Mar 09, 2021 Finance and Audit Committee Meeting

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GOOD AFTERNOON, IT'S SUCH A GREAT DAY TO BE DISCUSSING THE IMPROVEMENT OF OUR DISTRICT THAT LEADS TO ACADEMIC IMPROVEMENT OF OUR STUDENTS AND IT IS NOW FOUR OR SIX.

AND I AM CALLING TO ORDER THE COMMITTEE MEETING OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.

AND AT THIS TIME, WE CAN LOOK AND WE HAVE A QUORUM PRESENT AND WE HAVE ALL OF OUR BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT.

SO THANKS TO EACH OF YOU FOR BEING HERE.

THIS MEETING IS BEING HELD IN ACCORDANCE BY THE ORDER OF GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT EXECUTIVE ORDER ON SEPTEMBER THE 17TH 2020 AND THE TEXAS HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES.

THESE MODIFICATIONS ARE NECESSARY TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF THE GARLAND ISD COMMUNITY AND TO COMPLY WITH GOVERNMENTAL ORDERS, AS WELL AS GUIDANCE FROM HEALTH AUTHORITIES.

MS. HOGAN, DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC FORUM COMMENTS?

[IV. Superintendent's Message]

RICK LOPEZ.

THANK YOU, MS. GRIFFIN.

JUST WANT TO WELCOME EVERYBODY TO OUR FINANCE COMMITTEE.

IT'S GOING TO BE TWO FUN FILLED HOURS OF A LOT OF GREAT DISCUSSION.

[LAUGHTER] WELL, MS. GRIFFIN CAN PROBABLY CONDENSE ANY MEETING.

SHE'S PROBABLY ONE OF THE BEST PEOPLE TO RUN A MEETING THAT I'VE EVER BEEN AROUND.

BUT WE WILL HAVE SOME SPIRITED DISCUSSION ON HOW WE ARE LOOKING TO INCREASE FUNDING JUST FOR THE PUBLIC'S KNOWLEDGE.

THERE'S TWO WAYS TO INCREASE FUNDING FOR A SCHOOL DISTRICT.

THE FIRST ONE IS RAISING STUDENT ENROLLMENT.

THE SECOND ONE IS RAISING TAXPAYERS TAXES.

SO WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT DIFFERENT POSSIBILITIES ON HOW WE COULD PROBABLY RECAPTURE ENROLLMENT.

IT'S GOING TO BE FOR DISCUSSION ONLY.

NO ACTION IS GOING TO BE TAKEN IN THIS MONTH'S BOARD MEETING.

BUT IT'S A DISCUSSION THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN.

SO I LOOK FORWARD TO IT.

AND TO CLARIFY YOUR LAST STATEMENT, YOU SAID THAT THIS IS NO ACTION THAT'S GOING TO TAKE PLACE IN THIS MONTH'S BOARD MEETING, WHICH IS OUR FUTURE REGULAR BOARD MEETING.

WE'RE JUST STARTING DISCUSSIONS EARLY ON SUCH A COMPLEX AND DIFFICULT AND SENSITIVE TOPIC, IS THAT CORRECT? YES, MA'AM.

THANK YOU.

WE WILL NOW RECEIVE OUR TRUSTEE'S CONTRACT RENEWAL REPORT.

[V.A. Information Items]

THE REPORT FOLLOWS ON PAGE FIVE.

ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? THIS IS OUR INFORMATION ITEM FOR WHAT PURCHASING HAS DONE.

THANK YOU, MR. BOOKER, FOR BEING HERE.

HE ALWAYS SAYS, YOU NEVER LET ME STAY UP A MINUTE, OK, MOVING RIGHT ALONG, WE WILL HAVE OUR JANUARY TWENTY TWENTY ONE MONTHLY FINANCIALS, MRS. DAVENPORT.

GOOD AFTERNOON, MR. GRIFFIN, BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

DR. LOPEZ, BEFORE YOU, YOU HAVE THE JANUARY 21 TWENTY TWENTY ONE MONTHLY FINANCIALS, DETAIL OF REVENUE AND EXPENDITURES, AND I'D BE HAPPY TO ADDRESS ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS YOU HAVE.

TRUSTEE'S.

OF COURSE, WE RECEIVED THIS ON FRIDAY.

WE DON'T WANT TO RUSH PAST IF ANYONE HAS ANY QUESTIONS.

AS ALWAYS, THANK YOU.

ONE.

OH, I HAVE ONE WHERE.

ONE.

OK, YOU MAY NOT HAVE THE ANSWER TO THIS JUST APPROXIMATE.

I KNOW THAT BECAUSE OF COVID WE'VE HAD FAR LESS ATTENDANCE AT ANY OF OUR ATHLETIC EVENTS THAT WE NORMALLY WOULD GENERATE REVENUE FROM PER THE BUDGETED AMOUNT DO YOU KNOW WHAT OUR ACTUALS ARE COMING IN WITH RESPECT TO ANY GATE RECEIPTS? I BELIEVE WE'RE NOT CHARGING.

NOT CHARGING AT ALL SO ZERO.

YEAH, OK.

MR. MILLER, TO HIGHLIGHT ON THAT, THERE IS AN AMENDMENT IN THIS MONTH'S BOARD MEETING TO REDUCE THAT REVENUE NOW THAT WE KNOW WHERE THAT'S COMING IN AT.

BUT IT'S STILL NOT CHARGING.

IT'S QUITE A BIT.

SO IT'S COMING IN AT ZERO.

THAT IS COMING AT ZERO.

IT IS QUITE A BIT.

THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU.

ARE OUR JANUARY TWENTY TWENTY ONE TAX REPORT.

MRS. COOPER, WE'RE ON PAGE 14 TO 16.

GOOD AFTERNOON.

MS. GRIFFIN BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

DR. LOPEZ, BEFORE YOU, IS THAT JANUARY TWENTY TWENTY TAX COLLECTION REPORT THAT REFLECTS EIGHTY THREE POINT EIGHTY FIVE PERCENT COLLECTED TO LET YOU KNOW WHERE WE'RE AT AS OF TODAY, WE'RE AT NINETY SIX POINT FIVE ONE PERCENT.

LAST YEAR, WITH TWENTY NINETEEN AS OF MARCH 9TH, WE WERE AT NINETY SIX POINT 55.

SO WE'RE RIGHT ON TARGET.

YES, WE'RE RIGHT ON TARGET.

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SO IF YOU GUYS EXPERIENCED THAT, I KNOW YOU GUYS GET A LOT OF CONTACT FROM THE CITIZENS.

IF YOU COULD JUST LET THEM KNOW, CONTACT OUR OFFICE, WE'LL LET THEM KNOW WHAT THEIR OPTIONS ARE.

ALRIGHTY.

OK, THANK YOU FOR WORKING WITH OUR CITIZENS AND TO THE CITIZENS THAT ARE SIGNED ON.

THANK YOU FOR PAYING YOUR TAXES.

YES, THANK YOU.

DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE REPORT? SEEING NONE KEEP COLLECTING.

OK, THANK YOU.

OUR NEXT REPORT IS TO RECEIVE A DEMOGRAPHER UPDATE AND DR.

RINGO IS GOING TO TAKE US THROUGH THAT AND BOARD MEMBERS.

THIS IS A PRETTY LENGTHY REPORT AND IT BEGINS ON PAGE 18, MS. GRIFFIN, BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

DR. LOPEZ, GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN.

THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE REPORTS THAT WE SEE TWICE A YEAR.

AND BRENT ALEXANDER WITH SCHOOL DISTRICT STRATEGIES IS GOING TO GO THROUGH THIS REPORT IN DETAIL FOR YOU THIS EVENING.

HE IS HERE AND HE'LL COME UP, TALK THROUGH OUR WHAT WE'RE SEEING IN THE ECONOMY, ENROLLMENT, THE MARKET AND WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE IN FUTURE YEARS FOR US.

AND WITH THAT, I'LL TURN OVER TO MR. ALEXANDER.

THANK YOU, MR. ALEXANDER, FOR BEING PRESENT.

THANK YOU, DR. RINGO, GOOD AFTERNOON.

BOARD MEMBERS, DR.

LOPEZ, LAST TIME I MET WITH YOU ALL WAS BACK IN MID-OCTOBER.

SO TODAY I HAVE OUR WINTER UPDATE TO SHARE WITH YOU.

SO WHEN WE MET BACK ON OCTOBER 13TH, THE ENROLLMENT DATA THAT WE PRESENTED WAS FROM THE END OF SEPTEMBER.

SO WHAT YOU SEE HERE ARE THE OFFICIAL NUMBERS FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS OR SO.

THE OFFICIAL NUMBER FOR THE 2020 2021 SCHOOL YEAR WAS FIFTY THREE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND TWENTY ONE TOTAL STUDENTS.

NOW, IF YOU RECALL, PRE COVID, WE WERE EXPECTING ENROLLMENT TO BE SOMEWHERE IN THE FIFTY FIVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED RANGE THIS FALL.

SO WE'RE ABOUT THREE PERCENT OFF FROM WHERE WE THOUGHT WE WOULD BE.

BUT YOU CAN SEE THE IMPACT THAT THE COVID-19 ENVIRONMENT HAS HAD ON DISTRICT ENROLLMENT.

SO YEAR OVER YEAR ENROLLMENTS DOWN JUST UNDER EIGHTEEN HUNDRED STUDENTS OR THREE POINT TWO PERCENT DECLINE.

SO I WANT YOU TO BE AWARE THAT THIS IS GENERALLY WHAT WE'RE SEEING IN OTHER DISTRICTS ACROSS THE STATE, NO MATTER THEIR SIZE.

IN FACT, THE TEA REPORTED THAT THREE PERCENT OF STUDENTS ENROLLED IN 2019 20 WERE MISSING THIS YEAR.

SO YOU ALL ARE EXPERIENCING A SIMILAR SITUATION THAT WE'RE SEEING ACROSS THE STATE.

SO, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE STUDENTS THAT ARE NOT PARTICIPATING IN FACE TO FACE OR VIRTUAL.

THEY'RE SIMPLY JUST ABSENT FROM AFTER BEING PREVIOUSLY ENROLLED.

NOW, COVID-19 HAS HAD ITS BIGGEST IMPACT HERE ON THE DISTRICT'S ENROLLMENT IN K THROUGH FIVE.

YOU CAN SEE YEAR OVER YEAR THERE'S BEEN A FIVE PERCENT DECLINE.

K THROUGH FIVE IS DOWN ELEVEN HUNDRED AND FORTY SIX STUDENTS COMPARED TO 2019 PRE-K NUMBERS ARE ALSO DOWN AS WELL.

THE NUMBERS IN MORE DETAIL ARE SHOWN HERE BY GRADE.

YOU CAN SEE THERE ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE SLIDE HOW, JUST OVER THESE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, PRE-K HAS COME DOWN TO JUST UNDER 1900 WHERE KINDERGARTEN IS DOWN TO 3300 HUNDRED.

SO YEAR OVER YEAR, PRE-K IS DOWN THREE HUNDRED AND KINDERGARTENS DOWN 382.

THE MIDDLE SCHOOL AN THE HIGH SCHOOL NUMBERS HAVE COME IN AS EXPECTED.

THAT'S ALSO A TREND THAT WE'RE SEEING STATEWIDE.

PRETTY MUCH ALL THE DISTRICTS THAT WE WORK WITH ARE SEEING THEIR SECONDARY NUMBERS AS EXPECTED.

BUT AGAIN, IT'S THOSE ELEMENTARY NUMBERS.

SO YOU ALL HAVE RECORD CLASS SIZES IN SEVENTH GRADE AND 10TH GRADE THIS YEAR.

AND SO THAT LAST BIG WAVE OF GROWTH THAT KIND OF ENDED THERE AROUND 2012, THOSE STUDENTS HAVE AGED UP INTO THE MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL TODAY.

BUT WHAT'S INTERESTING IS IF YOU LOOK AT THE AVERAGE OR JUST LOOK AT THE GRADE SIZES IN THE SECONDARY GRADES FROM SEVENTH GRADE THROUGH 12TH GRADE, WE'RE NOW SEEING ABOUT 4300 STUDENTS PER GRADE.

NOW, COMPARE THAT TO WHAT WE'RE SEEING DOWN IN K THROUGH FIVE.

A YEAR AGO, WE HAD TALKED ABOUT THE GAP BETWEEN THE GRADUATING CLASSES, INCOMING

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THIS YEAR, THAT NUMBER HAS EXPANDED.

SO IT'S AVERAGING ABOUT SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY STUDENTS TODAY.

SO THAT'S KEY GOING FORWARD.

NOW, THE BIRTH RATE DATA SHOWS THAT WE SHOULD SEE A RECOVERY IN KINDERGARTEN GROWING BACK TOWARDS THIRTY SIX TO THIRTY SEVEN HUNDRED STUDENTS PER YEAR.

BUT EVEN IF KINDERGARTEN DOES GROW BACK TO TO THIRTY SIX 3700 STUDENTS, IF YOU WERE TO JUST ROLL ALL THE STUDENTS FORWARD OVER THESE NEXT FIVE TO SEVEN YEARS, ENROLLMENT WOULD DECLINE TO JUST UNDER 50000.

BUT THE SAVING GRACE FOR THE DISTRICT HAS BEEN THE DISTRICT'S HOUSING MARKET.

THESE NEXT COUPLE OF SLIDES SHOW YOU WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE RESALE.

GENERALLY, THERE'S ABOUT THIRTY ONE HUNDRED TO THIRTY TWO HUNDRED HOUSES THAT ARE SELLING EVERY TWELVE MONTHS.

IN 2020, WE SAW THIRTY ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY SIX TOTAL HOMES.

BUT ALSO WE'RE SEEING THE VALUES OF THE EXISTING HOMES CLIMB TO THEIR HIGHEST LEVEL.

SO YOU SEE THERE IN 2020, A RECORD SET AT TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY ONE THOUSAND FOR EXISTING HOMES SOLD.

GEOGRAPHICALLY WE'RE STILL SEEING CONSISTENT ACTIVITY, MOST OF THE ACTIVITY WEST OF THE PRESIDENT, GEORGE BUSH TURNPIKE.

BUT IT'S THE NEW HOME MARKET WHERE ACTIVITY HAS JUST SURGED.

THE SECOND HALF OF 2020 WAS INCREDIBLE FOR MANY OF THE BUILDERS.

THE.

MARKETS CLIMB TO THE HIGHEST AMOUNT OF ACTIVITY SINCE 2006, LEAVING MANY HOMEBUILDERS DUMBFOUNDED AS TO WHY THERE'S SO MUCH STRONG DEMAND FOR HOUSES.

THIS SLIDE HERE HIGHLIGHTS THE FOUR THINGS THAT HAVE CONVERGED TOGETHER TO DRIVE THE MARKET UP TO THIS UNPRECEDENTED LEVEL.

YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THE BIGGEST THINGS IS THE INTEREST RATE DROPPING UNDER THREE PERCENT.

BUT WE'VE ALSO SEEN A HUGE SURGE IN THE NUMBER OF YOUNG FAMILIES IN THEIR MID TO LATE 30S.

AND THEN WE'VE ALSO SEEN A LACK OF SUPPLY ON THE EXISTING HOME SIDE, WHICH HAS PUSHED PEOPLE TO NEW HOMES ALSO AS PEOPLE HAVE WORKED FROM HOME THERE'S BEEN CHANGING ATTITUDES ABOUT, YOU KNOW, MOVING FURTHER OUT AWAY FROM THE EMPLOYMENT CENTERS.

SO THAT HAS HELPED THE SMALLER, PREVIOUSLY SMALLER DISTRICTS AROUND THE OUTER RING OF DFW GROW.

BUT EVEN HERE IN GARLAND, YOU'RE ABOUT TO SEE THE HOMES THE NEW HOME CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY HAS JUST REALLY TAKEN OFF IN 2020.

NOW, ONE COMMENT ON THAT LAST BULLET POINT THERE.

THIS CHANGING ATTITUDE TO WORKING FROM HOME IS ALSO IT'S INCREASING THE NUMBER OF SALES, BUT IT'S ALSO PLAYING A FACTOR WITH ENROLLMENT.

AS MORE PEOPLE WORK FROM HOME, MORE ARE KEEPING THEIR KID HOME FOR HOME SCHOOL.

SO IT'S A LITTLE DOUBLE EDGED SWORD THERE WITH THAT THERE.

BUT THESE NEXT COUPLE OF SLIDES HIGHLIGHT THOSE TRENDS.

YOU SEE THAT MORTGAGE RATE BECOMING DIPPING BELOW THREE PERCENT AND GIVING HOUSEHOLDS MUCH MORE AFFORDABILITY.

THE DEMOGRAPHICS FOR PEOPLE IN DFW IN THEIR 30S GROWING INTO THOSE INITIAL HOME BUYING YEARS OR MOVE UP HOME BUYING YEARS AND THEN AS WELL AS A TIGHT SUPPLY OF RESALES.

NOW, THE HOUSING MARKET IS RED HOT DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE JOB GROWTH IS STILL, YOU KNOW, BELOW IS STILL NEGATIVE TERRITORY.

YOU CAN SEE ON THIS CHART WE CLIMBED BACK FROM THE DEPTHS BACK IN APRIL OF MAY OF LAST YEAR, BUT STILL NOT EVEN BACK TO A NET OF ZERO.

SO THIS IS USUALLY THE TOP DRIVER FOR THE HOUSING MARKET.

BUT RIGHT NOW IT'S STILL STRUGGLING A LITTLE BIT.

SO AS WE GO INTO THE FUTURE, IT'S GOING TO BE IMPORTANT FOR THIS TO RETURN TO POSITIVE TERRITORY TO SUSTAIN THE HOUSING MARKET.

SO LET'S LOOK AT THOSE NUMBERS AND WE WILL JUMP AHEAD HERE AND SHOW YOU IF YOU MOVE ON TO SLIDE 17, WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE IN GARLAND ISD.

IN THE FOURTH QUARTER, THERE WERE TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY TWO HOUSES STARTED.

AND THAT'S THE MOST STARTS THAT WE'VE COUNTED IN A SINGLE QUARTER IN MORE THAN A DECADE.

ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SEVEN HOUSES WERE MOVED INTO, SO THE TOTALS FOR 2020 ENDED UP AT THE HIGHEST POINT THAT WE'VE SEEN IN 15 YEARS HERE IN THE DISTRICT.

SO SEVEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY EIGHT HOMES WERE STARTED.

SIX HUNDRED AND SIXTY WERE MOVED INTO.

ON THE CLOSINGS THAT'S A 98 PERCENT YEAR OVER YEAR INCREASE.

SO YOU CAN SEE THAT THE GREEN LINE, THE DEVELOPERS PUT OVER A THOUSAND NEW LOTS ON THE GROUND IN THE DISTRICT, AND THE BUYERS HAVE BEEN PURCHASING THE HOMES.

YOU COMPARE GARLAND'S ACTIVITY TO OTHER DISTRICTS IN DFW.

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AND THEN IF YOU LOOK AT THE ACTIVITY WITHIN THE DISTRICT, YOU CAN SEE THE CITY OF ROWLETT AN CITY OF GARLAND SECTIONS OF THE DISTRICTS WHERE THE MAJORITY OF THE ACTIVITY ARE TAKING PLACE TODAY.

THE TOP PRODUCING SUBDIVISIONS ARE SHOWN HERE.

YOU CAN SEE THE RIVERSET SUBDIVISION THERE ON THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE DISTRICT HAS BEEN THE MOST POPULAR, ABOUT 150 HOUSES IN THERE.

REMEMBER THAT THIS SUBDIVISION HAS A MIXTURE OF TOWNHOMES AND HIGH DENSITY DETACHED.

THE TYPES OF HOMES ARE BEING BUILT FROM ABOUT 250000 TO JUST ABOUT 500000 WITH THAT MAJORITY IN THE 350 TO 500 RANGE, BUT YOU DO HAVE A PRETTY WIDE RANGE OF HOUSING TYPES.

BUT NOTE THAT AS THESE HOMES HAVE BEEN SEEING AN INCREASING NUMBER OF TOWNHOMES IN PRODUCT ON SMALLER LOTS, THE YIELDS ARE LOWER.

SO I HAVE A SLIDE AT THE END THAT HIGHLIGHTS THE YIELD A BIT LIKE WE TALKED ABOUT BACK IN THE FALL.

IF YOU LOOK AT ALL OF THE THE HOMES TODAY, THE SINGLE FAMILY YIELD IS ABOUT ZERO POINT FIVE FOUR ENROLLED STUDENTS PER HOUSEHOLD.

THESE NEWER HOMES ARE PRODUCING ABOUT ZERO POINT FOUR THREE STUDENTS PER HOUSE.

COMPARE THAT TO STANDARD SIZE LOTS THAT ARE IN THAT 50 TO 80 FOOT RANGE.

THEY'RE TYPICALLY PRODUCING ZERO POINT SIX TO ZERO POINT EIGHT STUDENTS PER HOUSE.

NOW, WHEN YOU LOOK AT ALL OF THE INVENTORY IN THE DISTRICT, THERE ARE FOURTEEN HUNDRED ABOUT FOURTEEN HUNDRED VACANT DEVELOPED LOTS ON THE GROUND TODAY, COMING BEHIND THAT ARE ANOTHER NINE HUNDRED AND TWENTY NINE THAT ARE UNDER DEVELOPMENT.

AND YOU CAN SEE THOSE LISTED HERE.

DEVELOPERS ARE ALSO PLANNING MORE THAN 4900 LOTS.

SO IF YOU COMBINE THOSE NUMBERS ALONG WITH THE NUMBER OF HOUSES THAT ARE UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND NOT OCCUPIED YET, THERE'S OVER 7700 LOTS ON THE RESIDENTIAL SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL SIDE THAT ARE YET TO BE COMPLETED OR YOU COULD SAY ARE IN PROCESS AND PLANNED IN THE DISTRICT.

SO AT A ZERO POINT FOUR THREE YIELD, THAT'S ABOUT 3300 STUDENTS.

WHEN YOU LOOK AT ALL OF THOSE LOTS.

SO I HAVE PHOTOGRAPHS THAT WE GOT THE FIRST WEEK OF JANUARY.

JUST GOING TO GO THROUGH THESE RELATIVELY QUICKLY SO YOU CAN JUST GET A GENERAL IDEA OF WHAT SOME OF THESE NEIGHBORHOODS LOOK LIKE.

AND BEGINNING ON THE WEST SIDE WITH RIVERSET, YOU CAN SEE THE SMALLER LOTS AND TOWNHOMES IN THAT DEVELOPMENT.

AS YOU MOVE TOWARDS THE HIGHWAY 78 MORE IN THE NORTH CENTRAL PORTION THE HIDDEN OAKS SUBDIVISION.

AND THEN AS YOU CROSS THE GEORGE BUSH TURNPIKE, YOU CAN SEE ON THE NORTH SIDE BY ARMSTRONG ELEMENTARY RIVER PLACE AND THEN OVER BY SACHSE HIGH SCHOOL, YOU CAN SEE HUDSON HILLS AND THEN ALSO DOWN NEAR MERRITT IN THE GEORGE BUSH TURNPIKE.

THIS NEW DEVELOPMENT IN SACHSE THE STATION, YOU CAN SEE FUTURE APARTMENTS THAT ARE ALSO UNDER DEVELOPMENT THERE, AS WELL AS HUFFINES ARIA SUBDIVISION.

AND THEN IF YOU LOOK UP IN THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE DISTRICT IN THAT WYLIE AREA, THIS DOMINION AT PLEASANT VALLEY HAS BASICALLY COMPLETED THE SECTIONS THAT ARE IN WYLIE ISD AND ALL OF THESE FUTURE SECTIONS LIKE THE ONES YOU SEE HERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PHOTOGRAPH WILL BE IN GARLAND SCHOOLS.

AND THEN IF YOU MOVE OVER TO THE EAST SIDE OF THE DISTRICT, YOU CAN SEE THE HOMESTEAD AT LIBERTY GROVE IN ROWLETT.

THERE NEXT TO PEARSON ELEMENTARY IS WOODSIDE ESTATES AND THEN MOVING EASTWARD FROM SOUTH YOU SEE CANTERBURY COVE.

AND THEN DOWN IN THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE BAYSIDE DEVELOPMENT, YOU CAN SEE MORE LOTS FOR TOWNHOMES.

THE SAPHIRE BAY DEVELOPMENT, THEY'RE MOVING RIGHT ALONG.

REMEMBER THIS ONE HAS THE DISTRICT BOUNDARY RIGHT THROUGH IT.

SO A LOT OF THE APARTMENTS THAT ARE PLANNED THERE WILL BE SPLIT BETWEEN DISTRICTS.

AND THEN AS YOU MOVE UP BACK TO THE NORTH.

BUT ON THE WEST SIDE OF GEORGE BUSH TURNPIKE ALONG MERRITT ROAD, YOU CAN SEE MERRITT VILLAS MERRITT VILLAGE, MAGNOLIA LANDING AND THEN THE NORTH HAVEN SUBDIVISION THAT SOLD VERY WELL.

AND THEN AS YOU MOVE SOUTH TO THE CENTRAL COUNTRY CLUB, ESTATES CREEK VALLEY, AND THEN AS YOU MOVE TOWARDS I 30, YOU SEE HERONS BAY AND THEN PARKS AT ROSEHILL, JUST

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SO AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHS, ALL OF THE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT IS SPREAD OUT GEOGRAPHICALLY ACROSS THE DISTRICT, NOT CONCENTRATED IN ONE PARTICULAR AREA.

SO IN ADDITION TO ALL THE SINGLE FAMILY, THE APARTMENT MARKET CONTINUES TO BE VERY STRONG.

IN 2020, WE ESTIMATE OVER FOURTEEN HUNDRED NEW APARTMENT UNITS WERE DELIVERED.

AND YOU CAN SEE THE LIST OF THE APARTMENTS THAT ARE IN PROCESS AND PLANNED.

THERE'S ABOUT 800 PLUS THAT ARE UNDER CONSTRUCTION TODAY.

YOU COMBINE WHAT'S LEFT, IT'S ABOUT 5200 UNITS THAT ARE OUT THERE.

SO THESE HAVE RANGED FROM UNDER FROM ABOUT POINT ZERO FIVE TO ABOUT ZERO POINT TWO TWO SO GENERALLY ABOUT ZERO POINT ONE THREE ON AVERAGE PER UNIT.

SO THE QUITE A BIT ARE UNDERPRODUCTION ACROSS THE DISTRICT.

SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE HOUSING FORECAST FOR SINGLE FAMILY AND MULTIFAMILY, YOU CAN SEE THAT OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, THE DISTRICT COULD SEE OVER 3900 NEW HOME CLOSINGS.

THE APARTMENTS COULD BE BUILT OUT OVER THE NEXT EIGHT YEARS OR SO USING THE YIELDS PER INDIVIDUAL SUBDIVISION WE WOULD EXPECT THAT THESE WOULD PRODUCE OVER 4300 STUDENTS.

SO IF YOU THINK BACK TO WHAT WE'RE.

I'M GOING TO MOVE AHEAD TO THE PROJECTION SLIDE.

SO PRE COVID, WE WERE LOOKING AT ENROLLMENT REMAINING AROUND 55000 AND THEN GROWING TOWARDS 56, 57 THOUSAND.

BUT FALLING BACK, LOSING THOSE 17 HUNDRED KIDS PUTS THE DISTRICT ON A DIFFERENT PATHWAY.

SO THE LOW SCENARIO THAT YOU SEE HERE IN GREEN ASSUMES THAT YOU DO NOT GET MOST OF THOSE STUDENTS BACK.

IF YOU HAVE MULTIPLE YEARS OF KINDERGARTEN NEAR THIRTY THREE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED, THAT WOULD SET THE DISTRICT DOWN IN THE FIFTY TWO THOUSAND AND FIFTY THREE THOUSAND RANGE.

BUT ASSUMING THAT AT LEAST HALF OF THOSE STUDENTS COME BACK OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS, THE HOUSING MARKET CONTINUES TO PRODUCE A STRONG NUMBER OF HOMES EVERY YEAR.

WE DO THINK THAT THE DISTRICT WOULD BE LEVEL AT THIS POINT OR JUST UNDER FIFTY FOUR THOUSAND STUDENTS AND THEN GROW TO 55000.

NOW IF MOST OF THOSE STUDENTS COME BACK.

YOU KNOW, WE CONTINUE TO HEAR STORIES THAT THESE KIDS ARE, YOU KNOW, WHETHER THEY'RE WITH GRANDPARENTS OR OTHER IN ANOTHER STATE OR WHEREVER THEY ARE, THEY ARE PLANNING TO COME BACK.

EVEN IF PARENTS ARE HOME SCHOOLING THEM NOW IN KINDERGARTEN OR FIRST GRADE, EVENTUALLY THEY WILL RETURN.

BUT I DON'T THINK ANYBODY KNOWS FOR CERTAIN AT WHAT POINT.

SO ASSUMING THAT THEY DO COME BACK BY 2023 24, YOU ALL SHOULD SHOULD GROW BACK TOWARDS FIFTY FOUR THOUSAND AND THEN CONTINUE TO GROW TOWARDS THE FIFTY SIX FIFTY SEVEN THOUSAND.

BUT AS YOU CAN SEE, THAT GAP BETWEEN WHAT'S GRADUATING AND WHAT'S COMING IN IS REALLY IT'S IMPACTING OR LOWERING OR LESSENING THE IMPACT THAT THE HOUSING MARKET IS HAVING ON THE DISTRICT.

ALL RIGHT, I KNOW THAT IT'S QUITE A BIT TO COVER, BUT THAT'S OUR UPDATE FOR THE WINTER.

I WILL ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE AT THIS TIME.

TRUSTEES.

ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS, MR. MILLER? MY FAVORITE REPORT OF THE YEAR.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

JUST A COUPLE OF THINGS, AND THIS IS MAYBE NOT A QUESTION FOR YOU DIRECTLY, BUT I KNOW EARLY IN THIS YEAR WE HAD A BIG INITIATIVE TO GO OUT AND LOCATE ALL OF OUR KIDS.

MAYBE DR. LOPEZ, YOU CAN TELL US WERE WE ARE ABLE TO LOCATE OUR KIDS.

HOW MANY OF THEM DO WE NOT LOCATE WHERE DID THAT EFFORT WIND UP.

NEXT REPORT.

YES NEXT REPORT.

OK, I'LL SAY THAT.

TAKEN CARE OF STUDENT ENROLLMENT.

AND IN THE NEXT REPORT, I GUESS WE'RE GOING TO ALSO HEAR MORE.

I MEAN, HERE WE SEE ABOUT BIRTH RATE AND ITS IMPACT UPON THE NUMBERS IN OUR DISTRICT, AS WELL AS THE PROJECTED NUMBERS.

YOU LOWERED THE AVERAGE STUDENT PER HOUSEHOLD BECAUSE OF THE PRODUCT BEING BUILT OR IS IT BECAUSE OF THE AGING NATURE OF THE DEMOGRAPHIC? WELL, THE NEW HOMES DO HAVE A LOWER YIELD.

SO THEY HAVE, AS YOU HAVE A HIGHER PROPORTION OF TOWNHOMES.

IS THAT BECAUSE THEY'RE SMALLER OR MAYBE YOUNGER FAMILIES OR HOW DO YOU ATTRIBUTE THAT? WELL, THESE SMALLER LOTS TYPICALLY WILL BRING IN A WIDER MIX OF BUYERS AND THEY

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WE SEE A LOT OF YOUNG PROFESSIONALS NO KIDS, YOUNG COUPLES BUYING THEIR FIRST HOUSE.

SO YOU HAVE ALL THESE DIFFERENT PROFILES THAT MIX TOGETHER TO BRING THAT YIELD DOWN A LITTLE BIT LOWER.

PEOPLE WILL DOWNSIZE INTO THESE TYPES OF NEIGHBORHOODS.

RIGHT.

BUT GENERALLY, SINCE THESE ARE BUYERS WITH THE LARGER FAMILIES ARE TYPICALLY THEY'RE MOVING FURTHER AWAY.

INTO DISTRICTS LIKE PROSPER AND DENTON AN THE NORTH SIDE.

SO WITHIN THE STUDY THAT WE HAVE, THERE'S THIS ASSUMPTION THAT SOME OF THE COVID KIDS OR WHATEVER, YOU WANT TO CALL THEM, SOME OF THIS GAP WILL COME BACK.

I MEAN, IS THERE ANYTHING THAT GIVES US CONFIDENCE THAT THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN OR I MEAN, I GUESS THEY COULD STAY AWAY, TOO, IF THEY LIKE HOME SCHOOLING OR THEY LIKE WHATEVER THEIR ALTERNATIVE IS.

I'M NOT.

I GUESS I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHETHER WE CAN RELY ON ANY BOUNCE BACK IN THAT NUMBER.

WELL, MR. MILLER, MOST OF THE DISTRICTS THAT I WORK WITH HAVE NOT SEEN A BUMP IN MIDYEAR FROM KIDS EAGER TO COME BACK.

THERE HADN'T BEEN A BOUNCE BACK YET.

MOST DISTRICTS AREN'T SEEING IT YET.

WHAT WE'RE HEARING IS THAT THOSE PARENTS TOOK THEIR KIDS OUT FOR HEALTH CONCERNS.

AND UNTIL THEY'RE VACCINATED, THEY'RE GOING TO BE GONE.

SO MAYBE NEXT YEAR WILL BE A TELLING YEAR.

AND THEN LAST, WITH RESPECT TO ALL THE NEW CONSTRUCTION.

I KNOW YOU DID A GOOD JOB OF TELLING US THE IMPACT IT WILL HAVE ON OUR POPULATION, OUR ADA OR HEAD COUNT, ET CETERA.

HOW ABOUT PROPERTY VALUES? WHAT KIND OF INCREASE DO YOU THINK WE COULD SEE THERE? WELL, THERE'S THE SLIDE THAT SHOWS THE MEDIAN HOUSE PRICE.

SO THE MEDIAN HOUSE PRICE IS CLIMBING.

THE NEW HOME SIDE WAS UP INTO THE UPPER THREE HUNDREDS.

AND THEN I HAD THE SLIDE ON THE EXISTING SIDE AS WELL.

SO THE VALUES OF THE EXISTING HOMES ARE AT A RECORD HIGH.

SO THEY'RE INCREASING.

NOW.

CERTAINLY.

IN OTHER AREAS WHAT IS DRIVING THE MARKET IS THE AFFORDABLE PRICE POINT, WHICH IS ABOUT THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE AND UNDER.

AND YOU ALL HAVE SOME OF THAT, BUT YOU'RE MOSTLY IN MORE OF A MOVE UP TYPE, EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE AN INCREASING NUMBER OF TOWNHOMES.

BUT THERE'S STILL, YOU KNOW, IN THAT TWO HUNDRED UPPER TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND RANGE.

BUT THE VALUE YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A LEVELING OFF.

BUT RIGHT.

NOW, THE REASON I ASK THAT IS IN OUR BUDGETING PROCESS, I MEAN, THERE'S A COUPLE OF WAYS WE GET FUNDING ADA COUNT.

THE OTHER ONE IS PROPERTY VALUATIONS, EVEN IF WE DON'T RAISE TAXES.

SURE.

AND I THINK THERE'S SOME CAPS ON THAT COMING UP THIS YEAR, DR.

RINGO.

BUT WHAT IS NOT CAPPED, AS FAR AS I CAN FIGURE OUT, IS THE NEW VALUE ADDED TO YOUR DISTRICT.

I GUESS THAT'S A NUMBER THAT DOCTOR RINGO Y'ALL WILL CAPTURE IN THE NEXT BUDGET RUN.

WE DO, MR. MILLER.

AND WITH HOUSE BILL THREE, EVEN THOUGH VALUES ARE GOING UP, THERE IS NO NEW MONEY.

THE STATE WILL CUT US THE HOUSE BILL THREE IS SET UP THE WAY THE PRIOR FUNDING FORMULA IS OUR VALUES GO UP, WE LOSE THAT DOLLAR DETERMINING FACTOR.

THE ONLY WAY WE GET NEW MONEY IS INCREASING ADA OR INCREASING OUR TAX RATE, NOT TAX VALUES OR WHAT WE'RE PAYING IN TAXES.

THANK YOU.

PRESIDENT SELDERS.

THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION.

I WAS GOING TO GO BACK TO YOUR SLIDES, TWENTY AND TWENTY ONE, WHERE YOU TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT GROWTH AND ALSO PARTICULARLY, K5 ENROLLMENT BEING DOWN AND SORT OF WHERE THAT'S GOING TO COME.

WHAT DO YOU SEE HAPPENING? YOU TALKED ABOUT BIRTH RATES AND BIRTH COUNTS IN OUR ENROLLMENT WITHIN, YOU KNOW, K FIVE MIRRORING THAT.

WHERE WOULD THAT INCREASE COME FROM IN TERMS OF STUDENTS? ARE YOU JUST SAYING THAT THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE THERE? WELL, YOU REMEMBER FROM THE REPORT BACK IN THE FALL ONE OF THE THINGS WE DIDN'T REALLY TALK ABOUT TODAY, IS THAT YOU ALL HAVE ARE CONTINUING TO COMPETE WITH THE CHARTER.

SO PART OF THE LOSS IN K THROUGH FIVE IS RELATED TO THE CHARTER SCHOOLS.

AND THAT'S, YOU KNOW, YOUR WESTERN SIDE OR SOUTHWESTERN SIDE WHERE THE MAJORITY OF THOSE DECLINES HAVE HAPPENED IS A MIXTURE OF AGING AND CHARTERS OPENING UP.

SO SOME OF THOSE KIDS MAY BE GONE FOR GOOD.

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SO THERE ARE POCKETS OF THE DISTRICT WHERE WE MAY NOT SEE THEM RETURN, BUT HOPEFULLY WITH THE NEW HOUSES THAT ARE BEING BUILT, YOU'LL SEE OTHER AREAS BE ABLE TO OFFSET SOME OF THOSE AREAS THAT'LL BE DOWN.

THANK YOU.

ON PAGE THIRTY TWO WE TALKED ABOUT THE CHANGE IN DFW EMPLOYMENT AN HOW IT TOOK A HIT IN APRIL 2020.

BUT SINCE THEN, THERE'S BEEN A SURGE.

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THIS TOTAL EMPLOYMENT INCREASE HAS HAPPENED IN THE GISD COMMUNITY TRI-CITIES? WELL, I COULDN'T SAY FOR CERTAIN, BUT, YOU KNOW, JUST THE MAJOR EMPLOYMENT CENTERS IN DALLAS, FORT WORTH, PERHAPS IF YOU LOOK AT THE SLIDE, GO BACK HERE TO THE SLIDE THAT SHOWS BY INDUSTRY.

MOST OF THE INDUSTRIES THAT WOULD BE HERE.

AFTER THE INDUSTRY.

OK, SO IT WOULD BE ON SLIDE 15.

SO MOST OF THE HEAVY LOSSES HAVE OCCURRED IN THE SERVICE INDUSTRY.

SO YOU CAN SEE LEISURE AND HOSPITALITY.

THOSE ARE YOUR RESTAURANTS, YOUR HOTELS, WORKERS LIKE THAT, YOUR HOURLY WAGE WORKERS.

SO THAT COULD HAVE CERTAINLY HAD AN IMPACT HERE WITH PEOPLE THAT ARE RESIDENTS OF THE DISTRICT, YOUR EDUCATION.

AND THOSE ARE PRIVATE EDUCATION AND HEALTH SERVICE JOBS, ALSO NEGATIVE.

BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE OTHER SECTORS, THEY'RE OK.

THEY'RE DOWN SLIGHTLY, BUT THEY IMPROVED THE FINANCIAL AND PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS SERVICES.

THOSE ARE TYPICALLY YOUR HIGHER PAYING JOBS THAT YOU WOULD SEE THROUGH THE TELECOM CORRIDOR OR EVEN IN, YOU KNOW, FRISCO, PLANO OR EVEN ON THE FORT WORTH SIDE FROM ALLIANCE.

BUT IT'S DIFFICULT TO SAY EXACTLY WHERE ALL OF THESE LOSSES HAVE OCCURRED.

BUT THE NEGATIVE NUMBERS ARE THE LOSSES ARE FROM THOSE PARTICULAR INDUSTRIES AND THOSE ARE NOT GOING TO RECOVER UNTIL WE SEE THE VACCINE GETTING MORE WIDESPREAD.

AND AS WE SEE MORE, YOU KNOW, RESTAURANTS AND THINGS BEGIN TO OPEN UP TO FULL CAPACITY.

THE REASON FOR THE QUESTION WAS BECAUSE I NOTICED THAT WE HAD THREE POINT TWO PERCENT CHANGE IN MANUFACTURING.

LIKE OUR AREA IS LARGELY, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF MANUFACTURING COMPONENTS THERE.

BUT WITH THE INCREASE, I WAS JUST CURIOUS TO SEE IF THERE WAS SOME WAY THAT THAT GOT BALANCED OUT OR IF IT GOT RIGHT SIZED OR IF THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED IN A POSITIVE WAY IN OUR COMMUNITY FROM A JOB STANDPOINT.

WELL, THE TEXAS WORKFORCE COMMISSION IS NOT THAT SPECIFIC ON THESE STATS.

THEY'RE MORE BROAD BASED AND FOR THE DALLAS PLANO IRVING SIDE VERSUS THE FORT WORTH ARLINGTON SIDE.

SO, AGAIN, WE'RE LOOKING AT PRETTY BROAD AREAS GEOGRAPHICALLY.

BUT THAT MANUFACTURING NUMBER, WHETHER YOU'RE IN OTHER PARTS OF THE STATE, IT IS SLIGHTLY NEGATIVE IN MOST.

BUT IT'S NOT SEEN AS HEAVY LOSSES IS WHAT SOME OF THOSE OTHER SECTORS HAVE SEEN, AS YOU CAN SEE HERE.

MY LAST QUESTION MS. GRIFFIN THE NEW HOME CONSTRUCTION SLIDE I THINK IT'S YOUR SLIDE 17, WE TALK ABOUT THE NUMBER OF STARTS VERSUS THE NUMBER OF CLOSINGS.

IS THAT TYPICAL FOR THERE TO BE ABOUT A SEVENTY THREE PERCENT START TO CLOSING RATE WITHIN A MARKET LIKE THIS? WELL, IT IS THE STARTS ACCELERATING THAT FAR OUT IN FRONT OF THE CLOSINGS IS INDICATING JUST HOW STRONG THE DEMAND IS.

THE BUILDERS ARE ACTUALLY HAVING TO SLOW THEMSELVES DOWN, BY RAISING PRICES OR TELLING CUSTOMERS THAT THIS THEY CAN'T DELIVER THE HOUSE FOR NINE, 11 MONTHS IF WE'RE.

BUT THESE NUMBERS ALSO GET IT STARTS TO GET WAY OUT IN FRONT AS BUILDERS, LIKE SOME OF THE MORE ENTRY LEVEL BUILDERS, BUILD A LOT OF SPEC HOMES.

SO WE'VE SEEN MAJOR BUILDERS NEAR HORTON LAND OR BUILDERS LIKE THAT BEGIN TO START BUILDING THE ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD AND THE BUYERS ARE JUST COMING IN AND SAYING, I WANT

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SO TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION IT'S A LITTLE BIT INFLATED NOW, BUT THAT IS NOT A NEGATIVE.

THAT IS NOT OVERBUILDING.

THAT IS ACTUALLY THEY HAVE THAT MANY SIGNED CONTRACTS AND SOME OF THEM ARE DOING SO MUCH ACTIVITY THAT THEY'RE PUTTING AS MANY AS THEY CAN OUT AHEAD OF ALL OF THE ONES THEY SIGNED EACH MONTH.

SO WE'VE HEARD IN JANUARY AND FEBRUARY FROM THOSE BUILDERS THAT THIS ACTIVITY HAS CONTINUED, THAT EVERY WEEKEND, NO MATTER IF PRICES ARE RAISED, THE BUYERS ARE STILL COMING IN BUYING HOUSES.

SO YOU WILL CONTINUE TO SEE THE STARTS WAY OUT AHEAD OF CLOSING.

SO BUT WE'RE SEEING THAT PROCESS FROM START MEMBER START FOUNDATION STARTED TO OCCUPANCY ELONGATE AGAIN BECAUSE THE COMPANIES ARE BEING STRETCHED A LITTLE MORE THIN WITH ALL OF THIS DEMAND.

SO THE LAG BEHIND THE START IS GROWING TO WHERE IT CAN BE IN SIX TO NINE MONTHS.

IN SOME CASES, TYPICALLY, IT'S WITHIN FOUR TO FIVE MONTHS AFTER THE FIRST OR ONCE THE HOUSE HAS STARTED.

SO MAYBE THAT'S MORE THAN YOU WERE ASKING FOR.

NO THAT WAS GOOD.

BUT THAT'S IT'S NOT A SIGN OF OVERBUILDING.

THIS YOU CAN SEE HERE IN THE DISTRICT, THE BUILDERS HAVE DONE A PRETTY GOOD JOB SINCE 2019 OF TRACKING THEIR STARTS TO THEIR SALES.

THEY ALMOST PARALLEL EACH OTHER.

SO I THINK THAT THE DISCIPLINE FROM THE BUILDERS HERE HAS BEEN PRETTY GOOD.

BUT YOU ALL SHOULD KNOW YOU HAVE TREMENDOUS DEMAND.

I MEAN, LIKE I SAID, THE MOST ACTIVITY IN 15 YEARS TO BE IN THE DISTRICT.

SO THAT STARTS THE PROCESS OF THE COMPETITION FOR THE KIDS.

ARE THEY AT HOME SCHOOL OR ARE THEY ENROLLING SOMEWHERE ELSE OR ARE THEY COMING TO THE GARLAND ISD SCHOOL? ONE LAST QUESTION YOU MENTIONED SOMETHING AND MAYBE THINK ABOUT IT, I THINK AND I DON'T REMEMBER IF YOU SAID THIS THE LAST TIME, BUT WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE MOVING INTO THE AREA, THERE WERE A LOT OF EMPTY NESTERS.

AND THEN YOU MENTIONED THAT WHAT MADE HOUSING SO STRONG, DURING THE TIME OF COVID, WAS EMERGING MILLENNIAL HOUSEHOLDS.

ARE WE STILL SEEING AN INFLUX OF EMPTY NESTERS, PEOPLE MOVING OR RELOCATING FROM STATES LIKE CALIFORNIA, COMING TO TEXAS BECAUSE THE HOUSING MARKET IS BETTER? YES.

IS THAT STILL AT THE SAME RATE OR IS IT STARTING TO SLOW DOWN AS WELL? OBVIOUSLY, IT WAS VERY STRONG BACK FROM 2014 TO 2017.

IT SLOWED DOWN A LITTLE BIT, BUT IT'S PICKING BACK UP.

BUILDERS ARE COMMENTING THAT WE'RE SEEING PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AGAIN.

THERE'S BEEN RELOCATION ANNOUNCEMENTS TRICKLING IN OVER THESE LAST COUPLE OF QUARTERS.

SO THAT IS STARTING TO PICK UP AGAIN.

BUT DEFINITELY, YES, PEOPLE ARE COMING HERE FROM ALL OVER THE STATE AS WELL AS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.

AND SO.

ARE THEY EMPTY NESTERS? WELL, IS YOU KNOW.

OPPORTUNITY.

THEIR HOME IS VALUABLE AS YOU HEAR.

JUST THINK ABOUT IN GARLAND IF YOUR HOUSE IS EXISTING AND IT GOES TO 240, YOU CAN MAKE THE MOST OFF THE SALE OF YOUR HOUSE THAN EVER BEFORE.

WHERE ARE YOU MOVING UP TO? SO YOU OBVIOUSLY SEE THIRTY TWO HUNDRED HOUSES ARE BEING BOUGHT HERE IN THE DISTRICT.

BUT WHAT THE DATA IS SHOWING IS THAT WHAT'S LEAVING VERSUS WHAT'S COMING IN IS JUST SLIGHTLY LOWER.

SO THE HOUSEHOLD HAD THREE KIDS.

IT'S BEEN REPLACED BY A HOUSE WITH TWO OR ONE.

AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S HAPPENING IN A LOT OF PLACES IN DFW.

BUT.

ALL RIGHTY.

REMEMBER THESE LOWER PRICED HOUSES IN THE MILLENNIAL QUESTION? THEY'RE STARTING THEIR FAMILIES.

SO WE COULD BE SEVERAL YEARS BEFORE WE SEE THOSE KIDS SHOW UP IN KINDERGARTEN.

THANK YOU MS. GRIFFIN.

ANYMORE.

MR. GLICK.

WOULD YOU GIVE US THE DERIVATION OF YOUR TWO FRACTIONS? THE POINT, I GUESS, POINT FOUR THREE AN POINT ONE THREE, IS THAT UNIQUE TO OUR DISTRICT? IS IT UNIQUE TO THE METROPLEX? IS IT UNIQUE TO THIS TYPE OF DISTRICT? I'M.

OK.

AND WHAT FACTORS ARE YOU PUTTING IN THAT FORMULA?

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OK, SO THE FORMULA IS WE'RE SIMPLY USING THE GEOCODING FROM THE ACCOUNTS OF OCCUPIED HOMES VERSUS THE NUMBER OF ENROLLED STUDENTS.

SO IN THE FASTEST GROWING DISTRICTS, IF YOU GO IN JUST IN PROSPER IN PRINCETON, MELISSA, ALL THE THE FASTEST GROWING, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THOSE NUMBERS PER HOUSE BE IN THE ZERO POINT EIGHT TO ONE POINT ZERO.

THE AVERAGE SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE IN TEXAS, NO MATTER WHAT MAJOR MARKET YOU'RE IN, TYPICALLY PRODUCED ABOUT ZERO POINT SEVEN STUDENTS.

SO 70 STUDENTS EVERY HUNDRED HOUSES BUILT.

NOW, AS WE HAVE SEEN THE MARKET SHIFT FROM WHERE THE MAJORITY OF THE HOUSES WERE ON 50, 60, 70 FOOT WIDE HOMES ARE ON LOTS DOWN TO WHERE WE'RE SEEING MORE 40 FOOT WIDE LOTS THE YIELDS COMING DOWN.

SO IT'S A COMBINATION OF MANY THINGS.

SO WE'RE SEEING SO WHEN YOU SEE THE DISTRICT AT ZERO POINT FOUR THREE, IT'S A COMBINATION OF NOT ALL THE BUYERS ARE ENROLLING THEIR STUDENTS.

THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE WITH FEWER KIDS.

THERE ARE MIXING IN OF HOUSEHOLD DIFFERENT HOUSEHOLD TYPES YOU CAN HAVE DIVORCED PROFESSIONALS THAT MAY ONLY HAVE THEIR CHILD PART TIME.

YOU CAN HAVE EMPTY NESTERS.

ALL OF THIS ROLL TOGETHER TO WHERE WE TYPICALLY SEE TOWNHOMES AT ZERO POINT THREE OR HALF OF WHAT A TRADITIONAL SINGLE FAMILY WOULD YIELD.

AND THEN THESE NEWER, HIGH DENSITY DETACHED, WHICH ARE HOMES THAT ARE ON 30, 40 AND 50 FOOT WIDES, ARE MORE IN THE ZERO POINT FIVE RANGE.

THESE STYLES OF HOUSES ARE ATTRACTING MORE SINGLES AND IN PEOPLE WITH FEWER KIDS IS REALLY THE WAY IF YOU UNDERSTAND HOW YOU GET TO THAT ZERO POINT FOUR THREE.

SO.

AND IS THAT TYPICAL FOR OTHER AREAS WHO ARE BUILDING TOWN HOMES AND THINGS LIKE THAT? THE SAME LOWER NUMBERS YOU ARE SEEING.

YES, OK, SO AS THAT TYPE OF PRODUCT BEGINS TO BE THE DOMINANT HOUSING TYPE, THE YIELDS HAVE COME DOWN.

I'VE WORKED WITH ALLEN FOR OVER A DECADE AN THOSE NUMBERS WERE POINT EIGHT BACK IN 2010 TO 2013.

AND WE'VE JUST WATCHED THAT GRADUALLY COME DOWN THE SAME WAY AS THEY DON'T HAVE ANY MORE 50 FOOT WIDER AND LARGER HOMES.

THE YIELDS COMING DOWN TO IN THAT ZERO POINT 4 AND 0 POINT FIVE RANGE.

AND THE POINT ONE THREE ON APARTMENTS.

AGAIN, THAT'S OUR NUMBERS.

BUT WHEN YOU STARTED DOING THESE CALCULATIONS, THE NUMBER OF APARTMENTS ACTUALLY OCCUPIED APARTMENTS WERE LESS THAN THEY ARE NOW.

THAT'S THOSE APARTMENTS ARE GROWING ARE THE NUMBERS CHANGING AT ALL.

WELL, THE APARTMENTS LET ME.

SO THE APARTMENTS, THERE'S BEEN A MAJOR SHIFT IN THE STYLE OF APARTMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN BUILT THESE LAST SEVERAL YEARS.

SO GARDEN STYLE APARTMENTS, WHICH ARE TYPICALLY THREE STORIES OR LESS, HAVE YIELDED ANYWHERE FROM ZERO POINT THREE TO ZERO POINT FOUR STUDENTS PER UNIT.

SECTION EIGHT TYPE DEVELOPMENTS CAN YIELD THREE, FOUR, EVEN FIVE TIMES THAT.

BUT WHAT'S BEING BUILT TODAY ARE THESE NEW URBAN OR MID RISE TYPE APARTMENTS THAT ARE TYPICALLY FOUR STORY, SOMETIMES THEY'LL BE FIVE.

AND THESE IN ORDER TO BUILD THIS TYPE OF STRUCTURE, THE NUMBER OF UNITS THAT HAVE TWO AND THREE BEDROOMS HAS SHRUNK REALLY SMALL TO WHERE WE'RE SIXTY FIVE SEVENTY PERCENT OF THE UNITS IN THESE BUILDINGS ARE ONE BEDROOM.

SO WE'VE SEEN THE YIELD JUST PLUMMET TO A LOT OF THEM ARE PRODUCING LESS THAN ZERO POINT ONE.

SO THERE ARE OTHER.

FOR EXAMPLE, IN ALLEN THERE'S 13000 PLUS THAT ARE PLANNED, BUT THE YIELD ON THOSE IS, YOU KNOW, POINT ZERO EIGHT OR BUT THEY'RE PLANNING SO MANY UNITS, YOU'RE STILL GOING TO FEEL AN IMPACT.

BUT THE STYLE HAS CHANGED THE YIELD, YOU KNOW, SO THERE'S ALL KINDS OF THINGS.

YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THE OUTER RING LOCATIONS.

ALL OF THAT WAS ON YOUR PAGE 10.

I REMEMBER WHEN I MOVED FROM VILLAGE COMPLEX ON GREENVILLE AVENUE IN DALLAS,

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THAT SEEMED LIKE IT WAS FOREVER OUT.

WHERE DO WE AS A DISTRICT STAND IN TERMS OF GARLAND ISD AS COMPARED TO DALLAS ISD AS COMPARED TO ROCKWALL ISD? ARE WE IN THE MIDDLE? HOW DO YOU CONSIDER US? HOW DO YOU RANK US IN TERMS OF THAT NEW DEFINITION, IN TERMS OF BEING ABLE TO WORK AT HOME, NOT HAVE TO COMMUTE TO THE DOWNTOWN AREA? WHERE DO WE STAND? WELL, IF YOU'RE WEST OF GEORGE BUSH, YOU'RE PRETTY MUCH INFILL TYPE, MORE MID URBAN TYPE INFILL PRODUCT.

ON THE WEST.

YOU'RE WEST OF THAT.

YOU'RE STILL I WOULDN'T SAY YOUR OUTER RING, BUT YOU'RE ON THE OUTER EDGE OF THE TRADITIONAL THAT IS THE AREA OF DFW THAT PRODUCED THE MOST GROWTH OVER THE LAST 20, 30 YEARS.

NOW, WHEN WE'RE SAYING OUTER RING, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT NOW, WHEN YOU LOOK AND SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW IN FORNEY ROYSE CITY, AS YOU GO EAST, YOU'LL SEE CRANDALL, YOU'LL SEE THEIR NUMBERS SKYROCKETING IN TERMS OF NEW HOME PRODUCTION.

IN THE NORTH IT'S ALL OF THE 75 CORRIDOR AND THEN ALL ACROSS THE THREE EIGHTY CORRIDOR.

BUT YOU ALL ARE KIND OF RIGHT ON THAT EDGE.

BUT WHAT YOU NEED TO REMEMBER IS THAT FOR A LONG TIME THE BUILDERS, THEY JUST WENT PAST, THEY WENT OUT TO THOSE MARKETS BECAUSE THERE REALLY WASN'T ANYTHING THAT MADE SENSE FOR THEM TO BE PROFITABLE IN BUILDING SUBDIVISIONS.

WELL, THAT'S CHANGING.

SO NOW YOU HAVE LAND THAT'S BEEN SOLD IN BOTH MESQUITE ISD AS WELL AS HERE IN GARLAND.

AND THAT'S WHY YOU'RE SEEING THIS HUGE UPTICK IN ACTIVITY.

YOU KNOW, PEOPLE STILL THERE'S A LARGE NUMBER OF BUYERS THAT STILL DON'T WANT TO BE THAT FAR AWAY.

SO BUT YOU ALL HAVE TREMENDOUS DEMAND, YOU KNOW, UP IN THE SACHSE AREA AND IN THE ROWLETT AREA FOR NEW HOMES.

THANK YOU, MS. GRIFFIN.

ONE QUESTION, MS. GRIFFIN.

THE ONLY THING THAT I SEE LACKING IN THE REPORT AND MAYBE I MISSED IT, I'M GLAD YOU GAVE US SOME INSIGHT ON THE FORMULA.

BUT THE SECOND PART IS I DON'T SEE THE AVERAGE AGE OF PEOPLE.

WE HAVE A HIGH RETIREMENT POPULATION HERE.

SO IT SEEMS TO ME IT'S A BLESSING.

I'M NOT COMPLAINING, BUT IT'S A BLESSING THAT PEOPLE HANG ONTO THEIR HOMES.

THEY DON'T SELL THEM.

REMEMBER, YOU MADE THE COMMENT LIKE YOU COULD PROBABLY SELL IT MORE THAN YOU EVER DREAMED THAT YOU COULD SELL IT RIGHT NOW.

BUT THEN WHERE WILL YOU GO RIGHT? WHAT DO WE COMPARE IT TO WITH OTHER DISTRICTS? BECAUSE I SEE OTHER DISTRICTS DON'T HAVE THAT.

AND WHEN DO YOU PREDICT THEM TO EVENTUALLY SELL THEIR HOMES? AND THE NEW INFLUX OF STUDENTS NOW OCCUPY THOSE BECAUSE THEN THAT WOULD GENERATE MORE STUDENT POPULATION CORRECT? WELL, YES, THE AGING IN PLACE, WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT AND WHEN DOES AN AREA REGENERATE? THAT'S ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT THINGS TO PROJECT AS A DEMOGRAPHER.

THAT'S WHY I ASKED.

WHAT'S EXCITING IS THAT WE'RE WELL, IT'S WE'VE GOTTEN FURTHER AND FURTHER AWAY, OBVIOUSLY, FROM THE TWENTY TWENTY CENTS OR 2010 CENSUS AND, YOU KNOW, THE DATA THAT WAS AVAILABLE ARE JUST BASED ON SAMPLING ESTIMATES.

BUT NOW WE'RE WITHIN HOPEFULLY A FEW MONTHS OF HAVING A NEW SET OF DATA OF UNDERSTANDING THE AGE OF EACH HOUSEHOLD IN THE DISTRICT.

SO THAT'S WHY COMING UP IN THE FALL, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A LOT MORE INSIGHT ONTO THAT VERY QUESTION.

NOW, THE ANSWER, THE TURNOVER RATE IS USUALLY WHEN EVERYONE'S SIXTY PERCENT OR MORE ARE 65 AND OLDER, BUT MOST OF THE TIME IT DOESN'T GET THERE.

SO IT JUST KIND OF CHURNS IN THAT AREA.

THERE'S A FEW THAT MOVE AWAY.

AND SO BUT I THINK WE CAN FOCUS ON THAT A LOT, HOPEFULLY IN THE FALL WITH THE 2020 CENSUS DATA.

ALL RIGHT.

MR. ALEXANDER WE THANK YOU THANK YOU, MR. ALEXANDER.

I'M NOT GOING TO REPEAT THAT.

SO I'M ASSUMING THAT ALL BOARD MEMBERS HAVE ASKED ALL THEIR QUESTIONS.

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DR.

RINGO, WHEN YOU GET THIS REPORT AND YOU SEE THE PROJECTIONS OVER THREE, FIVE AND 10 YEARS.

HOW DOES IT AFFECT YOUR THINKING.

WITH BUDGET.

YES SIR.

OUR ONLY STREAMS OF REVENUE IS OUR ADA.

THAT IS HOW WE'RE FUNDED.

SO IF WE HAVE A THOUSAND ADA, THAT'S WHAT WE ARE FUNDED ON.

IF WE HAVE FIFTY THOUSAND ADA THAT'S WHAT WE ARE FUNDED ON.

SO WITH THE COVID IMPACT FOR OUR BUDGET BILL FOR 2021, WE HAD PROJECTED ALMOST RIGHT IN THE LINE OF WHERE WE'RE COMING IN AT IN REGARDS TO WHAT THE FIRST SEMESTER ADA.

NOW WE'VE SEEN THE SECOND SEMESTER, SO BECAUSE OF THAT, WE SHOULD COME OUT AHEAD OF WHAT WE PROJECTED.

BUT WE DO INCORPORATE, AS MR. ALEXANDER NOTED, WITH WHAT WE'RE SEEING IN THE CHANGE OF POPULATION OF THE MOVE OUTS VERSUS MOVE INS, WE SHOW A DECLINE IN NEXT YEAR'S PROJECTION OF ABOUT A THOUSAND.

AND WE'RE GOING TO SHOW FOUR SCENARIOS IN THE BUDGET WORKSHOP FOR ADA CHANGES FOR NEXT YEAR, ALL DECLINING.

AND WE'RE GOING TO GO TO A LOW TO MODERATE SCENARIO.

AND THEN YEARS BEYOND THAT, WE'RE COMPRESSING THAT A.D.A PROJECTION.

WE WILL SHOW THE THREE FISCAL YEARS FOR OUR PROJECTIONS.

BUT WE DO TAKE THAT IN CONSIDERATION.

BUT UNTIL THAT TREND REVERSES, WE DON'T START TO SHOW THAT TREND TO LEVEL OUT OR INCREASING.

AND YES.

AND DR. LOPEZ, I KNOW YOU'RE NOT BY YOUR MICROPHONE, BUT I'M SURE YOU CAN FIND ONE.

HOW DO THESE NUMBERS HOW DO YOU TAKE THESE NUMBERS IN PROJECTING POTENTIAL? WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IT NOT OFFICIALLY, NOT READY YET, BUT WE TALKED CERTAINLY IN TWENTY NINETEEN ABOUT ANOTHER BOND ISSUE.

AND I WOULD THINK WE WOULD WANT TO USE NUMBERS LIKE THIS TO LOOK AT CHANGES IN POPULATION GROWTH AND POPULATION, POTENTIAL NEW SCHOOLS, POTENTIAL EXPANSION OF SCHOOLS AND EVEN POTENTIAL CLOSING OF SCHOOLS.

HOW DO YOU LOOK AT THIS REPORT? SO ALL OF THOSE FACTORS COME IN THE DEMOGRAPHERS REPORTS WHAT WE DO SEE IS HOTBEDS.

CORRECT.

AND SO WHEN TWO THINGS HAPPEN, WHENEVER WE SEE THESE EVENTS, FIRST OF ALL, THAT WE LOOK AT, WE ANALYZE THE CAMPUS.

SO LET'S JUST SAY OUR TWO PROBABLY HOTTEST AREAS.

I'LL JUST START WITH PARTS OF ROWLETT, PARTS OF ROWLETT THAT ARE HIGH DENSITY AREAS.

AND WE HAVE OUR SCHOOLS THERE.

SO WHEN WE ANALYZE THE SCHOOL, WE HAVE A SCHOOL CHOICE.

SO THEN WHAT WE HAVE TO DO IS SAY, DO WE HAVE CAPACITY? RIGHT.

IF WE DIRECTED REDIRECTED SOME OF THE KIDS THAT CHOSE THOSE ROWLETT SCHOOLS TO ANOTHER SCHOOL, COULD WE BE ABLE TO ENCOMPASS THAT? AND WHAT ARE THE FACTORS ON THAT? IF THE ANSWER IS YES AND WE CAN GIVE THEM TO A SCHOOL THAT'S NEARBY AND STILL SATISFY THE NEEDS.

THAT'S A WIN.

SO PEOPLE FORGET THAT PEOPLE STILL HAVE THE TRADITIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD.

THEY LOOK AT THE SCHOOL, IT'S OVERFILLED.

OH, MY GOSH, WE NEED ALL THESE WINGS.

WELL, WE CAN REDIRECT TO OTHER SCHOOLS THAT AREN'T AS CAPACITY, BUT LET'S JUST SAY THAT WOULDN'T HELP.

THEN WHAT WE DO IS START ANALYZING WHEN WE GO THROUGH A BOND.

WE MAY NEED EXTRA WINGS.

WE MAY NEED TO DO A COMPLETE SCHOOL TURNAROUND BECAUSE OF THE AGE OF THE BUILDING.

AND SO ALL OF THOSE ARE ON OUR PROJECTION OUT.

ALSO, WHAT IT IS, IS WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR BUILDINGS, ARE THEY GOING TO BE ABLE TO SUSTAIN FOR LONG TERM? SO WHEN WE LOOK AT THE DEMOGRAPHY, WHAT PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND IS WE MIGHT BE DECLINING ENROLLMENT.

PEOPLE ARE LIKE, OH, MY GOSH, BUT THOSE AREN'T CERTAIN SECTORS.

SO SOME ARE COMING UP WHILE OTHERS ARE DROPPING.

AND BECAUSE WE HAVE SEVENTY TWO SCHOOLS, IF YOU DIVIDE A THOUSAND BY SEVENTY TWO IT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE A BIG IMPACT, BUT YOU DO THAT OVER YEARS AND IT REALLY IMPACTS OUR BUDGET, WHICH IS A PERFECT SEGWAY TO OUR NEXT PRESENTATION.

BUT IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE DO THIS AND THIS IS WHY WE'RE DOING IT TWICE A YEAR NOW .

AND THAT'S WHAT I THINK.

MR. GLICK SOME OF THOSE QUESTIONS WE'VE ALREADY STARTED OUTLINING THE BUDGET WORKSHOP TOPICS.

AND THEN IT SOUNDS LIKE DR.

LOPEZ, FROM THE QUESTION THAT HAS BEEN ASKED, IS THAT MAYBE WE NEED TO START WORKING ON ANOTHER TYPE OF REPORT IN TERMS OF WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BUILDING CAPACITY.

SO WITHOUT US TRYING TO GROUP ALL OF THOSE THINGS TOGETHER BECAUSE IT'S NOT REALLY APPLES TO APPLES, SO.

IS THAT IT? THANK YOU SO MUCH.

OK.

SEEMS LIKE THERE THE NEXT REPORT TO RECEIVE OPEN ENROLLMENT .

LOPEZ IS AT THE MIKE.

I ASSUME YOU ARE GOING TO KICK THIS OFF?

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ALL RIGHT LETS GO.

I WANTED US TO START OFF BY I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AS A PRELUDE TO WHY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT OPEN ENROLLMENT.

I'M GONNA START ABOUT THIS CENTURY.

WE'RE NOT GOING TO NEED TO GO INTO THE NINETEEN NINETIES.

WE'RE GOING TO START IN THIS CENTURY AND AROUND TWO THOUSAND 2002.

WE HAD A LEGENDARY SUPERINTENDENT COME IN BY THE NAME OF CURTIS CULWELL AND I'M GOING TO CALL THAT THE CURTIS CULWELL YEARS.

THE CURTIS CULWELL YEARS WERE THE GOLDEN YEARS.

ALL RIGHT.

FIFTEEN HUNDRED STUDENTS.

WE WERE GROWING.

OK, NOW THIS IS GOING TO BE A QUIZ FOR EVERYBODY WATCHING.

THERE'S TWO WAYS WE GENERATE MONEY.

WE EITHER INCREASE TAXES OR INCREASE ENROLLMENT.

AT THIS TIME UNDER THE CURTIS CULWELL ERA WE WERE INCREASING ENROLLMENT, OK.

AND WHEN YOU INCREASE ENROLLMENT BY THE RATE THAT WAS HAPPENING OVER THAT COURSE OF TIME FOR THAT DECADE, I WILL TELL YOU THAT YOU HAVE A DIFFERENT NEED.

ALL OF A SUDDEN, YOUR STAFF IS BEING STRETCHED THIN BECAUSE THEY'RE DOING 10 MILLION JOBS.

THEY CANNOT KEEP UP WITH ALL OF THE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

YOU'RE OPENING NEW BUILDINGS.

THERE'S A SENSE OF EXCITEMENT.

THERE'S A SENSE LIKE, OH, MY GOSH, WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH YET, BUT WE GOT MORE THAN ENOUGH MONEY BECAUSE WE HAVE MORE STUDENTS THAN WE HAVE BUILDINGS.

AND SO AS THAT WAS GOING, THE DISTRICT WAS THRIVING.

AND IF YOU SAW THE DEMOGRAPHER REPORT, IT KEPT GOING AND GOING AND GOING.

AND THEN WE HIT OUR PEAK ABOUT 2011, TEN YEARS AGO, A DECADE AGO.

THAT'S WHEN EVER ALL OF A SUDDEN SOMETHING CHANGED.

A FEW THINGS CHANGED.

DURING THE CURTIS CULWELL ERA, CHARTERS STARTED TO LAY THEIR GROUNDWORK.

THERE MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN MUCH COMPETITION IN THE GARLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, BUT OVER TIME WE STARTED SEEING THAT.

OUR MAIN COMPETITION WAS PRIVATE SCHOOLS.

NOW IT'S NOW BECOMING CHARTERS AT THIS TIME AND CHARTER SCHOOLS START SEEPING IN.

SO IN 2011, EVEN WITH ALL THESE HOUSEHOLDS BUILT WE HAVE TWO FACTORS.

WE HAVE PEOPLE THAT LOVE OUR GARLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THEY STAY HERE.

THEY DON'T LEAVE.

THEN WE HAVE ALL OF A SUDDEN CHARTERS START SEEING A DECLINING ENROLLMENT.

OF COURSE, THE BIRTH RATE WAS GOING WE START SEEING DECLINING ENROLLMENT.

MR. ALEXANDER SAID SOMETHING THAT REALLY HIT ME HARD.

HE SAYS NOT ALL BUYERS ARE ENROLLING THEIR STUDENTS.

NOT ALL BUYERS ARE ENROLLING THEIR STUDENTS.

ONCE AGAIN, HOW DO WE MAKE MORE MONEY FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT? WE RAISE TAXES OR WE RAISE ENROLLMENT, RIGHT? STARTED DECLINING, STARTED DECLINING.

WE NEVER STARTED RIGHT SIZING BECAUSE WE FELT LIKE, OH MY GOSH, MAYBE THEY'LL COME BACK, MAYBE WE'LL FIGHT FOR THEM.

STARTED DECLINING, MORE CHARTERS POPPING UP.

THEN SOMETHING ELSE HAPPENED.

OUR SURROUNDING DISTRICTS STARTED HAVING AN OPEN ENROLLMENT.

THEY STARTED INVITING OUR KIDS IN.

AND NOW WE'VE GOT TWO FACTORS THAT ARE HITTING US CHARTERS AND NOW PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.

ONCE AGAIN, HE SAID NOT ALL BUYERS ARE ENROLLING THEIR STUDENTS.

THEY HAVE MORE CHOICES THAN EVER.

NOW, DURING THIS COVID STRIKE, MR. MILLER HIT SOMETHING LIKE A BIG NERVE THAT EVERY SCHOOL DISTRICT IS RALLYING TO COUNTER.

IT'S CALLED VIRTUAL SCHOOLING.

THAT'S GOING TO BE THE THIRD THING THAT HITS OUR SCHOOLS IN THE MODERN ERA.

IF WE REALLY FEEL THAT OUR STUDENTS ARE GOING TO COME BACK AFTER THEY EXPERIENCE IN VIRTUAL SCHOOLS AND SOME KIDS ARE THRIVING IN THAT ENVIRONMENT WE'RE LYING TO OURSELVES.

WE'RE LYING TO OURSELVES.

THERE'S KIDS THAT THRIVE IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT.

AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE DESIGNING A VIRTUAL SCHOOL NOW TEA MIGHT NOT ALLOW US AND GIVE US FUNDING, BUT I WOULD RATHER HAVE THEM.

AND THEN WHENEVER WE FINALLY DO GET FUNDING, BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN ONE DAY, THEN WE GRAB THE FUNDING FOR THEM, JUST LOSE THEM ALTOGETHER.

SO THOSE ARE THE THREE THINGS THAT WE'RE BATTLING NOW.

WE'RE BATTLING COMPETITION FROM THE CHARTERS, BY COINCIDENCE, MAYBE NOT TODAY ON SOCIAL MEDIA, YOU'LL SEE THAT WE ARE OUTSCORING OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTERS.

OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTERS AVERAGE A SEVENTY THREE RATING.

OUR NEW CHARTERS ARE AVERAGING THE SEVENTY THREE RATING.

WE HAVE AN EIGHTY EIGHT.

SO I PUT ON MY FACEBOOK POST, YOU KNOW, THERE'S PEOPLE THAT LIKE THEIR CHILDREN, AND THERE'S PEOPLE THAT LOVE THEIR CHILDREN AND THOSE THAT LOVE THEIR CHILDREN CHOOSE GARLAND ISD.

SO WE WANT TO COMPETE.

WE WANT PEOPLE TO LOVE THEIR CHILDREN OUTSIDE OF OUR BOUNDARIES.

WE SAW THAT BAYSIDE AREA AND YOU SEE HOW IT SPLIT.

DO YOU REALLY THINK THE PEOPLE OF ROCKWALL WANT TO DRIVE ACROSS THAT BRIDGE AND TAKE THEIR KIDS TO A ROCKWALL SCHOOL WHEN THEY'RE WORKING ON THE OTHER SIDE? DO YOU KNOW HOW TAXING THAT IS OVER THE COURSE OF 12 YEARS, WHEN YOU GO TO A FINE SCHOOL IN GARLAND ISD, WE SAW SOME OF THE OTHER AREAS THAT ARE SPLIT.

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AND THIS IS THE BEST THING ABOUT THIS OPEN ENROLLMENT PROCESS.

WE CONTROL THE GATES.

WE CONTROL WHO COMES IN.

THEY HAVE TO APPLY.

THEY HAVE TO MEET OUR STANDARDS.

AND GUESS WHAT? IF THEY DON'T MEET OUR STANDARDS, THEY'RE INVITED TO LEAVE AT THE END OF THE YEAR.

BY LAW, WE JUST GOT TO KEEP THEM ONE YEAR.

THEY MEET OUR STANDARDS IN GRADES, ATTENDANCE, DISCIPLINE.

THEY MEET OUR STANDARDS ON WHICH SCHOOLS THEY CAN GO TO.

THEY DON'T GET TO AUTOMATICALLY GET THE SAME CHOICES OURS DO THEY WOULD GET SECOND CHOICE.

AND MOST OF OUR SECOND CHOICE IS A FIRST CHOICE COMPARED TO WHAT THEY HAVE.

AND MOST OF OUR PROGRAMS HAVE CAPACITY.

THE LAST PART I WANT US TO LEAVE WITH IS RIGHT NOW WE'RE IN A POINT WHERE WE HAVE TO RIGHT SIZE OF THE DISTRICT.

AND UNFORTUNATELY, WE HAVE A LOT OF OPEN SEATS RIGHT NOW.

IT'S NOT LIKE WE'RE GROWING AND WE'RE BURSTING AT THE SEAMS. WHAT IT IS, IS WE HAVE SEATS RIGHT NOW THAT THESE KIDS CAN COME INTO AND FILL AND WE WON'T HAVE TO SPEND AN EXTRA TIME AND WE GENERATE WHAT ADA FOR THEM.

NOW, SOME PEOPLE MIGHT SAY, WELL, THEY DON'T PAY TAXES IN OUR AREA.

TRUE.

BUT OUR TAXES DON'T GO STRAIGHT TO THE DISTRICT.

OUR TAXES GO STRAIGHT TO THE STATE.

THEN THEY DIVVY UP WHERE IT GOES THROUGH ADA AND WADA.

RIGHT.

AND WE ALL KNOW THAT COMPLICATED SYSTEM.

AND SO PEOPLE ARE POACHING SOME OF OUR BEST STUDENTS.

PEOPLE ARE POACHING SOME OF OUR GOOD STUDENTS.

AND IT'S TIME THAT WE SAY, WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT? WE CAN PLAY BY THE SAME GAME.

AND SO THIS IS GOING TO BE AN OPEN ENROLLMENT PLANNING DISCUSSION.

WE GOT BABETTA HEMPHILL, WE GOT BRENT RINGO AND WE GOT SUSANNA RUSSELL THAT ARE FREE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS AS WE GO ALONG.

I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT WE'RE NOT GOING TO PUT THIS ON THE AGENDA ITEM FOR APPROVAL IN MARCH.

THAT'S OUR NEXT BOARD MEETING.

THAT'S NOT WHAT THIS IS FOR.

BUT WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO DO IS HAVE DISCUSSIONS ON THE BENEFITS OF OPEN ENROLLMENT, THE FACT THAT WE CAN PROBABLY START GAINING STUDENTS AND RIGHT SIZE OUR DISTRICT.

BECAUSE WHEN I LOOK AT THE DEMOGRAPHY, THEY SAID, OK, WE'LL STABILIZE WHAT WAS IT IN 2030? THAT'S NINE YEARS AWAY.

YOU KNOW, I CAN'T HOLD MY BREATH FOR NINE YEARS AND I CAN'T BE SQUEEZING THE JUICES FOR NINE YEARS.

WE DID TRY THE TAX RATE.

NOW LET'S TRY OTHER INNOVATIONS.

AND I JUST ASK THAT EVERYBODY HAVE AN OPEN MIND AS WE GO THROUGH THIS AND HOPEFULLY WE CAN RETURN WITH FURTHER DETAILS IN APRIL IN ANOTHER MEETING.

THE REASON WE ASKED THIS TO BE PUT ON FINANCE WAS BECAUSE IT'S TO GENERATE FUNDING, IT'S NOT TO GENERATE PROGRAMS AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

AND SO WHAT WE HOPE IS BY THE END OF THIS PLANNING SESSION OF OPEN ENROLLMENT, THAT YOU GUYS HAVE A BETTER OUTLOOK OF THE PLAN AND VISION AND THE FACT THAT WE CAN DO SOMETHING NOW AND WE'LL HAVE AN IMMEDIATE IMPACT NEXT YEAR.

NOW, TRADITIONALLY SPEAKING, JUST FOR THE RECORD, I'VE COME FROM TWO OPEN ENROLLMENT DISTRICTS.

I ALSO WANT TO LET YOU KNOW, USUALLY OPEN ENROLLMENT DOESN'T HAPPEN IN ONE YEAR.

IT'S NOT LIKE YOU OPEN THE GATES AND THEN YOU GET TEN THOUSAND KIDS APPLYING.

USUALLY IT'S THE FIRST WAVE, WHICH IS MINIMAL.

BUT I WANT YOU TO THINK OF THIS.

LET'S JUST SAY WE GOT TWO HUNDRED KIDS A YEAR.

DOESN'T SOUND LIKE A LOT, BUT IN TEN YEARS, THAT'S TWO THOUSAND KIDS THAT YOU'RE GOING TO GET ADA FOR.

OK, I PROMISE YOU, OVER TIME IT'S GOING TO BE WAY MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED, BUT IT'LL BE ALWAYS WHAT WE CAN FIT IN OUR SCHOOLS.

AND THEN THE SECOND THING IS THIS THEY ARE LIKE GUESTS IN OUR HOUSE.

THEY'RE INVITED TO COME IN.

THEY ARE INVITED TO STAY FOLLOWING THE RULES.

AND IF THEY DON'T, THEN THEY'RE INVITED TO LEAVE.

IT'S THAT SIMPLE.

IT'S ON OUR TERMS. IT'S NOT LIKE OUR REGULAR POPULATION.

SO WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND TURN IT OVER TO DR..

JUST BEFORE DR.

LOPEZ.

YES.

I HEARD WHAT YOU SAID, AND I WOULD LIKE TO CLEAR THE AIR BEFORE WE GET STARTED.

IF THIS IS A DISCUSSION IN PLANNING, THEN I SUGGEST THAT THE PROPOSED TIMELINE BE REMOVED FROM THIS REPORT BECAUSE THERE ARE THINGS AND SUGGESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE HERE THAT IF THIS IS PLANNING AND THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THE BOARD HAS SEEN THIS, THERE'S NO WAY THAT WE WILL HAVE ALL OF THE INFORMATION AT THE CLOSE OF THIS SESSION.

SO I.

WELL, THE PLANNING DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING, THE CLOSE OF THE SESSION, IT TALKS ABOUT IF WE MOVE FORWARD, THAT WE WOULD THEN TAKE IT TO MULTI-ETHNIC COMMITTEE WE WOULD GET MORE INFORMATION WE NEED TO SAY THAT, BECAUSE THAT'S NOT ON THESE SLIDES.

OK.

AND TO ME, THIS IS LINDA GRIFFIN AND I'M ONLY ONE.

BUT WE CAN'T SAY THIS IS PLANNING AND WE'RE OPEN FOR DISCUSSION.

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BUT IT DOESN'T SHOW THE HOW.

SO THAT'S MY CONCERN.

SO OK, WELL, WE CAN ANSWER THAT QUESTION, AND THAT QUESTION AT THE VERY END TO SEE IF WE WANT TO PROCEED WITH THE NEXT STEPS OR DO WE NEED ANOTHER SESSION.

WE COULD DO THAT BECAUSE I THINK THAT THIS IS PRETTY ENCOMPASSING AND IT'S NOT AS COMPLICATED AS PEOPLE THINK IT IS.

I DON'T THINK IT'S COMPLICATED AT ALL.

I REALLY THINK IT'S ABOUT COMMUNICATION AND THE RIGHT INFORMATION BEING DELIVERED AT THE RIGHT TIME.

OK.

SO WITH THAT, WE CAN START WITH THE STAFF MEMBERS THAT YOU WANT TO CALL UP.

THANK YOU.

YES.

DR. RUSSELL.

THANK YOU, DR.

LOPEZ.

GOOD EVENING, CHAIRWOMAN GRIFFIN, FINANCE COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND TRUSTEES.

WE ALL KNOW THAT WE'RE IN A BUDGET SHORTFALL SITUATION AND OUR TEAMS HAVE BEEN AGGRESSIVELY WORKING TO FIND BUDGET SAVINGS.

AND WHILE WE LOOK FOR THOSE SAVING OPPORTUNITIES, WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT WAYS TO STRETCH OUR CURRENT DOLLARS THROUGH INNOVATION.

AND SO TODAY, THE TEAM COMES BEFORE YOU TO SHARE A HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW OF THE POSSIBILITY OF OPENING GARLAND ISD ENROLLMENT BEYOND JUST OUR TRI CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT BOUNDARIES AS A MEANS TO ATTRACT NEW STUDENTS AND ALSO TO INCREASE OUR ENROLLMENT.

FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE PRESENTATION THIS EVENING, WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT INT ER-DISTRICT TRANSFERS AS OPEN ENROLLMENT.

AND AS MRS. GRIFFIN SO ELOQUENTLY DESCRIBED EARLIER, THIS IS A COMPLEX AND SENSITIVE ISSUE.

AND DR. RINGO AND DR.

HEMPHILL AND I HOPE TO PROVIDE YOU WITH A SOLID INITIAL OVERVIEW.

SO IN OUR PRESENTATION THIS EVENING, WE WILL REVIEW RELEVANT DATA.

WE WILL GIVE YOU INFORMATION ON AREA DISTRICTS THAT HAVE OPEN ENROLLMENT.

WE'LL TALK ABOUT A CASE STUDY AND SUCCESSFUL OPEN ENROLLMENT.

AND WE WILL COVER KEY COMMITMENTS THAT WE WOULD MAKE SHOULD THE BOARD CHOOSE TO PROCEED WITH CONSIDERING THIS OPTION.

WE'LL ALSO REVIEW POTENTIAL POLICIES THAT COULD BE IMPACTED BY A DECISION TO ALLOW INTER DISTRICT TRANSFER STUDENTS AND A POSSIBLE TIMELINE TO ROLL OUT OPEN ENROLLMENT INITIATIVES.

AND THEN WE'LL FIELD YOUR QUESTIONS.

WE'VE ALREADY HEARD AN IN-DEPTH STUDY FROM THE DEMOGRAPHER.

AND NEXT, DR.

RINGO IS GOING TO REVIEW OUR 10 YEAR STUDENT ENROLLMENT TRENDS AND THAT FINANCIAL IMPACT.

MS. GRIFFIN, BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

DR. LOPEZ, GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN.

AS WE SAW IN THE DEMOGRAPHER REPORT AND AS WE'VE SEEN IN OUR BUDGET BUILD AN THE BUDGET PROJECTIONS, AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE IN THE BUDGET WORKSHOP FOR UPCOMING YEARS LATER THIS MONTH, WE CAN SEE OUR ENROLLMENT AS A SNAPSHOT, SNAPSHOT, IS A COMMON DATE FOR ALL SCHOOL DISTRICTS STATE OF TEXAS WHERE WE SUBMIT OUR ENROLLMENT INFORMATION TO TEA.

IT'S THE END OF OCTOBER AND YOU CAN SEE HOW OUR TREND IN GARLAND ISD IS TRENDED DOWN WITH LAST YEAR AND THIS YEAR THAT THREE PERCENT DECLINE, WHICH IS COMMON IN THE STATE OF TEXAS .

STATE OF TEXAS, 156 THOUSAND STUDENTS ARE NOT ENROLLED THAT WERE ENROLLED LAST YEAR.

AND SO WE'RE RIGHT IN ALIGNMENT WITH THAT TREND AS THE STATE GOES.

UNDER HOUSE BILL THREE, THAT'S ABOUT A FOUR THOUSAND DOLLAR DROP IN ENROLLMENT.

WE'RE FUNDED ON ADA BUT NOT ENROLLMENT.

BUT IF AVERAGE THAT OUT, THAT IS THE SAME IMPACT ON ADA THAT IS UNDER HOUSE BILL THREE.

THAT'LL BE ABOUT AN ADDITIONAL TWENTY EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS.

IF WE STILL HAD THOSE KIDS IN OUR SYSTEM, IF WE WERE TO GO UP FOUR THOUSAND STUDENTS UNDER CURRENT FUNDING OF FORMULAS.

SO THAT IS JUST PROVIDES THE HIGH LEVEL PICTURE.

THE SAVING PORTION OF OUR BUDGET HAS OUR ADA HAS GONE DOWN AND WE'VE SHOWN IN OUR BUDGET IMPACT OUR STUDENT CHANGES IS WHAT SAVED OUR BUDGET, MEANING WE'VE HAD INCREASED SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENTS, INCREASED DYSLEXIA, WE'VE HAD INCREASED WHAT USED TO BE COMP ED IS NOW CENSUS BLOCK WITH THOSE INCREASES THAT HAS INCREASED AND OFFSET SOME OF THAT LOSS WITH ADA BECAUSE THOSE WEIGHTS HAVE APPLIED SOME ADDITIONAL FUNDING.

WE'LL TALK MORE ABOUT THAT IN BUDGET WORKSHOP.

BUT THE HIGH LEVEL PICTURE, THIS DECLINE, IT'S ABOUT A TWENTY EIGHT MILLION DOLLAR ANNUAL IMPACT TO THE BUDGET WITH THERE WAS MORE FOUR THOUSAND STUDENTS IN THE SYSTEM.

WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO DR.

HEMPHILL.

ALL RIGHT.

GOOD EVENING.

AS YOU ALL KNOW, WE'VE ALREADY HAD SOME OPEN ENROLLMENT FOR OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN OF OUR EMPLOYEES.

THE TABLE ON THE RIGHT REFLECTS THE CURRENTLY ENROLLED STUDENTS IN GARLAND ISD WHO ENROLLED UNDER THIS POLICY BASED ON THE YEAR THEY ENROLLED.

CURRENTLY, WE HAVE TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY ONE STUDENTS ENROLLED IN GISD WHO DO NOT LIVE WITHIN OUR BOUNDARIES AND WHO ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THIS OPPORTUNITY.

FOR EXAMPLE, IN TWENTY EIGHTEEN WE ENROLLED ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY OUT OF DISTRICT STUDENTS AND SEVENTY TWO ARE STILL ENROLLED WITH US.

OVERALL, WE RETAIN ABOUT 66 PERCENT OF THE STUDENTS WHO TRANSFER INTO GARLAND ISD

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BECAUSE THIS TYPE OF TRANSFER IS CONTINGENT ON EMPLOYMENT IN GARLAND ISD THESE STUDENTS ARE UNABLE TO REMAIN IN GISD IF THEIR PARENTS LEAVE OUR EMPLOY.

OF THE STUDENTS WHO ARE NO LONGER ENROLLED SIXTY ONE OF THOSE STUDENTS LEFT FOR THAT REASON, THEIR PARENTS ARE NO LONGER ENROLLED WITH US.

ANOTHER THIRTY SEVEN HAVE FORTUNATELY GRADUATED, AND I'M SURE THEY'RE VERY HAPPY ABOUT THAT FROM GARLAND ISD AND FORTY NINE OF THOSE STUDENTS HAVE WITHDRAWN FOR OTHER REASONS.

OPEN ENROLLMENT, AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, IS BECOMING VERY POPULAR IN THE DFW AREA.

SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE NO LONGER COMPETING ONLY WITH CHARTERS OR PRIVATE SCHOOLS FOR STUDENTS.

WE'RE NOW COMPETING WITH EACH OTHER.

AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, WE'RE ONE OF SEVERAL DISTRICTS THAT ALLOW EMPLOYEES CHILDREN TO ENROLL AND ATTEND SCHOOL IN THE DISTRICT.

SEVERAL DIFFERENT DISTRICTS OFFER LIMITED OPEN ENROLLMENT.

THEY ACCEPT TRANSFERS FROM OUT OF DISTRICT STUDENTS IF THEY HAVE AVAILABLE SPACE AND STAFF CAPACITY.

SOME OF OUR NEAREST NEIGHBORS, DALLAS ISD AND PLANO ISD, HAVE OPEN ENROLLMENT FOR SPECIFIC CAMPUSES.

AND WE WILL TALK MORE ABOUT GRAND PRAIRIE SHORTLY.

WYLIE OFFERS INTER-DISTRICT TRANSFERS AT THE DISCRETION OF THE SUPERINTENDENT.

AS PART OF OUR MEMBERSHIP IN THE SYSTEM OF GREAT SCHOOLS, OR SGS, WE HAVE ACCESS TO THEIR RESEARCH AND GUIDANCE ON MANY ISSUES OF INNOVATION, INCLUDING THIS ONE.

WITH RESPECT TO OPEN ENROLLMENT SYSTEM OF GREAT SCHOOLS, HAS LOOKED DEEPER INTO OUR DECLINING ENROLLMENT AND THEY HAVE ANALYZED OUR STUDENT ENROLLMENT DATA THROUGH THE LENS OF TRANSFER TRENDS.

SO FOR THIS SLIDE, I'D LIKE TO CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO THE TOP CHART.

AND HERE OUR ENROLLMENT IS SHOWN OVER AN EIGHT YEAR PERIOD AND IT HIGHLIGHTS THREE YEARS, 2011, 2015 AND TWENTY NINETEEN.

BECAUSE THIS ANALYSIS WAS DONE BY AN EXTERNAL PARTNER THEY'RE LIMITED TO DATA THAT'S PUBLICLY AVAILABLE THROUGH TAPR PEIMS TRANSFER DATA AND THE TWENTY EIGHTEEN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY.

AND THE ANALYSIS DOES NOT INCLUDE OUR CURRENT ENROLLMENT BECAUSE IT IS SOURCED THROUGH PUBLICLY AVAILABLE DATA.

AND WHILE THE CHART DISPLAYS ENROLLMENT TRENDS RELATIVE TO THE DISTRICT, THE BULLETS GIVE US A CONTEXTUAL COMPARISON TO DALLAS COUNTY, WHICH HAS INCREASED ENROLLMENT BY 10 PERCENT IN THE SAME TIME PERIOD WHERE WE HAVE SEEN A FOUR PERCENT DECREASE ACROSS ALL OF THE LEVELS.

AND BREAKING DOWN THAT INFORMATION BY THE LEVEL MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL ENROLLMENT IN DALLAS COUNTY ARE UP ABOUT 16 PERCENT, WHILE OUR ENROLLMENT IN GARLAND ISD IS BASICALLY FLAT.

SIMILARLY, DALLAS COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ENROLLMENT IS UP FOUR PERCENT, BUT OUR GARLAND ISD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS HAVE SEEN A NINE PERCENT DECLINE IN STUDENT ENROLLMENT.

SO ALTHOUGH THE COUNTY THAT WE'RE IN AND THAT SURROUNDS US IS HAVING ENROLLMENT GROWTH, WE'RE CONTINUING TO EXPERIENCE ENROLLMENT DECLINE.

AND OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL TRANSFER RATES AT THE BOTTOM CHART, THEY GIVE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO HELP US UNDERSTAND OUR DATA TRENDS.

ABOUT SEVEN PERCENT OF ELIGIBLE STUDENTS WHO LIVE IN OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT BOUNDARIES CHOOSE TO TRANSFER OUT TO OTHER PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

THIS IS ABOUT FOUR THOUSAND STUDENTS, THE FOUR THOUSAND STUDENTS DR.

RINGO MENTIONED A MOMENT AGO THAT WE'VE DECLINED.

THAT'S WHERE THESE STUDENTS ARE.

AND ABOUT HALF OF THEM ARE ATTENDING PUBLIC SCHOOL CHARTERS LIKE IL TEXAS AND HARMONY.

AND EIGHT HUNDRED OF THEM ARE ATTENDING OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

THEY HAVE BEEN RECRUITED AWAY, AS DR.

LOPEZ INDICATED.

ADDITIONALLY, THERE ARE THREE THOUSAND STUDENTS WHO LIVE IN OUR DISTRICT, BUT THEY ATTEND PRIVATE OR HOME SCHOOLS.

AND THAT'S BASED ON ESTIMATES FROM THAT TWENTY EIGHTEEN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY.

SO WHEN WE THINK OF OPEN ENROLLMENT, AS DR.

LOPEZ MENTIONED IN HIS INITIAL OPENING, IT IS A LONG TERM EFFORT AND COMMITMENT.

IT'S NOT AN IMMEDIATE SOLUTION TO REVERSING DECLINING ENROLLMENT AND GENERATING ADDITIONAL REVENUE.

AND THE GRAND PRAIRIE'S CASE STUDY REALLY ILLUSTRATES THIS WELL.

GRAND PRAIRIE IS ABOUT HALF OUR SIZE, BUT IT CLOSELY MIRRORS OUR DEMOGRAPHICS.

SIXTY SIX PERCENT OF THEIR STUDENTS ARE ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED.

OF OUR STUDENTS ARE COMPARED TO SEVENTY SIX PERCENT OF THEIR STUDENTS.

WE ARE SIXTY NINE PERCENT AFRICAN-AMERICAN OR HISPANIC STUDENTS, COMPARED TO EIGHTY THREE PERCENT IN GRAND PRAIRIE.

AND WE OFFER A BETTER PRODUCT.

SEVENTY ONE PERCENT OF OUR STUDENTS ATTEND A SCHOOL RATED AS AN A OR B, COMPARED TO SIXTY THREE PERCENT IN GRAND PRAIRIE.

SO WHAT THIS SLIDE SHOWS US IS GRAND PRAIRIE ISD'S TRANSFER RATES OVER THE SAME EIGHT YEAR TIME PERIOD AS THE PRIOR SLIDE WITH OUR RATES.

WHILE WE'RE NOW AT SEVEN PERCENT OF FAMILIES CHOOSING OUT OF GARLAND ISD.

GRAND PRAIRIE WAS AT FIVE PERCENT IN 2012 AND 2013.

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ONCE THEY BECAME AN OPEN ENROLLMENT DISTRICT, THAT TREND BEGAN TO TURN, AND SIX YEARS LATER, THEY NOW HAVE A POSITIVE TRANSFER IN RATE OF PEOPLE CHOOSING TO ENROLL IN GRAND PRAIRIE.

NOT ONLY DID THEY MAKE UP THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE FIVE PERCENT OF FAMILIES TRANSFERRING OUT EIGHT YEARS AGO, THEY'VE ADDED IN ENOUGH ADDITIONAL STUDENTS TO MOVE INTO THE POSITIVE TRANSFER RATE ZONE.

IN NUMBERS.

THEY SHIFTED FROM THREE HUNDRED NINETY THREE STUDENTS TRANSFERRING IN TO GRAND PRAIRIE IN 2011 TO THREE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY SEVEN IN TWO THOUSAND NINETEEN TWENTY.

AND THOSE ADDITIONAL THREE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY SEVEN STUDENTS RESULTED IN AN ESTIMATED BUDGET ADDITION OF ABOUT TWENTY TWO MILLION NINE HUNDRED NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS IN ADA REVENUE.

AND THAT'S USING THE CURRENT SIXTY FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS PER A.D.A NUMBER.

AS NOTED BY THE MULTI-YEAR CHANGE IN ENROLLMENT, THIS SHIFT DIDN'T HAPPEN OVERNIGHT FOR GRAND PRAIRIE.

AND IF GARLAND'S BOARD OF TRUSTEES WERE TO ENCOURAGE US TO PURSUE OPENING ENROLLMENT IN OUR SCHOOLS TO INTER-DISTRICT TRANSFERS, IT WOULD BE A MULTIYEAR EFFORT AND COMMITMENT IN GARLAND ISD AS WELL.

DR. RINGO.

THANK YOU.

AS THE MODELS SHOW HERE, THERE'S A CONSERVATIVE, MODERATE AND AGGRESSIVE MODEL.

HOW ARE THESE DEVELOPED? THESE WERE DEVELOPED LOOKING AT THE OTHER DISTRICT THAT DR.

RUSSELL NOTED, GRAND PRAIRIE ISD AND ALONG WITH THE ENROLLMENT OF OUR CHILDREN FROM OUR PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS THAT ARE IN THE DISTRICT.

SO FROM THAT ANALYSIS, THESE THREE MODELS WERE DEVELOPED.

AND YOU CAN SEE WITH THE CONSERVATIVE, MODERATE AND AGGRESSIVE MODEL THAT BUDGET IMPACT AND SO ON, THAT CONSERVATIVE MODEL YEAR 1 50 STUDENTS COMING IN, THAT BUDGET IMPACT, YEAR THREE AND YEAR FIVE.

IN TOTAL AT YEAR FIVE, IT WOULD HAVE CLOSE TO A FIVE MILLION DOLLAR IMPACT ON REVENUE ON THE MODERATE APPROACH STARTING AT 350 STUDENTS COMING INTO THE SYSTEM FROM OUTSIDE THE DISTRICT.

THAT BUDGET IMPACT ALL THE WAY TO YEAR FIVE.

IF IT WERE ONE THOUSAND STUDENTS, IT WOULD HAVE AN IMPACT OF ROUGHLY SIX POINT FIVE MILLION DOLLARS.

ON AN AGGRESSIVE APPROACH IF THIS WERE TO OCCUR YEAR ONE, CLOSE TO FIVE MILLION DOLLARS ALL THE WAY DOWN TO YEAR FIVE BEING AT 200 WITH 12 MILLION DOLLARS.

THESE MODELS DO SHOW VARIOUS FINANCIAL IMPACTS IF THIS WERE TO OCCUR ALONG WITH THAT, A BENEFIT THAT'S ALREADY MENTIONED, OUR EMPLOYEES, CHILDREN AND OR IF THEY'RE A GRANDCHILD, IF I'M GOING TO RETIRE AND MY CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN IN THE SYSTEM AND THEY'RE TRANSFERRING IN, THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO STAY IN GISD TO FINISH OUT THEIR SCHOOL CAREER.

WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT BACK OVER TO.

MAY I INTERJECT ON THAT.

YES, SIR.

WHAT OPEN ENROLLMENT STUDIES SHOW IS BECAUSE AN AGING COMMUNITY LIKE GARLAND, THE GRANDPARENTS CAN THEN TAKE CARE OF THE GRAND BABIES AND THEY SEND THEM TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS NEAREST THE GRANDPARENT, NOT NEAREST THE PARENT.

IF THAT MAKES SENSE.

SO WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE CERTAIN NON-NEGOTIABLE OR KEY COMMITMENTS THAT MUST BE IN PLACE FOR THIS TO WORK IN OUR TRI CITIES AREA.

SO FIRST AND FOREMOST, WE WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT SHOULD THE DISTRICT APPROVE OPEN ENROLLMENT THROUGH INTER-DISTRICT TRANSFERS, WE MUST SERVE THE RESIDENTS HERE IN GARLAND ISD AS OUR FIRST PRIORITY AND THEN CONTINUE TO SERVE THOSE CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN OF OUR EMPLOYEES WHO ARE NONRESIDENTS.

EVER MINDFUL OF THE DISTRICT'S COMMITMENT TO EQUITY AND OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL, WE COMMIT TO MAINTAINING REPRESENTATIVE DIVERSITY IN OUR SCHOOLS AND MAINTAINING CAMPUS ENROLLMENT WITHIN THEIR BUILDING CAPACITIES.

WE ALSO COMMIT TO A RIGOROUS APPLICATION PROCESS THAT WOULD REQUIRE PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS TO SUBMIT REPORT CARDS, DISCIPLINE RECORDS AND ATTENDANCE RECORDS AS PART OF THE SCREENING PROCESS.

WE WOULD ALSO CONTINUE WORKING WITH THE SYSTEM OF GREAT SCHOOLS AS OUR PARTNER IN CRAFTING THE IMPLEMENTATION, DESIGN AND EVALUATION PLANS.

DIVING A LITTLE MORE DEEPLY INTO OUR DRAFT RECOMMENDATION FOR AN INTER-DISTRICT TRANSFER APPLICATION PROCESS, WE RECOMMEND CREATING A SECOND CHOICE WINDOW FOR NONRESIDENT STUDENTS.

THIS WILL ALLOW OUR RESIDENT FAMILIES, OF COURSE, TO HAVE FIRST PRIORITY FOR THE HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER SEATS IN MAGNET PROGRAMS AND ALSO IN OUR HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER CAMPUSES.

WE WOULD USE A DIGITAL APPLICATION PROCESS FOR OUR PERSPECTIVE FAMILIES, AND WE WOULD ALLOW THEM TO SUBMIT THEIR REPORT CARDS AND DISCIPLINE RECORDS AND ATTENDANCE

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WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING A SCREENING RUBRIC IN COLLABORATION WITH THE SYSTEM OF GREAT SCHOOLS THAT WILL ASSURE CONSISTENT AND EQUITABLE EVALUATION FOR EVERY SINGLE STUDENT.

WE ALSO BELIEVE THAT EDUCATION IS A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN FAMILIES AND THE CAMPUSES, SO EACH TRANSFER STUDENT AND PARENT WOULD SIGN AN ANNUAL COMPACT, AND THAT COMPACT WOULD SPECIFY EXPECTATIONS FOR THE STUDENTS TO REMAIN IN GARLAND ISD.

WE ALSO PLAN TO CREATE A TRANSFER REVIEW PROCESS WHERE EACH TRANSFER WILL BE REVIEWED ANNUALLY.

AND WE WOULD DO THIS BEFORE WE STARTED THE CHOICE OF SCHOOL PROCESS SO THAT WE'RE ABLE TO OFFER THOSE SEATS UP TO OUR RESIDENTS IF THE STUDENT DOES NOT QUALIFY FOR THE UPCOMING SCHOOL YEAR.

SO WE WOULD ALSO BE LOOKING AT OUR BEHAVIOR, THE STUDENTS BEHAVIOR IN ATTENDANCE, AND IF THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO FULFILL THAT COMPACT, OF COURSE, THEY WOULD NOT BE INVITED TO RETURN FOR THE FOLLOWING YEAR.

OF COURSE, ALL OF THESE CHANGES HAVE POTENTIAL POLICY REVISION IMPLICATIONS, AN INITIAL REVIEW OF OUR POLICIES INDICATES THAT POLICIES FC.

FD., FDA AND FDB COULD REQUIRE SOME AMENDMENTS.

POLICY FDA IN PARTICULAR WOULD HAVE TO BE UPDATED TO REFLECT THAT WE DO ALLOW INTER-DISTRICT TRANSFERS AND TO SPECIFY THE VARIOUS PROTOCOLS THAT WOULD ACCOMPANY OPEN ENROLLMENT.

SHOULD THE BOARD WISH FOR US TO PROCEED WITH THIS PROPOSAL, WE WILL WORK WITH THE POLICY ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO DRAFT THOSE REVISIONS AS NEEDED AND BRING THEM BACK TO THE BOARD FOR REVIEW AND APPROVAL.

SO THIS IS AN AGGRESSIVE PROPOSAL TO GENERATE NEW STUDENT ENROLLMENT THAT REQUIRES AN AGGRESSIVE TIMELINE.

AND TONIGHT WE'RE PRESENTING THE INITIAL PRESENTATION TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.

SHOULD TRUSTEES INDICATE THE DESIRE FOR US TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE PROCESS OF OPENING OUR ENROLLMENT BORDERS OUR NEXT STEP WOULD BE TO PRESENT THIS INFORMATION TO THE MULTI-ETHNIC COMMITTEE FOR THEIR FEEDBACK, WHICH WE WILL SHARE WITH THE BOARD PER OUR USUAL PROTOCOLS.

ON APRIL 1ST, WE WOULD BEGIN THE PROCESS OF IDENTIFYING CAMPUSES WITH SPACE TO ACCOMMODATE POTENTIAL INTER-DISTRICT TRANSFER STUDENTS.

WE WOULD THEN NOTIFY JUDGE KINKEADE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF OPENING DISTRICT ENROLLMENT FOR INTER-DISTRICT TRANSFER STUDENTS.

WE WOULD ALSO HOLD PARENT AND STUDENT FOCUS GROUPS TO HEAR THE COMMUNITY'S VOICE ON THIS MATTER.

GATHERING ALL OF THAT FEEDBACK FROM THE MEC TO JUDGE KINKEADE TO THE FOCUS GROUPS.

WE WOULD BRING THIS ITEM BACK TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE AT THE APRIL 13TH MEETING FOR ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATION.

SHOULD THE BOARD WISH FOR THIS ITEM TO MOVE FORWARD AS AN ACTION ITEM, IT WOULD BE PRESENTED TO THE BOARD AT THE APRIL 27TH MEETING FOR VOTE ON POLICY CHANGES.

SHOULD YOU APPROVE THOSE CHANGES, WE WOULD BEGIN ACCEPTING INTER-DISTRICT TRANSFERS AS EARLY AS MAY 1ST.

AT THIS TIME, WE WELCOME YOUR QUESTIONS.

TRUSTEES OUR TIME TO PARTICIPATE, AND I'M JUST GOING TO TELL YOU, I'M GOING TO GO AROUND THE ROOM.

EVERYBODY IS GOING TO NEED TO HAVE SOME INPUT.

SO IF YOU WOULD CHOOSE FOR ME TO START, ON ONE END, WE CAN START ON THIS END AND JUST WRAP BECAUSE THIS IS TOO CRITICAL TOO CRITICAL.

I'VE ALREADY SAID THAT THEY'RE TO ME ON THE TIMELINE, THERE'S SOME THINGS THAT ARE AT THE END THAT OUGHT TO BE AT THE FRONT.

BUT I'LL START WITH MR. GLICK.

THANK YOU, MR. GRIFFIN.

DR.

LOPEZ AND I HAD A BRIEF CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING TO BE PRESENTED TODAY.

AND YOU'VE ANSWERED MY MAIN CONCERN ABOUT PRIORITIZING PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE AND PAY TAXES HERE.

I WAS AGAINST THE PROPOSITION THAT DID PASS, ALLOWING PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS DON'T LIVE IN THE DISTRICT TO HAVE PRIORITY THE SAME PRIORITY AS RESIDENTS DO.

I'M STILL AGAINST THAT.

BUT THAT'S NOT THE ISSUE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT NOW.

WE'RE TALKING ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE COMING IN.

SO I'M OK WITH THAT.

ON A LIGHTER NOTE, IT SEEMS LIKE I'VE TALKED FOREVER ABOUT USING OUR SCHOOL BUSES TO ADVERTISE.

AND ON APRIL 28TH, WHEN THE MARKETING BEGINS, I CAN'T SEE A BETTER USE OF ALL THOSE SCHOOL BUSES RUNNING ALL AROUND TO PUT THAT ON THE SCHOOL BUSSES.

THANK YOU, MS. GRIFFIN.

MR. MILLER.

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YOU KNOW, TO ME, THERE'S KIND OF TWO THINGS.

DR.

LOPEZ USES THE TERM I LIKE TO USE, WHICH IS RIGHT SIZED.

THERE IS PROBABLY A RIGHT SIZING THAT GOES THAT WOULD NEED TO GO ON IN THIS DISTRICT IF WE CONTINUE TO HAVE SHRINKAGE IN OUR IDEA.

THERE'S NO DOUBT.

AND SO IN MY MIND, I'M TRYING TO PLAY OUT HOW THAT WOULD LOOK.

YOU KNOW, WE GOT A WHOLE LOT OF CAMPUSES.

THE PROBLEM, AS WE'VE DISCUSSED, IS WE DON'T HAVE ALL OF THE SHRINKAGE IN JUST ONE SCHOOL.

IT HAPPENS ACROSS THE SYSTEM.

SO YOU MAY HAVE YOU KNOW, IN OTHER WORDS, IF IT ALL HAPPENED IN ONE SCHOOL, IT WOULD BE REALLY EASY TO FIGURE OUT HOW YOU WOULD ADJUST.

BUT SINCE IT HAPPENS ALL OVER THE DISTRICT, IT BECOMES A LITTLE HARDER.

I KNOW WE DO HAVE SOME AGING CAMPUSES.

PROBABLY BE A EASIER DECISION AS TO WHAT WE KEEP AND WHAT WE DIDN'T KEEP IF WE EVER GOT TO THAT SCENARIO, BECAUSE SOME OF THOSE CAMPUSES ARE JUST OUTDATED AND NOT EFFICIENT AND COST THE DISTRICT A LOT OF MONEY AND A LOT OF LOST OPPORTUNITY, PROBABLY IN EDUCATIONAL VALUE.

SO I KIND OF LOOK AT THAT SIDE OF THE COIN, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT THOSE DECISIONS, THERE'S NOT A WHOLE LOT OF PLEASANT THINGS IN MY MIND THAT ARE INVOLVED WITH THAT.

YOU KNOW, GROWTH IS ALWAYS MORE FUN.

AND IN OUR, YOU KNOW, DR.

LOPEZ USED THE WORD COMPETITION.

WHETHER WE WANT TO OR NOT WE'RE IN COMPETITION AND WE MAY NOT BE PLAYING YET, BUT WE'RE COMPETING.

SO IT IS GOING ON.

IT'S GOING ON ACROSS THE METROPLEX.

SO PHILOSOPHICALLY, YOU KNOW, I'M TOTALLY OPEN TO LOOKING AT THIS.

I CAN SEE SOME BENEFIT FOR THE DISTRICT.

I CAN SEE SOME BENEFIT FOR THE KIDS.

AND HONESTLY, THAT'S HOW I'M GOING TO MEASURE IT, REALLY.

YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT A RESPONSIBILITY TO THE KIDS, PARENTS, TAXPAYERS, AND THOSE ARE THE PRIORITIES THAT I HAVE.

I'VE ALWAYS BEEN A TAKE CARE OF HOME BASE FIRST KIND OF PERSON WITH RESPECT TO ANYTHING I RUN WHETHER IT'S A BUSINESS OR MY HOUSE OR WHATEVER, TO TAKE CARE OF HOME BASE.

AND THEN IF YOU HAVE TIME OR RESOURCES LEFT, THEN YOU CAN DO OTHER THINGS.

AND I THINK THE GARLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT EPITOMIZES THIS IN THEIR GREAT FINANCIAL STANDING.

THE FACT THAT WE'VE BUILT SUCH A GOOD DISTRICT HERE, ONE I KNOW EVERYBODY'S PROUD OF.

SO THIS OPPORTUNITY TO, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY CONTINUE TO USE ALL OF OUR FACILITIES TO THE FULLEST, CONTINUE TO LET KIDS BENEFIT FROM THE GREAT EDUCATION THAT THEY CAN GET IN THIS DISTRICT.

IT IS ONE THAT THAT I'M VERY INTERESTED IN.

I LOOKED AT I SAW THE PRESENTATION AND, YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT WE DID SOME COMPARISONS WITH I THINK IT WAS A GRAND PRAIRIE.

YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WANT TO DIVE A LITTLE BIT DEEPER INTO IS SCHOOL DISTRICTS LIKE GARLAND.

WE'RE SURROUNDED BY OTHER PRETTY GOOD SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE RATINGS ARE OF THE DISTRICTS THAT ARE AROUND GRAND PRAIRIE.

OBVIOUSLY, IN A SCENARIO WHERE ONE SCHOOL DISTRICT WAS DOING PRETTY GOOD AND THE REST OF THEM WEREN'T DOING WELL, IF THAT DISTRICT OPENED UP, THEY'D PROBABLY GET MORE KIDS IN AND LEAVE.

IN OUR CASE, YOU KNOW, IT'S PROBABLY GOING TO BE HIGHLY COMPETITIVE.

AND I WOULD ASSUME GRAND PRAIRIE IS PRETTY SIMILAR.

BUT I KNOW IN OUR CASE, IT APPEARS TO ME TO BE VERY COMPETITIVE BECAUSE WE'VE GOT MESQUITE, WYLIE, IN SOME CASES, RICHARDSON, IN SOME CASES PLANO, AND IN ALL OF THE CHARTER SCHOOLS AS WELL, PRIVATE SCHOOLS, HOME SCHOOLS, ALL THE DIFFERENT THINGS THAT KIDS CAN DO.

SO, YOU KNOW, I WOULD THINK WE WANT TO DIVE DEEP INTO THAT TO SEE WHAT IS PROBABLE.

WE CAN PROBABLY GET TO A WHAT IS PROBABLE FOR US IN TERMS OF HOW SUCCESSFUL IT WOULD BE TO OPEN IT UP.

ANOTHER QUESTION I HAVE IS IF A STUDY HAS BEEN DONE FOR OPEN CAMPUS STUDENTS WHO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT, HOW FAR ARE THEY WILLING TO TRAVEL? YOU CAN DRAW THEM FROM FIVE MILES.

CAN YOU DRAW THEM FOR TWENTY FIVE MILES? YOU KNOW, HOW FAR WILL THEY TRAVEL AND HOW WILL THAT FACTOR INTO ANY PROJECTIONS

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SO, YOU KNOW MY THOUGHTS ON THIS RIGHT NOW, IT'S PRETTY MUCH LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE THAT COMES TO ME THAT KIND OF BECOMES A NEW THOUGHT OR A NEW CONCEPT FOR ME, I MOVE PROBABLY SLOWER THAN FASTER.

I KNOW THAT THERE MAY BE A PUSH HERE TO TRY TO GET SOMETHING DONE BY AUGUST.

IF THAT'S THE CASE, THEN THE TIMELINE YOU PUT FORTH MAKES SENSE.

IF THE BOARD GOES FORWARD WITH THAT.

OK, BUT I'M RIGHT NOW TOTALLY OPEN TO THIS.

THERE'S A LOT MORE INVESTIGATION AND I HOPE THE BOARD WILL FULLY VET THIS THING AND THE RAMIFICATIONS OF WHAT IT MEANS TO FOR ME IT'S THE THEORY OF TAKING CARE OF OUR HOME BASE.

AND IF WE'RE BETTER OFF TAKING CARE OF OUR HOME BASE BY SHRINKING, IT MAY BE SOME PAIN UP FRONT, BUT THAT MAY BE A BETTER RESULT 10 YEARS FROM NOW.

OR IS IT BETTER TO OPEN THE GATES, SO TO SPEAK, AND TRY TO MAINTAIN AT THAT FIFTY FIVE THOUSAND KID LEVEL? SO TO ME, THAT'S WHERE WE ARE.

WE HAVE THE FACILITIES TO DO 55000 WE HAVE FACILITIES TO DO PROBABLY FIFTY SIX, FIFTY SEVEN, FIFTY EIGHT THOUSAND KIDS.

THE FACILITIES ARE OUT THERE.

AND THE OTHER THING I LOOK AT IS OUR PROGRAMS. WHAT WOULD DRAW KIDS HERE.

WELL THE GILBREATH-REED RIGHT.

IT'S THE GREATEST BUILDING IN TEXAS IN MY OPINION.

WHAT GOES ON IN THAT BUILDING IS MAGIC.

BUT THAT'S KIND OF FULL.

WELL, AND THAT COULD BE MY MISUNDERSTANDING IF YOU SEE WHAT I'M GETTING AT THOUGH, IF THERE IS A WAY FOR KIDS FROM OUT OF DISTRICT TO BE ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF OUR REALLY GOOD PROGRAMS. WE HAVE A NATATORIUM NOW.

RIGHT.

AND NOT EVERY DISTRICT IS GOING TO HAVE A NATATORIUM ANYWHERE CLOSE TO AS GOOD AS WHAT WE HAVE.

SO THERE'S ANOTHER ONE I SEE POTENTIAL DRAW.

THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF OTHER THINGS PROBABLY.

BUT I WOULD WANT TO VET ALL OF THAT AND JUST KIND OF GET THIS PLAN TOGETHER SO THAT WE AS A BOARD CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT OUR PROBABILITY WOULD BE AND THEN WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.

AND I'M ALWAYS TRYING TO LOOK 10 YEARS DOWN THE ROAD BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO DO ANYTHING TODAY THAT'S GOING TO HAMSTRING WHOEVER THE SCHOOL BOARD IS FIVE YEARS FROM NOW OR 10 YEARS FROM NOW.

THANK YOU.

JUST REAL QUICK, MADAM CHAIR, I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY, WE DO HAVE A LOT OF PROGRAMS THAT ARE OPEN.

THE PROGRAMS THAT ARE CLOSED MAINLY ARE LIKE MST MAGNETS OUR EARLY GT SCHOOLS, HILLSIDE, THOSE TYPE OF THINGS AUSTIN ACADEMY.

THE SECOND THING I WANTED TO RELAY WAS THAT ONE OF THE INTANGIBLES NOW THAT WE'RE FACING IS IT'S HARD TO PREDICT OUT BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE TAKING OUR KIDS.

SO THERE'S NO RIGHT SIZING.

WE COULD THEORETICALLY SAY WE'RE GOING TO BUILD TO, WE'LL, USE A ROUND NUMBER FIFTY THOUSAND.

RIGHT.

WELL, IF PEOPLE KEEP TAKING OUR KIDS AND WE'RE NOT TAKING OTHERS, IT'LL JUST KEEP DROPPING, YOU KNOW, AND EVEN WITH THE NEW HOUSES COMING OUT, WHAT HAPPENS IS PEOPLE TALK.

MY NEIGHBORS LIKE, WELL, YOU DON'T WANT TO GO TO THIS SCHOOL DISTRICT.

YOU CAN GO TO THIS SCHOOL DISTRICT.

AND THEN WE'RE LOSING THAT POINT FOUR TWO BECOMES POINT THREE, TWO BECOMES POINT TWO FIVE.

AND THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO STOP AVOIDING.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR OPEN MINDNESS.

MR. BEACH.

I LOOK AT THIS WAY, GAME'S ON, LET'S DO IT.

THE COMPETITION IS THERE, EVERYONE AROUND US IS DOING THE SAME THING.

WE'VE HAD THE CHARTER SCHOOLS THAT HAVE BEEN PULLING FROM US EVER SINCE 2014 OR TWENTY TEN, WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE, I THINK AS CHAIRMAN OF THE POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE, WE'RE GOING TO BE MOTIVATED.

WE'RE GOING TO BE READY TO MAKE THESE POLICY CHANGES AND READY TO DO THIS AND PUT US ON THE MAP WHERE WE NEED TO BE, BECAUSE I THINK WE NEED TO MOVE FORWARD.

LIKE MR. GLICK SAID, LET'S PUT A MARKETING PACKAGE TOGETHER THAT WILL JUST BLOW PEOPLE'S SOCKS AWAY.

LET'S NOT STAND BACK AND LET THE OTHERS TAKE PEOPLE FROM US.

LET'S GET IT FROM THEM BECAUSE WE'RE IN THE BUSINESS FOR COMPETITION.

AND THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO DO.

WE HAVE PTEC, WE HAVE COLLEGE FOR ALL.

WE HAVE NEW COURSE OFFERINGS THAT WE JUST PASSED AS A BOARD.

WHY DID WE DO THAT? TO DRAW STUDENTS AND TO DRAW FAMILIES INTO THIS COMMUNITY.

LET'S GET WITH OUR REALTORS AND LET THEM KNOW.

LOOK WHAT WE'RE DOING IN GARLAND ISD.

LET THEM PUT THE FLIERS OUT THERE FOR US TOO.

LET'S MOTIVATE THIS DISTRICT AND THE PEOPLE THAT ARE SURROUNDING IT AND ARE MOVING IN.

WE HAD REPORT OF ALL THE NEW HOMES THAT ARE BEING BUILT AND THE PEOPLE THAT ARE WANTING TO COME LET'S GIVE THEM A REASON TO DO THAT, BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO BE AN OPEN DISTRICT.

WE'RE GOING TO GIVE YOUR CHILD THE BEST EDUCATION IN TEXAS, PERIOD.

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OF COURSE, I HAVE TO FOLLOW THAT.

[LAUGHTER] I DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING DURING THE DEMOGRAPHERS PRESENTATION.

THE REASON WHY IS I THINK IT ALL KIND OF DOVETAILS INTO WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE.

I THINK OPEN ENROLLMENT IS SOMETHING THAT, IN MY OPINION, WE'VE HAD TO DO FOR A LITTLE BIT A WHILE.

BUT I THINK IT'S ONLY ONE COMPONENT OF WHAT NEEDS TO OCCUR.

I THINK THE STRIKING THING, JAMIE POINTED THAT OUT A LITTLE BIT EARLIER IS, YES, ENROLLMENT IS DECLINING, BUT IT'S NOT EVEN IT'S NOT ACROSS THE BOARD.

IT'S NOT LIKE EVERY SINGLE SCHOOL IS DECLINING AT FOUR PERCENT.

SOME OF OUR SCHOOLS ARE GOING UP.

SOME OF OUR SCHOOLS ARE GOING DOWN.

MORE THAN FOUR.

SOME ARE STEADY.

WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT KIND OF I THINK WE KNOW THE DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS.

WE GET TWO DEMOGRAPHIC REPORTS A YEAR, BUT WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO ABOUT THAT.

WITH RESPECT TO THE CONCEPT OF RIGHT SIZING, I THINK IT'S A DIFFICULT THING TO DO.

ONE AS DR.

LOPEZ POINTED OUT, THESE PEOPLE ARE STILL COMING FOR OUR STUDENTS SO THAT THERE'S ALWAYS A POTENTIAL WE GET POACHED FROM THEM, FROM CHARTERS AND OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

BUT ANOTHER ASPECT IS I'M LOOKING AT A DEMOGRAPHER REPORT THAT SAYS WE MIGHT BE BACK TO 58000 BY THE END OF THE DECADE.

SO WHAT WE DO, WE CLOSE A BUNCH OF THE SCHOOLS DOWN IN ANTICIPATION OF BEING AT 48000 AND THEN WE'RE 10000 SHORT OF WHERE WE NEED TO BE.

I MEAN, WE DON'T KNOW.

OPEN ENROLLMENT GIVES US THE FLEXIBILITY TO DEAL WITH THAT, POTENTIALLY BECAUSE WE CAN KEEP OUR CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE IN PLACE.

WE CAN USE STUDENTS FROM OUT OF DISTRICT TO STABILIZE OUR ENROLLMENT SO WE CAN KEEP THE INFRASTRUCTURE IN PLACE.

AND THEN IF THIS DEMOGRAPHIC MIRACLE MATERIALIZES IN NINE YEARS FROM NOW, WE'RE BACK AT FIFTY SEVEN THOUSAND.

WE'VE STILL GOT THE CAPACITY TO TAKE CARE OF THESE KIDS AND MAYBE WE HAVE TO CUT BACK ON THE LEVEL OF OPEN ENROLLMENT THAT WE HAVE.

BUT THIS GIVES US THE FLEXIBILITY TO DO WHAT WE NEED TO DO WITH RESPECT TO THE CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS.

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I THINK IS INTERESTING IS THERE'S THIS NEIGHBORHOOD.

IT WAS FEATURED IN THE DEMOGRAPHERS REPORT CALLED THE DOMINION OF PLEASANT VALLEY.

IT'S NOT THAT FAR FROM WHERE I LIVE AND WHERE DR.

LOPEZ LIVES.

IT'S IN WYLIE, BUT IT'S IN PART OF IT'S IN OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT.

I LOOK AT THAT NEIGHBORHOOD AND MOST AN THE DEMOGRAPHERS COMPLETELY RIGHT THEY'RE, GETTING READY TO OPEN A WHOLE ANOTHER PHASE, ALL ON THE GISD SIDE OF THINGS.

BUT IT'S FOUR MILES FROM ANY GISD SCHOOL AND THERE'S NO STRAIGHT ROADS TO GET YOU THERE.

IT IS ONE POINT TWO MILES FROM A WYLIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

WHERE DO YOU THINK THOSE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SEND THEIR KIDS.

IT'S SUPERINTENDENT DISCRETION LET ME TELL YOU WHAT THAT DISCRETION IS.

THANK YOU.

THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT'S GOING ON, BECAUSE YOU SEE IT THROUGHOUT SACHSE.

ONE THING I'VE LEARNED SINCE I MOVED TO SACHSE IS A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF THE WOODBRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT'S IN THE GISD IS GOING TO WYLIE SCHOOLS BECAUSE WYLIE HAD THE FORESIGHT AND NOT SAYING WE DIDN'T WE DIDN'T HAVE THE LAND, BUT THEY BUILT A SCHOOL LITERALLY RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT, WHERE THE BACK BOUNDARY OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IS THE DALLAS COUNTY LINE.

SO LITERALLY THE KIDS WALK UP AND TOUCH OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT WHILE THEY'RE PLAYING ON THE PLAYGROUND IN THE AFTERNOONS.

THAT'S A DIFFICULT THING TO OVERCOME.

I MEAN, I THINK MARKETING ON SCHOOL BUSSES IS GREAT, BUT IF SOMEONE'S BACKYARD BACKS UP TO A SCHOOL AND THAT PRINCIPAL SAYS, COME ON OVER, THAT'S A TOUGH THING TO OVERCOME, ESPECIALLY IF IT'S A PRETTY GOOD SCHOOL, COX ELEMENTARY IS A GOOD SCHOOL.

SO WE HAVE OUR WORK CUT OUT FOR US ON SOME OF THESE ISSUES, EVEN IF WE OPEN ENROLLMENT, BUT AT LEAST OPEN ENROLLMENT ALLOWS US TO FIGHT BACK ON OTHER AREAS, TOO.

MAYBE WE CAN'T WIN EVERYONE BACK FROM WYLIE.

WE'RE GOING TO TRY, BUT MAYBE WE CAN PULL SOME PEOPLE FROM NORTH MESQUITE THAT WANT TO GO TO LAKEVIEW'S EARLY COLLEGE PROGRAM.

MAYBE I JUST THINK THAT WE NEED TO GIVE THE SUPERINTENDENT THE TOOLS THAT OTHER PEOPLE HAVE IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO DEAL WITH THESE DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS.

I THINK THE THING THAT WE'VE HEARD IT BEFORE FROM PEOPLE, AND IT'S A PERFECTLY NATURAL THING TO SAY, HEY, I WANT TO TAKE CARE OF OUR TAXPAYERS FIRST.

IN AN IDEAL WORLD, THE MONEY THAT THAT MY NEIGHBOR PAYS FOR HIS TAXES WOULD GO STRAIGHT TO OUR SCHOOLS.

BUT WE KNOW THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENS.

IT GOES TO AUSTIN, BASICALLY.

AND WE JUST GET BACK WHAT AUSTIN FUNNELS OUT.

AND THESE OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS HAVE LEARNED PROBABLY AHEAD OF US THAT THIS ADA IS THE COIN OF THE REALM AT THIS POINT.

AND EITHER WE GET WITH THE PROGRAM OR WE LOSE MONEY.

THAT'S JUST HOW IT IS.

IT'S NOT AN IDEAL SITUATION AND CERTAINLY NOT THE SCHOOL FINANCING FORMULA I WOULD PROBABLY COME UP WITH, ALTHOUGH I'M NOT GOING TO DISPARAGE THE LEGISLATURE TOO MUCH BECAUSE THAT'S A DIFFICULT THING TO DO.

IT'S THE SYSTEM THAT WE HAVE.

SO WE EITHER PLAY WITHIN THE SYSTEM THAT WE'RE GIVEN OR WE LOSE.

I THINK IT'S PRETTY MUCH THAT SIMPLE.

SO I THINK OPEN ENROLLMENT IS SOMETHING THAT'S TIME IS PROBABLY OVERDUE IN OUR

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WE CAN PROTECT OUR RESIDENTS, WE CAN PROTECT OUR MAGNET PROGRAMS FROM BEING OVERRUN, SO TO SPEAK.

IF THERE'S ROOM, I HOPE.

I WELCOME NEW PEOPLE TO COME TO OUR MAGNET PROGRAMS. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, IT GIVES OUR ADMINISTRATION THE FLEXIBILITY TO DEAL WITH THINGS FINANCIALLY AND TO DEAL WITH THE DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS.

SO WE DON'T NECESSARILY OVERREACT TO THIS DECLINING ENROLLMENT WHEN THE DEMOGRAPHER SAYS THERE IS A REALLY GOOD POSSIBILITY, ALL THIS COMES RIGHT BACK.

SO I DON'T WANT TO CLOSE, BUT NOT TO MENTION, I THINK WITH ALL THESE HOUSING CONSTRUCTS IN THE AREA THAT HE'S SAYING THE SACHSE KIND OF NORTH ROWLETT AREA, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF CAPACITY IN OUR SCHOOLS FOR THIS.

ARMSTRONG ELEMENTARY IS ALREADY OVER CAPACITY, REALLY.

SEWELL'S NEARING IT.

LIBERTY GROVE HAS SOME CAPACITY TO DEAL WITH LIKE THESE NEW NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE EMERGING IN WYLIE.

BUT YOU BUILD TWO OR THREE OF THOSE AND IT'S GOING TO BE A CAPACITY TOO.

SO, I MEAN, WE MAY NOT BE LOOKING AT JUST TRYING TO KEEP OPEN THE SCHOOLS WE HAVE OPENED.

WE MIGHT END UP HAVING TO BUILD A COUPLE MORE AT SOME POINT.

SO AS WEIRD AS THAT SOUNDS, BUT OPEN ENROLLMENT WILL GIVE US THOSE TOOLS AND THE FLEXIBILITY.

AND SO THEREFORE, I'M IN FAVOR OF MOVING FORWARD WITH IT.

THANK YOU.

PRESIDENT SELDERS.

THANK YOU.

I WOULD LIKE TO JUST SAY IN GENERAL, I THINK THIS BOARD HAS ALWAYS SHOWN THAT WE IN GENERAL SUPPORTED ADMINISTRATION AND RECOMMENDATIONS THAT YOU GUYS HAVE BROUGHT FORWARD.

I DON'T KNOW THAT THIS IS ANY DIFFERENT.

I THINK THAT THERE ARE SOME PIECES THAT LEND THEMSELVES WELL TO QUESTIONS THAT NEED TO BE HASHED OUT AND UNDERSTOOD.

YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU TALKED ABOUT THAT, THAT WE'RE IN COMPETITION AND THAT'S ALWAYS BEEN THE CASE.

BUT WHEN I LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENED SINCE 2011 WITH CHARTERS AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND ALL OF THOSE THINGS.

THAT HASN'T REALLY CHANGED, RIGHT, I THINK IN TERMS OF WHAT IS IT ABOUT WHERE WE ARE AND WHAT WE'RE DOING THAT HAD SOME THREE THOUSAND STUDENTS DECIDE NOT TO BE A PART OF GARLAND ISD.

SO I THINK WHEN WE TALK ABOUT TAKING CARE OF OUR OWN, I ALWAYS THINK BACK TO HOW DO WE MANAGE OR HOW DO WE KEEP OUR STUDENTS? WHAT DO WE DO OR WHAT DIDN'T WE DO TO HAVE THE RETENTION NUMBERS SUCH THAT THOSE STUDENTS ARE NO LONGER HERE WITH US? AND I'M SURE THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF DIFFERENT FACTORS THAT YOU CAN KIND OF GET INTO.

BUT, YOU KNOW, HEY, ARE WE ABLE TO CLOSE THE REVOLVING DOOR? CAN WE MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE PUTTING A STOP TO THAT? OR, YOU KNOW, WITH THE PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE, THEY'RE GREAT.

BUT, YOU KNOW, WE ALWAYS HEAR THAT GARLAND ISD IS ONE OF NORTH TEXAS' IS BEST KEPT SECRETS.

WHY IS THAT STILL THE CASE? WHAT ARE WE DOING NOW TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S NO LONGER GOING TO BE THE CASE GOING FORWARD? SO IN TERMS OF JUST SUPPORT FOR THE IDEA OF OPEN ENROLLMENT, I'M DEFINITELY ALL FOR IT.

I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, BEING MINDFUL OF GROWTH, BEING MINDFUL OF HOW WE DO THIS, I THINK IS GOING TO BE SUPER IMPORTANT.

YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MS. GRIFFIN ALWAYS TALKS ABOUT IS WHAT'S THE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN? YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THAT GOING TO LOOK LIKE GOING FORWARD AND MAKING SURE THAT IT'S SOLID AND IT'S WELL THOUGHT OUT, BECAUSE WHEN I LOOK AT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU GUYS HAVE SHARED WITH US, A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS THAT CAME TO MIND WITH ME IS WHAT IS OUR CURRENT CAPACITY? DO WE EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT IS? AND THEN, YOU KNOW, WITH THE DEMOGRAPHER SAYING THAT WE PROBABLY WILL BE BACK AT FIFTY EIGHT THOUSAND STUDENTS AT SOME POINT, YOU KNOW, DOES THAT MEAN THAT WITH ANY STUDENTS THAT WE'RE INVITED INTO THE DISTRICT AT SOME POINT WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO INVITE, YOU KNOW, ANY MORE? HAVE WE THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT THAT RAMP IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE? YOU GUYS HAVE IDENTIFIED SOME REGIONS WITHIN THE GARLAND ISD TERRITORY JUST OUTSIDE OF THOSE BORDERS WHERE WE COULD POTENTIALLY PULL STUDENTS FROM.

WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE POTENTIAL THERE IN TERMS OF THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO GROW WITH? WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR OUR TEACHERS? YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A SITUATION WHERE WE'RE HAVING TO HAVE SUPER SUBS, LIKE WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE AS WE START TO THINK THROUGH BRINGING THIS ON BOARD? AND SO, LIKE I SAID, YOU KNOW, IN GENERAL, I'M FOR OPEN ENROLLMENT AND WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE BEING MINDFUL OF WHAT IT'S GOING TO COST TO IMPLEMENT WHAT THAT IMPLEMENTATION PLAN LOOKS LIKE.

AND THEN HOW IS IT GOING TO IMPACT US AS WE GO FORWARD.

THANK YOU.

THANK YOU, TRUSTEES.

AND I KNOW I KIND OF DIFFERED FROM BEFORE BECAUSE I THINK THIS IS SO IMPORTANT THAT EVERYONE MUST HAVE A VOICE.

MR. GLICK.

YEAH.

COULD I HAVE A COUPLE MORE COMMENTS IS THAT OKAY? YES.

THANK YOU.

TWO, LET'S SAY, MORE PERSONAL EXAMPLES.

SO I MOVED TO ROWLETT.

WE WERE LIVING IN THE IF YOU DIVIDE ROWLETT INTO FOUR QUADRANTS.

WE WERE LIVING IN THE NORTHWEST QUADRANT ON AN ACRE HOME, BUT WE'RE ON

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AND IT WAS A RELATIVELY SMALL HOME AS OUR FAMILY WAS GROWING.

AND WE STARTED LOOKING LITERALLY IN MANY, MANY PLACES FOR A NEW HOME AND FOUND A REALLY WONDERFUL LOT IN A NEW DEVELOPMENT, LITERALLY ON LAKE RAY HUBBARD IN ROWLETT, BUT IN ROCKWALL COUNTY.

SO IF YOU KNOW WHERE THAT DALROCK ROAD GOES NORTH SOUTH.

THIS WAS JUST EAST OF DALROCK ROAD AND IT WASN'T REALLY FAR FROM COLLINS LAKE POINT, WHICH IS THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OF ROCKWALL ISD.

SO I CALLED ROCKWALL ISD AND ASKED THEM ABOUT FUTURE PLANS FOR A MIDDLE SCHOOL OR HIGH SCHOOL ON THE ROWLETT SIDE OF THE LAKE.

AND THEY WERE VERY CLEAR.

I ACTUALLY ENDED UP SPEAKING TO AN ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT, SAID WE HAVE NO PLANS, NOR WILL WE HAVE PLANS TO EVER BUILD FURTHER THAN COLLINS LAKE POINT ON THE ROWLETT SIDE.

SO I ACTUALLY DECIDED, LET'S SEE WHAT IT'S LIKE TO GO ACROSS THAT BRIDGE.

THIS WAS WAY BACK IN THE YEAR, LIKE IT WAS, I GUESS, AT THAT POINT, LIKE 2000 TO DRIVE ACROSS THE LAKE AT THE TIME OF SCHOOLS AND TIME AFTER SCHOOL.

AND IT WAS REALLY HARD BECAUSE I WAS THINKING IF WE WERE GOING TO DRIVE OUR KIDS TO SCHOOL, WHICH WE WOULD HAVE DONE, IT WAS GOING TO BE VERY DIFFICULT.

AND COMMUTES WERE IMPOSSIBLE BOTH DIRECTIONS.

SO MY THOUGHTS ARE, ONE, THAT WE HAVE A REALLY GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR THAT AREA.

AND WHEN I TALKED ABOUT SCHOOL BUSES AND SIGNS ON SCHOOL BUSES, THOSE BUSES GET REAL CLOSE TO THAT BOUNDARY AREA, I PROMISE YOU, THEY GET CLOSE AND A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE SHOP ON THE OTHER SIDE OF DALROCK ROAD.

SO THEY'LL SEE THOSE BUSSES.

THAT'S ONE THING.

THE OTHER THING IS, IN MY LEADERSHIP CLASS OF TEXAS ASSOCIATION SCHOOL BOARDS, WE HAVE A GENTLEMAN WHO WAS AT THAT POINT PRESIDENT OF THE GRAND PRAIRIE SCHOOL DISTRICT, AND THIS WAS TWENTY FIFTEEN, TWENTY SIXTEEN.

AND WE TALKED VERY EXTENSIVELY ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING ON WITH GRAND PRAIRIE.

HE CALLED IT THE GRAND PRAIRIE MIRACLE AS THEY WERE CHANGING FROM LOSING KIDS.

AND YOU CAN SEE ON PAGE SEVEN OF THE REPORT THAT WE JUST HAD THE CHANGES IN GRAND PRAIRIE THAT WAS GOING ON.

THEY WERE GETTING DESTROYED.

THEY WERE TRULY GETTING DESTROYED.

A NEW SUPERINTENDENT CAME IN WHO GOT A LOT OF NATIONAL PUBLICITY, NOT JUST STATE NATIONAL PUBLICITY FOR WHAT THEY WERE DOING.

THEY BUILT THE DUBISKI CENTER.

MR. MILLER WAS REFERRING TO WHAT WE DID, BUT WE LOOKED AT WE ACTUALLY VISITED THE DUBISKI CENTER IN GRAND PRAIRIE BEFORE BUILDING GILBREATH-REED.

THAT WAS ONE OF OUR MODELS.

WE MADE IT BETTER.

WE LOOKED AT WHAT THEY DID.

WE MADE IT BETTER.

SO, YEAH, THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING BECAUSE THEY HAD A LOT OF COMPETING DISTRICTS.

THEY THOUGHT IF THEY IMPROVED THEIR DISTRICT, THEY COULD CHANGE THE DEMOGRAPHICS, BRING IN MORE KIDS AND THEY SUCCEEDED.

SO THOSE ARE TWO EXAMPLES, AND THAT'S WHY I'M IN FAVOR OF THIS.

THANK YOU, MS. GRIFFIN.

OK, I'VE HEARD DIVE DEEPLY HOW FAR ARE THEY WILLING TO TRAVEL.

LET'S FULLY VET THIS.

WHAT PROGRAMS ARE AVAILABLE? GAME ON, GIVE THE TOOLS FOR FLEXIBILITY, PLAY OR LOOSE, DO IT SMART SUPPORT ADMINISTRATION.

HOW TO KEEP STUDENTS CLOSE THE REVOLVING DOOR.

SNAPSHOT OF THE DISTRICT IS WHERE I WANT TO START IS WE TAKE A SNAPSHOT FOR OUR ATTENDANCE EVERY OCTOBER OR IS IT SEPTEMBER.

OCTOBER.

IT'S THE LAST FRIDAY IN OCTOBER.

AND AT THAT THAT'S EVERYTHING THAT WE PROJECT FOR THE YEAR IS KIND OF BASED OFF OF THAT SNAPSHOT A LITTLE BIT.

RIGHT.

YES.

AND SO WHEN I LOOK ON PAGE SIX EIGHTY TWO THAT TALKS ABOUT THIS TIME FRAME, THAT IS VERY AGGRESSIVE.

WHEN I SAY ARE WE READY TO MOVE THIS OUT, WHAT IS OUR SNAPSHOT RIGHT NOW? WHAT ARE THE PROGRAMS THAT ARE OPEN AN HAVE CAPACITY? WHAT ARE THE SCHOOLS THAT ARE OPEN AND HAVE CAPACITY? WHEN DOES THE CHOICE PROGRAM OFFICIALLY CLOSE? I KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT CREATING A SECOND CHOICE PROGRAM JUST FOR THIS.

SO HOW DO WE AS A BOARD KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING? I'M PAST THE CONCEPT.

THE CONCEPT IS TO INCREASE ENROLLMENT.

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I JUST DON'T, BECAUSE I THINK WHETHER WE CALL IT A SNAPSHOT OR WHETHER WE CALL IT A DASHBOARD OR WHATEVER, THAT THAT SHOULD BE OUR STARTING POINT SO WE KNOW WHAT'S AVAILABLE.

I DON'T WANT YOU ALL TO KNOW THAT ALL THESE PROGRAMS ARE OPEN AND I'M MAKING ASSUMPTION OF WHAT PROGRAMS ARE OPEN.

AND I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS AND DR.

LOPEZ AND I'VE HAD THIS CONVERSATION IS THE FACT THAT YOU ALL DO IT EVERY DAY AND YOU'VE BEEN WORKING TOWARD THIS PRESENTATION AND YOU ALL HAVE TO DO ALL OF THIS STUFF.

SO ALL OF THIS STUFF IS SECOND NATURE TO YOU AND YOU HAVE ALL OF THAT IN YOUR MIND.

IF I WOULD ASK YOU WHICH TO SOME OF THOSE PROGRAMS, I WOULD SUGGEST THAT ALL OF YOU COULD RATTLE IT OFF, BUT WE DON'T HAVE IT.

OK, SO WHEN I LOOK AT THIS TIMELINE, I QUESTION WHY? WHY WOULD WE NOT IDENTIFY? AND THAT'S WHAT I'M CALLING THE SNAPSHOT OF OPEN CAMPUSES AND OPEN PROGRAMS. WHY WOULD WE HAVE THAT DONE BEFORE WE MOVE IT OUT INTO AN ADVISORY GROUP WHO ARE JUST ADVISORY? I MEAN, THAT GROUP REALLY MOVING ON.

THEY ARE ADVISORY.

WHY WOULD WE NOT TALK TO OUR PARENTS TO GET THEIR INPUT BEFORE WE DO ALL OF THESE OTHER STEPS? SO CONCEPTUALLY, WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO, I THINK EVERYONE HAS SAID IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGE THEY UNDERSTAND, BUT DO WE UNDERSTAND WHAT THE IMPLEMENTATION IS? I LINDA GRIFFIN.

I LINDA GRIFFIN DO NOT WANT TO BE FOLLOWING THIS IMPLEMENTATION AT THE SAME TIME THE FAMILIES ARE FOLLOWING IT, STAFF IS FOLLOWING IT.

I JUST THINK IT'S YOU ALL A GREAT STAFF.

YOU ARE GREAT COMPETITIVE STAFF.

I'M SURE EVERYTHING THAT I ASKED YOU JUST THEN, YOU ALREADY HAVE.

YOU JUST DIDN'T BRING IT.

YOU JUST DIDN'T BRING IT.

AND SO I DON'T SEE ME ASKING FOR THAT INFORMATION AS A DELAY BECAUSE IT'S AT YOUR FINGERTIPS.

AND HOWEVER YOU WANT TO BRING IT BACK TO US, THAT'S ON YOU.

BUT I DO THINK THERE HAS TO BE SOME PROPER PROTOCOL.

WE HAVE TALKED IN THIS DISTRICT ABOUT WE TALK ABOUT THE GILBREATH-REED BUT I RUN INTO PEOPLE FREQUENTLY ON THE PHONE OR ZOOM THAT STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT THE OFFERINGS ARE OF THE GILBREATH-REED, BUT WHO STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND THE COLLEGE FOR ALL AT ALL OF THE SCHOOLS.

I'M NOT SAYING THIS IS ANYBODY'S FAULT.

I'M JUST SAYING THERE IS STILL A LOT MORE AS MR. GLICK TALKS ABOUT MARKETING AND PUBLICITY.

SO I SAY TO START THIS, WHY DON'T WE HAVE A SNAPSHOT? WHAT IS IT? SO WHEN WE GET DOWN THE ROAD, WE CAN GO BACK TO BASICALLY WHERE WE STARTED.

AND THAT IS BASICALLY MY INPUT.

AND I THANK THE BOARD MEMBERS FOR RESPONDING AS I CALLED YOU IN AN UNUSUAL WAY.

MR. MILLER.

YEAH, JUST ONE MORE SIMPLE QUESTION.

UNDERSTAND PROCESS OR JUST HOW IT WORKS, HOW FLEXIBLE IF A DISTRICT ELECTS TO GO TO OPEN ENROLLMENT, HOW FLEXIBLE IS THAT? IN OTHER WORDS, DO YOU HAVE TO TAKE OTHER OUTSIDE ENROLLMENT OR IS IT CAN YOU JUST SAY, LOOK, WE'RE FULL, WE CAN'T TAKE ANY MORE? DO YOU HAVE TO DESIGNATE TO GO BACK TO CLOSED? I MEAN, HOW DOES THAT PROCESS WORK? SO I'VE WORKED IN TWO OPEN ENROLLMENT DISTRICTS.

BASICALLY, IT'S AN APPLICATION PROCESS THEY'RE APPLYING TO COME IN.

AND WHAT YOU DO IS YOU LET THEM KNOW THAT WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO IS REVIEW THEIR TRANSCRIPTS, YOU'RE GOING TO REVIEW THEIR DISCIPLINE FILE.

YOU'RE GOING TO REVIEW THEIR ATTENDANCE FILE, OK? AND THEN IF THEY MEET OUR RUBRIC CRITERIA, THEN YOU ADMIT THEM, BUT YOU LET THEM KNOW THEY'RE REVIEWED ON A YEAR BY YEAR BASIS.

SO IF YOU ARE A KINDERGARTNER COMING IN AND YOU STAY IN OUR SYSTEM, YOU WILL BE REVIEWED EVERY YEAR THAT WE HAVE.

OK, AND IF YOU HAVE A BAD YEAR, YOU KNOW THE RULES.

YOU'RE NOT INVITED BACK.

EVERYTHING IS ON OUR TERMS. THEY'RE VISITORS TO OUR HOUSE.

THEY DO NOT GET TO STAY.

AND THEN WE CONTROL HOW MANY PEOPLE COME AND GO.

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IT KIND OF GOES BACK TO WHAT MS. GRIFFIN WAS SAYING.

SO WE COULD VERY EASILY SAY, WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT, ROWLETT SACHSE LAKE VIEW ARE CLOSED, BUT WE GOT SOUTH GARLAND AND WE GOT GARLAND.

YOU CAN GO TO ONE OF THOSE TWO SCHOOLS.

OK, SO THAT'S HOW YOU CAN GET THEM IN IF THEY WANT TO GO TO THOSE SCHOOLS.

THE THIRD THING IS, IS WHAT OPPORTUNITIES DO THEY HAVE? WE ALL KNOW THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE ACCESS TO PRE AP, AP, THAT'S FOR EVERYBODY.

BUT OUR COLLEGE FOR ALL IS FILLING UP QUICK.

A LOT OF OUR COLLEGE FOR ALL CAMPUSES HAVE GREAT INTEREST AND THEN PTEC, BUT WE STILL HAVE OPPORTUNITIES WHERE KIDS COULD STILL HAVE INTEREST IN THAT OR IN THE GRTC BECAUSE NOT ALL OUR PROGRAMS ARE FULL.

SO THAT'S HOW ALL THAT WORKS.

IT'S ALL ON US, YOU KNOW.

AND YOU KNOW, MR. SELDERS DID BRING UP HOW DOES THIS AFFECT OUR TEACHERS? WELL, WHAT IT DOES RIGHT NOW, IF WE CAN KEEP SOME OF OUR TEACHERS WITHOUT HAVING TO RIGHT SIZE, YOU KNOW, THAT MEANS YOU'LL SEE THAT IN THE BUDGET.

THAT'S EVEN BETTER FOR US.

THE LAST PART TO WHAT YOU WERE SAYING IS THIS, THIS LOOKS AGGRESSIVE, BUT WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET THREE THOUSAND KIDS APPLYING TOMORROW.

OK, YOU ALL THIS IS GOING TO GIVE US A CHANCE BECAUSE YOU ASK SOME QUESTIONS THAT WE DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO OTHER DISTRICTS SAYING HOW FAR WOULD YOU WILL TO DRIVE TO COME TO US? YOU KNOW, HOW FAR WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO WE CAN ASK OTHER OPEN ENROLLMENT DISTRICTS WHAT THEY SEE.

RIGHT.

BUT WE DON'T HAVE WHAT OUR COMMUNITIES WOULD DO.

WE WOULD HAVE TO THROW IT OUT THERE.

AND THEN THOSE THAT SHOW INTEREST, THEN WE COULD GET TO TELL YOU.

HEY, THESE ARE OUR HOT BEDS, WE MIGHT GET SURPRISED, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE SOMEBODY FROM OUR DISTRICT MIGHT TURN AROUND AND SAY, MAN, YOU KNOW WHAT, WE DIDN'T EXPECT THIS AREA OF RICHARDSON HAS INTEREST IN US.

RIGHT, BECAUSE THEY HAVE ACCESS TO THESE SCHOOLS.

SO THE ONLY WAY WE CAN DO IS BY OPENING UP THE GATE AND FINDING OUT WHERE THE INTEREST IS AND THEN START TALLYING IT UP FROM THERE.

BUT I DO AGREE WITH MS. GRIFFIN THAT SOME OF THESE THINGS WE COULD PROBABLY MODIFY AND I DO FEEL THAT WHAT WE NEED TO DO BECAUSE WE CAN ALREADY IDENTIFY WHICH ONES HAVE ABILITY AND WE CAN GIVE THAT TO YOU IN OUR INSIGHTS RIGHT AWAY, BABETTA ALREADY KNOWS WHAT HAS AVAILABILITY.

THEN WHAT WE CAN DO IS NOTIFY KINKEADE TO SAY MAKE SURE WE GET THE BLESSING AND THEN TALK TO PARENTS AND FOCUS GROUPS FROM THERE.

AND THEN AFTER THAT, WE CAN DO A FOLLOW UP PRESENTATION TO THE COMMITTEE.

AND ONCE WE GET YOUR BLESSING, LET'S SAY IN APRIL, YOU'RE LIKE, WE'RE STILL NOT READY.

THEN WE HOLD OFF.

AND NOT UNTIL WE'RE READY DO WE PRESENT TO THE MULTI-ETHNIC COMMITTEE.

ARE YOU COMFORTABLE WITH THAT, MS. GRIFFIN? NOT SO MUCH AM I COMFORTABLE WITH IT, BUT I THINK THE WHOLE BOARD OUGHT TO BE COMFORTABLE WITH IT, IS THAT WE'RE NOT PIECEMEALING INFORMATION.

SO I KNOW I CHAMPIONED THE THOUGHT, BUT YES, WE CANNOT AFFORD TO CONTINUE WITH MISINFORMATION IN THE COMMUNITY.

AND THAT'S WHY I'M SAYING IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE BRING IN OUR PARENTS TO HEAR WHAT THEY SAY, BECAUSE OUR PARENTS SAY THEY ARE ALWAYS THE LAST TO KNOW.

AND I JUST THINK IF THIS IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RIGHT SIZING, THEN LET'S RIGHT SIZE SOME OF THE OTHER STUFF IN PROCESSES AND, YOU KNOW, AND BASIC PROCEDURES.

OK, SO JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND PROCEED.

WE'RE GOING TO IDENTIFY THE CAMPUSES.

WE'RE GOING TO NOTIFY THE JUDGE OF OUR PROCEEDING TO OPEN ENROLLMENT, AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO DO PARENT AND FOCUS GROUPS.

WE'RE GOING TO DO A FOLLOW UP PRESENTATION TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE OR DO WE WANT TO DO DISTRICT AFFAIRS DO WE WANT TO REMAIN IN FINANCE? OK, PRESIDENT, IT DOESN'T MATTER TO ME.

EVERYBODY IS GOING TO COME.

DOESN'T MATTER TO ME.

SO.

YEAH, SO HOWEVER YOU ALL WANT TO DO IT.

SO BETWEEN THE 13TH AND TWENTY SEVENTH, IF YOU ASK US TO PROCEED, WE'LL DO AN EMERGENCY PRESENTATION TO THE MULTI-ETHNIC COMMITTEE.

THAT WAY WE HAVE A FINAL PACKAGE.

ON WHAT DATE.

BETWEEN THE 13TH AND 27TH.

SO IF YOU SAY PROCEED ON THE 13TH.

Y'ALL IN THE HIGHLIGHTS, Y'ALL NEED TO REDO THIS DEAL.

OK.

BUT THEN I NEED TO BASICALLY ASK THE BOARD.

THAT WAS MY SUGGESTION OF ALTERING THE THINGS HERE.

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I DON'T THINK ANYBODY'S OBJECTED TO YOUR SUGGESTIONS.

OK, ALL RIGHT.

I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE.

I KNOW I'M NOT A WALLFLOWER.

IF I HAD A PROBLEM WITH IT, I'D LET YOU KNOW.

OK.

AND SO DO WE FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH NOT GIVING THE FULL ANY INSIGHT TO THE MULTI-ETHNIC COMMITTEE UNTIL WE HAVE EVERYTHING FULLY VETTED? THAT IS CORRECT.

YES, THAT IS A STATEMENT.

THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT.

OK.

DR.

LOPEZ, I JUST HAVE A QUICK QUESTION.

DO YOU WANT US TO NOTIFY JUDGE KINKEADE AFTER IT'S BEEN PRESENTED TO THE MULTI-ETHNIC COMMITTEE, FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT CHANGING OUR FDA LOCAL TO INCLUDE THE GRANDPARENTS GRANDCHILDREN, WE TOOK THAT TO THE MULTI-ETHNIC COMMITTEE.

FIRST, THE MULTI-ETHNIC COMMITTEE SIGNED OFF SAYING THAT THEY DID NOT OPPOSE IT.

AND THEN WE WENT TO KINKEADE.

WELL, I THINK WHAT WE DO IS ASK HIM IF WE'RE IN COMPLIANCE WITH EVERYTHING BEFORE WE EVEN START.

SO WE GET HIS BLESSING AND THEN WE FOLLOW UP THE SAME WAY.

JUST BECAUSE WE'VE DONE IT BEFORE.

YES, MA'AM.

I QUESTION WHETHER IT WAS THE RIGHT SEQUENCE OF STEPS.

AND JUST FOR CLARITY, IN CASE ANYBODY'S WONDERING ON THE DESEG ORDER, IT TALKS ABOUT OUR STUDENTS TRANSFERRING OUT TO OTHER DISTRICTS.

IT DOESN'T MENTION ANYTHING ABOUT.

TRANSFERRING IN.

YES, MA'AM.

MS. GRIFFIN, GO AHEAD.

YOU MENTIONED SOMETHING ABOUT TALKING WITH THE JUDGE, PARTICULARLY WITH HIGHER LEVEL PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE, MAGNET PROGRAMS, HOW WE COMMUNICATE WITH THE JUDGE, HOW THOSE ETHNICITY BANDS ARE GOING TO BE MONITORED FOR OPEN ENROLLMENT.

HOW DOES THAT WORK? SO I REPORT THAT INFORMATION EVERY YEAR AND WE COULD INCLUDE THAT IN OUR EVALUATION PROCESS, AS WELL AS WE LOOK AT THE OVERALL SCHOOLS THAT WE'RE ADMITTING THESE STUDENTS INTO.

AND SO JUST LIKE EVERY YEAR WE DO THE OPEN CLOSED.

THAT'S WHAT WE ENVISION BEING ABLE TO SHARE WITH YOU.

NOW, IT'LL BE A LITTLE BIT EARLIER.

IT'LL BE AT THIS WEEKEND'S INSIGHT WHERE WE'RE OPEN.

AND YOU CAN ALSO SEE WHERE WE ARE CLOSE TO THE ETHNICITY BAND AND WHERE WE HAVE GONE OVER WHERE WE'VE EXCEEDED IT.

SO WE DEFINITELY WOULD NOT INCLUDE ANY OF THOSE CAMPUSES THAT EXCEEDED THE BAND AS CAMPUSES THAT WERE OPEN.

BUT THINK ABOUT THIS.

THINK OF ONE OF OUR SCHOOLS THAT EXCEEDED THE BAND.

ONE OF THEM IS IN A CAMPUS.

RIGHT.

YOU COULD BRING IN OTHER MINORITIES TO OFFSET THAT SO YOU COULD DO THE REVERSE.

IT COULD STILL BE OPEN, BUT YOU COULD DO THE REVERSE TO PUT IT IN COMPLIANCE.

SO IT COULD BE ALSO A BENEFIT.

AND BEFORE MR BEACH, I GET TO YOU.

I JUST WANT TO PUSH BACK ON WHAT MS. RAY SAID IN TERMS OF IT DOESN'T TALK ABOUT TRANSFERRING IN.

AND I THINK IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE THE JUDGES COMMENTS ON THAT BEFORE, YOU KNOW, BEFORE WE DO THAT.

SO I AGREE WITH THAT, MR. I WAS JUST GOING TO ADD, CHAIR IF YOU WOULD, ON THE FOUR POLICIES THAT WERE MENTIONED, HOW YOU WANT THOSE PRESENTED TO YOU PRIOR TO THAT APRIL THE 13TH FOLLOW UP, IF WE SHOULD TRY TO GET A COPY TO THE BOARD ON ALL FOUR OF THOSE POLICIES OF THE CHANGES THAT ARE BEING MADE FROM THAT COMMITTEE OR HOW YOU WOULD LIKE THAT PRESENTED.

AS YOU ALL KNOW, THESE ARE HEADINGS THAT MEAN CERTAIN THINGS.

SO THERE COULD BE DIFFERENT POLICIES UNDER EACH OF THESE CATEGORIES.

AND I THINK ALL OF THE POLICIES THAT ARE RELATED SHOULD BE PULLED AND WE SHOULD BEGIN LOOKING AT THEM.

THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING DO YOU WANT THOSE IF WE CAN MEET AND GO OVER THOSE TO GET THEM EVALUATED BEFORE THAT PARTICULAR TIME LINE.

DO YOU WANT THOSE OUT? WELL, LET'S SAY LET'S PUT IT.

REVIEW OR WHERE WE CAN GET YOU KNOW, I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE GOING TO HAVE WELL I GUESS WE'LL HAVE TO HAVE FIRST READ AND ALL THAT ON THEM.

LET'S SAY THIS, MR. BEACH RIGHT NOW LEGAL AND THIS COMMITTEE THAT'S WORKING HAVE IDENTIFIED THE CATEGORIES OF POLICIES THAT NEED TO BE REVIEWED.

GREAT AND I WOULD SAY AT THIS POINT, THE WHOLE BOARD NEEDS JUST THOSE SPECIFIC POLICIES WITHOUT ANY MODIFICATIONS YET BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE MODIFICATIONS ARE.

SO WE SHOULD BEGIN TO LOOK AT HOW THEY LOOK RIGHT NOW UNLESS YOU DISAGREE.

OH, NO, MA'AM.

I THINK THAT'S AN EXCELLENT SUGGESTION.

AND ACTUALLY, WHAT I COULD DO BEFORE WE LEAVE FOR SPRING BREAK, I CAN SEND THOSE PARTICULAR POLICIES AND SEND THEM TO THE POLICY ADVISORY GROUP TO REVIEW.

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HEMPHILL AND HER TEAM LOOK AT THOSE PARTICULAR POLICIES AND LOOK AT WHAT THE PROPOSED REVISIONS AND, OF I'D COURSE, WORK WITH THEM.

AND WE'LL HAVE THOSE PROJECTED CHANGES READY TO GO AT A PLANNED POLICY ADVISORY GROUP IN ORDER TO MEET THE TIME LINE.

THAT'S A GOOD IDEA.

AND WHY DON'T YOU AND BABETTA GET TOGETHER, DR.

HEMPHILL, GET TOGETHER.

AND ONCE Y'ALL MAKE THOSE REVISIONS THEN WE'LL HAVE OUR MEETING AND THEN OUR COMMITTEE CAN APPROVE THOSE TO BRING TO THE BOARD.

PERFECT.

AND YOU'LL CHAIR, A POLICY SO THAT WILL BE DRIVEN BASICALLY BY YOU.

YES MA'AM.

BUT ALL OF THE BOARD NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THOSE ARE.

I'M LISTENING TO ALL THE COMMENTS.

I STILL SEE NO REASON WHY WE CANNOT MEET THE TIMETABLES THAT HAVE BEEN SUGGESTED.

I THINK IT'S CRITICAL THAT IF WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THE FIRST CLASS OF ENROLLEES STARTING IN AUGUST, WE HAVE TO DO WHAT WE'VE SAID WE'RE GOING TO DO.

I HAVEN'T HEARD ANYTHING THAT WE CAN'T GET DONE IN TIME.

AND WE HAVE TO START THE MARKETING.

WE DON'T WANT TO LOSE A WHOLE YEAR.

I DON'T THINK THAT MAKES ANY SENSE AT THIS POINT.

SO I THINK EVERYBODY HAS MARCHING ORDERS EVERYBODY.

NO ONE HAS SAID WE CAN'T GET THAT DONE.

I THINK IT'S IMPERATIVE DR.

RINGO GAVE US THE DOLLAR SIGNS.

WE KNOW WHAT THAT COULD BE.

SO THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT.

WHAT THE EVENTUALLY THIS COULD DO.

I KNOW WHAT IT DID FOR GRAND PRAIRIE.

I THINK IT COULD DO THE SAME THING FOR US EVENTUALLY.

THANK YOU.

MS. GRIFFIN.

AGAIN, IT'S ABOUT SEQUENTIALLY, WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN SO, I MEAN.

I JUST WANT I HAVE A QUESTION JUST TO CLARIFY, DR.

RINGO, YOU HAD TALKED ABOUT SOME CONSERVATIVE, MODERATE AND AGGRESSIVE NUMBERS AND I JUST WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE IN ACTIVITIES FOR EACH OF THOSE APPROACHES THAT YOU TALKED ABOUT AND THEN WHAT WOULD WE DO DIFFERENT TO PURSUE ONE VERSUS THE OTHER? THE DIFFERENCES OF ACTIVITY OF LOOKING AT THE GRAND PRAIRIE ANALYSIS AND THE ANALYSIS WITH OUR PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS WHO BROUGHT THEIR KIDS WITH THEM INTO OUR DISTRICT.

AND SO JUST LOOKING AT GRAND PRAIRIE ANALYSIS, I GUESS THAT APPROACH BEING WE'RE JUST I DENTIFY ALMOST LIKE AN ADA MODEL WHERE THERE COULD BE THREE SCENARIOS, ONE BEING A LOW SCENARIO, ONE BEING MIDDLE AND ONE BEING HIGH.

AND AS WE WORK THROUGH THIS PROCESS, YOU KNOW ME PERSONALLY, I DON'T FORESEE THAT HIGH SCENARIO TAKING PLACE.

WHEN YOU LOOK AT OTHER DISTRICTS WHO OPENED ENROLLMENT, THERE'S NOT BEEN A LARGE INFLUX OF STUDENTS WHEN THAT HAPPENS, IT'S A PROCESS.

AND SO WE PROBABLY LAND CLOSE TO THAT LOWER SCENARIO OR EVEN MODERATE SCENARIO, DEPENDING ON WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.

BUT IT WAS JUST BASED OFF OF MODELS OF LOOKING AT WHAT OTHER DISTRICTS DO WITH OPEN ENROLLMENT AND THAT IMPACT THEY'VE HAD, AS WE'VE SEEN WITH GRAND PRAIRIE.

SO WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT ACTIVITIES DRIVE ONE VERSUS THE OTHER.

WE JUST ARE HOPING THAT IT'LL HAPPEN ORGANICALLY.

THROUGH DISTRICT CONVERSATION, DISTRICT ADVERTISING, PUTTING INFORMATION OUT THERE AND HOW DISTRICTS APPROACH THAT.

WE'RE HEARING ON THE RADIO NOW THERE'S A DISTRICT OVER BY FORT WORTH WHO'S ADVERTISING OPEN ENROLLMENT AND EVEN A VIRTUAL SCHOOL.

SO IT IS A PUBLIC SCHOOL AND STUDENTS CAN ENLIST AND ENROLL, NOT ENLIST, BUT ENROLL VIRTUALLY SO THEY CAN LIVE OUT IN FARMERSVILLE AND ENROLL IN THIS DISTRICT TOWARDS THE OTHER SIDE OF THE METROPLEX, ALL VIRTUAL.

AND SO IT WOULD BE HOW WE APPROACH THAT COMMUNICATION, ADVERTISING AND THAT PROCESS TO GET KIDS IN THAT CUSTOMER SERVICE SIDE.

OK.

THANK YOU, MR. SELDERS.

IF I COULD RESPOND TO THAT AS WELL AS PART OF OUR WORK WITH SGS, WE HAVE BEEN IN CONTACT SHERESE LIGHTFOOT OUR DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS HAS BEEN IN CONTACT WITH THE COMMUNICATIONS TEAM FROM GRAND PRAIRIE AND SHE IS WORKING ON A MARKETING PLAN FOR US AS WELL.

THAT WOULD BE VERY AGGRESSIVE.

I DON'T THINK THAT, AS DR.

RINGO SAID, IT'S NOT OUR EFFORTS WILL BE AGGRESSIVE FOR RECRUITING AND MARKETING.

IT'S THE THE SNOWBALL EFFECT OF GETTING THIS GOING AND THE WORD OF MOUTH AND BUILDING SOME MOMENTUM OVER OR OVER TIME WITH PEOPLE WANTING TO TRANSFER IN AND CHOOSE GARLAND ISD.

THANK YOU.

OK, WITH THE LAST THING ON THIS IS WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A SNAPSHOT.

SO OF ALL THOSE THINGS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT, CAPACITY FOR BUILDINGS ARE OPEN.

WELL, I MEAN, WE START TALKING ABOUT OTHER THINGS, BUT WE'RE STILL GONNA GET THAT.

YES MA'AM, WE'LL HAVE THAT IN THE SUNDAY INSIGHT.

THANK YOU SO MUCH MS. GRIFFIN.

AND I JUST I DON'T NEED TO SAY THIS, BUT I'M GONNA SAY IT AND TAKE IT WITH LOVE AND CARE FOR THE DISTRICT.

AND THAT IS WE HAVE A LOT OF THINGS GOING ON RIGHT NOW, ACADEMIC RECOVERY, ALL OF

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AND I GUESS I TURN TO YOU, DR.

LOPEZ, AS OUR LEADER OF STAFF.

ARE WE OVER SATURATING OUR STAFF WITH THE ABILITY TO KEEP EVERYTHING GOING, BECAUSE I KNOW WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOMETHING ON RECOVERY THAT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE RECOVERY TO ME, IT LOOKS LIKE GOALS, BUT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE AREN'T SINGLE THREAD, BUT WE ARE ALSO MULTI THREAD WITH EVERYTHING BEING ABLE TO HAPPEN AT THE LEVEL OF EXCELLENCE.

TO OUR ENVIRONMENT.

OUR TEAM HAS BEEN RESILIENT IN THE RESPONSE AND IN THE END, WHEN WE LOOK BACK AT THESE, PROBABLY THE 2020, 2021 AND THE END OF THE TWENTY TWO SCHOOL YEAR, WE'RE GOING TO LOOK BACK WITH A LOT OF PRIDE ON THE THE REDEFINING OF WHAT GARLAND ISD IS AND HOW WE EMERGED TO BE A BETTER SYSTEM THAN WHAT WE WERE.

AND WE WEREN'T A BAD SYSTEM TO BEGIN WITH.

AND SO WE HAVE ONE OF THE THINGS OF THE QUALITIES OF LEADERS THAT WE LOOK FOR IS SOMETHING CALLED RESILIENCY.

AND WE HAVE A LOT OF RESILIENT PEOPLE.

AND THIS IS NOT GOING TO STRESS OUR SYSTEM.

I THINK THIS WILL HELP BUILD SOME LIFE IN OUR SYSTEM IT'S GOING TO INJECT SOME PRIDE.

I THINK PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SAY COME TO GARLAND ISD WHEN YOU'RE AN OPEN ENROLLMENT DISTRICT, AND ANYBODY CAN COME IN IT DOES SOMETHING GIVES YOU A LITTLE SWAG.

SO I THINK IT'S A GREAT THING, OK? IT MEANS WE NEED TO GET SOME VACCINES IN HERE BECAUSE I AM JUST CONCERNED ABOUT THE HEALTH AND WELLNESS OF OUR STAFF WITH EVERYTHING THAT WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD FOR THEM TO DO.

JUST A LINDA GRIFFIN EDITORIAL.

[LAUGHTER] OK, MOVING ALONG BECAUSE I'M OUT OF TIME.

AND SO OUR MEETING THIS I KNOW WE WERE GOING TO GO OVER, BUT SO WE'RE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD.

AND ARE YOU UP NEXT TO TALK ABOUT THE GRANTS? YES, MA'AM.

DR. WELLS AND I ARE BOTH UP.

OK.

AND LET ME JUST PREFERENCE THIS A LITTLE BIT.

TRUSTEES IN AN EFFORT.

THIS IS ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE ITEMS IN AN EFFORT TO GET READY FOR BUDGETING AND STUFF FOR US TO BASICALLY SEE AND UNDERSTAND WHERE ALL OF THE ADDITIONAL FUNDS COME FROM OUTSIDE OF ADA FOR US TO BE ABLE TO HAVE ALL OF THE GREAT PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE.

DR. WELLS AND DR.

RINGO.

GOOD EVENING COMMITTEE CHAIR GRIFFIN TRUSTEE AND DR.

LOPEZ.

DR.

RINGO AND I WILL PRESENT INFORMATION RELATED TO STATE AND FEDERAL GRANTS RECEIVED FROM THE US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, THE TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY, OR THE COMPETITIVE GRANT PROCESS, WHICH WE HAVE SEVERAL OF THOSE.

IN THE PRESENTATION, YOU'LL RECEIVE AN OVERVIEW OF CURRENT FEDERAL AND STATE GRANTS, THE AWARD AMOUNTS AND HOW MANY CURRENT STAFF MEMBERS ARE FUNDED BY A PARTICULAR GRANT.

DR.

RINGO.

WITH THE STATE AND FEDERAL GRANTS TO HIGHLIGHT.

IT DOES NOT IMPACT OUR GENERAL FUND OUR GENERAL FUND IS ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AS PART OF THE BUDGET BUILD PROCESS, TAX RATE ADOPTION PROCESS.

EACH AND EVERY YEAR OUR STATE AND FEDERAL GRANTS, AS I NOTED, THAT IS WHERE THEY COME FROM AND MOST INSTANCES, THESE GRANTS WILL NOT CHANGE AS WE REDUCE OR INCREASE THE GENERAL FUND.

THESE ALLOTMENTS COME FROM, FOR EXAMPLE, TITLE FUNDS.

IF IT COMES TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, WE MUST MAINTAIN WHAT'S CALLED MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT EACH AND EVERY YEAR AND HOW WE SPEND THOSE DOLLARS, MEANING WE CANNOT HAVE A SHARP REDUCTION IN THE EXPENDITURE OF THOSE DOLLARS.

AND SO, AGAIN, THERE IS NO IMPACT ON THE GENERAL FUND AS WE GO THROUGH THE BUDGET BUILD PROCESS WE WILL INCLUDE THIS INFORMATION IN THE BUDGET WORKSHOP.

AND THEN ALSO, IF A POSITION IS FUNDED FROM A GRANT, THEN THIS POSITION IS CONTINGENT UPON THE CONTINUED GRANT FUNDING.

AND SO WE HAVE POSITIONS THAT ARE FUNDED BY GRANTS.

DR. WELLS WILL HIGHLIGHT THOSE ON THE COMING SLIDES.

AND ANY TIME IF WE WERE TO MOVE A POSITION FROM A GRANT THAT WOULD COME BACK TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES IN THE BUDGET BUILD PROCESS, AS WE SHOWED THOSE LINE ITEM DETAILED CHANGES IN THE PREVIOUS YEARS AND GOING INTO NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET BILL PROCESS, IF THERE WERE A POSITION THAT WE WERE TO CHANGE FROM THE FEDERAL GRANT SIDE, WE WOULD COME

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SO THAT KIND OF HIGHLIGHTS HOW OUR FEDERAL GRANTS AND STATE GRANTS WORK VERSUS OUR GENERAL FUND DOLLARS.

AND WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT BACK OVER TO DR.

WELLS.

THANK YOU, DR.

RINGO AND TRUSTEE HERE WE JUST HAVE A LIST OF OUR STATE GRANTS THAT WE RECEIVED.

SOME OF THESE ARE ALSO PRIVATE AND ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE AWARDED GRANTS TO THE COMPETITIVE PROCESS.

SO YOU CAN SEE HERE THAT THAT LIST OF THE AMOUNTS OF FUNDING THAT WE RECEIVED FOR THESE GRANTS JUST SO THAT, YOU KNOW, TEA REGULARLY POST GRANT OPPORTUNITIES AND DISTRICTS THROUGHOUT THE STATE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO APPLY FOR THESE GRANTS.

WE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ALL THE GRANTS THAT WE ARE ELIGIBLE FOR IN GARLAND WITH OUR GRANTS DEPARTMENT REPRESENTATIVE MS. FLUKER.

AND SO WE'VE BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL IN APPLYING FOR A LOT OF THE GRANTS THAT HAD BEEN PUT OUT AN SOME OF THOSE ARE LISTED HERE, SO YOU CAN SEE THE FIRST ONE LISTED IS THE SCHOOL ACTION FUND FOR HEATHER GLEN, THIS GRANT WAS DESIGNED TO SUPPORT HIGH PRIORITY CAMPUSES.

AND SO THAT ONE IS A THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR GRANT.

YOU ALSO SEE HERE THAT WE'VE RECEIVED TWO DIFFERENT BLENDED LEARNING GRANTS.

ONE IS THE MATH INNOVATION ZONE AND ANOTHER ONE IS A RAISE YOUR HAND TEXAS BLENDED LEARNING GRANT.

AND SO THAT ONE WAS AN EXTENSIVE PROCESS THAT OUR TEAM WENT THROUGH AND RECEIVED THE AWARD PRIOR TO US GOING OUT FOR THE PANDEMIC.

AND SO THAT GRANT WAS DELAYED A YEAR BECAUSE OF THAT PANDEMIC.

AND IT'LL BE THE FUNDING WILL BE PROVIDED FOR US TO IMPLEMENT STARTING NEXT YEAR.

THERE IS ALSO A SAFETY AND SECURITY GRANT A NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR GRANT THROUGH A COMPETITIVE PROCESS THAT ALLOWED THE DISTRICT TO IMPLEMENT THE TWO WAY RADIO SYSTEM DISTRICT WIDE.

SO THOSE ARE THE LIST OF STATE GRANTS THAT WE'VE RECEIVED.

ON OUR NEXT SLIDE HERE YOU SEE ALL OF OUR FEDERAL GRANT FUNDING.

WE'VE DISCUSSED THESE IN THE PAST.

BUT JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA, THESE ARE ALL ALLOCATED FROM THE U.S.

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, STARTING WITH THE FIRST ONE LISTED, WHICH IS IDEA PART B, WHICH IS OUR SPECIAL EDUCATION FUNDING, AS WELL AS OUR IDEA PART B PRESCHOOL, WHICH IS DESIGNATED TO FUND OUR EARLY CHILDHOOD SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS, WHICH WE CALL ECSE, FORMERLY OUR PPCD PROGRAMING.

NEXT LISTED HERE YOU SEE WE HAVE PERKINS FIVE, WHICH IS ALIGNED WITH OUR CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS. THIS FUNDING COMES TO HELP SUPPORT THOSE PROGRAMS. SO WHEN YOU THINK OF ALL OF THE CTE COURSES AND ROBOTICS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, YOU HAVE THAT GRANT TO BE ABLE TO FUND THOSE PROGRAMS THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT.

THE BIG CHUNK OF OUR FUNDING FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS TITLE FUNDS.

AND WE'LL START WITH TITLE ONE, PART A AND C, SO THESE ARE THE FUNDS THAT WE ALLOCATE TO OUR CAMPUSES.

AND SO WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT, OH, WE HAVE 65 CAMPUSES THAT ARE DESIGNATED AS TITLE ONE, THEY GET TO SPLIT A PART OF THIS FUNDING THAT YOU SEE HERE, THIS FOURTEEN POINT SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS.

YOU CAN ALSO SEE THERE'S A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF STAFF MEMBERS THAT ARE PAID OUT OF THIS FUNDING.

AND THAT'S BECAUSE CAMPUSES CAN CHOOSE TO ALLOCATE SOME OF THEIR FUNDING TO A SALARY POSITION LIKE A COACH, INSTRUCTIONAL COACH, THINGS OF THAT SORT.

SO YOU HAVE A LOT MORE STAFF MEMBERS FUNDED OUT OF THAT TITLE ONE PART A &C.

NEXT, WE HAVE TITLE TWO AND TITLE TWO IS DESIGNATED FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.

SO WHEN YOU THINK OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR OUR TEACHERS, PRINCIPALS AND LEADERS, THIS FUND IS AVAILABLE TO FUND THOSE OPPORTUNITIES.

NEXT.

AND HERE IS ANOTHER TITLE.

THIS IS TITLE THREE AND TITLE THREE IS ALLOCATED TO SUPPORT OUR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS AND OUR MIGRANT STUDENTS.

AND SO MS. SALDIVAR AND HER TEAM MANAGE THIS GRANT FUND AND THEY PUT THIS FUNDING TOWARDS PROGRAMING FOR THOSE STUDENTS TO HELP ENHANCE THEIR ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE THROUGHOUT THEIR TIME IN GARLAND ISD.

YOU ALSO SEE HERE TITLE FOUR, AND THIS ONE IS IN ADDITION TO OUR TITLE ONE.

WE RECEIVE TITLE FOUR FUNDS AND IN GARLAND WE DO ROLL THOSE BACK INTO TITLE ONE TO FURTHER SUPPORT THOSE ACADEMIC PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE AT THE CAMPUSES OR AT THE DISTRICT LEVEL TO SUPPORT ALL OF OUR CAMPUSES.

AND YOU CAN SEE ALSO THE AMOUNT OF FUNDING THERE FOR STAFF SALARIES.

AND THAT CONCLUDES OUR PRESENTATION.

IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS, I'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER THOSE QUESTION.

TRUSTEES.

MR. BEACH.

REAL QUICK.

THE FUNDING THAT COMES WITH THE FEDERAL GRANT MONEY AND EVERYTHING LIKE THAT WHAT DOES IT GO INTO MR.

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TWO AND THEN HOW ARE THOSE FUNDS PUT OUT TO THE PARTICULAR DISTRICT, FOR EXAMPLE, LIKE THE TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY EIGHT THOUSAND GOING TO ESL TO ZAIDA SALDIVAR DOES THAT ALL GO TO HER DEPARTMENT AND THEN I MEAN, HOW'S THAT DISPERSED.

GREAT QUESTION.

ON THE FUNDING SIDE, WE'RE REQUIRED TO RECORD EVERYTHING BY FUND TYPE.

SO FOR EXAMPLE, GENERAL FUND IS 199.

ALL OUR FEDERAL GRANTS ARE IN THE TWO HUNDRED.

SO EACH FUND HAS A SPECIFIC FUND NUMBER THAT IS TRACKED.

SO WE TRACK WHAT WE'RE GOING TO GET IN REVENUE, WE TRACK EXPENDITURES AND BUILD THOSE BUDGET CODES BASED ON THOSE EXPENDITURES.

AND THE ALLOCATIONS COULD VARY BASED ON THE GRANT.

AND I CAN LET DR. WELL SPEAK SPECIFICALLY TO HOW THAT'S ALLOCATED.

FOR EXAMPLE, WITH THE EXAMPLE WITH MS. SALDIVAR.

WITH THAT BEING SAID, IF, FOR EXAMPLE, THEY WANT TO USE THEM WHEN THEY'RE READY TO USE THOSE FUNDS, IS THERE A DOLLAR AMOUNT THAT THEY HAVE TO COME TO US FOR APPROVAL OR CAN THEY JUST SAY, HEY, I NEED ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR DOING THIS? I MEAN, WHAT IS.

IS THERE A CAP.

IF IT'S IN THE BUDGET AND IN THE ALLOCATION, THEY'RE ABLE TO UTILIZE IT WITHIN WHAT'S BEEN APPROVED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES IN REGARDS TO CONTRACTS AND APPROVALS, THE OTHER PART WITH GRANT FUNDS, IT IS FAR MORE RESTRICTIVE ON HOW WE SPEND THOSE DOLLARS VERSUS OUR GENERAL FUND.

AND SO WITH HOW THOSE DOLLARS ARE ALLOCATED AND EXPENSED, IF THEY'RE IN THE BUDGET, FOR EXAMPLE, SIMILAR TO IF SHE HAS FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS IN HER EXPENDITURE BUDGET, AS LONG AS WE'RE MEETING THE PROTOCOLS FOR PROCUREMENT WITH OUR EXPENDITURES AND THE BOARD HAS APPROVED THOSE CONTRACTS, THEY ARE ABLE TO PROCEED TO SUPPORT THE DISTRICT OPERATIONS IN NEEDS.

MR. BEACH, THESE GRANT MANAGERS ALSO WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH PURCHASING, AS WELL AS DR.

RINGO'S TEAM, BECAUSE THEY SET THESE BUDGETS UP IN A SPECIFIC FUND.

AND SO THEY'RE ABLE TO RUN REPORTS TO SEE HOW MUCH MONEY IS REMAINING IN THOSE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT OVERSPENDING IN ANY OF THOSE LINE CODES.

SO AND ALSO, WHEN DR.

RINGO MENTIONED THE REQUIREMENTS, WE HAVE ECR COMPLIANCE, CERTAIN THINGS YOU CANNOT PURCHASE WITH THESE FUNDS.

AND SO THAT'S WHY IT'S SO VERY IMPORTANT TO WORK CLOSELY WITH PURCHASING SO THAT WE CAN MAKE SURE WE'RE FOLLOWING THE GUIDELINES.

WITH THE TITLE FUNDS THOSE ARE BROUGHT UP TO THE SUPERINTENDENT.

WE HAVE CERTAIN THINGS THAT WE PURCHASED WITH THOSE, BUT WE REVIEW THESE EVERY YEAR TO ALIGN WITH OUR GOALS THAT ARE ESTABLISHED AT THE BOARD LEVEL.

SO DO WE GIVE ANY KIND OF SPECIAL REPORTS TO THE FEDS ON WHAT HOW WE USE THOSE EXPENDED THOSE FUNDS SO THAT IT'S TRACKED AND THEY KNOW, HEY, THEY'RE DOING GISD'S DOING A GREAT JOB TO MAKE IT EASIER TO GO BACK AND GET THOSE FEDERAL GRANTS A YEAR AFTER YEAR.

ONE OF THE THINGS WE DO IS ALL OF THIS FUNDING HAS TO BE IN LINE WITH THE CAMPUS IMPROVEMENT PLAN, LIKE YOU MUST HAVE THESE THINGS IDENTIFIED TO BE ABLE TO USE THIS MONEY SO THAT YOU ALSO SEE IT WHEN YOU GET THE CIP PLANS IN THE FALL, THAT THEY TIE FUNDING TO THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OR TO WHATEVER ACTIONS THEY OUTLINE IN THAT PLAN.

WE ALSO HAVE AUDITING THAT HAPPENS WITH THESE GRANTS.

AND SO THAT'S ANOTHER CHECK, CHECK AND BALANCE SYSTEM OF MAKING SURE THAT THE FUNDS ARE USED APPROPRIATELY.

DOES THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION? THANK YOU.

AND MR. BEACH, THESE ARE ALSO IN OUR ANNUAL CAFR FOR OUR ANNUAL AUDIT FOR OUR FINANCIALS.

AND THEY'RE IDENTIFIED BY FUNDS AND IT INCLUDES THAT NAME TOO.

BUT THESE ARE TRACKED HEAVILY WITH THE TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

OKAY.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? THANK YOU, DR.

RINGO AND DR.

WELLS.

OK, TRUSTEES MOVING ON TO THE LAST ITEM UNDER INFORMATION.

WE SAW THIS PRESENTATION IN FACILITIES AND IT'S THE BOND UPDATE AND NOTHING HAS CHANGED BETWEEN THE MEETINGS.

SO WE ARE GOING TO PROCEED TO OUR FIRST NON ACTION ITEM AND WE ARE NOW ON PAGE

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THIS IS A NON CONSENT ACTION ITEM.

MS. MAYO.

HI.

GOOD EVENING, MS. GRIFFIN BOARD OF TRUSTEES DR.

LOPEZ.

AND IF I COULD DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO THE SECOND PAGE OF THE GENERAL FUND BUDGET TRANSFER DETAILS.

WE HAVE NORMAL OPERATION CROSS FUNCTION TRANSFERS WITH ZERO BUDGET IMPACT AS NORMAL.

WE ARE ALSO BRINGING YOU A REDUCTION OF THREE POINT FIVE MILLION DOLLARS TO LOCAL REVENUE.

THIS IS IN RESPONSE TO THE PRESENTATION GIVEN TO US IN OUR INVESTMENT REPORT IN OUR LAST MEETING.

THIS IS LARGELY DUE TO THE LOWER THAN EXPECTED INVESTMENT FROM OUR INVESTMENT POOLS.

THIS ALSO DOES INCLUDE SOME REDUCTION IN REVENUE AND SOME CONCESSION IN OTHER LOCAL REVENUE FOR ATHLETICS.

ON THE NEXT PAGE, YOU'LL SEE THE DETAILS FOR THE STUDENT NUTRITION FUND.

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WE'RE EXCITED TO SEE THAT.

WITH THAT COMES ADDITIONAL COSTS IN FOOD COSTS.

SO THE STUDENT NUTRITION FUND IS REQUESTING AN INCREASE TO EXPENDITURES FOR FOOD COST TO COVER THE COST OF THIS INCREASED PARTICIPATION.

LIKELY IN APRIL WE'LL BE BRINGING YOU A BUDGET AMENDMENT TO INCREASE REVENUE TO COVER THAT.

THE TDA HAS OFFERED AND SAID THAT WE MAY BE RECEIVING SOME REIMBURSEMENTS TO SOME LOST REVENUE FROM LAST FISCAL YEAR, AND WE DON'T HAVE CONFIRMATION ON THAT.

SO WE'D LIKE TO BRING YOU THAT ONCE WE'VE RECEIVED CONFIRMATION.

BUT FOR NOW, WE DO NEED TO SEE THE INCREASE IN EXPENDITURES TO COVER THE INCREASED PARTICIPATION.

ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? MR. MILLER AND THEN MR. GLICK.

YEAH, JUST REAL QUICK, YOU MENTIONED THE THREE POINT FIVE EIGHT MILLION DOLLAR REDUCTION AND YOU ATTRIBUTE IT TO TWO ITEMS IS APPROXIMATELY WHAT WOULD BE THE BREAKDOWN OF THE LOSS OF INVESTMENT INCOME VERSUS THE LOSS OF, LET'S CALL IT ATHLETIC REVENUE.

IT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN IT'S PROBABLY JUST RIGHT AT THAT THREE MILLION DOLLARS IT'S COMING OFF THE INVESTMENT AND MAYBE A LITTLE BIT LESS THAN THAT.

AND THEN ABOUT SIX, SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND IS COMING FROM LOSS ATHLETIC SALES AND THEN ALSO LOSS IN RENTAL REVENUE FROM THE NATATORIUM.

THAT'S ALSO INCLUDED IN THAT.

THE MAJORITY, THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY IS FROM THE INVESTMENT REVENUE.

THANK YOU.

MR. GLICK.

YEAH, GOOD FOR THE MEETING IN TWO WEEKS.

CAN WE JUST GET A LITTLE BIT MORE ON THE INVESTMENT LOSS? I'D APPRECIATE THAT.

YES.

MR. GLICK.

TO HIGHLIGHT IT'S NOT A LOSS.

WE HAVE NOT LOST REVENUE.

WE'VE TYPICALLY EARNED ROUGHLY IN THE LAST COUPLE OF FISCAL YEARS, AROUND THREE MILLION IN OUR INVESTMENTS WITH RATES TO THE HISTORICALLY LOW RATES AND WHAT'S BEEN OCCURRING IN THE MARKET WE'RE NOT GOING TO EARN THREE MILLION DOLLARS THIS YEAR ON OUR INTEREST.

AND SO THAT PROJECTION OF WHAT WE'RE GOING TO EARN HAS BEEN DECREASED.

BUT WE HAVE NOT LOST ANY MONEY ON OUR INVESTMENT.

AND I UNDERSTAND THAT IT'S A REDUCTION.

YES.

IN WHAT WAS PROJECTED AS TO WHAT WE'RE SEEING.

OK, AND IT'S BASED ON THE SECOND QUARTER INVESTMENT REPORT THAT WAS PRESENTED IN COMMITTEE LAST MEETING BY MS. ROUNTREE AND DR.

RINGO.

OK, THANK YOU.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? TRUSTEES.

THANK YOU.

MOVING ON TO CONSIDER APPROVAL OF TAX REFUNDS FOR OVERPAYMENT OR ERRONEOUS PAYMENTS, MRS. COOPER.

GOOD EVENING, MS. GRIFFIN BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND DR.

LOPEZ, THE ITEM BEFORE YOU IS THE JANUARY 2021 ERRONEOUS AND DUPLICATE PAYMENTS THAT REQUIRE BOARD APPROVAL.

DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PERTAINING TO THOSE? ANY QUESTIONS? WE DON'T HAVE ANY.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

THANK YOU HAVE A GOOD EVENING.

YOU'RE GOING TO COVER THE JOB ORDER, MR. BOOKER.

MS. GRIFFIN TO THE BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT TO DR.

LOPEZ.

I'M HERE BEFORE YOU TO GO OVER THOSE CONTRACTS.

IF THERE ARE OPERATIONAL QUESTIONS, MR. GONZALES IS HERE TO ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS.

BUT THE CONTRACT THAT WE HAVE BEFORE YOU IS OUR.

WAIT JUST A MOMENT.

SO WE WERE STILL UNDER ACTION ITEM NINE, CONSENT AND TRUSTEES WE SAW THIS IN FACILITY WITH THREE AND FOUR.

AND THEN WHAT I WANTED TO SAY ABOUT THE NEW BIDS IS THAT NEW BIDS COME UNDER THE PURCHASING UMBRELLA IN TERMS OF REPORTING TO THE BOARD.

AND AT THIS TIME, WE DIDN'T DO THREE.

AND THAT'S WHAT I WAS ASKING YOU, DR.

RINGO, IF YOU WERE GOING TO BRING THAT.

MS. GRIFFIN YOU ARE CORRECT ITEM FIVE A CONTRACT 215-21 WAS NOT IN FACILITIES SINCE IT JUST DEALS WITH A NEW CONTRACT IT CAME STRAIGHT TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.

THE REST OF THE ITEMS NOTED WITH MR. GONZALES AND MR. FERNANDEZ DID COME FORWARD TO THE FACILITIES COMMITTEE.

SORRY.

OK, MR. BOOKER GO ON AND GET STARTED.

I THINK WE GOT OUR SECTIONS CONFUSED HERE, IF YOU WOULD START MR. BOOKER WHATEVER YOU WERE GOING TO DO ON NEW BIDS.

WELL, THE THE ACTION ITEM THAT'S BEFORE YOU IS THE JOB ORDER CONTRACT FOR HVAC IS TO FURNISH AND INSTALL EQUIPMENT FOR CLASSROOMS. THAT'S ONE HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS.

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FOR THREE.

FOR A TOTAL AMOUNT OF TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SIX DOLLARS.

AND WE WOULD BE USING MART INC., ONE OF OUR JOB ORDER CONTRACT SUPPLIERS CONTRACTOR TO DO THE WORK.

THANK YOU.

OK.

ALL RIGHT.

THE NEXT CONTRACT BEFORE YOU IS TO CONSIDER APPROVAL OF LAKEVIEW CENTENNIAL HIGH SCHOOL HVAC DUCTWORK, A REPLACEMENT PROJECT.

IT WAS ON THE FACILITIES COMMITTEE DISCUSSION.

AND I CERTAINLY CAN REVIEW THAT.

AND MR. GONZALES IS HERE AS WELL.

WE'RE FINE.

THE NEXT CONTRACT BEFORE YOU FOR CONSIDERATION IS THE PURCHASE OF MAINTENANCE, GENERAL TRADES, MERCHANDISE AND SERVICES.

THIS IS THE LARGE GENERAL TRADES BID THAT'S UTILIZED BY OUR MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT FOR A VARIETY OF TRADES TO PROVIDE DIFFERENT REPAIR SERVICES.

THERE'S A LIST OF ATTACHED VENDORS AND THE INDIVIDUAL TRADES IN WHICH THEY WOULD BE PERFORMING WORK FOR THE NOT TO EXCEED AMOUNT FOR THAT CONTRACT IS TWO MILLION DOLLARS.

THE NEXT CONTRACT IS A TEXTBOOK ADOPTION PURCHASE THROUGH THE VENDOR FROG STREET PRESS, NOT TO EXCEED AMOUNT OF ONE POINT FIVE DOLLARS MILLION.

IT IS A ONE YEAR CONTRACT WITH TWO ANNUALLY RENEWABLE OPTIONS THAT IS PAID WITH OUT OF THE STATE TEXTBOOK FUND.

THE NEXT ACTION ITEM BEFORE YOU FOR CONSIDERATION IS THE EXTENSION OF TEST AND BALANCED SERVICES.

THIS IS ANOTHER ITEM THAT WAS COVERED DURING FACILITIES THAT UTILIZED BY OUR MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT TO DO THE TEST AND BALANCING OF HVAC SYSTEMS. THAT CONTRACT IS SET FOR 5 HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.

THE NEXT CONTRACT IS AN INCREASE IN THE OWNER CONTINGENCY FOR COYLE MIDDLE SCHOOL.

ONCE AGAIN, THIS PROJECT WAS DISCUSSED AT FACILITIES.

IT HAS A NOT TO EXCEED AMOUNT OF ONE MILLION NINE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTY THREE DOLLARS.

ALL RIGHT, SO MOVING FORWARD, THE FINANCE COMMITTEE, WE WILL MOVE NON CONSENT ACTION ITEM B ONE THROUGH FOUR, AND THEN WE WILL LOOK AT B FIVE, A AND B AND SIX A AND SEVEN A.

AND ALL OF THESE WILL MOVE FOR APPROVAL AT OUR REGULAR BOARD MEETING.

THANK YOU, MR. BOOKER.

AT THIS TIME.

DR. LOPEZ, DO WE NEED AN EXECUTIVE SESSION.

NO WE DON'T NO MA'AM.

CAN WE HAVE AN ADJOURNMENT? SO MOVED.

THANK YOU.

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