6. Convene in closed session under Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code, Chapter 551 under the following sections: 551.071 - For the purpose of a private consultation with the Board's attorney on any or all subjects or matters authorized by law; Section 551.072 - Consider purchase, exchange, lease, or value of real property, Section 551.074 - Personnel matters, Section 551.076 - Security matters, Section 551.082 - Student discipline matter or complaint, or Section 551.0821 - Personally identifiable information about public school student

[6. Convene in closed session under Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code, Chapter 551 under the following sections: 551.071 - For the purpose of a private consultation with the Board's attorney on any or all subjects or matters authorized by law; Section 551.072 - Consider purchase, exchange, lease, or value of real property, Section 551.074 - Personnel matters, Section 551.076 - Security matters, Section 551.082 - Student discipline matter or complaint, or Section 551.0821 - Personally identifiable information about public school student]

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WE WILL NOW CONVENE IN CLOSED SESSION UNDER TAXES. OPEN MEETING ACT, TEXAS GOVERNMENT CALLED CHAMPION 551 UNDER THE FOLLOWING SECTION. SECTION FIVE PER 1.071 FOR THE PURPOSE OF A PRIVATE CONSULTATION WITH THE BORDER ATTORNEY ANY OR ALL SUBJECTS OF MATTERS AUTHORIZED BY LAW SECTION 5.107 TO CONSIDER PURCHASING EXCHANGE LEASE OR VALUE OF REAL PROPERTY SECTION 5.1074 PERSONNEL MATTERS, SECTION 551076 SECURITY MATTERS . SECTION FIVE WIVES 51082 STUDENT DISCIPLINE MATTERS OR COMPLAINT OR SECTION 55108 21. PERSON PERSONALLY AND THEN THE FAVORABLE INFORMATION ABOUT PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS. THE TIME NOW IS 6:22 P.M. AND WE ARE NOT CONVENED IN CLOSED SESSION. THE ESTIMATE. CLOSE SESSION TIME. YES 40 MINUTES.

[7. Reconvene in Open Session]

THE TIME IS 709 PM AND THE WAY THEY ARE NOW BECOMING IN OPEN SESSION. THE FIRST WAY. DO WE

[8. Consider Action on Closed Session Items]

HAVE A MOTION FROM THE CLOSED SESSION? MS. SHE'S OUT. SHE IS OKAY. YEAH, YOU CAN'T DO IT.

OKAY, YOU DO IT. DOG TO FIGHT OVER. OKAY. DR GILLIAM. WE DON'T WE DON'T HAVE EMOTION. YOU HAVE TO MAKE IT. THIS AERATED? YEAH. YES. SORRY TO TAKE YOUR MOMENT ABOARD. THANK YOU. MR MALONE.

SURE. I MOVED THE BOARD EXCEPT THE DISK. THE DISTRICT'S RECOMMENDATION OF FRAME MEDIUM DIAZ AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. FOR ELEMENTARY EDUCATION. WE HAVE A MOTION BY MISS MALONE AND SECOND BY DR GILLIAM, DO WE HAVE A DISCUSSION? NO DISCUSSION. LET'S VOTE.

MOTION PASSES 70. SO NEXT, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE. A CONGRATULATIONS. NEXT WE'RE

[5. Public Comment]

GOING TO HAVE PUBLIC COMMENTS. SO TONIGHT. WE HAVE ONE SPEAKER . THE BOARD ENCOURAGES AND WELCOME COMMENTS AND INPUT FROM OUR PATRON. PLEASE LEAVE ME YOUR COMMENTS TO THREE MINUTES AND THE POLICE REFRAIN FROM MENTIONING A STUDENT OR EMPLOYEE'S NAME WHEN VOICING A CONCERN OR COMPLAINT AS SUPPORTIVE POLICY PROVIDES ALTERNATIVE PROCEDURES. THROUGH THE GRIEVANCE PROCESS POLICY, LOCAL OR D, G B, A LOCAL TO SEEK RESOLUTIONS TO COMPLAINTS. I WILL READ THE NAME OF THE PERSON REGISTERED TO SPEAK AND SHARE THAT THEY HAVE THREE MINUTES TO MAKE THEIR COMMENTS. ONCE THE SPEAKER STARTS THEIR COMMENTS, THE BOARD SECRETARY, MR DAVID HAMBLETON, WILL ANNOUNCE WHEN THEY HAVE 30 SECONDS REMAINING. ONE OF THE THREE MINUTES TIME LIMIT HAS INSPIRED AND WHETHER THE SPEAKER HAS CONCLUDED THEIR COMMENTS. MR HAMMOND MR HAMILTON'S WILL ANNOUNCE THAT THE SPEAKER'S TIME HAS ELAPSED. I DON'T ASK THAT YOU RETURN TO YOUR SEAT. WE HAVE ONE SPEAKER WITH ITS MISS SMARTY MORE. MS MOORE. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING TODAY. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING TO THE BOARD. MY NAME IS MARILYN MORE ON THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRIENDS OF THE SUGARLAND 95 , A TEXAS NONPROFIT COOPERATION. YOU'VE ALREADY MET TWO OF OUR BOARD MEMBERS OF THE FRIENDS OF THE SUGARLAND 95, WHO SPOKE AT THE JULY BOARD MEETING, AND I WAS OUT OF TOWN AT THAT PARTICULAR TIME. SO I WANT TO COME TODAY TO FORMALLY INTRODUCE MYSELF TO THE BOARD. I'M THE WIFE OF THE LATE REGINALD MOORE , THE MAN WHO ADVOCATED FOR THE SUGARLAND 95. HE ATTEMPTED TO BRING AWARENESS TO THE PREVIOUS BOARD. CITY OF SUGAR LAND, THE

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STATE OF TEXAS AND ANYONE ELSE WHO WOULD I WOULD NOT LISTEN AS HE WARNED ABOUT THE PROBABILITY OF A BURIAL SITE WHERE THE JAMES REESE TECHNICAL CENTER WAS BEING BUILT AS YOU KNOW, AND HOPEFULLY HAVE SEEN THAT REGINALD MOORE WAS RIGHT AS PROVEN ON FEBRUARY 19TH OF 2018. WHEN THE FIRST REMAINS. UH FIRST REMAINS OF THE 95 HUMANS WERE DISCOVERED. THE MISSION OF FRIENDS IS TO ADVOCATE FOR THE RESPECT FOR MEMORIAL IZATION OF THE VICTIMS OF FORCED LABOR, SPECIFICALLY, THE SUGARLAND 95 TO EDUCATE GENERATIONS ABOUT THE IMPACT OF THE SYSTEM OF CONVICT LEASING PAST AND PRESENT. TO PARTNER WITH FOR BEING INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT AND RATE AND FUNDRAISING FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND PERPETUAL CARE OF THE CEMETERY AND ACT AS LIAISON BETWEEN FORT BEN SCHOOL DISTRICT AND OTHER COMMUNITY GROUPS. WE THE FRIENDS ARE HERE TO WORK WITH YOU AS A SUGARLAND 95 MEMORIAL PROJECT. TO COOK TO CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT OF LEARNING HEALING TO SHOW RESPECT . YES IT IS A UNIQUE SITUATION, BUT IT IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW THE WORLD THAT EVEN WHEN TRADING ON UNCHARTED TERRITORY, WHEN MANY THINGS HAVE NOT BEEN DONE, AS THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE PAST, WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO THE RIGHT THING. AND WE WANT TO HELP YOU BY BEING A COMMUNITY PARTNER ON THE SUGARLAND 95 MEMORIAL PROJECT. ON SATURDAY.

WE HELD OUR INAUGURAL MEETING TO INTRODUCE OURSELVES TO THE COMMUNITY, THANKS TO BOARD MEMBER HANAN ENDS SUPERINTENDENT WITH WITH BACK WHO TOOK TIME FROM THEIR BUSY SCHEDULES ON THE WEEKEND TO ATTEND OUR ENTIRE MEETING AND PRESENCE IS IMPORTANT. WE WANT TO THANK THE BOARD. UH PRESIDENT JUDY DAY FOR MEETING WITH US, AS WELL AS THE SUPERINTENDENT WEB BED, WENT BACK AND CHIEF OF COMMUNICATIONS KIM SMITH. AND LAST, BUT NOT LEAST WE WANT TO THANK COMPLEMENT AND ACKNOWLEDGED THE TIRELESS WORK OF CHESTY DELANO. A LOT OF THE SUGARLAND 95 MEMORIAL PROJECTS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MISS MORE SO MUCH FOR COMING TODAY. THANK YOU. SO NEXT . WE HAVE INFORMATION ITEM. THE FIRST IS SUGARLAND 95. AND TURNING THIS OVER TO DR WAY

[9.A. Sugar Land 95 Update]

BACK. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT. A I WOULD JUST LIKE TO OFFICIALLY INTRODUCE COMMUNITY AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT COORDINATOR CHASTITY LADY. SHE IS AMAZING AND HAS GIVEN US A HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE ON OUR SUGARLAND 95 DISCOVERY FROM ITS INCEPTION AND SHE CONTINUES TO CARRY THE WORK. AND SO WE LOOK FORWARD TO HER PRESENTATION TONIGHT, GIVING AN UPDATE THANK YOU. GREAT. REALLY? GOOD EVENING, PRESIDENT DAY DR WHITBECK AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. AS DR WHITBECK JUST MENTIONED MY NAME IS CHASTITY. AND I AM HERE TO PRESENT TO YOU AN UPDATE ON THE SUGARLAND 95 MEMORIAL PROJECT. TONIGHT. I PRESENT NOT ONLY IN FRONT OF YOU, BUT IN FRONT OF A HOST OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS. UM WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON WITH THE SUGARY 95 PROJECTS SINCE THE LAST TIME I PRESENTED, UM TO THE COMMUNITY, INCLUDING A LONG AWAITED PREVIEW OF THE DESIGN PLANS FOR THE OUTDOOR LEARNING AREA AND MEMORIAL CEMETERY TO BE CONSTRUCTED ON THE GROUNDS OF THE JAMES REESE. KOREAN TECHNICAL CENTER SURROUNDING THE HISTORIC CEMETERY. TO OPEN THIS PRESENTATION. I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE A SHORT VIDEO OVERVIEW CREATED BY OUR COMMUNICATIONS TEAM THAT WILL GIVE YOU NOT ONLY AN UPDATE OF THE PROGRESS WITH THE PROJECT BUT ALSO SHOW YOU SOME OF THE GREAT WORK THAT'S BEEN HAPPENING IN AND AROUND OUR DISTRICT. SINCE THE DISCOVERY OF THE SUGAR LEARN 95 AND 2018 4 BEEN ICED HAS WORKED DILIGENTLY TO UPHOLD OUR PROMISE TO HONOR THE SUGAR LINE. 95 OUR WORK IS CENTERED ON EDUCATING OUR COMMUNITY OF LEARNERS ABOUT THE HISTORY OF CONVICT, LEASING, MEMORIALIZING AND PRESERVING THE HISTORIC CEMETERY AND CONTINUOUSLY ENGAGING THE COMMUNITY. THE DISTRICT REMAINS DEDICATED TO OUR STRESS COMMITMENTS TO THE SUGARLAND 95 IN 2019 F B. I S D PASSED AWAY. LOCAL SOCIAL STUDIES STANDARD THAT ALLOWS STUDENTS TO ENGAGE AND LEARNING ABOUT THEIR LOCAL HISTORY, INCLUDING THE DISCOVERY OF THE SHIRLEY 95. SINCE THAT TIME S C I S D HAS DELIVERED PRESENTATIONS, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CLASSROOM, BUT IT'S ACROSS THE STATE TO SUPPORT THE ADOPTED TEXAS STANDARDS, SPECIFICALLY ADDRESSING THE SUGARLAND, 95 AND 2020 IN OUR EFFORTS TO PROPERLY MEMORIALIZE

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THE SUGARY 95 DISTRICT DEVELOPED TO FACE SUGARLAND 95 MEMORIALIZATION PROJECT. PHASE ONE OF THE PROJECT SUGAR LINE 95 , INSTALLED AT THE JAMES REED'S CAREER AND TECHNICAL CENTER. THE EXHIBIT FOCUSES ON THE HISTORY OF CONVICT LEASING SHEDS LIGHT ON THE 95 INDIVIDUALS FOUND FEATURES ARTIFACTS FROM THE SITE AND ARCHIVAL RESEARCH ABOUT INDIVIDUALS WHO MAY BE BURIED IN THE CEMETERY. THE FIRST VIEWING OF THE EXHIBIT PLACE COMMEMORATIVE EVENT IN FEBRUARY , 2022, WHICH IS MORE THAN FOUR YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE DISCOVERY, THIS EXHIBIT HAS BEEN A GREAT LEARNING TO FOR OUR STUDENTS ACROSS THE DISTRICT, INCLUDING THOSE WHO ATTEND THE JAMES RECENTER THOSE STUDYING TEXAS AND U. S HISTORY AS WELL AS STUDENTS IN ROGAN. FORENSICS AS PART OF OUR CTE PROGRAM. THE EXHIBIT IS ACCESSIBLE TO F B I N D STUDENTS AND FOR THE PUBLIC AND SELECTED DAYS EACH WEEK, THE CEMETERY IS ALSO OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FROM THREE PM TO DUST MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AND FROM DAWN TO DUSK ON THE WEEKENDS. PHASE TWO OF THE PROJECT IS THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN OUTDOOR LEARNING AREA AND PROPER MEMORIAL CEMETERY. THE WORLD RENOWNED MASS DESIGN GROUP IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE DISTRICT BEGAN ENGAGING THE COMMUNITY ON THE VISIONING AND DESIGN OF THE SUGARLAND 95 OUTDOOR LEARNING AREA AND CEMETERY IN SPRING 2022. FOLLOWING THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PERIOD. MASS DESIGN PROVIDE THE DISTRICT WITH A CONCEPTUAL DESIGN PLAN FOR THE SITE. A TEXAS HISTORICAL MARKER WILL BE IN A CENTRAL FEATURE OF THE OUTDOOR LEARNING AREA. FBI SD WAS AWARDED FREE HISTORICAL MARKER AS PART OF THE UNDER, TOLD STORIES IN TEXAS PROGRAM AND WE ARE EXCITED TO WORK WITH TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION AND RECOGNIZING THIS HISTORICALLY DESIGNATED CEMETERY. WE LOOK FORWARD TO PRESENTING THE COMMUNITY WITH THE DESIGN PLAN THAT REPLACED HONOR AND DIGNITY. BUT ALSO THAT SERVES AS A GREAT LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR OUR STUDENTS TO SUPPORT THE WORK BEING DONE BY FBI SD SKILLED RESEARCHERS AND SCHOLARS ARE CONDUCTING ONGOING STUDIES RELATED TO ANCIENT DNA GENEALOGY. PRINCIPAL RESEARCH GROUP WAS GRANTED APPROVAL TO ENGAGE IN GENERIC ANALYSIS AND GENEALOGICAL STUDIES THAT WILL HOPEFULLY IDENTIFY THE SUGARLAND 95 AND RELATIVES OF THE DISEASE . IN CONDUCTION WITH THE 80 A STUDIES IS AN INTENSIVE GENEALOGICAL INVESTIGATION, DATABASES OF FAMILY TREES AND COLLECTING ORAL HISTORIES OF POTENTIAL DESCENDING. ALTHOUGH THE ONGOING DNA AND GENEALOGICAL STUDIES ARE BEING LED BY INDEPENDENT RESEARCHERS DISTRICT HAS DEVELOPED STRONG WORKING RELATIONSHIPS, COMMUNICATION CHANNELS TO STAY ABREAST. THE RESEARCH DEVELOPMENTS. MORE INFORMATION AND UPDATES ON THESE IMPORTANT STUDIES ON THE HOW CAN I HELP PAGE OF THE SUGARLAND 95 WEBSITE, KEEPING OUR COMMUNITY INFORMED AND INVOLVED IS IMPORTANT. WE INVITE OUR COMMUNITY TO VISIT THE SUGARLAND 95 WEBSITE TO SIGN UP FOR THE NEWSLETTER AND JOIN OUR EMAIL LIST. THE SUGARLAND 95 WEBSITE IS A KEY RESOURCE FOR ANYONE SEEKING MORE INFORMATION ON THE DISCOVERY HISTORICAL ACTIONS TAKEN UPCOMING EVENTS AND TIMELY ANNOUNCEMENTS. MHM. IN ADDITION TO THAT VIDEO, I WOULD LIKE FOR THE BOARD TO BE AWARE THAT ALL OF THE WORK BEING DONE WITH THE SUGAR OR 95 IS PART OF A LONG RANGE STRATEGIC PLAN THAT WAS CREATED IN 2020. I'M NOT SURE IF YOU HAVE THE PRINTED VERSION HERE TODAY. YOU DO GREAT. UM SO THAT THE SUGAR LANE 95 MEMORIAL PLAN REALLY OUTLINES ALL OF THE WORK THAT HAS BEEN DONE SINCE 2020. IT'S PROVIDED YOU ALL WITH JUST AN UPDATE SOME METRICS AND SOME DATA TO SHOW JUST HOW MUCH WORK WE'VE ACTUALLY BEEN DOING AND HOW MANY PEOPLE WE'VE BEEN REACHING IN THE COMMUNITY WITH THIS PROJECT. AND SO THAT IS FOR YOU. IT'S ALSO IN YOUR BOARD BOOK, AND IT WILL BE UPLOADED ON THE SUGAR LIKE 95 WEB PAGE AS WELL FOR THE COMMUNITY TO REVIEW WITHOUT FURTHER ADO OUT PRESENT THE DESIGN PRESENTATION OF THE OUTDOOR LEARNING AREA. IN NOVEMBER OF 2021 14 ICED BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVED THE CONTRACT AGREEMENT WITH THE MASS DESIGN GROUP. TO ASSIST IN THE VISIONING AND DEVELOPMENT OF DESIGN PLANS FOR THE AREA, WHICH INCLUDES THE HISTORIC CEMETERY.

AT THIS TIME, I WILL PROVIDE YOU ALL WITH A SHORT PRESENTATION WITH A FEW OF THE KEY FEATURES OF THAT DESIGN PLAN TO BE CONSTRUCTED AT THE CEMETERY SITE, WHICH IS LOCATED AT THE JAMES REESE CAREER AND TECHNICAL CENTER CAMPUS. FIRST UP IN THE IMAGE OF THE AERIAL VIEW, YOU CAN SEE THAT IS HOW THE CEMETERY IS CURRENTLY POSITION. THAT'S WHAT YOU SEE IF YOU WENT THERE TODAY AND DROVE BY UM IT'S LOCATED IN THE REAR OF THE JAMES REESE CAREER TECHNICAL CENTER AND THE SUGARLAND 95 EXHIBIT, AS YOU SAW IN THE VIDEO IS LOCATED DIRECTLY IN THE BEST OF YOUR

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THAT CONNECTS TO THAT REAR ENTRANCE ON THE BUS RAMP, AND IT OVERLOOKS THE HISTORIC CEMETERY.

AS SHOWN IN THE VIDEO UPDATE. UM THE DESIGN PROCESS FOR THIS AREA WAS CONDUCTED WITH THE COMMUNITY BEING AT THE CENTER OF THAT VISIONING PROCESS. A SERIES OF FIVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SESSIONS WERE HELD FOR VIRTUALLY AS WE WERE STILL IN THAT COVID TRANSITIONAL PERIOD AND ONE IN PERSON. UM WERE CONDUCTED TO GAIN COMMUNITY INSIGHT AND PERSPECTIVE ABOUT THE VISION FOR THE OUTDOOR AREA AND CEMETERY. INCLUDED IN THOSE VISIONING SESSIONS WERE ORGANIZED STUDENTS. TEACHERS SEVERAL STAFF MEMBER MEMBERS BOARD OF TRUSTEES , LOCAL COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND EVEN SOME POSSIBLE DESCENDANTS. THE FOLLOWING, UM, TARGETED EXPERIENCE AND THEMES. AS YOU SEE, BULLETED HERE ARE DONE IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER, BUT THESE WERE DERIVED FROM THE FEEDBACK PROVIDED TO US FROM THE COMMUNITY. I WANT TO POINT OUT NUMBER SIX, THE FIRST ONE, WHICH IS A BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPE AND A LEARNING ENVIRONMENT. WE WE'VE HEARD FROM THE VERY BEGINNING BEFORE THE BODIES WERE EVEN REINTERRED. WHAT IS THIS GOING TO LOOK LIKE? THERE'S A CEMETERY ON A SCHOOL CAMPUS. AND HOW IS THIS GOING TO IMPACT OUR STUDENTS? HOW IS THIS GOING TO IMPACT THEIR MENTAL WELL BEING? WELL I WANT TO SHED LIGHT ON THE FACT THAT THIS HAS BEEN A TREMENDOUS LEARNING OPPORTUNITY TO THE STUDENTS, PARTICULARLY THOSE WHO ATTEND THE RECENTER AND PASS THE SITE EVERY DAY, UM, TO DATE, ACCORDING TO THE AUDIOVISUAL TEACHER AT THE RE CENTER, THERE HAVE BEEN OVER 33 STUDENT PRODUCTIONS COMPLETED ABOUT THE SUGARLAND 95 AND THE DISCOVERY EVERYTHING FROM SHORT FORM. PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS TOO LONG, UM, DOCUMENTARIES AND SO WE COULDN'T BE MORE PROUD OF OUR STUDENTS IN THE A V PROGRAM. THEY'RE ALL OFTEN USED AS MY PERSONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS AND VIDEOGRAPHERS FOR EVENTS AS WELL. IN ADDITION TO THAT, AS YOU SAW IN THE VIDEO , THE CTE FORENSICS PROGRAM HAS REALLY ADOPTED THE SUGARLAND 95 AS PART OF ITS BIO FORENSICS UNIT. SO THEY CONSULT WITH THE FINAL REPORT OF FINDINGS. THEY ACTUALLY ENGAGE WITH THE CEMETERY AND THE SITE AND WE'RE OFTEN ABLE TO BRING IN PROFESSIONALS AND EXPERTS WHO HELPED AT THE SITE TO SPEAK TO THOSE STUDENTS TO GAIN TO GIVE THEM FIRSTHAND KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT A BIO FORENSIC ARCHAEOLOGISTS WOULD EVEN DO. AND SO THAT HAS BEEN AS A FORMER TEACHER IN THIS SCHOOL DISTRICT. UM THAT'S MY FAVORITE PART, IS WORKING WITH THE STUDENTS AND ALLOWING THEM TO GAIN SOMETHING MEANINGFUL FROM THIS UNPRECEDENTED.

DISCOVERY. IN ADDITION TO BEAUTIFYING THE LANDSCAPE AND TRANSFORMING THE ENVIRONMENT FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES, THE VISION OVERALL IS TO CREATE A SITE OF HONOR AND DIGNITY FOR THE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE INTERRED IN THE CEMETERY BUT ALSO TO PROVIDE A REFLECTIVE AND CONTEMPLATED AREA FOR STUDENTS, THE COMMUNITY AND EVEN DESCENDANTS ONCE CONFIRMED. AS YOU SEE HERE, THIS IS THE FIRST LITTLE SNEAK PEEK OF THE SITE AND I INTENTIONALLY PLACED THESE TWO IMAGES TOGETHER BECAUSE IN THE PREVIOUS IMAGE, YOU SEE THAT IT'S VERY OPEN AREA . UM IT'S NOT THE MOST COMFORTABLE PLACE FOR SITE VISITS AND FIELD TRIPS IN THE SUMMER BECAUSE OF THE HEAT, AND SO ONE OF THE MAIN DESIRES OF THE COMMUNITY AND THE VISION OF THE DESIGN FIRM WAS TO CREATE A COVERED TREE CANOPY. TO TURN IT INTO SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL, NATURAL IN THE LANDSCAPE THAT BLENDS IN WITH THE AREA SURROUNDING THE CAMPUS, AND SO, UM, THE UNDERPINNING THEME HERE IS THE FOREST AND THE CLEARING WITH ALL OF THE COMMUNITY TODAY, REPRESENTING THE FOREST AND THE CEMETERY BEING THE BEAR AREA AND THE MIDDLE. WHAT YOU SEE DOWN BELOW THE COLORED IMAGE IS THE VIEW OF THE ENTRANCE. AND THAT IS THE INTENDED LOCATION OF THE UNDER TOLD HISTORIES IN TEXAS MARKER. THAT WE PROVIDED TO US FREE OF CHARGE BY THE TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION. THIS IMAGE HERE IS AN AERIAL VIEW IS VERY HARD TO IDENTIFY THE CEMETERY AND SOME OF THE RENDERINGS SO I STRATEGICALLY OUTLINED IT FOR YOU IN GREEN. AND YOU'LL SEE THAT THIS IS SORT OF THE DESIGN LAYOUT OF THE SITE THAT I WILL BE WALKING YOU THROUGH, UM, WITH FOUR OF THE MAIN FEATURES OF THAT SITE. AS WE DISCUSSED EARLIER. THIS IS AN EDUCATIONAL SETTING AND SO IT WOULD NOT BE PROPER TO DESIGN IT WITHOUT EDUCATION AND MINE. HERE IS A SHORT, UH, FOCUS ON THE ELEMENTS OF THE DESIGN THAT HAVE BEEN CREATED SPECIFICALLY FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES, AND SO YOU'LL SEE THAT THERE ARE SEVERAL PROGRAM AREAS ALL INTENDED TO MEET THE SPECIFIC NEEDS AND INTENTION OF VISITORS BASED ON DESIRED LEARNING EXPERIENCES. EACH AREA IS DESIGNED WITH A MAXIMUM CAPACITY IN MIND AND THE FLEXIBILITY TO MEET THE NEEDS OF WHOEVER IS ENGAGING IN THAT SITE. JUST AS AN EXAMPLE OF CTE STUDENTS MIGHT GATHER FOR A CLASS ASSIGNMENT IN

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ONE OF THE CONVERSATION PODS WHERE THE FORENSICS TEACHER MIGHT ACTUALLY GO INTO THE GROVE TO TEACH A LESSON AS THERE'S A PLACE FOR HER STUDENTS TO SIT THE NEXT SLIDE WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH RENDERINGS OF FOUR OF THE MAIN AREAS AS OUTLINED AROUND THE SITE. HERE IS THE NARRATIVE PASSAGE. THIS AREA IS DIRECTLY AFTER THE ENTRANCE, WHICH YOU SAW ON THAT PREVIOUS SLIDE TWO SLIDES AGO. THE GOAL OF THIS AREA IS TO PROVIDE VISITORS WITH BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE ON THE DISCOVERY, THE CEMETERY AND THE HISTORY OF CONVICT LABOR. A KEY FEATURE IN THIS AREA IS THE INTERPRETIVE SIGNAGE AND DISPLAYS THAT WILL INCLUDE BOTH TEXT AND IMAGERY, ALL BASED ON PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS AND HISTORICAL REFERENCE MATERIAL FROM OUR LOCAL AND STATE ARCHIVES. YOU CAN LIKEN THIS AREA TO A NATIONAL PARK OR AN OUTDOOR MUSEUM EXHIBITION. THE NEXT AREA IS THE GRILL GROVE. THIS AREA IS DESIGNED WITH THE TEACHER IN MIND, AS YOU SEE IN THE IMAGE. IT WILL PROVIDE A PAVED SEATING AREA FOR STUDENTS AND VISITORS TO GATHER AND ENGAGE IN LEARNING AND DIALOGUE SIMILAR TO THE INTERIOR EXHIBIT AT THE RECENTER . THIS AREA ALSO WILL PLAY A TRIBUTE TO MR REGINALD MOORE. HIS VOICE, HIS ADVOCACY AND HIS RESEARCH. WILL BE A DRIVING INSPIRATION IN THE INTERPRETATION OF THIS AREA AS HIS RESEARCH COLLECTION AND RECORDS ARE CURRENTLY HELD AT RAICES UNIVERSITIES, FONDREN LIBRARY AS PART OF THE REGIONAL MORE COLLECTION, AND WE HOPE THAT THESE DOCUMENTS AND VIDEOS AND ARCHIVES CAN BE A GREAT RESOURCE FOR THE DISTRICT AS WEE INTERPRETATION. THE CENTER POINT. THE REASON WHY WE'RE HERE. THIS IS MY FAVORITE PHOTOGRAPH IS THE CEMETERY ITSELF. THE BURIAL GROUND. THE BURIAL GROUND IS THE CENTER AND IT'S OBVIOUSLY THE MOST SPECIAL AREA OF THIS DESIGN. IT IS DESIGNED TO BE A MORE PROPER AND DIGNIFIED, FINAL RESTING PLACE FOR THE 95 INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE LAID TO REST IN THE CEMETERY. CURRENTLY THE SITE IS CLOSED OFF AND SECURED BY A PERIMETER FENCE. ONCE CONSTRUCTED, THE BURIAL GROUND WILL BE ACCESSIBLE FOR VISITORS TO HAVE A MORE PERSONAL INTERACTION WITH THE CEMETERY, SUCH AS READING THE MARKERS. PAYING RESPECTS TO INDIVIDUAL BURIALS ARE SIMPLY TO NAVIGATE THE GROUNDS. THE FENCING WILL BE REMOVED AND A PATHWAY ACROSS THE CEMETERY WILL BE ERECTED, CREATING, UM AWAY FOR VISITORS TO MOVE FREELY ACROSS THE SITE WITHOUT ENTERING THE CEMETERY UNLESS THEY DESIRE TO DO SO. THE PATHWAY WILL INCLUDE BENCHES, SIGNAGE TO CONVEY INFORMATION SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE CEMETERY POPULATION BASED ON BIO FORENSIC DATA, GENEALOGICAL STUDIES AND ARCHIVAL RESEARCH. AND THE FINAL AREA OF THE DESIGN IS KNOWN AS THE PAVILION. THIS IS A COVERED AREA TO BE CONSTRUCTED TO HOST LARGE GROUPS FOR OUTDOOR LEARNING EXPERIENCES AND GATHERINGS. AREA IS COMPRISED OF MULTIPLE STONE PAVERS THAT CAN BE ENCRYPTED AND SCRIPTED AS PART OF A K PAVER CAMPAIGN TO FUND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THIS LARGE FEATURE. TAKING A CLOSER LOOK AT THE IMAGE IF YOU LOOK REALLY GOOD IN THE IN THE BACK YOU GET A GLIMPSE OF A PERIMETER WALL IN THE BACKGROUND, AND THIS WALL WILL ENCLOSE THE CEMETERY SPACE TO PROVIDE A NATURAL BARRIER BETWEEN THE CEMETERY AND THE CAMPUS, BUT TO ALSO CLEARLY MARKED THE AREA AS IT IS CURRENTLY SOMEWHAT DIFFICULT TO IDENTIFY. SO GOING BACK A LITTLE BIT. IN 2021, THE DISTRICT FUNDED THE VISIONING DESIGN AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EFFORTS LED BY MASS DESIGN. WITH THE INTENTION AND GOAL OF SECURING INVESTMENTS IN THE FORM OF GRANTS, DONATIONS AND BOTH PRIVATE AND PUBLIC INVESTMENTS. NOW THAT THE BOARD HAS SEEN THE DESIGN PLANS, THE NEXT PHASE OF THE WORK IS DEDICATED TO A CAPITAL CAMPAIGN TO SECURE THE FUNDS NEEDED FOR THE CONSTRUCTION, WHICH IS CURRENTLY ESTIMATED AT ABOUT $4 MILLION. IF YOU LOOK HERE, THE CONSTRUCTION COST SNAPSHOT TOTAL. ESTIMATE IS SLIGHTLY HIGHER, AND THAT TAKES INTO THE ACCOUNT THE RATE OF INFLATION AND COST ESCALATION IN THE EVENT . THE PROJECT IS NOT ABLE TO LAUNCH PAST THIRD QUARTER OF 2024 TO SUPPORT THE FUNDRAISING UM AND PHILANTHROPIC GIVING, YOU'LL SEE THAT THE DESIGN PLAN HAS BEEN SECTIONED OFF BY MASS DESIGN, WHICH WILL ALLOW FOR ZONES TO BE SPONSORED BY ORGANIZATIONS AND WE'VE WE'VE GOTTEN SOME INITIAL INTEREST. IN ORGANIZATIONS TO SPONSOR SPECIFIC ZONES. EACH ZONE HAVE A COST ESTIMATE AND WILL ALLOW FOR DONORS TO BE ABLE TO, UM INVEST JUST FOR THAT PARTICULAR AREA, BUT ALSO AS I MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY THERE WILL BE SOME ADDITIONAL FUNDRAISING STRATEGIES SUCH AS THE PAVER

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CAMPAIGN TO PAY FOR THE PAVILION ITSELF. WITH THAT COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS IS BEEN ALL, UM.

THE MOST IMPORTANT FACET OF THIS WORK. I WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO HALF OF THE THINGS THAT YOU'VE SEEN WITHOUT COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP. I CAN HONESTLY SAY THAT COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS HAS WAS KEPT ON THE PROGRAM FUELED. COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS HAVE GREATLY BENEFITED THE PROJECT, AND THEREFORE WE WILL CONTINUE TO COLLABORATE WITH ORGANIZATIONS WITH VESTED INTERESTS AND ALIGN GOALS TO THE PROJECT. HAVING FRIENDS OF THE SUGARLAND 95. UM IS A CRITICAL FACTOR IN THE SUCCESS OF THIS ENDEAVOR, AND I WILL BE WORKING ALONGSIDE ORGANIZATIONS, INCLUDING THE FRIENDS OF SUGARLAND, 95 TO EXECUTE LARGE SCALE FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGNS AND TOGETHER AS AN AFFILIATED COMMUNITY PARTNER, WE WILL BEGIN ACTIVELY SEEKING OUT PROJECT DONORS AND SPONSORS. UM REST ASSURED THAT DUE TO THE SIGNIFICANCE AND THE HISTORIC NATURE OF THIS SITE NATIONAL RECOGNITION THAT IT'S RECEIVED AND THE HIGH FAVOR IN THE COMMUNITY GRANT FUNDING WILL BE HEAVILY PURSUED. IN ADDITION TO OTHER METHODS, SUCH AS E COMMERCE, REVENUE STREAMS AND THE CONTINUATION OF OUR CURRENT FUNDRAISING INITIATIVES THAT WE TRACKED THE REV. TRACK AND SO I DO SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS AND DEVELOPED RESOURCES, THINGS OF THAT NATURE. THOSE WILL NOT CEASE IN THIS NEXT PHASE OF THE WORK. THE NEXT STEP OF THE SITE. DEVELOPMENT IS THE INTERPRETATION. ARE YOU UPSET THAT WORDS IF YOU'RE NOT A HISTORY NERD LIKE ME, AND ERIC KNOWS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.

IT'S THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TEXT , THE WORDS AND THE IMAGERY TO DISPLAY TO THE PUBLIC. IN SIMPLE TERMS. WE WILL BE WORKING TO DRAFT THE WORDING AND SELECTING IMAGES AND THIS IS GOING TO BE DONE IN THE SAME WAY THAT WE DID THE INTERNAL EXHIBIT WITH A DESIGN TEAM OR AN ADVISORY BOARD OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS, ALL WITH THE KNOWLEDGE THAT EXPERTISE, THE SKILL AND THE WILL TO COLLABORATE WITH US. THE GOAL IS TO ENSURE THAT THE WORDING IS HISTORICALLY ACCURATE, BASED ON PRIMARY SOURCES AND ENGAGING FOR OUR STUDENTS. LASTLY, UM, WE WILL CONTINUE TO WORK WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS ON THE OUTREACH THAT WE JUST AREN'T ABLE TO DO OURSELVES WITH THE MONUMENTAL NATURE OF THIS DISCOVERY. UH, IT STRETCHES FAR PAST THE FOURTH, THEN COMMUNITY AND SO WITH THAT WE WILL CONTINUE TO WORK WITH INDIVIDUALS SUCH AS THE PRINCIPAL RESEARCH GROUP WHO ARE CONDUCTING THE ONGOING D N A. STUDIES AND DESCENDANT OUTREACH , AND WE WILL ALSO CONTINUE TO WORK WITH OTHER PARTIES AND OTHER VARIETY OF WAYS, INCLUDING , BUT NOT LIMITED TO MAKING SURE THAT OUR COMMUNITY HAS ACCESS TO THE SUGAR LIKE 95 NEWSLETTER.

REGULAR WEBSITE UPDATES, I WILL CONTINUE GIVING EXHIBIT TOURS AND HOSTING COMMUNITY BASED PRESENTATIONS. WITHOUT THAT OPEN THE FLOOR FOR QUESTIONS. HMM. THANK YOU SO MUCH. CASSIDY FOR THE PRESENTATION. SO THIS AGENDA ITEM ACTUALLY REQUESTED BY DR GILLIAM AND MS HANAN, SO I WILL START THE COMMENTS AND THE QUESTION WITH DR GILLIAM. WELL FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR A WONDERFUL PRESENTATION. I'M GONNA BE SHORT. WHAT DO YOU NEED FROM US NOW? SUPPORT UM, AS MISS MARYLAND SAID VISIBILITY AND PRESENCE IS IMPORTANT. WE'VE COME A LONG WAY WITH THIS PROJECT. IF YOU'RE NOT SURE WHERE WE STARTED, YOU COULD WATCH BOARD MEETINGS FROM 2018 AND KNOW THAT WE HAVE TURNED A MAJOR CORNER. UM IN THIS WORK, AND SO THE SUPPORT OF THE BOARD IS ALL THE MORE IMPORTANT BECAUSE WE HAVE THE SUPPORT OF THE COMMUNITY. UM AT LARGE. I FEEL CONFIDENT IN SAYING THAT AND SO, UM, JUST STAY TUNED.

STAY INFORMED. WE HAD I SEND OUT INFORMATION AT NAUSEUM, SO IT'S ALWAYS NICE TO HAVE FACES. THERE WILL GIVE YOU ALL THE T SHIRT. MISS MARYLAND IF YOU COULD STAND UP UM, WE HAVE JUST MODEL REAL QUICK. THESE ARE FOR EXHIBIT GOERS WHO MAKE A CHARITABLE DONATION. WE DON'T WE HAVEN'T BEEN TAKING DONATIONS. OFFICIALLY UNTIL TONIGHT. WE WILL BE TAKING DONATIONS TOMORROW. UM BUT THE EXHIBIT TOUR SHIRTS. I WILL BE PROVIDING YOU ALL A SHIRT, AND IT HAS A Q R CODE ON THE BACK. SO PEOPLE SAY, WHAT IS THE SHIRT? WHAT IS SL 95 MEAN? YOU CAN SAY OH, THIS SKIN IS COLD ON THE BACK, AND IT'LL TAKE YOU TO THE VIDEO THAT JUST SOME I STILL HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION. WHAT IS OUR TIMELINE? SO WHAT? DO YOU SEE THE TIMELINE THE GOLD TIMELINE, AND IT'S QUITE AGGRESSIVE. BUT, UM, UM, I'VE DONE HARDER THINGS. IT'S 2025 TO BE CUTTING THE RIBBON AT THE SITE. THIS IS A LANDSCAPE DESIGN PROJECTS, SO WE HAVE THE LUXURY AND PHASING THE WORK AND THAT IT ALL DOESN'T HAVE TO BE DONE AT ONE TIME, RIGHT? SO, FOR EXAMPLE, THE PAVILION THE FOURTH AND FINAL PHASE. IF SOMEBODY WANTED TO DONATE FOR THE PAVILION TODAY, WE COULD START WITH THE PAVILION. UM AND SO IT WILL BE PHASED IN WITH THE GOAL THAT WE WILL BE AT A POINT THAT WE CAN DEEM SATISFACTORY TO ACTUALLY HOST A RIBBON CUTTING OF SOME SORT IN JUNE OF 2025.

OKAY. LAST QUESTION. I LIED. DOES THIS ACTUALLY SEEMED LIKE SOMETHING THAT WE POSSIBLY CAN

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DO FOR 24? 25 I THINK SO. OKAY THANK YOU. PEOPLE WHO'VE BEEN WAITING TO SEE THE PLANS AND STAYING INVOLVED AND WE'VE HAD FOUNDATION'S CALL AND SAY, LET ME KNOW BEFORE OCTOBER OF 24 BEFORE MY BUDGET CLOSES AND THIS AND THAT RIGHT AND SO A 23 SORRY . I'M I FEEL REALLY GOOD ABOUT IT. AND NOW WE HAVE A NONPROFIT WHO IS DEDICATED TO HELPING US WITH THIS BEING THE BOOTS ON THE GROUND. I'M REALLY OPTIMISTIC. SO THERE'S NOTHING HOLDING YOU RIGHT NOW. NO JUST GETTING OUT THERE AND GETTING THE WORK DONE. YES, MA'AM. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, DOCTOR DID, UM DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? UM HANAN. I WOULD JUST LIKE STAFF TO PROVIDE THE COMMUNITY SOME CLARIFICATION AND THANK YOU CHASTITY FOR THE PRESENTATION, AND, UM DR GILLIAM DID REQUEST THIS ITEM BE BROUGHT TO THE BOARD AND I SECONDED IT BECAUSE WE WERE ALMOST AT TWO YEARS SINCE WE HAD PASSED. UM THE MOTION TO PAY FOR THE ACTUAL DESIGN FOR MASS. AND IF MY MEMORY SERVES, IT WAS ABOUT $170,000 FOR THE DESIGN IS THAT BALLPARK UM SO I WANTED TO SEE THE DESIGN AND I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW THE PUBLIC SHOULD SHOULD SEE THAT. ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT I HAVE BEEN ASKED BY THE COMMUNITY IS. WHY CAN'T THE BOARD FUND THIS OR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT FUND THIS WITH BOND MONEY? AND I ANSWERED THE. THE COMMUNITY MEMBER ONE WAY, BUT I'M CURIOUS IF WE COULD JUST HAVE STAFF, I KNOW THAT MAYBE IS PUTTING SOMEBODY ON THE SPOT BECAUSE I DIDN'T ASK BEFORE, BUT I HEAR, UM, IN THE PRESENTATION THAT WORKING WITH THE, UM THE FRIENDS OF SUGARLAND, 95 AND OTHER ENTITIES AND THE PAVER. UM THE PAPERS ON THE PAVILION THAT WE'RE REALLY SEEKING. EXTERNAL FUNDING. UM TO PROVIDE THIS OUTDOOR LEARNING EXPERIENCE AND CEMETERY AND MY CORRECT YES, MA'AM. OKAY BUT MAYBE IF A STAFF MEMBER UM. IS THAT IF THAT'S NOT AN APPROPRIATE UM. QUESTION BECAUSE THAT QUESTION THAT QUESTION IS IN THE COMMUNITY AS TO WHY THE DISTRICT CAN'T USE BOND FUNDS TO FUND US PROJECT. OH I'LL TAKE A STAB AT IT WHENEVER WHENEVER YOU LOOK AT THIS BOND FUNDS FOR THE DISTRICT ARE FOR CAPITAL ITEMS THIS COULD BE CONSIDERED, YOU KNOW, CAPITAL ITEM OR WHETHER OR NOT IT FITS WITHIN THE MISSION OF THE DISTRICT IS ANOTHER QUESTION. I THINK THAT THE OUR ISSUE WITH 2023 FUNDING THAT WE THAT WE HAVE FOR THIS POND. YOU KNOW, THESE WERE THESE WERE ESTIMATES THAT WE WERE USING FOR 2021. AND SO I DON'T THINK WE'RE GONNA HAVE THE SAME AMOUNT OF CONTINGENCY OF AVAILABLE IN THE FUTURE. OKAY, YOU KNOW, WE'RE WE'RE SEEING SOME PRELIMINARY NUMBERS AND SOME OF THE SEYMOUR'S AND SO I THINK WE'RE GOING TO STRUGGLE. BUT WHETHER OR NOT SPECIFICALLY YOU KNOW THE FUNDS COULD BE USED. I I'VE NEVER ASKED THAT QUESTION. AND SO I DON'T KNOW, BUT I'M HESITANT TO THINK THAT WE WERE GOING TO HAVE THE FUNDS LEFT OVER TO BE ABLE TO HANDLE IT. BUT YOU KNOW, WITHOUT WITHOUT GOING FARTHER ALONG, AND I APOLOGIZE TO DR WHITBECK AND MR BASSETT FOR PUTTING YOU ON THE SPOT. BUT THAT IS A VERY REAL QUESTION THAT'S BEEN ASKED, AND MY ANSWER WAS JUST KNOWING HOW MANY DEFICIENCIES WE HAD IN EXCESS OF WHAT THE $1.2 BILLION BOND THAT WE CALLED THAT IT WOULD BE CHALLENGING FOR ME KNOWING THAT WE HAVE DEFICIENCIES IN OUR ACTUAL BUILT, YOU KNOW? BUILDINGS WERE STUDENTS STILL ARE THAT THAT THAT WOULD BE CHALLENGING FROM MY PERSPECTIVE AS A SOLE TRY SPEAKING ON MY SINGLE BEHALF, YOU KNOW, JUST JUST ON FROM MY PERSPECTIVE. SO UM, ANYWAY AGAIN , THANK YOU FOR THAT ANSWER. THANK YOU CHASTITY AND I WOULD JUST I WOULD ADD THAT THE TIMELINE SHOULD WE HAVE EVEN WE DID NOT PUT IT IN THE BOND PACKAGE FOR THE VOTERS, BUT SHOULD WE LOOK AT CONTINGENCY THAT'S ALWAYS MORE AS YOU END THE BOND. AND SO THAT WOULD REALLY PUSH THIS PROJECT DOWN THE ROAD MORE YEARS AS WELL. BUT I WOULD ALSO MENTION SOMETHING THAT I KNOW. UM, CHASTITY AND I HAVE WORKED ON AND WE ARE AWAITING, UM, PROBABLY VERY LIKELY A DONATION FROM FORT BEND COUNTY. AND THAT HAS BEEN A PART OF OUR CONVERSATIONS WITH COMMISSIONER ANDY MYERS AND MONEY THAT WAS EARMARKED FROM A FORMER COUNTY BOND FOR THIS PROJECT. AND SO LAST TIME WE MET , WHICH WAS WITHIN THE LAST TWO

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WEEKS, IT WAS A VERY FAVORABLE. I THINK HE'S WAITING ON A FEW THINGS WE NEED TO PROVIDE. BUT I DO THINK THAT THAT'S A POSITIVE THAT MAY BE COMING IN THE NEAR FUTURE TO KIND OF KICK THE WHOLE CAMPAIGN OFF. THANK YOU. DOCTOR WENT BACK FOR SHARING THE INFORMATION. THANK YOU, DOCTOR.

WAY BACK. AND MR MALONE? YES, THANK YOU. UM THANK YOU, CHASTITY. IT'S ALWAYS GREAT TO SEE YOU IN HERE. THE GREAT WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING, AND I WANT TO JUST COMPLEMENT YOUR VOICE OVER WORK ON THE VIDEO. AND KIM, I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU. IT'S GREAT. YOU'RE A NEW ADDITION TO THE COMMUNICATIONS TEAM, AND THAT VIDEO WAS OUTSTANDING. SO OUTSTANDING WORK. THANK YOU SO MUCH CHASTITY. I LOVE THE INTEGRITY YOU HAVE. FOUR. MEMORIALIZE NG? UM, SUCH A TRAGIC DIFFICULT PART OF OUR HISTORY. AND BUT THE CREATIVITY AND THE WAY YOU'VE BROUGHT PEOPLE TOGETHER AND THE COLLABORATION, THE COORDINATION ALL THE FOLKS FROM FROM FRIENDS OF SUGAR LAND. 95 MISS MARILYN MORE. THANK YOU. I CAN'T SEE YOU. BUT THANK YOU AND YOUR HUSBAND AS HIS LEGACY LIVES ON IN THE HARD WORK. IN BRINGING TOGETHER FOLKS AND THE HEALING THAT I BELIEVE THIS WILL BRING. OUR COMMUNITY. AND THE EXAMPLE THAT IT SETS FOR OUR CHILDREN.

AND THE TEACHING THAT THIS IS TO SHOW. AND DOING WHAT'S BEST FOR OUR KIDS. RIGHT HERE IN FORT BEND IS REALLY, REALLY INCREDIBLE. AND AS I SAW THE, UM . EXAMPLES FROM MASS. AND I WAS SO EXCITED WHEN WE VOTED ON THIS. A FEW YEARS AGO, IT REMINDED ME OF COLLEGE STATION, THE MEMORIAL THERE FOR BONFIRE, AND I MEAN, I LITERALLY HAVE TEARS IN MY EYES THINKING ABOUT IT AND THINKING ABOUT THOSE LIVES BUT ALSO KNOWING THE LIGHT THAT IT IS FOR OUR FUTURE. SO I JUST WANT TO TELL ALL OF Y'ALL THANK YOU AND ANYTHING THAT I CAN DO AS DR GILLIAM MENTIONED, HOW CAN WE SUPPORT YOU? SAME THING. I'M HAPPY TO SUPPORT. I THINK THAT IT'S INCREDIBLE THAT WE'VE GOT THE TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION INVOLVED AND ALSO ALL THE FOLKS I KNOW YOU'VE GOT GOING ON BEHIND THE SCENES. WORKING TOGETHER AND JUST KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK. IT'S PRETTY INCREDIBLE. THANK YOU. CAN I JUST MAKE A COMMENT? THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR KIND WORDS.

MISS MALONE. UM IT'S ME, KIMBERLY SMITH. I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE GIVE CREDIT FOR THAT VIDEO TO LOGAN FRY. HE'S AMAZING TALENT, AND WE HAVE MANY, MANY TALENTED PEOPLE ON OUR TEAM. SO THANK YOU. YES. THANK YOU TO THE WHOLE COMMUNICATIONS TEAM, AND THANK YOU, LOGAN. THANK YOU, MR MALONE. MISS JONES. SINCE I'M THE NEW BOARD MEMBER HERE, AND I'M JUST KIND OF COMING IN KIND OF, LIKE ON THE TAIL END OF EVERYTHING, AND I'VE SAT HERE AND LISTENED TO YOUR PRESENTATION. SO JUST TO BE CLEAR THIS PROJECT IS BEING FUNDED A FUNDRAISING AND SPONSORSHIP CORRECT. OKAY IS THERE ANY PART OF CONTRIBUTION FROM FORT BENNING IASI THAT WILL BE ASKED. WELL, CURRENTLY, SUGAR LATE 95 IS, UM I WOULD SAY KIM COULD PROBABLY AGREE. I WOULD SAY 60% OF MY WORKLOAD AND SO THAT IS A CONTRIBUTION AND THAT WE HAVE DEDICATED STAFF TO ENSURE THAT THIS PROJECT UM, DOESN'T FALL BY THE WAYSIDE, BUT ALSO THAT YOU KNOW, THE BACK OF THE SUGARLAND 95 SHIRTS AS FOUNDING NOT FORGOTTEN, AND THAT WAS MY PLEA. WHEN I ASKED TO HELP AND I SAID, I WANT TO ENSURE THAT THIS DISCOVERY IS FOUND AND NOT FORGOTTEN. AND SO THE DISTRICT DECIDED WHAT THAT'S A THAT'S CATCHY. I LIKE THAT.

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YES SO CAN WE JUST DO THIS STUDENT ENGAGEMENT SURVEY? FIRST WE CAN DO THAT FIRST. OKAY NEXT.

I MEAN, WE'RE GONNA GO TO THE NEXT ONE FOR NOW, AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK. COME BACK SO

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STUDENT ENGAGEMENT SURVEY DATA, DOCTOR WAY BACK. STEPHANIE WILLIAMS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT. SHE WILL LEAD THIS AND THIS IS LAST YEAR'S STUDENT ENGAGEMENT SURVEY DATA, AND I THINK SHE'LL BE ASSISTED BY TIFFANY. ANDREW. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING. THANK YOU. DOCTOR. WITBANK PRESIDENT DAY MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. IT'S MY PLEASURE TO PRESENT THE STUDENT ENGAGEMENT. SURVEY UPDATE FROM THE 22 23 SCHOOL YEAR. SO JUST A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND ON THE 22 23 ADMINISTRATION OF THE STUDENT ENGAGEMENT SURVEY WAS YEAR THREE FOR SECONDARY STUDENTS IN GRADES SIX THROUGH 12 TO ENGAGE IN THE SURVEY, AND IT SERVED AS YEAR TWO FOR OUR ELEMENTARY STUDENTS IN GRADES THREE THROUGH FIVE. AND JUST AN OVERVIEW OF KIND OF HOW WE'RE GOING TO WALK YOU THROUGH THE PRESENTATION. WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN WITH KEY FINDINGS AND TRENDS AND KIND OF HELP YOU UNDERSTAND WHERE WE ARE USING THE STUDENT ENGAGEMENT SURVEY RESULTS AND THEN I WILL CLOSE WITH NEXT STEPS IDENTIFYING AREAS THAT WE MUST ADDRESS BASED UPON THIS DATA AND HOW WE PLAN TO GET THERE THROUGH OUR IMPROVEMENT PLANNING PROCESS. SO JUST IN THE EVENT THAT YOU'VE NEVER SEEN THE STUDENT ENGAGEMENT SURVEY, OTHER THAN IN THE PACKET, A STUDENT ENGAGEMENT SURVEY MEASURES UM STUDENT ENGAGEMENT IN SCHOOL ACROSS THREE DIMENSIONS, BEGINNING WITH THE BEHAVIORAL ENGAGEMENT, AND THAT'S THE DEGREE TO WHICH STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN THE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT. EMOTIONAL ENGAGEMENT, IDENTIFY STUDENT INTERACTIONS WITH ADULTS AND PEERS IN THE SCHOOL. AND THEN COGNITIVE ENGAGEMENT IS THE

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DEGREE TO WHICH STUDENTS ARE ENGAGING IN THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT. SO WE'LL START WITH OUR SECONDARY STUDENT ENGAGEMENT SURVEY. SO YOU'LL SEE ON THE LEFT THAT THERE ARE ABOUT 44,000 SECONDARY STUDENTS OF THOSE STUDENTS JUST OVER 24,000 PARTICIPATED IN THE SURVEY GIVING US 69% OF ELIGIBLE STUDENTS PARTICIPATING AND AS A REMINDER PARENTS MUST PERMISSION . STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN SURVEYS LIKE THIS, SO THAT'S WHERE THAT ELIGIBILITY COMES IN.

ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE. YOU SEE, OUR STUDENT GROUPS ACROSS THE DISTRICT REPRESENTED THE SECOND COLUMN DETAILS THEIR REPRESENTATION WITHIN THE DISTRICT AND THE LAST COLUMN IS THE REPRESENTATION OF STUDENTS SURVEYED FOR EACH OF THOSE STUDENT GROUPS. THIS SURVEY WAS PROVIDED TO STUDENTS ON THEIR HIGH SCHOOL CAMPUS ON THEIR MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL CAMPUSES . FROM MARCH 27TH APRIL 15TH OF THE LAST SCHOOL YEAR, AND STUDENTS WERE GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY TO COMPLETE THE SURVEY WITHIN THEIR ADVISORY CLASS. WHAT WAS DONE DURING THE SCHOOL DAY. SO NOW WE'RE KIND OF GO INTO THE DATA. AND SO THIS IS THE SECONDARY STUDENT RESULTS OVERALL BY DIMENSION, AND WE DO GET AN OVERALL MEAN SCORE, SO THAT MEANS SCORE COMES FROM STUDENT RESPONSES BEING ASSIGNED A VALUE OF 1 TO 4 AND THEN A MEAN BEING CALCULATED USING THAT MEAN WE USE THIS SCORE SCALE. TO DETERMINE THE LEVEL OF ENGAGEMENT FROM VERY LOW TO HIGH. SO IF THAT WAS A LOT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS AT ONE TIME, THE IMPORTANT THING IS THAT MODERATE HERE IN BLUE IS WHERE ARE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS FALL RELATED TO THEIR ENGAGEMENT IN THE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT AND HIGH SCHOOL, SECONDARY STUDENTS , MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL HAVE FALLEN IN THE MODERATE RANGE OF ENGAGEMENT ACROSS THE THREE YEARS THAT WE'VE GIVEN THE SURVEY. WHAT YOU DO SEE ON THIS SLIDE IS THAT BEHAVIORAL ENGAGEMENT SHOWED A 5.8% DROP.

FROM 2022, AND THAT THE OTHER TWO ARE JUST UNDER 2% IN THE DROP IN ENGAGEMENT. SO FOR THE REST OF THE SECONDARY ENGAGEMENT SURVEY WILL BE TALKING ABOUT AREAS OF STRENGTH THAT REPRESENT A POSITIVE CHANGE OR INCREASE IN THE OVERALL VALUE OF STUDENT RESPONSES AND AREAS OF CONCERN THAT WE MIGHT WANT TO ADDRESS IN EACH OF THE DIMENSIONS. SO BEGINNING WITH BEHAVIORAL ENGAGEMENT. I'M GOING TO START WITH THE AREAS OF CONCERN AND END ON THE POSITIVE WITH AREAS OF STRENGTH, SO WE RELATED TO BEHAVIORAL ENGAGEMENT. WE DID SEE THE LARGEST DROP HERE, AND THAT DROP CAN BE BEST REPRESENTED BY THE FIRST BULLET DECREASES IN TIME SPENT PARTICIPATING IN SCHOOL ACTIVITIES. SO IN 2021 22 0 STUDENTS REPORTED SPENDING LESS THAN ONE HOUR IN A OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL ACTIVITY. THIS YEAR, 38% OF STUDENTS ARE SPENDING LESS THAN ONE HOUR AND ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL. THIS IS A CONCERN BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW THE RESEARCH RELATED TO INVOLVEMENT IN SCHOOL ACTIVITIES AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT GRADUATION. AND THEN THE SECOND THING THAT'S A CONCERN IN THIS IS THE CONTRIBUTION OF SCHOOLS IN LEARNING TO RETREAT TO TREAT OTHERS WITH RESPECT THAT TOOK ABOUT A 4.8% DROP. IT'S STILL AT 80% BUT IT DID TAKE A DROP, SO IT'S DECLINING. AN AREA OF STRENGTH RELATED TO BEHAVIORAL ENGAGEMENT IS THE ROLE OF TEACHERS AND POSITIVE MOTIVATION TO ATTEND SCHOOL, AND WE SAW THAT RISE WITH MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS THIS YEAR. MOVING ON TO THE EMOTIONAL ENGAGEMENT DIMENSION. WE DID SEE A DROP IN ALL FACTORS IN THIS DIMENSION. SO UM, I'LL START WITH THE AREAS OF CONCERN, SO THE FIRST AREA OF CONCERN IS THE STUDENT POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH SCHOOL STAFF AND OTHER STUDENTS. THE BIGGER DROP THERE IS THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG OTHER STUDENTS, AND THAT WAS APPROXIMATELY 3.4% AND THIS INCLUDED QUESTIONS AROUND STUDENTS FEELING IT SAFE AND BEING ACCEPTED BY THEIR PEERS. WE ALSO SAW DECREASES IN THE PERCEPTION OF STUDENTS RELATED TO THE AVAILABILITY OF SUPPORT FROM STAFF. AND THE APPLICATIONS OF RULES AND DISCIPLINE CONSISTENTLY. SO THOSE ARE THE AREAS OF CONCERN AROUND. WHY OR WHY STUDENTS DON'T ENGAGE EMOTIONALLY. UM THE GOOD NEWS IS OUR STUDENTS ARE HIGHLY MOTIVATED FOR SUCCESS. OUR GREATEST AREA OF STRENGTH HERE IS THAT THEY HAVE A HIGH DESIRE TO MAKE GOOD GRADES AND BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE WORLD OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL. IN THE COGNITIVE ENGAGEMENT AREA, WHICH IS THE DEGREE TO WHICH THEY ARE ENGAGING IN THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT. WE SAW THE LEAD THE MOST CONSISTENT TREND ACROSS THE THREE YEARS, SO WE'RE PRETTY CONSISTENT IN OUR SCORES ACROSS THREE YEARS. SOME AREAS OF CONCERN WERE A DECLINE IN STUDENT FEELING RELEVANCE OR INTEREST IN THEIR LEARNING AND A DECREASE IN THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARDS LEARNING. AND THEN RELATED TO THE DEGREE OF ACADEMIC CHALLENGE LESS THAN 50 . CENTS PER CENT OF SECONDARY STUDENTS REPORT FEELING CHALLENGED IN THEIR CLASSES. AREAS OF STRENGTH IN THE COGNITIVE AREA ARE AN INCREASE IN THE LEVEL OF SUPPORT OR EFFORT THAT STUDENTS PUT IN FOR ACADEMIC SUPPORTS. AND THIS NEXT ONE IS REALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE WE TALK A LOT ABOUT THE FINDINGS

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WE HAVE AND WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO TO IMPROVE? AND LAST YEAR WHEN DR ANDREW REPORTED THE STUDENT ENGAGEMENT SURVEY, WE HAD A SIGNIFICANT A SMALL NUMBER OF STUDENTS WHO WERE SAYING THEY WERE BEING SPOKEN TO RELATED TO THEIR PLANS AFTER SCHOOL, WHETHER IT WAS COLLEGE CAREER OR MILITARY, AND WE'VE HAD A 4.6 PER PERCENT RISE IN THE NUMBER OF PERCENT OF STUDENTS WHO ARE REPORTING THAT SOMEONE IS SPEAKING TO THEM AROUND THEIR FUTURE PLANS. SO THAT'S A REALLY POSITIVE AND RELATED TO STRATEGIES. I'M SURE FROM LAST YEAR SO THAT IS KIND OF THE BIG HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW OF WHERE ARE WE? WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THE SECONDARY STUDENT ENGAGEMENT SURVEY? OF COURSE, WE ARE IN THE MODERATE LEVEL OF ENGAGEMENT AND STRATEGIES NEED TO FOCUS ON MOVING OUR SECONDARY STUDENTS INTO A HIGH LEVEL OF ENGAGEMENT. I'LL MOVE INTO ELEMENTARY NOW.

SO WITH ELEMENTARY WE HAD JUST AT 17,000 RIGHT AT 17,000 TOTAL ELEMENTARY STUDENTS ABOUT 11,000 THAT PARTICIPATED, GIVING US 88% OF ALL ELIGIBLE STUDENTS. IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE ELEMENTARY STUDENT ENGAGEMENT SURVEY WAS GIVEN IN THE SAME WINDOW OF TIME AS THE SECONDARY 11 DIFFERENCE IS THAT THIS SURVEY IS READ TO STUDENTS SO THAT READING IS NOT AN ISSUE OR A BARRIER TO COMPLETING THAT THE SURVEY IS READ TO STUDENTS IN THEIR HOMEROOM CLASS ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE. YOU SEE THE STUDENT GROUPS THAT ARE REPRESENTED IN THE DATA. IN FORTMAN ICE TEA AND HOW THAT COMPARES TO STUDENT RESPONDENTS. THIS SLIDE PROVIDES AN OVERVIEW OF ALL THE DIMENSIONS FOR THE ELEMENTARY SURVEY AND BEFORE YOU START LOOKING AT DROPS IN PERCENTAGES OR INCREASES IN PERCENTAGES, I DO WANT TO POINT OUT THAT THE ELEMENTARY ENGAGEMENT IS RATED AT HIGH AND SO EVERYTHING YOU'RE GOING TO SEE ABOUT ELEMENTARY REPRESENTS RESPONSES FROM ABOUT 80 TO 97% SO WE'RE LOOKING AT A HIGH LEVEL OF STUDENT RESPONSE. HOWEVER WE STILL IDENTIFIED AREAS OF CONCERN TO IMPROVE AND STRENGTH WITHIN THIS SURVEY. AND WE DID SEE AN INCREASE THE GREATEST INCREASE IN COGNITIVE ENGAGEMENT. WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT BEHAVIORAL ENGAGEMENT. THAT'S THE DEGREE TO WHICH STUDENTS ARE PARTICIPATING IN THEIR SCHOOL.

THE AREA OF CONCERN OR AT LEAST THE LOWEST LEVEL THAT WE LOOKED AT AROUND THE PERCENTAGES WAS THE LEVEL OF PARTICIPATION IN CLUBS OR SCHOOL ACTIVITIES. 74% OF ELEMENTARY STUDENTS REPORT SPENDING LESS THAN AN HOUR IN A CLUB OR AN ACTIVITY AT SCHOOL. NOW IT IS IMPORTANT TO CONSIDER THE AGE GRADES THREE THROUGH FIVE AND THE AVAILABILITY OF CLUBS AT ELEMENTARY AND HOW THAT'S A LOT DIFFERENT THAN SECONDARY SCHOOLS WHEN WE TAKE IN THAT DATA THE GOOD NEWS IN BEHAVIORAL ENGAGEMENT IS THAT STUDENTS REPORT FEELING PREPARED FOR LEARNING AND PREPARED TO DO THE ASSIGNMENTS THAT THEY'RE GIVEN WITHIN CLASS. WHEN WE LOOK AT ELEMENTARY EMOTIONAL ENGAGEMENT UM, I WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU HEAR THAT EVERY INDICATOR THAT WE'RE SPEAKING ABOUT HOW TO RESPONSIVE GREATER THAN 80% OF STUDENTS. SO REALLY , THE RANGE BETWEEN WHAT WE PUT AS AN AREA OF STRENGTH AND THE AREAS OF CONCERN WAS 10% OF STUDENTS. STILL SOMETHING TO LOOK AT DUE TO THE FACT THAT EVERYTHING IN AREAS OF CONCERN HAD ABOUT A 12 3% DROP THIS YEAR, SO THAT'S WHY IT'S THERE. BUT IT'S STILL AT 80% IN ELEMENTARY BECAUSE WE ARE REPORTING HI. I'M EMOTIONAL ENGAGEMENT AND SO AGAIN, YOU WHAT YOU SEE IS POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH SCHOOL STAFF AND STUDENTS, FEELINGS OF SAFETY . PERCEPTIONS OF FAIRNESS AND THEN OF RESPECT FOR PERSONAL AND STUDENT SPORTS SUPPORT. THE AREA OF STRENGTH HERE IS THERE ARE INCREASES IN FAMILY, PEER AND TEACHERS SUPPORT FOR LEARNING. AND THEN AS IT RELATES TO COGNITIVE ENGAGEMENT, EVERY SINGLE RESPONSE WAS GREATER THAN 90% IN THIS AREA, SO WE'VE OUTLINED TWO OF THE AREAS OF STRENGTH COGNITIVELY FOR ELEMENTARY STUDENTS, AND THAT IS STUDENT MOTIVATION FOR LEARNING SPECIFICALLY, THEY THEY INDICATE AN INTRINSIC MOTIVATION FOR LEARNING FROM WITHIN THEIR LEARNING, MOTIVATED TO LEARN FROM WITHIN. AND THEN THEY ACTUALLY BELIEVE THAT LEARNING AFTER HIGH SCHOOL IS IMPORTANT, SO THAT'S THE PRECURSOR TO PLANNING FOR YOUR FUTURE IS THAT YOU KNOW THAT LEARNING AFTER HIGH SCHOOL IS IMPORTANT. SO AGAIN, THE ELEMENTARY STUDENTS WERE HITTING A HIGH LEVEL OF STUDENT ENGAGEMENT, SO WE NEED TO MAINTAIN THAT THAT'S WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IN THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL, AND NOW I'M GOING TO TRANSITION IN THE REPORT, AND YOU MAY ALSO REMEMBER THAT YOU RECEIVE RESULTS FROM THE CLIMATE AND CULTURE SURVEY THAT WAS PROVIDED TO FAMILIES AND DISTRICT STAFF.

SO THERE ARE CATEGORIES OF ALIGNMENT BETWEEN THE STUDENT ENGAGEMENT SURVEY FROM ELEMENTARY SECONDARY AND THE CLIMATE CULTURE SURVEY. AND SO WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO NOW IS WE'RE GOING TO KIND OF TALK THROUGH THE CATEGORIES AND WHERE WE SEE ALIGNMENT OR NOT ALIGNMENT IN THE RESPONSES FROM STUDENTS, FAMILIES AND STAFF AND IT GETS A LITTLE COMPLICATED. SO

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I MAY READ A LITTLE BIT HERE TO YOU, BUT WE CAN EXPLAIN AS NEEDED. SO THE FIRST CATEGORY WAS ACADEMIC SUPPORT. AND, UM A COUPLE OF THE THINGS THAT STOOD OUT WERE RELEVANCE OF LESSONS AND ACADEMIC CHALLENGE. SO IT'S INTERESTING PARENTS AND STUDENTS FELT LESSONS WERE LESS RELEVANT TO LIFE OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL AND STAFF, SO OUR STAFF IS FEELING THE LESSONS ARE RELEVANT PARENTS AND STUDENTS ARE REPORTING THAT THEY'RE LESS RELEVANT THAN OUR STAFF IS. ALSO FEWER STUDENTS BELIEVE THAT CLASSES CHALLENGE THEM TO THEIR FULL POTENTIAL. PARENTS AND STAFF THINK THEY'RE CHALLENGING. BUT STUDENTS ARE REPORTING THEY'RE NOT. AND THAT KIND OF TIES TO THAT 50% OF STUDENTS, SAYING THAT THEIR INFORMATION IS NOT ACADEMICALLY CHALLENGING. ANOTHER INTERESTING ONE WAS THAT PARENTS AND STAFF FEEL THAT STUDENT ACADEMIC PROGRESS IS ADEQUATELY SHARED.

THEY UNDERSTAND WHERE THEIR KIDS ARE, WHERE THEY NEED TO GO WHILE SECONDARY STUDENTS NEED, UM, INDICATE THEY NEED MORE PROGRESS MONITORING ON WHERE THEY ARE, AND THEY'RE LEARNING. AND THEN, AS IT RELATES TO SCHOOL LEADERSHIP, MOST GROUPS AGREED THAT SCHOOL LEADERS WERE AVAILABLE TO PROVIDE TO SUPPORT STUDENTS WITH SCHOOL BASED PROBLEMS. THE NEXT TWO CATEGORIES ARE STUDENTS SUPPORT AND FAMILY INVOLVEMENT. SO WITH STUDENTS SUPPORT SECONDARY STUDENTS REPORT FEELING LESS SUPPORTED BY STAFF COMPARED TO OTHER GROUPS. UM THERE WAS A DISCONNECT THAT OCCURS AS THEY MOVE INTO HIGHER GRADES. FEWER PARENTS AND STUDENTS FELT THAT THERE WAS AN ADULT THAT STUDENTS COULD RELY ON FOR A PERSONAL PROBLEM. THEN STAFF MEMBERS SO ON THE PREVIOUS SLIDE, THEY SAID , WE KNOW THAT OUR SCHOOL LEADERS ARE THERE TO HELP US WITH SCHOOL PROBLEMS. BUT WHEN IT'S A PERSONAL PROBLEM, WE DON'T SEE THE SAME LEVEL OF SUPPORT. HOWEVER THE STAFF FEELS THAT SUPPORTS THERE THAT INDICATES THAT MAYBE THAT SUPPORT ISN'T COMMUNICATED OR EASILY ACCESSIBLE TO STUDENTS AND THAT THEY MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT IT. RELATED TO FAMILY INVOLVEMENT. THERE IS A DISCONNECT BETWEEN ALL THREE GROUPS, STUDENTS, PARENTS AND STAFF ABOUT THEIR VALUE IN THE COMMUNITY. WHEN WE TALK ABOUT VALUE, WE MEAN THAT THEIR VOICE MATTERS THAT THEY'RE RESPECTED IN THE COMMUNITY AND THAT THEIR VIEWS ARE HEARD AND USED IN THE COMMUNITY. AND SO THOSE WERE KIND OF THE THEMES THERE. AND THEN, LASTLY WITH SAFETY AND BEHAVIOR, PARENTS AND STAFF AGREE THAT STUDENTS ARE SAFE AT SCHOOL, WHEREAS BELIEFS ABOUT SAFETY DECLINE IN SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS. UM AND THEN KIND OF TIED TO THAT IS THE PERCEPTION ON HANDLING AND FAIRNESS OF DISCIPLINE. THERE'S A VARIANCE THERE. IT INDICATES THE IMPORTANCE OF CONSISTENCY IN OUR DISCIPLINE PRACTICES.

PARENTS AND STAFF HELD STRONG BELIEFS THAT BULLYING IS NOT TOLERATED. BUT A LARGE NUMBER OF STUDENTS REPORT BEING BULLIED OR PICKED ON AND WHILE A HIGH PERCENTAGE OF STAFF FEEL THAT BULLYING IS INVESTIGATED AND ADDRESSED, PARENTS AND STUDENTS FEEL IT'S NOT ADEQUATELY ADDRESSED. AND SO THAT LEAVES US THAT'S KIND OF OUR STANDING AND WHERE WE ARE. WE TRIED TO HIGHLIGHT THE BIG PICTURE OF THE TRENDS THAT WE SAW ACROSS THE SURVEY DATA, AND NOW I WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE FOCUS AREAS THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED. SO ON THIS SLIDE, YOU SEE THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION. WHAT MUST WE ADDRESS? WE MUST IMPROVE SAFETY AND WE MUST CONTINUE TO ADDRESS BEHAVIOR CONSISTENTLY. WE HAVE TO IMPROVE STUDENT EMOTIONAL ENGAGEMENT AND THAT SPEAKS TO THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG THEIR PEERS AMONG ADULTS IN THE SCHOOLS AND THE OPPORTUNITIES TO PARTICIPATE WITHIN THE SCHOOL AND BE INVOLVED. AND WE HAVE TO BUILD STUDENT UNDERSTANDING AND ACCESS TO SUPPORTS. WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE OVER COMMUNICATE. THEY KNOW WHERE TO GO WHEN THEY NEED HELP. AND THEN LASTLY, WE NEED TO IMPROVE STUDENT COGNITIVE ENGAGEMENT THROUGH A STRONG LEARNER EXPERIENCE. SO THEN HOW ARE WE GOING TO DO THIS? THAT'S THE ARROW AT THE BOTTOM. SO FAR, THE SURVEY RESULTS HAVE BEEN DISAGGREGATED INTO A DISTRICT SUMMARY AND INDIVIDUAL CAMPUS RESULTS AND PROVIDED TO ALL CAMPUS LEADERS AND DISTRICT STAFF. THROUGH OUR LEARNING IN THE LATE SPRING AND EARLY SUMMER , WE LEAD REFLECTION AND ANALYSIS OF ALL DISTRICT LEADERS AND STAFF OF THE SURVEY DATA.

AND THEN WE REPLICATED THAT WITH CAMPUS LEADERS, AND THEY REPLICATED THAT WITH THEIR STAFF. THAT WAS IMPORTANT FOR EVERYONE TO UNDERSTAND. WHAT ARE THE AREAS OF FOCUS? HOW IS MY SCHOOL DIFFERENT THAN THE RESULTS AT THE DISTRICT SO THAT WHEN WE GO INTO IMPROVEMENT PLANNING, WHICH IS WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW DEVELOPING OUR CAMPUS IMPROVEMENT PLANS AND OUR DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PLAN, WE CAN IDENTIFY PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES TO ADDRESS THESE FOUR AREAS, AND THEN ONCE THE BOARD APPROVES THE PERFORMANCE AREAS FOR THE DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PLAN. I BELIEVE THAT'S IN OCTOBER. WE GO THROUGH OUR STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT, WHICH SOME OF THE STRATEGIES ARE ALREADY IN PLACE. AND WE WOULD BEGIN TO MONITOR BEGINNING MIDDLE AND END OF YEAR. AND SO THAT DOES CONCLUDE THE PRESENTATION. I DO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND THANK DR TIFFANY ANDREW. HER VOICE IS NOT GREAT, BUT SHE IS HERE. IN CASE YOU HAVE SOME SPECIFIC QUESTIONS AROUND THE DATA, BUT TIFFANY DOES BUILD THIS SURVEY AND DISAGGREGATE THE DATA FOR US AND BUILD ALL OF THE REPORTS. SO I WANT TO THANK HER FOR HER WORK ON THIS. THANK YOU, MR WILLIAMS

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, AND I WILL READY FOR SOME QUESTIONS SPORT, MS HANAN. YES I WANT TO THANK MISS WILLIAMS. AND I WANT TO THANK THE STAFF BECAUSE THIS IS THIS IS ONE THING THAT WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME WHEN I CAME ONTO THE BOARD, AND I THINK THIS IS OUR THIRD YEAR AT SECONDARY, CORRECT, AND I JUST THINK THAT THIS DATA IS SO VALUABLE AND. I BELIEVE I ASKED THIS LAST YEAR, BUT YOU CAN CLARIFY CAMPUSES HAVE THIS DATA ON THEIR STUDENTS. YES YES . OKAY, SO WE'RE LOOKING MORE AT A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE. AND SO, UM , THERE THEY ARE USING WELL, I'M WE'RE USING THIS IN OUR DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PLAN, AND THEY'RE USING THESE IN THERE. CAMPUS IMPROVEMENT PLANS AS WELL. AND SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE GRAPHS IN THE ACTUAL, UM UM, REPORT ITSELF. I APPRECIATE THE WAY WE HAVE SOME STUDENT POPULATIONS WHERE WE CAN SEE THE DIFFERENCE THROUGH ON SOME BAR GRAPHS AND SOME INFORMATION TO SEGREGATED A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY THIS YEAR, ANYWAY, VERY, UM VERY GOOD INFORMATION, AND I APPRECIATE THE WORK ON THIS SO THAT WE CAN. NO NO. WHAT THE PERCEPTIONS ARE OF OUR OF OUR STUDENTS, AND I APPRECIATE THE TRIANGULATION OF LOOKING AT THE CLIMATE AND CULTURE SURVEY THE WAY YOU DID IN COMPARISON WITH THE STUDENT. UM ENGAGEMENT SURVEY. THANK YOU, MISS WILLIAMS. THANK YOU, MISS HANNAH. THANK YOU, MR HANNAN, MISS HIM ALONE. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT DAY. YES THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MRS WILLIAMS. THANK YOU, DR ANDREW. I HOPE YOU GET TO FEELING BETTER SOON, AND I'LL REFRAIN FROM ASKING ANY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS THAT YOU NEED TO SPEAK. UM, JUST A COUPLE OF THINGS. ONE THE DECREASE WHAT THE OVER 5% DECREASE IN THE CONNECTION LIKE KIDS BEING INVOLVED IN CLUBS OR ACTIVITIES AND YOU KNOW YOU ALREADY MENTIONED IT, BUT WE KNOW THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THAT AND STUDENT OUTCOMES. SO MY QUESTION IS HOW SPECIFICALLY AND I KNOW YOU ALSO MENTIONED ALREADY THAT YOU'VE ALREADY HAD THIS CONVERSATION WITH PRINCIPLES, ETCETERA THAT EVERYBODY IS AWARE OF THE GAME AND WHAT'S GOING ON? BUT CAN YOU TELL US SPECIFICALLY OR MAYBE GIVE A COUPLE SPECIFIC EXAMPLES OF POSSIBLE ON HOW WE ARE FOCUSED IN FORT BEND AN INCREASING CONNECTION, AND, UM, HAVING MORE KIDS PARTICIPATE IN CLUBS AND ACTIVITIES, WHETHER AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OR HIGH SCHOOL BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE BOTH OF THEM FELT LIKE WE HAD DISENGAGEMENT THERE. IN THE LAST YEAR. SO, UM, THAT. LET ME ADDRESS THE DROP. SO THE DROP IS IN THE NUMBER OF HOURS THAT KID'S REPORT ENGAGING IN THOSE ACTIVITIES. IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN THEY ARE ENGAGED IN LESS CLUBS. IT JUST MIGHT BE. THE TIME HAS ADJUSTED THAT THEY'RE SPENDING IN THOSE CLUBS. SO ONE. I CAN SPEAK TO US TRACKING PARTICIPATION IN ATHLETICS AND CLUBS AND ACTIVITIES AND ENSURING THAT THOSE ARE OFFERED. I CAN'T SPEAK SPECIFICALLY, I'D HAVE TO RELY ON POLAR TO SPEAK TO LIKE HOW THE SHACK IS WORKING ON WHOLE CHILDHOOD HEALTH AND GETTING KIDS ENGAGED AND LOOKING AT CLUBS ACROSS THERE, THAT'S ALL PART OF OUR STRATEGIES IN THE DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PLAN. OKAY? WELL THANKFULLY, THAT THE DIPS COMING SO IT CAN BE MORE SPECIFIC THAN, UM AND SO PEOPLE ARE WITH THAT IN MIND WHEN THE DIP DOES COME. I AM CURIOUS WHAT WE'RE DOING TO INCREASE ENGAGEMENT IN THE PERCEPTION OF ENGAGEMENT RIGHT? BECAUSE I THINK THERE'S A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PERCEPTION AND REALITY. AND SOMEHOW WE GOT TO BRIDGE THOSE GAPS. YOU KNOW, LIKE KIDS MAY BE INVOLVED AND MORE BUT THEIR PERCEPTION VERSUS THE REALITY OF BEING INVOLVED. THE NUMBER OF HOURS THAT COULD BE A GAP IN THAT, YEAH. UM AND THE OTHER THING IS THAT STUDENTS PARENTS STAFF USING THE COMMUNITY THAT TRIANGULATION YOU MENTIONED. THAT THEY DON'T. I FEEL WE HAVE THAT THAT CONNECTION. SO HONESTLY, I'M ALWAYS A LITTLE BIT SURPRISED BY THAT. AND THE REASON I'M SURPRISED BY THAT IS BECAUSE COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITIES WHEN THEY HAD PRESENTED, WE KNOW THAT OR I NOTICED A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN INVOLVEMENT. AND SO I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT THOSE IN THOSE METRICS SEEM TO HAVE A SHOW SIGNIFICANT GAINS, SO I WAS SHOCKED AT THAT FEELING OF LACK OF CONNECTION THERE BETWEEN THE THREE SO WHAT ARE WE DOING TO LIKE YOU MENTIONED, YOU KNOW THE COMMUNITY AND EVERYBODY BEING CONNECTED THERE. SO I GUESS WHAT ARE WE DOING? AND HOW ARE WE DRIVING? THAT CHANGE IN

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PERCEPTION AGAIN AND CREATING THAT SENSE OF COMMUNITY THAT WE'RE ALL WORKING TOGETHER FOR THE SAME THING. OKAY? SORRY I'M TRYING TO GET THE DATA UP SO THAT I CAN SPEAK TO THAT INTELLIGENTLY. OKAY. THIS SAYS THAT FEWER PARENTS AND STUDENTS FELT THERE WASN'T A SORRY THE DISCONNECT BETWEEN ALL THREE GROUPS, SO I WANT TO SPEAK TO THAT 84% OF CAMPUS STAFF FILL VALUED IN THE COMMUNITY. 62% OF SECONDARY STUDENTS FEEL VALUED IN THE COMMUNITY 73% OF PARENTS , SO THERE'S DIFFERENT LEVELS OF VALUE AMONG THE THREE GROUPS IF I DIDN'T EXPLAIN THAT, WELL, I APPRECIATE THAT. SO IF YOU LOOK AT THAT DATA, IT'S SECONDARY STUDENTS WHERE WE NEED TO BUILD ON THE IMPORTANT PART OF THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY. THAT'S THE LOWEST AT 62% PERCEIVED VALUE IN THEIR COMMUNITY. RIGHT SO THOSE OTHER 38% THAT DON'T FEEL VALUED. WHAT ARE WE? THAT'S WHAT I GUESS I'M TRYING TO GET AT THE HARD PART FOR ME THAT I'M THINKING IS OKAY. WE HAVE THIS SIGNIFICANT GAIN OUTSIDE FOLKS LIKE JUST EARLIER. WE DID SHIRLEY 95, AND WE HAVE THE FRIENDS OF THAT AND THEY'RE PARTICIPATING, AND WE HAVE THESE GAINS IN COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITIES AS FAR AS MENTORS AND SHARED DREAMS AND YOU KNOW ALL BETTER BE CAREFUL TALKING WITH MY HANDS HERE, BUT ANYHOW, ALL OF THESE FOLKS WHO ARE INVOLVED IN, UM, VOLUNTEERING FOR OUR CHILDREN. AT HIGH SCHOOL CAMPUSES AS WELL, BUT THERE'S STILL 38% THAT FEEL. LIKE THERE'S NOT ADULTS WHO ARE THERE , SO I'M JUST SIMPLY ASKING. WHAT ARE WE DOING TO INCREASE BECAUSE THAT'S STILL A LOT OF KIDS. YEAH, I THINK IT STARTS ONE STUDENT AT A TIME. I WOULD PITCH IT TO DR MENSAH TO SPEAK SPECIFICALLY AROUND THE SECONDARY SCHOOL STRATEGIES. BUT THE WAY A STUDENT FEELS CONNECTED IS BY EITHER BEING INVOLVED IN A PROGRAM OR HAVING AN ADULT THAT THEY CAN GO TO AT THAT SCHOOL JUST TAKES ONE IS WHAT RESEARCH SAYS ONE ADULT INVESTED IN THAT STUDENT. AND THEY FEEL CONNECTED. HMM YES, MA'AM. SO I GUESS BACK TO THAT WHEN WE DO THAT, THE DIP I'D LIKE TO KNOW. WHAT ARE WE DOING ABOUT THOSE 38% TO KNOW THOSE THAT AREN'T INVOLVED AND HOW DO WE HOW ARE WE ADDRESSING THAT? HOW ARE WE GETTING THEM INVOLVED, SO THEY DO FEEL CONNECTION? BECAUSE THAT HAS A DIRECT RELATIONSHIP TO THE OUTCOMES. HMM. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, AND I DO APPRECIATE ALL OF THIS INFORMATION. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU, MR MALONE. NEXT. WE HAVE MISS JONES. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. THANK YOU. MISS WILLIAMS. QUESTIONS HERE. AND I THINK SHE MAY BE ABLE TO ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS. I HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DATA. OK OF COURSE, BACK TO THE SECONDARY STUDENT PARTICIPATION. SLIDE.

YEAH GO BACK. GO BACK. THAT ONE. YEAH. SO THERE WERE 44 WE HAVE 44,007 90 STUDENTS AND PORTMAN EYES THE SECONDARIES 24,000 PARTICIPATING. HOW DID YOU GET THE 69? SO THAT NUMBER OF 44,000 IS A TOTAL NUMBER OF STUDENTS THAT WE HAVE. HOWEVER THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS WHO ARE ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SURVEY WAS ACTUALLY 35,157. OKAY 1000 IS A PERCENT OF THAT. OKAY? THAT CLARIFY SOMETHING FOR ME. AND THEN ALSO, UM, I THINK MISS WILLIAMS SAID THAT PARENTS ARE NOTIFIED OR. PARENTS ARE GIVING INFORMATION OR GIVE PERMISSION FOR STUDENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN WHAT MEASURES BASICALLY HOW OUR PARENTS NOTIFIED REGARDING THEIR CHILD'S PARTICIPATION. BECAUSE I MEAN. THERE'S STILL A LOW NUMBER FOR ME. THAT'S A VERY LOW NUMBER. SO MAYBE I WASN'T MAYBE IT'S HELPFUL TO CLARIFY THAT THEY PERMISSION SURVEY PARTICIPATION IN THEIR FORMS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SCHOOL YEAR, SO IT'S NOT PER SURVEY, OKAY. AND ARE THE PARENTS SHOWN ANY OF THE QUESTIONS? ARE THEY AWARE OF ANY OF THE QUESTIONS? THAT ARE ASKED. WE PUBLISHED THE FINDINGS ANNUALLY, BUT WE DON'T SEND THE QUESTIONS OUT TO PARENTS IN ADVANCE OF THE SURVEY, OKAY? THANK YOU, OF COURSE. THANK YOU, MR JONES. DR GILLIAM. YES THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION, AND I'M GONNA GO A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT. SO I'M LOOKING AT THE AREAS OF CONCERN EVERYTHING ELSE THAT BRINGS IT. HOME TO ME. OKAY SO WHEN I LOOK AT AREAS CONCERN FOR SECONDARY RELEVANCE AND INTEREST IN LEARNING DECREASE IN ATTITUDE TOWARD LEARNING DEGREE

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OF ACADEMIC CHALLENGE. OKAY, SO ANY IDEA OF HOW WE'RE GOING TO ATTACK THAT. SO HOLD ON, SO THEN GOING INTO THE EMOTIONAL ENGAGEMENT POSITIVE AREAS OF CONCERN POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH SCHOOL STAFF AND OTHER STUDENTS, FEELINGS OF SAFETY PERCEPTIONS OF FAIRNESS, PERCEPTIONS OF RESPECT AND PERSONAL STUDENT SUPPORT. SO WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ALL STUDENTS, SO THAT HOWEVER, MANY WERE ACTUALLY IN THAT SURVEY. DEPENDING ON WHERE WE ARE. I ARE THE CAMPUSES RECEIVING THEIR OWN DATA. LET ME ASK THAT. OKAY SO IN THIS IS OF COURSE, EVERYTHING IN THE DISTRICT. OKAY SO WHEN EVERYTHING COMES IN THE DISTRICT THAN IT TELLS ME THAT OLIVER VOICES ARE NOT BEING HEARD. POSSIBLY. OKAY SO WHEN GOING, I JUST WANT TO KIND OF HANG ON THE EMOTIONAL ENGAGEMENT RIGHT NOW. SO FROM ESPECIALLY WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT THE BOARD, AND WE STILL ARE WORK, WE'RE WORKING ON THIS CODE OF CONDUCT AND THE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING, AND I'M GOING TO TELL YOU AND I'M GOING TO BRING UP MY FEELING INTO IT, BECAUSE WHEN I SAW ONE PARTICULAR SCHOOL ON THE NEWS BEHIND. THINGS THAT WERE ON CAMPUS. OKAY. YOU ALL CAN READ IN BETWEEN THE LINES. I GOT 13 CALLS THAT NIGHT. BECAUSE IT WAS THAT PARTICULAR SCHOOL AND IN DOING SO, IT'S LIKE, HOW DID WE GET HERE? YEAH AND OF COURSE THERE'S NOT. I'M NOT GONNA SAY WHAT IT IS THAT I SAID, OR WHATEVER NUMBER ONE. WE JUST ALL HAVE TO WORK TOGETHER. THAT'S WHERE THAT'S WHO I AM, AND THAT'S WHERE WE ARE. SO WHEN I LOOK AT THIS, I UNDERSTAND THE WHOLE. BUT HOW ARE WE GOING TO ADDRESS? THOSE CAMPUSES THAT ARE REALLY THE AREAS OF CONCERN MAY NOT COME OUT TO BE THAT NICE MODERATE NUMBER. AND HOW HOW ARE WE GOING TO ADDRESS THOSE CAMPUSES? SO THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE A PLAN. WELL, EACH OF THE CAMPUSES THEY ALL HAVE THIS DATA SAID THAT SPECIFIC TO THEIR OWN SCHOOLS SO AS THEY DEVELOP THEIR PLANS WITH THEIR CAMPUS IMPROVEMENT PLANS. THEY'RE LOOKING AT THIS DATA, ALONG WITH OTHER DATA TO DETERMINE WHAT STRATEGY THEY'RE GOING TO USE TO ADDRESS ANY DEFICIENCIES. SOME OF THE CHALLENGES WITH TRYING TO ADDRESS SOME OF THESE GLOBAL IDEAS IS THAT WHEN WE ASKED THESE QUESTIONS WE'RE GETTING QUESTIONS THAT ARE ANSWERED BY STUDENTS AND WE MAY NOT KNOW NECESSARILY. WHAT'S THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THEIR ANSWERS? SO IF YOU HAVE STUDENTS THAT MAY NOT FEEL SAFE FOR SOME PARTICULAR REASON, THE REASON WHY I DON'T FEEL SAFE MAY BE DIFFERENT THAN WHY DR LAWSON FEELS SAFE, WHICH MAY BE DIFFERENT THAN WHY MS MARTINEZ, SO IT REALLY IS CONTINGENT UPON SOME INDIVIDUAL CONVERSATIONS WITH STUDENTS, SO OUR TEACHERS ARE GOING TO HAVE TO LEARN MORE FROM KIDS ABOUT WHAT'S CAUSING THE FIELD THE WAY THAT THEY FEEL. AND THEN WE HAVE TO GATHER INFORMATION AND HAVE BIG PLANS FOR THE ENTIRE SCHOOL. BUT SOME REALLY SPECIFIC PLANS FOR HOW WE ADDRESS AND SUPPORT OUR KIDS. SO THE ANSWER YOUR QUESTION WE, EACH CAMPUS DOES HAVE THE DATA AND NEGATIVE. THEY'RE USING THIS DATA AND TRY TO DEVELOP THE PLANS TO ADDRESS IT. OKAY SO I'M NOT GONNA ASK THIS IN A QUESTION FOR HIM TO HAVE AN ANSWER. BUT I WOULD, UM I THINK HAVING IT IN WRITING. FROM CAMPUSES ON WHAT THAT PLAN IS, WHAT ARE THE MAJOR CONCERNS? AND I'M SHARING THIS BECAUSE IF THOSE CONCERNS ARE NOT TAKEN BY WHATEVER ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM IS THERE, THE COUNSELING TEAM ALL OF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE THERE TO ASSIST AND HELP AND OUR TEAMS HERE THAT GO OUT, UM ALL OF THE DIFFERENT, UM, SUPPORTS THAT WE HAVE. WE CAN. WE CAN MAKE THIS BETTER, BUT WE HAVE TO DIAGNOSE THE PROBLEM AT THE CAMPUSES. AND TO DIAGNOSE THAT WE HAVE TO. WE HAVE TO REALLY SIT DOWN AND HAVE SOME SERIOUS CONVERSATIONS AND SOME TOUGH CONVERSATIONS. AND I'M GOING TO ALSO SAY THIS WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT THE LEADERS OF THESE CAMPUSES, THEY HAVE TO BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON. NO, THE KIDS KNOW WHAT WE NEED TO DO. OR WHAT THEY NEED TO DO FOR THEIR PARTICULAR CAMPUS. AND I SAY OVER AND OVER AND OVER WHERE YOU WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE

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LEADERS OF THE OF THE CAMPUSES, THERE'S SO MUCH PRESSURE AND THERE'S SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS THAT THEY HAVE TO DO. BUT NUMBER ONE IS SAFETY AND SECURITY. AND THAT'S A ALWAYS BEFORE ANYTHING AND TO HAVE THE POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS AND THE FEELINGS OF SAFETY AND IT'S RIGHT BEHIND AND I'M SEEING THIS BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT THIS IS HOW THINGS HAPPENED AT SCHOOLS. WHEN WE HAVE STUDENTS THAT ARE ALONE AND THERE, THEY DON'T FEEL THAT THEY CAN TALK TO ANYONE. WE SAY EVERYONE'S OUT THERE BUT WHO IS ACTUALLY LOOKING AND SEARCHING FOR THE CHILDREN ON THOSE CAMPUSES, SO I DO APPRECIATE THIS, AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE TAKING IT CAMPUS BY CAMPUS. NOT JUST ACCEPTING THAT. HEY YOU KNOW, WE'RE OKAY. WE'RE IN MODERATE.

BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF EXTRA FOLKS IN THERE THAT ARE HAPPY, RIGHT? OKAY GILLIAM ON PAGE 57 OF THE SURVEY. THAT MAY GIVE YOU THE INFORMATION. THE SECONDARY SURVEY THAT MIGHT GIVE YOU THE INFORMATION THAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR WITH SECONDARY STUDENTS. WE DID ASK SPECIFICALLY HAD THEY CONSIDER LEAVING THEIR CAMPUS AND IF SO, WHY WE HAD 5800 WRITE IN RESPONSES. THAT WE DISAGGREGATED AND YOU'LL SEE SOME OF THE THEMES THAT YOU JUST SPOKE TO. OKAY CAMPUSES RECEIVED THAT INDIVIDUALLY, SO WE DID ALSO ADDRESS LIKE INDIVIDUAL NEEDS WHERE WE SEE A CAMPUS BELOW WHAT A DISTRICT AVERAGES BECAUSE WE KNOW DISTRICT AVERAGE ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH, BUT THAT'S DISAGGREGATED AND HANDED THERE, SO THEY'RE USING THAT, AS DR MENSA SAID, WHEN THEY'RE WRITING THEIR PLANS, THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU, DR MENSAH AND AGAIN MANY TIMES WE GET THIS. AND HERE IS EVERYTHING FOR OUR CAMPUS, AND THEN IT GETS PUT OVER HERE SOMEWHERE. WE'VE GOT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE OPEN IT UP AND WE HAVE A PLAN. BECAUSE BEHAVIOR AND SAFETY. WE HAVE TO ADDRESS IT IN. STUDENTS HAVE TO KNOW THAT WE'RE ADDRESSING IT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, DR GILLIAM, MR GARCIA. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. UM GREAT JOB AS ALWAYS. THIS IS I'M READING THROUGH THE REPORT. I DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO READ IT ALL FOR THE WEEKEND. UM BUT IT'S A LOT OF VERY GOOD, VALUABLE INFORMATION . AND I APPRECIATE THAT. WE'RE TAKING A LOOK AT THESE THIS TYPE OF INFORMATION. JUST ONE AND I'LL PROBABLY HAVE TO REACH OUT FOR HELP ME UNPACK SOME OF THIS , YOU KNOW, UM NEXT WEEK OR SOMETHING OR LATER THIS WEEK, BUT ONE QUESTION I HAD WAS KIND OF IN REGARDS TO LIKE AREAS OF CONCERN. WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT PARTICIPATION IN CLUBS AND SCHOOL ACTIVITIES JUST PRIMARILY AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL. DO YOU KNOW IF THERE'S A CORRELATION BETWEEN, UM PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT AND FEWER LESS PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT? HMM. WITH THE LEVEL OF PARTICIPATION GOING DOWN OR IS THAT SOMETHING THAT IS THERE ANY WAY TO DON'T KNOW? I DON'T KNOW. I HAVEN'T REALLY LOOKED AT THE REPORT ITSELF, BUT I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH ANY RESEARCH ON THAT. BUT I CAN LOOK AT THAT. I WAS JUST CURIOUS BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY THERE'S NOT AS MANY OPTIONS FOR CLUBS AND SCHOOL ACTIVITIES IF IT'S IF IT'S OBVIOUSLY WHEN YOU GET INTO SECONDARY. YOU'VE GOT BAND AND YOU GOT FOOTBALL AND YOU GOT THINGS THAT AND SO MANY. YOU CAN GO SO MANY DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS WITH WHAT? WHAT'S OUT THERE? UM, I KNOW THERE'S A COUPLE OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS THAT HAVE DAD'S CLUB AND SOME SCHOOLS DON'T AND. SO IF, IN MY HOUSE IT'S LIKE THERE'S REALLY NOT A CHOICE. YOU HAVE TO JOIN SOMETHING. SO THAT'S THAT'S ONE ASPECT OF IT. BUT THEN IN SOME OTHER ASPECTS OF LIKE, I DON'T KNOW. YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW WHAT ARE WE DOING? OR THERE'S OTHER ASPECT IS UM OR TEACHERS. INVOLVED IN PROMOTING SOME SOME OF THE CLUBS. IF THERE'S A ROBOTICS CLUB, THERE'S A STEM CLUB AFTER SCHOOL OR WHATEVER.

SO I WAS JUST I WAS JUST KIND OF CURIOUS ABOUT THAT. AND THAT'S NOT NECESSARILY SOMETHING. I NEED AN ANSWER, AND I WAS JUST I WAS JUST CURIOUS IF THERE WAS ANY WAY TO CORRELATE THAT THAT LEVEL OF INVOLVEMENT IF IT'S WE'RE NOT PROMOTING AS MANY CLUBS AT SOME OF THE CANVASES OR IF THERE'S PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT . THAT'S JUST THERE'S NOT IN CERTAIN AREAS. MAYBE THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY IT'S GONE DOWN SO DISTANT PARTS. I WANTED TO SHARE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR GARCIA. MR HAMBLETON. YES, THANK YOU, MISS WILLIAMS. THERE MAY BE SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE HAPPY WITH YOU FOR WHAT I'M ABOUT TO SAY, AND SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE LESS HAPPY BUT THE PRESENTATION THAT YOU GAVE IN 2021 IS A BIG PART OF THE REASON WHY I'M UP HERE. SO WHEN YOU YOU GAVE AN UPDATE ON THE FIVE YEAR PLAN SO PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT SO HAPPY THAT I'M UP HERE, MAYBE MAYBE THEY SHOULD BLAME YOU A LITTLE BIT. JUST KIDDING SHOULDERS. SO WHEN I WHEN I DECIDED TO RUN, THE BIGGEST FACTOR WAS SEEING THE DROP IN ACADEMICS FROM THE 2019 NUMBERS TO THAT 2021 UPDATE ON THE FIVE YEAR PLAN, SO JUST KIND OF A BLANKET STATEMENT. WE WERE AROUND 70% IN EACH SUBJECT, AND

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THE FIVE YEAR PLAN WAS TO MAKE INCREMENTAL PROGRESS. MHM AND THEN THAT 2021 UPDATE. WE WERE DOWN AROUND 50% IN EACH SUBJECT, JUST AS A KIND OF A AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION PROBABLY. AND SO JUST FROM KNOWING. THE DISTRICT FROM PREVIOUS ENDEAVORS . I KNEW THAT THAT 70% DROPPED TO 50% WAS NOT GOING TO BE EVEN ACROSS THE DISTRICT AND THAT IT WAS GOING TO BE THE YOU KNOW, THE BIGGEST DROP HAPPENED AT THE AT THE CAMPUSES THAT WERE ALREADY STRUGGLING. AND SO THAT WAS A BIG PART OF ME RUNNING WAS TO TRY TO MAKE IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR THE WHOLE DISTRICT, BUT ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE THOSE CAMPUSES. THAT WE'RE STRUGGLING PRE COVID AND MORE SO AFTER COVID SO THAT'S WHERE I WAS ENTERING MY DECISION TO RUN AND SO I DID NOT. REALLY INTEND TO CAMPAIGN ON DISCIPLINE VERY MUCH. BUT AS I CAMPAIGNED AS I TALK TO PARENTS AS I TALKED TO TEACHERS DISCIPLINE WAS THE NUMBER ONE THING THAT I WAS HEARING FROM THEM. AND SO THAT WAS THAT BECAME THE NUMBER ONE THING THAT I TALKED ABOUT, ESPECIALLY TOWARDS THE END OF MY CAMPAIGN, AND SO THAT IS HOW I ENTERED THIS POSITION AND THEN THINGS THAT I'VE SEEN OVER THE PAST ALMOST YEAR AND A HALF HAVE KIND OF CONFIRM THAT AND SO I WOULD SAY THAT THAT LED ME INTO THE AT LEAST FOR ME PERSONALLY. UH WHAT? WHAT WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT RECENTLY? AND SO IT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT I WANT TO POINT OUT FROM THE SURVEY THAT I THINK ARE WORTH THREE ITERATING. SO FROM THE SECONDARY AREAS OF CONCERN. STUDENTS HAD FEELINGS OF SAFETY. AND APPLICATION OF RULES AND DISCIPLINE. AND THEN FROM THE ELEMENTARY AREAS OF CONCERN, FEELINGS OF SAFETY AND PERCEPTIONS OF FAIRNESS. AND TH FROM THE TRIANGULATION SECTION. WE HAD A LARGE NUMBER OF STUDENTS REPORTED BEING BULLIED OR PICKED ON, AND PARENTS AND STUDENTS FEEL THAT BULLYING IS NOT ADEQUATE, ADEQUATELY ADDRESSED. AND SO THERE HAVE BEEN COMMENTS THAT NOT TO THE EFFECT THAT WE PRIMARILY HAVE A PERCEPTION PROBLEM WHEN IT COMES TO DISCIPLINE AND ADDRESSING THESE CHALLENGES, AND I THINK I THINK WE HAVE MORE THAN JUST A PERCEPTION PROBLEM. SO THEN I JUST WENT TO DO MY OWN TRIANGULATION. SO FROM THE PARENT STAFF SURVEY DATA UM ALL OF THESE NUMBERS ARE LESS THAN LESS THAN 60. SO ONLY 52% OF PARENTS AND 55% OF STAFF THINK THAT THE DISTRICT USES STAKEHOLDER FEEDBACK. UH AND, UH, THEY INCORPORATE THAT FEEDBACK IN DECISION MAKING. UM ONLY 53% OF PARENTS AGREE. STAFF ARE RESPONSIVE WHEN STUDENTS REPORT BULLYING. 52% APPEARANCE AGREE BULLYING IS INVESTIGATED AND ADDRESSED. AND 57% OF CAMPUS BASED STAFF BELIEVE THAT DISCIPLINE IS ENFORCED FAIRLY. SO I THINK. THAT JUST REALLY REITERATES. AND SO DOCUMENTS.

THANK YOU, DOCTOR. THANK YOU FOR UM, FOR THE RECENT EFFORTS TO ADDRESS OUR CONCERNS, AS WE TRY TO GET TO THE POINT WHERE WE CAN PASS THE STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT BETTER LATE THAN NEVER. AND SO I JUST WANT TO. STATE AND ALL OF THAT, SO THANK YOU FOR THIS PRESENTATION THIS DATA, BUT I THINK THE FIRST STEP TO SOLVING A PROBLEM IS UNDERSTANDING IT. AND SO I THINK THIS THIS SURVEY DATA GOES A LONG WAY TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING THE WHAT? WHAT'S REALLY HAPPENING WITH, UH, WITH THESE ISSUES IN THE DISTRICT, SO THANK YOU. SIR. THANK YOU. MR HAMBLETON. MR JONES STILL HAVE ADDITIONAL QUESTION. OKAY ADDITIONAL QUESTION. SURVEY TRIANGULATION WERE STILL THERE.

OKAY GOOD SAFETY AND BEHAVIOR, WHERE THERE ANY QUESTIONS RELATING TO CONFLICT RESOLUTION.

IN THAT SURVEY. NOT SPECIFICALLY. NO. UM OKAY. THE REASON I'M ASKING IS BECAUSE I'M LOOKING AT THIS INFORMATION, AND I'M WONDERING PART OF THIS, AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT STUDENT COLORED CONDUCT AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RESTORATIVE PRACTICES, AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT P B. I S AND I'M THINKING ABOUT WHERE WHERE DOES THE CONFLICT RESOLUTION FALL INTO PLACE? WITH THIS DATA? STUDENTS FEEL THAT THEY ARE EQUIPPED TO RESOLVE THEIR CONFLICTS OR THE ADULTS ARE EQUIPPED TO RESOLVE THEIR CONFLICTS. I GUESS I'M ASKING FOR MORE INFORMATION HERE. BECAUSE. PERCEPTIONS ON HANDLING AND FAIRNESS OF DISCIPLINE VARIED BETWEEN GROUPS INDICATING THE IMPORTANCE OF CONSISTENCY AND DISCIPLINE PRACTICES. YES THAT IS A FACTOR BUT ALSO IN DISCIPLINE. THOSE DISCIPLINE PRACTICES ARE WE ALSO . ARE THE CONFLICT RESOLUTION TECHNIQUES EFFECTIVE. BECAUSE I KNOW DR GILLIAM JUST SAID THAT THE SITUATION AT A SCHOOL WHERE KIDS ARE BRINGING FIREARMS, AND I'M JUST LIKE, WELL, WHERE'S THE CONFLICT RESOLUTION HERE? AND SO

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THAT WOULD PROVE THAT SERVE AS A PREVENTIVE MEASURE FOR SOME OF THESE THINGS, UH, TO EMERGE VIA IN OUR SCHOOLS AND VIA THE SURVEY AS WELL. SO THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING WHERE THERE ANYTHING IN REGARDS TO CONFLICT RESOLUTION. IT WAS MORE ABOUT HOW THEY TREAT EACH OTHER. DO THEY FEEL LIKE THEY'RE TREATED FAIRLY? NOT ABOUT THE STRATEGIES. PARTICULAR TO CONFLICT RESOLUTION. RIGHT? INSULTING GET TO THE CORE OF THAT WE HAVE TO FIND OUT ARE THOSE PRACTICES AND THOSE STRATEGIES ARE EFFECTIVE AND ARE THEY WORKING? HMM. SO THAT'S JUST MY COMMENT. SO YES. THANK YOU FOR THE COMMENT. WE CAN LOOK AT ADDING QUESTIONS. UM WE DID PULL THESE FROM A RESEARCH BASE JUST TO GET PERCEPTIONS AROUND STUDENTS NOT NECESSARILY TO MONITOR IMPLEMENTATION OF PRACTICES. BUT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE COULD LOOK AT IT JUST ASKING YOU FOR OF IN THE FUTURE FOR FUTURE SERVICE GO A LITTLE DEEPER, LITTLE DEEPER, SO WE CAN REALLY FIND THE ROUTE CALLS OF A LOT OF THE ISSUES AS WELL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR JONES. UM THANK YOU FOR AGAIN FOR THE PRESENTATION. I THINK I'M NOT GOING TO REPEAT ANY OF THE COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS, SO I DO HAVE ONE QUESTION REGARDING TO, UM, THE SERVICE. SO WHEN YOU ASKING THE QUESTION. I MEAN, FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO ALSO THANK THE STUDENTS WHO WANT WHO IS WILLING TO PARTICIPATE BECAUSE THAT'S THE JOINT EFFORT SO WE CAN HAVE A PICTURE TODAY.

THAT'S SUPER IMPORTANT. SO REGARDING TO THE STUDENT RETENTION, SO WHEN YOU WHEN YOU TELL THE STUDENTS WHEN YOU ASK THEM IF YOU SOMETIMES YOU WANT TO CONSIDER TRANSFERRING FROM THE SCHOOL, AND THEN YOU YOU TELL ME THE OTHER ONE WAS OFTEN SO HOW? HOW HOW DO YOU YOU KNOW, DEFINE THE LINE LIKE THERE. WHAT DO YOU JUST TELL THEM? DO YOU? DO YOU DO ANY EXPLANATION TO THEM OR NOT? JUST GIVE THEM THE FORM. THEY CAN JUST CHECK. NO THE FORM IS GIVEN TO THE STUDENTS. WE DON'T HAVE THE TEACHERS GO THROUGH THE DIFFERENT OPTIONS AS FAR AS WHAT WE MEAN BY OFTEN AND SOMETIMES, OKAY, SO THEY CAN SO THAT'S PROBABLY WHY YOU USE THE DATA.

YOU COMBINE THOSE TWO TOGETHER, RIGHT? OKAY THANK YOU FOR THAT. YES MA'AM. SO I GUESS I'M NOT GONNA, UM, REALLY GOING DEEPER BECAUSE I ALREADY HAVE A LOT OF COMMENTS HERE. BUT I LOOK FORWARD TO SEE THE PLAN BECAUSE I THINK NOW WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE AT AND THEN WE KNOW THE CONCERNS AND YOU HEARD FROM THE BOARD MEMBER. WE WANTED TO SEE SOME ACTION PLAN TO ACTUALLY ADDRESS THOSE CONCERNS. SO I GUESS WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO SEE THE C I P AND THE DPP IN OCTOBER. AND SO THE BOARD MEMBERS IF YOU DO HAVE ACTUAL QUESTIONS, PLEASE EMAIL DOCTOR WAY BACK. YOU CAN COPY TO MISS WILLIAMS AND THEN SO THEY CAN GET THOSE ADDRESSED BEFORE THE DAMAGE DURING THE WORKSHOP OR BEFORE THE WORKSHOP IN OCTOBER, SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU. YES YES, DOCTOR. WAY BACK.

THANK YOU LADIES VERY MUCH. JUST IN CLOSING. I THOUGHT I WOULD POINT OUT SOMETHING THAT WE MAY NOT BE AWARE OF, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS I THINK WE SHOULD BE PROUD OF IS THAT WE DO THIS SURVEY AT ALL. THIS IS NOT A REQUIREMENT. UH AND MANY, MANY DISTRICTS DO NOT DO THIS, SO WE ARE MAKING OURSELVES VULNERABLE . WE ARE PUTTING OURSELVES OUT THERE AND WE'RE WILLING TO SAY HEY, WE WANT TO KNOW THE FACTS, WHETHER THEY'RE GLOWING OR WHETHER THEY'RE NOT. AND SO I JUST I JUST WANTED TO MENTION THAT BECAUSE PEOPLE MAY THINK OH, THAT'S ANOTHER, YOU KNOW, TH REQUIREMENT LIKE DR COSTIN'S CAN YOU TALK ABOUT, BUT NO, IT'S NOT. THANK YOU, DOCTOR. REEBOK.

ACTUALLY I REALLY APPRECIATE THE EFFORT BECAUSE YOU ONLY YOU HAVE YOU CAN IMPROVE ONLY WHEN YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE. SO I APPRECIATE THIS VERY MUCH SO THAT BEING SAID WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO THE NEXT AGENDA ITEM. OKAY. MISS MALONE? YES JUST ONE QUESTION ONLY BECAUSE YOU BROUGHT UP SOMETHING THAT I WASN'T GOING TO BRING UP. WHICH WAS THE YOU ASKED ABOUT THE TRANSFERRING, AND SO WHAT I'D LIKE TO ASK THE POLICY COMMITTEE IS WHERE WE AT WITH POLICY, IF DB LOCAL AND WHEN WILL THAT BE COMING TO THE BOARD FOR REVIEW? BECAUSE AS I LOOK AT THIS DATA, I SEE A STRONG CORRELATION WITH POLICY CHANGES FROM 2014. AND ONWARD AND I DON'T I KNOW WE'RE TRYING TO MOVE THINGS ALONG. UM BUT IF WE COULD GET AN UPDATE ON WHEN WE ARE GOING TO HAVE THAT COME BEFORE THE BOARD BECAUSE I KNOW WE STARTED TALKING ABOUT THAT IN JANUARY OF 2023, AND IT'S NOW UM, SEPTEMBER CAN WAIT . CAN'T CAN WE GET THE POLICY COMMITTEE? GET BACK TO YOU ON

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THAT? ABSOLUTELY OKAY. THANK YOU . LET'S MOVE ON TO THE NEXT INFORMATION ITEM, WHICH WAS THE

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SECOND ONE ACCOUNTABILITY UPDATE. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING, MADAM PRESIDENT. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD AND DR WHITBECK. UM AS DR WHITBECK SAID EARLIER. I WAS BEFORE YOU IN JULY TO PROVIDE AN ACCOUNTABILITY UPDATE AT THAT TIME AND THE RESOURCE THAT I USED TO PREPARE AND DELIVER THAT PRESENTATION WERE THE SLIDES THAT WERE PREPARED AND AVAILABLE THROUGH T E. A THAT, UM, WERE.

PRETTY DETAILED, UM ABOUT CHANGES TO THE SYSTEM AND WHAT THE 2023 CHANGES. WE'RE GOING TO LOOK LIKE UM, BUT SINCE THEN, AND OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS, THERE HAS BEEN A LOT IN THE NEWS . UM AND WE ARE DIGGING IN A LITTLE BIT MORE AS WE'VE GOTTEN STAR TEST DATA THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER. AND YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED IN THE NEWS. THERE IS A LOT OF CONCERN ABOUT THE 2023 ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM AND THE CHANGES HAPPENING AT THE SAME TIME WHEN THE STAR ASSESSMENT IS ALSO GREATLY CHANGING. UM WHAT I WANTED. KIND OF START OUT BY SAYING IS THAT IN FORT BEND, WE ARE NOT ALONE. IN LOOKING AT THE CHANGES THAT ARE BEING IMPLEMENTED AND ABOUT TO BE LAUNCHED AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER WHEN RATINGS BECOME AVAILABLE TO US, UM AND PUBLIC ON SEPTEMBER 28TH IN HAVING A HIGH LEVEL OF CONCERN ABOUT WHAT HAS BEEN PUT TOGETHER BY THE STATE. SO TONIGHT. MY PURPOSE IS TO KIND OF REVISIT SOME OF THOSE CHANGES , BUT PUT IT INTO A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A LIGHT OF WHAT DOES THAT REALLY MEAN? THAT IS LIKELY TO HAPPEN ONCE WE GET OUR, UM, RATINGS AS THEY COME HERE IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS. SO I'M GONNA START WITH TALKING ABOUT THE ASSESSMENT CHANGES. UM WHICH A LOT OF US IN A JEW SPEAKER CALLING STAR 2.0. THIS IS A VISUAL THAT I CREATED ABOUT THE TIMELINE OR THE WAY THAT STATE ASSESSMENT HAS KIND OF HAPPENED OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST FEW DECADES SINCE 1979 WHEN THE LEGISLATURE MADE IT A REQUIREMENT IN LAW. UM I PERSONALLY HAVE HAD, UM, EXPERIENCE EITHER TAKING OR ADMINISTERING, UM, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THE ASSESSMENTS THAT IS ON THIS TIMELINE. UM BUT ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS THAT I THINK IS, UM, A KEY IN THE CHANGES THAT ARE HAPPENING IN 2023 IS THAT THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN TEXAS ASSESSMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY HISTORY WHERE THE STATE ASSESSMENT HAS BEEN SIGNIFICANTLY CHANGED AND ADJUSTED. AT THE SAME TIME THAT THE RULES FOR ACCOUNTABILITY HAVE BEEN CHANGED. THAT HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE, BUT THIS YEAR IT IS HAPPENING, AND IT'S A DRAMATIC CHANGE TO BOTH OF THOSE THINGS AT THE SAME TIME. UM IT MAKES IT VERY DIFFICULT TO REALLY MAKE A COMPARISON. AND I TALKED ABOUT THAT WHEN I WAS REFERENCING THE WHAT IF REPORTS WHEN I WAS HERE, BUT WHEN YOU CHANGE THE TOOL THAT YOU'RE USING TO MEASURE AT THE SAME TIME AS THE RULES ABOUT HOW THAT MEASUREMENT IS USED, UM, IT IT DOESN'T BODE WELL FOR BEING ABLE TO MAKE SOME DECISIONS USING THAT DATA. UM SOME OF THE KEY CHANGES THAT HAVE HAPPENED TO THE STARS ASSESSMENT IN 2023. WE DID MAKE THE SHIFT AS REQUIRED BY LAW TO GO TO FULLY ONLINE ASSESSMENT. RIDING WAS ADDED TO ALL OF THE STAR ASSESSMENT. SO FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 2023 THIRD THROUGH EIGHTH GRADE, AS WELL AS THE ENGLISH ONE AND TWO E. O C.

S ALL HAD A RIDING COMPONENT. THE TEST WAS NO LONGER A MULTIPLE CHOICE. TEST AT LEAST 25% OF EVERY TEST. NO MATTER THE CONTENT AREA. UM CANNOT BE MULTIPLE CHOICE. IT BECAME A MUCH LONGER TEST IN 2023. MOST OF THE TESTS WERE 30 SOMETHING QUESTIONS BEFORE 2022 AND PRIOR IN 2023. MOST OF THE TESTS GAVE KATE WENT TO 50 SOMETHING QUESTIONS. UM NOT ALL QUESTIONS ARE WORTH THE SAME AMOUNT IN THE STAR TEST IN 2023. PREVIOUSLY EACH QUESTION WAS ONE POINT OF THE RAW SCORE. SOME QUESTIONS ON THE 2023 STAR ASSESSMENT WERE UP TO 10 POINTS EACH, SO IT WILL PUT A HEAVY WEIGHT ON INDIVIDUAL QUESTIONS WITHIN THE TEST. UM BECAUSE THE TEST WAS SO SIGNIFICANTLY CHANGED. THIS STATE HAS RESET THE PERFORMANCE LEVELS AND I'VE SENT YOU GUYS

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MEMOS AND I TALKED ABOUT IT BACK IN JULY THAT THAT'S PART OF THE DELAY. WE SENT MESSAGES TO OUR FAMILIES AND PARENTS ABOUT THE REASON WHY WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN OUR RATINGS YET. WHY WE DIDN'T GET THE RESULTS. OF WHETHER KIDS PASSED THE STAR TEST OR NOT UNTIL THE MIDDLE OF AUGUST. IT'S BECAUSE AFTER THE TEST WAS GIVEN THE STATE FIGURED OUT WELL, WHERE HOW MANY QUESTIONS EQUALS PASSING? HOW MANY QUESTIONS EQUALS MEETS GRADE LEVEL? AND HOW MANY IS MASTERS GRADE LEVEL ? UM SO THEY DID SOME PLAYING AROUND WITH THE NUMBERS TO DETERMINE WHAT THOSE PERFORMANCE LEVELS ARE. IN THE PROCESS OF DOING THAT, THEY KEPT BASICALLY THE SAME NAMES RIGHT APPROACHES , MEETS MASTERS AND DID NOT MEET. BUT WHAT WE HAVE NOW SEEN AS WE'VE LOOKED AT THE AND NOT JUST US AND FORT BEND, WE ARE PART OF COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE STATE OF ACCOUNTABILITY LEADERS.

AND WE HAVE SEEN THAT IT IS HARDER ON THE 2023 TESTS FOR A STUDENT TO GET A MEETS OR A MASTERS. SO IN THE DATA THAT YOU GUYS RECENTLY GOT LAST WEEK, YOU PROBABLY SAW A GOOD NUMBER OF NEGATIVE PERCENTAGE POINTS IN THE MEATS AND MASTERS COLUMNS IN THE DIFFERENT DATA THAT WE SHARED WITH YOU. AND THAT IS BECAUSE IT IS HARDER TO GET MEATS AND MASTERS THAN IT WAS IN 2022 AND BEFORE HERE'S A ON THIS SLIDE. I KIND OF, UM, TRY TO PUT A VISUAL TOGETHER THAT WOULD DEMONSTRATE UM, HOW THE MEASUREMENT TOOL HAS CHANGED, SO THE TEST OBVIOUSLY HAS CHANGED THE WAY IT'S DESIGNED HOW LONG IT IS HOW IT'S ADMINISTERED ALL OF THOSE THINGS. BUT UM, I STARTED THINKING ABOUT HOW COULD I TALK ABOUT THE WAY THAT THAT THE STATE IS MEASURING PROGRESS OR GROWTH? AND TO ME, AN EXAMPLE WOULD BE IF I WAS TOLD TO BAKE A CAKE HAVE MADE A LOT OF CAKES AND IN MY LIFE AND I USUALLY HAVE TO HAVE SOME MEASURING CUPS . YOU KNOW, SOME SORT OF MAYBE THIS PYREX WHEN IT'S ON THE SCREEN HERE, BUT IMAGINE IF I WAS TOLD WELL, YOU HAVE TO PUT THE SAME AMOUNT OF FLOUR IN THERE. BUT YOU ONLY GET A RULER OR A PROTRACTOR TO DO IT. YOU DON'T GET MEASURING CUPS AND I NEED YOU TO FIGURE OUT IF YOU HAVE PUT THE SAME AMOUNT OF FLOUR IN THERE. THAT'S THE KIND OF THING THAT HAS HAPPENED, SO THERE'S A LONG EXPLANATION THAT I CAN GIVE YOU A LOT OF DETAILS ABOUT, BUT I'M NOT GOING TO DO THAT TONIGHT. BUT IN ORDER FOR THE STATE TO DETERMINE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL STUDENT IF THEY MADE A YEAR'S WORTH OF GROWTH IF THEY'VE MET MADE A PROGRESS MEASURE TO GET THE POINTS IN THE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM. IN 2022.

THERE WAS A FORMULA THAT WAS A CONSISTENT FORMULA IT WAS ABOUT DID THEY GET A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF SCALE POINTS COMPARED TO THE YEAR BEFORE? THIS YEAR, THERE'S A TABLE IN A STUDENT HAS TO MOVE FROM ONE PERFORMANCE LEVEL TO ANOTHER. A STUDENT COULD BE REALLY CLOSE TO GETTING THAT NEW PERFORMANCE LEVEL OR THEY COULD BE REALLY FAR AWAY FROM IT. IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW FAR AWAY IF THEY'RE IN ONE LEVEL, AND THEY'RE MOVING TO THE NEXT. THAT'S WHAT THEY THEY MOVE. THEN THEY GET CREDIT FOR GROWTH. THIS ON THE SCREEN IS AN EXAMPLE OF JUST A FEW TESTS THAT I PULLED.

IT'S THE NUMBER OF SCALE POINTS IN MAROON. THAT'S HOW MANY THEY HAD TO GET IN 2022, COMPARED TO 2021 TO EQUAL A YEAR'S WORTH OF GROWTH. 34 SCALE POINTS FOR FIFTH GRADE READING. 26 FOR SEVENTH GRADE MATH, ETCETERA. IN THE 2023 TEST. IT'S DIFFERENT FOR ALL THE DIFFERENT GRADE LEVELS. THEY CHANGE THE DIFFERENT SCALING BUT IN READING LANGUAGE ARTS FOR FIFTH GRADE, THEY HAD TO GET 100 AND FOUR SCALE POINTS. IN IN COMPARISON TO ONLY 34 THE YEAR BEFORE, SO IT'S THE IDEA OF THIS IS WHY IT IS HARDER TO GET POINTS FOR GROWTH. AND IN ADDITION TO THAT, IT'S HARDER TO GET MEATS AND MASTERS. SO NOW CHANGES THE KEY IMPORTANT CHANGES IN THE SYSTEM.

UM JUST AS A REMINDER, THERE ARE THREE DOMAINS THAT GO INTO MAKE UP OUR WHOLE ACCOUNTABILITY.

SCORE THE A THROUGH F THAT A SCHOOL OR A DISTRICT GETS, UM IT'S 70% IS THE BEST OF STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT OR PROGRESS, SCHOOL PROGRESS, THE GROWTH OR THE RELATIVE PERFORMANCE AND 30% IS DOMAIN THREE, WHICH IS THE CLOSING THE GAPS. UM ONE OF THE OR A COUPLE OF THE BIGGEST CHANGES THAT HAVE HAPPENED WITH ACCOUNTABILITY, UM ARE ABOUT THE TARGETS SO THERE ARE IN DOMAIN THREE TARGETS, AND THIS DOMAIN IS THE ONE THAT IS USED FOR NOT ONLY STATE ACCOUNTABILITY 30% OF

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EACH CAMPUS GRADE. BUT IT'S ALSO THE FEDERAL ACCOUNTABILITY DOMAIN. EVERYTHING FOR FEDERAL ACCOUNTABILITY IS IN, UM, DOMAIN THREE. SO. THERE ARE ALL THESE TARGETS AND I PUT A LITTLE SCREENSHOT HERE ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE, AND EVERY GREEN CIRCLE IS WHERE A TARGET IS LOWER THAN IT WAS IN 2023, AND EVERY RED CIRCLE IS A IS A TARGET. THAT'S HIGHER THAN IT WAS IN 2022 SORRY. UM AND THEN I COUNTED THEM ALL UP. UM, AND THAT'S A LITTLE CHART THERE FOR YOU AS WELL. BUT THE TRENDS IN THESE TARGET CHANGES FOR DOMAIN . THREE ARE THAT OVER 75% OF THE ELEMENTARY TARGETS ARE HIGHER IN 2023 THAN THEY WERE IN 2020 TO 46% OF THE MIDDLE SCHOOL TARGETS ARE HIGHER 43% OF THE HIGH SCHOOL TARGETS. AND, UM THE ENTIRE DOMAIN HAS SHIFTED TO FOCUS ON HOW THE LOWEST PERFORMING STUDENT GROUPS ARE GOING TO DO. SO ALL OF THAT BEING SAID IT IS HIGHLY LIKELY THAT OUR DOMAIN THREE SCORES WILL, UM, SUFFER BECAUSE OF THAT INTENTIONAL MOVE. THIS IS ANOTHER PLACE WHERE MAKING IT HARDER TO GET MEATS AND MASTERS IS GOING TO HAVE A NEGATIVE IMPACT BECAUSE DOMAIN THREE ONLY LOOKS AT THE PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS WHO GET MEETS OR MASTERS. IT'S MEATS AND ABOVE, NOT APPROACHES AND ABOVE IN DOMAIN THREE. SO KIND OF TRYING TO PUT IT ALL TOGETHER. I WAS TRYING TO THINK ABOUT AN ANALOGY THAT WOULD REPRESENT WHAT HAS HAPPENED WITH THE SYSTEM AND THE CHANGES THAT HAVE BEEN MADE AND MY MOM IS A MARATHON RUNNER, SO I TOOK SOME SCREENSHOTS OF DIFFERENT, UM, PLACES IN THE US WHERE SHE HAS RUN MARATHONS. ONE OF THEM IS THE HOUSTON MARATHON . THAT'S A FLAT RACE IN THE MIDDLE. THAT'S THE AUSTIN MARATHON IN THE HILL COUNTRY. IT'S CALLED THE HILL COUNTRY FOR A REASON. UM AND THEN THE ONE ON THE RIGHT IS A RACE IN ANCHORAGE. SORRY I RACE IN ALASKA. MY MOM HAS PARTICIPATE. HATED ONE. IN A MARATHON AND ANCHORAGE, WHICH IS VERY MOUNTAINOUS. AS A MARATHON RUNNER. SHE HAS SHARED A LOT OF THIS KIND OF TRAINING STRATEGIES WITH ME OVER THE YEARS, AND ONE OF THE BIGGEST THINGS THAT HAPPENS IS, UM HMM. THEY TIME THEMSELVES, RIGHT? YOU HAVE A GOAL TO GET BETTER GO FASTER THAN YOU DID IN YOUR LAST RACE.

IMAGINE THAT THERE'S A COMMISSIONER OF RACING WHO SAYS I'M REDEFINING FAST. WHAT USED TO BE FAST IS NOW SLOW. AND SO AS A RACE OR MY MOM MIGHT SAY WELL, BUT I'M IN A HARDER RACE.

NOW I'M IN THE AUSTIN RACE AND I HAVE MY OWN STOPWATCH. I CAN SEE THAT I RAN FASTER THAN I DID IN HOUSTON. SO IT'S A HARDER RACE, BUT I'M ACTUALLY RUNNING FASTER . NO NO, YOU ARE SLOW BECAUSE THAT'S THE NEW DEFINITION OF THE TIME THAT YOU HAVE. THERE WOULD BE. A LOT OF MARATHON MARATHON RUNNERS. THAT WOULD HAVE A SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH THAT. WITH GOOD REASON. AND THAT IS WHAT IS HAPPENING IN TEXAS ACCOUNTABILITY. THE. MHM REDEFINING OF WHAT AN A IS WHAT USED TO BE AN A IN MANY OF THE COMPONENTS IS NOW GOING TO BE A C SO IF YOU TAKE THAT IDEA AND THINK ABOUT WHAT WE ARE ABOUT TO SEE, IT IS HIGHLY LIKELY THAT MOST CAMPUSES ARE GOING TO GET A WORSE LETTER GRADE IN ONE OR MORE DOMAIN AREAS IN HIGHLY POTENTIAL IN IN IN THE OVERALL, UM, RATING FOR THE CAMPUS, EVEN IF THEY DO BETTER THAN THEY DID LAST YEAR ON STUDENT PERFORMANCE . THIS STATEMENT IS ONE THAT I TOOK DIRECTLY FROM A T E. A PRESENTATION. 2023 RATINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT, AND THIS IS THE BIGGEST TAKEAWAY THAT I HAVE AS A MESSAGE FOR YOU TONIGHT. IT IS HIGHLY POSSIBLE. THIS IS A QUOTE FROM T E. A IT IS HIGHLY POSSIBLE MANY CAMPUSES MAY IMPROVE THE PERCENT OF STUDENTS MEETING ACHIEVEMENT TARGETS IN 2023. AND YET RECEIVE A LOWER RATING FOR 2023. SO I'M JUST HERE TO KIND OF LAY THAT GROUNDWORK AND REMIND YOU ABOUT THE SYSTEM CHANGES THAT ARE HAPPENING. WHAT I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO ENCOURAGE YOU, UM AND

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REMIND YOU OF IS THAT OUR SCHOOLS USE OF VARIETY OF DATA TO DO WHAT OUR PURPOSE IS BEING HERE, WHICH IS TO SUPPORT STUDENT LEARNING. SO EVEN THOUGH THE ACCOUNTABILITY IS NOT TRULY BEING REFRESHED, IT'S BEING RESET AND REDEFINED. THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE WORK THAT OUR TEACHERS AND OUR CAMPUSES ARE DOING IS CHANGING. BUT WE NEED TO BE AWARE OF WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE SYSTEM. WHEN THE GRADES COME OUT BECAUSE IN A IN 2023 IS NOT THE SAME AS AN A AND 2022 C IN 2023 IS NOT THE SAME AS A C IN 2022. SO THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME BE HERE WITH YOU TONIGHT. UM AND I'M AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS. IF YOU HAVE ANY, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION. I'M GOING TO OPEN UP FOR THE QUESTIONS THAT COMMENTS TO THE BOARD. DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? HMM UH, SEEING NOW, BUT I OH, MR GARCIA. UH, SO JUST TO BE CLEAR THE RATING SYSTEM. THAT. FOR 2023. THEY CHANGED EVERYTHING FOR THE TESTS THAT WE TOOK. LAST YEAR, RIGHT? OKAY? UM SO AND THIS IS MY THOUGHTS. UM. YOU KNOW, WE'RE WE'RE FOCUSED ON STUDENT OUTCOMES. WE'RE ALWAYS TRYING TO GET BETTER AND INCREASE, YOU KNOW, STUDENT PERFORMANCE. I THINK WHEN WE LOOK AT AND I'M NOT SAYING THAT WE'RE AFRAID OF IT. I DON'T THINK THIS DISTRICT IS AFRAID OF ACCOUNTABILITY BECAUSE THAT'S THAT'S ALL WE DO. THAT'S WE'RE TEACHERS. WE'RE JUST TRYING TO GET THE STUDENTS TO DO BETTER AT ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING THAT WE DO. NO DIFFERENT WITH THE WITH THE STAR TEST. UM, BUT I DON'T FEEL LIKE SOMETIMES THE STATE LISTENS BECAUSE I HEAR SOME SO MUCH OVER THE YEARS. THAT ONE TEST WE CAN GO THROUGH THIS ALL DAY LONG, ONE TEST. GIVEN TO ONE STUDENT ON ONE DAY OF THE YEAR IS GONNA DRIVE. UM YOUR ACCOUNTABILITY RATINGS, AND THERE'S SO MANY. REALLY SMART PEOPLE OUT THERE. THERE ARE IN EDUCATION. THAT UM. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE ASSESSMENTS THAT WE'RE TAKING THREE TIMES A YEAR, AND THAT'S TO ME A MUCH BETTER INDICATOR OF STUDENT. SUCCESS BECAUSE YOU CAN SEE ACTUAL PROGRESS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, NOT FROM ONE TEST ON ONE DAY. YOU KNOW, THAT'S A DEBATE FOR ANOTHER ANOTHER SUBJECT. I THINK THAT WHEN THE RATINGS DO COME OUT YOU KNOW, WE DO THE BEST OF WHAT WE CAN WHAT WE'RE GIVEN. AND THEN THAT'S WHEN WE COMPARE. ARE DATED EVERYBODY ELSE AND EVERYBODY ELSE IS ALSO HAVE THE SAME CHANGES. SO IT'S YOU KNOW. UM I AND I SUSPECT AND NOT NOT NECESSARILY. I SUSPECT I NO. IN MY HEART THAT THE REASON WHY THIS IS HAPPENING. IS TO GEAR UP FOR THE VOUCHER FIGHT THAT'S COMING IN. OCTOBER. SO THAT WHEN . THEY PUT IT IN FRONT OF THE LEGISLATOR, AND THEY SAY, LOOK HOW BAD THE SCHOOLS ARE DOING. AND THEN YOU COME OUT TO THE PUBLIC AND THE PUBLIC. SO LOOK HOW BAD THE SCHOOLS ARE PERFORMING THEIR THEY'VE ALL WENT DOWN IN THEIR RATINGS. MAYBE WE SHOULD TAKE MONEY FROM SCHOOL, SOME CODE A CHARTER SCHOOL OR GO TO PRIVATE SCHOOL. SO THOSE TWO THINGS I THINK ARE RELATED. UM BUT I JUST I WANTED TO JUST THROW THAT OUT THERE. BECAUSE I'M NOT A FAN OF THE STAR TEST, BUT I'M ALSO NOT AFRAID OF THE STAR TEST. I MEAN, I THINK IT IS WHAT IT IS, AND WE YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET REALLY AROUND IT. WE JUST GOTTA KEEP DOING THE BEST WE CAN WITH WHAT WE'RE GIVEN. SO UM AND I'LL UNPACK A LITTLE BIT MORE OF THIS THAN I MAY HAVE SOME MORE QUESTIONS TO REACH OUT. BUT I DID WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. AND FOR YOUR FOR YOUR COMMENTS. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

THANK YOU, MR GARCIA ALONG ALRIGHT. I'M GONNA BE REALLY BRIEF BECAUSE I JUST NEED ONE POINT OF CLARIFICATION, PLEASE. FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENT PRESENTATION. DR.

KRISTEN, UM YOU MENTIONED ON THERE THAT NOT ALL QUESTIONS ARE WORTH THE SAME AMOUNT OF POINTS AND THAT'S SOME QUESTIONS ARE WORTH UP TO 10 POINTS. SO THE REASON I'M ASKING THIS IS BECAUSE I WAS UNDER THE UNDERSTANDING FROM SOME TEACHERS THAT ALTHOUGH SOME QUESTIONS MAY BE WORTH 10 POINTS, NOW THAT YOU COULD RECEIVE PARTIAL CREDIT FOR WHAT YOU KNOW SO EVEN THOUGH BEFORE YOU EITHER GOT RIGHT OR WRONG UM, AND FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND THE WAY THE TEST HAS

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BEEN REWRITTEN. YOU MAY UNDERSTAND. DIFFERENT SEQUENCES WITHIN THE QUESTION, AND YOU COULD RECEIVE TWO POINTS. 5.7 10 . WHATEVER AM I UNDERSTANDING THAT CORRECTLY OR NOT? THAT'S TRUE. UM THE EXTENDED CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE, WHICH IS THE 11 OF THEM. THAT COULD BE 10 POINTS. THERE IS PARTIAL CREDIT FOR IT. UM AND I DO WANT TO CLARIFY THAT. I'M NOT SAYING THAT THAT PARTICULAR TYPE OF QUESTION OR THE IDEA OF MAKING ONE QUESTION WORTH MORE POINTS THAN ANOTHER IS NOT A VALID WAY TO CREATE A TEST. OKAY? THE PROBLEM THAT I PERSONALLY HAVE IS WITH THE TIMING OF RESTRUCTURING THE ASSESSMENT THE SAME YEAR THAT THE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM IS SO DRASTICALLY CHANGING BECAUSE IT MAKES IT ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO TRULY FIGURE OUT. HOW ARE WE DOING IN THE STATE SYSTEM USING THE STATE TOOL. FROM ONE YEAR THE NEXT. NORMALLY WHAT HAS HAPPENED PREVIOUSLY AS THERE HAS BEEN, UH MULTI YEAR. UM, INTRODUCTION OF A NEW ASSESSMENT. AND THE OLD ASSESSMENT IS GIVEN AND THE NEW ASSESSMENT IS GIVEN TO SOME, YOU KNOW, KIDS AND AFTER IT'S ROLLED OUT, THEN IT'S PUT INTO AN ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM. THAT'S A STABLE SYSTEM, SO IT'S NOT. YOU'RE CORRECT ABOUT THE PARTIAL CREDIT FOR QUESTIONS. I'M ALSO NOT SAYING THAT THE STAR TEST IS NOT A VALID ASSESSMENT OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. IT'S JUST ABOUT TWO THINGS HAPPENING AT THE SAME TIME. AND IN THE MESSAGING THAT IS DIRECTLY FROM THE PERFORMANCE REPORTING DIVISION AT T E. A THEY HAVE MESSAGED THAT IT IS INTENTIONAL , THE WAY THEY'RE RESETTING THE SYSTEM TO DRIVE LOWER RATINGS FOR CAMPUSES AND THE PROPORTIONAL, UM, METHOD THAT IS NOW BEING INSTITUTED FOR DISTRICTS. IT IS ON PURPOSE. THEY WORKED WITH THE NUMBERS. TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO GIVE CAMP DISTRICTS RATINGS THAT WOULD BE LOWER THAN 2023 AND BEYOND. SO THAT'S THE CONCERN THAT I BRING TO YOU TODAY. NO, AND I COMPLETELY APPRECIATED EVERYTHING WITHIN THIS PRESENTATION. I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE I UNDERSTOOD CORRECTLY BECAUSE I HAD HEARD FROM OTHER TEACHERS, DIFFERENT THINGS. AND I'M LIKE, WAIT A MINUTE, SO I APPRECIATE YOU PROVIDING THAT CLARITY AND I UNDERSTAND THAT. THE CONUNDRUM IS REAL. AND THAT CHANGING THE RULES OF THE GAME THAT IT'S DIFFICULT, BUT FRANKLY , THE WAY I STAND HERE IS IT IS WHAT IT IS. I DON'T HAVE TO LIKE IT. WE JUST HAVE TO DO IT. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? LIKE RIGHT NOW IT IS WHAT IT IS. WE UNDERSTAND THE SITUATION AND IT'S. IT'S DEFINITELY CHALLENGING. UM, SO I . YOU'RE IN A TOUGH, TOUGH SPOT . SO GOD BLESS YOU. AS YOU DO YOUR JOB. I'M A LITTLE PASSIONATE ABOUT IT. I'M SURE YOU CAN TELL YOU SHOULD BE AND I'M GRATEFUL. WE NEED PASSIONATE EDUCATORS WHO ARE, UM YOU KNOW, WORKING FOR OUR KIDS, SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU, MR MALONE. MR JONES. THANK YOU. I HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS. THAT THE STUDENTS I KNOW YOU'RE PRESENTING THIS INFORMATION AS IF IT'S NEW BRAND NEW ONLINE TESTING INSTEAD OF PAPER, THE STUDENTS TAKE THE INTERIM ASSESSMENTS. THE UM THE INTERIM ASSESSMENT IS AN OPTIONAL ASSESSMENT THAT STUDENTS CAN TAKE AND IT IS AN ONLINE ASSESSMENT THAT, UM THE TA HAS DEVELOPED DID FOR ME AND I IN THE STUDENTS TAKE THEM ONLINE. LAST YEAR IN IN THE 22 23 SCHOOL YEAR, CAMPUSES COULD DEVELOP A PLAN FOR HOW WHETHER OR NOT THEY WANTED TO USE THE INTERIM ASSESSMENT AND FOR WHICH STUDENTS IT WAS NOT ALL ALL CAMPUSES ALL STUDENTS AT EVERY YOU KNOW WHATEVER. IT WAS A CAMPUS BASED DECISION, SO SOME CAMPUSES TOOK THE PAPER WHILE OTHERS TOOK THE ONLINE AND SO.

SOME CAMPUSES WERE MORE PREPARED. YEAH THE ONLINE VERSUS THE TWO IN THE 21 22 SCHOOL YEAR , IT WAS A CAMPUS BASED DECISION ACROSS THE STATE. UM WHETHER OR NOT STUDENTS OR CAMPUSES, WE'RE GOING TO MOVE TO ONLINE OR PAPER TESTING. SO IN THE SPRING OF 2022, WE HAD SOME CAMPUSES THAT WENT FULLY TO ONLINE TESTING. SOME THAT CHOSE SPECIFIC GRADE LEVELS TO MOVE TO ONLINE TESTING. AND THEN WE DID HAVE SOME THAT STAYED WITH MOSTLY PAPER TESTING, WITH ONLY A FEW

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STUDENTS MOVING TO ONLINE, AND THAT WAS IN THE SPRING OF 2020. YOU TOO. LAST SCHOOL YEAR, WE WERE REQUIRED BY LAW TO MOVE FULLY TO ONLINE TESTING UNLESS THERE WAS VERY SPECIFIC INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS WITH ACCOMMODATIONS THAT COULD ONLY BE DONE IN PAPER TESTING. OKAY SO LAST YEAR, ALL OF THIS SCHOOL ALL OF THE SCHOOLS, ALL THE CAMPUSES DID ONLINE TESTING WITH THE INTERIM ASSESSMENTS CORRECT. NO, I'M SORRY. I MISUNDERSTOOD WITH INTERIM. IT WAS AN ONLINE ONLY ASSESSMENT BASED DECISION. SOME STUDENTS TOOK IT ONLINE. SOME DIDN'T TAKE THE INTERIM ASSESSMENT. OKAY. DO YOU HAVE THAT DATA? FOR THOSE CAMPUSES WHO TOOK THE PAPER VERSUS THE ONLINE. SO PAPER VERSUS ONLINE START TESTING WAS IN 2022 AND THE STATE DID PROVIDE US WITH SOME DATA. UM. I WOULD HAVE TO LOOK AND SEE EXACTLY WHAT WE HAVE RELATED TO THAT FOR 2022 FOR INTERIM ASSESSMENTS IN 2023 . THEY WERE ALL ONLINE IF THEY WERE TAKEN, AND WE CAN PULL DATA RELATED TO THAT. UM SO I WOULD JUST I WOULD NEED CLARITY ON EXACTLY WHICH, IF IT'S THE INTERIM ASSESSMENT DATA FROM 2023. YES OKAY, THAT'S WHAT I WOULD BE LOOKING FOR. SO, UM I GUESS MY QUESTIONS. OKAY YOU PRETTY MUCH ANSWERED MY QUESTIONS I JUST DON'T WANT I THINK THE 2023 STAR ASSESSMENT CHANGES. AND I'M THINKING ABOUT JUST ADMINISTERING THE INTERIM ASSESSMENTS AS WELL AS THE STAR THAT UM, THE WRITING WAS ON THE INTERIM ASSESSMENTS AS WELL. AND SOME OF THOSE QUESTIONS TYPES WERE THEY PRETTY MUCH GAVE FAIR WARNING THAT THEY WERE GOING TO BE ON THE TEST. SO IT'S NOT LIKE THE STAR WAS LIKE A BIG SURPRISE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. IT WAS THERE WAS PLANNED, SO THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING. DID IT. DID SHE USE THE DATA FROM THE INTERIM ASSESSMENTS TO CANADA PROJECT? WHAT WE EXPECT. FROM THE STAR FROM OUR STUDENTS ON THE STAR SO LAST YEAR BECAUSE IT WAS IT WAS CAMPUS BASED, AND NOT EVERY SINGLE STUDENT TOOK IT. BUT THOSE STUDENTS WHO DID TAKE IT THE CAMPUSES USED THE INTERIM ASSESSMENT DATA TO MAKE INDIVIDUAL DECISIONS FOR THOSE KIDS ABOUT INTERVENTIONS THAT MIGHT BE NEEDED. AND THAT SORT OF THING. SO YES, THAT DATA WAS USED BY THE CAMPUSES TO INFORM INSTRUCTION AND INTERVENTION NEEDS AND THAT SORT OF THING. UM WHAT THE REASON I BRING UP THE CHANGES TO THE ASSESSMENT THIS YEAR IS NOT BECAUSE WE DIDN'T KNOW THAT WAS COMING. WE KNOWN THAT WAS COMING. IT'S AGAIN.

IT'S ABOUT THE TIMING THAT A MASSIVE CHANGE IN THE TOOL YOU USE TO MEASURE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AT THE SAME TIME THAT YOU'RE RESETTING THE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM MAKES IT JUST LIKE TRYING TO BAKE A CAKE AND KNOW THAT YOU'VE PUT EXACTLY THE SAME AMOUNT OF FLOUR IN THERE ARE MORE FLOUR. THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING. WE WHEN WE COMPARE 22 TO 23, THEY ARE DIFFERENT TESTS RIGHT? DIFFICULT TO SEE. DID A STUDENT TRULY GROW ON USING THAT TOOL? THERE ARE OTHER TOOLS THAT REMAIN THE SAME , FOR EXAMPLE, RAN 3 60, WHICH IS OUR YEAH, YOU KNOW IT.

INTERNAL FORTMAN ASD CHOSEN ASSESSMENT AND THERE ARE MANY OTHERS THAT WE USE, AND THOSE ARE HIS REMAINED STABLE THE TYPE OF ASSESSMENT OF THE QUESTIONS ON IT ALL THAT AND IT MAKES IT MUCH EASIER TO COMPARE HOW THE STUDENT DID ON THIS TEST COMPARED TO ONE LAST YEAR OR THREE MONTHS AGO, ETCETERA. THAT'S WHERE THAT'S WHERE THE PROBLEM IS WITH THE STAR TEST.

2023 NOW ONCE WE GET INTO FUTURE YEARS AS LONG AS THEY KEEP THE TEST THE SAME THEN THE DATA THAT WE GET OUT OF IT IS GOING TO BECOME MORE MORE STABLE RELATED TO TELLING IF A IF A STUDENT HAS GROWN OR NOT, OKAY, OKAY AND JUST TO CLARIFY SOMETHING YOU SAID EARLIER, YOU SAID THAT IT'S A CAMPUS BASED DECISION TO DO THE ONLINE VERSUS THE PAPER. FOUR STAR TESTING THAT WAS A CAMPUS BASED DECISION IN THE SPRING OF 2022 FOR THE INTERIM ASSESSMENT. IT'S NOT A DECISION ABOUT PAPER VERSUS ONLINE BECAUSE IT'S ONLY OFFERED ONLINE , RIGHT AND FOR 2023 STAR, IT

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WAS AN INDIVIDUALIZED STUDENT DECISION. AND THERE HAVE BEEN SOME LAWS PASSED RELATED TO THAT MOVING ON FOR 2024, BUT IT'S A IT'S A STUDENT INDIVIDUALIZED STUDENT DECISION BASED ON THE NEEDS OF THE STUDENT. OKAY, THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR JONES. THOSE ARE VERY GOOD QUESTIONS TO CLARIFY A LOT OF, UM THINGS FOR ALL OF US. AH, I DON'T SEE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, BUT I DO. OKAY, MR HANNA. THANK YOU, MR COSTIN. JUST TO BE CLEAR. ALL OF OUR STUDENTS, WHETHER IT WAS THE O C OR A REGULAR, UH, TEST THEY HAVE THEIR TEST RESULTS. YES. SO. WHEN WE REPORTED THAT AND MY STUDENT TOOK ONE NIOC, BUT I FRANKLY DON'T REMEMBER. DID WE? DID WE ISSUE AN EXPLANATION OF WHY THEIR SCORES, YOU KNOW, LIKE IT MAY HAVE BEEN A CHILD THAT WAS ALWAYS MEETS ARE ALWAYS MASTERS AND THEY WERE DIFFERENT DID WE DID DID AN EMAIL GO OUT THAT EXPLAINED THAT STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT PORTION OF THE FORMULA, SO THE MESSAGES THAT WE SEND OUT THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER STARTING AT THE VERY END OF MAY? I THINK THE FIRST ONE WAS AROUND MAY 31ST UM, BUT IT WAS A VERY END OF BANK. THOSE MESSAGES THAT WE SENT TO PARENTS WERE JUST ABOUT THE DELAY AND THE. WAY THAT TA WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT SCALED SCORE TO USE AND WHAT PASSING WAS. AT THAT POINT WE DID NOT KNOW. WHAT WE KNOW NOW. ABOUT IT BEING MORE DIFFICULT TO GET TO MEATS AND MASTERS AND BEING ABLE TO LOOK AT SOME COMPARATIVE DATA IN, UM IN CAMBY IN WE'RE ABLE TO SEE WHAT THE REGION AND THE STATE IS IN COMPARISON TO US AND SEE THESE TRENDS. T EA HAS ALSO RECENTLY, UM RELEASED SOME. UM DATA CHARTS AND IN A WHOLE PRESS RELEASE AND EVERYTHING THAT GIVES US SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THE PERCENT OF KIDS ACROSS THE STATE THAT HAVE GOTTEN MEATS AND MASTERS FOR EACH CONTENT AREA, SO WE ARE CURRENTLY WORKING WITH THE COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT ON DEVELOPING MORE PARENT MESSAGING TO SPECIFICALLY EXPLAIN ABOUT THE CHANGES IN THE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM AND THE CHANGES IN THE TESTS THAT ARE IMPACTING THAT, OKAY? I DON'T KNOW AN EXACT DATE OF WHEN THAT'S GOING OUT. BUT WE'RE DEVELOPING IT RIGHT NOW. I KNOW THAT. I KNOW THAT MANY PARENTS THEY REALLY DO CARE ABOUT THE GRADE OF THEIR SCHOOL, BUT THEY CARE MOSTLY ABOUT UNDERSTANDING THEIR THEIR INDIVIDUAL STUDENT'S ACHIEVEMENT AND I'VE HEARD TWO PRESENTATIONS FROM TESSA'S BE HEARD JURORS IN JULY AND THEN I'VE HEARD IT AGAIN. AND I'VE READ ABOUT IT, BUT I HAVE TO LOOK BACK AT MY NOTES TO UNDERSTAND, SO I THINK, JUST HELPING. IN MOST SIMPLE TERMS LIKE THIS IS WHAT NOT SCALE SCORE, RIGHT? THIS IS HOW MANY QUESTIONS YOU HAD TO GET RIGHT OUT OF THIS MANY TO GET MEETS. AND NOW. IT YES, SHOWING OUR PARENTS SOME SOME SIMPLE THINGS FOR JUST THAT STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT CATEGORY BECAUSE THEY MAY NOT UNDERSTAND THIS WHOLE FORMULA BECAUSE I STILL DON'T I DON'T UNDERSTAND. IT'S A LITTLE BIT LIKE A TEACHER GIVING YOU A RUBRIC AND SAYING HERE'S THE ASSIGNMENT AND THEN YOU TURN IN THE ASSIGNMENT, AND THEY SAY, OH, I'M NO, I'M JOKING. HERE'S A DIFFERENT RUBRIC THAT I'M GOING TO ACTUALLY GRADE YOU ON. IT'S UM YOU KNOW, TA IS REALLY KNOCKED IT OUT OF THE PARK ON THIS ONE. UM BUT ANYWAY, I'M GLAD TO HEAR THAT WE'RE DOING THAT BECAUSE I THINK HELPING PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THEIR OWN STUDENTS SCORES AND WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THEIR CHILD IS GOING TO HELP THEM. IT'S GOING TO HELP THEM BETTER UNDERSTAND THE MORE CONVOLUTED REALITY OF THE CAMPUS GRADE AND THE DISTRICT GRADE. AND THE OTHER THING THAT I THINK, UM, IS THE PERSONAL CONNECTION BETWEEN THE CAMPUS STAFF AND THE PARENT WHEN THEY HAVE THOSE QUESTIONS ABOUT WELL, WHY DID WHY DID MY CHILD GET THIS? UM SCORE, SO ANOTHER PART OF OUR PLAN IS IN OUR COMMUNICATION KIND OF NEXT STEPS . TOMORROW I'LL BE PRESENTING TO THE PRINCIPLES AND GETTING THEM SOME KEY TALKING POINTS TO KIND OF THINK ABOUT AS THEIR MESSAGING WITH PARENTS AND THE WAY THAT MEETS AND MASTERS ARE DETERMINED AND ALL THAT IS PART OF IT. OKAY AND THAT WOULD BE IN SORT OF A VISUAL JOB AID THAT COULD BE PASSED ON TO TEACHERS. SO IF THEY IF THEY'RE HAVING

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INDIVIDUAL CONFERENCES, THEY ACTUALLY KNOW HOW TO SPEAK TO IT. WE HAVE A SERIES OF TRAINING THAT THE PRINCIPLES AND THE CAMPUS LEADERS WILL BE ABLE TO GO TO DURING OCTOBER, AND THAT'S WHERE THEY'LL GET ALL OF THOSE THINGS. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU, MR THANK YOU, MR HANNAN. SO I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. UM SO, LIKE, MS HANAN SAID, WE ALREADY HEARD THIS TWICE. AND I JUST CURIOUS. WHEN ARE WE GOING TO SEE THE PRESENTATION? BECAUSE I THINK THE DATA WILL BE AVAILABLE AND OF THIS MONTH IS A CORRECT YES WILL RECEIVE, UM, WILL RECEIVE A CONFIDENTIAL REPORT AT SOME POINT BEFORE 11 59 PM ON SEPTEMBER 26TH. I WILL BE WORKING TO PREPARE A MEMO. UM AND THEN THAT WOULD COME THROUGH. ACADEMIC. UM ACADEMIC AFFAIRS UP THROUGH DR WHITBECK TO THE BOARD ON THE 27TH THAT'LL BE A HIGH LEVEL REVIEW OF THE RATINGS THAT WE HAVE AT THAT POINT. IT WILL GO PUBLIC. ALL OF THE CAMPUS RATINGS GO PUBLIC ON SEPTEMBER 28TH SO THEY'LL BE PUBLISHED BY T A. AND THEN WE'RE CURRENTLY SCHEDULED. I BELIEVE TO BE ON THE AGENDA FOR OCTOBER 16TH BECAUSE IT WILL TAKE US A LITTLE BIT OF TIME. ONCE WE GET ALL OF THE FINAL, YOU KNOW, ACCOUNTABILITY DATA TO TURN THAT INTO A PRESENTATION. UM, FOR YOU GUYS. THANK YOU FOR THAT. AND ALSO I AGREE WITH MR GARCIA. IF YOU CAN. MAYBE WE CAN COMPARE BECAUSE, LIKE YOU SAID, YOU KNOW THE WAY THEY CHANGE THE TOOLS TO EVALUATE THE DISTRICT, THE SCHOOLS SO. I'M JUST ASKING, MAYBE DURING THE PRESENTATION. CAN YOU DO SOME COMPETITION FROM LIKE KATIE AND LAMAR AND SAT THERE? YOU KNOW OUR THE YOU KNOW, TYPICAL DISTRICT THAT'S WE ALWAYS COMPARE US TO BECAUSE THAT WAY ALSO CAN SHOW RIGHT BECAUSE WE'RE ALL ON THE SAME BOAT. YOU'RE GOING TO CHANGE AND ALSO, I WANT TO ASK FOR THE T. A AH, ARE THEY GOING TO PROVIDE THE WORD EVE? THAT DATA OR NO, THEY ARE. YES WE DO HAVE THE PRELIMINARY. WHAT IF REPORTS THAT WE GOT THIS SUMMER IN T E A IS GOING TO RELEASE THE FINAL? WHAT IF REPORTS ON THE 28TH WHEN THEY RELEASED THE ACTUAL UM SO I THINK THAT WILL ALSO HELP TO FOLLOW UP WITH MISS HANNAH. I THINK THAT WILL REALLY HELPFUL FOR THE FOR THE PARENTS TO UNDERSTAND WHERE THEIR CHILDREN'S ACTUALLY WHERE THEY ARE, UM SO, YEAH. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND ALSO I'M ASKING FOR THE BOARD BECAUSE SINCE THEY ARE GOING TO GET READY FOR THE PRESENTATION FOR OCTOBER, THE 16TH IF YOU HAVE ANY PARTICULAR INFORMATION YOU WANT TO THEM TO PRESENT IT TO THE BOARD, PLEASE EMAIL AHEAD OF TIME SO THAT WE WILL HELP GET ALL THE INFORMATION WE NEED. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. COUSIN THANK YOU. SORRY SORRY. JUST ONE AND WANTED TO SAY JUST REAL QUICK, SO I THINK I THINK THE ADMINISTRATION EMAILED THE BOARD SEVERAL MONTHS AGO. WITH A LINK TO A VIDEO THAT COMMISSIONER MORATH PUT OUT THAT WAS SPECIFICALLY FOR TRUSTEES TO UNDERSTAND ALL THESE CHANGES, SO IF ANY OF THE TRUSTEES DID NOT WATCH THE VIDEO AT THE TIME, I THINK THAT VIDEO IS REALLY HELPFUL TO UNDERSTAND ALL THESE CHANGES, AND I THINK IT'S ALSO WORTH POINTING OUT POINTING OUT SO THEY THEY'RE GIVING US THE WHAT IF FOR LAST YEAR IF THESE TWO MAJOR CHANGES HAD BEEN IN PLACE LAST YEAR. HERE'S WHAT OUR SCORES WOULD BE SO THAT WE COULD KIND OF HAVE AN APPLES TO APPLES COMPARISON. SO WE'LL HAVE THAT RIGHT, RIGHT. I WOULD JUST CAUTION THAT IT'S NOT TRULY APPLES TO APPLES BECAUSE THE TEST CHANGED, SO IT'S BETTER THAN COMPARING THE ACTUAL 2022 TO THE ACTUAL 2023. UM, BUT IT'S STILL NOT EXACTLY THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MR HAMILTON'S SORRY I DIDN'T. I DIDN'T SEE HIM. OKAY OKAY. THANK YOU. AND I YEAH. OKAY SO I DON'T SEE ANY OTHER

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QUESTIONS AND WE CAN MOVE ON TO NEXT AGENDA ITEM WE'RE GOING TO REVEAL SO FIRST. 10 A. IT'S THE MEETING MINUTES TO WE HAVE ANY DISCUSSION. UM SOMEONE MOVING ON TO STUDENT INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL.

ANY QUESTIONS? MOVING ON. TO T TEST APPRAISERS. NEXT CLASS SIZE EXCEPTION. WAIVER. MR HANNAN.

YES SO I WANT TO. REALLY THANK UM THE STAFF MEMBERS WHO I KNOW HAD TO SCRAMBLE TO ANSWER MY

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QUESTIONS TODAY, BUT I AND KATE BECAUSE WE GOT THIS KIND OF LATE, AND THAT'S OKAY. UM BUT THE INFORMATION THAT SHOWED THAT OVERALL WE HAD A DECREASE IN WAIVERS FROM 2022 OF 289. 2 207 THIS YEAR, I THOUGHT THAT WAS. THAT WAS VERY GOOD DATA. AND I DIDN'T SEE THAT IN MY PACKET, BECAUSE WHEN YOU'RE JUST LOOKING AT THIS IN THE BOARD PACKET, IT FEELS REALLY OVERWHELMING TO ME A LITTLE BIT TO SEE ALL THOSE WAIVERS, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE'RE HAVING CHALLENGES GETTING KIDS.

READING ON GRADE LEVEL AND HAVING MASS SKILLS ON LEVEL, SO I ALSO APPRECIATE THIS CLASS SIZE EXCEPTION REPORT WHERE YOU'VE SHOWN THE BOARD, WHICH ONES ARE WERE PENDING, UM, AN FTE BEING ADDED TO A GRADE LEVEL. THAT'S THAT'S VERY THAT'S VERY HELPFUL TO ME. UM AND THEN, UH, I REALLY ONLY HAVE ONE QUESTION. UM IN THAT WE HAVE MEET STAFFING GUIDELINES ON SOME OF THEM. SO I'M JUST I'M ASSUMING. BUT YOU NEVER ASSUME SO OUR STAFFING GUIDELINES DIFFER FROM THE STATE REQUIREMENT OF STUDENT TEACHER RATIO. YES THAT'S CORRECT. STATE IS 1 TO 22, AND WE'VE HAD SOME FLEXIBILITY SO WE LOOKED AT STAFFING RATIOS BASED OFF OF KNEES FROM DIFFERENT CAMPUSES. SO AS SOME OF THE CAMPUSES WHERE THERE ARE GREATER NEEDS ACADEMICALLY, WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO STICK WITH THE 22 TO 1. AND SO IN SOME CAMPUSES, WE MIGHT HAVE A HIGHER STUDENT TEACHER RATIO. OKAY OKAY. 22 TO 1 ACROSS THE BOARD AT ALL THE ELEMENTARY GRADE LEVELS, OKAY. AND SO WE'RE GONNA WE'RE GONNA THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT TO TEACHERS WHO ARE OUT THERE AND YOU'RE BORED AND YOU'RE NOT IN A CLASSROOM AND YOU WANT TO COME BACK. COME BACK BECAUSE FORT BEND DIOCESE A BEAUTIFUL PLACE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR HANNAN . AND I WANNA THANK YOU FOR ASKING THAT QUESTION. ACTUALLY I WAS STRUGGLING TO UNDERSTAND THAT THEN WHEN I AND ALSO I WANT TO THANK UM JACKSON OR YETI. THEY SEND HER THE QUESTIONS THROUGH THE EMAIL. AND I REALLY HELPED ME AT 4 30. I THINK I SAW THOSE QUESTIONS COME IN, AND I READ IT, SO IT WAS HELPFUL AND THANK YOU FOR THIS STAFF FOR THE FOR THE INFORMATION. SO UM, I DON'T MISS JONES STILL HAVE A QUESTION QUESTION. SO THE CAMPUSES WITH THE MOST, UM. I GUESS WHO ARE ASKING FOR THE WAIVERS? ARE THEY ALSO THE CAMPUSES WITH THE MOST VACANCIES? SO YOUR QUESTION IS ALL THE CANVASES THAT ARE ASKING FOR THE WAIVERS. ONES WITH THE MOST VACANCIES. ARE THEY? ARE THEY THE ONES WITH THE MOST TEACHER VACANCIES OR NOT NECESSARILY SO WE HAVE SOME CAMPUSES THAT HAVE MORE TEACHER VACANCIES, BUT WE DON'T HAVE A HIGHER STUDENT TEACHER RATIO BECAUSE THE NEWS OF THAT CAMPUS UM, BUT IN SOME SCENARIOS, WE MIGHT HAVE A VACANCY AND YOU MIGHT WANT TO KEEP THE STUDENTS IN THE CLASS BEFORE MAKING A NEW SECTION BECAUSE WE WOULD CREATE A NEW SECTION AND THEY WOULDN'T HAVE A CERTIFIED TEACHER. SO SOMETIMES SOME OF THE CAMPUSES ARE TRYING TO PRESERVE INSTRUCTION FOR THAT GROUP, SO THEY'LL KEEP THEM UNTIL WE CAN FIND A CERTIFIED TEACHER. OKAY SOUNDS GOOD. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR JONES. WE'RE GONNA MOVE ON TO NEXT ONE. SHE'S A PENNY 35 TEACHER FAVOR. MS HANNAN. UM, THANKS ALSO FOR ANSWERING THIS QUESTION AND SHOWING US THE NUMBERS AND WHERE THESE.

APPRENTICE TEACHERS ARE AND I. I WANT TO BE CLEAR BECAUSE I WANT TO UNDERSTAND AND I WANT THE WHOLE BOARD TO UNDERSTAND THESE APPRENTICE TEACHERS. ARE. TEACHING IN A CLASSROOM SOLO. OR THEY ARE PAIRED WITH THE TEACHER. SO YES, THEY ARE THE TEACHER OF RECORD IN THEIR CLASSROOM, BUT THEY ARE GETTING EXTRA MENTORING SUPPORT. SO I KNOW THAT PART OF THE HR TEAM, THE ODI TEAM ARE GOING OUT TO THE CAMPUSES AND ACTUALLY OBSERVING ALL OF THE

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INSTRUCTIONAL APPRENTICE TEACHERS AND PUTTING THEM ONTO A HEAT MAP SO THAT THEY CAN MAKE SURE WHETHER OR NOT THE YOU KNOW THE TAP MENTOR IS ENOUGH OR DO THEY NEED MORE COACHING AND RESOURCES BECAUSE ALL THE INSTRUCTIONAL APPRENTICES THEY ALL ARE DEGREED AND THEY'RE ALL IN AN ACTUAL PROGRAM. BUT THEY HAVEN'T FINISHED. THERE ARE ALTERNATIVE CERTIFICATION YET SO THEY'RE ON AN EMERGENCY PERMIT. THEY'RE NOT ON EMERGENCY PERMIT . THAT'S WHY YOU NEED A WAIVER.

OKAY OKAY, UM. AND WE DID THIS LAST YEAR. ALSO FORGIVE ME. I DON'T REMEMBER APPROVING THIS LAST YEAR. THIS IS THE FIRST YEAR FOR THE INSTRUCTIONAL APPRENTICE PROGRAM. IT'S A REALLY NEW PROGRAM. WE HAVE 162 INSTRUCTIONAL APPRENTICES IN IN THE PROGRAM THIS YEAR, AND IT'S RELATIVELY NEW. OTHER DISTRICTS STARTED AT THE YEAR BEFORE WE DID. BUT THIS WAS THE FIRST YEAR FOR FOUR BEND IDIOCY TO HAVE THE APPRENTICES, AND IT REALLY MADE A HUGE DIFFERENCE IN A COUPLE OF WAYS ARE TEACHING VACANCIES ARE DOWN SIGNIFICANTLY HERE OVER A YEAR AND ARE PARAPROFESSIONAL VACANCIES ARE UP BECAUSE WE'VE PROMOTED FROM WITHIN A LOT OF OUR WE'RE GROWING OUR OWN AND TRULY LIVING THAT BECAUSE A LOT OF OUR PARAPROFESSIONALS ARE NOW IN THE CLASSROOM, USING THEIR DEGREES AND GETTING THEIR ALTERNATIVE CERTIFICATION TO BECOME TEACHERS. UM I WENT AND LISTENED TO A LEGISLATIVE UPDATE LAST FRIDAY, AND, ACCORDING TO TA 50,000 TEACHERS LEFT THE TEACHING PROFESSION IN TEXAS LAST YEAR, AND ONLY 19,000 WERE CERTIFIED. SO YOU'VE GOT A DELTA HAVE 31,000 TEACHERS JUST FROM LAST YEAR. AND SO TRYING TO FILL THAT IS MORE AND MORE DIFFICULT , BUT YOU KNOW, FORT BEND DST REALLY DID. WE DIDN'T JUST COPY WHAT OTHER DISTRICTS WERE DOING . WE DID SOMETHING INNOVATIVE AND WE MADE THESE PAID POSITIONS , BENEFITS ELIGIBLE POSITIONS, AND IT MADE IT VERY ATTRACTIVE FOR THOSE PEREZ AND THOSE OTHERS THAT WERE ALREADY IN THE DISTRICT TO TAKE THOSE POSITIONS BECAUSE WHY WOULD THEY GIVE UP A PAIR OF POSITION THAT'S PAID AND HAS BENEFITS TO GO BE A TEACHER. AND SO WE REALLY WE REALLY DID SOME INNOVATIVE THINGS WITH THAT, AND IT MADE IT SO THAT WE'VE GROWN OUR OWN, AND THAT PROGRAM HAS BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL , BUT BECAUSE OF THE WAY WE HAVE HARD TO FILL, UM DEFINED AS A DISTRICT WE COULDN'T JUST USE OUR D O E EXCEPTION FOR THE WAIVER. TH THAT'S YEAH, AND I DIDN'T QUITE UNDERSTAND HOW WE WERE FINAGLE NG THAT. WELL, D OH, I COULD HAVE BEEN USED IF WE HAD HARD TO FILL MORE BROADLY DEFINED. WE HAVE HARD TO FILL, VERY NARROWLY DEFINED, AND SO NEXT YEAR, WE COULD LOOK AT USING OUR DECOY CERTIFICATION JUST BY BROADENING THE DEFINITION OF HARD TO FILL AS FAR AS WHAT ARE TEACHING VACANCIES ARE BUT FOR THIS YEAR WE REVIEWED THAT WITH KOBE WITH THE LEGAL TEAM. WE LOOKED AT OUR D O. I PLAN WE LOOKED AT THE DISTRICT DEFINITION OF HARD TO FILL, AND THIS WAS THE SAFEST, MOST CONSERVATIVE ROUTE TO GO. BUT FOR NEXT YEAR, YOU KNOW THE GOAL WOULD BE TO TRY TO USE OUR D O I AND MAKE SURE ARE HARD TO FILL THIS DEFINED APPROPRIATELY.

OKAY SO I JUST HAVE A COUPLE OF COMMENTS. I AM VERY I AM VERY PRO ALTERNATIVE CERTIFICATION PROGRAM SO ANOTHER, YOU KNOW, PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT. EVERYBODY WANTS A NEW CAREER. GO GET YOUR CERTIFICATION NOW. UM BUT BUT I DO WANT TO POINT OUT BECAUSE RESEARCH DOES SAY WHEN, WHEN STUDENTS DON'T HAVE HIGHLY QUALIFIED TEACHERS TWO YEARS IN A ROW THAT SOMETIMES THERE IS A NEGATIVE IMPACT ON ACHIEVEMENT. SO ONE OF MY QUESTIONS WELL, I HAVE 22 QUESTIONS AND THEY MAY BE YOU CAN ANSWER THEM, AND MAYBE NOT. BUT ARE ANY OF THESE TEACHERS, THESE APPRENTICE TEACHERS? SITTING ALSO IN MY WAIVER LIST THAT I'M GOING TO HAVE TO VOTE ON. SO FOR INSTANCE, ARE DID WE TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT THESE APPRENTICE TEACHERS WEREN'T SAFE? FOR INSTANCE, THE FIRST GRADE TEACHER WHO HAS 27 STUDENTS IN THEIR CLASS FROM THIS WAIVER SO BECAUSE THIS IS A THIS IS THIS IS CHALLENGING. I KNOW IT'S CHALLENGING TO GET FOLKS IN THE CLASSROOM, BUT YET WE ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE TO SET THEM UP FOR SUCCESS AND OUR STUDENTS. SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO ANSWER THAT TONIGHT, BUT I WOULD LIKE AN ANSWER BEFORE I VOTE TO MAKE SURE WE DON'T HAVE THESE APPRENTICE TEACHERS WHO ARE WHO HAVE KIND OF AN INAPPROPRIATE TEACHER STUDENT RATIO. UM. THAT'S PRETTY IMPORTANT TO ME, AND THE SECOND ONE IS SINCE THIS IS NEW. IS THERE AND I KNOW I'M REALLY ASKING, BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT THE CHILD THAT HAS AN APPRENTICE TEACHER THIS YEAR OR HAS A TEACHER WHO IS NOT NEEDING THE HIGHLY QUALIFIED REQUIREMENT. UM THAT THEY'RE NOT GETTING THAT TWO YEARS IN A ROW. IF THERE'S ANY

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WAY WE CAN TRACK THAT, OR TRY TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR HANNAN. AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT. THANK YOU. AH, MR HAMBLETON. YES, THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT. THANK YOU TRUSTY HAND THAT WAS VERY HELPFUL. GREAT PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS ALSO SO MORE PERSONAL INFORMATION THAN MAYBE HE SHOULD BE SHARED. BUT IN 2020 HOURS LATER, AFTER TWO TO THE COVID LOCKDOWNS AND THE IMPACT ON THE ENERGY INDUSTRY, AND I SIGNED UP FOR IN A CPP PROGRAM, AND SO I GOT A TEXT MESSAGE JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO FROM ANOTHER SCHOOL DISTRICT. OFFERING TO PAY MY PROGRAM IF I WANTED TO GO BACK AND DO THAT, SO QUESTION HAVE WE REACHED OUT TO THE A. C P PROGRAM PROVIDERS TO DO THAT KIND OF THING? SO WE ARE DOING SOME OF THAT ONE OF OUR PROGRAMS IS THROUGH YOU OF AGE AND THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IS PAYING HALF OF THE COST OF THAT ACT PROGRAM. SO THE ANSWER TO THAT IN CERTAIN CASES IS YES. NOW HOW DO WE HAVE A GEO FENCING TEXT APPLICATION THAT WE CAN USE TO DO THAT SAME THING? NO, WE DON'T. IN TERMS OF THE ACTUAL TEXTING. THERE'S YOU KNOW, THERE'S A COST ASSOCIATED WITH DOING. YOU KNOW THAT TYPE OF A GEO FENCING CAMPAIGN. SO I GET THAT, BUT I DON'T THINK THEY DID, EITHER. IT WAS A DALLAS AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT. SO JUST RANDOM, BUT YEAH, WE DO. WE ARE PAYING THE COST HALF OF THE COST FOR THE U OF H C P PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS. AWESOME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MR HAMILTON'S MR JONES JUST TO CLARIFY. UM I CAME THROUGH A C P AND, UM, IT WAS A CT HOUSTON ET HOUSTON, WHICH IS NOW TEACH WORTHY VERY CLOSE WITH THEIR FOUNDER AND EVERYTHING. I HAVE A QUOTE JUST TOBLIC WILL KE APPRENTICES ARE THERE ON PROBATIONARY CONTRACT? CORRECT YEAH, THEY'RE NOT CHAPTER 21.

THEY ARE ON AN EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT FOR ONE YEAR WE ARE THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE THEIR CERTIFICATION COMPLETED BY MARCH 18TH OF THIS SCHOOL YEAR, SO THEY WERE HIRED ALREADY IN A PROGRAM AND THEY HAVE TO COMPLETE THE PROGRAM BEFORE THE SCHOOL YEAR IS OVER. SO THEY PAST THEIR CONTENT. CORRECT. THEIR CONTENT TESTS HAVE MANY OF THEM PAST THEIR CONTENT TEST.

HMM NO, NO, NO. THEY WERE ACCEPTED INTO AN ACP AND THEY HAD A BACHELOR'S DEGREE, BUT THEY HAVE NOT PASSED THEIR TEST . THEY DON'T HAVE AN S O E. OKAY AND HAVE THEY TAKEN THE PPR AS WELL? SOME HAVE SOME HABIT. OK OKAY. UM I GUESS MY BIGGEST CONCERN IS THE MENTORING OF FIRST YEAR TEACHER BECAUSE THAT'S MY THING. AND UM, SO WHAT IF THEY'RE GETTING WHAT ARE THESE FIRST YEAR TEACHERS? WHAT ARE THEY'RE RECEIVING? ARE THEY'RE DOING WEEKLY MEETINGS ARE THEY DOING UPDATES? HOW IS THE PROGRAM? UM. DEVELOPED YEP. YEAH DO THEY MEET WITH THEIR MENTOR ONCE A WEEK, TWICE A WEEK . SPEAK TO THIS A LITTLE BIT. AND THEN STEPHANIE WILLIAMS CAN CHIP IN BECAUSE HER TEAM IS ALSO INVOLVED IN THIS, BUT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM HAS A TAP MENTOR. AND THEN I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S A DESIGNATED AMOUNT OF TIMES THAT THEY MEET WITH THEIR TAP MENTOR. BUT BEYOND THAT, LIKE I SAID THE O D DEPARTMENT HR AS A GROUP HAVE ARE GOING OUT, OBSERVING THE HE'S THERE DOING EVERY THURSDAY. THEY'RE GOING TO CAMPUSES AND OBSERVING.

ESPECIALLY THESE FIRST YEAR TEACHERS AND THE ONES THAT ARE IN THESE PROGRAMS AND THE ONES THAT NEED MORE HELP THAN JUST A TAP MENTOR OR GOING TO GET THAT, THROUGH THAT PROCESS. THERE WILL BE BEING PUT ON THE HEAT MAP SO THAT YOU CAN SEE HEY, WE ARE MOST CONCERNED ABOUT THESE TEACHERS ON THIS CAMPUS, AND THEY NEED MORE RESOURCES THAN THEY CURRENTLY HAVE, BECAUSE I'M CONCERNED ABOUT RETENTION AS WELL. AND AS TRUSTEE, HANNON SAID. WE DON'T WANT TO PUT A FIRST YEAR TEACHER AND CLASSROOM WITH 26 PRE K KIDS OR AND THAT IS MY BIGGEST CONCERN, NOT ONLY JUST BEING IN THE CLASS SIZE WITH THEM STAYING THE SECOND YEAR, SO UM, SHE WAS ALWAYS ROUGH, AND I WENT THROUGH IT AND I JUST I'M JUST CONCERNED ABOUT FIRST YEAR. WHAT EXPERIENCE ARE THEY GETTING? AND ARE WE GOING? ARE THERE ANY SURVEYS RIGHT NOW FOR THESE APPRENTICES? TO BE CONDUCTED ABOUT WHAT THEIR EXPERIENCES LIKE NOW AND CAN WE GET SOME INFORMATION AT THE END OF THE YEAR? WILL WILL THEY STAY OR WILL THEY LEAVE? CAN WE GET SOME INFORMATION ON THAT AS WELL? WE CAN. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR JONES. I SAY NO MORE QUESTIONS. WE'RE GOING TO

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MOVE ON TO NEXT ONE. CENTERPOINT ENERGY BLANKET EASEMENT. DO WE HAVE DISCUSSION QUESTION? SEEING NOW. OH SORRY, MR HAMILTON'S THEORY IS FORGETTING. KEEP PUSHING THE BUTTON VERY LATE. SO IT'S MY FAULT, NOT YOURS, SO PARTIALLY RELATED QUESTION. WHAT'S THE TIMELINE ON MIDDLE SCHOOL 16? LIKE WHEN, WHEN WE HAVE NOT BROKEN GROUND, OR WE HAVE NOT. AUGUST 25. AUGUST. YES OKAY. THANK YOU. YES SORRY. I HAD TO THINK OF A OPENING OPENING DATE. OKAY, SO WHAT'S THE FRONT END OF THAT TIMELINE? WE FORGIVE ME IF WE'VE DONE THIS , AND I FORGOT WE HAVEN'T APPROVED LIKE WE APPROVED THE ARCHITECT, BUT WE HAVEN'T APPROVED OTHER CAROLINA PERFECT . SO GLAD TO SEE YOU OUT THERE THAT ALL AWESOME. THANK YOU. UM SO FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL 16 REMEMBER THAT BOND 2018 FUNDED THE DESIGN AND SO WE ARE REALLY CURRENTLY GOING OUT FOR BID. SO ONCE WE HAVE NUMBERS, WE WOULD COME FORWARD TO OBTAIN APPROVAL FOR THAT CONTRACT AND THEN WE CAN START CONSTRUCTION. GOT YOU. SO DO YOU HAVE A TIMELINE? FOR WHAT? WHEN YOU THINK YOU MIGHT BRING THIS HAPPENING NOW WE ARE GEARING UP FOR US TO GO ON THE STREET TO BID. UM SEPTEMBER, SO IT'S HAPPENING THIS MONTH. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR HAMBLETON. SO WE'RE MOVING ON TO NEXT ONE.

IT'S HOSPITAL THREE RESOLUTION. I DON'T SEE ANY DISCUSSION. WE'RE GONNA MOVE ON TO REAL ESTATE BROKER CONSULTING SERVICES. I DON'T SEE ANY DISCUSSIONS. SO NEXT, WE'RE GOING TO BE OKAY, I PHYSICAL AND THE BUDGETARY STRATEGY. I WANTED TO SEE THE I AND J AND K THREE ITEMS. OR AT LEAST THE TWO OF THEM. I WANT TO THANK THE STAFF FOR SENDING THEM IN ADVANCE.

BRIAN THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING. UM THE EMAIL. I KNOW THEY'VE BEEN SENT IT TO THE COMPANY BUDGET COMMITTEE. AND UM SO I WANTED TO KNOW IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM ANY BOARD MEMBERS, SO WE'RE GOOD. THANK YOU. SO NEXT, WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO 2023 TAX YEAR TAXI ROLE RESOLUTION. SAYING, NO QUESTIONS WITH MOVING ON TO EM. THE FIRST ONE IS THOSE IS THE APPROVAL FOR EXPENSES THAT MORE THAN $50,000. THE FIRST ONES CONSTRUCTION SERVICES. FOR EXTERIOR I O E D LIGHT LIGHTING UPGRADE. I DON'T SEE ANY AND THEN THE SECOND ONE IS FACE TO FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICE FOR 2023 FORM SPAWNED IN THE NUM NUM BOND PROJECTS. I DON'T SEE ANY QUESTIONS. WE GET A OKAY, MOVING ON THE THIRD ONE'S STUFF. ARGUMENT ER, ARGUMENTATION.

SORRY ARGUMENTATION SERVICES. I'M SO SORRY. NEXT ONE IS FINE ARTS COUNCIL COUNCIL, TONTON AND OTHER SERVICES. DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? I HAD A QUESTION ON THE TECHNOLOGY AUGMENTATION.

WE'RE NOT THERE YET. I THOUGHT THAT'S STAFF KNOW THE STAFF AUGMENTATION FOR US TECHNOLOGY SERVICE ARGUMENTATION SERVICES. YES. MS HIGHLAND? YES. OKAY, UM THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE. THE EXPLANATION. UM AND THE NUMBER OF FOLKS THAT THIS MONEY IS PAYING FOR. SO, UM. WERE. YOU'RE ASKING FOR AN ADDITIONAL ABOUT HALF A MILLION. RIGHT FOR HUNT. FOR 48 OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, 1000? YES. AND SO AGAIN, I. TRIED TO SPEED READ THROUGH THIS AND SO MOST OF THESE POSITIONS ARE. GETTING TECHNOLOGY PREPARED FOR KIDS COMING BACK. WELL, IT'S AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR AND THE FLAT SCREENS THAT WERE PART OF THE LAST BOND. IT WAS REALLY FOR THE BOND, MOSTLY FROM BOND PROJECT AND SOME FOR THE WHEN WE WHEN, WHENEVER WE HAVE A STARTUP SCHOOLS, WE USUALLY HAVE A LOT OF NEEDS OF HELP IN ORDER TO GET THE SCHOOL READY. AND I CAN REFER YOU TO CHRIS NIELSEN. HE

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IS THE DIRECTOR OVER INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES IS HIS GROUP THAT WHO USED THE MOST OUT OF THE BENEFITS OF THE ARGUMENTATION. CHRIS OKAY, THANK YOU FOR THAT QUESTION. AND YOU'RE RIGHT. THE BULK OF THAT 480,000 ARE RELATED TO THOSE SPECIFIC AUDIENCE THAT YOU CALLED OUT THE BACK TO SCHOOL READINESS AND CLASSROOM PREP. AND THEN SOME BOND PROJECT SPECIFICALLY, THE FLAT METAL PROJECT OR SOMEBODY HAD DOLLARS ARE NEW VOICE SYSTEM THAT WE'RE WORKING ON? SO WE USE THE STAFF AUGMENTATION OF A LOT OF OUR I T PROJECTS HAVE LARGE SPIKES IN DEMAND, AND THEN THEY GO DOWN, SO IT'S NOT EFFICIENT FOR US TO INCREASE OUR STAFF SIZE. FOR TRANSIENT SPIKES IN OUR DEMAND AND BACK TO SCHOOL IS A HUGE TRANSIENT SPIKES. WE INTAKE ABOUT 25% OF ALL THE WORK ORDERS WE DO ALL YEAR HAPPENED WITHIN A EIGHT WEEK PERIOD. SO WE USE STAFF AUGMENTATION AS AN EFFICIENT WAY TO BLUNT THAT SPIKE AND GET TEACHERS WHAT THEY NEED QUICKLY WILL NOT HAVING TO STAFF UP THE REST OF THE YEAR WHEN THE WHEN THE WORKLOAD IS A LITTLE MORE. AND THEN, OF COURSE, WE'RE NOT STAFFED TO HANDLE WE BUILD INTO THE BOND PROJECT BUDGETS. THE STAFF AUGMENTATION THAT WE DON'T WE DON'T MAINTAIN A STAFF HERE ON PREMISE TO HANDLE LARGE ROLE OUTSIDE THE INTERACTIVE FLAT PANEL PROJECT THAT ARE ONE TIME PROJECT. SO WE COVER THOSE ADDITIONAL STAFF NEEDS WITHIN THE BOND BUDGETS. OKAY SO THE INTERACTIVE FLAT PANELS THAT WERE PART OF THE 2018 BOND. AND FORGIVE ME. THE DEPLOYMENT OF THOSE. TECHNOLOGY ITEMS IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE BOND. THEY ARE BOTH THE DEPLOYMENT OF THE PANELS, THE COST OF THE PANELS THEMSELVES, CORRECT PANELS AND THEN ANY ADDITIONAL STAFF THAT WE NEED TO MANAGE THE ACTUAL THE ROLLOUT FROM A TRAINING THE TEACHERS SUPPORTING THE TEACHERS. PREPPING THE EXISTING COMPUTERS IN THEIR CLASSROOMS TO BE ABLE TO TALK TO THE PANELS AND THEN ACTUALLY FOLLOWING BEHIND THE VENDOR WHO DOES THE DEPLOYMENT AND INSPECTING THE WORK THAT THEY DO FROM AN INDEPENDENT PARTY SO THAT WE CAN ENSURE THAT ALL 6000 PANELS WERE DEPLOYED CORRECTLY. SO IT'S THOSE KINDS OF STAFFING NEEDS. OKAY, SO WHY BECAUSE THIS ADDITIONAL. 480,000 IS COMING OUT OF THE GENERAL FUND CORRECT MIX OF FUNDING SOURCES. IT'S A MIX CLASSROOM READINESS IS A GENERAL PLAN TO HIDE THEM. THE OTHER ITEMS ON HERE, UH, THE FLAT PANEL, THE IPAD, THE VOICE ENGINEERS, THOSE ARE ALL BOND PROJECTS. OKAY IS AN ONGOING OPERATIONAL EXPENSE. SO THAT IS GENERAL PROVIDERS WITH PROCUREMENT VEHICLE FOR US TO, YOU KNOW, CONTRACT DOCUMENTATION STAFF, RIGHT? AND THEN AND THEN. SO I'M GONNA ASK THIS AND I DON'T MEAN IT IN A RUDE WAY. BUT WHEN WE WERE ASKED TO APPROVE THIS AND THEN YOU YOU. YOU MISSED YOUR PROJECTION BY ALMOST A HALF A MILLION. WHAT WAS THERE AN UNFORESEEN BECAUSE YOU'RE ADDING A HALF A MILLION FOR 480,000 TO THE ORIGINAL APPROVED ITEMS. YES RIGHT. AND SO WHAT WAS THE PIECE? THAT WAS ADDED THAT OR RIGHT, SO THERE'S A COUPLE OF ITEMS IN THERE, ONE THAT'S DRIVING IT 75,000 ON. THIS ONE IS THAT WE HAVE A KEY PERSONNEL UNIT GOING ON A YEAR OF MILITARY LEAVE. SO WHEN THEY RETURNED FROM THAT MILITARY SERVICE, OF COURSE WE WANT THEIR POSITION TO BE HERE FOR THEM, BUT WE CAN'T OPERATE FOR A YEAR WITHOUT THEM. SO WE'RE GONNA WE'RE GONNA USE STAFF AUGMENTATION NOW TO BE COVERED. YOU KNOW, WE'LL HAVE THE SALARY SAVINGS WHILE HE'S DEPLOYED SO IT WILL BE COVERED, BUT WE NEED TO PROCUREMENT APPROVED, SO THAT'S 75,000 OF THAT. AND THEN THE BULK OF THE REMAINING IS SIMPLY THE RETURN FROM COVID.

UM, THE COST TO RETURN THE 60,000 DEVICES THAT WERE DEPLOYED BACK TO THE 2 TO 1 TOOLKIT SIMPLY TOOK MORE EFFORT THAN WE ORIGINALLY ESTIMATED. WE HAD NEVER UNDERTAKEN A PROJECT ANYWHERE NEAR THAT SCHOOL. OKAY, OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE ANSWERS TONIGHT IN THE INFORMATION YOU GAVE ME IN WRITING. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR HANNAN. 11. OTHER THING IS TO REMEMBER. WE ALSO HAVE TO VOICE ENGINEER WHO JUST RETIRED. AND SO THAT IS A LOT OF , UH, INSTITUTIONAL KNOWLEDGE WALKING OUT, SO WE DESPERATELY NEED ADDITIONAL WHILE WE'RE TRYING TO REFILL THOSE POSITIONS. OKAY AND OFFLINE I WANT I JUST WANT SOMEBODY TO EXPLAIN TO ME. UM THE PARTS OF MONEY BECAUSE WE'RE WE JUST LOST . TWO STAFF MEMBERS WERE LOSING

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A STAFF MEMBER. THAT'S TEMPORARILY FOR A YEAR. AND SO YOU KNOW, I'M CALCULATING MONEY IN MY HEAD. AND SO MAYBE SOMEBODY CAN JUST UNDERSTAND. EXPLAIN WE'RE ASKING FOR MONEY, BUT YET WE'RE NOT SPENDING THE MONEY TO SPEND THE MONEY WITH THIS, UH, WITH THIS CONTRACT THROUGH THE STAFF VENDORS, THE FUNDING WILL COME FROM THE SALARY SAVINGS WHILE THESE POSITIONS ARE BEING FILLED, BUT WE NEED YOUR AUTHORITY TO SPEND THE MONEY WITH THE SEC STAFF AUGMENTATION VENDOR VERSUS SOUTH OKAY. OKAY THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THAT'S VERY HELPFUL.

I'M SORRY. THAT TOOK ME A LONG TIME GETTING THERE. BUT THANK YOU. I HOPE THAT THE TABLE THAT WE INCLUDED IN THE ANSWER THIS MORNING OR THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE ABLE TO HELP BECAUSE WE DEFINED IT IN THERE EXACTLY WHERE THE FUNDING IS GOING TO COME FROM THANK YOU, AND I'LL READ IT ALL MORE CAREFULLY BEFORE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MISS HANNUM, MR MALONE. WELL.

FRANKLY YOU YOU ASKED. YOU COVERED MY QUESTIONS, AND I DON'T KNOW HOW TO UNDO THE FLOOR. SO MAYBE YOU CAN TELL ME HOW TO TURN IT OFF ONCE AND ON. BUT SINCE YOU'RE THERE AND JUST FOR CLARIFICATION ON THIS, BECAUSE I KNOW SHE'S TALKING ABOUT THE DIFFERENT BUCKETS OF MONEY. UM THE REASON YOU'RE HERE, IS IT BECAUSE THE AGGREGATED EXPENSES OVER 50,000 AND IT'S JUST A LEGAL REQUIREMENT. SO FOR SURE THE AGGREGATED EXPENSES WELL OVER 50,000 WERE SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE THE ESTIMATED EXPENSIVE THREE YEARS AGO ON WHAT WE WOULD WOULD SPIN FOR STAFF AUGMENTATION WAS NOT SUFFICIENT TO MEET WHAT WE ACTUALLY NEED THROUGH THE END OF THE BUSINESS. YOU ALL APPROVED BACK IN DECEMBER. YES. ME TOO. ALRIGHT AND THEN IN ADDITION TO THAT, THE GENTLEMAN THAT'S GOING ON MILITARY LEAVE. THANK YOU FOR WHOEVER YOU ARE DRIVING FACTORS THAT ARE CAUSING US TO HAVE TO SPEND MORE ON THIS CONTRACT THAN WHAT WE ANTICIPATED THREE YEARS AGO. AGAIN IT'S NOT A NET INCREASE TO THE GENERAL FUND EXPENSES JUST BEING SPENT. ALL RIGHT. AND PLEASE EXTEND. MY APPRECIATION FOR HIS SERVICE TO OUR COUNTRY. DZHOKHAR IFOP NEWTON SERVES THIS BUILDING IS ONE OF OUR LEADING ANALYSTS. OH, FOR THE SORRY TO. CERTAINLY HE'S RETURNING AS AN AIR FORCE. UH DUTY. THAT'S AWESOME. WELL DJUHARI, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO OUR COUNTRY AND TO YOUR SERVICE AND FORT BEND. WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR RETURN.

THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR THE QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS REALLY APPRECIATE IT. AND SO NOW WE'RE MOVING ON TO THE NEXT ONE. THE FINE ARTS CONSULTANTS AND CLINICIANS. DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? MS. HANAN? YES, UM. I KNOW THAT MR. DREW THINKS I'M I'M PICKING ON HIM. BUT I'M REALLY I'M REALLY NOT, AND I SEEM TO ALWAYS HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT FINE ARTS AND IT'S ACTUALLY BECAUSE I THINK THEY'RE INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT. BUT ONE THING I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE EQUITY AND ACCESS TO ALL OF THE ARTS. AND SO THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS THAT I ASKED A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ARTS . AND SO I APPRECIATE BECAUSE THE BOARD MAY MAY NOT HAVE HAD TIME TO READ. UM, BUT IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR ME TO KNOW WHO THE BENEFACTORS WERE OF THIS MONEY.

THE SPANS THAT WERE UM, BEING ASKED TO APPROVE AND. SO MR DREW. I DIDN'T SPECIFICALLY ASK THIS QUESTION BECAUSE YOU ANSWERED MY QUESTION PERFECTLY. BUT HOW? HOW WERE THESE BENEFACTORS? UM. CHOSEN LIKE WHY DID SOME. STUDENTS GET TO GO TO THE GRAND OPERA OR THE SYMPHONY OR L. A THEATER. HOW? HOW DID HOW ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE PERFORMING ARTS. AM I ON THE WRONG OH, WE'RE ON THE CLINICIAN'S. I DON'T I DO NOT HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE CLINICIANS I GOT. I GOT THAT ONE VERY DOWN LIKE THE LAST FOUR TIMES. THANK YOU. I'M SORRY. I'M SORRY, MR DREW. YOU CAN STAY UP THERE, THOUGH, BECAUSE IT'S COMING. NO AH! OKAY. NOW IT'S GONNA BE A WHILE. MY APOLOGIES. JUST KEEP STANDING. KEEP STANDING. WE HAVE A JAR FOR THE MONEY SO YOU CAN PUT IT IN THERE . UM MISS JONES STILL HAVE QUESTIONS OR QUESTION. ARE YOU SURE THIS IS THE RIGHT ITEM? THIS IS THE RIGHT ONE KILLED SCRIBBLING OVER HERE. SO THIS IS THE RIGHT ONE. WE'RE APPROVING THE LIST OF VENDORS CORRECT.

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THAT IS CORRECT. WE'RE ACTUALLY ADDING 30 FOR MORE VENDORS. IN THIS. AND THIS ITERATION FIFTH ITERATION. PLUS I IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, I MADE LET MR UH BASSETERRE, SOMEONE TALKED TO THIS, BUT WE'RE ALSO ASKING THE BOARD TO AUTHORIZE THE SUPERINTENDENT TO ADD ADDITIONAL VENDORS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. AND THEN YOU WOULD RATIFY THAT RATHER THAN HAVING TO BRING THIS BACK THREE OR FOUR TIMES EVERY YEAR. UM WHAT WE'RE ASKING THE BOARD TO AUTHORIZE THE SUPERINTENDENT TO TEMPORARILY APPROVED VENDORS. AND THEN NEXT YEAR AT THIS TIME, WE WOULD BRING ANOTHER LIST OF THE PEOPLE THAT SHE HAS APPROVED FOR YOU TO RATIFY. AM I SAYING THAT CORRECTLY? THAT'S ALL I NEED TO KNOW. THANK YOU, MR. OOH. THANK YOU, MR JONES. AND WE'RE MOVING NEXT ONE. OH YOU DON'T MISS ANYONE. OKAY? SCHOOL BUS PURCHASE. DO THEY HAVE QUESTIONS? SO MOVING OUT TO HAVE ONE, OKAY? NEXT ONE FINE ARTS COUNCIL. YOU HAVE YOU HAVE A QUESTION FOR SCHOOL BUS. OKAY, MISS JONES. MIKE ON YOUR MIC ON. I HAVE QUESTIONS, AND I JUST NEED SOME INFORMATION. HOW OLD ARE ARE OUR SCHOOL BUS? HOW OLD ARE THE SCHOOL BUSSES? 15 YEARS AND OLDER. OKAY YEAH. YEAH, THERE HE IS. HMM. NEVER MIND. KEEP GOING. KEEP GOING, OKAY.

SORRY ABOUT THIS. I THINK I THINK I THINK IT'S GETTING IT'S GETTING LATE. SORRY SO WE'RE MOVING. MOBILE SO FINE ARTS, CONCERT UNIFORMS AND RELATED ITEMS. I DON'T SEE ANY. OH THAT'S THE ONE, MR HANNAN.

I THINK IT'S THE NEXT. EXCUSE ME. THAT IS ALSO OKAY. GREAT. SO NO, THAT'S THAT'S NOT THE ONE.

THAT'S ANOTHER ONE. NO SEVEN A WORDS, SCHOOL SPIRIT PRODUCTS AND RELATED ITEM. SO NEXT ONE PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS ORGANIZATION AND THE RELATED SERVICES. THAT'S THE ONE MISS HANNAH. THIS IS THE ONE WELCOME BACK. MR DREW. SORRY ABOUT THAT . HERE AGAIN. THEY THANK YOU FOR THE LIST. HOW DID HOW HOW ARE THESE SCHOOLS CHOSEN TO BE BENEFACTORS OF THESE? TRIPS SO THE DIRECTOR OF THE TEACHER WILL WANT TO BRING IN THESE PERFORMING ARTS ORGANIZATION VENDORS. OR FOR EXAMPLE, THE HOUSTON SYMPHONY A LOT OF OUR MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL AND ELEMENTARY ACTUALLY, BANDS AND ORCHESTRAS OR ELEMENTARY STUDENTS WILL GO TO THE SYMPHONY. THEY HAVE STUDENT MATINEE CONCERTS, AND SO THEY WILL TAKE THEIR THEIR KIDDOS ON A FIELD TRIP DOWN TO THE SYMPHONY. AND SO THAT'S WHAT A LOT OF THOSE EXPENSES ARE. THE ONE THAT'S THE HOUSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY. THAT'S OUR CODE, A STRING PROJECT THAT WE HAVE GOING ON IN THE WILL ORIGINAL MARTIAL ATTENDANCE, FEEDER PATTERNS, AND I'VE I'VE SEEN THAT AND THAT WAS THAT WAS AMAZING. SO LET'S MAKE THAT BIGGER. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT EXTENDED LEARNING CONTRACTS WITH SHAMELESSLY SAVED PRODUCTIONS. I'M NOT EVEN SURE WHAT THAT IS BECAUSE THAT'S DONE THROUGH THE EXTENDED LEARNING DEPARTMENT. WHICH IS A PRETTY BIG EXPENSE.

IT'S ALMOST $45,000. SO I GUESS THE REASON THAT I THAT NOT, I GUESS THE EXPLICIT REASON I ASK THIS IS BECAUSE AGAIN, I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE EQUITY AND ACCESS TO THESE WONDERFUL PLACES, AND YOU KNOW, I AM AND I LOVE THAT OUR KIDS ARE GOING TO THE SYMPHONY AND THE OPERA. UH, NOT QUITE AS FREQUENTLY ON THIS LIST. WE SEE THE ALLEY THEATER. UM, BUT WHAT I I'M NOT SEEING.

I'M NOT SAYING ALL PARTS OF OUR DISTRICT REPRESENTED IN THESE TRIPS, AND I'M ALSO NOT SEEING,

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UM, VISUAL ARTS REPRESENTED AND SO I THINK VISUAL ARTS IS AS FABULOUS AS, UM, ARE PERFORMING ARTS, SO THAT WOULD JUST BE MY ASK, UM, TO DR WHITBECK IS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT UM, WHEN WE'RE APPROVING FANS WERE ALSO LOOKING AT WHO THE RECIPIENT. UM OF THOSE FUNDS ARE BECAUSE THAT I THINK IS, UM JUST REAL BEAUTIFUL ENRICHMENT TO LOTS OF KIDS, UM, THAT THAT MAY NEVER HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR DREW. BROKEN. THANK YOU, MR JU. THANK YOU, MR HANNAN. MISS JONES. MR JU I SORRY YOU NEED TO YOUR VERY POPULAR TONIGHT, SO I HAVE AND I WOULD SECOND TRUSTEES HANNAN'S REQUEST ABOUT DIVERSIFYING THE LIST. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE ENSEMBLE THEATER ALSO PUT PLACED ON THIS LIST. AS WELL. AND, UM, TRUSTEE. HANAN HAVE A GOOD FRIEND WHO'S OVER THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION AT THE EASTERN GRAND ALPHER AND SHE'S AFRICAN AMERICAN, AND THEY ARE MAKING ALL KINDS OF EFFORTS TO DIVERSIFY PARTICIPATION.

MINORITY STUDENT PARTICIPATION SO YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE ANY WORRIES THERE. SO I WILL SAY THAT THIS THIS RFP WAS, UM, OPENED AND WE ENCOURAGED ALL OF THOSE ENSEMBLE THEATER INCLUDED TO APPLY FOR THE RFP. AND IF THEY APPLIED THAT WE CERTAINLY CONSIDERED THEM AND MY. UH PHILOSOPHY IS WE WANT AS MANY VENDORS AS POSSIBLE. SO IF THEY MEET THE CRITERIA AND SCORE ABOVE A 70, THEY'RE GOING TO BE ON THIS LIST. SO I'M YEAH. THE AND I WILL SAY THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON USED TO BE ON THIS LIST. I'M NOT SURE WHY THEY DIDN'T SUBMIT A PROPOSAL THIS TIME, BUT THEY'VE BEEN THERE ON THERE IN THE PAST, AND WE'VE CERTAINLY TAKEN KIDS TO THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS. SOUNDS GOOD. THANK YOU. GIVE ME ONE SECOND, MR MALONE. WELL SAME SITUATION ON THE ON THE SPEAKING. BUT ESSENTIALLY, I WAS JUST GOING TO TELL YOU TRUSTY HANAN THAT I APPRECIATE YOU ASKING THAT AND BRING THAT UP, EVEN THOUGH WE WERE LAUGHING EARLIER ABOUT THE CLINICIANS, THIS ONE THIS ONE. I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT I DO SUPPORT AS WELL IN, UM, SHARE YOUR SENTIMENTS ABOUT EVERYONE HAVING ACCESS. AND MR DO THANK YOU FOR MAKING IT KNOWN THAT, UM . THAT THERE WERE SOME ENTITIES THAT DID RESPOND TO THE RFP. I THINK MY QUESTION WOULD BE SINCE YOU MENTIONED FAA AGE DIDN'T RESPOND THIS TIME, AND YOU KNOW ANOTHER IN THE ENSEMBLE AS WELL. IS AND MAYBE THIS WOULD GO TO MR GAY IS, UM, COULD WE DO A CONTINUANCE TO WHERE THEY COULD RESPOND AT A LATER DATE JUST LIKE THE CLINICIAN SO THAT WE COULD CONTINUE TO ADD A POOL OF VENDORS AND MAKE SURE THAT WE ENSURE THAT QUALITY OF ACCESS TO VARYING, UM ARTS ENTITIES IS AVAILABLE TO OUR STUDENTS. OKAY. MR. GAY SAYS YES. NEEDED TO THANK YOU. THAT'S IT. CAN I JUST MAKE ONE COMMENT? YES PLEASE THINKING ABOUT IT. SO, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU SEE HOUSTON GRAND OPERA ON THERE, AND WE HAVE HAD MATINEE PERFORMANCES WITH THE HOUSTON GRAND OPERA WHERE WE BEST STUDENTS FROM ELEMENTARY TO THOSE LIKE I WANT TO SAY 12 OR 13 DIFFERENT ELEMENTARY'S ON OUR WEST SIDE WE BUST TO LIKE HOUSTON GRAND OPERA, MATINEE PERFORMANCES AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO I DON'T THINK THIS LIST NECESSARILY REFLECTS, LIKE EVERY SCHOOL THAT'S PARTICIPATED IN THOSE BECAUSE OFTEN THOSE FUNDS WILL COME OUT OF MY BUDGET.

CENTRALLY BUT IT'S FOR A FAIR NUMBER OF SCHOOLS. OKAY. THANK YOU FOR THAT THAT CLARIFICATION BECAUSE WE ASKED THE BOARD WE DON'T KNOW THAT AND THAT'S THE BEAUTY OF US. YOU KNOW, THIS LIMITED TIME WE HAVE TOGETHER TO ASK QUESTIONS. BECAUSE IF WE DON'T ASK QUESTIONS, WE DON'T WE DON'T GET THAT KIND OF INSIGHT. AND SO THANK YOU, MISS MALONE, BECAUSE THAT WAS THAT WAS GOING TO BE MY FOLLOW UP. QUESTION IS HOW CAN WE EXPAND AND HOW CAN WE ATTRACT MORE VENDORS? BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE MAYBE YOUNG REMBRANDTS ON THIS ONE IS REALLY THE ONLY VISUAL ARTS. UM PEACE.

ALTHOUGH I DON'T KNOW WHAT MOSBY INC IS I COULDN'T FIND IT. BUT ANYWAY, THANK YOU, MISS MALONE FOR ASKING THAT AND I APPRECIATE THAT CLARIFICATION. MR DREW. THANK YOU, MR JU. I THINK I DON'T SEE ANYBODY ELSE ON THE LIST. THANK YOU. SO THE NEXT ONE IS DEMOGRAPHER APPROVAL. DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? THIS IS PASA, RIGHT? YEAH. YES, MA'AM. YES. YEAH, I. YEAH SO NO PROBLEM , SO THE NEXT ONE IS LONG RANGE BOUNDARY PLANNING HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? MR HAMILTON'S. SORRY.

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I WAS TRYING TO SPEAK ON THE LAST ONE. SO OKAY, GO AHEAD. QUESTION KIND OF APPLIES TO BOTH OF THESE. SO IT'S OKAY THEN. OKAY. YOU SKIPPED ME. I'M JUST KIDDING. YOU'RE DOING THIS SOMETHING TO BE HONEST. OKAY UM , SO MY QUESTION IS SO WITH WITH BOTH OF THESE WITH NUMBER NINE AND NUMBER 10 ON THE AGENDA. SO THE DEMOGRAPHER AND THE LONG RANGE BOUNDARY PLANNING IT LOOKS LIKE WE REALLY ONLY HAVE ONE COMPETITIVE QUOTE FOR EACH OF THOSE CONTRACTS. SO CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN WHY THAT IS. I CAN ASK OUR PROCUREMENT FOLKS TO ASSIST WITH THAT QUESTION AND HOW WE SOLICITED. I CAN SPEAK FROM THE STAFF SIDE THAT WAS PART OF THE EVALUATION TEAM AND THAT WE PROVIDED ADDITIONAL NAMES OF VENDORS. AND SO NOT ONLY WAS THE PROCUREMENT PUT OUT ON THE STREET, BUT I BELIEVE THEY COMMUNICATE WITH THOSE THAT WE PUT NAMES FOR. UM AND THOSE WERE THE YOU KNOW, WE ONLY RECEIVED THOSE BACK EVEN AFTER AFTER THAT, IS THERE ANYTHING THAT YOU'D LIKE TO ADD TO THAT? MISS DORIS. RICK. SORRY BOTH TWO SIDES. MR GAY WOULD COME TO THE MICROPHONE SO I COULD SAY GREAT JOB ON THAT NATURAL GAS CONTRACT BY THE WAY. HMM. YEAH. SO. WE, UH WE USED ANY BID SYSTEM LIKE BONFIRE. AND SO NOT ONLY DO WE PUT AN AD IN THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER AS REQUIRED BY LAW, BUT WE SENT OUT SEVERAL 100 EMAILS TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE REGISTERED AND ONE OF THE NICE THINGS ABOUT BONFIRE SYSTEM IS WE CAN REGISTER. WE SEE THE REGISTRATION OF ALL THE OTHER DISTRICTS. WE WOULD HAVE PEOPLE. THAT HAVE REGISTERED FOR THAT SIMILAR COMMODITY CODE. SO ONCE WE IDENTIFY THE CODES FOR THE SOLICITATION, IT GOES OUT TO ALL THE VENDORS. NOW I CAN'T FORCE ANYBODY TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL. SO WE TAKE WHATEVER COMES IN AT THE TIME OF THAT, THE DUE DATE THAT'S LISTED ON THE PROPOSAL. THESE ARE BOTH KIND OF NICHE. YEAH SPECIALTIES , SO I GET THAT PART OF IT, BUT I WOULD ASSUME THERE'S THERE ARE MORE THAN TWO COMPANIES IN THE HOUSTON AREA DOING THIS TYPE OF THERE PROBABLY IS, BUT NOT EVERYBODY DOES IT FOR THE GOVERNMENT, RIGHT? SO DO YOU HAVE A KIND OF BALLPARK NUMBER OF FIRMS THAT DO TYPICALLY BID THIS TYPE OF WORK FOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS? CAN YOU GO BACK TO GO BACK AND CHECK THAT AND LOOK AT IT? THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MR HAMILTON'S MR MALONE. OH YES. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT DAY, MR GAY. DON'T GO TOO FAR, PLEASE, SIR. ALRIGHT UM TO MR HAMILTON'S POINT, I HAVE ONE QUESTION AND THAT IS DID WE HAVE AN EXTENSION TO THE BID? AND WAS THAT COMMUNICATE IT? WELL, FIRST OF ALL, WAS THERE AN EXTENSION TO THE BED OFFERED TO I DON'T BELIEVE I DON'T BELIEVE SO. NO.

OKAY AND WHAT I GUESS WHAT? I WOULD HAVE GONE OUT IN AN ADDENDUM. IT WOULD HAVE GONE OUT IN THE ADDENDUM SO THAT EVERYBODY WHO HAD LOOKED AT THE BID OR WHATEVER WOULD HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED. RIGHT AND I GUESS WHAT'S OUR STANDARD PRACTICE WITH GOING OUT FOR AN ADDENDUM WITH AN EXTENSION TO THE BID WHEN WE DON'T HAVE A SOLID POOL OF RESPONSES? HOW. LIKE HOW OFTEN OR WHEN, OR WHAT TRIGGERS THAT WITHIN, UM WITHIN YOUR. NORMALLY YOU WOULDN'T YOU WOULDN'T EXTEND THE BID BASED ON THE NUMBER OF PROPOSALS THAT YOU'RE RECEIVING. SO LET'S OKAY SO, FOR EXAMPLE. IF YOU IF YOU HAD IF YOU HAD GONE OUT, AND IT WAS COMPETITIVE, AND EVEN THOUGH YOU ONLY HAD ONE PROPOSAL, YOU WOULD STILL EVALUATE THE PROPOSAL. BUT LET'S SAY YOU DIDN'T GET ANY PROPOSALS. WELL, THEN YOU WOULD END UP CANCELING THE BID AS A NO BID. AND THEN YOU WOULD YOU MIGHT GO OUT AND SURVEY YOUR POPULATION TO SAY, WAS THERE ANYTHING ABOUT THE SPECIFICATIONS THAT WERE, UM NONCOMPETITIVE OR WHATEVER DID YOU FEEL CONCERNED WITH AND THEN YOU WOULD ADJUST YOUR SPECIFICATIONS AND REBID OUT THE PROJECT TO SEE IF YOU COULD ATTRACT MORE PEOPLE TO PROVIDE PROPOSALS. OKAY SO WE TYPICALLY DON'T DO EXTENSIONS. AND I GUESS I'VE SEEN OTHER DISTRICTS AND OTHER GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES THAT ACTUALLY LIKE THEY OFTEN DO AN EXTENSION AND THEN SOMETIMES THERE'S ONE EXTENSION. AND OF COURSE, THE ADDENDUM HOLDS TRUE TO THAT, AND THEN THERE MAY BE AN ADDITIONAL ADDENDUM WITH ANOTHER EXTENSION, AND TYPICALLY , IT'S DUE TO PROPOSAL FROM WHAT I'VE SEEN, BUT I'M ASKING, YOU KNOW FROM YOU HOW WE HANDLE THINGS HERE, BUT FROM WHAT I'VE SEEN IN THE MARKET, IT'S TYPICALLY DUE TO LACK OF RESPONSES WHERE THEY'RE TRYING TO. PULSE AND GET AN INCREASE OF RESPONSES FROM VENDORS. SO I WAS JUST CURIOUS HOW WE HANDLE THAT SITUATION HERE, UM, TWO AND WONDERING, PARTICULARLY ON STUFF

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THAT MAYBE ISN'T AS TIME SENSITIVE IF WE WERE ABLE TO OFFER EXTENSIONS. WOULD THAT HELP? BECAUSE THE REALITY IS THIS GUYS. UM, AT LEAST WHEN I LOOK AT IT. JUST LIKE WE HAVE A SHORTAGE OF TEACHERS. AND I THINK, ACTUALLY, MR BASSETT, YOU'RE THE ONE WHO WHO SHARED THE MEMBER OF THE ARTICLE ON THE GREAT RESIGNATION. AND THE GREAT RESIGNATION IS NOT JUST IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION. IT'S LIKE EVERYWHERE. COVID DID A NUMBER ON JUST THE WORKFORCE IN GENERAL, AND SO COMPANIES ARE HAVING A HARD TIME FIELDING AND PERFORMING THEIR SERVICES AS WELL. AND FRANKLY, RFP S ARE A LOT OF DOG ON WORK. I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF Y'ALL HAVE EVER COMPLETED ONE, BUT IT IS IT TAKES AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF TIME. UM AND CAUTION AS WELL AS AS SOMEONE IS DOING THAT. AND SO I'M JUST SAYING, I'VE NOTICED WITHIN THE STATE THAT THERE ARE QUITE A FEW EXTENSIONS, AND MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT COULD BE CONSIDERED IN THE FUTURE FOR THINGS THAT MAYBE AREN'T AS TIME SENSITIVE THAT WE COULD DO THAT, OR LIKE WE JUST MENTIONED ON THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, FOR EXAMPLE, ON THE LAST ITEM, AND I APPRECIATE THAT THAT YOU'RE WILLING TO, YOU KNOW, OPEN IT BACK UP. FOR ADDITIONAL , UH, VENDORS TO GET IN THE GAME WITH US BECAUSE WHO KNOWS WHAT THEIR SITUATION IS? I KNOW THEY PROBABLY AT THE HEART OF THEIR MISSION. WANT TO HAVE THE MUSEUM AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ANYONE AND EVERYONE TO HAVE THAT EXPERIENCE AND WOULD PROBABLY WANT TO BE PART OF IT IF WE WERE TO TALK TO THEM, BUT PERHAPS BUILDING, FILLING OUT AND COMPLETING THE RFP. MAYBE THIS YEAR. THEY JUST DIDN'T HAVE THE MANPOWER. WHO KNOWS? MAYBE THEY HAD THEIR EMPLOYEE LIKE WE JUST MENTIONED THE AUGMENTATION GO OFF TO THE MILITARY FOR A YEAR. WHO KNOWS, RIGHT? WE DON'T KNOW THIS SITUATION IS GOING ON. BUT IT SEEMS TO BE A HARDSHIP JUST IN GENERAL ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND HERE IN TEXAS AS WELL. RECENTLY I WAS AT THE N I G P CONFERENCE AND ONE OF THE SEMINARS THAT I ATTENDED AND I'VE SIGNED OUR GROUP UP TO PARTICIPATE. THERE'S A STUDY ONGOING RIGHT NOW TO LOOK AT WHAT IS THE COST OF A BID. AND THEN WHAT IS THE COST OF THE VENDOR TO DO THE PROPOSAL AND TO LOOK AT THE TWO TOGETHER AND WHEN TALKING TO VENDORS? SOMETIMES THEY WILL SAY WHEN THEY LOOK AT WHAT THE VALUE OF THE CONTRACT IS, IT'S NOT WORTH THEIR TIME AND EFFORT TO TURN IN A PROPOSAL BECAUSE THERE'S NOT ENOUGH PROFIT OR MONEY THERE FOR THEM TO EVEN THINK ABOUT IT. SO THAT'S ONE THING WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT IS ARE WE REALLY TOO EXPENSIVE FOR BOTH SIDES? YEAH, NO, THAT MAKES SENSE, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S NOT EVEN GUARANTEED BUSINESS. RIGHT SO WHEN YOU'RE GETTING IN A POOL LIKE I SAW SOME OF THESE, THERE'S A POOL OF 50 VENDORS. AND FRANKLY, I DON'T THINK SOME. SOME OF THEM WILL GET A DIME. THAT'S CORRECT. AND WITH THAT BEING SAID, IN THE AMOUNT OF TIME IN THE COST AGAIN , I GET IT. I'M JUST ASKING ABOUT THE EXTENSION PARTICULAR IN THIS CASE. AND THAT'S IT WITH THAT? THE OTHER QUESTION. I HAVE, THOUGH, UM IS ON BECAUSE WE ARE ARE WE DONE WITH DEMOGRAPHIC? I THOUGHT WE WERE REALLY ON THE LONG RANGE PLANNING. OKAY? JUST MAKING SURE SO ON LONG RANGE PLANNING. I WAS A LITTLE BIT TAKEN ABACK. WHAT IS THAT COMPANY CALLED THAT WE'VE BEEN USING FOR EONS BECAUSE I DON'T THINK THIS IS THEM WHERE THEY RENAMED OR SOMETHING. NO. THE COMPANY THAT WE USED PRIOR WAS COOPERATIVE STRATEGIES AND THEY DID NOT PUT IN A BED. THEY'VE, UM THEY DID NOT RESPOND. DO WE KNOW WHY THEY NO BID. THEY SAID THAT THEY'VE BEEN. I DON'T KNOW THE RIGHT BUSINESS TERM, BUT SOMEBODY BOUGHT THEM. AND THEY JUST DIDN'T HAVE THE CAPACITY RIGHT NOW TO BED AND TO DO THE WORK. OKAY, SO THIS COMPANY IS NOT THE COMPANY THAT BOUGHT THEM. H P. M IS NOT IS NOT NOT THAT I'M AWARE OF AT ALL. NO. IS THIS. I DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING TIME SENSITIVE. AM I MISSING SOMETHING? OR IS THIS TIME SENSITIVE FOR SOMETHING FOR A REASON? AND I'M UNAWARE CONTRACT EXPIRED AND SO QUESTIONS THAT WE YOU KNOW, WHEN WE WORK WITH OUR CONSULTANT ON ANY QUESTIONS THAT COME UP BEING CAPTAIN OVERFLOW, UM, UTILIZATION OF THE BUILDING AS WE MOVE FORWARD, AND THEN, OF COURSE, ULTIMATELY BOUNDARY WORK IN THE FUTURE. THE CONTRACT EXPIRES. I BELIEVE IT'S AT THE END OF THIS MONTH. SERVICE. I. I DON'T KNOW HOW EVERYONE ELSE FEELS. I'M JUST GOING TO PUT THIS OUT THERE ON HOW I DO AFTER HEARING MR HAMILTON'S COMMENTS, AND THEN LIKE WHAT YOU JUST MENTIONED FROM THEN GOP CONFERENCE AND THEN NOW YOU'RE ADDING TO IT, AND I FEEL LIKE IT'S ALMOST THE THIRD. THIRD

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ITEM WITH THEY MENTIONED THEY DIDN'T HAVE CAPACITY AT THIS POINT IN TIME TO RESPOND. SO WITH THAT. UM. I REALLY SUPPORT GOING BACK OUT. THE MARKET. AND . INCLUDING THESE OTHER TWO, BUT KNOWING THAT THE FIRM THAT WE'VE WORKED WITH FOR EONS IF THERE WASN'T A REASON OR CAUSE OF ACTION FOR SEPARATION OF BUSINESS. I'M REALLY CURIOUS. WHAT'S GOING ON OR WHY THEY DIDN'T RESPOND. AND THEN IN ADDITION, UM JUST I WOULD HOPE TO SEE A STRONGER RESPONSIBLE. I WILL TELL YOU THAT, AS A MATTER OF ROUTINE, WE DO GO BACK OUT, ESPECIALLY IF WE ONLY RECEIVED ONE PROPOSAL AND WE DO ASK. YOU KNOW WHY OTHER PEOPLE DIDN'T SUBMIT PROPOSALS AND THEN WE'LL GO BACK AND ASK, ESPECIALLY THE VENDORS WHO PULLED DOWN THE PROPOSAL AND LOOKED AT IT. IF THEY DIDN'T LOOK AT IT OR WHATEVER. THAT'S DIFFERENT, BUT IF THEY'VE PULLED IT DOWN AND LOOKED AT IT, WE MIGHT WE WILL GO BACK AND SURVEY THEM AND ASK THEM. WHY WOULD JUST I WOULD ADD TO THAT. QUITE A FEW. WE HAD A CROSS FUNCTIONAL TEAM THAT EVALUATED THOSE THAT DID PUT IN AND IT'S QUITE A BIT OF WORK AND TIME AND EFFORT. AND I MEAN THAT NOT IN THE SENSE OF OH, IT'S TOO MUCH WORK, BUT THE TIME THAT IT TAKES TO GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS. WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO HAVE SOMEBODY ON BOARD SO THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO CONSULT AND DO THE WORK AND MAKE HARD DECISIONS WHEN THAT WHEN THAT COMES UP AS WELL AS BE PREPARED ONCE POLICY, FC LOCAL IS REVISED AND APPROVED TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE WORK. YOU KNOW, TO GET AHEAD OF BOUNDARY APPROVAL FOR THOSE SCHOOLS THAT ARE COMING ONLINE AND FOR THE AREAS THAT WE KNOW THAT WE NEED TO WORK FURTHER IN OKAY? SO I'M GOING TO GO FISHING FOR A SECOND. UM. I'M GOING BACK YEARS AGO, AND I REMEMBER THERE WAS A GENTLEMAN WHO WORKED WITH US DIRECTLY. AND THEN I REMEMBERED THIS. LAST YEAR THERE WAS A LADY. AND I'M TRYING TO REMEMBER THEIR THEIR NAMES I CAN SEE FACES. THE GENTLEMAN WHO LEFT AND WENT TO ANOTHER FIRM. DO YOU REMEMBER HIS NAME? I KNOW HIS FIRST NAME IS MY HUSBAND'S NAME. SO IT'S SCOTT. WE HAD SCOTT LEOPOLD AND MATT AND KAREN. I'M NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO REMEMBER THEIR LAST NAMES, BUT PILE MIGHT BE ABLE TO ASSIST WITH THAT. CHANGED HER NAME, SO I MAYBE PUT DRINKING AS WELL. BUT KAREN JOHNSON, IS SHE AT THE COOPERATIVE COOPERATIVE STRATEGIES. OKAY? WHAT ABOUT SCOTT? WHERE DID HE WIND UP? SCOTT, I BELIEVE IS THAT H P M.

SO THE FIRM OF CHOICE CORRECT GOT IT. I'M GONNA SIT ON THAT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ALSO TO WHAT BETH WAS SAYING THAT MS MARTINEZ WAS SAYING SO THAT ALL OF THESE ARE REALLY TIED TOGETHER. SO THE POLICY SC LOCAL AND WE'RE IN REVISION WITH THE BOARD POLICY COMMITTEE MEETING OUR COMMITTEE. WE'RE MEETING WITH THEM TOMORROW. AND SO PART OF THAT IS THE WHOLE PROCESS THAT WE JUST WENT THROUGH LAST YEAR. I LEARNED A LOT ABOUT THE SCHOOL BOUNDARY OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE IN THE EIGHT STEP PROCESS. SO WORKING WITH THE DEMOGRAPHER WORKING WITH THE BOUNDARY PLANNER ARE INTERTWINED WITH THAT. AND SO WHEN WE LOOK INTO THE FUTURE, AND WE'RE LOOKING AT THE OPENING OF FERNDALE, HENRY IN 2025 AND BACK IN PLAN, WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO ENGAGE WITH THE SPLC AT SOME POINT, AND SO I SHARE THAT BECAUSE THE DECISION ON THIS BOUNDARY PLANNER, IMPACTS AND DEMOGRAPHER WILL IMPACT OUR WORK AND ENGAGING WITH THE COMMUNITY AND THE SPOCK SO THE DELAY CAN MAYBE IMPACT FURTHER HOW WE HOW WE WORK WITH SCHOOL BOUNDARY OVERSIGHT, SO I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THAT JUST FOR ADDITIONAL CONTEXT. NO, I APPRECIATE THAT, UM. SO I GOT A QUESTION FOR MR GAY. THEN, UM HOW MUCH TIME DO YOU NEED TO GO TO MARKET ON A BID? MY PREFERENCE WOULD BE THAT BY LAW, I'M REQUIRED TO ADVERTISE FOR TWO CONSECUTIVE DAYS IN EACH WEEK, SO WE NORMALLY ADVERTISED ON A MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. SO THEN I HAVE TWO WEEKS AND THEN I LIKE TO LEAVE THE BIT OUT ON THE STREET FOR ANOTHER 4 TO 6 WEEKS TO GIVE PEOPLE TIME. TO TURN INTO PROPOSAL. THEN WE HAVE THE LONG GLIDE PATH INTO THE BOARD AGENDAS, WHICH IS LIKE ABOUT SIX WEEKS SO IT'S ABOUT 10 WEEKS, 12 WEEKS TO DO A BIT SO, 10 WEEKS TILL 12 WEEKS IN AN IDEAL SITUATION, BUT IF YOU WERE TO CONDENSE THAT BY LAW, WHAT DO YOU NEED? BASICALLY GO, I WOULD SAY TWO WEEKS PLUS 10 DAYS. SO I CAN I MEAN, JUST TO CLARIFY FOR THE, UH, FOR THE WAITING FOR THE BOARD AGENDA. WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN FASTER. UM BECAUSE YEAH, BECAUSE OF THIS IS ALREADY UNDER AGENDA TO EVERYBODY OUT THERE SO THAT THEY HAVE TIME TO REALLY

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DIGEST WHAT IT IS. YOU'RE ASKING FOR. AND PUT A GOOD QUALITY PROPOSAL TOGETHER. THAT'S COMPETITIVE. YOU WHEN YOU SHORTEN THAT TIMELINE, YOU NOT BEING COMPETITIVE ANOTHER THE TIME YOU NEEDED TO ATTRACT VENDOR. I MEAN, THE TIME YOU MENTIONED THERE'S TWO PART ONE PARTY'S WAITING TO GET ON THE AGENDA, SAID THAT PART WE CAN HELP YOU WITH THAT. SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT YOU JUST MENTIONED FOR, YOU KNOW. A COUPLE OF WEEKS . ANY DISPOSITION I CAN GET. CAN YOU ALSO SPEAK TO HOW LONG THE EVALUATION PROCESSES ON THE STAFF AND THE EVALUATION PROCESS IS PROBABLY DEPENDING ON HOW COMPLICATED THE EVALUATION IS. THAT COULD BE ANYWHERE FROM, UH , TWO WEEKS TO THREE WEEKS TO DO IT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE MORE IF IT'S GOING TO MAKE A VERY SHORT STATEMENT BEFORE I CONTINUE WITH OTHER TRUSTEES QUESTION, SO JUST TO FOLLOW UP. I KNOW THIS PLANNING AND BOUNDARY THE SUPER IMPORTANT FOR THE DISTRICT AND BUT ALSO BECAUSE OF THAT, WE REALLY DON'T I MEAN, WE DO NOT WANT TO RUSH JUST TO APPROVE FOR SOME SOME COMPANY BECAUSE WE HAVE TO DO IT VERY FAST, BECAUSE THIS SEASON LONG PLANNING, SEE, I MEAN, I MOVED HERE, 2016 AND I'VE BEEN INVOLVED. AH FOR THE BOUNDARIES SINCE 2017 AND REALLY LIKE BEFORE I WAS COMMUNITY MEMBER. UM WATCHING THE BOUNDARY EVERY SINGLE TIME AND THE DATA FOR THE DISTRICT BEFORE THE CAMPUS UTILIZATION FROM ONE CO INPUTS TOOLS. THE OTHER ONE. SOMETIMES THE DATA CHANGES. AH, SOMETIME. IT'S HARDER FOR ME TO REALLY TO PROVE SOMETHING SO IMPORTANT. JUST WITH TWO VENDORS . AND ALSO I DO HAVE A QUESTION BECAUSE WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS TABLE NORMALLY I REALLY TRUST YOU GUYS, I HAVE A QUESTION BECAUSE YOU SAID REPUTATION OF WONDER. FOR BETWEEN THOSE TWO.

THEY BOTH THE SAME 4.0. BUT THEN WHEN YOU TO THE AH TWO RELATED TO THE DISTRICT. SO THERE'S FIVE POINTS TOTAL. BUT ONE IS 4.25. SO I GUESS, THANKS TO MR MALONE'S QUESTION, BECAUSE WE WORKED WITH THE PERSON WHO IS IN THIS COMPANY RIGHT NOW. WE DON'T HAVE THE OTHER ONE. AND THEN YOU YOU, YOU MEASURE THE ONE ME, TOO. THE DISTRICT NEEDS ITS 25 POINTS, MAX. SO WHY IS THE GUY 23.25 THE OTHER ONES? 10 POINT IT. SO. AH I HAVE TROUBLE BECAUSE IF NONE OF THEM WORKED WITH US BEFORE RIGHT? THE COMPANY BECAUSE THIS SEASON YOUR COMPANY, BOTH OF THEM THEIR NEW COMPANIES, WE HAVEN'T WORKED WITH THEM EXCEPT THAT ONE GENTLEMAN WHO WENT TO THE COMPANY YES, AND I THINK THERE'S ANOTHER GENTLEMAN THAT WORKED WITH THE DISTRICT YEARS AGO.

LIKE IN 2013. I WILL SAY THAT THE, UM SUBMISSIONS FROM. IT WAS A CONSIDERABLE DIFFERENCE IN THE VALUE THAT THE VENDOR THAT WE ARE PROPOSING BRINGS TO THE DISTRICT IN TERMS OF THE EXTENSIVE, UM WORK AND PLANNING ON THEIR RESPONSE TO THE PROCUREMENT AND TO WHAT THEY'RE ABLE TO PROVIDE. EVEN IN TERMS OF NUMBERS OF INTERACTIONS AND PRESENTATIONS TO THE BOARD AND THE WORK THAT WOULD BE DONE IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DISTRICT. IT WAS MUCH MORE COMPREHENSIVE.

SO OKAY, I HEAR YOU. SO IF THAT'S THE CASE, I PROBABLY REALLY THINK I WILL SUPPORT MS MALONE. I MISS HAMBLETON. MAYBE WE NEED TO OPEN IT UP TO HAVE MORE VENDORS BECAUSE I WOULD BE VERY HESITANT. TO VOTE ON THIS ITEM, BUT BUT, OF COURSE, UM, IF THIS COMEBACK FOR NEXT WEEK YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SEVEN PEOPLE ON THE BOARD AND THEN WE CAN VOTE ON IT. BUT I'M JUST SAYING, I'M JUST TELLING YOU MY POSITION AT THIS MOMENT. THANK YOU, MR GARCIA. IS THE LONG RANGE PLANNING AND THE DEMOGRAPHER, THE SAME RFP FOR THE SAME MARA P NUMBER ON THE. NUMBER 2 3 DASH RULE 73 A B LONG RANGE PLANNING THEY WERE ABLE TO RESPOND, AND I'M SURE THAT DORIS CAN SPEAK TO THIS MORE ELOQUENTLY THAN I BUT THEY WERE ABLE TO, UM, RESPOND TO BOTH. FOR ONE PIECE. YOU KNOW, UM, SO WE WERE HOPEFUL THAT COMPANIES WOULD RESPOND TO BOTH AND BE ABLE TO PROVIDE BOTH

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SERVICES, THE DEMOGRAPHIC SERVICES AS WELL AS THE LONG RANGE PLANNING AND BE ABLE TO RESPOND TO THE ONE WHERE THEIR THEIR NICHE EXPERTISE MIGHT BE, AND THAT WE WERE ABLE TO EVALUATE IN THAT WAY. I WOULD SAY, UM TO GO AHEAD. I'M SORRY, MR GARCIA. IT WAS JUST ANOTHER CONCERN THAT I'M. I'M WONDERING IF WE WILL HAVE A CHALLENGE IF THIS IS NOT APPROVED IN. AND LOSING A POTENTIAL VENDOR THAT MIGHT PUT IN AGAIN OR NOT PUT IN AGAIN, AND I DON'T KNOW YOU ALL PROBABLY FACED THIS BEFORE AND WOULD BE ABLE TO HELP TO WORK THROUGH THAT. THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT VENDORS WILL RESPOND. ALSO. SO I'M SAYING THAT THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT OFFENDERS WILL RESPOND EVEN WHEN WE DO, UH, NOT DO IT SOLICITATION AGAIN. WE DID CONTACT THEM, UM, DIDN'T KNOW YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT, BUT THEY DID NOT RESPOND, SO THERE'S NO GUARANTEE THAT IT WILL RESPOND AGAIN AND THIS PROJECT WAS HAVING OUT SINCE JUNE. AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SEPTEMBER, SO THAT'S LIKE ALMOST FOUR MONTHS PROCESS. WE DO WE KNOW HOW MANY IT SAYS THE NUMBER OF VENDORS THAT DOWNLOADED THE SOLICITATION WAS 32. DO WE KNOW HOW MANY AND IT SAYS TWO RESPONSES RECEIVED FROM BOTH OF THEM? AND IT SAYS 22,150. DOWNLOADED FROM BOTH OF THEM. DO WE KNOW WHICH ONES WERE DOWN? JUST EVERYBODY DOWNLOADED THE SAME ONES KIND OF HEARD ANYBODY BE ABLE TO KNOW WHICH ONE THEY'RE BIDDING ON. UM AND SOUNDS LIKE THE CONCERN IS WE JUST DIDN'T GET ENOUGH RESPONSES. WE HAD 32 PEOPLE DOWNLOADED. 32 COMPANIES DOWNLOADED IT. AND ONLY TWO OPTED TO SUBMIT. SO HOW CAN YOU GET MORE PEOPLE TO SUBMIT IF THEY DOWNLOAD AND THEY DON'T WANT TO SUBMIT? THEY DON'T WANT TO SUBMIT, YOU KNOW? I MEAN, THERE'S NO THERE'S NO SECRET SAUCE BACK OUT. OH, THERE IS THERE IS A SECRET SAUCE. UM SO I HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION. THE R F Q THAT THE JOB PUT OUT IT. WAS THIS SIMILAR TO THE ONE THAT YOU DID. THE PREVIOUS R F Q. OR IS THIS LIKE A TOTALLY BRAND NEW? YOU KNOW, IT'S A BRAND NEW BRAND NEW. WHO ELSE DOES? H P M DO BUSINESS WITH. WE CAN GET YOU THAT INFORMATION SUBMITTED. YEAH THAT MIGHT HELP IF WE KNEW WHAT OTHER DISTRICTS ARE. THEY'RE DOING BUSINESS WHEN THEY'RE DOING BUSINESS WITH DALLAS IS A PRETTY GOOD ONE OR YOU KNOW, WHATEVER. SO BUT, YEAH, THANK YOU. THAT'S THAT'S ALL MY QUESTIONS. I JUST WAS CURIOUS ABOUT THAT. THANK YOU. MR GARCIA CAN PROVIDE THAT TO YOU. I DO HAVE I DO HAVE A FEW HERE THAT THEY PROVIDED ROUND ROCK. I SD MAINER. I S D M UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA. THERE WERE SEVERAL OTHERS THEY MENTIONED. I JUST DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT DOCUMENTS SO WE CAN FOLLOW UP ON THAT. WELL, THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE THAT. THANK YOU, MR GARCIA. BUT WE'RE GONNA MAINLY WORKING WITH MR SCOTT LEOPOLD, RIGHT? I DON'T KNOW HOW WHO THEY WILL ASSIGN TO WORK WITH US. I DON'T KNOW THAT WE'RE GUARANTEED THAT HE WOULD BE OR WOULDN'T BE THROUGH OTHER STAFF MEMBERS THAT ARE BECAUSE FROM THAT COMPANY, WE ONLY WORKED WITH MR SCOTT LEOPOLD RIGHT IN THE PAST. THERE'S NO OTHER PEOPLE IN THE COMPANY WE WORKED WITH. WE DID. THERE WAS A TEAM THAT WE WORKED WITH BEHIND THE SCENES FROM THIS COMPANY.

YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE PAST WITH COOPERATIVE STRATEGY. M NOT HAVE NOT WORKED WITH H P. M BEFORE. THAT'S WHY I SAID THE ONLY PERSON CURRENTLY WITH H P M THAT WE WORKED WITH IN THE PAST WAS MR SCULLY LEOPOLD BECAUSE HE MOVED TO THIS COMPANY JOINED THIS COMPANY. HE DID, AND I BELIEVE I SAID A MOMENT AGO. I BELIEVE THERE'S ANOTHER GENTLEMAN THERE. UM TRACEY RICHTER, WHO WORKED WITH OUR DISTRICT YEARS AGO. WHEN WE FIRST BEGAN THE FUTURES PLANNING AND THAT SORT OF THING IN AROUND 2012, AND THEN WE WOULD HAVE TO RESEARCH FURTHER TO KNOW IF THERE ARE OTHER TEAM MEMBERS THAT WE'VE WORKED WITH. SO THANK YOU. SO, UM MS HANAN. YES, DOCTOR. WHITBECK DO WE HAVE ANY , UM, BOUNDARY CHANGES COMING IN THE SPRING? THAT WOULD REQUIRE, UM THAT WE NEED TO UTILIZE THE LONG RANGE PLANNING CONSULTANT. WELL, I THINK I THINK MS MARTINEZ IS AS BEST AND PILE TO EXPLAIN THAT BECAUSE IT HAS. IT'S NOT JUST LIKE THE BIG BOUNDARIES LIKE YOU ALL ENGAGED IN LAST YEAR. IT'S A LOT OF THE OTHER TYPES OF DECISION MAKING WHEN WE ARE LOOKING AT EVEN, YOU KNOW, CAP AND OVERFLOW, YOU KNOW, AND I EVEN MENTIONED IN MY LAST UPDATE THAT WE'RE WATCHING TRAVIS ALL OF THOSE KINDS OF THINGS. THE INFORMATION IS

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IMPORTANT. SO YOU KNOW, AS FAR AS THE GIANT BOUNDARY, NOT I DON'T PREDICT THAT FOR YOU THIS IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS, BUT I DO THINK THAT WE NEED CURRENT INFORMATION. UM FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS, BUT YOU'RE PROBABLY BETTER TO ANSWER. I THINK YOU ANSWERED THAT THAT VERY WELL. I THINK THAT'S THAT'S THE ANSWER THAT IF WE DON'T HAVE INFORMATION THAT IS READILY AVAILABLE. THAT IS YOU KNOW, TODAY TRAIT. KIND OF SHOULD THE RIGHT THING. BUT THOSE INFORMATION SHOULD HAVE COME FROM PASA RIGHT. PASTOR WILL PROVIDE THOSE INFORMATION. SO POSSIBLY PROVIDES PROJECTIONS AS YOU ALL KNOW, AND THEY PROVIDE THE FINAL PROJECTIONS IN JANUARY FEBRUARY TIME FRAME AND THEY ARE NOT WITHIN THEIR WITHIN THE CURRENT BOUNDARIES. THEY THEN WORK WITH OUR LONG RANGE PLAN OR WHEN WE'RE WORKING THROUGH BOUNDARY SCENARIOS TO UPDATE THOSE FINAL PROJECTIONS, BUT THE LONG RANGE BOUNDARY PLANNER RECEIVES THOSE PROJECTIONS, AND THEN THEY WORK WITH THEM AND ALL THE VARIOUS SCENARIOS AND THEN FEED THEM BACK TO THE DEMOGRAPHER. SO THAT THE DEMOGRAPHY DEMOGRAPHER CAN FINALIZE THE PROJECTIONS LONG TERM FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS BASED IN THE NEW BOUNDARY, SO THERE'S SOME BACK AND FORTH WORK. THEY DON'T THEY DON'T UM THEY ONLY RESPONDED TO THE DEMOGRAPHY SIDE OF IT, AND SO THEY DON'T TAKE THAT AND PLAY WITH WITH BOUNDARIES. NOW THEY WILL GIVE US GUIDANCE ON WHAT AREAS OR ARE , YOU KNOW, GROWING SIGNIFICANTLY AND WHERE WE MIGHT NEED TO LOOK AT A BOUNDARY CHANGE, BUT THEY DON'T THEY DON'T MANIPULATE THEIR PROJECTIONS IN THE NEW BOUNDARY SCENARIOS SO THAT WE CAN WORK WITH THEM. ACTUALLY I UNDERSTAND. ACTUALLY I APPRECIATE MR HANNAN'S QUESTION, BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND IF WE DO HAVE A BOUNDARY CHANGES THAN THIS CONSULTANT COMPANIES. VERY IMPORTANT. WE CAN'T WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING. BUT FOR THE CAP OVERFLOW, THOUGH EVEN THAT NORMALLY FROM THE STAFF, UM ACCORDING TO THE PASTOR DATA, UH, THE STAFF WILL REALLY MAKE A RECOMMENDATION FROM WHICH CAMPUS FOR THOSE TYPE OF OVERFLOW FLOW TO JUST SAYING IT'S NOT IDEAL WITH. DO NEED A CONSULTANT COMPANY, BUT THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT QUESTION IMPORTANT CONTRACT. SO FOR DYNASTY. I MEAN, A LOT OF WHEN YOU LOOK AROUND AT THE FOUR BANANAS D CAMPUS. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE UTILIZATION, HMM. WE HAVE A LOT OF WE HAVE A LOT OF PROBLEMS. I JUST SAY THAT, UM SO I SAID SINCE 2017 I'VE BEEN INVOLVED IN ALL THIS. THE BOUNDARY ALWAYS. IT'S VERY STRESSFUL FOR THE COMMUNITY MEMBER. IT'S REALLY VERY TRANSPORT, SO I APPRECIATE WE WANTED TO USE SOMEONE WE ALWAYS WORKED WITH. UM I DO SEE THE VALUE OF THAT. BUT AT THE SAME TIME AGO, I DO. I WANTED THE SPORT TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE THE RIGHT DECISION BECAUSE THIS IS GONNA LONG, YOU KNOW, LONG RANGE PLANNING, IT'S GOING TO HAVE THE IMPACT IN FOR BEN. I SEE FOR THE FUTURE. LET'S SAY 5 10 YEARS. THAT'S REALLY I MEAN, THAT'S WHERE I STRUGGLE WITH. RATHER WE CHOOSE THE RIGHT PERSON RIGHT FORM. MAYBE IT'S DIFFICULT FOR NOW. SHORT TERM. ANOTHER THING IS I WE DIDN'T ANY . I DIDN'T REALIZE IT IS SUCH A TIME SENSITIVE CONSTRAINT CONTRACT. WE HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION. LIKE RIGHT NOW, UM, WE DON'T HAVE EVEN HAVE ANY BAD FOR TWO. WE CAN, YOU KNOW, HAVE A BUFFER FOR THE BOARD, SAYING WHAT IF AH, THIS DOES NOT GET APPROVED. SO I'M I WILL APPRECIATE IT LIKE LATER ON. IF WE CAN BRING SOME ITEMS LIKE THIS, MAYBE WE CAN RAIN TO THE BOARD OF GIVE US A FEW MONTHS AHEAD OF TIME TO MAKE THAT DECISION JUST TO HAVE A PLAN B. A MISTAKE WHEN YOU'RE FINISHED, IF I MIGHT BE ABLE TO FINISH MY QUESTION, SO UM. MR GAY. HOW MANY OF OUR STAFF MEMBERS ARE INVOLVED IN IN THIS PROCESS? IN IN. GOING THROUGH BONFIRE AND. THE WHOLE PROCESS, THE TENT THAT THE 10 WEEK PROCESS THAT THAT THIS HMM. WELL, THE SOLICITATIONS NORMALLY DONE BY ONE BUYER, OKAY FROM OUR OFFICE FROM OUR PROCUREMENT MATERIAL MANAGEMENT OFFICE. THE EVALUATION TEAM CAN BE ANYWHERE FROM 3 TO 2. 15 PEOPLE OR MORE. IT DEPENDS ON HOW YOU WANT TO EVALUATE. THE PRODUCT OR THE SITUATION THAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT . UM YOU USUALLY HAVE TO HAVE AN ODD NUMBER SO THAT IF YOU HAVE A VOTE OR WHATEVER IT COMES OUT, RIGHT, BUT IN MOST CASES THE EVALUATION TEAM TO ANYWHERE FROM 5 TO 9 PEOPLE. OKAY, SO. APPROXIMATELY 5 TO 9. PEOPLE

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LOOKED AT THIS. WE HAD 32 PEOPLE DOWNLOAD OR UPLOAD, WHICHEVER DIRECTION THE RFP, BUT ONLY TWO RESPONDED. AND SO I HEAR MISS DAYS. CONCERN AND MS MALONE'S CONCERN, BUT MY CONCERN IS WE HAVE HAD QUALIFIED STAFF. LOOK AT THESE PROPOSALS. DOCTOR WHITBECK IS BRINGING THIS TO US.

AND. I MISS MR GAY. WHAT DO YOU THINK THE LIKELIHOOD OF US GETTING DIFFERENT VENDORS. IN A IN A CONDENSED, UM, RFP WINDOW. I MEAN, I KNOW I'M ASKING. YOU WOULDN'T LIKE TO SPECULATE, SPECULATE, BUT IT COULD BE ANYWHERE FROM ZERO TO THE SAME TWO. OR YOU MIGHT GET ONE. MAYBE TWO MORE, BUT I DON'T THINK YOU'D GET MUCH MORE OF A RESPONSE. OKAY OKAY. UM ANYWAY, I APPRECIATE YOUR WORK. I APPRECIATE THAT THAT WE DON'T ALWAYS GET WHAT WE WANT IN THE DISTRICT. YOU KNOW THAT THAT WAIVER LIST OF ALL THOSE TEACHERS WITH TOO MANY KIDS IN THE CLASSES AND, UM YOU KNOW WHAT? I I'M GLAD ALL THOSE APPRENTICE TEACHERS ARE HERE, TOO. BUT I WOULD I RATHER HAVE A HIGHLY QUALIFIED, CERTIFIED TEACHER AND ALL THOSE CLASSES. I ABSOLUTELY WOULD. AND SO I THINK THAT THAT WE DO THE VERY BEST WE CAN TO WORK EFFECTIVELY AND EFFICIENTLY FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT. AND I WAS. I RESPECT THAT THAT THESE ARE THE TWO COMPANIES THAT WERE, UM, SUBMITTED AND THIS IS HIS STAFF. NOT YOU KNOW, SCORED. AND SO I JUST THINK THAT THE PROCESS UM. WORKED. AND I HOPE THAT THISLL G THAT NEXT AT THE NEXT BOARD MEETING. THANK YOU, MS HANAN. SO LIKE I SAID, WE HAVE 74 MEMBERS ON THE BOARD, SO I APPRECIATE YOU HEAR DIFFERENT OPINIONS, AND SO WE HAVE A DISCUSSION AND THAT'S IF THERE'S NO MORE ADAM.

OKAY, MISS MALONE. THANK YOU. OKAY SO I WENT AND PULLED THE RFP. AND. I GUESS. I'M NOT UNDERSTAND. I'M NOT UNDERSTANDING WHY WE COULDN'T GO BACK TO MARKET WITH THIS. I UNDERSTAND WHEN YOU HAVE TO WRITE A NEW ONE. I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY I COULDN'T CLOSE AND REOPEN. AND INVITE IN THOSE FOLKS WHO'VE ALREADY PREPARED THEIR RESPONSE. THEY'VE ALREADY DONE THE WORK. IT'S DONE. THEY JUST RESUBMIT AND PUT IT IN THE FIELD AND UPLOAD. BUT WHAT I NOTICED IN THIS AND MAYBE THIS IS LIKE WHAT I'M REALLY GETTING AT IS MORE SO PROCESS OVERALL AND ALL OF THEM. SO KIND OF LIKE , HEY, DID WE DO EXTENSIONS? DO WE DO THIS? DO WE DO X Y Z AND THIS IS ANOTHER ONE. SO ON TIME FRAME BECAUSE, UH, PRESIDENT DAY MENTIONED THE BUFFER. BUT I ALSO UNDERSTAND THERE'S THE PROCESS OF EVALUATION. SO THE RFP OPENED ON JUNE 14TH. THE RESPONSES WERE DUE IN THE RFP CLOSED ON JULY 18TH SO LITTLE OVER ONE MONTH. BUT IT'S NOW SEPTEMBER 11TH. SO I THINK WHAT WHAT? WHAT? WHAT IS HELPFUL, AT LEAST FOR ME? IS FROM THE TIME OF BID CLOSES.

WHAT IS THE PROCESS? BECAUSE I WOULD ASSUME YOU'VE ALREADY GOT SCHEDULED. YOUR COMMITTEE FOR EVALUATORS IN THE PROCESS IS ALREADY AND YOU KNOW, LINED UP. AS FAR AS WHEN YOU OPEN PROPOSALS BECAUSE YOU OPEN THE BIDS ON ON THE 18TH AND YOU BEGIN THE PROCESS. BUT KNOWING FROM THAT TIME THE PROCESS CLOSES TO WHEN IT COMES TO THE BOARD. BECAUSE IT'S BEEN ALMOST TWO MONTHS. UM. AND DO WE DO EVERYTHING TO WHERE IT'S TIME SENSITIVE, OR ARE WE DOING THINGS TO BACK IT UP? SO THAT SHOULD THE BOARD REJECT SOMETHING. THAT YOU HAVE ROOM TO . TO MOVE FORWARD THAT MAKE SENSE THAT IT FEELS WE DO. WE'RE IN A TIGHT CORNER PUT TOGETHER A PROCUREMENT PLAN EVERY YEAR, LOOKING AT ALL THE CONTRACTS THAT ARE COMING DUE. AND WE GET BACK WITH OUR END USERS AND SAY, OKAY, DO YOU WANT TO REBID THE CONTRACT? DO YOU WANT TO GO BACK OUT? WE ALSO LOOK AT ARE THERE POTENTIAL COOPERATIVE CONTRACTS THAT WE COULD UTILIZE AND THAT TYPE OF THING? UH I THINK WHEN YOU START TALKING ABOUT THE SUMMER MONTHS WERE PREPARING FOR THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR YOU GET INTO AUGUST SCHOOL GETS STARTED. SCHEDULES ARE TIGHT. PEOPLE TRY

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AND GET PEOPLE TOGETHER AS BEST YOU CAN TO EVALUATE AND BECAUSE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT A BIG CHUNK OF TIME OF SOMEBODY'S TIME, AND WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT AT THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR DIRECTOR EXECUTIVE LEVEL, THAT'S A LOT OF THAT'S THAT'S A LOT OF TIME AND THEY'RE DOING OTHER THINGS AND EVERYTHING. SO WE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF WHAT WE CAN WE GET IT DONE AS QUICKLY AS WE CAN, AND THEN WE TRY AND GET IT INTO THE TO THE SCHEDULING FOR THE NEXT AGENDA. NORMALLY WHAT HAPPENS IS THEY TELL US, OKAY, THE CONTRACT IS GOING TO END LIKE IN SEPTEMBER. IT'S GOING TO END IN AUGUST, AND WE LOOK AT THAT AND WE BACKWARD PLAN FROM THERE AND WE SAY, WELL, WHAT BOARD MEETING? WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO? AND THEN WE BACKWARD PLAN FROM THAT IF YOU MISS ANY OF THOSE GATES OR WINDOWS FROM THE STARTING POINT TO THEM. THEN YOU GET FORCED OUT TO ANOTHER BOARD MEETING OR WHATEVER, SO WE TRY AND PLAN THEM AS BEST WE CAN, BUT, YOU KNOW SOMETIMES YOU MISS IT.

OKAY? I APPRECIATE THAT, SIR. AND. WHEN I SAID I WAS GOING TO SIT ON IT THAT THAT WAS THE EARLIER WHEN YOU MENTIONED, UM, WHO'D BE WORKING FOR SO YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT AND IN SOME OF THESE BIDS IS LET'S SAY ARCHITECTS. AND IT WAS CRUCIAL WITH CAROLINA SHE'S MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, SHE WANTS PARTICULAR FOLKS TO BE WORKING ON HER TEAM AND ON HER PROJECTS, AND SHE KNOWS WHO'S GOING TO BE ASSIGNED TO HER. AND I KNOW TYPICALLY IN AN RFP RESPONSE, WHICH, WHEN I'M IN HERE, I CAN'T SEE THIS, BUT I HAVE ONE SPECIFIC QUESTION BECAUSE TYPICALLY YOU ASK, WHO'S GOING TO BE ASSIGNED IN THEIR RESUME IS REQUIRED FROM THE COMPANY, SO THEY WANT TO KNOW IN ADVANCE. FOR EXAMPLE, ON THIS, WHO ARE YOU GOING TO BE ASSIGNING TO OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT? AND PROVIDE A RESUME AND THEIR PAST EXPERIENCES WITH THE SCOPE OF PROJECT. SO DID WE HAVE SOMETHING LIKE THAT PRESENTED IN THE RFP TO THESE VENDORS SO THAT THEY WOULD PRESENT. WHO WOULD BE ASSIGNED TO OUR PROJECT HAVE TO ASK MS MARTINEZ DID. WE SPECIFICALLY ASKED FOR STAFFING IN THE IN THE EVALUATION THAT THEY PROVIDE A STAFF AS PART OF PREPARING? DON'T THINK THAT I DON'T RECALL WHETHER WE ASKED FOR THAT OR NOT. I HAVE TO GO BACK. AND LOOK, THERE WAS A LOT OF WORK AROUND THE SCOPE, BUT WE DID RECEIVE A PACKET FROM THEM. I'M TRYING TO LOOK THROUGH IT. WE I KNOW THAT THERE ARE MULTIPLE MEMBERS OF THE TEAM THAT WE RECEIVED THERE. SHORT BIO AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE. I DON'T RECALL IF WE REQUESTED THAT OR IF WE REQUESTED WHO WE WOULD BE WORKING WITH, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE DO WITH OUR ARCHITECTURAL FIRMS, RIGHT? THAT'S BECAUSE THAT'S A QUALIFICATION. SO WHEN WE DO A REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATION, WE DO ASK FOR RESUMES, BUT THIS WASN'T REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL. IT WAS WHAT IT WAS AN RFP SO WE DON'T TAKE ACTUALLY ASKED. OKAY SO IN OUR FPS, THOUGH, FOR EXAMPLE, I'M GOING TO SWITCH GEARS AND GO TO A DIFFERENT TYPE OF RFP. BUT LET'S SAY CLINICIANS, WHICH WE TALKED ABOUT EARLIER TONIGHT, WOULD WE NOT, THEN HAVE CLINICIANS PROVIDE, UM THEIR RESUME AND THEIR EXPERIENCE RELATIVE TO THE SCOPE OF WORK, EVEN THOUGH IT'S AN RFP, AND IT'S NOT A REQUEST FOR SERVICES . YES SOMETIMES WE DO WE SPENT ABOUT. I'M NOT SURE HOW MANY MONTHS RESPONDS BUILDING THE SCOPE OF WORK FOR THIS SOLICITATION. UM DO YOU REMEMBER HOW LONG IT TOOK US TO BUILD A SCOPE? PROBABLY TOOK US. UM SORRY. IT TOOK US A MONTH, SO JUST JUST TO SHARE THE TIMELINE , SO WE'VE WE'VE FINISHED BOUNDARIES. WE IMPLEMENTED THEM AS YOU RECALL IN MARCH. THAT'S WHEN WE STARTED COMMUNICATING TO FAMILIES, LEARNING AND KIND OF BREATHING A LITTLE BIT FROM FROM DOING THE THREE BOUNDARIES THAT WE COMPLETED THEN THE NEXT STEP FOR OUR TEAM WAS TO LOOK AT SCOPE OF WORK. WHAT DID WE LEARN? UM FROM THIS TIME. WHAT IS THAT RFP LOOK LIKE WORKING WITH THE PURCHASING TEAM TO BUILD THAT SCOPE OF WORK. AND SO THAT'S THAT'S WHEN WE SPENT MARCH THROUGH MAY TO BUILD THAT, AND THEN JUNE IS WHEN THIS COVER WORK WAS RELEASED, AND WE BEGAN EVALUATING THE INTERNAL TEAMS HERE AT THE DISTRICT BEGAN EVALUATING THE INFORMATION, SO AND I'VE HEARD YOU. I WANTED TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE FEEDBACK AROUND. HAVING A FEW MONTHS TO REALLY UNDERSTAND, ESPECIALLY WITH THIS IMPORTANT WORK, AND WE ABSOLUTELY AGREE WITH YOU. I THINK WHAT WE'RE WE'RE AT IS LIKE RIGHT WHEN WE FINISHED THOSE BOUNDARIES IS WHEN WE SAID OKAY, WE KNOW THAT THIS THE PROPOSAL INSTANCE SEPTEMBER AND SO WE NEED TO HAVE THAT LEEWAY TO PLAN FOR THE NEXT TIME SO THAT WE'RE NOT IN A POSITION WHERE THE NEXT TIME THAT WE DO BOUNDARIES WERE FEELING REALLY CRUNCHED ON THAT ASPECT. AND SO I DID. I WANTED TO ADDRESS YOUR FEEDBACK PRESIDENT DAY ON THAT THAT I UNDERSTAND. I APPRECIATE THAT DIFFICULT. I APPRECIATE THAT. I WOULD LIKE TO CLARIFY THAT WE DID ASK FOR RESUME IN HERE. MHM. WE DID EXPECT AN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE

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QUALIFICATIONS AND THE TEAM MEMBERS THAT WILL BE WORKING ON THE PROJECT. AND SO WE KNOW THEN WHO WOULD BE ASSIGNED TO US? I WASN'T PART OF THAT EVALUATION GROUP. BUT DO YOU HAVE? YES OKAY. I MEAN IT. SO HERE'S MY VANTAGE 0.2018 WAS FIVE YEARS AGO. 2018. I'LL NEVER FORGET IT.

WITH THE BOUNDARIES. UM AND I REMEMBER THE. OH I DON'T WANT TO GO DOWN THAT RABBIT HOLE BECAUSE IT'S 10 38 RIGHT NOW PMS. THANK GOD. IT'S AN AGENDA REVIEW. SO WE'RE NOT VOTING ON ANYTHING TONIGHT. BUT I GUESS WHAT MY QUESTION IS AND WHAT I WOULD LIKE FOR ADMINISTRATION TO PROVIDE IS, UM, IS THAT INFORMATION? TO THE BOARD. AND I THINK THAT IT'S IMPORTANT TO CONSIDER AND FOR THE BOARD TO UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS A FIVE YEAR AGREEMENT. THIS IS NOT ONE YEAR. UM, AND IT'S NOT A COUPLE OF MONTHS THAT WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT. WE HAVE A VERY DIFFICULT DISTRICT. IN THAT ONE OF THE MOST CHALLENGING THINGS THAT WE HAVE DONE AND THAT WE'VE SEEN WITH THE PRIOR BOARD AS WELL IS THE BOUNDARY PLANNING AND REZONING AND I DO BELIEVE THAT THE STAFFING IS EXTRAORDINARILY CRITICAL. TO THE SUCCESS OF THAT BECAUSE WE OFTEN RELIED ON THE CONSULTANTS TO ADVISE US ON OUR DECISION MAKING. AND THAT'S EXTRAORDINARILY KEY AND FRANKLY, EVEN THIS LAST GO ROUND OR TWO, ALTHOUGH WE WERE SUCCESSFUL, AND I GREATLY APPRECIATE ALL OF Y'ALL'S HARD WORK WITH IT. UM IT WAS IT'S CHALLENGING AND THAT THIS IS NOT SOMETHING I TAKE LIGHTLY. SO IF YOU COULD PLEASE PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION RIGHT NOW IT'S NOT NECESSARY. BUT THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL. THANK YOU TO CLARIFY MISS MALONE. YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW WHO WHO OR WHAT TEAM OR WHAT TEAM MEMBERS WOULD BE ASSIGNED TO OUR WORK. IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE ASKING? SO HERE'S THE DEAL. Y'ALL DO THE WORK, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THE BOARD IS VERY INVOLVED IN THAT. AND IN THIS, THESE LAST GO ROUNDS. WE HAD A SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIP WITH NOT SIGNAL RELATIONSHIP. BUT YOU KNOW, EVEN THOUGH I COULDN'T REMEMBER HER NAME, I REMEMBERED HER FACEBOOK KATE IN PRIOR TO THAT. UH HUH. SCOTT AS WELL AND THEY WERE KEY IN OUR DECISION MAKING, AND IF YOU RECALL, WE MADE SOME CHANGES ALONG THE WAY AS WELL. BASED ON COMMUNITY INPUT, FEEDBACK, AND YOU GUYS WITH YOUR YOUR ADVICE AND COUNSEL BUT ALSO THAT OUTSIDE COUNSEL SO TO ME, YES, IT IS KEY TO KNOW AND UNDERSTAND WHO THIS BOARD WOULD BE WORKING WITH IN THE FUTURE BECAUSE IT'S A IT'S A TEAM. WELL SINCE WE TALKED ABOUT TRIANGULATION EARLIER WITH THE STUDENT DATE, I'LL TALK ABOUT THE TRIANGULATION HERE WITH THIS THAT IT'S NOT ONE ENTITY OR ANOTHER. WHO IS DOING THIS THAT IT IS EVERYONE WORKING COLLABORATIVELY TOGETHER TRYING TO MAKE THE BEST DECISIONS AND YEAH, I THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL. I DON'T KNOW IF ANYBODY ELSE DOES, BUT THAT'S THAT'S ME. THANK YOU, MR MALONE. MISS JONES . I CAN JUST ADD MS MALONE. WE ALSO DID US FOR THE VENDORS APPROACH AND WE ASKED FOR THEIR METHODOLOGY AS WELL. AND SO THEY DID PROVIDE FOR US IN THEIR PROPOSAL. SUBMISSION ALL OF THIS INFORMATION. SO MA'AM, I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT. AND IF YOU FEEL THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL INFORMATION, THEN SO BE IT. YES WHATEVER. WHATEVER YOU THINK WOULD BE HELPFUL TO TELL THE STORY TO US SO WE CAN UNDERSTAND. AND, UM, GET BEHIND IT. THANK YOU. MR JONES. THANK YOU, MR MALONE. MISS JONES. I'M LISTENING TO THE DIALOGUE AND SO I GUESS I HAVE A QUESTION, SOMEONE SAID. THAT IF WE EXTENDED THE PROCESS OR OPENED UP TO OTHER POTENTIAL VENDORS, WE WOULD LOSE HP M. AND SO MY QUESTION IS. EXACTLY. THERE'S NO GUARANTEE GUARANTEE THAT THEY THAT WE WOULD LOSE THEM. NO, OKAY. I MEAN, SUBMIT THE ISSUE THAT WE HAVE RIGHT THAT WE'RE FACED WITH RIGHT NOW IS THAT WE'VE ALREADY CLOSED THE SOLICITATION. WE'VE ALREADY EVALUATED IT AND WE'RE BRINGING AN AWARD RECOMMENDATION FORWARD TO THE BOARD FOR THEIR APPROVAL RIGHT FOR US TO GO BACK OUT. WE WOULD HAVE TO CANCEL. THIS RECOMMENDATION. AND THEN REISSUED THE BID OUT TO THE PUBLIC. AGAIN. AND THERE'S NO GUARANTEE THAT H P M DEADWOOD RESUBMIT THEY MIGHT FEEL SLIGHTED OR WHATEVER. UM I CAN'T GET INTO THEIR HEAD ABOUT IT OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. AGAIN. THEN AGAIN, THEY MIGHT WANT THE JOB. THAT BAD THAT THEY WOULD SUBMIT.

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I DON'T I DON'T KNOW. I CAN'T TELL YOU BECAUSE I'M JUST WANT THE SENSE OF URGENCY AND I'M JUST LOOKING AT IT LIKE OKAY? I THINK WE SHOULD OPEN IT UP TO OTHER. WE HAD 32 DOWNLOADS AND I DON'T KNOW IF WE CAN GET SOME FEEDBACK ON WHY THEY DIDN'T OR IF, UH SUBMIT, AND MAYBE WE ISN'T THE BEGINNING OF THE SCHOOL YEAR. WE MAY EVEN GET SOME NEW PEOPLE AS WELL TO SUBMIT. SO I THINK THAT IT WOULD BE EQUITABLE. TO GO AHEAD ON AND JUST OPEN IT UP. AS WELL. SO THAT'S MY POSITION. THIS MAY NOT BE FAIR OR APPROPRIATE TO ASK. BUT I'M WONDERING IF WE OPENED IT UP. AND WE DIDN'T GET ANY RESPONSES OR WE GOT 15 DIFFERENT RESPONSES. UM IF WE DIDN'T. IF WE DIDN'T FIND A VENDOR THAT MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE DISTRICT EITHER BY STAFF OR BY THE BOARD IN THE NEXT GO ROUND. IS THIS? THIS PROCUREMENT IS NO LONGER VALID LIKE WE COULD NOT BRING.

WE COULDN'T COME BACK TO THIS AND SAY OKAY, WELL, WE DIDN'T HAVE ANYBODY OR WE DIDN'T HAVE ANYBODY THAT WE'RE BRINGING. BASICALLY IT CAN NEVER HAPPEN, OKAY? AND YOU GET WORSE RESULTS ON THE NEXT ONE. THEN WE WOULD HAVE TO LOOK AT OTHER ALTERNATIVES SUCH AS COOPERATIVES OR MAYBE, UH, INTER LOCAL AGREEMENTS WITH ANOTHER DISTRICT OVER ANOTHER VENDOR.

BUT THEN HOW WOULD YOU PICK THAT VENDOR? UM, THAT TYPE OF. THANK YOU, MR MARTINEZ TO CLARIFY THAT QUESTION, ACTUALLY. SO, DR GILLIAM. I'M GONNA BE REAL SHORT, MR. GAY. YOU'RE THE EXPERT. AND WE'VE BEEN TOLD OVER AND OVER. YOU'RE THE EXPERT AND WE THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO. WHAT IS YOUR SUGGESTION? I WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOUR SUGGESTION IS BECAUSE WE HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF STUFF GOING ON UP HERE. AND OF COURSE, WE'RE LISTENING TO OUR PAST AND IT'S GOING THROUGH SO I'D LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU. MY OPINION, MA'AM. IT WAS ILLEGAL PROCUREMENT. WE DID WHAT THE LAW REQUIRED US TO DO WITH THE STAFF HAS LOOKED AT THE PROPOSALS THAT CAME IN. THIS PROPOSAL WAS CONSIDERED TO BE THE BEST VALUE FOR FBI SC. STAFF HAS MADE THE RECOMMENDATION TO THE BOARD. UM THE BOARD HAS THE RIGHT EITHER REJECT OR TO ACCEPT, BUT IT'S OUR RECOMMENDATION THAT YOU ACCEPT. SO DOES YOUR RECOMMENDATION THAT WE ACCEPT THIS. OKAY I WILL DEFINITELY HONOR YOUR RECOMMENDATION. THANK YOU, SIR. THANK YOU, DR GILLIAN . SO I JUST WANT TO ASK ONE QUESTION. SO FOR THIS TO, UM, PROCUREMENT, SO THEY ARE VERY THE NUMBER OF VERY SIMILAR. I ASKED, UM I THINK, MR GARCIA, BRING THIS UP, SO THEY BOTH HAVE 2154. NUMBER OF WONDER. CONTACTED ABOUT FOUR DYNASTY. THEY BOTH HAVE 32 DOWNLOAD. BOTH HAVE TWO RESPONDED, UM, SO THAT BEING SAID ALSO, I WANTED TO ALSO SEEING IS A POSSIBLE BECAUSE OTHER VANDER JUST MADE ASSUMPTION. WE ARE GOING TO GO AWAY WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE. UH BECAUSE I HEAR THIS IN THE COMMUNITY. A LOT OF PEOPLE. I MEAN, I DON'T WANT TO SEE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT PEOPLE BRING THIS CONCERN TO ME. SEEING YOU KNOW, BASICALLY, WE ALREADY THEY ALREADY KIND OF KNOW WHO WE ARE GOING TO GO WITH. THAT'S WHY THERE'S THEY DON'T FEEL IT'S WORTH THEIR TIME TO PUT IT IN FOR THE BEARD. UM I'M NOT SAYING THAT'S REALLY HAPPENING IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, BUT I DO BELIEVE THAT'S A POSSIBILITY. SO I'M JUST WANT TO PUT IT OUT THERE. UM NORMALLY, I REALLY WANT TO GO WITH YOUR RECOMMENDATION. BUT SINCE 2017 I'M I DIDN'T HAVE A GOOD EXPERIENCE WITH THE BOUNDARY PLANNING. I'M JUST GOING TO SEE IT. UM AND SO THAT'S WHY I'M VERY HIGH ASSITANT SINCE I'M SITTING HERE AND VERY HIGH SITTIN TO DO THE SAME THING FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. THAT'S REALLY THE REASON IT'S NOT A VALUE PROCESS. I HAVE NO QUESTION ABOUT YOUR PROCESS. YOUR EXPERTISE IS JUST THAT I REALLY WENT THROUGH. UM THE WHOLE THING SINCE 2019 2018. I THINK, MISS MAYBE MR MALONE WAS HAVE A SIMILAR EXPERIENCE, SO THAT'S REALLY FOR ME. IT'S VERY HARD TO MAKE THIS CALL. I JUST WANT EVERYBODY TO UNDERSTAND THAT SO THAT BEING SAID, I DON'T SEE ANY MORE OTHER QUESTIONS. UM AND MISS DOCTOR WAY BACK, HAVE A VERY SHORT STATEMENT. I HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT. UM, STAFF HAS

[04:00:02]

CORRECTED. UM, THE COMMENT ABOUT THE OPENING DAY. WAITS. FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL 16. IT IS THE ELEMENTARY AT FERNDALE HENRY THAT WILL OPEN IN THE FALL OF 2025 MIDDLE SCHOOL 16 THE FALL OF 2026. SO I WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT BECAUSE THAT WAS MISSED UP. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, DOCTOR.

[11. Convene in closed session under Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code, Chapter 551 under the following sections: 551.071 - For the purpose of a private consultation with the Board's attorney on any or all subjects or matters authorized by law; Section 551.072 - Consider purchase, exchange, lease, or value of real property, Section 551.074 - Personnel matters, Section 551.076 - Security matters, Section 551.082 - Student discipline matter or complaint, or Section 551.0821 - Personally identifiable information about public school student]

WAY BACK FOR CLARIFY THAT. SO NOW, UM WE'RE GONNA COMING IN CLOSED SESSION. WELL NOW COMING IN CLOSED SESSION UNDER TAXES. OPEN MEETINGS ACT TAXES. GOVERNMENT CALLED THE TRIBUTARY 551 UNDER THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS SECTION 551071 FOR THE PURPOSE OF A PRIVATE CONSULTATION WITH THE BORDER ATTORNEY ON ANY OR ALL SUBJECTS OR MATTERS AUTHORIZED BY LAW SECTION 55107 TO CONSIDER PURCHASES. YES CHANGE, LEASE OR VALUE OF REAL PROPERTY SECTION 551074 PERSONNEL MATTERS SECTION 551076 SECURITY MATTERS SECTION 5510 STUDENT DISCIPLINE MATTER OR COMPLAINT OR SECTION 55108 21 PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION ABOUT PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS. THE TIME RIGHT NOW IS 10 49 PM AND WE OKAY? THE TIME IS 11:27 P.M.

[12. Reconvene in Open Session]

[13. Consider action on Closed Session Items]

WHEN WE ARE NOW RECONVENED IN OPEN SESSION. DO WE HAVE ANY MOTION FROM CLOSED SESSION? MADAM PRESIDENT, I MOVED THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVED THE CONCILIATION AGREEMENT AND E E.

O. C MATTER FOR 60-20 TO 2. DASH 00934 BETWEEN JOSETTE AUSTIN AND FOR URBANIZED. AND AUTHORIZED THE SUPERINTENDENT TO EXECUTE THE AGREEMENT AND ANY RELATED DOCUMENTS. SECOND WE HAVE A MOTION BY MR GARCIA AND SECOND BY MR HAMILTON'S. DO WE HAVE A DISCUSSION? SEE. NOW LET'S VOTE.

MOTION PASSES SEVEN ALL CAN I HAVE A MOTION TO ADJOURN THE MEETING? WE HAVE A MOTION BY DOCTORS GET HIM AND SECOND BY MS JONES. THE MEETING IS ADJOURNED AT 11 28

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

Sep 11, 2023 Board Meeting

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