIPLY IT TIMES OUR COMPRESSED RATE OF 63, A LITTLE OVER 63 CENTS, IT'S ABOUT $10.5 BILLION. AND SO THOSE ARE REAL ADJUSTMENTS THAT, FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE ANYWAY, WE'RE HAVING TO MAKE A BUDGET AMENDMENT ON IT BECAUSE THERE'S THIS DISCREPANCY IN IT. I DO WANT TO POINT OUT THAT WE DO OUR BEST TO TRY TO HOLD THE STATE COMPTROLLER'S HONEST. AND SO WE ACTUALLY WILL WORK WITH, LEGALLY, WE CAN ACTUALLY GO BACK AND REQUEST AUDITS OF THOSE TAX ROLLS, YOU CAN DO IT UP TO THREE. A YEAR WE WORK WITH A GREAT COMPANY CALLED PURDUE BRANDON, AND THEY SPECIFICALLY COME IN AND WILL ASSIST US WITH THAT. AND THEY'LL ACTUALLY LOOK AT THOSE AND THEY'LL AUDIT THOSE AND KEEP THE TA AND STATE CONTRACTORS HONEST. AND SO WE'RE HOPING THAT WE'LL GET SOME OF THAT MONEY BACK. IT'S ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF PROCESS BEFORE YOU ACTUALLY SEE SOME OF THAT. BUT WE HAVE ACTIVELY DONE THAT. BEFORE I GOT HERE, THEY WERE ACTIVELY DOING THAT WITH THOSE INTERNAL AUDITS ON REAL ESTATE, ON THAT TAX ROLL. WE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THAT AND KEEP UP WITH THAT. SO WHAT YOU SAW IN THE BUDGET AMENDMENT TONIGHT, THE $18.8 MILLION. ALL BUT ABOUT FOUR MILLION OF THAT, ALL BUT ABOUT FOUR MILLION OF THAT HAD TO DO WITH SOMETHING TO DO WITH PROPERTY VALUES. AND HOW WE LOCALLY, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LOCAL AND STATE AND WHOLE HARMLESS IS NOT REALLY COMING TO FRUITION. WE'VE GOT GOOD FRIENDS AT AUSTIN ISD. I WAS READING AN ARTICLE. THEY ARE ESTIMATING A DEFICIT BUDGET OF $181 MILLION. $181 MILLION AND THE REASONS THEY GAVE, INCREDIBLY HIGH PROPERTY VALUES. AND THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN LOCAL AND THE STATE, NUMBER ONE, A DECREASE IN STUDENT ENROLLMENT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, STUDENTS ARE MOVING OUT BECAUSE IT'S AN EXPENSIVE PLACE TO LIVE. THEY'RE MOVING OUT OF AUSTIN ISD. AND THEN COST OF INFLATION HIGHER THAN NORMAL COST OF INFLATION. WE ARE VERY, VERY SIMILAR. AFTER AUSTIN ISD, IF YOU LOOK AND KNOW WHO'S THE NUMBER TWO RECAPTURED PAID DISTRICT IN THE STATE, IT'S US. THERE'S A LOT OF SIMILARITIES. SO WE'RE NOT ALONE IN THESE CONVERSATIONS. WE'RE DOING A LOT OF DISCUSSING AND TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, OKAY, HOW CAN WE? HOW CAN WE ACTUALLY GO ABOUT TRYING TO MAYBE PUT SOME INTEGRITY INTO THE SYSTEM? TODAY I ACTUALLY FILLED OUT A SURVEY FOR DR. WILLIAMS TALKING ABOUT, HEY, EVERY YEAR THE STATE COMMENTATOR IS ACTUALLY DOING THESE AUDITS. DO YOU THINK THAT'S A GOOD IDEA? NO. TERRIBLE IDEA. IS THERE SOMETHING YOU CAN DO DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS? YES. GO TO LOCAL VALUES. AND SO WE'RE TRYING. AND LIKE I SAID, WE'RE WORKING WITH WORK GROUPS. WE'RE WORKING WITH OUR ADVOCACY GROUPS TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT. THAT'S A LOT OF TALKING, AND I APOLOGIZE. BUT I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND THAT WE WERE, LIKE I SAID, I KNOW COURTNEY AND I, AND WE BROUGHT IN DR. WILLIAMS TO THE CONVERSATION THE DAY WE WERE HAVING THIS DISCUSSION. IT WAS NOT A VERY GOOD DAY. AND DR. WILLIAMS SAID, NO MORE ONE-ON-ONES WITH YOU BECAUSE YOU'RE JUST BRINGING ME BAD NEWS. AND SO WE'RE GOING THROUGH THIS, BUT WE'RE WORKING THROUGH IT. AND PLEASE, I WANT TO GIVE YOU CONFIDENCE THAT YOU'VE GOT A LOT OF HARDWORKING PEOPLE THAT ARE WORKING ON THIS PROBLEM. AND WE WERE 100% CONVINCED THAT WE WILL WORK THROUGH IT AND THAT WE'LL COME OUT A LOT BETTER FOR IT WHEN WE GET THROUGH WITH THIS. WELL, I HOPE WE'LL BE THE BETTER FOR IT. I KNOW THAT OUR COMMUNITY UNDERSTANDS, AND I HOPE THOSE THAT ARE LISTENING STILL AT HOME UNDERSTAND, THAT THAT FUND BALANCE IS SO HIGH BECAUSE OF THE EXCELLENT FINANCIAL RATINGS THAT WE'VE RECEIVED AND THE DECISIONS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE. AND THIS IS A DISTRICT NOT JUST OF ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE, BUT ONE OF FINANCIAL EXCELLENCE. AND I JUST WANT WHEN THE NEXT LEGISLATIVE SESSION ROLLS ALONG, I WANT EVERYBODY LISTENING AND EVERYBODY AT HOME TO REALLY DIG [01:25:01] IN AND LISTEN TO WHAT IS BEING SAID ABOUT THE BUDGET AND THE MONEY AND HELP US TELL PLANO ISD'S STORY AND OUR EXPERIENCE TO THE LEGISLATORS BECAUSE IT'S LIKE YOU SAID IT'S NOT JUST US IT'S AUSTIN IT'S DISTRICTS ACROSS THE STATE BUT WE IF WE DON'T IDENTICALLY HAVE THE SAME ISSUES IT'S COMPONENTS AND PIECES OF THAT WE MIRROR OTHER DISTRICTS WITH AND I MEAN THIS IS A SERIOUS ISSUE THAT WE I HOPE THAT THEY DON'T DO AWAY WITH THOSE OLD HARMLESSES THAT WOULD JUST NOT BE GOOD OH MY GOSH I DON'T WANT TO GO DOWN A SOAPBOX. BUT THANK YOU FOR EXPLAINING ALL OF THAT. I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS. THEY'RE BOTH KIND OF SPECIFIC. ONE IS THAT IN CALCULATING THIS BUDGET, WE TOOK A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO PROJECTED ENROLLMENT THIS YEAR, AND WE HAD ROCKY A COUPLE MONTHS AGO. BUT I WAS HOPING YOU ALL COULD SORT OF EXPLAIN THE CHANGE IN APPROACH ON DEMOGRAPHY AND HOW THAT'S FACTORING INTO THE BUDGET. SO, YEAH, AND COURTNEY AND I BOTH SIT DOWN AND DID A LOT OF WORK ON THIS. SO ALWAYS BEFORE ZONDA, WHO THEY DO MORE SCHOOL DISTRICTS THAN ANYBODY IN THE STATE OF TEXAS, THEY DO A LOT OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS, BUT THEY ALWAYS HAVE COME OUT WITH JUST WHAT THEY CALL A MODERATE OR THEIR BEST GUESS. I MEAN, I SHOULDN'T CALL IT A GUESS. IT'S A SCIENTIFIC ESTIMATE, BUT IT'S A ONE ESTIMATE. THIS IS WHAT WE THINK IS GOING TO HAPPEN, EVERYTHING ELSE BEING EQUAL. AND SO WE PUSHED BACK ON ZONDA THIS LAST YEAR BECAUSE EVERY YEAR. AT LEAST FOR, I KNOW FOR THE LAST FOUR OR FIVE YEARS, EVERY MODERATE PROJECTION WE GOT, WE WERE COMING IN UNDERNEATH THAT. WELL, THAT'S NOT A GOOD WAY TO, YOU KNOW, HAVE SUSTAINABLE BUDGETING PRACTICES. AND SO WE PUSHED BACK ON THAT. WE ALSO KNEW THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE THE ES8, THE VOUCHER PROGRAM, AND, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER IMPACT THAT MIGHT HAVE ON US. WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE TAKING THE MOST CONSERVATIVE APPROACH. AND SO WE ACTUALLY PUSHED BACK AND ASKED HIM, OKAY, WE DON'T WANT JUST YOUR MODERATE. WE WANT YOU TO GO BACK, RECALCULATE, KNOWING EVERYTHING ELSE AND LOOKING AT WHAT'S HAPPENED THE LAST FEW YEARS, WE WANT YOU TO GIVE US A LOW PROJECTION. AND SO THEY ACTUALLY CAME BACK, AND HE ACTUALLY DID. HE ACTUALLY GAVE US A LOW PROJECTION, NOT ONLY FOR THE 26-27 YEAR, BUT GOING OUT OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS. BECAUSE WE WANTED TO NOT ONLY LOOK AT NEXT YEAR, WE WANT TO LOOK AT, OKAY, WHAT'S THE YEAR AFTER THAT, THE YEAR AFTER THAT. WE DO FIVE-YEAR BUDGETING MODELS IS KIND OF HOW FAR WE LOOK AT IT IN ONE LOOK-SEE DOWN THE ROAD. AND SO THAT'S ONE THING THAT WE ACTUALLY CHALLENGED AND TRY TO GET. LIKE I SAID, I'M HOPING TO GOODNESS THAT WE'RE SURPRISED. I'M NOT SURPRISED, BUT THAT WE'RE PLEASANTLY HAPPY THAT WE HAVE HIT THE BOTTOM AND THAT WE HAVE ACCOUNTED FOR, YOU KNOW. AT LEAST THE DEMOGRAPHER, THAT'S THEIR JOB, IS WHAT THEY CONSIDER THE WORST CASE OR THE LOWEST CASE. GREAT, THANK YOU. THE SECOND IS ON THE CHANGE IN FUNDING FOR THE PLANO REGIONAL DAY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF PROGRAM. NET-NET, ARE WE LOSING FUNDING WITH THAT CHANGE? ARE WE GAINING FUNDING, OR IS IT NET-NEUTRAL? IT IS ALMOST NET-NEUTRAL. AGAIN, IT IS BASED ON STUDENT NUMBERS, AS WAS THE STATE ALLOCATION. I WOULD SAY IT'S A LITTLE BIT LOWER THAN IT WAS IN THE PRIOR YEAR, BUT IT IS ALMOST, I WOULD SAY, NET NEUTRAL. AND THEY DO BALANCE IT AS WELL BECAUSE, AGAIN, IT'S ACROSS THE STATE. THEY HAVE A PER-STUDENT ALLOCATION, AND THEY HAVE SO MUCH THAT THEY'VE PUT INTO THE FUNDING, AND THEN, AGAIN, IF THERE'S EXCESS FUNDING, THEN THEY'RE ACTUALLY REALLOCATING IT BACK OUT, SO IT MAY BE A LITTLE BIT MORE PER STUDENT. BUT IT'S A LITTLE BIT LESS THAN WHAT THE LAST STATE GRANT WAS. HOW DOES THAT INTERFACE WITH THE INTENSITY-BASED SERVICES FUNDING MODEL THAT THE TEA IS SUPPOSED TO BE COMING OUT WITH IN THE FALL? BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE THAT'S A SPECIFIC PROGRAM WITH A SPECIFIC DESIGNATION AND SPECIFIC FUNDING FORMULAS. DOES THAT INTERFACE AT ALL WITH THE Y'ALL ARE SMILING DOWN THERE. SORRY, THEY'RE LIKE NODDING THEIR HEADS AND SMILING. YEAH, WE'VE HAD A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS ABOUT IT. WE'VE HAD A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS ABOUT, YES, THIS ONE. LISA, JOHNNY, DO Y'ALL WANT TO JUMP IN ON THIS ONE? I THINK ALL THREE OF US CAN ACTUALLY TALK ABOUT THIS, BUT I WILL SAY, AND LISA MAY BE THE BETTER PERSON TO TALK ABOUT IT, IT. BECAUSE THEY'RE GOING TO BE DOING A LION'S SHARE OF THE WORK. BUT I WILL SAY FOR THE 26-27, THERE IS A WHOLE HARMLESS. BECAUSE THERE ARE GOING TO BE WINNERS AND LOSERS WITH THE INTENSITY OF SERVICE PROGRAM. AND LISA CAN TALK MORE, BUT FOR THIS NEXT YEAR, THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO ACTUALLY CALCULATE IT BOTH WAYS. AND THEN AT THE END OF THE YEAR, THERE WILL BE A WHOLE HARMLESS OR A MAKE-UP THAT NOBODY IN 26-27 WILL ACTUALLY LOSE MONEY. AND THEN AFTER THAT, THE WHOLE HARMLESS GOES AWAY IN 27-28 AND BEYOND. WE FEEL LIKE, AND LISA, YOU CAN POP IN ON THIS, BUT WE FEEL LIKE THAT WE WILL ACTUALLY BE BETTER OFF WITH INTENSITY OF SERVICE MODEL. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE THINKING. TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, EACH STUDENT NOW, WHERE THE CURRENT MODEL IS JUST AN INSTRUCTIONAL SETTING, EACH STUDENT HAS A LARGE SET OF [01:30:01] INDICATORS AND A RUBRIC ASSOCIATED WITH EACH INDICATOR THAT OUR STAFF WILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH. AND IT INCLUDES THE TYPES OF SERVICES AND THE NUMBER OF MINUTES AND THE INTENSITY. SO TO YOUR POINT, THERE ARE A LOT OF SERVICES AND MINUTES OF SERVICES THROUGH THAT REGIONAL DAY SCHOOL. SO THOSE WOULD BE A HIGHER END. YEAH, NO, THAT'S INTERESTING TO HEAR. AND WHEN THAT GETS WORKED OUT, I WOULD LIKE SOME FOLLOW-UP ON THAT. JUST, YOU KNOW, THERE YOU WILL SEE THAT DEAFNESS IS SO DIVERSE. AND, YOU KNOW. THE SERVICES KIDS NEED CAN BE SO DIFFERENT. SO SORT OF A ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL REGIONAL DAY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF FUNDING FORMULA DOES NOT NECESSARILY MAKE SENSE FOR OUR KIDS THAT HAVE, YOU KNOW, MULTIPLE ADDITIONAL NEEDS OTHER THAN DEAFNESS. SO PLEASE KEEP ME INFORMED ON THAT BECAUSE YOU ALL KNOW I HAVE INTEREST IN THAT. TRUSTEES, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, COMMENTS? SAM'S GOT A QUESTION. GO AHEAD. FIRST, I WANT TO ECHO THE .17% IS EXTREMELY IMPRESSIVE TO ME ALSO. JOHNNY, JUST FOR ANYONE WATCHING, I'M NOT SURE THIS WAS CLARIFIED. WHEN YOU SAY HOLD HARMLESS, THAT MEANS WHERE WE ARE GOING TO LOSE REVENUE BECAUSE OF A LEGISLATIVE ACTION OR NOT RECEIVE AS MUCH OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THAT THE STATE WILL FILL THAT GAP BY PROVIDING FUNDING TO THE DISTRICT. IS THAT RIGHT? THAT'S ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. AND THEY'VE CHANGED THEIR METHODOLOGY OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF SESSIONS. THEY USED TO DO IT ON A PER-STUDENT ALLOCATION THAT YOU WOULD NOT SO AS WE GO DOWN IN STUDENTS, THEN, YOU KNOW, THAT WE WOULD YOU KNOW, THAT WE WOULDN'T BE HARMED ON THAT. NOW IT'S GONE TO JUST A KIND OF AN OVERARCHING FLAT. AND SO IT LOOKS LIKE THE DISTRICTS THAT ARE, IN MY OPINION, THAT ARE GETTING HIT THE MOST ARE THE DISTRICTS THAT ARE LOSING STUDENTS, THE ONES THAT ARE LOSING STUDENTS, AND ARE THE ONES THAT HAVE HIGHER THAN NORMAL PROPERTY VALUES, MAINLY BECAUSE OF JUST THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN LOCAL AND THE WAY THAT THE STATE I STILL HAVEN'T FIGURED OUT HOW THE STATE ACTUALLY COMES UP WITH THEIR FACTS. AND I'VE ALWAYS, AT LEAST IN THE BACK POCKET, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT DO WE NEED TO CHANGE THE WAY WE'RE ESTIMATING THE WAY THE STATE'S DOING IT BECAUSE WE'VE ALWAYS, WE ALWAYS KNOW THAT YOU'VE GOT CERTIFIED VALUES. WE KNOW THAT BY THE END OF JULY. AND SO WE DO THAT WHEN WE COME BACK AND SET THE TAX RATE IN AUGUST. BUT WE'VE ALWAYS SAID IF YOU'RE GOING UP 2.5% ON YOUR LOCAL, THEN YOU SHOULD BE GOING UP. TWO AND A HALF CENT ABOUT ON THE STATE. AND THAT'S WHAT WE'VE ALWAYS HIT IT ALMOST EXACTLY IN THE LAST TWO YEARS, REALLY SINCE THEY'VE, THEY'VE GONE CRAZY WITH THE TAX COMPRESSION AND THEIR METHODOLOGY. THEY'RE, THEY'RE ACTUALLY CHANGING THE WAY THEY'RE ACTUALLY CALCULATING THESE, THESE HOLD HARMLESS. IT'S HOW THEY GET LEGISLATION PASSED BECAUSE THEIR LEGISLATORS, THEY, YOU KNOW, THE PEOPLE BACK HOME ARE REALLY MAKE A FUSS UNLESS THEY'RE, THEY'RE SAYING, OKAY, NOBODY'S GOING TO LOSE ANYTHING. WE'RE GOING TO, WE'RE GOING TO FILL THAT GAP AS YOU SAID. BUT I WILL SAY THERE IS DEFINITELY HOLD HARMLESS FATIGUE AT THE STATE LEVEL. AND THE WAY THAT THEY'RE CALCULATING THAT HAS BEEN, I'M NOT GOING TO SAY CUTTING CORNERS, BUT THE WAY THAT THEY'RE COMING UP WITH THEIR METHODOLOGY IS, THE MATH DIDN'T WORK OUT THE WAY I'M DOING MATH. SO DOES THAT HELP? YEAH, NO, AND I KNEW WHAT IT WAS, BUT I WASN'T SURE THAT HAD ACTUALLY BEEN EXPLAINED. WE TALKED ABOUT THESE HOLD HARMLESSES, BUT DIDN'T FULLY, I THINK, SAY OUT LOUD. THAT MEANS MONEY THAT WE WOULD HAVE LOST, THAT THE STATE PROMISED AT SOME POINT WE WOULD GET ANYWAY, BECAUSE IT WASN'T OUR FAULT WE WERE LOSING THAT REVENUE, MAY GO OUT THE WINDOW IF THE FATIGUE TAKES OVER. RIGHT, THAT REDUCTION IN THOSE PROPERTY VALUES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE MADE UP FROM THE STATE SIDE. YEAH. AND THEY'RE NOT. I THINK EVEN SHORTER THAN THAT IS WE'LL FILL THE GAP. RIGHT. AND THEN THEY'RE SAYING, OH, BUT MAYBE WE'RE THINKING ABOUT NOT DOING THAT ANYMORE. ONE OTHER QUESTION, AND I'M A BIG FAN OF THE MARKETING PUSH FOR THE DISTRICT. I THINK WE ALL KNOW OTHER AREA DISTRICTS ARE DOING THAT, AND WE HAVE A LOT TO OFFER AND SHOULD BE PROUD TO GET OUR DISTRICT'S NAME OUT THERE MORE. I'M CURIOUS, AND THIS MAY NOT BE I KNOW SOMEBODY, THOUGH. I KNOW SOMEBODY. SHE MAY BE SITTING OUT HERE IN THE AUDIENCE. I'LL JUST SAY THIS AS A GENERAL REQUEST. I WOULD LOVE THIS TIME NEXT YEAR TO SEE SOME ROI INFORMATION ON THAT MARKETING PROGRAM AND SEE, YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE ABLE TO MEASURE COST OF ACQUISITION AND ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF. ABSOLUTELY. AND I KNOW WE'VE HAD SOME CONVERSATIONS EVEN IN THESE MARKETING, AGAIN, ABOUT KPIS, ROIS. SO ABSOLUTELY, AGAIN, THAT WAS A LOT OF OUR CONVERSATIONS WHEN WE STARTED BECAUSE WE KNEW THIS WAS A LARGE INVESTMENT FOR THE DISTRICT. WE DIDN'T TAKE IT LIGHTLY AT ALL, BUT WE KNEW THAT PART OF THE CONVERSATION NEEDED TO BE LIKE, WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT OUR RETURN ON [01:35:02] INVESTMENT IS BECAUSE WE UNDERSTAND THIS IS A LARGE INVESTMENT FOR OUR DISTRICT. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT, TRUSTEES, ANYTHING ELSE? ELISA? YEAH, I JUST HAVE ONE COMMENT. FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK THAT YOU DO. AND, YOU KNOW, I FEEL LIKE AS SOMEBODY THAT'S NEW IN THIS POSITION, THERE'S SO MUCH KNOWLEDGE THAT I'VE ACQUIRED JUST IN THE SHORT TIME. AND IT JUST HELPS ME KIND OF FILL IN THE GAPS OF HOW EVERYTHING WORKS. BUT WHAT I WANT TO ALSO SAY IS THAT ALL THE WORK THAT YOU GUYS DO AND THAT WE SEE UP HERE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE OUR LEGISLATIVE SUBCOMMITTEE THAT'S ALSO WORKING ON OUR LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES. AND THIS IS ALL THE KIND OF INFORMATION WE'RE TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN WE'RE CREATING THOSE PRIORITIES FOR OUR DISTRICT. SO ALL THESE PIECES JUST TIE IN TOGETHER. AND, YOU KNOW, WHENEVER WE DO HAVE OUR PRIORITIES SET OUT, WE WILL LET THE PUBLIC KNOW. AND THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS THE KIND OF DECISIONS THAT WE'RE GOING TO NEED THEIR HELP ON IN ADVOCATING. AND THIS IS WHY, YOU KNOW, WE MAKE THESE DECISIONS UP HERE IS FOR THEM TO UNDERSTAND WHY WE'RE MAKING THOSE OUR PRIORITY. SO JUST THANK YOU AND, YOU KNOW. THERE'S A LOT OF WORK TO BE DONE. YES, MA'AM, ABSOLUTELY. THANK YOU. WE APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT AS WELL. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, [9.2 Instructional Technology Update ] COURTNEY. WE APPRECIATE IT. WE WILL MOVE ALONG TO OUR NEXT AGENDA ITEM, WHICH IS REPORT 9.2, INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY UPDATE. I WILL INVITE MATT FREY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY, TO PLEASE PRESENT FOR US. AND MATT, YOU BROUGHT A COLLEAGUE, SO PLEASE INTRODUCE YOUR COLLEAGUE TOO. BEGINNING BY JUST SAYING GOOD EVENING, PRESIDENT TYRA AND SUPERINTENDENT WILLIAMS, TRUSTEES, CABINET MEMBERS. IT'S OUR PRIVILEGE TO PROVIDE TONIGHT'S INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY UPDATE. WE'VE DIVIDED OUR PRESENTATION INTO TWO DISTINCT SEGMENTS. I'M GOING TO NARRATE THE FIRST PART, AND MY COLLEAGUE. ASHLEY JACKSON-IVEY, DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL LEARNING AND INNOVATION. SHE WILL LEAD US THROUGH WHAT IS CERTAIN TO BE A THRILLING CONCLUSION. SO WE WILL JUMP RIGHT INTO IT. AND IF THIS SLIDE LOOKS FAMILIAR TO AT LEAST SOME OF YOU, IT'S FOR GOOD REASON. SOME OF YOU HAVE SEEN IT BEFORE, BUT NOT RECENTLY. IT'S THE EXACT SLIDE THAT WAS SHARED WITH YOU IN MARCH 2024. IT'S BEEN A WHILE. HERE'S THE PROOF, IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME. THAT'S ME, DIFFERENT JACKET, SAME SLIDE, RIGHT? I HAD TO GO BACK, IN FACT, AND WATCH THE RECORDING TO SEE WHERE WE LEFT OFF. SIDE NOTE, IF IT'S OKAY WITH YOU, IF YOU INDULGED COURTNEY, I HOPE YOU'LL INDULGE ME FOR THIS TOO. I'M NOT SURE WHAT WAS IN MY HEAD TWO YEARS AGO WHEN I SELECTED SORT OF THE SPACE THEME, BUT I DECIDED INTENTIONALLY TO STICK WITH THAT THEME TONIGHT AFTER LEARNING THAT ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, MAY 5TH, 65 YEARS AGO, ALAN SHEPARD, ASTRONAUT ALAN SHEPARD, BECAME THE FIRST AMERICAN TO TRAVEL INTO SPACE. YOU CAN LOOK THAT UP. HONEST TO PETE. THAT'S THE KIND OF BONUS CONTENT, BY THE WAY, THAT YOU WON'T GET IN OTHER DISTRICTS, INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY REPORTS. BUT BACK TO BUSINESS. MY INTENTION IS NOT TO REPEAT EVERY WORD FROM OUR LAST REPORT, BUT I DO WANT TO REVISIT SOME OF THOSE KEY POINTS. I WAS EXPLAINING BACK THEN THAT OUR CLASSROOM TECHNOLOGY WAS GETTING OLD. IT WAS BEGINNING TO REACH ITS END OF USEFUL LIFE, AND WE NEEDED TO MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT WHAT TO DO NEXT, WHAT TO REPLACE IT WITH, IF ANYTHING. WE NEEDED TO MAKE DECISIONS. AND SO I TALKED ABOUT, AND THIS SLIDE WOULD SORT OF SUGGEST, A 5D CHANGE MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL THAT WE WERE SORT OF FOLLOWING TO HELP US NAVIGATE AN APPROPRIATE PATH FORWARD. AND I SAID THEN EACH OF THOSE FIVE D'S REPRESENTED A DIFFERENT PHASE IN WHAT NOW I'LL CALL OUR SPACE ODYSSEY, RIGHT? THERE WAS A DEFINING PHASE, A DISCOVERY PHASE, A DREAMING PHASE, A DESIGNING PHASE, AND THEN WE WERE ABOUT TO COME UPON A DELIVERY PHASE, THAT FINAL PHASE. AND AT THAT TIME, A COUPLE YEARS AGO, WE WERE NEARING THE END OF OUR DESIGN PHASE. WE WERE BUILDING OUR VERY FIRST MODEL CLASSROOM, HADN'T BEEN BUILT YET, BUT WE WERE ABOUT TO BUILD IT AT MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. AND THAT MODEL CLASSROOM WAS POISED TO HAVE ALL THE STUFF. IT WAS GOING TO HAVE A LAPTOP AND A CURVED MONITOR, AN APPLE TV, IPAD, APPLE PENCIL. WE HAD AN 86-INCH INTERACTIVE FLAT PANEL DISPLAY, A SLEW OF ANCILLARY STUFF TOO A MOBILE LECTERN. IF YOU'VE BEEN ON OUR CAMPUSES LATELY, YOU'VE SEEN THESE MOBILE LECTERNS WHEELING AROUND. THEY'RE POPULAR. A TECHNOLOGY BACKPACK, [01:40:02] ALL OF THE ASSORTED CABLES AND CONNECTION POINTS, ALL THAT STUFF MAPPED OUT, READY TO GO. WE WERE READY TO DEPLOY AT SCALE. AND I ENDED MY COMMENTS TO YOU TWO YEARS AGO BY SAYING WE WERE TRULY ON THE DOORSTEP OF OUR NEXT PHASE. AND NOW AFTER TWO YEARS, I'M LOOKING AT THIS SLIDE. WITH FRESH EYES AND THE BENEFIT OF HINDSIGHT. AND I'M REALIZING THAT THIS, MY LITTLE DIAGRAM, WAS NOT DRAWN TO SCALE, RIGHT? IF IT WERE TO SCALE, IT WOULD LOOK MORE LIKE THIS ONE. THE DISTANCE, YOU MIGHT NOTICE, BETWEEN DESIGN AND DELIVERY IS MUCH FURTHER. AND YOU CAN'T GET THE JOB DONE WITH A SINGLE SPACESHIP EITHER. IT TAKES A FLEET OF PLANES, TRAINS, AUTOMOBILES TO GET FROM DESIGN TO DELIVERY. AND, BY THE WAY, IT TAKES CARGO SHIPS. AND IT TAKES HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE, INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL, TO PLANO ISD. AND IN THE MONTHS THAT FOLLOWED OUR LAST UPDATE, I LEARNED A LOT ABOUT SUPPLY CHAIN. FOR MAJOR MANUFACTURING HUBS IN CHINA, OUR CLASSROOM TECHNOLOGY COMPONENTS WERE LOADED ONTO 40-FOOT SHIPPING CONTAINERS AND SPENT A FULL THREE WEEKS AT SEA BEFORE REACHING THE PORT OF LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA. AND THEN AFTER CLEARING CUSTOMS, OUR BACKPACKS, OUR MONITORS, OUR MOBILE LECTERNS, THEY MADE STOPS IN TWO PLACES IN CALIFORNIA, FONTANA AND CARSON, CALIFORNIA, BEFORE LEAVING THERE AND HEADING HALFWAY ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO MEET UNTIL THEY GOT TO MESQUITE, TEXAS. AND FROM THERE, THEY WERE LOADED ONTO BOX TRUCKS, AND THEY WERE DELIVERED TO JUPITER ROAD, PLANO. AND THAT'S WHEN PLANO ISD TEAMS SORT OF TOOK OVER AND DISTRIBUTED EQUIPMENT TO NEARLY 4,000 TEACHERS IN AS MANY CLASSROOMS. AND SO AS IT WAS WRITTEN IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN, SO IT WAS DONE. WE HAD REVISED CLASSROOM TECHNOLOGY STANDARDS TO ACHIEVE GREATER FLEXIBILITY THROUGH MOBILITY AND INCREASED FUNCTIONALITY. WE TALKED A LOT BACK THEN ABOUT UNTETHERED TEACHING. THAT WAS OUR GOAL, GET TEACHERS OFF THE WALL, ABLE TO MOVE AROUND. SO THAT'S WHAT WE WERE DOING. BY THE FALL OF 2024, WE HAD DELIVERED TO CAMPUSES MORE THAN 20,000 SORT OF DISCRETE COMPONENTS. EVERYTHING WITH THE EXCEPTION OF INTERACTIVE FLAT PANEL DISPLAYS. THOSE MAGNIFICENT BEASTS TAKE A LITTLE MORE TIME TO DEPLOY. AND THE REASON IS SIMPLE. EACH CLASSROOM INSTALLATION IS IN ITSELF A MINIATURE SORT OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECT. OUR DISPLAYS, INCIDENTALLY, MADE BY BENQ, A COMPANY WITH HEADQUARTERS IN PLANO, TEXAS, JUST OVER ON LEGACY. THOSE PANELS THAT THEY MAKE, BENQ, I SUSPECT EVERYBODY WHO MAKES PANELS, THIS IS TRUE OF, THEY'RE HEAVY. THEY WEIGH MORE THAN 150 POUNDS AND THEREFORE THEY REQUIRE EXTRA SUPPORT, EXTRA REINFORCEMENT IN THE WALL. AND SO AT NIGHT, WHEN EVERYONE IS GONE FOR THE DAY, OUR CONSTRUCTION ELVES SORT OF SHOW UP WITH THEIR SAWS AND SUCH, AND THEY REMOVE ALL OF THE EXISTING MARKER BOARDS, AND THEN THEY CUT A HOLE IN THE WALL, AND THEY ATTACH PLYWOOD TO THE METAL STUDS, AND AFTER THAT THEY PREPARE THE ENTIRE SURFACE TO BE PATCHED AND SORT OF REPAINTED, WHICH HAPPENS, IN FACT, THAT SAME NIGHT, ALL THE REPAINTING, THE PATCHING. ALL OF THAT. AND SO THE NEXT DAY, THE TEACHERS, THEY'RE STILL USING THEIR OLD PROJECTORS, DIMLY LIT PROJECTORS, BUT NOW THEY'RE PROJECTING ONTO A FRESHLY PAINTED WALL AND NEWLY SORT OF REINFORCED WITH THAT PLYWOOD, PAINTED OVER, LOOKS GOOD. SO THEY'RE USING THE OLD STUFF, NEW WALL, BUT ON THAT SECOND NIGHT, WHILE EVERYONE IS GONE, CONSTRUCTION CREWS RETURN TO THE SCENE AND THEY INSTALL THE 86-INCH INTERACTIVE FLAT PANEL DISPLAY. THEY CONNECT IT ALL TO THE DIFFERENT AV SOURCES SO THAT TEACHERS ARE OFF AND RUNNING ON THAT VERY NEXT DAY. SO WE HAVE PARTNERED WITH AN AV INTEGRATOR, THE DELCOM GROUP, TO DO THIS WORK WITH US. THEIR CAPACITY IS ABOUT 8 TO 10 CLASSROOMS PER NIGHT, UNLESS WE THROW THEM A CURVEBALL, AND EVERY NOW AND AGAIN WE WILL THROW THEM A CURVEBALL. BUT TO DATE, WE'VE INSTALLED BENQ INTERACTIVE FLAT PANELS IN 02,000 CLASSROOMS, AND WE'VE COMPLETED IN TOTAL. 33 CAMPUSES. AND KNOWING BACK THEN THAT THIS WAS GOING TO BE A MULTI-YEAR PROJECT, WE DECIDED EARLY ON TO INSTALL AT LEAST ONE FULL-FLEDGED MODEL CLASSROOM ON EVERY CAMPUS. WE WANTED EVERYONE TO SEE WHAT THEY WERE ABOUT TO GET, EVEN IF THEY HAD TO WAIT A LITTLE WHILE. RIGHT? SO EACH OF OUR 66, 67 SCHOOLS, THEY HAVE HAD AT LEAST ONE MODEL CLASSROOM SINCE LAST FALL. SO EVERYBODY CAN NOW SEE FIRSTHAND WHAT'S COMING THEIR WAY. THEY CAN EITHER WALK DOWN THE HALL OR MAYBE UP SOME STAIRS, BUT ANYBODY WITH AN INCLINATION [01:45:02] CAN GO SEE WHAT'S COMING THEIR WAY. THIS SLIDE SIMPLY SHOWS A LITTLE, I GUESS MY WORDS DON'T SAY THIS, IT'S A DASHBOARD. I SAID PROGRESS VISUALIZER. I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WAS THINKING, BUT IT'S A DASHBOARD THAT WE USE TO KEEP TRACK OF AND COMMUNICATE OUR TIMELINE. WE'VE PROJECTED START DATES AND COMPLETION DATES FOR ALL CAMPUSES. WE CAN SORT BY ANTICIPATED COMPLETION YEAR, BY SCHOOL TYPE, BY COMPLETION STATUS. IT SHOWS THAT THE VERY FIRST SCHOOL WE COMPLETED WAS MEMORIAL BACK IN JULY 2024, AND IT SHOWS THAT THE PEARSON EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER IS FORECAST TO BE OUR LAST CAMPUS WITH A PROJECTED COMPLETION DATE OF FEBRUARY 2027. BUT BY GOLLY, I AM PUSHING FOR NOTHING LATER THAN DECEMBER 2026, IS WHAT I HOPE THAT WE CAN COMPLETE THEM ALL BY. AND SO, CREATING A NEW CLASSROOM STANDARD WASN'T INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY'S ONLY PRIORITY OBJECTIVE WRITTEN INTO THE STRATEGIC PLAN. WE WERE ALSO SORT OF COMMISSIONED TO ADOPT AND IMPLEMENT A STUDENT DEVICE STRATEGY THAT WAS DIFFERENTIATED BY GRADE LEVELS. AND SO THAT'S NOT A NOVEL IDEA. IMPLEMENTING THAT KIND OF A STRATEGY WOULD BE NEW TO US, THOUGH, BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN ISSUING SINCE 2017 MORE OR LESS THE EXACT SAME DEVICE TO ALL OF OUR STUDENTS. IN OTHER WORDS, WE HAVE SENIORS AT PLANO EAST DOING SCHOOLWORK ON A COMPUTER THAT IS REMARKABLY SIMILAR TO THE ONE BEING USED BY A SECOND GRADER AT SHEPHERD ELEMENTARY. SO, TO THAT END, WE CONVENED A BROAD REPRESENTATIVE 40, 50-MEMBER WORK GROUP A COUPLE YEARS AGO TO WRESTLE WITH THAT TRUTH AND TO MAKE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS. AND AFTER DAYS AND LONG DELIBERATIONS, THE GROUP OFFERED THESE SUGGESTIONS, IPADS FOR OUR YOUNGEST LEARNERS, MACBOOKS FOR OUR OLDEST LEARNERS, AND LIKE THAT. AND SO, WE STARTED TO MOVE ON A COUPLE OF THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS THIS YEAR. BEGINNING LAST FALL AND CONTINUING INTO THIS SPRING, WE'VE DELIVERED CLOSE TO 6,000 NEW IPADS TO NEARLY 300 CLASSROOMS. AND THANKS TO THE ACTION, BY THE WAY, THAT YOU TOOK EARLIER TONIGHT, PLANO ISD HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE LIKELY TO RECEIVE MACBOOK COMPUTERS AS EARLY AS NEXT FALL. MACBOOK AIRS. AND SO, AS I BEGIN SORT OF MY DISMOUNT AND I INVITE ASHLEY TO THE MICROPHONE, I OFFER THE FOLLOWING QUOTE BY WAY OF A TRANSITION. CALL IT CONNECTIVE TISSUE BETWEEN OUR TWO DIFFERENT PARTS. A WEB DEVELOPER, ONE OF MY FAVORITE QUOTES OF LATE, A WEB DEVELOPER ONCE WROTE THAT UI IS THE SADDLE, THE STIRRUPS, AND THE REINS. UX IS THE FEELING YOU GET BEING ABLE TO RIDE THE HORSE. IF THOSE ARE NOT FAMILIAR TO YOU, UI AND UX ARE ABBREVIATIONS FOR USER INTERFACE AND USER EXPERIENCES. AND FOR OUR PURPOSES TONIGHT, UI REPRESENTS THE PHYSICAL STUFF, THE BOND STUFF, THE DEVICES, THE SOFTWARE, THE AV EQUIPMENT, ALL THE DIGITAL PLUMBING THAT PATRICK TAKES CARE OF FOR US, ALL THE THINGS I'VE TALKED ABOUT UP TO THIS POINT. BUT UX, ON THE OTHER HAND, IS EMOTIONAL. IT'S SUBJECTIVE. AND ULTIMATELY, USER EXPERIENCE IS WHAT CARRIES THE DAY. IT'S THE FEELING WE WANT OUR TEACHERS AND OUR STUDENTS TO HAVE, NOT ONLY BECAUSE THEY HAVE ACCESS TO GREAT TOOLS, BUT BECAUSE THEY KNOW HOW TO USE THEM TO GREAT EFFECT. THEY'RE ABLE TO RIDE THE HORSE. SO THAT'S WHAT ASHLEY JACKSON-IVEY AND HER DIGITAL LEARNING TEAM ARE WORKING ON EVERY SINGLE DAY. ASHLEY. WELCOME TO THE MICROPHONE. THANK YOU. OKAY, GOOD EVENING, PRESIDENT TYRA, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, AND DR. WILLIAMS. I'M EXCITED TO DISCUSS THE STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION OF OUR DIGITAL LEARNING PLAN THAT WAS YEARS 2024 THROUGH 2029. THE ROADMAP NOW FOCUSED ON THE EXECUTION PHASE FOR THE 26-27 SCHOOL YEAR. AND IT'S NOT JUST FOCUSED ON THAT TECHNOLOGY ROLLOUT ANYMORE, WHICH HAS BEEN HAPPENING FOR THE PAST FEW YEARS, BUT WE'RE REALLY FOCUSING ON THE PEDOLOGICAL SIDE OF THIS AND HOW ARE WE CHANGING WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH OUR TEACHER EXPERIENCES INTO OUR STUDENT EXPERIENCES NOW. SO MY TEAM'S MISSION IS TO GO BEYOND PROVIDING TECHNOLOGY ACCESS, WHICH WE'RE NOW GETTING. WE'RE GETTING THESE AMAZING DEVICES AND ALL THESE THINGS HAPPENING IN CLASSROOMS TO ENSURING VERIFIED INSTRUCTIONAL IMPACT. THE NEXT FEW SLIDES OUTLINES HOW WE ARE CONNECTING OUR DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE DIRECTLY TO STUDENT-LED ACHIEVEMENT. OUR CORE BELIEFS ARE WHY BEHIND THIS PLAN. SO BACK IN 2023, WHEN THAT GROUP OF [01:50:03] TEACHERS AND DISTRICT LEADERS, LIBRARIANS AND ADMINISTRATORS WERE CREATED AND THEY CAME UP WITH A DIGITAL LEARNING PLAN, THE FIRST BELIEF STATEMENT THAT'S ON THAT DOCUMENT IS THAT STUDENTS DON'T LEARN FROM TECHNOLOGY. THEY LEARN FROM THINKING, COLLABORATING AND DOING THAT TECHNOLOGY ENABLES. AND AS WE APPROACH 2026-2027, WE ARE GOING TO PUT THIS INTO OPERATION. WE MUST MOVE BEYOND SIMPLY DEPLOYING DEVICES OR ASKING HOW THEY'RE BEING USED. INSTEAD, WE MUST HOLD EVERY CLASSROOM TO A MORE RIGOROUS STANDARD. HOW IS THIS TECHNOLOGY CAUSING CRITICAL THINKING? PEDAGOGY ALWAYS DRIVES THE HARDWARE, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. SO, IN 26-27 OUR ROADMAP FOCUSES ON MOVING STUDENT LEARNING FROM SIMPLE CONCEPTS TO DEEP COGNITION. THE LEARNING SPACES FRAMEWORK IS THAT COGNITIVE VEHICLE. TECHNOLOGY ACTS AS THE CATALYST THAT SUPPORTS THIS CYCLE. SO, WHEN WE THINK ABOUT OUR LEARNING SPACES AND ALL OF OUR LESSON PLANS THAT WE HAVE, THIS IS HOW THEY'RE INTERACTING WITH EACH OTHER ON A DAILY BASIS. WE HAVE OUR WHOLE GROUP INSTRUCTION OR EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION, WHICH IS MORE LIKE THE I DO IN OUR GRADUAL RELEASE OF LESSON PLANS. THEN WE MOVE INTO THE WE DO, WHICH IS MORE OF THE SMALL GROUP OR COLLABORATIVE PRACTICES. AND THEN WE KEEP MOVING TOWARDS A YOU DO WHERE OUR STUDENTS ARE DOING THE INDEPENDENT PRACTICE OR HAVING THAT APPLICATION OR DEMONSTRATION OF LEARNING. AND SO, WHAT WE'RE REALLY LOOKING AT THIS NEXT YEAR IS HAVING PURPOSEFUL MINUTES. SO, WE KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF CONCERN AROUND DIGITAL SCREEN TIME RIGHT NOW AND THIS IS OUR GOAL. OUR GOAL IS TO MOVE AWAY FROM DIGITAL CONSUMPTION TOWARDS DIGITAL CREATION TO EXECUTE THIS WE MUST SHIFT OUR DISTRICT-WIDE PERSPECTIVE ON TECHNOLOGY. WE'RE MOVING BEYOND THE COMMON PERCEPTION THAT DIGITAL INTEGRATION SIMPLY MEANS PUTTING A WORKSHEET ONLINE, WHICH IS ONLY SUBSTITUTION IF WE LOOK AT OUR SAMR FOCUS, WHICH IS AT THE VERY BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN. SO I'LL TALK THROUGH THAT A LITTLE BIT AND STILL KEEPS THE TEACHER IN FULL CONTROL. INSTEAD WE'RE REDEFINING WHAT LESSONS LOOK LIKE ACROSS PLANO ISD. WE'RE EMPOWERING OUR TEACHERS TO MOVE STUDENT INTERACTIONS ABOVE THE LINE OF ENHANCEMENT, MOVING TOWARDS THAT MODIFICATION AND REDEFINITION OF WHAT OUR DIGITAL INTEGRATION LESSONS CAN LOOK LIKE. SO THIS IS NOT A TECHNICAL SKILL. IT'S AN INSTRUCTIONAL MANDATE IN A SENSE. WE'RE LOOKING AT HOW WE CAN COLLABORATE TO CREATE THESE EXPERIENCES FOR OUR STUDENTS. SO THIS UPCOMING SCHOOL YEAR MARKS A SIGNIFICANT PIVOT IN OUR INSTRUCTIONAL EXECUTION. FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS, WE FOCUSED HEAVILY ON THAT UNTETHERED TEACHING. SO MATT MENTIONED THIS. WE GOT THESE DEVICES IN CLASSROOMS AND WE REALLY WANTED TO MAKE SURE THE TEACHER FELT CONFIDENT AND IN POWER WHEN THEY WERE USING THE TECHNOLOGY OF HOW THEY WERE TEACHING THEIR STUDENTS. SO THIS NEXT YEAR, WE REALLY WANT TO MOVE TOWARDS THAT LEARNER FOCUS AND HAVING STUDENT-LED LEARNING, ESPECIALLY WHILE THEY'RE ON DEVICES. SO TO ACHIEVE THIS, WE'RE COLLABORATING DIRECTLY WITH ACADEMIC SERVICES. WE'RE PARTNERING WITH OUR CURRICULUM TEAMS AND WRITERS TO CREATE LESSONS WITH DIGITAL INTEGRATION DIRECTLY INTO OUR PISD CURRICULUM THAT WILL BE SEEN SPREAD ACROSS TARGETED SMALL GROUP, COLLABORATIVE GROUP TIME, INDEPENDENT PRACTICES. SO IT'S REALLY THAT MIDDLE SECTION WE'RE KIND OF LOOKING AT THIS NEXT YEAR OF THE WE DO AND THE YOU DO PART OF OUR STUDENT EXPERIENCES ON THOSE LESSON PLAN LAYOUTS. THE GOAL IS TO GIVE OPPORTUNITIES TO BUILD SKILLS SEEN WITHIN OUR PORTRAIT OF A GRADUATE AND A HEALTHY BALANCE OF UTILIZING DEVICES. WHEN STUDENTS ARE GIVEN THE TECHNOLOGY THAT ENHANCES THAT LEARNING EXPERIENCE, NOT COMPLETELY REPLACED PEN AND PAPER BY ANY MEANS, JUST THE ENHANCEMENT. SCALING THIS PEDAGOGY SHIFT TO 3,000 STAFF MEMBERS REQUIRES A FORCE MULTIPLIER APPROACH. OUR TEAM WILL COMBINE WITH CENTRALIZED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND APPLY SUSTAINABLE TRAIN-THE-TRAINER MODELS. AND DRIVEN, THIS IS GONNA BE DRIVEN BY OUR PLANNERS, OUR CAMPUS PLANNERS. TO REMIND YOU WHAT THOSE ARE, THAT STANDS FOR PROFESSIONAL LEARNING AMBASSADOR NETWORK. AND THESE ARE FOUND ON EACH OF OUR CAMPUSES. SO WE HAVE ONE AT EVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND TWO AT OUR SECONDARY CAMPUSES. IT'S A STIPEND POSITION. AND THEY ARE A LEADING FORCE IN GETTING TRAINING SPECIFICALLY ON OUR SOFTWARE AND HOW TO DO IMPLEMENTATION OF DIGITAL TOOLS IN CLASSROOMS. AND THEN THEY TAKE IT BACK TO THEIR CAMPUS AND THEY ARE THE LIAISON TO SPREAD THAT INFORMATION. THEY HOST TRAININGS. THEY DO DIFFERENT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OR EVEN KIND OF MINI COACHING SESSIONS WITH TEACHERS. THE IDEA WHEN WE WORK WITH THEM IS THAT THEY ARE NOT JUST FOCUSED ON HOW TO IMPLEMENT IT IN THEIR CLASSROOM. IT'S ALL CLASSROOMS AT THEIR CAMPUS. SO IT GOES BEYOND THEIR CONTENT AREA, AND IT REALLY FOCUSES ON HOW DO WE USE THIS TOOL WITH FIDELITY AND NOT JUST HAND IT OUT TO PEOPLE. AND SO WE'VE ALSO ADDED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TIME TO OUR PRINCIPALS AND ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL MEETINGS THIS NEXT YEAR TO ENSURE OUR CAMPUS LEADERS ARE ABLE TO ALSO MODEL THESE DIGITAL TOOLS AND HOW WE CAN USE THEM WITHIN, YOU KNOW, EVEN STAFF MEETINGS OR WHAT IT MAY LOOK LIKE FOR IT TO REALLY BE UTILIZED IN A WAY THAT'S NOT JUST PUTTING SOMEONE [01:55:02] ON A DEVICE TO PUT THEM ON A DEVICE BECAUSE THAT'S THE LAST THING WE REALLY WANT. SO WHEN OUR DIGITAL LEARNING PLAN WAS CREATED, THEY ALSO CREATED STUDENT TECHNOLOGY EXPECTATIONS AND THESE WERE SPREAD ACROSS FOUR DIFFERENT FOCUS AREAS AND SO ON THE SCREEN, IT'S A LITTLE SMALL BECAUSE IT'S A SCREENSHOT OF IT, BUT WE HAD OUR COMMUNICATION, COLLABORATION, CREATIVITY BE AN ENTIRE SECTION. AND THEN WE HAD OUR DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP. AND THEN WE HAD INFORMATION AND DATA LITERACY AND TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS AND PRACTICAL USE. AND THIS WAS KIND OF A SCALE FOR US TO SEE, LIKE, WHEN WERE THESE SKILLS GOING TO BEGIN TO BE TAUGHT? AND THEY SHOULD HAVE BEGINNER IDEAS OF HOW THESE SKILLS WORK. BUT THEN MOVING INTO THE DEVELOPING AND TO THE MASTERED LEVEL BY, OBVIOUSLY, BY HIGH SCHOOL, A MAJORITY OF THESE SKILLS ARE GETTING MASTERED. AND SO, WITH THIS, IT WAS A LITTLE UNCLEAR FOR ALL STAKEHOLDERS TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THIS MEANT IN CLASSROOMS. AND EVEN IF A TEACHER WERE TO LOOK AT THESE STATEMENTS, THEY MAY ASK, HOW DO I IMPLEMENT THIS? SO ONE THING WE WORKED ON IS CREATING ICAN STATEMENTS THAT WILL TRACK THE MASTERY OF THESE STUDENT EXPECTATIONS FOR EVERY SINGLE GRADE LEVEL ACROSS PLANO ISD. SO STARTING WITH KINDERGARTEN ALL THE WAY UP THROUGH 12TH GRADE, THERE IS NOW VERTICAL ALIGNMENT THAT GOES ALONG WITH THOSE STUDENT EXPECTATIONS. SO THIS IS A SCREEN OR A SNAPSHOT. 5TH GRADE, 8TH GRADE, AND 12TH GRADE, JUST LOOKING AT HOW THOSE ARE BROKEN DOWN FOR EACH OF THOSE AREAS. AND THEN WE DID ADD ONE AREA, ADDITIONAL AREA OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, SINCE THIS IS GOING TO BE ANOTHER ONE OF OUR FOCUS AREAS AS WE MOVE INTO THIS NEXT SCHOOL YEAR AND BEYOND, SINCE IT'S NOT GOING AWAY, RIGHT? SO WE WANT TO PREPARE ALL OF OUR AUDIENCES FOR THAT. AND SO IF WE LOOK AT AN EXAMPLE ON HERE, WE CAN SEE JUST LOOKING AT COMMUNICATION, COLLABORATION, CREATIVITY, FOR FIFTH GRADE, THE ICAN STATEMENT FOR THEM IS ICAN USE COLLABORATIVE WORKSPACES TO WORK WITH MY TEAM, EVEN IF WE'RE NOT IN THE SAME ROOM. SO REALLY GETTING THEM TO DIVE INTO SOME OF THOSE COLLABORATIVE TOOLS, SUCH AS GOOGLE DOCS, GOOGLE SLIDES, OR GOOGLE SHEETS. COMING AFTER A BUDGET CONVERSATION, THAT'S A TOOL I WISH I LEARNED IN ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE, AND HIGH SCHOOL, RIGHT? AND SO THOSE ARE THE SPACES WE REALLY WANT TO GIVE THEM, AND THAT'S HOW WE'RE COLLABORATING WITH OUR CURRICULUM TEAMS TO MAKE SURE THERE ARE THOSE EXPERIENCES THROUGHOUT THE CURRICULUM. AND THEN GOING INTO EIGHTH GRADE, THAT WOULD THEN MOVE INTO, I CAN MANAGE A GROUP PROJECT USING SHARED DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS AND SYNCHRONOUS TOOLS. SO MAYBE THEY'RE MOVING JUST BEYOND THE IDEA OF USING A COLLABORATIVE DOCUMENT. NOW, HOW DO WE HAVE A COLLABORATIVE CALENDAR TOGETHER SO WE KNOW WHEN WE'RE MEETING OR WE KNOW WHEN THESE DUE DATES ARE HAPPENING? AND THEN AS WE MOVE INTO 12TH GRADE, I CAN MASTERFULLY USE TECHNOLOGY TO COMMUNICATE, COLLABORATE, AND CREATE PRODUCTS THAT REFLECT MY UNIQUE POTENTIAL. SO THIS IS GOING TO HIT REALLY HEAVY WHEN WE COME TO THE IDEA OF CAPSTONE PROJECTS OR REAL-WORLD SCENARIOS FOR OUR SENIOR HIGH STUDENTS. SO THAT'S ONE EXAMPLE OF A VERTICAL ALIGNMENT FOR EACH OF THOSE AREAS BEFORE THEY MOVE ON AND HAVE THAT TRANSITION YEAR THE NEXT YEAR. SO THEN TO ADD ON TO THIS, BECAUSE THOSE ICAN STATEMENTS ARE GREAT, BUT AS A TEACHER OR EDUCATOR IN THE ROOM, HOW DO I KNOW THAT MY STUDENT HAS TRULY MASTERED THAT? WE'VE ALSO CREATED TEACHER LOOK FORS THAT RELATE TO ALL OF THESE I CAN STATEMENTS AS WELL. SO NOW A TEACHER TRULY HAS A MODEL OF WHAT THIS CAN LOOK LIKE IN THEIR CLASS AND HOW THEY'RE ABLE TO EMBED THIS WITHIN THEIR CURRICULUM AND LESSON PLANS THROUGHOUT THEIR TIME. SO IF WE LOOK AT AN EXAMPLE 8TH GRADE FOR THAT COMMUNICATION COLLABORATION AND CREATIVITY STUDENT USES A PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOL OR SHARED CALENDAR TO TRACK A GROUP PROJECT SO IT GIVES THEM SOME IDEAS OF HOW THEY COULD REALLY USE THIS AND REALLY WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS OF A WAY OF YES THIS MAY BE WITHIN THE CURRICULUM IN THIS UNIT BUT THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE YEAR THAT A TEACHER COULD ADD THIS IN AS WELL AND IT GIVES ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDENTS TO CHECK THAT MASTERY OFF FOR THAT ICAN STATEMENT. SO EVEN THINKING BEYOND THIS, ONE THING THAT OUR TEAM IS GOING TO START CREATING IS GOING TO LOOK FOR WALKTHROUGH. I AM SORRY. TEACHER LOOK FOR US, BUT THEN GOING TO LIKE A DISTRICT LEADERSHIP LOOK FOR OUR WALKTHROUGH. LOOK FOR LOOK FOR IT'S GETTING LATE, GUYS. RIGHT. OK. SO WHAT THAT WOULD MEAN IS THAT IF ANY ANYONE FROM CABINET OR DISTRICT LEADERSHIP, MY TEAM, WHOEVER IT MAY BE, WALKS INTO A CLASSROOM. WE ALSO HAVE ALIGNMENT THAT GOES ALONG WITH THIS SCALE AS WELL. THIS IS GOING TO ALLOW US TO HAVE CALIBRATION ACROSS THE DISTRICT TO TRULY UNDERSTAND WHERE ARE WE AND WHERE DO WE STILL NEED TO GO. IT KIND OF GIVES US THAT IDEA OF PROVIDING TARGETED SUPPORT, BOOTS ON THE GROUND SUPPORT AT WHAT SCHOOLS, WHAT PLCS, WHAT TEACHERS NEED OUR HELP MORE THAN OTHERS BASED ON THEIR COMFORTABILITY WITH TECHNOLOGY AND THEN ALSO HOW THEY'RE TEACHING IT TO STUDENTS. SO THEN HOW ARE WE GOING TO MEASURE THE IMPACT? SO ONE THING THAT WE ARE REALLY LOOKING AT, ESPECIALLY WITH THIS IDEA OF PURPOSEFUL MINUTES, OUR CREATION RATIO AS WE LIKE TO CALL IT NOW SO HOW MUCH TIME IS SPENT ON DEVICES WHERE IT'S JUST A PASSIVE CONSUMPTION YOU KNOW STUDENTS MAY JUST BE LOOKING AT A VIDEO OR DOING A PRACTICE PAGE BUT THEY'RE NOT NECESSARILY CREATING OR DOING ANYTHING ABOVE AND BEYOND THAT SO WE REALLY WANT TO TAKE THAT TO WHERE 80% OF OUR USAGE TIME ON A DEVICE IS SURROUNDED AROUND THAT CREATION OR ANY OF THE ATTRIBUTES OF THE PORTRAIT OF A GRADUATE [02:00:01] THAT'S REALLY OUR IDEA BEHIND THIS SO WE'RE GOING TO LOOK A LITTLE BIT CLOSER AT THAT THESE NEXT COUPLE YEARS AND THEN WE'LL ALSO BE IMPLEMENTING A CONTINUOUS CYCLE OF MEASUREMENT WE WANT TO GO BEYOND JUST LOOKING AT ATTENDANCE OF OUR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTS AND TRAININGS TO REALLY SEEING HOW TEACHERS ARE APPLYING WHAT THEY'VE LEARNED IN THEIR CLASSROOM SO THIS WILL ALLOW THIS TO RECOGNIZE THE SAMR MODEL AND LEARNING SPACES ARE COMPLETELY LINKED TOGETHER SO WE'RE GOING TO BE YOU KNOW REALLY STUDYING HOW A TEACHER COMES TO OUR TRAINING WHAT DID THEY GET FROM IT AND THEN HOW DO THEY APPLY THAT INTO THEIR CLASSROOM AND DID THEY TAKE IT TO THAT NEXT LEVEL, NOT JUST SUBSTITUTING SOMETHING ONLINE? BECAUSE THEY COULD. IT REALLY TAKES THE IMPACT OF THE STUDENT LEARNING. AND SO WITH US, THAT ALLOWS OUR TEAM TO GET INTO CLASSROOMS AND BE ABLE TO HAVE THOSE FOCUS AREAS, MAKE SURE THERE AREN'T DEFICITS IN THE AREA. THE LAST THING WE WANT OUR EDUCATORS TO SEE IS TO COME TO A TRAINING AND FEEL LIKE THEY GOT NOTHING OUT OF IT TO TAKE BACK TO THEIR CLASSROOM THE NEXT WEEK. AND THEN WITH THE IDEA OF CREATION RATIO, THESE ACRONYMS WERE SAID EARLIER, AND THEY ARE LIKE THE ONES THAT SPEAK MY LANGUAGE, ROI, MY NUMBER ONE THING WHEN IT COMES TO SOFTWARE. I LOVE IT. I WANT TO KNOW WHAT OUR RETURN ON INVESTMENT IS WITH SOFTWARE. AND SO THIS ALLOWS US TO ALSO REALLY CHECK AND SEE, IS THE SOFTWARE HELPING OUR STUDENTS LEARN? IS IT ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING WITH THEIR GROWTH OF LEARNING, OR IS IT JUST SOMETHING THAT THEY'RE GETTING TIME WITH? AND SO WE'LL BE LOOKING AT THE SHIFT, AND THE IDEA IS THAT WE ALSO ADD IN OR HAVE THE IDEA OF STUDENT PORTFOLIOS. IT'S NOT NECESSARILY ADDING IN BECAUSE WE DO HAVE THESE ALREADY. IT'S JUST PUTTING A HEAVIER FOCUS ON HOW WE CAN UTILIZE SOMETHING LIKE A PORTFOLIO FOR STUDENTS TO MEASURE THEIR LEARNING FROM KINDER ALL THE WAY THROUGH 12TH GRADE. WE ALREADY HAVE THESE OR ACCESS TO THESE BUILT INTO OUR LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS. FOR EXAMPLE, SEESAW IS USED IN KINDERGARTEN THROUGH FIFTH GRADE AND THE PORTFOLIO WITHIN SEESAW CAN BE SEEN FROM A KINDERGARTNER ALL THE WAY THROUGH FIFTH GRADE. SO NO MATTER WHAT YOU CAN ALWAYS GO BACK AND REFLECT ON THAT STUDENT'S LEARNING. SO IF WE THINK ABOUT HOW STUDENTS ARE USING TOOLS OVER TIME, MAYBE THEY STARTED CREATING A GOOGLE SLIDE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THIRD GRADE, WE CAN THEN COMPARE IT TO ONE THEY CREATED IN FIFTH GRADE AS WELL. SO WE'RE REALLY SEEING HOW THOSE SKILLS ARE BUILDING AND AGAIN RELATING TO PORTRAIT OF A GRADUATE AS WE CONTINUE UP THROUGH 12TH GRADE. CIRCLING ALL OF THAT TOGETHER, THEN THIS WOULD BE AN IDEA OF CREATING A DISTRICT-WIDE BADGING SYSTEM AND RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR HOW TEACHERS ARE IMPROVING THE STUDENT OUTCOMES AND REALLY APPLYING THOSE DIGITAL SKILLS IN THEIR CLASSROOMS. AND SO THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY SEE WHERE ARE THE AREAS WHERE WE REALLY, YOU KNOW, HAVE DIGITAL INTEGRATION HAPPENING, WHERE IT'S TAKING THE LEARNING TO THE NEXT LEVEL OF SAMR, TAKING AWAY FROM THE SUBSTITUTION, REALLY MOVING TOWARDS THAT REDEFINITION OF DOING THINGS THAT WEREN'T POSSIBLE WITHOUT THAT TECHNOLOGY. SO EXPANDING OUR WORLD BEYOND OUR CLASSROOM WALLS. BEING ABLE TO CREATE REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCES FOR OUR STUDENTS IS OUR ULTIMATE GOAL, AND THAT'S WHAT WE WANT TO HIT FOR EVERY TEACHER TRAINING. SO FOR THE 26-27 SCHOOL YEAR, IT'S ABOUT CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEN HAVING THE TECHNOLOGY TO EMPOWERING OUR STUDENTS TO USE THE TECHNOLOGY THE CORRECT WAY. SO CURRENTLY, THE DIGITAL LEARNING TEAM IS WORKING ON CREATING MODEL LESSONS FOR TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION AT ALL GRADE LEVELS BASED ON THE IDEAS SHARED THROUGH THIS ENTIRE PRESENTATION. WE'RE UPDATING OUR AI GUIDELINES TO ALIGN TO CURRENT RESEARCH WHILE BUILDING A WEBSITE THAT WILL HAVE INFORMATION AND RESOURCES FOR ALL STAKEHOLDERS. WE'RE TRAINING AND IMPLEMENTING SOFTWARE UPDATES TO ALIGN TO OUR DISTRICT PRIORITIES AND GOALS AND ALSO CONTINUING THE TRAINING ON DEVICE UPDATES, SUCH AS BENQ INTERACTIVE PANELS, WHICH ARE BEING INSTALLED WEEKLY STILL, AND THEN OUR IPADS THAT ARE JUST GETTING OUT TO KINDER AND FIRST GRADE CLASSROOMS. AND SO THROUGH OUR EMBEDDED ICAN STATEMENTS, DEEP COLLABORATION WITH ACADEMIC SERVICES, OUR NEW CALIBRATION TOOLS FOR TEACHERS AND LEADERS, MOVING TOWARDS A NEW WAY OF MEASURING IMPACT, WE ARE ENSURING THAT TECHNOLOGY IS NOT BEING TREATED AS A TOOL TO REPLACE OUR TEACHERS OR HANDS-ON LEARNING. BY FOCUSING ON THE INTENTIONALITY, OF HAVING DEVICES IN OUR CLASSROOM WE'RE MOVING FROM BEING A ONE-TO-ONE DEVICE DISTRICT DISTRICT TO A ONE-TO-ONE EMPOWERMENT DISTRICT THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT, TEAM I KNOW THIS HAS BEEN A HOT TOPIC IN THE COMMUNITY AND WE'VE GOTTEN SOME FEEDBACK OR SOME SOME REACH OUT FROM MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY WHAT QUESTIONS COMMENTS HOT SPORTS OPINIONS DO WE HAVE FOR THE TEAM? I'LL GO FIRST. THANK YOU. YES, THANK YOU BOTH THAT WAS FANTASTIC I'M NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT SPACE VERY MUCH. I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE FEELING OF RIDING THE HORSE RATHER THAN THE SADDLE AND THE REINS AND ALL THAT. SO LIKE A LOT OF PARENTS LATELY, BEFORE I EVEN REALIZED I WAS NOT THE ONLY ONE, IT'S BEEN ON MY MIND. AND I MENTIONED THIS BEFORE, I THINK, IN REFERENCE TO A TEST AT A BOARD MEETING A COUPLE WEEKS AGO. THE PREVALENCE OF OUR DEVICES. SO I'M REALLY EXCITED TO SEE THIS SHIFT TO BEING MORE INTENTIONAL ABOUT WHAT IS TAKING PLACE. I'M CURIOUS, AND I SAW LISA NODDING HER HEAD A LOT, WHICH MAKES ME FEEL EVEN BETTER BECAUSE I KNOW [02:05:01] SHE'S THINKING, YOU KNOW, TRULY LIKE PURELY CURRICULUM PERFORMANCE, ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE. BUT I'M CURIOUS, DO YOU KNOW, ARE THERE ANY PLANS TO INCORPORATE THE VALUE OF OFF-DEVICE WORK TO PREPARE FOR YOUR ON-DEVICE CREATION OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. AND I GET THIS IS, YOU KNOW, BEING AT THE BEGINNING STAGES OF BEING IMPLEMENTED. BUT I GUESS WHERE I'M REALLY COMING AT THIS FROM IS A BELIEF THAT TECHNOLOGY ABSOLUTELY BELONGS IN THE CLASSROOM, BUT I DO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE REMIND OUR STUDENTS THAT THERE IS ALSO A PLACE FOR PEN AND PAPER TO LET YOUR BRAIN GO THERE WITHOUT FLASHY SHINY THINGS ALL THE TIME. SO I'LL STOP TALKING WITH THAT QUESTION AND SEE IF THERE'S ANY THOUGHT ON THAT. YEAH, SO ACTUALLY I LOVE THAT. THANK YOU FOR ASKING THAT QUESTION. ONE THING THAT IS VERY SERIOUS TO US AS WELL, I WILL LET YOU KNOW I HAVE A TWO-YEAR-OLD AND WE ARE TRYING TO DO A SCREEN-FREE HOME. SO I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND THAT I'M IN THIS WORLD OF DIGITAL LEARNING AND THIS IS MY PASSION AND MY LOVE, BUT THERE IS A LINE THAT HAS TO BE DRAWN, RIGHT? AND SO THAT IS SOMETHING WE ARE DEFINITELY LOOKING AT THE NICE THING IS AND CAN TOO WE GOT TO HAVE THIS DEEP CONVERSATION TOO LOOKING AT OUR CURRICULUM CURRENTLY WE DON'T HAVE A TON OF EMBEDDED THINGS LIKE IT IS SOMETHING WE REALLY TRY TO HEAVILY FOCUS ON THE FACT THAT YOU KNOW PEN AND PAPER IT'S A SKILL WE HAVE TO KNOW AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE THAT AWAY BY ANY MEANS AND ONE THING THAT WE REALLY FOCUS ON WITH THOSE ICAN STATEMENTS AND LOOKING AT THOSE IT TIES DIRECTLY TO THE TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION TEKS, WHICH WERE UPDATED IN 2022 AND THAT'S FOR KINDER THROUGH EIGHTH GRADE WHERE HIGH SCHOOL IS MORE FOCUSED WITHIN A CTE COURSE. BUT THOSE ARE IMPLEMENTED IN ALL OF OUR CONTENT AREAS THROUGH OUR CURRICULUM OF K THROUGH EIGHT. AND WHAT'S AMAZING ABOUT THOSE TEKS IS THEY'RE NOT ALL ABOUT BEING ON TECHNOLOGY. WHEN WE THINK ABOUT EVEN ONE SECTION OF IT, IT'S ABOUT COMPUTATIONAL THINKING AND ALL THE BEGINNING STAGES OF COMPUTATIONAL THINKING UNTIL ALMOST THIRD GRADE, I WANT TO SAY. IT'S ALL BASED ON HOW DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW PATTERNS WORK WITHOUT BEING ON A COMPUTER. SO IT'S EVEN WHEN YOU'RE DOING STORYTELLING, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THOSE DIFFERENT COMPONENTS OF THINKING ABOUT PATTERN RECOGNITION AND WHAT'S GOING ON WITH IT, WE SEE THAT IN ALL CORE AREAS BUT IT ALSO DOESN'T HAVE TO BE DONE ON A DEVICE AND EVEN THE TEKS TELL US THAT. SO WE REALLY TRY TO IMPLEMENT THOSE PRACTICES BY STILL SHOWING STUDENTS LIKE HERE'S HOW, YOU KNOW, CUTOUTS OF IMAGES ARE STILL GOING TO HELP YOU WITH THIS AND THEN THE IDEA IS TO TRANSITION THEM AS THEY GET OLDER TO HOW DO THOSE SKILLS THEN WORK ON A DEVICE AS WELL WHEN IT COMES TO ALGORITHMS OR ANYTHING ALONG THOSE LINES FOR CODING PRACTICE AND THOSE IDEAS. THANK YOU. THAT WAS GREAT. ARE THERE DISTINCTIONS IS PROBABLY NOT THE RIGHT WORD THAT I'M LOOKING FOR. FOR STUDENTS WITH DIFFERENT ACCOMMODATIONS OR DIFFERENT, YEAH, ADHD IS WHAT'S ON MY MIND BECAUSE I HAVE IT FIRST OF ALL AND SO DO TWO OF MY THREE SONS. AND SO I'M JUST CURIOUS, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT'S BEING LOOKED AT AS WELL AS TO WHETHER THERE MAY NEED TO BE SOME SORT OF DIFFERENTIATION, THAT'S THE WORD I WAS LOOKING FOR, BETWEEN DIFFERENT STUDENTS BASED ON THEIR LEARNING NEEDS. OR IS IT MORE OF THE SAME TOOLS BUT PERHAPS A DIFFERENT APPROACH? DO YOU WANT ME TO TAKE THAT ONE? I THINK DIFFERENTIATION IS CERTAINLY SOMETHING WE LOOK AT FOR VARIOUS NEEDS, AND I'LL SAY WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT THAT QUESTION IS I WAS GOING THE OTHER ROUTE THINKING THERE WAS SOME ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY THAT WE DO USE SPECIFICALLY FOR ACCOMMODATIONS. SO EVERY CHILD IS UNIQUE, AND THE NEEDS. CERTAINLY, AS WITH ANY LESSON, AS WITH ANYTHING IN THE CURRICULUM, YOU HAVE TO THEN TAKE IT AND LOOK AT EVERY CHILD BY HIS OR HER NEED TO MAKE THOSE ADJUSTMENTS. AND WE'VE GOT A GREAT TEAM, BOTH ON THE ACADEMIC SIDE AND ON THE INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY SIDE, WHO HELP TEACHERS UNDERSTAND HOW TO DO THAT. LAST ONE. SORRY. I WAS EXCITED ABOUT THIS. ON THE AI, REALLY GLAD TO SEE THAT COMING INTO ALSO A VERY INTENTIONAL PLACE. I TALKED WITH DR. WILLIAMS ABOUT A LOT OF THESE TOPICS, BUT I REALLY LIKE WHAT YOU SAID, AND I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT ABOUT USING IT, TEACHING OUR STUDENTS THAT THIS IS A TOOL. AND BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN IMPLEMENTING THIS A LOT AT MY LAW FIRM, MANY, SEVERAL DIFFERENT TOOLS, AND THAT'S THE MESSAGE I TRY TO DRIVE HOME IS THIS IS A TOOL, NOT A SOLUTION. IT DOES NOT REPLACE THE IMPORTANCE OF WHAT WE'RE REALLY TEACHING OUR KIDS ABOUT NOT ONLY HOW THEY THINK AND HOW THEY DO THEIR WORK AND ANALYSIS, BUT ALSO HOW THEY INTERACT WITH OTHER HUMAN BEINGS. AND SO I WAS JUST REALLY, REALLY PLEASED TO HEAR YOU USE THAT PHRASING AND METHOD [02:10:04] OF THINKING ABOUT USING THOSE TOOLS. SO THANK YOU FOR ALL THE GREAT WORK ON THIS. I'M EXCITED TO HEAR FROM YOU LATER ONCE THIS IS KIND OF UP AND RUNNING. I THINK THIS IS A REALLY GOOD STEP FORWARD THAT RECOGNIZES THE IMPORTANCE OF GETTING OUR KIDS FLUENT WITH ALL OF THESE THINGS BUT DOING IT IN A VERY DELIBERATE WAY SO THANK YOU ALL. I WOULD ONLY ADD ON TO THAT BECAUSE OF RECENCY SO OUR WORK AROUND AI GUIDELINES REALLY HAS SPANNED NOW A COUPLE YEARS BUT MOST RECENTLY IN MARCH 2026 WE RECONVENED AGAIN, A 40-50 MEMBER AI WORK GROUP, REPRESENTATIVE GROUP WITH FOLKS FROM ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY LIBRARIANS, CAMPUS ADMINISTRATORS, EVERYBODY WHO NEEDED TO HAVE A VOICE AT THAT TABLE BECAUSE OF ACTION THAT THIS BOARD TOOK. I THINK IT WAS JUST TWO MONTHS AGO NOW WHERE YOU ADOPTED ACTUALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME AS POLICY CQD IF I RECALL. SO PRIOR TO ADOPTING CQD, WE DID NOT HAVE A POLICY SPECIFIC TO AI. SUBSEQUENTLY, YOU DID, AND SO WE WORKED WITH THIS GROUP TO CREATE GUIDANCE TO HELP US INTERPRET WHAT THAT POLICY SAYS AND HOW WE SHOULD ACT ACCORDINGLY. AND SO IT'S A GREAT GROUP WITH GREAT RESOURCES, AND WE CAN'T WAIT TO PRESENT THAT TO YOU AS WELL. IT'S BEEN A WHIRLWIND, BUT I THINK WE ARE ON THE OTHER SIDE. SO THANK YOU. I HAVE AN AI QUESTION THAT SORT OF DOVETAILS RIGHT OFF THIS DISCUSSION, AND REALLY IT'S ABOUT NOT JUST APPROPRIATE USE OF THE TOOL, BUT RESPONSIBLE STEWARDSHIP OF THE TOOL. AND MY THINKING AROUND THIS IS NOT ONLY USING THE TOOL BUT NOT ABUSING THE TOOL FOR CLASSROOM WORK, BUT AS MANY OF THE BOARD MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY KNOW, I AM THE QUALIFIED BIOMEDICAL SCIENTISTS FOR OUR SCIENTIFIC REVIEW COMMITTEE, FOR OUR ISAF STUDENTS, FOR OUR STUDENTS WHO ARE COMPETING IN SCIENCE FAIR. AND SO PROJECTS THAT HAVE CERTAIN COMPONENTS TO THEM THAT REQUIRE SAFETY REVIEW OR SOME OTHER SORT OF REVIEW, I GIVE MY NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS, BASICALLY THE ENTIRE FOURTH QUARTER, ALONG WITH SOME OF OUR SECONDARY SCIENCE TEAM TO REVIEW THESE PROJECTS. WE GOT A MIDDLE SCHOOL PROJECT THIS YEAR THAT THE PROTOCOL WAS BEAUTIFUL. NOW I HAVE HAD 10 YEARS OF POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION THAT I AM A COMPETENT PROTOCOL WRITER, RIGHT? AND THIS WAS A MIDDLE SCHOOL PROJECT AND THE PROTOCOL WAS JUST ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL. AND ON THE FIRST GO, I'VE SEEN STUDENTS WIN FIRST PLACE AT REGENERON'S ISEF THAT THEIR FIRST ROUND PROTOCOL WAS NOT THIS GOOD BECAUSE IT'S REALLY IT IS VERY IT TAKES A LOT OF WORK TO GET GOOD AT AND MOST OF OUR STUDENTS ARE STILL DEVELOPING THAT SKILL AND IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT'S NECESSARILY TAUGHT TRADITIONALLY IN SCIENCE RIGHT PRIOR TO POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION AND SO I CALLED DR. CARTER AND I SAID EITHER THIS STUDENT THEIR PARENT IS A BIOMEDICAL SCIENTIST AND WROTE THIS FOR THEM AND DID A VERY GOOD JOB, AND THERE'S NO MISTAKES, OR THIS WAS WRITTEN BY AI. AND I THINK WE NEED TO CALL THE TEACHER, BECAUSE I'M JUST, I'VE NEVER SEEN A PROTOCOL THIS GOOD. AND FOR ISEF, IF YOU ARE EXPERIMENTING WITH AI, THERE ARE VERY STRICT RULES AROUND THAT. IF YOU ARE TRYING TO WRITE YOUR WORK WITH AI, THAT IS A HUGE NO-NO. AND SO, AND YOU KNOW, DISALLOWED UNDER THE RULES. AND THAT'S PART OF WHAT THIS REVIEW IS ABOUT. AND SO IT, IT PROMPTED THIS SORT OF THOUGHT PROCESS FOR ME IN TERMS OF IT, HOW DO WE HAVE NOT ONLY SAFEGUARDS IN PLACE TO UNDERSTAND, LIKE, I WAS ABLE TO LOOK AT THIS PROTOCOL AND BE LIKE, NO WAY A MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT WROTE SOMETHING THIS GOOD, RIGHT? BECAUSE I HAVE 10 YEARS OF POST-SECONDARY TRAINING IN THIS, RIGHT? BUT HOW ARE WE ENSURING THAT AI IS BEING USED RESPONSIBLY AND HOW ARE WE EDUCATING THE KIDS, THE, YOU KNOW, STUDENTS, I SAY KIDS, BUT, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THESE ARE SECONDARY STUDENTS AND DON'T APPRECIATE BEING CALLED KIDS BECAUSE I'M LEARNING ABOUT MY SOON-TO-BE MIDDLE SCHOOL SON. HOW ARE WE EDUCATING THESE STUDENTS ON ETHICS, LIKE THE ETHICS SURROUNDING THESE, THIS ISSUE IN PARTICULAR? GREAT, FANTASTIC QUESTION. SO I WILL SAY, IN FACT, IVAN AND I AND KRISTIN HEBERT AND KRISTEN EDNEY, WE HAVE TODAY, WE FINISHED OUR SIXTH OF SIX DAYS AT AN AI LEADERSHIP COHORT KIND OF THING THAT HAPPENED WITH [02:15:02] EDUCATE TEXAS AT THEIR OFFICE OR THEIR BUILDING IN DALLAS. THE VERY FIRST MEETING THAT HAPPENED BACK IN AUGUST OR SEPTEMBER. ONE OF THE FEATURED SPEAKERS WAS SOMEONE NAMED AMANDA BICKERSTAFF. SHE HAS A, IT'S CALLED AI FOR EDUCATION, HER GROUP. BUT ANYWAY, SHE, HER ORGANIZATION DEVELOPED A FRAMEWORK THAT I THINK IS FANTASTIC, AND WE'RE LEANING INTO IT. SO IT'S A C FRAMEWORK, USING AI SAFELY, ETHICALLY, AND EFFECTIVELY. AND SO WE, AND FOR EACH OF THOSE THINGS, WE REALLY STARTED DIVE INTO WHAT IT MEANS IN EACH OF THOSE AND IN FACT WHAT WE'VE DONE IS TAKEN THAT FRAMEWORK NOW AND WE ARE BUILDING OUT OUR FIRST STUDENT FACING AI FULL COURSE ABOUT A 90 MINUTE TO COMPLETE JUST FUNDAMENTALS BASED ON THOSE THREE SAFE AND ETHICAL AND EFFECTIVE AND THE IDEA IS TO INTRODUCE THAT TO MAYBE THROUGH AN ADVISORY PERIOD TO NINTH GRADE STUDENTS NEXT YEAR AND START THERE BUT CERTAINLY WE WANT CONVERSATIONS TO BE HAPPENING EVERYWHERE. I WOULD SAY THIS. I DON'T HAVE IT IN FRONT OF YOU, BUT LISA AND KRISTEN, NOW THAT YOU'RE HERE, I NOTICE THE LIBRARIANS, THEY SPEARHEAD MUCH OF THIS. AND I LOOK AT THEY HAVE A QUARTERLY DASHBOARD, I THINK, THAT YOU SEE IS PRESENTED TO YOU, AND IT SHOWS HOW MANY DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP LESSONS THEY TEACH EACH QUARTER. AND I THINK THE LAST I SAW AFTER QUARTER THREE, UP TO NEARLY 6,000, I THINK, AND THAT'S A PIECE OF SORT OF THAT ETHICAL COMPONENT OF DIGITAL. SO WE'RE ALL TACKLING THIS FROM ALL DIFFERENT PLACES. INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY, BE SURE, ACADEMIC SERVICES AND LIBRARIANS TOGETHER HAVING THAT CONVERSATION. AND MATT, IF I CAN ADD, THAT AI COURSE FOR STUDENTS IS NON-NEGOTIABLE FOR US. BY OCTOBER 2026 IS OUR GOAL. EVERY NINTH GRADER WOULD HAVE TAKEN THAT AI COURSE. SO THAT I THINK IT'S GOING TO TAKE UP A LITTLE BIT OF TIME IN THE ADVISORY HOUR, WORKING WITH DR. HEBERT, DR. PEARSON ON THIS, AND HELPING US COMMUNICATE THAT TO PRINCIPALS. BUT I THINK THAT THIS WILL BE SOMETHING THAT WILL REALLY HELP OUR STUDENTS, AND I THINK OUR TEACHERS WILL APPRECIATE THAT AS WELL. WE'RE JUST STARTING THERE. WE WANT TO SEE WHERE ELSE WE CAN TAKE IT IN THE COMING YEARS, BUT FOR THE COMING SCHOOL YEAR, EVERY NINTH GRADER, AND ALSO EVERY TEACHER, EVERY STAFF MEMBER WILL ALSO BE COMPLETING AN OVERVIEW, JUST THE BASICS OF AI AND PLANO ISD POLICIES, GUIDELINES, APPROVED TOOLS, THINGS LIKE THAT. AND I DO THIS BECAUSE IT WAS THE VERY FIRST PART OF YOUR QUESTION, BUT IN THAT GUIDANCE THAT WE'RE DEVELOPING, AND I'M SAYING WE'RE NEARLY DONE WITH THAT GUIDANCE WITH THE EXCEPTION OF WE WANT TO ADD AS MANY OF THOSE. WHEN PEOPLE ASK QUESTIONS, WE WANT TO HAVE ANSWERS, SO A Q&A KIND OF THING. SO WE'RE STILL WORKING ON Q&A, BUT ONE OF THE PROMINENT SECTIONS OF THAT AI GUIDANCE IS A PERMISSION AND DISCLOSURE SECTION. SO YOU'RE SAYING, YOU KNOW, THAT IDEA OF DISCLOSING, WHEN YOU USE IT, YOU NEED TO DISCLOSE IT. WE'RE PREACHING TRANSPARENCY, AND THESE ARE THE 17 DIFFERENT WAYS YOU CAN DISCLOSE. YOU'VE GOT TO PICK ONE OF THEM, WHICHEVER IS APPROPRIATE. IT'S PROMINENTLY FEATURED IN OUR GUIDANCE IS PERMISSION AND DISCLOSURE. GREAT. I REALLY APPRECIATE THE THOUGHTFULNESS ON THAT BECAUSE IT IS, I'M USING A TON OF AI IN MY WORK, BUT THEN I KNOW WHEN IT'S GIVING ME BAD INFORMATION OR SOMETHING DOESN'T MAKE SENSE, OR MY FAVORITE IS WHEN CHATGPT TALKS BACK TO YOU AND SAYS, WELL, THE SERVERS ARE, THAT'S A LOT OF WORK. ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT ALL THAT WORK DONE? YES, YES, THAT'S. THAT'S WHY THE SERVERS ARE BUSY, BUT GET TO IT. OKAY, I JUST WANT TO MAKE TWO OBSERVATIONS REALLY QUICK FROM THIS PRESENTATION THAT FROM WHAT I'VE HEARD FROM THE COMMUNITY I FEEL LIKE IS UNDERAPPRECIATED, AND SO I'M GOING TO HIGHLIGHT TWO THEMES FROM Y'ALL'S PRESENTATION. ONE IS THE WORKFORCE SKILLS AND WHAT STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED AND THEN THE TEACHER CHECKPOINTS THAT YOU PRESENTED. VERY, VERY CLEAR ALIGNMENT BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM AND WORKFORCE SKILLS THAT I THINK THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE COMMUNITY CAN REALLY APPRECIATE. LIKE, OH YEAH, I DO THAT AT WORK ALL THE TIME, RIGHT? OR YES, I HAVE AN 18-YEAR-OLD EMPLOYEE WHO DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO SEND CALENDAR INVITES AND I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE SOMEBODY TEACHING THEM THAT BEFORE THEY GET TO ME, YOU KNOW, THIS SORT OF THING. SO I REALLY LIKE THAT PIECE. I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT IT. THE OTHER, YOU MENTIONED THE TEKS AND HOW THERE ARE TEKS THAT WE ARE ALIGNING WITH THE TEXAS ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS FOR ANY OF OUR NON-FREQUENT FLYERS WITH US THIS EVENING. SO THERE ARE EXPECTATIONS ON TEACHING TECHNOLOGY FROM THE STATE OF TEXAS. THE OTHER THING I FIND THAT THE [02:20:01] COMMUNITY DOESN'T ALWAYS THINK ABOUT IN TERMS OF TECHNOLOGY USE IS STANDARDIZED TESTING FOR STAR TESTING STARTS IN THIRD GRADE. AND IT HAS SENTENCE RESPONSES IT HAS ESSAYS AND SO AND IT NEEDS TO BE DONE ON THE COMPUTER RIGHT AND SO THE STUDENT HAS TO HAVE A CERTAIN LEVEL OF COMPETENCY WITH TECHNOLOGY EVEN STARTING IN THIRD GRADE TO SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE THE THE STATE MANDATED TESTING AND YOU KNOW I SAME WITH YOU RIGHT LIKE I WE REALLY VERY MUCH LIMITED SCREEN TIME AND I'M THAT PARENT THAT'S LIKE, OH, THERE IS SOMETHING SCHEDULED EVERY NIGHT OF THE WEEK. GREAT. YOU DON'T HAVE TIME FOR IPAD OR VIDEO GAMES OR THAT SORT OF STUFF BECAUSE YOU'RE IN THE POOL OR YOU'RE AT FENCING OR WHEREVER. AND SO I UNDERSTAND AND APPRECIATE WHERE THE COMMUNITY IS COMING FROM. I ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE THE COMMUNITY UNDERSTANDS THAT THERE ARE EXPECTATIONS THAT WE GET FROM THE STATE THROUGH THE TEKS, THROUGH TESTING, THAT THESE STUDENTS HAVE TO HAVE A CERTAIN LEVEL OF TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY EVEN BY THIRD GRADE TO PERFORM A TEST THAT WE ALL DID WITH PEN AND PAPER AND SCANTRON BECAUSE THAT'S HOW THE STATE OF TEXAS IS ADMINISTERING IT NOW I WAS A TOSS TEST PERSON I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE REST OF Y'ALL BUT YOU KNOW IT WAS DEFINITELY PEN AND PAPER SO JUST TWO THINGS I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT NOT NECESSARILY ANY QUESTION THERE. I JUST WANT TO ADD TO THAT ONE OTHER THING, AND THIS KIND OF GOES BACK TO THE CLASSROOM INSTRUCTIONAL PIECE AND NEEDING TO DIFFERENTIATE AND INTERVENE FOR STUDENTS, THAT WE DO HAVE RESEARCH-BASED TOOLS THAT WILL PERSONALIZE LEARNING OR PERSONALIZE INTERVENTION FOR STUDENTS. AND OFTENTIMES WHEN YOU HAVE 22 STUDENTS IN A CLASSROOM OR MORE, IF YOU'RE AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL, THOSE TOOLS REALLY BECOME IMPORTANT WHEN YOU'RE IN THE SMALL GROUP INSTRUCTION PIECE AND THE WATERING HOLE IN THE LEARNING SPACES BRING IN THE SMALL GROUP TO HAVE APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY USE THAT WILL PERSONALIZE SOME OF THE LEARNING PIECES JUST FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL STUDENT WHERE THEY ARE SO I JUST TO YOUR POINT OF PREPARING STUDENTS FOR ASSESSMENTS IT ALSO WILL HELP SUPPORT STUDENTS WHERE THEY'RE OR PERHAPS THEY NEED SOME GAP FILLING OR ENRICHMENT. SO MY DAUGHTER BROUGHT HOME AN ASSIGNMENT SHE NEEDED SOME HELP WITH AND IT WAS A PACKET STAPLED TOGETHER WITH SPACE FOR HER TO WRITE IN AND IT WAS NOT ANYTHING THAT WAS DIGITAL LEARNING AND THIS IS A SIXTH GRADER SO I WANT TO ASSURE PARENTS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL THAT NOT EVERYTHING IS EVEN DONE ON COMPUTERS. THERE IS A LOT OF WORK THAT IS DONE STILL PEN AND PAPER. AND, YOU KNOW, HAVING A JUNIOR WHO'S ABOUT TO BE A SENIOR, AND YOU KNOW THIS WITH HAVING OLDER KIDS TOO IN SECONDARY, THEY ARE LEARNING THOSE SKILLS, THE COLLABORATIVENESS, THE COMMUNICATION, AND I JUST FORGOT WHAT THE OTHER FIVE WERE. IT JUST SLIPPED MY MIND. BUT, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE LEARNING THOSE SKILLS THAT THEY CAN THEN TRANSFER. SO THANK YOU FOR THE WORK YOU'RE DOING. AND BY THE WAY, I KNEW IT WAS A MATT FREY PRESENTATION BEFORE I EVEN LOOKED BECAUSE I SAW THE SPACE SLIDE. AND I WAS LIKE, OH, THIS IS MATT FREY. SO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING YOUR UNIQUENESS TO OUR DISTRICT. I LOVE IT. I DON'T KNOW ANY OTHER WAY. ALL RIGHT, TRUSTEES, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS THIS EVENING? GREAT REPORT. THANK [9.3 Board Member Community Liaison and Board Subcommittee Update ] YOU. THANK YOU. WE APPRECIATE IT. GREAT JOB, ASHLEY. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. FINAL REPORT OF THE EVENING IS BOARD MEMBER COMMUNITY LIAISON AND BOARD SUBCOMMITTEE UPDATES. NANCY, YOU HAD PUT IN TO DO A COUPLE OF LIAISON OR COMMITTEE UPDATES. SO I'M GOING TO GO SO QUICKLY BECAUSE I'M LOOKING AT THE TIME. AND I SIT ON THE RICHARDSON CHAMBER WORKFORCE AND EDUCATION COMMITTEE. AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE COMMITTEE IS WORKING ON IS A HALF-DAY SUMMIT, WHICH IS GOING TO BE PLANNED FOR AUGUST 25TH. AND THEY'RE STILL LOOKING FOR SPEAKERS, LOCATION, COSTS, AND SPONSORS. AND THE AUDIENCE IS GOING TO BE BUSINESS LEADERS IN THE COMMUNITY. AND SO THEY ALSO HAVE A STATE OF HIGHER EDUCATION PLANNED FOR NOVEMBER AND AN INDUSTRY DAY, WHICH WAS REALLY COOL. I GOT TO GO ON THAT LAST YEAR. AND WE TAKE STUDENTS AND THEY DO TOURS OF LOCAL BUSINESSES LIKE WE WENT TO THE CELESTICA FABRICATION PLANT, AND THEY MAKE ALL THOSE HUGE RACKS FOR META, YOU KNOW, FOR THE DATA CENTERS. ANYWAY, IT WAS REALLY EYE-OPENING. SO THOSE INDUSTRY DAY TOURS ARE REALLY EYE-OPENING AND FUN. AND THEN ALSO PLANNING A [02:25:05] PRINCIPAL FOR A DAY IN RICHARDSON, NOT HERE. AND THEN THERE WILL BE STATE OF THE DISTRICTS, AND THEY INCLUDE PLANO AND RICHARDSON IN THAT, AND A CTE SHOWCASE, AND THAT'S GOING TO BE IN FEBRUARY. AND SO I THINK THERESA ALWAYS GETS TO PRESENT THERE. SORRY, I DO NOT KNOW WHY MY ALLERGIES ARE SO BAD. IN MARCH, WE HAD A PRESENTATION BY DYLAN RAFFERTY. MAYBE I SHOULD FINISH THIS LATER. I'M SO SORRY. REGARDING DISABILITIES. AND THEN IN MARCH, I CAN'T TALK. I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS. IN MARCH, I PRESENTED TO THE LEADERSHIP RICHARDSON EDUCATION DAY. AND SO A THIRD OF THE CITIZENS IN RICHARDSON SEND THEIR KIDS TO PLANO SCHOOLS. SO THAT'S WHY IT'S RELEVANT TO HAVE REPRESENTATION THERE. AND THEN I'M ALSO ON THEIR EXECUTIVE BOARD AND SO THEY'VE GOT THEIR LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES UNDER, UNDER, YOU KNOW, CONSIDERATION AND THEN THEY'VE PASSED A BUDGET. I APOLOGIZE. AND THEN SELENDA IS ALSO SHE JOINS ME FOR THE PUBLIC POLICY AND CITY OF RICHARDSON REALLY CAME IN AND WAS FOCUSING ON THEIR BONDS. SO THAT'S REALLY THE ONLY UPDATE. AND THEN THEY'RE SEARCHING FOR NEW PRESIDENTS FOR THE RICHARDSON CHAMBER. I APOLOGIZE FOR MY VOICE, BUT ANYWAY, THERE'S A LOT OF GOOD THINGS GOING ON THERE. I'M FINISHED. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. AND THAT CONCLUDES OUR REPORTS FOR THIS EVENING. WE WILL NOW MOVE ON TO POLICIES, [10.1 Adoption of Policy BBB(LOCAL) Board Members: Elections under Second Reading] WHICH IS THE FINAL SECTION OF OUR AGENDA. WE HAVE SEVERAL, BUT I THINK WE CAN KNOCK THEM UP AND LINE THEM UP AND KNOCK THEM DOWN. WE WILL HEAR FIRST ITEM 10.1, ADOPTION OF POLICY BBB LOCAL BOARD MEMBERS' ELECTIONS UNDER SECOND READING. I WILL INVITE DR. SELENDA FREEMAN, DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF LEADERSHIP AND OPERATIONS, TO PLEASE PRESENT. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TYRA. REVISIONS TO POLICY BBB WERE MADE TO UPDATE BOARD ELECTION SCHEDULES. THIS POLICY IS PRESENTED FOR ADOPTION UNDER SECOND READING TONIGHT. THANK YOU, SELENDA. WE WILL NOW CONSIDER THE ADOPTION OF POLICY BBB LOCAL BOARD MEMBERS ELECTIONS UNDER SECOND READING. TRUSTEES, MAY I PLEASE HAVE A MOTION? I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ADOPTS POLICY BBB LOCAL BOARD MEMBERS ELECTIONS UNDER SECOND READING. I SECOND. THANK YOU. I HAVE A MOTION BY TRUSTEE TARRAH LANTZ AND A SECOND BY TRUSTEE ELISA KLEIN THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ADOPTS POLICY BBB LOCAL BOARD MEMBERS ELECTIONS UNDER SECOND READING. TRUSTEES, IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION. SEEING AND HEARING NONE, WE'LL CALL FOR A VOTE. [10.2 Approval of Policy BBG(LOCAL) Board Members: Compensation and Expenses on First Reading] ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND. THAT'S SEVEN HANDS UP. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. WE WILL NOW HEAR ITEM 10.2, APPROVAL OF POLICY BBG LOCAL BOARD MEMBERS' COMPENSATION AND EXPENSES ON FIRST READING. I WILL INVITE DR. SELENDA FREEMAN, DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF LEADERSHIP AND OPERATIONS, TO PLEASE PRESENT. POLICY BBG LOCAL WAS REVIEWED AS PART OF THE DISTRICT'S ONGOING POLICY REVIEW PROCESS. NO CHANGES ARE RECOMMENDED AT THIS TIME. BBG IS PRESENTED UNDER FIRST READING. THANK YOU, SELENDA. WE WILL NOW CONSIDER THE APPROVAL OF POLICY BBG LOCAL BOARD MEMBERS COMPENSATION AND EXPENSES ON FIRST READING. TRUSTEES, MAY I PLEASE HAVE A MOTION? I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES POLICY BBG LOCAL BOARD MEMBERS COMPENSATION AND EXPENSES ON FIRST READING. I SECOND. THANK YOU, TRUSTEES. I HAVE A MOTION BY BOARD SECRETARY KATHERINE GOODWIN AND A SECOND BY TRUSTEE ELISA KLEIN THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVE POLICY BBG LOCAL BOARD MEMBERS COMPENSATION AND EXPENSES ON FIRST READING. TRUSTEES, IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT TWO THINGS. WE DON'T ACTUALLY GET ANY COMPENSATION. SO FOR ANYBODY WHO'S UP WITH US LATE TONIGHT, YOU KNOW, IT'S A LITTLE BIT MISLEADING THE TITLE OF THE POLICY, BUT ON THE POLICY COMMITTEE, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING IS NOT ONLY REVIEWING AND UPDATING POLICIES THAT WE BELIEVE HAVE RELEVANT NEED FOR REVIEW, BUT SOME OF THESE POLICIES THAT HAVE NOT BEEN, THAT WERE APPROVED 20 YEARS AGO, WE ARE ALSO REVIEWING THOSE POLICIES AND IN SOME CASES GOING TO BE BRINGING THEM BACK FORWARD JUST TO ENSURE THAT THE POLICY SUBCOMMITTEE AND THE BOARD HAVE REVIEWED AND SORT OF REAFFIRMED OR RE-APPROVED THOSE POLICIES WITHIN LIKE THE LAST 20 YEARS. SO THAT'S WHY YOU MAY BE SEEING MORE OF POLICIES LIKE THIS COMING FORWARD THAT WE MAY NOT BE RECOMMENDING CHANGES, BUT WE ARE BRINGING THEM FORWARD [02:30:02] BECAUSE WE DO WANT THE BOARD TO SEE WHAT IS IN THE POLICY MANUAL EVEN IF IT HASN'T BEEN CHANGED IN A WHILE. OKAY, DROP MY PEN. ANY OTHER DISCUSSION, TRUSTEES? ALL RIGHT, SEEING, HEARING NONE, I'LL CALL [10.3 Approval of Policy BDAA(LOCAL): Officers and Officials: Duties and Requirements of Board Officers on First Reading] FOR A VOTE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND. ALL RIGHT, THAT'S SEVEN HANDS UP. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. WE WILL NOW HEAR ITEM 10.3, APPROVAL OF POLICY BDAA LOCAL OFFICERS AND OFFICIALS, DUTIES AND REQUIREMENTS OF BOARD OFFICERS ON FIRST READING. I WILL INVITE DR. FREEMAN TO PLEASE PRESENT. POLICY BDAA WAS UPDATED TO ADDRESS SITUATIONS IN WHICH A BOARD OFFICER POSITION BECOMES VACANT. THIS POLICY IS PRESENTED FOR APPROVAL UNDER FIRST READING TONIGHT. THANK YOU, SELENDA. WE WILL NOW CONSIDER THE APPROVAL OF POLICY BDA LOCAL OFFICERS AND OFFICIALS DUTIES AND REQUIREMENTS OF BOARD OFFICERS ON FIRST READING. TRUSTEES, MAY I PLEASE HAVE A MOTION? I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES POLICY BDA LOCAL OFFICERS AND OFFICIALS DUTIES AND REQUIREMENTS OF BOARD OFFICERS ON FIRST READING. SECOND. THANK YOU, TRUSTEES. I HAVE A MOTION BY TRUSTEE ELISA KLEIN AND A SECOND BY TRUSTEE TARRAH LANTZ THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES POLICY BDAA LOCAL OFFICERS AND OFFICIALS DUTIES AND REQUIREMENTS OF BOARD OFFICERS ON FIRST READING. TRUSTEES, IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? THIS IS ONE THAT I HAD INTEREST IN UPDATING, AND REALLY WE DID NOT HAVE IN POLICY WHAT HAPPENS IF A BOARD OFFICER EITHER, YOU KNOW, CAN NO LONGER CONTINUE SERVING IN THAT BOARD OFFICER CAPACITY, OR, YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU HAVE SOMEONE WHO'S IN A BOARD OFFICER ROLE WHO RESIGNS OR SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO STAY ON THE BOARD, OR IF YOU HAVE LIKE AN UNEXPECTED, YOU KNOW, AN UNEXPECTED LIFE SITUATION AND YOU CAN NO LONGER CONTINUE SERVING AS A TRUSTEE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE A POLICY AND WE HAVE A PROCESS FOR THAT. AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT THIS IS MEANT TO ADDRESS. SO THAT WAS THE DISCUSSION FROM THE POLICY SUBCOMMITTEE. ANY OTHER DISCUSSION, TRUSTEES? ALL RIGHT, SEEING AND HEARING NONE, I WILL CALL FOR A VOTE. ALL [10.4 Adoption of Policy EHDE(LOCAL) Alternative Methods for Earning Credit: Distance Learning on Second Reading] OF THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND. ALL RIGHT, ALL HANDS UP. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. WE WILL NOW HEAR ITEM 10.4, ADOPTION OF POLICY EHDE LOCAL ALTERNATIVE METHOD FOR EARNING CREDIT DISTANCE LEARNING ON SECOND READING. I WILL INVITE DR. FREEMAN TO PLEASE PRESENT. REVISIONS TO POLICY EHDE UPDATE PROCEDURES RELATED TO ONLINE COURSES TO ALIGN WITH CURRENT DISTRICT PRACTICES. THIS POLICY IS PRESENTED FOR ADOPTION UNDER SECOND READING. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, SELENDA. WE WILL NOW CONSIDER THE ADOPTION OF POLICY EHDE LOCAL ALTERNATIVE METHODS FOR EARNING CREDIT, DISTANCE LEARNING ON SECOND READING. TRUSTEES, MAY I PLEASE HAVE A MOTION? I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ADOPTS POLICY EHDE LOCAL ALTERNATIVE METHODS FOR EARNING CREDIT, DISTANCE LEARNING ON SECOND READING. I'LL SECOND. THANK YOU, TRUSTEES. I HAVE A MOTION BY BOARD SECRETARY KATHERINE GOODWIN AND A SECOND BY TRUSTEE TARRAH LANTZ THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ADOPTS POLICY EHDE LOCAL ALTERNATIVE METHOD FOR EARNING CREDIT, DISTANCE LEARNING ON SECOND READING. TRUSTEES, IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? SEEING AND HEARING NONE, I'LL CALL FOR A VOTE. ALL THOSE [10.5 Adoption of Policy EIC(LOCAL) Academic Achievement: Class Ranking on Second Reading] IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND. ALL RIGHT, THAT'S SEVEN HANDS UP. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. WE WILL NOW HEAR ITEM 10.5, ADOPTION OF POLICY EIC LOCAL ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT CLASS RANKING ON SECOND READING. I WILL INVITE DR. FREEMAN TO PLEASE PRESENT. REVISIONS TO POLICY EIC UPDATE GPA CALCULATION PROCEDURES TO ALIGN WITH CURRENT DISTRICT PRACTICES. THIS POLICY IS PRESENTED FOR ADOPTION UNDER SECOND READING. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, TRUSTEES. MAY I PLEASE HAVE A MOTION? I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ADOPTS POLICY EIC LOCAL ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT CLASS RANKING ON SECOND READING. I SECOND. THANK YOU, TRUSTEES. I HAVE A MOTION BY TRUSTEE TARRAH LANTZ AND A SECOND BY TRUSTEE ELISA KLEIN THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ADOPTS POLICY EIC LOCAL ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT CLASS RANKING ON SECOND READING. IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? SEEING AND HEARING NONE, WE'LL CALL FOR A VOTE. ALL THOSE [10.6 Approval of Policy EIF(LOCAL) Academic Achievement: Graduation on First Reading] IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND. ALL RIGHT, THAT'S SEVEN HANDS UP. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. WE WILL NOW HEAR ITEM 10.6, APPROVAL OF POLICY EIF LOCAL ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT GRADUATION ON FIRST READING. I WILL INVITE DR. FREEMAN TO PLEASE PRESENT. REVISIONS TO POLICY EIF LOCAL ARE PRESENTED FOR YOUR APPROVAL UNDER FIRST READING. CHANGES TO THE POLICY ALLOW STUDENTS INCREASED CHOICE IN THEIR ACADEMIC PLANNING BY REMOVING ADDITIONAL COURSE REQUIREMENTS BEYOND THOSE MANDATED BY THE STATE. FOLLOWING THE BOARD'S APPROVAL UNDER FIRST READING OF THIS POLICY, INPUT WILL BE SOUGHT FROM THE STUDENT HEALTH ADVISORY [02:35:01] COMMITTEE, SHAC, DUE TO THE REMOVAL OF HEALTH AS A REQUIRED COURSE FOR GRADUATION. SHAC'S FEEDBACK AND RECOMMENDATION WILL BE SHARED WITH THE BOARD PRIOR TO THE SECOND READING. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, SELENDA. WE WILL NOW CONSIDER APPROVAL OF POLICY EIF LOCAL ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT GRADUATION ON FIRST READING. TRUSTEES, MAY I PLEASE HAVE A MOTION? I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES POLICY EIF LOCAL ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, GRADUATION ON FIRST READING. SECOND. THANK YOU, TRUSTEES. I HAVE A MOTION BY BOARD SECRETARY KATHERINE GOODWIN AND A SECOND BY TRUSTEE ELISA KLEIN THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES POLICY EIF LOCAL ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, GRADUATION ON FIRST READING. TRUSTEES, IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? SEEING AND HEARING [10.7 Approval of Policy FM(LOCAL) Student Activities on First Reading] NONE, I WILL CALL FOR A VOTE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND. THAT'S SEVEN HANDS UP. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. WE WILL NOW HEAR ITEM 10.7, APPROVAL OF POLICY FM LOCAL STUDENT ACTIVITIES ON FIRST READING. I WILL INVITE DR. FREEMAN TO PLEASE PRESENT. THE REVISION TO FM LOCAL PROVIDES THAT ELIGIBLE STUDENTS WILL BE EXCUSED FOR THE NECESSARY NUMBER OF ABSENCES TO PARTICIPATE IN UIL AND DISTRICT-SANCTIONED EXTRACURRICULAR COMPETITIONS. THIS POLICY IS PRESENTED FOR YOUR APPROVAL UNDER FIRST READING. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, SELENDA. WE WILL NOW CONSIDER APPROVAL OF POLICY FM LOCAL STUDENT ACTIVITIES ON FIRST READING. TRUSTEES, MAY I PLEASE HAVE A MOTION? I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES POLICY FM LOCAL STUDENT ACTIVITIES ON FIRST READING. SECOND. THANK YOU, TRUSTEES. I HAVE A MOTION BY TRUSTEE TARRAH LANTZ AND A SECOND BY BOARD SECRETARY KATHERINE GOODWIN THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES POLICY FM LOCAL STUDENT ACTIVITIES ON FIRST READING. TRUSTEES, IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? SEEING AND HEARING NONE, WE WILL CALL FOR A VOTE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND. ALL RIGHT, THAT'S SEVEN HANDS UP. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU. WE ARE NOW READY FOR ITEM 11, ADJOURNMENT. IF THERE IS NO FURTHER BUSINESS OR ANY OBJECTIONS FROM THE BOARD, THE MEETING IS NOW ADJOURNED. THE TIME IS 10:47 P.M. ON TUESDAY, MAY 5TH, 2026. * This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.