Aug 22, 2023 Board Meetings

[1. Call to Order]

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GOOD EVENING.

IT IS 6 P.M..

LET US PLEASE COME TO ORDER FOR THE REGULAR MEETING FOR THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

LET THE RECORD SHOW THAT ALL TRUSTEES ARE PRESENT.

AT THIS TIME, WE WILL ADJOURN TO CLOSED SESSION PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 551.074 PERSONNEL TO DELIBERATE REGARDING THE

[3. Closed Session]

551.071. CONSULTATION WITH THE BOARD'S ATTORNEY.

541.072 REAL PROPERTY.

AND 551.076 TO CONDUCT DELIBERATIONS REGARDING SECURITY DEVICES OR SECURITY AUDITS.

WE WILL NOW RECESS INTO CLOSED SESSION AND THE TIME IS 601.

GOOD EVENING. WE WILL NOW RECONVENE FROM CLOSED SESSION AT 708.

[4. Reconvene]

PLEASE BOW YOUR HEAD. ALMIGHTY GOD, YOU HAVE CREATED ALL PEOPLE AND ALL CREATION.

WE GIVE YOU THANKS FOR THIS GIFT.

WE'RE INVITED TO ENGAGE IN HOPE, JOY, LOVE AND YOUR DISCIPLES.

WE PROCLAIM THAT OUR CHILDREN BE THE SUCCESSFUL EVERYWHERE IN AN ENTIRE GENERATION OF GODLY PEOPLE WHO BLESSED THIS THEMSELVES WILL BE WEALTHY AND THEIR GOOD DEEDS WILL BE LASTING FOREVER.

WE ASK THAT YOU PUT YOUR HAND ON THIS COMMUNITY.

LORD, WE ASK THAT YOU LIFT UP THIS SCHOOL YEAR AND YOU CONTINUE TO HAVE US GROW AND PROSPER AND JESUS CHRIST'S NAME, WE PRAY.

AMEN. AMEN. AMEN.

ALSO WITH SCHOOL BEING BACK IN SESSION, ROTC IS BACK FOR MANSFIELD HIGH SCHOOL.

I. AND.

OH.

HURTING MODISH.

FORLORN HOPE.

HEY. HEY.

THINGS AND URNS.

THE UNITED STATES.

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

TEXAS, ONE STATE UNDER GOD, ONE INDIVISIBLE.

VOICE OWES.

HEY. HEY.

OH, HEY, DON'T.

THANK YOU. AS ALWAYS, THEY'RE SO IMPRESSIVE.

WE'LL NOW MOVE TO ITEM SIX OF OUR AGENDA AND OUR DISTRICT RECOGNITIONS.

[6. District Recognitions]

CANTU HAVE IT FROM HERE.

YES, I SEE.

ELIZABETH CARMODY, IF YOU WOULD PLEASE COME FORWARD AND LET'S GET GOING ON OUR RECOGNITIONS FOR TONIGHT.

THANK YOU. DR. CANTU.

GOOD EVENING. BOARD PRESIDENT WILSON, DR.

CANTU, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD CABINET AND THE PUBLIC HERE WITH US TONIGHT.

WITH STUDENTS BACK IN SESSION TONIGHT, I HAVE THE HONOR OF STARTING OFF DISTRICT RECOGNITIONS.

AND AS I SEE OUR SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS MAKING THEIR WAY DOWN, I'D LIKE TO INVITE MICHELLE WOODALL, PRINCIPAL OF BEN BARBER INNOVATION ACADEMY AND FRONTIER STEM FORWARD FOR ACADEMIC RECOGNITION. GOOD EVENING.

BOARD PRESIDENT WILSON, DR.

CANTU AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

I WANT TO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO ONCE AGAIN BRAG ON OUR INCREDIBLE STUDENTS AND TEACHERS.

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FIRST, I DO WANT TO REPORT ON OUR FINAL NUMBER OF INDUSTRY CERTIFICATIONS EARNED FOR THE 2022 2023 SCHOOL YEAR AT 1303, PROVING THAT MISD IS CAREER READY.

THIS NUMBER DID SURPASS ALL OF OUR EXPECTATIONS AND GOALS.

AND WE ARE VERY, VERY PROUD OF THE HARD WORK THAT OUR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS DID PUT IN.

I KNOW EVERYBODY HAS A VERY LONG EVENING, SO LET'S GET TO THE STAR OF THE SHOW, AND I AM HONORED TO INTRODUCE OUR FEARLESS THREE HOSA ADVISORS WHOSE STUDENTS RECENTLY COMPETED INTERNATIONALLY.

WE HAVE A NET GONZALEZ.

SHEILA HOLBROOKS AND KRISTA PARR.

GOOD EVENING. THIS YEAR, OUR STUDENTS SWITCHED FROM SKILLSUSA TO HOSA AND WE LOVED IT.

THEY DID AWESOME IN THEIR COMPETITIONS AND SO I'M GOING TO LET THEM INTRODUCE THEMSELVES AND LET YOU KNOW WHAT THEY COMPETED IN AND HOW FAR THEY ADVANCED.

HELLO, MY NAME IS RAVI RAITHATHA AND I'M A SENIOR AT LAKERIDGE HIGH SCHOOL AND ALSO THE PRESIDENT THIS YEAR AT BEN BARBER INNOVATION ACADEMY.

THIS PAST YEAR, MY TEAM AND I, WHICH CONSISTED OF RAHUL RAJAN, JORDAN NATH AND RAYAN GHONIM, THEY'RE ALL THEY'RE ALL AT COLLEGE NOW AT A&M. BAYLOR AND UT, ALL ON THE PRE-MED TRACK.

WE COMPETED ON THE HOSA BOWL COMPETITION AND WE PLACED FIRST IN OUR AREA AND ADVANCED TO THE STATE COMPETITION.

WE LEARNED A LOT THIS YEAR TRANSITIONING FROM SKILLSUSA TO HOSA, AND WE PLAN TO BRING ALL OUR KNOWLEDGE TO THE NEXT YEAR.

HI, MY NAME IS ABBY CASTRO.

I AM CURRENTLY A SENIOR AT LEGACY HIGH SCHOOL.

THIS YEAR I'M SERVING AS HOSSA'S VICE PRESIDENT.

THIS PAST YEAR I COMPETED IN CLINICAL SPECIALTY, WHERE I PLACED FIRST AT AREA AND ADVANCED TO STATE.

I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO WHAT NEXT YEAR HOLDS AS WE CONTINUE IN OUR JOURNEY.

THANK YOU. HELLO, MY NAME IS DESIREE ORTEGA.

I'M A SENIOR AT FRONTIER STEM ACADEMY THIS YEAR, AND I AM CURRENTLY SERVING AS HOST AS A REPORTER.

AND THIS YEAR I COMPETED IN HOST CLINICAL NURSING COMPETITION AND I PLACED SECOND AT AREA AND ADVANCED TO STATE WHERE I PLACED FIRST IN THE STATE OF TEXAS, ALLOWING ME TO ADVANCE TO INTERNATIONALS WHERE I PLACED 10TH INTERNATIONALLY.

OKAY. OUR NEXT ORGANIZATION THAT WE WANT TO RECOGNIZE IS TAFFY.

THAT SPONSOR IS VICKY POULSON.

HER GROUP RECENTLY TRAVELED TO ORLANDO OVER THE SUMMER FOR THEIR NATIONAL COMPETITION.

HI, MY NAME IS MISS POULSON.

I HAVE THE PLEASURE OF BEING THE TAFFY, WHICH STANDS FOR TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF FUTURE EDUCATORS, THEIR TEACHER LEADER.

I AM NEW TO THIS POSITION AT BEN BARBER, SO I CANNOT PERSONALLY TAKE ANY CREDIT FOR THEM.

BUT I AM LOOKING SO FORWARD TO TAKING BOTH OF THEM ALL OF THE SCHOOL TO COMPETITIONS THIS YEAR.

HELLO, I'M RORY SUJETO.

THANK YOU. I'M FROM LAKE RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL AND I COMPETED IN EXPLORING SUPPORT SERVICES, CAREERS AT TAFFY PLACE, PLACING FIRST PLACE IN NATIONALS.

I'M ALSO.

I'M ALSO AREA TEN OFFICER FOR TAFFY, AND I JUST LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU TO TAFFY FOR MY EXPERIENCES AND ALL THE FRIENDSHIPS I MADE.

THANK YOU FOR MRS. TAYLOR, AND THANK YOU TO MRS. POULSON. MY NAME IS JASMINE.

I GO TO FRONTIER STEM ACADEMY AND I COMPETED IN ED RISING MOMENT, WHICH IS I GIVE A SPEECH ABOUT WHAT IS MY REASON FOR BECOMING A TEACHER.

I PLACED FIRST AND I AM VICE PRESIDENT OF TAFFY.

THANK YOU.

OKAY. NEXT, I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE ASHLEY ESCHRICH.

SHE IS ONE OF OUR MATH DESIGNERS AT FRONTIER STEM ACADEMY.

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IT'S BEEN A GREAT YEAR.

THIS IS MY FIRST YEAR WITH THESE CHILDREN AND THEY HAVE BEEN GREAT TO WORK WITH.

THEY'VE DONE EVERYTHING ALMOST THEMSELVES AND THEY'VE DEFINITELY PROGRESSED.

WE WENT FROM DISTRICT AND THEN REGIONALS.

WE WERE FIRST PLACE AS OUR CAMPUS FOR THE WHOLE REGION, AND THEN WE TOOK NINE TO STATE.

AND THESE ARE OUR CHAMPIONS FROM OUR STATE FOR FIFTH PLACE IN CURRENT EVENTS, WE HAVE KADEN WINN EXCUSE ME, COMPUTER SCIENCE, NOT CURRENT EVENTS FOR FIRST PLACE CURRENT EVENTS WE HAD RYAN ALFERINK.

FOR FOURTH PLACE CURRENT EVENTS.

WE HAD KLAY GUTHRIE.

OUR CURRENT EVENTS TEAM ALSO SCORED FIRST PLACE IN THE WHOLE STATE.

IT CONTAINED RYAN ALFERINK, CLAY GUTHRIE, KYLE ALFERINK AND SAMANTHA MCCAIN, WHO COULD NOT JOIN US THIS EVENING.

OKAY, THAT CONCLUDES BEN BARBER AND FRONTIERS RECOGNITIONS.

THANK YOU AGAIN FOR GIVING US THIS OPPORTUNITY TO JUST CELEBRATE THESE TEACHERS AND STUDENTS HARD WORK.

OKAY. THANK YOU. MS.. WOODALL LET'S GIVE THOSE STUDENTS AND OUR FACULTY ADVISORS ANOTHER ROUND OF APPLAUSE.

PRETTY AMAZING THAT WE ARE HAVING SUCH AN IMPACT AT THE STATE, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEVEL WITH OUR STUDENTS.

IT'S PRETTY INCREDIBLE.

NEXT UP, I'D LIKE TO INVITE DR.

DEWITT JOHNSON, DIRECTOR OF FINE ARTS, TO LEAD THE FINE ARTS RECOGNITIONS.

GOOD EVENING. THE LAKERIDGE HIGH SCHOOL WIND SYMPHONY, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. BRAD BONEBRAKE, HAS BEEN SELECTED TO PERFORM AT THE 2024 MUSIC FOR ALL NATIONAL FESTIVAL PRESENTED BY YAMAHA IN INDIANAPOLIS, MARCH 20TH 1 TO 23 2020 FOR HIGH SCHOOLS AND MIDDLE SCHOOLS ACROSS THE COUNTRY WERE SELECTED AFTER A RIGOROUS APPLICATION AND AUDITION PROCESS.

THE MUSIC FOR ALL NATIONAL FESTIVAL WILL FEATURE HIGH SCHOOL AND MIDDLE SCHOOL ENSEMBLES FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY THAT ARE CONSIDERED THE NATION'S PREMIER INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC ENSEMBLES. STUDENT MUSICIANS PERFORM AT TOP VENUES, RECEIVING EVALUATIONS AND FEEDBACK FROM A PANEL OF RENOWNED CONDUCTORS, CLINICIANS AND PARTICIPATE IN EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS. INVITED ENSEMBLES INCLUDE HIGH SCHOOL AND MIDDLE SCHOOL CONCERT BANDS, ORCHESTRAS, PERCUSSION ENSEMBLES AND CHAMBER ENSEMBLES, ALL WHO HAVE ACHIEVED THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF SCHOLASTIC EXCELLENCE.

PLEASE CONGRATULATE MR. BONEBRAKE AND THE LAKERIDGE HIGH SCHOOL WIND SYMPHONY ON THIS OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT.

THE SUMMIT HIGH SCHOOL WIND SYMPHONY QUALIFIED FOR TEXAS MUSIC EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION TMEA STATE HONOR BAND SEMIFINALS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE SCHOOL'S HISTORY.

THEY WERE ALSO THE FIRST HIGH SCHOOL IN MANSFIELD ISD TO ADVANCE TO THE FINALS LEVEL IN THE HONOR BAND PROCESS.

THE SUMMIT WIND SYMPHONY IS DIRECTED BY MR. TRAVIS WHALEY.

THE STATE HONOR BAND PROCESS OCCURS UNDER ODD YEAR FOR FIVE BANDS PROGRAMS ACROSS THE STATE.

SUBMIT NON-ENGINEERED RECORDINGS OF THEIR VARSITY ENSEMBLES.

UNIVERSITY INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUE CONCERT MUSIC.

THE RECORDINGS HAVE TO BE MADE AND PERFORMED BY THE STUDENTS IN SOME SORT OF CONCERT SETTING, AND BANDS ARE ALLOWED FOUR CHANCES TO RECORD.

THE DIRECTORS THEN SUBMIT THE BEST RECORDINGS TO ENTER THE HONOR BAND PROCESS TO BE JUDGED IN FOUR ROUNDS, REGION AREA, STATE SEMIFINALS AND STATE FINALS.

SUMMIT HIGH SCHOOL'S WIND SYMPHONY WAS ONE OF 4 OR 5 BANDS IN THE AREA BID TO ADVANCE TO THE SEMIFINALS.

THE SUMMIT WIND SYMPHONY ADVANCED TO THE STATE FINALS AND PLACED NINTH IN THE STATE.

CONGRATULATIONS TO MR. WHALEY AND THE SUMMIT WIND SYMPHONY.

LET'S GIVE HIM ANOTHER ROUND OF APPLAUSE.

THANK YOU, DR. JOHNSON.

AND I KNOW YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GO TOO FAR FOR OUR FINAL RECOGNITION OF THE EVENING.

I'D LIKE TO INVITE MR. WRIGHT, ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT OF STUDENT SERVICES, AND SUPPORT TO THE PODIUM.

THE THE TEXAS ART EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OR TO E A ACRONYMS

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RECENTLY ANNOUNCED THAT MISD IS A WINNER OF THE TWO 2023 DISTRICT OF DAVIS.

LET ME START THAT AGAIN.

THE 2023 DISTRICT OF DISTINCTION AWARD.

THIS IS THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW THAT MANSFIELD HAS BEEN HONORED WITH THIS AWARD.

MORE THAN 1200 DISTRICTS WERE ELIGIBLE TO APPLY AND ONLY 68 DISTRICTS MET THIS HIGH STANDARD, PLACING MANSFIELD IN THE TOP 5.5% OF ART EDUCATION DISTRICTS IN THE STATE.

MSD RECEIVES THIS AWARD FOR SETTING HIGH STANDARDS FOR VISUAL ART ADVOCACY.

ADVOCACY. INTEGRATED VISUAL ART CURRICULUM.

ENCOURAGING. ENCOURAGED.

CREATIVE WRITING.

I'M SORRY. ENCOURAGED.

CREATIVE CREATIVITY.

COMMUNITY PARTNER.

SHIP AND STUDENT GROWTH.

THE RECOGNITION IS A TRUE TESTAMENT OF OUR VISUAL ARTS, EDUCATORS SKILLS, DEDICATION AND FLEXIBILITY.

AND FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW, WE'VE BEEN RECOGNIZED FOR THIS QUALITY, COMPREHENSIVE VISUAL ART EDUCATION.

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT WHO ARE REPRESENTATIVE HERE TONIGHT AND ALL OF OUR ART EDUCATORS WHO HAVE MADE THIS RECOGNITION POSSIBLE.

ALL RIGHT. YOU KNOW, I LIKE APPLAUSE.

ONE MORE ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR THE FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT.

AND THAT CONCLUDES THIS EVENING'S RECOGNITIONS.

I'M SORRY. I WAS THINKING ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE.

WAIT TIME. MAYBE WAIT TIME.

OKAY. SEVEN POINT.

YEAH. OKAY, SO NOW WE MOVE TO ITEM 7.1 OR AIR INTRODUCTIONS.

[7. District Introductions]

WE HAVE QUITE A FEW TONIGHT.

AND SO I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND LET DR.

STOKER GET GOING.

YES, MA'AM. THANK YOU, DR.

CANTU, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD THIS EVENING.

WE HAVE 11 INDIVIDUALS, SO NOT REALLY THAT MANY, JUST 11 INDIVIDUALS WE'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE TO YOU AS ADMINISTRATIVE NEW HIRES AND OR PROMOTIONS.

SO COMING UP FIRST WE HAVE NATALIE CHASE.

MISS CHASE IS THE NEW ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AT CORA SPENCER.

SHE'S COMING TO US FROM DUNCAN DUNCANVILLE ISD, WHERE SHE SERVED AS AN INSTRUCTIONAL COACH.

GOOD EVENING.

BOARD PRESIDENT WILSON, DR.

CANTU AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

I AM HONORED TO BE NAMED ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL OF CORA SPENCER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, AND I WILL WORK HARD IN MY PARTNERSHIP WITH PRINCIPAL HOBDY TO ENSURE THAT CORA SPENCER CONTINUES TO EXCEL AND ACHIEVE AT HIGH LEVELS.

TONIGHT I HAVE WITH ME MY SUPPORTING CAST.

I HAVE MY HUSBAND, TERENCE CHASE, MY SON MILES CHASE, AS WELL AS MY DAUGHTER.

SHE IS HERE WITH ME IN MY HEART.

SHE IS AT TEXAS STATE AS A COLLEGE FRESHMAN.

I HAVE AN ARRANGEMENT AND ASSORTMENT OF FAMILY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS, PAST, PAST, PAST COWORKERS AS WELL AS PRESENT COWORKERS.

SO THEY ARE JOINING ME TODAY, SO I'D LIKE TO RECOGNIZE THEM AS WELL.

THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THE OPPORTUNITY AND I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING HERE IN THIS PARTNERSHIP IN MANSFIELD ISD.

COMING UP NEXT, WE HAVE SARA JARAMILLO.

MS.. JARAMILLO IS A NEW ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AT MARTHA READ LEADERSHIP ACADEMY, AND SHE MOST RECENTLY SERVED THE DISTRICT AS A TITLE ONE TEACHER AT CARROLL HOLT.

GOOD EVENING. BOARD PRESIDENT WILSON, DR.

CANTU AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

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HERE WITH ME TONIGHT ARE MY BIGGEST CHEERLEADERS AND SUPPORTERS WHO ALL PLAY A KEY ROLE IN MY LIFE.

MY AMAZING HUSBAND CARLOS, AND MY TWO PRECIOUS BOYS, CARSON AND BENSON.

MY WONDERFUL MAMA, MY MENTOR AND FRIEND THELMA FOSTER, WHO BELIEVED IN ME FROM DAY ONE AND ENCOURAGED ME TO LEARN AND GROW AS BOTH AN EDUCATOR AND LEADER.

MY CURRENT PRINCIPAL, KRISTI MARTIN, WHO I AM EXCITED TO WORK ALONGSIDE THIS YEAR.

AND LASTLY, MY SWEET FRIENDS AND PAST COWORKERS.

THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THIS BEING THE BEST YEAR YET.

GO DINOS. NEXT, WE HAVE ALI EINBINDER.

SHE'S OUR NEW COORDINATOR OF SCHOOL BOARD SERVICES.

SHE'S COMING TO US FROM DUNCANVILLE ISD, WHERE SHE ALSO SERVED IN A SIMILAR ROLE AS COORDINATOR OF SUPERINTENDENT SERVICES.

HI, PRESIDENT WILSON, BOARD MEMBERS AND DR.

CANTU, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE OPPORTUNITY AND I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH ALL OF YOU.

THANK YOU. NEXT, I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE ISHAM GINNANE, WHO'S A NEW ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AT CHARLENE MCKENZIE.

YOU MAY HAVE KNOWN HIM AS THE ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL INTERN AT MANSFIELD HIGH SCHOOL PREVIOUSLY.

DEAR BOARD PRESIDENT WILSON, DR.

CANTU AND ESTEEMED MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, I'M HUMBLED TODAY AND PRIVILEGED TO SERVE AS AN ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AT CHARLENE MCKENZIE MIDDLE SCHOOL.

I AM DEEPLY COMMITTED TO SUPPORTING OUR STUDENTS AND STAFF IN THEIR PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE.

I AM GRATEFUL FOR THE UNCONDITIONAL LOVE AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF MY FAMILY HERE WITH ME TODAY.

MY WIFE VLADA, MY TWINS, HADIYA AND SORAYA AND MY YOUNGEST DAUGHTER, LENA.

WE HAVE A FOURTH ONE.

SHE COULDN'T BE HERE TODAY WITH US, UNFORTUNATELY.

SO THANK YOU FOR ENTRUSTING ME WITH THIS RESPONSIBILITY.

AND I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING TIRELESSLY TO MAKE A POSITIVE IMPACT IN OUR STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY.

THANK YOU SO MUCH AGAIN.

NEXT, WE HAVE MELISSA JONES COMING TO THE PODIUM.

SHE IS OUR NEW ACE PROJECT COORDINATOR FOR AFTER SCHOOL CARE PROGRAM.

SHE'S COMING TO US FROM DESOTO ISD, WHERE SHE SERVED IN A SIMILAR ROLE.

GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE.

I FIRST WANT TO GIVE HONOR AND JUST THANKS TO LORD, TO THE LORD, I PRAY FOR THIS POSITION.

AND HE DELIVERED.

AND SO I THANK YOU, LORD.

I WANT TO THANK OUR DISTINGUISHED BOARD MEMBERS, OUR BOARD PRESIDENT, MRS. WILLIAMS, MRS. WILSON, OUR SUPERINTENDENT, DOCTOR CANTU, AND OUR ASSOCIATE SUPERINTENDENT OF COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING.

MR. WILLIAMS. I'M APPRECIATIVE OF THIS OPPORTUNITY TO MRS CANTU, MY DIRECTOR, AND DR.

PARKS, MY ASSISTANT DIRECTOR.

I AM GRATEFUL TO BE A PART OF SUCH A DYNAMIC TEAM.

THANK YOU FOR ENTRUSTING ME TO SERVE THE STAFF, THE PARENTS, THE TEACHERS AND STUDENTS OF THE ACE PROGRAM.

I THANK YOU TO MY HUSBAND, TAJI JONES, WHO ALSO SERVES AS A BOARD MEMBER IN A DIFFERENT DISTRICT MY DAUGHTERS HANNAH AND DESTINY, WHO ARE ALSO TEACHERS AND TO MY BONUS, CHILDREN WHO ARE NOT ABLE TO ATTEND NAQUAN AND TY.

I'M GRATEFUL FOR YOUR LOVE, YOUR ENCOURAGEMENT AND YOUR SUPPORT.

I APPRECIATE YOU AND I LOVE YOU.

I THANK YOU TO MY SIS, JANET, AND TO MY NIECE VIVIAN, AND TO MY FAMILY THAT'S WATCHING ONLINE.

I DO NOT TAKE THIS POSITION LIGHTLY.

MY MOTHER'S GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT FOR ME WAS TO GRADUATE HIGH SCHOOL, AND SHE SAID SHE'D BE PROUD.

SO AS SHE REST IN HEAVEN, I HOPE I'VE DONE YOU WELL.

I LOOK FORWARD TO BEING SUCH A PART OF AN AMAZING TEAM.

AND I JUST THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.

NEXT WE HAVE TIFFANY JONES, AN ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AT SUMMIT HIGH SCHOOL.

SHE'S COMING TO US FROM BIRDVILLE ISD, WHERE SHE SERVED AS AN INSTRUCTIONAL COACH AT HALTOM HIGH SCHOOL.

DR. CANTU, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE PRIVILEGE AND HONOR OF BEING APPOINTED TO SERVE AS AN AP AT SUMMIT HIGH SCHOOL.

I'VE TRULY FELT THE SUMMIT.

LOVE THE MANSFIELD LOVE.

I WANT TO THANK YOU AND ALSO THANK MY PARENTS, JAY AND DENISE JONES, WHO WERE ABLE TO MAKE IT TONIGHT.

SO THAT'S REALLY AWESOME FOR THEIR SUPPORT.

I LOOK FORWARD TO THIS UPCOMING YEAR.

I BELIEVE WE WILL ALL BE STRONGER TOGETHER AND I LOOK FORWARD TO MY PART IN THAT.

THANK YOU. NEXT, WE HAVE DR.

MICHELLE LEVERETT.

SHE'S AN ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AT EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL, AND SHE HAS PREVIOUSLY SERVED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON AS A PROGRAM CO-COORDINATOR.

AND PROFESSOR, I UNDERSTAND.

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CANTU, ALL THE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS AND THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR THIS OPPORTUNITY AND YOUR TRUST IN ME TO SERVE THE CAMPUS AT EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL AT TIMBERVIEW.

I AM SO EXCITED TO CONTINUE THE WORK THAT THEY'RE ALREADY DOING AND TO SUPPORT THEM IN WHATEVER WAY THEY NEED TO TO BE AS JUST AS SUCCESSFUL AND OR MORE SUCCESSFUL IN THE NEXT FOLLOWING YEAR. I WANT TO THANK THEM FOR COMING TODAY.

THANK YOU. FAMILY AND MY FAMILY RIGHT HERE.

THANK YOU FOR FOR SUPPORTING ME IN ALL THE DIFFERENT ENDEAVORS THAT I HAVE.

AND I AM VERY GRATEFUL THAT YOU HAVE GIVEN ME AN OPPORTUNITY TO JOIN THIS TEAM, BECAUSE EVERYTHING I'VE HEARD BEFORE I EVEN GOT HERE HAS BEEN SO EXCITING TO HEAR WHAT YOU'RE ALREADY DOING.

SO THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME BE A PART OF IT.

NEXT, WE HAVE DR. ELIZABETH THORNTON, AN ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AT JANET BROCKETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, AND SHE PREVIOUSLY SERVED OUR DISTRICT AS A FOURTH GRADE TEACHER AT DALTON.

GOOD EVENING. BOARD PRESIDENT WILSON, DR.

CANTU AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

AS A MANSFIELD ISD ALUMNI, I AM HONORED TO BE NAMED ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AT JANET BROCKETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND EXCITED TO GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY THAT I WAS RAISED IN.

TONIGHT I HAVE BROUGHT WITH ME MY SUPPORTIVE PARENTS, MY HUSBAND AND SOME OF THE VILLAGE OF EDUCATORS AND MENTORS WHO HAVE SUPPORTED ME THROUGHOUT MY CAREER.

THANK YOU. NEXT, WE HAVE JANET WEBSTER, ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AT MCKINSEY, COMING TO US FROM DUNCANVILLE ISD, WHERE SHE SERVED AS A TEACHER SPECIALIST.

GOOD EVENING. BOARD PRESIDENT WILSON, SUPERINTENDENT DR.

CANTU AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

I JANET WEBSTER AND I'M HONORED TO SERVE THE AMAZING SCHOLARS OF CHARLENE MCKENZIE MIDDLE SCHOOL.

I FULLY ACCEPT THE CHARGE TO BE SUPPORTABLE AND INSTRUCTIONAL LEADER.

THAT'S AN ADVOCATE FOR STUDENTS FIRST.

AND I AM SO PLEASED AND GRATEFUL FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY.

THANK YOU FOR THIS. YES, AND IT'S ALWAYS A GREAT DAY TO BE A LION.

THANK YOU. NEXT, I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE ANDREA WILLIAMS, THE NEW ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AT JUDY MILLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, AND SHE PREVIOUSLY SERVED US AS AN ESL TEACHER AT DALTON.

GOOD EVENING. BOARD PRESIDENT WILSON, DR.

CANTU AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

I'M BLESSED AND HONORED TO BE NAMED THE ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AT JUDY MILLER ELEMENTARY, WHERE I WILL ASSIST SPREADING THAT MUSTANG MAGIC.

TONIGHT I HAVE MY HUSBAND, PARENTS AND A NUMBER OF FRIENDS AND COWORKERS AND MENTORS WHO ARE WITH ME PHYSICALLY AND ONLINE AS WELL.

THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THIS INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY AND I AM PLEASED TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONTINUE MY CAREER IN MISD AS AN ADMINISTRATOR.

THANK YOU. NEXT, WE HAVE KATIE WOODFIELD, OUR NEW COORDINATOR OF PARDON ME. OUR NEW COORDINATOR OF HEALTH SERVICES.

AND PREVIOUSLY SHE SERVED US AS A REGISTERED NURSE.

GOOD EVENING. BOARD PRESIDENT WILSON, DR.

CANTU AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

I'M HONORED AND EXCITED TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE AS THE COORDINATOR OF HEALTH SERVICES.

I LOOK FORWARD TO BEING ABLE TO SERVE OUR STAFF, STUDENTS AND FAMILIES IN THIS ROLE.

SUPPORTING ME HERE TONIGHT IS MY HUSBAND, BRIAN, MY SON NATHAN, AND MY DAUGHTER ELLA, AND MY WONDERFUL DIRECTOR, MARGARET.

THANK YOU.

YEAH.

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OKAY. WE'VE GIVEN EVERYBODY A CHANCE TO STAY AROUND FOR SOME MORE FUN, BUT THEY CHOSE OTHERWISE.

SO WE WILL MOVE ON IN OUR AGENDA.

WE WILL NOW MOVE TO ITEM 8.1, THE 2023 STAR DATA INFORMATION.

[8. Instructional Focus]

I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE ASSOCIATE SUPERINTENDENT FOR CURRICULUM INSTRUCTION AND ACCOUNTABILITY, JENNIFER YOUNG FORWARD TO SHARE WITH US OUR FIRST LOOK AT OUR 2023 STAR DATA. MS.. YOUNG.

OKAY. THANK YOU, DR.

CANTU. BOARD MEMBERS, I'M EXCITED TONIGHT TO SHARE WITH YOU OUR STAR DATA FROM 2023.

IF YOU'LL REMEMBER LAST MONTH I WAS HERE TALKING ABOUT OUR EOC SCORES AND AP SCORES.

AND JUST A REMINDER, WE TYPICALLY DO ALL OF THESE REPORTS THE SAME NIGHT, BUT SINCE WE HAD THE NEW TEST AND THE NEW ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM, WE'VE BEEN DELAYED IN GETTING THE SCORES. SO LAST MONTH YOU HEARD ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL.

AND SO TONIGHT WE WILL FOCUS ON GRADES THREE THROUGH EIGHT.

JUST AS A REMINDER TO YOU ALSO, SINCE IT IS A NEW TEST AND A NEW ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM, OUR DISTRICT AND CAMPUS RATINGS WILL NOT COME OUT UNTIL THE END OF SEPTEMBER.

WE FOUND OUT THAT THEY'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO BE RELEASED SEPTEMBER 26TH, WHICH HAPPENS TO BE A BOARD MEETING NIGHT.

AND SO WE DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE GOING TO GET THEM AT EIGHT IN THE MORNING OR THREE IN THE AFTERNOON, BUT WE WILL BE ABLE TO GIVE YOU THAT INFORMATION ON SEPTEMBER 26TH.

THOSE RATINGS WILL NOT BE RELEASED PUBLICLY UNTIL SEPTEMBER 28TH, BUT WE'LL BE ABLE TO BRING YOU THAT INFORMATION ON THE 26TH.

AND SO I WANT TO START OUR PRESENTATION BY JUST REMINDING YOU THAT EVERYTHING WE DO IS GROUNDED AND ROOTED IN VISION 2030 AND HELPING ENSURE THAT OUR KIDS EARN AND COMPLETE THOSE GUIDING STATEMENTS OF READING ON LEVEL BEING MATH ON OR ABOVE LEVEL AND BEING LIVE AND COLLEGE OR CAREER READY.

AND SO EVERYTHING WE DO IN OUR CNI DEPARTMENT IS ROOTED IN MAKING SURE THAT THOSE GUIDING STATEMENTS ARE A REALITY.

AND WE DO THAT BY REALLY FOCUSING ON OUR CURRICULUM.

JUST AS A REMINDER, WE WRITE OUR CURRICULUM.

WE DON'T PURCHASE CURRICULUM.

WE ALSO CALIBRATE THAT CURRICULUM.

AND I'VE TALKED TO YOU RECENTLY ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT OUR CURRICULUM IS CALIBRATED AND ALIGNED SO THAT THE WRITTEN, TAUGHT AND TESTED CURRICULUM MATCH UP.

ALSO, OUR CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT MODEL, WE USE THE CADENCE OF ACCOUNTABILITY AND THEN COLLABORATION, WHICH IS OUR LAST CORE PROCESS.

WE BELIEVE THAT THROUGH THE PLC PROCESS WE CAN ENSURE MORE GOOD TEACHING AND MORE CLASSROOMS MORE OF THE TIME SO THAT ALL KIDS LEARN AT HIGH LEVELS.

AND SO TONIGHT, BEFORE WE GET INTO THE NUMBERS AND THE DATA, I WANT TO JUST TAKE YOU BACK A LITTLE WHILE TO TALK ABOUT JUST WHAT CHANGED WITH THE TEST.

NOW, LAST MONTH I TALKED TO YOU ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL AND THE CHANGES AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL WEREN'T REALLY AS SIGNIFICANT AS THEY WERE IN GRADES THREE THROUGH EIGHT.

SO I JUST WANT TO TAKE A QUICK MINUTE TO JUST TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW THE TEST ITSELF WAS CHANGED.

AND SO AS A REMINDER, THIS YEAR IT WAS A STATE REQUIREMENT THAT THE TESTS WERE ONLINE.

WE KNEW THIS WAS COMING.

AND SO LAST YEAR WE ACTUALLY TESTED ALL OF OUR STUDENTS ONLINE.

SO THIS WAS THEIR SECOND YEAR TO TEST ONLINE.

THE MORE SIGNIFICANT CHANGES FOR US WERE THE NEXT THREE THINGS.

SO THERE ARE NEW ITEM TYPES ON THE TEST.

I'VE SHARED THOSE WITH YOU PREVIOUSLY, BUT JUST AS A REMINDER, ONLY 75% OF THE TEST NOW IS MULTIPLE CHOICE.

AND SO THE REMAINING 25% OF THE TEST IS EVERYTHING.

I'M SORRY, MY PHONE'S RINGING.

SORRY ABOUT THAT.

THE REST OF THE TEST ARE THINGS THAT ARE LIKE GRID TABLES, DRAG AND DROP MULTI-SELECT WHERE THERE CAN BE TWO OR MORE ANSWERS AND A SHORT CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE, WHICH IS A SHORT WRITTEN RESPONSE, OR THE EXTENDED CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE, WHICH IS MORE OF AN ESSAY.

AND SO THE NEW ITEM TYPES, JUST BY THE NATURE INCREASE THE RIGOR OF THE TEST BECAUSE.

EVEN IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND YOU GUESS A, B, C, OR D, YOU'VE GOT A 25% CHANCE OF GETTING IT RIGHT.

AND SO KNOWING THAT THE TEST WAS GOING TO BE MORE RIGOROUS, WE BEGAN OVER A YEAR AGO PREPARING OUR STUDENTS TO RECOGNIZE AND BE ABLE

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THE NEXT BIG CHANGE WAS CROSS-CURRICULAR PASSAGES.

SO ON THE READING LANGUAGE ARTS TEST, YOU'RE NO LONGER JUST READING A WORK OF FICTION OR NONFICTION.

YOU'RE READING TEXT FROM OTHER CONTENT AREAS.

SO FOR EXAMPLE, YOU'RE READING A SOCIAL STUDIES TEXT, A SCIENCE TEXT.

IT COULD BE FINE ARTS, IT COULD BE MATH.

SO YOU'RE READING CONTEXT OR CONTENT FROM OTHER CORE AREAS AND THEN APPLYING THAT TO THE READING PIECE.

AND THEN THE LAST THING IS EVIDENCE BASED WRITING.

AND SO YOU'RE WRITING A RESPONSE TO A READING SELECTION, AND YOU CAN THE RESPONSES CAN BE THREE DIFFERENT THINGS INFORMATIONAL, ARGUMENTATIVE OR CORRESPONDENCE. MS. SO THESE ARE PRETTY SIGNIFICANT CHANGES FOR OUR THIRD THROUGH EIGHTH GRADE STAR KIDDOS.

AND SO I SAY ALL OF THAT BECAUSE WHAT WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT TONIGHT TRULY NEEDS TO BE CONSIDERED BASELINE DATA AS A RULE.

WE ALWAYS SHARE WITH YOU COMPARATIVE DATA AND HISTORICAL DATA AND WE'RE GOING TO SHOW YOU THAT AGAIN TONIGHT.

WE'RE GOING TO LOOK PRE-PANDEMIC TO WHERE WE ARE TODAY.

WE'RE GOING TO COMPARE OURSELVES TO OTHER DISTRICTS, JUST LIKE WE DID IN THE EOC PRESENTATION.

BUT WE'RE REALLY NOT COMPARING APPLES TO APPLES THIS YEAR BECAUSE THE TEST IS SO DIFFERENT AND THE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM IS SO DIFFERENT.

SO ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE WE'RE SHARING WITH PRINCIPALS AND WITH OUR CURRICULUM COORDINATORS AND OUR DEPARTMENT OF INSTRUCTION IS THIS YEAR TRULY IS GOING TO SET THE BENCHMARK FOR WHERE WE NEED TO GO MOVING FORWARD.

SO I JUST WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT TONIGHT, EVEN THOUGH WE DO OUR NORMAL COMPARISONS, IT'S REALLY HARD FOR ME TO SAY, HEY, WE REALLY INCREASED FROM LAST YEAR BECAUSE IT'S REALLY TWO DIFFERENT TESTS.

AND SO WHAT I WANT TO DO IS JUST GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT OUR THIRD GRADERS HAD TO DO THIS YEAR ON THE STAR TEST.

OKAY. NOW, REMEMBER, THESE ARE THIRD GRADERS.

OKAY? SO THE FIRST THING THEY HAD TO DO WAS READ TWO ARTICLES REGARDING RECYCLING.

SO THIS IS READING ACROSS CONTENTS, RIGHT? AND SO THIS IS A SCIENCE TECH.

AND SO THEY HAD STUDIED RECYCLING IN THEIR SCIENCE CLASS.

SO THESE PASSAGES WEREN'T NEW INFORMATION.

ONE OF THE PASSAGES TALKED ABOUT HOW PEOPLE NEED TO RECYCLE BECAUSE IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO AND THEY SHOULD DO IT OUT OF THE GOODNESS OF THEIR HEART BECAUSE IT'S GOOD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. THE SECOND ARTICLE SAID, IF YOU WANT PEOPLE TO RECYCLE, YOU HAVE TO REWARD THEM.

AND SO IF YOU REWARD PEOPLE, THEY'LL RECYCLE.

SO A THIRD GRADER READ THESE TWO DIFFERENT PASSAGES AND THEN THE PROMPT SAID, EXPLAIN YOUR OPINION ABOUT WHY PEOPLE SHOULD OR SHOULD NOT BE REWARDED FOR CYCLING, FOR RECYCLING.

AND THEN IT SAID, WRITE A WELL-ORGANIZED, ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY THAT USES SPECIFIC EVIDENCE FROM THE SELECTIONS TO SUPPORT YOUR ANSWER.

NOW, SOMETHING THAT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE IS IN THIRD GRADE, THEY'RE EXPECTED TO READ A TEXT AND RESPOND.

BUT IN FOURTH GRADE, THEY'RE EXPECTED TO READ MULTIPLE TEXTS AND RESPOND.

SO OUR THIRD GRADERS HAVE BEEN READING A TEXT AND RESPONDING ALL YEAR ON THE TEST THEY WERE ASKED TO READ TO AND THEN MAKE AN ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY.

SO EVEN THOUGH THAT'S A FOURTH GRADE TAKE, OUR KIDS WERE TESTED ON IT AT THIRD GRADE.

AND I'M NOT GOING TO LIE.

WHEN I LOOKED AT THE WRITING PORTION OF THE TEST AND STARTED LOOKING AT THE SCORES, LIKE I FREAKED OUT A LITTLE BIT AND HAD TO BE CALMED DOWN.

BUT. THAT QUESTION WAS WORTH TEN POINTS.

37% OF OUR THIRD GRADERS GOT ZERO POINTS ON THAT.

SO OF COURSE I WAS LIKE, WE'RE ALL GETTING FIRED.

THIS ISN'T GOOD.

AND SO I DID SOME RESEARCH.

AND ACROSS THE STATE, 42% OF THIRD GRADERS GOT ZERO POINTS.

AND SO WE WENT THROUGH AND STARTED LOOKING AT INDIVIDUAL STUDENT ESSAYS.

OUR KIDS HAD GOT ZERO POINTS, WERE WRITING A GREAT ESSAY IN RESPONSE ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF RECYCLING, BUT THEY DIDN'T USE EVIDENCE FROM BOTH OF THE PASSAGES.

AND SO WHAT'S REALLY FRUSTRATING IS WE'VE GOT A NEW TEST.

WE KNOW IT'S GOING TO BE HARDER.

AND THESE THIRD GRADERS WERE BEING TESTED AT SOMETHING THAT'S A FOURTH GRADE TEAK.

AND SO I GIVE YOU THAT EXAMPLE JUST AS A REMINDER THAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE SOME SCORES UP HERE THAT YOU NEED TO BE VERY PROUD OF BECAUSE WE SHOWED GROWTH AND MADE GAINS PRETTY MUCH ACROSS THE BOARD AND OUR COMPARATIVE DATA LOOKS GREAT.

BUT OUR KIDS WERE ASKED TO DO A LOT AND WE DIDN'T REALLY WE WEREN'T REALLY ABLE TO PLAN WITH WHAT THE END GAME REALLY LOOKED LIKE. AND SO THERE WERE A LOT OF SURPRISES ON THE TEST.

BUT I JUST WANTED YOU TO SEE THAT ONE EXAMPLE.

ANOTHER THING TO KEEP IN MIND, IN THIRD GRADE, THIS IS AN ONLINE TEST.

SO THEY'RE HAVING TO TYPE THEIR ANSWERS.

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A THIRD GRADE TEAK FOR TECH APPS IS ACTUALLY LOOKING AT THE LETTERS, THE PUNCTUATION AND THE NUMBERS.

AND SO WHILE AS A THIRD GRADER, YOU'RE LEARNING THOSE THREE PIECES OF KEYBOARDING, YOU'RE ASKED TO READ TWO PASSAGES AND WRITE AN ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY, TYPE IT OUT ON THE COMPUTER.

SO THAT WAS VERY HIGH LEVEL QUESTION.

SO I JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU THAT AS AN EXAMPLE IN TERMS OF WHAT THE REDESIGN ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE.

OKAY. SO NOW LET'S LOOK AT OUR DATA.

AND AGAIN, THIS IS GOING TO LOOK VERY SIMILAR TO THE EOC DATA REPORT THAT WE DID LAST MONTH.

SO WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT HERE IS READING.

AND SO THIS IS GRADES THREE THROUGH EIGHT.

THE BLUE LINE IS THE APPROACHES OR KIDS THAT PASSED THE BLACK LINE IS THE KIDS AT MEETS AND THE GRAY IS AT MASTERS.

AND SO YOU CAN SEE THIS IS JUST MANSFIELD ISD DATA.

SO YOU CAN SEE ALL THE APPROACHES ABOVE 80 AND ALL THE MEETS AT 55 I THINK IS THE LOWEST MEET AND HIGHER.

AND SO YOU CAN SEE THAT IS OUR AGAIN, BASELINE DATA FOR THE STAR REDESIGN FOR READING.

THE NEXT SLIDE IS SET UP THE SAME WAY, BUT THIS IS LOOKING AT MATH GRADES THREE THROUGH EIGHT AND YOU CAN SEE AGAIN APPROACHES MEETS AND MASTERS.

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU'LL NOTICE ACROSS THE BOARD AS YOU'RE LOOKING AT OUR DATA IS STATEWIDE.

THERE WAS A DIP IN MEETS AND MASTERS.

IN ANY TIME YOU INCREASE THE RIGOR OF AN EXAM, STUDENTS MAY PASS IT, BUT MAY NOT PASS IT AT THE HIGHER LEVEL BECAUSE THE RIGOR HAS INCREASED.

AND SO STATEWIDE THERE HAS BEEN A DROP IN THE MEETS AND THE MASTERS.

AND SO AGAIN, THIS IS THE DATA JUST FOR MANSFIELD ISD IN TERMS OF MATH GRADES THREE THROUGH EIGHT.

OKAY. SO NOW LET'S LOOK AT SOME HISTORICAL DATA.

AND AGAIN, WE'RE NOT NECESSARILY COMPARING APPLES TO APPLES, BUT THIS BAR RIGHT HERE LOOKS AT READING GRADES THREE THROUGH EIGHT, BUT IT'S LOOKING AT PAST YEARS.

AND SO WE START WITH 2019, THE BLUE BAR, WHICH IS PRE PANDEMIC AND THEN GOES ALL THE WAY UP TO CURRENT WHICH IS IN THE LITTLE YELLOW IS YELLOW ORANGE BAR.

AND SO YOU SEE THIRD GRADE, WE TOOK A LITTLE DIP FROM LAST YEAR, BUT WE'RE ALMOST RIGHT AT PRE-PANDEMIC LEVELS, FOURTH GRADE, A LITTLE DIP, FIFTH GRADE.

WE JUMPED UP A LITTLE BIT.

SIXTH, WE SAW A HUGE INCREASE AND SEVENTH WE HAD A LITTLE DIP.

AND THEN EIGHTH WE HAD AN INCREASE.

AGAIN, THE PERCENTAGES I'M SHOWING YOU HERE ARE AT THE MEETS LEVEL.

SO JUST A REMINDER, A LOT MORE STUDENTS PASS THAN THAT.

THIS IS JUST AT MEETS.

AND SO YOU CAN SEE AGAIN, WE HAVE SOME GAINS, SOME WHERE WE STAYED PRETTY STEADY.

BUT THAT IS OUR READING HISTORICAL DATA.

NOW, IF YOU'LL LOOK HERE, WE'RE GOING TO COMPARE READING TO THE STATE AND THE REGION.

SO BLUE IS MANSFIELD AGAIN.

THIS IS ALL IT MEETS.

AND THEN BLACK IS REGION 11 AND GRAY IS THE STATE.

AND YOU CAN SEE IN READING GRADES THREE THROUGH EIGHT, WE OUTPERFORM THE REGION AND THE STATE.

AND YOU CAN SEE IN SOME AREAS LIKE EIGHTH GRADE, WE ARE SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER.

BUT YOU CAN SEE THAT WE'RE HIGHER ACROSS THE BOARD IN ALL GRADE LEVELS THERE.

OKAY. SO NOW LET'S LOOK AT THE SAME TWO SETS OF DATA.

FOR MATH.

THIS, AGAIN, IS THE HISTORICAL DATA FOR GRADES THREE THROUGH EIGHT.

THE BLUE WAS PRE-PANDEMIC AND THEN THE NEXT THREE YEARS WITH CURRENT YEAR IN YELLOW ORANGE.

AND YOU KNOW, FROM PREVIOUS YEARS, MATH WAS HIT PRETTY HARD BY THE PANDEMIC.

AND SO WE HAD MAJOR DROPS AFTER THE PANDEMIC.

BUT YOU CAN SEE WE'RE STARTING TO MAKE SIGNIFICANT GAINS.

AND YOU CAN SEE THAT WE INCREASED IN EVERY AREA EXCEPT SIXTH GRADE WHERE WE STAYED EXACTLY THE SAME.

BUT YOU CAN SEE A PRETTY BIG SIGNIFICANT GROWTH IN SEVENTH GRADE AND IN EIGHTH GRADE MATH THERE.

SO NOW LET'S COMPARE HOW WE DID TO THE STATE AND THE REGION IN MATH.

SO AGAIN, MANSFIELD IS IN BLUE, THE REGION IS IN BLACK AND THE STATE IS IN GRAY.

ONCE AGAIN, WE OUTPERFORM THE REGION AND THE STATE IN ALL GRADE LEVELS THERE FOR MATH.

SO NOW LET'S LOOK AT SOCIAL STUDIES AND SCIENCE.

SO IN SOCIAL STUDIES, IN GRADES THREE THROUGH EIGHT, THE ONLY TEST WE TAKE IS EIGHTH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES.

AND SO YOU CAN SEE PRE PANDEMIC AND THEN CURRENT PERFORMANCE.

SO WE'RE TRENDING BACK UPWARDS IN SOCIAL STUDIES.

IN SCIENCE, WE HAVE A FIFTH GRADE TEST AND AN EIGHTH GRADE TEST.

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AND THEN THIS SHOWS HOW WE COMPARE TO THE STATE AND REGION IN SCIENCE AND SOCIAL STUDIES.

SO THE FIRST TWO ARE SCIENCE.

AND THEN THE LAST ONE IS SOCIAL STUDIES.

AGAIN, WE OUTPERFORM THE STATE AND THE REGION ON ALL THREE OF THOSE TESTS.

SO NOW I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU OUR COMPARISON DATA.

THE GREEN IS GOOD DATA.

JUST AS A REMINDER, WE HAVE TWO DIFFERENT SETS OF COMPARISON DATA FOR YOU JUST THE LOCAL AREA DISTRICTS THAT WE TYPICALLY COMPARE OURSELVES TO, AND THEN THE NEW SET OF DISTRICTS THAT WE'RE COMPARING OURSELVES TO BASED ON THEIR SIZE AND THEIR ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGED GROUP. SO HERE YOU CAN SEE THE REGIONAL COMPARISON, AND THIS IS GRADE THREE AND YOU CAN SEE GRADES THREE, READING AND MATH.

AGAIN, EVERYTHING THAT'S GREEN MEANS THAT WE OUTPERFORMED THOSE DISTRICTS.

AND SO YOU CAN SEE LOTS OF GREEN ON THAT THIRD GRADE SLIDE.

HERE IS FOURTH GRADE AGAIN, READING AND MATH.

WHEN WE GET TO FIFTH GRADE, YOU SEE READING MATH AND SCIENCE.

AND SO YOU SEE IN FIFTH GRADE WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE WHITE ON THE SLIDES THAN SOME OF THE OTHER GRADE LEVELS.

SIXTH GRADE.

READING AND MATH.

AGAIN, A LOT OF GREEN THERE.

SEVENTH GRADE.

IF YOU'LL NOTICE, WE HAVE A TON OF GREEN ON MATH, A LOT OF GREEN ON READING.

BUT AGAIN, WE REALLY SAW A LOT OF GROWTH THIS YEAR ON SEVENTH GRADE MATH.

AND THEN EIGHTH GRADE, WE'VE GOT THESE FOUR DIFFERENT TESTS HERE.

WE'VE GOT READING, MATH, SCIENCE AND SOCIAL STUDIES.

SO A LOT OF GREEN ON READING, A LOT OF GREEN ON SCIENCE AND SOCIAL STUDIES.

I WANT TO POINT OUT THAT EIGHTH GRADE MATH IS KIND OF AN ANOMALY FOR US JUST BECAUSE THE WAY WE'RE SET UP AND HOW WE TEST OUR EIGHTH GRADERS, HURST-EULESS-BEDFORD KELLER, MIDLOTHIAN, ANY OF THEIR SEVENTH GRADERS THAT ARE TAKING ADVANCED MATH, THEY TAKE THE EIGHTH GRADE MATH STAAR TEST.

AND SO WE DO NOT HAVE SEVENTH GRADERS TAKING THE EIGHTH GRADE STAAR.

SO THE ONLY STUDENTS TAKING THE EIGHTH GRADE STAAR FOR US OR ARE ON GRADE LEVEL.

EIGHTH GRADERS, OUR ADVANCED EIGHTH GRADERS ARE TAKING ALGEBRA ONE.

AND SO YOU'LL SEE THOSE DISCREPANCIES IN AGAIN, THOSE DISTRICTS, THEIR SEVENTH GRADERS, THEIR ADVANCED SEVENTH GRADERS TAKE EIGHTH GRADE MATH.

SO THOSE ARE OUR NORMAL COMPARISON GROUPS.

AND NOW HERE'S OUR NEW COMPARISON GROUPS THAT WE STARTED USING THIS YEAR.

YOU CAN SEE ALVIN DENTON, LAMAR MIDLAND, PFLUGERVILLE, AND THEN ALSO THE STATE AND THE REGION ARE ON THERE.

AND SO THIRD GRADE READING AND MATH, YOU CAN SEE WE COMPARE VERY FAVORABLY WITH OUR LIKE DISTRICTS.

SAME THING IN FOURTH GRADE.

FIFTH GRADE.

AND THEN YOU'VE GOT SIXTH GRADE AND YOU CAN SEE SIXTH GRADE MATH COMPARED VERY FAVORABLY TO ALL OF THOSE DISTRICTS.

AND THEN LASTLY, WE HAVE SEVENTH GRADE READING AND MATH AND THEN EIGHTH GRADE, ALL FOUR TESTS LISTED.

AGAIN, YOU CAN SEE IN THE EIGHTH GRADE MATH CATEGORY, A BIG DIFFERENCE IS AT THE MASTERS LEVEL.

AND SO IT MAKES SENSE THAT THE ADVANCED KIDS ARE PERFORMING HIGHER ON THOSE MASTERS LEVEL THAN ON GRADE LEVEL.

AND SO YOU CAN SEE THAT OUR COMPARISON DATA, THE GREEN IS GOOD, IT'S SHOWING LOTS OF POSITIVE RESULTS.

AND AGAIN, IN A YEAR WHERE IT'S HARD TO COMPARE WHAT WE DID THIS YEAR TO LAST YEAR, WE CAN AT LEAST COMPARE OURSELVES WITH HOW EVERYONE ELSE DID ON THIS SAME TEST. AND SO AGAIN, THE CHALLENGE FOR US AND THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION ISN'T, WELL, WHAT HAPPENED OR WHAT DID YOU DO? BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS WHAT'S NEXT? AND SO AS A CURRICULUM DEPARTMENT, WE'VE ALREADY ANALYZED EACH ONE OF THE TESTS.

WE'VE LOOKED AT WHERE WE'RE WHERE WE HAVE STRENGTHS DISTRICT WIDE, WHERE WE'RE STRUGGLING DISTRICT WIDE.

WE LOOK AND SEE IF A DISTRICT HAS AN AREA OF STRENGTH, BUT A PARTICULAR CAMPUS IS STRUGGLING.

WE KNOW HOW TO SUPPORT THOSE CAMPUSES AND WE'RE ALSO USING THIS TO EVALUATE OUR CURRICULUM.

SO THE GREAT THING IS, AS YOU GUYS WILL REMEMBER, WE ARE HAVING A CURRICULUM AUDIT IN OCTOBER.

AND SO NOW THAT THE NEW TEST IS OUT AND THIS IS GOING TO BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE SURE WHAT WE'RE TEACHING IS ALIGNED TO WHAT'S

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AND SO WE'LL CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON OUR CORE PROCESSES OF MAKING SURE OUR CURRICULUM IS ALIGNED AND CONSTANTLY CALIBRATING THE CURRICULUM WITH THE WORK, USING OUR CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT PROCESS, WITH THE CADENCE OF ACCOUNTABILITY AND REALLY USING THAT PLC PROCESS TO ENSURE HIGH LEVELS OF LEARNING FOR ALL KIDS.

AND SO WITH THAT, I'LL OPEN IT UP FOR ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE.

OKAY, THANK YOU. TRUSTEES WILL START TO MY RIGHT.

MR. TIPPING. THANK YOU, MISS CHUNG, FOR THE PRESENTATION.

JUST ONE QUESTION TO START WITH.

SO YOU KNOW THE EXAMPLE THAT YOU GAVE US OF THE THIRD GRADE, BUT IT WAS AT A FOURTH GRADE TEACHER LEVEL AND SO FORTH.

WAS THERE A LOT OF EXAMPLES OF THAT? I MEAN, WAS THAT VERY COMMON THAT WE'RE SEEING? I WILL TELL YOU THAT WE'RE SEEING MORE OF THAT IN TERMS OF THE WRITING PIECE, BECAUSE WRITING SCAFFOLDS SO MUCH ON TOP OF EACH OTHER IN THIRD GRADE, FOR EXAMPLE, OR IN SECOND GRADE, THEY'RE ASKED TO WRITE A BRIEF COMMENT.

AND THEN IN THIRD GRADE, THEY'RE ASKED TO WRITE A RESPONSE.

AND THEN IN FOURTH GRADE, THEY WRITE RESPONSES ACROSS MULTIPLE TEXTS.

AND SO IT JUST LAYERS ON TOP OF EACH OTHER.

AND SO SOMETIMES WE'RE SEEING WITH OUR READING TESTS THAT KIDS ARE WRITING BEAUTIFUL RESPONSES, BUT THEY'RE NOT MATCHING TO THAT LEVEL.

IN TERMS OF MATH, WE CAN SEE A LITTLE BIT OF IT, BUT NOT AS MUCH AS WHAT WE'VE SEEN WITH THE WRITING PORTION.

OKAY. AND AGAIN, WITH WITH THE STATE IT BEING A NEW TEST AND MAKING SURE THE TEACHERS ARE ALIGNED TO THE TEST.

I THINK, AGAIN, ANY TIME YOU DO SOMETHING FOR THE FIRST TIME, YOU HAVE TO LEARN AND IMPROVE.

AND I THINK THE STATE HAS HAD A LOT OF FEEDBACK FROM PEOPLE LIKE US ABOUT ABOUT THIS ISSUE.

AND SO I'M SURE THAT THAT WILL GET ADDRESSED.

WELL, THAT WAS GOING TO BE MY FOLLOW UP, IS, YOU KNOW, IF THE TEACHERS AREN'T ALIGNING WITH WHAT THE STAAR TEST WAS, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE THE EXPECTATIONS MOVING FORWARD? IS IT FOR THE TEACHERS TO CHANGE, FOR THE STAR TEST TO CHANGE, FOR US TO HAVE TO ADAPT TO THAT? OR OR WHAT EXACTLY DO WE KNOW? YEAH. AND I THINK IT'S JUST IT'S TO DID THE TEST AND NOW THEY'RE GOING TO EVALUATE.

THEY DO THE SAME THING WE DO THEY IF 42% OF THE KIDS STATEWIDE ARE GETTING A ZERO ON A WRITING PIECE, THERE'S OBVIOUSLY A PROBLEM.

AND USUALLY IF I'M A TEACHER AND I'M GIVING A TEST AND 42% OF MY KIDS FAIL, THAT'S A ME ISSUE, NOT A KID ISSUE.

AND SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S JUST THE THE PROCESS OF JUST ADAPTING AND ADJUSTING AND REVISING.

AND AGAIN, ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE MEETING WITH PRINCIPALS TOMORROW AND ONE OF THE THINGS I WAS SHARING WITH MY TEAM YESTERDAY IS WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE WE DON'T HAVE KNEE JERK REACTIONS. AND IF WE WERE TO JUST LOOK AND SAY 37% OF OUR KIDS GOT A ZERO, WE'VE GOT TO REDO EVERYTHING WE'VE TAUGHT THEM ABOUT WRITING AND TOTALLY CHANGED COURSE THAT THAT'S NOT SMART.

AND SO WE'VE GOT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE WE'RE DOING AN ACCURATE ANALYSIS OF OUR PROCESSES AND PROCEDURES AND CURRICULUM AND MAKE THE ADJUSTMENTS NECESSARY WHEN NEEDED AND STAY THE COURSE WHERE WE KNOW WE'RE DOING THE RIGHT WORK.

AND I WANTED TO SAY, YOU KNOW, TYPICALLY IN THE PAST, WHEN WE WAY BACK IN THE DAY WHEN I WAS IN THE CLASSROOM WENT FROM, YOU KNOW, TOSS TO TAX AND THEN FROM TAX TO STAR.

RIGHT. THE STATE OF TEXAS HAS ALWAYS GIVEN THAT GRACE.

HEREAFTER SO THEY COULD WORK OUT THESE KINKS.

AS FAR AS WITH HANDING OUT RATINGS.

IT'S STILL CALLED THE STAR, BUT IT IS STILL A SIGNIFICANT OVERHAUL OF THE TEST.

AND SO RATINGS ARE STILL COMING OUT.

BUT AGAIN, BACK TO WHAT MS..

CHUNG SAID, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF FEEDBACK THAT'S BEEN GIVEN.

AND SO WE'LL WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS FROM THIS POINT.

OKAY. ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THE SIDE? OKAY. HE ASKED MY QUESTION.

OKAY. MISS NEWSOM.

OKAY. I DIDN'T REALLY HAVE A QUESTION, BUT I WANTED TO SEE IF YOU HAD ANYTHING TO ADD.

HAVING THE PRIVILEGE AND THE ABILITY TO CONSTRUCT OUR OWN OR WRITE OUR OWN CURRICULA, IT'S REALLY BENEFICIAL FOR MISD.

AND KNOWING, AS DR.

CANTU JUST STATED, WHEN WHEN YOU MAKE THOSE TRANSITIONS, A LOT OF TIMES WHEN WE ARE DEVELOPING THOSE CURRICULA, WHAT WE'RE DOING IS MEASURING OR KIND OF CALIBRATING THOSE EXPECTATIONS, BUT HAVING THIS KNOWLEDGE THAT IT WAS 42% MEANS THAT I KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD, BUT IT ALSO MEANS THAT YOU'RE ALREADY PREPARING FOR OUR TEACHERS TO BE WELL EQUIPPED TO ADMINISTER TEST ASSIGNMENTS SKILLS. THE PLCS WILL REFLECT THAT.

SO IF YOU WANT TO SPEAK TO THAT, THAT WOULD BE PRIOR TO OUR MEETING TONIGHT.

I WAS LOOKING WITH DR.

SWEASY. OUR LR TEAM WENT THROUGH AND PULLED STUDENT RESPONSES AND THEY WERE LIKE, WE TEACH THIS, I THINK IT'S CALLED THE RACE METHOD.

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AND SO MAKING SURE THAT, HEY, WE KNOW THAT IF THEY FOLLOW THIS METHOD, THEY'RE GOING TO GET THE THE SCORE NEEDED.

AND SO WE KNOW THAT THAT METHOD WORKS AND WHERE IT WAS USED, IT WAS SUCCESSFUL.

AND SO JUST DRILLING DOWN TO THAT STUDENT LEVEL OF WORK AND BEING ABLE TO LOOK AT THAT AND SAY, HEY, THIS IS AN INSTRUCTION, AN INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGY THAT WORKS.

WE'VE GOT TO KEEP IT AND WE'VE GOT TO KEEP, YOU KNOW, IMPLEMENTING IT AND REFINING IT.

AND THEN WHERE IT WASN'T USED, HOW DO WE ENSURE THAT THE TEACHERS ARE USING THESE METHODS THAT WE KNOW WORK? AND SO BEING ABLE TO DRILL DOWN AND LOOK AT THE ACTUAL STUDENT WORK IS IS VERY HELPFUL.

ANYTHING ELSE? OKAY.

I THINK YOU'VE HAD SOME GOOD QUESTIONS AND WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION AND KEEPING UP WITH ALL OUR KIDS.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. SO NOW IT TAKES US TO ITEM 9.1.

[9. Presentation]

I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE MICHELLE TRONGAARD FORWARD TO DO A PRESENTATION RELATED TO THE 2023 TAX RATE.

THANK YOU. DR. CANTU, PRESIDENT LECKY WILSON AND ESTEEMED BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

LET ME GO TO THE.

THE PRESENTATION.

NO. WHEW.

OKAY. TRYING TO EXPLAIN THIS VERBALLY IS VERY HARD.

SO I WANTED TO DO SOME KIND OF PRESENTATION HERE.

SO AS PART OF OUR OUR BUDGET ADOPTION.

AND THEN WE HAD THE SECOND THING IS OUR TAX RATE, TAX RATE, ADOPTION.

SO WE'VE DONE ALL OF THESE THINGS AS PART OF THE BUDGET PROCESS, THOUGH.

IT STARTS RIGHT THERE.

IT STARTS WITH THE BUDGET AND WE ESTIMATE HOW MUCH THE TAX, HOW MUCH THE PROPERTY VALUES ARE GOING TO BE.

AND IF YOU ALL RECALL, IT WAS 9% AT THE TIME.

AND THEN WE GET THE CERTIFIED VALUES, WE TAKE A LOOK AND WE GO, OKAY, WHAT'S GOING TO CHANGE FROM THIS POINT GOING FORWARD? HOW ARE WE GOING TO GET FROM THERE TO BY THE TIME WE ADOPT OUR BUDGET AND THEN ADOPTING A TAX RATE, KNOWING THAT WHAT'S ABOUT TO HAPPEN IN LEGISLATIVE SESSION.

SO WE'VE GOT OUR HOMESTEAD EXEMPTIONS COMING UP.

WE KNEW THAT POSSIBLY A NEW APPRAISAL CAP WAS COMING ON, SO WE ADOPTED OUR BUDGET HERE.

WE DID A PUBLIC WELL ADOPTED BUDGET.

WE DID A NOTICE THAT WAS DONE AS WELL.

JULY 25TH IS WHAT THE CERTIFIED VALUES COMING FROM OUR APPRAISAL DISTRICTS.

WE HAVE JOHNSON COUNTY AND TARRANT COUNTY.

BOTH OF THOSE CAME IN AND THEY GAVE US TWO CERTIFIED VALUES.

THEY GAVE US $100,000 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION AND A AND A $40,000 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION.

AND I'LL GO THROUGH THAT, WHAT WE USE FOR THAT.

AND THEN BY THAT TIME WE COME TO TONIGHT TO ADOPT THE TAX RATE.

SO FOR THE PROCESS BEHIND THE SCENES, WE ALSO HAVE THE SITUATION WHERE WE HAVE OUR CALCULATIONS WITH TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY THAT WE CALCULATE OUR MAXIMUM COMPRESSED TAX RATE.

SO BY BETWEEN THE TIME WE RECEIVE OUR CERTIFIED VALUES AND BY AUGUST 5TH, WE RECEIVED OUR MAXIMUM COMPRESSED TAX RATE. SO THAT'S YOUR FIRST LAYER.

THAT WAS THE VERY FIRST SIGN OF GOING FORWARD WITH AN ADOPTION OF A TAX RATE.

AND I'LL GO SHOW YOU THAT IN JUST A MINUTE.

AND THEN BY THE TIME WE HAVE TO DO IT BY SEPTEMBER 30TH OR 60 DAYS AFTER THE DAYS, THE CERTIFIED VALUES ARE RECEIVED.

SO WE ARE IN THAT TIMELINE HERE.

WE SEE THAT THE TWO VALUES FOR THE $40,000 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION SHOWS A WHOPPING 19.15% INCREASE FROM LAST YEAR.

OKAY. WHEN WE DID OUR MAXIMUM COMPRESSED TAX RATE WITH TIA, WE USE THE 40,000 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION.

SO WHAT DOES THAT MEAN TO A TAXPAYER? THEY GET THE BENEFIT OF IT.

SO IT'S A LOWER TAX RATE BECAUSE THE VALUES WERE HIGHER.

OKAY. SO THAT STARTS WITH A LOWER MAXIMUM COMPRESSED TAX RATE.

AND THAT IS ACTUALLY WE ARE AT THE FLOOR AND WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THAT IN A SECOND.

THE SECOND PART OF THE EQUATION WAS THE 100,000 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION, AND THAT'S BASED ON THE COLLECTIONS BECAUSE THEY'RE GOING FORWARD WITH SENDING OUT THE TAX STATEMENTS TO THE TAXPAYERS, ALL OF US AS TAXPAYERS.

THOSE ARE BASED ON THE 100,000 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION.

AND THEN AND BUT IT'S PENDING VOTER APPROVAL IN NOVEMBER.

OKAY. SO WE SAID 9% WAS THE BUDGET ESTIMATE, 8.4, 9%.

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AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED BEHIND THE SCENES AT TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY.

YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO SEE THE TINY NUMBERS, BUT THAT FIRST BLUE BLOCK IS THE CURRENT LAW THAT WE WERE IN AT THE END OF GOING INTO BUDGET.

THAT WAS THE MAXIMUM COMPRESSED TAX RATE.

AND THEN WE HAD OUR 88TH REGULAR SESSION.

IT LOWERED AGAIN, CALLED MAXIMUM COMPRESSED TAX RATE, LOWERED AGAIN INTO A NEW BOX WITH A CEILING AND A FLOOR.

AND THEN WE HAVE ONE MORE STEP THAT WILL BE ON THE BALLOT UNDER SENATE BILL TWO.

THAT WAS THE SPECIAL SESSION THAT LOWERED IT TO THAT GREEN BOX RIGHT THERE.

THEY HAVE THE CEILING IN THE FLOOR AND YOU CAN ONLY GO 90%.

THEY HAVE A 90% EQUITY BAND THAT'S BETWEEN THE CEILING AND THE FLOOR FOR ALL SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO FIT INTO THAT BOX WITH THE FIRST LAYER.

SO WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? IN SIMPLISTIC TERMS, THE AVERAGE STATE PROPERTY VALUES INCREASED FOR THE CONTROLLER WAS ESTIMATED AT 4.43%.

THIS IS WHAT DRIVES THE COMPRESSED TAX RATE.

THEY LOOK AT THE AVERAGE OVER THE STATE AND BECAUSE THE 4.43% FOR THE STATE WAS WAY LESS THAN THE 19.15% WE WENT THROUGH.

SO WE ARE AT THE .6192.

AND THERE'S THE GRAPH THAT DISPLAYS THAT.

ALL RIGHT. SO THE FIRST TIER IS OUR MAXIMUM COMPRESSED TAX RATE AT 0.6192.

THOSE ARE THOSE 17 PENNIES, ENRICHMENT PENNIES.

THAT WAS FROM THE VATRA 13 OF THOSE AT LEAST.

AND THEN THE INTEREST AND SINKING FUND TAX RATE AT $0.36, WHICH IS A TOTAL OF $1 1.1492, AND IT'S SHOWING AN 18.54 CENT DECREASE OVER PRIOR YEAR.

SO THAT WENT FROM $1.33 46 TO $1 1492 IS A PROPOSED TAX RATE FOR 2324.

AND YOU CAN SEE THE HISTORY RIGHT HERE OVER THE LAST, I THINK SIX YEARS, IT'S GONE DOWN AT LEAST $0.39.

SO WE'RE SITTING AT 1.1492.

THE BLUE PORTION OF THAT IS THE MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS SUPPORTING THE GENERAL FUND.

AND THE RED PORTION OF THAT IS OUR INTEREST IN SINKING FUND, THE SUPPORTS OUR BOND DEBT.

WE DO HAVE THREE MOTIONS TO MAKE BASED ON THE THE TAX CODE, SECTION 2605 AND ZERO FOUR.

AND THE FIRST MOTION IS THE NO NEW REVENUE RATE.

AND WE ARE AT 1.126549 BASED ON THE TRUTH AND TAXATION.

AND BUT THE PROPOSED TAX RATE, YOU'RE SAYING IS 1.1492.

WE GET A LOT OF QUESTIONS OR CONFUSION IS WHY ARE WE GOING ABOVE THE NO NEW REVENUE RATE? ONE, THERE'S TWO THERE'S A COUPLE REASONS.

NUMBER ONE, WE ARE NOT LIKE.

COUNTIES, MUNICIPALITIES.

WE'RE VERY, VERY DIFFERENTLY FUNDED.

SO IF WE WERE IN A WORLD WHERE PROPERTY VALUES AND TAX RATES WERE THE MAIN WAY WE DO OUR FUNDING, THAT WOULD BE THAT WOULD BE MORE IN LINE WITH HOW IT'S OPERATED.

BUT WE HAVE A LOT OF MECHANISMS SUCH AS ENROLLMENT AND THE WEIGHTED FUNDINGS AND THE WAY IT DOES THE TAX RATES OR THE TAX VALUES GO UP, THE STATE AID GOES UP.

THERE'S A LOT OF MOVING PARTS IN THERE THAT WE CAN'T DO ALL THE TIME IS JUST A NO NEW REVENUE RATE.

IT'S NOT THE SAME.

AND THEN THE SECOND PIECE WAS THE FLOOR THAT WE'RE ALREADY AT THE FLOOR.

WE'RE ALREADY AT THE VERY BOTTOM FROM THE MAXIMUM COMPRESSED TAX RATE.

SO REALLY, THAT'S IT? THAT'S ALL I HAVE ON MY TAX RATE PRESENTATION.

ANY QUESTIONS? THANK YOU.

THIS TIME, TRUSTEES, I'LL START TO MY LEFT.

DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? DR. REID, THANK YOU FOR EXPLAINING THAT TO TO ME WHERE I CAN UNDERSTAND IT.

YOU KNOW, I HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT MONEY, BUT BUT THANK YOU FOR EXPLAINING WHERE I THINK EVERYONE CAN UNDERSTAND AND THEN GIVING THE EXPLANATION ABOUT WHERE THE MONEYS ARE GOING. I APPRECIATE IT.

WE DON'T KNOW HOW YOU DO IT, BUT WE APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU DO.

THANK YOU. THIS FOR JUST A COUPLE QUESTIONS.

YOU AND I HAVE HAD SEVERAL CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE TAX RATE AND REALLY JUST TRYING TO HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF IT.

IF WE CAN GO BACK TO THE SECOND TO THE LAST OF THE THE SLIDE JUST BEFORE THIS AND JUST KIND OF REITERATE THE NO NEW REVENUE RATE IS 1.12.

SO WE'RE AT THE LOWEST WE'RE AT THE LOWEST PART IN THE I FORGET WHAT THE NUMBER IS.

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SO WE CANNOT GO ANY LOWER THAN THAT.

REALLY, WHAT DRIVES UP THAT NUMBER FROM THE 1.12 TO THE 1.14 HAS TO DO ALSO WITH THE PENNIES, IS THAT CORRECT? YES. OKAY.

SO IS THERE ANY TAX RATE THAT WE COULD ADOPT ANY LOWER THAN WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING TONIGHT? WE COULD.

IT WOULD BE LESS AND LESS FUNDING FOR THE DISTRICT, BUT WE WOULD BE TAKING AWAY SOME OF OUR VOTES.

SO IT GOES BACK TO THE VOTER.

I'M SORRY, IT GOES BACK TO THE VOTER.

CORRECT. IS THAT CORRECT? THAT'S WHAT I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THERE WAS AN UNDERSTANDING OF THAT.

CORRECT? OKAY. THANK YOU.

DECIDE. OKAY.

EVERYONE'S GOOD. WELL, YOU DID THAT GOOD OF A JOB.

LIKE DR. REID SAID, THAT WE ALL MAYBE UNDERSTOOD SOMETHING BETTER THIS TIME.

THANK YOU. WE THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK.

ITEM 9.2. DR.

CANTU. YES.

I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE JEFF BROGDON, PAUL CASH, JENNIFER YOUNG AND DAVID WRIGHT.

WE HAVE A WHOLE TEAM COMING COMING UP.

AND WHILE THEY'RE MAKING THEIR WAY, I JUST WANT JUST A LITTLE BRIEF INTRO.

LAST FALL, WE BEGAN A CONVERSATION HERE IN THE DISTRICT AT THE ADMIN LEVEL ABOUT REALLY SURROUNDING ENROLLMENT AT DISTRICTS ACROSS THE DISTRICT, AT OUR DIFFERENT CAMPUSES.

WE ALSO WERE DISCUSSING THIS ALONGSIDE THE UTILIZATION OF BUILDINGS AND SPACE.

AND AT THE SAME TIME WE WERE KIND OF HAVING A SEPARATE CONVERSATION AND TALKING THROUGH THE IMPACT OF CHOICE ON CAMPUS ENROLLMENT AND THE UTILIZATION OF OUR BUILDINGS AS WELL.

AND THIS JUST KIND OF LED US EARLY IN THE FALL TO THE REALIZATION THAT WE SHOULD NOT BE HAVING THESE CONVERSATIONS EXCLUSIVE OF ONE ANOTHER.

AND INSTEAD WE NEEDED TO STUDY THEM INDIVIDUALLY AND COLLECTIVELY AS A DISTRICT AND A SCHOOL COMMUNITY BECAUSE THEY ACTUALLY DIRECTLY IMPACT ONE ANOTHER.

AND SO TONIGHT, WE ARE GOING TO SHARE THE RESULTS OF ALL OF THIS WORK AND SEEING, YOU KNOW, AS WE KIND OF LOOK TOWARD SOME LONG RANGE SOLUTIONS FOR ALL OF THESE THINGS.

SO I'LL TURN IT OVER TO MR. BROGDON. THAT'S A GREAT INTRODUCTION.

THANK YOU.

PRESIDENT WILSON, SUPERINTENDENT CANTU AND BOARD MEMBERS, WE ARE PRESENTING TO YOU TONIGHT THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM OUR ADVISORY COMMITTEES FOR THE ATTENDANCE ZONES, CAPACITY AND UTILIZATION AND CHOICE SCHOOLS.

SO THE COMMITTEE'S PURPOSE THIS IS REALLY THE DRIVING COMMITTEE PURPOSE FOR ALL THREE SUBCOMMITTEES.

THAT WAS TO LOOK AT PROJECTED GROWTH, OUR ATTENDANCE ZONES, OUR BUILDINGS, CAPACITIES, AND HOW ARE WE UTILIZING OUR BUILDINGS AS WELL AS OUR CHOICE SCHOOL PROGRAMS. AND SO THE COMMITTEES WERE TO STUDY THOSE, COME UP WITH SOME SOLUTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS AND PASS THOSE ON TO THE SUPERINTENDENTS CABINET, WHICH HAS HAPPENED.

SO ABOUT THIS COMMITTEE, WE HAD OVER 82 MEMBERS.

ACTUALLY, WE HAD 82 AND WE HAD SOME ALTERNATES BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THIS WAS THIS WAS OVER SEVERAL MEETINGS.

AND SOMETIMES LIFE GETS IN THE WAY AND SOMETIMES PEOPLE HAVE TO DROP OUT.

SO WE DID SELECT SOME ALTERNATES.

SO REAL QUICKLY, BOARD OF TRUSTEES, YOU GAVE US 14 APPOINTEES, A SUPERINTENDENT, TEN.

WE HAD 16 STAFF MEMBERS AND EIGHT ADMINISTRATORS.

WE HAD 34 FROM OUR COMMUNITY, PLUS A FEW ALTERNATES.

THEY CAME FROM A POOL OF 400 VOLUNTEERS, AND THESE FOLKS WERE SELECTED AT RANDOM.

I THINK THAT MAY BE THE LARGEST VOLUNTEER POOL THAT WE'VE EVER HAD.

I ALSO WANT TO TAKE THIS TIME TO POINT OUT THAT THE MAJORITY OF THE BOARD TRUSTEE APPOINTEES, AS WELL AS THE SUPERINTENDENTS, WERE COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

THESE WERE PARENTS IN OUR DISTRICT AND MAYBE SOME OF THEM WERE TEACHERS WITH CHILDREN IN OUR DISTRICT.

AND ONE LAST THING ABOUT THE COMMITTEES.

WHEN WE STARTED OUT, EVERYBODY WAS TOGETHER.

WE WENT OVER A LOT OF INFORMATION IN THE FIRST MEETING, BUT WE GAVE EVERYBODY THE OPPORTUNITY.

WHAT SUBCOMMITTEE DO YOU WANT TO SERVE ON? AND FORTUNATELY, WE WERE ABLE TO AWARD EVERYBODY THEIR FIRST CHOICE.

AND SO IF THEY PICKED CHOICE SCHOOLS, THEY GOT IT.

IF THEY WERE ON CAPACITY AND UTILIZATION, THEY GOT IT INTERESTED IN ATTENDANCE ZONES, THEY GOT IT.

SO THE LEADERS FOR EACH ONE OF THE SUBCOMMITTEES ATTENDED ZONE WAS LED BY DAVID WRIGHT AND GARY GATES.

GARY DECLINED THE MEETING INVITATION.

THAT'S ONLY FUNNY IF YOU KNOW WHERE HE IS.

THE CHOICE SCHOOLS WAS LED BY JENNIFER YOUNG AND DONALD WILLIAMS. CAPACITY AND UTILIZATION WAS LED BY MYSELF AND MY FRIEND DR.

PAUL CASH. SO EVERYBODY'S PRIORITY, REGARDLESS OF WHAT COMMITTEE YOU WERE SERVING ON, WAS TO LOOK AT THE GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS SERVED BY EACH ONE OF OUR CAMPUSES, STUDY WHAT THE PROJECTED GROWTH IS, AND THE CURRENT OVERCROWDING COME UP WITH PLANS THAT WERE THAT ADDED STABILITY OVER TIME SO THAT WE WOULDN'T HAVE TO REVISIT THIS FOR SEVERAL YEARS, COME UP WITH RECOMMENDATIONS ON HOW WE UTILIZE OUR CAMPUSES AND WHAT WHAT MORE DO WE WANT TO DO WITH CHOICE SCHOOLS?

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AND FROM THOSE IDEAS, THEY WERE VETTED AND THOSE VETTED IDEAS MADE IT FORWARD TO THE MAIN COMMITTEE.

AS WE CAME BACK TOGETHER, THREE COMMITTEES CAME BACK TOGETHER AS ONE LARGE ONE.

THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS WERE EVENTUALLY REPORTED TO THE SUPERINTENDENTS CABINET.

AND THEN TONIGHT, THE FINAL STEP WOULD BE TO GIVE THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS TO OUR BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

SO MEETINGS, IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH OUR CHARTER, WE STARTED OUT WITH FOUR MEETINGS.

WE QUICKLY REALIZED AFTER THE FIRST TWO MEETINGS THAT FOUR WAS NOT GOING TO BE ENOUGH.

AND I CERTAINLY APPRECIATE THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS THAT THAT HUNG IN WITH US AND WENT THE DISTANCE.

WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN THOSE FIRST TWO MEETINGS WAS A LOT OF DATA REVIEW.

WE WERE REALLY DOWNLOADING A LOT OF DATA TO THAT COMMITTEE AND THE NEXT TWO MEETINGS WERE REALLY GENERATING IDEAS AND VETTING THOSE IDEAS.

THE LAST TWO MEETINGS WERE PRESENTING THOSE IDEAS TO THE COMMITTEES.

AS THE COMMITTEE, THE SUBCOMMITTEES, TO THE LARGE COMMITTEE.

AND THEN FINALLY THE LAST MEETING WAS THE ATTENDANCE ZONE COMMITTEE, PRESENTING THEIR IDEAS TO THE COMMITTEE AS A WHOLE.

A LOT OF WORK, VERY PROUD OF EVERYBODY THAT SERVED.

FINALLY, ON JUNE THE 22ND, WE HAD A COMMUNITY MEETING AT THAT COMMUNITY COMMUNITY MEETING.

EACH SUBCOMMITTEE PRESENTED THEIR IDEAS AND RECOMMENDATIONS.

WE ALSO RECEIVED PUBLIC COMMENTS.

WE HAD THREE SECTIONS OF PUBLIC COMMENTS.

AND THEN IF YOU WERE IN ATTENDANCE, YOU ALSO HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO FILL OUT A QUESTION OR COMMENT CARD.

WE DID SEE RECEIVE A LOT OF CARDS AND WE WORKED DILIGENTLY AS A STAFF TO ANSWER ALL OF THOSE QUESTIONS AND ADDRESS SOME OF THE COMMENTS.

OBVIOUSLY, A LOT OF THE QUESTIONS WERE REPETITIVE, SO WE DIDN'T ANSWER THE SAME QUESTION SIX TIMES.

WE GATHERED THOSE TOGETHER AND IF THEY WERE SIMILAR ENOUGH, WE ANSWERED THEM ONE TIME.

ALL OF THAT INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND ON OUR WEBSITE UNDER OUR Q AND A UNDER THIS COMMITTEE'S WORK.

THAT LEADS ME INTO DR.

PAUL CASH IS GOING TO BE PRESENTING THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE CAPACITY AND UTILIZATION.

HE'LL BE FOLLOWED UP BY JENNIFER YOUNG ON CHOICE SCHOOLS.

AND THEN DAVID WRIGHT IS GOING TO WRAP US UP ON THE ATTENDANCE ZONE COMMITTEES.

DR. CASH. THANK YOU, MR. BROGDON. THE UTILIZATION AND CAPACITY SUBCOMMITTEE, THEY LOOKED AT A LOT OF ENROLLMENT.

LIKE MR. BROGDON SAID, WE CRUNCHED A LOT OF DATA IN ORDER TO MAKE THESE RECOMMENDATIONS.

AND SO BUT THEIR TASK WAS TO LOOK AT ENROLLMENT DATA AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO BETTER UTILIZE THE CAMPUSES WE HAVE AND THEN LOOK AT HOW CAN WE INCREASE AND POTENTIALLY INCREASE ENROLLMENT IN THE DISTRICT.

AND SO THIS IS THIS IS THE MAIN DATA THAT THEY LOOKED AT, AND I'LL EXPLAIN IT FOR THE ELEMENTARY GROUP.

AND THEN YOU'LL YOU'LL KIND OF SEE WHAT IT DOES FOR INTERMEDIATE.

BUT WHAT'S IMPORTANT ABOUT THIS IS THIS THIS AREA STEMS FROM A 22, 23 DEQ RECOMMENDATION THAT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE AN EFFICIENT USE OF OUR FACILITIES. AND SO THE BEST WAY TO DO THAT IS TO STUDY HOW ARE THEY BEING UTILIZED.

AND SO THE FIRST STEP TO THAT IS LOOK AT YOUR ELEMENTARY CAMPUSES.

WHAT ARE THE CAPACITY OF THOSE WHICH WE HAVE 800, WHICH REALLY OUR TOTAL CAPACITY THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT IS ABOUT 19 740 STUDENTS.

SO IN THE YEAR 2223, OUR ENROLLMENT AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL WAS 12,674.

SO WHAT THAT TELLS YOU IS THAT WE HAD 7066 OPEN SEATS AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL ACROSS THE DISTRICT FOR FOR FOR THEM TO LOOK AT.

SAME THING IS TRUE INTERMEDIATE JUST OVER 2000 OPEN SEATS IN 2020 2223 MIDDLE SCHOOL, 17,025.

I MEAN 1725.

AND THEN OUR HIGH SCHOOLS, YOU KNOW, ABOUT 911 SEATS.

WHAT'S CRITICAL THERE IS IT'S NOT NECESSARILY THE NUMBER OF SEATS THAT ARE AVAILABLE OR OPEN.

IT'S WHERE THEY'RE OPEN.

AND SO WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT LATER.

AND SO REALLY AS A GROUP, THEY LOOKED AT ALMOST 12,000 OPEN SEATS.

WHAT CAN WE DO TO BETTER UTILIZE THAT SPACE? SO THIS SLIDE IS JUST A SUMMARY OF THAT.

SO REALLY, WE UTILIZE 76% OF ALL OUR CLASSROOMS WITH THE CAPACITY THAT WE HAVE.

SO WHAT WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT, THOUGH, IS BASED ON 22, 23 NUMBERS, WE CAN'T COME OUT THERE AND SAY WE'RE GOING TO MAKE THESE HARSH CHANGES.

AND THEN TEN YEARS YOU COME UP AND YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH SPACE.

SO THE PROJECTIONS THAT WE HAVE FOR 32, 30, 32, 33 SCHOOL YEAR WOULD BE THAT OUR DISTRICT WOULD BE AT ABOUT 83% CAPACITY.

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SO WHEN YOU LOOK SO SO THIS LET'S DIVE DOWN A LITTLE BIT INTO THIS THESE THIS SLIDE REPRESENTS 14 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS THE ONES AND THEY SPLIT UP INTO TWO CATEGORIES.

THE FIRST CATEGORY IS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS THAT ARE LESS THAN 50, 50% CAPACITY.

AND THOSE ARE THE SCHOOLS THAT ARE HIGHLIGHTED IN YELLOW.

AND THEN THE OTHER TEN ARE HIGHLIGHTED IN CORAL AND THEY REPRESENT A GROUP THAT ARE AT OR BELOW 75%.

SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS CHARLOTTE ANDERSON, KENNETH DAVIS, IMOGENE GIDEON AND THELMA JONES ARE FOUR, FOUR CAMPUSES THAT IF YOU LOOK FROM THIS YEAR THROUGHOUT 32, 33 REMAIN UNDER 50% CAPACITY OF THEIR ENROLLMENT.

THE OTHER TEN IT'S PRETTY IT'S PRETTY SOLID THAT FROM THE BEGINNING TO END, THOSE TEN SCHOOLS REMAIN AT OR BELOW 75%.

SO THESE 14 CAMPUSES, IF YOU LOOK AT THAT TOTAL OF OPEN SEATS THAT WE HAD THIS YEAR, IT'S ALMOST 5000 WELL FROM THE SLIDE BEFORE, THESE 14 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS REPRESENT 5000 OF THE 7066 SEATS THAT WE HAD OPEN THIS LAST YEAR.

SO SO IT'S SIGNIFICANT.

SO THE COMMITTEE REALLY LOOKED AT THAT.

AND ANOTHER IMPORTANT FACTOR, WHEN YOU DON'T WANT TO WHEN YOU WANT TO BE CAUTIOUS AND DON'T WANT TO MAKE A MISTAKE, THESE 14 CAMPUSES ONLY GROW 300 STUDENTS OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS. AND SO THAT'S THAT'S THE INFORMATION THAT THE COMMITTEE WORKED OFF OF WHEN WE MOVED TO INTERMEDIATE MIDDLE SCHOOLS.

SAME THING APPLIES.

THE CORAL COLOR ARE THE ONES THAT ARE AT OR ABOVE 75%.

NOW, ONE THING WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT CROSS TIMBERS THERE, IT'S CORAL FROM NOW, YOU KNOW, THROUGH TEN YEARS.

BUT, YOU KNOW, CROSS TIMBERS CHANGED A LITTLE BIT.

WE ADDED THE FINE ARTS ACADEMY THERE AND WE MADE SOME FACILITY CHANGES.

WE AND WE TOOK OVER ABOUT 17 CLASSROOMS TO MAKE THAT A FINE ARTS ACADEMY.

SO THE CAPACITY OF CROSS TIMBERS IS GOING TO BE A LITTLE LOWER THAN THAT.

THE OTHER NUMBER THAT COMES INTO PLAY THERE IS THE FINE ARTS ACADEMY JUST HAD FIFTH GRADE.

IT DIDN'T HAVE SIXTH GRADE.

SO EVEN THOUGH THE CAPACITY IS COMING DOWN, WE EXPECT THE ENROLLMENT FOR CROSS TIMBERS IS GOING TO GO UP WITH THE NEW YEAR OF SIXTH GRADE STUDENTS.

AND SO THAT'LL BE ADJUSTED THERE.

BUT BUT BUT YOU CAN SEE, YOU KNOW, 2000 SEATS, YOU KNOW, FOR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLS AND MIDDLE SCHOOLS ARE ABOUT.

1700. BUT IF YOU LOOK OVER THE TEN YEARS.

INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLS, WE EXPECT THEM TO GROW BY ABOUT 740 STUDENTS.

SO REALLY, IF YOU HAVE 2000 NOW, THAT PUTS YOU SOMEWHERE IN THE BALLPARK OF OF 1200.

AND WE ALSO EXPECT OUR MIDDLE SCHOOL CAMPUSES TO GROW 500 STUDENTS OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS.

AND SO THAT NUMBER GETS DOWN TO ABOUT 1200.

SO WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR HIGH SCHOOLS, THE INFORMATION THAT WAS GIVEN TO THE COMMITTEE TALKS ABOUT OUR THREE HIGH SCHOOLS LAKERIDGE I'M SORRY, TWO HIGH SCHOOLS, LAKERIDGE AND LEGACY.

IF YOU LOOK AT THOSE ACROSS THE BOARD, THEY PRETTY MUCH ARE AT OR ABOVE CAPACITY.

AND OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS THEY REMAIN AT OR ABOVE CAPACITY.

WHEN YOU LOOK AT MANSFIELD HIGH, IT'S AT CAPACITY.

IT DOES DIP A LITTLE, BUT IT BASICALLY REMAINS AT OR SLIGHTLY BELOW CAPACITY FOR THE NEXT TEN YEARS.

AND BUT THEN WHEN YOU LOOK AT SUMMIT TIMBERVIEW, THEY ARE CORAL COLOR.

THEY REPRESENT AT OR BELOW 75% CAPACITY, WHICH THAT ALLOWED THE COMMITTEE TO LOOK SPECIFICALLY AT WHAT CAN WE DO WITH SOME OF THOSE SPACES.

YOU KNOW, THE I MENTIONED EARLIER, IT'S 911 SEATS, BUT THE COMMITTEE REALLY LOOKED AT IT A DIFFERENT WAY.

THEY SAID, OKAY, WE HAVE SEATS HIGHER NUMBER OF SEATS AT TIMBERVIEW AND SUMMIT.

SO WHAT CAN WE DO THERE? AND SO WHAT PROGRAMS MIGHT WE RECOMMEND FOR THAT? SO THESE ARE THE SIX RECOMMENDATIONS THAT THE UTILIZATION THE CAPACITY COMMITTEE HAD.

NOW, THIS COMMITTEE STARTED OUT WITH A LOT OF RECOMMENDATIONS AND THEY WE DID WE DID A PLUS DELTA AND VETTED THESE DOWN, EACH AND EVERY ONE. AND BASICALLY AT THE END, WE CAME BACK WITH THE TOP SIX RECOMMENDATIONS TO BRING TO THE LARGE COMMITTEE.

NOW, WHEN THESE WERE COMMITTED, WHEN THESE WERE PRESENTED TO THE LARGE COMMITTEE, THEY WERE ALLOWED TO EITHER SUPPORT OR NOT SUPPORT OR VOTE, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO SAY.

AND THAT NUMBER, THE 48, THE 56 AND THE 50%, THOSE ARE THOSE ARE THE SUPPORT THAT WE GOT FROM THE LARGE COMMITTEE WHENEVER IT WAS PRESENTED TO THEM.

BUT AS FAR AS THE BUT THESE WERE THE TOP SIX WITH.

HUGE SUPPORT FROM THE SUBCOMMITTEE.

SO LET'S TALK ABOUT THOSE REAL QUICK.

THE FIRST RECOMMENDATION IS TO AND TO BETTER UTILIZE SCHOOLS IS TO COMBINE SCHOOLS.

OKAY. THE SECOND RECOMMENDATION IS TO REPURPOSE EXISTING CAMPUSES.

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IF YOU TAKE TWO SCHOOLS THAT ARE UNDER CAPACITY AND YOU COMBINE THEM, THEN YOU HAVE A BUILDING THAT GIVES YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO REPURPOSE FOR FOR ANOTHER PURPOSE, REPURPOSE THE BUILDING. THE THIRD RECOMMENDATION WAS TO WAS WAS SIMPLE HOW ARE WE GOING TO BRING MORE STUDENTS INTO MANSFIELD ISD? ONE RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE TO HAVE OPEN ENROLLMENT, BUT THAT WOULD BE ONLY FOR PRE K THROUGH EIGHT.

THE RECOMMENDATION AND THAT WAS SUPPORTED BY THE LARGE COMMITTEE.

50%. THE FOURTH RECOMMENDATION ALSO GOES TO HOW ARE WE GOING TO BRING STUDENTS, MORE STUDENTS INTO MANSFIELD ISD AND IT'S EXPAND PRE-K AND EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS. AND REALLY THE LOGIC THAT THE COMMITTEE LOOKED AT HERE IS IF WE CAN HAVE STUDENTS GET INTO OUR SYSTEM BECAUSE WE KNOW HOW GREAT THE SYSTEM IS EARLY, THEN WE REALLY EXPECT THEM TO STAY ALL THE WAY THROUGH, ALL THE WAY THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL.

FIFTH RECOMMENDATION EXPAND OPTIONS FOR PHENIX ACADEMY.

THAT WAS SUPPORTED 100% BY THE BIG GROUP.

AND THEN THE LAST OR SIXTH RECOMMENDATION IS TO UTILIZE SPACE AT HIGH SCHOOLS FOR CAREER TECH AND POSSIBLY COSMETOLOGY.

AND THAT HAD THE SUPPORT OF THE LEVEL OF 95%.

AND REALLY WHAT THOSE LAST TWO ARE, WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT WHERE THE HIGH SCHOOL SPACE WAS AND EVEN THOUGH IT'S ONLY 900 AND SOMETHING SEATS, WHERE COULD WE DO THAT? AND WE COULD UTILIZE EITHER TIMBERVIEW OR SUMMIT TO MAYBE MOVE PROGRAMS OR EXPAND PROGRAMS. AND JENNIFER IS GOING TO TALK ABOUT THIS AND, YOU KNOW, MAYBE A BEN BARBER 2.0 OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO UTILIZE THOSE SCHOOLS.

SO AT THIS TIME, I WILL INTRODUCE MISS JENNIFER YOUNG.

THANKS, DR. KASH.

I WORKED WITH THE CHOICE SUBCOMMITTEE.

AND SO JUST A REMINDER ABOUT CHOICE PROGRAMING IN MANSFIELD ISD WITH VISION 2020.

THAT WAS ONE OF OUR GUIDING STATEMENTS, IS TO PROVIDE STUDENTS AND PARENTS EDUCATIONAL CHOICE AND OPPORTUNITY.

AND SO UNDER VISION 2020, WE DEVELOPED FINE ARTS ACADEMIES, WE DEVELOPED STEM ACADEMIES, WE DEVELOPED AN EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL.

WE EXPANDED SOME OF OUR BARBER OFFERINGS.

AND WE ALSO HAVE A TWO WAY DUAL LANGUAGE PROGRAM.

AND AS OUR COMMITTEE STARTED LOOKING AT OUR CHOICE PROGRAMING AND CHOICE OPTIONS, THEY REALLY WANTED TO HONE IN ON EARLY COLLEGE, HIGH SCHOOL IN STEM AND FINE ARTS. IF YOU LOOK AT OUR TWO WAY DUAL LANGUAGE PROGRAM, KIDS ENTER THAT PROGRAM IN KINDERGARTEN.

AND SO.

IF YOU ARE A SECOND GRADER AND WANTED IT, THERE'S NOT AN OPPORTUNITY TO ENTER IT LATER ON.

AND SO WHAT WE DECIDED TO FOCUS ON WAS HOW DO WE INCREASE STEM AND OR FINE ARTS OFFERINGS AND ALSO LOOK AT OTHER CHOICE OPPORTUNITIES. AND SO THE REASON WE KIND OF FOCUS ON STEM AND FINE ARTS IS THIS CHART RIGHT HERE.

CHOICE PROGRAMING FOR STEM AND FINE ARTS REQUIRES AN APPLICATION.

SO IN THE SPRING OF 2023, PARENTS AND FAMILIES AND STUDENTS COULD APPLY TO BE IN A STEM ACADEMY OR A FINE ARTS ACADEMY.

AND YOU WILL SEE THAT IN 20.

IN THE SPRING OF 23, WE HAD 1700 APPLICATIONS.

HOWEVER, WE ONLY HAD 513 OPEN SPOTS.

SO WE'RE HAVING TO TURN AWAY 1200 STUDENTS THAT WOULD LIKE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE IN A FINE ARTS OR A STEM PROGRAM.

AND JUST KEEP IN MIND, WHEN YOU ENTER A STEM PROGRAM, SO IF YOU'RE A THIRD GRADER AT NORWOOD AND STEM, YOU AUTOMATICALLY ROLL UP INTO FOURTH GRADE.

AND SO WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF OPEN SEATS EACH EACH YEAR.

AND SO THE FACT THAT WE HAVE HIGH DEMAND AND NOT ENOUGH SEATS WAS ONE OF THE THINGS OUR COMMITTEE LOOKED AT.

ALSO, WE LOOKED AT TRANSPORTATION IN MISD.

IF YOU'RE A PART OF A CHOICE PROGRAM, WE PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION.

AND SO WE HAVE 47 SPECIALIZED BUS ROUTES EACH DAY WITH AROUND 860 RIDERS OVER 2500 MILES PER DAY.

AND WHAT HAPPENED WHEN WE OPENED? KENNETH DAVIS AND CROSS TIMBERS FINE ARTS ACADEMY IS WE WERE ABLE TO CREATE AN ATTENDANCE ZONE FOR FINE ARTS.

SO, FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU LIVE IN THE NORTH PART OF THE DISTRICT AND YOU WANT TO ATTEND A FINE ARTS ACADEMY, YOU WOULD APPLY TO KENNETH DAVIS OR CROSS TIMBERS.

IF YOU LIVED ON THE SOUTHWEST SIDE OF TOWN, YOU WOULD APPLY FOR NORWOOD OR MARTINEZ.

HOWEVER, WE DON'T HAVE THAT EQUAL DISTRIBUTION OF STEM ACROSS THE DISTRICT, AND SO WE WILL HAVE SOME STUDENTS THAT ARE IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF OUR DISTRICT TRAVELING SOUTHEAST TO GET TO A STEM ACADEMY.

SO THE SUBCOMMITTEE LOOKED AT IF WE WERE TO OFFER MORE PROGRAMS THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT, THEN THAT COULD REDUCE SOME OF THE TRANSPORTATION COST.

SO OUR SUBCOMMITTEE REALLY CAME UP WITH THREE MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS.

A LOT OF THESE KIND OF COINCIDE WITH WHAT DR.

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BUT THE FIRST ONE WAS SIMPLE.

THEY WANTED MORE CHOICE SEATS, MORE CHOICE OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR KIDS.

SO SOME WAYS TO DO THIS, THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT MOVING SOME OF OUR CTE OFFERINGS THAT WE HAVE AT BEN BARBER RIGHT NOW MOVE SOME OF THOSE CLASSES TO THE HOME CAMPUSES THAT WOULD THEN FREE UP MORE SPACE AT BEN BARBER.

THE SECOND RECOMMENDATION WAS TO CONSIDER REPURPOSING AN UNDERUTILIZED FACILITY AND MAKING IT A BEN BARBER 2.0 FACILITY. AND THEN THE THIRD THING WAS, SINCE STEM IS SO POPULAR, IF WE HAVE A CAMPUS THAT'S NOT A STEM CAMPUS, MAYBE WE CAN OFFER SOME ELECTIVE COURSES OR OFFER CLUBS OR ELECTIVE OFFERINGS OUTSIDE OF THE SCHOOL DAY TO PROVIDE THOSE STEM OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS.

SO THESE ARE REALLY THE THREE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE SUBCOMMITTEE FOR CHOICE IS JUST CREATING MORE OPPORTUNITIES, MORE SEATS FOR KIDS TO ACTIVELY PURSUE CHOICE OPTIONS.

SO NOW I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO DAVID WRIGHT FOR THE ATTENDANCE ZONE.

THANK YOU, JENNIFER.

HAD TO REMOVE THEIR MESS.

SO. I HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY HERE TO PRESENT THE ATTENDANCE ZONES.

I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO FIRST SAY THE THE FIRST TWO PRESENTATIONS ARE FOR THE SUBCOMMITTEES HAVE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN PRESENTED TO YOU.

HOWEVER, THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE DISTRICTS FURTHER STUDY.

WHAT WE HAVE HERE IN THE ATTENDANCE ZONE PRESENTATION AT THE END OF IT, WE HAVE A SOME RECOMMENDATIONS FOR YOU TO POTENTIALLY ACT ON TONIGHT, WHICH IS SUBSTANTIALLY DIFFERENT THAN THE FIRST TWO PRESENTATIONS.

SO SO.

WHAT WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT REALLY IS IS KIND OF TWO THINGS.

AND THE IN ESSENCE, IT'S ABOUT ENROLLMENT.

ENROLLMENT IMBALANCES AND THE NEED TO PUSH NORTH FROM THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE DISTRICT TO THE NORTHERN PART OF THE DISTRICT. AND I'LL EXPLAIN THAT.

SO AND I NEED TO.

GET MY GLASSES OUT SO I CAN SEE WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY.

AND SO THE ATTENDANCE ZONE SUBCOMMITTEE REALLY WENT TO WORK.

AND IT SAYS HERE THAT THEY THEY LOOKED AT MAPS AND DEVELOPED AND REVIEWED BY THE SUBCOMMITTEE.

BUT EVEN BEFORE THAT, BEFORE WE LOOKED AT MAPS, WHAT WE LOOKED AT TO TWO DIFFERENT MEETINGS.

WE AGAIN, LOOKED AT DATA.

THEY LOOKED AT DATA FROM ALL DIFFERENT SIDES.

AND IT WAS THE COMMITTEE THEMSELVES THAT CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT WE REALLY HAVE TO TAKE SOME ENROLLMENTS THAT ARE HIGH, THAT ARE GOING TO BE ON A ON AN UNATTAINABLE OR TOO HIGH TO MAINTAIN IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE DISTRICT.

AND WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING SO THAT THOSE FEEDER PATTERNS SHIFT NORTH.

AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT WITH WITH ALL OF THAT.

THEN WE DID THE PLUS DELTA AS THE AS THE OTHER GROUPS TALKED ABOUT, WE DID MULTI VOTING IN BOTH THE SUBGROUP AND THEN THE ENTIRE GROUP AS A WHOLE.

AND I SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT THIS.

SO LET'S TALK ABOUT A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ELEMENTARY.

THE ELEMENTARY MAP.

I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS JUST BRIEFLY IN THAT NO ELEMENTARY ZONES CHANGED AS A AS A COURSE OF THIS.

THE BOUNDARY ZONES.

HOWEVER, THAT DOESN'T THAT'S NOT TO SAY THAT A ELEMENTARY MAP MAY CHANGE

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SO THAT'S ALL WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT NECESSARILY FOR ELEMENTARY.

LET'S MOVE INTO THE INTERMEDIATE.

WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT REALLY IMBALANCE OF ENROLLMENTS A LITTLE BIT AND THEN SOME YELLOW NUMBERS AT MARTINEZ AND MCKENZIE IN THE IN THIS IF YOU LOOK IN THE INTERMEDIATE ZONE OR OR.

GRAPH SPREADSHEET, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT.

WHAT YOU SEE IS YOU HAVE THINGS LIKE EISENHOWER, WHO IS TRADITIONALLY, OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS, SOMEWHERE AROUND 700 STUDENTS, AND WHERE SHEPHERD INTERMEDIATE IS GETTING UP TO EVEN ABOUT 875 IN THAT YEAR OF 2032.

SO THAT'S A LITTLE BIT OF AN IMBALANCE.

IT'S NOT IT'S NOT TOO TERRIBLE.

BUT WE WANTED TO TAKE A LOOK AT THAT.

IN THE MIDDLE SCHOOL YOU'VE GOT WHERE HOWARD IS, 600 STUDENTS, GIVE OR TAKE, DEPENDING ON WHAT YEAR YOU LOOK AT AND WORLEY GETS IN 2032, 2031, 2032.

WE'RE TALKING IN THE NINE HUNDREDS.

SO THAT THAT CONCERNED US.

SO IN THE NEW MAP OF MIDDLE SCHOOLS, WE HAVE SOME PRETTY GOOD NUMBERS.

I KNOW IT SAYS PLAN ONE.

THERE WAS ONLY ONE PLAN FOR THE MIDDLE SCHOOL.

THAT'S THE MAP THAT IS BEING RECOMMENDED.

SO LOOK AT LET'S LOOK AT THE NUMBER IN 2025 FOR SAY, IN THE IN THE INTERMEDIATES, THERE'S ONLY ABOUT 110 STUDENTS DIFFERENT IN THE INTERMEDIATE ZONES OTHER THAN.

WELL, IT IS STILL WITHIN THAT 110 STUDENTS, EVEN IN MARTINEZ, ALTHOUGH MARTINEZ WILL QUICKLY GROW.

BUT THAT THAT SCHOOL HAS BEEN BUILT DIFFERENT AND IS BUILT FOR 1200 STUDENTS WHERE OTHER CAMPUSES ARE BUILT FOR 1000.

AND THEN YOU LOOK AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND 2025, THEY'RE ONLY ABOUT 150 STUDENT POPULATIONS DIFFERENT WITH THE EXCEPTION OF MCKENZIE.

AND AND AGAIN, MCKENZIE IS A SCHOOL THAT WAS BUILT FOR A SCHOOL OF CHOICE.

SO IT'S BUILT FOR 1200 INSTEAD OF THE 1000 STUDENTS THAT WE TRADITIONALLY BUILD BUILD FOR.

SO WHAT WERE THE ADJUSTMENTS MADE IN THAT THIS MAP NUMBER ONE, MORRIS MOVES TO CROSS TIMBERS AND HOWARD MARTHA REED MOVES TO LOWE AND WESTER AND ANNETTE PERRY SPLITS BETWEEN OR AND WORLEY AND SHEPHERD AND JOBE.

THERE ARE CONCERNS BUT THERE WE JUST KIND OF TALKED ABOUT IT.

THERE ARE SOME CONCERNS, BUT WE CONSIDERED THEM NOT HIGH CONCERNS.

BUT THEY'RE THERE.

THEY ARE CONCERNS.

SO LET'S LOOK AT THE MAP.

LET ME FIRST LAY OUT SOME PARAMETERS THAT I WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO LOOK AT.

AND THESE THIS WILL BE ON THE WEBSITE FOR ANYBODY TO LOOK AT IT.

SO I'VE PLACED A COUPLE OF HIGHWAYS SO THAT YOU CAN GET GET YOUR BEARINGS.

FARM ROAD 157 WHICH YOU ALSO KNOW IS COOPER HIGHWAY 287.

THAT'S COMING IN FROM DIAGONALLY ACROSS THE MAP.

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THAT'S ALSO DEBBIE COMING ACROSS THE DISTRICT FROM RIGHT TO LEFT OR LEFT TO RIGHT.

YOU GOT FARM ROAD 528, WHICH ALSO IS BROAD STREET, DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU ARE IN THE MAP AND WHAT THAT'S CALLED.

THEN YOU ALSO SEE DOWN HERE WHERE YOU HAVE 917 COMING DOWN THE DOWN THROUGH THE CURVE.

AS YOU GO UP, IT BECOMES HERITAGE PARKWAY.

AND THEN YOU ALSO SEE THREE 60.

I ALSO WANT TO POINT OUT THAT YOU HAVE THE NEW ATTENDANCE ZONES IN OR THE ATTENDANCE ZONES IN BLOCK COLORING SO THAT ENTIRE.

HER AREA OF PURPLE IS AN ATTENDANCE ZONE, BUT THE HIGHLIGHTED PINK LINE SHOWS WHAT A WHAT A BOUNDARY ZONE WAS.

SO IF WE LOOK AT THAT.

I'M GOING TO I'M GOING TO HIGHLIGHT A FEW THINGS.

SO RIGHT HERE IN THIS AREA, YOU HAVE PERRY ELEMENTARY.

IF YOU CAN SEE THAT, THAT RIGHT ABOVE AND TO THE LEFT, YOU SEE PERRY FROM THAT SIGN OF FARM ROAD.

917. WHAT THIS IS SHOWING IS THIS THIS PURPLE AREA IS NOW OR ANNE WORLEY, WHERE IT WAS MCKENZIE AND MARTINEZ.

OKAY. SO THAT'S THAT'S A CHANGE.

THIS AREA HERE WAS.

OR IN WALL-E.

NOW IT'S TEAL.

YOU SEE THOSE THAT HIGHLIGHTED YELLOW COLOR? NOW IT IS IN THE JOB AND SHEPHERD ZONE.

THIS IS I'M SORRY, REED.

REED IS NOW IN YELLOW.

SO IT WENT FROM BEING IN THE OR AND WHIRLY, AND NOW THEY ARE IN WESTER AND LOW ATTENDANCE ZONE BECAUSE THEY'RE IN THAT YELLOW COLOR AND MORRIS WHICH TRADITIONALLY OR HAS BEEN IN.

ALSO IN LOW AND WESTER WILL BE AT CROSS TIMBERS AND HOWARD.

SO THOSE ARE THE CHANGES IN THE MIDDLE SCHOOL MAP MOVING ZONES NORTHWARD.

ALL RIGHT. SO MOVING ON TO HIGH SCHOOL NOW.

WE LIKE THIS DEPICTION BECAUSE IT GIVES YOU A REALLY GOOD PICTURE OF WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE HIGH SCHOOL ZONES.

YOU SEE TWO SCHOOLS TOWARDS THE BOTTOM, THAT IS SUMMIT AND TIMBERVIEW. THEY'RE STARTING OFF ABOUT 1616, 1800 AND CONTINUALLY LOSING ENROLLMENT BECAUSE OF A LOT OF AGING OUT IN THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS ALL THE WAY DOWN TO ABOUT 1500.

YOU SEE MANSFIELD HIGH IN THE PURPLE THERE, FAIRLY STEADY, BUT THEY ARE DROPPING BELOW, NOT SIGNIFICANTLY, BUT BELOW THEIR CAPACITY ALL THE WAY OUT UNTIL IT GETS UNTIL ABOUT 2030, 20, 31.

AND THEN WE HAVE THE TOP TWO WHERE YOU HAVE LAKE RIDGE AND LEGACY.

BOTH OF THOSE ARE RIGHT NOW JUST A TOUCH ABOVE CAPACITY.

NOT CONCERNING, BUT THEY'RE A TOUCH ABOVE CAPACITY, BUT THEY CONTINUE TO GROW TO THE POINT WHERE WE HAVE SOME CONCERNS AND AND EVEN A PROBLEM.

AND SO YOU SEE LAKE RIDGE, IF NOT CHECKED, IF WE DON'T DO ANYTHING, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A PROBLEM WITH LAKE RIDGE

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AS A MATTER OF FACT, THAT'S WHAT THE WINDOW OR THAT THAT BLOCK IS THERE FOR IS WE FEEL LIKE WE WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING AND WE'VE SAID THIS TO THE COMMITTEE.

WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING IN THE SCHOOL YEAR THAT STARTS 24 OR THE SCHOOL OF THE YEAR THAT STARTS 25.

IF WE WAIT ANY LONGER, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME REAL SIGNIFICANT OVERCROWDING, I MEAN, MASSIVE OVERCROWDING AT THOSE TWO SCHOOLS.

SO AGAIN, AS THE COMMITTEE DETERMINED, WE DETERMINED AS WELL, WE'VE GOT TO DO SOMETHING AND IT'S GOT TO IT'S GOT TO GO BALANCE BY MOVING ATTENDANCE ZONES NORTH.

SO THIS IS THE SAME THING.

IT'S JUST SHOWING NUMBERS INSTEAD OF A GRAPH YOU SEE WHERE LAKE RIDGE AND LEGACY IS.

YOU GET OUT TO 20, 30, 20, 31, 2032, WE'RE TALKING 2700 2800S.

YOU'RE LOOKING AT LAKE RIDGE.

THERE ARE 3000, 3100.

SO SOMETHING'S GOT TO BE DONE.

MANSFIELD HIGH.

IT'S IT'S NOT TOO, TOO BAD.

BUT THEY'RE LOSING ENROLLMENT UNTIL WE GET BACK OUT INTO THE 30S.

AND THEN SUMMIT IS.

AND TIMBERVIEW, AS WE TALKED ABOUT, ARE AGING OUT IN OLDER FAMILIES, OLDER HOMES, AND IT IS DROPPING ENROLLMENT.

SO HERE IS SOMETHING I'D LIKE TO STOP HERE AND JUST TALK ABOUT ONE THING.

YOU KNOW, WHEN WE EVERY TIME WE DO THESE ENROLLMENTS OR REZONINGS, IT IS IT'S AN EMOTIONAL THING.

IT'S EMOTIONAL FOR FAMILIES.

IT'S EMOTIONAL FOR PARENTS.

AND WE GET THAT.

I'VE NEVER BEEN THROUGH IT.

I'VE BEEN ON BOTH ENDS OF IT.

I'VE BEEN ON THE COMMITTEES.

I'VE LED A FEW.

IT'S IT'S IT IS IT'S NOT FUN.

IT'S IT'S EMOTIONAL.

HECK, I'VE. I WISH THAT THERE WAS A I CAN THINK OF A COUPLE OF PLACES I'D RATHER BE TONIGHT THAN HERE PRESENTING TO YOU ON THIS.

BUT WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING AND WE'VE LOOKED AT THE COMMITTEE LOOKED AT THE FIRST THREE MAPS AND HERE WAS SOME ADJUSTMENTS AND CONCERNS.

YOU KNOW, BESIDES THE THE CONCERNS AND THINGS THAT WE LOOKED AT OR TOOK INTO ACCOUNT OR ANSWERED QUESTIONS ABOUT ABOUT NATURAL BARRIERS OR CROSSING HIGHWAYS OR THINGS THAT WE WE LOOK AT THESE ADJUSTMENTS AND CONCERNS WERE IN IN MAP ONE SUMMIT INCREASED BY 700 STUDENTS IN ONE YEAR.

THAT'S THAT'S HARD TO DO TO MANAGE IT CAN BE DONE BUT IT'S IT'S HARD TO MANAGE LEGACY REMAINS AT OR NEAR CAPACITY AND THEN MANSFIELD DECREASED BY AND LET ME LET ME POINT THIS OUT REAL QUICK IT'S APPROXIMATELY THESE NUMBERS ARE APPROXIMATE BECAUSE IT DEPENDS ON WHAT YEAR YOU LOOK.

WHAT IS IT, APPROXIMATELY 400.

SO THIS YEAR IT MAY BE UNDER 400 ANOTHER YEAR.

YOU LOOK AT IT, IT'S GOING TO BE MORE THAN 400.

SO THIS TEN YEAR SPAN.

SO WE'RE JUST LOOKING AT APPROXIMATE NUMBERS IN THIS SLIDE MAP TO THAT.

EVERYBODY SAW SUMMIT INCREASED BY APPROXIMATELY 600 STUDENTS.

LEGACY REMAINED AT CAPACITY AND EXCEEDED CAPACITY IN TWO YEARS.

SO DID WE REALLY DID WE REALLY FIX A PROBLEM BY ADDING A PROBLEM? AND THEN MANSFIELD DECREASED BY APPROXIMATELY 400 STUDENTS.

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SO WE TOOK ALL THAT INTO ACCOUNT AND AND THEN WE TOOK IT TO THE COMMUNITY AND GOT AND LISTENED, GOT FEEDBACK AND ANSWERED QUESTIONS AS, AS PAUL I MEAN, AS JEFF ALLUDED TO JUST EARLIER.

AND THEN WE WENT BACK AND SAID, YOU KNOW, CAN CAN WE DO SOME ADJUSTMENTS? IT WAS NOT BIG ADJUSTMENTS.

CAN WE CAN WE DO ADJUSTMENTS? NOT IT WASN'T BASED ON COMMUNITY FEEDBACK.

IT WASN'T BASED ON COMMITTEE WORK.

IT WAS BASED ON EVERYTHING THAT WE GATHERED ALONG THE WAY.

AND SO WE CAME UP WITH MAP NUMBER FOUR.

SO AND THAT'S LET'S LOOK AT SOME NUMBERS HERE.

FIRST. THIS IS THE SAME CURRENT HIGH SCHOOL NUMBERS THAT YOU SAW EARLIER WITH ALL THE YELLOW AT LEGACY AND LAKE RIDGE.

AND THEN YOU CAN LOOK AT THE HIGH SCHOOL FOR MAP NUMBERS AND JUST FOR GRINS, LET'S LOOK AT 25, 26.

YOU CAN SEE THAT LAKE RIDGE IS AT 25.

AT 98, LEGACY IS AT 2443.

MANSFIELD'S AT IS A LITTLE BIT LOW AT 20.

OH 2076.

BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THAT, THEY'RE THEY'RE STEADILY GROWING THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE DECADE.

SUMMIT IS AT 2179.

SO THOSE NUMBERS ARE REALLY GOOD AND THOSE NUMBERS ARE REALLY GOOD FOR ABOUT 7 OR 7 YEARS OR SO.

AND THEN TIMBERVIEW HASN'T BEEN TOUCHED, BUT THERE'S A REASON FOR THAT IS TIMBERVIEW HAS EARLY COLLEGE, HIGH SCHOOL, AND WE'VE KIND OF LOOKED AT IT AS WE CAN PULL SOME OF THE NUMBERS FROM THE FOUR OTHER HIGH SCHOOLS AND DO SOME OF THE WORK THAT AT THE OTHER TWO COMMITTEES HAVE RECOMMENDED.

SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT WOULD BE YET, BUT WE HAVE SOME TIME TO FIGURE THAT OUT, WHETHER THAT WELL, I DON'T WANT TO GET INTO WHAT IT WOULD BE, BUT NOT WE'VE GOT QUITE A FEW OPTIONS.

THERE'S THINGS THAT WE NEED TO LOOK AT AS A DISTRICT.

BUT THE WAY THAT LAKERIDGE I'M SORRY.

TIMBERVIEW IS POISED.

IT WOULD BE PERFECT FOR SOMETHING ALONG THE LINES OF ANOTHER SCHOOL OF CHOICE.

SO LET'S LOOK AT WHAT ADJUSTMENTS AND CONCERNS.

THAT HIGH SCHOOL FOR MAP WOULD WOULD WOULD MAKE ROBERTA TIPS MOVES TO SUMMIT HOLT NO LONGER SPLITS BETWEEN SUMMIT AND LEGACY.

NANCY NEAL DOES NOT SPLIT AND REMAINS AT LEGACY LAKERIDGE ATTENDANCE ZONE ADJUSTS AND REDUCES THE ENROLLMENT BY APPROXIMATELY 400 STUDENTS.

LEGACIES ATTENDANCE ZONE ADJUSTS AND REDUCES ENROLLMENT BY APPROXIMATELY 200 STUDENTS.

MANSFIELD INCREASES ENROLLMENT BUT DOES NOT EXCEED CAPACITY UNTIL TO 2032.

SUMMIT INCREASES BY ABOUT APPROXIMATELY 500 STUDENTS, BUT REMAINS UNDER CAPACITY BY 300. APPROXIMATELY APPROXIMATELY 300 STUDENTS IN TIMBERVIEW HAD AN EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL MAINTAINS WHERE THEY'RE AT, BUT I JUST TALKED ABOUT THEM, SO.

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THIS WOULD BE MAP FOUR AND HERE IS THE SAME SEMBLANCE OF THE PREMISE.

YOU'VE GOT BLOCK COLORS FOR THE FIVE COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOLS, AND THEN YOU HAVE SOME HIGHLIGHTED LINES IN TEAL THAT SHOWS WHAT THE BOUNDARY ZONES WERE.

AND I'M GOING TO POINT THOSE OUT.

SO NUMBER ONE, THAT LITTLE PIE SHAPED AREA THAT IT HAS PERRY ELEMENTARY IN IT, THAT THAT AREA WAS PART OF LAKE RIDGE.

IT WILL NOW BE PART OF IF THIS GOES THROUGH.

IT'S NOW PART OF MANSFIELD HIGH.

THIS BIG SWATH OF A LOT OF RURAL LAND OUT BY NINE, NINE, 917.

THAT WAS ALL LEGACY HIGH SCHOOL.

IT WILL NOW BE PART OF MANSFIELD HIGH SCHOOL.

I'M GOING TO I'M GOING TO SAVE THIS ONE BECAUSE I WANT TO SAY A COUPLE OF THINGS ABOUT TIPS.

AND THEN THIS AREA UP HERE THAT IS PART OF THE HOLT IF YOU IF ANYBODY WAS WOULD LOOK AT HOLT IS A BACKWARDS L THAT AREA THE BOTTOM PART OF THE L DID GO TO LEGACY HIGH SCHOOL AND SO NOW IT WOULD GO TO SUMMIT AND HOLT WAS A SPLIT FEEDER FOR SUMMIT AND LEGACY.

IT WOULD BE A TRUE FEEDER INTO SUMMIT.

SO LET'S GO BACK I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS ONE.

AND THIS IS GOING TO BE REALLY HARD TO SEE.

BUT IN THIS RED CIRCLE RIGHT THERE WHERE WE'RE TIPS IS AT THE TOP OF THE CIRCLE.

AND THERE'S A THERE IS A TEAL LINE JUST RIGHT BELOW THE TOP.

THERE'S A STAR RIGHT THERE.

THAT'S SUMMIT HIGH SCHOOL.

IF YOU IF YOU HAVE IT IN YOUR IF YOU'RE FOLLOWING ALONG WITH DEVICE AND THEN JUST BELOW AND TO THE LEFT OF THAT ON WALNUT CREEK IS IS TIPS.

SO IN 2001, THAT STAR FOR SUMMIT HIGH SCHOOL WAS CALLED.

NORTH CAMPUS.

AND IF YOU GO DOWN WALNUT CREEK TO WHERE WESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL IS, WHICH IS JUST BELOW THE BOTTOM PART OF THAT BOTTOM PART OF THAT RED LINE, I WISH MAYBE I CAN.

NOW THERE'S I CAN'T THIS DIDN'T HAPPEN.

BUT JUST BELOW THE BOTTOM, YOU SEE THOSE TWO CIRCLES, TWO STARS.

THAT'S THAT'S WESTER AND A SLOW.

SO THAT USED TO BE NORTH CAMPUS, SOUTH CAMPUS IN 2001, 2002.

NORTH CAMPUS BECAME.

WELL, SUMMIT HIGH SCHOOL AND THEN MANSFIELD MOVED DOWN ON BROAD.

SO NOW WE HAD OUR FIRST SPLIT HIGH SCHOOLS SUMMIT AND MANSFIELD HIGH, AND THE BOUNDARY ZONE WAS DERBY LANE IN 2002.

AND THEN ONCE I BELIEVE IT WAS IN 2003, THE NEXT YEAR.

TIPS OPENED AS THE LITTLE JAGS, AND THEY WERE PART OF THAT FEEDER PATTERN FOR

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NOW FOR PART OF A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN A DECADE.

IT IS WHERE THE BOUNDARIES ARE, WHERE THEY ARE NOW.

AND SO JUST GIVING YOU SOME A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY THERE.

AND SO THAT THAT IS A ZONE THAT HAS BEEN PART OF LEGACY FOR A GOOD PART OF THE LAST TEN, MAYBE 12 YEARS.

AND THEN BUT WE'RE IN IN MAP FOUR.

IT IS GOING BACK TO SUMMIT HIGH SCHOOL.

WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT WAS A TRUE FEEDER.

AND WE LOOKED AT MAKING SURE THAT IT COULD COULD GO TO HOWARD AND CROSS TIMBERS. THE NUMBERS AT CROSS TIMBERS AND HOWARD JUST DIDN'T PROVIDE FOR THAT. IT WAS THE NUMBERS AT THOSE TWO SCHOOLS WERE TOO, TOO HIGH, ESPECIALLY SINCE WE'VE PUT A FINE ARTS ACADEMY AT CROSS TIMBERS.

SO. SO I'LL TALK TO YOU ABOUT RECOMMENDATIONS.

SO I'M GOING TO TAKE THESE IN DIFFERENT ORDERS TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH, AND YOU'LL YOU'LL KNOW WHY.

SO THE FIRST TWO RECOMMENDATIONS IS WE'RE RECOMMENDING THAT YOU APPROVE THE INTERMEDIATE MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL MAPS.

THIRD RECOMMENDATION IS THAT YOU WOULD MAKE THE ZONING GO INTO EFFECT IN 2025, 26 INSTEAD OF 24.

I'M GOING TO SKIP DOWN TO SEVEN AND THAT WE WOULD MAKE THE REZONE STUDENTS ANY REZONE STUDENT THAT GOES INTO EFFECT WHENEVER YOU MAKE IT.

BUT WE'RE RECOMMENDING 2526 THAT THOSE STUDENTS COULD LEAVE AND GO EARLY IN 2425 IF THEY SO CHOOSE.

AND THAT WOULD BE BY WAY OF APPLICATION.

IF THEY IF THEY IF THEY MEET THE CRITERIA, WHICH IS THEY'RE ACTUALLY IN THAT ZONE OF THEN THEY MEET THE CRITERIA AND THEY CAN GO.

SO NOW LET'S TALK ABOUT THE FOURTH, FIFTH AND SIXTH RECOMMENDATION.

WE HAVE WHAT'S CALLED OPTIONS, A JUNIOR SENIOR OPTION, AN EIGHTH GRADE OPTION, AND A SIXTH GRADE OPTION WITH A CORRESPONDING SIBLING OPTION THAT GOES WITH EITHER THE JUNIOR SENIOR, EIGHTH GRADE OR SIXTH GRADE.

AND WHAT THAT MEANS IS LET'S JUST TAKE THE JUNIOR SENIOR.

SO IF THERE IS A LET'S SAY YOU APPROVE THE MAP, YOU APPROVE EVERYTHING, THEN JUNIOR, A JUNIOR OR SENIOR, A STUDENT WHO'S GOING TO BE A JUNIOR OR SENIOR IN 25, 26 COULD APPLY, WHICH THEY WOULD GET AS LONG AS THEY MEET ALL THE CRITERIA, WHICH JUST MEANS YOU LIVE IN THE ZONE THAT YOU SAID YOU DID.

YOU WERE REZONED IN THIS ZONE, SO YOU'RE GOING TO GET IT.

THEN THAT JUNIOR SENIOR WHO WAS REZONED IN 2526 COULD STAY AT THE SCHOOL YOU WERE ATTENDING FOR YOUR FOR YOUR LAST TWO YEARS.

AND IF YOU HAVE A SIBLING THAT'S GOING TO BE AT THAT SCHOOL, THAT SAME SCHOOL IN 25, 26.

THEN THEY GET TO ATTEND WITH YOU.

SO THAT'S THE SAME THING WITH THE EIGHTH GRADE OPTION AND THE SAME THING WITH THE SIXTH GRADE OPTION.

SO WE'VE DONE THAT THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, LET'S SAY THE LAST COUPLE OF TIMES THAT WE'VE REZONED.

IT'S WORKED VERY WELL.

WE'VE HAD A LOT OF STUDENTS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT, AND I THINK I'VE EXPLAINED THAT WELL AND

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THANK YOU, MR. ROT. WE'LL START DOWN HERE ON MY RIGHT.

TRUSTEES. ANY QUESTIONS? CONCERNS, MR. TIPPIN? YES.

FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU ALL FOR THE TIME YOU KNOW, SPENT WITH THIS.

I KNOW IT'S BEEN A LOT OF GRUELING HOURS AND SO FORTH BETWEEN MR. TIPPING. I DON'T MEAN TO CUT YOU OFF.

I WOULD BE REMISS IF WE DIDN'T RECOGNIZE THAT THE THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS THAT WERE IN THE AUDIENCE AND I SAW A BUNCH OF THEM.

AND SO IF YOU WANT TO RAISE YOUR HAND, JUMP UP AND YELL OR WHATEVER.

BUT WE NEED TO WE NEED TO RECOGNIZE THEM AND IT THEIR THEIR EFFORTS AND SPENDING MONTHS OF TIME AND I'M SORRY TO CUT YOU OFF, BUT WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT WE RECOGNIZE THEM BECAUSE THEY THEY WENT ABOVE AND BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY FOR SIX COMMITTEE MEETINGS AND HAVING TO PUT UP WITH PAUL CASH.

SO SO YES, THANK YOU OBVIOUSLY TO THEM AS WELL AND TO AND TO EVERYBODY THAT SERVES ON A COMMITTEE WITHIN OUR DISTRICT.

WE APPRECIATE ALL OF YOU THAT VOLUNTEER FOR THOSE.

AND AND IT'S NEEDED.

SO SO KEEP VOLUNTEERING FOR COMMITTEES.

BUT ONE OF MY QUESTIONS WAS, YOU KNOW, I HEAR A LOT ABOUT MIDDLE SCHOOLS.

YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY GET TO WHEN THEY GET TO THE END OF THEIR MIDDLE SCHOOL, A LOT OF TIMES THEY'LL BE SPLIT INTO DIFFERENT HIGH SCHOOLS.

AND SOMETIMES THAT BREAKS UP, YOU KNOW, THOSE THOSE GROUPS OF STUDENTS AND WHATNOT.

AND YOU CAN CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT I MEAN, THAT'S BEEN HAPPENING ALL ALONG.

AND IT'S KIND OF EXPECTED, YOU KNOW, BASED OFF OF THE NUMBER OF SCHOOLS WE HAVE AT EACH LEVEL.

IS THAT IS THAT CORRECT? YEAH, I THINK YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT.

WHAT ONE IT'S IT'S AN IMPOSSIBILITY WHEN WE HAVE SEVEN INTERMEDIATES AND SEVEN MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND TRYING TO GET TRUE FEEDERS BY PLACING THEM INTO FIVE HIGH SCHOOLS.

IT'S NOT POSSIBLE.

AND SO, I MEAN, I, I WISH WE COULD.

AND SO WITH OUR WITH OUR CURRENT SYSTEM WITH SEVEN AND FIVE, YOU KNOW, IT THEY THEY DON'T GO INTO EACH OTHER EVENLY SO.

RIGHT. YEAH.

SO WE HAVE WE HAVE TO HAVE SPLITS AND THAT'S THAT'S PART OF THE REASON THAT WE DIDN'T WANT TO AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE HAVE SPLITS AT ELEMENTARY.

WE HAD TO DO IT IN SOME CASES.

BUT YOU KNOW WE TRY JUST IT IT'S IT'S JUST NOT POSSIBLE.

RIGHT. RIGHT.

AND THEN JUST ANOTHER QUESTION.

I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY WE SEE WHERE THE NUMBERS ARE LEADING.

IF IF WE MADE NO CHANGES, YOU KNOW, WHERE THAT CAPACITY WOULD BE AT FOR FOR LAKERIDGE LEGACY AND SO FORTH, WHICH IS JUST IT'S NOT FEASIBLE.

IT'S NOT GOOD PRACTICE TO HAVE THOSE KIND OF NUMBERS, YOU KNOW, FOR SEEING DOWN THE ROAD AND SO FORTH.

UM, SO YOU SAID THE SHIFT WAS, WAS BASICALLY MOVING SOUTH AND PUSHING NORTH INTO THE AREAS THAT ARE BUILDINGS, CAMPUSES THAT ARE BEING UNDERUTILIZED, ESPECIALLY AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL.

IS THAT WHAT I'M HEARING IS WE'RE TRYING TO PUT KIDS IN THE BEST SITUATIONS WHERE THEY HAVE THE THE MOST SPACE, WHICH WILL, YOU KNOW, ALLOW ALLOW THEM TO TO GET A BETTER EDUCATION IF THEY'RE NOT HAVING TO DEAL WITH A NUMEROUS AMOUNT OF EXTRA STUDENTS THAT SHOULDN'T BE THERE.

YEAH, I THINK THAT'S I THINK THAT'S PART OF IT.

I THINK THAT'S WELL PUT.

I THINK THERE'S MORE OF IT.

I MEAN, SO I THINK THERE'S MORE TO IT THAN THAT, BUT THAT IS WELL PUT IN.

PART OF IT IS.

SO YOU'VE GOT YOU'VE GOT SEVERAL THINGS GOING ON HERE.

YOU'VE GOT OTHER COMMITTEES THAT ARE LOOKING AT SPACE AVAILABLE, WHICH IS NOT NECESSARILY THE SAME THING AS WHAT'S WHAT'S AVAILABLE IN SPACE TALKING ABOUT.

REZONING. AND SO, YOU KNOW, THE REZONING THE REZONING PIECE IS MORE URGENT BECAUSE WE WE WE KNOW THAT WE CAN'T DO NOTHING IN IN THAT ASPECT.

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CANTU WAS AT MANSFIELD HIGH SCHOOL.

THE YEAR AFTER WE SPLIT, SHE WAS THE ACADEMIC ASSOCIATE THERE.

I WAS THE ACADEMIC ASSOCIATE AT SUMMIT, AND WE WERE SUMMIT WAS BUSTING AT THE SEAMS BEFORE TIMBERVIEW OPENED.

AND WE WE DIDN'T HAVE A WE DIDN'T HAVE WE WE COULDN'T DO A REZONING.

AND WE WERE WAITING FOR THE NEW SCHOOL TO OPEN.

AND THERE WERE SIX PORTABLE CLASSROOMS, WHICH IS ACTUALLY 12, 12 PORTABLE CLASSROOMS IN THE FRONT PARKING LOT OF LEGACY.

THERE WAS FIVE PORTABLE CLASSROOMS, WHICH IS TEN CLASSROOMS IN THE BACK PARKING LOT OF SUMMIT HIGH SCHOOL.

AND WE WERE BUSSING KIDS TO THE ANNEX BEHIND WESTAR, WHICH IS PART OF THE OLD MAN BARBER STUFF.

AND JENNIFER YOUNG WAS A TEACHER THERE.

AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE HAD TO DO BECAUSE WE WERE BUSTING THE SEAMS. WE DON'T HAVE TO DO THAT.

BUT I MEAN, IF WE DON'T, WE'RE GOING TO BE PUTTING PORTABLES IN THE PARKING LOTS AT I'M NOT SAYING WE'RE GOING TO DO THAT.

I'M SAYING IF WE DON'T DO ANYTHING, THAT'S THAT'S WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.

YOU GOT NOWHERE TO PUT KIDS AT OUR HIGHEST AND ROLLING CAMPUSES.

YEAH. THANK YOU.

AND JUST MY LAST COMMENT WAS SO ON THE ON THE THE CHOICE SCHOOLS AND THE BUILDING UTILIZATION.

I MEAN, I'M EXCITED TO SEE WHAT WHAT CAN COME FROM THAT.

YOU KNOW, I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES THERE THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO CAPITALIZE ON, OFFER SO MANY MORE THINGS TO THESE STUDENTS THAT THAT MAYBE PROGRAMS WE DON'T HAVE OR BE ABLE TO EXPAND ON, ONES THAT WE ALREADY DO.

SO I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT ABOUT THAT ASPECT TO SEE WHERE WE GO WITH THAT.

SO THANK YOU.

MS.. THOMAS. SO THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION AND THANK YOU FOR EVERYBODY THAT SERVED ON THAT COMMITTEE.

THE ZONING ONE IS IS A TRYING ONE.

IT'S NOT ONE THAT I THINK YOU ENJOY LEADING.

IT'S NOT REALLY ONE THAT YOU ENJOY BEING ON.

AND IT'S SOMETIMES IT'S NOT A HAPPY PLACE FOR US TO SET UP HERE AND MAKE THOSE DECISIONS.

BUT WE DO LOOK AT WHAT IS IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF OUR KIDS.

SO AND WHEN YOU MAKE THOSE DECISIONS, THERE'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE SOMEBODY THAT'S UPSET.

SO I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT.

IT'S JUST HOW IT HOW IT IS.

I'VE BEEN THROUGH ZONINGS.

WE'VE ALL KIND OF BEEN THERE.

BUT WHEN YOU GET HIGH SCHOOLS THAT ARE AT THE LEVEL THAT LAKE RIDGE IS AND EVEN LEGACY, IT GETS TO BE A SAFETY MATTER TOO. IT'S VERY HARD TO WATCH WHEN YOU HAVE 2800 KIDS OR 2900 KIDS IN IN ONE SCHOOL.

IT GETS TO BE A SAFETY MATTER.

SO THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING THAT SHIFTS AND AGAIN, ZONING IS NOT FUN.

WE DON'T ENJOY IT.

PARENTS DON'T ENJOY IT.

THE KIDS DON'T ENJOY IT. BUT WE ARE MANSFIELD AND AND A LOT OF THOSE SCHOOLS, WE'VE ALL BEEN THROUGH THE ZONINGS YOU COME TOGETHER AND YOU END UP MAKING THAT YOUR SCHOOL.

SO AGAIN, I APOLOGIZE THAT THAT WE EVEN HAVE TO DO THIS.

BUT IT IS IS NECESSARY.

AND I DO THINK THE COMMITTEE FOR PUTTING THE TIME AND THE EFFORT INTO THAT JUST A LITTLE FEW THINGS.

I JUST WANT TO GIVE SUMMIT A LITTLE PLUG A LITTLE BIT ANY.

I KNOW DOCTOR BROWN HAS DONE A LOT OF WORK OVER THERE AND THEN I KNOW COACH MUTT WILL FOLLOW HIS FOOTSTEPS, BUT JUST BASED, I'M JUST GOING TO DO THIS LITTLE STAT RIGHT HERE BASED ON THE 2223 GRADUATES THAT THEY THEY HAD THE HIGHEST CMR SCORE IN THE

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THAT'S 83% OF THE SENIOR CLASS MET THEIR CMR. AND I KNOW THAT COACH MUTT IS JUST GOING TO CARRY THAT AND EVEN DO EVEN MORE WORK AND IMPROVE WHAT MATT BROWN HAS HAS STARTED.

SO I THANK YOU, DOCTOR BROWN, FOR ALL THE WORK THAT YOU PUT OVER THERE.

I VOLUNTEERED OVER THERE A LOT AND I CAN CONTEST THAT.

THERE'S A BIG DIFFERENCE.

I CAN SEE IT HAPPENING.

SO I LOOK FORWARD TO OUR KIDS GOING FORWARD AND SEEING WHAT COACH MUTT CAN DO WITH THE KIDS THERE.

SO THAT'S MY LITTLE PLUG THERE.

I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING WHAT WE DO WITH UTILIZING OUR CAMPUSES AND THE DIFFERENT OPTIONS FOR FOR SCHOOL OF CHOICE.

I THINK WE HAVE A LOT OF POTENTIAL, ESPECIALLY WITH TIMBERVIEW.

THERE'S A LOT OF ROOM OVER THERE WHERE WE CAN DO SOME REALLY COOL THINGS AND AND GIVE SOME KIDS SOME OPPORTUNITIES THAT MAYBE SOME CLASSES THAT BEN BARBER ARE FULL AND THEY CAN'T GET INTO. BUT IF WE CAN EXPAND THEIR, IT GIVES THEM AN OPPORTUNITY.

SO IT GIVES US A LOT OF FLEXIBILITY.

SO AGAIN, THANK YOU, EVERYBODY, FOR BEING ON THAT COMMITTEE.

I KNOW IT IT ENDED UP BEING A LOT MORE MEETINGS THAN WHAT YOU ALL INTENDED.

AND AND I JUST APPRECIATE ALL THE TIME THAT YOU PUT INTO IT.

MISS ANDERSON. ACTUALLY, I JUST WANT TO ECHO A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT BOTH OF THEM SAID.

I WHAT I'M HEARING YOU SAY ON SEVERAL, SEVERAL TIMES IS, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TRYING TO UTILIZE THIS IN THE MOST EFFICIENT MANNER WITHOUT WITHOUT MOVING, YOU KNOW, MOVING THE LEAST AMOUNT OF CHILDREN AND STILL HAVE OPEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR US TO EXPAND NOT ONLY CHOICE, BUT ALSO EVEN OUR YOUNGER GENERATION AS AS KIDS MOVE IN.

AND THAT I THANK YOU FOR EVERY EVERYONE AND THAT WAS ON THE COMMITTEE LIKE LIKE BOTH OF THEM SAID IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO BE ON THAT COMMITTEE, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU HEAR ALL THE RUMBLINGS THAT YOU HAVE THE LAST FEW WEEKS.

REALLY GREATLY APPRECIATE THAT.

AND THE SECOND THING IS, LIKE MS..

THOMAS SAID, GOING THROUGH DEFINITE CHANGE.

I HAD ONE KID THAT WAS AT ONE MIDDLE SCHOOL AND UNFORTUNATELY I DIDN'T HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE THE KIDS WERE A LITTLE TOO FAR APART TO STAY IN THAT FEEDER. AND MY KIDS SWITCHED.

AND I'LL TELL YOU TODAY, I STILL HAVE ONE IN THAT THAT OTHER MIDDLE SCHOOL.

AND THAT WAS THE BEST EXPERIENCE THEY HAD BEING AT THAT OTHER MIDDLE SCHOOL.

SO, YOU KNOW, IT DOES HAPPEN.

YOU KNOW, AT THE TIME YOU'RE LIKE, WHAT? YOU KNOW, YOU'RE LIKE, YOUR LIFE IS FALLING APART.

ONE KID WENT TO ONE AND NOW YOU'VE GOT THREE THAT ARE GOING TO GO TO ANOTHER.

BUT IT WORKED OUT PERFECTLY FINE.

AND SO THAT'S DEFINITE PATRONAGE TO KIND OF JUST OUR SCHOOLS IN GENERAL, OUR STAFF, OUR ADMINISTRATION, ETCETERA.

AND THEN I WANT TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT SUMMIT.

I WAS TRYING TO GET ONE OF MY FRIENDS HERE.

SHE HAS SIX KIDS.

THEY'VE GONE THROUGH THE DISTRICT, ONE STILL AT SUMMIT.

SHE CALLED ME TODAY AGAIN AND SAID HOW MUCH SHE LOVES SUMMIT AND HOW MUCH.

HER KIDS HAVE LOVED IT AND WHAT THEY'VE DONE GOING THROUGH IT.

AND, YOU KNOW, IT GIVES ME CHILLS EVERY TIME I THINK ABOUT IT.

SOMEBODY CALL ME OUT OF THE BLUE TELLING ME HOW MUCH THEY LOVE ONE OF THE SCHOOLS THAT WE HAVE, YOU KNOW? SO, AGAIN, APPRECIATE YOU, DR.

BROWN. I KNOW THE ADMINISTRATION WILL CONTINUE TO LEAD THAT FORWARD.

AND I JUST APPRECIATE ALL ALL OF YOU THAT HAVE PUT YOUR TIME AND EFFORT INTO THIS, BECAUSE IT IS NOT AN EASY FEAT.

SO I APPRECIATE Y'ALL.

OKAY, MISS FARRAR.

YES. THANK YOU, STAFF AND AND COMMITTEE FOR DOING THE WORK.

I KNOW THIS WAS A HUGE UNDERTAKING, AND SO I DO APPRECIATE YOUR TIME AND VALUE THAT SO MUCH.

AND, YOU KNOW, I KNOW YOU JOKED ABOUT HAVING TO PUT PORTABLES OUT AT AT BUILDINGS, BUT THAT'S KIND OF WHERE WE'RE AT.

I MEAN, IF WE DON'T DO SOMETHING, THAT'S THE ONLY OPTION.

AND I KNOW AS A BOARD, THAT'S SOMETHING FOR ME THAT WOULD BE I WOULDN'T EVEN CONSIDER DOING THAT.

WHEN WE DO HAVE SEATS THAT ARE AVAILABLE, WE ALSO HAVE TO CONSIDER COSTS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THAT.

AND SO UNFORTUNATELY, WE DO HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION.

AND LIKE A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE ECHOED, IT'S AN EMOTIONAL DECISION.

I MEAN, WE ALL HAVE KIDS.

THIS ISN'T SOMETHING YOU SAID.

YOU KNOW, I CAN THINK OF A MILLION OTHER PLACES I'D RATHER BE TONIGHT.

ME TOO, BECAUSE THIS ISN'T FUN TO HAVE TO MAKE THESE DECISIONS.

BUT THESE ARE THINGS THAT WE WERE TASKED TO DO.

AND SO WE TAKE THIS DECISION REALLY SERIOUSLY.

I MEAN, WE WERE TALKING TO A HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL JUST AFTER THE SUMMER GRADUATION THIS EVENING, AND SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT THEY ARE SO MAXED OUT AT THAT HIGH SCHOOL THAT KIDS AREN'T EVEN MAKING IT THROUGH THE LUNCH LINE AND THEY'RE HAVING TO HOLD THEM OVER.

I MEAN, THAT'S KIND OF WHERE WE'RE AT. THOSE ARE THINGS THAT WE DON'T THINK ABOUT WHEN OUR KIDS ARE AT A HIGH SCHOOL THAT IS EITHER AT OR UNDER CAPACITY.

BUT THESE ARE THE THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT THEY'RE DEALING WITH IS JUST EVEN FEEDING KIDS DURING THE DAY.

SO JUST A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT I WANTED TO ASK.

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AND THERE'S A TRIANGLE TO THE EAST.

IT'S IN THE BLUE. IT'S TO THE EAST OF TO 87.

AND SO I KNOW THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT WHY IS THAT TRIANGLE STILL STAYING IN THE LEGACY FEEDER PATTERN AND NOT GOING TO SUMMIT.

COULD YOU EXPLAIN A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE REASONING BEHIND THAT? SURE. IF YOU REMEMBER RIGHT.

OR IF YOU REMEMBER IN THE FIRST THREE MAPS, THAT TRIANGLE WAS NOT THERE IN TWO OF THEM AND WAS THERE IN ONE OF THEM AND IS THERE IN IN MAP NUMBER FOUR.

SO THE THE BOTTOM LINE IS IT'S REALLY KIND OF TWO THINGS.

NUMBER ONE, THAT IS PART OF NANCY NEAL'S ATTENDANCE ZONE.

SO IF IF WE WE HAD TO DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT WE WANTED ANOTHER SPLIT ELEMENTARY, WE JUST WE JUST GOT HOLT WHERE THEY'RE NOT SPLIT.

IF THIS GOES THROUGH AND THEN WE WE THEN WE TURN AROUND AND SPLIT.

NANCY NEAL, THAT YOU KNOW, LIKE I SAID, THERE'S THERE'S THERE'S SOME PLACES THAT WE CAN'T HELP DOING THAT.

LIKE IN THE PERRY AREA, WHAT DOWN SOUTH IS GROWING SO FAST.

SO THAT'S ONE OF IT.

AND THEN THE OTHER PART IS THAT IF WE IF WE GIVE THAT BACK, THAT PART BACK TO MANSFIELD HIGH, THEN WE'RE PUTTING IF YOU REMEMBER BACK IN ONE OF THE TALKS I HAD ON THE THREE MAPS, THEN IT PUTS MANSFIELD BACK RIGHT BACK WHERE THEY'RE THEY'RE OVER CAPACITY IN TWO YEARS.

SO SO THE TRIANGLE PART SO THAT CURRENTLY FEEDS INTO LEGACY.

OH THAT'S RIGHT. WE'RE KEEPING THAT THROUGH LEGACY SO HOW WOULD THAT.

OKAY SO SO IF WE'RE NOT IF WE'RE NOT SEPARATING THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.

SO I UNDERSTAND THAT PORTION OF IT.

IF WE DID GO AHEAD AND SEPARATE THAT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND JUST HAVE A HARD LINE, HOW WOULD THAT IMPACT THE.

I DID. I DID I DID MISSPEAK ON THAT.

SO PARTLY WHAT WOULD BE THE WHAT I JUST TALKED ABOUT WAS THE NOT SPLITTING NANCY NEAL.

AND THEN THE OTHER PART OF IT IS THERE'S THERE IS A CONCERN.

IT'S THE SAME THING. CONCERN I JUST TOOK WHERE THE CROSS TIMBERS AND HOWARD ARE AT A POINT WHERE THEY'RE.

THEIR ENROLLMENT IS GOOD.

WHEN WE PUT MORE STUDENTS IN IT, ESPECIALLY WHEN PART OF CROSS TIMBERS IS A FINE ARTS ACADEMY, THEN WE START GETTING CONCERNED.

SO THAT'S KIND OF WHAT I WAS CURIOUS, IS WHAT THE IMPACT WOULD BE.

I'M SORRY. I MISSPOKE. NO, THAT'S OKAY.

AND THEN I JUST WANT TO I THINK I JUST HAVE ONE OTHER THING I WANT TO TOUCH ON.

DID WE TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION CURRENT TRANSFERS INTO ALL OF THE HIGH SCHOOLS? DID YOU LOOK AT THOSE NUMBERS? CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT? THE SHORT ANSWER IS NO.

BUT HERE'S WHAT HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS.

SO WHEN WHEN WE DO TRANSFERS, WE LOOK AT WE LOOK AT TWO THINGS.

WE LOOK AT NUMBER ONE, WE KNOW WHAT THE SCHOOLS ARE STAFFED FOR AND AND WE ALSO SO WE TRY NOT TO WE NOT WE TRY NOT TO DO ANYTHING THAT MAKES THE STAFFING RATIOS CHANGE AT ALL.

AND SO, LIKE AT A HIGH SCHOOL, WE WE KIND OF WORK ON A GIVE OR TAKE OF ABOUT 30 STUDENTS A YEAR. SO BECAUSE THE OTHER THING THAT WE DO IS WE MONITOR NOT ONLY THAT, WE WE MONITOR NOT ONLY THE TRANSFERS IN, WE WE MONITOR THE TRANSFERS OUT.

SO WHERE WHERE LET'S PICK LEGACY.

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SO IT WAS A NET OF THREE.

SO WE KNOW WHAT THE NET IS.

AND SO THAT'S PART OF THE ANSWER IS WHAT'S MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE NUMBER OF TRANSFERS IS WHAT'S THE NET, RIGHT? OKAY. AND DID THAT DID YOU SAY THAT THAT WAS AROUND 30, 30, THAT YOU TRY TO KEEP IT NO MORE THAN 30 OR.

YEAH, YEAH. WE TRY TO KEEP IT AT NO MORE THAN 30.

MAYBE. MAYBE IT CRAWLS UP A LITTLE BIT, BUT SO NOT.

I GUESS WHAT I'M GETTING AT IS I'M TRYING TO THE NET.

WE TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT THE NET NEVER GOES PLUS OR -30.

OKAY. SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT LIKE IN THE LEGACY HIGH SCHOOL, IF WE'RE TRANSFERRING 200 STUDENTS, YOU'RE ALWAYS TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE STUDENTS THAT ARE TRANSFERRING OUT. SO IT'S NEVER GOING TO BE 200 STUDENTS ADDITIONAL LEGACY THAT WOULD WOULD NOT HAVE NORMALLY BEEN THERE.

NO. SO YOU ALWAYS TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION.

OKAY, I THINK THAT WAS IT.

I APPRECIATE YOUR YOUR WORK.

ONE OTHER THING, JUST JUST KIND OF ANOTHER PLUG FOR SUMMIT.

I KNOW THAT WE HAVE ANOTHER CHOICE PROGRAM STARTING THERE.

WHAT CAN YOU JUST REITERATE THE NAME OF THAT AND KIND OF JUST TALK ABOUT THE EXCITING THINGS THAT WE HAVE GOING ON AT SUMMIT? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.

WE'VE BEEN ACCEPTED.

WE APPLIED TO TO TO BE A P-TECH HIGH SCHOOL AT SUMMIT HIGH SCHOOL, AND THAT IS A PATHWAYS AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

AND IT'S VERY MUCH LIKE EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL.

BUT WE WILL HAVE A COMPUTER SCIENCE FOCUS.

WE ACTUALLY HAVE AN INTRODUCTORY COURSE BEING OFFERED THIS YEAR AT HOWARD TO OUR EIGHTH GRADERS.

AND SO OUR FIRST OFFICIAL CLASS CLASS WILL START NEXT FALL.

AND SO THAT WILL BE OPEN TO NINTH GRADERS.

AND THEN THE NEXT YEAR IT'LL BE NINTH AND 10TH AND CONTINUE TO GROW.

THANK YOU. ANYONE ELSE, MISS NEWSOM? I DON'T NEED TO REPEAT ALL OF THE THINGS THAT EVERYONE SAID, BUT IT DOESN'T GO UNNOTICED BY THIS GROUP ABOUT THE WORK AND THE TIME THAT'S PUT IN, BECAUSE TO ME IT'S VERY OBVIOUS THAT WE REALLY CARE ABOUT A BETTER EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE FOR ALL STUDENTS ACROSS THE DISTRICT IN EVERY CAMPUS.

I DO THINK THAT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT CAME TO MIND WAS BUSSES.

WE ALWAYS KIND OF THIS IS LIKE A LONG HISTORY OF BEING ON THE BOARD.

COURTNEY AND I, OF LIKE BUSSES KIND OF IS A CHALLENGE.

AND SO SOMETIMES WHEN I LOOK AT THESE THINGS, I THINK ONE OF MY FIRST THOUGHTS IS, WELL, THIS COULD HELP US JUST A LITTLE BIT WITH BUSSES AND HOW MUCH TIME KIDS ARE SPENDING ON THE ROAD, HOW MANY MILES, HOW MUCH GAS.

IT JUST COMES TO MIND AS WELL AS PORTABLES.

I'VE BEEN ON THE BOARD WHEN I REMEMBER.

WE REJOICED WHEN WE SOLD THE LAST PORTABLE THAT WE HAD.

SO IT WOULD BE I WOULD BE AMISS IF I DIDN'T MENTION THE FACT THAT THAT'S NOT THE BEST OPPORTUNITY FOR KIDS IN A LEARNING ENVIRONMENT EITHER.

AND SAFETY. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THIS BOARD HAS PUT FIRST AND FOREMOST OF, OF THE STUDENTS AND THE STAFF, AND THAT WE COULD BE RAISING SOME SOME SAFETY ISSUES HERE.

SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR FOR WHAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING AND THANKS FOR UNDERSTANDING THE HARD DECISIONS THAT HAVE TO BE MADE IN ORDER TO MAKE THE BEST DECISIONS FOR STUDENTS OVERALL.

DR. REID? YES.

THIS IS A HARD DECISION, BUT IT'S EASY FOR US TO DO AS BOARD MEMBERS AND EDUCATORS.

BUT AS A PARENT, I FEEL THE EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT.

I THINK MOST PEOPLE KNOW THAT.

I MOVED BEFORE HAVING A CHILD.

I MOVED INTO THE MISD AREA, THE DISTRICT.

SO IT IS DR.

CANTU A DESTINATION DISTRICT.

I MOVED IN BEFORE HAVING FAITH AND SO EMOTIONALLY I CAN RELATE TO PARENTS.

I EVEN ASKED MR. BROGDEN LIKE, WHAT IF WE DO NOTHING? AND HE GAVE ME THESE NUMBERS THAT WERE ASTONISHING BECAUSE WE'RE GROWING EXPONENTIALLY.

AND SO AS A BOARD MEMBER, AS AN EDUCATOR, WE KNOW THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING THE APPROPRIATE STUDENT TEACHER RATIO AND HAVING STUDENTS IN A SPACE WHERE THEY CAN MOVE FREELY ACADEMICALLY AND HAVE A GREAT EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE.

SO IT'S A HARD DECISION.

BUT I DO APPRECIATE YOU, MR. WRIGHT, AND MS..

YOUNG, MR. BROGDEN AND DR. CASH, AS WELL AS ALL OF THOSE WHO WORKED ON.

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I'M GRATEFUL THAT WE MENTIONED ALL THE GREAT THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING AT SUMMIT HIGH SCHOOL, SO WE KNOW AND CHOICE PROGRAMS WILL GROW, I BELIEVE.

AND SO SINCE THE LAST REZONING, I HAD SOMEONE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT SIX YEARS AGO.

LOOK, LOOK AT WHAT WE'RE DOING NOW.

I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S A GOOD THING TO SAY BECAUSE THAT MEANS YOU NEED WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO THINK ABOUT THE GROWTH THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE IN MISD.

SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE WORK YOU'RE DOING, EVERYONE.

I APPRECIATE IT AND I'M GRATEFUL THAT WE HAVE TO MAKE THIS IS A GOOD PROBLEM.

WOULD YOU SAY THIS IS A GOOD PROBLEM? WE'RE GROWING AND WE'RE PROVIDING AN EXCELLENT EDUCATION FOR OUR STUDENTS SO OUR TEACHERS ARE HAPPY.

IF IT'S A IF IT'S A GOOD PROBLEM, I WANT SOMEBODY ELSE TO HAVE IT.

MR. RIGHT, I WILL CONCUR.

YES, I DO KNOW THE, THE THE HARD DECISIONS AND HARD DISCUSSIONS YOU ALL HAVE HAD TO HAVE.

AND I'M LOOKING AT THE COMMITTEE AS WELL AS OUR STAFF.

I AM OLD ENOUGH TO SEE THE FIRST STREET LIGHT AS WELL AS THE FIRST SPLIT OF SCHOOLS IN OUR DISTRICT.

AND IT IS NEVER FUN.

I WILL SAY THAT I'VE BEEN ON THE BOARD LONG ENOUGH TO SEE MORE THAN I'D LIKE TO SEE THE SPLITS, BUT AS DOCTOR REGIS MENTIONED, IT'S ALWAYS THE GOOD THING ABOUT IT IS, IS WHEN YOUR DISTRICT IS GROWING AND CONTINUES TO GROW AT THE RATE ARE ALWAYS HAVE EVEN IN A DOWNTIME THAT TELLS YOU YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING RIGHT BECAUSE EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE PART OF SOMETHING GOOD. RIGHT.

AND AND WE ALL KNOW THAT DISTRICTS ARE THE SCHOOLS ARE WHAT MAKES OUR COMMUNITIES AS A WHOLE.

AND I JUST YOU KNOW, I DO I DO HATE IT FOR THOSE THAT, YOU KNOW, THINGS DON'T WANT TO CHANGE.

I HAVE BEEN PART OF THAT MYSELF.

AND IT IS JUST REALLY IT'S A REALLY HARD DECISION.

I KNOW FOR THE FAMILIES, AS DR.

REED STATED, AND IT DOES MAKE SENSE.

I AM ALSO IN AGREEMENT WITH THE STAFF THAT AND THE COMMITTEE, OBVIOUSLY, THAT I'M EXCITED TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DO WITH SOME OF THESE OPPORTUNITIES.

AND REALLY, I JUST, YOU KNOW, I WISH I HAD THE BEST AND PERFECT ANSWER FOR EVERYONE, BUT IT'S JUST THAT THAT SEAT THAT WE'RE IN THAT WE DON'T ALWAYS.

BUT I DO THANK YOU GUYS FOR FOR HELPING WORK THROUGH THE TOUGH DECISIONS.

SAME WITH THE COMMITTEE AND AND DOING THE WORK.

WE APPRECIATE YOU.

DID ANYONE HAVE ANYTHING ELSE? OKAY. THANK YOU, DAVID.

THANK YOU. SO WE'LL MOVE TO ITEM 9.3 RTA SAFETY AUDIT.

DR. CANTU. YES.

I WOULD LIKE TO ASK OUR DIRECTOR OF SAFETY, SECURITY AND THREAT MANAGEMENT, BRETT FORTNER.

SHE'S ALREADY UP THERE RARING TO GO.

WE HAVE A BRIEF PRESENTATION ABOUT RTA SAFETY AUDITS.

THANK YOU. BOARD PRESIDENT WILSON, DR.

CANTU SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS FOR HAVING ME HERE TONIGHT.

I WILL BE SPEAKING ON THE DISTRICT AUDIT REPORT, WHICH IS A SAFETY AND SECURITY REPORT THAT WE MUST SUBMIT EVERY THREE YEARS TO THE TEXAS SCHOOL SAFETY CENTER.

SO DURING THE PRESENTATION, I'M GOING TO REVIEW WHAT ALL IS INCLUDED IN THIS TRIENNIAL REPORTING TOOL.

I'M GOING TO DISCUSS OUR FORMAT FOR OUR INTERNAL PROCESS, FOR OUR DISTRICT AUDIT.

I'LL REPORT OUR DISTRICT WIDE FINDINGS FROM THE AUDIT AND THEN PRESENT OUR NEXT STEPS.

SO WHAT IS THE DISTRICT AUDIT REPORT TOOL OR AS COMMONLY KNOWN, THE DA TOOL? IT IS MANDATED BY TEXAS EDUCATION CODE, AND IT REQUIRES THAT SCHOOL DISTRICTS CONDUCT A SAFETY AND SECURITY AUDIT OF DISTRICT FACILITIES AT LEAST ONCE EVERY THREE YEARS.

IT REQUIRES THAT WE COMPLETE THIS DA TOOL REPORT THROUGH THE TEXAS SCHOOL SAFETY CENTER, AND THEN IT REQUIRES US TO REPORT THOSE FINDINGS HERE TO YOU GUYS.

SO THAT IS WHAT I'M DOING TONIGHT.

SO WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS AUDIT? THE FIRST PIECE IS THE AUDIT THAT WE MUST AS A DISTRICT CONDUCT.

THE FIRST PIECE IS AN INTRUDER ASSESSMENT.

SO IT IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU THINK IT IS, WHERE SOMEONE GOES IN POSED AS AN INTRUDER, BUT JUST IN PLAIN CLOTHES TO SEE IF THEY CAN GAIN ACCESS TO A CAMPUS AT THAT POINT, IF THEY ARE ABLE TO GAIN ACCESS, THEY SEE IF ANYONE STOPS THEM, IF SOMEBODY DOES STOP THEM, THEY THANK THEM FOR STOPPING THEM.

AND THEY MAKE NOTE OF ALL OF THIS IN THE AUDIT.

WE ALSO DO A REPORT OF ALL OF OUR DISTRICT CAMPUS EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLANS, PROCEDURES, ANYTHING RELATED TO SAFETY AND SECURITY.

SO THE STUDENT HANDBOOK, STAFF HANDBOOK RELATED DISCIPLINE DATA.

WE ALSO DO CLIMATE SURVEYS OF STUDENTS AND STAFF RELATED TO SAFETY AND SECURITY.

SO WHAT IS THE CLIMATE AND CULTURE OF SAFETY ON THE CAMPUS? WE DO A PHYSICAL SECURITY ASSESSMENT OF THE FACILITY, AND THEN WE ALSO DO SAFETY, A SAFETY PROTOCOLS ASSESSMENT.

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SO THE PHYSICAL SECURITY ASSESSMENT, WE'RE LOOKING AT THINGS LIKE THE DOORS.

ARE THEY CLOSING AND LATCHING APPROPRIATELY? DO WE HAVE GATES? IF WE DO.

ARE THEY SECURED? SHOULD THEY BE SECURED? DO ARE OUR WINDOWS NOT BROKEN? ARE THEY LOCKING LIKE THEY SHOULD? DO THEY HAVE THE FILM IF THAT'S A REQUIREMENT? AND THEN LANDSCAPING AS WELL.

SO LANDSCAPING CAN BE A FIRE HAZARD.

IT CAN ALSO CAUSE SOME VISIBILITY CONCERNS AND THEN THOSE SAFETY PROTOCOLS.

SO THAT'S THE HUMAN ELEMENT.

THINK OF IT AS THE HUMAN ELEMENT.

WHAT ARE WE DOING AS STAFF MEMBERS ON A CAMPUS TO IMPACT SAFETY AND SECURITY? SO IF WE HAVE A POLICY TO LOCK IN CLOSED DOORS, ARE THEY ACTUALLY LOCKED IN? CLOSED? OUR STAFF, STUDENTS AND VISITORS WEARING THEIR BADGES.

THE POSTING OF SAFETY MATERIALS.

SO WE HAVE EVACUATION MAPS IN EVERY CLASSROOM.

WE HAVE OUR STANDARD RESPONSE PROTOCOL POSTERS UP THROUGHOUT THE CAMPUSES.

SO IS THAT WHERE IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE? ARE WE COMPLIANT WITH OUR TRAINING RELATED TO SAFETY AND SECURITY? SO CPR STOP THE BLEED, THINGS LIKE THAT, AND THEN THE UNDISTRACTED PRESENCE IN THE HALLWAY.

SO IF WE'RE AT A DUTY STATION OR IT IS A PASSING PERIOD, ARE WE OFF OF OUR PHONES, ENGAGING WITH OUR STUDENTS AND MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE CREATING A SAFE ENVIRONMENT? SO AFTER WE COMPLETE THE AUDIT AND I WILL GET TO THE AUDIT FINDINGS IN A BIT, BUT AFTER WE COMPLETE THE AUDIT, WE HAVE TO FILL OUT THE DA TOOL.

IT IS A VERY COMPREHENSIVE REPORT THAT IS SENT TO THE TEXAS SCHOOL SAFETY CENTER.

AND I'M ACTUALLY GOING TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT THEY ASK BECAUSE I WANT YOU TO GET AN IDEA OF WHAT THEY'RE ASKING VERSUS WHAT WE'RE DOING AS A DISTRICT.

SO THE FIRST SECTION, DISTRICT DEMOGRAPHICS, THEY'RE LOOKING FOR THINGS LIKE ARE WE A RURAL DISTRICT, SUBURBAN OR URBAN? THEY'RE ASKING ABOUT TOTAL ENROLLMENT, THINGS LIKE THAT FOR THE SAFETY AND SECURITY INFORMATION IN SECTION TWO.

THEY'RE ASKING QUESTIONS LIKE, HOW MANY FACILITIES DO WE HAVE? DID YOU COMPLETE THE AUDITS ON THE FACILITIES FOR SECTION THREE, WHICH IS THE SCHOOL SAFETY AND SECURITY COMMITTEE? DO YOU HAVE A COMMITTEE? HOW OFTEN DO THEY MEET? WHO SERVES ON YOUR COMMITTEE? THOSE TYPES OF QUESTIONS.

FOR SECTION FOUR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT INFORMATION, THEY'RE ASKING ABOUT OUR EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN, OUR MULTI-HAZARD EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN.

SO SPECIFIC SECTIONS AS WELL AS DRILLS, ANYTHING THAT WOULD RELATE TO THE OPERATIONS IN AN EMERGENCY.

FOR SECTION FIVE FOR BEHAVIORAL THREAT ASSESSMENT, SUICIDE PREVENTION AND TRAUMA INFORMED CARE, THEY'RE ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT OUR BEHAVIORAL THREAT ASSESSMENT TEAMS. DO WE HAVE AN ANONYMOUS REPORTING LINE? QUESTIONS LIKE THAT FOR SIX FOR THE BULLYING PREVENTION POLICIES AND PROCEDURES? ONE OF THE QUESTIONS IS, HAVE WE AS A BOARD ADOPTED A POLICY PROHIBITING BULLYING? SECTION SEVEN IS UNIQUE BECAUSE THERE IS ONLY ONE QUESTION IN SECTION SEVEN AND IT SAYS, DID YOUR DISTRICT CONDUCT AN ACTIVE THREAT EXERCISE, INCLUDING AN ACTIVE SHOOTER SIMULATION? SO THIS ONE WE DID NOT ANSWER IN THE AFFIRMATIVE BECAUSE WE DO NOT DO THAT.

BUT IT IS NOT A REQUIREMENT OF THE STATE.

BUT IT DOES LET THE STATE KNOW THAT WE'RE NOT DOING THAT.

AND IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE WE COULD CONSIDER MOVING FORWARD.

AND THEN FOR SECTION EIGHT, DOES EACH FOR ADDITIONAL SAFETY AND SECURITY INFORMATION, QUESTIONS LIKE DO YOU HAVE VISITOR POLICIES RELATED TO SAFETY AND SECURITY? HOW DID YOU SPEND YOUR SCHOOL SAFETY ALLOTMENT FUNDS? QUESTIONS ABOUT THE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS ON EACH CAMPUS.

SO WITH ALL OF THOSE QUESTIONS IN MIND, I CAN AFFIRM THAT WE HAVE SUBMITTED OUR REPORT AND WE DID MEET ALL OF THE STATE MANDATED REQUIREMENTS AS OF THE QUESTIONS IN THE DART TOOL.

I WILL NOTE THAT THE TEXAS SCHOOL SAFETY CENTER DOES NOT PROVIDE A GRADE.

HOWEVER, THEY THEY DO NOW HAVE ALL OF THIS DATA SO THEY KNOW WHAT WE ARE AND ARE NOT DOING AS AS A DISTRICT.

BUT AS I SAID, WE HAVE GONE ABOVE AND BEYOND EVERYTHING THAT HAS BEEN ASKED OF US.

AND WE HAVE ANSWERED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE TO ALL OF THE QUESTIONS THAT ARE REQUIRED.

SO WHILE THE STATE DOES NOT REQUIRE THAT A SCORE BE GIVEN BASED ON OUR SAFETY AND SECURITY AUDIT REPORT, KNOWING MANSFIELD ISD, WE ARE GOING TO GO ABOVE AND BEYOND.

SO WE WE DID ASSIGN A SCORE TO EVERY SINGLE CAMPUS THAT WE AUDITED.

THE PURPOSE OF THIS BEING THAT WE CAN HAVE YEAR OVER YEAR DATA TO COMPARE AND MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS, BUT ALSO TO ALLOW OUR CAMPUSES TO STRIVE FOR IMPROVEMENT.

SO THE STATE IS JUST ASKING, DID YOU DO IT? THEY WILL ASK, DO YOU HAVE A POLICY ON HAVING LOCKED AND CLOSED CLASSROOM DOORS? THE ANSWER IS YES.

BUT AT MANSFIELD WE WANT TO KNOW, ARE WE ACTUALLY LOCKING IN, CLOSING OUR CLASSROOM DOORS? DO WE HAVE A POLICY FOR OUR STAFF MEMBERS TO WEAR ID BADGES AT ALL TIMES?

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AND I POSTED THE SCORES THERE OR THE SCORING SYSTEM.

SO CAMPUSES THAT RECEIVE A 90 OR HIGHER ARE CONSIDERED A LOW RISK.

75 TO 89 WOULD BE A MODERATE RISK AND 74 OR LOWER BEING A HIGH RISK.

SO WE AS A DISTRICT SAFETY AND SECURITY DEPARTMENT ARE COMMITTED TO DOING A FULL ASSESSMENT OF ANY CAMPUS THAT RECEIVES A MODERATE OR HIGH RISK SCORE ANNUALLY. SO WHILE THE STATE REQUIRES THE AUDIT TO HAPPEN EVERY THREE YEARS, WE ARE COMMITTING TO TO REDOING THOSE EVERY YEAR, OUR LOW RISK CAMPUSES WILL RECEIVE A FULL ASSESSMENT EVERY OTHER YEAR.

HOWEVER, I DO WANT TO NOTE THAT CAMPUSES ARE CONTINUOUSLY EVALUATED ON OTHER SAFETY MEASURES, SO IT'S NOT THAT THEY'RE NOT GETTING CHECKED FOR THOSE ROUTINE THINGS.

THEY'LL STILL RECEIVE ALL OF THAT.

IT'S JUST NOT THE FULL AUDIT.

ALL RIGHT. I WENT TOO FAST.

SO EVERYBODY LOVES PICTURES.

WHAT LOWERS A SCORE AND INCREASES A RISK LEVEL? SO SOME THINGS THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR ON THE FAR LEFT, YOU'LL SEE A WEIGHT PLATE THAT HAS BEEN LEFT OUTSIDE BY A DOOR.

WE CONSIDER THIS TO BE A PROPPING TOOL.

SO IF WE SEE A PROPPING DEVICE, WE WOULD CONSIDER THAT AN INFRACTION.

I GUESS YOU COULD SAY IT WOULD BE INCREASE THE RISK LEVEL.

IN THE SECOND PICTURE, YOU'LL SEE MATERIALS STORED IN A CLOSET ALL THE WAY UP TO THE CEILING, AND THAT IS A FIRE HAZARD.

SO WE WE KEEP EVERYTHING AT LEAST 18IN FROM THE CEILING.

AND THEN YOU'LL SEE ON THE FAR RIGHT A TREE THAT IS HAS GROWN UP AGAINST A BUILDING.

THIS IS ALSO A FIRE CONCERN.

ALL RIGHT. SO THE DISTRICT AUDIT FINDINGS, I'VE BROKEN THEM DOWN BY LEVEL HERE, SO YOU'LL SEE ELEMENTARY.

FIRST, WE HAVE 21 CAMPUSES THAT RECEIVED A LOW RISK RATING AND FOUR AT MODERATE FOR INTERMEDIATE SEVEN AT A LOW RISK AND ONE AT MODERATE AT MIDDLE. IT'S TWO AT LOW AND FIVE AT MODERATE AND THEN HIGH IN ALTERNATIVE CAMPUSES, THREE LOW, THREE MODERATE AND ONE HIGH.

AND I'M SURE YOU ALL ARE ALL SPECIFICALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE ONE HIGH RISK CAMPUS, AS AM I.

BUT I WANT TO NOTE THAT THAT CAMPUS, WHILE I'M NOT GOING TO DIVULGE SPECIFIC CAMPUS INFORMATION, I DO WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THE ONE HIGH RISK CAMPUS RECEIVED A SCORE OF A 74. SO THERE ARE ONE POINT AWAY FROM WHAT WE HAVE DETERMINED AS A MODERATE RISK, AND THAT SCORE IS A SNAPSHOT IN TIME.

SO IT WAS THAT ONE DAY THAT WE EVALUATED THAT CAMPUS IS THE FINDINGS THAT WE HAVE WHEN WE FIND SOMETHING ON A CAMPUS, WE IMMEDIATELY ADDRESS IT. SO WE TAKE A PICTURE OF IT, WE NOTE IT, IT GOES IN THE REPORT, BUT THEN WE TAKE CARE OF IT.

SO IF WE FIND A PROPPING DEVICE, WE REMOVE IT.

IF WE FIND A CLASSROOM DOOR THAT'S NOT CLOSED, WE CLOSE IT.

BUT WE ALSO ADDRESS IT WITH THAT TEACHER AND LET THEM KNOW WHAT THE BOARD POLICY IS ABOUT HAVING CLASSROOM DOORS CLOSED.

AND THEN WE WOULD ALSO REPORT IT TO ADMINISTRATION SO THAT THEY CAN FOLLOW UP ON THAT ISSUE.

SO THIS CAMPUS THAT WAS FOUND AT A HIGH RISK, A SCORE OF 74, THAT ONE DAY WHEN THE AUDITOR LEFT THAT CAMPUS, THAT CAMPUS WAS AT A MODERATE BECAUSE THE AUDITOR CORRECTED THOSE ISSUES, BRINGING THE SCORE UP.

IT IS IMPORTANT FOR US TO KNOW, THOUGH, BECAUSE WE NEVER WANT TO FIND A CAMPUS WHAT WE WOULD CONSIDER AS A HIGH RISK.

I WILL ALSO ADD THAT IT IS NOT REALISTIC THAT A CAMPUS WOULD EVER HAVE 100.

WE CAN ALL STRIVE FOR 100 AND IT'S WHAT WE WANT.

BUT THERE'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE THAT SMALL MARGIN OF IMPROVEMENT WHEN IT COMES TO SAFETY AND SECURITY.

ALL RIGHT. SO A FEW MORE CONCERNS THAT WE FOUND.

SO YOU'LL SEE ON THE LEFT AGAIN, THERE IS A BUCKET THERE THAT'S GOT CONCRETE IN IT.

SO THAT IS A PROPPING DEVICE NEAR AN EXTERIOR DOOR, AGAIN, AN OVERGROWN TREE.

AND THEN ON THE RIGHT SIDE, YOU'LL SEE AN OUTDATED STANDARD RESPONSE PROTOCOL POSTER.

SO WE MOVED AWAY FROM THE LOCKOUT LANGUAGE AND MOVED TO SECURE BECAUSE LOCKOUT SOUNDS A LOT LIKE LOCK DOWN.

AND SO WHEN WE FOUND THAT POSTER, WE NOTED IT AND THEN IMMEDIATELY SWAPPED THAT POSTER OUT.

AND SO HERE IS A PICTURE ON THE LEFT OF A DEAD TREE THAT IS PUSHING UP AGAINST A FENCE LINE.

AND THEN ON THE RIGHT YOU WILL SEE THAT THAT TREE HAS BEEN REMOVED.

SO IT'S ALWAYS GREAT TO SEE BEFORE AND AFTER PICTURES.

WELL, IT'S NOT LIKE A BEAUTIFUL SCHOOL, RENAULT.

IT IS IN MY BOOKS A WIN BECAUSE IT IS A SAFETY AND SECURITY CONCERN THAT HAS WE CAN CHECK OFF AS GONE.

SO I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO OUR AMAZING FACILITIES AND MAINTENANCE TEAM FOR TAKING CARE OF THAT SO QUICKLY AND THEN JUST PRESENTING THE DATA A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT BECAUSE THIS DOES INCLUDE THE THE ACTUAL SCORES AS AN AVERAGE, YOU WILL SEE HOW CLOSE ALL OF OUR LEVELS ARE TO THAT 90.

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SO EVEN KNOWING THAT ONE OF OUR SCHOOLS IN THAT LEVEL WAS A 74, THEIR AVERAGE IS STILL AN 87.

AND THEN AS A DISTRICT, THE AVERAGE OF ALL 47 CAMPUSES IS AT 90.

SO WHAT OUR NEXT STEPS? WE ARE AIMING FOR EVERY CAMPUS TO BE LOW RISK.

AND SO AS I MENTIONED, EXIGENT ISSUES ARE HANDLED IMMEDIATELY.

IF WE'RE FINDING AN EXTERIOR DOOR THAT'S NOT LOCKED, WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE A PICTURE OF IT AND MOVE ON.

WE'RE GOING TO STAY THERE UNTIL WE CAN RESOLVE THAT, AS WELL AS THOSE SMALLER, LOWER RISK, SAFETY AND SECURITY ISSUES WITHIN A CAMPUS LIKE A POSTER. IF IT'S SOMETHING WE CAN TAKE CARE OF IMMEDIATELY, WE WILL.

WE WILL BE HAVING MEETINGS WITH EACH CAMPUS ADMINISTRATION TEAM THIS FALL TO DIG DEEPER INTO THEIR REPORTS TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S NOT ANY ADDITIONAL TRAINING OR RESOURCES THAT THEY WOULD LIKE US TO PROVIDE TO THEIR CAMPUS.

BUT WE WILL ALSO DO THAT IF WE SEE THAT AS A NEED FOR THE DISTRICT, IF WE SEE EVERYONE MISUSING A SPECIFIC RESOURCE, IT MAY JUST BE AN EMAIL THAT GOES OUT OR AN OPPORTUNITY FOR AN IN-PERSON TRAINING.

AND THEN AS I MENTIONED, THE REASSESSMENT AS NEEDED.

SO THE MODERATE AND HIGH RISK CAMPUSES ARE GOING TO RECEIVE THAT FULL ASSESSMENT THIS NEXT YEAR AND THEN THE LOW RISK CAMPUSES THE YEAR TO FOLLOW.

AND THEN LASTLY, I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DID NOT RECOGNIZE MATT VAN CLEAVE.

MATT GAVE THE BOARD A WAVE.

MATT IS THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST FOR THE DISTRICT, AND HE SPEARHEADS THIS AUDIT PROCESS.

AND IT IS NO SMALL FEAT TO DO A DEEP DIVE SAFETY AND SECURITY AUDIT ON 47 CAMPUSES.

SO I'M VERY THANKFUL TO HAVE TO HAVE HIM ON THE TEAM.

AND WITH THAT, I WILL TAKE QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS POSTED ON THIS IN THIS TIME.

MR. NEWSOM, I JUST HAD A QUICK QUESTION.

I LOVE THAT YOU GUYS DO THIS.

THIS IS SUCH A HUGE THING FOR US.

THOSE OF US WHO'VE BEEN HERE FOR A WHILE REALLY SEE A PALPABLE DIFFERENCE WHEN WE'RE ON CAMPUSES.

WE CAN'T GET IN THE BACK DOOR AT THE BAND HALL JUST SAYING.

SO WE REALLY NOTICED AND WE HAVE BADGES.

SO BUT WHAT I DO WANT TO KNOW IS A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE INFORMATION.

SO THESE AUDITS ARE REQUIRED.

BUT WHAT IS THE TEXAS COALITION FOR SAFETY? WHAT DO THEY DO WITH IT? LIKE WHAT'S IF THEY DON'T REALLY GRADE YOU AND THEY DON'T DO THESE THINGS, WHAT DO THEY DO? ARE THEY JUST TRACKING? I JUST I'M JUST LOOKING FOR MORE INFORMATION.

YEAH. SO THERE'S KIND OF TWO PIECES TO IT.

THE AUDIT THAT THEY REQUIRE IS REALLY JUST FOR INTERNAL INFORMATION.

SO THEY'RE REQUIRING US TO DO THESE AUDITS.

BUT THE ACTUAL FINDINGS THAT ARE SPECIFIC TO THE CAMPUSES IS FOR OUR OWN AWARENESS AND OUR OWN ABILITY TO MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS ON THE DA TOOL DISTRICT AUDIT REPORT TOOL THAT THEY'RE ASKING FOR.

IT'S MAINLY YES OR NO QUESTIONS OF JUST, YOU KNOW, DO YOU HAVE THESE THINGS THAT ARE REQUIRED OF YOU BY STATE? THEY DON'T ACTUALLY GET OUR AUDITS FROM OUR CAMPUSES.

SO IT'S WRITTEN INTO LEGISLATION SO THAT WE AS A DISTRICT HAVE AWARENESS OF WHAT'S GOING ON ON OUR CAMPUSES.

SO IT'S MORE GUIDANCE FOR WHAT YOU SHOULD BE DOING OR HAVING POLICY MAYBE BE.

I THINK THEY'RE JUST COLLECTING ALL OF THE DATA.

I'M NOT. YEAH. AND I'M SURE THAT THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO HOLD US ACCOUNTABLE DOWN THE LINE.

BUT RIGHT NOW THEY'RE JUST COLLECTING ALL THE INFORMATION FROM ALL THE CAMPUSES OR DISTRICTS.

WELL, THANK YOU. THANK YOU TO YOU AND YOUR TEAM.

THAT'S GREAT WORK, DR.

REED. THANK YOU FOR THAT PRESENTATION.

IT WAS EXCELLENT.

I HAVE SEEN THE NEW SIGNAGE ON THE CAMPUS.

IT MAKES YOU STOP AND READ IT.

IT'S LARGER, BRIGHTER.

SO I APPRECIATE THAT.

I WANTED TO THANK YOU AND YOUR TEAM FOR EXCEEDING THE EXPECTATIONS, THE REQUIREMENTS THAT THE STATE PROVIDES FOR US, AND ALSO KEEPING US ON THE CUSP OF THE MOST RECENT, MOST CURRENT EFFECTIVE SAFETY AND SECURITY MEASURES.

THAT'S IMPORTANT.

DR. CANTU AND I GUESS A COUPLE OF BOARD MEETINGS AGO TOOK US DOWN THE HISTORY OF SAFETY AND SECURITY.

SO I KNOW IT'S IMPORTANT FOR PARENTS TO KNOW AND TEACHERS TO KNOW THAT WE ARE OUR KIDDOS IN A SAFE ENVIRONMENT AT ALL TIMES.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

TOMORROW. OKAY.

LOOK HOW GOOD YOU DID.

I'M SORRY, MISS THOMAS.

I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION, AND I FEEL THAT MANSFIELD'S ALWAYS BEEN, LIKE, A STEP AHEAD OF WHAT WE'VE DONE.

EVEN WHEN WE MADE THE DECISION TO PUT VIDEO CAMERAS ON ALL OF OUR CAMPUS OR DO THE KEYLESS ENTRY.

WE WERE ALWAYS A STEP AHEAD AND AND WE KEEP DOING THAT.

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SO I APPRECIATE THAT.

APPRECIATE ALL THE ALL OF THAT YOU ALL DO TO KEEP IMPROVING A LITTLE BIT BY LITTLE BIT.

SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE DO.

OUR KIDS ARE FIRST AND FOREMOST, SO WE APPRECIATE THEIR SAFETY.

THANK YOU. OKAY.

[10. Public Comments]

ALL SPEAKERS WILL BE LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES TO MAKE COMMENTS REGARDING ITEMS ON THE AGENDA UNLESS MODIFIED BY THE BOARD PRESIDENT.

BASED ON BOARD POLICY BED LOCAL COPIES OF PRESENTATIONS SHOULD BE MADE AVAILABLE TO ALL TRUSTEES AND THE SUPERINTENDENT.

BOARD POLICY PROHIBITS THE DISCUSSION OR COMPLAINTS AGAINST DISTRICT EMPLOYEES DURING AN OPEN FORUM.

AS A REMINDER, THE REGISTRATION PROCESS FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS IS NOW AN ONLINE REGISTRATION PROCESS.

THOSE WHO WISH TO PARTICIPATE IN PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE REQUIRED TO REGISTER ONLINE, BEGINNING WITH THE AGENDA FOR THE MEETING IS POSTED, WHICH IS NO LATER THAN 72 HOURS PRIOR TO THE START OF A MEETING.

ONLINE REGISTRATION IS AVAILABLE UNTIL 1 P.M.

THE DAY OF THE BOARD MEETINGS.

ALL PUBLIC COMMENT SUBMISSIONS MUST BE TIED TO A SPECIFIC AGENDA, ITEM AND TOPIC AS INDICATED IN THE BOARD AGENDA FOR THAT MEETING.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO SIGN UP, YOU CAN VISIT THE SCHOOL BOARD PAGE ON THE DISTRICT WEBSITE.

AND SO WE DO APPRECIATE YOUR COLLABORATION AS WE STREAMLINE OUR PUBLIC COMMENTS SECTION OF OUR AGENDA WITH THAT, SINCE WE DO HAVE IT SIGNED UP AHEAD OF TIME, I'VE GOT THE LIST HERE AND OUR FIRST SPEAKER IS CRAIG GIBSON.

NO. OKAY. YES.

HI. THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS THE BOARD THIS EVENING.

AS YOU MENTIONED, MY NAME IS CRAIG GIBSON AND I LIVE IN THAT LITTLE CIRCLE YOU GUYS SEEM TO ALL BE TALKING ABOUT INDIRECTLY TONIGHT.

AND SO AS I PREPARED MY COMMENTS FOR THIS EVENING, I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY WERE GIVEN IN THE SPIRIT THEY'RE INTENDED, WHICH IS TO BETTER MANSFIELD.

WE'VE BEEN NOW IN TOWN FOR ALMOST 14 YEARS.

WE HAVE ONE DAUGHTER WHO HAS GRADUATED FROM THE MANSFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT.

WE HAVE FIVE OTHERS CURRENTLY ENROLLED.

OKAY. WE DO LIVE AT ROBERTA TIPS.

WE SELECTED ROBERTA TIPS SPECIFICALLY WHEN WE BOUGHT OUR HOME.

THAT WAS ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS ABOUT WHY WE BOUGHT IT.

WE DID LOOK AT TANGLEWOOD.

AND EVIDENTLY THAT ONE DOESN'T GET REDISTRICTED, SO WE MAYBE SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT THERE, BUT THAT'S BESIDE THE POINT.

THAT'S MY SARCASM COMING OUT.

YOU KNOW, WHEN WE CAME AND MET AT THE PUBLIC HEARING ABOUT THE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE REZONING.

I'M GOING TO STOP. I'M GOING TO CHANGE DIRECTIONS REAL QUICK.

I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE BEST THINGS I WANT TO TALK ABOUT.

AND WE'LL COME BACK TO THAT.

OUR DAUGHTER CHOSE TO ATTEND ALMA MARTINEZ, WHICH IS A SCHOOL CHOICE.

AND I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR THAT PROGRAM.

WE WERE ABLE TO SEE SOME TRULY BEAUTIFUL, STUNNING PERFORMANCES THAT WERE PUT ON BY THAT SCHOOL.

EVEN WHEN COMPARED WITH THE HIGH SCHOOLS THEY COMPETED AGAINST.

SO WHATEVER WE DID THERE, WE DID IT RIGHT AND IT WAS VERY WONDERFUL.

SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

WITH THAT IN MIND, MY DAUGHTER WHO CHOSE TO DRIVE THERE AND NOTICE IT IS A 20 MINUTE DRIVE FOR US TO GO THERE.

WE CHOSE TO TAKE HER THERE.

WE CHOSE TO DRIVE HER ON THE WAY HOME, BUT NOT TO BECAUSE, WELL, SOMETIMES SCHOOL BUSSES BUILD CHARACTER.

SHE CHOSE TO COME BACK TO WESTAR SO THAT SHE COULD PARTICIPATE IN SPORTS BECAUSE SHE WAS NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE P.E.

OR OTHER PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES AS PART OF HER ENRICHMENT CURRICULUM.

SHE WAS VERY SAD TO SEE THE OTHER KIDS HAVING P.E.

AND SHE DIDN'T GET IT, WHICH IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY SHE CHOSE NOT TO FOLLOW THAT THAT PERFORMING ARTS PATHWAY.

SO THAT'S JUST FOR YOUR INFORMATION.

AND AS A AS A FATHER OF A SON WHO HAS TRIED TO GET INTO THE STEM PROGRAMS AND HAS FAILED MULTIPLE TIMES, PLEASE EXPAND THOSE.

HE WOULD REALLY LOVE TO DO THAT.

OKAY. SO NOW COMING BACK TO IT THEN, I'VE MENTIONED TO SEVERAL OF YOU TONIGHT AT THAT PUBLIC HEARING THAT WE ARE NOT CONCERNED ABOUT ATTENDING SUMMIT AS A SCHOOL, THAT IT IS. BUT WHAT WE DID NOT HEAR AND I WAS A LITTLE BIT THANKFUL FOR SOME OF YOUR COMMENTS TONIGHT, ALTHOUGH I DID FEEL KIND OF LIKE THE CAR SALESMAN WHERE I WANTED TO BMW AND YOU YOU ROLLED OUT THE USED ONE AND SAID, HEY, IT'S GREAT.

RIGHT? BUT I DID APPRECIATE THE COMMENTS BECAUSE YOU MENTIONED SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU'RE DOING TO IMPROVE THAT SCHOOL, WHICH IS WHAT I FELT ARE SORELY LACKING FROM THE PROPOSALS THAT WERE PRESENTED.

MY KIDS ARE NOT JUST NUMBERS ON A ON A ON A ROLL, ON A SPREADSHEET, ON A CHART, AS NEITHER ARE ANY OF THE OTHER KIDS THAT ARE INVOLVED IN IT.

AND I'M AWARE OF THAT.

BUT WHAT WE DO THEN WHEN WE TAKE, YOU KNOW, NO PLUGS FOR MANSFIELD, NO PLUGS FOR LAKERIDGE, NO PLUGS FOR LEGACY RIGHT THERE.

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THERE WAS NO MENTION ABOUT WHAT'S GOING TO BE DONE TO IMPROVE THOSE SCHOOLS.

MS. I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA THAT WE LEAVE SPACE AT SOME OF THOSE SCHOOLS FOR ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS. I THINK THAT'S GREAT. AM I OUT OF TIME? ARE THERE ONE TWO SECONDS? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? I THINK THAT'S IT.

MAY I HAVE ONE EXTRA MINUTE TO WRAP UP? NOT A WHOLE MINUTE LIKE YOU HAVE TWO, THREE SECONDS.

WRAP IT UP. JUST TELL ME WHAT I HAVE TO STOP, OKAY? I'LL BE AS QUICK AS I CAN.

NO, WE GOT TO. WE GOT TO WRAP IT UP BECAUSE ALL MY FOLKS LEFT.

EVERYBODY WHO IS HERE WAITING.

CAN I JUST HAVE ONE EXTRA MINUTE? WAS A GUY WHO WAS THIS? WHAT DID HE SAY? WE HAVE WE HAVE A WHOLE LIST OF PEOPLE.

I I'LL GET THE TIME. I UNDERSTAND.

CAN I JUST ASK FOR ONE MINUTE? WHAT DID HE SAY? THE GENTLEMAN BEHIND ME AND FOUR OF THE OTHER PEOPLE CAME TO TALK ABOUT THIS EXACT SAME SUBJECT AND LEFT.

CAN I JUST HAVE ONE MINUTE, PLEASE? WE'VE GOT TO STOP. BUT IF WE DO THIS, WE HAVE EVERYBODY.

OKAY. TO WRAP IT UP, I FEEL LIKE YOU SHOULD REALLY LOOK AT FIXING THOSE SCHOOLS AND THEN MOVING US THERE.

WE WILL GO. MY SON.

WE WILL HAVE KIDS THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE PROGRAM.

SO THE PHASING THING, I'M LIKE, WE CAN DAISY CHAIN THEM ALL OUT, BUT WE'LL DEAL WITH IT.

WE'LL PERSEVERE. WE'RE MANSFIELD, RIGHT? THANK YOU. THE SECOND SPEAKER IS HOUSTON MITCHELL.

I DON'T SEE HOUSTON.

HE'S NOT. HE'S NOT PRESENT.

OKAY. THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS.

OKAY. THE THIRD ONE IS TAMMY HARLAN.

AND I HAVE HER SIGN. SHE'S RIGHT THERE.

SHE'S HERE. OKAY.

OKAY.

GOOD EVENING. I'M TAMI HAALAND AND YES, I LIVE IN THE LAKE RIDGE FEEDER PATTERN.

I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE OVERCROWDING AS OF AUGUST 9TH, LAKE RIDGE WAS AT 2805.

KIDS DON'T KNOW WHERE IT IS TODAY.

I CAN TELL YOU MY SON HAS A CLASS THAT HAS 30 SEATS AND 30 COMPUTERS.

HE HAS MORE KIDS IN THAT CLASS THAN THEY HAVE SEATS.

IF WE KEEP PUTTING IT OFF AND PUTTING IT OFF AND PUTTING IT OFF, WHEN DO WE STOP AND JUST SAY IT'S TIME TO RIP THE BAND AID OFF? HE GOES TO LUNCH.

HE WAITS IN LINE.

22 MINUTES, 25 MINUTES, HAS LESS THAN FIVE MINUTES TO EAT.

BUT WE'RE GOING TO KEEP WE'RE GOING TO NOT DO THIS TILL 25, 26.

WHY DO WE KEEP PUTTING IT OFF? I KNOW NOBODY WANTS TO MOVE.

I HATE IT. WE GOT REDISTRICT TO MCKENZIE.

WE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE A MEETING.

WE GOT A LETTER AT THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR THAT SAID, HEY, YOU'RE GOING TO MCKENZIE IN THE FALL.

NO FEEDBACK, NO QUESTIONS.

WE HAD TO JUST SUCK IT UP AND DO IT.

AND I HATE TO SAY THAT, BUT AT SOME POINT THE RUBBER'S GOT TO MEET THE ROAD.

AND WHEN HE CAN'T GET DOWN THE HALLS BECAUSE YOU CAN'T GET UP THE STAIRS AND YOU GOT TEN MINUTES IS BARELY ENOUGH TO GET TO CLASS.

AND THEY'RE RIGHT DOWN THE HALL.

YOU GOT TO MAKE A CHANGE.

AND PUTTING IT OFF TILL 2526 DOESN'T MAKE A CHANGE.

IT JUST MAKES IT WORSE.

WE'RE WAY OVER NOW.

I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHERE WE ARE TODAY.

IF WE WERE AT 2805 ON AUGUST 9TH, I PROMISE YOU WE'RE AT 28, 25, MAYBE, MAYBE 2850.

AND THAT SCHOOL, IT'S EVEN THE PRINCIPALS LIKE WE HAVE.

WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING. WE'VE GOT CLASSES WITH 41 KIDS IN IT.

WE CAN'T HAVE CLASSES WITH 41 KIDS.

OUR KIDS DON'T LEARN ANYTHING WHEN YOU HAVE TOO MANY KIDS AND NOT ENOUGH CHAIRS.

I KNOW NOBODY WANTS TO REDISTRICT.

I HATE IT.

I HATE REZONING. I HATE IT.

ALL. BUT IN THE END, OUR KIDS ARE WHAT MATTERS AND OUR KIDS NEED TO BE ABLE TO EAT LUNCH AND NOT HAVE TO WAIT IN LINE AND TRY TO CHOKE IT DOWN.

WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO GET FROM CLASSROOM TO CLASSROOM AND WE SHOULD HAVE CHAIRS FOR ALL THE KIDS IN THE CLASS.

THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE TO BE STANDING AND SHARING COMPUTERS IN A DIGITAL CLASS BECAUSE WE CAN'T GET OUR OUR ENROLLMENT IN LINE.

MY KID DOESN'T GET HE'S NOT GOING TO BE REZONED.

LAKE RIDGE IS TWO MINUTES FROM MY HOUSE AND I FEEL BAD FOR ALL THE KIDS THAT ARE GOING TO HAVE TO SWITCH.

BUT WE HAVE TO DO WHAT MAKES THE MOST SENSE.

AND UNFORTUNATELY, SOMEBODY'S NOT GOING TO BE HAPPY ABOUT IT.

BUT KIDS SHOULD BE ABLE TO EAT LUNCH AND BE ABLE TO HAVE CHAIRS IN THE CLASSROOM.

SO TAKE THAT FOR WHAT IT IS.

I APPRECIATE YOU GUYS ALL.

THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS LISA HIGGINBOTTOM.

I'M ASSUMING IT'S LISA. MAYBE LISA HIGGINBOTTOM.

OKAY. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS JOSHUA POWELL.

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I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT.

MY NAME IS JOSHUA POWELL.

TEN YEARS AGO, I ACCEPTED A TRANSFER FROM ORLANDO, FLORIDA, TO NORTH TEXAS ANYWHERE IN NORTH TEXAS.

MY WIFE AND I BEGAN OUR RESEARCH, AND WE OPTIMISTICALLY CHOSE MANSFIELD BASED ON TWO KEY POINTS HOME PRICE AND EDUCATION FOR OUR FAMILY.

THAT WAS 2014 WHEN WE CAME INTO ZIP CODE 76063.

OUR DAUGHTER MAYA WAS JUST BEGINNING FIRST GRADE.

THEN OUR TWO BOYS WEREN'T OLD ENOUGH FOR PRESCHOOL YET.

SHE CAME UP THROUGH ROBERTA TIPS AND SHE EXCELLED.

CITIZENSHIP HONORABLE AND SHE IS NOW THROUGH A SOLO WEBSTER MIDDLE SCHOOL AND IS A THRIVING JUNIOR AT MANSFIELD HIGH SCHOOL.

OUR SON, J.J., HE HAS BEEN VERY WELL SUPPORTED AT ROBERTA TIPS GROWING UP WITH HIS BEST FRIENDS, ALSO RECEIVING CITIZENSHIP AND HONORABLE.

HE HAS SINCE COMPLETED A SOLO, IS BEGINNING HIS FIRST YEAR AT WEBSTER.

HE'S MOST EXCITED ABOUT FOOTBALL WITH ASPIRATIONS TO BE A MANSFIELD TIGER.

OUR NINE YEAR OLD LUKE.

LUKE IS A FOURTH GRADER AND ROBERTA TIPS.

HE IS MORE THAN ANY OF OUR OTHER CHILDREN, PROBABLY RECEIVED THE MOST LOVE AND SUPPORT FROM MANSFIELD ISD AND THE ART PROGRAM AND ALL THE WONDERFUL TEACHERS AT ROBERTA TIPPS ELEMENTARY.

HE'S A SHINING STAR.

TRULY. EVERYBODY LOVES HIM.

BUT THE GOAL OF OUR CHILDREN ATTENDING THE SAME SCHOOLS AND THE SAME COMMUNITY HAS BEEN AND ALWAYS WILL BE A PRIORITY FOR OUR FAMILY.

FOR US, IT'S ABOUT COMMUNITY.

IT'S ABOUT KNOWING AND HAVING THE SAME TEACHERS.

IT'S ABOUT TRADING STORIES AS THEY GROW OLDER OF THEIR HIGH SCHOOL YEARS BEING A MANSFIELD TIGER.

THAT STORY IS FAMILIAR AND IT FOSTERS A SENSE OF SECURITY AND PREPARES THEM FOR THEIR ADULT LIFE.

WE'VE BEEN VERY HAPPY WITH OUR DECISION TO JOIN THIS COMMUNITY.

WE'VE STAYED STRONG IN OUR MISSION TO INVEST THROUGH HOME OWNERSHIP.

THE TAXES WE PAY, THE T SHIRTS, WE BUY EVERY BOOSTER CLUB.

AND IT'S NOT JUST US.

IT'S SO MANY FAMILIES THAT HAVE BEEN HERE FOR A DECADE, TWO DECADES OR MORE.

SO I WOULD ASK THAT YOU PLEASE DO NOT APPROVE THIS RECOMMENDATION WITHOUT FURTHER CONSIDERATION.

THERE IS A PERCEPTION AND DATA AROUND THE TWO SCHOOLS TIMBERVIEW SUMMIT.

THANK YOU. WHAT HAPPENS TO OUR PROPERTY VALUE LOSS? IS THAT MISD GOING TO COMPENSATE FOR THAT? PLEASE CONSIDER REJECTING THIS RECOMMENDATION UNTIL FURTHER REVIEW.

THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS SHETTIMA FRANCIS.

GOOD EVENING.

I AM SHETTIMA FRANCIS AND A RESIDENT IN MANSFIELD.

MADAM PRESIDENT, DR.

CANTU BOARD MEMBERS IN PARTICULAR.

I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS AND I'M GOING TO ASK YOU ALL VERY SERIOUSLY.

THESE ARE RHETORICAL IN THE SENSE THAT YOU CAN GET BACK TO ME LATER, NOT TONIGHT, BUT THEY ARE LEGITIMATE QUESTIONS THAT I THINK NEED TO BE ASKED.

WHAT IS OUR PRIORITY HERE? IS IT TO EDUCATE STUDENTS? DO WE CARE ABOUT THE STUDENTS AS OUR FIRST PRIORITY AND THEIR LEARNING? AND IF THAT'S TRUE, AND YOU REALLY CARE ABOUT THE STUDENTS IN THE CLASSROOMS, THEN LET'S ASK WHERE ARE THEIR TEACHERS? BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW IF YOU ALL ARE AWARE AS BOARD MEMBERS ON YOUR DOORS.

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THEY DID NOT HAVE PERMANENT TEACHERS.

THEY HAVE SUBS.

THEY'RE NOT EVEN LONG TERM SUBS.

THEY'RE ON TWO WEEK ROTATIONS SO THEY DON'T GET PAID AS A LONG TERM SUB.

SO YOU'VE GOT ELEMENTARY KIDS START IN SCHOOL.

WELL, WE GOT ALL THESE VICE PRINCIPALS AND ALL THESE ADMINISTRATORS BEING HIRED AND MOVED ALL OVER THE PLACE.

WE DON'T HAVE CLASSROOM TEACHERS FOR OUR YOUNGEST LEARNERS.

THE COMMUNITY THAT WE WANT TO BUILD TO FOSTER HOW HE WAS JUST SPEAKING OF ALL OF MY CHILDREN GO THROUGH THIS SCHOOL.

THEY HAVE THE SAME TEACHERS.

WE'RE NOT GETTING THAT ANYMORE.

WHERE IS OUR COMMUNITY? I ALSO HAVE THREE CHILDREN I LOOKED FORWARD TO.

OH, THEY GET TO HAVE THE TEACHER THAT MY OLDEST HAD.

MY YOUNGEST TWO ARE TWINS, SO THEY KIND OF DO THE SAME THING.

BUT WE'RE NOT GETTING THAT ANYMORE BECAUSE OUR TEACHERS ARE GETTING SHOVED ALL OVER THE DISTRICT YEAR AFTER NEXT.

THERE'S NO CONTINUITY.

OUR ADMINISTRATORS ARE GETTING PUSHED AROUND LIKE THIS IS GENERAL MOTORS OR SOMETHING.

WHERE IS THE FEELING? WHERE IS THE COMMUNITY? WE'RE LOSING THAT.

THAT'S WHY PEOPLE ARE UPSET.

THE STAFFING AT SUMMIT.

LET'S TALK ABOUT HOW MANY KIDS ARE IN THOSE CLASSROOMS. PEOPLE WOULDN'T BE UPSET ABOUT HAVING TO GO THERE IF THE SCHOOL WAS DOING BETTER, IF IT WAS ADEQUATELY STAFFED.

PROPER RATIOS, THAT SCHOOL IS BEING IGNORED.

YOU SET UP HERE AND GAVE US FACTS ABOUT MILITARY TESTING LIKE THAT IS TO BE WE'RE TO BE PROUD OF THAT IN COMPARISON TO ALL THE OTHER SCHOOLS.

THEY'VE GOT GOOD ASVAB SCORES, BUT YOU WANT US TO SEND OUR KIDS THERE.

HOW ABOUT TAKE SOME FUNDS AND DO TEST PREP AND HELP THEM STUDY AND WORK ON OTHER THINGS TO INCREASE THEIR SCORES SO PEOPLE DON'T MIND LEAVING MANSFIELD HIGH SCHOOL AND SENDING THEIR KIDS TO SUMMIT.

LET'S FOCUS ON TEACHERS.

LET US FOCUS ON THE STUDENTS AND NOT THE GLUT IN ADMINISTRATION.

THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS RENEE LEE.

ONE MORE TIME. RENEE LEE.

THE NEXT SPEAKER IS LEO GORANOV.

DID I SAY IT CORRECTLY? GOOD EVENING, DR.

CANTU, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

MY NAME IS LEO GORBUNOV, AND I'M A FATHER OF TWO MANSFIELD STUDENTS.

I'VE BEEN ALSO ACTIVELY INVOLVED WITH MISD BY BEING ON THE MANSFIELD GIFTED AND TALENTED PARENT ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS. I'M HERE TODAY TO ASK YOU TO VOTE AGAINST THE PROPOSED HIGH SCHOOL ZONING CHANGE AND SPECIFICALLY THE REZONING OF TIPPS ELEMENTARY TO SUMMIT HIGH SCHOOL.

WHY AM I AGAINST THIS REZONING? WE ALL WANT THE BEST FOR OUR CHILDREN.

AND WHEN I MOVED TO MANSFIELD TEN YEARS AGO, I WANTED TO BUY A HOUSE ZONED FOR THE HIGHEST RANKED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT THE TIME, TIPPS, BROWN AND BOREN WERE MY CHOICES AND FOR THE BEST HIGH SCHOOL, MANSFIELD HIGH.

TEN YEARS LATER, THIS IS STILL THE CASE BASED ON GRADE SCHOOL ORGANIZATION RANKINGS, AND I HAVE THOSE THAT PRESENTATION FOR YOU.

BACK THEN, THE FIRST HOUSE I CONSIDERED WAS IN THE SOUTHWIND DIVISION OF HIGHWAY 360 AND RAGLAND ROAD.

EVEN THOUGH THIS IS AN ARLINGTON NEIGHBORHOOD, IT IS ZONED FOR MANSFIELD ISD SCHOOLS, BROWN AND MANSFIELD HIGH.

YET ONE OF THE MANSFIELD CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, LARRY BROSCH, FOR WHOM I WORKED AT THAT TIME, WARNED ME THAT ARLINGTON RESIDENTS COULD EASILY REZONE, WHILE MANSFIELD ISD GENERALLY WOULD NOT DO THIS IF THE RESIDENTS OF MANSFIELD, AT LEAST IT HAD NOT HAPPENED MUCH IN THE LAST TEN YEARS.

THEREFORE, I BOUGHT A HOUSE IN THE ANTIGUA DIVISION NORTH OF DERBY LANE.

AT THE TIME I WAS EXCITED TO LIVE IN ONE OF THE BEST SMALL CITIES IN USA AS THE BANNERS ALL AROUND OUR TOWN WERE SAYING.

UNFORTUNATELY, TEN YEARS LATER, MY WORST NIGHTMARE CAME TO REALITY.

MY CHILDREN, WHO HAD LEARNED A LOT AT TIPPS ISOLO AND JERRY KNIGHT STEM ACADEMY AND WERE READY TO EXPAND ON THAT KNOWLEDGE AT MANSFIELD HIGH WOULD BE ZONED TO AN AVERAGE RANKED SCHOOL SUMMIT, A SCHOOL THAT IS NOT EVEN LOCATED IN MANSFIELD BUT IN ARLINGTON AND HAS HISTORICALLY SERVED THE ARLINGTON COMMUNITY.

[03:05:01]

WHY DO THE RESIDENTS OF ARLINGTON RECEIVE PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT OVER THE TRUE CITIZENS OF MANSFIELD? TONIGHT, I'M VERY SAD ABOUT WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN TO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND TIBBS ELEMENTARY IF THE PROPOSED ZONING CHANGE IS ACCEPTED.

I ENVISION A LOT OF RESIDENTS RELOCATING, AT LEAST THIS IS WHAT I WOULD DO FOR SURE TO AVOID THE DEVALUATION OF MY PROPERTY.

I DO BELIEVE THAT YOU, THE MANSFIELD BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND SUPERINTENDENT, WILL STAND BEHIND THE INTEREST OF OUR FELLOW MANSFIELD CITIZENS AND VOTE AGAINST THIS SHAMEFUL REZONING CHANGE.

PLEASE DO THIS FOR OUR CHILDREN AND OUR COMMUNITY.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. GARNER. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS MARIA DONAHOE.

MARIA DONAHOE. JOHANNA CORDOZA.

MARGARITA DAMIANOV GIVING THE PRESENTATION FOR ME.

WHAT WAS HER NAME? WHAT WAS HER NAME? YEAH. THANK YOU FOR MEMBERS ONE PAGE EACH.

GIVE ME ONE SECOND.

OKAY. MY NAME IS MARGARITA DAMYANOVO.

SO, DEAR DR.

CANTU AND DEAR BOARD MEMBERS.

I CAME HERE TONIGHT TO PLEAD YOU TO PLEASE VOTE AGAINST THE PROPOSED ZONING CHANGE, WHICH WILL REROUTE KIDS THAT ARE CURRENTLY TOWARDS MANSFIELD HIGH INTO SUMMIT.

I CAME HERE TO ASK YOU THAT TONIGHT, BUT JUST BY LISTENING TO THE BOARD MEETING TONIGHT, I FELT THAT THE DECISION WAS ALREADY MADE.

SO I FELT VERY UNFAIRLY TREATED BECAUSE I LISTENED TO ALL OF YOU TONIGHT HOW YOU PRETTY MUCH SUPPORTED THAT DECISION BEFORE YOU HAVE EVEN VOTED ON THAT.

THIS WAS VERY HIGHLY DISCOURAGING.

MY NEIGHBORS LEFT BECAUSE OF THAT.

AND IT'S JUST VERY UPSETTING THAT THE COMMUNITY COMMENTS WERE NOT EVEN LISTENED TO.

SO THE REASON THAT I'M ASKING YOU TO VOTE AGAINST IT, THOSE PAPERS I JUST GAVE YOU, THEY COME FROM GRADE SCHOOL, THE GRADE SCHOOL RANKING SYSTEM THAT EVERYBODY IS LOOKING AT WHEN MAKING A HOUSE BUYING DECISION.

AS YOU SEE, MANSFIELD HIGH IS RATED EIGHT OUT OF TEN OVERALL RANKING AND GO.

THAT GOES ON MULTIPLE METRICS.

AND AS FAR AS SUMMIT HIGH SCHOOL, THAT'S ONLY A FOUR OUT OF TEN.

AND THAT GOES ON MULTIPLE METRICS, INCLUDING COLLEGE, PREPARE PREPARATION AND SO FORTH.

OBVIOUSLY I LOOKED AT THOSE RANKINGS WHEN I BOUGHT MY HOME AND EVERYBODY ELSE WILL TOO.

SO I BELIEVE THIS IS A TRUE ROBBERY.

I FEEL THAT THE MISD IS ROBBING MY KIDS FROM THE EDUCATION THEY DESERVE.

AND I BELIEVE YOU GUYS ARE ROBBING US, THE HOMEOWNERS FROM THE VALUE OF OUR HOME.

WE PAID PREMIUM PRICE TO COME AND LIVE IN MANSFIELD.

WE PAID WAY OVER WHAT THE VERY SIMILAR HOUSE IN ARLINGTON IS COSTS, WHICH IS ONLY FIVE MINUTES AWAY.

WE MADE THAT DECISION TEN YEARS AGO.

KNOWING THAT WE'RE INVESTING IN THE FUTURE OF OUR KIDS.

AND I FEEL THAT THIS INVESTMENT IS JUST BEING TAKEN AWAY OVERNIGHT.

THIS IS NOT A FAIR TREATMENT TO MANSFIELD CITIZENS.

IT'S JUST NOT RIGHT.

YOU HAVE OTHER CHOICES TO TO RESOLVE THAT BY THE CHOICE PROGRAMS. YOU ALREADY SAID THAT THE SUMMIT IS BECOMING A PRO CHOICE SCHOOL, WHICH MEANS THAT YOU CAN ATTRACT PEOPLE BY CHOICE AND NOT FORCING US TO GO THERE AND NOT FORCING US TO SELL OUR HOUSE AND NOT FORCING THE CHANGE IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE MULTIPLE PEOPLE WANTED WANTING, WANTED TO LEASE THEIR HOMES BACK IN THE SUMMER.

I MEAN, YOU'RE PROPOSING TO CHANGE THE WHOLE DEMOGRAPHIC OF THAT COMMUNITY, INCLUDING THE DEMOGRAPHIC OF ROBERTA TIPS.

AND THIS IS JUST NOT RIGHT WHEN YOU HAVE OTHER WAYS TO RESOLVE THAT BY THE CHOICE PROGRAM.

SOMEBODY IN THE PREVIOUS PRESENTATION ALREADY SAID THAT YOU CAN OPEN MORE SPOTS, MAKE IT DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGY, JUST SUBJECTS WHERE THEY CAN ATTRACT STUDENTS FROM THE SOUTH SO YOU HAVE A WAY TO SOLVE IT.

WHY IMPOSE IT ON US? YOU HAVE A FAIR WAY TO RESOLVE THIS.

I MEAN, WHEN YOU MAKE THAT DECISION, OUR HOUSE VALUE IS GOING TO DROP OVERNIGHT AND YOU ALL KNOW THAT.

AND THAT INVESTMENT, WE PAY PREMIUM OUR TAX DOLLARS BASED ON HIGHER PRICED VALUES.

WE PAY MORE FOR DOMINO'S.

DOMINO'S. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

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KELLY ALLEN, HOWEVER, FOUND THIS GENTLEMAN IN VEGAS.

IT DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT.

THE NEXT ONE IS PAT ALLEN.

AND I WOULD.

AND THEN THE NEXT SPEAKER IS JENNIFER REICH.

SHIFT GEARS HERE A LITTLE BIT.

JENNIFER REICH AND I HAVE SEVERAL QUESTIONS TONIGHT.

THE Y'ALL WILL BE VOTING ON THE FIRST ROUND OF BOOKS SUBMITTED BY LIBRARIANS FOR INCLUSION IN THE SCHOOL LIBRARIES.

SO IF A BOOK IS PULLED FROM THE LIST TONIGHT, HAS IT BEEN READ IN FULL? THAT'S MY QUESTION NUMBER ONE.

NUMBER TWO, DO THE OTHER BOARD MEMBERS ALL KNOW WHY THE BOOK IS BEING PULLED? THREE. WHAT PROFESSIONAL REVIEW TOOLS WILL BE USED FOR DETERMINING THE FINAL DECISION REGARDING A BOOK THAT IS PULLED? EXAMPLES WOULD BE BOOKLIST KIRKUS SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL THE STATE TO BUY TO LIST BLUEBONNET LIST THAT ARE PROFESSIONAL TOOLS USED BY YOUR SCHOOL LIBRARIANS.

AND LASTLY.

WELL, NOT QUITE. LASTLY, JUST TO REMINDER THAT HOUSE BILL 900 THAT SEVERAL SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS WERE SO JOYOUS WAS PASSED IS UNDER WILL HAVE ANOTHER COURT HEARING MONDAY BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN DEEMED UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

SO LISTENING TO TONIGHT'S SCHOOL BOARD PRESENTATIONS FROM THE PRAYER TO THE STAR UPDATE ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT WAS THE FOCUS.

SO WHEN IT CAME TO READING AND WRITING, A THOUGHT OCCURS TO ME BASED ON A READING I DID TODAY IN PREPARATION FOR TONIGHT.

AMY WERBEL, A PROFESSOR, SPOKE OF LEARNERS EVOLVING TO SELF-CENSORSHIP NOT AS A CONCERN FOR CORRECTION, RATHER AS A FEAR OF BEING CENSURED FOR THINKING OR CREATIVITY.

WHEN BOOKS ARE BANNED, STUDENTS LOSE THE OPPORTUNITY TO COMPARE THOUGHTS AND IDEAS WHICH DEVELOP CRITICAL THINKING.

AS THIS PROGRESSES, STUDENTS HAVE LESS AND LESS ACCESS TO DIVERSITY.

THEY DEVELOP SELF-CENSORSHIP.

IT MAKES ME WONDER HOW SUCCESSFUL THESE STUDENTS WILL BE AS THEY FACE READING AND WRITING PROMPTS.

IT MAKES ME WONDER HOW THESE STUDENTS WILL THRIVE BEYOND K-12, AND I'LL LEAVE YOU WITH THAT WONDER AND ONE OTHER THOUGHT IN LISTENING TO THE ANGST OF ALL THE PARENTS HAVING BEEN IN THE DISTRICT 30 PLUS YEARS, WE SHOULD ALL COUNT OUR BLESSINGS FOR MR. NEWSOM AND DR.

CUNNINGHAM, WHO WERE WISE ENOUGH TO PURCHASE THE LAND WHICH ALL THIS REZONING IS BEING ARGUED ABOUT, THAT WE DON'T HAVE THAT FINANCIAL BURDEN.

NOW, IN ADDITION TO THE ANGST, AND FOR EVERY PARENT WHO IS UPSET, THERE IS ANOTHER PARENT WHO IS GLAD AND NO ONE LIKES REZONING. 30 YEARS AGO IT WAS GENERATIONAL.

PEOPLE HAD ALWAYS GONE.

THEIR PARENTS HAD GONE.

THEIR GRANDPARENTS HAD GONE.

SUMMIT. WAS.

IT HADN'T EVEN OPENED AND IT WAS HORRIFIC.

BECAUSE IT WAS GENERATIONAL.

IT IS. ULTIMATELY, I BELIEVE Y'ALL ARE TRYING TO REZONE IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE STUDENTS.

THANK YOU. OUR FINAL SPEAKER IS JASON ERNST.

ARNDT. I HOPE I'M SAYING THAT CORRECTLY.

JASON. OKAY.

WITH THAT, WE WILL MOVE TO ITEM 11, OUR HUMAN RESOURCES REPORT.

[11. Human Resources Report]

TRUSTEE THOMAS.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO READ US THIS LIST? YES, WE HAVE ONE WHO IS THAT HAS I'M SORRY, 22 YEARS AND IT'S MICHELLE ELLIOTT.

SO THANK YOU, MICHELLE, FOR ALL OF YOUR WORK AND ALL OF YOUR DEDICATION AND ALL YOUR YEARS OF SERVICE FOR OUR SCHOOLS AND OUR STUDENTS.

THANK YOU. WE WILL NOW MOVE TO ITEM 12.1.

[12. Business Items Requiring Board Action]

[03:15:04]

MAY I PLEASE RECEIVE A MOTION? SO MOVED. I HAVE A MOTION BY MS..

FERRARO. IS THERE A SECOND? A SECOND MADE BY MS.. ANDERSON.

IS THERE ANY QUESTIONS? DISCUSSIONS ON THIS TOPIC.

OKAY. DID YOU HAVE YOUR HAND? DID YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING? OKAY. I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT NOT ONLY ARE WE LOWERING THE TAX RATE 18.5 FOR PENNIES, THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF SAVINGS OF $3.9 MILLION TO THE TAXPAYERS.

AND MR. JEFF ROBERT IS HERE ALSO, IF YOU ALL HAVE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS ITEM.

OKAY. ALL RIGHT.

MORE QUESTIONS. OKAY.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION, MAY I PLEASE SEE A SHOW OF HANDS? OKAY. THE MOTION PASSES SEVEN ZERO.

NOW TO ITEM 12.2.

CONSIDER ALL MATTERS INCIDENT AND RELATED TO PROVIDING FOR THE DEFICIENCY OF CERTAIN OUTSTANDING OBLIGATIONS OF THE DISTRICT, INCLUDING THE ADOPTION OF AN ORDER PERTAINING THERETO.

MAY I PLEASE RECEIVE A MOTION? WE HAVE A MOTION MADE BY MISS THOMAS.

IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND. MICHELLE. MICHELLE? OKAY. IN A SECOND. MADE BY MISS NEWSOM.

ANY DISCUSSION FROM THE BOARD? OKAY. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION.

MAY I PLEASE SEE A SHOW OF HANDS? OKAY. THE MOTION PASSES SEVEN ZERO.

NOW WE MOVE TO ITEM 12.3.

CONSIDERATION AND APPROVAL OF THE ATTENDANCE ZONES AND CORRESPONDING OPTIONS.

MAY I PLEASE RECEIVE A MOTION? SO MOVED. WE HAVE A MOTION MADE BY MISS FERRARA.

IS THERE A SECOND? OKAY. A SECOND. MADE BY MR. TIPPING. ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION.

MAY I PLEASE SEE A SHOW OF HANDS? AND THE MOTION PASSES.

SEVEN ZERO.

ITEM 12.4 CONSIDERATION APPROVAL OF RESOLUTION NUMBER 20 4-05 ADOPT ORDINANCE LEVYING TAXES FOR THE YEAR 2023 AND DIRECTING THE ASSESSMENT AND COLLECTION OF TAXES.

MAY I PLEASE RECEIVE A MOTION? I WOULD. I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE SUPERINTENDENT RECOMMENDATIONS THAT THE ADOPTION OF THE TAX RATE FOR THE 2223 TAX YEAR OF $1 AND 1.149 TO BE APPROVED.

AND I THINK WE HAVE TO DO THOSE SEPARATELY ALL THREE DIFFERENTLY.

SO THAT'S MY FIRST MOTION.

SECOND. OKAY.

SO THE MOTION MADE BY MISS THOMAS IN A SECOND MADE BY MISS ANDERSON.

DO WE NEED TO SPLIT THOSE OUT, LIKE YOU SAID? OKAY, SO WE HAVE THIS ONE PLUS TWO MORE.

CORRECT? OKAY. I'M JUST MAKING SURE I HAVE IT RIGHT.

OKAY. SO ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS REGARDING THE MOTION? MAY I PLEASE SEE A SHOW OF HANDS FOR ALL THOSE THAT APPROVE? OKAY. MOTION PASSES.

SEVEN ZERO.

THEN WE HAVE OUR SECOND MOTION.

I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION.

THE SUPERINTENDENT RECOMMEND THE RECOMMENDATION THAT THE ADOPTION OF THE MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION TAX RATE OF 0.089 $0.02 BE APPROVED.

SECOND. OKAY.

AGAIN, WE HAVE A MOTION MADE BY MISS THOMAS AND A SECOND MADE BY MISS ANDERSON.

ANY QUESTIONS? CONCERNS? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION.

MAY I PLEASE SEE A SHOW OF HANDS AGAIN? THE MOTION PASSES SEVEN ZERO AND THEN WE HAVE A FINAL MOTION ON THAT TOPIC THAT TO MAKE A MOTION THAT THE SUPERINTENDENT RECOMMENDATION THAT THE ADOPTION OF THE INTEREST AND SINKING TAX RATE OF ZERO POINT OR $0.36 BE APPROVED.

THANK YOU. OKAY.

THEN A MOTION MADE BY MISS THOMAS AND AGAIN SECONDED BY MISS ANDERSON.

ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS? OKAY. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION, MAY I PLEASE SEE A SHOW OF HANDS? OKAY. THE MOTION PASSES.

SEVEN ZERO.

ALL RIGHT. WE NOW MOVE TO ITEM 12.5.

CONSIDERATION AND APPROVAL OF THE FIRST READING OF SB 121 AND 119 AND MISD POLICY UPDATES.

MAY I PLEASE RECEIVE A MOTION? SO MOVED. OKAY.

MOTION MADE BY MISS FARRAR.

IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND. OKAY. AND A SECOND MADE BY MISS THOMAS.

ANY QUESTIONS? OKAY. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION, PLEASE SEE A SHOW OF HANDS.

OKAY. THE MOTION PASSES.

SEVEN ZERO.

THIS TAKES US TO OUR CONSENT AGENDA.

[13. Consent Agenda]

[03:20:06]

MAY I PLEASE SEE A SHOW OF HANDS? OKAY. THE CONSENT AGENDA IS APPROVED.

SEVEN ZERO.

WE NOW ARE TO ITEM 14 OUR SUPERINTENDENTS REPORT.

[14. Superintendent's Report]

IS THERE ANYTHING LISTED IN THE REPORT THAT ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS WITH DR.

CANTU AT THIS TIME? OKAY. SO WITH THAT, WE MOVE ON TO THE LAST ITEM ON OUR AGENDA TO ADJOURN AND WE WILL ADJOURN AT 1028.

I BELIEVE THIS IS YES.

1028. THANK YOU.

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.