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I CALL THIS MEETING TO ORDER AND DETERMINE THAT THERE IS A QUORUM PRESENT.MR. WHEELER, WILL YOU INTRODUCE OUR .. IF YOU HAVEN'T NOTICED, WE'VE BEEN LETTING STUDENTS SAY THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE BECAUSE IN GARLAND ISD, WE'RE ALL ABOUT THE STUDENTS.
THEY MATTER, THEY CARE, AND THEY SHOULD BE REPRESENTED AT THE BOARD MEETINGS AS WELL.
SO PRESIDENT GRIFFIN HAD THE GREAT IDEA OF HAVING STUDENTS COME UP AND SO COME ON UP, I WANT TO HAVE YOU INTRODUCE YOURSELF TO THE TELL THEM WHAT SCHOOL YOU GO TO.
YOU'VE ALREADY DONE THE HARD PART.
SO DO YOU WANT TO INTRODUCE YOURSELF AND SAY WHAT SCHOOL YOU GO TO? HI, I GO TO BUSSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
I'M IN EIGHTH GRADE AND I'M 14 YEARS OLD.
YOUR NAME? GIANCARLO [INAUDIBLE] THANK YOU SO MUCH.
NUMBER THREE, OUR PUBLIC FORUM.
[III. Public Forum]
MISS HOGAN, DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT CARDS? THANK YOU. WE NOW WILL MOVE INTO OUR INFORMATION ITEMS AND UNDER INFORMATION ITEMS WE HAVE A, B AND C, AND AT THIS TIME I WILL CALL MR.[IV.A. Special Recognition ]
WHEELER BACK UP TO START US OFF WITH THE SPECIAL RECOGNITIONS.PRESIDENT GRIFFIN, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, DR.
LOPEZ. LEADERSHIP ROWLETT IS A PROGRAM OFFERED BY THE ROWLETT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO ANY INTERESTED CITIZEN WHO LIVES OR WORKS IN ROWLETT, OR IS A MEMBER OF THE ROWLETT CHAMBER.
LEADERSHIP ROWLETT OFFERS NEW LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES IN AN ATMOSPHERE THAT STIMULATES PARTICIPATION TO WORK TOGETHER WHILE DEVELOPING PERSONAL, ORGANIZATIONAL, AND COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP SKILLS.
THE CURRICULUM COMBINES LECTURES, DIALOG, AND INTERACTION.
SUBJECTS ARE DESIGNED TO ENCOMPASS LEADERSHIP TECHNIQUES AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE COMMUNITY.
THE PROGRAM EXISTS TO IDENTIFY AND MOTIVATE EMERGING COMMUNITY LEADERS.
IT STRIVES TO FURTHER DEVELOP PARTICIPANTS LEADERSHIP POTENTIAL BY GIVING THEM OPPORTUNITIES IN THE SERVICE AREA IN ROWLETT, TEXAS. THE INSIGHT PARTICIPANTS GAIN AS THEY EXPLORE THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE COMMUNITY FORM THE FOUNDATION FOR LONG TERM INVOLVEMENT IN ROWLETT IN A VARIETY OF LEADERSHIP ROLES.
EACH MONTH'S SESSION IS A FULL DAY SPENT EXAMINING SPECIFIC ASPECTS OF A COMMUNITY SUCH AS EDUCATION, GOVERNMENT, OR INFRASTRUCTURE, AND ALL FOCUS ON LEADERSHIP.
THIS MONTH, THE LEADERSHIP CLASS VISITED GARLAND ISD, VISITING THE GRCTC, THE FIRST EVER ROWLETT BLUE RIBBON SCHOOL, HERFURTH ELEMENTARY AND OUR AWARD WINNING NATATORIUM.
AND HERE TONIGHT THEY ARE HERE TO WITNESS THE BOARD MEETING AND ALSO TO BE HONORED BY GARLAND ISD.
I CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR THE COURTEOUSNESS THAT WE WERE GREETED WITH.
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THEY HAD AN IN-DEPTH KNOWLEDGE OF EVERY FACILITY THAT WE ATTENDED.YOU KNOW, FROM VISITING THE NATATORIUM OR TO EVEN VISITING HERFURTH ELEMENTARY, WE JUST HAD A GREAT EXPERIENCE, AND I ESPECIALLY WANT TO COMMEND SHANNON BROWN FOR THE GREAT WORK THAT SHE IS DOING THERE.
HER TEACHERS ARE DOING A GREAT JOB, AND IT IS BLUE RIBBON SCHOOL BECAUSE YOU HAVE BLUE RIBBON LEADERSHIP ON YOUR CAMPUSES, AND WE WERE JUST BLOWN AWAY BY THE WORK THAT SHE IS DOING WITH THOSE KIDS IN THAT MONTESSORI SCHOOL.
AND SO I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU TREMENDOUSLY FROM THE HEART FOR THE EXPERIENCE THAT WE HAD TODAY.
IT WAS WONDERFUL FROM START TO FINISH.
IT WAS WELL PLANNED, WELL EXECUTED.
AND THANK YOU FOR MAKING US FEEL SO WELCOME.
THANK YOU. LEADERSHIP ROWLETT WOULD YOU ALL STAND AS A CLASS SO WE CAN RECOGNIZE YOU? THANK YOU.
NUMBER TWO, RECOGNIZE GARLAND HIGH SCHOOL SPEECH AND DEBATE TEAM, DR.
GROMER. GOOD EVENING, BOARD PRESIDENT GRIFFIN, BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND DR.
LOPEZ. WE WOULD LIKE TO SPECIALLY RECOGNIZE OUR GARLAND HIGH SCHOOL SPEECH AND DEBATE TEAM COACH TALIA POWELL HAS QUADRUPLED THE SIZE OF THIS TEAM POST COVID, CREATING A POWERHOUSE OF SPEAKERS, ACTORS AND DEBATERS WHO HAVE DOMINATED COMPETITIONS FROM ESTABLISHED PROGRAMS THROUGHOUT THE STATE AND COUNTRY.
LAST YEAR, GARLAND HIGH SCHOOL COMPETED AT THE NATIONAL NSDA TOURNAMENT IN ARIZONA, THE NIGHTHAWK IN MINNESOTA, TFA STATE, AND UIL REGION, WITH STUDENTS EARNING SPOTS IN THE FINAL ROUNDS.
THIS SEASON IS ALREADY STARTING OFF STRONGER THAN LAST YEAR.
THEY HAVE WON A MULTITUDE OF INDIVIDUAL AWARDS AND AS A TEAM, HAVE BROUGHT HOME FIRST PLACE SWEEPSTAKES AT THE ANNUAL GRAPEVINE CLASSIC, THIRD PLACE OVERALL SWEEPSTAKES AT THE LINDALE HIGH SCHOOL TOURNAMENT, AND THIRD PLACE OVERALL SWEEPSTAKES AT THE PLANO WEST WOLF CLASSIC TOURNAMENT THIS PAST WEEKEND. FIVE STUDENTS ARE ALREADY STATE AND NATIONAL QUALIFIERS, WITH MORE FORTHCOMING.
THE PRINCIPAL IS DUKE BARNETT.
WILL COACH POWELL AND HER TEAM PLEASE COME UP TO BE RECOGNIZED.
[IV.B. Evidence of Excellence ]
THE FIRST ONE WE'RE GOING TO RECOGNIZE, THE US NEWS 2023 2024 BEST PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS, MR. WHEELER. PRESIDENT GRIFFIN, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.BUT IT'S ALWAYS GREAT WHEN AN OUTSIDE RESPECTED NEWS ORGANIZATION LIKE US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT RANKS YOU AS ONE OF THE BEST SCHOOLS IN THE COUNTRY.
US NEWS HAS RELEASED THE NAMES OF THE 20 2324 BEST PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS IN TEXAS AND AT THE NATIONAL
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LEVEL, THE US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT BEST HIGH SCHOOL RANKINGS INCLUDE DATA ON NEARLY 25,000 PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS IN 50 STATES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.NEARLY 18,000 SCHOOLS WERE RANKED ON SIX FACTORS BASED ON THEIR PERFORMANCE OF STATE ASSESSMENTS AND HOW WELL THEY PREPARE THEIR STUDENTS FOR COLLEGE.
I INVITE THE PRINCIPALS TO APPROACH THE PODIUM AS I CALL OUT YOUR SCHOOL AND YOUR NAME.
GARLAND HIGH SCHOOL, DUKE BARNETT.
SORRY, I PULLED THE OTHER GREAT SCHOOLS THAT WERE THERE.
YEAH. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
STAY UP HERE BECAUSE WE'RE NOT DONE.
LAKEVIEW CENTENNIAL, ELISE MOSTY.
NORTH GARLAND HIGH SCHOOL, JOHN FISHPAW.
ROWLETT HIGH SCHOOL, CARMEN BLAKEY.
LAST BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST, SACHSE HIGH SCHOOL SHAE CREEL.
FOR CLARIFICATION, THESE WERE ALL IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER, NOT NUMERICAL ORDER.
JUST IN CASE ANYBODY WAS WONDERING.
NOT THAT MR. BARNETT WOULD HAVE MINDED RIGHT.
WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE WITH OUR EVIDENCE OF EXCELLENCE AWARDS.
WE'RE GOING TO RECOGNIZE HIGH SCHOOL BAND NATIONAL WINNERS.
BOARD PRESIDENT GRIFFIN, BOARD OF TRUSTEES, AND DR.
LOPEZ. THE MARK OF EXCELLENCE PROJECT SEEKS TO RECOGNIZE AND AWARD OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN PERFORMANCE BY HIGH SCHOOL AND MIDDLE SCHOOL BANDS, CHOIRS, AND ORCHESTRAS.
A UNIQUE COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT IS CREATED WHICH ALLOWS ENSEMBLES TO COMPARE THEIR PERFORMANCE QUALITY TO OTHER OUTSTANDING GROUPS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY. THE TOP 25% OF ENTRANTS ARE RECOGNIZED AS NATIONAL WINNERS, WITH A SECOND 25% NAMED AS COMMENDED WINNERS.
LAKEVIEW CENTENNIAL WIND ENSEMBLE WAS RECOGNIZED AS A COMMENDED WINNER IN THE MARK OF EXCELLENCE NATIONAL WIND BAND COMPETITION FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW. THE BAND WAS ALSO NAMED A COMMENDED WINNER IN THE NATIONAL WIND BAND HONORS NEW MUSIC DIVISION, WHICH HIGHLIGHTS PERFORMANCES OF MUSIC WRITTEN BY LIVE COMPOSERS.
LAKEVIEW CENTENNIAL'S BAND DIRECTOR IS JARED HUDLER AND THEIR PRINCIPAL IS ELISE MOSTY.
ADDITIONALLY, IN 2021 AND 2022, SACHSE BAND WIND ENSEMBLE WAS ALSO NAMED A COMMENDED WINNER.
HOWEVER, THIS YEAR, THE SACHSE MUSTANG BAND WIND ENSEMBLE WAS RECOGNIZED AS A NATIONAL WINNER IN THE MARK OF EXCELLENCE NATIONAL WIND BAND COMPETITION IN THE 2023 RECORDING PROCESS.
SACHSE'S BAND DIRECTOR IS HOLLY TAYLOR AND THEIR PRINCIPAL IS SHAE CREEL.
WILL MR. HUDLER AND MRS. TAYLOR PLEASE COME UP TO BE RECOGNIZED.
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OUR NEXT EVIDENCE OF EXCELLENCE, WE'RE GOING TO RECOGNIZE THE I AM TEXAS AWARD ART FINALIST, DR.CROMER. BOARD PRESIDENT GRIFFIN, BOARD OF TRUSTEES, AND DR.
LOPEZ. THE FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE RENA WU.
SHE IS A FINALIST FOR THE I AM TEXAS COMPETITION, AND YOU CAN SEE HER WORK THERE AND RECEIVE PRIZE MONEY FOR HER ARTWORK ENTITLED LONGHORN AND BLUEBONNET FIELDS.
RENA COMPLETED THIS WORK WHILE A STUDENT AT SEWELL ELEMENTARY UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF RITA SCHAEFER.
THEIR PRINCIPAL IS MELINDA HOOVER.
WILL RENA WU PLEASE COME UP TO BE RECOGNIZED.
NEXT, OUR NEXT EVIDENCE OF EXCELLENCE, GOING TO RECOGNIZE OUR NATIONAL MERIT AWARD SEMIFINALIST.
MR. WHEELER. PRESIDENT GRIFFIN, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, DR.
LOPEZ. EACH YEAR, 1.5 MILLION JUNIORS TAKE THE PSAT.
IN EARLY SEPTEMBER, ABOUT 16,000 STUDENTS, OR APPROXIMATELY 0.5% OF THE HIGHEST SCORING STUDENTS PER STATE, ARE NOTIFIED BY THE NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP CORPORATION THAT THEY HAVE QUALIFIED AS A NATIONAL MERIT SEMIFINALIST 0.5. THE STATED GOALS OF THE NATIONAL MERIT ARE TO HONOR THE NATION'S SCHOLASTIC CHAMPIONS AND ENCOURAGE THE PURSUIT OF ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE. LATER IN THE YEAR, SOME 15,000 SEMIFINALISTS ARE NOTIFIED THAT THEY HAVE ADVANCED TO THE NATIONAL MERIT FINALIST STANDING.
HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPALS ARE NOTIFIED AND PROVIDED WITH CERTIFICATE TO PRESENT TO EACH SEMIFINALIST.
THIS YEAR, WE HAVE EIGHT NATIONAL MERIT SEMIFINALISTS IN GARLAND ISD.
OUR 2023 NATIONAL MERIT SEMIFINALISTS ARE, AND WHEN I CALL YOUR NAME, PLEASE COME TO THE PODIUM FROM GARLAND HIGH SCHOOL, MARGARET BRYANT. FROM GARLAND HIGH SCHOOL, STEPHEN HUNT.
FROM GARLAND HIGH SCHOOL MINORI NORA KIKUCHI.
KIKUCHI. DID I SAY THAT RIGHT, KIKUCHI, I AM SO SORRY.
FROM GARLAND HIGH SCHOOL, JONATHAN ONTIVEROS.
FROM GARLAND HIGH SCHOOL, ERIC TRAN.
AND THEN FROM GARLAND HIGH SCHOOL, FI VU.
FROM NORTH GARLAND HIGH SCHOOL, THOMAS FUNG.
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AND FROM SACHSE HIGH SCHOOL AIDAN LEONARD.PLEASE JOIN ME IN APPLAUDING OUR NATIONAL MERIT SEMIFINALISTS FOR THEIR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT.
AND THANK YOU TO THE PARENTS, TEACHERS, COUNSELORS, AND PSAT COACHES IN GARLAND ISD AND CAMPUS ADMINISTRATORS WHO ENCOURAGE THEM ALONG THE WAY. WE WANT TO APPRECIATE THEM AS WELL.
SO EVERYONE, WE'RE GOING TO SHIFT TO THE CENTER.
WE'RE GOING TO LET THE PARENTS AND FAMILY TAKE THEIR PICTURES FIRST.
AT THIS TIME, WE'RE GOING TO MOVE TO OUR INFORMATION ITEM, SEE GOING THE EXTRA MILE OR GEMS.
[IV.C. Going the Extra Mile (GEMs)]
AND WE'RE GOING TO RECOGNIZE GOING THE EXTRA MILE AWARD RECIPIENT DAVID THOMPSON.PRESIDENT GRIFFIN, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, DR.
TONIGHT, WE'RE GATHERED HERE TO RECOGNIZE AND HONOR AN INDIVIDUAL WHOSE DEDICATION, PASSION, AND UNWAVERING COMMITMENT TO OUR SCHOOL COMMUNITY HAS NOT GONE UNNOTICED. WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT THE GOING THE EXTRA MILE RECOGNITION FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER TO MISTER DAVID THOMPSON.
STAFF CALLS HIM MR. DAVID, IS NOT JUST A CUSTODIAN, HE IS THE EMBODIMENT EMBODIMENT OF HARD WORK, POSITIVITY AND GENUINE CARE FOR THE SCHOOL.
SHE CONTINUES, IN RECENT TIMES, WHEN OUR CUSTODIAL TEAM FACED STAFFING CHALLENGES, MR. DAVID STEPPED UP WITHOUT HESITATION.
HE PUT IN COUNTLESS HOURS OF OVERTIME, ENSURING THAT EVERY NOOK AND CRANNY OF OUR SCHOOL SHINES, ALL WHILE MAINTAINING AN UNSHAKABLE SPIRIT OF POSITIVITY AND WARMTH.
HIS DEDICATION TO THE ROLE GOES BEYOND JUST PERFORMING TASKS.
IN A WORLD WHERE MANY OVERLOOK THE VALUES OF THE ROLES, MR. DAVID STANDS AS A SHINING EXAMPLE OF SOMEONE WHO EMBRACES HIS RESPONSIBILITIES WITH BOTH HANDS AND DOES IT WITH UTMOST PASSION.
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HIS SPIRIT AND DEDICATION ARE TRUE TO THE GISD EFFECT, AND WE ARE BEYOND FORTUNATE TO HAVE HIM AS PART OF THE GISD FAMILY.IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT RECOGNIZING MR. DAVE FOR GOING THE EXTRA MILE, BUT ALSO ABOUT CELEBRATING THE IMMENSE IMPACT HE HAS ON OUR COMMUNITY EVERY SINGLE DAY.
MR. DAVID THOMPSON, YOU ARE THE DESERVING OF THIS RECOGNITION AND WE THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS, OF ALL THE ENERGY AND POSITIVITY YOU BRING TO GARLAND ISD, CONGRATULATIONS.
LET'S GIVE ALL OF OUR HONOREES FOR TONIGHT AND RECOGNITION, ANOTHER HUGE ROUND OF APPLAUSE.
STUDENTS ARE DOING A GREAT JOB REPRESENTING GARLAND ISD.
WE ARE NOW AT INFORMATION ITEM D AND LEADERSHIP ROWLETT IF THIS IS YOUR EXIT, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
OKAY. SO D IS FOR US TO RECEIVE INTRUDER DETECTION AUDIT REPORT OCTOBER 2023.
THE TOP PRIORITY OF GARLAND ISD AND THE STATE OF TEXAS IS KEEPING STUDENTS AND STAFF SAFE EVERY DAY.
THE AUDITS TEST WHETHER A CAMPUS IS ACCESSIBLE TO UNAUTHORIZED INDIVIDUALS.
WE ARE WORKING CLOSELY WITH OUR DISTRICT SCHOOL SAFETY AND SECURITY COMMITTEE TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE TRAINING ALL OUR STAFF AND SECURING OUR DOORS FOR THE PROTECTION OF EVERYONE AT OUR CAMPUSES. THE SUPPORT FROM THE STATE IN CONDUCTING THE INTRUDER DETECTION AUDITS IS JUST ONE OF MANY ACTIONS WE ARE TAKING TO ENSURE THAT OUR SCHOOLS REMAIN SAFE.
WE KNOW THAT THIS WORK DOES NOT END AND WE APPRECIATE THE BOARD'S SUPPORT.
HOWEVER, IT IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE STUDENTS THAT WE DO NOT SHARE THIS INFORMATION TO THE BROADER PUBLIC AS IT COULD LEAD TO COMPROMISING IMPORTANT CAMPUS SECURITY INFORMATION. SPECIFIC DETAILS OF THE INTRUDER DETECTION AUDIT WILL BE DISCUSSED IN EXECUTIVE SESSION AND WITH THE SAFETY AND SECURITY COMMITTEE.
GOOD EVENING, BOARD PRESIDENT GRIFFIN BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND DR.
LOPEZ. MY NAME IS SHELLY GARRETT.
I'M THE ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT OF SAFETY AND OPERATIONS.
I JUST WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO GIVE YOU A HEARTFELT THOUGHT.
THAT EVEN BEFORE THE 2014 BOND, BEFORE YOU SPENT $312 MILLION ON SAFETY, SECURITY, HEALTH AND FACILITY UPGRADES, YOU ARE ALREADY WAY AHEAD OF THE CURVE. THE GARLAND ISD BOARD HAVE BEEN TRAILBLAZERS WITH REGARD TO SCHOOL SECURITY.
AS A RESULT OF YOUR COMMITMENT, WE HAVE STATE OF THE ART PROP DOOR ALARMS. WE HAVE FIRE AND CAMERA SYSTEMS THAT ARE UNPARALLELED, AND WE HAVE ONE OF THE FEW 24/SEVEN, 365 DAYS A YEAR, DISPATCH CENTERS IN THE STATE OF TEXAS.
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THAT GARLAND ISD GAVE TO ANY DISTRICT THAT WAS INTERESTED.IT WAS NOT A MANDATE AT THE TIME, NOW IT IS.
UTILIZING VISITOR ACCESS LIKE RAPTOR BEFORE IT WAS A STATE MANDATE, Y'ALL ARE ALREADY DOING IT.
YOU ARE ALREADY CONDUCTING ANNUAL SECURITY AUDITS AT EVERY FACILITY AND CAMPUS.
I HAVE NEVER SEEN A GROUP OF PEOPLE MORE DEDICATED TO KEEPING STUDENTS AND STAFF SAFE THAN YOU GUYS.
YOU TAKE IT VERY SERIOUSLY AND FOR THAT WE ARE GRATEFUL.
TO SHOW OUR GRATITUDE, AND IT'S A TINY, TINY TOKEN.
WE WOULD LIKE TO HONOR EACH OF YOU WITH THE NEWLY MINTED GISD SECURITY DEPARTMENT CHALLENGE COIN.
THE CHALLENGE COIN HAS A LONG STANDING TRADITION IN MILITARY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT CIRCLES.
ON THE OTHER SIDE, THERE IS AN OLIVE BRANCH THAT REPRESENTS PEACE.
THERE IS AN OAK BRANCH THAT REPRESENTS STRENGTH.
IN THE MIDDLE IS THE GARLAND ISD LOGO, TORCH.
ALSO, SEMPER VIGILANS IS LATIN FOR ALWAYS VIGILANT, AND THAT IS OUR SECURITY DEPARTMENT.
I WANT TO THANK YOU, MARK QUINN, FOR THAT.
THE COIN REPRESENTS CAMARADERIE, UNITY, AND PROOF OF LOYALTY TO THE GISD SECURITY MISSION.
WE ARE PRESENTING THESE TO YOU AS A SYMBOL OF OUR CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO KEEPING STUDENTS SAFE.
[V.A. Trustees' Report]
I WILL JUST REMIND THE TRUSTEES THAT ALL OF NUMBER ONE, THE RECENT DISTRICT AND COMMUNITY EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS, UPCOMING RECOGNITION OF OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCES, AND RECOGNITION OF NEW PROGRAMS TO INCLUDE THOSE IN YOUR REMARKS.AND THEN I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TO BE CONSCIOUS OF TIME.
I WILL START TO MY LEFT, MR. MILLER. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
THAT SHOW WAS A ROUSING SUCCESS.
IT WAS OUR BIGGEST AND BEST SHOW THAT WE'VE EVER HAD.
PART OF THE MAGIC, IF YOU WILL, OF THE SHOW, IS KAREN HATTEN, ONE OF OUR ART DIRECTORS AT GARLAND HIGH SCHOOL, INVITED ME OVER TO THE SCHOOL TO SEE SOME PANELS WHERE THE MIDDLE SCHOOL CHILDREN WERE INVITED TO MAKE UP SOMETHING, SOME KIND OF DRAWING PICTURE, SOME KIND OF PIECE OF ART TO GO WITH THE CAR SHOW TO BE DISPLAYED AT THE CAR SHOW IN THE PLAZA THEATER THE DAY OF THE EVENT.
THAT WENT OVER ALMOST 80 ENTRIES INTO THAT COMPETITION.
AND THERE WERE WINNERS AND WWW.WHEELS OF HOPE.COM.
AND YOU CAN FIND SOME PICTURES OF THIS ART WORK.
THESE KIDS ARE EXTREMELY CREATIVE AND EXTREMELY TALENTED, AND IT MAKES ME VERY PROUD THAT THEY WERE PART OF THE SHOW.
ALSO, I HAD THE OCCASION TO GO TO A GARLAND HIGH FOOTBALL GAME THE OTHER NIGHT.
[INAUDIBLE] AND WE PLAYED SACHSE AND AS PART OF THAT I WAS ABLE TO BRING IN SOME OF THE OLD ALUMNI RANDY LOVE, DONNY LOVE, HERKIE WALLS, JOHNNY MCCOY AND WE WERE ABLE TO SIT AND REMINISCE.
SO WE HAD A REAL GOOD TIME AND THAT WAS VERY GOOD TO HAVE ALUMNI.
IT HAD BEEN A WHILE SINCE YOU HAD SEEN HERKIE WALLS BACK HERE IN TOWN, AND THE LAST THING JUST REAL BRIEFLY ATTENDED THE TASA/TASB LEGISLATIVE UPDATE THIS PAST MONTH.
IT'S A REAL INTERESTING THING TO GO TO AN UPDATE WHEN THE BOOK HADN'T BEEN FINISHED YET.
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IN OTHER WORDS, OUR LEGISLATORS DOWN IN AUSTIN ARE STILL WRITING THE BOOK.THERE'S STILL THINGS GOING ON, SO IT'S NOT A COMPLETE UPDATE.
THAT'LL BE OUT, THAT'LL BE FORTHCOMING VERY SOON.
MISS STANLEY. OKAY, I WILL KEEP MINE BRIEF AS WELL.
I HAD AN AMAZING PRIVILEGE TO PRESENT AT THE GOTHA 30TH ANNIVERSARY AWARD DINNER, CELEBRATING GOTHA'S EXISTENCE FOR 30 YEARS, AND THEN CELEBRATING SOME OF OUR ATHLETES FROM THE NINTH STREET BOXING GYM WHO ARE ALL GSD STUDENTS AND OR GRADUATES.
AND I THINK WHAT REALLY WAS AMAZING, I'M GOING TO NAME A FEW KIDS, BUT THE SPONSORS OF THAT DINNER, I WOULD SAY OUT OF PROBABLY 15 SPONSORS, A GOOD 5 OR 6 OF THEM WERE BUSINESS OWNERS WHO HAD GONE THROUGH GSID AND WHO HAD GONE TO THE, WERE THEY CONTRIBUTE THEIR SUCCESS TO THE NINTH STREET BOXING GYM, BECAUSE IT WAS THAT GYM THAT KEPT THEM OFF THE STREETS AND GAVE THEM THE SKILLS AND THE TOOLS TO TO JUST SUCCEED.
IT WAS JUST IT'S JUST AMAZING.
AND THEN WE HONORED ADRIANA AVILES, WHO WAS 15 YEARS OLD.
AND THEN WE HONORED ISABELLA AGUIRRE.
AND THEY CALL HER BELLA, AND SHE'S ALL OF 12 YEARS OLD AND SHE HAS WON NUMEROUS AWARDS.
AND I GOT TO PRESENT TO THOSE KIDS.
AND TO ME, YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE MY PASSION.
AND I THANK THE NINTH STREET BOXING GYM.
AND THEN I GOT TO PARTICIPATE A LITTLE BIT.
SHE WAS CHEERLEADING AND I KNOW IT WAS A FOOTBALL GAME, BUT I WAS WATCHING THE CHEERLEADERS.
BUT BRANDENBURG SEVENTH GRADERS WON AGAINST WEBB AND I GOT TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT.
SO THANKS. THANK YOU, MISS STANLEY.
LIKE MR. MILLER, I TOO WAS ABLE TO ATTEND THE LEGISLATIVE UPDATE FOR THE 88TH SESSION.
AND WITH ALL THOSE BILLS, WHAT'S INTERESTING IS A LOT OF THE DISCUSSIONS THAT ARE BEING HAD.
SO I LIKE MR. MILLER. I'M INTERESTED IN SEEING THE FINAL UPDATES AND WHAT COMES OUT OF THAT.
ALSO HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND THE INAUGURAL ROWLETT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SUMMIT, AND IT WAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BRING TOGETHER BUSINESS LEADERS, ECONOMIC EXPERTS.
AND THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT THE EVER CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF WHAT'S HAPPENING IN ROWLETT FROM A COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT STANDPOINT, AS WELL AS HOW THAT FITS INTO THE OVERALL LANDSCAPE OF WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE GREATER DFW REGION.
AND THEN THE LAST THING I JUST WANTED TO REMIND TRUSTEES THAT THE NORTH TEXAS AREA ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL BOARDS WILL BE HAVING ITS NOVEMBER 15TH MEETING FROM 6 TO 8 P.M..
AND THEN THE TOPIC IS GOING TO BE SCHOOL SAFETY AND SECURITY AND THE ROLE OF THE BOARD.
WE'RE BRINGING IN A NATIONAL SECURITY EXPERT.
HIS NAME IS MICHAEL OREO OUT OF MIAMI.
HE WILL BE THERE. AND THEN OUR VERY OWN MR. MARK QUINN WILL BE SERVING AS ONE OF THE PANELIST ON OUR PANEL DISCUSSION.
I TOO, WAS ABLE TO ATTEND THE GOLF CELEBRATION AT THE ATRIUM AND HAD A VERY ENJOYABLE EVENING THERE.
AND HATS OFF TO THE [INAUDIBLE] GROUP THAT DID AN OUTSTANDING JOB.
FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO RECOGNIZE LARRY GLICK.
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PRESENTATION. AND SO MY HAT'S OFF TO LARRY AND WHAT HE DID AND SHOWED THE TRAVELS OF I MEAN, HE MADE IT VERY PERSONAL, BUT HE ALSO IT BROUGHT TO LIGHT WHAT HE HAS SEEN IN THIS WORLD, AND THE CHANGES THAT HAVE GONE ON AROUND THE WORLD.AND I WAS VERY MOVED BY WHAT HE, HE SPOKE TO.
SO, LARRY, CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU.
BUT ALSO ON SATURDAY WAS THE ALL CLASS REUNION FOR GARLAND HIGH SCHOOL FOR ALL CLASSES TO MEET.
AND MILLER WAS THERE AND WAS CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE ALUMNI AWARD WINNERS.
THERE WAS FOUR PEOPLE THAT WERE CHOSEN AND JAMES WAS ONE OF THOSE.
AND THEN LAST BUT NOT LEAST, YOU'LL NOTICE THAT I'M WEARING A RANGER JERSEY.
OKAY. AND THE REASON I'M WEARING THIS JERSEY AND THIS IS JUST A STATEMENT, YOU KNOW, I'M CELEBRATING A TEAM WHOSE BACK WAS REALLY AGAINST THE WALL. YOU KNOW, THEY LOST THREE AT HOME, AND EVERYBODY THOUGHT THEY TOOK A PUNCH IN THE GUT AND THOUGHT THEY WERE DONE.
AND THEY WENT TO HOUSTON AND WENT DOWN THERE AND THEY STILL CAME OUT CHAMPIONS.
AND WHAT IT REMINDED ME OF, AND THE REASON I'M WEARING THIS JERSEY TONIGHT IS BECAUSE WE AS A GISD FAMILY, YOU KNOW, WE NEVER NEED TO KNOW THAT WE DON'T EVER HAVE TO GIVE UP TEACHERS, ADMINISTRATORS, STUDENTS DON'T EVER GIVE UP.
AND SO, REGARDLESS OF THE SITUATION, ALWAYS GIVE YOUR BEST BECAUSE IT WILL COME OUT GOOD IN THE END.
SO THAT'S THE REASON FOR ME WEARING THIS JERSEY TONIGHT.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. BEACH. MR. JOHNSON.
I HAVE BASICALLY BEEN SPENDING THE PAST MONTH TRAVELING WITH THE BAND.
SO THAT'S PRETTY MUCH WHERE MY ACTIVITIES HAVE BEEN.
THAT'S THE LAST FOUR WEEKENDS SINCE THE LAST TIME WE HAD A BOARD MEETING.
SO I WISH I COULD BE AT THE CAR SHOW.
I WISH I COULD HAVE SEEN LEANN RIMES.
BUT I WAS OUT SUPPORTING MY KIDS, AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT.
UM, I SAW A BUNCH OF YOUNG PEOPLE, NOT JUST IN OUR SCHOOLS, BUT ALL THE SCHOOLS.
THESE KIDS WORK INCREDIBLY HARD.
I MEAN, WAY HARDER THAN I WORKED WHEN I WAS IN SCHOOL.
AND THE REALITY OF IT IS ONLY ONE OF THESE BANDS OR ONE OF THESE FOOTBALL TEAMS OR ONE OF THESE, ANYONE'S GOING TO BE CROWNED CHAMPION AT THE END OF IT. BUT THEY'RE ALL WINNERS BECAUSE THEY ALL LEARN THE VALUE OF HARD WORK.
THEY ALL LEARN THE DISCIPLINE THAT YOU PUT INTO THINGS, AND THEY'RE ALL LEARNING LIFE SKILLS.
AND SO TRUSTEE GLICK AND I DID OUR ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE TO MESQUITE MEMORIAL STADIUM LAST SATURDAY.
WE WATCHED THE AREA C MARCHING COMPETITION.
WE WATCHED FIVE GISD BANDS TAKE THE FIELD AT THAT COMPETITION.
MY UNDERSTANDING IS SOUTH GARLAND WILL BE IN THE FIVE A AREA C COMPETITION THIS SATURDAY.
ALL OF THEM DID A TREMENDOUS ALL AROUND SPECTACULAR SPECIAL CONGRATULATIONS GO TO LAKEVIEW CENTENNIAL BECAUSE THEY MADE THE AREA C FINALS AND EXCELLENT JOB THERE. BUT YES, OCTOBER IS OVER.
BASICALLY, MY BAND TRAVELS ARE DONE AND I LOOK FORWARD TO REENGAGING IN OTHER PARTS OF MY LIFE NOW.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. JOHNSON. MR. GLICK.
SO I WAS AT THE RANGER GAME ON THURSDAY NIGHT, AND I NOTICED SOMETHING, THAT THERE'S A THING THAT USED TO BE CALLED BUNTING THAT WHEN I PLAYED BASEBALL AND SOME OTHERS HERE PLAYED BASEBALL, THEY BUNTED.
SO I WAS WATCHING THE GAME ON FRIDAY NIGHT.
IT WAS THE BOTTOM OF THE NINTH INNING.
TWO PEOPLE ON, NOBODY OUT, AND I'M YELLING AT THE TELEVISION BUNT, BUNT.
THEN ON SUNDAY, ONE OF THE ANNOUNCERS SAID THE RANGERS HAVE HAD ONE BUNT THE WHOLE YEAR.
AND WHY DO I BRING THIS UP? BECAUSE I WENT TO BANDFEST, AND THAT'S WHERE WE BRING IN ALL OF OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND ALL OF OUR HIGH SCHOOLS, AN INCREDIBLE TRADITION.
AND I NOTICED SOMETHING VERY DIFFERENT WHEN LAKEVIEW DID THEIR PERFORMANCE.
AND YOU SAW MR. HUDLER HERE JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO, THEY ACTUALLY MARCHED.
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AND YOU SAY, WELL, THAT'S WHAT A MARCHING COMPETITION IS.NOW, I REMEMBER MY KIDS WERE AT ROWLETT HIGH SCHOOL.
THEY HAD REALLY DIFFICULT MARCHING ROUTINES.
THEY WERE SO HARD, THE ROUTINES.
SOMEHOW ALONG THE WAY, THOSE ROUTINES, EVEN FOR THE TOP BANDS, THE TOP BANDS FROM THE LEWISVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT, EVEN THEIR MARCHING WAS NOT VERY DIFFICULT THIS YEAR. LAKEVIEW'S WAS.
I SENT AN EMAIL TO MR. HUDLER AFTER BAND FEST SAYING, THAT'S THE BEST I'VE SEEN YOU MARCH IN 25 YEARS.
AND IT WAS TRUE. AND AS MR. JOHNSON SAID, THEY GOT TO BE THE FINALS.
AREA C COMPETITION IS THE HARDEST IN THE STATE.
EVERY YEAR IT PRODUCES EITHER THE BEST OR THE SECOND BEST BAND IN THE STATE.
THIS YEAR WE'LL DO THE SAME AGAIN AND THEY WERE TREMENDOUS.
SO CONGRATULATIONS TO THEM FOR MAKING THE FINALS.
AND I REALLY APPRECIATED THEIR PERFORMANCE.
THE SECURITY COMMITTEE MET MISS GRIFFIN AND I AND MEMBERS OF THAT WE MEET THREE TIMES A YEAR BY LAW.
FIRST TIME IS IN THE SUMMER, SECOND TIME IS IN THE FALL, AND THE THIRD TIME IS IN THE SPRING.
THE FILM THAT WE TALKED ABOUT IN THE BOND IS ABOUT TO START.
SOMETIME IN THE NEXT WEEK OR TWO, WE'LL START PUTTING THE FILM ON ALL OF OUR BUILDINGS.
IT MAY BE COMPLETED THIS CALENDAR YEAR.
THE CREWS ARE COMING IN FROM ATLANTA TO DO THIS.
WE ARE GIVING THEM MUCH MORE TRAINING THAN ANYBODY ELSE IS DOING.
WE THINK THAT'S MORE IMPORTANT.
SO IT'S NOT THE TRAINING THAT THE STATE REQUIRES.
SO THAT'S WHERE WE STAND WITH SECURITY.
MISS GRIFFIN, I'M GOING TO HOLD OFF ON MY COMMENTS ON THE CONVENTION.
I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THEM NEXT TIME BECAUSE IT WILL TAKE A WHILE.
I DID GO TO SACHSE FALL FEST FOR A LITTLE WHILE.
THAT WAS INCREDIBLE AS IS EVERY YEAR.
I DID SPEAK AT ROWLETT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ABOUT UPDATES ON THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
THANK YOU, MR. BEACH FOR YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT MY SPEECH.
I DIDN'T REALIZE I WAS RUNNING OUT OF TIME.
I LOOKED THE CLOCK WAS 1:00 ALREADY.
I THINK PEOPLE ARE STILL THINKING ABOUT THAT.
THAT GAVE THEM CHILLS AS IT GAVE ME TO TELL THAT STORY.
AND FOR SOME REASON, ROCKWALL'S DISTRICT INCLUDES SCHOOLS FROM HOUSTON.
THEY SAID IT'S BETTER THAN ANYTHING IN THE HOUSTON AREA, SO THAT WAS PRETTY INTERESTING.
ONE OTHER THING I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS IS YOUR LAST ONE.
ONE I THINK I REALLY WANT TO TALK ABOUT.
AGAIN, I'VE HEARD OF FOUR DIFFERENT PEOPLE.
WE DO NOT HAVE OPEN ENROLLMENT FOR EVERYBODY.
I SPOKE TO DR. HEMPHILL YESTERDAY WHO CONTROLS THAT PROGRAM.
YOU MUST SCORE AT LEAST 15 POINTS TO BE TO BE ACCEPTED INTO OUR PROGRAM.
AND THOSE WE LOOK AT ATTENDANCE, GRADES AND DISCIPLINE.
IF YOU DON'T MAKE IT ON ALL THREE, YOU'RE NOT GETTING INTO OUR SCHOOLS.
SO WHATEVER RUMORS ARE CIRCULATING ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND I DO NOT GO TO SOCIAL MEDIA, LET'S DISABUSE OURSELVES OF WHAT THEY WHAT THE SOCIAL MEDIA IS SAYING ABOUT OUR DISTRICT. WE DO NOT ALLOW THE KIDS WHO YOU THINK ARE COMING INTO OUR DISTRICT, WE DO NOT ALLOW THAT.
AND I'D LIKE TO THANK ALL OF THE TRUSTEES FOR YOUR ACCESSIBILITY, VISIBILITY AND SUPPORTING ALL OF THE VARIOUS PROGRAMS IN THE DISTRICT, ALONG WITH ALL THE PROGRAMS IN THE TRI CITIES OF GARLAND, ROWLETT, AND SACHSE.
AT THIS TIME, WE WILL LISTEN TO THE SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.
[V.B. Superintendent's Report]
YOU KNOW, I DO WANT TO EXTEND A LITTLE BIT WITH MR.[00:50:02]
GLICK WAS TALKING ABOUT I THINK THE CONFUSION IS, IS THIS AND WE NEED TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT, LIKE YOU SAID.AND SO IT'S VERY HARD TO VERIFY.
SO WHEN THEY ACT OUT OF LINE AND WE FIND OUT THEY'RE NO LONGER WITHIN THE PARAMETERS OF OF BEING PROPERLY ADMITTED IN OUR SYSTEM, WE DO HIT THE BUTTON CALLED RETURN TO SENDER.
OKAY. SO WE NEED TO BE VERY CLEAR ON THAT.
SO TECHNICALLY A LOT OF THESE KIDS DO NOT LIVE IN OUR SYSTEM.
THEY GO AND THEY DON'T QUALIFY ON THAT 18 POINT SCALE.
ALL RIGHT. SO WHAT DO THEY DO.
AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE GOT TO LET THEM KNOW SO THAT IS CRITICAL.
UM, BEYOND THAT, YOU COULD SEE THAT A LOT OF GREAT THINGS ARE HAPPENING IN GISD FROM ARTICLES, FROM EDITORIALS SAYING THAT BE LIKE GISD TO DIFFERENT TYPES OF AWARDS BEING GIVEN TO NUMEROUS INDIVIDUALS.
AND WE GOT TO REALIZE THAT WE'RE NOT GLOATING WHEN WE TELL PEOPLE ABOUT THE EXCELLENCE.
WHAT WE'RE DOING IS JUST RECOGNIZING THE EXCELLENCE.
YOU KNOW, WHEN OUR KIDS DO WELL, WE RECOGNIZE THE EXCELLENCE, YOU KNOW? BUT HOW ABOUT WHEN OUR TEACHERS DO WELL, OR OUR KIDS TEACHERS OR OUR KIDS PRINCIPAL AND THEIR SCHOOLS? MAKE SURE YOU RECOGNIZE IT.
NOW, I SAID THIS TO THE ROWLETT COMMUNITY.
JUST BECAUSE WE DO SO WELL IN SO MANY DIFFERENT AVENUES, WE DON'T REST ON OUR LAURELS.
WE DON'T SAY, OKAY, WE ARRIVED, LET'S COAST FOR LIKE FIVE YEARS.
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE COMMERCIALS OF JACK IN THE BOX? BIG OL HEAD RIGHT. SO THEY SAID, NO, NO, THEY'RE GOING TO GET BIG HEADED.
WE UNDERSTAND THERE'S ALWAYS WORK TO BE DONE.
LIKE MR. BEACH WAS SAYING, YOU CAN'T QUIT.
SOMEBODY PUT A BELIEF SYSTEM IN THAT RANGERS TEAM AND LOOK AT THEM TODAY.
THEY'RE GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES.
SO WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT TO OUR PRESIDENT.
LOPEZ. WE ARE NOW UP TO ITEM D, DISCUSS, OH YES.
FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. MR. GLICK.
THERE WAS AN INTERESTING ARTICLE IN THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS JUST RECENTLY.
[V.C. Future Agenda Items]
IT SAYS RESEARCH SHOWS THAT BOOKS AT HOME PREDICT SUCCESS BETTER THAN INCOME AND OTHER FACTORS.HOWEVER, 61% OF LOW INCOME FAMILIES HAVE NO BOOKS IN THEIR HOMES FOR CHILDREN.
SO IT MAY SOUND LIKE A BROKEN RECORD FROM ME, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO ASK US AGAIN TO LOOK AT THE SUMMER READING PROGRAM THAT WE HAD FOR SIX SUCCESSFUL YEARS AND THEN HAVE NOT HAD IT, I THINK, FOR THE LAST TWO.
SO I'D LIKE THAT TO BE ON THE AGENDA.
WHAT IS IT YOU WANT? WE HAD A SUMMER.
YEAH, I KNOW THE SUMMER PROGRAM, BUT WHAT IS IT YOU WANT? WHAT IS IT YOU'RE ASKING ADMINISTRATION TO DO? TO TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT IT? OKAY, THAT'S ALL I NEED. I JUST.
YEAH. YOU WANT THEM TO LOOK AT THE PARAMETERS OF HOW THEY DECIDED? YES, MA'AM. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. I JUST WANT IT TO BE CLEAR.
THANK YOU. ANYONE ELSE. WE'RE UP TO D TO DISCUSS THE COST SAVING
[V.D. Discuss Cost Savings Audit Report ]
AUDIT REPORT AND I WILL BE TURNING THIS OVER TO MR. JOHNSON. OUR TEAM IS TOGETHER IN TERMS OF OUR TECHNICAL TEAM ON LOCATION, THIS WILL BE A ZOOM AGENDA ITEM. THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.[00:55:05]
GIBSON CONSULTING HAS SPENT THE BETTER PART OF THE PAST YEAR ANALYZING AUDITING, VARIOUS DIFFERENT PROGRAMS AND ASPECTS OF THE GARLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF TRYING TO DETERMINE EFFICIENCIES THAT THEY COULD BUILD IN RECOMMENDATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN GONE THROUGH.THEY HAVE WORKED HAND IN GLOVE WITH DR.
LOPEZ AND HIS TEAM THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESS.
THERE IS AT NO POINT HAS THIS BEEN IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM, KIND OF LIKE AN OVERSIGHT.
IT'S BEEN COLLABORATIVE THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESS AND THEY HAVE PRESENTED A REPORT, FIRST TO THE INTERNAL AUDIT GROUP, OUTLINING CERTAIN DIFFERENT EFFICIENCIES AND COST SAVINGS THAT COULD BE PRESENTED TO US MOVING FORWARD.
AND WITHOUT ANY FURTHER ADO, I'D LIKE TO TURN IT OVER TO MR. GREG GIBSON TO GIVE THE FINDINGS TO THE BOARD.
GOOD EVENING, PRESIDENT GRIFFIN.
MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, DOCTOR LOPEZ.
I APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO [INAUDIBLE] THIS AUDIT WAS COMMISSIONED AS PART OF YOUR FISCAL YEAR 2023 INTERNAL AUDIT PROGRAM.
TONIGHT, I AM GOING TO WALK YOU THROUGH THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THAT WORK.
THE FULL REPORT HAS BEEN PROVIDED TO YOU.
AND DR. LOPEZ AND HIS ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM, PARTICULARLY [INAUDIBLE] AND BRANDI MAYO, FOR THEIR SIGNIFICANT EFFORTS IN PROVIDING US A MASSIVE AMOUNT OF DATA WE NEEDED TO CONDUCT THIS WORK.
I WILL GIVE YOU A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE AUDIT SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES, AS THIS WAS A UNIQUE TYPE OF AUDIT UNRELATED TO A SPECIFIC DEPARTMENT OR FUNCTION, LIKE OUR OTHER AUDITS WE PRESENTED TO YOU.
AFTER PROVIDING YOU WITH A SUMMARY OF OUR RESULTS, I WILL PROVIDE SOME CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE DISTRICT'S EXPERIENCE OVER THE PAST EIGHT YEARS WITH RESPECT TO ITS ENROLLMENT AND STAFFING PATTERNS, AS MORE THAN 80% OF THE DISTRICT'S COST RELATES TO STAFFING.
FOLLOWING THAT WILL BE DISCUSSION OF EACH MAJOR COST SAVINGS AREA WE EXPLORED, FOLLOWED BY AN OVERVIEW OF THE BUDGET DASHBOARD WE CREATED FOR THIS PROJECT AND ARE LEAVING BEHIND FOR YOU TO USE. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.
NEXT SLIDE. THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT WAS PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD TO IDENTIFY SIGNIFICANT COST SAVINGS OPPORTUNITIES OF GREATER THAN 1 MILLION A YEAR, OR 5 MILLION OVER FIVE YEARS.
THIS WORK WAS COMMISSIONED TO PREPARE FOR THE ANTICIPATED INCREASING FINANCIAL STRESS DUE TO RECENT ENROLLMENT DECLINES, THE TERMINATION OF ESSER FUNDING, AND MORE RECENTLY, THE LACK OF ADDITIONAL STATE FUNDING FOR TEXAS PUBLIC EDUCATION.
I DO WANT TO DIFFERENTIATE COST SAVINGS FROM COST CUTTING.
COST CUTTING IS A PRACTICE MANY DISTRICTS APPLY TO SPREAD THE PAIN OF BUDGET REDUCTIONS ACROSS THE DISTRICT, USUALLY AS A FIXED PERCENTAGE OF EACH DEPARTMENTAL OR PROGRAM BUDGET.
NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. THERE WERE TWO PHASES IN THIS PROJECT.
THE FIRST PHASE TOOK A BROAD SCAN OF ALL THE DEPARTMENTS AND ALL THE PROGRAMS, AND WE USED THE DATA DASHBOARD THAT WE DEVELOPED TO SUPPORT OUR ANALYSIS SO THAT WE COULD SEE A GLOBAL VIEW OF GARLAND ISD'S DATA.
WE BRIEFED THE SUPERINTENDENT AND THE INTERNAL AUDIT ADVISORY GROUP ON OUR OBSERVATIONS AND PLANS.
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ADDITIONAL INTERVIEWS, AND PERFORM ANALYSIS TO SUPPORT SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS TO GARLAND ISD FOR COST SAVINGS.NEXT SLIDE. SO THIS SLIDE PRESENTS A SUMMARY OF OUR MAJOR COST SAVINGS OPPORTUNITIES, REFLECTING ANNUAL SAVINGS AND FIVE YEAR ESTIMATED SAVINGS.
ANNUAL SAVINGS IS ESTIMATED TO BE 16.5 MILLION ANNUALLY AND 82.8 MILLION OVER FIVE YEARS.
THE REMAINDER OF THIS PRESENTATION WILL DIG INTO EACH OF THESE AREAS.
BUT FIRST, I'D LIKE TO PROVIDE SOME CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION REGARDING GARLAND ISD'S HISTORY.
NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. AND ONE MORE.
THIS IS INFORMATION ISN'T NEW TO YOU, BUT IS.
IT'S IMPORTANT AND THAT IT DIRECTLY IMPACTS ONE SOURCE OF FINANCIAL STRESS.
THE DISTRICT HAS EXPERIENCED AN ENROLLMENT DECLINE OF 8% OVER THE PAST EIGHT YEARS.
NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. THE ENROLLMENT DECLINE WAS MORE PRONOUNCED IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. THAT'S REPRESENTED BY THE DARK BLUE COLUMN.
NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. OUR STAFFING, HOWEVER, INCREASED DURING THIS PERIOD BY 8%, MORE SO IN THE FIRST FIVE YEARS THAN THE PAST THREE YEARS.
NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. THIS CHART REFLECTS THE STUDENT TO TOTAL STAFF RATIO OVER THE PAST EIGHT YEARS, AND THE TOTAL STUDENT TO STAFF RATIO IS A GLOBAL MEASURE OF OVERALL STAFFING EFFICIENCY FOR SCHOOL SYSTEMS. YOU'RE VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE PUPIL TEACHER RATIO.
THIS IS A MORE GLOBAL RATIO THAT LOOKS AT ALL STAFF RELATIVE TO THE STUDENT POPULATION.
THE HIGHER THE RATIO, THE MORE TECHNICALLY EFFICIENT YOU ARE.
FROM A STAFFING STANDPOINT, THE LOWER THE RATIO, THE LESS EFFICIENT.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENROLLMENT AND STAFFING FOR GARLAND ISD, WE SEE THE IMPACT OF BOTH OF THE PREVIOUS TRENDS, AND WE SAW JUST A MINUTE AGO ENROLLMENT AND STAFFING.
THE RESULT HAS BEEN A STEADY DECLINE OF THIS RATIO AND A 16% DECLINE OVER THE PAST EIGHT YEARS.
NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. ONE MORE IMPORTANT PIECE OF CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION I WANT TO SHARE IS THE IMPACT ON THE STATE FUNDING FORMULA ON SCHOOL SYSTEMS THAT ARE EXPERIENCING ENROLLMENT DECLINES.
WHEN A STUDENT LEAVES A DISTRICT.
THE ENTIRE PER STUDENT FUNDING ALLOTMENT GOES AWAY.
CURRENTLY, THAT AMOUNT IS JUST OVER $6,000 A STUDENT AND IT HASN'T CHANGED RECENTLY.
THIS IS DUE TO THE DISPERSION OF THE STUDENT'S LOSS.
THEY MAY NOT BE IN THE SAME CLASSROOM AND THEY WON'T BE IN, MAY NOT BE IN THE SAME GRADE LEVEL OR EVEN THE SCHOOL, BUT BECAUSE THERE IS LESS FUNDING WITH FEWER STUDENTS, SCHOOL SYSTEMS NEED TO MAKE ADJUSTMENTS, EVEN THOUGH IT IS VERY CHALLENGING TO DO SO BECAUSE THE STUDENTS ARE SO DISPERSED ACROSS THE DISTRICT.
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MOST STATES HAVE A SIMILAR METHOD FOR FUNDING SCHOOLS, BUT THIS METHOD REALLY DOES NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THE BEHAVIOR OF COST AND EDUCATION SYSTEMS. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.SO AGAINST THIS BACKDROP, WE MADE THE FOLLOWING OBSERVATIONS.
GARLAND ISD HAS NOT ADJUSTED STAFFING LEVELS FOR DECLINING ENROLLMENT.
IN ALL HONESTY, THERE WAS UNCERTAINTY AFTER COVID WHETHER STUDENTS WOULD RETURN.
THIS REALLY COMPLICATED STAFFING DECISIONS FOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND ESSER FUNDING CERTAINLY HELPED US RETAIN STAFF THAT WE WOULD NOT HAVE OTHERWISE BEEN ABLE TO RETAIN.
AND SO THE TIMING IS REALLY GOOD FOR YOU TO BE ENTERTAINING THESE TYPES OF OPPORTUNITIES BECAUSE OF THE ESSER FUNDING IS GOING AWAY NEXT YEAR.
AND SO FAR, THE STATE LEGISLATURE HAS NOT PUT ANY MORE FUNDING INTO TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
ONE OF THE FIRST PLACES WE LOOK FOR COST SAVINGS IS SENIOR ADMINISTRATION COSTS.
SO WHAT WE DID IS WE LOOKED AT THE ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF RATIOS.
FOR THE FOR GARLAND AND SOME PEER DISTRICTS.
THIS CHART SHOWS THE PUPIL TO CENTRAL ADMINISTRATOR RATIO.
SO SAME CONCEPT AS PUPIL TOTAL STAFF AND PUPIL TEACHER.
IT'S JUST PUPIL TO CENTRAL ADMINISTRATOR FOR GARLAND ISD FOR THE PAST EIGHT YEARS.
THIS TREND ACTUALLY SHOWS INCREASED EFFICIENCY DURING THIS TIME, WHICH MEANS WE HAVE FEWER ADMINISTRATORS RELATIVE TO OUR STUDENT POPULATION THAN WE DID EIGHT YEARS AGO.
THIS TREND SHOWS AN INCREASE OF 29% DURING THIS EIGHT YEAR PERIOD OF THE RATIO, ALTHOUGH IT HAS BEEN RELATIVELY FLAT FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS.
NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. SO WE ALSO COMPARED THIS RATIO TO PEER DISTRICTS AND WE CHOSE FORT WORTH, ARLINGTON, SAN ANTONIO, MESQUITE, ALDINE, PASADENA, ALIEF.
SO AS YOU'LL SEE, THIS SHOWS THAT GARLAND ISD RANKS THIRD HIGHEST, OR MOST FAVORABLE IN THE STAFFING EFFICIENCY AMONG ITS PEERS.
NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. AND ONE MORE.
SO NOW WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO THE SPECIFIC AREAS OF COST SAVINGS.
AND THE INSTRUCTIONAL STAFFING THAT WE SAW, THE POTENTIAL OPPORTUNITY WAS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS BASED ON OUR DATA ANALYSIS. SO HERE'S THE GARLAND STAFFING FORMULA FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS.
IT IS BASED ON A 27 TO 1 RATIO OF STUDENTS TO TEACHERS.
IT ASSUMES TWO PLANNING PERIODS, AND IT EXCLUDES SPECIAL EDUCATION AND ESL STAFFING SINCE THESE PROGRAMS HAVE UNIQUE STAFFING ATTRIBUTES, SO THOSE ARE NOT CONSIDERED AS PART OF THIS ANALYSIS.
NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. THESE CHARTS SHOW THE PUPIL TEACHER RATIO FOR GARLAND HIGH SCHOOLS AND MIDDLE SCHOOLS OVER THE PAST EIGHT YEARS.
SO THE HIGH SCHOOL RATIOS HAVE BEEN FAIRLY CONSTANT.
AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE DIAGRAM, THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS HAVE SHOWN A CONSISTENT DECLINE AND A MORE SIGNIFICANT DROP IN 22-23. BUT WHAT YOU'LL NOTICE IS THAT IN FOR THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS, THEY ACTUALLY WERE ABOVE 27 TO 1 BACK IN 2015-16, THE FORMULA COULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT THEN.
BUT THE HIGH SCHOOL FORMULA, AS YOU'LL SEE IN 2015-16 WAS 25 AND IT'S BEEN 25 POINT SOMETHING OVER THE PAST EIGHT YEARS. SO HIGH SCHOOL SHOW FLAT MIDDLE SCHOOLS SHOW A CONTINUING DECLINE WITH A PARTICULAR DECLINE IN
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22-23. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.WE TRY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT FACTORS MIGHT BE CONTRIBUTING TO THESE STAFFING PATTERNS.
WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT TOPIC IN A FEW MINUTES ON SCHOOL CONSOLIDATION.
BUT IT BASICALLY IS IT'S EASIER TO BE MORE EFFICIENT WHEN YOU'RE A LARGER ORGANIZATION OF ANY KIND, SCHOOL SYSTEM, SCHOOL BUSINESS, BECAUSE YOU'RE ABLE TO ACHIEVE ECONOMIES OF SCALE.
THESE CHARTS SHOW EACH SCHOOL.
ORGANIZED FROM LARGEST TO SMALLEST.
AND THERE DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE ANY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCHOOL SIZE AND TEACHER STAFFING.
SO THE ON THE LEFT AXIS IS THE.
SO IF THIS SIZE WERE A FACTOR, OR IF ECONOMIES OF SCALE OR EFFICIENCIES WERE A FACTOR, WE WOULD SEE A CLOSER RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE STAFFING LEVELS AND THE SCHOOL SIZE.
AND WE JUST DON'T SEE THAT IN EITHER HIGH SCHOOLS OR MIDDLE SCHOOLS.
NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. WE ALSO LOOKED AT CAMPUS ACCOUNTABILITY RATINGS AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED PERCENTAGES FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS.
THIS CHART SHOWS MIDDLE SCHOOLS RANKED IN ORDER OF THE HIGHEST TO LOWEST PUPIL TEACHER RATIO.
THE DARK BLUE BARS WITH THE 2122 ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED PERCENTAGE.
THOSE ARE THE GREEN BARS AND ACCOUNTABILITY RATINGS ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE.
AGAIN, THERE DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE ANY DISCERNIBLE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THESE KIND OF GENERAL INDICATORS OF STUDENT NEED AND STAFFING LEVELS ACROSS MIDDLE SCHOOLS. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
THIS IS THE SAME DATA FOR HIGH SCHOOL.
UM ALSO CONVEYING A SIMILAR MESSAGE AS THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS ON THE PREVIOUS SLIDE, THAT THERE REALLY IS NO DISCERNIBLE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TEACHER STAFFING LEVELS AND INDICATORS OF STUDENT NEED.
NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. THE IMPACT OF NOT APPLYING THIS RATIO THAT WE'VE SET FOR OURSELVES IS PRETTY SIGNIFICANT. IF WE APPLY THE 27 TO 1 RATIO, WE WOULD NEED 127 FEWER TEACHERS, RESULTING IN ANNUAL SAVINGS OF MORE THAN $9 MILLION. AND AGAIN, AS I STATED AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS, IT APPEARS THAT YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE THIS THROUGH ATTRITION.
BUT IT DOES, IT WILL IMPACT COULD IMPACT YOUR YOUR BUDGET CYCLE AS EARLY AS NEXT YEAR.
THE NEXT FEW SLIDES ARE GOING TO DISCUSS THE POTENTIAL SAVINGS FROM SCHOOL CONSOLIDATION.
GARLAND ISD IS PROPOSING TO CONSOLIDATE EIGHT SMALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS INTO FOUR LARGER SCHOOLS.
OVER THE PAST EIGHT YEARS, DECLINING ENROLLMENT AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL HAS RESULTED IN A LARGER NUMBER OF SMALL SCHOOLS DEFINED AS HAVING LESS THAN 400 STUDENTS. SO THIS GRAPH SHOWS YOU THAT SINCE 2015-16, THE NUMBER OF SMALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS HAS MORE THAN DOUBLED, FROM FOUR SCHOOLS TO TEN SCHOOLS.
NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. WE ESTIMATED THAT THROUGH THE PLANNED CONSOLIDATION, GARLAND ISD CAN ACHIEVE ANNUAL SAVINGS OF APPROXIMATELY $5 MILLION.
LARGER SCHOOLS CAN ACHIEVE ECONOMIES OF SCALE.
WHICH IS THE ABILITY TO SPREAD COST OVER A LARGER NUMBER OF STUDENTS.
FOR EXAMPLE, THE PRINCIPAL COST PER STUDENT IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OF 400 STUDENTS IS TWICE THE AMOUNT OF A SCHOOL WITH 800 STUDENTS. WHEN YOU LOOK AT TOTAL OPERATING COSTS, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TOTAL OPERATING COST PER STUDENT AT THE EIGHT SMALLER SCHOOLS IS
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30% HIGHER THAN THE AVERAGE OF LARGER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.LARGER BEING DEFINED AS MORE THAN 584 STUDENTS.
NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. SO THIS IS THE MAP IS SHOWN ON THIS TABLE THAT GIVES YOU THE MORE PRECISE CALCULATION. AGAIN THESE ARE ESTIMATES BUT WE BASICALLY USE THE 27 TO 1 RATIO.
I'M SORRY. USE THE OPERATING EXPENSES PER OPERATING EXPENDITURES PER STUDENT, AND THE DIFFERENCE APPLIED TO THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN THE EIGHT SCHOOLS TO CALCULATE THE ANNUAL SAVINGS.
NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. NEXT IS CUSTODIAL STAFFING.
OTHER NON-SCHOOL FACILITIES ARE ALSO CLEANED BY IN-HOUSE STAFF.
THE DISTRICT'S PRODUCTIVITY TARGET FOR ASSIGNING CUSTODIAL STAFF IS BASED ON 24,000FT² PER CUSTODIAN, MEANING THAT EACH FULL TIME EQUIVALENT CUSTODIAN SHOULD BE ABLE TO CLEAN, ON AVERAGE, 24,000FT² OF SPACE PER DAY.
NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. THIS CHART IS A SCATTER DIAGRAM.
EACH POINT ON THIS GRAPH REPRESENTS AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, CURRENT CUSTODIAL PRODUCTIVITY, WITH THE NUMBERS ON THE LEFT SHOWING THE ACTUAL PRODUCTIVITY LEVEL.
NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. SO JUST LIKE WE DID WITH THE OTHER DATA, WE WANTED TO FIND OUT WHY.
WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE? WHAT ARE FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE LOWER PRODUCTIVITY? FIRST SMALL SCHOOLS.
SO THIS IS TRUE EVEN BEYOND THE REALLY SMALL SCHOOLS WE TALKED ABOUT IN SCHOOL CONSOLIDATION.
IF YOU'VE GOT A SCHOOL THAT HAS 600, 800 KIDS, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE CUSTODIAL PRODUCTIVITY OF WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT TO HAVE IN A SCHOOL THAT HAS 2500 STUDENTS.
SO AGAIN, THERE ARE MANY FACTORS THAT THE LARGER DOES IT MEAN YOU SHOULD HAVE 2500 STUDENT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS? IT JUST MEANS THAT IT'S MORE CHALLENGING TO GET THE PRODUCTIVITY LEVELS THE SMALLER THE SCHOOLS ARE.
GARLAND ISD SCHEDULES MOST OF THE CUSTODIAL TIME DURING THE SCHOOL DAY WHEN STUDENTS ARE NOT THERE.
THE CUSTODIAL VACANCY RATES AND ABSENTEE RATES WERE QUITE HIGH LAST YEAR.
IT APPEARED TO BE DUE PRIMARILY TO LOWER PAY RELATIVE TO NEIGHBORING SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. FOURTH, THE DISTRICT DOES NOT TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF PART TIME SHIFTS TO GET CLOSER TO THE PRODUCTIVITY TARGETS.
THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS WHEN IF YOU ROUND UP IN AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FROM 2 TO 3 OR 3 TO 4 CUSTODIANS, IT'S SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACTS YOUR YOUR PRODUCTIVITY LEVEL.
AND SO WE DO HAVE SOME HALF TIME EMPLOYEES THAT DO SPLIT TIME ACROSS SCHOOLS, BUT WE DON'T DO THAT ENOUGH TO HAVE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON OUR PRODUCTIVITY.
SIX. THE DISTRICT USES GROSS SQUARE FEET INSTEAD OF THE SQUARE FEET OF SPACE ACTUALLY CLEANED, WHICH IS NOT A WHOLE LOT LESS NORMALLY, BUT IT IS LESS THAN THE GROSS SQUARE FEET, WHICH GENERALLY INCLUDES EQUIPMENT, ROOM SPACE, AND CLOSET SPACE.
AND THERE MAY BE SOME OTHER SPACE THAT'S JUST NOT CLEANED EVERY DAY.
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MAY NOT NEED TO BE CLEANED ALL, ALL, EVERY DAY.SO THESE FACTORS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED IN ESTABLISHING YOUR CUSTODIAL NEEDS AT EACH CAMPUS.
SO AS A RESULT OF ALL OF THESE FACTORS, THE TOTAL CUSTODIAL COST PER SQUARE FOOT AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IS 40% HIGHER THAN THE SECONDARY COST PER SQUARE FOOT.
BUT THIS IS A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT GAP IN THE COST.
AND SO IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE THOUGHT WAS AT LEAST WORTH LOOKING AT.
SO IN OUR CALCULATION OF POTENTIAL SAVINGS, WE APPLY THE 24,000 SQUARE FOOT TARGET.
THEN ADJUSTED THE DIFFERENCE AND THE REDUCTION IN STAFF COUNTS BY INCLUDING A 50% OF A DAY SHIFT CUSTODIAN TO NON CLEANING DUTIES, RESULTING IN A NET SAVINGS OF 25 POSITIONS OR JUST OVER 900,000 ANNUALLY.
I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE EASIER TO ATTRACT AND RETAIN STAFF, AND I THINK THAT WILL ALSO HELP WITH YOUR THE LESS TURNOVER MEANS LESS TRAINING AND AND MORE PRODUCTIVITY.
THE NEXT SET OF SLIDES DISCUSSES POTENTIAL SAVINGS OPPORTUNITIES IN STUDENT TRANSPORTATION.
GISD'S BUS REPLACEMENT SCHEDULE, WHICH IS THE AVERAGE TIME THAT YOU WANT TO REPLACE A BUS, IS QUITE A BIT LOWER THAN INDUSTRY STANDARDS.
THE DISTRICT SCHEDULE IS TO REPLACE BUSSES EVERY TEN YEARS OR NOT MORE THAN 110,000 MILES, WHILE INDUSTRY STANDARDS SUGGEST UP TO 15 YEARS OR NO MORE THAN 250,000 MILES.
NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. THIS CHART SHOWS THE AGE OF YOUR BUS FLEET IN FIVE YEAR INCREMENTS, SO 0 TO 5, 5 TO 10 YEARS, 10 TO 15 YEARS, AND SO ON.
EVEN WITH ITS CURRENT APPROACH, APPROXIMATELY ONE THIRD OF THE 394 BUS FLEET IS MORE THAN TEN YEARS OLD, AND WE'LL SEE WHY THAT IS THE CASE IN JUST A MINUTE.
THIS CHART SHOWS THE NUMBER OF BUSSES BY THE RANGE OF ODOMETER MILEAGE ON EACH BUS ROUTE, AND 25,000 MILE INCREMENTS, SO THIS DATA SHOWS AN UNEVEN DISTRIBUTION OF MILEAGE ACROSS BUSSES.
SO WHY IS THAT IMPORTANT? IT'S DESIRABLE TO HAVE A MORE EVEN DISTRIBUTION OF MILES TO SUPPORT A MORE CONSISTENT ANNUAL REPLACEMENT SCHEDULE.
IDEALLY, WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO DO IS TO, YOU KNOW, REMOVE A PRETTY SIMILAR NUMBER OF BUSSES AND ADD TO THAT FLEET IN A CONSISTENT MANNER ANNUALLY SO THAT YOU DON'T HAVE A HUGE CHUNK OF YOUR BUS FLEET RETIRING AT ONE TIME, CAUSING EITHER A BIG CAPITAL EXPENDITURE DEMAND OR A LARGE MAINTENANCE DEMAND.
NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. THIS GRAPH SHOWS THE PROCUREMENT OF GENERAL EDUCATION, TOP LINE AND SPECIAL EDUCATION BUSSES ON THE BOTTOM LINE SINCE 2002.
YOU'LL NOTICE WIDE VARIATIONS IN THE PURCHASING CYCLE, SOME OF WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY DUE TO ECONOMIC EVENTS IN 2010 AND 11 WHEN WE HAD AN ECONOMIC DOWNTURN AND THE PANDEMIC IN 2020.
NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. SO WHAT WE DID IS WE ANALYZED THE IMPACT OF CHANGING YOUR YOUR SCHEDULE FROM TEN YEARS TO 15 YEARS.
AND BY DOING THIS, A SMALLER NUMBER OF BUSSES ON AVERAGE WOULD NEED TO BE PURCHASED ANNUALLY.
AND SO THIS TABLE SHOWS WHAT WOULD BE EXPECTED ON AVERAGE FOR THE CURRENT YEAR SCHEDULE IF YOU PURCHASED THEM EVENLY, WHICH WOULD BE 41 BUSSES A YEAR, AND THE 15 YEAR REPLACEMENT CYCLE, WHICH WOULD BE 28 BUSSES PER YEAR.
SO THE NET DIFFERENCE WOULD BE A REDUCTION ON AVERAGE OF 13 BUSSES A YEAR, AT ABOUT $115,000 A BUS.
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SO THE NEXT SLIDE SHOWS THE SAVINGS CALCULATIONS THAT APPROXIMATELY 1.5 MILLION A YEAR CAN BE ACHIEVED FROM CHANGING THE SCHEDULE FROM A TEN YEAR TO A 15 YEAR REPLACEMENT CYCLE.THESE ARE THE OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS MADE IN THE TRANSPORTATION SECTION.
THESE ARE EXPLAINED IN OUR REPORT.
I THOUGHT MICHAEL DID A GREAT JOB IN OBSERVING SOME OTHER THINGS WHILE HE WAS LOOKING AT THE TRANSPORTATION FUNCTION, AND FOUND SOME OTHER THINGS THAT REALLY DON'T HAVE SIGNIFICANT COST SAVINGS, BUT WE THINK WERE GOOD PRACTICES THAT WE JUST WANTED TO POINT OUT.
NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. AND ONE MORE.
SO I DON'T WANT TO TAKE ANY MORE OF YOUR TIME.
BUT I DO WANT TO MENTION THAT THE DASHBOARD WE DEVELOPED FOR THIS PROJECT IS YOURS TO KEEP, AND WE WILL TRAIN YOU TO USE IT DURING OUR INTERVIEWS WITH YOUR MANAGEMENT TEAM LAST YEAR WE SHARED DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE DASHBOARD WITH THEM, AND THEY WERE ABLE TO VIEW DATA AND METRICS THAT THEY HAD NOT EITHER SEEN OR HAD NOT SEEN PRESENTED IN SUCH A COMPELLING WAY.
WE REALLY BELIEVE THIS TOOL CAN HELP SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUR BUDGET, AND IDENTIFY POSSIBLE SAVINGS OPPORTUNITIES ON YOUR OWN IN FUTURE YEARS, WITHOUT NEEDING OUR INVOLVEMENT.
I'LL BE HAPPY TO TAKE THEM NOW.
BOARD, DO YOU ALL HAVE QUESTIONS, MR. MILLER? YEAH.
AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS REPORT.
FROM MY STANDPOINT, THIS IS A LONG AWAITED PROJECT AND I APPRECIATE THE GIBSON GROUP.
WE HAD ASKED HOPEFULLY TO HAVE THIS THING DONE IN TIME FOR THIS BUDGET CYCLE.
AND I APPRECIATE YOU DOING THAT.
JUST REAL QUICK ON PAGE SEVEN OF YOUR I THINK IT'S YOUR SLIDE DECK WHERE YOU GIVE THE APPROXIMATE COST SAVINGS THERE.
ARE THOSE INFLATION ADJUSTED AT ALL? ARE THOSE JUST RAW NUMBERS.
AND THEN WITH RESPECT TO YOUR PAGE NINE, YOU SHOW APPROXIMATELY WHAT 6000 STUDENT DECLINES SINCE 2015.
I PUT A NUMBER OF ROUGHLY 35 TO $40 MILLION OF ANNUAL REVENUE TO THE BUDGET AS AN IMPACT.
JUST TO JUST TO PUT A NUMBER TO THAT, THAT DECLINE.
AND THAT'S AT A ROUGHLY $6,000, $6,200 A STUDENT EVALUATION. SO THEN I GET TO A QUESTION I HAVE ON PAGE 12.
TO ME, THERE'S A DOUBLE EDGED SWORD WHEN IT COMES TO STAFFING.
THERE IS THERE IS YOU'RE NOT BEING AS EFFICIENT AS YOU COULD BE IF YOU'RE WAY OVER STAFFED.
AND THEN MAYBE YOU'RE NOT BEING AS EFFECTIVE AS YOU COULD BE IF YOU'RE WAY UNDER STAFFED.
SO DO YOU HAVE A FEEL FOR AT WHAT POINT? IN OTHER WORDS, IF I LOOK AT THIS RATIO AND WE START IT OUT AT 8.8% AND NOW WE'RE DOWN AT 7.4.
DO YOU HAVE A FEEL FOR WHAT THE SWEET SPOT IS? NO, I DON'T.
AND THE REASON I DON'T IS THAT THIS, THIS MEASURE IS REALLY JUST A GLOBAL MEASURE AND REALLY SHOULD NOT BE USED TO GUIDE YOUR YOUR APPROACH TO EVALUATING COST.
THIS SHOWS YOU THAT THERE'S AN ISSUE WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE DECLINING PUPIL STAFF RATIO.
WE'VE DEVELOPED AND IMPLEMENTED NEW PROGRAMS OVER THE PAST EIGHT YEARS.
SOME OF THOSE REQUIRE ADDITIONAL RESOURCES.
SO IT'S YOUR ALSO YOUR DEGREE OF OUTSOURCING ALSO AFFECTS THIS RATIO.
SO YOUR RATIOS REALLY ARE CLOSE TO THE STATE AVERAGE.
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YOU OUTSOURCE UPPER GRADE CUSTODIAL SERVICES.BUT YOU KNOW THESE RATIOS ARE DIFFICULT TO COMPARE TO THE STATE AVERAGE OR REGIONAL AVERAGE OR EVEN YOUR PEER DISTRICTS, UNLESS YOU KNOW TO WHAT DEGREE THEY OUTSOURCE BECAUSE THEY MAY LOOK BETTER OR WORSE THAN YOU.
SO I WOULD FOCUS MORE ON THE TREND AND NOT ON THE ABSOLUTE NUMBER.
I DON'T THINK THERE IS A SWEET SPOT.
I THINK IF YOU LOOK UNDERNEATH THE NUMBERS AND YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE THAT WE'RE ACHIEVING LEVELS OF EFFICIENCY AND THAT AT THOSE LEVELS, THEN YOU WON'T NEED TO BE AS CONCERNED ABOUT THE GLOBAL LEVEL, IF THAT MAKES SENSE.
AND LET ME FOLLOW UP IF, IF ALLOW ME TO FOLLOW UP WITH ANOTHER QUESTION, IF YOU WOULD, WITH RESPECT TO THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF DISTRICTS ACROSS THE STATE.
HAVE YOU NOTICED ANY OF THAT IN ANY NUMBERS YOU'VE SEEN? WELL, YOU USUALLY SEE THESE, THE STAFF COUNTS ARE ALL FUNDS.
AND SO THE DISTRICTS THAT HAVE HIGHER ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED POPULATIONS ARE GOING TO GET HIGHER TITLE ONE MONEY. THEY'RE GOING TO GET MORE FOOD SERVICE REIMBURSEMENTS.
AND SO THEY WILL HAVE MORE STAFF.
AND SO YOU MIGHT SEE A LOWER, YOU WOULD EXPECT TO SEE LOWER RATIOS IN THE THOSE SCHOOL DISTRICTS WITH THOSE TYPES OF DEMOGRAPHICS.
YOU WOULD ALSO SEE MUCH LOWER AS THE SCHOOLS GET REALLY SMALL, WHICH IS WHY YOU DON'T WANT TO EVER COMPARE YOURSELF TO A SCHOOL SYSTEM WITH 3000 STUDENTS, BECAUSE THEIR RATIOS KIND OF THE INVERSE OF ECONOMIES OF SCALE.
THEY'RE VERY DIFFICULT TO REACH.
AND SO THEY MAY HAVE A SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER STAFF RATIOS AT ALL LEVELS.
SO I THINK THAT THERE ARE DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS, WHICH IS WHY WE TRY TO NOT JUST FIND FOR YOUR ADMINISTRATOR STAFF RATIO, FOR INSTANCE, WE DIDN'T JUST LOOK AT YOUR NEIGHBORING PEERS, WE WANTED TO LOOK AT PEERS THAT WERE CLOSE TO YOU IN OTHER WAYS.
AND THANK YOU FOR THAT. BECAUSE BECAUSE I KIND OF THINK, YOU KNOW, ONCE I LOOK THROUGH ALL THESE NUMBERS, I TRY TO JUST KIND OF MY HABIT TO TRY TO GO TO 50,000FT AND TRY TO MAKE SENSE OF IT.
AND, YOU KNOW, I COULD LOOK AT, I MEAN, IF I LOOKED AT THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP FOOTBALL TEAM AND THEY HAD MORE COACHES THAN THE TEAM THAT FINISHED LAST, AND IT MIGHT BE WORTH IT TO TO PAY THOSE EXTRA COACHES IF YOU'RE ACHIEVING THE RESULTS.
SO PART OF WHAT I'M WHAT I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT TOO IS EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS.
TRYING TO MEASURE THOSE TWO THINGS AND THEN LOOKING AT THE NEEDS OF THE STUDENTS WITH RESPECT TO PROGRAMMATIC THINGS AND ALL THE DIFFERENT WIDE DIVERSITY OF NEEDS THAT WE HAVE IN A DISTRICT LIKE OURS AT THE SIZE THAT WE HAVE.
I JUST THINK IT'S GOING TO TAKE MAYBE A LITTLE WHEN WE START LOOKING AT THESE NUMBERS, I JUST I JUST THINK WE NEED TO TAKE THEM ALONG WITH A LOT OF OTHER DATA POINTS IN ORDER TO FIGURE OUT IS THAT A MEANINGFUL DECLINE, IF YOU WILL, OR IS IT SO WHAT WE WANT TO ACHIEVE AS A DISTRICT.
AND I JUST KIND OF POINT THAT OUT.
AND THEN MR. GRIFFIN, CAN YOU GIVE ME ONE MORE QUESTION JUST REAL QUICK ON PAGE 28 WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CUSTODIAL STAFFING. WOULD ANYTHING IN YOUR ANALYSIS OR YOUR AS YOU ROAM AROUND THE STATE LOOKING AT OTHER DISTRICTS, THE JANITORIAL COST, DOES IT HAVE ANY? DOES THE AGE OF THE FACILITY HAVE ANY IMPACT ON THE ABILITY TO COVER MORE OR LESS SQUARE FOOTAGE PER DAY? YES. I MEAN, OLDER FACILITIES ARE GENERALLY HARDER TO KEEP CLEAN.
PARTICULARLY, YOU KNOW, ONCE THEY GET TO 20, 30 YEARS OLD, THEY APPLY THE SAME PROCEDURES.
GUESS IT'S HARDER TO GET THEM TO LOOK CLEANER BECAUSE OF THEIR AGE.
SOME OF THE OLDER BUILDINGS MAY HAVE MORE CARPET.
CARPET GENERALLY TAKES A LITTLE BIT LONGER TO CLEAN.
SOME OF THE CLASSROOMS MIGHT BE SMALLER IN THE OLDER BUILDINGS.
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OKAY. MS.. GRIFFIN.TRUSTEES, ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT THIS AUDIT, AS THE PREVIOUS ONES THAT WE'VE DONE.
DID I HAVE A QUESTION? MR.. GLICK? UH, THANK YOU, MADAM PRESIDENT.
TO ME, THE MOST IMPORTANT CHARTS THAT WE HAVE ARE 20 PAGES, 21 AND 22 OF YOUR GRAPH.
COULD YOU PULL THOSE UP FOR A MOMENT? IT'S THE STAFFING, SECONDARY AND STAFFING FOR HIGH SCHOOLS.
YEAH. NORMALLY WHEN WE GET THESE REPORTS, THERE ARE SOME COMMENTS BY THE ADMINISTRATION.
WHEN YOU COMPARE RATIOS, ECODYST'S AND GRADES, THERE REALLY DOESN'T APPEAR TO BE ANY CONNECTION.
SO I WAS WONDERING WHAT THE ADMINISTRATION THOUGHT ABOUT THAT.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S I GUESS MY QUESTION FOR THE ADMINISTRATION.
SO WHAT HAPPENED WAS, AS WE WERE GOING THROUGH THIS, UM, WHAT I WANT EVERYBODY TO KNOW THIS HAS BEEN A VERY TEDIOUS PROCESS THAT WE HAVE NOT BEEN MOVING QUICKLY ON.
OKAY. UM, WHENEVER WE'RE DOING AUDITS, WE WANT OBJECTIVITY.
WE WANT A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS.
BECAUSE I THINK THE BRILLIANCE OF HAVING AN OUTSIDE EYE, THEN THERE'S NO PERSONALIZATION TO IT.
PEOPLE AREN'T THINKING THEY'RE SACRED COWS.
EVERYBODY'S GETTING DIFFERENT EYES ON IT.
UM, THE GIBSON GROUP DID A PHENOMENAL JOB OF LOOKING AT EVERYTHING, RIGHT? THEY STARTED WITH ADMINISTRATION, AND THEN THEY STARTED TEARING DOWN.
THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT THEY'RE RIGHT ON, MR. GLICK, THAT WE INVESTED A LOT OF TEACHERS ON DYSLEXIA.
WE INVESTED A LOT OF TEACHERS IN SPECIAL ED.
UM, BUT WHAT WE HAVEN'T DONE A GOOD JOB IS IDENTIFYING WHERE WE COULD TRANSFER, WHERE THERE'S LOW NUMBERS RIGHT THROUGH ATTRITION, THEY SAID THROUGH ATTRITION WHEN HE SAID THERE'S 127 POSITIONS THAT WE COULD POSSIBLY LOOK AT AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE SECONDARY STAFFING, YOU'RE PROBABLY LOOKING AT 2 TO 3000.
UM, 2 TO 3000 TEACHERS THAT WE WOULD HAVE, DEPENDING ON HOW YOU PUT THEM ALL TOGETHER.
SO WHEN WE LOOKED AT THIS, WE SAID, OKAY, THERE IS INEFFICIENCIES.
WE STARTED LOOKING AT OUR HR MODELS AND WE STARTED LOOKING AT HOW WE ASSIGN TEACHERS.
AND THERE SEEMS TO BE A LOT OF ROLLOVER AND REDUNDANCY IN IN OUR SYSTEMS. SO WE'RE LOOKING TO IMPROVE OUR SYSTEMS NOW.
THOSE ARE KIND OF THE EASY ONES.
IT'S ALL THOSE OTHER ANCILLARY.
RIGHT. AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE TO LOOK AT.
SO ANALYZING MASTER SCHEDULING IS HUGE.
SO WE STARTED DOING THAT IN THE SUMMER.
WE'VE ALREADY PREPPED AND WE'VE ALREADY IDENTIFIED LOW HANGING FRUIT I'LL CALL.
SO THEN THAT WAY IT DOESN'T AFFECT THE SYSTEM AND SHOCK THE SYSTEM RIGHT AWAY.
THIS DOESN'T TAKE AWAY FROM WHAT WE SAID.
IS THIS OKAY, SO IN FULL TRANSPARENCY, WHAT WE SAID IS AS WE LOOK AT THIS, WE HAVE TO LET'S LOOK AT IT THEORETICALLY THEY SAID 127 POSITIONS.
SO YOU WOULDN'T HAVE A HUGE VARIATION, BUT YOU WOULD HAVE SOMETHING THAT MADE SENSE.
THIS IS JUST KIND OF LIKE A SCATTER PLOT.
AND WE NEED TO GET BETTER ALIGNED.
AND MISS GRIFFIN A FOLLOW UP IS OKAY.
LOPEZ THAT'S WHERE I AGREE BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR.
AND I DIDN'T SEE THAT. AND THAT'S WHAT SURPRISED ME THE MOST.
AND I FOUGHT FOR 22 AND ONE AND ALL THAT.
WE KNOW I'D LIKE LOWER NUMBERS AT THE HIGH SCHOOL AND MIDDLE SCHOOL.
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SO I'M COMFORTABLE.I JUST THOUGHT NOW WHAT YOU'RE SAYING WOULD MAKE SENSE.
AND SO WE SHOULD SEE HOPEFULLY IN THE FUTURE THAT THE RATIOS ARE LOWER AS WE HAVE MORE CAMPUSES, THAT WE THINK WE NEED THOSE RATIOS TO BE LOWER.
AND THAT THAT WOULD MAKE THE MOST SENSE.
SO WHAT WE EVENTUALLY WANT TO GET IS TO A SCIENTIFIC APPROACH.
I'M NOT GOING TO POINT OUT ANY CAMPUS HERE, BUT LET'S JUST SAY CAMPUS A IS A FOCUSED CAMPUS.
AND YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO SEE THAT THE STAFFING RATIO, THEY NEED A LITTLE MORE HELP OVER THERE FOR CERTAIN CORE AREAS THAN MAYBE CAMPUS X, AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT.
THANK YOU, MISS GRIFFIN. MR. SELDERS. YEAH, I DON'T WANT TO BEAT A DEAD HORSE.
BUT JUST TO THAT POINT, YOU KNOW, LIKE MR. GLICK, I WAS SURPRISED TO KIND OF SEE THIS CONCLUSION THAT THERE WAS NO DISCERNIBLE RELATIONSHIP.
BUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT INSTRUCTIONAL STAFFING IN OUR CAMPUSES AND THEN RELATING IT TO ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED OR THE CAMPUS ACCOUNTABILITY RATING, WE'RE FOCUSED STRICTLY ON STUDENTS AND TEACHERS.
BUT ALSO WE'RE NOT LOOKING AT STUDENTS TO LEADERSHIP ON A CAMPUS.
AND SO IS THERE A WAY, MR. GIBSON, THAT WE HAVE DATA THAT SHOWS? OR YOU COULD EASILY GRAB THE DATA THAT SHOWS THAT RELATIONSHIP.
YOU SAY TO THE LEADERSHIP, WHAT METRIC ARE YOU SPEAKING OF? SORRY. SAY IT AGAIN.
CAN YOU. I'M SORRY. CAN YOU HEAR ME? OKAY. WE CAN HEAR YOU GREG.
MY QUESTION WAS AROUND THE PUPIL TO TEACHER RATIO.
BUT MS.. GRIFFIN SAID THAT THAT WASN'T IN THE SCOPE, SO I GUESS I CAN PULL.
NO, THAT WASN'T A MAJOR SAVINGS OPPORTUNITY.
AS I EXPLAINED EARLIER THERE, YOUR BETTER PICTURE OF THE RELATIONSHIP.
I THOUGHT THAT THERE WOULD BE MORE OF A RELATIONSHIP THERE.
I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THE NEXT STEP.
SO THIS AUDIT IS GOING TO GUIDE DOCTOR LOPEZ, MR. DODDS AND THE FINANCE COMMITTEE AS WE START GETTING READY FOR THE UPCOMING BUDGET.
SO WE SHOULD SEE WHAT WE ARE GOING TO ACCEPT FROM THIS AUDIT.
WE WILL SEE HOW THAT WILL PLAY OUT WHEN WE START PREPARING THE BUDGET.
AND WE ARE BROUGHT WITH WHAT THE PRIORITIES ARE, WHAT THE REDUCTIONS ARE, WHERE WE'RE REDUCING.
THEY WILL BE USING THIS INFORMATION TO HELP WITH THE BUDGET PROCESS, ALONG WITH ALL OF THE OTHER INFORMATION THAT THEY WILL USE AS THE TEAMS HAVE ALREADY MET AND CAME UP, HAVE COME UP WITH SOME STUFF THAT THEY THINK WE NEED TO DO.
SO TRUSTEES, IF THERE ARE FURTHER QUESTIONS YOU WANT, ARE OTHER THINGS.
PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR QUESTIONS TO ME AND THEN I CAN GIVE IT TO DR.
LOPEZ. AND THEN AS WE LOOK WITH MR. DODDS OF THE BUDGET CYCLE, THEN THAT'S WHERE ALL MOST OF THESE THINGS WE'RE GOING TO SEE.
AND I THINK WHEN THEY START PREPARING US FOR THAT, THEY WILL REFER BACK TO THIS WAS A RECOMMENDATION THAT CAME FROM THIS COST SAVING AUDIT.
DO I HAVE THAT CORRECT? DR. LOPEZ AND MR. DODDS. SO A FEW THINGS.
THERE'S SOME LOW HANGING FRUIT THAT WE'VE ALREADY MOVED ON.
WE'VE ALREADY BEEN LOOKING AT A NEW WAY TO DO CUSTODIAL, AND WE'LL STOP AT THAT.
WE'RE ALREADY LOOKING AT DIFFERENT WAYS TO TO UTILIZE OUR STAFFING RATIO WITHOUT, LIKE MR. GLICK SAYING, GO INTO AREAS OF 30, 40 TO 1.
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AND WE COULD WE COULD TALK ABOUT HOW WE'RE IMPROVING THOSE PROCESSES.AND THEN FINALLY, WHAT I WANTED TO TO HIGHLIGHT IS THAT THIS IS AN ORGANIC CONVERSATION.
THINGS WILL COME AND CHANGE AS NECESSARY, RIGHT? NOTHING IS STATIC.
BUT IF YOU SEE IF WE FOLLOW THESE GAME PLANS, RIGHT, THEY'RE NOT SAYING CUT 1000 TEACHERS.
OKAY. THAT'S NOT IN THAT'S NOT WHAT IS BEING SAID.
WHAT AND WHAT MISS MR. GIBSON HAS DONE IS THOROUGHLY LOOK AT THINGS AND FINALLY TRANSPORTATION WITHOUT PUTTING SAFETY AT RISK.
HE SAYS, LET'S EXTEND THE YEARS FROM 10 TO 15 YEARS ON BUS REPLACEMENT.
THOSE AREN'T THOSE AREN'T ALARMING THINGS, Y'ALL.
SO I THINK WE JUST NEED TO UPDATE THE BOARD ON EXACTLY HOW FAR WE ARE AND WHERE WE'RE AT.
MISS STANLEY. MINE'S JUST MORE OF A CLARIFYING QUESTION.
TO EITHER PRESIDENT GRIFFIN OR DR.
WILL WE WILL WE KNOW WHAT HAS TRANSPORTATION.
SO WE TALK ABOUT IF WE GO FROM 10 TO 15 YEARS, BUT WE HAVEN'T DISCUSSED THAT.
THERE IS A TIME WHEN WE'RE NOT EVEN REPLACING OUR OUR BUSSES.
I MEAN, HAVEN'T WE HAD SO WE HAVEN'T STUCK TO THAT TEN YEAR REPLACEMENT, HAVE WE? I MEAN, NO, WE HAVE NOT.
WE WERE DOING IT UNTIL JUST RECENTLY WITH THE BUDGET CYCLE.
AND WE DIDN'T ADD THE BUSSES TO THIS BUDGET CYCLE BECAUSE OF THE CONSTRAINTS THAT WE'RE FEELING.
WE HAD AN ADDED THEM SINCE THE COVID.
NO WE HAVE ADDED BUSSES SINCE COVID.
WE'VE ADDED HOW MANY BUSSES WE'VE ORDERED.
WE'VE ORDERED A FEW SINCE COVID.
OKAY. YEAH, WE HAVE ORDERED A FEW.
HAVING THE BEST IN MIND FOR CHILDREN.
SO GOING THROUGH THIS, DID WE DO A PROGRAM BECAUSE I'M NOT SEEING THE PROGRAM ANALYSIS.
OR IS THAT JUST SOMETHING THAT WAS DONE DURING THE COURSE OF ALL THE STAFFING.
SO A PROGRAM ANALYSIS IS CONSIDERED STAFFING IS A PROGRAM.
WHAT WHAT GIBSON LOOKED AT WAS WHERE IS THE LOW HANGING FRUIT TO GET THE MOST AMOUNT OF MONEY.
AND SO HE WHEN HE LOOKED AT AND CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, MR. GIBSON, I DON'T WANT TO SPEAK FOR YOU FROM OUR CONVERSATIONS.
BUT THESE WERE THE PLACES THAT THEY EXAMINED TO SEE WHERE THE MOST MONEY COULD BE SAVED.
ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS, TEACHER TO STUDENT RATIOS.
THEY HAVE A WHOLE PLETHORA OF DIFFERENT THINGS.
HE WAS VERY IMPRESSED BY THE AMOUNT OF PROGRAMING WITHIN THE DISTRICT.
HE WAS VERY IMPRESSED ON HOW WE WERE HANDLING ALL THAT.
AND NOTICE HE'S NOT TELLING YOU WHAT TEACHERS TO CUT.
RIGHT. AND THAT'S THAT'S WHERE IT IS THAT BECAUSE IT WASN'T CALLED OUT WE REALLY DIDN'T FIND ANY DEFICIENCIES IN OUR PROGRAMS. RIGHT. SO HE'S SAYING YOU'RE OVERSTAFFED AND THIS AND YOU COULD FIND THIS OVER TIME.
IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THIS YEAR OR RIGHT NOW.
TRUSTEES, ARE WE CLEAR? THIS IS JUST ONE OF THE GUIDES THAT'S GOING TO HELP US ORGANIZE AND HAVE A MORE EFFICIENT, EFFECTIVE BUDGET FOR THE UPCOMING YEAR.
ALL RIGHT. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO AGENDA ITEM SIX WHICH IS OUR CONSENT AGENDA. THANK YOU, MR. GIBSON.
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NO WORRIES. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.AND THANK YOU, MATT AND TECHNOLOGY AND SCOTT FOR BEING ABLE FOR US TO DO THIS.
STOP LAUGHING AT ME, MR. GLICK. OKAY.
OKAY, SO AGENDA ITEM SIX, THE CONSENT AGENDA.
[VI. Consent Agenda]
AND I'M LOOKING FOR A MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA.BEACH, IF IF THE BOARD WOULD GO FOR THAT.
B, ACTION ITEM NUMBER ONE, CONSIDER APPROVAL OF 2023-24 DISTRICT CAMPUS IMPROVEMENT PLANS.
ITEM NUMBER TWO, CONSIDER APPROVAL OF THE 23-24 HB3 IMPROVEMENT PLANS, EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY AND MATH PROFICIENCY AND CCMR. ITEM THREE, CONSIDER APPROVAL OF ENROLLMENT UPDATE AND CHOICE OF SCHOOL CALENDAR.
ITEM FIVE, CONSIDER APPROVAL OF RESOLUTION DESIGNATING INVESTMENT OFFICERS FOR THE DISTRICT.
I CAN ALSO MOVE INTO ITEM NUMBER SEVEN, THE NEW BIDS.
I'D LIKE TO SEE APPROVAL FOR ITEM A, CONTRACT 5120 3-01.
ITEM B, NUMBER 149-23, CONSIDER APPROVAL OF PURCHASE OF TOSHIBA UNIT MAINTENANCE AND BATTERIES.
ITEM C, CONTRACT C, 252-24 CONSIDER APPROVAL OF PURCHASE OF CELLULAR DATA SERVICES.
CONSIDER APPROVAL OF PURCHASE OF ONLINE INSTRUCTIONAL SOFTWARE.
ITEM B, CONTRACT 7422, CONSIDER APPROVAL OF PURCHASE OF FINE AND COLORED PAPER WAREHOUSED.
CONSIDER APPROVAL OF PURCHASE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, SUPPLIES AND REPAIRS.
CONSIDER APPROVAL OF PURCHASE OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, SUPPLIES AND REPAIRS SUPPLEMENTAL.
ITEM E, CONTRACT 338-20, CONSIDER APPROVAL OF PURCHASE OF TELECOMMUNICATION PARTS AND SERVICES AND THEN GOING INTO ITEM NINE, THE INCREASE TO AWARDED BIDS. ITEM A, CONTRACT 41-23.
CONSIDER APPROVAL OF INCREASE IN AWARDED AMOUNT OF FIREWALL EQUIPMENT AND SERVICES.
B, CONTRACT 240-23, CONSIDER APPROVAL OF INCREASE IN AWARD AMOUNTS FOR COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS, LAPTOPS AND RELATED ITEMS. C, CONTRACT 316-22, CONSIDER APPROVAL OF INCREASE IN AWARDED AMOUNTS FOR GOOGLE LICENSED PRODUCTS, SUPPORT AND SERVICES.
ITEM E, 34221, CONSIDER APPROVAL OF INCREASE IN AWARD AMOUNTS FOR PROJECT LEAD THE WAY AND ITEM F, CONTRACT 394-2008, CONSIDER APPROVAL OF INCREASE IN AWARD AMOUNTS FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION SOFTWARE AND SUPPLIES.
IT'S BEEN MOVED BY MISTER BEACH AND SECONDED BY MR. GLICK FOR US TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS AS PRINTED IN OUR BOARD BOOK.
UH, DO WE HAVE ONE MOMENT FOR DISCUSSION? NOBODY EVER ASK.
ALL I WANT TO KNOW IS THE ITEMS IN SECTION B, ONE THROUGH NINE, AND THE SUBSECTIONS, THEY'RE ALL BEING PRESENTED EXACTLY LIKE THEY WERE IN COMMITTEE, AND THAT THERE WERE NO CHANGES.
EVERYTHING UNDER CONSENT AGENDA HAS HAD NO CHANGE.
THANK YOU. FROM COMMITTEE AND WE WILL DISCUSS.
THE NEXT ACTION ITEM IS THE ONLY ONE THAT CHANGED.
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AND SO IT IS A SEPARATE ITEM.NOW WE WILL MOVE INTO THE ACTION ITEM FOR TONIGHT.
[VII.A. Consider Approval of Student Services Clinic and Garland Health Department MOU]
THAT IS TO CONSIDER APPROVAL OF STUDENT SERVICES CLINIC AND GARLAND HEALTH DEPARTMENT MOU.GOOD EVENING, PRESIDENT GRIFFIN, TRUSTEES AND DR.
LOPEZ. OUR TEAM REQUESTED THAT THE GARLAND HEALTH DEPARTMENT CHANGE THE EFFECTIVE DATE TO NOVEMBER 1ST, 2023, FOR THIS ITEM.
SINCE THE LAST TIME WE PRESENTED AT THE COMMITTEE MEETING, THAT IS THE ONLY SIGNIFICANT CHANGE.
THEY ALSO UPDATED SOME LANGUAGE.
MS.. LISA RAY REVIEWED THE REVISED DOCUMENT, AND SHE DETERMINED THAT THERE WERE NO OTHER SIGNIFICANT CHANGES OTHER THAN THE DATE TO THE TERMS OF OUR AGREEMENT, AND WE ASKED FOR APPROVAL OF THIS MOU.
IS THERE A MOTION? SO MOVED. SECOND.
IT'S BEEN PROPERLY MOVED IN SECOND BY MR. MILLER AND MR. GLICK THAT WE APPROVE THE STUDENT SERVICES CLINIC AND GARLAND HEALTH DEPARTMENT MOU AS PRINTED IN OUR AGENDA.
THAT NOW CONCLUDES OUR ACTION ITEMS FOR THE EVENING FOR THIS PART OF THE MEETING.
[VIII. Executive Session (Part 1/2)]
AND WE ARE PRIVILEGED TO MOVE INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION THAT WILL BE HELD FOR PURPOSES PERMITTED BY THE TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT, TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE, SECTION 551.001A PURSUANT TO THE TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE, SECTION 551.071 PRIVATE CONSULTATION WITH BOARDS, ATTORNEY IN PERSON OR BY PHONE WHEN THE BOARD SEEKS THE ADVICE OF ITS ATTORNEY ABOUT NUMBER ONE PENDING OR CONTEMPLATING LITIGATION, TWO, A SETTLEMENT OFFER, THREE, ON A MATTER IN WHICH THE DUTY OF THE ATTORNEY TO THE GOVERNMENTAL BODY UNDER THE TEXAS DISCIPLINARY RULES OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT OF THE STATE BAR OF TEXAS CLEARLY CONFLICTS WITH THIS CHAPTER.PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 551.074 DELIBERATION REGARDING THE APPOINTMENT, EMPLOYMENT EVALUATION, REASSIGNMENT DUTIES, DISCIPLINE OR DISMISSAL OF A PUBLIC OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE, OR TO HEAR A COMPLAINT OR CHARGE AGAINST AN OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE.
PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 55.076.
DELIBERATIONS REGARDING SECURITY DEVICES.
PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 551.08.2, DELIBERATION REGARDING A COMPLAINT OR CHARGE BROUGHT AGAINST AN EMPLOYEE OF THE DISTRICT BY ANOTHER EMPLOYEE AND COMPLAINT OR CHARGED DIRECTLY, RESULTS IN A NEED FOR HEARING ONE.
DISCUSSION AND DELIBERATION REGARDING TEA'S INTRUDER DETECTION AUDIT.
TWO, CONSULTATION REGARDING THE PROCEDURES FOR CONDUCTING A LEVEL THREE HEARING PURSUANT TO BOARD POLICY DGBA LOCAL.
CONDUCT A HEARING REGARDING A LEVEL THREE GRIEVANCE FILED BY DIANE RODRIGUEZ PURSUANT TO THE BOARD POLICY DGBA LOCAL CONSULTATION AND DELIBERATION REGARDING A LEVEL THREE GRIEVANCE FILED BY DIANE RODRIGUEZ TO THE BOARD POLICY DGBA LOCAL.
CONSULTATION WITH DISTRICT ATTORNEY CONCERNING LEGAL AND PROCEDURAL ISSUES REGARDING THE PROPOSED TERMINATION OF A CHAPTER 21 CONTRACT OF TORI WOODS.
CONSIDERATION AND DELIBERATION REGARDING THE SUPERINTENDENT'S FORMATIVE EVALUATION.
SEVEN CONSULTATION AND DELIBERATION REGARDING THE INTERNAL AUDIT EVALUATION.
IT IS NOW 6:59 AND WE ARE IN EXECUTIVE SESSION.
TRUSTEES CAN WE? IT IS NOW 8:44 P.M.
[IX. Reconvene from Executive Session for action relative to items considered during Executive Session (Part 1/2)]
[02:00:02]
AND THE STREAMING WAS NOT WORKING, SO WE ARE RECONVENING TO RATIFY THE VOTE.IS THERE A MOTION? YES, MA'AM. MS..
GRIFFIN, NOW THAT WE ARE BACK LIVE AND STREAMING, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE RATIFY THE VOTE THAT WE PREVIOUSLY TOOK TO DENY THE LEVEL THREE GRIEVANCE.
SECOND, IT IT'S BEEN MOVED BY MR. MILLER, SECOND BY MS..
STANLEY THAT WE RATIFY THE PREVIOUS VOTE TAKEN ON DENYING THE LEVEL THREE APPEAL.
ALL IN FAVOR? THAT PASSES SEVEN ZERO.
THANK YOU. WE WILL NOW MOVE INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION AT 8:45 P.M..
[VIII. Executive Session (Part 2/2)]
ALL RIGHT. IT IS NOW 10:08 AND WE HAVE WE'RE RECONVENING FROM EXECUTIVE SESSION.[IX. Reconvene from Executive Session for action relative to items considered during Executive Session (Part 2/2)]
AND AS WE LOOK AT OUR AGENDA, WE HAVE A, WE'VE DONE A, WE'RE GOING TO MOVE TO B AND WE'RE GOING TO CONSIDER THE CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION TO PROPOSE THE TERMINATION OF THE CHAPTER 21 CONTRACT OF TORREY WOODS.IS THERE A MOTION? MS. PRESIDENT, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION.
I MOVE THAT THE BOARD VOTE TO PROPOSE THE TERMINATION OF THE CHAPTER ONE CONTRACT OF TORREY WOODS.
STANLEY AND SECONDED BY MR. MILLER, THAT WE CONSIDER THE PROPOSED TERMINATION OF THE CHAPTER 21 CONTRACT OF TORREY WOODS.
THE BOARD MOVES TO PROPOSE THE TERMINATION.
DID WE NOT SAY THAT? YEAH, I THOUGHT OKAY.
DAPHNE DID. BUT WHEN YOU SUMMARIZE, DAPHNE WAS FINE.
ALL RIGHT, SO WE'VE HAD A MOTION AND A SECOND.
MOVE THAT THE BOARD VOTE TO PROPOSE THE TERMINATION OF THE CHAPTER 21 CONTRACT OF TORREY WOODS.
AND IS THERE A MOTION TO ADJOURN?
[X. Adjournment]
SO MOVED. WE ARE ADJOURNED AT 10:11.* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.