Aug 18, 2026 School Board Regular Meeting

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CALL TO ORDER

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THE TIME IS NOW 6:46 P.M. AND I CALL THE AUGUST 18TH REGULAR MEETING OF THE EANES ISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO ORDER.

MADAM SECRETARY. DO WE HAVE A QUORUM? YES WE DO.

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ESTABLISH A QUORUM

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD AND ADMINISTRATION, WELCOME TO EVERYONE WHO IS WITH US TONIGHT AND TO THOSE WHO MAY BE LISTENING AT HOME.

THE PURPOSE OF THE MEETING IS FOR THE BOARD TO DELIBERATE AND VOTE ON MATTERS LISTED ON THE AGENDA.

AS ALWAYS, WE ARE COMMITTED TO ENSURING A RESPECTFUL AND CONSTRUCTIVE ENVIRONMENT AND EXPECT THE SAME COURTESY IN RETURN.

PLEASE REFRAIN FROM OUTBURSTS OR DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR, AND APPLAUSE IS ALWAYS WELCOME FOR THOSE BEING RECOGNIZED DURING THE SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT. DURING EVERY MEETING, THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC COMMENT, AND WE HAVE SEVERAL SPEAKERS SIGNED UP TONIGHT.

THERE WILL BE AN OPPORTUNITY LATER IN THE MEETING, AND I WILL PROVIDE FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS ON THAT DURING THAT PORTION OF THE AGENDA.

YOU ARE WELCOME TO STAY FOR THE ENTIRE OPEN MEETING TO LISTEN TO THE BUSINESS OF THE BOARD.

IF YOU DECIDE TO LEAVE EARLY, PLEASE DO SO QUIETLY AND TAKE ANY CONVERSATIONS OUTSIDE.

AS ALWAYS, IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS OR FEEDBACK ABOUT AN ITEM DISCUSSED TONIGHT, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO EMAIL THE TRUSTEES AT TRUSTEES@EANESISD.NET.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENCE TONIGHT AND FOR YOUR CONTINUED INTEREST IN SUPPORTING OUR COMMUNITY AND SCHOOLS. WE ARE GOING TO BEGIN OUR AGENDA WITH THE EANES ISD MISSION STATEMENT. I'LL WAIT TILL THAT'S POSTED, TYPICALLY.

ALL RIGHT. UNITE. EMPOWER, INSPIRE EVERY PERSON.

EVERY DAY. WE UNITE OUR COMMUNITY THROUGH RESPECTFUL RELATIONSHIPS, CREATING A SENSE OF BELONGING FOR ALL.

WE EMPOWER STUDENTS, PROVIDING AN EXEMPLARY EDUCATION THAT DEVELOPS CURIOSITY, CREATIVITY, AND INDIVIDUAL TALENT. WE INSPIRE EACH OTHER TO LEAD PURPOSEFUL LIVES OF EMPATHY, GRATITUDE, AND COMPASSION. THE NEXT ITEM ON OUR AGENDA IS THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.

WOULD EVERY CHILD WHO TOOK A PIECE OF CANDY PLEASE STAND AT THIS TIME AND HELP LEAD US IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS.

ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. WE WILL NOW MOVE TO THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA, WHICH IS THE SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT,

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT

WE KICKED OFF SCHOOL LAST WEEK WITH OUR FIRST DAY BACK FOR STUDENTS.

AND PRIOR TO THAT, WE HAD A WONDERFUL ANNUAL CONVOCATION EVENT WHERE WE WELCOMED ALL OF OUR STAFF BACK WITH SOME AMAZING PERFORMANCES.

WE HAD OUR BAND AND OUR DRUMLINE. I WANT TO GIVE A SPECIAL SHOUT OUT AND THANK YOU TO MY MC, TARA SRINIVASAN, WHO'S HERE. SHE DID AN AMAZING JOB.

YOU KNOW, CONVOCATION IS A SPECIAL TIME FOR ALL OF US TO GET BACK TOGETHER. WE HAD GREAT SUPPORT FROM COMMUNITY PARTNERS VIC MEDICAL, PRIME BANK, TEXAS DISPOSAL SYSTEMS, BRUEGGER'S BAGELS, BENCHMARK BANK.

WE ARE ALL IN HERE AT EANES. AND IT WAS GAME ON.

THAT WAS OUR THEME FOR CONVOCATION IN THE YEAR, AND OUR TEACHERS BROUGHT IT LAST WEEK ALONG WITH OUR STUDENTS WERE SO HAPPY TO HAVE THEM ALL BACK. THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, I GOT THE PRIVILEGE TO RIDE ON A BUS WITH MR. JEFF AND HIS RIDERS AND WELCOME KINDERGARTNERS AS WE MADE OUR WAY TO FOREST TRAIL ELEMENTARY.

THAT WAS SUCH A FUN EXPERIENCE. I WANT TO THANK KELLY MARWILL AND DIANE HERN FOR MEETING OUR BUS DRIVERS AND STAFF AT THE BARN THAT THAT MORNING AND RINGING THEM OUT. THAT WAS A LOT OF FUN. ALSO FOR ALL OF OUR NEW FAMILIES IN KINDERGARTEN FAMILIES THOSE WHO HAVE MOVED INTO THE DISTRICT AND BEGUN SCHOOL THIS YEAR.

WE WANT TO HELP YOU WITH ANYTHING WE CAN. PLEASE LET US KNOW ABOUT THAT EXPERIENCE AS YOU GO THROUGH THE YEAR.

ALSO TONIGHT, WE HAVE A SPECIAL GUEST HERE WITH US WHO HAD A BUSY SUMMER.

OUR BCE RISING THIRD GRADER. NOW, BRIANNA BRUSH IS HERE.

BRIANNA, COULD YOU STAND, PLEASE? CAN YOU SEE HER THERE IN THE THIRD ROW? SHE DIDN'T. THERE WE GO. CAN YOU COME ON UP FOR A MINUTE? COME ON UP HERE, BRIANNA. [APPLAUSE] I'M GOING TO SAY SOME THINGS ABOUT YOU TO EVERYBODY SO THEY KNOW WHAT YOU WERE DOING THIS SUMMER.

BRIANNA WAS BUSY RUNNING IN THE AAU TRACK AND FIELD JUNIOR OLYMPICS IN DES MOINES, IOWA THIS SUMMER, COMPETING IN THE 400 METER, 800 METER AND 1500 METER RACES.

AT A RECENT NATIONAL EVENT ALSO HELD IN AUSTIN, BRIANNA BECAME THE NATIONAL CHAMPION IN THE 400 METER, 800 METER AND MILE RACES. THESE ARE AMAZING ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR BRIANNA, AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS TALENTED BLUE JAY GETS SOME CREDIT.

[APPLAUSE] SO CONGRATULATIONS, BRIANNA.

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COME ON UP HERE FOR A MINUTE. I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU GET THIS.

THIS IS A SPECIAL HONOR WE LIKE TO GIVE OUR GUESTS TODAY.

AND PRESIDENT WALKER, IF WE COULD GET A PICTURE WITH BRIANNA, THAT WOULD BE OUR PRIVILEGE.

IS THAT OKAY? OKAY, GREAT. THE BOARD MEMBERS ARE GOING TO COME AROUND TO YOU.

CAN YOU JUST STAY RIGHT THERE? I LIKE YOUR SHOES.

GREAT JOB. HOW ABOUT ANOTHER ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR THE NATIONAL WINNER. [APPLAUSE] THANK YOU.

GREAT JOB. GREAT. BRIANNA HAS RUN MORE IN 8 OR 9 YEARS THAN I HAVE IN 53.

[LAUGHTER] THAT'S THIS IS A MOTIVATING MOMENT WHEN I SEE THOSE PICTURES.

WE'RE SO PROUD OF BRIANNA. OKAY, NEXT UP, I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE SOME NEW FACES.

WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY THIS SUMMER TO WELCOME OUR NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE EANES EDUCATION FOUNDATION, SARAH STORY. I DON'T THINK SARAH IS HERE WITH US THIS EVENING, UNFORTUNATELY, BUT WE WANT TO WELCOME SARAH.

SHE JOINED THE EANES EDUCATION FOUNDATION THIS JULY AFTER SERVING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN FOR YEARS, SHE HAS HIT THE GROUND RUNNING, AND I'M SURE THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME EXCITING THINGS GOING ON THIS YEAR, INCLUDING ONE OF OUR OTHER GUESTS TONIGHT, KYLE LOBO PRABHU, WHO'S BEEN WORKING WITH THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AND THE FOUNDATION ON A NEW PROJECT THAT HE'S GOING TO TELL US ABOUT FOR A COUPLE MINUTES.

KYLE, YOU ARE JUNIOR, CORRECT? YES, SIR. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US TONIGHT.

WESTLAKE HIGH SCHOOL JUNIOR. KYLE LOBO PRABHU.

THERE YOU GO. GOOD EVENING TRUSTEES. MY NAME IS KYLE LOBO PRABHU AND I'M A JUNIOR AT WESTLAKE.

TONIGHT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT AN EXTRAORDINARY UNHARNESSED RESOURCE RIGHT IN FRONT OF US.

EVERY MAY, HUNDREDS OF WESTLAKE SENIORS WILL WALK ACROSS THE MOODY CENTER STAGE.

FUTURE DOCTORS, ENGINEERS, FOUNDERS, ATTORNEYS AND ARTISTS.

EVERY ONE OF THEM CARRIES KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE, AND A DEEP LOVE FOR WESTLAKE.

AS I WALK OUT THAT DOOR, EANES HAS A MASSIVE OPPORTUNITY TO STAY CONNECTED WITH THESE INCREDIBLE HUMAN CAPITAL.

CHAPP CONNECT, A SECURE WEB APP I'VE BEEN BUILDING IN CONJUNCTION WITH MR. KOENNECKE IS HOW WE HARNESS IT. HERE'S HOW IT WORKS FOR ALUMNI.

THEY RECEIVE THE LINK AND LAND ON A CHAPP CONNECT HOME PAGE.

THERE THEY FILL OUT A SHORT PROFILE, THEIR NAME, GRAD YEAR, COLLEGE, CURRENT CAREER AND CONTACT INFO.

THEN ONE OPTIONAL CHECKBOX. WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO MENTOR A CURRENT STUDENT? IF THEY SELECT IT, GREAT. STUDENTS GET MENTORED BY AN ACCOMPLISHED ALUMNI.

EVEN IF THEY SAY NO, WE GET UP TO DATE INFO ABOUT WHAT ALUMNI ARE UP TO BEYOND JUST A DIRECTORY.

CHAPP CONNECT POWERS. ALUMNI. GIVING. WHEN A GRADUATE DONATES, THE EIF CAN RECORD IT IN THE CHAPP CONNECT CENTRAL ALUMNI CRM UNDER THEIR PROFILE.

OVER TIME, WE CAN SEE TRENDS AND ANALYTICS LIKE WHICH CAMPAIGNS WORK THE BEST, WHICH CLASSES GIVE THE MOST, AND WHICH POST-GRAD CITIES HAVE THE MOST ENGAGED ALUMNI.

AND FOR CURRENT STUDENTS, HERE'S THE BEST PART.

A STUDENT CAN ENTER THEIR PASSIONS. FAVORITE CLASSES AND DREAM COLLEGES ON CHAPP CONNECT USING AN AI LLM API MATCHING THE APP PAIRS THEM WITH A PERFECT ALUMNUS. FOR EXAMPLE, A WESTLAKE JUNIOR WHO WANTS TO GO INTO COLLEGE ON THE EAST COAST LOVES AP MICRO AND THE STUDENT COUNCIL MAY GET MATCHED WITH PJ OGILVIE, AN ILLUSTRIOUS WESTLAKE GRAD STUDYING ECONOMICS AT DUKE AND LAUNCHING HIS OWN STARTUP, KAIROS. SOMEONE WHO'S ALREADY ON THE SAME PATH THAT THAT KID WANTS TO GO TO.

SO WE HAVE ONE TOOL WITH TWO GIFTS. CURRENT STUDENTS GET A GUIDE AND THE EF GETS THE WARMEST AND MOST ENGAGED ALUMNI CRM IN ITS HISTORY.

I BELIEVE THAT MENTORSHIP AND GIVING SHOULD LIVE IN ONE PLACE, BECAUSE THE STUDENT MENTOR OF TODAY IS A MAJOR DONOR OF TOMORROW, AND A CHAPP CONNECT CAN CAPTURE HIS JOURNEY FROM START TO FINISH.

THANK YOU ALL. IF Y'ALL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'D LOVE TO ANSWER THEM.

JUST BEFORE ANY QUESTION, I'D JUST LIKE TO SAY I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH CHAPP CONNECT.

KYLE HAS CREATED THIS THING, AND I BELIEVE HE PROBABLY DID IT IN ABOUT THREE HOURS.

AND IT IS A POWERFUL TOOL WITH, AS HE SAID, TWO GIFTS.

WE ARE SO EXCITED THAT HE'S WORKING WITH THE FOUNDATION AND THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.

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AND I'M SO IMPRESSED WITH THE WORK THAT HE HAS DEVELOPED.

AND LIKE YOU JUST SAID, THIS IS GOING TO BE A GAME CHANGER FOR EANES AND FOR OUR FOUNDATION PARTNERS IN THE FUTURE, AND HOPEFULLY FOR STUDENTS LOOKING FOR CONNECTIONS.

SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. [APPLAUSE] KYLE YOU GET A COIN TOO COME ON UP. YEAH. THANK YOU.

AND YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM KYLE AGAIN THROUGHOUT THE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. I'D ALSO LIKE TO WELCOME SOME OTHER NEW FACES TONIGHT BRIEFLY.

I NOTICED IN THE AUDIENCE AND WE'LL GET TO THEM AGAIN IN A MINUTE. BUT OUR NEW POLICE OFFICERS HERE, LORI DILLARD AND KEVIN CALLAHAN, WELCOME. ALSO OUR NEW DIRECTOR OF CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION, TONY BONAZZI. I'M NOT SURE IF TONY'S IN THE ROOM, BUT WANT TO WELCOME TONY, WHO JOINED US ALSO.

HE MOST RECENTLY SERVED AT LEANDER BEFORE JOINING US IN EARLY JULY OUR NEXT AND FINAL RECOGNITION PROGRAM FOR THIS EVENING, WE ARE GOING TO INTRODUCE ANOTHER LOBO PRABHU, AN ALUMNI WHO'S HERE THIS EVENING.

KEITH LOBO PRABHU ALONG WITH JILL JORDAN AND TARA SRINIVASAN AGAIN.

AND THEY'RE GOING TO SPEAK ABOUT THE EANES AMBASSADORS PILOT PROJECT THIS YEAR.

SO COME ON UP PLEASE GANG. HI EVERYONE.

HI. MY NAME IS TARA AND MAYBE I AM A SENIOR AT WESTLAKE AND I'M ALSO ON HIGHLINE, AND THEN I'M JILL JORDAN, I'M A SENIOR AS WELL, AND I PLAY SOCCER, WESTLAKE, AND WE ARE THE CO-PRESIDENTS FOR THE NEW LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE.

YEAH. SORRY. HELLO. IS THAT BETTER? YES. OKAY, PERFECT.

WELL, AS I WAS SAYING, WE ARE THE CO-PRESIDENTS FOR THE NEW EANES LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE CALLED EANES AMBASSADORS.

AND IT WAS CREATED BY WESTLAKE ALUMNI KEITH. AND WE GET THE CHANCE TO WORK WITH ADMINISTRATORS AND STUDENTS.

THE BIG GOAL THAT EANES AMBASSADORS HAVE IS TO ONE LET STUDENTS HAVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.

SO LIKE BE ABLE TO INTERACT WITH ALL OF YOU AND ALSO THE F AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY AND ALSO HAVE INTEGRATE THEM INTO CIVIC MINDED LEADERSHIP SKILLS, WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT AS YOU GO INTO COLLEGE AND AS YOU GO EVEN PAST COLLEGE.

YES. AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE A SECOND PART OF OUR LIKE INITIATIVE IS TO HAVE AN INNOVATION PROCESS.

AND SO WE ARE GOING TO BE WORKING REALLY CLOSELY.

AND WE'LL GET MORE INTO THIS LATER WITH LIVE OAK VENTURE PARTNERS TO TRY TO BUILD JUST SOME PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS JUST FOR THE COMMUNITY, RATHER THAN SOMETHING LIKE BUSINESS INCUBATOR FOCUSES JUST ON PROBLEMS EITHER AT WESTLAKE OR EVEN FURTHER INTO THE WORLD.

BUT FIRST ON COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, SOME THINGS THAT WE ARE GOING TO TRY TO DO AND HAVE OUR REPRESENTATIVES LEAD ARE THE ALUMNI TOURS, WHICH ARE CURRENTLY BEING LED BY STUDENT COUNCIL MEMBERS, AND SOMETIMES IN ADMINISTRATIONS, THEY WILL ELECT THEIR CHILDREN TO LEAD THEM, WHICH IS AMAZING.

BUT WE'RE GOING TO TAKE ON THAT ROLE FOR US. AND THEN WE WILL ALSO VOLUNTEER AT WESTLAKE OPEN HOUSES FOR PROSPECTIVE FAMILIES AND LEAD THOSE TOURS.

WE WILL ALSO ATTEND EF GALAS AND THE LUNCHEONS, AND WE'LL SEND SOMEONE TO REPORT TO MONTHLY BOARD MEETINGS.

SO YOU'LL BE SEEING OUR FACES. KYLE IS ON OUR TEAM AND THEN WE HAVE A BUNCH OF OTHER PEOPLE.

YES. NOW, SWITCHING OVER TO THE INNOVATION SIDE, WE HAVE WE HAVE A COUPLE OBJECTIVES THAT GO WITH THIS.

THE FIRST ONE IS TO BRAINSTORM LIKE CHALLENGES THAT STUDENTS SEE, LIKE BEING LIVED, BEING STUDENTS IN WESTLAKE, THE LIVED EXPERIENCES THAT THEY HAVE HAVING THEM COME UP WITH A LIST OF CHALLENGES IN THE WESTLAKE OR THE EANES COMMUNITY AND THEN BE ABLE TO EVALUATE THOSE AND RANK THEM BASED OFF OF LIKE EXAMPLES OR SOLVABILITY, THE SCOPE AND EVEN THE SEVERITY.

SO BE ABLE TO THINK ABOUT WHO IT'S AFFECTING, HOW MUCH IT'S AFFECTING THEM.

AND THEN ALSO WITH THAT, GO TALK TO PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING THAT.

INTERVIEWS AND CRITICS AND COME UP WITH THEIR OWN PERSPECTIVE ON PITCHING IT TO SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION.

AND THEN THROUGH ALL OF THIS, WE'LL HAVE GUIDANCE AND MENTORS FROM LIVE OAK VENTURE CAPITAL, WHICH IS THE TOP VC FIRM IN TEXAS. SO IT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY THAT THEY'RE BEING ABLE TO GUIDE US ON HOW TO THINK THROUGH THIS AND HOW TO, HOW TO EVEN RANK THE PROBLEMS THAT WE'RE SEEING IN OUR DAY TO DAY LIVES.

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WE HAVE FOUR OTHER SENIORS AND THEN SIX JUNIORS.

AND WE CHOSE THESE PEOPLE. WE WANTED EVERYONE TO COME FROM VERY WE WANTED A VERY DIVERSE GROUP.

SO WE CHOSE PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT FRIEND GROUPS AND ACTIVITIES.

AND SO WE COULD ALL BUILD OUR LEADERSHIP SKILLS TOGETHER.

AND WHENEVER WE GET TO THE INNOVATION PROCESS, WE ARE GOING TO MAKE TEAMS OF THREE AND TRY TO FOCUS ON FOUR DIFFERENT PROBLEMS, SPECIFICALLY AFTER WE MAKE OUR LIST AND RANK THEM.

AND SO WE'RE GOING TO MAKE THOSE TEAMS VERY DIVERSE AS WELL WITHIN OUR GROUP.

AND FUN UPDATE. WE HAD OUR FIRST MEETING YESTERDAY WITH ALL OF OUR EANES AMBASSADORS.

AND I WILL SAY ME AND JILL WERE A LITTLE NERVOUS ABOUT THIS JUST BECAUSE WE FELT LIKE WE DIDN'T KNOW EVERYBODY AND ALL OF THEM COMING FROM DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS, IT LIKE NOBODY KNEW EACH OTHER, BUT I THINK IT REALLY HIT THE GROUND RUNNING AND THERE WAS SUCH GREAT CAMARADERIE BETWEEN EVERYBODY.

AND WE EVEN STARTED THINKING OF SOME NEW LIKE, CHALLENGES THAT PEOPLE FACE.

AND ONE EXAMPLE WAS PEOPLE FELT THAT THEIR TEACHERS WEREN'T GETTING ENOUGH FEEDBACK ABOUT LIKE THEIR TEACHING STYLES.

SO HAVING POTENTIALLY AN ANONYMOUS GOOGLE FORM FOR THEIR TEACHERS TO, I DON'T KNOW, SEE THEIR TEACHING STYLE AND LIKE HOW THEY INTERACT WITH STUDENTS.

JUST AN IDEA. BUT MORE OF THEM TO COME, OBVIOUSLY.

AND THEN OUR FUTURE GOALS FOR THIS PROGRAM IS WE WANT TO EXPAND IT AS FAR AS WE CAN.

WE WANT THE LEADERS AND THE STUDENTS TO WANT TO BE A PART OF THIS, AND TO HAVE THIS BE A FUN OPPORTUNITY FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO.

SO THIS YEAR WE ARE STARTING SMALL, BUT HOPEFULLY IN YEARS TO COME, WE'LL EXPAND AND MAYBE DOUBLE IN SIZE NEXT YEAR AND CONTINUE TO GROW IT UNTIL WE COVER THE ENTIRE SCHOOL AND MAKE A WHOLE SCHOOL OF LEADERS.

YES, AND NOT JUST WESTLAKE LIKE ALL OF EANES GET SOME KINDERGARTNERS INTO HERE.

LIKE LEADERS CAN START YOUNG. SO WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THIS PROGRAM.

YES, YES. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS COMMENTS, CONCERNS.

THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. SO JUST TO WRAP UP AGAIN.

THANK YOU. WE HAVE AWARDS FOR YOU AS WELL. SOME COINS FOR YOU.

WE'LL MAKE SURE WE GET THOSE TO YOU BEFORE YOU TAKE OFF. AND KEITH, WOULD YOU JUST STAND UP? KEITH'S IN THE BACK THERE OUR DUKE WESTLAKE ALUM AND DUKE STUDENT KEITH LOBO PRABHU.

[APPLAUSE] THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

THIS IS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF STUDENTS MODELING THE WAY AND STUDENT LED INITIATIVE WITH THE SUPPORT OF THEIR ADMINISTRATORS AND TEACHERS AT THE HIGH SCHOOL.

AND AS THEY MENTIONED, FUTURE GOALS TO EXPAND BEYOND THE HIGH SCHOOL, ACROSS OTHER CAMPUSES AND OTHER AGE GROUPS.

WHEN STUDENTS HELP STUDENTS LEAD. THAT'S AMAZING.

SO THANK YOU FOR SHARING WITH US. THAT'S ALL FOR MY REPORT FOR NOW.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. IT IS NOW TIME FOR OUR OPEN FORUM PORTION OF THE BOARD MEETING.

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OPEN FORUM

I HAVE SOME QUICK COMMENTS TO READ THROUGH AND THEN WE CAN GET STARTED.

PLEASE WATCH THE TIMER ON THE SCREEN WHEN YOUR TIME IS UP, FINISH YOUR SENTENCE AND STOP.

IF YOU DON'T FINISH YOUR PREPARED MARKS, YOU'RE WELCOME TO EMAIL YOUR FULL COMMENTS TO TRUSTEE@EANESISD.NET.

WHEN SPEAKING, PLEASE DIRECT YOUR COMMENTS TO THE BOARD, NOT TO THE AUDIENCE OR OTHERS.

TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 551 PROHIBITS DISRUPTION OF BOARD MEETINGS, SO WE ASK THAT REACTIONS TO COMMENTS REMAIN BRIEF AND RESPECTFUL.

IF YOU WISH TO NAME A DISTRICT EMPLOYEE IN A COMPLAINT, PLEASE NOTE THAT THE BOARD MUST HEAR SUCH COMPLAINTS IN CLOSED SESSION AS REQUIRED BY TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 551. THE BOARD CANNOT DELIBERATE OR RESPOND TO COMMENTS ON TOPICS NOT LISTED ON THE AGENDA PER TEXAS LAW.

THIS IS OUR TIME TO LISTEN, NOT TO REACT OR ENGAGE.

CLARIFYING INFORMATION MAY BE PROVIDED BY THE SUPERINTENDENT IF NECESSARY.

PLEASE ALSO NOTE THAT THIS PORTION OF THE MEETING IS BEING RECORDED AND WILL BE PUBLISHED ON THE DISTRICT'S WEBSITE WITHOUT ALTERATION.

BY SPEAKING, YOU CONSENT TO THIS PUBLICATION.

THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS. WE'RE READY TO HEAR TONIGHT'S FIRST SPEAKER AND I WILL CALL THE SPEAKERS TWO AT A TIME.

SO YOU KNOW WHO'S NEXT. AND WE WILL START WITH MR. TIM MARWILL. AND THEN NEXT WE'LL HAVE MISS KRISTY KIM.

THANK YOU. SCHOOL BOARD SUPERINTENDENT. THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TONIGHT.

MY NAME IS TIM MARWILL, KELLY'S HUSBAND. I'VE GOT A SOPHOMORE AND A JUNIOR AT THE HIGH SCHOOL.

I'M HERE TODAY TO ASK YOU TO PAY OUR STAFF MORE.

WHETHER IT'S A ONE TIME BONUS OR A RAISE, WE NEED TO INCREASE THEIR PAY.

I LISTEN TO THE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING IN JUNE AND HEARD A FEW OF YOU DISCUSS VARIABLES AND HOW HARD IT IS TO MAKE A DECISION WITH THE UNCERTAINTY OF VARIABLES IN SCHOOL FINANCE.

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I'M SURE YOU KNOW THIS ALL TOO WELL. UNCERTAINTY IS A CONSTANT IN SCHOOL FINANCE.

SO LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT WE DO KNOW. THE COST OF BENEFITS FOR TEACHERS WILL GO UP THIS YEAR BY 8%.

THAT MEANS IF YOU DO NOTHING, THEY WILL MAKE LESS THIS YEAR THAN THEY DID LAST YEAR NET OF THEIR COST.

THE NUMBER ONE PLACE OUR TEACHERS GO WHEN THEY LEAVE EANES IS LAKE TRAVIS.

LAKE TRAVIS HAS VOTED TO INCREASE PAY AND AUTHORIZED A ONE TIME BONUS OF $1,000.

AND BY THE WAY, THEY'RE BUILDING A HIGH SCHOOL. SURE, YOU KNOW THAT. AND SO THEY'RE GOING TO NEED MORE TEACHERS. SO THAT IS OUR COMPETITION FOR STAFF ON YOUR WISH LIST TO OUR CFO, DOCTOR PETE PAPE.

YOU ASK HIM TO TAKE A CONSERVATIVE APPROACH TO OUR BUDGET.

THAT MEANS THE DECK IS STACKED TO PRODUCE POSITIVE OUTCOMES RATHER THAN NEGATIVE OUTCOMES.

WITH THE VARIABLES, YOU SHOULD BE THINKING ABOUT WHAT COULD GO RIGHT? HERE ARE JUST A FEW. AND THESE ARE EASY ONES.

THE ASSUMED RATE OF INTEREST ON DISTRICT CASH IS ABOUT 2.5%.

CASH IS CURRENTLY EARNING 3.5% ON $140 TO $160 MILLION.

IT'S $1.4 MILLION TO THE GOOD SUPERINTENDENT KOENNECKE, YOU ALL HAD A GREAT HIRE THERE.

HE'S A ROCK STAR. HE'S BEEN SIGNING UP DEALS AND GETTING FUNDING SOURCES OF REVENUE.

I EXPECT THIS WILL CONTINUE. GIVING THE STAFF A ONE TIME BONUS OR RAISE IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO.

IT'S AN INVESTMENT IN OUR SCHOOLS AND THE PEOPLE THAT HELP MAKE EANES EXCELLENT.

I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THIS IS GOING TO BE ONE OF THE EASIEST DECISIONS YOU MAKE THIS YEAR. PLEASE PAY OUR TEACHERS MORE.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. NEXT WE HAVE MISS KIM, CHRISTY KIM, AND THEN WE HAVE DAVE SCULTHORPE. HI, MY NAME IS CHRISTY KIM.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND FOR LISTENING. I HAVE THREE DAUGHTERS, ALL OF WHICH WILL EVENTUALLY GO THROUGH WESTLAKE.

STARTED IN CCE. I HAVE A SENIOR WHO JUST GRADUATED, SO SHE'LL BE STARTING COLLEGE IN A FEW WEEKS.

I HAVE A JUNIOR AT WESTLAKE AND THEN A EIGHTH GRADER AT HILL COUNTRY.

WE LOVE WESTLAKE. THIS IS THE REASON WE CAME FOR THE SCHOOLS.

WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY CONNECTIONS TO AUSTIN BEFORE WE ARRIVED, BUT WE CHOSE THIS PLACE BECAUSE OF THE SCHOOLS AND THE QUALITY OF THE EDUCATION.

THAT WAS OUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY. THAT'S WHY WE CONTINUE TO STAY.

WE HAD PULLED ONE OF THE CHILDREN OUT, BUT CAME BACK AS SOON AS WE REALIZED THE DIFFERENCE IN THE QUALITY OF THE EDUCATION.

SO FOR ME AND OUR FAMILY, THE EDUCATION IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT, WHICH IS THE TEACHERS.

AND SO I'M ALSO HERE TO REQUEST THAT YOU CONSIDER A RAISE OR THE ONE TIME BONUS THAT TIM HAD MENTIONED BEFORE.

AND FOR ME, ACADEMICS IS OF UTMOST IMPORTANT, BUT I JUST TODAY WANT TO SPOTLIGHT SOME OF THE TEACHERS THAT PROBABLY DON'T GET AS MUCH ATTENTION. SO JOSUE MARTINEZ, HE IS THE ORCHESTRA DIRECTOR.

THIS MAN WORKS PROBABLY 2 OR 3 JOBS. HE IS THERE WRITING REHEARSALS BEFORE SCHOOL? DURING SCHOOL? AFTER SCHOOL? HE RUNS OUR BELOVED NUTCRACKER.

HE BRINGS TOGETHER AMAZING STUDENTS WHO PERFORM THE ORIGINAL SCORE, WHICH IS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT.

HE DOES IT WITHOUT A COMPLAINT, ALWAYS A SMILE ON HIS FACE.

AND HE MAKES A COMMUNITY FOR KIDS THAT MIGHT NOT FEEL WELCOME OTHERWISE.

AND IT REALLY MAKES IT A HOME. AND MY DAUGHTER HAS FELT THAT PERSONALLY, IT'S REALLY MEANT, YOU KNOW, A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT FOR ME AS A MOM TO SEE HER THRIVE, YOU KNOW, JUST HAPPY AND ENGAGED.

ANOTHER PERSON THAT MIGHT GO UNNOTICED IS OUR WESTLAKE HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS COACH.

HE ALSO GOES ABOVE AND BEYOND TO MAKE THE EXPERIENCE LIKE A FAMILY.

AND MY DAUGHTER THRIVED IN THAT ENVIRONMENT AND WAS JUST SUPER HAPPY WITH ALL THE FRIENDSHIPS.

HE ALSO LAST YEAR THERE WAS AN UNEXPECTED MEDICAL EVENT WITH THE JV COACH.

SO HE PICKED UP THE SLACK. ALWAYS A SMILE, NEVER HEARD A COMPLAINT.

DID TWO PEOPLE'S JOBS SEAMLESSLY. SO THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT MAKE WESTLAKE SO SPECIAL.

AND I THINK IT'S JUST ONE WAY TO SHOW OUR APPRECIATION FOR ALL THAT THEY DO FOR OUR CHILDREN.

SO I'D ALSO WANT TO JUST HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT THERE BE SOME CONSIDERATION FOR A BONUS OR A RAISE.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. WE HAVE DAVE SCULTHORPE AND THEN ADAM FLAG.

HELLO. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR LETTING ME COME TO SPEAK TODAY.

I DIDN'T ACTUALLY KNOW HOW I WAS GOING TO PREPARE FOR THIS, SO I DECIDED NOT TO.

BUT THE GIST THAT I WANTED TO GET ACROSS IS, FIRST OF ALL, I AM IMMENSELY PROUD OF THE WORK YOU GUYS DID THIS SUMMER.

THE BALANCING THAT YOU DID WITH OUR BUDGET IS A COMPLETE CHANGE FROM THE HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE THAT WE'VE HAD OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS, AND IT'S IT'S REMARKABLE. YOU WALKED INTO A SCHOOL SEASON WHERE WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT MONEY FOR THE FIRST TIME.

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SO I REALLY WANT TO RECOGNIZE YOU FIRST BECAUSE THAT THAT IS A GAME CHANGER.

BUT LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE, THE TEACHERS ARE ALSO THE KIND OF THE CORE OF WHY THIS SCHOOL DISTRICT REMAINS ONE OF THE TOP IN THE NATION.

STILL NUMBER ONE IN TEXAS. BUT AS YOU KNOW, LAKE TRAVIS IS COMING RIGHT ON OUR HEELS.

THEY HAVE A NEW SCHOOL COMING. AND COMPENSATION IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF MOTIVATION.

IT'S AN IMPORTANT PART OF RECOGNITION. AND I'M REALLY WORRIED THAT WITHOUT IT, IT'S GOING TO BE THE PIECE THAT'S GOING TO BE A HARD THING IN TERMS OF RETENTION.

SO THAT'S REALLY ALL I WANTED TO COME UP AND SAY IS, I THINK YOU'VE BEEN DOING A WONDERFUL JOB.

I'M NOT SAYING THAT THIS IS AN EASY DECISION.

TIM'S GOT SOME DATA THAT HE'S ALREADY PRESENTED, AND I'M NOT GOING TO REPRESENT THAT. I FEEL LIKE WE COULD STILL HAVE A BALANCED BUDGET.

WE COULD STILL HAVE A SUCCESSFUL OUTCOME AT THE END OF THIS YEAR, BUT WE COULD STILL DO A ONE TIME BONUS AND RECOGNIZE OUR TEACHERS.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. AND WE HAVE ADAM FLAG FOLLOWED BY SCOTT SEBASTIAN.

HI. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS ADAM FLAG AND I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT SCHOOL PAY AS WELL TEACHER COMPENSATION.

MY WIFE AND I MOVED TO THE EANES DISTRICT IN 2018 IN PURSUIT OF A WORLD CLASS PUBLIC EDUCATION, AND WE'VE HAD THAT FOR OUR CHILDREN. I HAVE TWO CHILDREN CURRENTLY AT WESTLAKE HIGH SCHOOL, A SOPHOMORE AND A SENIOR. ONE OF THEM IS SPECIAL NEEDS, SO I'VE SEEN ALL THE DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE WITHIN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, AND WE'RE SO APPRECIATIVE OF EVERYTHING THAT WE'VE WE'VE SEEN AND EXPERIENCED.

WHAT I'VE LEARNED ABOUT EANES, WHAT MAKES IT SPECIAL IS IN A BUILDING.

IT ISN'T THE ZIP CODE. IT ISN'T SOMEONE'S JOB OF WHAT HOUSE THEY HAVE OR WHATEVER THAT LOOKS LIKE.

IT'S THE PEOPLE. AND MY DAY TO DAY JOB IS I MANAGE A WEALTH MANAGEMENT FIRM, AND MY JOB IS VERY STRONGLY TIED TO FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY.

I THINK FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT. BUDGETS MATTER.

BUT I ALSO WOULD SAY TRADE OFFS MATTER. AND FRANKLY, I VOTED FOR MANY OF YOU HERE BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO MAKE DIFFICULT FINANCIAL DECISIONS AND YOU'RE DOING THAT. AND I THINK A BUDGET IS ULTIMATELY A STATEMENT OF PRIORITIES ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE PRIORITIZING.

I ALSO HOST A PODCAST, I INTERVIEW INTERESTING PEOPLE IN AUSTIN, BUSINESS COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL LEADERS. IT'S CALLED AUSTIN ERAS, AND THE IDEA IS WHAT MAKES AUSTIN MAGIC. AND ALL OF THOSE CONVERSATIONS COME BACK TO CULTURE AND ALL THAT CULTURE.

CONVERSATION COMES BACK TO PEOPLE. SO ONCE AGAIN, I THINK EANES, IF THEY WANT TO REMAIN A BEST SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THE STATE, WE HAVE TO COMPETE FOR THOSE GREAT TEACHERS AND WE HAVE TO MAKE THEM WANT TO STAY.

IT'S BEEN BROUGHT UP ALREADY AT 2 OR 3 TIMES ABOUT LAKE TRAVIS.

I THINK KNOWING THAT THEY HAVE A HIGH SCHOOL POTENTIALLY OPENING IN THREE YEARS IS A REAL ISSUE BECAUSE THAT'S A SLEEPING GIANT THAT'S RIGHT NEXT DOOR, A LITTLE BIT LOWER COST TO LIVE OUT THERE, A LITTLE BIT LOWER WAY TO GET TO.

I THINK IT'S AN ISSUE THAT THAT WE'LL HAVE TO FACE AS A SCHOOL DISTRICT.

SO WE'LL HAVE TO BALANCE ALL OF THOSE THINGS.

BUT WE CANNOT TAKE FOR GRANTED THAT THE BEST EDUCATORS WANT TO WORK IN THE EANES DISTRICT.

SO I UNDERSTAND THE BUDGET CHALLENGES. I UNDERSTAND THE BENEFITS. COSTS ARE RISING, BUT THOSE PRESSURES ARE NOT GOING AWAY NEXT YEAR OR THE YEAR AFTER THAT.

SO I STRONGLY SUPPORT THE PROPOSED $700 ONE TIME PAYMENT FOR EVERY FULL TIME STAFF MEMBER.

I KNOW THAT IT WON'T SOLVE ALL THE COMPENSATION CHALLENGES, BUT IT SAYS SOMETHING IMPORTANT.

WE SEE YOU, WE VALUE YOU. AND EVEN IN A DIFFICULT BUDGET YEAR, INVESTING IN OUR PEOPLE REMAINS A PRIORITY.

A BALANCED BUDGET DOES MATTER, BUT THE PURPOSE OF THE BUDGET IS TO IS TO SUSTAIN THE EXCELLENCE OF EANES.

AND OUR TEACHERS AND STAFF ARE THE PEOPLE WHO CREATE THAT EXCELLENCE.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. AND WE HAVE MR. SCOTT SEBASTIAN, FOLLOWED BY KURT SLEHMAN.

I'M SCOTT SEBASTIAN. I'M A NATIVE TEXAN. I WAS EDUCATED IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

I'M A HEAD AND NECK SURGEON. THAT'S 13 MORE YEARS OF EDUCATION AFTER, YOU KNOW, PUBLIC SCHOOL.

MY WIFE'S AN ANESTHESIOLOGIST. WE MOVED TO THE DISTRICT 16 YEARS AGO, BEFORE KIDS.

BUT WE WERE JUST REPEATEDLY HEARD UNSOLICITED REMARKS ABOUT THE EXCEPTIONAL EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE FOUND ONLY AT EANES.

WE HAD KIDS AND GRADUATED FROM CEDAR CREEK. NOW THEY GO TO HILL COUNTRY.

PREPARATION FOR TONIGHT I SPOKE TO TEACHERS AND A COMMON TEACHER SLOGAN BEING REPEATED ON CAMPUS.

LIKE RIGHT NOW. WELL, MAYBE NOT RIGHT NOW IS COME EARLY OR STAY LATE TO GET YOUR WORK DONE.

ANOTHER WORD BEING REPEATED ON CAMPUS IS BURNOUT.

I LISTENED TO THE JUNE 23RD BOARD MEETING, AND MY OBSERVATIONS LED ME TO JUST ASK A BUNCH OF QUESTIONS.

LIKE VISION AND FOCUS AND REPUTATION. AND WHAT'S THE MESSAGE THAT WE'RE SENDING TO THOSE DEDICATED TO EDUCATING OUR CHILDREN?

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I HEARD PLATITUDES ABOUT SOME UNIDENTIFIED PLAN TO INVEST HEAVILY IN THE STAFF IN THE FUTURE, EVEN THOUGH NEXT YEAR'S PROJECTIONS LOOK WORSE THAN THIS YEAR'S. I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW.

I WAS A MATH MAJOR ONCE. I COMMENTS ABOUT DESIRING TO GET TO BE A MODEL DISTRICT, BUT I THOUGHT WE ALREADY WERE YOU KNOW, GETTING GRANULAR ON DETAILS LIKE IT'S ACCOUNTING PROJECT.

I DID HEAR OTHERS ACKNOWLEDGE THE PAIN BROUGHT UPON OUR CLASSROOM STAFF BY DEPARTURES IN THIS PAST YEAR WHERE WE ULTIMATELY HAD TO CUT OUT PIECES OF THE DISTRICT IN THE FACE OF A WORRIED AND TIRED STAFF.

I THINK SOMEBODY DESCRIBED THAT PROCESS AS OUR HARD WORK.

MEANWHILE, TO DO THE SAME QUALITY CLASSROOM WORK THAT WE'VE COME TO EXPECT AND HAVE A REPUTATION FOR.

OUR TEACHERS ARE COMING EARLY AND STAYING LATE.

MOST CORE STAFF HAS BEEN DOWN A PLANNING PERIOD FOR THE LAST YEAR WHILE FACING LARGER CLASS SIZES.

STAFF'S NOT TALKING ABOUT A BALANCED BUDGET. THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT BURNOUT AND PRESSURE.

OUR CURRENT TEACHERS QUALITY IS SUCH THAT IT'S NOT EVIDENT HOW MUCH THEY'RE HURTING.

BUT MANY OF THESE EXPERIENCED PEOPLE ARE HAVING TO STAY ROUTINELY PAST THEIR CONTRACT HOURS.

AND THERE WAS A TIME WHEN PEOPLE WANTED TO COME AND WORK AT EANES. GOOD PEOPLE THEY STILL WANT. NOW, THOSE PEOPLE, THEY WANT TO WORK. THEY'RE LOOKING ELSEWHERE. AND HOW LONG DO YOU THINK THAT THAT OLD REPUTATION IS GOING TO LAST? HOW LONG WILL WE SUSTAIN THINGS IF WE DON'T PUT OUR FOOT ON THE GAS HERE? I JUST WANTED TO. I STARTED ASKING MYSELF, WHAT KIND OF LEADER DO I WANT? I WANT LEADERS MOTIVATED BY HOPE AND BELIEF AND THEIR ABILITY TO CREATE AND SUSTAIN SOMETHING EXCELLENT. LEADERS BE BRAVE IN THE FACE OF CHALLENGES.

BE A NORTH STAR. I WANT THAT MORE THAN LEADERS MOTIVATED BY A FEAR OF BEING IN THE RED, AND THAT BRAVERY REQUIRES VISION AND FOCUS.

YOU GOT TO ZOOM OUT. DON'T GET LOST IN THE WEEDS.

THAT MYOPIC FOCUS ON THE BOTTOM LINE. THAT MYOPIC FOCUS.

THAT'S IMPRESSIVE. THIS IS MY LAST SENTENCE, AND I DID GET IT STARTED.

THAT MYOPIC FOCUS ON THE BOTTOM LINE I'LL FINISH ON EFFICIENCY.

AND STAYING IN THE BLACK IS SOMETHING I CONSIDER SHORTSIGHTED AND TIMID AND REPEATEDLY THAT LEADS TO BURNOUT AND JOB DISSATISFACTION.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. SEBASTIAN. OUR LAST TWO SPEAKERS ARE KURT SLEHMAN AND LARS HAGEN.

HI, EVERYONE. MY NAME IS KURT SCHLIEMANN. IT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME.

MY FAMILY AND I HAVE BEEN IN THE DISTRICT FOR FOUR AND A HALF YEARS SINCE 2022.

I HAVE A SIXTH GRADER IN WEST RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL, AND WE'VE BEEN AVID GIVERS TO EEF.

AND ALL THE BOOSTER CLUBS OVER THE LAST FOUR AND A HALF YEARS.

LARGELY BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF TEACHING.

I THINK EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM HAS PROBABLY BEEN AFFECTED IN A VERY DEEP WAY BY A TEACHER THAT THEY'VE HAD IN THEIR LIFE, OR MULTIPLE TEACHERS THAT THEY'VE HAD IN THEIR LIFE. SO I'M GOING TO MAKE THREE POINTS.

THE FIRST TWO ARE KIND OF REPEATS OF WHAT YOU'VE ALREADY HEARD. NUMBER ONE, GREAT JOB BALANCING OUR BUDGET.

IT'S REALLY FUN TO SEE A SURPLUS ON AN ESTIMATED BUDGET.

AND AS TIM MENTIONED, THERE'S A LOT OF UPSIDE FROM THERE.

THERE ARE SOME CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATES IN THAT BUDGET. I FEEL PRETTY GOOD THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE MORE THAN A MILLION AND A HALF DOLLARS AT THE END OF THE YEAR.

I DON'T THINK WE WANT TO BE A SCHOOL DISTRICT, EXCUSE ME, A SCHOOL DISTRICT THAT DOESN'T TAKE CARE OF THEIR TEACHERS WHEN THEY HAVE A SURPLUS. NUMBER TWO, WE DO LIVE IN A COMPETITIVE REGION, AND WE WANT THE BEST TEACHERS TEACHING OUR KIDS, AND WE WANT TO ATTRACT TEACHERS WHO KNOW THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THEIR BACK FINANCIALLY WHEN OTHER SCHOOLS ARE DOING THE SAME.

SO FROM A COMPETITIVE STANDPOINT, I THINK IT'S CRITICAL THAT WE PAY OUR TEACHERS, NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT WE HAVEN'T GIVEN A RAISE OR A BONUS IN SEVERAL YEARS NOW.

THE THIRD POINT I WANT TO MAKE IS A HUMAN POINT, BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN ON THE DOWN SIDE OF NOT GETTING THE RAISE THAT I EXPECTED OR NOT GETTING THE RAISE THAT I WANTED. AND MAYBE SOME OF YOU HAVE HAD THAT EXPERIENCE TOO, AS A HUMAN BEING, WHEN YOU DON'T FEEL VALUED, YOU CARRY THAT INTO THE WORKPLACE.

YOU CARRY THAT INTO YOUR JOB. JOY AND INSPIRATION IS CONTAGIOUS.

OKAY. IF A TEACHER SHOWS UP IN A CLASSROOM, JOYFUL AND INSPIRED AND FEELING VALUED AND FEELING APPRECIATED, THAT IS WHAT OUR KIDS GET WHEN THEY SHOW UP FEELING UNDERVALUED AND UNAPPRECIATED.

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WE NEED TO TAKE CARE OF OUR TEACHERS SO OUR KIDS GET THE VERY BEST.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. WE HAVE OUR LAST SPEAKER, MR. LARS HAGEN. HELLO. I FEEL LIKE MY FRIENDS HERE HAVE TOUCHED ALL THE BASES.

BUT I WILL SAY LEADERSHIP IS HARD. AND WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS STICKING YOUR NECKS OUT THERE TO TRY TO PERFORM LEADERSHIP.

AND I'VE WORKED WITH ENOUGH LEADERS TO KNOW THAT THERE'S SACRIFICE AND GREAT DIFFICULTY IN DOING THAT.

SO I GIVE YOU CREDIT FOR TRYING IT AND DOING IT.

OUR TEACHERS ARE ALSO LEADERS. THEY'RE IMPORTANT LEADERS IN THEIR, IN THEIR CLASSROOMS. AND JUST YESTERDAY, YOU KNOW, I WAS REMINDED AGAIN WHY I WANTED TO ADDRESS THIS GROUP, THIS BOARD AND SUPPORT OF PAYMENT TO OUR TEACHERS.

I OPENED WHAT I THOUGHT WAS JUST A SUPERB EMAIL COMMUNICATION FROM MY SON'S ENGLISH TEACHER, ASHLEY CLICK. SHE INTRODUCED HERSELF IN THIS EMAIL AS A TWO AND A HALF YEAR TEACHER AT THE HIGH SCHOOL AT WESTLAKE.

SHE BEGAN WITH AN EXPRESSION OF GRATITUDE FOR WHAT SHE CALLED HER TEACHING HOME AT WESTLAKE.

ASHLEY GAVE OTHER RELEVANT AND I THOUGHT, COMPELLING BACKGROUND ABOUT HER EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION, AND ABOUT HER OWN GOALS FOR HER STUDENTS AND HERSELF RELATED TO THE COURSE THIS YEAR.

SHE SET SOME STANDARDS AND EXPECTATIONS. ASHLEY ALSO ANNOUNCED HER AVAILABILITY FOR TUTORIALS BY APPOINTMENT WITH WITH HER, AND SHE LINKED A SCHEDULE INTO THE EMAIL.

AND THEN SHE WENT EVEN FURTHER AND SHE OPENED THAT INVITATION TO ALL THE PARENTS.

WHO WERE THE READERS OF THE EMAIL. SHE OPENED THAT INVITATION FOR THEM TO SCHEDULE A SESSION FOR THEIR STUDENTS IF THEY SAW A NEED TO DO SO.

I HAVEN'T MET ASHLEY BEFORE. I LOOK FORWARD TO DOING SO.

BUT ASHLEY CLICK STRIKES ME AS JUST THE SORT OF TEACHER TARGETED FOR THE MOTIVATION AND RETENTION THAT PAIN THE PAYMENT IDEA BEFORE THIS BOARD IS INTENDED TO ACCOMPLISH PERSONALLY, $700 SEEMED ON THE THIN SIDE OF THE LEDGER WHEN I HEARD THAT. I THINK WE CAN DO BETTER AND MORE FOR OUR TEACHERS THIS YEAR AND IN THE COMING YEARS AS A, AS IT PERTAINS TO BONUSES AND RAISES. I THINK THAT THE BOARD HERE HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE A CULTURE AND AFFIRM A CULTURE THAT'S PRO TEACHER RETENTION AND PRO TEACHER RECOGNITION IN SUPPORT OF DEDICATED EDUCATORS, JUST LIKE ASHLEY.

AND THANKS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU EVERYONE.

WE WILL NOW MOVE TO THE REPORT SECTION OF OUR MEETING TONIGHT.

[7.1 Officer pinning]

AND SO I'D LIKE TO INVITE KEVIN CALLAHAN AND LORI DILLARD UP TO THE DAIS.

ALL RIGHT. DOES THIS WORK? OKAY. SO WE ARE GOING TO ADMINISTER THE OATH TO BOTH OF YOU AT THE SAME TIME.

AND SO I'LL STATE EACH OF YOUR NAMES, AND THEN YOU REPEAT AFTER ME, AND THEN THE REST OF THE STATEMENT WILL JUST.

I'LL REPEAT IT AND YOU SAY IT AFTER ME. OKAY.

I KEVIN CALLAHAN. I, KEVIN CALLAHAN. AND I, LORI DILLARD.

I, LORI DILLARD. DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR OR AFFIRM.

DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR OR AFFIRM. THAT I WILL FAITHFULLY EXECUTE.

AFFIRM THAT I WILL FAITHFULLY EXECUTE. THE DUTIES OF PEACE OFFICER, THE DUTIES OF PEACE OFFICER.

OF THE STATE OF TEXAS. OF THE STATE OF TEXAS.

AND I WILL, TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY. AND I WILL, TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY.

PRESERVE, PROTECT AND DEFEND. PRESERVE, PROTECT AND DEFEND.

THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS. THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS.

OF THE UNITED STATES. OF THE UNITED STATES. AND OF TEXAS.

AND OF TEXAS. SO HELP ME GOD. SO HELP ME GOD.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. CONGRATULATIONS.

JUST.

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THANK YOU. COME ON OVER HERE, GANG.

NICE TO MEET. YOU IN THE MIDDLE. I THINK WE'RE GOING TO DO A PICTURE.

COME ON. JEFF. I MAY HAVE TO ALL TURN A LITTLE TIGHTER.

WAS THAT INTENTIONAL? YEAH. ALWAYS. ALWAYS INTENDED.

THANK YOU. WELCOME. WE'RE SO HAPPY.

WHAT DID YOU SAY? JUST MOVING. MOVING. I KNOW.

YEAH. YEAH, WE GOT IT.

ALL RIGHT. WE ARE GOING TO NOW MOVE TO ITEM 7.2 ON OUR AGENDA, WHICH IS THE QUARTERLY FINANCIAL REPORT AND BUDGET

[7.2 Quarterly financial report and budget amendment(s) for the year ending...]

GOOD EVENING. I KNOW THAT'S A LONG TITLE. OKAY.

SO YEAH, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE SKIP A MONTH OF BOARD MEETINGS.

WE HAVE TWO REPORTS, TWO MONTHLY REPORTS. SO SO WE HAVE, OF COURSE, THE ONE FOR THE, IT'S REALLY FOR THE YEAR ENDED OF JUNE 30TH.

THAT'S OUR FISCAL YEAR END. THIS IS SHOWING YOU WHAT OUR NEAR FINAL GENERAL FUND BUDGET DEFICIT IS AT.

AND SO FOR JUNE 30TH, THE NEAR FINAL BUDGET DEFICIT IS AT 3 MILLION, $3.1 MILLION, WHICH REPRESENTS A SAVINGS OF ALMOST $1 MILLION OVER THE BUDGETED DEFICIT OF 4 MILLION.

SO THIS REPRESENTS AN INCREASE TO THE PROJECTED FUND BALANCE FROM 22 MILLION TO 2023 MILLION.

WE ALSO DON'T SEE ANY BUDGET AMENDMENTS FOR JUNE BECAUSE THESE WERE THE ONES.

THE FINAL ONES WERE PRESENTED IN JUNE. AT THIS POINT, WE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO MAKE ANY MORE BUDGET AMENDMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDING IN JUNE.

AND THEN ALSO FOR THE CHILD NUTRITION. I WANTED TO POINT OUT FOR THE CHILD NUTRITION FUND THAT IT ENDED THE YEAR AT A BUDGET SURPLUS.

IF YOU RECALL, A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, THE GENERAL FUND HAD TO LEND MONEY TO THE, TO THE CHILD NUTRITION FUND, AND THEY WERE ABLE TO PAY IT BACK OVER THOSE TWO YEARS.

AND THEY ENDED IN A POSITIVE BALANCE THIS YEAR. SO THE EXPECTATION FOR THE UPCOMING YEAR, THEY'LL BE DEFINITELY POSITIVE BECAUSE THEY WON'T BE PAYING BACK ANY MORE MONEY FOR US AT THAT POINT. AND THEN FOR THE MONTH OF JULY NOT A TON OF ACTIVITY.

PROBABLY THE BIGGEST THING HERE IS THAT FOR THE DEBT SERVICE FUND, WE MADE OUR PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST PAYMENTS THAT WE MAKE AT THIS POINT.

AND SO THAT WAS A PAYMENT OF ABOUT 21 MILLION.

SO YOU WOULD HAVE NOTICED THAT FROM JUNE TO JULY, THE FUND BALANCE CHANGED PRETTY DRASTICALLY FOR THE DEBT SERVICE FUND, BUT THOSE WERE THE THAT WAS THE EXPECTED PAYMENT THAT WE WERE GOING TO SEE HERE IN IN JULY.

AND THEN. SO THOSE ARE THE MONTHLY THE FINANCIALS FOR JUNE AND JULY.

I HAVE ONE ADDITIONAL REPORT, BUT IF YOU WANT TO TAKE QUESTIONS NOW FOR THE MONTHLY FINANCIALS WE CAN.

ALL RIGHT JAMES. YEAH. THIS IS PROBABLY MORE FOR KRISTY.

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COULD WE GET JUST LIKE A REAL QUICK EMAIL. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BOIL THE OCEAN OR ANYTHING TONIGHT, BUT JUST A REAL QUICK EMAIL ON WHAT THE BIG CHUNKS ARE LEFT.

WHAT ARE THE BIG PROJECTS LEFT ON THE 2023 BOND AT SOME POINT? JUST AN EMAIL IF YOU WANT, UNLESS YOU'VE GOT IT OFF THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD. I CAN PUT THAT TOGETHER AND THAT'D BE AWESOME.

YEAH, DON'T WORRY ABOUT DON'T MAKE IT TOO BIG, JUST SOMETHING REAL QUICK.

IF YOU DON'T MIND, I'LL PUT IT TOGETHER. ALL RIGHT JOHN.

THANKS, MARIA. I JUST HAD ONE QUESTION YOU HAD ON THE DEFICIT FOR LAST YEAR WAS ENDED UP COMING IN A MILLION OR SO BETTER AND AND AROUND THREE AND CHANGE INSTEAD OF FOUR AND CHANGE. RIGHT? CORRECT. SO THEN OUR, OUR OVERALL FUND BALANCE.

CAN YOU JUST SIT ON BOTH THE DOLLAR AMOUNT AND THE, AND THE PERCENTAGE, SINCE I KNOW WE AIM FOR THAT 25% FUND BALANCE, WHAT THE PERCENT IS. I DIDN'T CALCULATE THE PERCENTAGE, BUT IT DID.

AS FAR AS THE PROJECTED FUND BALANCE, IT WENT FROM 22 MILLION TO 23 MILLION.

TO 23 MILLION. OKAY. GREAT. IF YOU COULD GET US THAT, JUST THAT NUMBER, SINCE I KNOW WE'RE ALWAYS AIMING AGAINST THAT 25%.

IF YOU COULD JUST FOLLOW UP ON THAT. THANK YOU. APPRECIATE IT. AND THEN THE NEXT REPORT, I DON'T THINK.

DO I HAVE A PAGE FOR THAT? YEAH. OKAY. THIS IS IT.

OKAY. AND SO THE NEXT REPORT THAT WE HAVE IS WHAT IS REQUIRED FOR CH LOCAL.

SO WITHIN CH LOCAL THE POLICY GIVES ALLOWS FOR THE SUPERINTENDENT TO ENTER INTO CONTRACTS FOR EXPENSES THAT ARE ANNUAL OR RECURRING AND THAT ARE BUDGETED.

AND THE REQUIREMENT WITHIN THE POLICY IS FOR US TO PROVIDE YOU WITH AN UPDATE ON WHAT THOSE ITEMS WERE.

AND SO THAT IS WHAT THE REPORT SHOWS. THE ONE OTHER THING THAT I INCLUDED IN THE BAI WAS JUST, I WANTED TO POINT OUT THAT BEGINNING WITH THIS YEAR FOR 25, 26 AND SEPTEMBER 2025, THE THRESHOLD ON THAT WENT UP FROM $50,000 TO $100,000. SO I BELIEVE THAT THE REASON WE ALWAYS USE $50,000 WAS BECAUSE OF THAT THRESHOLD.

AND SO I WANTED TO JUST SHOW YOU MY RECOMMENDATION OR OUR RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE THAT WE WOULD MAKE UP THE THRESHOLD TO THE $100,000 GOING FORWARD.

BUT WITHIN THIS REPORT, I SHOWED YOU THE $50,000 REPORT AND THE 100,000 REPORT, JUST SO YOU CAN SEE FOR COMPARISON.

OBVIOUSLY, IT WAS JUST THE ITEMS THAT WERE LESS THAN 100,000 DROPPED OFF OF THE REPORT.

ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT? NO. NO FURTHER QUESTIONS.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU MARIA. ALL RIGHT. OUR NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA TONIGHT IS 7.3, WHICH IS OUR FIRST READING OF EANES POLICY

[7.3 First reading - Eanes Policy update: Update 124: CDA, CY and EHB Updat...]

AND PRESENTING IS OUR GENERAL COUNSEL, MISS AUDREY HIPP.

GOOD EVENING. SO WE HAVE THREE POLICY UPDATES.

THESE COME TO US AS UPDATES FROM TASB. A LOT OF THESE ARE STILL RESPONSIVE TO THE MOST RECENT LEGISLATIVE SESSION.

THEY'RE ALSO RESPONSIVE TO BECAUSE THEY'RE INTERNAL CHANGES WITHIN POLICIES, JUST CHANGING SOME INTERNAL REFERENCES TO POLICIES.

FOR EXAMPLE, I WANT TO SAY DP LOCAL WAS SPLIT INTO TWO DIFFERENT POLICIES IN THIS IN ONE OF THESE UPDATES AS WELL.

SO IT'S LARGELY ADMINISTRATIVE WITH SOME SUBSTANTIVE CHANGES THAT HAVE BEEN POSTED ONLINE FOR THE BOARD AND FOR THE COMMUNITIES REVIEW.

ALL RIGHT. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FOR FIRST READING? OKAY. AUDREY WILL KEEP YOU UP HERE. THANK YOU.

I'M HERE FOR YOU. YES. WE HAVE ITEM 7.4, WHICH IS THE FIRST READING OF OUR COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATION REQUIRED BY TEXAS EDUCATION CODE 39.008.

[7.4 First reading of Compliance Certification Required by Texas Education ...]

IT ENCOMPASSES A LOT OF EDITS AND POLICY. UPDATE 127 BUT ONE OF THOSE REQUIREMENTS IS THAT OUR SUPERINTENDENT CERTIFY TO THE TO THE TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY THAT WE ARE COMPLYING WITH SENATE BILL 12 AND SO AND PROVIDE THE PUBLIC WITH OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK ON IT.

AND SO THAT IS WHY THIS IS POSTED HERE. WE'LL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS ITEM.

ALL RIGHT. GREAT. AND THEN, MISS HIPP, WE HAVE ONE MORE FIRST READING OF THE STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT PROPOSED UPDATES.

[7.5 First reading of the student code of conduct proposed updates]

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ALL WE. IT IS. WE TREAT IT LIKE POLICY. THE BOARD IS REQUIRED TO ADOPT IT YEARLY.

I TAKE NOTES THROUGHOUT THE YEAR FROM PRINCIPALS AND ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS AND ANY OTHER ADMINISTRATOR ABOUT EDITS THAT THEY REQUEST.

I THINK WE'RE IN A PRETTY GOOD WORKING PLACE OR PRETTY MINIMAL EDITS TO THIS TO THIS VERSION OF THE STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT, BUT THOSE RED LINES ARE ALSO POSTED ONLINE FOR THE COMMUNITY, FOR THE COMMUNITY AND FOR THE BOARD TO REVIEW AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH STATE LAW, ONCE IT'S FINALIZED, WILL ALSO LIVE ONLINE FOR EVERYONE TO ACCESS.

ALL RIGHT. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT CHANGES TO THE STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT? OKAY. THANK YOU. GREAT. THANKS, GUYS. ALL RIGHT.

THAT WAS REALLY FAST. SO WE ARE MOVING ON TO ITEM 7.6, WHICH IS THE INTRODUCTION OF NEW DEMOGRAPHIC TECHNOLOGY FROM DATA

[7.6 Introduction to new demographic technology, Datience IQ]

[7.7 Preliminary enrollment update]

LET'S GET STARTED IN TALKING ABOUT ENROLLMENT.

ANYONE EXCITED? GOOD. I'VE BECOME A STUDENT OF THIS OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS.

AND SO I ACTUALLY REALLY AM EXCITED TO COME AND TALK WITH YOU ABOUT WHAT I'VE LEARNED.

AND REALLY JUST HOPING TO THINK ABOUT ENROLLMENT IN A DIFFERENT WAY TO CONSIDER A LOT OF DIFFERENT ANGLES.

AND SO SOME OF THE GRAPHS THAT I'M GOING TO SHARE WITH YOU AND THEN THAT ERIC WILL, WILL FOLLOW UP ARE, ARE GOING TO BE JUST DISPLAYED TO YOU IN JUST VARIOUS DIFFERENT WAYS.

HOWEVER YOU WANT TO INTERPRET. I'M GOING TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT SOME OF THOSE TABLES LOOK LIKE. AND WE'RE GOING TO START WITH JUST THIS HISTORIC WHERE WE ARE HISTORICALLY.

SO I'LL GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. PATTY, IS THIS ME? I'M DRIVING.

YES. LET'S SEE IF I'M DRIVING. OKAY. SO ONE THING THAT I DO WANT TO BE VERY CLEAR, AND HOPEFULLY YOU HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE PRESENTATION BEFOREHAND. WAS THE INFORMATION I'M SHARING TODAY IS A SNAPSHOT.

IN ORDER TO BE PREPARED FOR THIS EVENING, I WANTED TO BE THOROUGH. AND SO THE DATA THAT YOU'RE SEEING IS AS CURRENT AS AUGUST THE 10TH AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS THAT DAY.

AND SO IF YOU TRAVEL BACK IN JUNE, WHEN MOLLY WAS SITTING HERE AND SHARING WITH YOU WHERE WE WERE FOR ENROLLMENT I BELIEVE THE NUMBER THAT SHE SHARED WITH YOU WAS CURRENTLY AT THAT TIME ON JUNE 23RD, WE HAD 7,340 STUDENTS THAT WERE ENROLLED.

AND WE OUR GOAL WAS TO REACH 7428 BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT CHRIS SCOTT HAD PLANNED FOR THE BUDGET.

CURRENTLY, AS OF AUGUST 10TH, WE HAD 7,473 STUDENTS, WHICH WAS GOOD NEWS.

IT WAS 45 STUDENTS THAT WERE OVER OVER OUR GOAL.

SO WE WERE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. I AM GOING TO MOVE QUICKLY THROUGH THESE SLIDES BECAUSE YOU'LL BE ABLE TO REFERENCE THEM AGAIN, BUT JUST WANT YOU TO LET YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON IN MY BRAIN.

I THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR US TO SEE HISTORICALLY WHAT HAS ENROLLMENT LOOKED LIKE AT EANES.

AND SO FOR THE NEXT FEW SLIDES, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A TEN YEAR TREND.

A LOT OF NUMBERS ARE ON THAT ON THAT TABLE. I DON'T HAVE TO EXPLAIN THAT PIECE, BUT I WILL GO TO THE BOTTOM PART WHERE WE'RE HIGHLIGHTING THE 26, 27 SCHOOL YEAR. AND THAT INDICATES CURRENTLY AGAIN, AS OF AUGUST 10TH, WHAT WAS THE ENROLLMENT FOR EACH OF THOSE CAMPUSES.

AND I INDICATED THE CELL TO BE RED IF THE YEAR PRIOR TO THAT THERE WERE MORE STUDENTS THAT WERE ENROLLED ON THAT CAMPUS GREEN.

IF IT WAS IF THERE WAS MORE STUDENTS ENROLLED ON THAT CAMPUS.

AND OBVIOUSLY WITH VALLEY VIEW, THOSE WERE GRAYED OUT AS THAT CAMPUS HAD CLOSED.

SO CEDAR CREEK, EANES AND FOREST TRAIL ARE HAPPY TO REPORT THAT THEY HAD MORE ENROLLMENTS THAN THE PREVIOUS YEAR.

BUT IF YOU WANT TO SEE IT IN A DIFFERENT WAY, I LIKE LINEAR.

SO THIS IS ANOTHER VIEW RIGHT HERE. WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT THIS CHART, YOU'RE I'M JUST GOING TO PICK OUT BARTON CREEK RIGHT NOW BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO SEE, OBVIOUSLY, A BIG JUMP IN ENROLLMENT THAT DOES COINCIDE WITH THE BLEND.

AND THAT ALSO WILL SPEAK TO THE VALLEY VIEW LINE THAT YOU SEE HERE THAT STOPS IN THE YEAR 2425.

THOSE STUDENTS THEN WITH THAT BLEND IN THE MOVEMENT OF STUDENTS, OBVIOUSLY THEY WENT TO, TO BARTON CREEK.

IF WE ARE LOOKING AT SECONDARY ENROLLMENT, SAME THING AS ELEMENTARY.

THIS IS A TEN YEAR TREND FOR EACH OF THE CAMPUSES.

HISTORICALLY HILL COUNTRY AND WESTLAKE ARE REALLY CONSISTENT WITH THEIR ENROLLMENT.

THE ONLY CAMPUS AT THIS TIME RIGHT NOW THAT IS LOWER ENROLLMENT THAN LAST YEAR IS OUR WEST RIDGE CAMPUS.

WE COULD TALK A LOT OF REASONS WHY THAT MIGHT BE.

IT COULD HAVE BEEN THE HELD THE HOLDING OFF OF TRANSFERS POTENTIALLY AS WE'RE GETTING BARTON CREEK TOGETHER.

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OKAY. SAME THING. LINEAR VIEW POINT FOR YOUR ENROLLMENT, HILL COUNTRY, WEST LAKE CONSISTENT.

AND THEN JUST ANOTHER WAY TO LOOK AT THIS DATA IS THAT BAR GRAPH OF YOUR ENROLLMENT.

THE NUMBER OBVIOUSLY IS INDICATED IN THERE. AND YOU CAN SEE THE TREND.

OKAY. BUT ANOTHER WAY THAT WE CAN LOOK AT ENROLLMENT IS REALLY ABOUT CLASS SIZE.

AND SO WE WANTED TO BREAK THAT DOWN FOR YOU. SO FOR YOUR BARTON CREEK AND YOUR FOREST TRAIL, THESE ARE THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS THAT FEED INTO WEST RIDGE.

AND IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT WELL, I'LL JUST USE THE BARTON CREEK TABLE.

YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THREE YEARS PRESENT. YOU'VE GOT YOUR 24, 25 SCHOOL YEAR WITH YOUR FTE.

THAT'S THE FULL TIME EMPLOYEE, THE NUMBER THAT IS THAT ARE HIRED FOR THAT GRADE LEVEL.

THE. AND THEN COMPARED TO YOUR 25, 26 AND YOUR 2627 SCHOOL YEAR.

AND SO THIS BLUE CATEGORY IS WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW.

AGAIN, YOU'VE GOT YOUR RED AND GREEN INDICATORS OF WHERE WE ARE IN THAT MOMENT FOR THAT CAMPUS.

OTHER WAYS TO INTERPRET THE DATA ON THESE SLIDES ARE IF YOU SEE A PURPLE AND A ZERO CELL, THAT MEANS THAT THE PREVIOUS YEAR BEFOREHAND THERE WAS A SECTION THAT THERE WAS NOT A SECTION CURRENTLY THIS YEAR.

AND YOU CAN SEE THAT ALSO INDICATED IN THAT FTE COLUMNS.

AND IF WE WERE TO BREAK OUT THESE CLASSROOM SECTIONS EQUALLY AND I'LL USE KINDERGARTEN AS AN EXAMPLE, IF WE HAD 82 STUDENTS THAT ARE ENROLLED AT BARTON CREEK IN KINDERGARTEN, YOU MIGHT HAVE CLASSROOMS THAT ARE AT 2021 EACH.

THERE ARE GOING TO BE NUANCES AND VARIANCES TO THAT.

IF YOU WERE TO GO INTO THAT CLASSROOM RIGHT NOW, YOU MIGHT SEE 22, BUT YOU'RE GOING, IF YOU WERE TO DO IT EQUALLY DISTRIBUTED, THAT'S ABOUT WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE. OKAY, SO WE'RE GOING TO OUR FEEDER PATTERN FOR HILL COUNTRY MIDDLE SCHOOL, OUR THREE ELEMENTARIES AGAIN, SAME SITUATION, SAME BREAKDOWN.

LOOKING REALLY GOOD FOR OUR CEDAR CREEK AND OUR EANES CAMPUSES.

BRIDGE POINT WITH SOME LOWER ENROLLMENT THIS YEAR.

AS I CONTINUE, THIS IS WHERE OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLS LOOK LIKE RIGHT NOW.

AGAIN, IT DOES SHOW THE CONSISTENCY FOR HILL COUNTRY FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS.

SO SOME OF THIS DOES SEEM REPETITIVE, BUT I WANTED TO GIVE IT TO YOU IN JUST DIFFERENT VIEWPOINTS.

ONE JUST THAT HISTORICAL. AND THEN FOR A CLOSER SNAPSHOT OF THE LAST 3 TO 5 YEARS.

THIS IS OUR WESTLAKE AND OUR ATS. WE TYPICALLY HAVE ABOUT 25 STUDENTS THAT ARE IN OUR ADULT TRANSITION SERVICES PROGRAM.

THAT CONTINUES TO BE THE CASE THIS YEAR WITH OUR TOTAL ENROLLMENT FOR THAT SECONDARY AT 2884.

SO. THE LAST VIEW THAT I'D LIKE FOR YOU TO JUST BE AWARE OF, AND I'M NOT TRYING TO GET INTO THE WEEDS WITH THIS, BUT I JUST THOUGHT IT WOULD JUST BE ANOTHER WAY TO LOOK AT IT. IS THAT THAT AVERAGE CLASS SIZE YOU'VE BEEN HEARING A LOT ABOUT OPTIMIZATION OR THAT STAFF YOU KNOW, THEY MAY NOT BE WITH THROUGH ATTRITION, THEY MIGHT NOT BE FILLED. AND SO WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT AND I'LL JUST CONTINUE USING BARTON CREEK AS AN EXAMPLE ON TOP I GOT MY CLASS AVERAGE SIZE LOOKING AT THE TOTAL ENROLLMENT VERSUS OR EXCUSE ME, THE TOTAL ENROLLMENT DIVIDED BY THE NUMBER OF FTE.

SO IF 29 FULL TIME STAFF, AND THIS IS JUST YOUR CORE, IT DOES NOT INCLUDE YOUR ELECTIVES OR YOUR SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHERS.

WHEN YOU DIVIDE THAT BY THE TOTAL NUMBER, YOU'VE GOT YOUR 21.3 AND SO ON AND SO FORTH.

EANES EXCUSE ME. SAFE TO SAY, WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT THESE NUMBERS, FOR ANYBODY WHO'S JUST PAYING ATTENTION TO THE SLIDES OR GOES BACK AND LOOKS AT THIS LATER WHEN YOU TALKED ABOUT OPTIMIZATION, SOME PEOPLE MAY OR MAY NOT KNOW, RIGHT.

THE CONVERSATION THAT WAS HAPPENING LAST WINTER AND INTO THE SPRING WHERE CLASS SIZE RATIOS WERE SET, THAT WHAT WE'RE SEEING IS CONSISTENT WITH THOSE OPTIMIZATION AND RATIO NUMBERS.

THAT'S CORRECT. AND THOSE ARE STILL THE BEST CLASS SIZE RATIOS IN THE STATE OF TEXAS.

THAT'S CORRECT. OKAY. THANK YOU. THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS ARE CALCULATED JUST A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY BECAUSE THEY HAVE A TEACHER MIGHT BE TEACHING SIX SECTIONS IN A DAY. AND SO IF YOU WERE TO DIVIDE YOUR CURRENT ENROLLMENT BY THE SECTIONS, THAT WOULD NOT MAKE SENSE. AND SO YOU DO USE YOUR CORE TEACHERS AND YOUR FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS TO DETERMINE WHAT THAT CLASS SIZE LOOKS LIKE.

SO THAT'S WHERE WE ARE FOR OUR SECONDARY CAMPUSES FOR OUR TOTAL ONE.

OKAY, I'M GOING TO CONTINUE ON HERE. THIS I THOUGHT WAS INTERESTING AND JUST ANOTHER VIEWPOINT.

AGAIN, TRYING, NOT TRYING TO OVERWHELM OR OVERLOAD, BUT JUST WANTING TO GIVE US DIFFERENT WAYS OF THINKING ABOUT OUR ENROLLMENT.

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SO THOSE ARE THE ONLY FTES THAT ARE INCLUDED IN THIS.

AND SO WHEN I COME BACK TO YOU IN NOVEMBER, AFTER OUR SNAPSHOT IN OCTOBER I'LL BE ABLE TO GIVE YOU AN UPDATE OF WHAT THIS IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE.

I IMAGINE THAT OUR FTE WILL AGAIN CONTINUE TO DECREASE.

JUST AGAIN, I THINK THIS IS A NEW LOOK WE'RE TRYING TO SHOW YOU.

AND AS WE'RE HAVING IMPORTANT CONVERSATIONS ABOUT TREATING OUR STAFF AND PRIORITIZING STAFF, THE RATIO OF STAFF THAT WE HAVE HAD HISTORICALLY IN THE DISTRICT, YOU CAN SEE LOOKING AT THIS CHART THAT OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS, THAT LOOKS DIFFERENT THAN THE PREVIOUS SIX YEARS IN THE HISTORY OF THE DISTRICT OVER THE LAST DECADE.

AND WHAT YOU SEE IS SOME REALIGNMENT THIS PAST YEAR.

AND SO IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE THINK ABOUT THIS IN TERMS OF LONG TERM CULTURE AND STAFFING VERSUS ENROLLMENT IN THE DISTRICT.

I THINK IT HELPS US TO TAKE A MORE BROAD VIEW OF OUR STRATEGIES AND WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO THINK ABOUT AS WE TALK ABOUT THESE THINGS IN THE FUTURE.

OKAY, SO NOW WE'RE GOING TO GO INTO OUR TRANSFER CONVERSATION.

AND ONE THING THAT I JUST WANT TO START BY BEFOREHAND IS THAT AGAIN, ALL OF THIS INFORMATION IS STATIC.

SO WHEREAS I WAS UPDATING YOU FROM AN AUGUST 10TH.

AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE DATA THAT I AM GOING TO BE SHARING WITH YOU IS FROM AUGUST 3RD.

AND IT'S TYPICALLY A PREVIEW OF WHAT I'M GOING TO BE COMING BACK AND SHARING WITH YOU WHEN WE, WHEN WE COME IN NOVEMBER. ONE THING THAT I WANTED TO CLARIFY BEFORE WE, LET ME GO BACKWARDS.

FORGIVE ME. OKAY. ONE THING THAT I WANT TO CLARIFY IS THAT THIS, THAT OUR TRANSFER FAMILIES THAT ARE WITH US THIS YEAR THAT WE'RE RETURNING.

THEY DID NOT HAVE TO APPLY AGAIN. I'M. THE TRANSFERS THAT WERE NEW TO THE DISTRICT WERE THE ONLY ONES THAT NEEDED TO DO SO.

AND THIS THIS TABLE RIGHT HERE IS REALLY SORT OF THE LIFE CYCLE OF A FAMILY THAT'S GOING THROUGH THIS PROCESS.

I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THE BACK END OF IT.

SO LET'S SAY THAT A FAMILY BEGINS THEIR APPLICATION.

THEN THEY WOULD FALL IN THAT FIRST PART OF THIS TRANSFER LIFE CYCLE IS THE APPLICATION STARTED.

AND ONCE A FAMILY HAS COMPLETED ALL OF THE DOCUMENTATION AND UPLOADED EVERYTHING THEY NEEDED, THAT'S WHEN THEY BECOME COMPLETED. SO WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT THIS TABLE RIGHT HERE IN THIS SNAPSHOT OF AUGUST THE 3RD, 51 FAMILIES HAD STARTED THE APPLICATION PROCESS BUT THEN ABANDONED THAT PROCESS, MEANING THAT THEY DIDN'T COMPLETE IT.

THEY DID NOT SUBMIT DOCUMENTS WEREN'T UPLOADED.

THE DISTRICT DID REACH OUT TO THOSE FAMILIES MULTIPLE TIMES TO TO HOPEFULLY INCENTIVIZE OR INQUIRE IF THEY WANT OR IF THEY WERE STILL INTERESTED IN THE DISTRICT.

BUT THAT 51 NUMBER MEANS THAT THOSE FAMILIES DID NOT RESPOND ONCE THAT.

IS OKAY IF I JUST JUMP IN FOR ANOTHER SECOND.

SO THIS IS ALSO AN OPPORTUNITY, RIGHT? SO IT'S ONE OF THE REASONS THAT SHE'S SHOWING YOU THIS.

NOW, WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THE ENTIRE PROCESS AS KIMBERLY AND THE TEAM ARE LOOKING AT IT, AND MATT ZEMO AND OUR STUDENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT ARE LOOKING AT THIS, THAT'S THE TYPE OF NUMBER THAT BECOMES AN OPPORTUNITY. NOW, AS WE GET MORE GRANULAR ON THESE THINGS, AND WE START TO THINK ABOUT HOW WE'RE GOING TO COMMUNICATE WITH FAMILIES WHEN WE'RE GOING TO START EACH YEAR, AND HOW WE'RE GOING TO WATCH THEM FLOW THROUGH THE PROCESS AND SUPPORT THEM.

THAT'S A, LARGE NUMBER OF FAMILIES. YES. AS THEY MOVE, AS THE APPLICATIONS ARE COMPLETED, THEN THE, THE FAMILIES THEN GO INTO REVIEW. AND AGAIN IN THIS SNAPSHOT, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THAT THERE WERE FOUR THAT WERE CURRENTLY IN REVIEW. AND WHAT THAT JUST MEANS IS THAT THEY ARE PASSED ON TO THE DISTRICT LEVEL FOR REVIEW.

FROM THERE, AT THAT MOMENT, AFTER THEY'VE BEEN REVIEWED, THEN THEY ARE EITHER GOING TO BE APPROVED TO ENROLL THROUGH OUR JUST OUR PROCESS OR THEY WILL BE DECLINED. ENROLLMENT FOR EANES AND THE, THE REASONS FOR DECLINE HAD COME DIRECTLY FROM OUR POLICY.

THE FDA HAS MADE THAT POSSIBLE. THE ABILITY TO ACCOMMODATE WITHOUT NEGATIVELY IMPACTING INSTRUCTION FACILITIES CLASS SIZE, INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES, THINGS OF THAT NATURE.

ON THE SNAPSHOT, I JUST WANTED TO ALSO POINT OUT TO YOU THAT THAT NUMBER 50 FOR PARENT DECLINE THAT 50 NUMBER COMES FROM THE, THE EXCUSE ME, WHEN I LOOK OVER HERE, THE 235.

THANKS, JOHN. THAT TOTAL NUMBER THAT THOSE FAMILIES DECIDED TO DECLINE THE OFFER TO ENROLL THEIR STUDENTS IN HERE FOR VARIOUS REASONS.

ANOTHER WAY TO LOOK AT THIS DATA IS REALLY TO SHOW THAT THAT KINDERGARTEN, THAT SIXTH GRADE, AND THAT NINTH GRADE YEAR ARE BENCHMARKS IN A STUDENT'S LIFE.

THOSE ARE A LOT. THOSE ARE THE MOST COMMON TIMES WHEN A FAMILY WILL LOOK TO ENROLL THEIR STUDENT HERE.

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SO IF YOU ARE A TRANSFER FAMILY, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SELECT YOUR PRIORITY ONE OR YOUR PRIORITY TWO.

AND SO WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT THIS TABLE, YOU CAN SEE THE CAMPUSES THAT WERE THE PRIORITY ONE FOR OUR FAMILIES.

AND THEN THIS NEXT TABLE THAT I HAVE FOR YOU IS WHERE THESE TRANSFER STUDENTS WERE.

SENT THE APPROVAL TO ENROLL. WHAT I NEED YOU TO TAKE AWAY FROM ALL OF THOSE NUMBERS AND TABLES IS THAT THIS CURRENT TRANSFER SEASON, WE HAD 575 FAMILIES THAT WE HAD THE TOTAL APPLICATIONS.

WE HAD 51, AS WE MENTIONED, THAT NUMBER FAMILIES THAT ABANDONED THAT, 47 THAT WITHDREW FROM THAT PROCESS, MEANING THAT WE WERE LEFT WITH 477 COMPLETED.

AND OF THOSE COMPLETED, 285 OF THOSE APPLICATIONS WERE ACCEPTED TO ENROLL.

KIMBERLY, CAN YOU GO BACK TO THAT SLIDE FOR JUST A SECOND? YEAH. AGAIN, AS WE HAVE A CONVERSATION AS WE'RE HEADING INTO OUR STRATEGIC PLANNING AND AS OUR BOND ADVISORY COMMITTEE GETS STARTED WITH WORK, THESE ARE GREAT NEW LOOKS AND RESOURCES THAT WE CAN SHARE WITH PEOPLE, NOT JUST ABOUT OUR OVERALL ENROLLMENT AND TRENDS, BUT ALSO SOME REALLY SPECIFIC NUMBERS.

I THINK SOMETIMES IN THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY, PEOPLE GET CONFUSED ABOUT THE NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS VERSUS THE NUMBER OF ACCEPTED.

WE WANT TO KNOW WHY PEOPLE WOULD NOT COMPLETE OR WHY PEOPLE MIGHT WITHDRAW AFTER AN INVITE.

THOSE ARE THINGS THAT ARE OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR TEAM TO STUDY.

BUT THIS IS ANOTHER NEW LOOK OF THAT DATA, AND I THINK IT CAN HELP US TO PROVIDE MORE CLARITY.

THIS IS A PREVIEW. I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY ANY QUESTIONS THAT MIGHT BE AROUND THIS.

SO WHEN I COME BACK IN NOVEMBER AND WE HAVE OUR FIRM NUMBERS FOR THE ENROLLMENT FOR ALL OF OUR CAMPUSES, WE ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO BREAK DOWN THE, THE TRANSFER DATA MORE DEEPLY FOR YOU.

WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS THAT ARE RESIDENTS. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THE PERCENTAGES OF THOSE THAT ARE EMPLOYEE OUT OF DISTRICT AND THOSE THAT ARE IN DISTRICT AND BE ABLE TO COMPARE THOSE PERCENTAGES ACROSS THE BOARD, BOTH FOR OUR ELEMENTARY AND OR SECONDARY CAMPUSES.

SO THE PURPOSE OF THIS SLIDE AND THE NEXT ONE TO FOLLOW, WHICH IS THE SECONDARY CAMPUS, IS JUST THIS IS WHAT'S COMING.

ONCE WE HAVE OUR FINALIZED REPORT, OUR REGISTRARS ARE WORKING REALLY HARD.

IT'S CUSTOMARY FOR US TO NOT HAVE EVERYONE CODED RIGHT NOW AS IT'S THE BEGINNING OF THE SCHOOL YEAR. AND SO THIS IS JUST ANOTHER WAY TO BEGIN THINKING ABOUT IT AS YOU'RE MAKING DECISIONS MOVING FORWARD. AND THEN THIS ONE, I LOVED THIS ONE WE CAME ACROSS THIS IS THE HISTORY OF TRANSFERS INTO THE DISTRICT FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS AND THE DISTRICTS WITH WHOM THEY'RE COMING FROM.

AND SO IF YOU WERE LOOKING AT THE 2026 COLUMN WHERE THERE WERE 756 TRANSFERS, THAT INCLUDES ALL OF THE ONES THAT WERE NEW, AS WELL AS ALL THE ONES THAT WERE RETURNING THAT YEAR.

AND WHEN YOU ARE A TRANSFER FAMILY, WHETHER YOU ARE AN OUT OF DISTRICT OR IF YOU ARE AN EMPLOYEE TRANSFER, YOU WOULD INDICATE ON THAT APPLICATION WHAT WOULD BE YOUR HOME SCHOOL, WHAT WOULD BE THE DISTRICT.

SO WE'RE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND WHERE THEY'RE COMING FROM.

AND IT'S PROBABLY NO SURPRISE THAT AUSTIN ISD AND LAKE TRAVIS ARE OUR TWO LARGEST DISTRICTS THAT OUR FAMILIES ARE TRANSFERRING IN FROM.

REALLY INTERESTING WHEN WE TALK ABOUT COMPETITION.

AND I THINK WE HEARD SOME COMMENTS EARLIER AND WE'VE HAD SOME COMMENTARY THROUGHOUT THE YEAR ABOUT WHO IS WHO IS OUR COMPETITION AS A PUBLIC SCHOOL.

AND WHEN PEOPLE THINK IN THE AREA ABOUT WHERE PEOPLE WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL, WE'VE HEARD, RIGHT, THAT OUR COMPETITION IS RIGHT NEXT DOOR. THEY MAY BE HAVING THE SAME CONVERSATION AT TIMES.

ALL RIGHT. IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING WHY I WAS UP HERE, IT'S THE MONEY SLIDE.

SO JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF OUR CURRENT STRATEGY, WE HAVE ABOUT 500 OR 600 STUDENTS HAS BEEN OUR OUR TRANSFER OUT OF DISTRICT INTO OUR DISTRICT, EXCLUDING THE EMPLOYEE STUDENTS. SO WHAT WE CALCULATE IS KIND OF A DIFFERENT NUMBER.

I USE 7458 PER STUDENT. SO I GOT THAT NUMBER FROM THE WADA 6215.

IF YOU TAKE OUR 2526 OUR SUMMARY OF FINANCE TEMPLATE, YOU TAKE OUR WADA DIVIDED BY OUR AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE, YOU GET 1.2. SO YOU TAKE 6,215 TIMES 1.2 GIVES YOU 7,458 TO CONVERT PER WADA INTO PER PUPIL OR PER STUDENT.

AND SO FOR EACH OF THESE STUDENTS THAT DO TRANSFER INTO THE DISTRICT, WE RECEIVE ON AVERAGE $7,458 PER PER STUDENT.

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HOW MUCH, HOW FILLED DO WE WANT THOSE CLASSROOMS TO BE? YOU KNOW, WHAT IS, WHAT IS THAT SWEET SPOT? AND THAT'S, THAT'S BOTH A FINANCIAL, BUT IT'S ALSO A CURRICULUM AND CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT CONVERSATION THAT COVERS BOTH AREAS. IT'S NOT JUST THE CFO WORLD.

THIS IS THIS IS, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE TO TAKE ALL THIS INTO CONSIDERATION.

SO AS WE LOOK AT THESE THINGS, I HAVE A BROADER CONVERSATION.

IS THERE DO WE APPROACH IT WITH DO WE WANT TO CONTINUE TO HAVE OPEN ENROLLMENT TRANSFER STUDENTS? DO WE WANT TO INCREASE THAT? AND IF SO, HOW MUCH AND TO WHAT AMOUNT? AND HOW DO WE GO ABOUT HAVING THESE PROCESSES IN PLACE? AND OBVIOUSLY THE MONEY WILL BE A CONVERSATION.

IT WILL BE A PORTION OF THAT CONVERSATION, BUT IT WILL NOT NECESSARILY BE THE DRIVER PER SE.

YOU KNOW, THE CONVERSATION. I ALWAYS SAY THE TERM STUDENT CENTERED DATA INFORMED.

SO WE'RE INFORMING YOU OF HOW MUCH EACH PUPIL IS WORTH, IF YOU WANT TO CALL IT WORTH.

THERE'S NO PRICE ON ANY STUDENT, RIGHT? BUT I MEAN, FROM A REVENUE GENERATION, FROM THE TEXAS STATE FUNDING FORMULAS, WHAT IT WOULD BE WORTH. SO HOW DO YOU COMBINE THAT AND HOW DO WE TARGET THAT IF THAT'S THE DIRECTION WE WANT TO GO WITH ACADEMIC PROGRAMS, WHAT DO WE OFFER? DO WE OFFER ACADEMIC PROGRAMS THAT ARE, TOP TIER, THAT ARE INNOVATIVE, THAT ARE CREATIVE. YOU KNOW, IT'S AN INTERESTING CONCEPT BECAUSE OVERNIGHT, WHETHER YOU AGREE WITH IT OR DISAGREE WITH IT, EDUCATION BECAME A PRODUCT. PETE, JUST AS A FOLLOW UP THEN TO REITERATE FOR ANYBODY PAYING ATTENTION, THE 7458 REVENUE PER STUDENT AND THAT 3.7 MILLION ESTIMATED REVENUE ABOVE THAT, THAT IS BASED ON THE CURRENT STRATEGY IN A RANGE OF 5 TO 600 TRANSFER STUDENTS RIGHT NOW. AND THAT'S BEEN THE TREND THE LAST 3 TO 4 YEARS.

I BELIEVE WE USE 600. EXACTLY. 600 IS THE NUMBER YOU USE JUST IN CASE WE GET A QUESTION ABOUT THAT.

AND THEN OBVIOUSLY THIS IS JUST A RANGE OF FIVE OPTIONS HERE THAT CAN BE FURTHER DEFINED.

AND BASED ON OUR PARTNER THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BOTH INTRODUCE IN A MINUTE.

THESE ARE THE KINDS OF THINGS WE CAN LOOK AT IF WE'D LIKE TO ANALYZE MORE.

AND OBVIOUSLY IN THE UNIVERSE OF OPTIONS THERE IS ALSO.

RIGHT. NO OPEN ENROLLMENT OR TRANSFERS IN OR A LOT GREATER THAN THAN A WIDE RANGE.

BUT YOU'VE PROVIDED FIVE OPTIONS TO THINK ABOUT FOR THE FUTURE SHOULD THE BOARD CHOOSE TO.

THOSE ARE ALL HYPOTHETICAL RIGHT NOW. JUST HYPOTHETICAL, JUST FOR ANYBODY WHO MIGHT GO LOOK AT THE SLIDE FROM THE PUBLIC AND JUST KIND OF LAYING THE FRAMEWORK OF KIND OF SOME OF THE DIRECTIONS THAT THE CONVERSATION COULD GO IN THE FUTURE.

THANK YOU. AND THEN JUST TO TRY TO BE AS THOROUGH AS POSSIBLE, JOHN, I THINK IN THE, IN THE JUNE 23RD, YOU HAD ASKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE ADVERTISING PIECE. AND SO THAT WE WANTED TO INCLUDE THAT INFORMATION HERE FOR YOU.

HOW ARE OUR FAMILIES HEARING FROM US? AND SO YOU CAN LOOK BY LOOKING AT THAT PIE, THAT PIE CHART, YOU CAN SEE WHERE THAT INFORMATION THAT WE GLEANED AND THAT OTHER, ALL THE BULLETED LISTS FOR THAT 15%, I GAVE YOU THAT INFORMATION FROM YOUR, YOUR LAST QUESTION, BUT I AM EXCITED TO INTRODUCE YOU TO ERIC BECAUSE AS I'VE BEEN GEEKING OUT ON THIS, I LEARNED ABOUT ALL THE THINGS THAT HE DOES. AND IT WAS REALLY EXCITING BECAUSE OUR NUMBERS MATCHED, WHICH JUST WAS AFFIRMING TO US. AND SO HE'S GOING TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HIS TOOL AND WHAT HE DOES AND HOW WE CAN WORK TOGETHER.

GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING BOARD. SO IF WE CAN MOVE FORWARD A LITTLE BIT.

CAN I DRIVE? OKAY, PERFECT. SO DATIENCE IQ IS A DATA ANALYTICS FIRM BASED HERE IN TEXAS, AND WE WORK WITH SCHOOL DISTRICTS THROUGHOUT THE US.

AND WE ONLY WORK WITH PUBLIC ENTITIES. AND SO WE'RE WORKING WITH ISD'S ACROSS THE UNITED STATES.

AND WE ALSO WORK ON THE PRIVATE SIDE, PRIVATE SECTOR WITHIN THE SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT WORLD.

SO WE DO A LOT OF SPORTS AND ACTIVITY UNDERSTANDING JUST MOBILITY PATTERNS, ORIGIN, DESTINATION EVEN WORKING ON THE WORLD CUP A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO, WORKING ON TRAVEL DESTINATION FROM AIRPORTS TO THE STADIUMS AND WHAT ELSE THEY DID BETWEEN THEN.

SO WE DO A LOT OF DATA ANALYTICS ON ORIGIN AND DESTINATION.

AS WE STARTED GETTING INTO THE SCHOOL SECTOR AND I, 25 YEARS OF PUBLIC EDUCATION STARTED AT LAKE TRAVIS, BY THE WAY. AND WE DID HAVE CONVERSATIONS AROUND WESTLAKE.

WHENEVER I WAS AT LAKE TRAVIS AS A BIOLOGY TEACHER.

SO TO YOUR POINT, MR. KOENNECKE. DULY NOTED. THERE IS OTHER OPINIONS OUT THERE AS WELL.

WE STARTED REALLY WORKING ON DROPOUT PREVENTION AND UNDERSTANDING DURING COVID.

THAT WAS THE GENESIS OF WHAT WE WERE DOING. AND AS WE DID THAT, WE WERE REALLY TRYING TO UNDERSTAND IF A KID LEFT DURING COVID AND JUST KIND OF FELL OFF

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WE WANTED TO HAVE THE ABILITY TO AT LEAST GIVE THE DISTRICT A PERSPECTIVE OF WHERE THOSE STUDENTS WENT. AND THEN WORKING WITH THE DISTRICTS IN ORDER TO TRY TO RECAPTURE THOSE STUDENTS AND GET THEM BACK ENROLLED IN SCHOOL. SO THAT WAS KIND OF THE GENESIS OF THE FIRM.

AND THEN FROM THERE, WE STARTED REALLY DIGGING INTO THE UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT HAPPENS WITHIN A DISTRICT, BOTH GLOBALLY, YOU KNOW, MACRO TO MICRO DOWN TO THE INDIVIDUAL CLASSROOM.

AND SO AS WE DO THAT, WE'RE ABLE TO YIELD SOME WHAT WE FEEL IS GREAT INFORMATION AND DATA FOR THE DISTRICT.

SO WE CALL IT ACTIONABLE INTELLIGENCE IN WHICH A DISTRICT CAN COLLABORATE AND MAKE GREAT DECISIONS THAT IMPACT STUDENTS LIKE YOU HAD HERE TODAY, WHICH ARE ABSOLUTELY AWESOME. SO NOTHING THAT WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT TODAY IS, IS THE SKY IS NOT FALLING.

THERE IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING THINGS HAPPENING IN PUBLIC EDUCATION.

HOWEVER MANY CARDS ARE STACKED AGAINST US. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THERE'S ABSOLUTELY AMAZING THINGS HAPPENING IN EANES ISD.

SO TO THAT POINT. SO THIS IS JUST SOME, SOME GENERAL OBSERVATIONS FROM THE INITIAL ANALYSIS.

AND WE ONLY ENGAGED WITH THE DISTRICT ABOUT A MONTH AGO.

AND SO WE'RE AT THE VERY PRECIPICE OF KIND OF WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE FUTURE AS WE GET CLOSER TO THE SNAPSHOT DATE AND REALLY COMING OUT WITH A, WITH A REALLY DEEP ANALYSIS ON WHAT THE ENROLLMENT LOOKS LIKE, BUT AS IMPORTANT, WHAT'S HAPPENING WITHIN THE DISTRICT IN TERMS OF THE STUDENTS AND THE MOBILITY WITHIN THE DISTRICT. SO HERE SOME OF THE REFERENCED ENROLLMENT NUMBERS THAT YOU SEE BACK.

WE WANT TO LOOK AT THINGS HISTORICALLY. AND THEN WE WANT TO BRING OTHER DATA POINTS IN.

AND AS WE DID THAT, I THINK JUST THIS SUBSET ON THIS ANALYSIS, THIS INITIAL ANALYSIS, WE HAD OVER 49 DIFFERENT SUBSETS OF DATA THAT WE USED IN ORDER TO MAKE THIS PROJECTION. AND SO I THINK IT'S REAL ENCOURAGING THAT WE LOOK AT DEMOGRAPHICS VERY DIFFERENTLY.

WE LOOK AT ENROLLMENT DIFFERENTLY, BUT WE LOOK AT MOBILITY WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF WHAT'S HAPPENING WITHIN YOUR COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE, RIGHT? SO OFTEN IN PUBLIC EDUCATION, WE WE GET HONED IN ON WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE CLASSROOM OR IN THE SCHOOL BUILDING.

AND WE DON'T UNDERSTAND KIND OF WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE COMMUNITIES. AND SO WHENEVER WE ENGAGE WITH A DISTRICT, WE WANT TO LOOK AT A REALLY DEEP DIVE INTO THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY AND HOW THAT'S IMPACTING THE OUTPUT.

ALL RIGHT. SO THIS IS KIND OF THE PROCESS IN WHICH WE TAKE FROM FROM BIG PICTURE KIND OF WHAT'S JUST HAPPENING GENERALIZATION WISE TO WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE LOCAL ECONOMY, I.E. BUSINESS AND RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE. SO THEN WE LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE DISTRICT FROM AN ECONOMIC STANDPOINT, AND THEN ALSO WHAT'S HAPPENING MODALITY WISE. AND THAT'S KIND OF WHERE THE BULK OF THIS DATA SITS.

RIGHT NOW IT LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE AT 89.73 ELIGIBLE STUDENTS THAT YOU'RE ACTUALLY CAPTURING.

THAT'S ACTUALLY A REALLY HIGH NUMBER. THAT'S A VERY, VERY HIGH NUMBER.

USUALLY IF WE'RE IN THE 72 TO 74% RANGE, THEN WE'RE EXCITED FOR OUR DISTRICT.

WE WORK WITH DISTRICTS, EXTREMELY LARGE DISTRICTS, SOME OF THE LARGEST DISTRICTS IN THE UNITED STATES.

AND IT'S SOMETIMES IN THE 50S AND 60 PERCENTS OF WHAT'S BEING CAPTURED FOR THEIR ISDS OR FOR THEIR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

SO THIS SLIDE HERE WAS, WAS THERE'S A HUGE WHENEVER WE STARTED KIND OF PULLING BACK ALL THESE DIFFERENT LAYERS AND THEN INTRODUCING ALL THESE DIFFERENT PUBLIC DATA SETS THAT WE, WE UTILIZE. SO OFTENTIMES WHEN WE'RE WORKING WITH DISTRICTS, WE GO BACK TO 2020 BECAUSE THAT WAS COVID.

AND THEN THERE WAS NATURALLY A DECREASE IN ENROLLMENT POST COVID.

YOU DIDN'T HAVE THAT. IF YOU LOOK ON THE CHART, YOU'RE AT 8144 IN 2019, AND YOU DROP SUBSTANTIALLY FROM THERE DOWN.

ENROLLMENT WISE. AND SO THIS WAS SO WE HAD TO KIND OF JUST STOP THERE AND SAY, HANG ON, THIS IS NOT A COVID.

THIS IS NOT A BIRTH RATE ISSUE. THIS IS AN ACTUAL OTHER ISSUE THAT WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IT IS.

AND SO WE KEPT GOING BACK LAYER BY LAYER, BY LAYER BY LAYER.

AND ALL OF A SUDDEN IN THE YEAR 2013, IT WAS JUST LIKE, IT JUST POPPED.

SO IF YOU LOOK AT 2013, THE LINE THERE ON THE AXIS, THERE WAS AN INCREDIBLE INCREASE IN VALUATIONS ON HOUSES IN 2013.

SO YOU GO FROM ROUGHLY ONE AND A HALF TO 3%, YOU KNOW, UP AND DOWN ALL THE WAY BACK TO 2002 OUTSIDE SOME DEFAULTS IN 07 AND SOME OTHER ISSUES THERE. BUT THEN AS YOU GET TO 13, THERE WAS ALSO THIS EXPONENTIAL INCREASE, 8.26%, BUT INCREASES ANOTHER 8.64%. AND SO THAT'S ROUGHLY ABOUT A 206% INCREASE OVER A PERIOD OF YEARS.

AND WHAT HAPPENS IS YOU HAVE THIS, THIS DROP IN OR YOU HAVE THIS INCREASE IN TAXATION.

THE PROPERTY VALUES, THE HOME VALUES ASTRONOMICALLY INCREASE FROM HALF $1 MILLION IN 13 TO ROUGHLY $1.4 MILLION TO ON AVERAGE.

NOW. AND AS WE DIVE DEEPER INTO THAT, YOU START SEEING SOME COMPLEXITIES OF ISSUES THAT ARE CORRESPONDING WITH THOSE NUMBERS AS WELL.

SO ON THIS AXIS, JUST TO KIND OF REITERATE 247,000 ALL THE WAY UP TO 1.47,000 OR MILLION, SORRY.

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YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE AN ENTRY POINT IN WHICH IN 2013 WAS ROUGHLY HALF $1 MILLION ENTRY POINT.

NOW, YOU KNOW, YEARS LATER IN 2026, YOU'RE AT $1.4 MILLION ENTRY POINT FOR A FAMILY TO MOVE INTO THE COMMUNITY AND HAVE A CHILD INTRODUCING THEMSELVES INTO KINDERGARTEN, FIRST GRADE LEVEL.

AND YOU'LL SEE IN A SECOND AND KIMBERLY ALREADY POINTED OUT AS WELL, THIS, THIS INVERSE THAT I'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE IN ANY EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM WHERE YOUR KINDERGARTEN CLASS IS SUBSTANTIALLY SMALLER THAN YOUR, THAN YOUR SENIOR CLASS.

AND THAT'S A TESTAMENT TO THIS CHART RIGHT HERE.

WHICH IS, WHICH IS FASCINATING. AND I CAN'T WAIT TO DIVE DEEPER AND DEEPER AND DEEPER INTO THIS DATA.

ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS ONE? BECAUSE THIS IS A PRETTY POWERFUL CHART AND I CAN GO DEEPER RIGHT THERE.

QUESTIONS. ANY QUESTIONS. SO THIS IS A SIMILAR PERSPECTIVE AS YOU GET INTO 2010. YOU CAN SEE THIS. SO IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT WHERE THESE BREAKS YOU LOOK AT YOUR CURRENT NINE AND NINTH THROUGH 12TH GRADE STUDENTS, IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT THAT STUDENT, IF YOU BACKED UP IN A TRADITIONAL ROUTE WHERE THEY CAME IN AT KINDERGARTEN AND THEY, THEY, THEY'RE CURRENTLY A NINTH OR 12TH GRADER, THEY MORE THAN LIKELY, YOU KNOW, ROUGHLY $634,000 WAS THE ENTRY POINT THERE.

IF YOU LOOK AT THE KINDERGARTEN THROUGH FIFTH GRADER, NOW YOU'RE AT 1.2 MILLION.

AND SO THAT'S A DRASTIC CHANGE OF EVENTS THAT'S HAPPENED IN A VERY SHORT TIME.

AND IF YOU LOOK AT THAT, COMPARATIVELY SPEAKING, TO THE 750,000, THERE'S 87% OF ALL HOMES ARE ABOVE 750,000 CURRENTLY WITHIN EANES ISD.

80% IS ABOVE 1 MILLION. SO 80% OF ALL HOMES ARE ASSESSED OVER $1 DOLLARS, AND THEN 49% ARE ABOVE 1.5 MILLION.

SO THERE'S JUST, THERE'S A LOT TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE ENROLLMENT COMPARISONS YEAR OVER, YEAR OVER YEAR. YOU HAVE TO TAKE THESE PERSPECTIVES INTO PLAY.

SO THIS IS, AND THIS IS THE OTHER PIECE THAT YOU DEAL WITH.

AND I THINK THAT DR. PAPE IS INCREDIBLE AT. HE'S WELL KNOWN THROUGHOUT THE STATE.

PROBABLY ACTUALLY CONGRATULATIONS. THERE IS, THERE'S THIS TAX LEVY THAT YOU'VE ALWAYS KIND OF BEEN UP AGAINST IN THE RECAPTURE.

AND SO WE WON'T GO INTO A LOT OF THAT RIGHT NOW.

BUT YOU DO SEE THAT YOU ALL HAVE PAID YOUR FAIR SHARE.

AND THEN PLUS THIS IS KIND OF WE'RE DIVING INTO THE, TO THE BOND ISSUANCES NOT NECESSARILY PROJECTING ANYTHING, BUT WE NEED TO LOOK AT WHAT THE COMMUNITY SUPPORTS.

AND SO WE'RE LOOKING AT THOSE IN GREAT DETAIL AS WELL.

THIS IS, THIS IS KIND OF WHAT'S CURRENTLY HAPPENING IN THE EDUCATIONAL MODALITIES OF EANES ISD.

SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE BLUE ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE CHART, YOU SEE 7508.

OKAY. SO THERE'S 7,508 STUDENTS THAT CURRENTLY LIVE IN EANES ISD.

OKAY. THAT INCLUDES ISD KIDS. THAT INCLUDES PRIVATE SCHOOL AT 546 STUDENTS.

HOMESCHOOL. WE CALCULATE AT 152 STUDENTS OTHER DISTRICTS.

SO THAT'S EXTERNAL. THAT'S 43. AND THEN CHARTER SCHOOLS.

THERE'S 30 STUDENTS HERE THAT ATTEND A CHARTER SCHOOL.

OKAY. SO THAT'S WHAT WE SPECIALIZE IN IS EDUCATIONAL MODALITIES WITHIN SUBSETS OF COMMUNITIES.

SO BUT THEN YOU TAKE THAT OUT. AND IT'S FASCINATING BECAUSE YOU SEE THE 789 THAT ARE COMING IN FROM AN OUTSIDE TRANSFER, BUT YOU'RE COMPLEMENTING THAT WITH 771 INTERNALLY.

AND SO THERE IS THIS, THIS PIECE THAT YOU ALL ARE ACTUALLY STAGING VERY WELL.

THERE'S A BALANCE THERE. AND AS A BOARD AND AS A COMMUNITY, AS A SCHOOL DISTRICT.

THERE'S PROBABLY GOING TO BE CONVERSATIONS AROUND WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE LONGER TERM? BUT I THINK THE STAGE HAS ALREADY BEEN SET, AND THE FOUNDATION HAS ALREADY BEEN SET TO TRULY UNDERSTAND KIND OF ALL THOSE DYNAMICS. ONE THING THAT I REALLY WANT TO DIVE INTO IS THE ENTRY POINT OF EVERY SINGLE STUDENT IN THE DISTRICT. SO THE ENTRY POINT IS, WHEN DID THEY COME INTO EANES ISD EITHER AS A TRANSFER OR AS A AS A GENERAL STUDENT THAT LIVES WITHIN THE DISTRICT. SO OUTSIDE THE DISTRICT, YOU HAVE 789.

INSIDE THE DISTRICT, YOU HAVE ROUGHLY 7500. AND THEN OUT OF THE 7500, 7526, MAKE UP THAT COMBINATION.

AND THEN WE'RE HAVE AN EXTERNAL OUTFLOW OF STUDENTS AT 771.

I BELIEVE. THIS IS THE COMPLETION OF THOSE THE PRIVATE SCHOOL

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BY FAR IT IS. IT IS NOT EVEN CLOSE. THERE'S COMPETITION NOW THAN BEFORE THERE'S EVER BEEN.

RIGHT. AND SO WE HAVE TO DO A REALLY GOOD JOB AT UNDERSTANDING WHERE THOSE KIDS ARE AT AND THEN CONNECTING WITH THEM EXACTLY WHAT Y'ALL ARE TALKING ABOUT IN TERMS OF OUTREACH.

HOW ARE YOU HAVING CONNECTIONS WITH THAT FAMILY? BECAUSE THEY'RE MAKING DECISIONS AS THEY MOVE IN, BUT THEY'RE ALSO MAKING DECISIONS ONCE THEY GET HERE. WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH MY CHILD? AND SO IF YOU LOOK AT THAT, THE AVERAGE PRIVATE SCHOOL ATTENDEE IS TRAVELING 2.4 MILES FROM THEIR HOUSE TO THE ACTUAL PROVIDER LOCATION. WHICH MAKES SENSE, RIGHT? YOU HAVE 2 OR 3 DIFFERENT PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN THE AREA THAT ARE, THAT ARE KIND OF HUBS. IF YOU LOOK AT THE LICENSED CHILD CARE.

THIS LIST IS, IS, IS SET FORTH BY THE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES.

SO WE HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHERE THOSE LOCATIONS ARE AT. THERE'S 3.4 MILES FOR THE, THE PERSON THAT IS TAKING THEIR CHILD FROM THEIR HOUSE TO A CHILD CARE.

NOW WE DO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S A DISPROPORTIONATE NUMBER OF CHILD CARE FACILITIES HERE IN EANES VERSUS OTHER TRADITIONAL AREAS.

THERE'S, THERE'S NOT A LOT OF ACTIVITY AT THE CHILD CARE CENTERS HERE LOCALLY.

AND WE'LL DIVE MORE INTO THAT IN THE OCTOBER UPDATE.

AND THEN YOU HAVE CHARTER SCHOOLS AND THEY'RE TRAVELING ROUGHLY 9.7 MILES TO ATTEND A CHARTER SCHOOL.

AGAIN, VERY SMALL NUMBER, ONLY 30 KIDS IN THAT SUBSET.

SO THIS IS WHERE WE GET INTO KIND OF WHAT'S HAPPENING WITHIN THE SCHOOLS.

AND SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE FAR RIGHT, THE 2025 AND 26, ANYTHING OVER 1.0 IS A GOOD QUALITY NUMBER.

THAT MEANS YOU'RE REPLACING OR YOU'RE ADDING OR THE SAME NUMBER OF KIDS THAT ARE LOSING OR THAT YOU'RE LOSING.

OKAY, SO ONE ZERO WOULD BE YOU HAVE THIS EQUAL NUMBER OF KIDS LEAVING AS YOU DO ENTERING.

OKAY, SO IT'S THE SAME. SO ANYTHING ABOVE A ONE MEANS YOU'RE GROWING EACH YEAR FROM, FROM PREVIOUS YEAR COHORT.

AND SO IT'S COHORT TO COHORT. IT'S NOT GRADE LEVEL TO GRADE LEVEL.

12 OF 12. YEAH. SO THAT'S AMAZING. I'VE NEVER SEEN THAT WHERE 12 OF 12 KINDERGARTEN THROUGH 12TH GRADE HAVE A POSITIVE NUMBER. NEVER SEEN THAT BEFORE.

THAT MEANS YOU'RE GROWING EVERY SINGLE YEAR IN THOSE AREAS FROM KINDERGARTEN THROUGH, BUT ALSO IT ALSO EQUATES TO YOUR KINDERGARTEN NUMBERS BEING RELATIVELY LOW AND THEREFORE THEY'RE ADDED TO YEAR OVER YEAR. RIGHT? AND SO THERE'S A, THERE'S A NEGATIVE CORRELATION THERE.

IF YOU LOOK AT IT FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE. HERE'S THE ACTUAL NUMBERS THEMSELVES IN A COHORT GRADE LEVEL.

SO IT GOES FROM. SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE BOTTOM RIGHT, DO I HAVE A POINTER.

NO. NOPE. MAYBE NOT. OH OH I WENT THE TOTALLY WRONG WAY.

OKAY. SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE BOTTOM RIGHT. 739 SO THAT'S 2526 12TH GRADE YEAR.

IF YOU GO BACK UP TO 713, THAT'S THAT COHORT NUMBER.

AND SO YOU WENT FROM A JUNIOR YEAR IN 25 OF 713 TO A SENIOR YEAR OF 739.

BUT IF YOU FOLLOW THAT TRAIL ALL THE WAY, YOU'LL SEE YEAR OVER, YEAR OVER YEAR OVER YEAR, THERE ARE POSITIVE ADDITIONS TO THE GREY CLASS.

THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN. IT REALLY DOES NOT HAPPEN.

ONE THING THAT'S REALLY FASCINATING, THOUGH, AND ONE OF THE INDICATORS THAT WE LOOK AT IS THIS RATIO BETWEEN KINDERGARTEN OR FIRST GRADE, BECAUSE IT'S A LITTLE MORE STABLE THAN KINDERGARTEN, BUT KINDERGARTEN TO 12TH GRADE.

OKAY, SO YOU LOOK AT THOSE TWO NUMBERS, AND IF YOU LOOK AT THOSE TWO NUMBERS IN 17, IT WAS 72.6.

SO THAT MEANS THE RATIO BETWEEN KINDERGARTEN AND 12TH GRADE WAS 72.6.

IN 19, I'M JUST GOING TO SKIP A COUPLE OF YEARS HERE.

AND 19 IT WENT UP TO 74.7. OKAY. AND THEN IT GOES DOWN THAT SAME EXACT YEAR THAT THOSE 2013 ZERO YEAR OLDS OR THE NEWBORNS BECOME WHAT, KINDERGARTNERS? OKAY, SO AGAIN, ALL THIS DATA KIND OF CONNECTS AND AS IT CONNECTS, WE GOT TO UNDERSTAND THE ENTIRETY OF IT BECAUSE THAT RATIO THEN GOES ALL THE WAY DOWN TO 55.4% IN 25, 26. THAT'S A BIG SHIFT. OKAY. SO WHAT THAT TELLS ME IS AS THESE LARGER CLASSES ARE GRADUATING, AND THIS IS THE THIS IS THE OUTPUT OF, OF THE ENROLLMENT PROJECTIONS.

AS THOSE 25 AND 26 GRADUATE AT MY GLASSES BACK ON 734, IT'S BEING REPLACED WITH 450 ISH PROBABLY NEXT YEAR ON THAT KINDERGARTEN. AND SO THAT RATIO IS WHAT WE HAVE TO WATCH.

BECAUSE IF THAT RATIO GETS EVEN WIDER, THAT MEANS THE EXPONENTIALLY QUICKENS OUR SPEEDS UP THE ENROLLMENT PIECE.

70. I HAD 74. 70. SHE HAD 74, 73. THAT WAS BEFORE WE EVEN HAD ONE WORD.

SO THAT'S PRETTY AWESOME. THAT'S PRETTY AWESOME.

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SORRY TO OUR ENROLLMENT UNDERSTANDING. AND WE IT'S A LIVE DATA FEED THAT WE INCORPORATE INTO OUR INTO OUR ALGORITHM. OKAY. SO AS WE'RE USING THIS ALGORITHM TO, TO YIELD OUT DIFFERENT ANALYSIS WE HAVE A LIVE FEED THAT GOES INTO THAT.

SO IT'S PULLING DATA FROM ALL DIFFERENT SUBSETS OF RESOURCES.

AND SO IT'S ALWAYS BEING UPDATED. AND THEN QUARTERLY, IT'S A LIVE FEED.

BASICALLY. IT'S NO LONGER STATIC. SO THAT NUMBER WE COME BACK WILL PROBABLY BE ADJUSTED SOMEWHAT JUST BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT IT'S DYNAMIC AND IT SHOULD BE DYNAMIC.

AND WE SHOULD NEVER LOOK AT ENROLLMENT PAST A YEAR OR TWO RIGHT NOW ANYWAY.

BECAUSE WE ARE SO IT'S SUCH A CHANGING DYNAMIC THAN IT'S EVER BEEN BEFORE.

SO WITH POLICY WITH ALL DIFFERENT YOUR BIRTH RATES, ALL THE DIFFERENT THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING WITH THE ECONOMY THERE IS A, THERE'S IT'S COMPLEX. AND SO IF IT'S COMPLEX, WE NEED TO LOOK AT IT MORE DYNAMICALLY THAN WE USED TO, TO LOOK AT IT FROM JUST A GREAT OVER YEAR COHORT PERSPECTIVE.

SO, ERIC. YES, SIR. YOU'VE DONE THIS WITH A LOT OF DISTRICTS NOW, OBVIOUSLY REALLY APPRECIATE WHAT YOU'RE SHOWING US HERE.

AND WHEN WE SEE THIS SLIDE, IT'S A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF OF ALLOWING THE TEAM, THE BOARD TO PLAN AHEAD.

THAT CAN ALSO HELP US WITH OTHER WORK THAT WE NEED TO DO.

AND AGAIN, WHEN YOU SAY COMPLEX, RIGHT? I THINK FOR PEOPLE LOOKING AT THIS AT HOME, THEY DON'T MAYBE KNOW ABOUT TEAMS THE SAME WAY, BUT WHEN THEY'RE LOOKING AT THE TREND LINE THERE AND THEY SEE THIS WE ALL KNOW WE'RE DEALING WITH DECREASING ENROLLMENT IN THE DISTRICT.

AND WHAT I HAVEN'T HEARD YOU TALK ABOUT IN 15 MINUTES IS QUALITY OF INSTRUCTION OR QUALITY OF STAFF AT ALL.

CORRECT. YES. THAT'S CORRECT. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN WE'RE FRAMING THE DIALOG HERE FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE LOOKING AT THIS OR LOOK BACK AT THIS TONIGHT, OUR NEW PARTNER IS SHOWING US A LOT OF DATA AND COMPLEX DATA LOOKS AND HOW WE CAN ANALYZE THOSE THINGS.

BUT WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE LEAVING OUR DISTRICT DUE TO DETRIMENTAL INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES.

ABSOLUTELY NOT TALKING ABOUT A LACK OF RESOURCES OR PROGRAMING.

OKAY. THAT'S A BIG HELP FOR ME. ABSOLUTELY. WE'RE THINKING ABOUT FRAMING SOME OF THIS CONVERSATION AND WHICH WHICHEVER DIRECTION IT GOES, WHEN WE HEAR FROM THE PUBLIC, WE ALSO WANT TO BE ABLE TO FRAME THAT AS IT IS COMPLEX TO LOOK AT OUR HISTORY.

AND OUR HISTORY IS UNIQUE FROM ANY OTHER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT AROUND.

YOU SAID THAT I THINK TWICE. I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING THAT'S DIFFERENT.

OKAY. THIS INVERSE BUT YOU LOOK RIGHT HERE, THIS CHART, NOT ONE OF THEM HAVE DECREASED, WHICH IS 100% A TESTAMENT TO YOUR INSTRUCTION AND YOUR COMMUNITY AND YOUR SCHOOLING.

DO WE HAVE ROOM TO IMPROVE? ALWAYS. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, IT IS, IT IS INCREDIBLE WHAT'S GOING ON HERE.

AND SO WE'RE GOING TO WRAP UP, BUT WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT SOME OF THESE THINGS MOVING FORWARD.

I WANT TO GIVE OUR TRUSTEES A CHANCE TO ASK A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.

THANK YOU FOR THIS PREVIEW. WONDERFUL TOOL. THANK YOU FOR WORKING, KIMBERLY, PETE, ON ALL OF THIS, CLAUDIA, FOR HELPING FIND OUR PARTNER. AND ALSO I WANT, WANT OUR TRUSTEES TO HAVE A CHANCE TO ASK A COUPLE QUESTIONS.

WE KNOW WE'LL SEE YOU AGAIN, BUT THIS, THIS WAS REALLY INFORMATIVE.

THANK YOU. YOU BET. YES, SIR. ALL RIGHT. JOHN AND THEN DIANE.

OKAY. THIS IS ONE OF THE PRESENTATIONS I'VE ENJOYED THE MOST IN MY ENTIRE TIME ON THE BOARD. SO THANK YOU.

YOU KNOW, I'M LAUGHING BECAUSE I'VE ONLY BEEN ON THE BOARD A LITTLE OVER A YEAR, BUT THERE WERE MULTIPLE TIMES WHERE I ASKED AND I WAS LIKE, MAN, I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW WHAT PERCENT OF OUR COMMUNITY IS CHOOSING EANES.

AND EVERYBODY WOULD CHUCKLE AND SAY, OH, THERE'S NO WAY TO KNOW THAT DATA, AND WE DON'T HAVE IT. AND YOU JUST BROUGHT IT. AND I AM SO EXCITED TO SEE IT.

BECAUSE I THINK IT'S, IT'S JUST A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH OF OUR SCHOOLS AND THE STRENGTH OF OUR COMMUNITY THAT WE'RE SEEING THAT.

AND SO LOTS TO GEEK OUT ON HERE. AND I'M EXCITED TOO, BECAUSE I THINK IT CAN INFORM A LOT OF THE DECISIONS WE MAKE GOING FORWARD.

SO KUDOS FOR WHAT YOU'VE BUILT AND EXCITED TO BE PARTNERING WITH YOU.

ONE QUESTION I HAVE, AND YOU MAY NOT KNOW IT TODAY, BUT THAT 89% THAT'S CHOOSING US, I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW HOW THAT COMPARES TO WE OFTEN HAVE A COMPARABLE SET OF DISTRICTS WE USE.

SO WE'LL TALK ABOUT HIGHLAND PARK, WE'LL TALK ABOUT ALAMO HEIGHTS, ETC..

SO I'D LOVE TO KNOW HOW THAT NUMBER COMPARES TO THOSE COMPARABLE DISTRICTS AND I CAN GIVE THAT TO YOU.

ABSOLUTELY. OKAY. 100%. AND WE DO THIS AT SCALE ACROSS THE UNITED STATES.

AND SO WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO SEGMENT ALL OF THIS DATA, ANY TYPE OF COMPARISON, NOT ONLY LOCALLY, BUT ALSO THROUGHOUT THE NATION, WHICH I THINK IS GOOD.

BECAUSE THE SCALE, THE, THE STAGE THAT YOU'RE ON IS A NATIONAL STAGE.

YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. AND SO WE HAVE TO COMPARE ALL OF THOSE, BUT WE'LL LOOK AT THOSE 40 COMPARISON GROUPS THAT TEA ALREADY ALIGNS, PLUS WHATEVER OTHER ONES THAT WE WANT TO IMPLEMENT THERE.

OKAY, COOL. AND THEN THAT 89% AGAIN. THE WAY YOU GATHER THE DATA, IS IT POSSIBLE TO SEE WHAT

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KIMBERLY, I WANTED TO SAY THE TRANSFER REPORT WAS ALSO FASCINATING.

AND SO I LOVE THE DATA THAT WAS BROUGHT TO THAT.

AND THEN, PETE, WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT THESE OPTIONS HERE ABOUT THE DIFFERENT SCENARIOS AND I LOVE HOW IT CAME UP, THE PROGRAMMATIC ASPECT OF THIS TOO. AND SO WHAT, YOU KNOW, I, YOU KNOW, WE'VE A LOT OF US HAVE SAID THIS AS WE'RE TALKING WITH MEMBERS IN THE COMMUNITY, THERE'S BEEN A REAL HUNGER FOR DOING ANALYSIS AROUND TRANSFERS AND WHAT BEST SERVES OUR DISTRICT.

AND KNOWING THAT FINANCES IS A PIECE OF THAT.

IT IS MONEY MATTERS, THERE'S NO DOUBT, BUT ALSO LIKE PROGRAMING AND THE ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES AND THE CLASS SIZE AND EVERYTHING ELSE THAT GOES WITH IT.

AND SO AS WE THINK ABOUT EVALUATING SOME OF THOSE OPTIONS, I'M INTERESTED IN SEEING HOW THAT MIGHT IMPACT THE ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES WE'RE ABLE TO OFFER OUR STUDENTS.

SO I'LL GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE OF YOU KNOW, IS A DISTRICT OF 6500 AND A CORRESPONDING HIGH SCHOOL THAT IS SMALLER.

WHAT WOULD WE WOULD WE HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, DOES A DOES A HIGH SCHOOL OF THAT SIZE OFFER LESS IN PROGRAMING THAN A HIGH SCHOOL IN A DISTRICT OF 7500 BECAUSE YOU HAVE LOWER NUMBERS OF STUDENTS AND SO NOT AS MANY CLUBS OR ACTIVITIES MAKE.

AND SO WHAT ARE THE GIVE AND TAKE OF THAT? AND SO I THINK YOU CAN'T JUST LOOK AT IT FINANCIALLY.

YOU HAVE TO ALSO LOOK AT THESE OF HOW DOES IT IMPACT THE ACADEMIC ENRICHMENT AND PROGRAMMATIC OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE'RE PROVIDING OUR KIDS? BECAUSE THOSE THINGS GO HAND IN HAND AS WELL.

AND SO AS WE LOOK AT THOSE TRANSFER OPTIONS, EXCITED TO DIG INTO THAT TOO.

SO LOTS TO DIG INTO. I'LL KEEP IT TO THOSE TWO BROAD COMMENTS, BUT THANKS FOR YOUR WORK AND EXCITED TO DIG IN MORE IN THE MONTHS AHEAD.

THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. WE HAVE DIANE AND THEN KELLY.

OKAY. WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET.

A FEW DAYS AGO WHEN WE HAD OUR FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETING, JENNIFER AND I AND A FEW OTHERS, AND WE WERE EXCITED THEN. AND THANK YOU FOR THIS EXCELLENT PRESENTATION.

JOHN, YOU ALREADY MADE SEVERAL EXCELLENT POINTS.

I JUST WANTED TO ASK YOU TO SPEAK A LITTLE BIT TO THAT GRAPH, THE PLANNING CASE WHERE IT LOOKS OUT TO 2035.

YEAH. THIS ONE. AND YOU HAVE THAT CONE OF UNCERTAINTY THERE.

ABSOLUTELY. WHICH IS VERY INTERESTING BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IF YOU LOOK AT THE UPPER AND THERE'S OF COURSE DECREASING PROBABILITIES THAT YOU GO TO THOSE OUTWARD EDGES OF THAT, BUT YOU KNOW, WHAT TYPES OF SCENARIOS FACTOR INTO THIS CONE? LIKE IF IN THAT OUTWARD LYING CASE RIGHT THERE AT THE TOP WHERE ENROLLMENT DOESN'T ACTUALLY DECREASE, WHAT KINDS OF EXTREMES WOULD WE BE SEEING IN THAT CASE? CAN YOU JUST SPEAK A LITTLE BIT TO THAT? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. IT'S A GREAT QUESTION. YOU KNOW, THERE'S THERE'S A COUPLE DIFFERENT VARIABLES I THINK THAT ARE IMPORTANT HERE.

FIRST AND FOREMOST IS THINGS THAT YOU CAN CONTROL AND THINGS THAT YOU CAN'T CONTROL, RIGHT? AND I THINK YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO LOOK AT POLICY IN A WAY THAT YOU CAN INFLUENCE IT TO A POINT EITHER LOCALLY AND OR AT THE STATE LEVEL.

RIGHT. AND SO I THINK THE NUMBER ONE UNCERTAINTY IS, IS BY FAR TIFA.

RIGHT. SO THE ESA'S EDUCATIONAL SAVINGS ACCOUNTS RIGHT NOW, IF YOU LOOK AT HOW IT'S BEEN ROLLED OUT AND THE, THE, THE $1 BILLION THAT WERE ALLOCATED TO THIS FIRST BIENNIAL OF ESAS, IF YOU LOOK AT THAT TIER THREE AND TIER FOUR, RIGHT, THERE'S FOUR DIFFERENT TIERS IN WHICH THERE'S AWARDED DOLLARS TO KIDS THAT GO FROM POINT A TO POINT B.

TIER ONE IS WHAT'S BEEN APPROVED SO FAR AWARDED SO FAR.

THAT'S PRIMARILY GOING TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES AND THEIR SIBLINGS.

AND SO YOU HAD ZERO AND EANES THAT ACTUALLY TOOK THOSE FUNDS AND WENT TO ANOTHER EDUCATIONAL MODALITY.

OKAY. ZERO. THEY AWARDED A, A LOTTERY FOR TIER TWO.

IF YOU MET CERTAIN CRITERIA, YOU DON'T HAVE MANY ELIGIBLE STUDENTS UNDER TIER TWO BASED ON THE INCOME LEVELS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED

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AND I THINK THAT'S WHERE WE HAVE TO REALLY UNDERSTAND KIND OF WHAT'S HAPPENING FROM A LEGISLATIVE PERSPECTIVE.

AND SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE AS MUCH ENGAGEMENT AS YOU HAVE AT THE STATE LEVEL TO WORKING WITH YOUR, YOUR CONSTITUENTS ON THAT. WHEN IT COMES TO THE OTHER PIECE, THE OTHER VARIABLE THAT YOU SPOKE ABOUT, WHICH IS JUST THE REAL ESTATE AND THE PRICES, THAT'S GOING TO BE, I THINK, A LONGER GAME.

YOU DO SEE SOME FLUCTUATION DOWNWARD TRENDING RIGHT NOW IN TERMS OF REAL ESTATE.

YOU STILL HAVE HIGH INTEREST RATES, WHICH IS COMPLEX BECAUSE NOW YOU HAVE ELDERLY FAMILIES THAT ARE NOT LEAVING AND GOING TO OTHER AREAS OR STAYING HERE BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY HAVE IS WHAT THEY HAVE AND THEY CAN'T REALLY REPRODUCE IT ANYWHERE ELSE. RIGHT? SO THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT ARE INTERNALLY MY ENCOURAGEMENT IS ALWAYS TO A DISTRICT WORK ON BEING GREAT. AND THEN EVERYTHING ELSE OUTSIDE THAT WILL, WILL KIND OF FALL INTO PLACE.

IF EVERYTHING IS IN KIND OF RIGHT NOTCHES THAN IT IS HERE.

AND SO THAT WOULD BE MY FIRST INITIAL REACTION UNTIL WE GET DEEPER INTO IT.

I THINK THE THAT'S THE MAIN ONES I WOULD SEE I'LL TELL YOU THIS FUNNY STORY.

WE HAD AN ARCHITECT FIRM REACH OUT TO US ABOUT A COUPLE MONTHS AGO.

THEY SAID, CAN YOU DO A, A PLANNING DOCUMENT THROUGH 2050 FOR THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES, EVERY DISTRICT IN THE UNITED STATES.

I LAUGHED. BUT THAT'S WHERE WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW.

TRYING TO LOOK AT THIS, EVERYBODY IS IS REALLY TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON WITH ENROLLMENT THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES.

AND IT'S, AGAIN, IT'S, IT'S A REALLY MULTIFACETED ISSUE.

ALL RIGHT. KELLY. YEAH. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THIS WAS SO FUN TO LOOK AT.

WE BOUGHT IN 2009. AND SO TO LOOK AND SEE, WE HAVE 1.34 BILLION PAID IN TAXES BACK TO THE STATE SINCE I'VE LIVED HERE.

THAT'S DEVASTATING TO ME. AND MY HUSBAND AND I ARE HUGE SUPPORTERS OF THE EANES EDUCATION FOUNDATION.

WE'RE VERY DEDICATED TO EDUCATION. WE DO HERE, BUT THAT'S A VERY HARD NUMBER TO SWALLOW.

I LOVED YOUR YOUR STATS ON OUR CURRENT RESIDENTS, CHILDREN AND THEN WHO IS ATTENDING HERE? AND I LOOKED IT UP NATIONALLY AND IT SAID THAT ANYTHING AROUND 90% WAS PHENOMENAL.

AND I THINK IT'S EVEN MORE SO BECAUSE OUR PRIVATE SCHOOLS ARE SERIOUSLY IN OUR DISTRICT AND LIKE SITTING RIGHT AROUND US AND THEY'RE, THEY'RE GOOD PRIVATE SCHOOLS. NOT THAT I'M ENCOURAGING ANYONE TO ATTEND ONE OF THEM, BUT I, BUT I MEAN, THESE ARE GREAT SCHOOLS, GREAT OPTIONS.

AND SO THAT WE HAVE OUR STUDENTS HERE. BUT AN INTERESTING THING OUR PARENT BROUGHT UP TONIGHT WAS THAT THEY HAD A STUDENT THAT THEY MOVED TO A PRIVATE SCHOOL AND THEN MOVED BACK BECAUSE THEY KNEW THEY WERE MISSING SOMETHING.

AND SO I WOULD LOVE TO SEE WITH THAT PRIVATE SCHOOL PULL OUT WHEN THEY'RE OUT AND WHEN THEY COME BACK.

BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S ANOTHER WAY TO RECAPTURE.

AND WE'VE TALKED ABOUT LOOKING AT THE PRESCHOOLS IN THE AREA AND TALKING TO THOSE PARENTS AND LETTING THEM KNOW THAT THIS EDUCATION IS HERE AND GRABBING THOSE KIDS BEFORE THEY ENROLL THEM IN THESE PRIVATE SCHOOLS.

BECAUSE WE DO OFFER AN INCREDIBLE EDUCATION FOR THOSE KIDS.

AND THEN I WANT TO GO BACK TO THE ENROLLMENT AND TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW INCREDIBLE THE THE CLASS SIZES ARE ESPECIALLY IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND HOW IMPOSSIBLY IT'S JUST, I'M SO IMPRESSED THAT YOU CAN TAKE ALL THESE TRANSFER APPLICATIONS AND ACCEPT STUDENTS TO PERFECTLY AND STRATEGICALLY CREATE THESE CLASSROOMS THAT ARE WORKING AT A FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE LEVEL OF STUDENTS WHILE ALSO MAINTAINING THE HIGH STANDARDS AND THE RATIOS THAT WE REQUESTED.

AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU. THAT IS INCREDIBLE.

AND THESE NUMBERS LOOK GREAT. THAT BEING SAID, I WANT TO VISIT REALLY QUICK? I DID NOTICE THAT THERE WAS A DIFFERENCE, BUT YOU HAD MADE A CAVEAT, SO I WANTED TO CLARIFY.

AT HILL COUNTRY, THE AVERAGE CLASS SIZE WAS LIKE 32 STUDENTS AS COMPARED TO WEST RIDGE, WHICH WAS 27.

AND I ALWAYS LIKE TO SEE LIKE KIND OF A SIMILAR EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE HAPPENING ON CAMPUSES.

SO BUT YOU SAID IT WAS DIFFICULT TO CALCULATE SOME OF THAT BECAUSE OF THE VARIANCE IN THE CLASSES,

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SO THE ELECTIVES TEACHERS ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THAT INFORMATION NOR ARE THEY AT WEST RIDGE.

SO YOU'RE LOOKING AT YOUR CORE AND YOUR FOREIGN LANGUAGE.

I THINK AN OBVIOUS INDICATOR FOR THOSE DIFFERENCES IS THAT HILL COUNTRY HAS 150 MORE STUDENTS THAN, THAN WEST RIDGE. AND SO WE'RE JUST GOING TO SEE THE VARIANCE IN THE CLASS SIZES PURELY BASED ON THAT.

SO I THINK IT WOULD BE AN INTERESTING TO DIVE INTO THAT JUST BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IF MY CHILD'S IN A MATH CLASS AT WEST RIDGE WITH 27 STUDENTS OR MY CLASS, MY CHILD'S IN A CLASS AT HILL COUNTRY WITH 32.6 STUDENTS.

THAT FEELS LIKE A PRETTY DECENT DIFFERENCE. LIKE THAT'S FIVE MORE STUDENTS.

SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE KEEPING AN EYE ON THAT AND THE, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S HAPPENING THERE.

BUT I MEAN, SERIOUSLY, LIKE I'M LOOKING AT THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND JUST HOW EFFICIENT THOSE CLASSROOMS ARE AND HOW HOW MUCH I APPRECIATE YOUR HARD WORK ON STRATEGICALLY USING THESE TRANSFER STUDENTS TO CREATE THOSE ENVIRONMENTS.

SO THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. KATE.

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. I HAD A QUESTION AROUND SPECIFICALLY THE TRANSFERS, KIMBERLY, ON YOUR SLIDES LOOKING AT SLIDE 16 AND 17. ARE THOSE NUMBERS BASED OFF OF THE APPLICANTS FOR THIS YEAR? THE PERCENTAGES SEEM LOW.

AM I READING THAT CORRECTLY? ARE THESE NOT FULLY UPDATED YET? THAT'S CORRECT. THAT THIS IS ONLY AS OF AUGUST THE 3RD WHEN WE'RE COMING TO OUR TRANSFERS.

THE DATA FOR ENROLLMENT WAS AUGUST THE 10TH. AND SO THAT WAS EVEN WITH THAT THEY AM I THEY SEEM A LITTLE BIT OFF.

I THOUGHT THEY WOULD BE HIGHER AS FAR AS THE PERCENT OF TRANSFERS TO CAMPUS. MAYBE I'LL APPROACH IT THIS WAY.

SO RIGHT NOW, HISTORICALLY, SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN CONSISTENT IS THAT FROM THE LAST 2 TO 3 YEARS, WE'RE OVERALL AT ABOUT 10% OF TRANSFER STUDENTS TOTALLY ACROSS THE DISTRICT.

I ANTICIPATE THAT IS GOING TO LOOK QUITE SIMILAR ONCE WE HAVE ALL OF OUR CODING IN RIGHT NOW.

IF YOU I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I'M LOOKING AT THE RIGHT SLIDE THAT YOU'RE INDICATING. SO TELL ME, GO BACK AND FORTH BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE THE NUMBERS ON THIS ONE. AM I ON MY REPORT? IT'S PAGE 16, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF THAT CORRELATES TO YOURS.

IS THE TABLE THAT I'M SHOWING. NO, IT'S NOT THIS.

IT'S ELEMENTARY CAMPUS PREVIEW. YOU GOT IT. OKAY.

GIVE ME ONE MOMENT. SO. YES, KATE, THIS IS THIS IS NOT ACCURATE AS OF RIGHT NOW.

THIS IS WHAT I'M GOING TO BE BRINGING YOU IN OCTOBER OR NOVEMBER.

YEAH. AND THEN AND THEN I THERE SEEMS TO BE SOME I HAVE SOME CONFUSION AROUND.

SO THERE WERE 285 APPLICATIONS THAT WERE APPROVED, BUT OF THAT ONLY AS OF RIGHT NOW, 235 OF THOSE HAVE ACTUALLY ENROLLED. THAT'S CORRECT.

OKAY. SO YOU GOT THAT RIGHT.

THE PARENT DECIDED NOT TO ATTEND. THAT'S CORRECT. SO AS OF RIGHT NOW WE HAVE 235 NUMBER WITH SOME POTENTIAL WIGGLE ROOM OF NEW TRANSFERS THIS YEAR.

YEP. AND BUT WE ENDED UP IN A SIMILAR PLACE. I'M ASSUMING BASED ON NUMBER OF STUDENTS WHO WERE EITHER GRADUATED OR WHO WERE TRANSFERS THAT LEFT BECAUSE IT SEEMS AS IF THE TRANSFER NUMBER IS PRETTY EQUAL TO WHERE WE WERE LAST YEAR, EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE ADMITTED 235 NEW TRANSFERS.

I, I CAN BRING THAT FURTHER FOR YOU IN NOVEMBER SO THAT I'M MAKING SURE THAT I'M SPEAKING TO YOU ACCURATELY.

OKAY. YEAH, I'D BE INTERESTED TO SEE WHERE THAT NETS OUT.

YOU GOT IT. THANKS. ALL RIGHT. JENNIFER.

I LOVE THIS PRESENTATION. THE FIRST TIME I SAW IT, AND I LOVED IT EVEN MORE THE SECOND TIME I SAW IT BECAUSE I COULD TRACK EVEN BETTER.

AND KIMBERLY, THANK YOU ALSO FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.

I'M FLAT OUT EMBARRASSED TO ASK MY QUESTION, BUT I'M JUST GOING TO DO IT BECAUSE MAYBE SOMEONE ELSE IN THE ROOM HAS THE SAME ONE.

BRIDGE POINT KINDERGARTEN ENROLLMENT CURRENTLY IS DOWN TO THREE CLASSES.

AND WHEN MY FAMILY MOVED INTO THE DISTRICT THREE YEARS AGO, IT WAS, I THINK, SIX, 5 OR 6.

SO I'M WONDERING BECAUSE IF WE GO BACK TO THE SLIDE THAT HAD THE AMOUNT OF TRANSFERS THAT WERE APPLYING, TRYING TO GET IN AT THE KINDERGARTEN LEVEL.

IS THAT OKAY? THAT WAS THE START. YEAH. I'M IS IT I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE I'M READING THIS CORRECTLY.

SO BRIDGE POINT 17 CAME IN TRANSFERS OR THAT'S HOW MANY WERE REQUESTED FOR BRIDGE POINT AS THEIR FIRST CHOICE.

[01:50:04]

YEAH. NO, I THINK YOU'RE READING IT CORRECTLY. SO YEAH, FOR FOR THE KINDERGARTEN CLASS AT BRIDGE POINT, 17 FAMILIES SELECTED THAT AS THEIR FIRST PRIORITY.

OKAY. I GUESS MY QUESTION IS JUST MORE, AND IT'S PROBABLY NOT THE RIGHT FORUM FOR IT, BUT JUST KIND OF THINKING THROUGH WHERE OPPORTUNITIES ARE AND KNOWING THAT IF WE HAVE A, I MEAN, FOR, WAS IT 400, 500 KIDS IN KINDERGARTEN ACROSS THE DISTRICT? AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THAT BEING AS LIKE ALMOST HALF THE AMOUNT OF GRADUATING SENIORS WHERE OUR OPPORTUNITIES ARE FOR WHERE WE MAKE, I GUESS, MORE GENEROUS ALLOWANCES FOR PEOPLE TO COME INTO THIS DISTRICT VERSUS MAYBE WHERE THERE'S LESS DEMAND OR LESS OPPORTUNITY.

I THINK IT'S A GOOD QUESTION. I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS THEY WERE TRYING TO SHOW THAT SLIDE THAT WE CAN JUMP INTO AGAIN IN THE FUTURE ABOUT BY PROGRAM TARGETED BY BUILDING, TARGETED BY COHORT AND CLASS GEOGRAPHY, EAST, WEST.

I MEAN, THERE'S DIFFERENT LOOKS THAT WE CAN BRING BASED ON THAT KIND OF QUESTION.

SO. ALL RIGHT. I'LL ASK HIM SOME QUESTIONS.

SO I NOTICED ON A SLIDE AND I DON'T. IT WAS IN THE DATIENCE PRESENTATION, IT SAID THAT 900.

AND IT WAS JUST A LITTLE BITTY ASTERISKS ON A SLIDE.

IT SAID THAT 964 CHILDREN ATTEND CHILD CARE. AND SO THAT MEANS, FOR EXAMPLE PARENTS WORKING, THEY HAVE THEIR CHILDREN IN CHILD CARE.

THAT DOESN'T INCLUDE PRE-K. THAT WOULD INCLUDE WHAT? LIKE WHAT? FIRST OFF, WHAT DOES THAT INCLUDE? SO THAT, THAT THAT INCLUDES A TYPICAL DAYCARE, WHICH NOWADAYS COULD INCLUDE A PRE-K PROGRAM THAT'S, THAT'S CERTIFIED OR BEEN APPROVED AS A PROVIDER.

AND SO THERE'S, THERE'S HOW WE, HOW WE LOOK AT THAT IS THERE'S X NUMBER OF, OR THERE'S HOWEVER MANY DAYCARES.

AND SO THOSE DAYCARES, THERE'S RANGES, RIGHT.

SO SOME OF THEM MAY BE 0 TO 3, SOME OF THEM MAY BE 0 TO 4.

AND SO THERE'S NOT A SET AMOUNT ON WHICH ONES ARE PRE-K VERSUS NOT.

WE TYPICALLY WOULD WOULD CLASSIFY THAT AS A FOUR YEAR OLD PRIOR TO GOING INTO KINDERGARTEN AND MEETING THAT AGE REQUIREMENT.

BUT IT VARIES WITH EVERY SINGLE PROVIDER. UNFORTUNATELY, I COULDN'T I CAN'T GIVE YOU A CONCRETE ANSWER THERE.

ALL RIGHT. SO AND THE NOTE SAYS THAT THIS FIGURE IS A FLOOR, BUT WE CAN SAY THERE ARE 964 CHILDREN WHO ARE ATTENDING A LICENSED DAYCARE CENTER. THEY LIVE IN THE AREA. AND THEN THERE ARE OTHER FAMILIES THAT WE DON'T HAVE DATA ON.

THOSE ARE FAMILIES WHO ARE CHOOSING THAT THE CHILD IS AT HOME OR WITH A PARENT OR GRANDPARENT OR SOMETHING, SO THAT NUMBERS COULD GO UP. BUT IT'S ALSO SPREAD OVER FOUR YEARS ZERO, ONE, TWO, THREE AND FOUR.

SO YOU DIVIDE, I'LL SAY APPROXIMATELY 1000 BY FOUR AND YOU HAVE 250.

SO THIS JUST GOES BACK TO THIS YEAR OVER YEAR PROBLEM THAT I THINK WE'RE HAVING, THAT WE HAVE VERY SMALL KINDERGARTEN CLASSES, AND THEN THEY'RE HAVING TO GROW EACH YEAR UNTIL THEY GRADUATE.

SO. I'M SAYING THIS BECAUSE I'M JUST CONFIRMING MY ASSUMPTION THAT THIS PROBLEM OF SMALL KINDERGARTEN ENROLLMENT IS PERHAPS NOT GOING AWAY JUST BASED ON THE CHILD CARE. IT'S NOT GOING TO GO AWAY. IT'S NOT GOING AWAY. OKAY.

I WAS HAVING THIS CONVERSATION WITH A FRIEND THE OTHER DAY AS WE WERE TALKING ABOUT JUST TRENDS ACROSS OUR DISTRICT.

AND IT WAS IF YOU HAD TWO EQUIVALENT HOUSEHOLDS AND ONE WAS A DUAL INCOME, NO CHILDREN, AND ONE WAS A DUAL INCOME, BUT CHILDREN AND THEY WERE BOTH DECIDING TO MOVE INTO OUR DISTRICT.

WAS THERE A PROPENSITY FOR A FAMILY WHO HAD CHILDREN MORE LIKELY TO MOVE INTO OUR DISTRICT VERSUS ANOTHER SIMILAR AREA IN AUSTIN, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, IN HIGH DEMAND IN GENERAL.

AND IS THERE A WAY THAT WE COULD UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT LOOKED LIKE? I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S IN YOUR, YOU KNOW, YOU SAID YOU LOOKED THROUGH 45 SETS OF DATA.

YEAH. SO OUR PROPRIETARY DATA SET HAS THAT INCLUDED.

AND SO THE DISTRICT WILL HAVE ACCESS INTO ALL PROVIDERS.

AND THEN ALSO ON TOP OF THAT, WE HAVE A IT'S NOT CONCRETE AND SEQUENTIAL, BUT IT IS A, A PRETTY GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT HOUSEHOLDS, REGARDLESS OF IF THEY SEND THEIR CHILD TO DAYCARE OR NOT.

WHAT HOUSEHOLDS HAVE CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF FIVE IN THIS CASE, WE HAVE IT BROKEN OUT TO 0 TO 2 FROM 3 TO 4.

AND THAT WAY WE CAN LOOK AT IT SEGMENTED. AND SO WE CAN ABSOLUTELY WE WILL BE PROVIDING THAT DATA AS WELL TO THE DISTRICT.

OKAY. THANK YOU. I WAS CURIOUS, I MEAN, I, I CAN JUST TELL THIS IS JUST A VERY, VERY SUMMARIZED VIEW OF SOMETHING THAT THERE'S A LOT THAT WE COULD TALK FOR DAYS.

[01:55:01]

IT DOES. SO CAN HE. YEAH. YEAH. HE, HE LOVE ME.

I WILL, I WILL GET UP HERE AND TAKE MY JACKET OFF, AND WE'LL START TALKING THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON.

WELL, HAVE A THESIS ON THIS. THERE'S AN IDEA.

SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE'VE HAD THIS CONVERSATION FOR A LONG TIME ABOUT ENROLLMENT AND TRANSFERS AND WHAT WE'RE DOING AND WHY WE BRING IN TRANSFERS.

AND SO THERE'S JUST SOME HIGH LEVEL POINTS THAT I WANT TO POINT OUT FOR EVERY STUDENT THAT'S BASICALLY LEAVING THE DISTRICT.

WE'RE BRINGING IN THAT SAME NUMBER. THAT'S CORRECT. IF STUDENTS WEREN'T LEAVING, I'LL SAY THE EANES FAMILY, EVEN THOUGH THEY LIVE HERE, WE WOULDN'T NEED TRANSFERS. BUT WE'RE NOT GROSSING UP OUR STUDENT POPULATION SO MUCH THAT IT IS OVERTAKING THE NATURAL NUMBER OF STUDENTS THAT WOULD BE HERE NATURALLY. THAT'S A FAIR ASSESSMENT.

ABSOLUTELY. OKAY. AND BUT WHAT IS UNFORTUNATE IS THAT WE'VE SEEN DECLINING ENROLLMENT.

IF WE HAD ALL THE STUDENTS WHO LIVED HERE, WE WOULD STILL HAVE DECLINING ENROLLMENT BECAUSE THOSE NUMBERS ARE ALMOST EQUIVALENT.

THEY'RE INVERSED. IF YOU LOOK AT THE EARLY VERSUS SENIOR, INVERSED, WHICH LOOK AT ANY CLASS RATIOS IN THE US, AND THERE'S MAYBE A HANDFUL OF DISTRICTS IN THE US THAT HAVE AN INVERSE RELATIONSHIP.

USUALLY THEY'RE LARGE KINDERGARTEN CLASSES AND THEY GET SMALLER AS YOU GRADUATE.

JUST ATTRITION HAPPENS, RIGHT? 100% OPPOSITE.

EANES IS 100% OPPOSITE. I LOVE THE WAY THE DATA IS PRESENTED TO US BECAUSE WHEN I THINK ABOUT OUR STUDENT POPULATIONS, BY GRADE, BY CAMPUS, HOWEVER, WE WE SPLIT THAT POPULATION.

I ALWAYS THINK OF LIKE GRADUATING YEAR COHORT.

AND YOU CAN ACTUALLY TRACK THAT IN THE, THE WAY YOU'VE PRESENTED IT BECAUSE YOU CAN TRACE.

WELL, WE STARTED OUT AT SO MANY CHILDREN, THE CHILDREN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SLIDE, WHO WERE KINDERGARTNERS ARE NOW NINTH GRADERS IN THE DISTRICT.

AND SO YOU CAN SEE THOSE POPULATIONS GROW SLOWLY OVER TIME.

I HAD ALWAYS HEARD THAT THERE WAS A FEW POINTS WHEN FAMILIES CHOSE EANES.

AND I'M ASKING THIS QUESTION BECAUSE I'M TRYING TO DEBUNK PRIOR CONVERSATIONS WITH WHAT WE BELIEVE IS NOW REAL DATA.

WE HAD HEARD THAT THERE'S AN INCREASE FROM KINDERGARTEN TO FIRST, WHICH I THINK MAYBE WE'RE SEEING, BUT THEN FROM THE OTHER BIG JUMP WAS FROM FIFTH GRADE TO SIXTH GRADE AND THE LAST ONE FROM EIGHTH TO NINTH.

CORRECT. BUT WHAT I SEE IS MUCH MORE SMOOTH THAN THAT.

IT DOESN'T LOOK AS LUMPY AS WE'VE ALWAYS HEARD THOSE JUMPS ARE.

NOW YOU STILL HAVE TRANSITION FLUCTUATION, AND THAT'S WHAT THAT IS, RIGHT? IT'S TRANSITION FROM THOSE DIFFERENT LEVELS, I.E.

FROM ONE BUILDING TO THE NEXT BUILDING TO THE NEXT BUILDING. AND USUALLY WHAT YOU SEE IS, IS REALLY LARGE FRESHMAN CLASS.

AND THERE'S A MULTITUDE OF REASONS FOR THAT. THERE'S WHAT WE CALL FRESHMORE'S, WHICH KIDS? YEAH, KIDS THAT DON'T HAVE QUITE ENOUGH CREDITS.

AND SO THEY COUNT TOWARDS THE FRESHMAN. PLUS YOU HAVE KIDS THAT LEAVE FOR VARIOUS REASONS DURING THOSE TRANSITION PERIODS. THEN JUST ONE MORE THOUGHT HERE.

WE HAVE ABOUT TRANSFERS AND WHAT WE'RE DOING.

ONE, A LOT OF PEOPLE WANT TO COME TO EANES AND WE DON'T ACCEPT ALL OF THEM.

WE DON'T ACCEPT THE MAJORITY OF THE STUDENTS THAT ARE APPLYING TO EANES.

BUT THEN IT APPEARS AS, FOR EXAMPLE, I'M JUST I'M GOING TO LOOK AT BRIDGE POINT BECAUSE IT CAUGHT MY EYE.

THREE STUDENTS HAD SAID THAT BRIDGE POINT, NOT STUDENTS, THEIR PARENTS HAD SAID BRIDGE POINT FIRST GRADE.

THEY WERE INTERESTED IN BRIDGE POINT, BUT WE DID NOT APPROVE ANY FIRST CHOICE BRIDGE POINT FIRST GRADERS.

BUT THEN AS I LOOK AT BRIDGE POINT ENROLLMENT NUMBERS, BECAUSE THIS IS ONE OF THE FIRST TIMES WE'VE SEEN JUST A HOLISTIC PRESENTATION LIKE THIS.

BRIDGE POINT FIRST GRADE IS FULL, AND WE'D ALWAYS SAID THAT WE WEREN'T GOING TO ADD STUDENTS TO MAKE A NEW GRADE OR TO MAKE THE GRADES BIGGER THAN WHAT WE SAID OUR DISTRICT POLICY IS, AND I CAN SEE THAT PLAYING OUT AS AN EXAMPLE IN BRIDGE POINT FIRST GRADE.

SO WE'RE DOING WHAT WE SAID WE'RE GOING TO DO. WE'RE DOING IT WITH FIDELITY, AND NOW FAMILIES CAN ACTUALLY SEE IT IN THE DATA.

SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JUST THIS LEVEL OF DETAIL.

IT'S A LOT FOR ANYBODY TO ABSORB. BUT THERE'S THERE'S A LOT OF REALLY GOOD INFORMATION HERE.

I THINK I THINK WE'RE GOING TO SEE MORE OF ERIC AND DATIENCE AND KIMBERLY AND PETE IN THE FUTURE.

I THINK PETE'S GOING TO STAY UP HERE ACTUALLY FOR A MINUTE, I THINK. BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH, EVERYBODY, AND THANK YOU FOR THESE PRESENTATIONS. ALL RIGHT.

SO THAT WAS OUR LAST PRESENTATION OF THE NIGHT.

AND NOW WE WILL MOVE TO DISCUSSION AND ACTION ITEMS.

[8.1 Discussion and possible approval of sale of property at 1309 Westbank ...]

WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO ACTUALLY VOTE ON. SO I'M GOING TO PROPOSE THAT WE TABLE THIS UNTIL A FUTURE DATE.

YES, PRESIDENT WALKER, WE WILL HAVE MORE INFORMATION ON THIS IN THE FUTURE.

[02:00:01]

OKAY. THANK YOU. SO THEN WE CAN MOVE ON TO ITEM 8.2, WHICH IS A REQUEST TO APPROVE THE TAX RATE RESOLUTION AND ADOPTION OF THE 26, 27 TAX RATE. AND FOR THAT, WE HAVE MR. PETE PAPE.

A QUICK CLARIFICATION FOR THE IF WE'RE GOING TO SKIP AN AGENDA ITEM, DO YOU WANT TO DOES ANYONE WANT TO MAKE A MOTION TO POSTPONE INDEFINITELY SO THAT WE PUSH IT TO ANOTHER MEETING? THAT'S AN EXCELLENT IDEA.

DEFINITELY. WELL, YEAH, IF YOU POSTPONE, IF YOU MOVE TO POSTPONE, THAT IS FOR SEPTEMBER.

I WOULD SUGGEST INDEFINITELY TO GIVE US TIME FOR POTENTIALLY OCTOBER.

OKAY. ANYONE TO MAKE A MOTION. I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES POSTPONE ITEM 8.1 DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE APPROVAL OF SALE OF PROPERTY TO INDEFINITELY.

SECOND, JOHN, WE HAVE A MOTION BY KELLY AND A SECOND BY JOHN.

ANY DISCUSSION ON THE MOTION TO POSTPONE INDEFINITELY? OKAY. SEEING NO DISCUSSION, THEN WE'LL TAKE A VOTE.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. ANY NAYS? KATE STEPPED OUT. WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR TO POSTPONE ITEM 8.1 INDEFINITELY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. SO WE HAVE A UNANIMOUS SEVEN ZERO.

ALL RIGHT. NOW WE'LL MOVE ON TO 8.2. HI. GOOD EVENING.

[8.2 Request to approve tax rate resolution and adoption of 2026-27 tax rat...]

WE ADOPTED THE BOARD WAS ADOPTED THE BUDGET. AND THEN TONIGHT WE ARE HERE TO ADOPT THE TAX RATE.

I HAVE A COUPLE VERY BRIEF SLIDE PRESENTATION, GIVE YOU SOME HISTORY, SOME HISTORICAL CONTEXT, KIND OF WHERE WE'RE AT AND THEN WALK YOU THROUGH THE ADOPTION PROCESS.

ALL RIGHT. JUST REAL BRIEF HISTORY. IF YOU GO BACK TO THE 88TH LEGISLATURE BACK IN 2023, THAT WAS WHERE THE STATE HAD THE MAXIMUM COMPRESSED RATE.

AND THAT'S WHERE THEY ACTUALLY COMPRESSED IT BY ABOUT JUST OVER $0.11.

SO IT WENT TO 0.6880. AND THESE ARE NUMBERS SPECIFIC TO EANES ISD.

AND THEN THEY INCREASE THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION FROM $40,000 TO $100,000.

YOU'LL SEE THIS TREND AS WE GO THROUGH EACH LEGISLATIVE SESSION.

YOU HAVE THE YOU KNOW, ONE, THE HOUSE WANTS TO INCREASE THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION.

THE SENATE WANTS TO INCREASE TAX RATES. SO THEY GO BACK AND FORTH AND THEY KIND OF MEET IN THE MIDDLE.

THEY GO A LITTLE BIT ON THE TAX RATE. THEY GO UP A LITTLE BIT ON THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION. 2025, THE 89TH SESSION THEY INCREASED DECREASED THE MAXIMUM COMPRESSED RATE FROM THAT 6880 TO 6322.

OVER THAT TWO YEAR PERIOD, HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION AGAIN INCREASED NOW WENT FROM 100 TO $140,000.

AND THEN THE OVER 65 DISABLED EXEMPTION INCREASED TO $60,000.

THEY DID HAVE A SPECIAL SESSION IN THE 89TH SESSION.

AGAIN, THE GOVERNOR CONTROLS THE AGENDA, THE LEGISLATION, WHETHER THEY WANTED TO REDUCE PROPERTY TAX BURDENS ON TEXAS, TO CONTINUE THAT. YOU'LL SEE THAT AGAIN IN THE 90TH SESSION COMING UP THIS NEXT NEXT SPRING.

AND THEN THEY ALSO DID IMPLEMENT SOME SPENDING LIMITS.

SO AS WE PREPARE FOR THE 90TH SESSION AGAIN, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE THE SENATE'S GOING TO ASK FOR LOWER THE TAX RATE.

HOUSE IS GOING TO TRY TO PUSH UP THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION.

THEY'RE GOING TO MEET SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE. BUT AS THIS GOES ABOUT, THE WHOLE INTENT OF THIS OR THESE DISCUSSIONS WERE HOW DO THEY BALANCE THE RISING PROPERTY VALUES? THIS DOESN'T LOOK NEAR AS PRETTY OR GOOD AS THE SLIDE THAT ERIC HAD THAT SHOWED YOU FROM 2013, HAD VALUES, YOU KNOW, WENT UP DRASTICALLY OR SIGNIFICANTLY, YOU KNOW, IN OUR COMMUNITY.

BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THESE, THESE NUMBERS, SO IF YOU LOOK, IF YOU GO BACK TO BEFORE 2019, 20, SO 18,19, AND BEFORE EVERY DISTRICT WAS BASICALLY STARTED AT A DOLLAR.

AND THEN IF YOU WANTED TO ADD GOLD PENNIES, YOU COULD ADD UP TO FOUR. AND THEN YOU COULD HAVE, YOU COULD SPECIAL PERMISSION TO GET THE FIFTH PENNY AND THEN SOME THINGS, BUT EVERYBODY STARTED AT A DOLLAR. THAT WAS KIND OF YOUR THAT WAS THE MAXIMUM COMPRESSION RATE BEFORE THAT TERM WAS CREATED.

AND THEN 2019, 20, THEY REDUCED THAT $0.07 AND WENT TO 93.

AGAIN, HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION WAS $25,000 AT THAT TIME.

THEN THE NEXT YEAR WENT TO 0.9164. SO NOT A REALLY A SIGNIFICANT DECREASE, BUT JUST OVER 1.36 CENTS.

AND THEN YOU GO DOWN THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS. COUPLE OF YEARS. THEN YOU START GETTING DOWN TO 22 23 WENT DOWN ABOUT FIVE AND A HALF CENTS.

[02:05:04]

THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME IN MY MY CAREER SINCE 2001 THAT WE HAD REALLY HAD A CHANGE IN THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION, I THINK. RIGHT. MY FIRST YEAR, MAYBE WE WENT FROM 15 TO 25.

AND THEN THAT WAS IN 2001. AND THEN THERE WAS NOTHING FOR, YOU KNOW, ALMOST FOR, YOU KNOW, 20 YEARS. AND THEN IT WAS 25 TO 40. THEN THE NEXT ONE WAS 40 TO 100.

AND THEN YOU WERE AT 100 FOR TWO YEARS AND 100 TO 140.

SO IN THEORY, WHAT THE LEGISLATURE WAS TRYING TO DO WAS THEY KNEW THE PROPERTY VALUES WERE GOING UP AND INCREASING, AND THEY WANTED IN THE TAX BURDEN, HENCE WOULD GO UP AS WELL.

SO THEY WERE TRYING TO GIVE HOMESTEAD HOMEOWNERS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DECREASE THAT.

THAT WAS TAXABLE BY INCREASING THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION.

THEY DID COMPRESS SOME OF THE RATES. THE RATES WILL BENEFIT EVERYBODY.

HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION REALLY BENEFITS MORE OBVIOUSLY HOMEOWNERS.

SO TRY TO FIND THAT BALANCE BETWEEN BUSINESSES AND HOMEOWNERS.

AND SO THIS YEAR WE'VE ACTUALLY GONE DOWN TO 0.6254 IS OUR MAXIMUM COMPRESSED RATE, WHICH IS JUST OVER A LITTLE OVER HALF A CENTURY IN THE HOMESTEAD.

EXEMPTION REMAINED. IT REMAINS AT 40. SO AS THEY'RE TRYING TO BALANCE THESE THINGS, THEY'RE TRYING TO GET IT TO THE POINT WHERE IN THEORY OR GIVE OR TAKE, AS YOUR VALUE GOES UP, YOUR TAXES ARE REMAINING FAIRLY CONSTANT, IF YOU WILL, BECAUSE THE RATES ARE GOING DOWN AND THEN THE HOMESTEAD IS INCREASING AT THE SAME AMOUNT. NOW, IT DOESN'T WORK PERFECTLY FOR EVERY HOUSE, BUT I MEAN, THAT'S KIND OF THE THEORY.

SO WHEN YOU HEAR, HEY, WE PUT $8 BILLION INTO PUBLIC EDUCATION, WELL, YOU KNOW, A GOOD HALF OF THAT 4 BILLION SOMETIMES IS FOR THAT TAX RATE TO GO DOWN BECAUSE THE STATE HAS TO STATE SHARE GOES UP.

IT'S NOT 8 BILLION THAT GOES TO INCREASE WHAT EANES ISD AN EVERY SCHOOL AROUND US HAS TO SPEND.

OUR SPENDING REMAINS THE SAME. IT'S THE TOTAL IS THE SAME.

AND SO THAT'S KIND OF HOW THEY JUST TO GIVE YOU A BRIEF HIGH LEVEL OF HOW THE TAX SYSTEM.

I KNOW YOU PROBABLY KNOW THIS, BUT JUST WANTED TO JUST GET THAT FOR YOU IN CASE ANYBODY WAS WATCHING. YOU CAN KIND OF SEE A HISTORY OF THE RATES GONE FROM A DOLLAR DOWN TO 62.54 CENTS FOR US. AND THEN THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTIONS GONE FROM 25 TO 140,000 IN THAT SAME PERIOD OF TIME.

SO ONCE THIS LAST SESSION, WE HAD A COUPLE A LOT OF ATTENTION FOR DEBT SERVICE RATES OR THE I&S RATES.

SO AS YOU RECALL, FOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS WE HAVE YOU GET ONE TAX RATE ON YOUR BILL.

IT'S MADE UP OF TWO TAX RATES, YOUR OH, AND YOUR YOUR INS.

SO SENATE BILL 1453 KIND OF MODIFIED THAT CALCULATION OF DEBT SERVICE TAX RATE THAT DEFINED YOUR INTEREST AND SINKING RATE AS THE RATE THAT WILL PROVIDE THE MINIMUM DOLLAR AMOUNT. SO UP UNTIL THIS TIME, BEFORE THEN, A LOT OF DISTRICTS, DEPENDING ON IF YOU WERE REALLY CLOSE TO THAT 50 CENT CAP OR IF YOU HAD SOME ROOM, YOU WOULD YOU COULD HAVE A MOTION AND YOU COULD ADOPT A HIGHER RATE AND YOU COULD PAY OFF DEBT EARLY.

SO A LOT OF DISTRICTS WERE IN SOME SITUATIONS THEY WOULD DO THAT, AND THEY WOULD PAY OFF A LOT OF DEBT BECAUSE THEY KNEW THEY HAD GROWTH COMING. SO THEY HAD TO MAKE TO FREE UP SOME CAPACITY SO THEY COULD HAVE A BOND IN 4 OR 5, SIX YEARS OR PART OF THEIR BOND SCHEDULE.

AND SO DISTRICTS AND WHEN THEY CALCULATE WHAT THEIR MINIMUM DOLLAR AMOUNT IS, THEY HAVE TO INCLUDE, YOU'LL HEAR IT'S ASAHI IS WHAT WE CALL IT, BUT IT'S THE ADDITIONAL STATE AID FOR HOME HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION.

SO IF YOU'RE HOME HOMESTEAD WENT FROM, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, 25 TO 40 TO 100 TO 140 IF YOU PASS BONDS PRIOR TO THAT AUGUST 31ST OF THE YEAR THAT THAT THAT LAW GOES INTO EFFECT OR THEY, THEY, THEY CHANGE THE COMPRESS THE RATE EACH TIME THE SESSION MEETS THE LEGISLATURE MEETS, SORRY, THEY HOLD YOU HARMLESS. SO THEY WILL ACTUALLY HELP PAY FOR THIS IS, YOU KNOW, YOUR VALUE SHRUNK BY THIS AMOUNT.

YOUR TAX RATE WAS THIS. YOU WOULD HAVE GOT THIS MUCH MORE, BUT YOU ONLY GOT THIS MUCH NOW BECAUSE THE VALUE IS LESS.

AND SO THAT DIFFERENCE THE STATE WOULD PAY YOU.

AND THAT'S THE THEY'RE HOLDING, THEY'RE KEEPING YOU HELD HARMLESS. AND THEN THEY DID PASS SOME RULES OR BASICALLY THAT ALLOWS THE GOVERNING BODY TO APPROVE A HIGHER RATE. YOU CAN STILL DO IT, BUT NOW YOU GOT TO HAVE 60% OF THE BOARD TO DO IT.

SO FIVE OUT OF SEVEN. AS FOR US, WE DON'T THIS IS NOT A REPLY TO EANES ISD.

I MEAN, IT APPLIES TO US. WE JUST WE'RE NOT ASKING YOU TO ASK A HIGHER RATE.

LET ME REPHRASE THAT. SO AND THIS IS EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1ST OF 26.

HOWEVER, FOR SOME DISTRICTS, IT COULD AFFECT THEIR. 2526 YEAR THAT THEY ADOPTED THE SUMMER BEFORE.

AND SO IF YOU JUST LOOK AT GOING BACK FROM 23 TILL NOW WE'LL JUST KIND OF FOCUS ON THE LAST TWO COLUMNS ON THE RIGHT SIDE OR THE LAST THREE 63, TWO TWO WAS OUR MCR AND THAT'S DETERMINED BY TEA THAT'S THE DISTRICT.

IF WE WERE TO GO RIGHT BELOW THAT, THEN WE START.

WE WOULD LOSE THE LOCAL AND THE STATE FUNDING, THE STATE FUNDING PIECE.

WE WOULD NOT WE WOULD LOSE THIS CALLED TIER TWO. SO YOU HAVE TO TAX IT AT LEAST A 6254 TO GET ANY TO MAXIMIZE THE STATE PIECE.

SO THE SIX THREE, TWO TWO IS COMPRESSED THIS YEAR BECAUSE OF PROPERTY VALUE GROWTH ACROSS THE STATE.

[02:10:03]

THAT GETS US TO 0.7054. AND THEN WE HAVE 12 CENT INS TAX RATE, WHICH GETS US TO 0.8254.

THAT IS OUR TOTAL TAX RATE. THAT'S WHAT THE TAX RATE OUR TAXPAYERS WILL SEE WHEN THEY GET THEIR THEIR THEIR TAX BILLS IN THE FALL.

IF YOU LOOK AT HISTORICALLY, IF YOU GO BACK TO 1920, YOU KNOW, OUR TAX RATE WAS ABOUT $1.13 AT THE TIME, TOTAL TAX RATE. AND THE TAX RATE THAT WE BRING YOU BRING YOU TODAY IS 0.88054.

SO THAT HAS GONE DOWN ALMOST $0.30, APPROXIMATELY $0.29 OVER THE LAST.

IN THE $0.02 OF THAT WAS ON THE I&S SIDE. AND THAT IS WHAT WE FEEL HAS BEEN DONE BY PRUDENCE BOND, REFUNDING, MAXIMIZING, YOU KNOW, OUR DEBT. AND WE HAVE A PRESENTATION ON THE NEXT AGENDA ITEM WHERE WE'LL TALK MORE ABOUT OUR DEBT AND SOME REFUNDING THAT WE HAVE.

AND THEN MOST OF THAT MAJORITY OF THAT DECREASE HAS BEEN ON THE NO SIDE.

AND THAT'S BEEN FROM THE FROM THE LEGISLATURE THROUGH THE TO THE THROUGH THEIR THEIR STATUTES OR THEIR, THEIR CHANGING. SO ONE OF THE UNIQUE THINGS, IT'S KIND OF RELATIVELY NEW.

IT'S, I WANT TO JUST WALK YOU THROUGH IT JUST THIS TIME.

SO OUR RATE THAT WE'RE BRINGING IS 0.8254. THAT IS THE, THAT IS OUR TAX RATE.

AND SO THERE'S CERTAIN RULES OR CERTAIN PARAMETERS.

NOW THAT ONE OF THESE AT THIS RATE WAS HIGHER THAN IT WAS HIGHER THAN THE VOTER APPROVED RATE.

SO OUR VOTER APPROVED RATE IS 0.8270. SO IT'S NOT HIGHER.

BUT IF IT WAS HIGHER THEN YOU'D HAVE TO ORDER A VADER, WHICH IS A.

VOTER APPROVED TAX RATE ELECTION. AND NOW I THINK THEY ACTUALLY CHANGED THE NAME TO SOMETHING ELSE THIS YEAR. SO IT'S. BUT IT'S BASICALLY A ANOTHER ELECTION.

IF OUR RATE WERE ABOVE THE 0.8316, THAT WOULD MEAN IT WOULD WE WOULD IT WOULD EXCEED THE.

NO NEW REVENUE TAX RATE. SO ON THE MOTION THAT YOU HAD ASKED YOU TONIGHT TO APPROVE OUR OUR TAX RATE, YOU WOULD HAVE TO HAVE SOME CERTAIN STATUTORY LANGUAGE IN THERE TO GIVE YOU THAT THAT EXAMPLE, AGAIN, EIGHT, TWO, FIVE, FOUR IS LESS THAN 8316. SO WE DON'T HAVE TO HAVE THIS EXCEEDS THE RATE TO MAINTAIN THE REVENUES AND PAY DEBT SERVICE, WHICH IS 0.8878. SO NO, WE DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE FIVE OF THE SEVEN AT A MINIMUM.

AND WE WILL NOT IMPOSE MORE TAXES IN THE PRIOR YEAR.

WE HAVE A LOWER RATE AND OUR VALUES ARE A LITTLE BIT LOWER THAN LAST YEAR.

SO AND THEN OBVIOUSLY THE LAST ONE IS NOT APPLICABLE BECAUSE OF THE TWO THINGS.

SO I JUST WANTED TO WALK YOU THROUGH. THAT'S WHY IF YOU EVER SEE ANOTHER DISTRICT THAT HAS A MOTION, HAS SOME UNIQUE LANGUAGE. THAT IS THE REASON WHY THEY HAVE IT FOR THOSE SPECIFIC REASONS.

BUT WE DO NOT MEET ANY OF THOSE CRITERIA. SO WE DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE ANY SPECIFIC LANGUAGE OF THAT.

SO TONIGHT, BEFORE YOU DO HAVE A RESOLUTION WHICH IS ADOPTS OR IF THE BOARD CHOOSES TO ADOPT, IT WILL ADOPT THE THE .705, FOUR M AND O RATE ALONG WITH THE 0.12 EANES RATE FOR A TOTAL TOTAL TAX RATE OF, OF 0.825 $0.04. AND I'LL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS FOR YOU THIS EVENING IF THERE'S ANYTHING ON THAT ON THE TAX RATE.

ANY QUESTIONS FOR PETE. ALL RIGHT. NO QUESTIONS.

MAY I HAVE A MOTION? ALL RIGHT. I MOVE THAT. I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ADOPT A RESOLUTION TO REDUCE THE TAX RATE FROM 83.2 $0.02 TO 82.5 $0.04 PER $100 OF TAXABLE VALUE. THE TOTAL TAX RATE OF 82.5 $0.04 INCLUDES 70.5 $0.04 FOR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS, AND $0.12 FOR INTEREST IN SINKING. ALL RIGHT.

JENNIFER. SECONDS. ALL RIGHT. WE HAVE A IT'S BEEN MOVED BY JOHN, SECONDED BY JENNIFER.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. ANY NAYS? ALL RIGHT. THE MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. OKAY.

NEXT, WE HAVE 8.3. CONSIDER AND ADOPTION OF THE ORDER AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF EANES ISD UNLIMITED TAX REFUNDING BONDS SERIES 2026.

[8.3 Consider the adoption of an Order Authorizing the Issuance of Eanes In...]

PROVIDING FOR THE AWARD OF SALE THEREOF IN ACCORDANCE WITH SPECIFIED PARAMETERS AND ENACTING OTHER PROVISIONS RELATED THERETO.

TONIGHT DUSTY TRAILER IS OUR FINANCIAL ADVISOR FROM RBC.

HE WILL HAND YOU A PHYSICAL COPY OF OF THE PRESENTATION.

I ALSO DO WANT TO TAKE A BRIEF MOMENT JUST TO RECOGNIZE WE DO HAVE JONATHAN FRAILS WITH BOND COUNCIL WITH BRACEWELL OUT OF HOUSTON IS HERE TONIGHT AS WELL, JUST TO, IN CASE THERE ARE ANY LEGALITY, LEGAL QUESTIONS OR ANYTHING ON OUR, ON OUR DISCUSSION THIS EVENING.

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WE HAVE THE HONOR AND PRIVILEGE OF REPRESENTING EANES ISD AS FINANCIAL ADVISOR.

A LOT OF THE INFORMATION THAT'S IN THE BEGINNING OF THE OF THE PRESENTATION THAT WE PASSED OUT. AND IT'S ON YOUR SCREEN. WE'VE, WE'VE TOUCHED ON, BUT, BUT ANYTIME WE TALK ABOUT BOND REFINANCING, I THINK IT IS ALWAYS IMPORTANT TO KIND OF JUST TAKE A STEP BACK AND TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT WHAT THE DISTRICT'S OUTSTANDING BOND PORTFOLIO IS. AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE FOR YOU HERE ON THE VERY FIRST SLIDE.

FIRST SLIDE, WE JUST HAVE A BREAKDOWN OF EACH OF THE DISTRICT'S OUTSTANDING BONDS.

ALL OF THOSE OUTSTANDING BONDS RIGHT NOW. TOTAL.

TOTAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF ABOUT $158.585 MILLION.

AND WHAT YOU CAN SEE IS GOING BACK TO 2015, THAT'S ACTUALLY A REDUCTION IN PRINCIPAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT BY OVER $100 MILLION.

EANES HAS DONE A REALLY GREAT JOB OF OF PAYING DOWN A LOT OF THE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF BONDS OUTSTANDING.

DOWN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE, WE JUST GIVE A GRAPHICAL DEPICTION OF THE DISTRICT'S ANNUAL DEBT SERVICE REQUIREMENTS.

AND SO WHAT YOU CAN SEE, AND PART OF WHAT CREATES THIS, THE REFINANCING THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TONIGHT WE HAVE CALLABLE BONDS.

THE SERIES 2015 A'S ARE CALLABLE, AND WE HAVE A STEP DOWN IN OUR ANNUAL DEBT SERVICE REQUIREMENTS.

OUR ANNUAL DEBT SERVICE REQUIREMENTS THIS YEAR ARE A LITTLE OVER ABOUT $25 MILLION IN THE PAST YEAR.

THOSE ARE GOING TO STEP DOWN TO ABOUT $22.5 MILLION.

AND IT GIVES US A DELTA TO REFINANCE SOME 2015 AYE BONDS THAT ARE IN THE MATURITIES 29 AND 30, AND REALLY JUST PULL THOSE 29 AND 30 MATURITIES UP INTO 2027.

SO EFFECTIVELY PAYING THOSE OFF EARLY IS, IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING THERE.

BUT BUT ONE THING THAT IS THAT IS CLEAR HERE, BY LOOKING AT OUR OUTSTANDING DEBT SERVICE REQUIREMENTS, YOU'VE GOT SOME REALLY NICE STEP DOWNS IN THE ANNUAL DEBT REQUIREMENTS.

NOTICE HOW IN EACH OF THOSE YEARS, YOU KNOW, GOING OUT THROUGH 2030, WE STEP DOWN TO ABOUT $19 MILLION.

AND THEN IN 2031, WE STEPPED DOWN EVEN MORE TO ABOUT 11 OR $12 MILLION IN THOSE YEARS.

THAT IS GOING TO BE VERY IMPORTANT AND VERY IMPACTFUL FOR THE DISTRICT MOVING FORWARD AND GIVE YOU SOME GREAT FLEXIBILITY FOR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS. WE REALLY TALKED ABOUT THIS SLIDE IN THE TWO PREVIOUS PRESENTATIONS IN TERMS OF THE DRAMATIC INCREASES IN TAXABLE ASSESSED VALUATION THAT THE DISTRICT HAS SEEN AND REDUCTION IN TOTAL TAX RATE OVER THE COURSE OF THE PAST TEN YEARS.

OUR CALCULATIONS OVER THE PAST TEN YEARS, THE DISTRICT HAS EXPERIENCED ABOUT A 5.77% COMPOUNDED ANNUAL GROWTH IN ASSESSED VALUATION. AND AGAIN, YOU KNOW, GOING FROM ABOUT 13.6 BILLION TO LAST YEAR'S VALUE OF ABOUT 21.3 BILLION.

AND THAT 21.3 BILLION IN THAT YEAR ALSO REFLECTED THE INCREASE IN THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION FROM 100,000 TO TO THE 140.

SO THAT WAS IT LOOKS VERY, VERY FLAT, BUT IT'S FLAT BECAUSE OF THAT.

THE INCREASE IN THE EXEMPTION AMOUNT. AND THEN HERE'S JUST A SUMMARY OF THE REFINANCING THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT HERE.

WE'RE TALKING ABOUT REFINANCING APPROXIMATELY $2.39 MILLION OF THE SERIES 2015 AYE BONDS.

AGAIN, THOSE BONDS ARE CURRENTLY IN 29 AND 30.

AND WE'RE GOING TO TAKE THE PROCEEDS OF THIS REFUNDING, PAY THOSE TWO MATURITIES OFF BUT THEN ACTUALLY PAY OFF THE REFUNDING BOND LIKELY IN AUGUST OF 2027. SO PAYING THAT OFF VERY, VERY QUICKLY.

AND YOU CAN SEE HOW THAT IMPACTS THE DEBT. SPECIFICALLY ON THE 2015 AYE BONDS, KIND OF THE TWO DIFFERENT, THE CURRENT, THE CURRENT DEBT PAYMENTS ON THAT BOND RELATED TO THAT BOND AND THEN THE DEBT PAYMENTS AFTER, AFTER THE REFINANCING. AND THEN THIS SLIDE IS JUST SOMETHING THAT I THINK THE DISTRICT SHOULD BE REALLY PROUD OF.

YOU GUYS HAVE DONE AN OUTSTANDING JOB. YOU KNOW, WE TALK ALL THE TIME.

SPENT A LOT OF TIME IN THE MEETING TODAY TALKING ABOUT MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS SIDE OF THE BUDGET.

BUT YOU GUYS ALSO HAVE THE EANES SIDE OF THE BUDGET. AND YOU GUYS HAVE ALWAYS DONE A WONDERFUL JOB OF BEING AN ACTIVE MANAGER OF YOUR BOND PORTFOLIO AND SEEKING OPPORTUNITIES TO EITHER REFINANCE OR PAY BONDS OFF EARLY. SO THIS CHART REALLY DEPICTS THAT GOING BACK TO 2013, EANES ISD HAS EITHER EARLY REPAID OR REFUNDED APPROXIMATELY $102.6 MILLION.

[02:20:02]

THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE THIS THIS LITTLE REFUNDING HERE, THAT LIKELY SAVES THE TAXPAYERS A FEW HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS MORE AS WELL.

SO TACK THAT ON. WE GET WE GET TO OVER $25 MILLION IN DEBT SERVICE SAVINGS OVER THAT TIME FRAME.

SO FAIR TO SAY, AGAIN, AS A TALKING POINT WHEN WE'RE TALKING IN THE FUTURE HERE BASED ON WHAT YOU'VE SHOWN.

HISTORICALLY, THE ORGANIZATION HAS MET ITS BOND COMMITMENTS AND PAID THEM BACK.

AND PROVIDED VALUE IN ADDITION TO THAT COMMITMENT, EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD STEWARDSHIP.

IN AN EXCEPTIONAL FASHION. YES, SIR. YES, SIR.

AND IT DOES TWO THINGS. NUMBER ONE, IT IT MEETS YOUR PROMISES TO THE TAXPAYERS.

IT HELPS TO REDUCE THE OVERALL DEBT BURDEN TO THE TAXPAYERS.

BUT IT ALSO ALLOWS YOU TO MANAGE FOR FUTURE CAPITAL NEEDS WITHIN A VERY AFFORDABLE EANES TAX RATE.

AYE 12% EANES TAX RATE IS EXTREMELY COMMENDABLE.

SO YEAH, KUDOS TO YOU GUYS FOR ALL THE ACTIONS YOU GUYS TAKE TO ACTIVELY MANAGE THIS PROCESS.

BUT SO THE ITEM BEFORE YOU THIS EVENING IS JUST AN ITEM AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF THOSE REFINANCING BONDS.

WE'VE BEEN IN THE PROCESS OF PUT. WE PUT TOGETHER A SET OF BID SPECS TO GO OUT TO THE BOND MARKET, AND WE EXPECT TO GET THE BID SPECS OUT BACK IN THE NEXT WEEK OR TEN DAYS TO TO FINALIZE THIS.

BUT WHAT THIS ORDER DOES IS IT JUST AUTHORIZES STAFF TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT REFINANCING, SO LONG AS WE MEET THE PARAMETERS LAID OUT WITHIN THAT ORDER.

THIS IS THE AND THIS IS THE PROCESS THAT YOU GUYS HAVE USED TO GO OUT AND SELL BONDS MANY, MANY TIMES OVER. ALL RIGHT. ANY QUESTIONS? NO. ALL RIGHT. I DO HAVE A QUESTION. I JUST WANT TO ENSURE I UNDERSTAND AND I'M GETTING A LOT OF FEEDBACK OFF THIS MICROPHONE.

I ALWAYS SEE LIKE A NUMBER OF OPTIONS, RIGHT? THERE'S THE DO NOTHING OPTION. AND JUST LEAVE THEM WHERE THEY ARE AND CONTINUE TO PAY BECAUSE THERE'S TWO MORE YEARS LEFT OF THESE CALLABLE BONDS.

BUT WE'RE NOT DOING THAT. WE WANT THERE'S ACTUALLY AN OPPORTUNITY TO SAVE MONEY.

YOU COULD DEFEATS THE BONDS, BUT THAT'S ALSO NOT THE OPTION.

I DID NOTICE THAT WE HAVE TAKEN THAT OPTION IN THE PAST WITH SOME PREVIOUS SERIES THAT WE DID, MAYBE 2003 AND 2004, BUT WE'RE ALSO NOT DOING A VOLUNTARY REDEMPTION.

WE'RE NOT PAYING THEM OFF ENTIRELY. WE'RE THIS TERM OF REFUNDING ACTUALLY MEANS REFINANCING.

LIKE SOMEBODY GOES AND TAKES THEIR HOME AND THEY'VE GOT EQUITY AND THEY'RE GOING TO REFINANCE THEIR HOME. SINCE THEY ARE PRETTY SMALL AND THERE, THERE'S ONLY TWO MORE YEARS IN THIS, TWO MORE YEARS OF PAYMENTS.

WHAT WAS THE ANALYSIS ON JUST SIMPLY PAYING THEM OFF? IT'S A GREAT. SORRY, SORRY ABOUT THAT. TECHNOLOGICALLY CHALLENGED FROM TIME TO TIME.

IT'S A GREAT QUESTION. THAT REALLY, IN A LARGE PART COMES DOWN TO THE WAY THE SCHOOL FINANCE SYSTEM IS WORKING RIGHT NOW.

BECAUSE OF STATE FUNDING AND ASAHI, IT IT MAKES SENSE TO TRY TO HOPEFULLY CAPTURE SOME ADDITIONAL ASAHI BY MAKING THAT A FORMALIZED PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST PAYMENT.

IT COMES DOWN TO THAT. SO THERE'S NO EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE SAYING THERE'S NO SAVINGS FROM JUST PAYING IT OFF NOW THERE THERE THERE COULD BE. YES. YES, ABSOLUTELY.

THERE WOULD BE SAVINGS AND PAYING IT OFF NOW. BUT VERY, VERY SIMILAR TO THE SAVINGS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE.

OKAY. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT $370,500 IN SAVINGS, MORE OR LESS.

AND I THINK WE WOULD BE PLUS OR -$25,000 OR SO WITHIN THAT BALLPARK OF PAYING IT OFF.

BUT IT'S BECAUSE OF THE STATE, THE ASAHI REGULATION FOR US.

THIS IS A BETTER MOVE, LARGELY. YEAH. JUST ONE OF OUR MAIN THINGS THAT WE HAVE IS OUR IS WE TRY TO MANAGE OUR DEBT IS ONE OF THE PIECES OF THAT UNDER THAT UMBRELLA IS TO MAXIMIZE THE STATE FUNDING. AND SO WHEN WE LOOKED AT THIS OPPORTUNITY, WE HAVE YOU SAW THE DIP AND THE PAYMENT GOING DOWN ALL THE.

I DIDN'T TELL YOU THIS EARLIER, BUT ALL THE TAX CALCULATIONS CAME OUT AT 12.1 CENTS.

WE'RE ADOPTING A 12 CENT. SO WE'RE RIGHT THERE, RIGHT WHERE WE NEED TO BE.

BUT ANY SWING EVALUATION ONE WAY OR THE OTHER COULD PUT US IN OVER THAT AMOUNT.

SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN WE DID THIS, WHEN I TALKED WITH WITH DUSTY AND HIS TEAM AND MR. FARRELL'S AS WELL, THAT IF WE DO THIS, YOU KNOW, MOVE IT UP FOR JUST ONE YEAR, WE PAY IT IN THIS NEXT YEAR BEFORE AUGUST 31ST OF NEXT YEAR, IT WILL MAKE SURE THAT OUR PAYMENT IS THE SAME AND SO THAT THAT 12 CENT IS JUSTIFIED AND WE'RE ABLE TO MAXIMIZE THE ADDITIONAL STATE AID FROM THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION FROM THE STATE. AND AS WE GO INTO THIS NEXT BOND POTENTIAL BOND CYCLE, WE'LL BE ABLE TO KNOW THAT WE'RE MAXIMIZING THE STATE OF THE FUNDING FORMULAS.

I DO THAT ON THE SIDE AS TO AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.

[02:25:02]

YEAH. AND ANECDOTALLY, ANECDOTALLY, IF WE WERE TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT THE DISTRICT'S ISSUANCE OF THE 2025 BONDS, YOU GUYS ISSUED THE THE FINAL TRANCHE OF THE 2023 BOND ELECTION Y'ALL ISSUED THAT LAST SUMMER.

WE ACTUALLY STRUCTURED THAT BOND TO SELL IT LAST SUMMER AND THEN TURN AROUND IN ABOUT THREE DAYS AFTER CLOSING ON THE SALE OF THAT BOND BEFORE THE END OF LAST AUGUST, THE DISTRICT ACTUALLY MADE A DEBT SERVICE PAYMENT.

AND THAT WAS IN ORDER TO QUALIFY THAT BOND SERIES FOR ASAHI.

THAT WAS A SPECIFIC STRUCTURING TECHNIQUE USED FOR THAT.

SO IT IS SOMETHING THAT US IN THE COMMUNITY HAVE TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION.

IT'S A, IT'S A CONSTRAINT THAT'S OUT THERE. AND WE LOOK AT ALL ANGLES FOR THE DISTRICT.

THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. SO WE HAVE TO VOTE ON THIS.

WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION? ALL RIGHT.

DIANE. DO WE NEED TO READ THIS ENTIRE DESCRIPTION? NO. OKAY. I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT THE BOARD ORDER THE AUTHORIZATION OR AUTHORIZE THE ISSUANCE OF EISD SCHOOL DISTRICT UNLIMITED TAX REFUNDING BOND SERIES 2026.

LEVYING A TAX AND PROVIDING FOR THE SECURITY AND PAYMENT THEREOF.

IS THAT SUFFICIENT? YES. THANK YOU. DO WE HAVE A SECOND? SECOND BY KELLY. ALL RIGHT. IF THERE'S NO FURTHER DISCUSSION.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE AYE. ANY OPPOSED? ALL RIGHT. THE MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT.

NEXT WE HAVE ITEM 8.4 DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING STAFF COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS.

[8.4 Discussion and possible action regarding the 2026-27 Staff compensatio...]

SO THAT WOULD BE A MOTION TO TABLE OR TO POSTPONE.

DEFINITELY POSTPONED INDEFINITELY. WE DON'T HAVE A MOTION ON THE TABLE.

SO SOMEONE WOULD HAVE TO SELECT THE LANGUAGE.

JOHN. I MOVE THAT WE I MOVE THAT WE POSTPONE INDEFINITELY THE DISCUSSION ON STAFF COMPENSATION. DO I HAVE A SECOND? OKAY. IF THE MOTION DOESN'T CARRY, WE CAN DO AN AMENDED MOTION.

AND WE CAN ALSO HAVE DISCUSSION ON THIS TOPIC.

IT WASN'T SECONDED. SO I DON'T THINK WE HAVE TO. YEAH WE DON'T. OKAY. THAT'S TRUE. WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO DISCUSS THIS MOTION? DISCUSS THE TOPIC.

IF IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE TO GET SOME CLARIFICATION JUST FOR THOSE TUNING IN AT HOME AND EVEN THOSE IN THE ROOM.

THE REASONING BEHIND MR. KOENNECKE'S DECISION TO OR SUGGEST POSTPONING UNTIL INDEFINITELY.

WE DON'T HAVE ANY NEW INFORMATION TO SHARE BASED ON THE BUDGET FORECAST FROM BEFORE.

AND THE RATIONALE LAST TIME THE TRUSTEES GOT TOGETHER WAS WE WERE WAITING ON MORE INFORMATION ABOUT A POSSIBLE SALE OF PROPERTY AND SOME OTHER DATA TO SHARE THAT WE WILL NOT HAVE PREPARED UNTIL SEPTEMBER. THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE CANNOT REVISIT OR HAVE A DIALOG, BUT WANTED TO MAKE SURE, BASED ON YOUR EXPECTATIONS, THAT WE HAD MORE COMPLETE INFORMATION IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO ENTER INTO THAT SALARY AND COMPENSATION DISCUSSION, WHICH I BELIEVE WAS QUALIFIED AS WE COULD TAKE ACTION ANYTIME THIS FALL IF THE TRUSTEES CHOSE TO DO SOMETHING,

[02:30:06]

SO WE FELT LIKE WE WANTED YOU TO HAVE THE MOST INFORMATION POSSIBLE.

AND IF I CAN JUST SO. SO IN RESPONSE TO THAT, IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, THE REASON WHY WE TABLED IT AT THE JUNE MEETING WAS BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE INK DRIED ON A CONTRACT. AND JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, IS THAT CONSISTENT WITH THE SITUATION CURRENTLY? YEAH, WE CURRENTLY STILL DO NOT HAVE THAT SALE OF THAT PROPERTY COMPLETED, AND WE NEED TO GO THROUGH A DIFFERENT PROCESS WITH THAT THAT WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT.

SO WE WANT TO PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION TO THE BOARD. I THINK THERE WAS ALSO ANOTHER QUESTION AT THE TIME ABOUT SOME OTHER TEACHER ALLOTMENT NUMBERS OR SOME OTHER DATA PEOPLE WANTED TO LOOK AT, AND I THINK WE ARE ALSO WANTING TO PREPARE AND SHARE SOME TAX AND INCOME INFORMATION IN THE COMING MONTHS.

SO WE WANT YOU TO HAVE A FULLER PICTURE. MAKES SENSE.

OKAY. WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO MAKE A DIFFERENT MOTION? OR ASK ANOTHER QUESTION? JAMES. YEAH. SO FOR CLARIFICATION, WE VOTED TO ON THE PRIOR MOTION RELATED TO THE SALE OF THE PROPERTY, WE VOTED TO POSTPONE, BASICALLY POSTPONE THAT INDEFINITELY.

THERE IS NO EXPECTATION FOR THAT TO COME BACK TO THE BOARD AT ANY POINT.

WE'RE MEETING ONCE A MONTH, AND IF WE TABLED IT, IT WOULD HAVE COME BACK NEXT MONTH.

BUT BASED ON FURTHER INFORMATION WE HAVE, THAT'S NOT COMING BACK TO US FOR A WHILE BASED ON I MEAN, EVEN AUDREY MADE SORT OF THAT COMMENT WHEN ASKING US TO CHANGE THAT MOTION.

SO THIS CONVERSATION, UNLESS WE'RE WILLING TO MAKE ACTION WITHOUT INK DRIED ON A CONTRACT, THIS MOTION WON'T COME BACK FOR A WHILE. AND, YOU KNOW, WE STILL HAVE TO DISCUSS THIS IN CLOSED, BUT THE TIMING OF THAT SOUNDS LIKE A LONG TIME TO ME, BUT MAYBE I'M NOT READING IT CORRECTLY AND WE'LL FIND OUT MORE ENCLOSED.

MY INTENT, MR. SPRADLEY, WAS BASED ON WHAT I THOUGHT I ALSO HEARD DURING THE CLARIFICATION FROM AUDREY BEFORE, WHICH WAS ALSO THAT USING THE POSTPONED INDEFINITELY LANGUAGE DID NOT MEAN THAT IT COULD NOT COME BACK UP IN SEPTEMBER, BUT THAT IT WAS JUST A MORE GENERAL PHRASE. SO I'M TOTALLY OPEN.

THE INTENT IS WE WANT TO PROVIDE YOU A MORE FULL PICTURE AND BRING INFORMATION TO YOU BY THE SEPTEMBER BOARD MEETING.

AND WE DO BELIEVE WE WILL HAVE SOME MORE INFORMATION TO SHARE THEN THAT WE DON'T HAVE TONIGHT.

SO I WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, MAYBE I WAS NOT SHARING THAT CLEARLY ENOUGH.

BUT THAT THAT WOULD BE MY INTENT. BUT, BUT, AND YEAH, I DIDN'T FINISH THE THE BOARD CAN TAKE ACTION ON THIS WITHOUT HAVING INK DRIED ON A CONTRACT. THE BOARD, AS I ALLUDED TO IN JUNE, CAN ACT LIKE LEADERS AND TAKE ACTION HERE, AS WE'VE HEARD FROM OUR COMMUNITY THAT THEY WANT US TO DO TAKE SOME ACTION HERE AND PROVIDE SOME MUCH NEEDED COMPENSATION TO OUR TEACHERS AT THE VERY LEAST, APPRECIATION WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT.

BUT WE DON'T HAVE TO HAVE INK DRIED ON A CONTRACT.

WE DIDN'T HAVE TO HAVE THAT IN JUNE. AND IN JUNE, I SAID WE PROBABLY WOULDN'T HAVE ANY NEW INFORMATION IN AUGUST.

AND WE DON'T. SO I'VE BEEN DOWN THIS ROAD EIGHT TIMES.

I KNOW WHERE WE'RE HEADED HERE. AND I'M JUST SAYING, IF THE BOARD'S WILLING TO, TO TAKE A LEAD ON THIS, MAYBE WE CAN GET A MOTION ON TAKING SOME COMPENSATION ACTION, BUT OTHERWISE IT NEEDS TO BE POSTPONED.

KELLY. I FOLLOW IN LINE WITH WHAT JAMES IS SAYING.

AFTER HEARING FROM OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS COMING IN AND STATING TO US WHAT THEY WOULD LIKE AND APPRECIATE FOR US TO DO FOR OUR STAFF, I BELIEVE TAKING THAT INTO CONSIDERATION, MOVING FORWARD WITH THIS DISCUSSION AND FAIRLY COMPENSATING OUR STAFF WOULD BE IN THE BEST INTEREST OF OUR COMMUNITY. PER WHAT WAS PRESENTED TO US TODAY.

AND THERE'S GOING TO BE VARIABLES ALL THE TIME.

WE JUST LEARNED MULTIPLE VARIABLES, TODAY FROM OUR CFO.

SO WE KNOW THAT THOSE WILL ALWAYS BE EXISTING.

BUT IT IS A GREAT TIME FOR US TO LISTEN TO WHAT WAS SAID.

LISTEN TO THE STORIES THAT WERE TOLD TO US ABOUT OUR STAFF AND GO AHEAD AND DISCUSS AND BARELY COMPENSATE OUR STAFF. I THINK I SAW JOHN AND THEN DIANE.

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THANK YOU. PERFECT.

AS OF TODAY IF I'M REMEMBERING BACK TO WHEN WE APPROVED THE BUDGET THERE WAS A POTENTIAL SURPLUS BACK WHEN WE APPROVED THE BUDGET, BUT THAT WAS BASED UPON THE LAND SALE. THE LAND SALE HAS NOT BEEN FINALIZED.

AND SO WE REMOVED THAT FROM THE BUDGET WE APPROVED IN JUNE BECAUSE IT HADN'T BEEN FINALIZED.

AND AS A RESULT, IF I RECALL, THE BUDGET WE APPROVED IN JUNE HAD A SURPLUS OF, I THINK, $80,000.

HAS ANYTHING HAPPENED AS OF TODAY THAT WOULD CHANGE THAT $80,000 SURPLUS? NOTHING THAT'S SET IN STONE. WE HAVE SOME THINGS THAT ARE ON THE FRYING PAN, IF YOU WILL, BUT WE'RE STILL WAITING FOR SOME SOME PROCESSES TO BE APPROVED AT THE STATE LEVEL.

THE ONLY THING I CAN SAY, I JUST REITERATE THAT WE KNOW THAT WE USUALLY SPEND YOU KNOW, ABOUT 99.5% OF OUR PAYROLL.

SO THAT HALF PERCENT IS ABOUT A MILLION, AS MARIA MENTIONED EARLIER TONIGHT, YOU KNOW, ABOUT A MONTH AGO, WE THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO TAKE ABOUT 4 MILLION DEFICIT AND ENDED UP BEING 3.1.

SO THAT MILLION IS TYPICALLY WHAT WE HAVE IN, IN PAYROLL THROUGH, YOU KNOW, POSITIONS, ETC..

SO NOTHING HAS CHANGED SIGNIFICANTLY. WE, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T HAVE THAT, THAT CONTRACT IS STILL THAT LAND SALE IS STILL BEING DISCUSSED AND PENDING. WE STILL DO HAVE THAT MILLION THAT IS, WE KNOW THAT WE'RE MORE THAN LIKELY GOING TO HAVE HAVE IN OUR BUDGET.

I DON'T LIKE TO USE THE WORD CUSHION, BUT IT'S THERE JUST WITH THE NORMAL TEACHERS LEAVES HERE.

IT'S VACANT FOR TWO MONTHS. WE ONLY HAVE A SUB THAT SPENDS LESS.

WE WE MAY BUDGET ON A, YOU KNOW, A MIDPOINT AND A TEACHER YOUNGER TEACHER MAKES LESS.

SO ALL THAT'S SAID AND DONE AT THE END OF THE YEAR, IT'S ABOUT $1 MILLION. AND I, IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, THAT THAT ONE TIME PAYMENT WE DISCUSSED WAS ABOUT 700 TO 750 000, IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY.

SO THERE IS THAT IN THE BUDGET, IN THAT PAYROLL IF THAT WAS SOMETHING THE BOARD WANTED TO PURSUE OR AS, AS MENTIONED, WE DO HAVE SOME THINGS THAT WE'RE JUST GOING TO NEED ANOTHER MONTH OR SO BEFORE WE GET ANYTHING FINALIZED THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT COULD GIVE US MORE OPPORTUNITIES AS WELL.

SO AND SO WITH SO RIGHT NOW, THE BUDGET WE APPROVED BUDGETED AS A SURPLUS OF 80,000 WITH THE WAY WE NORMALLY MANAGE IT. WE HAVE EXPECTATION THAT WE COULD COME IN A MILLION BETTER THAN THAT.

BUT THE BUDGETED IT'S THAT NORMAL DELTA. SO THE BUDGETED WAS SLIGHTLY ABOVE ZERO AT 80.

AND WE WOULD THINK WITH GOOD MANAGEMENT WE WOULD COME IN ABOVE.

AND I SEE YOU NODDING IN THE BACK. THANK YOU. I GUESS MY FOLLOW UP ALSO, JUST TO REITERATE, AND THIS GOES BACK TO WHAT MARIA PRESENTED EARLIER TODAY, AN ACTUAL HARD FINAL NUMBERS.

WE JUST HAD A DEFICIT OF OVER $3 MILLION IN THE YEAR THAT JUST ENDED, NOT PROJECTED.

LIKE THAT'S THAT'S ACTUAL CORRECT. I'LL LET YOU YOU KNOW, THAT ONE.

BUT WE THAT'S NOT PROJECTED. THAT IS OUR BEST CASE ESTIMATE RIGHT NOW.

RIGHT. AND IT'S A PRETTY GOOD ESTIMATE, RIGHT.

3.1 AND SO FOR ME, I WOULD. OUR STAFF, I WOULD.

AND FIRST OF ALL, I APPRECIATE THE COMMUNITY COMING TODAY, I REALLY DO.

IT TAKES A LOT TO COME AND SHARE YOUR OPINION AND YOUR OPINION MATTERS SO MUCH.

AND OUR STAFF MATTER SO MUCH TO THIS DISTRICT.

THEY ARE THE BACKBONE. THEY ARE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE SHOWING UP DAY IN AND DAY OUT EVERY DAY MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOR OUR KIDS.

AND IT'S, IT IS WHAT DISTINGUISHES OUR, OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT FROM EVERY OTHER.

AND SO I'M INCREDIBLY THANKFUL FOR ALL THAT THEY DO.

I AM VERY COMMITTED TO GIVING THEM RAISES. WHEN WE MADE OUR FORECAST.

ORIGINALLY WHEN WE WERE LOOKING BACK IN THE SPRING, WE WERE TAKING A THREE YEAR VIEW ON IT.

AND ORIGINALLY IN THE SPRING, WE WERE LOOKING AT THAT WE WERE, WE HAD TO CUT SIGNIFICANTLY IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO BALANCE THE BUDGET.

AND ORIGINALLY THAT WAS PROJECTED AT A 0% RAISE THIS YEAR BECAUSE WE WERE CUTTING MILLIONS JUST TO BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE THAT.

AND THIS IS ON THE BACK OF A DEFICIT THIS YEAR THAT JUST ENDED WHERE WE SPENT MORE.

WE HAD A DEFICIT OF OVER $3 MILLION, AND WE PULLED THAT FROM THE FUND BALANCE.

WE JUST FINISHED PULLING OVER 3 MILLION FROM OUR FUND BALANCE IN THE YEAR THAT JUST ENDED.

[02:40:05]

AND I RECOGNIZED THAT. AND SOME VERY DEAR MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY, OF OUR STAFF ARE NOT HERE ANYMORE BECAUSE WE HAD TO MAKE TOUGH DECISIONS.

WE WERE ABLE TO GET TO A BALANCED BUDGET. AND IT HAS SET US ON THE PATH SO THAT WE ARE CONTINUING THIS YEAR TO MAKE ADDITIONAL TOUGH DECISIONS SO THAT WE CAN HONOR THE TWO THE NEXT TWO YEARS, AS WE TALKED ABOUT BEING ABLE TO DO RAISES.

AND SO FOR ME, IF WE DO A RAISE TONIGHT OR A BONUS TONIGHT, WE'RE PULLING THAT FROM THE FUND BALANCE, OR WE'RE HOPING THAT OUR PROJECTIONS COME IN WHERE WE IN THIS, WE'RE BASICALLY TONIGHT WE WOULD BE PASSING A DEFICIT BUDGET.

IT WOULD BE A DEFICIT BUDGET THAT WE WOULD PASS TONIGHT WHERE WE WOULD HOPE THROUGH GOOD MANAGEMENT, WE MIGHT GET THAT BACK UP TO ROUGHLY BREAK EVEN OVER THE NEXT YEAR.

BUT WE JUST SPENT MORE THAN 3 MILLION THIS LAST YEAR THAT WE DIDN'T BRING IN.

AND WE DON'T HAVE THE LAND SALE. THAT'S NOT A DONE DEAL.

AND SO FOR ME I WOULD SAY TO MY FELLOW BOARD MEMBERS, I DO BELIEVE I AM LEADING HERE TONIGHT.

I BELIEVE IT TAKES LEADERSHIP TO PUT THE FISCAL HEALTH OF OUR DISTRICT WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE.

AND I THINK OUR COMMUNITY VALUES MANAGING THE BUDGET IN A FISCALLY SOUND MANNER TO MAKE THE TOUGH CALLS AND RECOGNIZES THAT THIS IS A PROCESS WHERE YOU SAW THAT CHART EARLIER THAT THAT KIRK CALLED OUT.

OUR STAFFING HAD GOTTEN OUT OF WHACK. IT HAD GOTTEN OUT OF WHACK.

OUR CHART SPIKED AS OUR ENROLLMENT WENT DOWN, AND SO WE HAD TO MAKE TOUGH DECISIONS TO GET IT TO WHERE IT NEEDED TO BE.

AND WE'VE DONE THAT THIS LAST YEAR, AND I THINK IT HAS PUT IT IN US, PUTTING US ON A PATH TO BE ABLE TO FINANCIALLY INCREASE THE COMPENSATION FOR OUR STAFF BECAUSE THEY DO MATTER. AND WE DO HAVE TO DO THAT LONG TERM BECAUSE IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO.

AND SO WE CAN COMPETE FOR TALENT ON THE BACKS OF THE TOUGH DECISIONS WE DID LAST YEAR TO NOW DO A DEFICIT BUDGET IS NOT SOMETHING I CAN SUPPORT. AND I HOPE OUR STAFF KNOWS THAT IT IS NOT AN INDICATION OF THE WORK OR THE VALUE THAT THEY HAVE.

WE VALUE THEM GREATLY AND WE ARE WORKING HARD TO MOVE TOWARDS A RAISE.

BUT I PERSONALLY, I'M SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF MYSELF CAN'T PASS A DEFICIT BUDGET AFTER THE YEAR WE JUST HAD IN ORDER TO DO A ONE TIME BONUS. ALL RIGHT, WE HAVE DIANE AND THEN JENNIFER.

THIS TOPIC I KNOW IS ONE THAT WE HAVE QUITE A FEW STAFF MEMBERS TUNING IN TO LISTEN TO US DISCUSS THIS EVENING.

AND I'VE HEARD FROM THEM, AND I'VE HEARD FROM A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY.

I WANTED TO WAIT FOR INK ON PAPER BECAUSE IT JUST FELT CLEANER TO SAY THAT.

I DO FEEL LIKE WE NEED TO DO THIS FOR OUR STAFF.

I THINK THAT IT SHOWS WHERE OUR VALUES ARE. I THINK THAT THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HERE AS A ONE TIME PAYMENT IS A RESPONSIBLE AND VERY THOUGHTFUL THING TO DO WITH THE LONG TERM HEALTH OF OUR DISTRICT IN MIND.

I THINK THAT A NUMBER ON PAPER IS MEANINGFUL, BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF VARIABLES IN IT, AND WE HAVE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE HOPE OF THE FUTURE OF THE DISTRICT. ADDITIONAL REVENUES JUST ALL THE DIFFERENT THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON.

AND I, WHILE I WOULD ALSO FEEL, YOU KNOW, I'VE SIGNALED NOW I WANT TO VOTE TO INCREASE PAY.

I WOULD ALSO BE COMFORTABLE SAYING, LET'S COME BACK IN SEPTEMBER WHEN WE HAVE SOME HARDER NUMBERS AND MAKE THAT VOTE, BECAUSE WE'RE NOT PLANNING TO DO THAT PAYOUT RIGHT NOW.

BUT I JUST WANTED TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT I AM VERY MUCH IN FAVOR OF VOTING TO INCREASE OR, YOU KNOW, DO THAT ONE TIME PAYOUT NOW AND, AND HOPEFULLY MORE DOWN THE ROAD AS WELL, BECAUSE THIS CERTAINLY IS NOT ENOUGH.

THANK YOU. DIANE. JENNIFER. JOHN AND DIANE, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, YOU BOTH SAID THINGS THAT WERE ON MY MIND AS WELL, SO I APPRECIATE YOU SAYING THEM FOR ME. JOHN, WITH YOUR RESPECT TO BEING A LEADER IN THIS VERY DIFFICULT.

DISCUSSION, DIFFICULT IN THAT WE WANT FISCAL STEWARDSHIP SO THAT WE CAN ENSURE THE LONGEVITY OF THIS DISTRICT.

IT WAS AND DIANE, WHAT YOU SAID TO JUST ABOUT IN SPEAKING WITH THE TEACHERS, YOU KNOW, I WALKED MY DAUGHTER INTO THE HALLS

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I JUST, I KNEW IT WAS GOING TO BE GOOD, BUT I WAS SO ENCOURAGED BY THE FACT THAT THE OTHER PEOPLE IN THE ROOM, MOST OF THEM HAD BEEN ON THE COMMITTEE. SO THERE WAS SOME VETERAN EXPERIENCE IN THE ROOM, BUT THEIR EXCITEMENT ABOUT HAVING PETE AND MR. DATIENCE IN THE ROOM. ALSO ERIC. BUT JUST THE CREATIVITY AND THE INNOVATIVE THINKING THAT THAT PETE AND HIS TEAM ARE BRINGING TO THIS DISTRICT IS JUST IT'S JUST SOMETHING TO BE CELEBRATED, FRANKLY.

AND IT'S ENCOURAGING. AND AT THE SAME TIME IN THAT COMMITTEE MEETING, ONE OF THE VETERANS ON THE TEAM SAID ON THE COMMITTEE SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT? THIS IS MAYBE GOING TO BE THE YEAR THAT WE'RE NOT, YOU KNOW, IN THE SPRING GOING, OH MY GOSH, LIKE, HERE WE GO AGAIN. YOU KNOW, LIKE WE'RE FACING A DEFICIT.

LIKE, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THIS IS THE YEAR THAT WE CAN REALLY TAKE A 3 TO 5 YEAR HORIZON OUTLOOK ON THIS AND DO WHAT'S RIGHT FOR THE DISTRICT.

LONG TERM. IT IS A LOT EASIER. I WOULD THINK, JUST AS A PARENT, I KNOW IT'S A LOT EASIER TO PLACATE MY SWEET GIRL WHEN SHE NEEDS SOMETHING RIGHT THERE IN THE MOMENT. BUT IF I'M THINKING LONGER TERM, IT'S HARDER TO DELAY THE REWARD OR THE GRATIFICATION IN THE MOMENT.

BUT KNOWING AS A PARENT AND KNOWING AS A TRUSTEE THAT WE ARE IN IT FOR THE LONGER HAUL, FOR THE GOOD OF THIS DISTRICT, I AM INCLINED TO TO HOLD OFF UNTIL SEPTEMBER'S MEETING.

I HAVE LIVED MY LIFE TAKING VERY CALCULATED RISKS, AND ALTHOUGH NOT ALL OF THEM WERE, YOU KNOW, IN MY BEST INTEREST, I WOULD SAY COLLECTIVELY, OVERALL, I'VE DONE WELL WITH THE RISKS I'VE TAKEN WHEN I'VE BEEN CALCULATED.

AND SO KNOWING WHAT IS COMING DOWN THE PIKE THAT WE'LL HAVE MORE INFORMATION ON IN SEPTEMBER GIVES ME ENCOURAGEMENT TO DELAY UNTIL SEPTEMBER. I WILL NOT SAY INDEFINITELY, BUT UNTIL SEPTEMBER'S MEETING TO REVISIT THIS CONVERSATION.

ANYONE ELSE? FOR CLARIFICATION. YOUR YOU'RE RECOMMENDING THAT WE DON'T POSTPONE BECAUSE THAT VOTE IS INDEFINITE.

YOU'RE SAYING TABLE SO THAT IT COMES BACK IN SEPTEMBER.

TABLE IN SEPTEMBER. YES. BECAUSE I WOULD SAY USING CALCULATED RISK AND THE INSIGHTS THAT I HAVE FROM THE DIFFERENT MEETINGS I'VE BEEN IN COMMITTEE WISE, IT SEEMS VERY LIKELY THAT WE'LL HAVE POSITIVE INFORMATION, INK DRIED, IF YOU WILL, AT THAT BY THAT MEETING SO THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY MAKE A DECISION THAT IS.

FULFILLING BOTH OBJECTIVES OF, OF HAVING A LONG TERM OUTLOOK, STAYING IN THE BLACK, BUT ALSO REWARDING OUR STAFF WHO'VE BEEN SO, SO PATIENT AS WE'VE WORKED THROUGH THIS PROCESS.

IT IS NOT FUN TO BE IN THIS POSITION. I WAS HOPING ALL SUMMER THAT WE WOULD HAVE, YOU KNOW, THOSE DATA BITS AT OUR DISPOSAL THAT THIS WOULD BE A REALLY EASY EVENING, BUT THAT IT DIDN'T WORK OUT THAT WAY.

BUT I DO FEEL A LOT BETTER WITH THAT COMING, AS WELL AS A FEW OTHER THINGS.

YEAH. SO TRUSTEES ARE SAYING THEY WOULD VOTE DOWN A PAY INCREASE AT THIS POINT IF THIS MOTION WAS MADE.

RIGHT NOW, I'M HEARING A COUPLE OF TRUSTEES SAY THAT THEY WOULD NOT VOTE FOR A TEACHER PAY INCREASE IF THE MOTION WAS MADE RIGHT NOW.

I ACTUALLY HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS MYSELF. PERHAPS ONE FOR MISS LORI LEE.

LORI, WHEN WE MAKE A DECISION ON TEACHER COMPENSATION, I REMEMBER PRIOR CONVERSATIONS.

WE HAVE BEEN ALL OVER THE PLACE HAVE BEEN NO RAISE A SMALL INCREASE.

SO ONE TIME PAYOUT, WHAT THE ONE TIME PAYOUT WOULD BE WHEN DO WE MAKE IT? WHEN WOULD WE PAY IT OUT? DO YOU RECALL WHERE WE LAST LANDED WITH THE ITEM WE POSTPONED OR TABLED IN JUNE.

I'M RECALLING THAT IT WAS $700 PER TEACHER, PER PER EMPLOYEE.

I'M JUST NOT RECALLING AND I HAVE A NEW NOTEBOOK.

OTHERWISE I WOULD LOOK FOR IT. SO I TAKE LOTS OF NOTES.

WAS IT AN IMMEDIATE PAYOUT OR WAS IT SOMETIME LATER IN THE FALL? IT WAS LATER IN THE FALL. IT WOULD BE CLOSER TO DECEMBER IS WHAT WE HAD TALKED ABOUT.

OKAY. DECEMBER. YES. OKAY. SO THE FIRST MY FIRST THOUGHT IS WE'RE MAKING WE COULD MAKE A DECISION TODAY ABOUT COMPENSATION,

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CORRECT. OKAY. BUT WE COULD MAKE A DIFFERENT DECISION TO PAY THEM EARLIER.

IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE AT THAT POINT, BUT THAT'S JUST WHERE WE LEFT THE CONVERSATION.

YES. THAT'S CORRECT. MY NEXT QUESTION IS FOR PETE WHO'S ALSO SITTING IN THE BACK.

I NOTED THAT OUR STUDENT ENROLLMENT IS UP ABOVE WHAT WE WERE EXPECTING, WHICH INFERS THAT IT IS HIGHER THAN BUDGET AND YOU HAVE YOUR CALCULATOR OUT.

BUT I'M GOING TO SAVE YOU BECAUSE I ALSO CALCULATED 45 STUDENTS BY 7458, AND THAT'S $335,000. SO WE ARE ALREADY KIND OF MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.

SO THAT MAKES ME FEEL GOOD ABOUT THIS. BUT IT'S NOT ALL ALL OF THE WAY THERE TO COVER THE $700 PER EMPLOYEE.

CAN YOU HELP US REMEMBER WHAT THAT DOLLAR AMOUNT WAS IN THE GROSS NUMBER? WE ANTICIPATED THAT BEING ABOUT $750,000, WITH THE COST OF THE $700 PER EMPLOYEE BEING PAID IN LATE NOVEMBER, DECEMBER, LATER ON IN THE YEAR. SO THAT, I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT THAT COST WOULD BE.

WE FELT WE HAD APPROXIMATELY A MILLION IN PAYROLL THAT WE TYPICALLY GOES UNSPENT.

YOU KNOW, THERE HAVE BEEN SOME COMMENTS. I MEAN, MR. MARWILL'S STILL HERE, SO I'LL USE HIS NAME.

BUT, YOU KNOW, HE DID MAKE A COMMENT EARLIER.

YOU KNOW, WHEN I GOT HERE, THE BUDGET WAS IN KIND OF WAS WAS SET.

A LOT OF THINGS HAD CHANGED. IF YOU'D ASKED ME IN MAY WHAT THE INTEREST RATE WAS GOING TO BE NEXT YEAR, I WOULD HAVE USED A LOT SMALLER INTEREST RATE.

THAT'S NOT LONGER THE CASE RIGHT NOW. SO I'LL GET WITH MARIE AND WE'LL GO BACK AND LOOK AT WHAT DID WE BUDGET FOR THAT INTEREST RATE.

AND IF THAT INTEREST RATE, IF WE DID DO TWO AND A HALF, YOU KNOW, IF THAT'S WHAT WE DID, THEN THERE'S PROBABLY A GOOD OPPORTUNITY THAT COULD BE 2.75 TO 3. AND THAT WILL CHANGE SOME THINGS. THERE'S SOME OTHER THINGS THAT I KNOW YOU GUYS ARE AWARE ABOUT, YOU ARE AWARE OF, YOU KNOW, WITH SOME PROPERTY VALUE APPEALS AND SOME THINGS THAT WOULD BE, I COULD, YOU KNOW, WOULD FEEL GOOD ABOUT FOR A ONE TIME PAYMENT, BUT NOT NECESSARILY SOMETHING YOU'D PUT RECURRING COSTS IN. SO THERE ARE A FEW OTHER THINGS. I BELIEVE THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO INVEST OUR RECAPTURE PAYMENT IN A DIFFERENT WAY TO WHERE FOR FIVE MONTHS WE CAN GET A HIGHER, WHETHER IT'S A QUARTER POINT OR A HALF A POINT HIGHER INTEREST RATE.

AND THAT SHOULD GET US A QUARTER MILLION. SO I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT WE CAN DO AND LOOK AT THAT WILL PUT US IN A DECENT POSITION IF SOME OTHER THINGS COME, COME TO FRUITION WE WILL BE IN A MUCH BETTER POSITION.

AND IF THOSE 45 STUDENTS STAY HERE THE WHOLE YEAR, AND WE DO HAVE THE SAME ATTENDANCE RATE OR GREATER THAN THE PRIOR YEAR THAT THAT $335,000 WILL COME TO FRUITION. SO AGAIN, I GET A LITTLE NERVOUS ON COUNTING STUDENTS BEFORE LABOR DAY.

THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS CAN CHANGE. YOU KNOW, IT'S HAPPENED BOTH UP AND DOWN THROUGHOUT MY CAREER, BUT IT'S A GOOD SIGN THAT WE ARE 45 STUDENTS ABOVE BUT, YOU KNOW, MID SEPTEMBER, IF WE'RE STILL THAT MANY STUDENTS.

ABOVE THAT I FEEL. I FEEL A LITTLE. MY CONFIDENCE LEVEL INCREASES THAT THEY'LL STAY THE WHOLE YEAR.

SO I THINK THOSE ARE ABOUT 3 OR 4 THINGS THAT WE CAN LOOK AT THAT I THINK CAN GET US IN A POSITION WHERE, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE ALL AND I DON'T TRYING TO I'M NEVER GOING TO TRY TO SPEAK FOR THE BOARD, BUT I THINK WE ALL WANT TO BE ABLE TO DO SOME KIND OF A ONE TIME PAYMENT.

AND I THINK IF WE BY SEPTEMBER, WHETHER OR NOT THAT CONTRACT IS DONE, WHETHER OR NOT WE KNOW WHAT THE PROPERTY VALUE APPEAL IS FINAL, WHETHER OR NOT WE KNOW, BUT WE WILL KNOW THE INTEREST AND SOME THINGS THAT WE CAN LOOK AT THAT.

AND IF IT WAS A LOWER RATE, BECAUSE IN THE SPRING THAT WAS THE NORM.

WE ALL THOUGHT NEW FED CHAIR COMING IN IN MAY AND THOSE RATES WERE GOING TO GO DOWN.

AND IT'S ACTUALLY BEEN THE OPPOSITE WAY OR TALK OF THE OPPOSITE WAY GOING UP.

SO THAT AND THEN AT THE ENROLLMENT PIECE, I THINK BY SEPTEMBER, WE COULD HAVE A LOT OF THOSE ANSWERS, THOSE, THOSE VARIABLES ANSWERED OR AT LEAST AT A HIGHER PERCENT.

DO WE FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE WITH TO WHERE WE COULD MAKE A RECOMMENDATION AT THAT TIME.

YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU LIKE, BUT I MEAN, I THINK GOING FORWARD WITH THOSE 3 OR 4 DIFFERENT SCENARIOS, I THINK WE'RE IN A POSITION WHERE WE'RE WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO.

WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO DO SOMETHING. I THINK WE'LL BE ABLE TO DO SOMETHING. IT'S JUST WHAT. AND THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO DETERMINE.

AND TO DO THAT, WE'LL NEED TO HAVE SOME JUST SOME OF THOSE ANSWERS EITHER ANSWERED OR SOME OF THOSE QUESTIONS ANSWERED OR A BETTER PROBABILITY OF WHAT WE FEEL IS GOING TO HAPPEN. ALL RIGHT. A FEW MORE QUESTIONS THEN, BECAUSE YES, MR. POWELL DID BRING UP THAT WE ARE PERHAPS UNDER CALCULATING WHAT OUR INTEREST IS.

CURRENTLY, MOST OF OUR INVESTMENTS SIT WITH TEXPOOL, TEXPOOL PRIME OR TECHSTAR.

I DON'T KNOW THE INVESTMENT POOL THAT WE ARE USING, BUT TYPICALLY THOSE ARE ABOUT 45 DAYS OUT IS THE MATURITY ON THOSE.

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LONGER TERM. WE ALSO DO WANT TO HAVE A CONVERSATION IN THE FALL ABOUT OUR INVESTMENT POLICY.

WE'LL MAKE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS THEN. BUT ALSO, YOU KNOW, WE GET OUR TAXES IN DECEMBER, JANUARY.

AND PART OF THAT IS THAT $75 MILLION RECAPTURE PAYMENT THAT WE INVEST YOU KNOW, AND DO WE PAY IT IN AUGUST? TYPICALLY, THOSE FUNDS HAVE JUST BEEN USED NOT JUST, BUT THEY'VE BEEN PUT IN AN INVESTMENT POOL.

WELL, I KNOW WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A $75 MILLION PAYMENT IN AUGUST.

AND I HAVE THAT. I THINK THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK FOR A HIGHER YIELD INVESTMENT FOR A THREE MONTH, FOUR MONTH, FIVE MONTH TO WEAR ON THAT MUCH MONEY, WE COULD POTENTIALLY GET 150, 250 OR 300,000 MORE IN INTEREST.

SO WE'LL LOOK AT THOSE. AND THERE'S OTHER AGAIN, WHAT INTEREST RATE DO WE USE FOR OUR NORMAL FUND BALANCE GOING FORWARD.

JUST HAD A CONVERSATION WITH METER. WHO'S OUR INVESTOR? A COMPANY THAT WE USE TO HELP US INVEST. AND WE'VE HAD THIS IS SOME OF THE CONVERSATIONS WE'VE ALREADY STARTED TO HAVE.

SO SO YES, IT'S ABOUT MATURITY, BUT IT'S ALSO ABOUT YIELD AND STILL STAYING WITHIN THE PUBLIC FUNDS INVESTMENT ACT AND MAKING SURE THAT, AGAIN, WE'RE JUST TRYING TO DO LIMIT OUR RISK GET A, GET THE BEST RATE WE CAN GET WITHIN THE, WITH THE RISKS THAT WE'RE ALLOWED TO, TO HAVE.

YOU BROUGHT UP SOMETHING THAT MADE ME REMEMBER AT ONE POINT, LONG BEFORE I WAS A TRUSTEE, I REMEMBER A CONVERSATION THAT IF WE PAID WHAT WE OWED BACK TO THE STATE EARLY, THAT WE RECEIVED SOME SORT OF REBATE FOR THAT.

BUT THEN THERE WAS. OR IS IT THE OPPOSITE? I MEAN, I'M NOT I'M NOT ADVOCATING FOR THAT, BUT I'M JUST REMEMBERING THAT THERE WAS A REBATE FOR PAYING IT EARLY VERSUS I THINK WHAT YOU'RE SAYING NOW IS HOLD ON TO THE MONEY, EARN THE INTEREST, EARN THE INTEREST INCOME OFF OF THAT. AND THEN.

WELL, THAT'S WHAT WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST. I JUST I THINK THERE'S SOME INTEREST INVESTMENTS THAT WE CAN DO GET A LITTLE HIGHER RATE.

THERE IS THERE WAS A BILL. I'M GOING OFF MEMORY.

SO DON'T DON'T IT'S NOT ABSOLUTE. BUT IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, IT WAS SUPPOSED TO ORIGINALLY AS PRESENTED IT WAS YOU CAN GET A 4% DISCOUNT ON PAYING YOUR RECAPTURE. I THINK WHAT ACTUALLY ENDED UP PASSING WAS TWO.

AND I DON'T THINK IT, EVEN IF IT'S NOT PASSED AND IT WAS DONE AWAY WITH THE NEXT SESSION OR IT NEVER PASSED AT ALL.

SO THERE IS NO THERE'S NOTHING OUT THERE FOR DISTRICTS RIGHT NOW TO A BENEFIT TO TO PAY IT EARLY.

SO THE ONLY THING YOU CAN DO IS YOU CAN MAKE YOUR RECAPTURE PAYMENT, OR YOU CAN TELL THEM YOU'RE GOING TO DO IT IN AUGUST 15TH.

AND I'D RATHER DO IT AUGUST 15TH. AND EARN. EARN IS WHAT THE BEST RETURN I CAN ON THOSE FUNDS TO, TO BETTER HELP OUR OUR WHERE IT IS, WHETHER IT'S PAY OR STAFF OR PROGRAMMATIC OR WHATEVER IT IS FOR OUR DISTRICT.

SO, OKAY, WELL, I JUST ASK MY QUESTIONS TO SAY, ASIDE FROM THIS PROPERTY LEASE AND ASIDE FROM THE MONEY THAT YOU HAVE AS CONTINGENCY BUILT IN YOUR BUDGET, THAT THERE MAY BE OTHER REVENUE.

WHAT I SAY WHEN WE THINK OF REVENUE GENERATION, THIS IS ACTUALLY LOOKING AT HOW WE USE FINANCE TO OUR TO IMPROVE OUR OUTCOMES AND TO HAVE SOME REVENUE STABILITY, RIGHT, AND TO HAVE PREDICTABILITY IN OUR INCOME STREAM.

AND SO MAYBE THOSE MEASURES ALONE WOULD BE ABLE TO HELP US COVER THIS AMOUNT REGARDLESS OF WHAT HAPPENS WITH THE PROPERTY SALE.

I WOULD JUST LIKE TO COME BACK TO THE BEGINNING OF THE DIALOG FOR A MINUTE AND MAYBE FRAME AT A HIGH LEVEL.

SOME OF THE INTENT HERE BECAUSE I, I RESPECT ALL OF THE COMMENTARY WE'VE HEARD FROM ALL OF OUR TRUSTEES, AND WE KNOW HOW COMPLEX THIS IS WHEN THE INTENT IS TO TAKE CARE OF EMPLOYEES.

AND THE REASON THAT WHEN WE ENTERED INTO 8.4, I SAID WHAT I SAID WAS BECAUSE THE ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM HAD BEEN GIVEN PARAMETERS TO WORK WITH, AND THOSE PARAMETERS DID NOT INCLUDE PROGNOSTICATING ABOUT FUTURE REVENUE GENERATION OR OPPORTUNITIES OR ADD ONS THAT WE DID NOT KNOW ABOUT, WHICH WAS WHY I ENTERED INTO 8.4 SAYING WHAT I SAID.

HOWEVER, TO MR. SPRADLEY'S POINT, THAT'S UP TO YOU ALL.

AND YOU CAN TALK ABOUT COMPENSATING EMPLOYEES ANY TIME YOU WANT, AND THEN YOU CAN ALSO DECIDE WHEN TO PAY IT OUT ANY TIME YOU WANT.

AND IF THE PARAMETERS ARE GOING TO CHANGE IN THE DIALOG, THEN RESPECTFULLY, WHAT I WOULD SAY TO TRUSTEES IS OUR TEAM WILL HANDLE THAT STRATEGICALLY. AND I THINK WE'VE HEARD THAT IN ALL THE ANSWERS TONIGHT.

IF THE PARAMETERS ARE WHAT THEY WERE WHEN WE HAD THIS DISCUSSION IN MAY AND JUNE, THEN THAT'S WHY I SAID WHAT I SAID AT THE BEGINNING.

BUT WHAT I'M HEARING IN THE DIALOG IS THAT SOME PEOPLE MAY WANT NOW TO THINK AHEAD OR THINK ABOUT THE PARAMETERS A LITTLE MORE FLEXIBLY.

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WHAT I HEARD WAS THE INTENT THAT PEOPLE WANT TO COMPENSATE STAFF FROM MOST TRUSTEES.

AND I ALSO HEARD THAT WE CAN PROBABLY GET THAT DONE IN SHORT ORDER, WHETHER IT'S TONIGHT OR SEPTEMBER, BUT MOST PEOPLE DON'T WANT THE DISCUSSION TO CONTINUE TO GO ON AND ON ABOUT IT.

IF YOU WANT US TO ADD NEW ELEMENTS INTO THE DIALOG, WE COULD DO THAT, BUT WE DIDN'T COME TO DO THAT TONIGHT.

AND SO WE WOULD NEED DIRECTION ABOUT THAT. AND I THINK JUST TO PUT A POINT ON WHY I ENTERED INTO EIGHT FOUR THE WAY I DID, I WANT TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND BECAUSE OUR NUMBER ONE GOAL WOULD BE TO SHOW YOU HOW TO COMPENSATE EMPLOYEES, IF THAT IS THE BUDGET PRIORITY. BUT THE PARAMETERS WERE SET BEFORE THE MEETING AS TO WHAT WE WERE INCLUDING AND NOT INCLUDING IN THE DIALOG.

ALL RIGHT, JOHN. IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PARAMETERS, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO UNDERSCORE THAT I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD HANG OUR HAT ONLY ON THE LAND SALE. I THINK WE SHOULD BE LOOKING AT INTEREST RATE THAT CAME UP TODAY.

I THINK WE I KNOW WE'RE LOOKING AT PROPERTY TAX APPEAL.

AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE SHOULD BE LOOKING AT ABSOLUTELY EVERY COUCH CUSHION WE CAN MOVE TO FIND AN EXTRA LITTLE BIT AND THAT WHEN WE, WHEN IT DOES, WELL, IF IT DOES COME BACK IN SEPTEMBER, IF THAT IS THE DIRECTION THE BOARD ENDS UP DOING MY HOPE WOULD BE THAT WE'RE NOT JUST WAITING ON THAT LAND SALE, BUT WE'RE LOOKING AT ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING ELSE WE CAN DO.

AND WE'RE BRINGING AN UPDATED PICTURE BASED UPON WHAT WE KNOW IN SEPTEMBER AS FAR AS LIKE HOW THE MARKET AND THE ECONOMY HAS CHANGED, BUT ALSO WHATEVER ELSE WE WERE ABLE TO MAKE HAPPEN BY SEPTEMBER I WOULD, I WOULD CHANGE THE PARAMETERS TO INCLUDE THAT.

JAMES. YEAH, I, HERE'S WHAT I'M KIND OF THINKING RIGHT NOW BASED ON WHAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT AND MAYBE I'M DREAMING, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE IF WE FOUND SOME COINS IN THE COUCH CUSHIONS AND WE WERE ABLE TO CLOSE ON A SALE AND MAYBE SOME OTHER STUFF THAT'S IN THE WORKS, MAYBE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT $1,000 BONUS IN SEPTEMBER.

MAYBE THERE'S ENOUGH CLARITY THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY DO MORE.

AND IF THE CONVERSATION IS, YOU KNOW, IF THE DECISION IS, LET'S TAKE A LEAP OF FAITH TODAY, AND THAT'S WHAT FOUR TRUSTEES AT LEAST WANT TO DO.

I'M THERE WITH YOU. BUT MAYBE THE CONVERSATION IS, IF WE CAN BRING THIS BACK IN SEPTEMBER, WE'LL HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE CLARITY AND WE MAY BE ABLE TO DO A LITTLE BIT MORE.

I KIND OF LIKE THAT MESSAGE TOO. AND I'VE ALWAYS SAID, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE FIND EXTRA MONEY, I'D LOVE TO FIND EXTRA MONEY. I THINK IT SHOULD GO TO STAFF.

I THINK THAT I THINK THAT'S WHERE THERE'S NO REASON TO HAVE A GIANT WALLET IN OUR BACK POCKET.

THERE'S A REASON TO HAVE A GOOD FUND BALANCE, BUT THERE'S NO REASON TO TO BUILD THAT UP TO SOME GIANT NUMBER BECAUSE THE STATE WILL COME IN AND TAKE IT AWAY. YOU KNOW, OUR LUCK. BUT BUT ANYWAY, NONETHELESS, IF THE DISCUSSION HERE IS LET'S TABLE IT FOR ONE MONTH, LET'S COME BACK IN SEPTEMBER. THEN I WOULD ASK THAT THE ADMINISTRATION, WHEN WE COME BACK IN SEPTEMBER, CAN WE GET A COUPLE OF OPTIONS. AND THE MOTION, THE BLANK MOTION WE WERE PROVIDED ACTUALLY SAID BLANK DOLLARS FOR FULL TIME AND BLANK DOLLARS FOR PART TIME, WHICH WOULD HAVE DRIVEN JUST A WHOLE OTHER CONVERSATION HERE AND ANOTHER HALF HOUR WORTH OF TALK.

BUT MAYBE WHEN THE WHEN THE ADMINISTRATION, WHEN WE COME BACK IN SEPTEMBER, AND I WOULD SUPPORT PUSHING THIS OFF TO SEPTEMBER, LET'S SEE, MAYBE A LIST OF HERE ARE THE THINGS THAT HAVE LANDED.

AND HERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT MIGHT BE IN THE WORKS, MAYBE WRITTEN IN PENCIL OR SPOKEN VERBALLY OR WHATEVER.

AND THEN HERE ARE A COUPLE OF SCENARIOS. THIS IS HOW MUCH.

750 FOR FULL TIME AND 500 FOR PART TIME OR SOME NUMBER.

THIS IS HOW MUCH IT WOULD COST US. AND THEN WE CAN LOOK AT THAT AND WE COULD SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT? WE FOUND THIS MUCH AND WE'RE PRETTY CLOSE TO HAVING THIS MUCH.

LET'S MAKE THAT WORK. AM I MAKING SENSE? BUT I.

WOULD FULLY SUPPORT TAKING ACTION RIGHT NOW. BUT IF IT MEANS WE POSTPONE AND MAYBE DO A LITTLE BIT MORE IN A MONTH, WHICH WE HAVE NO INDICATION WE CAN DO YET, BUT I WOULD SUPPORT THAT.

JENNIFER, I AGREE WITH YOU, JAMES. AND I TOO THINK THAT BY DELAYING JUST UNTIL THE NEXT MEETING, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A LOT MORE THINGS THAT ARE POSSIBILITIES ACTUALLY BECOME REALITIES.

AND SO I TOO AGREE WITH YOU. AND I LIKE TO AIM HIGH.

SO I THINK THAT POSTPONING GIVES US A LOT MORE FREEDOM, LATITUDE, IF YOU WILL, TO MAKE AN EVEN BETTER OPTION FOR

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MINE IS ACTUALLY A QUESTION FOR YOU. SO MAYBE WE WERE HAVING THE SAME QUESTION IF WE WANTED TO COME UP IN SEPTEMBER.

SO THANK YOU KELLY. IF WE WANTED TO COME UP IN SEPTEMBER, WHAT'S THE RIGHT LANGUAGE? IS A TABLE IS IT POSTPONED? IS IT POSTPONED TO 4TH SEPTEMBER? WHAT IS THAT? IT'S TO POSTPONE TO SEPTEMBER. SO AS A POINT OF ORDER OR CLARIFICATION, TABLING IS FOR DOING SOMETHING LATER IN A MEETING.

AND IF YOU POSTPONE, YOU HAVE TO SET A TIME AND YOU CAN SET A TIME FOR THE NEXT MEETING.

AND IF IT'S GOING TO GO BEYOND THE NEXT MEETING, IT'S INDEFINITELY.

THE MOTION IS TO MOVE TO POSTPONE UNTIL SEPTEMBER OR THE NEXT BOARD MEETING.

EITHER LANGUAGE WORKS. ALL RIGHT. DO WE HAVE ANY MORE QUESTIONS OR DISCUSSIONS? OR PERHAPS SOMEONE WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION? JENNIFER WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION. I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE POSTPONE THIS DISCUSSION ABOUT STAFF COMPENSATION UNTIL THE SEPTEMBER BOARD MEETING. A MOTION, AND WE HAVE A SECOND.

I'LL SECOND. A SECOND BY JOHN. ALL RIGHT. IF THERE'S NO FURTHER DISCUSSION ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. ALL RIGHT. ANY ANY NAYS? ALL RIGHT. THE MOTION PASSES SEVEN ZERO. THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT. SO NOW WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO ITEM 8.5, WHICH IS DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE

[8.5 Discussion and possible approval of a delegate to the 2026 Texas Assoc...]

THIS IS OUR OWN ITEM. OKAY. WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION? OR WE CAN START WITH DISCUSSION. DO YOU WANT ME TO TALK ABOUT IT? BECAUSE WE MIGHT HAVE PEOPLE HERE DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT. YEAH.

OKAY. SO LAST YEAR I WAS THE TASB DELEGATE FOR THE ASSEMBLY, AND THAT IS WHERE TRUSTEES FROM ALL THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE INVITED TO GATHER AND WE TALK ABOUT OUR PRIORITIES FOR EDUCATION.

AND WE WORK ON A KIND OF LIKE A BOOKLET TO ACT ON THOSE PRIORITIES AND ADVOCATE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION. SO IT'S A REALLY, IT'S A REALLY GREAT TIME TO MEET PEOPLE AND REALLY TALK ABOUT EDUCATION AND PRIORITIES AND ADVOCACY. AND DIANE'S BEEN WITH ME FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. ANYONE ELSE? IS ANYONE AMONG US INTERESTED IN BEING OUR DELEGATE TO THE TASB CONFERENCE IN OCTOBER? I CAN CHIME IN AND SAY THAT I, I AM COMMITTED TO GOING TO THIS CONFERENCE.

SO I THINK THAT'S STEP ONE. AND I DO HAVE EXPERIENCE IN DOING THIS.

SO IF THERE IS NO OTHER INTEREST ON THE BOARD, I'M HAPPY TO TAKE ON THIS ROLE AGAIN.

GOOD. WE DO ALSO. IT'S NICE TO HAVE THAT ALTERNATE SO I DON'T.

IF THERE'S ANYONE ELSE WHO'S INTENDING TO GO, MAYBE YOU CAN INDICATE THAT HERE.

IS THERE AN ALTERNATE. I CAN BE AN ALTERNATE.

I CAN DO IT. OKAY. I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPOINT DIANE HERN AS THE EANES ISD DELEGATE AND CATHERINE WALKER AS THE ALTERNATE TO THE 2026 TASB DELEGATE ASSEMBLY.

ALL RIGHT, JAMES HAS MADE THE MOTION. DO WE HAVE A SECOND? ALL RIGHT.

JENNIFER WILL SECOND. ALL RIGHT. IF THERE'S NO FURTHER DISCUSSION.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. ALL RIGHT.

NONE OPPOSED. THE MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. ALL RIGHT.

WE WILL NOW MOVE ON TO 8.6. DISCUSSION OF POSSIBLE CANDIDATE ENDORSEMENT.

[8.6 Discussion and possible candidate endorsement for the Texas Associatio...]

BOARD OF DIRECTORS. ALL RIGHT. ANY DISCUSSION ON THIS TOPIC?

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DO ANY OF YOU KNOW ANY OF THESE PEOPLE PERSONALLY OR.

BECAUSE IF SO, I'D LOVE TO HEAR ABOUT THAT BECAUSE OTHERWISE I'M JUST GOING OFF THE PAPER.

KELLY. SO I KNOW ANNA CORTEZ. SHE'S BEEN VERY, VERY INVOLVED IN TASB AND HAS HELD VARIOUS ROLES THERE. AND SHE IS ALWAYS AN ADVOCATE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION.

SHE'S ALSO KIND OF CLOSE TO US IN MANOR. MANOR ISD.

SO BUT I'VE ALWAYS SEEN HER, LIKE, DO YOU KNOW, BEING VERY ACTIVE AND VERY MUCH AN ADVOCATE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION, SO. THANK YOU. ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANY COMMENTS OR KNOW ANYBODY SPECIFICALLY WHO HAS RAISED THEIR HAND TO BE ON TASB'S BOARD? DIANE. I'LL JUST CHIME IN THAT I REACHED OUT TO SOME PEOPLE WHO SERVE ON THIS BOARD AND ASKED FOR A LITTLE BIT OF INSIGHT.

AND I GUESS STEVEN MACKEY HAS BEEN SERVING AS AN APPOINTEE SINCE DECEMBER.

AND I THINK THERE ARE SOME OTHER EXPERIENCE SITTING HERE WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE MET HIM AND SPEAK VERY HIGHLY OF STEVEN MACKEY AND OTHER ROLES.

SO ONE BOARD MEMBER DID, INDICATE THAT HE WOULD BE AN EXCELLENT CHOICE.

THAT'S MY UNDERSTANDING AS HE WAS APPOINTED IN DECEMBER.

ALL RIGHT. JAMES. GO AHEAD. I WAS GOING TO SAY I I'VE WORKED WITH A COUPLE OF THESE.

THEY'RE ALL GREAT PEOPLE. AND I'M GRATEFUL THAT PEOPLE WOULD STEP FORWARD AND AND OFFER TO DO THIS, INCLUDING DIANE IN HER LAST OFFER TO DO SOMETHING.

AND I DON'T I DON'T THINK THAT AN ENDORSEMENT IS NECESSARILY SAYING THE OTHERS AREN'T GOOD.

BUT BASED ON WHAT I'VE HEARD AND DIANE'S COMMENTS MINE, I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ENDORSE STEVEN MACKEY TO FILL A POSITION ON THE TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL BOARDS BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

ALL RIGHT, WE HAVE A MOTION. WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO.

SECOND. ALL RIGHT, I WILL. SECOND. ALL RIGHT.

IF THERE'S NO FURTHER DISCUSSION. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE.

AYE. ANY NAYS? NO. ALL RIGHT. THE MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO.

ALL RIGHT. NOW WE ARE MOVING ON TO 8.7. EXCUSE ME.

[8.7 Discussion and possible approval of Bond Advisory Committee charter]

I JUST WOULD LIKE TO REVIEW FOR ANYBODY LISTENING, YOU KNOW, THE TRUSTEES VETTED, IDENTIFIED, SELECTED AND APPROVED A BOND ADVISORY PROCESS.

AS WE HEADED INTO THE SPRING OF 26, THE TRUSTEES THEN SELECTED A COMMITTEE ROSTER AND AN ADVISORY TEAM TO WORK IN CONJUNCTION WITH DISTRICT LEADERSHIP TO CREATE THE BOND ADVISORY COMMITTEE.

THEY'LL BEGIN THEIR SCHEDULED WORK HERE VERY SHORTLY, BY SEPTEMBER 2ND.

THE TRUSTEES ASKED THE TEAM, THE LEADERSHIP TEAM, TO PUT TOGETHER A TEMPLATE, AND WE ASKED ALL OF YOU TO COLLABORATE WITH US.

I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR INPUT AND FEEDBACK INTO THE PROCESS.

THE BOARD IS FORMING, OF COURSE, A BOND ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO INDEPENDENTLY EVALUATE AND DEVELOP A COMPREHENSIVE BOND PACKAGE RECOMMENDATION FOR THE FUTURE OF THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY THAT REFLECTS THE EXPECTATIONS OF ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE FOR ITS COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

THAT WAS SPECIFIC LANGUAGE DEVELOPED, OF COURSE, BY OUR SCHOOL BOARD, AND ENTRUSTING A COMMITTEE OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO REVIEW RESOURCES RELATED TO OUR FACILITY COMMITTEE RESEARCH IN THE PAST, DISTRICT DEMOGRAPHICS, AS YOU SAW TONIGHT, FACILITY CONDITIONS PROGRAM NEEDS IDENTIFIED FOR TEACHING NOW AND IN THE FUTURE AND STRATEGIC PLAN AND DISTRICT PRIORITIES INCLUDING SAFETY AND SECURITY, OUR FINANCIAL CAPACITY, THE BUDGET CONSIDERATIONS WE'VE ALL BEEN TALKING ABOUT, AND OF COURSE, LONG TERM OPERATIONAL IMPACT, INCLUDING BOND AND TAX IMPLICATIONS, WHICH WE ALSO WERE LOOKING AT A LITTLE BIT TONIGHT.

SO THE WORK OF THE COMMITTEE WILL CULMINATE IN THE FUTURE WITH RECOMMENDATIONS.

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THERE ARE EIGHT CHARGES. AND ACCOMPANYING THOSE CHARGES, THERE ARE SIX AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY, AND THE BOARD IS EXPECTING THAT THE LEADERSHIP TEAM WILL WORK WITH THE MEMBERS OF THE BACK, WITH THE GIFTS OF THEIR TIME AND TALENT, TO MAKE SURE THAT THESE CHARTERS, CHARTER RESPONSIBILITIES AND CHARGES ARE ENACTED INDEPENDENTLY AND OBJECTIVELY, AND FOLLOWED COMPREHENSIVELY, SO THAT THE BACK CAN MAKE THOROUGH AND RESEARCH BASED RECOMMENDATIONS TO THIS BOARD LATER IN THE FALL OF 2026. AGAIN, I WANT TO THANK EVERYBODY FOR HELPING TO DEFINE THE CHARGES AND THE RESPONSIBILITIES.

I THINK THIS IS A THOROUGH DOCUMENT THAT OUR SAVVY COMMUNITY MEMBERS WILL UNDERSTAND, AND I THINK THEY WILL TAKE THESE CHARGES SERIOUSLY.

AND I WOULD ASK YOU TO CONSIDER APPROVING THE BOND ADVISORY COMMITTEE CHARTER AT THIS TIME.

THANK YOU KIRK. AND I SEE KATE HAS HER HAND RAISED.

NO, I'M NOT GOING TO MAKE A MOTION. I WANT TO MAKE A COMMENT. I WANT TO ALSO THANK ALL OF THOSE WHO VOLUNTEERED TO BE PARTICIPANTS IN THIS PROCESS.

A COUPLE THINGS THAT I THINK ARE IMPORTANT THAT MAYBE DID NOT MAKE IT INTO THIS CHARTER IS THAT I THINK FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU LOOK AT THE DATA THAT WE SAW EARLIER IN THE PRESENTATION IT SORT OF HAS THE HISTORY OF BONDS THAT WERE PASSED, AND I THINK IS REVEALING AS TO HOW THIS DISTRICT LOOKS AT THE SIZE OF BONDS.

AND IT'S VERY PARTICULAR ABOUT I THINK FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY AND BEING PRUDENT WITH TAXPAYER MONEY.

AND SO I THINK THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR THIS COMMITTEE TO RECOGNIZE.

AND I THINK FROM THAT ANGLE I WOULD LIKE TO SEE COMING OUT OF THE COMMITTEE POTENTIALLY EVEN A PHASED APPROACH TO A PLAN OR MULTIPLE DIFFERENT OPTIONS FOR US AS A BOARD TO CONSIDER.

BECAUSE I DO THINK THAT WE HAVE VERY SAVVY VOTERS IN THIS DISTRICT.

AND I THINK THIS COMMITTEE THAT WE PUT TOGETHER IS A GREAT GROUP OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO CAN PUT TOGETHER SOMETHING THAT WILL WORK FOR OUR DEMOGRAPHICS AND FOR THE GOALS OF THIS COMMUNITY THAT ARE GOING TO COME OUT OF OUR STRATEGIC PLANNING.

BUT I THINK HAVING SOME OPTIONS COME OUT OF THE COMMITTEE WOULD BE NICE FOR US TO SEE AS WELL.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. AND JENNIFER, JUST RELATED TO THAT, YOU MENTIONED THE STRATEGIC PLANNING COMMITTEE, AND I AM ON THAT COMMITTEE. WE HAVE NOT OFFICIALLY MET YET.

WE WILL BE MEETING NEXT WEEK, WEDNESDAY, I THINK, OR THURSDAY.

YEP. SO JUST BE MINDFUL THAT THAT THOSE TWO TRACKS ARE RUNNING CONCURRENTLY.

AND THEY WILL DEFINITELY BE ONE, ESPECIALLY INFORMING THE OTHER.

SO THANK YOU FOR SHARING THAT COMMENT. OKAY. ALL RIGHT.

KELLY. I'M JUST REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THE GROUP THAT YOU'VE PUT TOGETHER.

AND I JUST WANT TO SAY HOW MUCH I APPRECIATE YOUR INVOLVEMENT WITH THE STUDENTS AS WELL, BEING A PART OF IT.

AND I THINK THAT THE COMBINATION OF OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS ON THE COMMITTEE WITH THE STUDENTS WILL VERY ACCURATELY REFLECT THE VALUES OF OUR COMMUNITY, AND THEY'LL DO A GREAT JOB, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO WHAT THEY COME UP WITH.

THANK YOU, KELLY AND DIANE. THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE THE COMMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN SAID ALREADY.

THIS DOCUMENT DOES LOOK A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN CHARTERS THAT WE'VE PUT TOGETHER IN THE PAST.

I THINK IT HAS A LOT OF GREAT CONTENT. IT DOES PUT THE IMPORTANT THINGS THAT WE NEED TO BE THINKING ABOUT IN HERE.

IT DOESN'T HAVE SOME OF THE NITTY GRITTY. I'M OKAY WITH THAT.

TO YOUR POINT, KATE, ABOUT, YOU KNOW, IF THIS COMMITTEE, I TRUST THIS COMMITTEE, IF THIS COMMITTEE THINKS THEY NEED TO COME TO US WITH PLAN A AND PLAN B, THEN COME TO US WITH PLAN A AND PLAN B IT DOESN'T SAY HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE TO VOTE TO PASS ANYTHING, BUT THEY CAN CERTAINLY TELL US HOW IT WENT WITH THE COMMITTEE, YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT WAS STRONGLY APPROVED OR, YOU KNOW, REALLY CONTENTIOUS. SO WE GET TO ASK THOSE QUESTIONS OF THE COMMITTEE, AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO CLEARLY MICROMANAGE HOW THEY CHOOSE TO OPERATE.

BUT I, I THINK IT GIVES US FLEXIBILITY. AND WE ALL HAVE THE, YOU KNOW, WE'VE SPOKEN HERE ON THE DAIS AND TWO OF US WILL BE SITTING IN THOSE MEETINGS AND KEEPING EVERYONE ABREAST OF WHAT'S GOING ON.

SO I LOOK FORWARD TO THE EXPERIENCE AND THINK THAT THIS DOCUMENT CAPTURES ENOUGH OF WHAT WE WANT TO TRY TO CONVEY THAT I, I PERSONALLY SUPPORT IT. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER COMMENTS?

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WE HAVE A MOTION. WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO SECOND? JAMES WILL SECOND. ALL RIGHT. IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? JUST FOR CLARIFICATION FOR EVERYONE. YOU'RE APPROVING A CHARTER AND THERE ARE TWO VERSIONS.

ONE IS A VISUAL LOOK AND ONE IS THE NARRATIVE.

THEY ARE THE SAME, BUT THEY WILL BE USED IN DIFFERENT WAYS BECAUSE OF THE PLATFORMS THAT WE WOULD USE THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA OR WEB VERSUS A HANDOUT.

ALL RIGHT. IF THERE'S NO FURTHER DISCUSSION, I'LL ASK FOR A VOTE.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? ALL RIGHT. THE MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. THANK YOU ALL.

ALL RIGHT. ONE MORE HERE IN OUR DISCUSSION. ACTION ITEMS 8.8 CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ADOPTION OF THE RESOLUTION AND PROCEDURES FOR ENFORCEMENT AND THE

[8.8 Consideration and possible adoption of the Resolution and Procedures f...]

I THINK THIS ONE WAS PRESENTED BY MISS KRISTY SAILORS.

THIS WAS A DISCUSSION ACTION ITEM THAT WAS ACTED ON BY THE TRUSTEES.

IF YOU ALL RECALL, THE LAST TIME WE MET AND APPROVED WITH SOME MODIFICATIONS TO THE PROCEDURAL PARTS OF THE CONTRACT AND THE PROGRAM, I THINK WE'VE GOT THOSE COMPLETED AT THIS TIME.

IF THERE ARE FURTHER QUESTIONS OR CONSIDERATIONS, I'M SURE THAT JEFF GREENWALD OR KRISTY COULD MAYBE ADDRESS THEM, BUT I THINK THIS WAS MORE ABOUT EDITING LANGUAGE THAT WE NOW HAVE COMPLETE.

ALL RIGHT. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION OR IS ANYONE READY TO MAKE A MOTION? ALL RIGHT. DIANE. I MOVE THAT THE BOARD ADOPT THE RESOLUTION AND PROCEDURES.

THE RESOLUTION APPROVE THE PROCEDURES FOR THE ADJUDICATION OF CIVIL VIOLATIONS ISSUED UNDER THE AUTOMATED SCHOOL BUS STOP ARM ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM.

ALL RIGHT, WE HAVE A MOTION FROM DIANE. DO WE HAVE A SECOND? SECOND FROM KELLY. ALL RIGHT, IF THERE'S NO FURTHER DISCUSSION.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. NO NAYS.

ALL RIGHT. THE MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. ALL RIGHT.

SO WE WILL NOW MOVE ON TO OUR CONSENT AGENDA.

[9.

ACTION - CONSENT AGENDA

AND I WILL NOT READ THOSE. WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION AND OR CALL OUT ANY SPECIFIC ITEMS ON THE CONSENT. KELLY. I MOVE THAT THE BOARD APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS POSTED.

ALL RIGHT. KELLY HAS MOVED. JAMES HAS SECONDED.

IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? JOHN. I JUST WANTED TO I JUST WANTED TO CALL OUT THE THE FOREST TRAIL ELEMENTARY BOOSTER CLUB DONATION AND JUST SAY THANKS AND KUDOS TO FOREST TRAIL.

YEAH, THAT'S PROBABLY TRUE. I WANTED TO CALL OUT THAT OUR JAZZ ENSEMBLE IS PERFORMING IN THE NEW ORLEANS JAZZ FESTIVAL.

THAT'S VERY COOL. AND THEN NOT TO BE OUTDONE, WE'VE GOT MIDDLE SCHOOLERS WHO ARE GOING TO BE IN INDIANAPOLIS, WHICH IS MY HOMETOWN FOR THE MUSIC FOR ALL NATIONS CONCERT BAND FESTIVAL AT THE SAME TIME.

IT'S VERY COOL. AND SPEECH AND DEBATE. IT'S TRAVELING ALL OVER.

IT'S WONDERFUL. LOTS OF STUDENT OPPORTUNITY. IT'S AMAZING.

YES. ALL RIGHT. SO WE HAVE A MOTION BY KELLY AND SECONDED BY JAMES.

IF THERE'S NO FURTHER DISCUSSION. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE.

AND NO NAYS. THE MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. ALL RIGHT.

THE NEXT BOARD MEETING IS SCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER 22ND AND OCTOBER 20TH.

THE TIME IS NOW 10:11. AND I BELIEVE THAT THE BOARD IS GOING TO MOVE BACK INTO CLOSED SESSION PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE 551.072,

[03:25:04]

THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING.

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.