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GOOD AFTERNOON AND WELCOME TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE OF TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 2021,
[I. Call to Order and Determination of Quorum]
I WOULD LIKE TO CALL THIS COMMITTEE MEETING TO ORDER AND DETERMINE THAT THERE IS A QUORUM PRESENT.THE MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES WILL BE HELD IN THE BOARD ROOM OF 601 SOUTH JUPITER, GARLAND, TEXAS.
DUE TO THE HEALTH CONCERNS RELATED TO COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY ATTEND BOARD MEETINGS IN THE GARLAND ROWLETT ROOMS OF THE HARRIS HILL BUILDING.
WE ARE LIVE STREAMING FROM THE HARRIS HILL BUILDING.
THANK YOU AT THIS TIME, WE WILL HEAR THE SUPERINTENDENTS MESSAGE.
[IV. Superintendent's Message]
WELL, GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYBODY.RIGHT NOW WE HAVE OUR FACILITIES COMMITTEE MEETING HEADED BY THE HONORABLE MS. LINDA GRIFFIN.
THANK YOU, PRESIDENT SELDERS FOR THAT CORRECTION.
ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT ON THIS AGENDA.
THE FIRST THING IS THAT THE COMPTROLLER TRANSPARENCY STARTS FOR CONTRACTS AND PROCUREMENT.
WE HAVE A PHENOMENAL PROCUREMENT OFFICE AND THEY GO ABOVE AND BEYOND AND THEY'RE GOING TO BE RECEIVING A TRANSPARENCY STAR.
AND IT'S FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, DR.
RINGO, THERE'S ONLY FIVE DISTRICTS IN THE STATE OF TEXAS THAT WILL RECEIVE THIS AWARD, CORRECT? YES, SIR, THAT IS CORRECT.
AND SO YOU'RE REALLY GOING TO BE HIGHLIGHTING THAT.
AND FOR THOSE THAT DON'T KNOW, THERE'S OVER 12 HUNDRED SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE STATE OF TEXAS.
SO THE TEAM THERE UNDER MR. BOOKER'S GUIDANCE ARE DOING A PHENOMENAL JOB.
ALSO LATER ON, WE'RE GOING TO GET AN UPDATE PRESENTATION AND FOLLOW UP TO ALLOW INTERDISTRICT TRANSFERS FROM THE GARLAND ISD.
SUSANNA RUSSELL, WILL BE PRESENTING THOSE.
IT'S A WAY TO OFFSET OUR BUDGET.
WE TALK ABOUT THE WAY WE CAN INCREASE OUR REVENUE IS USUALLY TWO FOLD.
THAT'S EITHER TAXES INCREASED OR STUDENT ENROLLMENT ADA INCREASES.
AND SO WE'RE REALLY GOING TO LOOK AFTER THE LATER WHILE NOT JEOPARDIZING THE PEOPLE WITHIN OUR DISTRICT AND THEIR CHOICE AND THEIR RIGHT TO EACH AND EVERY SCHOOL.
SO WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT OVER BACK TO OUR CHAIRPERSON, MS. LINDA GRIFFIN.
AS WE BEGIN OUR INFORMATION ITEMS. A IS RECEIVE BOND A BOARD OF TRUSTEES CONTRACT RENEWAL REPORT FOR APRIL 2021.
[VI. Information Items]
MR. BOOKER, WE'RE ON PAGES FIVE THROUGH SEVEN.TO MS. GRIFFIN, TO MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, TO DR.
LOPEZ, WE DO HAVE BEFORE YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION, IS OUR ANNUAL REPORT FOR APRIL.
WE DO HAVE SIX CONTRACTS WHICH ARE BEING PRESENTED FOR YOUR REVIEW AND INFORMATION.
NONE OF THE CONTRACTS EXCEED ANY OF THE THRESHOLDS REQUIRED BY CH REGULATION TO REQUIRE BOARD ACTION.
AND I'M CERTAINLY AVAILABLE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE ABOUT THE SIX RENEWALS THAT ARE BEFORE YOU.
ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS PERTAINING TO THE REPORT THAT'S ON PAGE SEVEN.
WE'VE RECEIVED THIS AS INFORMATION.
OUR NEXT ITEM ON THE INFORMATION IS B RECEIVE THE TEXAS COMPTROLLER TRANSPARENCY STAR AWARD FOR CONTRACTS AND PROCUREMENT, MR. BOOKER PAGES EIGHT THROUGH 10.
AND WE'RE GOING TO START WITH DR.
THANK YOU, MS. GRIFFIN BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
I WAS GOING TO START JUST INTRODUCE MR. BOOKER AND TALK ABOUT THIS AWARD JUST TO HELP SO HE DOESN'T HAVE TO TALK ABOUT HIMSELF AND HE CAN.
BUT JUST TO RECOGNIZE REALLY MARK BOOKER AND HIS LEADERSHIP WITH OUR PROCUREMENT DEPARTMENT.
AS DR. LOPEZ NOTED EARLIER, THERE'S ONLY FIVE DISTRICTS IN THE STATE OF TEXAS THAT HAVE ACHIEVED THIS STATUS.
AND ONLY TWENTY FIVE PUBLIC ENTITIES IN THE STATE HAVE EARNED THIS STATUS.
IT DOES TAKE QUITE A BIT OF TIME AND EFFORT TO ACHIEVE THIS AWARD, FROM UPDATING THE WEBSITE TO PROCESSES TO WHAT WE PUT OUT THERE FOR OUR STAKEHOLDERS.
MR. BOOKER, IT'S BEEN ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF PROCESS TO GET TO THIS AWARD, WHICH IS WHY MANY ENTITIES ARE NOT ABLE TO ACHIEVE IT, BECAUSE IT IS A LOT OF STEPS TO GET THIS DONE.
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AND SO I WANTED TO START THE PROCESS JUST BY THANKING MR. BOOKER AND HIS TEAM, HIS LEADERSHIP.AND WE DID RECEIVE NOTIFICATION FROM MR. HEGAR, THE TEXAS COMPTROLLER, A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, THAT WE OFFICIALLY EARNED THE STATUS.
AND WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO MR. BOOKER FOR ANY COMMENTS HE MAY HAVE AND HIS TEAM WILL BE HERE AT THE BOARD MEETING FOR THE OFFICIAL RECOGNITION.
ALL RIGHT, GOOD JOB, MR. BOOKER.
[APPLAUSE] I'M VERY THANKFUL TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE HERE AT GARLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT.
AND THE AWARD IS CERTAINLY A TEAM AWARD.
IF IT WERE NOT FOR THE VISION OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND THE LEADERSHIP PROVIDED BY DR.
LOPEZ, THE SUPPORT THAT I RECEIVED FROM DR.
RINGO, THERE WERE MULTIPLE DEPARTMENTS THAT WERE INVOLVED IN THIS PROCESS.
AND SO I'M JUST THANKFUL AND HONORED TO BE THE ONE TO BE ABLE TO STAND BEFORE YOU AND ACCEPT IT ON BEHALF OF THE DISTRICT.
I HAVE ONE OF THE HARDEST WORKING PURCHASING STAFFS IN THE STATE OF TEXAS AND LOOK FORWARD TO INTRODUCING THEM TO YOU NEXT WEEK.
AND AGAIN, THANK YOU BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO DR.
LOPEZ, DR. RINGO, ALLISON DAVENPORT.
BUDGET, THERE WAS ALSO JASMINE PRESTON AND HER GROUP THAT WAS INVOLVED IN THIS.
SO IT TRULY WAS A TEAM EFFORT.
AND I'M THANKFUL JUST TO BE A PART OF THE TEAM ONCE AGAIN.
THANK YOU, MR. BOOKER, FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP.
[APPLAUSE] AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING YOUR TEAM.
AND I'M SURE THIS IS GOING TO BE ON OUR WEBSITE AND EVERYWHERE ELSE THAT AS WE MARK IT AND CELEBRATE THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF OUR VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS.
C IS TO REVIEW FEBRUARY 2021 MONTHLY FINANCIALS, ALLISON DAVENPORT AND TRUSTEES WE'RE ON PACE WITH BEGINNING AT PAGE 11 THROUGH 18.
MS. GRIFFIN BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
DR. LOPEZ, BEFORE YOU AS SHE JUST SAID, WE HAVE THE FEBRUARY 2021 MONTHLY FINANCIALS FOR EIGHT MONTHS THROUGH OUR FISCAL YEAR.
THE REVENUE AND EXPENSE DETAIL IS INCLUDED.
I'D BE HAPPY TO ADDRESS ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS YOU HAVE.
AND TRUSTEES THE SUMMARY THERE IS FOR US ON PAGE TWELVE.
WE WILL MOVE TO OUR NEXT INFORMATION ITEM.
WE'LL RECEIVE THE 2021 BEST WELLNESS EMPLOYEE SILVER CERTIFICATE.
[LAUGHTER] AND I ALWAYS MESS UP YOUR NAME.
WELL, MS. GRIFFIN, BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
DR. LOPEZ, THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME TODAY.
THAT'S ALWAYS EXCITING TO BE RECOGNIZED LIKE MR. BOOKER FOR ALL THE HARD WORK THAT WE'RE DOING HERE IN THE DISTRICT.
SO WE HAVE RECEIVED I HAVEN'T RECEIVED OUR CRYSTAL YET, BUT THIS IS OUR AWARD.
IT'S THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW THAT WE'VE RECEIVED THE BEST WELLNESS EMPLOYER AWARD SILVER .
AND Y'ALL HAVE THE DETAILS ABOUT THE AWARD HERE.
BUT REALLY, OUR DEPARTMENT'S VISION IS TO BUILD A CULTURE OF HEALTH AND WELL-BEING THAT BENEFITS ALL OF OUR EMPLOYEES.
AND THIS AWARD RECOGNIZES THE STRONG FOUNDATION THAT WE HAVE IN OUR WELLNESS PROGRAM, THAT WE'RE ASSESSING OUR PROGRAM, IMPLEMENTING WHAT IS NEEDED BY OUR EMPLOYEES, EVALUATING AND HAVING A GOOD, STRONG WELLNESS COMMITTEE.
WE ARE THE ONLY K-12 EDUCATION PROGRAM THAT IT WAS LISTED THIS YEAR.
SO THAT'S ALSO REALLY EXCITING.
SO I DO APPRECIATE Y'ALL'S SUPPORT, DR.
ALLISON AND MY WELLNESS COMMITTEE SUPPORT FOR HEALTH AND WELLNESS IN OUR DISTRICT.
IS TO REVIEW THE FEBRUARY 2021 TAX REPORT.
MS. COOPER, KRISTI COOPER, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
GOOD AFTERNOON, MR. GRIFFIN, BOARD OF TRUSTEES, DR.
LOPEZ, BEFORE YOU IS THE FEBRUARY 2021 TAX COLLECTION REPORT FOR THE 2020 TAX YEAR REFLECTING 95.83 PERCENT COLLECTED.
AND AS OF TODAY AT THREE O'CLOCK, WE WERE AT 97.48.
DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? WE HAVE A REAL TIME UPDATE.
[LAUGHTER] ANY QUESTIONS? DIDN'T SHE SAY.
JUST LIKE YOU PUSH A BUTTON ON THE COMPUTER REAL TIME THANK YOU.
YES, WE ARE JUST A SMIDGE AHEAD OF LAST YEAR.
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[APPLAUSE] YES.WELL I THINK YOU YOU STARTED SOMETHING MR. BEACH.
HAS ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT WE WILL NOW MOVE TO OUR ACTION ITEMS, NON CONSENT AND WE
[VII. Action Items (Non Consent)]
WILL CONSIDER APPROVAL OF BUDGET TRANSFERS AND AMENDMENTS TO THE 2020-2021 GENERAL FUND MS. MAYO.PAGES THIRTY SEVEN TO THIRTY NINE.
GOOD EVENING, MS. GRIFFIN, COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND DR.
LOPEZ I'M BRINGING YOU THE APRIL BUDGET AMENDMENT FOR THE GENERAL FUND BEFORE YOU.
IF YOU SEE ON THE DETAILS, PAGE THIRTY NINE.
WE HAVE THE NORMAL OPERATION BUDGET TRANSFERS, CROSS TRANSFERS FOR PROGRAMMATIC NEEDS AND THEN WE ARE ALSO ADDRESSING THE WINTER STORM.
SO WE HAVE SOME CROSS FUNCTION TRANSFERS THAT ARE GOING TO ADDRESS WINTER STORM ACTIVITY THAT HAS ALREADY HIT THE GENERAL FUND.
AND WE WILL BE TRANSFERRING OUT TO FUND 651 TO ADDRESS THE LONGER TERM CONSTRUCTION NEEDS THAT WILL NOT BE FINALIZED BY JUNE 30TH.
ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS AMENDMENT? MR. MILLER.
TRANSFERRED FOR THE WINTER STORM.
WOULD YOU MIND JUST TELLING ME WHICH ONES SO I CAN MARK THEM? ALL OF THE ITEMS THAT YOU SEE IN THE CURRENT AMENDMENTS REQUESTED COLUMN ON PAGE THIRTY EIGHT AND THEN ON PAGE 39, IT DETAILS IT BY FUNCTION.
SO ALL OF IT? SO THE MILLION 22 IS FOR ALL FOR WINTER STORM.
CORRECTION IF YOU'LL SEE IN THE DETAIL LINE, I THINK EARLIER TODAY YOU HEARD ABOUT THE P-TECH STOREFRONT PROGRAM.
WE ARE ALSO TRANSFERRING THAT OUT DUE TO TIMING, BUT THAT WAS ALREADY IN THE CURRENT BUDGET.
OK, AND SO THE WINTER STORM IMPACT IS HOW MUCH? AT THIS TIME IT'S ABOUT A MILLION DOLLARS.
I THINK MR. GONZALES HAS A MORE DETAILED REVIEW OF THAT.
I DON'T HAVE ALL THE DETAILS OF THE STORM.
ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? MR. GLICK.
RINGO, IT'S NOT DIRECTLY ON POINT, BUT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT BUDGET.
ANYTHING NEW YOU'RE HEARING OUT OF AUSTIN ON SOME OF THE RECENT BUDGET DISCUSSIONS WE'VE HAD FOR THE FUTURE? YES, THE HOUSE BILL THREE CLEAN UP BILL IS BEING HEARD THIS WEEK AND AS OF TODAY AND THAT DISCUSSION TALKING TO SOME CONSULTANTS AND THE TEXAS SCHOOL ALLIANCE RELEASED SOME INFORMATION AND NOTED THAT EXPECT MANY CHANGES.
AND RIDERS ADDED TO THAT BILL THROUGH THIS WEEK OF DISCUSSIONS.
BUT IN REGARDS TO FINALIZATION OF PROJECTIONS, THERE'S NOTHING NEW FROM OUR PRIOR DISCUSSIONS AT THIS TIME.
IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE THAT YOU MAY BE CURRENT ON ABOUT THE 17 TO 19 BILLION DOLLARS THAT THE STATE HAS COLLECTED FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT'S NOT BEING RELEASED TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS? YES, THE STATE IS STILL HOLDING THAT FUNDING HOSTAGE.
AND THE CONVERSATIONS BEING WE'RE ONE OF THE LAST COUPLE OF STATES THAT HAS NOT RECEIVED A SINGLE ADDITIONAL DOLLAR FROM FEDERAL RELIEF FUNDS.
AND ALSO IN THOSE CONVERSATIONS, PROJECTION IS THAT WE WILL NOT RECEIVE ANY GUIDANCE OR POTENTIALLY RECEIVE OR DETERMINATION OF HOW THAT FUND WILL BE ALLOCATED UNTIL THIS SUMMER.
THE STATE IS LOOKING AT ALL OUR EXPENSES DUE TO THE STORM.
THEY'RE LOOKING AT ALL OUR EXPENSES THAT WE HAD FROM COVID AND PROJECTED EXPENSES WITH COVID.
AND WE HAD SURVEYS THAT WERE DUE THIS PAST WEEK TEA EVERY DISTRICT IN THE STATE OF TEXAS HAD TO SUBMIT A SURVEY.
AND OUR SENSE IS THEY'RE GOING TO USE THAT DATA TO DETERMINE IF WE RECEIVE ANY ADDITIONAL DOLLARS ABOVE AND BEYOND WERE ALLOCATED.
THE OTHER THEORY IS THE STATE WILL SUPPLANT AS MUCH FUNDING AS POSSIBLE FROM THE STATE BUDGET THAT THEY'VE ALREADY ALLOCATED FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION.
MEANING WHEN I SAY SUPPLANT, IF THERE'S BEEN 18 BILLION RECEIVED, THE STATE POTENTIALLY COULD CUT 18 BILLION FROM THE PUBLIC EDUCATION BUDGET AND USE ALL THE FEDERAL RELIEF DOLLARS.
AND THERE'S A LOT OF DISCUSSIONS TAKING PLACE ABOUT THAT.
ONE MORE MS. GRIFFIN? YES GO AHEAD.
THE LATEST THAT, YOU KNOW, I HEARD WAS THAT DAN PATRICK IS CALLING FOR SOME SPECIAL COMMITTEES TO BE ASSIGNED TO LOOK AT THIS, THAT THE GOVERNOR IS TALKING ABOUT HOLDING IT AS PART OF A SPECIAL SESSION ITEM AFTER THE REGULAR SESSION.
IS THAT STILL ALL CURRENT? THAT IS? YES, SIR.
AND THOSE DISCUSSIONS BEING THE SUMMER AND THE DISCUSSIONS BEING AS WE'VE SEEN OFF HISTORY, ANY TIME THE STATE HAS RECEIVED FEDERAL RELIEF DOLLARS, IT HAS NOT BEEN FRIENDLY TO PUBLIC EDUCATION.
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HISTORICALLY, THOSE DOLLARS HAVE BEEN ALSO PLANTED FROM STATE FUNDING, WHICH IS, AS YOU'RE NOTING, MR. GLICK, THE GOVERNOR, AND DAN PATRICK, IN THOSE SPECIAL DISCUSSIONS AND DECISIONS THAT WE BELIEVE THAT WILL BE THE FUTURE DATE WHICH ALIGNED TO THIS SUMMER.AND I THINK WE COULD BRING THIS IN UNDER APPROVED BUDGET TRANSFERS AND AMENDMENTS DUE TO THE FACT THAT WE ARE EXPECTING MONEY IN FROM THE STATE, NECESSARILY NOT KNOWING EVERYTHING WHERE TO GET FROM HB THREE AND THEN THE FEDERAL RELIEF.
SO IT SLIDES IN TALKING ABOUT INCOME COMING INTO THE DISTRICT.
MS. GRIFFIN I DID HAVE ONE MORE THING TO LET YOU KNOW.
AS YOU CAN SEE ON PAGE THIRTY SEVEN, THIS IS A BUDGET AMENDMENT THAT ONLY ADDRESSES THE GENERAL FUND.
WHEN WE COME BACK TO YOU ON APRIL THE TWENTY SEVENTH, WE WILL HAVE ADDITIONAL BUDGET AMENDMENT THAT IT'S A SIMPLE CROSS FUNCTION CHANGE IN THE DEBT SERVICE FUND BUT IS REQUIRED FOR BOARD APPROVAL.
SO WE'LL BE ADDING THAT DOCUMENTATION FOR APRIL THE TWENTY SEVENTH.
OK, AND WE'LL HAVE THAT EXPLAINED ON OUR COVER SHEET.
THAT WILL BE ON THE COVER SHEET.
AND I'LL ALSO BE HERE FOR QUESTIONS AS WELL ON THAT DAY.
OK, ANY MORE QUESTIONS ON BUDGET TRANSFERS AND AMENDMENTS? THANK YOU.
OK, WE'RE GOING TO GO TO 7B CONSIDER APPROVAL OF TAX REFUNDS FOR OVERPAYMENTS OR ERRONEOUS PAYMENTS, MS. COOPER.
THE ITEM BEFORE YOU IS THE FEBRUARY 2020 REFUNDS THAT EXCEED FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS THAT REQUIRE BOARD APPROVAL, ACCORDING TO SECTION 3111 OF THE TAX CODE.
DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? AND TRUSTEES THAT INFORMATION IS FOUND ON PAGES 40 THROUGH 42 ANY QUESTIONS? OK, SEEING NONE WHILE YOU'RE THERE WE'LL MOVE ON TO 7C.
CONSIDER APPROVAL OF STATUTORY WRITE OFFS OF DELINQUENT TAXES.
AND THAT'S PAGES FORTY THREE THROUGH FIFTY NINE.
THE ITEM BEFORE YOU IS THE LIST OF ACCOUNTS RECOMMENDED BY MR. BURNSIDE OF PURDUE TO REMOVE DELINQUENT TAXES FROM OUR TAX ROW AS OUTLINED UNDER SECTION 3305 OF THE TAX CODE.
EXHIBIT A PAGES FORTY SIX AND FORTY SEVEN.
IDENTIFY THE REAL PROPERTIES FOR THE YEAR'S 2000 AND PRIOR, WHICH TOTALED TWENTY EIGHT THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE DOLLARS WORTH OF TAX LEVY TO REMOVE.
EXHIBIT B IS THE PERSONAL PROPERTY IDENTIFIED IN PAGES FORTY EIGHT THROUGH FIFTY NINE AND THAT IS FOR 2016 AND PRIOR TAX YEARS.
IF YOU SEE ANY PRIOR TAX YEARS, THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A JUDGMENT OR A SUIT ON THOSE AND THAT'S WHY THEY'RE STILL ON OUR ROW RIGHT NOW.
TRUSTEES IF YOU LOOK AT THAT, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
WE'RE KIND OF REQUIRED BY LAW.
I KNOW THAT AT ONE POINT DURING COVID THERE WAS A MORATORIUM BASICALLY PUT ON MORTGAGE FORECLOSURES AND THOSE KIND OF COLLECTION ACTIVITIES WITH RESPECT TO THE PUBLIC, HAS ANYTHING COME ACROSS WITH RESPECT TO COLLECTING TAXES IN TERMS OF MORATORIUMS? NO.
AND THESE THAT ARE INCLUDED HERE WOULD NOT APPLY TO ANYTHING RELATED TO THAT AS WELL.
OK, SO THAT WE CAN COMPLETE WHAT WE NEED TO DO LEGALLY.
YOU STILL HAVE THE FLOOR AND YOU'RE GONNA CONSIDER APPROVAL OF THE RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE WRITE OFF OF DELINQUENT TAXES.
SHOULD YOU APPROVE THERE IS A RESOLUTION FOR YOUR APPROVAL.
NORMAL LANGUAGE, ANY QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU.
7E CONSIDER APPROVAL OF DISPOSAL OF BUSES.
ONCE AGAIN TO MS. GRIFFIN TO THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
TO DR. LOPEZ, WE HAVE BEFORE YOU CONSIDERATION.
FIFTEEN BUSES IDENTIFIED BY TRANSPORTATION WHICH HAVE EXTENDED THEIR USEFUL LIFE.
THEY'RE RECOMMENDING APPROVAL FOR DISPOSAL IN ACCORDANCE WITH OUR LOCAL POLICY CI FOR DISPOSAL.
ANY QUESTIONS ON WHAT YOU SEE FOR SEVEN E? THANK YOU.
WE'RE GOING TO COME BACK AND INCLUDE F WITH OUR DISCUSSION AFTER WE DO THAT.
SO WE'RE GOING TO IF YOU LOOK ON DISCUSSION ITEM
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8B.THAT IS WHERE WE'RE GOING TO GET THE DETAILED REPORT AND WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO GET RID OF THESE OTHER ITEMS FIRST.
BUT WE LEFT IT HERE BECAUSE THAT'S THE ORDER WE WOULD SEE IT IN THE REGULAR BOARD MEETING.
BUT WE'RE TRYING TO MOVE ALL OF OUR MAJOR DISCUSSION ITEMS AT THE END SO WE CAN GET OUT OF THE ROUTINE THINGS.
SO IF YOU'LL JUST HANG WITH ME, DR.
IF WE LOOK AT 7G WE HEARD THE STORE FRONTS FOR ROWLETT.
DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS THAT WE NEED TO GO OVER? AND SO WE WILL MOVE 7, A, B, C AND D [INAUDIBLE] AND E AND F ON THE AGENDA FOR THE BOARD MEETING AND G FOR APPROVAL IN THE BOARD MEETING.
NOW, WE'RE GONNA MOVE TO NEW BIDS UNDER H AND WE'VE ALREADY HEARD APPROVAL OF THE PURCHASE OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS UNLESS THERE'S SOME UNRESOLVED QUESTIONS THAT WE NEED TO BRING BACK.
SO NOW UNDER NEW BIDS H, NUMBER TWO CONTRACT 30-21, CONSIDER APPROVAL OF PURCHASE OF ONLINE DATA ANALYSIS FOR STUDENT AND STAFF DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION.
MR. BOOKER, IF YOU WANT TO COME OR IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, ITS SHOWING DR.
CADDELL'S NAME HERE, IF WE HAD QUESTIONS BUT IT'S ACTUALLY A NEW BID, AND IF YOU ALL WANT TO TAKE A LOOK AT IT ON PAGE 102 TO 105.
ONCE AGAIN, THIS CONTRACT BEFORE YOU IS FOR THE PURCHASE OF A DATA ANALYSIS TOOL, IT'S NOT A NEW TOOL TO THE DISTRICT, IS JUST A NEW CONTRACT.
SO IT IS THE SAME CONTRACT THAT WE'VE USED IN THE PAST.
WE ARE RECOMMENDING THE SAME COMPANY THAT IS PROVIDING THAT SERVICE TODAY FOR CONTINUAL USAGE WITH A ONE YEAR CONTRACT WITH ONE ANNUAL RENEWAL NOT TO EXCEED 500,000.
OK, AND IF YOU WOULD KEEP GOING TO CONTRACT 113-21, CONSIDER APPROVAL OF PURCHASE OF TECHNOLOGY TICKET SYSTEM.
THE TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT HAS IDENTIFIED A CO-OPERATIVE CONTRACT THROUGH CHI TO PROVIDE TICKETING SERVICES TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY OF THEIR DEPARTMENT, RECOMMENDING CHI GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS FOR THAT CONTRACT WITH A CONTRACT TERM OF ONE YEAR WITH FOUR ANNUALLY RENEWABLE OPTIONS WITH THE NOT TO EXCEED AMOUNT OF ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS.
THAT WAS FOUND ON PAGE 106 TO 108.
SO WE WILL MOVE SEVEN H NEW BIDS, ONE THROUGH THREE FOR THE BOARD MEETING MOVING TO I.
I INCREASE TO AWARD BIDS, CONTRACT 207-18, CONSIDER APPROVAL OF INCREASE AND AWARDED AMOUNTS FOR HVAC MAINTENANCE, REPAIR AND BUILDING AUTOMATION SERVICES.
MR. BOOKER STARTING ON PAGE 109.
YES, WE ARE RECOMMENDING THE INCREASE IN AMOUNT OF THE CONTRACT OF SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS TO FACILITATE THE HVAC MAINTENANCE, REPAIR AND BUILDING AUTOMATION SERVICES.
THE NEW NOT TO EXCEED AMOUNT WOULD BE ONE MILLION, SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.
IT IS A CO-OPERATIVE CONTRACT THAT WE'VE ACCESSED THROUGH THE EDUCATIONAL PURCHASING COOPERATIVE OF NORTH TEXAS.
THIS IS THE END, ITS FINAL RENEWAL YEAR.
ARE THERE QUESTIONS? NUMBER TWO CONTRACT 397-21 CONSIDER APPROVAL OF INCREASE AND AWARDED AMOUNT FOR AN ONLINE INTEGRATED LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.
THE CONTRACT BEFORE YOU IS TO PROVIDE A TWENTY EIGHT THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLAR INCREASE TO THE PREVIOUS AWARD.
SO THE NEW NOT TO EXCEED AMOUNT WOULD BE THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND
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NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY DOLLARS TO INSTRUCTURE INCORPORATED TO PROVIDE THE ONLINE INTEGRATED LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.ANY QUESTIONS? THAT COMPLETES OUR INCREASE TO AWARDED BIDS THAT WILL MOVE TO OUR BOARD AGENDA.
WE WILL MOVE TO THE MODIFICATION TO EXISTING AWARDED BID CONTRACT 15-21.
CONSIDER MODIFICATION TO INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER MR. BOOKER BEGINNING ON PAGE 117.
YES, MA'AM WHAT'S BEFORE YOU IS A MODIFICATION IN THE AWARD TO THE VENDOR.
THE AMOUNT OF FUNDING DID NOT CHANGE.
WE IDENTIFIED DURING THE CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS THAT THE AWARD THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY MADE TO FIBER PLATFORM, WHICH IS A SUBSIDIARY, THE ACTUAL ENTITY PERFORMING THE WORK WOULD BE UNITE PRIVATE NETWORKS WE'RE BRINGING BACK BEFORE TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO APPROVE THE CHANGE SO THAT WE WOULD, IN FACT HAVE THE CONTRACT AND EXPENDITURES GOING TO THE LEGAL ENTITY THAT PERFORMS THE WORK.
THAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE MODIFICATION THAT'S PRESENTED FOR YOU TONIGHT.
SO ALL OF SEVEN, A, B, C, D, E WE'LL ADD F WHEN WE'RE FINISHED SEEING IT.
G, H, I, J WE WILL MOVE AS ACTION ITEMS TO THE UPCOMING BOARD MEETING.
ANY FURTHER THOUGHTS ON ALL OF OUR BIDS AND ACTION ITEMS? HEARING NONE.
DISCUSSION ITEMS, WE ARE TRYING TO BE MORE EFFICIENT WITH STAFF'S TIME AND USAGE
[VIII. Discussion Items]
FOR THEIR SUPPORT OF THE BOARD MEETINGS.SO AT THIS TIME, WE WILL MOVE NOW TO DISCUSSION ITEM A TO DISCUSS THE 2021 2022 RAISE SCENARIOS IT'S GOING TO BE A COMBINATION OF WE HAVE THE A TEAM HERE, WE HAVE BRANDY MAYO, DR. GRADYNE BROWN, DR.
RINGO AND THEIR PRESENTATION BEGINS ON PAGE 121.
MS. GRIFFIN, BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
DR. LOPEZ, GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN.
THIS EVENING WE'LL PRESENT THE 2021-2022 RAISE SCENARIOS.
THIS IS INFORMATION AND BASED OFF INFORMATION THAT WAS KNOWN UP TO A WEEK AGO, THERE'S NEW INFORMATION THAT WILL BE PRESENTED THIS EVENING IN REGARDS TO VIRTUAL SCHOOL AND DAC THAT WILL FURTHER IMPACT BUDGET IMPLICATIONS AND WILL BE ADDED FOR THE BUDGET WORKSHOP.
THE FOCUS FOR THIS EVENING BEYOND ON THE RAISE SCENARIOS AND I GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
VERY SIMILAR TO THE QUESTIONING TONIGHT.
A LOT OF THE QUESTIONING IS PREDICTING.
THERE'S A CRYSTAL BALL THAT I DO NOT HAVE AND NO ONE SEEMS TO HAVE WHAT'S HAPPENING AT THE STATE LEVEL AND FEDERAL RELIEF FUNDS.
BUT WE KNOW THERE'S STILL IMPACTS WITH AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE.
WILL WE SEE STUDENTS RETURN NEXT YEAR THAT WERE OUT OF THE SYSTEM THIS YEAR? AS NOTED BEFORE, THERE WAS A THREE PERCENT DECLINE IN REGARDS TO ENROLLMENT IN THE STATE OF TEXAS THAT MIRRORS GARLAND ISD.
IT MIRRORS MANY DISTRICTS IN REGION TEN.
AND SO AS WE GO INTO THE NEXT SCHOOL YEAR, WILL THOSE STUDENTS COME BACK OR WILL THAT DECLINE CONTINUE TO HAPPEN WITH FEDERAL RELIEF FUNDS.
THE SNS FUND WITH RETURN A FACE TO FACE FOR 2021 2022.
THE STUDENT NUTRITION FUND SHOULD BE ABLE TO SUSTAIN ITSELF AT THAT POINT, AS WE SAW IN THE COVID IMPACT.
BUT AS I NOTE NOW, AND WITH THE HOUSE BILL, THREE CLEAN UP, EXPECT REVENUE ADJUSTMENTS.
WE WILL YOU KNOW, WE BASED ON PROJECTIONS, BASED OFF THE DATA WE KNOW AT THAT TIME, BUT AS WE HAVE SHIFTS WITH ADA AND SHIFTS WITH REVENUE CLEAN UP IN REGARDS TO HOUSE BILL THREE THAT IS BEING DISCUSSED IN AUSTIN RIGHT NOW.
SOME OF OUR PROJECTIONS CAN CHANGE AND WILL CHANGE AS WE GO INTO THE NEXT PLANNING YEAR.
AND AS WE GET INTO THE NUMBERS BEFORE WE GET TO THE NUMBERS, I'M GOING TO TURN OVER TO DR. BROWN TO DISCUSS THE HR SIDE THAT HELPS BUILD OUR BUDGET AND THEIR INPUT TREMENDOUSLY DOES HELP US GET TO THE POINT WHERE WE NEED TO BE.
GOOD EVENING, CHAIR GRIFFIN, PRESIDENT SELDERS BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEMBERS, AND SUPERINTENDENT LOPEZ.
IT'S MY PLEASURE TO PRESENT TO YOU THIS EVENING SOME INFORMATION IN REGARDS TO OUR HUMAN RESOURCES BUDGET.
AS YOU KNOW, OUR HUMAN RESOURCES BUDGET REFLECTS ABOUT 84 PERCENT OF OUR
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DISTRICT EXPENDITURES.THE INFORMATION ON THE SLIDE BEFORE YOU TELLS YOU THE COST OF ONE FTE AND FTE IS A FULL TIME EQUIVALENT POSITION.
WE PAY ABOUT 12 PERCENT BENEFITS FOR EACH FTE.
BENEFITS INCLUDE OUR CONTRIBUTION TO HEALTH INSURANCE, OUR CONTRIBUTION TO TRS, THINGS SUCH AS OUR EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.
SO AS YOU CAN SEE, THESE ARE THE COST OF OUR FTE'S.
I ALSO PUT THE NUMBER OF DAYS PER YEAR THAT EACH OF THESE POSITIONS WORK DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR.
TALKS ABOUT HOW WE ARE GOING ABOUT REDUCING OUR NUMBER OF FULL TIME EQUIVALENT POSITIONS.
I WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT ALL REDUCTIONS WILL BE BASED UPON ATTRITION.
NO ONE WILL BE LOSING THEIR JOB.
IN LAYMAN'S TERMS. OUR NEXT SLIDES ARE GOING TO TALK ABOUT BUDGET SAVINGS BASED UPON THE NUMBER OF POSITIONS THAT WE ARE REDUCING.
WE'RE REDUCING 22 ELEMENTARY TEACHER POSITIONS AND DEPENDING UPON ENROLLMENT, THAT MIGHT GO UP TO 32 FTE'S.
MIDDLE SCHOOL EIGHTY SIX POSITIONS, HIGH SCHOOL NINETY SEVEN POSITIONS.
HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARIANS, YOU SEE SEVEN.
AND ALL OF US KNOW WE HAVE SEVEN HIGH SCHOOLS.
YES, OUR HIGH SCHOOLS WILL HAVE LIBRARIANS.
WE ACTUALLY HAVE TWO LIBRARIANS AT EACH HIGH SCHOOL NOW, THE RECOMMENDATION IS THAT WE HAVE ONE LIBRARIAN AT EACH HIGH SCHOOL CAMPUS AND AN ADDITIONAL TEACHER'S AIDE AT THE CAMPUS OR LIBRARY AID.
THE PATH FINDERS ACHIEVEMENT CENTER PROGRAM IS BEING RELOCATED TO CAMPUSES, AND BECAUSE OF THAT RELOCATION, WE WILL HAVE SOME REDUCTIONS IN POSITIONS.
PAC WELL, IT STANDS FOR PATHFINDER'S ACHIEVEMENT CENTER.
WE WILL NOT NEED A NURSE AT THE PATHFINDER'S ACHIEVEMENT CENTER.
WE WILL NOT NEED A PRINCIPAL AT THE PATHFINDER'S ACHIEVEMENT CENTER.
THIS YEAR WE DID NOT HAVE A PRINCIPAL.
WE HAD A COORDINATOR/ADMINISTRATOR WHO OVERSAW THE PROGRAM AT PAC.
IN ADDITION, WE WILL BE REDUCING BY 22 CAMPUS PROFESSIONALS AND CURRENTLY WE HAVE A GYMNASTICS COACH AT BRANDENBURG CLASSICAL CENTER AND WE HAVE ANOTHER GYMNASTICS COACH WHO GOES BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN BRANDENBURG AND LAKE VIEW CENTENNIAL HIGH SCHOOL, WHICH HAS OUR CLASSICAL PROGRAM FOR HIGH SCHOOLS.
AS YOU KNOW, WE HAVE LYLE THEN BRANDENBURG AND THEN THEY GO FROM BRANDENBURG TO LAKE VIEW.
IF THEY WANT TO CONTINUE WITH THE CLASSICAL ENDORSEMENT, THE GYMNASTICS COACH WILL SERVE BOTH CAMPUSES AND WE WILL SAVE THE STIPEND AND DAYS WORKED.
SO OUR TOTAL REDUCTIONS FOR CAMPUS EXPENDITURES, IF YOU LOOK AT THE BULLETS ON YOUR LEFT, IS FOURTEEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY FOUR SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
SO YOU MIGHT ASK HOW ARE YOU DOING THESE REDUCTIONS? WE'RE INCREASING OUR ELEMENTARY STAFFING RATIOS FROM ONE TO TWENTY TWO TO ONE TO TWENTY FOUR.
AND WE CAN GO BACK ONE SLIDE PLEASE.
IN ORDER TO DO THAT, WE WILL HAVE TO REQUEST A WAIVER FROM TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY.
WE'RE INCREASING OUR MIDDLE SCHOOL STAFFING RATIO FROM ONE TO 25 TO ONE TO 27.
WE'RE INCREASING OUR HIGH SCHOOL STAFFING RATIOS FROM ONE TO TWENTY FIVE TO ONE TWENTY SEVEN.
AND OUR CLERICAL STAFFING AND PARAPROFESSIONAL STAFFING IS BEING BASED UPON A 2020 TASB STUDY.
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WE ALSO PLAN TO DO SOME REDUCTIONS IN SOME OF OUR DEPARTMENTS.WE'LL HAVE AN AIDE IN OUR CLINIC, WHICH IS HERE AND KIND OF SENT OUT BY OUR DIRECTOR OF HEALTH SERVICES.
THAT WILL BE ONE FTE REDUCTION.
WE HAD AN ASSISTANT ATHLETIC DIRECTOR RETIRE.
THAT WAS A FULL TIME EQUIVALENT POSITION.
WE'RE NOW HAVING A HALF TIME ASSISTANT ATHLETIC DIRECTOR WHO IS HELPING TO KEEP OUR ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT RUNNING IT'S PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT DURING A PANDEMIC WHEN THERE'S SO MANY GAMES AND SO MUCH HAS TO BE RESCHEDULED WHEN WE HAVE COVID POSITIVE CASES.
IN OUR HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT, WE ARE GOING WITHOUT ONE ELEMENTARY DIRECTOR'S SECRETARY AND ALSO OUR RECRUITMENT COORDINATORS HAD A SECRETARY AND THAT POSITION IS BEING REDUCED.
THESE LAST FEW PAGES EXPLAIN THE PROJECTION THAT WE SAW OF THAT 14 MILLION, I BELIEVE THAT WAS IN OUR FIRST BUDGET WORKSHOP THAT WE HAD.
AND I HAD A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS THAT CAME TO ME FROM BOARD MEMBERS IN TERMS OF WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE AND HOW ARE WE GOING TO ACHIEVE THAT.
AND THAT'S WHY ON PAGE 125, IT IS TALKING ABOUT HOW IT'S GOING TO BE DONE THROUGH ATTRITION.
AND THEN IT WENT FURTHER FOR THEM TO EXPLAIN TO US HOW THEY HAD ACHIEVED BASICALLY THAT NUMBER.
SO IF WE CAN, LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT THE STAFFING PROJECTION LOOKS LIKE AND IF WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PERTAINING TO THESE PREVIOUS PAGES BEFORE WE CONTINUE WITH THE REPORT.
SO ARE THERE QUESTIONS? MR. MILLER.
ON OUR PAGE 126, AND IT MAY BE YOUR FIFTH SLIDE.
YES, I NOTICED HE HAD THE TEA WAIVER AFTER THE BULLET POINT FOR THE ELEMENTARY STAFFING RATIO.
IS THAT WAIVER IS IT ALSO REQUIRED FOR MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLS? NO, SIR, IT IS NOT.
IT'S ONLY REQUIRED FOR ELEMENTARY CAMPUSES AND ACTUALLY IT'S NOT THE ENTIRE ELEMENTARY CAMPUS IT'S GRADES K THROUGH FOUR.
FIFTH GRADE DOES NOT REQUIRE A WAIVER.
SO ON THAT PAGE 126 THAT SAME SLIDE, THAT FIRST LINE IS REAL DIFFICULT FOR ME.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'VE BEEN MOST PROUD ABOUT BEING ON THIS BOARD IS I COME THROUGH THE END OF MY 14TH YEAR, IS WE ARE ONE OF THE FEW DISTRICTS IN THE WHOLE STATE THAT HAS NEVER ASKED FOR A WAIVER OF THE K TO 4 STAFFING OF 1 TO 22.
OTHER DISTRICTS WHO RAISE THEMSELVES AS MUCH AS ANYBODY HAVE ALL ASKED FOR WAIVERS.
AND I KNOW ONE OF THE THOUGHTS THAT I HAD THE NIGHT WE GOT THE RESULTS FROM THE TRE WAS THAT DR.
LOPEZ WOULD BE HE AND I TALKED ABOUT THIS WOULD BE COMING FORTH WITH THIS REQUEST.
MAYBE THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS I WORK SO HARD FOR THE TRE, BECAUSE I KNEW THIS WOULD BE COMING.
DOESN'T SOUND LIKE A LOT, TWENTY TWO TO TWENTY FOUR, BUT TO ME, IT'S A SENSE OF PRIDE OF WHAT WE DO HERE, WHO WE ARE, WHO WE'VE BEEN AND WHAT WE ARE GOING TO BECOME.
I REMEMBER TALKING TO TRUSTEES AT A CONFERENCE IN RICHARDSON.
I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY WAIVERS THEY HAD ASKED FOR IT WAS IN THE HUNDREDS AND WE HAD NEVER ASKED FOR ONE.
I GUESS MY QUESTION, WITH ALL THE NOT ANSWERS THAT DR.
RINGO CAN GIVE US, BECAUSE WE CAN'T HE DOESN'T KNOW.
NOBODY KNOWS WHETHER WE'RE GETTING FEDERAL DOLLARS, WHETHER OUR FUND BALANCE IS
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GOING TO BE CUT.SO WE'RE AT AN UNENCUMBERED FUND BALANCE IS AROUND TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS RIGHT NOW.
I KNOW WE'VE SHOWN SIGNIFICANT DOLLARS COMING FROM THAT.
I DON'T BELIEVE THOSE NUMBERS WILL HOLD.
I THINK WHEN WE'RE ALL SAID AND DONE, OUR FUND BALANCE UNENCUMBERED WILL STILL BE OVER TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS UNLESS THE STATE COMES AND DOES SOMETHING WITH THOSE DOLLARS, WHICH THEY MIGHT.
I WOULD LIKE US TO THINK SERIOUSLY ABOUT STAYING WITH THE ONE TO TWENTY TWO.
IS THAT A POINT OF PRIDE? IS IT FOR THE EDUCATION OF OUR YOUNGEST KIDS TO MAKE SURE THEY GET THE BEST EDUCATION POSSIBLE? I KNOW WHEN I VISITED ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS OVER THESE YEARS, ONE OF THE THINGS I'VE TALKED ABOUT AND ONE OF THE THINGS THE TEACHERS ARE PROUD OF ALSO IS THE ABILITY TO TEACH OUR YOUNGEST KIDS.
SOUNDS LIKE NOT A BIG DEAL ADDING TWO KIDS TO THE CLASSROOM.
AND REMEMBER, THAT'S WHY WITH THIS BUDGET PROCESS THIS YEAR, WE CAME IN EARLY AND THE PIECES THAT WE CAN BRING THAT WE NEED TO SERIOUSLY LOOK AT AND TALK ABOUT, THAT'S WHY WE ARE BRINGING THIS EARLY NOW, BECAUSE WE'RE NOT AT THE POINT YET TO HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION.
HOLD YOUR THOUGHT, PRESIDENT SELDERS.
LOPEZ WANTS TO COMMENT ON THE WAIVER AND THEN I'LL GET MR. SELDERS AND THEN MR. BEACH.
JUST A FEW COMMENTS SO WE UNDERSTAND THE ONE TO TWENTY TWO, THE ONE AND TWENTY FOUR TO ONE.
THERE'S A REASON WHY MOST OF THE DISTRICTS IN THE STATE THAT APPLY FOR A WAIVER.
THIS IS PROBABLY YOUR MOST EXPENSIVE INITIATIVE THAT WE HAVE.
OK, SO ANY TIME YOU GO TWENTY THREE IN ANY CLASS WE ARE BUYING A NEW TEACHER.
OK, SO YOU COULD HAVE OTHER CLASSES THAT ARE BELOW, YOU COULD HAVE 22 22 22 AND THEN HIT 23 YOU'RE BUYING A NEW TEACHER FOR THAT ONE AND THEN YOU'RE REDUCING THE CLASS LOAD.
WHILE THAT SOUNDS IDEALISTIC, WHAT DO YOU NEED WHENEVER YOU DO THAT? YOU NEED CLASSROOM SPACE AND YOU NEED THAT TEACHER.
WE HAVE FORTY SEVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND THAT HAPPENS MORE THAN ONE TIME BECAUSE IT DEPENDS.
YOU COULD DO THAT TO, LET'S SAY, A BILINGUAL CLASSROOM AND IT DOESN'T AFFECT EVERYBODY ELSE.
SO ALL OF A SUDDEN WE'RE GOING INTO THE MILLIONS OF ADDED TEACHERS EVERY YEAR.
THE SECOND REASON THAT THIS STRATEGY WE'RE ONLY GOING UP BY TWO AND LIKE YOU'RE SAYING, IT DOESN'T SOUND AS INTRUSIVE AS SOME OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
OK, SO, I MEAN, IF YOU REALLY LOOK, WE'RE ONLY GOING UP TWO PER GRADE LEVEL, BUT YOU SEE THE AMOUNT OF MONEY IT GENERATES FOR US.
OK, BUT THIS IS THE SECOND THING THAT THIS IS ALLOWING US TO DO IF WE REALLY LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE.
SO REMEMBER, I SAID THAT WHENEVER WE HAVE TO BUY A NEW BODY, IT NEEDS A SPACE.
WELL, WE'RE NOW OCCUPYING SPACE WITH WHAT, PRE-K.
WE HAVE THIRTY LOCATIONS RIGHT NOW, OF FULL DAY PRE-K.
AND SO BECAUSE OF THESE TYPE OF INITIATIVES, WE'RE ABLE TO HAVE SPACE FOR GETTING MORE KIDS IN.
NOW, HATTIE IS A LEADER IN ANALYZING ALL TYPES OF DIFFERENT DATA.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THEY SAY IS THAT SMALLER CLASS SIZES ONLY MATTER.
I THINK IT'S AT TWELVE AND BELOW.
IS THAT RIGHT, SUSANNA RUSSELL DID I REMEMBER THAT, RIGHT? YES, SIR.
AND IT HAS AN EFFECT SIZE OF POINT TWO WHERE ONE IS A SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE.
SO THE EFFECT SIZE OF A SMALLER CLASS IS POINT TWO.
SO THE POINT TWO WOULD HAVE TO HAPPEN IF WENT AND REDUCED THESE BY TEN.
SO HAVING ANYWHERE FROM EIGHTEEN TO TWENTY FOUR, HE'S SHOWN THERE'S NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE ON ATTENDING TO CHILDREN.
SO A LOT OF THESE ARE TOUGH CALLS.
OK, BUT WE HAVE TO REMEMBER WE'VE BEEN LIVING IN THE LAP OF LUXURY FOR QUITE SOME TIME AND THE STAFFING REQUIREMENTS HAVE TO HIT AT AT SOMETIME.
AND SO IF WE OFFSET THAT, I DON'T DISAGREE WITH A LOT OF MR. GLICK'S ANALYSIS.
BUT THE THING IS, THESE ARE CALLED WHAT WE CALL REOCCURRING COSTS.
AND THEN SO WHAT'S GOING TO BE THE OFFSET? AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO GET TO THE END.
IF WE DON'T MAKE THESE, THEN WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE HARD DECISIONS ON RAISES AS WELL.
SO WE HAVE TO LOOK AT BOTH ENDS OF THE SPECTRUM.
I WAS JUST CURIOUS TO MR. GLICK'S AND DR.
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LOPEZ WHAT YOU GUYS WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT.WHAT IS THE IMPACT OF GOING FROM, YOU KNOW, THE LOWER RATIO TO THE HIGHER RATIO IN TERMS OF INSTRUCTIONAL DELIVERY AND THE QUALITY OF THAT AND HOW STUDENTS ARE ACTUALLY LEARNING.
I KNOW YOU TALKED ABOUT THERE'S NOT GOING TO BE THAT BIG OF A CHANGE FROM EIGHTEEN TO TWENTY FOUR, BUT THERE IS A CHANGE.
I JUST WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT IS.
WHAT I WAS SAYING IS THERE'S NOT STATISTICALLY THE ANALYSIS HAVE SHOWN THAT THERE'S NOT ANY SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON LEARNING ON ALL STATISTICS THAT HAVE SHOWN ON CLASS SIZES THIS LARGE.
BUT DO THEY ALSO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE LEARNING PROFILES OF THE LEARNERS? YES.
AND SO YOU'RE SAYING THAT CHANGE IN THIS RATIO, YOU HAVE A CLASS OF STUDENTS THAT MAY BE A LITTLE BIT MORE ACADEMICALLY FRAGILE IT'S NOT GOING TO HAVE AN IMPACT.
WHAT I'M TELLING YOU IS IT DEPENDS ON THE TEACHER'S PEDAGOGY AND THE PRINCIPALS EXPERTISE.
THOSE ARE THE TWO LEADING FACTORS ON THAT.
IT'S NOT CLASS SIZE UNLESS YOU GET UNDER 12 AND EVEN IF YOU GET UNDER 12, THE TEACHING PEDAGOGY HAS TO CHANGE DRAMATICALLY.
IF IT'S USED THE SAME AS SOMETHING FROM A 22 TO ONE RATIO, IT'S NOT GOING TO HAVE THE IMPACT.
YOU'RE GOING TO SEE NO IMPACT ON A CLASS OF 12.
THE SECOND THING THAT I WANT TO LET YOU KNOW ABOUT, BECAUSE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE IMPACT, THERE ARE SCHOOL DISTRICTS THAT HAVE THESE TYPE OF NUMBERS THAT OUTPERFORM US, THAT LOOK LIKE US.
THEY MIGHT BE CLOSE, BUT THEY'RE ABLE TO.
IT'S WHAT YOU DO WITH THE TIME WITH THEM IN FRONT OF YOU.
IF YOU HAVE TWENTY TWO OR EIGHTEEN, YOU'RE STILL NOT GIVING THE INDIVIDUALIZED ATTENTION THAT YOU NEED.
AND SO THE SCHEDULING THAT WE'RE AGGRESSIVELY TRYING TO PUT IN WOULD HELP ACHIEVE THESE FACTORS.
I MEAN, HOW ARE WE GOING TO GUARANTEE THAT THAT'S GOING TO BE AT THE LEVEL THAT IT NEEDS TO BE ACROSS THE BOARD IN THIS SCENARIO? THAT'S A QUESTION THAT WE WOULD STILL HAVE EVEN IF WE DIDN'T CHANGE.
I MEAN, THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE TO MONITOR EACH AND EVERY DAY.
AND THAT'S WHY THE PRINCIPAL EXPERTISE IS SO CRITICAL, BECAUSE IF YOU HAVE A HIGH POWERED PRINCIPAL, THEY KNOW HOW TO RUN THE SCHOOL AND THEY FOCUS ON THE RIGHT MEASURES TO SET TEACHERS UP FOR SUCCESS.
AND SO THE TEACHERS IN TURN KNOW HOW TO SET UP STUDENTS FOR SUCCESS.
AND SO I GUESS WHAT I'M ASKING IS, ARE WE THERE? SO THAT'S A I DON'T KNOW, IN COVID, I CAN'T TELL YOU THAT WERE THERE, BUT EVEN IF WE WEREN'T, WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING FINANCIALLY SO.
I GUESS I'M JUST JUST WANTING TO DRAW ATTENTION TO THAT, THAT IT'S STILL THERE.
SO WE CAN'T JUST ROLL PASS THAT.
EVEN IF WE'VE LOWERED IT 15 TO ONE AND WE HAD MONEY 15 TO ONE, THAT WOULD STILL BE AN ISSUE.
SO I HAVE SOME QUESTION AND SOME ARE JUST STATEMENTS.
ONE, THESE PROJECTIONS THAT YOU'RE SHOWING US TODAY IS IF WE'RE FULL TIME IN AUGUST OF 2021, IS THAT CORRECT? YES, SIR, IT IS.
WHERE ARE WE CURRENTLY? BECAUSE I KNOW THAT WE DON'T HAVE THESE RATIOS RIGHT NOW IN OUR CLASSROOMS AT ALL.
WE'RE CURRENTLY STAFFED AT 1 TO 25 FOR MIDDLE SCHOOLS, ONE TO 25 FOR HIGH SCHOOLS AND ONE TO 22 FOR OUR ELEMENTARY CAMPUSES.
OK, AND UNTIL WE KNOW WHAT THE BUDGET IS GOING TO DO, ARE THESE PROJECTED REDUCTIONS FACTUAL? WELL, IF WE'RE GOING TO DO IT BASED UPON ATTRITION AND RIGHT NOW LOOKING AT THE ELEMENTARY CAMPUSES, WE ARE AT THE ATTRITION LEVEL THAT WE NEED IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO MEET THESE RATIOS, WE ARE STILL LOOKING AT A ATTRITION AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL LEVELS AT THIS TIME.
AND HERE'S A STATEMENT I WANT TO MAKE IS HOW TRUTHFUL REALLY IS THE WAIVER THAT WE GET FROM TEA? BECAUSE MY LAST YEAR AT SCHRADE MIDDLE SCHOOL I WAS SITTING AT ONE IN 32 AND THERE WAS NO WAIVER AT THAT PARTICULAR TIME.
MIDDLE SCHOOLS DON'T HAVE TO APPLY FOR WAIVERS.
IT'S ONLY THE GRADES K THROUGH FOUR OUR ELEMENTARY CAMPUSES THAT APPLY FOR WAIVERS.
SO EVEN WHEN WE COME BACK IN THE FALL AND I'M JUST PUTTING IT OUT THERE FOR SCENARIOS, THE SOCIAL DISTANCING OR THE SCENARIOS OF A CLASSROOM SIZE OF TRYING TO PUT MORE STUDENTS IN A CLASSROOM SOCIALLY DISTANCED OR WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE I MEAN, ARE THEY GOING TO LIMIT THAT FROM SIX FEET TO THREE FEET, WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE? AND WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET THAT ON THERE.
SO IT'S GOING TO BE BASED AGAIN ON THE ADA THAT COMES, I GUESS, ENROLLS WHEN WE GET THE
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CHOICE OF SCHOOL AND WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE.SO I'M CONCERNED OF ESPECIALLY AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL, I KNOW THE INCREASE THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE AND THINGS, BUT I KNOW THAT WHAT THE HARD TIME THAT I HAD AS A TEACHER AT 1 TO 32.
AND REGARDLESS OF THAT, IF I HAD A CLASSROOM THIS RIGHT HERE, EVEN WITH 32 KIDS IN IT, IT'S A PRETTY TOUGH SITUATION ON AN INDIVIDUAL TEACHER.
SO THESE REDUCTIONS THERE'S A LOT OF QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED BEFORE I'M REALLY 100 PERCENT BEHIND THIS.
WELL, I JUST WANT TO ITERATE TWO THINGS, BECAUSE YOU BROUGHT UP SOCIAL DISTANCING.
THERE'S NO SOCIAL DISTANCING IN SCHOOLS.
WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THAT SINCE DAY ONE.
AND RIGHT NOW WE HAVE SOME OF OUR SCHOOLS CLOSE TO 80 PERCENT CAPACITY IN THE CLASSROOM.
YOU CAN'T THERE'S NO WAY YOU CAN GO SIX FEET.
I MEAN, WE DON'T SEE THIS ON A DAILY BASIS, SO WE DON'T.
BUT AS A BOARD, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO IMPLORE YOU TO UNDERSTAND.
RAISING TWO, IS NOT SIGNIFICANT.
THIS IS STILL LOWER THAN OUR SURROUNDING AREAS.
OK, WE'RE ONE OF THE LAST ONES TO DO THIS.
OK, WE TRIED TO PASS A TRE SO WE COULD KEEP THIS.
HARD DECISIONS HAVE TO BE MADE UNLESS THE VOTERS COME OUT AND SAY, KEEP THIS AND WE'LL PASS A TRE TO KEEP ALL THIS, THEN I MEAN, I'M SORRY.
WE GOT TO MAKE SOME CONCESSIONS.
WE CANNOT BE LIVING AND THINKING THAT WE COULD HAVE ALL OF THESE GREAT THINGS.
AND LIKE I SAID, ONCE THIS STUFF COMES OUT, EVERYBODY'S GOING TO BE POINTING A FINGER.
YOU SAW EIGHTY FOUR PERCENT OF THE BUDGET COMES FROM OUR PAYROLL.
OUT OF THAT 84 PERCENT, 60 PERCENT COMES FROM SCHOOLS.
MOST THE MAJORITY OF OUR PAYROLL GOES TO SCHOOLS.
AND THERE'S OTHER THINGS THAT WE HAVE REDUCED OUTSIDE OF THIS.
BUT THE BOARD NEEDS TO GRASP WE CAN'T HAVE ALL WORLDS ANYMORE, ALL OF THAT HAS CAUGHT UP TO US.
I KNOW IT'S TOUGH DECISIONS AND I KNOW THAT'S WHY WE HAVE A SUPERINTENDENT AND A CABINET TO MAKE THOSE TOUGH DECISIONS AND WE'RE GRATEFUL FOR THAT.
BUT I ALSO KNOW THAT WHEN WE SEND OUT PROJECTED REDUCTIONS LIKE THIS ON ELEMENTARY TEACHERS, MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL, WE'RE SENDING A MESSAGE OUT THERE THAT MY PHONE'S GOING TO RING AND IT'S GOING TO BE AM I LOSING MY JOB.
YOU KNOW, AND THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SAY.
I MEAN, EVERYBODY ON THIS BOARD GOING TO GET ONE AND YOU KNOW IT.
THEY MAY NOT WORK IN THE SAME CAMPUS, BUT THEY'RE GOING TO WORK FOR THE DISTRICT.
NO ONE'S LOSING A JOB UNDER THIS PLAN.
AND LET ME JUST I NEED TO GET TO MR. GLICK AND THEN MR. MILLER.
BUT LET ME JUST INTERJECT IN HERE IS THAT THE COMMENTS STARTED WHEN WE COMPLETED THE WORKSHOP AND WE DID THIS PROJECTION, OK, WITH THIS DOLLAR AMOUNT.
WHAT WE HAVE DONE WITH BRINGING THIS AHEAD OF OUR NEXT BUDGET WORKSHOP IS FOR US TO KNOW THE DETAILS BEHIND HOW THAT NUMBER WAS REACHED SO THAT WE AS A BOARD UNDERSTAND THE DETAILS BEHIND THE NUMBERS FOR US TO MAKE A DECISION.
AND THAT'S WHY I WANTED TO BRING CLARITY, AND ESPECIALLY FOR US TO UNDERSTAND WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE.
SO WE SEE WHAT THE SPECIFIC ISSUES ARE THAT WE NEED TO DISCUSS AND MAKE DECISIONS ON.
MR. GLICK AND THEN MR. MILLER.
SO THIS YEAR, WE ALSO DID REDUCTIONS, WE HAD SAVINGS, RIGHT.
ANY OF THOSE SAVINGS HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE STAFF THIS YEAR? THE REDUCTIONS THAT WE'VE DONE SO FAR WERE REDUCTIONS FROM OUR LINE ITEM BUDGET SAVINGS.
AND SO STAFF HAS REMAINED STATIC FOR THE WHOLE YEAR.
WE HAVE SOME STAFF THAT HAVE RESIGNED OR SOME VACANCIES THAT HAVE OCCURRED THAT HAVE NOT BEEN REPLACED, BUT THEY STILL REMAIN IN THE 2020 2021 BUDGET.
DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THOSE NUMBERS MIGHT BE FOR THIS YEAR? NO, I LOOKED AT A LIST AND I DIDN'T COUNT IT.
I WAS LOOKING MORE AT POSITIONS WHEN I LOOKED AT THAT LIST.
DR. RINGO WELL, I KNOW BUDGETS WERE CUT, BUT SPECIFICALLY, NO STAFF POSITIONS WERE CUT LIKE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT NOW.
BUT THERE WERE STAFF REDUCTIONS BASED ON RESIGNATIONS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
I'M JUST TRYING TO GET AN IDEA WHAT THAT NUMBER MIGHT BE.
WE'VE BEEN SHOWING IN OUR BUDGET PRESENTATIONS THAT OUR PAYROLL SAVINGS WILL BE
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ROUGHLY AS HIGH AS FOUR PERCENT, WHICH IS 20 MILLION.AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE'VE BEEN SHOWING, WHICH IS HIGHER THAN NORMAL, BUT THAT'S DUE TO THE ACTIONS TAKEN TO ADDRESS THE BUDGET SHORTFALL.
AND SO THE REASON I'M BRINGING THIS UP, I KNOW WE NEED TO COME TO A DECISION FAIRLY QUICKLY, BUT WE'VE BEEN TALKING FOR A WHILE ABOUT FED DOLLARS.
I DON'T KNOW IF WE'LL EVER SEE ONE OF THEM.
AT THE LAST MEETING, WE TALKED ABOUT THE EMERGENCY DECLARATION.
IS THAT STILL A POSSIBILITY? I HAVEN'T HEARD THAT IT'S NOT.
AND THAT'S ANOTHER POTENTIALLY 50 MILLION, AROUND 50 MILLION DOLLARS IF WE GO FOR ALL THOSE PENNIES OF AN EMERGENCY DECLARATION.
PLUS, WE STILL HAVE THE FUND BALANCE.
I THINK THERE ARE STILL THREE MAJOR POTS OF MONEY THAT COULD COME, PLUS INCLUDING THE SIZABLE FUND BALANCE, WHICH AGAIN, I DON'T THINK IS GOING TO DECREASE VERY MUCH.
THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY, THAT, YES, TWENTY TWO TO TWENTY FOUR IS NOT A LOT, BUT IT'S SOMETHING.
AND THEN WHAT'S THE NEXT STEP? WHEN WE ARE DONE WE GO TO TWENTY FIVE BECAUSE TWENTY FOUR AND TWENTY FIVE IS NOT A BIG DEAL.
IT JUST CONCERNS ME AND THE NUMBERS HAVEN'T BEEN PROVEN TO ME YET TO SAY WE NEED TO DO THIS.
I WAS GOING TO HIGHLIGHT ON THE FED DOLLARS, WE HAVE BEEN TOLD, AS WE'VE SEEN HISTORICALLY WITH FED DOLLARS, THERE WILL BE RESTRICTIONS PLACED ON THOSE DOLLARS.
MORE THAN LIKELY, WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO USE THOSE DOLLARS TOWARDS SALARIES.
IN REGARDS TO THE RELIEF, THE RELIEF PENNIES THERE IS A BILL PROGRESSING IN THE SESSION RIGHT NOW TO STOP THAT.
BASED OFF WHERE THAT BILL'S AT NOW AND THOSE DISCUSSIONS, WE DO NOT SEE THE RELIEF PENNIES BEING AVAILABLE NEXT YEAR JUST BECAUSE THE WAY THAT BILL IS PROGRESSING.
BUT AGAIN, NO DEFINITIVE ANSWERS EITHER WAY? NO.
AND UNTIL IT'S FINAL IN THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION.
NO, SIR, I CANNOT SAY IT'S DEFINITIVE.
MR. GLICK ONLY TWO STATES HAVE NOT RECEIVED THEIR MONEY US AND NEW YORK.
AND I JUST WANT TO POINT OF CLARIFICATION.
RIGHT NOW YOU'RE ONLY REFERRING TO ELEMENTARY, NOT MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL.
AND THE OTHER THING THAT I THINK IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE IS THAT WE STILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY COME NOVEMBER TO DO ANOTHER TRE.
I MEAN, WE REALLY HAVEN'T STARTED DISCUSSIONS YET.
I'M ASSUMING AT SOME POINT WE MAY AND AGAIN, HAVE ANYWHERE UP TO 50 POTENTIAL MILLION DOLLARS AVAILABLE, DEPENDING ON HOW MANY PENNIES WE GO FOR.
SO THESE ARE ALL BUCKETS OF MONEY THAT POTENTIALLY SOME MAY BE START TO BE RULED OUT AS THE LEGISLATURE COMES TOWARD THE END OF THEIR REGULAR SESSION.
NONE OF THEM HAVE BEEN RULED OUT YET.
SO I'M JUST THINKING, IF WE'RE GOING TO THESE MEASURES, LET'S JUST THINK ABOUT THE DOLLARS AND THE COST.
AND I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT DR.
RINGO SAID WHEN HE OPENED UP IS BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE ANY DEFINITE ANSWERS.
HE SAID A COUPLE OF TIMES THAT THERE WILL BE ADJUSTMENTS IN THE PROJECTIONS.
SO WHEN WE SEE STUFF, OK, LET ME GET TO MR. MILLER AND THEN I'M GOING TO GET TO MR. JOHNSON AND REMEMBER TRUSTEES, OUR NEXT BUDGET WORKSHOP.
THIS IS NOT AN ACTION ITEM MOVING FORWARD.
OUR NEXT BUDGET WORKSHOP IS ON THE 27TH OF APRIL AT 3:00 P.M.
SO I WANTED YOU ALL AND US AS A TEAM TO EXPRESS OUR CONCERNS TO ADMINISTRATION SO THAT WHEN WE COME BACK TO THAT BUDGET MEETING, IF THEY HAVE NEW INFORMATION OR HAVE ADJUSTMENTS THAT CAN BE MADE, WE CAN DO THAT.
SO THIS IS A PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION BECAUSE EVERYONE SAID BEFORE WE DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO DISCUSS IT.
WE DIDN'T HAVE ALL OF THE FACTS.
WELL, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO NOW.
MR. MILLER AND THEN MR. JOHNSON.
AND I APPRECIATE EVERYBODY'S COMMENTS.
I MEAN, THESE ARE THE GOOD DISCUSSIONS THAT WE CAN HAVE.
YOU KNOW, IF I HAD A BIG WHITEBOARD, IT WOULD HAVE TO BE A REAL BIG ONE RIGHT NOW TO LIST ALL THE ISSUES THAT I HAVE IN MY MIND THAT WE'RE TRYING TO WRESTLE WITH WHEN IT COMES TO BUDGETARY TOP ITEMS. I MEAN, FROM REALIZING WHAT OUR FUND BALANCES ARE, REALIZING THAT OUR TRE DID NOT PASS, REALIZING THAT WE HAVE DECLINING ADA, REALIZING THAT WE MAY BE FACED WITH INCREASING OUR CLASS SIZE PER TEACHER, REALIZING THAT OUR CLASSROOMS DON'T HAVE A LOT OF SPACE.
SO THERE'S NOT GOING TO BE A LOT OF COVID PROTOCOL THAT WE CAN ESTABLISH WITHIN THAT.
WE'VE HEARD FROM OUR SUPERINTENDENT SINCE THE BEGINNING OF COVID THAT THE
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SCHOOLS WEREN'T BUILT FOR DISTANCING YOU CAN'T DO IT.WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE THINGS OUT THERE CALLED EMERGENCY PENNIES BE A ONE YEAR IMPACT.
WE ALSO KNOW THAT ONE THING WE DON'T WANT TO DO IS DO SOMETHING IN THIS BUDGET THAT'S GOING TO ADVERSELY IMPACT THE BUDGET YEARS PAST THAT AND MAKE WHATEVER PROBLEM WE'RE DEALING WITH THAT WE COULD HAVE DEALT WITH TODAY THAT MUCH WORSE IF WE WAIT AND DEAL WITH IT TWO YEARS FROM NOW.
AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THE WHOLE ISSUE WITH STATE FUNDING THAT DR.
RINGO WILL SOON HAVE NO HAIR LEFT IF WE KEEP DOWN THIS PATH.
SO I JUST HAVE A QUESTION WITH REGARD TO ALL OF THIS.
AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THE BOARD KEEPS IT IN MIND.
LOPEZ AND THE STAFF, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO DO IS ACHIEVE OUR BOARD GOALS.
AND EVERYTHING WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS THE TOOLS BY WHICH WE CAN CONTINUE TO ACHIEVE OUR BOARD GOALS WHICH HAVE TO DO WITH THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF THE KIDS THAT WE SERVE.
LOPEZ, THAT EVERY TIME Y'ALL HAVE A DISCUSSION AROUND YOUR CABINET, YOU KIND OF LEAD OFF WITH THAT.
HOW DO WE GET TO THIS GOAL WITH ALL THE DECISIONS WERE BEING MADE? IF YOU COULD KIND OF GIVE ME AN IDEA OF WHAT DO Y'ALL DO? HOW DO Y'ALL START HOW DO YOU PRIORITIZE AND WHAT DO YOU GO THROUGH TO KIND OF COME DOWN TO WHAT MEASURES WE'RE GOING TO TAKE WITH RESPECT TO OUR BUDGET? JUST A SECOND.
MR. MILLER, CAN I OFFER A MODIFICATION OF THAT REQUEST A LITTLE BIT? MAYBE.
MAYBE, OK, WHAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR IS THERE DETAILED TEMPLATE OF WHAT THEY ARE USING EVERY TIME THEY BRING US AN INCREASE.
AND I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY, DO YOU ALL HAVE THAT TEMPLATE THAT YOU CAN SHARE WITH US OR CAN YOU PREPARE THE TEMPLATE? BECAUSE ONCE YOU TELL US SOMETHING, WE'RE GOING TO REMEMBER IT.
SO HOW CAN WE BEST BECAUSE I THINK THAT IS CORRECT, BECAUSE WE ARE LOOKING FOR STUDENT OUTCOMES.
WHO WOULD LIKE TO ANSWER THIS? WHAT ARE THE FOUR QUESTIONS WE LEAD WITH WITH ANY TYPE OF BUDGETARY QUESTION ANY TYPE OF BUDGETARY CUT? YOU WANT TO START US OFF BRANDY? WHAT ARE THE FOUR? LOOK AT THIS.
THIS IS FINANCE, OK? DOES IT GENERATE REVENUE? WHAT ELSE? GO AHEAD, BRENT.
HAVE AN IMPACT ON EARLY LITERACY.
RIGHT EARLY LITERACY? SUSANNA.
COLLEGE CAREER, MILITARY READINESS.
SO WE LEAD WITH ALL OF THOSE DISCUSSION ITEMS. AND IF IT'S NOT GOING TO HAVE A SEVERE IMPACT THAT WE KNOW STATISTICALLY FROM EXPERIENCE FROM ALL OF THOSE THINGS, THEN WE CAN PROCEED.
SO THERE'S A NUMBER OF THINGS ON HERE THAT YOU DON'T SEE THAT WE'RE KEEPING.
OK, AND IF YOU NOTICE ONE THING THAT YOU'RE NOT SEEING RIGHT NOW, YOU DON'T SEE US SAYING WE'RE CUTTING ONE PROGRAM.
IF WE REALLY WANTED TO, I COULD PUT UP AVID UP THERE RIGHT NOW.
AND WHAT KIND OF DISCUSSIONS WOULD WE BE HAVING ABOUT AVID? OK, I COULD PUT UP IB RIGHT NOW.
AND WHAT KIND OF DISCUSSIONS WOULD WE BE HAVING ABOUT IB? I COULD PUT UP OUR JROCT AIR FORCE UP THERE.
OK, NOW I WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR FOR THE PUBLIC NONE OF THOSE HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED.
I'M JUST THINKING OUT LOUD WHAT PROGRAMS THAT ARE OUT THERE AND WHAT WE'RE DOING IS KEEPING OUR PROGRAMS SACRED.
WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO KEEP OUR KIDS INVOLVED, KEEP THEM ENGAGED.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME, AND I HOPE THIS DOESN'T COME OFF OFFENSIVE, BUT COME TO CURRENT PRACTICES WHEN IT COMES TO STAFFING.
I DON'T MEAN TO USE MR. GLICK'S EXAMPLE, BUT THE MAJORITY OF THE DISTRICTS MOVED TO WAIVERS YEARS AGO BECAUSE THAT'S HOW YOU MAINTAIN A HEALTHY BUDGET.
AND WHEN WE WERE GROWING DISTRICT AND WE WERE MOVING, MOVING, MOVING, MOVING, WE DIDN'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT MONEY.
WHY? BECAUSE WHAT GENERATES MORE FUNDS? ADA OK, SO WE WERE LIVING IN THE LAP OF LUXURY AND THEN NOW WE GREW INTO OUR BRITCHES AND THEN NOW WE'RE REDUCING ADA.
AND SO WE'VE GOT TO REALIZE THERE'S SOME SOPHISTICATED FORMULAS THAT CAN HELP US MAINTAIN THE CHOICE SYSTEMS. WE HAVE THE GRTC, ALL OF THE GREAT THINGS THAT WE OFFER AND POTENTIALLY HAVE MORE KEEP OUR HIGH PAYING SALARIES, BUT AT THE SAME TIME NOT IMPACT THE BUDGET THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE.
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THIS IS NOT COMING FROM US.AND IF YOU LOOK AT REPEATED TASB STUDIES THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, WE IGNORED A LOT OF THAT.
I WANTED TO FOLLOW UP, IF I MAY FINISH.
SO IF WE STAY THAT ONE TO 22 HOW DOES THAT AFFECT THE CHOICE OF SCHOOL PROCESS? SO WE ACTUALLY RAN THE CHOICE OF SCHOOL, AT 1 TO 24, AND SO THAT'S HOW THE CLASSES HAVE BEEN DECIDED AND THAT'S HOW THE INFORMATION HAS GONE OUT TO FAMILIES.
SO WE WOULD HAVE TO READJUST WITHIN THOSE SYSTEMS IF WE WERE TO GO OUTSIDE OF 1 TO 22.
SITTING HERE THINKING BECAUSE TO ME IT'S JUST A BIG MATH PROBLEM.
NOT ALL OF OUR SCHOOLS ARE DECLINING AT THE SAME PACE.
SOME OF THEM ARE A LOT SMALLER THAN OTHERS.
SO IT WOULD SEEM TO ME LIKE WE MAY HAVE SOME SCHOOLS THAT MAX OUT WHERE OTHERS WERE FAR BELOW OUR TWENTY FOUR, ESPECIALLY WITH DECLINING ENROLLMENT, BECAUSE THEY DON'T ALL DECLINE IN THE SAME SCHOOL AT THE SAME TIME THEY'RE SCATTERED ALL OVER THE DISTRICT.
SO MY REAL QUESTION IS JUST THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX IS IF WE HAD FEWER SCHOOLS, WOULD IT HELP US IN THE MATH STAYING CLOSER TO THE ONE TO TWENTY TWO BECAUSE WE WOULD BE ABLE TO REALLOCATE SEATS AND STAFF.
THIS IS NOT A STAFF REDUCTION ISSUE AS MUCH AS JUST A REALLOCATION OF ASSETS.
DOES ANY OF THAT MATH WORK IN HELPING US FIGURE OUT THIS? NOT AS CLEANLY AS WE THINK, NOT AS CLEANLY AS WE THINK WHERE REALLY YOU'RE SAVING IS GOING TO BE YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE LESS CUSTODIANS.
YOU'RE PROBABLY GOING TO HAVE LESS COUNSELORS AND KNOCK A PRINCIPAL OUT AND THEN NOT USE ANTIQUATED LIGHTING SERVICES.
SO ALL OF THAT KIND OF ADDS UP.
YOU'LL STILL NEED THE SAME AMOUNT OF TEACHERS.
THE ONE TO TWENTY TWO TO ONE TWENTY FOUR IF YOU REALLY LOOK AT THE DISTRICT IMPACT, IF YOU LOOK AT OUR PROJECTIONS, IT'S TWENTY TWO TEACHERS RIGHT NOW.
IT COULD GO UP IF WE GET INCREASED ENROLLMENT THAT'S A BLESSING.
BUT THE REAL HITS ARE IN THE SECONDARY LEVELS.
AND SO WHEN WE LOOK AT ONE TO TWENTY TWO THE ONE TO TWENTY FOUR, LET'S TAKE A SCHOOL LIKE CENTERVILLE.
CENTERVILLE IS TINY AND YOU ADD AN EXTRA CLASS ALL OF THAT STARTS ADDING UP.
THAT'S WHERE ALL THAT COMES IN.
OK, MR. WES JOHNSON THANKING YOU FOR HANGING WITH US.
FIRST, I'VE GOT A QUESTION ABOUT AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE PRESENTATION SO FAR, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT AN ENROLLMENT OF FIFTY THREE THOUSAND.
WHERE DID WE GET THAT NUMBER? BECAUSE I HAVEN'T SEEN A NUMBER THAT HIGH UNTIL THIS PRESENTATION.
JOHNSON, I BELIEVE YOU MIGHT BE LOOKING AT ENROLLMENT VERSUS ADA.
OUR AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE IS WHAT WE DISCUSS WITH BUDGETS AND NUMBERS.
ENROLLMENT IS WHAT WE HAVE ENROLLED IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM, BUT THAT IS NOT HOW WE ARE FUNDED.
SO I KNOW WHEN WE DISCUSS BUDGETS, ALL WE PRESENT IS OUR AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE, I BELIEVE IN ONE OF THE PRESENTATIONS WE HAD NOTED OUR TOTAL OF FIFTY THREE THOUSAND WHEN I TALKED ABOUT THE THREE PERCENT DECLINE IN OUR ENROLLMENT.
HEMPHILL'S TEAM, WORKS WITH OUR ENROLLMENT NUMBERS ON A DAILY BASIS AND REPORTS.
I BELIEVE IT'S ACTUALLY IN THE PRESENTATION THAT DR.
RUSSELL PUT TOGETHER FOR THE ENROLLMENT OPEN ENROLLMENT PRESENTATION.
SO OUR ENROLLMENT RIGHT NOW IS ABOUT, WHAT, FIFTY THREE.
OUR AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE BRINGS US DOWN TO LIKE FIFTY TO FORTY NINE.
SO WE USUALLY PUT THE AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE NUMBER UP THERE BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE'RE FUNDED ON, NOT THE TOTAL ENROLLMENT.
AND IN MY PRESENTATION WE USED ENROLLMENT BECAUSE WE WERE SPECIFICALLY ADDRESSING DECLINING ENROLLMENT.
SO THAT'S ACTUALLY OUR CURRENT ENROLLMENT ON THAT TABLE.
THE POINT BEING IS, REGARDLESS OF EITHER NUMBER YOU USE IT'S SIGNIFICANTLY LESS THIS YEAR THAN IT WAS LAST YEAR.
SO WHEN WE'RE SEEING THIS BUDGET THAT'S BEING PRESENTED WITH THE TWENTY TWO TO TWENTY FOUR THAT'S ALREADY ACCOUNTING FOR PERSONNEL SAVES DUE TO INCLINING ENROLLMENT.
SO WE HAVE NOT RIGHTSIZED OUR STAFF DUE TO DECLINING ENROLLMENT, THIS WOULD BE OUR FIRST FORAY WE HAVE WITH TEACHING STAFF PER SAY, SO THIS WOULD BE OUR FIRST EFFORT FOR THIS
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FISCAL BUDGET WOULD BE THESE NUMBERS THAT WE'RE PROPOSING HERE.SO WE DID NOT DECREASE OUR TEACHING STAFF FOR THIS YEAR'S BUDGET DUE TO DECLINING ENROLLMENT.
AND WE HAVE CONTINUED TO THE POSITIONS THAT WE HAVE FROZEN HAVE NOT BEEN CAMPUS LEVEL INSTRUCTIONAL POSITIONS.
WE HAVE CONTINUED TO REPLACE THOSE WITH FINISHED YEAR ONLY CONTRACTS.
WELL, THAT WOULD SEEM TO KIND OF LEAD TO MR. MILLER'S CONCERNS WITH RESPECT TO IF WE'RE NOT ADDRESSING THE ISSUE OF DECLINING ENROLLMENT FIRST AND FOREMOST, THEN I FEEL LIKE WE'RE KIND OF JUMPING THE LINE HERE, BECAUSE IF WE'RE NOT AT THE RIGHT SIZE AS A DISTRICT, I MEAN, IF WE'RE GOING TO BE AT AN ADA OF ROUGHLY FIFTY THOUSAND AND WE DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH WE'RE GOING TO GET BACK NEXT YEAR, THEN THERE SHOULD BE RELATIVE PERSONNEL OR FTE REDUCTIONS ACCORDING TO THE SIZE OF THE DISTRICT WE ARE NOW.
IF WE'RE TEACHING FOUR THOUSAND FEWER STUDENTS THAN WE DID TWO YEARS AGO, WE SHOULDN'T HAVE THE SAME STAFF.
I MEAN, AM I INACCURATE IN THAT? YES, BECAUSE IT'S NOT ALL IN ONE SPOT.
SO JUST THINK OF OK, SO THINK OF IT THIS WAY.
WE HAVE LET'S SAY WE HAVE AN AVERAGE DECREASE OF 700 KIDS A YEAR, RIGHT? SEVEN HUNDRED.
SO THAT'S SEVEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY KIDS.
THAT'S NOT TEN KIDS PER GRADE LEVEL.
THAT COULD BE TWO KIDS PER GRADE LEVEL, DEPENDING ON WHAT GRADE LEVELS YOU HAVE.
IT COULD BE FOUR KIDS, THREE KIDS, TWO KIDS, WHATEVER IT IS, DEPENDING ON ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE AND HIGH.
THE MORE GRADE LEVELS YOU HAVE, THE LESS YOU SEE IT IN THE WASH.
AND THEN BECAUSE WE GO TO THE TWENTY FOUR TO ONE, THEN IF WE DO REDUCE IT BY ONE TEACHER AND LET'S SAY YOU HAVE TWO SECTIONS.
AND YOU GET THAT NEXT KID, YOU'RE BUYING ANOTHER TEACHER AGAIN.
OK, SO THOSE ARE THE MITIGATING FACTORS.
OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLS, IF YOU LOOK AT OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND OUR HIGH SCHOOLS, HAVEN'T FELT THE CRUNCH YET.
SO THE TWENTY TWO TO ONE WITH NO WAIVERS HAS BEEN KIND OF LIKE OUR ACHILLES HEEL IN SOME SENSE.
AND AS YOU GO INTO THE HIGH SCHOOLS AND MIDDLE SCHOOLS, THE MOST OF THE CLASSROOMS HAVE BEEN ADEQUATELY, I WOULD SAY, STAFFED.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAS TO HAPPEN.
IF THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN, WE'RE GOING TO RUN INTO SOME STRONG FINANCIAL ISSUES UNLESS WE GET A TRE PASSED.
AND EVEN IF WE DO GET A TRE PASSED, THE FACT IS, IS THAT SOMEBODY IS GOING TO COME UP TO US AND SAY, WHY AREN'T YOU GIVING SUBSTANTIAL RAISES? BECAUSE WE'VE GOT THIS TRE YOU GOT 50 MILLION DOLLARS.
WELL, BECAUSE WE WANT TO KEEP THESE STAFFING RATIOS.
AND I KNOW WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN THE PRESENTATION ON THE VIRTUAL SCHOOL AND THE ACADEMIES.
WOULD VIRTUAL SCHOOLS GENERALLY FOLLOW THE SAME STAFFING OR WOULD THAT BE SOMEWHAT LOOSER BECAUSE IT'S VIRTUAL? IT HAS HIGHER STAFFING.
I THINK IT'S THE TWENTY SEVEN TO ONE IT FOLLOWS 27 TO 1 AND TWENTY FOUR TO ONE.
I THINK IT FOLLOWS THE SAME STAFFING RATIOS.
I THINK IT MAY BE A LITTLE HIGHER THAN THAT, DR.
I THINK IT MAY BE UP TO 30 TO ONE.
SO AGAIN, I MEAN THE WAY I SEE IT IS WE'RE APPROVING THIS FOR NEXT YEAR.
IF, LIKE LARRY SAYS, GIANT POTS OF MONEY ARE FOUND, WE CAN ALWAYS GO BACK TO TWENTY TWO TO ONE.
THERE'S NOTHING THAT STOPS US FROM DOING IT AS A BOARD OR AS A DISTRICT IF WE CHOSE TO.
THAT'S A DECISION THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO MAKE NEXT YEAR AROUND THIS TIME, CORRECT? YEAH.
SO NOTHING'S SET IN STONE FOREVER.
BUT WE'VE GOT TO ALSO REMEMBER THAT, LIKE I TALKED TO MR. GLICK ABOUT, WE ARE LIMITED IN SPACE AS WELL.
SO IF YOU'RE GOING TO GO TWENTY TWO TO ONE AND YOU ADD THOSE CLASSROOMS, YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE ONE LESS CLASSROOM, PROBABLY FOR OUR FULL DAY PRE-K.
BUT WE'RE ONLY DEALING RIGHT NOW WITH NEXT YEAR BECAUSE, ONE, WE HAVE NO IDEA HOW MANY STUDENTS ARE GOING TO SIGN UP FOR VIRTUAL SCHOOL.
AND AT THOSE HIGHER STAFFING RATIOS, THE VIRTUAL SCHOOL THAT MIGHT ALLEVIATE SOME OF THE PRESSURE THAT YOU HAVE IN SOME THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT BECAUSE YOU HAVE 30 TO ONE ON THE VIRTUAL SCHOOL.
SO WE HAVE TO SEE HOW THAT SHAKES OUT.
AND THAT MIGHT BE MORE THAN ONE YEAR TO REALLY FIGURE OUT HOW THAT DOES, HOW BECAUSE MAYBE AS THE VIRTUAL SCHOOL TAKES HOLD, MORE STUDENTS, MORE PARENTS ARE INTERESTED IN IT.
IT MIGHT INCREASE IN POPULARITY.
ALL WE CAN DO IS PLAN FOR NEXT YEAR, RIGHT NOW IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS PANDEMIC, AND I UNDERSTAND LARRY'S CONCERNS THEY ARE VALID CONCERNS.
I DON'T SEE IT FROM A PERSPECTIVE OF A MATTER OF PRIDE.
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I MEAN, WE'VE NEVER ASKED FOR A WAIVER.THAT SOUNDS GREAT, BUT IF WE ASKED FOR A WAIVER OF ONE YEAR, AND WE WENT BACK TO TWENTY TWO TO ONE.
I WOULDN'T HAVE SEEN THAT AS A BADGE OF STAIN OF DISHONOR OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT STAFFING RATIOS.
AND IT LOOKS LIKE BASED ON WHAT YOU'RE SAYING FOR NEXT YEAR, WE DON'T REALLY HAVE MUCH OF A CHOICE.
WE NEED TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS.
BUT I WILL POINT OUT THAT I DON'T THINK COVID I MEAN, I KNOW YOU'VE SAID YOU CAN'T SOCIAL DISTANCE IN SCHOOL, BUT I DO WANT TO POINT OUT THAT I HAVE THREE KIDS IN SCHOOL.
TWO OF THEM HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED THAT EVERY SINGLE STUDENT IS BACK IN CLASS LIVE.
SO THEY'RE AT 100 PERCENT IN THEIR CLASSROOM.
NO KIDS ARE VIRTUAL IN TWO OF THREE OF MY KIDS.
THE OTHER ONE'S IN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
SO I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY OF HIS INDIVIDUAL CLASSES ARE AT 100 PERCENT.
BUT MY TWO GRADE SCHOOL KIDS, THERE'S NOT A SINGLE KID LEFT VIRTUAL IN THEM.
SO WE CAN'T SIT AROUND THINKING THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME KIND OF WELL, THERE'S ONLY 10 KIDS IN THE CLASS AND 10 KIDS VIRTUAL BECAUSE THERE'S LOTS OF KIDS THAT ARE JUST THEY'RE IN THERE LIKE NORMAL NOW.
AND JUST REMEMBER, ALL WE'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH IS TO EXPLAIN THE PROJECTED BUDGET THAT WE'RE PROPOSING FOR THE NEXT SCHOOL YEAR UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF THINGS THAT WE KNOW RIGHT NOW.
PRESIDENT SELDERS AND THEN MR. BEACH.
AND I THINK WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MOVE ON, OK? SO PRESIDENT SELDERS.
JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY, WOULD THE INCREASE IN STAFFING RATIO HAVE TO GO BACK TO THE JUDGE TO BE APPROVED FOR THE COURT ORDER IN ANY WAY, DOES THIS CHANGE THE ETHNICITY BANDS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT? NO, THIS DOESN'T AFFECT ANY OF THE COURT ORDERS OR ANYTHING ELSE.
I'M SORRY ANY IMPACT IF OPEN ENROLLMENT IS APPROVED ON THESE PROJECTIONS.
OPEN ENROLLMENT IS PROJECTED FOR MY UNDERSTANDING AND THEY CAN CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG.
SO WHAT WE DO IS DESIGNATE WHICH CAMPUSES ARE CLOSED DUE TO CAPACITY.
SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE I'M GOING TO BE HONEST WITH YOU.
WE ALREADY HAVE SCHOOLS THAT ARE WELL, I'M GOING TO SAY FULL CLOSURE THAT THERE'S NO WAY THEY'RE GOING TO OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
AND THEN WE GOT WHAT WE CALL TEMPORARY CLOSURE.
THAT MEANS THAT THERE IS A WAITING LIST FOR THESE SCHOOLS.
BUT WE FEEL THAT ONCE WE GET THE PROGRAMS FILLED, THEN WE CAN OPEN IT UP AND WE'LL HAVE OPEN ENROLLMENT ACCESS.
THIS DOESN'T CHANGE ACTUALLY ANYTHING BECAUSE THEY ALWAYS GET LAST CHOICE.
OK, TRUSTEES I REALLY APPRECIATE ALL THE INPUT, I THINK WE HAVE GIVEN THE ADMINISTRATION SOME THINGS TO THINK ABOUT.
THEY DEFINITELY KNOW WHAT OUR CONCERNS ARE.
AND WHEN WE LOOK AT THIS FIGURE THAT IS PROJECTING US, THAT'S ON THE SCREEN NOW, THE PREVIOUS PAGES OUTLINE THAT AND THEN I'LL LET DR.
BROWN FINISH WITH PAGE 129 WHEN AND THIS HAD TO DO WITH THE QUESTION THAT CAME ABOUT ADJUSTMENTS DURING THE YEAR.
AND IF YOU WILL JUST EXPLAIN THAT SCREEN, THE SLIDE ON PAGE 129.
I WAS ASKED TO DETERMINE THE NUMBER OF PROMOTIONS THAT OCCURRED AFTER THE BEGINNING OF OUR FISCAL YEAR, WHICH WAS JULY 1, AND THOSE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN OUR BUDGET.
AND WHAT THIS SHOWS IS WE HAD 108 PEOPLE WHO WERE PROMOTED.
BUT WHAT THAT MEANS IS THESE INDIVIDUALS WERE ALREADY EMPLOYEES OF GARLAND ISD.
THEY HAD SHOWN GOOD PERFORMANCE IN THE POSITIONS THAT THEY WERE IN.
THEY APPLIED FOR VACANT POSITIONS AND THEY HAVE MOVED INTO A NEW POSITION, WHICH IS GOOD FOR ANY ORGANIZATION TO KNOW THAT YOU CAN MOVE UP WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION AND THAT WE HAD 108 PEOPLE WHO MOVED UP.
THIS IS AN APPROXIMATE COST, WHICH IS NOT REALLY A COST BECAUSE THEIR POSITIONS WERE VACATED, BUT THIS IS THE AMOUNT OF THEIR SALARY INCREASE.
AND THE OTHER QUESTION WAS TO FIND THE SALARY ADJUSTMENTS THAT HAD OCCURRED AFTER FISCAL YEAR 2021 BEGAN.
WE HAD FOUR OF THOSE ADJUSTMENTS, ADJUSTMENTS IN FOR IN GENERAL.
WE ASKED TASB TO REVIEW, REQUEST OR JOB RESPONSIBILITIES CHANGED OR
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INCREASED TO CAUSE INDIVIDUALS TO RECEIVE SALARY ADJUSTMENTS.SO WE'RE THROUGH WITH THE PORTION OF THIS PRESENTATION THAT'S TALKING ABOUT WHAT WAS PROJECTED AND REASSURING STAFF THAT THERE WILL BE ANY POSITION CHANGES WILL COME THROUGH ATTRITION.
NEXT TO HIGHLIGHT IS THE BREAKDOWN OF THE DOLLAR, WHICH WE'VE SEEN IN EVERY BUDGET PRESENTATION TO HIGHLIGHT THAT GREAT THING ABOUT THE STATE FUNDING SYSTEM IN OUR REPORTING, IT ALLOWS FOR COMPARISONS FROM DISTRICT TO DISTRICT THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE STATE OF TEXAS BASED OFF HOW WE'RE REQUIRED TO REPORT EVERY PENNY THAT IS EXPENSED AND 84 PERCENT OF OUR BUDGET IS IN PAYROLL.
THAT LEAVES 16 PERCENT IN NON PAYROLL.
AND AS WE SAW IN THE LAST BUDGET PRESENTATION, OF THAT 16 PERCENT, THERE'S QUITE A BIT OF DOLLARS COMMITTED TO UTILITIES.
FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAVE ABOUT NINE MILLION A YEAR TO 10 MILLION A YEAR THAT WE PAY OUT IN UTILITIES FOR JUST ELECTRICITY, WATER AND GAS IN OUR FACILITIES.
THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE GAS FOR OUR BUSSES.
SO EVEN WITHIN THAT 16 PERCENT, THERE'S QUITE A BIT THAT IS RESTRICTED.
BUT WHAT WE WANTED TO SHOW IN THIS COMPARISON IS TO HIGHLIGHT HOW THOSE DOLLARS ARE ALLOCATED AND APPROVED BY OUR BOARD OF TRUSTEES, BY THE FUNCTION LEVEL.
THE FUNCTION DRIVES THE BUDGET.
IT TELLS THE STORY TO THE STAKEHOLDERS, TO THE STATE, HOW WE SPEND OUR DOLLARS.
AND YOU CAN SEE HOW THAT BREAKOUT IS ALIGNED BECAUSE OF THE WAY THAT OUR DOLLARS ARE ALIGNED AND EXPENSED, WE DO RECEIVE A PERFECT FINANCIAL RATING, A SUPERIOR, PERFECT SCORE THAT LOOKS AT OUR REVENUES VERSUS EXPENDITURES.
IT LOOKS AT CERTAIN THRESHOLDS.
WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS IF THERE ARE DISTRICTS THAT ARE STAFFED TOO HEAVILY IN ADMINISTRATION, THE FINANCIAL RATING IS DEEMED.
YOU CAN EVEN EARN ZERO POINTS IN AN INDICATOR FOR THAT.
WE ARE WELL BELOW THE THRESHOLD OF WHAT THE STATE SAYS THE ADMINISTRATIVE SPEND LEVEL IS.
WE'RE ABOVE THE THRESHOLD IN WHAT OUR CLASSROOM REQUIRED SPEND IS, BUT WE JUST WANTED TO SHOW THIS BREAKOUT OF HOW THOSE DOLLARS ARE ALLOCATED, AND THAT IS FOR THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR BUDGET IN LAST YEAR'S FINANCIAL RATING, IN THE YEAR BEFORE AND YEAR BEFORE.
QUITE A FEW YEARS, I BELIEVE 17 YEARS WE HAVE RECEIVED AN A ON OUR FINANCIAL RATING.
AND GOING BACK TO THE ENROLLMENT HISTORY BEFORE I TURN IT OVER TO MS. MAYO, THE FIFTY THREE THOUSAND ENROLLMENT, OUR DEMOGRAPHER IN HIS PRESENTATION AND IN THE LAST BUDGET PRESENTATION, THE ENROLLMENT WAS SHOWN BACK FOR SINCE 2009.
AND HOW THAT HAS DECLINED, OBVIOUSLY AS ENROLLMENT DECLINES, ADA ALSO GOES DOWN.
AND WITH THAT, I'LL TURN OVER TO MS. MAYO TO SPEAK TO OUR HISTORICAL ENROLLMENT HISTORY.
THANK YOU, DR. RINGO, AND GOOD EVENING AGAIN.
SO I WANT TO TALK ABOUT ENROLLMENT HISTORY, THESE ARE THE SAME SLIDES THAT WE PRESENTED PRIOR AND THE DEMOGRAPHER ALSO SPOKE IN DETAIL ABOUT THESE.
ONE OF THE REASONS WE JUST WANTED TO BRING THESE TO YOU AGAIN IS JUST KIND OF ADDRESS THE QUESTION WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IN OUR LAST COUPLE OF PRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE PRE-K, THE KINDERGARTEN ENROLLMENT, THAT WE HAVE SEEN A DECLINE.
AS MOST OF THE STATE OF TEXAS, IT'S BEEN A BIG HIT TO US IN OTHER DISTRICTS IN COVID.
AND YOU CAN SEE HOW THAT WOULD AFFECT THIS AS WE GO AS WE MOVE THROUGH THE YEARS.
THESE ARE OUR ADA HISTORY AND PROJECTIONS.
I WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT WHEN WE COME BACK TO YOU IN APRIL, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A VERY NICE UPDATE TO THIS CHART DUE TO THE HOLD HARMLESS THAT WE ALL KNOW ABOUT THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IN THE SECOND SEMESTER.
AND SO WE ARE GOING TO BE BRINGING YOU HOW THAT'S GOING TO AFFECT THE BUDGET AND WHAT THAT'S GOING TO LOOK LIKE.
SO WE'LL HAVE AN UPDATE TO THIS CHART MOVING FORWARD AND CLOSING THE REVENUE GAPS.
AS WE'VE MENTIONED BEFORE, JUST BRINGING YOU AN ADDITIONAL LEVEL OF TRANSPARENCY.
AS YOU CAN SEE, WE ARE COMING CLOSER TO BUDGETING OUR SHARS FIGURES.
AND ONE OF THE ITEMS IS INTEREST INCOME.
WE HAD TRIED TO BRING THOSE PROJECTIONS A LITTLE BIT CLOSER IN.
AND AS YOU KNOW, THIS YEAR WE DID REDUCE THE BUDGET FOR INTEREST INCOME JUST DUE TO A LESSER THAN EXPECTED OUTCOME FOR INTEREST INCOME.
BUT WE JUST WANT TO, YOU KNOW, SPEAK ABOUT THIS AND THE TRANSPARENCY THAT WE'RE BRINGING TO YOU.
THESE ARE GENERAL FUND ASSUMPTIONS.
THESE HAVE NOT CHANGED SINCE OUR LAST PRESENTATION.
WE'RE STILL SHOWING YOU FOUR SCENARIOS.
WE ARE AT THIS TIME AFTER SPEAKING WITH THE DEMOGRAPHER FEELING CONFIDENT ABOUT SCENARIO TWO.
BUT AS YOU SAW IN THE ENROLLMENT SLIDES, IF WE DON'T SEE THE RETURN OF OUR PRE-K OR OUR KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS, WE WILL BE MOVING CLOSER TO SCENARIO THREE.
ITEMS STILL UNDER CONSIDERATION THAT YOU'LL BE SEEING PRESENTED ON APRIL TWENTY SEVENTH IS THE TEACHER INCENTIVE ALLOTMENT AND HOW THAT WILL IMPACT OUR BUDGET.
YOU'LL BE HEARING ABOUT VIRTUAL SCHOOL LATER TONIGHT, AND WE DID WORK
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CLOSELY WITH THEM ON SOME OF THEIR BUDGET FIGURES THERE.AND ANY FUTURE FEDERAL AND STATE RELIEF FUNDS, WHICH DR.
RINGO SPOKE ABOUT EARLIER TODAY, THOSE THINGS ARE STILL UP IN THE AIR AND WE'RE WORKING THROUGH THOSE DETAILS.
ONE THING THAT WE DID WANT TO POINT OUT TO YOU, I BELIEVE WE SPOKE ABOUT THIS IN A PRESENTATION LAST YEAR WHEN WERE HIGHLIGHTING ITEMS WITH HOUSE BILL THREE, BUT FROM THE LAST LEGISLATURE, THERE WERE SOME MANDATED CHANGES BY THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE.
SO THERE ARE SOME TRS RATE CHANGES.
ONE SPECIFIC ITEM THAT WE DID WANT TO POINT OUT TO YOU, SINCE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT RAISES AND STAFF, IS THAT IN FY 22, OUR STAFF WILL BE HIT WITH AN ADDITIONAL THREE BASIS POINTS.
AS YOU CAN SEE, IT'S GOING TO GO FROM SEVEN POINT SEVEN PERCENT OF THEIR WORK RELATED SALARY TO EIGHT PERCENT.
SO THAT IS INCREASING FOR OUR STAFF.
THESE ARE GENERAL FUND BUDGET RECOMMENDATIONS, THESE ARE MOSTLY THE ITEMS THAT YOU'VE SEEN, THERE ARE THREE CHANGES YOU CAN SEE ON THE ONGOING CHART AT THE BOTTOM.
IF YOU LOOK TO THE BOARD UPDATE COLUMN, THERE ARE THREE ITEMS THAT SAY APRIL TWENTY ONE AND WE DID ADD SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR SOME EARLY COLLEGE MAGNET PROGRAMING.
THERE'S AN INCREASE TO OUR DCAD ANNUAL CONTRACT.
AND WE WENT FROM 18 TO 24 PRE-K TEACHERS AND PRE-K PARAPROFESSIONALS.
IT WAS AN INCREASE OF ABOUT FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS THERE ON THE PRE-K SUM.
SO THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE NOW INCORPORATED INTO THIS PROJECTED BUDGET.
SO THIS IS THE FORMAT THAT WE'VE SEEN IN THE PAS PRIOR BUDGET WORKSHOPS.
ONE THING I DO WANT TO POINT OUT TO YOU IS YOU CAN SEE THERE IS A LINE ITEM UNDER PAYROLL ENGRAIN HIGHLIGHTED IN THAT LIGHT ORANGE COLOR THAT SAYS PAYROLL REDUCTIONS.
BROWN SPOKE TO YOU ABOUT EARLIER, THESE SIX HUNDRED AND NINE THOUSAND, THAT IS THE TOTAL AMOUNT, DOLLAR AMOUNT OF CONFIRMED POSITIONS THAT WERE VACANT AND WE HAVE TAKEN OUT OF THE BUDGET.
AND THEN THE ADDITIONAL NON PAYROLL REDUCTIONS, THOSE ARE ITEMS THAT HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED AND REMOVED FROM THE BUDGET.
AND THOSE ITEMS INCLUDE WHEN WE MET WITH YOU LAST, WE TALKED TO YOU ABOUT A PLAN THAT WAS BEING WORKED WITH CABINET TO WORK ON LINE BY LINE BUDGET REDUCTIONS IN THE NON PAYROLL BUDGET.
THIS IS THE OUTCOME OF THAT ANALYSIS THAT WAS BROUGHT FORTH THAT WE DISCUSSED.
SO THOSE ARE CONFIRMED BUDGET LINE ITEMS. SO YOU CAN SEE NOW, IF YOU LOOK AT OUR LOSS OF ONE THOUSAND ADA, WE'RE LOOKING AT ABOUT TWENTY SIX POINT FIVE DOLLARS MILLION AS OF TODAY WITH OUR CONFIRMED REDUCTIONS AND THEN FUTURE REDUCTIONS.
SO THESE FIGURES TIE BACK TO THE PRESENTATION FOR PAYROLL THAT DR.
THERE'S ADDITIONAL PAYROLL CONSIDERATIONS OF ABOUT 14 MILLION DOLLARS.
WE'RE STILL FURTHER ANALYZING SOME POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF THE PAC FACILITY WILL HAVE THE OUTCOME OF THAT IN APRIL AS WELL.
AND OUR VACANCY PAYROLL SAVINGS THAT WE HAVE SEEN HISTORICALLY IS ABOUT SIX MILLION.
I KNOW WE HAVE DISCUSSED FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR IT BEING AROUND FOUR PERCENT OR ABOUT 18 TO 20 MILLION DOLLARS.
THAT IS A RESULT OF VACANCIES DURING COVID AND THEN ALSO FREEZING THOSE VACANCIES FOR BUDGET SAVES THIS YEAR.
AND THEN FOR OUR TIER TWO AND OUR FUTURE YEAR PLANNING.
YOU CAN SEE THAT AND AS WE DISCUSS THOSE DETAILS.
SO THIS SHOWS YOU THE EXPECTED BUDGET IMPACT WITH ALL OF THE CONSIDERED REDUCTIONS.
NOW, PLEASE KEEP IN MIND, AS DR.
BROWN MENTIONED EARLIER, THAT A LOT OF THOSE CAMPUS POSITIONS THAT YOU SAW WAS THE BULK OF THESE REDUCTIONS, AND THOSE ARE GOING TO BE HANDLED THROUGH ATTRITION.
SO WE ARE NOT COUNTING THOSE AS CONFIRMED AT THIS POINT DUE TO THE NATURE OF OF THAT.
BUT IF ALL OF THOSE WERE TAKEN WITH THE INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE TODAY, IT WOULD BE ABOUT A SIX MILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT BUDGET.
SO IT IS BRINGING US VERY CLOSE.
OK, AND SO NOW WE WANT TO MOVE INTO--SO NOW THAT YOU HAVE IN MIND WHERE WE WILL BE IF WE TAKE IF WE ABSORB ALL OF OUR REDUCTIONS, KIND OF GIVES YOU A PICTURE OF THAT.
NOW WE WANT TO MOVE INTO OUR RAISE SCENARIOS.
SO WE HAVE-- LET'S PAUSE JUST A SECOND.
SO YOU SEE WHAT THEY DID, EVERYTHING THAT THEY'VE TALKED ABOUT BEFORE WITH STAFFING, THEN ALL WHERE THEY SAW THE REDUCTIONS.
THIS IS WHERE WE END UP ON PAGE 140 IN WHAT THEY'RE PROJECTING FOR THE NEXT
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YEARS BUDGET.MS. GRIFFIN, IS EXACTLY CORRECT? THAT'S INFORMATION KNOWN FROM ONE WEEK AGO.
THERE'LL BE FURTHER ADJUSTMENTS MADE WITH THE PRESENTATION TONIGHT AND DR.
CADDELL WILL SPEAK TO THAT IN REGARDS TO THE VIRTUAL SCHOOL THAT WILL HAVE A NEGATIVE BUDGET IMPACT TO OUR BUDGET.
AND SO THAT WOULD NEED TO BE ADDED BECAUSE IT HAS A MATERIAL IMPACT TO THE BUDGET.
SO WE'VE TALKED ABOUT PERSONNEL, THEN WE'VE TALKED ABOUT HOW THAT LOOKS TO THE OVERALL BUDGET NUMBER AND WHAT THAT NUMBER IS AND NOW, MS. MAYO, CONTINUE, PAGE ONE FORTY ONE.
OK, SO NOW WE HAVE THIS VISUAL.
I DO WANT TO POINT OUT, WHICH I FAILED TO SAY THERE IS IF YOU'LL SEE ADDITIONAL NON PAYROLL REDUCTION CONSIDERATIONS ARE UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME.
WE DO EXPECT TO SEE A VERY SMALL AMOUNT THERE AND WE WILL FARM UP THOSE NUMBERS AS WE GET CLOSER.
SO HERE'S OUR PAY RAISE SCENARIOS.
SO THESE ARE THE ONE THROUGH FIVE PERCENT PAY RAISE SCENARIOS THAT WE PRESENTED TO YOU IN THE LAST PRESENTATION.
THIS IS THE PROJECTED RAISE IMPACTS.
SO, THESE RAISES ARE SHOWN WITH THAT SIX MILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT.
SO THIS IS HOW THAT WOULD LOOK IF ANY OF THESE WERE APPLIED.
ONE TIME PAYMENT ITEMS, AS WE DISCUSSED PRIOR, ABOUT FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS OR ONE THOUSAND, SO IF YOU WANTED TO THINK ABOUT SOME SORT OF A COMBINATION, FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU LOOKED AT THE ONE PERCENT INCREASE RAISE SCENARIO, ABOUT FOUR MILLION DOLLARS IS ABOUT A DEFICIT BUDGET OF 10 MILLION.
IF YOU WANTED TO COMBINE THAT WITH A RAISE, YOU COULD ONE TIME PAYMENT BECAUSE THIS SIMPLY ADD THE THREE MILLION TO THAT.
AND IF THERE ARE ANY COMBINATIONS, WE CAN TALK ABOUT THOSE.
IF WE ONLY CHOSE A ONE TIME PAYMENT OF FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS OR ONE THOUSAND.
THIS IS THE EFFECT THAT IT WOULD HAVE ON OUR BUDGET IF ONE OF THOSE ITEMS WERE CHOSEN.
AND THEN THIS GIVES US KIND OF A VISUAL OF FUTURE FISCAL YEARS AND HOW THIS WOULD LOOK TO OUR BUDGETS AS WE MOVE INTO THE FUTURE.
SO THE COLUMN FOR FY 22 CHOSEN, THERE IS A SCENARIO WITH A LOSS OF ADA OF ABOUT A THOUSAND STUDENTS WITH THE TOTAL REVENUE REVENUE, AS WE KNOW TODAY, IT HAS ALL OF THE ADDED RECOMMENDATIONS THAT YOU SAW EARLIER, THE PRE-K POSITIONS AND ALL OF THOSE ITEMS. IT SHOWS THE PAYROLL REDUCTIONS THAT ARE CONFIRMED AND IT SHOWS THE ADDITIONAL STAFFING REDUCTIONS THAT WE'RE WORKING ON.
AND THEN, FOR EXAMPLE, THERE IS A POSSIBLE PAY RAISE THERE OF 30 PERCENT THAT IS JUST THERE.
FOR EXAMPLE, IT ISN'T NECESSARILY OUR SUGGESTION, BUT THAT'S THE SCENARIO THAT WE BROUGHT TO YOU IN THE PRIOR WORKSHOP.
THE ADDITIONAL NON PAYROLL REDUCTIONS ARE REFLECTED THERE.
SO THAT GIVES YOU KIND OF THE FULL PICTURE WITH ALL THE PIECES IN ONE COLUMN TO SHOW YOU THAT FUND BALANCE.
AND THAT GENERATES ABOUT A NEGATIVE TWENTY FOUR MILLION DOLLARS.
AND THEN YOU CAN SEE HOW THAT CARRIES ON THROUGH THE FUTURE FISCAL YEARS.
THESE BUDGETS DO INCLUDE THE 12 PERCENT REDUCTIONS THAT WE DID INCUR IN MAY AND BACK IN NOVEMBER, WE DID REVIEW ALL OF THOSE REDUCTIONS FOR FY 22 AND THE NUMBER IS ALMOST EXACTLY THE SAME.
SO WE WERE ABLE TO CONFIRM THOSE FIGURES GOING FORWARD FOR FY22.
DISTRICT STAFFING REDUCTIONS ARE BASED ON TASB RECOMMENDATIONS.
PAYROLL VACANCIES SAVES ARE NOT CONSIDERED IN THIS ANALYSIS.
SO YOU COULD CONSIDER WITH HISTORICAL PAYROLL SAVES, THOSE DEFICITS WOULD BE SLIGHTLY LOWER.
AND THEN OUR REVENUE GAPS, WE WILL CONTINUE TO ADDRESS AND ANALYZE AND JUST ALWAYS KEEP IN MIND THAT ONE STATEMENT THAT WE ALWAYS WANT TO REMIND YOU OF IS IF WE HAVE A FURTHER LOSS IN FACE TO FACE ADA NEXT YEAR, STUDENT NUTRITION WE MAY BE REVIEWING THAT FOR POSSIBLE GENERAL FUND IMPACT.
AND THIS IS WE'VE DISCUSSED THIS IN DEPTH, BUT I ALSO BELIEVE IT'S CRITICAL TO HIGHLIGHT FOR ANYBODY WATCHING OR DOES WATCH THIS.
SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN TEXAS HAVE NOT RECEIVED ANY ADDITIONAL DOLLARS TO OPERATE WITH.
AND YOU CAN SEE THE BREAKOUT FROM CARES ACT TO SEE OUR RSA IN DECEMBER '20 TO THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN IN MARCH '21.
WHAT THE STATE OF TEXAS RECEIVED FOR K-12 EDUCATION AND WHAT UNDERESTIMATIONS BASED OFF CARES ACT FUNDING WOULD BE ALLOCATED TO GARLAND ISD.
AGAIN, WE HAVE NO IDEA WHERE THE STATE'S GOING TO GO WITH THIS.
THERE'S A LOT OF DISCUSSIONS IN AUSTIN, YOU KNOW, BASED OFF FEDERAL RELIEF FUNDS IN HISTORY FROM THE 90S TO THE RECESSION IN '08 TO THE FIRST CARES ACT FUNDING, HISTORICALLY, EVERY DOLLAR ALLOCATED HAS BEEN SUPPLANTED.
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WE ARE HOPING BECAUSE IT IS SO MUCH MONEY THAT WE WILL ACTUALLY RECEIVE ADDITIONAL DOLLARS ABOVE AND BEYOND WHAT WE WOULD GET IN TARGET REVENUE.AS WE LEARN INFORMATION, WHAT'S HAPPENING AT THE STATE LEVEL WILL CONTINUE TO CHAT WITH THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
AND THEN AS WE ROLL FORWARD, WE'RE ON A JULY ONE FISCAL YEAR, SO YOU CAN SEE WE'LL HAVE ANOTHER WORKSHOP IN APRIL, ANOTHER WORKSHOP IN MAY AND JUNE, WE'LL HAVE TO PUBLISH OUR TAX RATE AND BUDGET, HAVE A HEARING IN JUNE TO ADOPT OUR BUDGET.
AND OUR TAX RATE CANNOT BE ADOPTED UNTIL WE RECEIVE CERTIFIED VALUES.
THAT'S EVERY SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THE STATE OF TEXAS.
OUR TAX RATE WOULD BE ADOPTED IN AUGUST '21.
AND TO RECAP, THE CRYSTAL BALL, I WISHED I HAD, I CAN SAY DISTRICTS NOT ONLY IN REGION 10, BUT ACROSS THE STATE ARE SUFFERING FROM THE COVID CLIFF WITH ADA AND PROJECTIONS IN THE NEXT YEAR.
THAT IS NOT UNIQUE TO GARLAND ISD.
IN FACT, THERE'S A COUPLE OF DISTRICTS WITHIN REGION 10 WHO ARE LOOKING AT FINANCIAL [INAUDIBLE] AT THIS TIME DUE TO WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE STATE OF AFFAIRS, PUBLIC EDUCATION AND COVID.
BROWN WAS ABLE TO PROVIDE A HUMAN RESOURCES RECAP OF WHERE WE'RE AT NOW.
THERE ARE MORE POSITIONS THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED SINCE THIS PRESENTATION THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO ADD TO THIS BUDGET, YOU WILL GET THAT DETAILED IN THE BUDGET WORKSHOP, COVERED OUR AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE SCENARIOS.
RIGHT NOW UNDER CURRENT ASSUMPTIONS AND WHAT WE KNOW, WE DO BELIEVE THAT THE ONE THOUSAND LESS ADA IS A GOOD MODEL TO NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET.
AND THEN TWENTY ONE TWENTY TWO BUDGET PLANNING AND RAISE SCENARIOS WERE PROVIDED AND WITH INFORMATION THAT WILL BE SHARED TONIGHT WITH DR.
CADDELL, WE WILL ADD THAT INFORMATION TO THE BUDGET PRESENTATION, TOO, BECAUSE, LIKE I SAID, IT WILL HAVE A [INAUDIBLE] IMPACT ON REVENUES FOR NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET.
DR. LOPEZ? JUST REAL QUICK--OH SORRY, YOU SAID DR.
DR. RINGO, HAS THE STATE MADE ANY OTHER COMMENTS, IF YOU'RE AWARE OF, ABOUT TOUCHING FUND BALANCE OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS? THERE'S A LOT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT THE FUND BALANCE BILL THAT DAN [INAUDIBLE].
ORIGINALLY WHEN IT WAS PROPOSED, IT WAS 90 DAYS; THAT HAS BEEN ADJUSTED TO 10 DAYS.
AND THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF DISCUSSION IN REGARDS TO ASSIGNED AND COMMITTED FUND BALANCES.
FOR EXAMPLE, IN GARLAND ISD, WE HAVE EIGHT MILLION THAT IS ASSIGNED FOR OUR UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS THAT WE CANNOT TOUCH IN OUR FUND BALANCE.
BUT THE STATE IN THE ORIGINAL DISCUSSIONS DID NOT CONSIDER THAT.
AND THERE ARE OTHER DISTRICTS IN THE STATE OF TEXAS, MANY OTHERS THAT HAVE ASPECTS LIKE THAT.
SO WE ARE THROUGH ORGANIZATIONS AND OUR DIRECT CONTACTS WITH OUR STATE REPS, GIVING THEM THAT FEEDBACK THAT HAS TO BE EXCLUDED BECAUSE IF THEY DO NOT REVIEW THAT.
THEY'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THAT EIGHT MILLION, FOR EXAMPLE, IN OUR FUND BALANCE AS BEING AVAILABLE DOLLARS.
AND SO THE STATE HAS NOT BEEN FRIENDLY TO PUBLIC EDUCATION.
SO I BELIEVE, AS THIS BILL PROGRESSES, THERE WILL BE SOMETHING THAT COMES OUT OF IT.
BUT TO TELL YOU WHAT THAT IS, I DON'T KNOW, BECAUSE THAT BILL HAS ALL BILLS, AS WE'VE SEEN.
WE'LL HAVE MANY ADJUSTMENTS AND TWEAKS AND RIDERS TO IT AS IT DOES PROGRESS.
I APPRECIATE THE BOARD'S ATTENTION TO THESE DETAILS, ONE OF THE POINTS THAT CAME FROM MANY BOARD MEMBERS WAS THEY WOULD LIKE TO ANNOUNCE A PAY RAISE SO OUR EMPLOYEES KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT FOR NEXT YEAR AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE.
THE PAY RAISE SCENARIOS WE GAVE YOU COULD BE IN ANY COMBINATION THAT YOU ALL THINK ABOUT THE CUTS THAT WE HAVE MADE.
WE DO ANTICIPATE WITH BEING ABLE TO OFFSET THAT WITH A PAY RAISE AND A LONGEVITY--A RETENTION STIPEND, THAT'S WHAT WE CALLED IT, A RETENTION STIPEND.
AND SO IN OUR APRIL MEETING, WHAT I'M GOING TO DO IS I'M GOING TO GET WITH MS. GRIFFIN TO SEE IF WE'RE WILLING AND READY TO PUT THAT ON OUR AGENDA.
AND THEN WE'LL FORWARD IT TO MR. SELDERS AS PRESIDENT TO SEE IF WE'RE READY TO PUT ONE OF THOSE THINGS ON OUR AGENDA.
NOW, IF IT'S ON OUR AGENDA, WE'RE NOT READY.
BUT IF WE'RE NOT READY AND WE WANT TO DO IT IN MAY, WE CAN DO IT IN MAY.
BUT THE SOONER WE DO THIS, THE EASIER IT WILL BE FOR PEOPLE TO CHOOSE TO STAY.
I KNOW THAT IN MY DISCUSSIONS WITH OTHER SUPERINTENDENTS, TIMES ARE LEAN RIGHT NOW.
THEY'RE FACING THE EXACT SAME THINGS THAT DR.
RINGO WAS SAYING, BUT THEY'RE IN A DIFFERENT PREDICAMENT BECAUSE THEY MADE ALL THESE STAFFING ADJUSTMENTS YEARS AGO AND NOW THEY'VE MOVED INTO THAT NEW STAFFING MODEL.
THEY DON'T HAVE ANY WAY TO GO.
IN FACT, SOME SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE CLOSE TO 90 PERCENT OF THEIR BUDGET
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GOING TO PAYROLL.SO THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE CALL ME.
AND I THINK THE SOONER WE DO THIS, THE BETTER.
IF WE DO DECIDE ON SOMETHING IN APRIL AND JUST SAY SOMETHING COMES UP, YOU CAN ADJUST IT, YOU CAN ADJUST IT BECAUSE IT'S NOT FINALIZED UNTIL JUNE.
SO IF SOMETHING GOOD COMES FROM IT, WE CAN ADJUST WHATEVER WE DECIDED IN THE UPCOMING MONTH.
WE DON'T ALWAYS HAVE TO SAY, OH, WELL, WE ALREADY MADE A DECISION.
OH, MY GOSH, WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
SO THERE WILL BE SOME ROOM TO DO THAT WITH.
JUST BEFORE I CALL ON MR. MILLER, THANKS FOR REMINDING ME OF THAT.
THE REASON WE'RE HAVING THIS DISCUSSION TONIGHT WAS BECAUSE THIS AFTERNOON WAS BECAUSE WE WANTED TO SEE IF WE COULD RELEASE OUR DECIDE AND TAKE ACTION ON THE RAISE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
SO THAT'S WHAT THIS LEADING UP TO THIS IS ALL ABOUT.
AND SO WHAT I'M GOING TO ENCOURAGE US TO DO, IF IT PLEASES THE BOARD, IS THAT YOU HAVE ALL OF THE INFORMATION HERE THAT WILL HELP US BE ABLE TO MAKE A DECISION ON A RAISE SCENARIO.
SO AT THE TOP OF THAT AGENDA AT THE APRIL WORKSHOP WILL BE THE DISCUSSION OF NO MORE OF ALL OF THIS HISTORICAL STUFF THAT WE HAVE.
WE'VE SEEN IT TWICE, BUT SPECIFICALLY SPECIFICALLY GOING THROUGH THE SCENARIOS THAT ARE LAID OUT HERE WITH THESE SUMMARY PAGES.
THAT'S ONE OF THE ITEMS THAT'S BEFORE US FOR THE APRIL WORKSHOP.
CORRECT, MR. MILLER? THANK YOU.
DR. RINGO, YOUR SLIDE ON PAGE, MY PAGE ONE FORTY FIVE, AND MAYBE YOU'RE PAGE TWENTY FOUR OF THE PRESENTATION, WHICH SHOWS TWENTY TWENTY ONE TWENTY TWENTY TWO TWENTY THREE TWENTY FOUR, THE NEXT THREE YEARS.
BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT WHETHER IT'S IN OUR NEXT BUDGET WORKSHOP OR WHATEVER, I'D LIKE TO GO AND SEE THAT AND RUN SOME VARIOUS SCENARIOS, RUN A NO RAISE, ONE PERCENT, TWO PERCENT, THREE PERCENT AND GIVE ME THAT DATA BASED ON ZERO, ONE, TWO AND THREE PERCENT.
YES, RIGHT, BUT THIS IS TAV GROWTH.
WOULD YOU WANT US TO USE THIS? AND THEN WHAT A THREE PERCENT TAV GROWTH.
I GUESS WHAT I'M LOOKING AT IS YOU GOT A POSSIBLE THREE PERCENT RAISE, SO YOU GOT A VARIABLE IN THERE.
SO I WANT TO SEE THIS [INAUDIBLE] WITH A ZERO, ONE, TWO AND A THREE PERCENT RAISE.
SO I THINK WE DO A PRETTY GOOD JOB OF COMING PRETTY CLOSE ON OUR TAV GROWTH, RIGHT-- WE HAVE BEEN.
AND TAV GROWTH [INAUDIBLE] NOW THAT WE'RE UNDER THE HB3, IT'LL HAVE NO IMPACT ON OUR REVENUE BUDGET BECAUSE IT'S LOOKING AT YOUR VALUES.
SO WHETHER WE USE TWO PERCENT OR FIVE PERCENT TAV GROWTH, OUR REVENUE PROJECTIONS SHOULD COME IN THE EXACT.
SO THAT NUMBER IS GOING TO GET NAILED PRETTY GOOD.
WHERE I WAS LOOKING AT IS HOW DOES IT LOOK IN THE OUT YEARS ON A ZERO ONE, TWO AND THREE PERCENT.
SO FOR TWENTY ONE TWENTY TWO TO UNDERSTAND-- WAIT, TO THE BOARD MEMBERS, IS THAT WHAT WE WANT TO SEE? IS THAT THE FORMAT OF THIS REPORT THAT WE WANT TO SEE FOR THE NEXT UPCOMING WORKSHOP, THAT IS A PROJECTION WITH SINCE THEY PUT THE THREE PERCENT IN HERE, AS FOR ONE YEAR FOR THE NEXT THREE YEARS, IS THAT WHAT WE WANT TO SEE? IS A THREE YEAR DEAL, IS EVERYONE IN AGREEMENT WITH THAT? SO WE SEE WHAT THE IMPACT WE'RE DOING TODAY CAN HAVE ON THE FUTURE.
WELL, LET ME EXPLAIN WHY I'M SAYING THAT.
THE REASON I'M SAYING THAT IS IF YOU WANT ME TO MAKE A DECISION ON NOW AS SOON AS POSSIBLE ABOUT RAISES, I NEED TO SEE THE IMPACT IN THOSE SCENARIOS, I NEED TO SEE WHAT THAT IS.
WE ALSO HAVE THIS ONE TIME PAYMENT AS, WE CALL IT A STIPEND, OR WHATEVER YOU CALL THAT, THE FIVE HUNDRED VERSUS THE THOUSAND, YOU KNOW, FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ONE TIME IS ALMOST THE SAME THING AS A ONE PERCENT RAISE ON THE TOTAL IMPACT ON THE BUDGET.
IT'S WITHIN A MILLION DOLLARS.
A THOUSAND DOLLAR ONE TIME PAYMENT IS ALMOST THE SAME AS A TWO PERCENT RAISE, WITHIN TWO MILLION DOLLARS.
SO, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT THAT AND THEN LOOKING AT THAT AND HOW THOSE TWO DIFFERENT SCENARIOS IMPACT FUTURE BUDGETS, IF THERE'S ANY MATERIAL DIFFERENCES AND THAT'S KIND OF WANT TO SEE THAT, THAT'LL HELP ME DECIDE IF IT COMES UP WITH THIS BOARD'S PLEASURE TO DO JUST TO RAISE OR JUST A ONE TIME PAYMENT OR A COMBINATION OF BOTH.
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I JUST KIND OF WANT TO SEE WHAT THAT'S DOING TO OUR BUDGETARY PROCESS THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS.ALL I WAS TRYING TO DO WAS GET CLARITY ON WHAT IT IS YOU WANTED AND THAT EVERYONE WAS IN AGREEMENT WITH THAT.
RINGO AND MISS MAYO FOR, I THINK YOU ALL GET TO STAND LONGER EACH TIME.
WE NEED TO BRING SOME STOOLS FOR THEM TO SIT, BUT I THINK WE'RE GETTING TO CLARITY.
SO I REALLY APPRECIATE THE EFFORT THAT WENT INTO THIS PRESENTATION.
AND LET'S REVIEW THIS AND KNOW THIS DATA AS WE LOOK FORWARD TO THE DATA FOR THREE P.M.
ON THE TWENTY SEVENTH OF APRIL.
AND IF THERE'S ANYTHING ELSE Y'ALL THINK ABOUT AFTERWARDS THAT YOU WANT THEM TO INCLUDE, BECAUSE THE MORE WE CAN GIVE THEM THE INFORMATION UP FRONT, THE BETTER PREPARED THEY CAN BE TO COME AND GIVE US THE EXACT INFORMATION.
GRIFFIN MY BOARD DOCS TO ALIGN WITH THAT, WITH ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS TO INCLUDE WILL BE DUE TO MICHELLE NEXT TUESDAY.
SO BOARD MEMBERS, IF WE HAVE SOMETHING THAT WE WANT ON THE BUDGET WORKSHOP FOR APRIL TWENTY SEVENTH AT THREE P.M., WE NEED TO HAVE IT TO DR.
AND DEPENDING ON THE AMOUNT OF RESEARCH, POSSIBLY BY FRIDAY, IF THERE'S A LOT OF RESEARCH REQUIRED.
[LAUGHTER] THANK YOU FOR THE CORRECTION.
SO SEE EVERYBODY BECAUSE THEY GO AND SAY THAT I'M THE ONE PUSHING THE ENVELOPE.
SO NOW THEY'RE SAYING WE NEED IT BY FRIDAY SO THEY CAN DO THE RESEARCH, GET THE PRESENTATION PREPARED AND WITH ACCURACY.
I KNOW WE'VE BEEN SITTING A WHILE, BUT WE HAVE A CRITICAL PRESENTATION.
AND SO IF IT'S OK WITH EVERYONE, LET'S KEEP GOING.
AND THIS WAS ONE OF THE REASONS WE ALTERED THE AGENDA THE WAY WE DID, BECAUSE I FIGURED THESE LAST TWO DISCUSSION ITEMS WERE GOING TO BE LENGTHY AND INVOLVED.
RUSSELL, OK, LET ME READ EXACTLY WHAT IT SAYS.
WE'RE GOING TO DISCUSS THE APPROVAL TO ALLOW INTER-DISTRICT TRANSFERS BY THE GARLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT.
HEMPHILL, MS. LIGHTFOOT, AND OUR PRESENTATION BEGINS ON PAGES ONE FIFTY TO ONE SEVENTY SIX.
GOOD EVENING, MADAM CHAIR GRIFFIN.
SUPERINTENDENT LOPEZ, OUR TEAM IS HERE TO BRING YOU AN UPDATE ON OUR INITIAL OPEN ENROLLMENT PRESENTATION FROM MARCH.
AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE AGENDA, WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT PREPARING TO UNLEASH GREATNESS BEYOND OUR BORDERS BY OPENING OUR BOUNDARIES.
WE WILL TELL YOU WHICH CAMPUSES APPEAR TO BE OPEN AT THIS TIME.
WE'LL ALSO REVIEW OUR DRAFT PROTOCOLS.
YOU DID RECEIVE THOSE IN ADVANCE BOARD PACKETS.
DR. HEMPHILL WILL SHARE FOCUS GROUP FEEDBACK.
WE'VE HAD A NUMBER OF FOCUS GROUPS TO HEAR VOICE FROM THE STUDENTS, THE COMMUNITY AND PARENTS.
WE HAVE AN UPDATED PROPOSED TIMELINE AND MS. NICKS AND HER TEAM HAVE PREPARED A SAMPLE MARKETING PLAN THAT YOU HAVE A COPY OF AT YOUR TABLES.
SO THIS IS THE FAMILIAR SLIDE.
MR. JOHNSON, YOU SPOKE ABOUT IT EARLIER.
THIS SHOWS OUR CURRENT ENROLLMENT, NOT OUR ADA, BUT OUR CURRENT ENROLLMENT AS OF OUR FALL PEIMS SNAPSHOT DATE.
AND YOU CAN SEE THE PRECIPITOUS DECLINE THIS YEAR THAT WE'VE ALL SEEN FROM THE COVID CLIFF.
AND WE KNOW WE'VE TALKED ALL NIGHT.
DECLINING ENROLLMENT EQUALS DECLINING FUNDING.
THROUGH OUR WORK WITH SYSTEM OF GREAT SCHOOLS.
THEY PROVIDE US WITH OUTSTANDING DATA.
WE SAW A SIMILAR SLIDE TO THIS THAT HAD UP THROUGH THE TWO THOUSAND NINETEEN DATA.
THIS SLIDE HAS NOW BEEN UPDATED TO SHOW TWENTY TWENTY AND IT SHOWS THAT EIGHT PERCENT OF OUR POTENTIAL STUDENTS ARE TRANSFERRING OUT.
WE'VE BEEN AT SEVEN PERCENT SINCE 2013 AND THEN THIS YEAR WE HAVE INCREASED.
UNFORTUNATELY, ONE MORE PERCENT OF STUDENTS WHO ARE OPTING TO LEAVE GARLAND ISD SCHOOLS TO GO ELSEWHERE.
TRUSTEES, YOU ASKED LAST TIME ABOUT ANY WAYS THAT WE HAD TO PROJECT OR PREDICT THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS WHO MIGHT COME AND ATTEND SCHOOL HERE IN GARLAND, GISD AND THE LIKELIHOOD AND THERE ARE MANY THINGS THAT WOULD ATTRACT FAMILIES TO GARLAND OUR GREAT PROGRAMS, OUR SERVICES, OUR FOCUS ON EQUITY, OUR COLLEGE FOR ALL INITIATIVES, OUR DYSLEXIA PROGRAMING.
AND WHILE THOSE ARE DIFFICULT TO QUANTIFY, WE DO HAVE SOME DATA TONIGHT
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THAT CAN HELP US PREDICT POSSIBLE INTEREST FROM BORDERING COMMUNITIES AGAINST SYSTEM OF GREAT SCHOOLS WAS AN OUTSTANDING RESOURCE IN HELPING US TO ANALYZE SOME DATA POINTS.THE COLORED DOTS ON THIS MAP REFLECT THE LETTER GRADES OF SCHOOLS, AND I'D LIKE YOU TO FOCUS ON THE RED, ORANGE AND YELLOW COLORED DOTS.
THESE ARE SCHOOLS WITH F, D OR C RATINGS.
THERE ARE ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY TWO THOUSAND ELEMENTARY AGE STUDENTS WHO ATTEND SCHOOL IN OUR NEIGHBORING DISTRICTS AND FIFTY FIVE THOUSAND OF THEM ATTEND SCHOOLS THAT ARE RANKED C, D OR F, AND OF THOSE FIFTY FIVE THOUSAND, ABOUT TWENTY THOUSAND OF THEM ARE WITHIN FIVE TO TEN MILES OF THE EPICENTER OF GARLAND ISD, WHICH MEANS THAT BASED ON SYSTEM OF GREAT SCHOOLS RESEARCH, THEY ARE WITHIN A FEW MILES OF A GARLAND ISD CAMPUS THAT HAS AN EQUAL OR BETTER ACCOUNTABILITY RATING.
SIMILARLY FOR SECONDARY MARKET, THIS SHOWS OUR MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL CAMPUSES AGAIN.
NOTE THE YELLOW AND ORANGE DOTS.
THOSE ARE C AND D RATED CAMPUSES.
MORE THAN FIFTY THOUSAND STUDENTS IN OUR SURROUNDING DISTRICTS ATTEND A C, D OR F RATED SCHOOL.
SEVEN THOUSAND OF THOSE SECONDARY STUDENTS ARE WITHIN FIVE TO TEN MILES OF THE CENTER OF GARLAND ISD AND AN ADDITIONAL TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND ARE WITHIN TEN TO FIFTEEN MILES.
BOTH OF THESE SLIDES ILLUSTRATE THE POTENTIALS FOR FAMILIES TO HASHTAG CHOOSE GARLAND ISD TO GIVE THE CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES A BETTER EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY.
LOOKING AT IT A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY, THESE SLIDES GIVE US SOME NUMBERS BY SCHOOL DISTRICT ABOUT THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN AGGREGATE ATTENDING AND THE DISTANCE FROM THE CENTER OF OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT.
AND THE NEXT SLIDE SHOWS THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF STUDENTS ATTENDING SCHOOLS BY THEIR LETTER GRADE AND THE DISTANCE THEY ARE FROM THE CENTER OF GARLAND ISD.
IT DOES COMBINE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY ENROLLMENT NUMBERS, BUT JUST LOOKING AT C,D, AND F CAMPUSES, WE CAN SEE THAT THERE ARE TWENTY SIX THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED FORTY ONE STUDENTS AT C, D AND F CAMPUSES WITHIN FIVE TO 10 MILES OF THE CENTER OF GARLAND ISD.
AND THERE ARE THIRTY SEVEN HUNDRED TWELVE STUDENTS AT D OR NOT RATED SCHOOLS WHO ARE VERY CLOSE TO THE CENTER OF GARLAND ISD.
AND THESE DATA SHOW US THAT FOR FAMILIES LOOKING FOR A HIGHER RATED CAMPUS, JUST ONE OF THE FACTORS THAT COULD BRING SOMEONE TO GARLAND ISD THERE ARE MANY OPTIONS FOR THEM IF THEY #CHOOSEGARLANDGISD.
ONE OF THE THINGS YOU ASKED US ABOUT WERE OUR OPEN CAMPUSES, AND SO WE'VE COMPLETED THE CHOICE NOTIFICATIONS JUST TODAY WELL ACTUALLY YESTERDAY EVENING.
AND SO FOR THE UPCOMING SCHOOL YEAR, THESE ARE SOME OF THE CAMPUSES WHERE WE ANTICIPATE THERE WILL BE OPENINGS FOR THE OPEN ENROLLMENT PROGRAM.
WE ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT OUR CAMPUS ENROLLMENT THAT WE ARE ALLOWING AMPLE SEATS FOR OUR SUMMER MOVE-INS FOR STUDENTS WHO DO RESIDE HERE IN GARLAND ISD.
SO THIS IS A LOOK AT THE ENTRIES AND NOW WE'RE GOING TO MOVE TO OUR SECONDARY CAMPUSES.
SO ALL OF THESE CAMPUSES ARE PROJECTED TO HAVE OPENINGS FOR THE UPCOMING SCHOOL YEAR.
HEMPHILL? YES? I LIKE THIS SLIDE THAT YOU PRESENTED, DR.
IS THERE A WAY THAT WE COULD GET THAT PROJECTION SORT OF-- WHICH SLIDE NUMBER? I GUESS 165 ONE 166? IS IT THIS ONE, MR. SELDERS? YES.
YEAH, WE HAD IT TWICE IN OUR BOOKS SO IT'S EARLY AND THEN IT'S AT THE END.
WELL, MY QUESTION WAS, YOU KNOW, DR.
HEMPHILL, YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THE PROJECTED OPEN ENROLLMENT CAMPUSES THAT WE HAVE FOR SECONDARY AND ELEMENTARY.
CAN WE GET HOW MANY SEATS PER CAMPUS WE'RE ANTICIPATING? YES, WE CAN ACTUALLY GET THAT AS WELL AS THE PROGRAMS, WHERE THOSE OPENINGS ARE.
OK, SO AS WE HAVE GATHERED FEEDBACK FROM ALL OF OUR STAKEHOLDERS, WE HAVE DEVELOPED OUR PROTOCOLS, WE WILL CONDUCT A THIRD CHOICE PERIOD TO ENSURE OUR RESIDENT STUDENTS HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED.
PRIOR TO ADMITTING OUT OF DISTRICT STUDENTS, WE'VE DEVELOPED A PLAN TO ENSURE PARENTS HAVE HEARD FROM US NO MORE THAN TWO WEEKS PRIOR OR AFTER TWO WEEKS AFTER SUBMITTING THEIR APPLICATION.
OUR TRANSFER WINDOW WILL OPEN ON MAY 3RD IF APPROVED, AND STUDENT SERVICES STAFF WILL ACTUALLY EVALUATE EACH COMPLETED TRANSFER FOR THIS SCHOOL YEAR BASED ON A RUBRIC THAT
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WE'LL BE LOOKING AT IN JUST A MOMENT.NEXT YEAR, WE'LL MOVE THAT PROCESS TO OUR AREA TEAMS. THE APPLICATION WILL FOLLOW THE SAME FORMAT WE USE FOR OUR EMPLOYEES WHOSE CHILDREN ATTEND HERE IN THE DISTRICT.
AND ONCE THE STUDENT IS APPROVED FOR TRANSFER, THE PARENT WILL COMPLETE OUR ONLINE ENROLLMENT PROCESS AND WILL BE ABLE TO ENTER THEIR CHOICES AT THIS TIME AS WELL.
SO IF WE HAVE MORE STUDENTS THAN WE HAVE SEATS FOR, WE WILL CONDUCT A LOTTERY, BUT WE WILL WE WILL ENSURE THAT WE ARE FILLING THE SEATS THAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE.
SO JUST TO TAKE A BRIEF LOOK AT OUR SCREENING RUBRIC, THIS IS HOW WILL DETERMINE IF STUDENTS ARE QUALIFIED TO BE APPROVED FOR AN OUT OF DISTRICT TRANSFER SO A STUDENT'S ATTENDANCE WILL NEED TO BE 95 PERCENT OR BETTER TO EARN ALL OF THE POINTS NEEDED FOR THE ATTENDANCE SECTION OF OUR RUBRIC.
AND AS YOU CAN SEE, AS THE PERCENTAGE DECREASES, SO DO THE NUMBERS THAT THEY CAN BE ALLOTTED ON.
OUR RUBRIC FOR GRADES WE'LL CONSIDER ALL FOUR CORE CLASSES.
SO WE'LL BE CONSIDERING MATH, SCIENCE, SOCIAL STUDIES AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS OR SPANISH LANGUAGE ARTS AND READING SO STUDENTS CAN EARN UP TO 12 POINTS IN THIS AREA FOR THEIR GRADES.
AND AS YOU CAN SEE, AS THEIR AVERAGES DECREASE, SO DO THE TOTALS.
AND THEN FINALLY FOR DISCIPLINE, WE HAD QUITE A BIT OF INPUT FROM OUR PRINCIPALS ON THIS PARTICULAR AREA.
STUDENTS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO ATTEND IF THEY HAVE EXCLUSIONARY DISCIPLINE ON THEIR RECORD.
AND SO THAT'S THE FIRST THING I WANTED TO SAY THERE.
AND THAT IS ANY STUDENTS THAT HAVE HAD SUSPENSIONS OR EXPULSIONS, DAEP PLACEMENTS OR JJAEP PLACEMENTS, WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO CONSIDER THEM.
HOWEVER, IF THEY'VE HAD SOME OFFICE INCIDENTS, AS OUR FRIENDS DO FROM TIME TO TIME, WE WILL LOOK AT THAT.
AND OF COURSE, THE POINT TOTALS WILL DECREASE AS THE INCIDENTS INCREASE.
SO A STUDENT CAN EARN A TOTAL OF 18 POSSIBLE POINTS.
WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THOSE THAT HAVE 15 TO 18 POINTS FOR IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION.
AND SO WE'LL BE CONTACTING THEIR FAMILIES, LETTING THEM KNOW THAT THEY CAN COMPLETE THE ENROLLMENT PROCESS HERE IN GARLAND, GISD AND THOSE STUDENTS FROM 10 TO 14 POINTS, WE WILL WAITLIST THOSE FAMILIES AND CONSIDER THEM AFTER PERHAPS WE GET MORE INFORMATION FROM THEM OR WE LOOK AT THE SEATS THAT WE DO HAVE AVAILABLE THERE.
SO THE NEXT THING YOU SEE HERE IS OUR UPDATED TIMELINE, AS YOU ALL KNOW, WE MET WITH YOU THE LAST TIME ON MARCH 9TH, AND THEN WE ALSO MET WITH THE POLICY COMMITTEE IN MARCH TO CONSIDER POLICIES FCA AND FDA THAT WE WILL BE BRINGING IN CONJUNCTION WITH THIS LATER THIS MONTH.
AND AFTER THAT, WE CONTINUE TO MEET WITH VARIOUS STAKEHOLDER GROUPS.
WERE ABLE TO MEET WITH PARENTS, TEACHERS AND STUDENTS AND DISCUSS THIS WITH THEM.
WE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE MORE PERSONAL AND ALSO AN OPPORTUNITY TO GAIN MORE INFORMATION IF WE MET WITH THEM IN FOCUS GROUPS INSTEAD OF DOING MANY SURVEYS TO TRY TO SEE WHAT THEY WERE THINKING ABOUT OPEN ENROLLMENT.
THE FINAL PIECE THAT WE HAVE ON HERE FOR YOU, IF THIS IS APPROVED ON THE 27TH, MARKETING WILL BEGIN ON THE 28TH, AND THEN WE WILL BEGIN ACCEPTING THESE INTRA DISTRICT TRANSFERS ON MAY 3RD.
SO JUST A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE FEEDBACK THAT WE DID RECEIVE, WE CONDUCTED MULTIPLE FOCUS GROUPS, WE'VE HEARD FROM FAMILY STUDENTS, TEACHERS, COMMUNITY MEMBERS, AND WE'RE GOING TO START WITH OUR DISTRICT ADVISORY GROUPS.
THE FIRST TWO THAT YOU SEE HERE ARE MULTI-ETHNIC COMMITTEE FEEDBACK, AS WELL AS FEEDBACK FROM OUR DEIC COMMITTEE.
AND I WILL TELL YOU THAT MOST OF THE FEEDBACK, WELL ALL OF THE FEEDBACK, HAS BEEN VERY POSITIVE, BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS PEOPLE ARE VERY WORRIED ABOUT IS HOW WE'RE GOING TO USE OUR RESOURCES AND HOW WE'RE GOING TO BALANCE THINGS, BECAUSE THEY ARE ASSUMING THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A LOT OF INTEREST IN THIS PROGRAM.
AND TO ME, THAT SPOKE VOLUMES.
EVERYONE THAT WERE MEETING WITH THOUGHT WE HAD A GREAT PRODUCT.
FROM THE BEGINNING WITH THE MULTI-ETHNIC COMMITTEE WHEN WE MET WITH THEM TO OUR STUDENTS.
AND ALSO, OF COURSE, OUR TEACHERS KNOW BECAUSE THEY WERE PART OF THAT.
SO WITH THE MULTIETHNIC COMMITTEE, THEY WERE VERY CONCERNED OR ACTUALLY THEY WERE PLEASED
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THAT THIS WOULD BRING ABOUT AN INCREASE IN OUR ENROLLMENT AND ALSO ADDITIONAL FUNDING.AND AS WITH MOST OF THE GROUPS, THEY DID FOCUS ON THE USE OF OUR RESOURCES.
AND SO THEY WERE CONCERNED ABOUT THE ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS THAT WOULD BE BROUGHT, AS WELL AS COMPETITION FOR OUR MAGNET STUDENTS.
AND WE HEARD THAT IN MANY OF OUR GROUPS.
ONE THING THAT THEY BROUGHT UP THAT WAS A LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM ANY OF THE OTHER GROUPS THAT WE DID HEAR FROM WAS WHO WILL WE BE ATTRACTING? THEY WERE CONCERNED ABOUT THE ETHNIC BAND US MAINTAINING THAT AS WE LOOKED AT THIS.
AND SO WE DID LET THEM KNOW, OF COURSE, THESE STUDENTS ARE GOING TO BE COMPLETING AN ENROLLMENT FORM, JUST LIKE ANY OF OUR OTHER STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO TELL RAISE, ETHNICITY.
AND SO WE WOULD NOT PLACE THESE STUDENTS AT CAMPUSES THAT ARE SIGNIFICANTLY ABOVE THE ETHNIC BAND THAT WOULD CAUSE US TO BE OUT OF COMPLIANCE.
THE DEIC FEEDBACK WAS ALSO CONCERNED WITH SOME OF OUR OUR RESOURCES, BUT THEY FOCUSED ON THE LOGISTICS.
OF COURSE, THESE ARE TEACHERS AND OUR SCHOOL FOLK.
AND SO THEY WERE CONCERNED WITH THE DISCIPLINE PIECE.
AND WERE ABLE TO SPEAK THROUGH OUR RUBRIC THAT YOU ALL JUST SAW UIL AND THEN HOW STUDENTS WERE GOING TO BE ASSIGNED.
SO THAT WAS INFORMATION THAT WE RECEIVED FROM THEM.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE DEIC BROUGHT UP THAT NONE OF OUR OTHER GROUPS DID WAS JUST HOW ARE WE CONSIDERING OR WHAT ARE WE DOING TO INCREASE ENROLLMENT OTHER THAN THE OPEN ENROLLMENT PROPOSAL THAT YOU HAVE HERE.
AND WE SPOKE FOR QUITE A BIT ABOUT PRE-K AND KINDERGARTEN ENROLLMENT WITH THEM.
AND WE ACTUALLY HAD SOME OF OUR TEACHERS VOLUNTEERING TO TAKE PART IN OUR ROLLING ENROLLMENT THAT WE HAVE STARTED.
WE WERE ABLE TO HOLD 18 PARENT FOCUS GROUPS AS WELL AS MEET WITH OUR GARLAND COUNCIL AND PTAS, AND THEY WERE VERY COMPLIMENTARY, OF COURSE, OF THE EDUCATION THAT THEIR CHILDREN HAVE RECEIVED.
SO WE JUST INCLUDED A FEW OF THE QUOTES THERE ABOUT HOW FAMILIES FELT ABOUT WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN OUR SCHOOLS FOR THEIR THEIR STUDENTS AND HOW EXCITED THEY ARE TO BE ABLE TO SHARE THOSE THINGS WITH OTHERS.
THEY, TOO, OF COURSE, AS PARENTS WERE CONCERNED ABOUT THE RESOURCES THAT WERE AVAILABLE THAT WE MIGHT BE EXPENDING ON STUDENTS FROM OUTSIDE THE DISTRICT.
AND OVERCROWDING WAS ONE OF THOSE THINGS.
AND SO, OF COURSE, WE EXPLAINED THAT WE WOULD NOT EXCEED THE CAPACITY OF A CLASSROOM TO ACCOMMODATE A STUDENT FROM OUT OF THE DISTRICT.
OUR MAGNET SCHOOLS, IF YOU REMEMBER OR RECALL WHAT WAS ON THE SLIDE THAT SHOWED OUR CAMPUSES THAT WOULD BE OPEN, YOU'LL NOTICE THAT THERE WERE NOT VERY MANY MAGNET SCHOOLS AT ALL AT THE WELL, NONE AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL.
AND THEN AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL, THE ONLY PLACES THAT WE HAD MAGNETS THAT WOULD HAVE OPENINGS WERE AT OUR HIGH SCHOOLS.
AND THOSE WOULD BE LIKE OUR P-TECH, OUR ECHS PROGRAM, THAT WE MAY BE ABLE TO ALLOW SOME OF OUR OUT OF DISTRICT STUDENTS IN TOO.
UIL CAME UP AS WELL AND WE DID EXPLAIN THAT THERE IS ALREADY A POLICY FOR TRANSFERS IN UIL AND EVERYONE HAD THE VIRTUAL SCHOOL ON THEIR MINDS.
SO JUST WONDERING IF WE WOULD ALLOW THESE STUDENTS TO PARTICIPATE.
AND OUR FIRST ANSWER, OF COURSE, IS IF THERE IS SPACE, JUST LIKE FOR ANY OF OUR OTHER CAMPUSES, THEN THEY WOULD MORE THAN LIKELY BE ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE.
SO OUR FINAL GROUP WAS THE CHANGE AGENT OR THE FINAL GROUP THAT WE HAVE PRESENTED HERE.
AND YOU CAN SEE HOW EXCITED THEY ARE ABOUT THEIR SCHOOLING AND THE EDUCATION THAT THEY'RE RECEIVING.
THEY WERE JUST OVER THE TOP ABOUT HOW WE HAVE GREAT THINGS GOING ON HERE AND THEY'RE EXCITED ABOUT INVITING OTHER KIDS IN THAT WILL BE ABLE TO COMPETE AND BE ABLE TO MAKE OUR DISTRICT EVEN BETTER.
SO THEY WERE ALSO CONCERNED, VERY INTERESTINGLY, ABOUT HOW WE ARE MARKETING THIS.
AND AS YOUNG FOLKS, THEY DID INCLUDE HERE YOU SEE TIKTOK AND VIDEOS.
AND SO WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY FOR A GREAT SEGUE WAY TO TALK ABOUT OUR COMMUNICATION PLAN.
THE TIME HAS PASSED FOR US TO BE THE BEST KEPT SECRET IN THE METROPLEX, THE CPR TEAM HAS BEEN WORKING TO CREATE A ROBUST MARKETING PLAN THAT WILL GET THE WORD OUT FAR AND WIDE ABOUT THE GREAT THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING IN GISD WITH OPEN ENROLLMENT.
SHOULD THE BOARD APPROVE THIS POLICY CHANGE, WE ARE ALREADY HARD AT WORK
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DESIGNING OUR MARKETING AND ADVERTISING.WE HAVE MADE PUBLIC INFORMATION REQUESTS TO NEIGHBORING DISTRICTS FOR STUDENT NAMES AND ADDRESSES SO THAT MAIL OUTS CAN BEGIN IMMEDIATELY UPON BOARD APPROVAL.
AT YOUR TABLES, YOU HAVE A COPY OF THE MARKETING PLAN.
IT'S IN YOUR FOLDER THAT SAYS GISD ON IT.
FOR THAT THE TEAM HAS BEEN WORKING ON.
INCLUDED IN THE PLAN ARE OUR STRATEGIC INITIATIVES AND TACTICS.
YOU WILL SEE HOW WE OUTLINE THE DIFFERENT AREAS THAT WE PLAN TO MARKET.
THAT INCLUDES OUR MASS NOTIFICATION, VIRTUAL OPEN HOUSES, NEWSLETTERS, GRSTV, SOCIAL MEDIA, TRANSIT ADVERTISING, OUTDOOR ADVERTISING, ADVERTISING HOSPITALS AND PEDIATRIC OFFICES, PRINT AND DIGITAL MEDIA WEBSITE PRINT [INAUDIBLE] REALTERS.
LOCAL BUSINESSES AND BROADCAST MEDIA.
SO IF YOU WILL GET OUT YOUR PACKET, IT GIVES AN OVERVIEW OF WHY MARKETING IS IMPORTANT AND HOW BY USING SPECIFIC TARGETED MARKETING STRATEGIES WILL BE ABLE TO REACH A NEW DEMOGRAPHIC, A NEW CLIENTELE, WHICH ARE STUDENTS OUTSIDE OF GISD.
TRADITIONAL MARKETING, AS I STATED ON PAGE FIVE INCLUDE TRADITIONAL ADVERTISING, DIGITAL MARKETING, SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT, WEBSITE ENGAGEMENT AND EVENT MARKETING.
WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE RECRUIT OUTSIDE OF GARLAND ISD ATTENDANCE ZONE.
IF YOU LOOK ON PAGE EIGHT, IT WILL BEGIN OUR CAMPAIGN.
WE'RE GOING TO MAKE IT SEEM AS THOUGH--WELL, WE ARE--THE SECRET AND THE SUSPENSE.
SO WE ARE UNLEASHING GREATNESS.
OUR HASHTAG, THE CHOICE IS CLEAR, EXCELLENCE IS HERE.
SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE KNOWS THE PROGRAMS THAT ARE GOING ON OUR DISTRICT.
AND WE WILL DO THAT THROUGH UNLEASHING THE SECRET.
OUR SPECIFIC INITIATIVES START ON PAGE NINE WITH OUR TRADITIONAL MARKETING, OF COURSE, THAT BUILDS BRAND AWARENESS SURROUNDING OUR COMMUNITIES.
WHEN DONE CORRECTLY, THIS WILL BEGIN TRACKING ENGAGEMENT AND MAKE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON FAMILIES TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE AWARE THAT OUR BOUNDARIES ARE NOW OPEN.
WE WILL INCLUDE BILLBOARDS, FLIERS AND MAILERS, BUS SIGNAGE, STICKERS, YARD SIGNS, NEWSPAPER ADS, RADIOS AND BANNERS.
ON PAGE 10, YOU CAN SEE AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT OUR BILLBOARD MARKETING WILL LOOK LIKE.
AGAIN, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE TARGET AREAS THAT ARE SURROUNDING OTHER DISTRICTS.
AND SO WE HAVE SECURED ALREADY THE GEORGE BUSH TOLL ROAD AT FIREWHEEL AND THE BILLBOARDS ON INTERSTATE SIX, THIRTY FIVE AND SEVENTY FIVE THAT WILL ATTRACT SOME OUTSIDE OF THE DISTRICT PARENTS.
RADIO ADVERTISEMENT, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE THAT WE HIGHLIGHT AND WE FOCUS ON SPECIFIC GROUPS AND OUR RESEARCH SO THAT SPANISH RADIO PROGRAM IS VERY POPULAR FOR THE HISPANIC AND THE LATINX CULTURE.
SO WE'RE GOING TO FOCUS ON ADVERTISING ON RADIO IN BOTH ENGLISH AND SPANISH RADIO STATIONS.
ON PAGE 11, MR. GLICK, WE'RE GOING TO USE OUR BUSSES FOR OUR MARKETING.
NOW, PLEASE BE AWARE THAT FOR ONE BUS TO WRAP, MR. GLICK, IT DOES TAKE ONE DAY TO COMPLETE AN ENTIRE BUS.
AND IT IS, YOU KNOW, IS VERY COSTLY.
SO WE'RE LOOKING AT SOME HAPPY MEDIUM AND MAYBE PROVIDING BUS STICKERS INSTEAD OF FULL WRAPS BECAUSE WE WANT TO BE COST EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE AND BE ABLE TO PUT MORE ADS ON BUSSES.
AND THEN WE ALSO KNOW THAT OUR BUSSES ARE IN DISTRICT, BUT IN ORDER TO REACH WE KNOW THAT WE CAN'T REACH NEIGHBORING DISTRICTS IN DALLAS.
AND SO WE ARE GOING TO DESIGN ADVERTISING ON DART BUSSES TO INFILTRATE OUR DALLAS NEIGHBORHOODS AND STREETS, THEIR REACH INTO DESIRED AREAS OF PAST GISD TRANSPORTATION THAT TRANSPORTATION CAN PROVIDE.
SO WE'RE GOING TO PROVIDE ADVERTISEMENT ON DART AS WELL.
ON TACTIC FOUR, TARGETED MAILERS.
AGAIN, WE'VE REACHED OUT TO OTHER DISTRICTS WITH OPEN RECORDS REQUESTS, REQUESTING THE STUDENT INFORMATION SO THAT WE CAN PROVIDE TARGETED MAILERS.
ON TACTIC FIVE, WE WANT TO ALSO UTILIZE OUR CAMPUSES FOR MARKETING.
YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES IT'S IMPORTANT NOT TO FORGET OUR INTERNAL CLIENTS BECAUSE THEY HAVE A STORY TO TELL.
YOU MIGHT HAVE A NEIGHBOR OR A GRANDPARENT OR FRIEND THAT YOUR KID MAY BE
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IN A SOCCER LEAGUE WITH OR A BASKETBALL LEAGUE.AND SO WE WANT TO EMPOWER OUR INTERNAL OUR INTERNAL EMPLOYEES AND LET THEM KNOW, HEY, WE'RE GOING TO BE OPEN ENROLLING, SHARE THE GREAT NEWS.
WE'RE UNLEASHING GREATNESS BEYOND GARLAND.
AND TACTIC SIX, WE ARE GOING TO TARGET PRINT ADS AND NOT ONLY IN GARLAND, BUT WE'RE LOOKING AT THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS, DFW CHILD, THE GARLAND GUIDE AND FERGUSON ROAD INITIATIVE MAGAZINES TO SHOWCASE OUR OPEN ENROLLMENT.
WE KNOW THAT PUBLICATIONS SUCH AS DFW CHILD WILL HELP US REACH PARENTS WHO VISIT DOCTORS OFFICES AND TO RETAIN KIDS IN THAT ASPECT AS WELL.
NUMBER SEVEN IS VERY POWERFUL BECAUSE MEDIA PITCHES, THAT'S FREE ADVERTISEMENT.
WE HAVE GREAT RELATIONSHIPS WITH LOCAL TV AND MEDIA.
AND SO BEING ABLE TO PITCH NEWS STORIES THAT WE'RE OPEN, THAT'S FREE ADVERTISEMENT AND WE PLAN TO USE THAT TO OUR ADVANTAGE.
DIGITAL MARKETING IS A HUGE, HUGE, HUGE COMPONENT.
AND RIGHT NOW WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO UTILIZE THIS.
THANK YOU, DR. RINGO, FOR WORKING WITH US ON BEING ABLE TO USE FACEBOOK ADS, TWITTER ADS AND ALSO TIK TOK TO TARGET OUR MESSAGING.
THE ANALYTICS FOR FACEBOOK IS PHENOMENAL.
WE'RE ABLE TO PINPOINT EXACTLY WHO WE WANT TO REACH.
WE CAN REACH, RICHARDSON MOMS, AGE, WHATEVER, SCHOOL AGED CHILDREN, AND WE CAN TARGET OUR MESSAGING AND MARKETING SPECIFICALLY TO THAT AUDIENCE.
AND SO WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT BEING ABLE TO TRY THIS NEW INITIATIVE BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT IT WORKS.
AND THIS IS A LOW HANGING FRUIT THAT WE HAVE NOT TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF YET.
OF COURSE, OUR SOCIAL MEDIA, WE HAVE IDENTIFIED BRAND AMBASSADORS ON CAMPUSES WHO HAVE A LARGE TIK TOK FOLLOWING, AS DR.
HEMPHILL HAS SAID, AND WE HAVE ALREADY MET WITH STUDENTS ON DIFFERENT CAMPAIGNS THAT THEY ARE GOING TO LAUNCH FOR US.
THEY'RE GOING TO TELL US WHY GISD IS GREAT AND THAT THE CHOICE IS CLEAR.
SO STUDENTS WILL BE OUR BRAND AMBASSADORS.
AND WE'VE ALSO IDENTIFIED KEY STAKEHOLDERS IN THE COMMUNITY TO HELP SPREAD THE MESSAGE AS WELL.
THE USE OF VIDEOS WILL BE INCLUDED.
WE'RE GOING TO LAUNCH A CAMPAIGN USING STUDENTS TO SAY OPEN, OPEN, OPEN.
SO WE'LL BEGIN FILMING IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS.
IF THE BOARD APPROVES, WELL, WE'LL BEGIN THE CONCEPT.
IF THE BOARD APPROVES, THEN WE'LL MOVE FORWARD ON OUR VIDEO CAMPAIGN.
IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO DR.
LOPEZ AND THEN I'LL GO TO MR. JOHNSON.
FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO COMPLIMENT THE TEAM ON THIS STRATEGIC PLAN.
SO, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE TALK ABOUT HOW WE'RE THE BEST KEPT SECRET, PART OF THE REASONS WE'RE THE BEST KEPT SECRET IS BECAUSE WE ONLY COMPETE WITH OURSELVES OUTSIDE OF WYLIE.
SO WHO KNOWS ABOUT US? WHO FEELS US? WHO COMPETES WITH US? REALLY NOBODY.
SO THIS STRATEGIC PLAN IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US TO GET OUT THERE AND FOR NOW FOR PEOPLE TO START UNDERSTANDING WHAT GISD IS.
YOU KNOW, I KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT THE BUSES, BUT IF WERE, LET'S JUST SAY ANOTHER DISTRICT, WE MIGHT HAVE SCHOOLS THAT ARE 5A, SOME THAT ARE 6A, AND THEY WILL BE COMPETING WITH SCHOOL DISTRICTS ALL AROUND.
YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE TRAVEL AS FAR AS TYLER.
WELL, THAT GETS OUT, YOU KNOW, AND THEN YOUR PRESENCE IS FELT AT ANOTHER CAMPUS AND PEOPLE ARE LIKE, HEY, WHO'S THIS GARLAND? BECAUSE WE'RE SUCH A CLOSED SYSTEM, I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT HOW WE'RE GOING TO START REACHING OUT AND GETTING THE MARKETABILITY OF THE GREATNESS OF OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT.
YES, I SPECIFICALLY WANTED TO ASK QUESTIONS REGARDING THE PROPOSED OPEN CAMPUSES.
AND WITH RESPECT TO THE ELEMENTARY CAMPUSES, I NOTICED THAT NEITHER OF THE TWO MONTESSORI SCHOOLS ARE LISTED ON HERE.
AND WHEN WE STARTED THIS PROCESS, THAT WAS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY WE TALKED ABOUT DOING OPEN ENROLLMENT WAS BECAUSE WE THOUGHT WE HAD A PRODUCT THAT MIGHT APPEAL BEYOND OUR BORDERS AND THEY WERE ONLY 50 PERCENT FULL.
AND SO I'M A LITTLE BIT MYSTIFIED AS TO WHY I DON'T SEE EITHER OF THESE TWO CAMPUSES ON THIS LIST.
WELL, AND I'LL LET BABETTA EXPLAIN THAT.
BUT LAST YEAR, THE BOARD ALLOWED US TO DO A HYBRID MODEL, WHICH IS MUCH LIKE THE REST OF OUR MAGNET'S HALF NEIGHBORHOOD, HALF REGULAR TO ALLOW US TO FILL THOSE EMPTY SPACES.
AND SO RIGHT NOW, WE ONLY HAVE ONE NEIGHBORHOOD SECTION AND IT ONLY GOES WE HAVE IT FROM KINDERGARTEN FIRST AND WE'RE AT SECOND NOW.
BUT THAT'S ONLY ONE NEIGHBORHOOD SECTION.
AND WE HAVE NOT ADDED TEACHERS TO INCREASE THE PROGRAM.
WE'RE ONLY TALKING ABOUT USING THE SPACE THAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW, AS WITH THE INSTRUCTIONAL UNITS THAT WE'RE USING AT THIS TIME.
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OK, I MEAN, BECAUSE THAT WAS ONE OF THE REAL APPEALING ASPECTS TO ME IS I FELT LIKE OUR MONTESSORI SCHOOLS WERE BEING UNDERUTILIZED.AND I THOUGHT THAT PARTICULARLY WITH ROCKWALL ISD BEING RIGHT THERE NEXT TO HERFURTH ELEMENTARY ON THIS SIDE OF THE LAKE, WYLIE ISD RIGHT THERE NEXT TO LUNA ELEMENTARY WITHOUT A MONTESSORI OPTION THERE, THAT THIS SEEMS TO BE LOW HANGING FRUIT TO GRAB BECAUSE ROCKWALL DOESN'T HAVE A MONTESSORI OPTION WYLIE DOESN'T HAVE A MONTESSORI OPTION.
SO THESE ARE TWO PLACES THAT ARE EXTREMELY CLOSE TO THESE DISTRICTS THAT PEOPLE MIGHT ACTUALLY WANT TO PUT THEIR KIDS.
AND WE'RE SAYING, AGAIN, THAT'S NOT AN OPTION.
AT ONE OF THE BIG THINGS THAT WE JUST HAD BEEN KIND OF THOUGHT ABOUT WAS THAT LAKEVIEW CENTENNIAL WOULD BE A BIG OPTION FOR KIDS COMING OUT OF THE MESQUITE ISD BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE SOMETHING SIMILAR THERE.
THAT'S NOT AN OPTION LISTED ON HERE.
IT SEEMS LIKE A LOT OF THE MOST ATTRACTIVE THINGS THAT WE COULD USE TO GET PEOPLE TO COME OVER THOSE TOOLS ARE NOT IN OUR TOOLBOX.
WELL, IF YOU WANT TO ADD STAFFING TO MONTESSORI.
[LAUGHTER] WE'RE NOT GOING BACK TO STAFFING.
[LAUGHTER] I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT IT BOILS DOWN TO.
I MEAN, IF WE HAD TWENTY FOUR KIDS INTERESTED IN A MONTESSORI AND WE HAD SPACE AND OF COURSE WE DON'T ALLOW MONTESSORI FOR THIRD, FOURTH, FIFTH JUST TO JUMP IN, WE'VE GOT TO UNDERSTAND THAT.
WE WOULD BE OPEN TO THAT BECAUSE THAT WOULD PAY FOR ITSELF.
THAT'S TWENTY FOUR NEW KIDS REMEMBER.
AND THEN WE GO UP TO [LAUGHTER] THAT WAS JUST A JOKE, MR. GLICK.
BUT LET'S JUST SAY EVEN IF WE HAD 20.
RIGHT, 18, THAT WOULD PAY FOR ITSELF.
BUT IF WE HAD TWO AND YOU DON'T HAVE ROOM, THAT'S SOMETHING ELSE WE COULD LOOK INTO THAT.
THAT'S WHY WE'RE HAVING THESE DISCUSSIONS.
I DON'T KNOW WHY LAKEVIEW ISN'T ON HERE.
IT'S ONE OF OUR SMALLER SCHOOLS, BUT.
IT'S A MAGNET CURRENTLY, THEY HAVE FILLED THEIR SEATS AT EACH GRADE LEVEL.
SO IT WOULD BE A MATTER, I GUESS, OF STAFFING IT HIGHER OR EVEN I DON'T KNOW THAT THEY EVEN HAVE THE SPACE TO ACCOMMODATE.
AND HOW LARGE ARE THEY RIGHT NOW? THEY'RE AT ABOUT TWENTY THREE, TWENTY FOUR HUNDRED.
AND WHAT'S THE MAX CAPACITY THERE? I WOULD HAVE TO LOOK THAT UP I WANT TO SAY WE'RE AT ABOUT TWENTY FIVE, BUT I CAN, I MEAN CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT WE HAVE AN EXTREMELY AGGRESSIVE GOAL, IF I'M READING THIS CORRECTLY, OF TWO THOUSAND NEW STUDENTS FOR NEXT SCHOOL YEAR.
IT SAID FOR THE NEXT ACADEMIC YEAR.
THAT WAS THE MARKETING PLAN GOAL.
NO, I KNOW WELL OBVIOUSLY NOT IN ONE CAMPUS.
THAT'S AN AGGRESSIVE MARKETING PLAN IS TWO THOUSAND, OK.
THAT'S KIND OF DIFFERENT THAN WHAT YOU WARNED US SAYING, HEY, THE FIRST YEAR WE'RE PROBABLY NOT GETTING MUCH BECAUSE WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE MUCH LEAD TIME ON SPEAKERS].
AND MARKETING PLANS LOOK A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN BASED IN REALITY PLANS.
SO WITH MARKETING PLANS, WE AIM BIG, WE CREATE BIG, WE TALK BIG, WE DREAM BIG, WE ACT BIG.
AND THEN WE HAVE OUR REALITY BASED PLANS, WHICH WERE HOPING, YOU KNOW, THE CONSERVATIVE WE HAD THE CONSERVATIVE, THE MODERATE AND THE AGGRESSIVE MODEL.
SO THEY WENT WITH THE AGGRESSIVE MODEL OF TWO THOUSAND KIDS.
WE'RE THINKING IT'S PROBABLY GOING TO BE SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN THE OPTION A AND OPTION B THAT WE PRESENTED LAST MONTH.
BUT WHO KNOWS WITH THIS? WE DIDN'T HAVE THIS GREAT MARKETING PLAN WHEN I PRESENTED TO YOU LAST MONTH SO.
AND I'M INTERESTED IN MAKING SURE WE GIVE SHERESE THE TOOLS THAT MAKE THAT MARKETING PLAN A REALITY.
I JUST FEEL LIKE SOME OF THE BEST ASSETS.
WE CAN'T LIKE KIMBERLIN IS FULL.
WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO PUT MORE KIDS IN KIMBERLIN.
KIMBERLIN'S BEEN FULL FOR A DECADE.
I MEAN, A LOT OF OUR SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN FULL AND WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT ADDING PEOPLE TO AUSTIN ACADEMY OR THINGS LIKE THAT.
BUT THERE ARE SCHOOLS THAT WE'VE CHRONICALLY TRIED TO GET UP IN ATTENDANCE THAT AREN'T LISTED ON THESE.
AND I GET IT, WE ADDED A NEIGHBORHOOD STRAND I CAN'T BELIEVE IN ONE YEAR THE NEIGHBORHOOD STRAND FILLED THE WHOLE SCHOOL UP.
IF WE PUT ON PART OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE, THESE SCHOOLS WERE OPEN.
WOULD YOU BE INTERESTED? AND WE JUST PUT ONES THAT WE PROBABLY COULD STAFF IF WE HAD ENOUGH INTEREST, WOULD THAT BE AN OPTION? BABETTA? WE CAN DEFINITELY DO THAT.
AND I THINK THE INTEREST IS THERE.
SO WE NEED TO GO LOOK AT THE NEIGHBORHOOD STRANDS AND SEE HOW THEY'RE IMPACTING, LET'S SAY, LUNA ELEMENTARY.
AND IF WE HAVE PEOPLE AND TO ME, I'M THINKING A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN YOU.
THEY'RE BUILDING A NEW MONTESSORI RIGHT NEXT TO SACHSE AND OUR RESIDENTS
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WILL GET FREE MONTESSORI.BUT WHY NOT? I'M SURE THEY'RE TRYING TO ATTRACT THE WYLIE PEOPLE.
AND IF WE CAN JUST GIVE THEM GO DOWN A MILE OR TWO.
THEY'RE GOING TO SAVE A LOT OF MONEY.
WHY WOULDN'T THEY CHOOSE US? SO I CAN SEE THE BENEFIT THERE.
SO WE COULD JUST LOOK AT AVAILABILITY AND SPACE AND THEN JUST SEE IF WE HAVE ENOUGH INTEREST, IF WE CAN OPEN A SECTION AND WE'LL LET THE BOARD KNOW.
AND JUST A SECOND MR. GLICK AND WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT LETTING THE BOARD KNOW THIS ITEM WILL BE ON THE TWENTY SEVENTH AGENDA FOR APPROVAL.
THAT'S WHAT THIS IS SAYING BACK WHEN WE HAVE OUR LISTED OUR ACTION ITEMS UNDER SEVEN F SAYS CONSIDER APPROVAL.
AND THE WAY THINGS CAME TO US TODAY WAS BECAUSE WERE GETTING A SECOND DISCUSSION FOLLOW UP.
WE'VE ALREADY HAD AN INITIAL DISCUSSION, BUT WE HAD A SECOND DISCUSSION AND FOLLOW UP AND ALSO AN ACTION ITEM.
SO WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TO MAKE A DECISION IS SLATED RIGHT NOW TO APPEAR ON THE TWENTY SEVENTH OUR REGULAR BOARD MEETING FOR AN ACTION ITEM MS. HOGAN DO I HAVE THAT? OK, THANK YOU, MR. GLICK.
YEAH, I AGREE WITH THE MR. JOHNSON.
I WAS SURPRISED THAT HERFURTH WASN'T ON THERE BECAUSE LITERALLY IT'S ABOUT A HALF A MILE TO THE ROCKWALL SCHOOL DISTRICT FROM THE DOOR OF HERFURTH.
SO ANOTHER THING TO THINK ABOUT WITH MY FAVORITE, THE SCHOOL BUSES OK.
WE DO SEND SCHOOL BUSES OUT OF THE DISTRICT FOR FIELD TRIPS AND COMPETITIONS.
I'M NOT SURE IF WE CUT BACK THIS YEAR, MAYBE A LOT OF THE FIELD TRIPS, BUT PEROT CENTER, WE SEND BUSES.
MESQUITE MEMORIAL WE HAVE BAND COMPETITIONS THERE ALL THE TIME.
EACH HIGH SCHOOL SEND FIVE TO SEVEN BUSES ALL THE WAY RIGHT INTO MESQUITE.
WE HAVE SPORTS COMPETITIONS WHERE THEY HAVE HOLIDAY FESTIVALS.
JOHNNY BEACH AND I HAVE BEEN TO SEVERAL OF THOSE TOGETHER, OUR KIDS, BOYS, GIRLS, ALL DIFFERENT TEAMS GO TO COMPETITIONS OUT OF THE DISTRICT.
SO SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT THERE.
COULD YOU GO TO PAGE SEVENTY NINE PLEASE.
CAN I, SEGWAY REAL QUICK WHEN WE SAY SOMETHING THERE.
WHEN WE GO TO THOSE OUTSIDE COMPETITIONS, IT COULD BE FOR SOME PRE GAMES BEFORE, LIKE FOOTBALL, YOU KNOW, PRE-SEASON, RIGHT.
OR BASEBALL, WHEN WE DO PRE-SEASON, MAKE SURE THAT TRANSPORTATION STRATEGICALLY GIVES THOSE BUSES THAT HAVE THOSE ADVERTISEMENTS THERE.
YEAH, SORRY I HAD TO FIND PAGE 79.
IS THAT THE REGIONAL ELEMENTARY PERFORMANCE IN MARKET SIZE, RIGHT? YES, SIR.
SO YOU HAD THE DOTS OF THE C, D' AND E'S, I GUESS.
JUST KIND OF HAVE A LITTLE FUN WITH HIM.
IF YOU NOTICE ALL OF THOSE SCHOOLS OUTSIDE OF OUR AREA, ALL OF THOSE SCHOOLS ASKED FOR WAIVERS SO THEY DON'T HAVE ONE TO TWENTY TWO IN ALL THOSE SCHOOLS.
IF YOU WANT TO GIVE MS. LIGHTFOOT A MARKETING TOOL, SAY YOU WANT TO COME OUT OF YOUR SCHOOLS THAT HAVE ASKED FOR WAIVERS IN THE K TO FOUR, COME HERE.
WE DON'T JUST A MARKETING PLOY.
SO WHEN I TALK ABOUT PRIDE, IT'S NOT JUST PRIDE, IT'S PRIDE OF TALKING POSITIVES ABOUT OUR DISTRICT, THINGS THAT WE'VE DONE, THINGS THAT WE'VE IMPROVED, THINGS THAT WE'VE REPLACED, THINGS LIKE THE PLANETARIUM, THINGS LIKE THE GILBREATH-REED CENTER ALL THESE POSITIVE.
I THINK AND MR. MILLER WAS TAKING GUESTS THERE, SO MANY DIFFERENT GUESTS TO SHOW HIM WHAT WE CAN DO.
THIS IS THE PRIDE WE HAVE IN WHO WE ARE THAT DIFFERENTIATES OURSELVES FROM OTHER DISTRICTS.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I HAVE A COUPLE OF COMMENTS.
BUT ONE OF THE RADIO STATIONS YOU DID NOT MENTION WAS THE VIETNAMESE RADIO STATION.
YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT IT, BUT SOMEONE IN CENTRAL OFFICE DOES.
AND AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF OUR COMMUNITY IS THE PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTOR OF THAT VIETNAMESE RADIO STATION THAT'S RIGHT ON THE BORDER OF GARLAND AND RICHARDSON.
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AND I THINK THAT'S OFF OF PLANO AND ARAPAHO.SO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE AND THEY AND THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNITY ALSO HAVE SEVERAL NEWSPAPERS AND THINGS WHERE ACTIVE MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY ARE INVOLVED WITH THAT.
AND I JUST WANT TO TALK ABOUT TV STATIONS.
I HEARD YOU ALL SAY WE HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP AND A GOOD PARTNERSHIP WITH THE TV STATIONS.
WHAT TV STATIONS DO WE HAVE A GOOD PARTNERSHIP WITH AND WHAT RADIO STATIONS DO WE HAVE A GOOD PARTNERSHIP WITH? I THINK I'M MISSING SOMETHING HERE.
MAYBE I'M LISTENING TO THE WRONG STATION.
WHEN I SAY RELATIONSHIP, I MEAN THAT THERE ARE ASSOCIATES THAT ARE WILLING TO WORK WITH US WHEN WE'RE READY TO MOVE FORWARD.
AND WE'VE BEEN HIGHLIGHTED ON NEWS STATIONS SEVERAL TIMES SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE AND EVEN PRIOR.
SO THAT'S CHANNEL FIVE, CHANNEL ELEVEN, CHANNEL EIGHT, TELEMUNDO TWENTY NINE.
THOSE ARE OUR MOST FREQUENTLY STATIONS THAT WE'RE ON.
AND SO WE'RE VERY PROUD OF THAT.
BUT CURRENTLY WE HAVEN'T RUN ANY RADIO ADS THAT I'M FAMILIAR WITH.
TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION SPECIFICALLY, I GUESS WHAT I'M TALKING WHAT CONCERNS ME WITH OUR COVERAGE AND DR.
LOPEZ, I'VE HAD THIS CONVERSATION WITH YOU.
IS IT'S AND I KNOW IT'S ACCORDING TO THEIR SCHEDULE AND I KNOW IF IT'S A SLOW MEDIA DAY OR WHATEVER, OK, BUT I WANT TO KNOW IF WE'RE TRYING TO DEVELOP THE RELATIONSHIP THAT OTHER DISTRICTS HAVE.
IT DOESN'T MATTER IF THEY'RE CHANGING THE CAFETERIA MENU, THEY ARE GETTING COVERAGE.
AND SO WHAT I WANT US TO TRY TO DO IN THIS CAMPAIGN THAT WE CAN ESTABLISH SOME RELATIONSHIP, THAT IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO ROLL OUT, THAT WE SEND IT TO THEM AND THEY PICK IT UP.
AND IT'S NOT DEPENDENT ON WHETHER THEY HAVE A SLOW MEDIA DAY OR WHATEVER I CALL THE EDITORIALS ALL THE TIME.
OPENING SCHOOL IS ONE THING THAT GETS UP UNDER MY SKIN WHEN WE HAVE OPENED UP MANY NEW PROGRAMS AND WE GET NO COVERAGE ON OPENING DAY.
AND SO I'LL CALL EDITORIAL AND TALK TO THEM.
YOU KNOW, IT'S ANOTHER SCHOOL DISTRICT OUT HERE.
AND SO I'M JUST SAYING, AS WE DO THIS, LET'S REALLY START FOSTERING A STRONGER TYPE RELATIONSHIP.
SO WE'RE THEIR GO TO DISTRICT THAT'S JUST THE LINDA GRIFFIN, YOU KNOW, EDITORIAL.
SO WE APPRECIATE THE FEEDBACK.
BUT I THANK YOU ALL FOR WHAT YOU PRESENTED AND THE THINGS THAT IT'S GOING TO TAKE FOR US TO GET THERE.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER THINGS THAT WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT.
AND IT'S FOR STAFF, BUT SO FAR TONIGHT WE'VE COVERED A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS.
MR. RINGO'S PRESENTATION COVERED THE BUDGET AND SOME REDUCTIONS OF SALARY THROUGH ATTRITION, ONLY THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WITH THAT INFRASTRUCTURE OF STAFFING ONCE ACCOMPLISHED.
WHAT KIND OF ADA COULD WE ACHIEVE? WHAT'S OUR MAX ADA WE CAN HANDLE BEFORE WE WOULD NEED TO ADD STAFF? OUR ENROLLMENT RIGHT NOW, MR. MILLER IS AROUND FIFTY THREE THOUSAND CAPACITY FOR FACILITIES WISE IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY BY THE PPK REPORT.
WE COULD GO UP TO FIFTY EIGHT.
BUT WE WOULDN'T HAVE THE STAFF.
WE SO WITH THIS STAFF, WITH THE BUDGET THAT YOU'RE PRESENTING FOR NEXT YEAR, THAT STAFF COULD HANDLE AN ADA OF, I MEAN, I KNOW WE GOT A MIX AND ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENT THINGS I WOULD RELY ON DR.
RUSSELL IN H.R., AS THEY TELL US BASED ON SPEAKERS] FOR ME.
THAT'S A LITTLE TOUGH TO ESTIMATE, MR. MILLER.
AND IT DOES DEPEND ON THE INTEREST FROM THE OUTSIDE.
BUT IT'S A GREAT QUESTION WE'VE BEEN FIGURING BECAUSE IT DOESN'T EVER WORK OUT PERFECTLY.
YOU KNOW, I MAY HAVE A HUNDRED ELEMENTARY KIDS AND FIFTY HIGH SCHOOL KIDS SPREAD OUT AND IN HIGH SCHOOL, WE CAN ABSORB IT A LITTLE BETTER BECAUSE THERE'S MORE TEACHERS AND MORE CORE SUBJECTS.
AND THEN IN THE THIRD GRADE CLASSROOM.
MIX, WE'RE THINKING WE COULD HANDLE PROBABLY SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY TO A THOUSAND KIDS SPREAD OUT ACROSS THE DISTRICT USING DR.
TEN KIDS, A SCHOOL AT SEVEN HUNDRED TWENTY.
SO THAT MIGHT PUT US BACK TO 2020 ADA NUMBERS.
DR. RINGO, DO YOU AGREE? THAT'S A LITTLE BIT IT'S.
WE'RE SHOWING A DECLINE RIGHT NOW IN THIS YEAR'S PROJECTION OF A THOUSAND
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ADA.AND SO IT WOULD PUT US CLOSER TO WHERE WE'RE AT BUT NOT QUITE WHERE WE'RE AT.
AND THEN REMEMBER, FROM THE VERY FIRST PRESENTATION, IT'S A LONG TERM PLAN, SO THAT GAINS MOMENTUM AND AS THE WORD SPREADS AND SO FORTH, AND THEN AS WE HAVE MORE STUDENTS, WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO ADD MORE STAFF BECAUSE SHOULD DRIVE THE STAFFING.
OK, MY FINAL QUESTION IN THAT LINE LINDA WHILE YOU GRIN AT ME.
[LAUGHTER] NO I'M LOOKING AT THESE OTHERS, I GOT EIGHTY FOUR PERCENT OF OUR BUDGET'S ON STAFFING ONCE THIS BUDGET IS FINISHED AND THE SAVES HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED THROUGH ATTRITION.
IS THAT STILL AN 84 PERCENT NUMBER? YES, SIR.
THE REDUCTIONS WE'VE SHOWN INCLUDE ALL THE NON PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS THAT ARE TAKING PLACE.
AND SO WITH REDUCTIONS, ON NON PAYROLL SIDE AND THE PAYROLL SIDE, WE ARE STILL AT EIGHTY FOUR PERCENT.
JUST A SUGGESTION ON AN AREA THAT I DIDN'T SEE THAT WOULD BE PROBABLY GOOD TO REACH OUT.
AFTER OUR DEMOGRAPHER CAME IN AND SHOWED US ALL THE AREAS WHERE THERE'S GOING TO BE NEW HOME BUILDING AND APARTMENTS OF GETTING HIM IN THE OFFICES OF THOSE PEOPLE, SOME TYPE OF FLYER FOR THOSE PEOPLE THAT ARE MOVING IN ABOUT GARLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, THAT THEY CAN HAND OUT TO THEIR NEW TENANTS.
AND ALSO TO THE PEOPLE THAT ARE MOVING INTO THE AREAS.
THEY ALWAYS HAVE A SHOW HOME NORMALLY THAT YOU COULD HAVE SOMETHING THERE AT THOSE TABLES FOR SOMEBODY THAT'S MOVING INTO THE AREA THAT MIGHT BE FROM OUTSIDE OUR DISTRICT.
SO THOSE MIGHT BE SOME OTHER AREAS THAT WE MIGHT WANT IS A VERY ACTIVE OFFICES.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY DO NOWADAYS THAT ARE IN OUR SURROUNDING AREAS THAT I KNOW THAT USED TO THEY USED TO HAVE LUNCHEONS ALL THE TIME WHERE THEY WOULD GET TOGETHER, LAKESIDE AND OTHER PLACES THAT WE COULD, YOU KNOW, GIVE THOSE FOLKS THE REALTORS SOME FLYERS OR SOME TYPE IF THE COST IS SOMETHING THAT WE COULD, YOU KNOW, DO, TOO.
BUT THAT'S ALSO A GOOD MARKETING TOOL.
YEAH, AND THE REALTORS, I THINK, ARE STILL ACTIVE.
GET WITH THE CONVENTION PEOPLE TOO WITH THE CITY OF GARLAND OF WHAT THEY'VE GOT GOING ON DOWN THERE, TOO.
THAT MIGHT BE SOMETHING TO COORDINATE WITH THEM.
JUST ONE OTHER GROUP I JUST LEARNED AND I DON'T KNOW WHY I DIDN'T KNOW THIS, BUT A LOT OF THE CHURCHES THAT WE HAVE HERE IN GARLAND HAVE PEOPLE THAT TRAVEL FROM OUTSIDE OF THE DISTRICT INTO THE DISTRICT TO ATTEND CHURCH.
AND I JUST WANTED TO ADD MS. GRIFFIN, YOU HAD MENTIONED THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT THIS FOR APPROVAL AT OUR APRIL 27TH MEETING.
DO WE NEED TO HAVE THEM DO LIKE A MINI PRESENTATION PRIOR TO THAT JUST TO CONSIDER.
WELL YOU WERE READING MY MIND BECAUSE THE NEXT THING I WAS GOING TO ASK THE BOARD, WAS THERE ANYTHING THAT YOU NEEDED BROUGHT BACK BEFORE WE TAKE THAT VOTE AT THE TWENTY SEVENTH MEETING AND WE WOULD SEE THAT UNDER AN ACTION ITEM.
SO IF THERE WERE PENDING THINGS, WE WOULD HAVE THE PRESENTATION AND THEN WE WOULD DO THE VOTE.
SO I DON'T KNOW, DO WE WANT TO GO AROUND AND ASK, WHO.
DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING PENDING THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE PRESIDENT SELDERS? JUST THE INFORMATION THAT GOT ADDED THIS EVENING.
I MEAN, JUST KIND OF SEE IT FORMALIZED.
YOU WANT TO RECAP WHAT YOU HAVE SO WE SEE IF THAT COVERS EVERYBODY.
SO WE WOULD LIKE TO INCLUDE THE NUMBER OF SEATS PER CAMPUS THAT ARE AVAILABLE.
ALSO OPEN CAMPUSES THAT ARE NEAR THE BORDERS.
REVIEW MONASTERY'S AT HERFURTH AND LUNA TO CHECK AVAILABILITY, INCLUDING SPACE AND STAFFING AND PLAN INCLUDE UPDATE THE PLAN TO INCLUDE FAITH BASED OUTREACH AND HAVE A MOCK OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE THAT INCLUDES OPTIONS BASED ON STAFFING AND SPACE FOR SOME OF THE SCHOOLS THAT MAY BE OPEN.
THAT RIGHT NOW LOOK CLOSED BECAUSE WE'RE HOLDING PROGRAM SEATS OR MAGNET SEATS AND MIGHT BE OPEN.
AND ONE OTHER THING TO THE ONE WHERE YOU'RE GOING TO ADD THE NUMBER OF THE CAPACITY FOR THE CAMPUSES, YOU WERE ALSO GOING TO ADD PROGRAMS THAT WERE AVAILABLE AS WELL.
WAS THERE ANYTHING ELSE? AND I THINK THE ONLY BUDGET NUMBERS WE SAW IN HERE WAS THE MARKETING DOLLARS.
IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE THAT WE NEED TO CONSIDER THAT WILL HAVE A BUDGET IMPACT ON US IMPLEMENTING THIS FOR THE UPCOMING SCHOOL YEAR? ADDITIONAL TEACHERS AT THE PROGRAMS, IF WE HAVE ROOM, THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE AN ADD.
BUT IF YOU ADD THOSE KIDS, WE WOULD HAVE A CERTAIN THRESHOLD THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO SAY THIS MANY KIDS WOULD HAVE TO BE INTERESTED IN ORDER TO OFF THERE
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IS NO SO EVERYTHING THAT WE WANT TO DO TO ACCOMPLISH THIS, WE HAVE THAT ALREADY IN PLACE.BECAUSE WE ONLY SAW ONE NUMBER IN HERE.
WOULD IT MAKE SENSE TO ITEMIZE THAT NUMBER? IT'S ONLY THE MARKETING THOUSAND.
THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT DOING IN THE MARKETING PLAN THAT MIGHT MAKE SENSE TO SEE WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.
AND I NEED TO SEE TO REACH OUT TO THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNITY FOR YEAH, THEY GOT RADIO, TV AND NEWSPAPERS.
JUST ONE QUESTION I THOUGHT OF.
SO ON PAGE YOU DON'T HAVE TO BRING IT UP THOUGH.
BUT ON PAGE EIGHTY SIX, YOU HAD SHOWN US YOUR SCREENING RUBRIC WITH THE POINT SYSTEM UP TO A MAXIMUM OF 18.
AT SOME POINT THERE WILL BE PEOPLE IN THE 10 TO 14 RANGE WHICH YOU CONSIDER YOU CALL WAITLIST OR POSSIBLE CONSIDERATION.
OK, SO LET'S SAY THEY'RE NOT ALL GOING TO BE 15 TO 18 POINTS.
WHEN DO YOU DECIDE TO DIP? LET'S CALL IT DIP DOWN TO THE 10TH OR 14 PEOPLE BECAUSE YOU WANT NUMBERS.
AND WHO MAKES THAT DECISION? BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE IMPORTANT AS SOON AS YOU START GETTING HIGHER NUMBERS OR MAYBE NOT GETTING THE NUMBERS, YOU'RE THINKING AND THINKING, WELL, WERE HOPING TO GET THIS, BUT THE GREATER MAJORITY OF THE KIDS ARE IN THE 10 TO 14 RANGE, NOT THE 15 TO 18 RANGE.
WE WANT TO TAKE OR WE DON'T WANT TO TAKE.
I THINK THAT HAS TO BE THE DECISION PROBABLY FOR YOU, DR.
I'M NOT SURE WHO MAKES THAT DECISION OF THE GO NO GO FOR CERTAIN OTHER KIDS.
I THINK WE WOULD DEFINITELY NEED TO HAVE A COMMITTEE TO DECIDE THAT.
WHEN I SAID MY TEAM WOULD BE LOOKING AT IT FOR THE FIRST GO ROUND, WE WOULD REALLY BE LOOKING AT THOSE KIDS THAT WERE AUTOMATIC AND WE'D BE WAITING AT LEAST TWO WEEKS OR SO TO GIVE OURSELVES AN OPPORTUNITY TO FOLLOW UP WITH THE FAMILY, BECAUSE MAYBE SOMETHING THEY SUBMITTED, WE'RE NOT UNDERSTANDING CLEARLY.
AND THERE'S ANOTHER SIDE TO THAT STORY OR FOR US TO ACTUALLY GET TOGETHER AS A DISTRICT.
THE INTENT IS IN FUTURE YEARS TO HAVE EACH OF OUR AREAS TO GET TOGETHER AND CONSIDER THOSE WHERE THE PARENTS FIRST CHOICE FOR COMING INTO OUR DISTRICT LIES WITHIN THEIR AREA .
FOR THIS YEAR JUST FOR EXPEDIENCY IT WAS GOING TO BE HELD JUST AS ONE GROUP.
AND BECAUSE, I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY YOU'RE PUTTING A DOLLAR AMOUNT FROM STATE THAT THE STATE'S GOING TO PAY US PER CHILD.
AND WHEN DO YOU APPLY THAT DOLLAR AMOUNT TO THAT SPECIFIC CHILD? AND THEN WE TALKED ABOUT TEACHER RATIOS AND SCHOOLS AND CAPACITIES.
I MEAN, THERE NEEDS TO PROBABLY BE A FORMULA THOUGHT OF AS WE'RE DOING THIS.
SO WHEN THESE NUMBERS START COMING IN, WE'RE READY FOR A DECISION BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THE PARENTS ARE GOING TO WANT.
YOU KNOW AM I GOING TO THIS SCHOOL? AM I GOING TO BE BACK IN DISD OR MESQUITE AND ROCKWALL IN SUNNYVALE OR AM I COMING TO GARLAND? ALL RIGHT.
AS I'VE BEEN KIND OF COMMUNICATING WITH DIFFERENT PEOPLE, WHAT I'M LEARNING IS THAT SOMETIMES WHEN WE'RE SHARING INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROGRAMS THAT WE OFFER AND THEN HOW TO ACCESS THEM, THE INFORMATION IS NOT NECESSARILY ALWAYS THAT CLEAR.
AND SO I THINK WE NEED TO JUST MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE VERY CLEAR ABOUT WHAT WE'RE OFFERING AND HOW WE'RE COMMUNICATING THAT TO PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF THE DISTRICT THAT ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE.
DO YOU HAVE ANY CLOSING REMARKS? SO WE'RE READY TO MOVE ON.
HEMPHILL AND MS. LIGHTFOOT, THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
TRUSTEES, AGAIN, COMING FROM THIS COMMITTEE MEETING, WE WILL BE MOVING FORWARD ALL OF ACTION ITEM NON CONSENT UNDER ROMAN NUMERAL SEVEN.
DR. LOPEZ MS. HOGAN IS THERE NEED FOR AN EXECUTIVE SESSION.
OK, SO IS THERE MOTION? THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK.
I WILL SEND COMMISSIONER MORATH REQUEST FOR YOU ALL YOUR OVERTIME PAY AND WE'LL
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SEE WHAT HE'LL GIVE US.THANK YOU.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.