Oct 21, 2025 Regular School Board Meeting

[1. Call to order and establishment of a quorum]

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LAMAR CONSOLIDATED INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT IS CALLED TO ORDER AT 6:31 P.M. THIS IS THE REGULAR MONTHLY BOARD MEETING BEING HELD ON OCTOBER 21ST, 2025. WE HAVE A QUORUM WITH SEVEN MEMBERS PRESENT. PLEASE JOIN ME IN A MOMENT OF SILENCE TO OBSERVE AS YOU FEEL APPROPRIATE.

PLEASE STAND AND JOIN ME FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND THE PLEDGE TO THE TEXAS FLAG LED BY SRESHTA ALLA SHETE, A SIXTH GRADER AT BILLSTEIN MIDDLE SCHOOL. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. HONOR THE TEXAS FLAG. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE TEXAS ONE STATE UNDER GOD, ONE AND INDIVISIBLE. GREAT JOB. OKAY, THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS. GOOD EVENING. BOARD

[3. Recognitions/awards]

CONGRATULATIONS, EVERLEIGH. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. NEXT UP, IT IS WITH GREAT PRIDE AND EXCITEMENT THAT WE RECOGNIZE SOME OUTSTANDING YOUNG LEADERS IN AGRICULTURE FROM ACROSS OUR DISTRICT. PLEASE JOIN US IN CELEBRATING THE INCREDIBLE ACHIEVEMENTS OF STUDENTS FROM GEORGE RANCH, FFA, LAMAR CONSOLIDATED HIGH SCHOOL, FFA, TERRY FFA, FFA, AND FOSTER FFA CHAPTERS WHO PROUDLY REPRESENTED THEIR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES BY EARNING CHAMPIONSHIP TITLES FOR THEIR LIVESTOCK PROJECTS AT THIS YEAR'S FORT BEND COUNTY FAIR FROM LAMAR CONSOLIDATED HIGH SCHOOL. HAYDEN ZEITZ JUNIOR FFA CHAMPION JUNIOR SENIOR SHOWMANSHIP. FROM TERRY HIGH SCHOOL CALLIE STEINFELD, FFA OVERALL RESERVE CHAMPION, STEER.

FROM GEORGE RANCH HIGH SCHOOL EMERSON GREENING, JUNIOR FFA GRAND CHAMPION ROBERTS. AND

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CONGRATULATIONS, STUDENTS! NEXT UP, THIS EVENING WE TURN TO A SPECIAL RECOGNITION IN HONOR OF MEYER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, WHICH WAS JUST ONE OF 28 TEXAS SCHOOLS RECENTLY NAMED PART OF THE INAUGURAL CLASS OF THE LONE STAR RIBBON SCHOOLS BY THE STATE OF TEXAS. THIS DESIGNATION COMES IN RECOGNITION OF EACH SCHOOL'S OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AND PROGRESS IN CLOSING ACHIEVEMENT GAPS. THE LONE STAR RIBBON SCHOOLS PROGRAM REPRESENTS A CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL BLUE RIBBON SCHOOLS PROGRAM, WHICH TRANSITIONED THIS YEAR FROM THE US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF INDIVIDUAL STATES. NATIONAL BLUE RIBBON SCHOOL NOMINATIONS HAVE TRADITIONALLY BEEN MADE BY INDIVIDUAL STATE DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION AND THE NEWLY LAUNCHED LONE RIBBON. LONE STAR RIBBON SCHOOLS PROGRAM IS INTENDED TO CARRY ON THE SAME HIGH STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE AND ACHIEVEMENT AS A PREVIOUS NATIONAL AWARD. SINCE 1982, THE US DEPARTMENT OF ED HAS RECOGNIZED ONLY ABOUT 7000 SCHOOLS ACROSS THE COUNTRY UNDER THIS PROGRAM, WHICH IS AN INDICATOR OF THE AWARD'S RIGOROUS STANDARDS. THE NEW LONE STAR RIBBON PROGRAM CARRIES ON THIS TRADITION, WHILE BEING DESIGNED TO EVEN MORE STRONGLY REFLECT THE PRIORITIES AND VALUES OF LOCAL SCHOOLS AND THE COMMUNITIES THEY SERVE. THE TEXAS COMMISSION OF EDUCATION, MR. MIKE MORATH PERSONALLY NOMINATED LAMAR ISD'S MEYER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOR THIS PRESTIGIOUS HONOR. COME ON IN, PRINCIPAL ROCHELLE HORTON, CONGRATULATIONS TO MEYER ELEMENTARY. AND CONGRATULATIONS TO YOUR ENTIRE CAMPUS ON THIS TREMENDOUS HONOR.

THANK YOU, MISS HORTON. AND FINALLY, TONIGHT WE CELEBRATE NEWS THAT IS BOTH HAPPY AND SAD FOR LAMAR CISD. SAD BECAUSE WE'RE ABOUT TO LOSE ONE OF OUR DEDICATED DISTRICT LEADERS AND A TRUE CHAMPION FOR STUDENTS AND EDUCATORS. BUT HAPPY BECAUSE EARLIER THIS MONTH, THE GARLAND ISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES NAMED OUR VERY OWN DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT ALFONZO BATES AS THE LONE FINALIST TO JOIN GARLAND ISD AS THE DISTRICT'S NEW SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. COME ON UP. MR. BATES HAS SERVED WITH INCREDIBLE PASSION AND HEART HERE IN LAMAR CISD SINCE 2021, OVERSEEING THE HUMAN RESOURCE DEPARTMENT DURING AN EXTRAORDINARY TIME OF GROWTH THAT BROUGHT NOT JUST NEW STUDENTS AND FAMILIES TO OUR DISTRICT, BUT ALONG WITH THEM, THE NEED FOR A GROWING WORKFORCE OF CERTIFIED TEACHERS, PARAPROFESSIONALS, EXPERIENCED ADMINISTRATORS, AND SUPPORT STAFF OF ALL KINDS. HIS LEADERSHIP, GOODWILL, AND QUIET SENSE OF HUMOR WILL BE MISSED HERE IN LAMAR CISD. AND AT THE SAME TIME, WE JOIN TOGETHER IN CELEBRATING THIS NEW CHAPTER IN HIS CAREER AND WISH HIM EVERY SUCCESS IN HIS NEW ROLE IN GARLAND ISD. THANK.

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DOCTOR NIVENS, THAT CONCLUDES THE RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS AT THIS TIME. GOOD EVENING, DOCTOR

[4. Introductions]

AND THIS CONCLUDES OUR INTRODUCTIONS FOR LAMAR CISD POLICE DEPARTMENT.

[5. Board members' reports]

THING I WANT TO MENTION IS TODAY WE HAD A SCHOOL DEDICATION. FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO SAY, MR. BATES, I'M GOING TO MISS YOU. I REALLY AM GOING TO MISS YOU. SO CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU. BUT ANYWAY, WE HAD A SCHOOL DEDICATION TODAY, HAYGOOD ELEMENTARY. AND AFTERWARDS, I WAS ABLE TO STOP BY THE PUMPKIN PATCH FOR ONLY ABOUT 20 MINUTES.

BUT I JUST WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO OUR SPECIAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT AND ALL THE STAFF AROUND THE DISTRICT THAT HELPED OUT WITH THIS, BECAUSE IT LOOKED LIKE THERE WAS SOME LOTS OF JOY HAPPENING AND A LOT OF GOOD MEMORIES HAPPENING WITH THE PARENTS AND WITH THE STUDENTS. AND I SAW DIFFERENT EMPLOYEES FROM ALL ACROSS THE DISTRICT HELPING OUT, AND EVERYBODY JUST SEEMED TO BE HAVING A REALLY GOOD TIME. SO CONGRATULATIONS TO TIFFANY MATHIS. POLICE CHIEF GARCIA WAS THERE AND SO MANY OTHERS. SO A GREAT JOB, EVERYBODY. I KNOW WE

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ANOTHER SHOUT OUT TO THE FULSHEAR CHARGER THEATER. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE KIND INVITATION. IT WAS A LOVELY GESTURE. MY DAUGHTER AND I ATTENDED YOUR PRODUCTION OF SWEET SURRENDER AND WE ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT. THE CAST WAS INCREDIBLE. THEIR TIMING, HUMOR AND STAGE PRESENCE KEPT THE AUDIENCE ENGAGED FROM START TO FINISH AND IT IS SUCH A FUN, TALENTED GROUP OF STUDENTS. SO CONGRATULATIONS ON AN OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE. AND FINALLY, I WANT TO GIVE A SPECIAL SHOUT OUT TO DOCTOR NIVENS AND OUR LAMAR CISD COMMUNITY RELATIONS TEAM FOR ALL OF THEIR HARD WORK GETTING OUT IN THE COMMUNITY AND HELPING SHARE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOND, THEY'VE TRULY BEEN EVERYWHERE AT EVENTS, CAMPUSES AND COMMUNITY GATHERINGS, WORKING TIRELESSLY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS AND CONNECT WITH FAMILIES. AND THAT BEING SAID, JUST A QUICK REMINDER. EARLY VOTING BEGAN MONDAY AND RUNS THROUGH FRIDAY, WITH ELECTION DAY ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4TH. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO'S HELPING KEEP OUR COMMUNITY INFORMED AND ENGAGED. IT'S A GREAT TIME TO BE A PART OF LAMAR CISD. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT, WELL, SINCE YOU'RE MENTIONING ALL THE FOSTER

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BARELY WON THEIR LAST FOOTBALL GAME. BUT BUT OH MY GOSH ONE OF THE. WHAT I'M PARTICULARLY IMPRESSED ABOUT NOT NOT NOT JUST WITH THE FOOTBALL TEAM BUT BUT ESPECIALLY THE TEAM SINCE IS THAT COACH RANDALL IS PRODUCING WINNERS ON AND OFF THE FIELD. THEY'RE IMPRESSIVE, EVEN IF IT WAS A LOSING SEASON. SO LONG AS OUR ATHLETES PERFORM WELL AND ARE GOOD CITIZENS, I THINK THAT'S THAT'S THEN THEIR WINNING TEAM THAT MAKES THEM WINNERS. SO I JUST WANT TO SHOUT OUT TO COACH RANDALL BECAUSE HE WORKS REAL HARD ON THAT. AND AND HE SETS A REAL GOOD EXAMPLE. AND SO I LIKE IT. ANYTIME OUR ATHLETES ARE WINNERS BOTH ON AND OFF THE FIELD. SO I ALSO WANT TO ECHO TRUSTEE MASTER'S REMARKS WITH RESPECT TO THE GOOD JOB AND THE HARD WORK THAT SUPERINTENDENT NIVENS AND YOUR TEAM, THE ENTIRE TEAM HAVE WORKED SO HARD ON. I REMEMBER THAT AS WE WERE WALKING, TRUSTEE HENDERSON AND I WERE WALKING ALONG WITH DOCTOR NIVENS, AND DURING THE PARADE, I OVERHEARD SOMEONE, ONE OF THE SPECTATORS SAY, I'VE NEVER HEARD OF. I'VE NEVER SEEN A SUPERINTENDENT WALK THE ENTIRE DISTANCE DURING THE PARADE. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. AND AND SO, SO AND WITH ALL DUE RESPECT TO DOCTOR, TO YOUR PREDECESSOR. SO ONE LAST THING. I ALWAYS GET PARTICULARLY EXCITED ANYTIME I CAN TALK ABOUT TAX RELIEF. AND SO I JUST WANT TO REITERATE THAT THAT EARLY VOTING IS TAKING PLACE RIGHT NOW. I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE ALL UNDERSTAND AND GET THE INFORMATION. WITH RESPECT TO ALL THE PROPOSITIONS. I REALLY WANT TO EMPHASIZE PROPOSITION NUMBER 11, WHICH PROVIDES TAX RELIEF TO ANYONE, ANY HOMEOWNER AGE 65 AND ABOVE, OKAY. IT PROVIDES US THE OPPORTUNITY TO INCREASE OUR EXEMPTION FROM 140,000 TO $200,000. OKAY.

THAT'S TAX RELIEF ON YOUR SCHOOL DISTRICT TAXES. IF YOU NEED MORE INFORMATION, I'M SURE THAT THE TAX APPRAISAL DISTRICT WOULD BE HAPPY TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. MOST IMPORTANTLY, PLEASE GET OUT AND EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE. PROPOSITION 13 DOES THE SAME THING. ANYONE YOUNGER THAN AGE 65 WHO'S A HOMEOWNER AND HAS FILED A TAX EXEMPTION HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO VOTE FOR AN INCREASE AN EXEMPTION FROM 100,000 TO 140,000. OKAY, SO THAT'S A LOT OF TAX RELIEF ON YOUR SCHOOL DISTRICT TAXES. SO I ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY ONCE AGAIN GET OUT AND VOTE EARLY. VOTING HAS ALREADY COMMENCED. AND OF COURSE THERE'S STILL IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO GET INFORMATION REGARDING OUR SCHOOL BOND. THERE'S SOME GREAT INFORMATION THAT'S THAT'S ON THE WEBSITE. IN MY CAPACITY AS TRUSTEE, I JUST ENCOURAGE YOU TO GET THE FACTS. AND THAT'S THE EXTENT OF WHAT I WANT TO STATE NOW AT THIS MOMENT. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, PLEASE EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE. THANK YOU. OKAY. AND THEN I HAVE A QUICK ONE. I JUST WANTED TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO MR. GREEN, MISS KANGA AND MISS MEDINA. WE RECEIVED AN UPDATE LAST WEEK WHERE WE HAVE A STUDENT WHO IS BLIND AND THEY WERE ABLE TO HELP. THE STUDENT PLAYS AN INSTRUMENT BUT IS NOT ABLE TO DO THE MARCHING BAND FOR OBVIOUS REASONS. SO THEY WERE ABLE TO HELP HIM LEARN HOW TO OPERATE THE LED SCREEN PROPS ON THE FIELD, AND THEY HE COMPETED WITH THE BAND IN THE COMPETITION. SO I JUST THOUGHT THE TEAMWORK WAS IT WAS REALLY GREAT THAT THEY WERE ABLE TO HELP HIM REACH HIS GOAL. SO.

OKAY, WELL, FIRST I HAVE TO SHOUT OUT MY DAUGHTER AND THE READING CHARMS DANCE TEAM. THIS IS THE SECOND NIGHT THAT I'VE MISSED FOR IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS FOR A BOARD THING. SO I PROMISED I WOULD SHOUT HER OUT AND I HOPE THAT THEY HAD A GREAT PERFORMANCE, BUT I REALLY ALSO JUST HAD MORE OF A THANK YOU AND AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT TO DOCTOR NIVENS AND THE BOND OFFICE AND THE COMMUNICATIONS TEAM, WHO I MEAN, I THINK YOU ALL HAVE BEEN TO EVERY INCH OF EVERY 385MI■!S OF THIS DISTRICT THE LAST TWO MONTHS, GETTING THE WORD OUT ABOUT THE BOND.

LIKE MISS MASTER SAID, Y'ALL HAVE WORKED TIRELESSLY. AND NOT ONLY THAT, BUT THIS WEEK WE ARE OPENING OR DEDICATING FIVE NEW SCHOOLS. AND THEY ARE. THEY HAVE A MASSIVE JOB TO DO WITH THAT. SO JUST GREAT JOB Y'ALL. PLEASE GO VOTE. AND WITH THAT, ARE THERE ANY COMMITTEE REPORTS?

[6. Board committees' reports]

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SO THAT WAS OUR FIRST OFFICIAL SPED COMMITTEE. AND SECRETARY BOX WENT WITH US AS WELL. SO I'M LIKE POSITIONS. SO BUT IT WAS OUR FIRST OUR FIRST OFFICIAL MEETING WAS GOING AND SEEING THE WORK THAT ALL OF OUR STAFF ARE DOING OUT AT POWERPOINT. DOCTOR NIVENS IS

[7. Superintendent's report]

AND SO I ALWAYS WANT TO, YOU KNOW, SIT HERE AND APPRECIATE THE TEAM BECAUSE THEY'RE THE ONES DOING THE REAL WORK. BUT I WANT TO TAKE A SPECIAL TIME TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO, TO TO MR. BATES. AND I'M GOING TO MISS YOU SEVERELY, SIR. Y'ALL. MR. BATES CHALLENGES THIS THIS ENTIRE DISTRICT, AND HE HAS MADE US BECOME BETTER. AND SO I JUST WANT TO SAY CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU. I KNOW WE'LL TALK A LOT, BUT CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU. AND MARLON DESERVES YOU. AND THE STUDENTS DESERVE YOU. AND SO VERY HAPPY FOR YOU, SIR. OKAY.

[9. CONSENT AGENDA]

[10.A. Discussion of Board Operating Procedures]

GOOD EVENING, MADAM PRESIDENT. TRUSTEES AND DOCTOR NIVENS. ALL RIGHT. THE BOARD OPERATING PROCEDURES OUTLINE THE AGREED UPON PROTOCOLS AND PRACTICES THAT GUIDE THE GOVERNANCE AND OPERATIONS OF THE LAMAR CSD BOARD OF TRUSTEES, INCLUDING COMMUNICATION NORMS, MEETING PROCEDURES, AGENDA PREPARATION, AND ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES. THIS DOCUMENT COMPLEMENTS BUT DOES NOT REPLACE BOARD POLICY OR STATE LAW. AND SO, AS PART OF THE BOARD'S COMMITMENT TO EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE AND CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT, YOU ALL HAVE UPDATED YOUR BOARD OPERATING PROCEDURES TO REFLECT YOUR CURRENT PRACTICES, ALIGNMENT WITH POLICY AND LEGAL REQUIREMENTS, AS WELL AS RECOMMENDATIONS FROM RECENT BOARD DISCUSSIONS. SO THE GOAL IS TO SUPPORT CONSISTENCY, TRANSPARENCY AND A COLLABORATIVE WORKING RELATIONSHIP THAT HELPS YOU SERVE YOUR STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY EFFECTIVELY. SO WE'RE GOING TO GO OVER THE UPDATES. AND PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL UPDATES ARE GOING TO BE SHOWN IN RED FOR TRANSPARENCY AND EASY REFERENCE. THIS YEAR'S THIS YEAR'S UPDATES INCLUDE BOTH PROCEDURAL UPDATES AND ANNUAL MAINTENANCE EDITS, SUCH AS UPDATING YOUR PHOTOS, YOUR BIOS. DOCTOR NIVENS BIO WAS REFRESHED. WE UPDATED THE CAMPUS TRACKING LISTINGS. IT ALSO INCLUDES TYPOGRAPHICAL CORRECTIONS, SPACING, PUNCTUATION, AND CAPITALIZATION.

YOU'VE MADE THE UPDATES AND REVISIONS, AND TONIGHT WE'RE GOING TO REVIEW THE LATEST VERSION OF YOUR BOARD OPERATING PROCEDURES WITH YOUR RECOMMENDED EDITS. SO ON PAGE EIGHT, YOU UPDATED YOUR BOARD GOALS. JUST VERY PROCEDURAL EDIT LOWER DOWN ON PAGE EIGHT UNDER DEVELOPING THE BOARD AGENDA, JUST A SMALL EDIT AT THE BOTTOM. THE BOARD PRESIDENT OR PRESIDING OFFICER SHALL NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO REMOVE FROM THE AGENDA A SUBJECT REQUESTED BY THE MEANING BY TWO BOARD MEMBERS WITHOUT THE WITHOUT THEIR SPECIFIC

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SO IT NOW READS. THE BOARD WILL NOT RESPOND TO NEGATIVE COMMENTS ABOUT INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYEES, STUDENTS OR BOARD MEMBERS DURING PUBLIC SESSION AND MAY INTERRUPT SPEAKERS TO REDIRECT THEM IF THEY VIOLATE BOARD RULES OR PROCEDURES. ALSO, ON PAGE TEN, YOU CLARIFIED WHEN THE BOARD PRESIDENT OR PRESIDING OFFICER MAY ASK THE SUPERINTENDENT TO CLARIFY AN ITEM, YOU REINFORCE THE EXPECTATIONS REGARDING NON ALLOWABLE COMMENTS AND YOU CLARIFIED THE ROLE OF BOARD PRESIDENT OR PRESIDING OFFICER DURING HEARINGS. AND THOSE EDITS ARE NOTED IN RED. ON PAGE 11, WE ADDED A NEW PARAGRAPH IN RED. AND THE NEW GOVERNANCE PROTOCOL PROMOTING COLLABORATION AND RESPECT AMONG TRUSTEES IS TO READ IT IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN RESPECT, TRANSPARENCY AND EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE. BOARD MEMBERS SHALL NOT INITIATE ACTIONS OR MAKE CHANGES WITHIN ANOTHER BOARD MEMBER'S DISTRICT WITHOUT FIRST PROVIDING NOTICE TO AND COLLABORATING WITH THAT MEMBER. THIS PRACTICE ENSURES THAT EACH TRUSTEE IS ABLE TO REPRESENT THEIR DISTRICT EFFECTIVELY, WHILE SUPPORTING THE BOARD'S COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY TO THE DISTRICT AS A WHOLE. ON PAGE 12, WE JUST HAD SOME MINOR UPDATES TO FURTHER TO FURTHER CLARIFY OR REFLECT CURRENT PRACTICES. AND THEN FINALLY ON AT THE BOTTOM OF PAGE 12, WE JUST UPDATED THE MONTH AT THE END TO REFLECT YOUR CURRENT PRACTICE. SO TRUSTEES, THIS IS A FUTURE ACTION ITEM. SO NO ACTION IS NEEDED AT THIS TIME.

BUT YOU MAY DISCUSS AND I'LL MAKE NOTES OF ANY EDITS YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE. I HAVE A QUESTION ON PAGE 11. I'M NOT SURE WHO REQUESTED OF THE SIX OF YOU, THE SEVEN OF US WHO REQUESTED THAT PARAGRAPH. I DON'T REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT INITIATE ACTIONS OR MAKE CHANGES WITHIN ANOTHER MEMBERS DISTRICT. WHAT COULD SOMEBODY GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT THAT MIGHT MEAN? I HAVE NO CLUE OF WHAT I COULD DO AS AN INDIVIDUAL BOARD MEMBER IN MONICA'S AREA. THAT WOULD NEED ME TO BRING MONICA IN ON IT. I MEAN, I CAN'T EVEN THINK OF AN EXAMPLE. COULD COULD SOMEBODY SPEAK TO THAT? YEAH, WE'VE HAD A COUPLE SITUATIONS ARISE WHERE PEOPLE FROM THE COMMUNITY COME TO US, BUT THEY'RE NOT NECESSARILY OUR DISTRICT. YOU KNOW, THEY DON'T LIKE I'VE HAD A SITUATION AT GEORGE RANCH. THEY'RE NOT. THAT'S NOT FOR ME.

YOU KNOW, THAT'S NOT MY REPRESENTATIVE. SO KEEPING THE OTHER BOARD MEMBER IN THE LOOP, LIKE, HEY, THIS IS THE SITUATION THAT'S GOING ON BEFORE ACTION IS TAKEN PLACE.

LIKE, IF SOMEBODY FROM YOUR DISTRICT CAME TO ME, THEN I WOULD TELL YOU SO BECAUSE I'VE HAD A LOT OVER THE YEARS, LIKE FOLKS FROM FULSHEAR REACH OUT TO ME. AND I COULD REALLY CARE LESS. IF YOU LIVE IN LAMAR AND YOU'RE A PARENT AND YOU REACH OUT TO ME, I'M GOING TO TRY TO HELP THE PERSON FIND AN ANSWER OR GET INFORMATION. SO YOU'RE SO WITH THIS WOULD SAY IS I WOULD NEED TO. A LOT OF THE EXAMPLES I'M THINKING OF FROM THE FULSHEAR AREA WHERE LIKE DURING THE COVID TIME ABOUT MASKS AND ALL THAT KIND OF THING. SO I WOULD HAVE NEEDED TO BRING IN THE BOARD REP ON MY EMAILS, COPYING THAT KIND OF THING OR WHAT, LIKE MAKING A CHANGE, MAKING A FORMAL CHANGE. SO THE WAY I GUESS I KIND OF READ IT AND I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND IT IS JUST BASICALLY THAT YOU WOULDN'T INITIATE AN ACTION OR A CHANGE, LIKE SOMETHING, SOMETHING MAJOR. SO IF YOU I MEAN, I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT. I GUESS THAT'S WHERE I'M HAVING A PROBLEM, A GOOD EXAMPLE, I CAN'T REALLY THINK OF ANYTHING THAT I COULD DO. I CAN SEE HOW IT CAN HAPPEN. AND IT I GUESS THE GOAL IS JUST TO ENSURE THAT. YOU ARE IN THE LOOP OF, OF WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH YOUR CONSTITUENTS. BECAUSE SOMETIMES, I MEAN, IF SOMETHING HAPPENS AT FROST OR ADOLPHUS OR ONE OF YOU KNOW, HER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, BUT IT WAS INITIATED BY SOMEBODY ELSE AND SHE JUST HAS NO IDEA THEN. I MEAN, THEY CAN'T REALLY THAT'S THAT'S ABOUT HOW I UNDERSTAND IT. BUT NO, I DON'T THINK EMAIL IS THE IS THE PURPOSE, BUT IT'S ALSO JUST IT'S BEING PRESENTED. SO IF WE DON'T LIKE IT OR WE WANT TO STRIKE IT, THAT IS WHAT WE CAN DO. I'LL TELL YOU THIS, IF THIS STAYS IN FOR NEXT MONTH, I WILL NOT VOTE AGAINST IT FOR IT.

BUT I STILL AM CLUELESS AS TO WHAT THAT COULD POSSIBLY MEAN. AND SO. I THINK BECAUSE WE ALSO

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OKAY. WELL, WE CAN ALSO WE'RE NOT VOTING ON IT, SO WE CAN WE HAVE TIME TO FIGURE IT OUT IN THE NEXT MONTH BEFORE AND PROPOSE SOMETHING NEW. OKAY. ANY OTHER PARTS THAT WE HAVE ISSUES WITH? WANT TO ADD CLARIFY? OKAY, OKAY. I THINK THAT IS IT THEN. YES, YES OKAY.

[10.B. Discussion of 2025-2026 campus and district improvement plans and CCMR district plan]

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YES. OKAY. WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR SPECIFICALLY? SO WHEN YOU GO INTO THE PLAN FOR LEARNING PLATFORM, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE THE DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PLAN AS WELL AS ALL OF THE CAMPUS IMPROVEMENT PLANS. AND SO YOU WILL SEE THE GOALS. AND THIS YEAR IS VERY NEW FOR US.

WE HAVE THE SAME FIVE GOALS IN THE DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PLANS AS IN ALL OF THE CAMPUS IMPROVEMENT PLANS. SO ALL OF THE GOALS ARE ALIGNED. WHAT WILL BE DIFFERENT ARE THE PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES THAT EACH CAMPUS WILL USE TO MEET THE GOAL THAT WAS CREATED BY THE DISTRICT FROM THE STRATEGIC PLAN. OKAY, SO THIS IS REALLY JUST FOR US TO REVIEW, BUT WE'RE NOT LOOKING FOR DATA POINTS OR ANYTHING. IT'S JUST FOR YOU GUYS TO REVIEW. YES.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU I'M SORRY. IT IS. MISS COTTON CAME UP NEXT. GOOD EVENING BOARD. GOOD EVENING, DOCTOR NIVENS. ALL RIGHT. SO I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH THE INSTRUCTIONAL UPDATE OR THE FIRST PART OF THE INSTRUCTIONAL UPDATE. SO PART OF THE COMPREHENSIVE NEEDS ASSESSMENT THAT MISS FOSTER DESCRIBED INCLUDES A REVIEW OF THE PRIOR YEAR'S DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PLAN TO UNDERSTAND SUCCESSES AND AREAS FOR GROWTH. FROM THIS ANALYSIS, WE DEVELOP GOALS, PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES, AND STRATEGIES THAT DIRECTLY RESPOND TO THE DATA AND ALIGN TO THE STRATEGIC PLAN. THIS APPROACH KEEPS THE PLAN FOCUSED, RESPONSIVE, AND ALIGNED WITH OUR LONG TERM VISION FOR STUDENT SUCCESS. SO LAST YEAR WE HAD TWO GOALS RELATED TO ACADEMICS FROM THE 2425 DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PLAN. THE FIRST ACADEMIC GOAL IN THE 2425 DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PLAN WAS GOAL FOUR, FOCUSED ON GROWTH IN READING AND MATH FOR STUDENTS IN PRE-K THROUGH SECOND GRADE. IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT PROGRESS FOR STUDENTS IN THESE GRADE LEVELS IS ASSESSED USING DIFFERENT ASSESSMENTS. GROWTH FOR PRE-K AND KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS IS MEASURED USING THE CLI. ASSESSMENTS AND GROWTH FOR STUDENTS IN GRADES ONE AND TWO ARE MEASURED USING MAP GROWTH AND MAP READING FLUENCY ASSESSMENTS. THE DATA ON THE SLIDES REFLECTS A COMBINED PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS IN GRADES PRE-K THROUGH TWO, WHO MET THE YEARLY GROWTH TARGET FOR THE ASSESSMENT THEY WERE GIVEN IN MATH AND THEN IN READING. AS YOU CAN SEE, WHILE THE READING DID INCREASE, IT ONLY INCREASED BY 4% AND THE MATH PERCENTAGE DECLINED BY TWO. IN RESPONSE. THIS YEAR, STUDENTS IN GRADES ONE AND TWO ARE BEING GIVEN UNIT ASSESSMENTS AT THE END OF EACH UNIT TO PROGRESS MONITOR THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. THIS ALLOWS US TO INTERVENE IMMEDIATELY BASED ON STUDENT NEEDS, INSTEAD OF WAITING UNTIL THE MIDDLE OR END OF YEAR RESULTS. ALSO, THESE ARE ASSESSMENTS TIED TO THE TEACHER INCENTIVE ALLOTMENT FOR PRE-K THROUGH SECOND GRADE TEACHERS.

WITH GOLDFARB, THE FOCUS SHIFTS FROM GROWTH OF STUDENTS IN K THROUGH TWO TO STUDENTS IN GRADES THREE THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL. GRADE FIVE WAS FOCUSED ON GROWTH IN THE MEETS CATEGORY, NOT THE APPROACHES CATEGORY. ON STAR AND EOC ASSESSMENTS, WE SAW GROWTH IN READING, LANGUAGE ARTS, MATH AND SCIENCE BUT DID NOT MEET THE 5% INCREASE THAT WAS OUTLINED IN THE GOAL, AND WE SAW A SLIGHT DECLINE IN SOCIAL STUDIES AS WE CONTINUE TO GET STRONGER AT PLANNING, BEING DATA DRIVEN AND MEETING THE LEVEL OF RIGOR ON STAAR, THESE AREAS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE. THIS DATA, ALONG WITH THE OTHER DATA GATHERED THROUGHOUT THE COMPREHENSIVE NEEDS ASSESSMENTS, WAS USED TO CREATE THE GOALS FOR THE 2526 DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PLAN. SO NOW I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO MISS MARTINA TO TALK ABOUT THE 2526 GOALS. ALL RIGHT. THE

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OBJECTIVES. EXPLAIN THE APPROACH WE WILL TAKE TO REACH THE GOAL. THE FIRST PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE ALIGNED WITH GOAL ONE IS THE DISTRICT WILL CONSISTENTLY EARN AN A ACCOUNTABILITY RATING THROUGH COMPREHENSIVE INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORTS, INNOVATIVE PRACTICES AND DATA INFORMED INTERVENTIONS AND ENRICHMENTS. UNDER EACH PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE, THERE ARE A SERIES OF ACTION STEPS OR STRATEGIES. THESE ARE THE CONCRETE ACTIONS OUR TEAMS WILL IMPLEMENT, SUCH AS INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, OR PROGRESS MONITORING TO ENSURE WE MEET THE OBJECTIVES AND ULTIMATELY ACHIEVE THE GOAL.

THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, ADJUSTMENTS ARE MADE TO THE STRATEGIES INCLUDED IN THE DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PLAN. AS NEW DATA BECOMES AVAILABLE. THE STRATEGIES INCLUDED IN THE DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PLAN TO ADDRESS GOAL ONE PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE ONE INCLUDES STRENGTHENING OUR PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES BY UTILIZING STRONG TEACHER TEAMS OR BY BUILDING EXCUSE ME BY BUILDING STRONG TEACHER TEAMS THAT REGULARLY COLLABORATE TO SHARE BEST PRACTICES, ANALYZE STUDENT WORK, AND PLAN INSTRUCTION TOGETHER.

MONITORING THAT CURRICULUM IS TIGHTLY ALIGNED WITH STATE STANDARDS, ENSURING THAT WHAT IS WRITTEN IN LESSON PLANS, WHAT IS TAUGHT IN THE CLASSROOM, AND WHAT IS ASSESSED ON TESTS ALL MATCH STATE EXPECTATIONS FOR STUDENT LEARNING. ANALYZING STUDENT PERFORMANCE DATA TO CREATE TARGETED, SMALL GROUP LESSONS THAT ADDRESS SPECIFIC LEARNING NEEDS. ENHANCING VERTICAL ALIGNMENT BY COORDINATING INSTRUCTION ACROSS GRADE LEVELS SO SKILLS AND CONCEPTS BUILD FROM ONE GRADE LEVEL TO THE NEXT, AND CONTINUING TO PROVIDE TARGETED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND COACHING TO HELP TEACHERS STRENGTHEN INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE AND MEET STUDENT NEEDS. GOAL ONE PERFORMANCE. OBJECTIVE TWO TARGETS ATTENDANCE AND FAMILY ENGAGEMENT FOR OUR EARLIEST LEARNERS, SPECIFICALLY, EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION STAFF WILL IMPLEMENT A COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY ENGAGEMENT PLAN THAT WILL EDUCATE PARENTS ON THE VALUE OF EARLY EDUCATION, PREKINDERGARTEN AND AND KINDERGARTEN PROGRAMS, AND THE NECESSITY OF CONSISTENT STUDENT ATTENDANCE IN ORDER TO FACILITATE STUDENT SUCCESS AT THE HIGHER GRADE LEVELS. THE STRATEGIES INCLUDED IN THE DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PLAN TO ADDRESS GOAL ONE PERFORMANCE. OBJECTIVE TWO INCLUDE THE LAUNCH OF A DISTRICT WIDE CAMPAIGN EMPHASIZING THAT EVERY DAY MATTERS IN EARLY LEARNING, AND SHARING MONTHLY COMMUNICATION THROUGH PARENT SQUARE AND ON DISTRICT AND CAMPUS SOCIAL MEDIA FEEDS TO HIGHLIGHT THE CONNECTION BETWEEN EARLY EDUCATION, ATTENDANCE AND LONG TERM ACADEMIC SUCCESS. CONTINUING ON GOAL ONE, PERFORMANCE, OBJECTIVE THREE IS TIED TO THE CONTINUATION AND REFINEMENT OF THE LAMAR CISD INNOVATIVE SCHOOL DAY. ALL CAMPUSES IN LAMAR CISD WILL IMPLEMENT INNOVATIVE DAYS WITH FIDELITY IN ORDER TO EXPAND STUDENT CONNECTIONS TO REAL WORLD EXPERIENCES, AND TO AFFORD TEACHERS EXTRA TIME TO ALIGN AND PLAN INSTRUCTION TO BEST MEET STUDENT NEEDS. THE STRATEGIES INCLUDED IN THE DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PLAN TO ADDRESS GOAL ONE PERFORMANCE. OBJECTIVE THREE INCLUDE THE CREATION OF A DISTRICT WIDE RUBRIC THAT DEFINES WHAT INNOVATION DAYS LOOK LIKE IN PRACTICE, TO SUPPORT EACH STUDENTS AS THEY DEVELOP OR SUPPORT EACH CAMPUS AS THEY DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT AN INNOVATIVE SCHOOL DAY PLAN THAT IS TAILORED TO THE STUDENTS AND RESOURCES AT THAT CAMPUS, AND TARGETED TRAINING AND ONGOING SUPPORT FOR INSTRUCTIONAL PARAPROFESSIONALS TO STRENGTHEN THEIR ABILITY TO TO EFFECTIVELY ASSIST STUDENTS DURING THE INNOVATIVE SCHOOL DAY ROTATIONS. GOAL ONE PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE FOUR IS FOCUSED ON SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMING. THE DISTRICT WILL EXPAND SUPPORT FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS THAT REQUIRE INTENSE STAFF SUPPORT TO ENSURE STUDENT SUCCESS. THE STRATEGIES INCLUDED IN THE DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PLAN TO ADDRESS GOAL ONE PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE FOUR INCLUDE EXPANDING SPECIALIZED SUPPORT FOR STUDENTS WITH AUTISM BY INCREASING THE NUMBER OF COMPLIANCE ACADEMIC PROGRAMS OR CAP CLASSES ACROSS ELEMENTARY CAMPUSES, AND ENHANCING SUPPORT FOR STUDENTS IN ELEMENTARY CESC PROGRAMS. BY INTEGRATING A DEDICATED BEHAVIOR TECHNICIAN INTO EACH PROGRAM TO CONTINUE THE WORK, I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO DOCTOR LAZARO TO DIG INTO THE CMR PORTION OF GOAL ONE. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING.

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BY BREAKING DOWN THIS CMR DATA AS WELL AS DATA FROM 2425 AND APPLYING THE CRITERIA FOR CMR OUTCOMES BONUSES, WE WERE ABLE TO STRATEGICALLY GUIDE THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR 2025 2026 CMR PLAN IN THE CMR PLAN THAT WILL OUTLINE FOR YOU TODAY. EACH PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE IS INTENTIONALLY ALIGNED WITH THIS YEAR'S DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PLAN. THESE OBJECTIVES NOT ONLY SET CLEAR BENCHMARKS, BUT ALSO AIM TO KEEP US ACCOUNTABLE FOR STUDENT SUCCESS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. OUR FIRST TARGET WILL BE TO ENSURE THAT 97% OF OUR GRADUATING SENIORS ARE CMR READY, AS MEASURED BY TI'S CMR INDICATORS. THIS AMBITIOUS GOAL REFLECTS OUR ONGOING COMMITMENT TO STUDENT SUCCESS. THE PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES THAT FOLLOW IN OUR PLAN OUTLINE THE SPECIFIC STRATEGIES AND ACTIONS THAT WE WILL TAKE TO ACHIEVE THIS TARGET, PROVIDING A CLEAR ROADMAP FOR HOW WE INTEND TO REACH AND SUSTAIN THIS LEVEL OF READINESS ACROSS OUR DISTRICT.

OUR FIRST PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE FOR THIS TARGET IS TO HAVE 80% OF OUR SPECIAL EDUCATION SENIORS CONSIDERED CMR READY. AS YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN, WE HAVE MADE CONSISTENT PROGRESS IN INCREASING THE NUMBER OF SPECIAL EDUCATION SENIORS WHO ARE COLLEGE, CAREER OR MILITARY READY. HOWEVER, THIS REMAINS AN AREA FOR CONTINUED IMPROVEMENT IF WE ARE TO REACH OUR OVERALL GOAL OF 97% CMR READINESS FOR ALL GRADUATING SENIORS. BY FOCUSING ON THIS OBJECTIVE, WE ENSURE THAT EVERY STUDENT, REGARDLESS OF BACKGROUND OR NEED, IS SUPPORTED ON THEIR PATH TO POST-SECONDARY SUCCESS. WE WILL USE THE FOLLOWING STRATEGIES TO SUPPORT THIS OBJECTIVE. WE WILL TRAIN OUR FACILITATORS ON GRADUATION CODING REQUIRED FOR STUDENTS TO MEET CMR. WE'RE GOING TO MONITOR SPECIAL EDUCATION GRADUATION CODES FROM GRADUATION. ARDS ESTABLISH SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENT TRANSCRIPT CHECKPOINTS BOTH MID-YEAR AND AGAIN AT THE END OF THE YEAR, TO VERIFY STUDENTS ENDORSEMENTS AND COURSE COMPLETION, AND WE WILL FACILITATE SIX WEEKS CAMPUS CMR CHECKPOINTS WITH CAMPUS CMR LEADERSHIP TEAMS. ANOTHER AREA FOR IMPROVEMENT IS THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS MEETING CMR THROUGH THE CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION CRITERIA. AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE SCREEN, WE HAVE CONTINUED TO MAKE PROGRESS IN THIS AREA EVEN AS THE CRITERIA FOR THIS INDICATOR HAS CHANGED FROM YEAR TO YEAR. IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT TO EARN THE INDICATOR THIS YEAR, STUDENTS MUST BOTH PASS A DEA APPROVED INDUSTRY BASED CERTIFICATION AND ALSO BE CONSIDERED A COMPLETER, WHICH IS A STUDENT THAT HAS COMPLETED THREE OR MORE CTE COURSES FOR FOUR OR MORE CREDITS, INCLUDING AN ADVANCED COURSE WITHIN AN APPROVED STATE PROGRAM OF STUDY.

FOR THIS REASON, WE HAVE SET OUR TARGET PERCENTAGE AT 30%. MAINTAINING FOCUS HERE WILL HELP US CONTINUE OUR UPWARD TREND AND SUPPORT OUR OVERALL CMR READINESS. WE WILL IMPLEMENT THE FOLLOWING STRATEGIES THIS YEAR. IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE THIS OBJECTIVE, WE'RE GOING TO TRAIN STAFF ON TECHNIQUES TO ASSIST IN INCREASING IVC STUDENT READINESS. WE'RE GOING TO MEET WITH CAMPUS ADMINISTRATORS FREQUENTLY TO PROVIDE SUPPORT AND FOLLOW UP WITH TEACHERS REGARDING INDUSTRY BASED CERTIFICATIONS. WE'LL CONTINUE TRAINING OF CAMPUS COUNSELORS AND ADMINISTRATORS REGARDING PROGRAM, PROGRAM OF STUDY, SEQUENCE OF COURSES, AS WELL AS STUDENT YEAR PLANNING AND CTE COMPLETER STATUS. AND WE PLAN TO HOST CTE OUTREACH EVENTS TO EDUCATE PARENTS, STUDENTS, AND THE COMMUNITY ABOUT THE DISTRICT'S CTE PROGRAMS AND STATE REQUIREMENTS FOR ACHIEVING CTE COMPLETER STATUS.

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BETWEEN THE CLASSES OF 2022 AND 2024, WE INCREASED THE PERCENTAGE OF SENIORS MEETING CMR THROUGH DUAL CREDIT BY NINE POINTS FOR THE 2025 2026 SCHOOL YEAR. OUR CMR TARGET ONE PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE THREE IS THAT BY MAY OF 2026, 40% OF THE CLASS OF 2026 WILL MEET CMR. EXCUSE ME, MEET CMR BY EARNING DUAL CREDIT. TO ACHIEVE THIS TARGET FOR DUAL CREDIT, SOME OF THE STRATEGIES WE WILL EMPLOY ARE TO COLLABORATE WITH OUR CAMPUS DUAL CREDIT TEAMS TO PROMOTE AND MARKET COURSE OFFERING OPTIONS AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS FOR DUAL. FOR EARNING DUAL CREDIT, WE'LL TRAIN OUR HIGH SCHOOL COUNSELORS TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE TSTC DUAL CREDIT COURSE SEQUENCE, AND WE WILL ALSO CONTINUE TO EXPAND OUR DUAL CREDIT COURSE OFFERINGS BY COLLABORATING WITH INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION TO INCREASE ADDITIONAL COURSE OPTIONS FOR EARNING DUAL CREDIT. FOR THE CLASSES OF 2022 AND 2023, 38% OF OUR GRADUATES MET CMR OUTCOMES. BONUS CRITERIA IF YOU RECALL THAT CMR DATA LAGS ONE YEAR FROM GRADUATION AND THE OUTCOMES BONUS FINAL COUNTS DATA LAGS AN ADDITIONAL YEAR USING THE MOST RECENT OUTCOMES BONUS DATA FROM THE CLASSES OF 2022 AND 2023. OUR CMR TARGET NUMBER TWO, IS THAT 50% OF THE CLASS OF 2026 WILL MEET CMR OUTCOMES. BONUS CRITERIA.

RECALL AGAIN THAT CMR AND OUTCOMES BONUS CRITERIA DIFFERS FROM CMR IN STATE ACCOUNTABILITY. WE HAVE EXPANDED OUR CMR WORK TO INCLUDE A FOCUS ON OUTCOMES BONUSES. THE FOLLOWING PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE WILL PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO HOW WE WILL ACHIEVE THIS AMBITIOUS CMR OUTCOMES. BONUS TARGET. TO MEET THIS TARGET FOR OUTCOMES BONUSES, WE ARE FOCUSING ON PERFORMANCE ON THE TSIA OR THE TEXAS SUCCESS INITIATIVE ASSESSMENT AS IT IS THE SOLE COMPLEMENTARY REQUIREMENT FOR OUTCOMES BONUS FUNDING ON BOTH THE COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS SIDES BETWEEN THE CLASSES OF 2022 AND 2024. THE PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS MEETING CMR THROUGH TSIA INCREASED BY THREE POINTS, WITH THE CLASS OF 2024 ACHIEVING A 40% RATE FOR CMR TARGET NUMBER TWO. PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE ONE IS THAT BY MAY 2026, 50% OF THE CLASS OF 2026 WILL MEET TSIA PASSING CRITERIA. TO MEET OUR TARGET FOR TSIA. SOME OF THE STRATEGIES WE ARE USING ARE TO AGAIN FACILITATE THOSE SIX WEEKS CAMPUS CMR CHECKPOINTS WITH CAMPUS CMR LEADERSHIP TEAMS TO DESIGN AND FACILITATE TSIA PREPARATION AND TUTORING EXPERIENCES IN MATH AND ELA, USING RESOURCES AS PART OF OUR PARTNERSHIPS WITH THE PRINCETON REVIEW, PROGRESS LEARNING AND SHMOOP, WE WILL UTILIZE RELEVANT DATA TO DETERMINE STUDENT READINESS FOR THE TSIA, AND WE ARE ALSO WORKING TO DESIGN TO DESIGN PROFESSIONAL LEARNING EXPERIENCES WITH OUR ASSOCIATE PRINCIPALS TO INTENSIFY THE RIGOR IN OUR TIER ONE INSTRUCTION. THE PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES IN THE CMR PLAN ARE A FUTURE ACTION ITEM. THEY DO NOT REQUIRE APPROVAL FROM THE BOARD AT THIS TIME, AND AT THIS TIME, WE WILL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS OR DISCUSSION THAT YOU HAVE. I HAVE A SMALL QUESTION. I BELIEVE IT WAS MISS COTTINGHAM. I FORGET NOW WHO IT WAS. OR MAYBE IT WASN'T. I'M SORRY, BUT WHOEVER IT WAS WHEN YOU TALKED ABOUT. MEETING THE SAT OR THE PSAT, THE WHATEVER THOSE ARE FOR THE READINESS IS THAT BASED ON SCORES THAT STUDENTS EARN, I THINK THAT'S CLARIFY ABOUT THE DIFFERENT FORMS OF READINESS. SO IT SAYS THAT THERE'S ONE ABOUT THE PSAT OR THE SAT OR THE ACT. IS THAT LIKE A SCORE BASED THING? LIKE WHAT STUDENTS SCORE CERTAIN POINTS AND THEN YOU'RE SPEAKING IN REFERENCE TO THE WAYS IN WHICH A STUDENT CAN EARN CMR. YES, THE TOP ONE. SO THOSE SO MEETING STANDARD ON SAT AND ACT. YES. IT'S A SCORE BASED REQUIREMENT OKAY. IS THERE LIKE A BASE SCORE OR IT'S JUST DEPENDS. YES. SO FOR SAT IT IS A 480 IN ELA AND IT'S A 530 IN MATH. AND THEN FOR ACT IT'S A 40 ON THE COMBINED ELA AND WRITING PORTIONS. AND IT'S A 22 ON THE MATH OKAY. THANKS. CAN WE GO TO THE PART OF THE PRESENTATION WHERE WE SHOWED OUR GROWTH FROM 2020 LAST YEAR TO THIS YEAR? NO, NOT CMR BEFORE I THINK MISS CUNNINGHAM. YES MA'AM. IT SHOWED LIKE THE MATH SCIENCE READING WAS INCREASED AND HISTORY WAS DECREASED. I THINK IT'S DOCTOR JONES IS GOING THERE FOR US. I

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OH THERE WE GO. THAT ONE OKAY. SO AS WE THINK OF INNOVATIVE SCHOOL DAY AND HOW ARE WE MEASURING THE IMPACT OF NOT JUST ON STUDENT LEARNING AND TEACHER PLANNING TIME, BUT ALSO JUST ON RETENTION. AND LIKE OVERALL STUDENT LEARNING. WELL, LAST YEAR OR AT THE END OF THE YEAR, I GOT DATA FROM HR ON JUST TEACHER RETENTION FOR THE CAMPUSES THAT PARTICIPATED IN INNOVATIVE DAY LAST YEAR AND THE PREVIOUS YEAR FOR THAT SAME GROUP OF CAMPUSES, TEACHER RETENTION WAS WAS 11, I BELIEVE POINT 6%. AND SO FOR THOSE THAT SAME GROUP OF CAMPUSES THAT PARTICIPATED IN INNOVATIVE DAY FOR LAST YEAR, THAT HAD BEEN REDUCED TO, I THINK I BELIEVE IT WAS 6.5%. SO WE ALMOST CUT THAT IN HALF. AND SO THAT'S ONE WAY WE'RE MEASURING IT. BUT THEN ALSO WE GET LOTS OF FEEDBACK. WE JUST HAD THE SUPERINTENDENT ADVISORY COUNCILS THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS, AND WE GOT LOTS OF FEEDBACK FROM TEACHERS ABOUT HOW MUCH THEY APPRECIATED. AND THEY HAVE THE WORK LIFE BALANCE THAT THEY'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR.

AND THEY'RE SO APPRECIATIVE OF THAT TIME, YOU KNOW, SO THERE'S A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT WAYS THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO MEASURE THAT SO FAR. OKAY. AWESOME I MEAN THAT'S AWESOME 11.8 11.5 TO 6.5.

THAT'S CRAZY. THAT'S AWESOME. AND THEN I THINK MY NEXT QUESTION IS PROBABLY FOR MISS BAINES. I LOVE CMR SO MUCH AND I LOVE DUAL CREDIT. MY DAUGHTER GRADUATED WITH HER ENTIRE FIRST

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AS YOU STATED, EVEN, YOU KNOW, SUCCESS ON AN AP EXAM IS GREAT. SUCCESS IN DUAL CREDIT IS WONDERFUL, BUT IT'S THE DUE DILIGENCE IS TRULY RESEARCHING YOUR PLAN, RESEARCHING YOUR POST-SECONDARY PLAN, AND MAKING CERTAIN THAT ALL THE GREAT WORK THAT YOU HAVE DONE IN HIGH SCHOOL WILL ACTUALLY TRANSFER OVER TO WHETHER IT BE IN-STATE OR OUT OF STATE. SO YES, MA'AM.

THAT IS, THAT'S A, THAT'S THAT'S A GROWING PART OF THE DUAL CREDIT COUNSELORS ROLE.

OKAY. OKAY. AWESOME. OKAY. AND I'VE ALSO SPOKEN WITH DOCTOR WAITZ. YOU KNOW, AS WE AS WE CONTINUE TO HAVE STUDENTS IN DUAL CREDIT COURSES AND EARNING, YOU KNOW, ASSOCIATE'S DEGREES, ANOTHER PART OF THE COUNSELING SERVICES WILL BE MAKING SURE STUDENTS ARE MATURE ENOUGH TO HANDLE THAT. BECAUSE WHEN YOU HAVE A CHILD THAT IS 18 OR WHATEVER, AND THEY GO TO COLLEGE AND THEY BECOME A SOPHOMORE OR JUNIOR, THERE'S A CERTAIN LEVEL OF MATURITY THAT COMES WITH THAT BECAUSE NOW YOU ARE IN YOUR MAJOR COURSES, RIGHT? YOU NO LONGER GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE A FRESHMAN BECAUSE YOU HAD THAT IN HIGH SCHOOL. AND SO ANOTHER PART OF THAT CONVERSATION IS GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT PARENTS UNDERSTAND THAT STUDENTS HAVE TO BE MENTALLY MATURE ENOUGH TO HANDLE THAT KIND OF RESPONSIBILITY ONCE THEY LEAVE HIGH SCHOOL AND GO TO COLLEGE, BECAUSE IT'S A VAST DIFFERENCE IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE. HAS THERE BEEN ANOTHER ASPECT THAT WE'LL DEAL WITH? I DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE DOING THIS, BUT COULD WE IS THERE ANY WAY TO TRACK WHAT COLLEGES? YOU KNOW, THOSE STUDENTS WHO HAVE A LOT OF DUAL CREDIT COURSES END UP GOING TO IN STATE AND OUT OF STATE JUST SO WE CAN SAY LIKE, HEY, THIS SCHOOL, THEY ACCEPT NEARLY ALL THE DUAL CREDITS AND STUFF LIKE THAT. YES, WE WITH OUR RESEARCH ASSESSMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY TEAM, WE DO TRACK WHERE OUR STUDENTS LAND POST-SECONDARY AS WELL AS OUR INTERNAL ADVANCED ACADEMICS. THROUGH OUR SCHOOL LINKS PORTAL. WE TRACK WHERE KIDDOS LAND AND WE CAN MAP OUT WHERE OUR KIDS WHO ARE EARNING ALL THESE WONDERFUL DUAL CREDITS WHERE THEY'RE ACTUALLY LANDING, AND ENSURING THAT THOSE CREDITS, IN FACT, DO TRANSFER. OKAY, AWESOME. THAT'S ALL THE QUESTIONS. THANK YOU ALL. THAT WAS A LOT OF AWESOME INFORMATION. WHAT IS NEXT? OKAY. NOW WE WILL TAKE ACTION ON THE

[11.A. Consider approval of Lamar CISD logo redesign]

THE CURVED LINE REPRESENTS THE BRAZOS RIVER, A DEFINING LANDMARK OF OUR COMMUNITY, AND THE TWO PARALLEL LINES REPRESENT THE RAILROAD, WHICH PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN THE GROWTH AND PROGRESS OF OUR REGION. AND WE STARTED WITH A LOT OF VARIATIONS, AND THESE ARE SOME INITIAL VARIATIONS OF THE DESIGN OPTIONS. AS PART OF THE PROCESS, OUR GRAPHIC ARTISTS DEVELOPED A VARIETY AND WE GOT FEEDBACK. WE WHITTLED IT DOWN TO THIS IS THE DESIGN FOR CONSIDERATION. IT HAS THE FEATURES OF THE CONVOCATION LOGO, BUT IT MAINTAINS THE ELEMENTS OF THE CURRENT DISTRICT STYLE LOGO. WHILE UPDATING THE TAGLINE AT THE BOTTOM. WE ENVISION THIS BEING THE PRIMARY LOGO, BUT WE DID CREATE AN ADDITIONAL LOGO WITH OUR COLOR BAR, THAT ONE RIGHT THERE, TAKING SOME FEEDBACK FROM TRUSTEE ARROYOS, GIVING PEOPLE AN OPTION TO USE EITHER OR. AND SO IF YOU WANT TO ADD ANOTHER TOUCH, WE USE THE COLOR

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SO TO NOTATE WHEN WE WOULD USE DIFFERENT OPTIONS. OH AND ONE MORE. WE HAVE A SECONDARY OPTION FOR MERCHANDISE AND APPAREL. THAT'S THE ONE IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER. THAT'S REMOVING SOME OF THE SMALLER FONT THAT WOULDN'T BE EASILY VISIBLE ON, SAY, A HAT OR GRAPHIC. BUT TO DIFFERENTIATE, THIS WOULD BE THE PRIMARY LOGO THAT WOULD BE FEATURED ON ANYTHING LIKE PERMANENT. THE OUTSIDE OF A BUILDING. IF WE WERE DOING RUGS IN A BUILDING OR DECALS INSIDE A BUILDING THAT'S MORE PERMANENT, THE COLOR BAR LOGO WOULD BE USED FOR ANYTHING THAT'S LIKE A CONSUMABLE OR NOTEPADS, ANY DIGITAL ANYTHING THAT WE CAN UPDATE FREQUENTLY BECAUSE AS I SHARED, WE WOULD BE UPDATING THAT COLOR BAR WITH THE ADDITIONAL COLOR ONCE WE ADD MORE COLOR TRACKS. SO TRUSTEES, THIS IS AN ACTION ITEM. SO WE'RE ASKING YOU TO CONSIDER AND APPROVE THE DESIGN OF THE DISTRICT LOGO. COMMENTS.

QUESTIONS I WANT TO ASK A QUESTION WHEN WHEN THIS IDEA WAS FIRST BROUGHT UP TO REDESIGN THE LOGO, I EXPRESSED AN INTEREST OF NOT NECESSARILY TEARING DOWN CURRENT SIGNAGE ACROSS THE DISTRICT. THAT'S ESPECIALLY NEW SIGNAGE WITH THE WITH THE LOGO THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE. JUST BECAUSE WE'VE CREATED A NEW ONE. MY MY THINKING WAS WE USE IT TO THE END OF THE LIFE INTO THE THE SIGN FADES OR WE DO A MAJOR REDESIGN OF THE BUILDING. AND WE HAVE A LOT OF NEW SCHOOLS LATELY AND WE PUT LAMAR SEE ISD UP THERE. SO ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE BUILDING, I'M TALKING ABOUT WHERE THE PUBLIC JUST DRIVES BY AND SEES IT. ARE ARE WE TALKING ABOUT PUTTING THE TEXAS LOGO WITH CHANGING THE L AND EVERYTHING? NO, SIR. AND THAT'S PRECISELY WHY WE KEPT THE A BAR, C ISD, THE AMA ISD. IT IS THE SAME FONT AND STYLE AS WHAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE, SO THAT IT DOES MATCH AND COMPLEMENT WHAT'S ON THE EXTERNAL SIDE OF BUILDINGS.

THAT DOESN'T HAVE TO COME DOWN. THOSE THAT SIGNAGE ON THE EXTERNAL DOES NOT HAVE THE TAGLINE UNDERNEATH IT, SO IT'S TIMELESS. ANYBODY ELSE? OKAY. NO, I'D LIKE TO SAY I DO LIKE THE STYLE IT'S GOING IN. I HEARD I'M INVOLVED IN ANOTHER ORGANIZATION AND IT WAS WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE BOND, AND ONE OF THE SOMEONE SAID THAT WE ARE THE BOOTS SIDE OF THE RIVER, NOT THE SUITS SIDE OF THE RIVER. AND SO I WAS LIKE, OKAY, THAT MADE SENSE. AND THAT HIT HOME OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, THAT'S OVERALL REPRESENTS OUR COMMUNITY, THAT WE'RE THE BOOT SIDE OF THE RIVER. AND SO I THINK I THOUGHT THAT WAS. YEAH. WELL I LIKE IT. SO MAY I HAVE A MOTION FOR THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO APPROVE THE PRESENTED OPTION AS THE NEW DISTRICT LOGO. I'LL DO IT. TRUSTEE WELCH MAKES THE MOTION. DO I HAVE A SECOND? OKAY, MISS.

MISS HENDERSON SECONDS. ANY DISCUSSION? OKAY, I WILL NOW CALL FOR THE VOTE. ALL IN FAVOR, SAY I. I NONE OPPOSED. THE MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. THANK YOU. TRUSTEE. THANK YOU.

[11.B. Consider approval of policy revisions]

SO THE RATIONALE BEHIND THE REVISIONS, EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 1ST, 2025, SENATE BILL 13 INTRODUCED NEW REQUIREMENTS FOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS REGARDING REGARDING LIBRARY AND INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS, DIRECTING DIRECT IMPACT IMPACTING, EXCUSE ME EFB POLICIES. THE IMPLICATIONS BEHIND THESE CHANGES. IT WILL INCREASE BOARD RESPONSIBILITY FOR INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCE APPROVAL. IT ENHANCES PARENTAL ENGAGEMENT AND TRANSPARENCY, AND THE NEED FOR POLICY UPDATES AND POTENTIAL CREATION OF ADVISORY STRUCTURES. SOME KEY CHANGES TO THE POLICY THAT CHANGED UNDER THE TAB OF GOALS. GOAL NUMBER TEN. THERE WAS A REVISION, AS SEEN IN BLUE, THAT NO REAL AND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LIBRARIES SHALL INCLUDE VISUAL DEPICTIONS OR ILLUSTRATIONS OF GRATUITOUS OR EXPLICIT FRONTAL NUDITY UNDER THE TAB OF RECOMMENDATIONS AND PROCUREMENT MATERIALS, LIBRARIANS AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL STAFF SHALL ASSIST IN DEVELOPING THE LIST OF LIBRARY MATERIAL RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE SUPERINTENDENT TO BE PRESENTED TO THE BOARD. THE SUPERINTENDENT SHALL ENSURE

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RECOMMENDATIONS FROM STUDENTS, PARENTS OR GUARDIANS, TEACHERS AND OR DISTRICT RESIDENTS.

CONSULTATIONS WITH DISTRICT TEACHERS AND LIBRARY STAFF. CONSULTATIONS WITH LIBRARY STAFF FROM OTHER DISTRICTS. EXTENSIVE REVIEW OF LIBRARY MATERIAL. CONTEXT OF LIBRARY MATERIAL, INCLUDING OVERALL FIT WITH THE EXISTING COLLECTION AND TO SUPPORT DISTRICT CURRICULUM REVIEWS. THE LIBRARY MATERIAL FROM SOURCES SUCH AS PROFESSIONAL LIBRARY JOURNALS IN LIBRARY SCIENCE. RECOGNIZED PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION AND CONTENT JOURNALS WITH BOOK REVIEWS. NATIONAL AND STATE AWARD AWARD RECOGNITION LIST, LIBRARY SCIENCE FIELD EXPERTS, AND HIGHLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR AND LITERACY EXPERT RECOMMENDATIONS. AND FINALLY, THE COVERAGE OF TOPICS, AUTHOR, SERIES, OR GENRES THAT FILL GAPS IN THE SCHOOL LIBRARY COLLECTION. THE THE BOARD SHALL CONSIDER THE RECOMMENDED LIST OF LIBRARY MATERIALS THAT HAVE BEEN DONATED OR PROPOSED FOR PROCUREMENT. EACH BOARD MEMBER MAY PROPOSE CHANGES BEFORE THE BOARD TAKES ACTION OF THE LIST OF DONATED OR PROPOSED LIBRARY MATERIALS, AND THE BOARD SHALL EITHER APPROVE OR REJECT THE LIBRARY MATERIALS THAT HAVE BEEN DONATED OR PROPOSED FOR PROCUREMENT AT LEAST 30 DAYS PRIOR TO THE BOARD'S VOTE TO ACCEPT THE DONATED LIBRARY MATERIALS OR APPROVE PROCUREMENT OF LIBRARY MATERIALS, THE SUPERINTENDENT SHALL MAKE ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC THE LIST OF LIBRARY MATERIALS IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW VIA THE DISTRICT WEBSITE FOR REVIEW AND FEEDBACK. UNDER THE TAB OF PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH STATE LAW AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES, PARENTS OR GUARDIANS MAY SUBMIT TO THE PRINCIPAL OR A STAFF MEMBER DESIGNATED BY THE PRINCIPAL A LIST OF LIBRARY MATERIALS THAT THE PARENTS OR GUARDIANS CHILD SHALL NOT BE ALLOWED TO CHECK OUT OR ACCESS FOR USE OUTSIDE OF THE SCHOOL LIBRARY. THE SUPERINTENDENT SHALL DEVELOP PROCEDURES THAT PERMIT A PARENT OR GUARDIAN TO SUBMIT THE REQUEST IN AT LEAST ONE OF THE METHODS PERMITTED BY LAW. UNDER THE TAB OF PROTECTION FROM INAPPROPRIATE MATERIAL. LIBRARY MATERIALS SHALL NOT INCLUDE ANY LIBRARY MATERIAL CONTAINING INDECENT OR PROFANE CONTENT. ANY LIBRARY MATERIAL THAT REFERS A PERSON TO A WEBSITE, INCLUDING BY USE OF LINK OR QR CODE CONTAINING CONTENT LEGALLY PROHIBITED UNDER LAW. UNDER THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES TAB FOR CHALLENGES, THE FOLLOWING PRINCIPLES SHALL GUIDE THE REVIEW OF A CHALLENGE OF LIBRARY MATERIALS. AN INDIVIDUAL MAY CHALLENGE A LIBRARY MATERIAL USED IN THE DISTRICT'S LIBRARY PROGRAM, DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE PROFESSIONAL STAFF AND THE BOARD FOLLOWED THE PROPER PROCEDURES AND ADHERED TO THE OBJECTIVES AND CRITERIA FOR RECOMMENDING AND PROCURING LIBRARY MATERIAL, SETS OUT SET OUT IN THIS POLICY, ACCESS TO THE CHALLENGE MATERIALS SHALL BE RESTRICTED DURING CHALLENGE PROCESS. UNDER FORMAL CHALLENGES, THE DISTRICT SHALL MAKE THE TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY FORM TO CHALLENGE LIBRARY MATERIAL AVAILABLE ON THE DISTRICT WEBSITE. IF A DISTRICT EMPLOYEE, A PARENT OR GUARDIAN OF A DISTRICT STUDENT OR A DISTRICT RESIDENT WISHES TO CHALLENGE THE LIBRARY MATERIAL, THEY SHALL FOLLOW THE PROCEDURES TO COMPLETE AND SUBMIT THE REQUEST FOR CHALLENGE FORM. UNDER THE CHALLENGE COMMITTEE SECTION, THE BOARD SHALL TAKE ACTION ON WRITTEN CHALLENGE SUBMITTED UNDER EDUCATION CODE 33.02 7A1. AT THE FIRST OPEN MEETING OF THE BOARD, HELD AFTER THE 90TH DAY. AFTER THE DATE ON WHICH THE DISTRICT RECEIVES THE CHALLENGE AND THE LAST KEY CHANGE FELL UNDER FREQUENCY OF REVIEW AFTER A LIBRARY MATERIAL HAS BEEN CHALLENGED IN, THE BOARD DETERMINES NOT TO REMOVE THE LIBRARY MATERIAL FROM A SCHOOL LIBRARY CATALOG. IT MAY NOT BE CHALLENGED AGAIN BEFORE THE SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF THE BOARD'S FINAL DECISION NOT TO REMOVE THE MATERIAL BOARD. THIS IS AN ACTION ITEM, SO WE ARE ASKING YOU TO CONSIDER AND APPROVE THE ADDITIONS AND MODIFICATIONS TO OUR CURRENT POLICY IN ORDER TO ALIGN THE NEWLY ADOPTED SENATE BILL 13 REQUIREMENTS RELATED TO SCHOOL LIBRARY MATERIALS. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR DISCUSSION? THE. OKAY, I'M SORRY, BECAUSE THIS IS THE FIRST YEAR I HAVEN'T SAT ON THE POLICY COMMITTEE. SO ALL OF THESE THAT ARE ALIGNING IFBB LOCAL WITH SB 13 OR SB 13, ARE THESE CHANGES THAT THAT WE MADE OR WERE THEY IS THIS EXISTING POLICY AND WE'RE JUST SHOWING HOW IT ALIGNS? THERE IS SOME CHANGES. THE 30 DAY REVIEW PROCESS IS A

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BUT THEY STILL FALL UNDER ALL THE SAME. YES. POLICY. AND THEN FOR THE FOR THE CHALLENGE RECONSIDERATION PROCESS DOES CAN THAT GO BOTH WAYS. CAN IF WE DON'T HAVE A TITLE IN OUR LIBRARY, CAN A PARENT BRING IT AND SAY THEY WOULD LIKE IT IN OUR LIBRARY? OR SO THAT WAS OKAY. THERE. I THINK YOU JUST I THINK I PASSED IT THERE. NO, IT'S A BIGGER PARAGRAPH. I KNOW IT'S A BIGGER PARAGRAPH. IT'S A BULLET LIST. THE ONE NUMBER ONE GO BACK ONE, I BELIEVE. GO BACK RIGHT THERE. YOU CAN'T. THAT'S FOR US TO TO REVIEW. BUT IT IS IN OKAY. THEIR PARENTS OR GUARDIANS MAY SUBMIT. OH THAT'S TO REMOVE A BOOK. BUT YES, PARENTS CAN SUBMIT A LIST FOR US TO REVIEW AS WELL. OKAY. TO PROCURE. OKAY, I HAVE A QUESTION. SURE. DOES SENATE BILL 13 ALLOW PARENTS TO DETERMINE WHICH STUDENT WHICH BOOKS THEY DON'T WANT THEIR THEIR CHILDREN? IT DOES. AND SO WITHIN OUR OUR SYSTEM, PARENTS WILL BE ALLOWED TO LOG INTO THE SYSTEM, SELECT THE KEY BOOKS THAT THEY DO NOT WANT THEIR STUDENTS TO HAVE ACCESS TO. IT WILL FLAG THAT IN THE SYSTEM AND WILL PREVENT THEM FROM CHECKING THOSE BOOKS OUT IN THE LIBRARY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. CAN WE ALSO GO BACK TO THE THE SMALL EDIT WE'RE MAKING TO ELEMENTARY? YES. OKAY. SO WE ARE CHANGING IT FROM IT JUST SAID FRONTAL NUDITY TO GRATUITOUS OR EXPLICIT FRONTAL NUDITY. SO MY MY FEAR IN THAT IS THAT IT'S STILL IT CAN BE STILL PRETTY SUBJECTIVE. SO OKAY, IN IN THE INSTANCE WHERE WE HAVE A BOOK PULLED OFF THE SHELF THAT IS, YOU KNOW, HAS ONE LITTLE PICTURE THAT IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE PULLED OFF THE SHELF BECAUSE THAT'S NOT THE INTENTION OF OUR POLICY. IF A, IF A LIBRARIAN MAYBE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO IS THIS OR ISN'T THIS, WHO DO THEY GO TO, OR DO THEY JUST MAKE A DECISION SO THAT THEY WOULD GO TO SARAH FALCON FIRST, OKAY. FOR COUNCIL. AND THEN SARAH WOULD THEN SEEK COUNSEL FOR ME TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE POLICY.

OKAY. WHEN I LOOK AT GRATUITOUS AND EXPLICIT FRONTAL NUDITY, IT GIVES A LITTLE MORE CLARITY TO THE TO THE POLICY, WHICH ALLOWS US TO MAKE A LITTLE MORE BETTER DECISIONS AS TO WHAT SHOULD AND SHOULD NOT STAY IN THE LIBRARY. OKAY, SO IN THE INSTANCE OF THE BOOKS THAT WE HAVE ALREADY PULLED BECAUSE WE WERE FOLLOWING OUR POLICY, VERY STRICTLY FRONTAL NUDITY. SO PINKALICIOUS AND I THINK THERE WERE LIKE 11 OR SO MORE IF WE CHANGED THE POLICY TO THIS, CAN THOSE BOOKS THEN BE PLACED BACK INTO OUR LIBRARIES? IF YOU APPROVE THIS, THE CHANGE IN THIS POLICY, THEN YES, THOSE BOOKS WOULD BE REVIEWED TO COME BACK INTO THE LIBRARY. OKAY. I THINK WE ARE ALL IN AGREEMENT THAT THAT'S SOMETHING WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE. SO ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? MORE OF A COMMENT? I HAVE A JUST A COMMENT RATHER THAN A QUESTION, BUT YOU KNOW, LET ME START BY EMPHASIZING THAT I'M A PROPONENT OF LIBRARY UTILIZATION AND STUDENTS. READING THE BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY. BUT BUT INCIDENTALLY, I TEACH A DUAL CREDIT CLASS AT A NEIGHBORING SCHOOL DISTRICT, WHICH, INCIDENTALLY, IS AN A RATED SCHOOL DISTRICT. AND SO THE STUDENTS AT THAT HIGH SCHOOL THAT ARE IN MY DUAL CREDIT CLASS ARE THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST IN THAT SCHOOL DISTRICT. AND RECENTLY, I WAS

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RIGHT. AND SO WE ALSO HAVE ASKED OUR WE'VE GOT A GREAT LEADERSHIP TEAM THAT'S BEEN MEETING OUR HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARIANS ARE MEETING AS A TEAM AS WELL, TO DISCUSS WAYS TO GET STUDENTS BACK INTO THE LIBRARY. AND SO THEY ARE INCREASING THEIR CIRCULATION RATES. RANDALL HIGH SCHOOL HAD 22,731 CIRCULATIONS HAPPEN WITHIN THESE FIRST TWO MONTHS.

AND SO WE ARE SEEING A CHANGE IN WHAT'S HAPPENING BECAUSE WE'VE PUT AN EMPHASIS ON IT IN OUR LIBRARIES. OKAY. AWESOME. SO BEFORE WE VOTE OH JOHN, I'M SORRY THOUGH YOU YOU TALKED ABOUT THE INCREASE OF CIRCULATION. ARE ARE THE KIDS BEING I HATE TO USE THE WORD MANIPULATED BECAUSE IT'S A STRONG WORD, BUT I CAN'T THINK OF ANOTHER ONE AT THE MOMENT TO CHECK OUT A BOOK LIKE, OKAY GUYS, YOU'RE NOT LEAVING THE LIBRARY. THEN GO BACK TO CLASS UNTIL YOU CHECK OUT A BOOK. SO GO GET ONE OFF THE SHELF. IS THERE ANYTHING LIKE THAT? OR ARE THESE ORGANIC NUMBERS THAT KIDS ARE LIKE, HEY, I REALLY WANT TO READ THIS BOOK. NO.

THEY'RE ORGANIC. I THINK WHAT YOU WHAT WE SEE A SHIFT IN IS OUR LIBRARIANS ARE CREATING PROGRAMS WITHIN THEIR LIBRARY THAT ARE ALLOWING STUDENTS TO WANT TO READ BOOKS NOW. AND SO THEY'RE FINDING TOPICS AND THINGS THAT THEY ARE RELEVANT TO THEM AND PROGRAMING IT SO THAT THEY DO COME IN WHEN THEY'RE COMING IN WITH CLASSES OR WHATNOT, AND THEY'RE PICKING UP MORE BOOKS. I ALSO THINK MAYBE SOME OF THE REASON IS THAT THEY CANNOT BE ON THEIR CELL PHONES, SO THEY NEED SOMETHING A GOOD ONE TOO. YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. BECAUSE I MEAN, I HAVE NOTICED MY, MY JUNIOR HIGH, I DON'T THINK SHE CHECKED OUT A SINGLE BOOK ALL OF SIXTH GRADE AND NOW SHE IS SHE'S CHECKING THEM OUT. SO. OKAY. SO ANYBODY ELSE. NO. YEAH. YEAH I WILL JUST SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, OUR DISTRICT HAS OVER WELL OVER HALF A MILLION BOOKS. 600 AND I THINK 15,000 BOOKS, SOMETHING SIMILAR TO THAT. AND SO, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE UPSET ABOUT THE TITLES THAT HAVE BEEN REMOVED. IT'S 251 BOOKS, TITLES I BELIEVE HAVE BEEN REMOVED.

AND SO THAT'S IF I DID THE MATH. I THINK IT'S LIKE 0.04% OF THE BOOKS, AND THEY WERE REMOVED BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T FOLLOW POLICY AND THEY DIDN'T FOLLOW HB 900. AND SO WE HAVE

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AS A LIFELONG AVID READER MYSELF, I AM CONCERNED ABOUT THE RECENT BANNING OF 700 BOOKS FROM LCISD, AND I'M ASKING THE DISTRICT TO STOP REMOVING BOOKS AND RESTORE TRANSPARENCY AND FAIRNESS IN DISTRICT DECISIONS BY INCLUDING STUDENTS, PARENTS AND GUARDIANS, EDUCATORS, LIBRARIANS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS IN REVIEW OF MATERIALS, AND NOT JUST ARBITRARY CHECKLISTS AND RUBRICS OFTEN PROVIDED BY OUT OF DISTRICT SOURCES THAT DO NOT DO NOT REFLECT THE LOCAL COMMUNITY. BOOKS NEED TO BE THOUGHTFULLY EVALUATED AS A WHOLE AND IN CONTEXT, AND IT SEEMS AS THOUGH THE PROCESS THAT LED TO THE BANNING OF 700 BOOKS DOES NOT NECESSARILY ALLOW FOR THOSE NUANCES. IT IS ALSO THE DISTRICT'S DUTY TO INFORM PARENTS OF THE EXISTING TOOLS AVAILABLE TO ALLOW THEM TO RESTRICT WHAT BOOKS THEIR STUDENT MAY OR MAY NOT CHECK OUT FROM SCHOOL LIBRARIES. IN OUR CASE, MY CHILDREN READ

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THESE 700 TITLES HAVEN'T BEEN UNDER REVIEW. AND THESE COMMITTEES THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, VOLUNTEERING THEIR TIME AND TAKING THE TIME TO, YOU KNOW, STEP UP TO DO THAT. AND THESE TITLES THAT WE'RE SEEING, I KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT PINKALICIOUS, BUT THERE'S ALSO, I BELIEVE, THE PAPERBACK PRINCESS, THE PAPERBAG PRINCESS BOOKS THAT I READ IN SCHOOL, THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET AND GLASS MENAGERIE, AND I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS. THEY'RE ALL LITERARY CLASSICS BEING PULLED FROM OUR SHELVES, SO WE'VE ALWAYS TRUSTED OUR LIBRARIANS TO ENSURE MATERIALS ARE AGE APPROPRIATE. SO WHAT'S CHANGED? REMOVING 700 BOOK TITLES UNDER THE ASSERTION THAT H BILL 900 REQUIRES IT IS AN OVERREACH. IN MY OPINION. IF A BOOK TRULY CONTAINS EXPLICIT MATERIAL, THEN SHOW THE COMMUNITY THAT OTHERWISE THIS LOOKS LIKE CENSORSHIP AND QUITE FRANKLY, DISCRIMINATION. I'M HERE TONIGHT TO SPEAK UP FOR A BROADER COMMUNITY, AS THERE IS A PETITION GOING ON RIGHT NOW, AND WE ALREADY HAVE OVER 700 SIGNATURES ASKING THE DISTRICT TO PLEASE RESTORE TRANSPARENCY, REVISIT THE POLICY TO INCLUDE GENUINE COMMUNITY INPUT, AND RESTORE OUR BOOKS TO OUR SHELVES AND REBUILD THE COMMUNITY TRUST. SO I STILL HAVE TWO MINUTES, AND I JUST KIND OF WANTED TO TOUCH ON SOME STUFF I DIDN'T HAVE IN MY PREPARED SPEECH, AND ONE BEING THAT THE KIDS ARE NOT USING THE LIBRARY. SO IF THAT IS THE CASE, WHY ARE WE SPENDING SO MUCH TIME AND EFFORT TALKING ABOUT THIS? WHY ARE WE TREATING BOOKS LIKE CONTRABAND IF IT'S A NON-ISSUE? AND THAT'S THAT'S ALL I WANTED TO SAY ABOUT THAT. SO I WANTED TO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME. THANK YOU.

OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS KATRINA WILLIAMS. GOOD EVENING. BOARD. IF IT'S NOT PAINFULLY OBVIOUS, I AM A TEACHER. MY NAME IS KATRINA WILLIAMS AND I HAVE PROUDLY TAUGHT IN THIS DISTRICT FOR 17 YEARS, NEARLY HALF MY LIFE. THIS IS MY HOME. I HAVE RAISED MY DAUGHTER HERE, I HAVE DEVOTED MY CAREER HERE, AND I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN PROUD TO CALL THIS COMMUNITY MINE. A FEW YEARS AGO, I SERVED ON THE COMMITTEE THAT HELPED SHAPED OUR EFB LOCAL LIBRARY POLICIES.

I JOINED BECAUSE CENSORSHIP IS AN ISSUE CLOSE TO MY HEART. EVEN THEN, IT BECAME CLEAR THAT WORDS LIKE VULGARITY OR AS I SAW TODAY, INDECENT ARE HIGHLY SUBJECTIVE. ONE PARENT EVEN TOLD ME ON THE COMMITTEE, WELL, SURELY WILL ALL AGREE ON WHAT IS VULGAR, BUT WE DON'T. WHAT

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HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS AT KATIE BUDGET BOOKS. I AM NOT HERE TO TALK ABOUT PINKALICIOUS OR TO TALK ABOUT THE PAPERBAG PRINCESS. THOSE TITLES ARE OFTEN USED AS THE OUTCRY OR THE DISTRACTION BY THOSE WHO OPPOSED TO BOOK ACCESS. I AM HERE FOR THE BOOKS THAT TRULY MATTER TO A CHILD'S HEART AND TO THEIR FUTURE. I AM HERE FOR GHOST BOY'S, A BOOK THAT TEACHES EMPATHY, JUSTICE, AND THE WEIGHT OF HISTORY. I AM HERE FOR THE WORKS OF MAYA ANGELOU, WHOSE WORDS HAVE INSPIRED GENERATIONS TO RISE ABOVE PAIN AND CLAIM THEIR DIGNITY. THESE ARE THE VOICES BEING SILENCED. THIS IS WHAT BRINGS UP THE WORD DISCRIMINATION. WHEN I SAW EYEBROWS FURROWED WHEN THAT WAS BROUGHT UP. THIS IS WHY BOOKS ARE NOT LUXURIES. THEY ARE NECESSITIES. THEY ARE. AS DOCTOR RUDINE SIMS SAYS, MIRRORS, WINDOWS AND SLIDING GLASS DOORS TO MANY OF THE BOOKS ON THE BANNED LIST ARE NOT FILLED WITH VULGARITY OR INDECENCY. THEY ARE FILLED WITH DIFFERENCE. STORIES ABOUT STUDENTS WHO ARE IMMIGRANTS, ABOUT BLACK OR BROWN FAMILIES, ABOUT KIDS WHO DON'T FIT THE MOLD. WHEN WE LABEL THESE STORIES AS INAPPROPRIATE, WE ARE SENDING A PAINFUL MESSAGE THAT MY CHILDREN'S LIVES, THEIR IDENTITIES, THEIR FAMILIES DO NOT BELONG IN OUR SCHOOLS OR MY CLASSROOM. AND MAKE NO MISTAKE, THIS POLICY HAS BEEN REMOVING BOOKS FROM KIDS. THANK YOU.

OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY, SO IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING WE CAN CONTINUE DISCUSSION IF IF ANYBODY WANTS TO IF THAT SPURRED ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR ANYONE? NO. OKIE DOKES. WELL THEN WE WILL. SO FOR CLARIFICATION, MADAM PRESIDENT, WE ARE SIMPLY ALIGNING TO SENATE BILL, SENATE BILL 13 WITH, AS I UNDERSTAND IT OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. OKAY. SO

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TRUSTEE. LAMBERT MAKES THE SECOND. ANY DISCUSSION? OKAY, I'LL NOW CALL FOR THE VOTE. ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. AYE. MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. WE WILL NOW HAVE REPORTS AND PRESENTATIONS

[12.A. BYOL Program and Cell Phone Tracker Updates]

GOOD EVENING, BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND DOCTOR NIVENS. THIS EVENING WE WILL BE PROVIDING UPDATES ON THE PROGRESS OF THE BRING YOUR OWN LAPTOP BIOL PILOT INITIATIVE AND CELL PHONE TRACKER PROGRAMS. AS A REMINDER, THE BIOL PILOT INITIATIVE WAS PUT IN PLACE TO SUPPORT INDIVIDUAL INSTRUCTIONAL NEEDS OF STUDENTS IN LAMAR CISD, ALLOWING FOR STUDENTS WITH A PERSONAL LAPTOP TO BRING THEIR OWN LAPTOP FOR INSTRUCTIONAL USE IN ADVANCED PLACEMENT AND DUAL CREDIT DUAL ENROLLMENT COURSES. AGAIN, THIS IS A PILOT INITIATIVE THAT MEETS THE REQUIREMENTS OF HOUSE BILL 1481 BY REQUIRING STUDENTS TO JOIN THE DISTRICT FILTERED INTERNET HAVING GUIDELINES THAT DO NOT ALLOW THE DEVICE TO BE USED AS A PERSONAL COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND A SPECIFIC SET OF CONSEQUENCES SHOULD THE STUDENT NOT FOLLOW EXPECTATIONS WITH THEIR PERSONAL LAPTOP. PERSONAL LAPTOPS MAY ONLY BE USED FOR INSTRUCTIONAL PURPOSES DURING AP AND DUAL CREDIT DUAL ENROLLMENT COURSES. STUDENTS ELIGIBLE FOR THE BIOL PILOT INITIATIVE MUST MEET ALL OF THE FOLLOWING REQUIREMENTS. THEY MUST BE ENROLLED IN AP DUAL CREDIT DUAL ENROLLMENT COURSES. THEY MUST BE IN GRADES NINE THROUGH 12, AND THEY MUST HAVE A 90% ATTENDANCE RATE. ALL STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN THE BIOL PILOT PROGRAM ARE REQUIRED TO REVIEW AND SIGN THE BIOL. ACCEPTABLE USE GUIDELINES BEFORE BEFORE BEING ALLOWED TO USE THEIR PERSONAL LAPTOP, THE BIOL PILOT EXTENDS TO STUDENTS IN ADVANCED PLACEMENT AND DUAL CREDIT DUAL ENROLLMENT COURSES, WHICH INCLUDES 3849 STUDENTS IN ADVANCED PLACEMENT COURSES AND AROUND 2623 STUDENTS IN DUAL CREDIT AND DUAL ENROLLMENT COURSES. STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN THE BIOL PILOT INCLUDE 93 STUDENTS AT LAMAR, 57 AT TERRY, 361 AT FOSTER, 400 AT GEORGE RANCH, 440 AT FORT FULCHER, 188 AT RANDALL, AND 65 AT THOMAS, FOR A TOTAL OF 1604 STUDENTS DISTRICT WIDE. TO DATE, THREE STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN THE BIOL PILOT HAVE ATTENDANCE RATES THAT HAVE FALLEN BELOW 90% AND ARE NO LONGER ELIGIBLE FOR THE BIO FOR BIOL PARTICIPATION. THESE STUDENTS HAVE ACCESS TO A DISTRICT DEVICE AS NEEDED AND THEIR AP DUAL CREDIT AND DUAL ENROLLMENT COURSES. WE COLLECTED FEEDBACK FROM TEACHERS OF ADVANCED PLACEMENT, DUAL CREDIT AND HONORS COURSES FROM ALL SEVEN OF OUR HIGH SCHOOLS AND OF THE 30 TEACHERS RESPONDING, MOST REPORT THAT THE BRING YOUR OWN LAPTOP PILOT INITIATIVE IS GOING EXTREMELY WELL. WITH IMPROVED ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGY AND FEWER DISRUPTIONS TO INSTRUCTION DUE TO DEVICE SHORTAGES, SOME TEACHERS HAVE SHARED CONCERNS RELATED TO HAVING ENOUGH RELIABLE DISTRICT DEVICES, BUT PERSONAL LAPTOPS HELP ADDRESS SHORTAGES AND RELIABILITY ISSUES. THE LAMAR CISD TECHNOLOGY TEAM CONTINUES TO WORK WITH TEACHERS TO RESOLVE ISSUES, AS THEY ARE REPORTED. BEFORE I PASS ALONG TO MR. NAVA FOR THE BIOL STUDENT INFRACTIONS AND CELL PHONE TRACKER UPDATE, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR DISCUSSION? CAN WE GO TO THE SLIDE THAT HAS THE NUMBERS OF USAGE NUMBERS OF. YEAH, THIS ONE CORRECT? YES MA'AM. I JUST WANT TO SEE THAT AGAIN. AND SO THAT'S INCREASED NUMBERS ARE JUST BECAUSE THERE ARE MORE STUDENTS AT THOSE SCHOOLS. I JUST WANT TO MAKE A NOTE OF THAT. THE HIGHER POPULATION, LESS COMPUTERS, THE SCHOOLS THAT HAVE THE LOWER ARE POTENTIALLY WELL, SOME OF THEM ARE TITLE ONE SCHOOLS. AND SO THEY HAVE TITLE ONE FUNDS TO USE FOR THOSE OKAY. I HAVE A QUESTION AS WELL JUST SO THAT I UNDERSTAND. SO. I PRESUME THESE THESE COMPUTERS THEY'RE PERSONAL COMPUTERS ARE ARE SET UP SO THAT THEY CANNOT BE USED AS A COMMUNICATION DEVICE.

CORRECT. OKAY. AND HOW HOW WOULD THEY BE USED AS A COMMUNICATION DEVICE? I'M GOING TO DEFER TO DOCTOR CHAD JONES, OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY. SO ALL OF THESE DEVICES HAVE TO BE ON OUR TO TO QUALIFY FOR THIS PROGRAM. THEY HAVE TO JOIN OUR BIOL NETWORK.

AND THAT NETWORK IS FILTERED THE SAME AS OUR OTHER DISTRICT DEVICES NETWORK. AND SO THAT IS AS BEST WE VERY WELL CAN, WE ARE FILTERING OUT ANY INAPPROPRIATE CONTENT AND ENSURING THAT THEY CAN'T USE ANY SORT OF MESSAGING, LIKE ANY SORT OF TEXTING TOOLS OR ANY

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WE CAN DO OUR VERY BEST TO TO BE HITTING THAT AS BEST WE CAN. YES. THERE'S THERE'S ALWAYS THE WORLD IS ALWAYS COMING UP WITH A NEW SERVER THAT'S ONLINE OF, OH, THIS IS A BACKUP TO A BACKUP. AND SO WE GO THROUGH AND TRY AND GRAB THAT ONE TO MAKE SURE WE'RE BLOCKING THAT.

BUT THAT IS OUR ACTIVE DAILY WORK. THERE'S ALSO. THIS ALSO COMES WITH AN HONOR CODE FOR OUR YOUNG PEOPLE BECAUSE AS WE KNOW AS DOCTOR JONES SAID, THERE'S ALWAYS A WORKAROUND.

THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING OUT THERE THAT'S THAT'S MORE ADVANCED, MORE, MORE AHEAD.

THAT JUST WAS JUST RELEASED. RIGHT. AND IT GIVES STUDENTS ACCESS TO GO AROUND THE SYSTEM.

AND SO ONE THING THAT WE'RE ALSO TALKING TO STUDENTS ABOUT AND TEACHING IS THE HONOR CODE, IS TO MAKE SURE THAT IF YOU SAY YOU'RE GOING TO DO SOMETHING, THAT YOU FOLLOW YOUR WORD AND YOU DO THAT, AND SO IF YOU SIGN A DOCUMENT THAT SAYS, YOU KNOW, I WILL NOT USE MY LAPTOP AS A PERSONAL COMMUNICATION DEVICE, THEN WE EXPECT THAT AND WE HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE FOR THAT. AND SO ANOTHER THING WE WANT TO MAKE SURE IS WE DON'T DROP ANOTHER THING ON OUR TEACHERS TO DO. AND SO AS OUR TEACHERS ARE MONITORING THE CLASS, IF THEY SEE THAT, THEN OF COURSE WE HAVE CONSEQUENCES THAT HAVE BEEN DEALT WITH THAT ARE BEING GIVEN OUT BY OUR ADMINISTRATORS.

BUT ALSO, YOU KNOW, AS OUR PARENTS AND OUR STUDENTS ARE WATCHING THIS, AS OUR PARENTS ARE WATCHING THIS, AND THEY'LL TELL THEIR STUDENTS, I DON'T KNOW OF ANY STUDENTS WATCHING THE BOARD MEETING TONIGHT, BUT THERE'S AN HONOR CODE. AND SO, YOU KNOW, THE FAMILY STRUCTURE IS THE FOUNDATION OF OUR SOCIETY. AND SO WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR PARENTS UNDERSTAND THAT WHEN WE DO THIS, WE NEED THEM TO ENFORCE THE HONOR CODE WITH OUR STUDENTS AT HOME. SO WHEN THEY COME TO SCHOOL THAT THEY'RE ABLE TO USE THEIR DEVICES AND BE ABLE TO GET THE LESSONS THAT THEY NEED TO BE ABLE TO GET, BUT THAT'S A CONVERSATION WE'RE ALSO HAVING WITH OUR YOUNG PEOPLE. I HAVE A QUICK QUESTION ABOUT THE ATTENDANCE. SO IF A CHILD WERE TO HAVE AN EXCUSED ATTENDANCE REASON, LIKE SAY THEY ARE SEVERELY ILL OR SAY THEY WERE HOSPITALIZED IN A CAR ACCIDENT, ARE WE GIVING? ARE WE LOOKING AT THOSE? EXACTLY. SO EVERYTHING IS TRULY ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS. THERE ARE EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES THAT ARE BEYOND THE CONTROL OF A STUDENT. EXAMPLES THAT YOU'VE JUST ALLUDED TO. SO YES, OUR CAMPUSES DO WORK ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS, BUT ANYTHING BELOW 90% THAT'S EGREGIOUS OR SOMETHING THAT IS NOT AN ACCEPTABLE OR UNEXCUSED ABSENCE OR THOSE THINGS THAT WOULD QUALIFY OR DISQUALIFY OR DISCREDIT A STUDENT FROM PARTICIPATION. OKAY. THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT. GOOD EVENING. BOARD OF TRUSTEES. DOCTOR LAMAR, STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT OUTLINES EXPECTATIONS FOR RESPONSIBLE USE OF PERSONAL COMMUNICATION DEVICES DURING THE SCHOOL DAY. TONIGHT, I WILL BE PROVIDING YOU WITH AN OVERVIEW OF STUDENT VIOLATIONS OF PERSONAL COMMUNICATION DEVICE POLICY AS DEFINED BY THE STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT, HIGHLIGHTING FREQUENCY TRENDS AND CAMPUS COMPLIANCE. THE DATA IN THIS REPORT REFLECTS REPORTED INFRACTIONS INTO THE COMMUNICATION DEVICE TRACKER AND INCLUDES DATA ACROSS ALL GRADE LEVELS AND CAMPUSES. THIS FIRST SLIDE REFLECTS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF VIOLATIONS AS OF OCTOBER 14TH, 2025. THE TOTAL NUMBER OF VIOLATIONS ARE AT 1576, WITH HIGH SCHOOL HAVING THE MOST VIOLATIONS AT 1315, FOLLOWED BY THE JUNIOR HIGH AT 203, MIDDLE ELEMENTARY AT 40, AND THEN MIDDLE SCHOOL AT 18. GIVEN OUR ENROLLMENT, THIS AVERAGES OUT TO ABOUT 3.2% OF OUR STUDENT POPULATION. THIS NEXT SLIDE TAKES THE PREVIOUS INFORMATION AND PROVIDES YOU A LOOK BASED ON THE PERCENTAGE OF VIOLATIONS AT EACH LEVEL. AND AGAIN, HIGH SCHOOL IS AT THE HAS THE MOST AT 83%, FOLLOWED BY JUNIOR HIGH AT 13%, ELEMENTARY AT 3%, AND MIDDLE SCHOOL AT 1% OF THE VIOLATIONS. HERE YOU HAVE THE INFORMATION BROKEN DOWN BY GRADE LEVEL.

11TH GRADERS HAVE THE MOST VIOLATIONS AT 408, FOLLOWED BY 10TH GRADERS AT 337 AND THEN 12TH GRADERS AT 327. WHEN CATEGORIZING THE DATA BY LEVELS, SECONDARY EQUATES TO ABOUT 97% OF ALL VIOLATIONS, AND ELEMENTARY ABOUT 2.4% OF VIOLATIONS. THIS NEXT SLIDE PROVIDES YOU WITH THE VIOLATION DATA BASED ON THE TYPE OF INFECTION THAT HAS OCCURRED.

CELL PHONE VIOLATIONS ARE THE MOST COMMON TYPE OF VIOLATIONS AT 1354, FOLLOWED BY HEADPHONES

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CELL PHONE VIOLATIONS ACCOUNT FOR 86% OF ALL VIOLATIONS, EARBUDS 8%, AND SMART DEVICES AT 3%. ALL OTHERS ARE AT 1% OR LESS. THIS SLIDE PROVIDES YOU WITH THE LOCATION OF THE VIOLATION. YOU CAN TELL MOST VIOLATIONS OCCUR WITHIN THE CLASSROOM, WITH 1067 VIOLATIONS, FOLLOWED BY THOSE IN THE HALLWAY AT 309, CAFETERIA AT 97, RESTROOMS 54, AND LIBRARY AT 16.

AGAIN, WHEN LOOKING AT PERCENTAGES, 6,868% OF ALL VIOLATIONS HAVE OCCURRED WITHIN THE CLASSROOM, 20% IN THE HALLWAY, AND 6% IN THE CAFETERIA WITH 3% IN THE BATHROOM. THE DATA HERE REFLECTS THE VIOLATIONS BY COLORED TRACK. PURPLE TRACK HAS 380 VIOLATIONS. GOLD TRACK 309. SILVER AT 286. BLUE TRACK 224. THE RED TRACK 176. THE GREEN TRACK 123 AND THE MAROON TRACK AT 76. ON THE RIGHT YOU WILL SEE THE SAME INFORMATION BASED OFF OF THE PERCENTAGE. OKAY. NEXT SLIDE. HERE YOU WILL SEE THE INFORMATION BASED ON THE LEVEL OF OFFENSE. WE HAVE HAD 1884 FIRST TIME OFFENSES, FOLLOWED BY 159 169 SECOND TIME OFFENSES, 20 ONE THIRD TIME OFFENSES, AND TWO FOURTH FOURTH UNDER FOURTH OFFENSE. AGAIN, YOU WILL SEE THAT INFORMATION BY PERCENTAGE. SO 87% OF ALL STUDENTS HAVE VIOLATED THE VIOLATION ON THEIR FIRST TIME. AND ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS. MR. NORMAN, DID YOU SAY THAT THIS IS FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE SCHOOL YEAR, THIS YEAR, FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE SCHOOL YEAR TILL THE 14TH OF OCTOBER? GOTCHA. THANK YOU. SO I TO ME, YOUR ILLUSTRATION BEGS THE QUESTION, WHAT'S THE MAROON TRACK DOING TO HAVE THAT KIND OF SUCCESS? BECAUSE I NEED TO TRY THAT IN MY CLASSROOM. ANY IDEA? WELL, THE MAROON TRACK FOR THE LONGEST TIME HAS HAD NO CELL PHONE POLICY. EVEN WHEN THERE WAS A CELL PHONE POLICY. OKAY, SO ABOUT POLY AND RED AND JUNIOR HIGH ALWAYS HAD NO CELL PHONE POLICY STARDOM. YOUNG STARDOM YOUNG I MEAN, YOU YOU GROOM THEM LIVING CLEAN. CLEAN LIVING. YEAH. CLEAN LIVING. YOU MIGHT HAVE SAID THIS. WHAT WAS.

WHAT'S BLANKS? WHAT IS BLANKS? IT JUST MEANS THAT WITHIN THE TRACKER, THEY DID NOT PUT THE LOCATION OF WHERE THE INCIDENT OCCURRED. OKAY, SO CAN I ASK A QUESTION? ARE WE HAVING ANY ISSUES WITH STUDENTS WHO ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE BRINGING LAPTOPS, LIKE BRINGING THEM AND USING THEM, LIKE IN AN ACADEMIC CLASSROOM SETTING? OR, YOU KNOW, LIKE I HAVE NOT HEARD OF THAT OCCURRING FROM ANY, ANY ADMINISTRATOR YET. SO BUT BASED ON THE DATA, I THINK IT'S PRETTY CLEAR THAT THE FIRST INFRACTION IS ENOUGH FOR MOST KIDS TO NOT TO NOT DO IT AGAIN.

RIGHT. HAVE WE HAD ANY KIDS GO TO ALC OVER CELL PHONES? YEAH, WE'VE HAD TWO INDIVIDUALS WITH THE FOUR VIOLATIONS ALREADY. OKAY. SO BASED OFF OUR STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT, THOSE ARE PLACEMENTS AT THE DAP. OKAY. BUT I MEAN, OTHERWISE IT'S GOING PRETTY WELL I WOULD IMAGINE. OKAY. THANK YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME. GOOD EVENING. BOARD OF TRUSTEES. DOCTOR

[12.B. Demographic Update]

MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. DOCTOR NIVENS, IT IS GREAT TO BE HERE WITH YOU TONIGHT. TONIGHT I'M JOINED BY MY COLLEAGUE, DOCTOR STUART KEOUGH. WE HAVE GONE TO A TWO ADVISOR APPROACH, SO WE'VE ASSIGNED SUPPORT ADVISORS. AND STUART IS THE SUPPORTING ADVISOR THAT WILL BE ASSISTING ME. HE HAS BRAND NEW TO OUR COMPANY. WE HIRED HIM BACK IN MAY. HE'S GOT A HISTORY OF WORKING WITH SCHOOL DISTRICTS, CONSULTING, DOING STRATEGIC PLANNING. HE ACTUALLY WROTE HIS DISSERTATION ON SCHOOL FINANCE IN TEXAS. SO WE'RE PLEASED TO HAVE HIM JOIN OUR TEAM AND HE

[02:00:01]

THE INVENTORY, WHICH REPRESENTS HOMES UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND SOME FINISHED VACANT NEW HOMES, IS AT 2395. VDL STANDS FOR VACANT DEVELOPED LOTS. THOSE ARE LOTS THAT ARE READY FOR BUILDERS TO BUILD ON. WE HAVE 5705 VACANT DEVELOPED LOTS, AND WE HAVE OVER 58,400 FUTURES.

FUTURES ARE CONCEPT PLANS. THEIR FUTURE PHASES OF EXISTING DEVELOPMENTS. BUT THEY'RE ALSO BRAND NEW DEVELOPMENTS THAT ARE STARTING THROUGH THE PLANNING PERMITTING PROCESS. AND THAT'S NOT EVEN THE FULL AMOUNT OF VACANT LAND. WHEN I REALLY WANT TO PUT THIS IN CONTEXT, YOU ARE GOING TO BE THE FASTEST GROWING SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THE HOUSTON METROPLEX FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT TEN YEARS, AND I SAY THAT BASED ON THAT FUTURE LOT SUPPLY, THAT FUTURE LOT SUPPLY AT 58,000 WOULD WELL EXCEED TEN YEARS OF HOUSING GROWTH. PLUS YOU STILL HAVE VACANT LAND THAT HASN'T EVEN STARTED THAT PROCESS YET. NOW WE TRACK THE STARTS AND CLOSINGS BY EACH QUARTER. YOU CAN SEE THROUGH THE FIRST TWO QUARTERS OF 2025, WE WERE AT ABOUT 2407 STARTS. THAT'S COMPARABLE TO WHAT WE WERE SEEING IN 2024. SO I DO THINK THE ANNUAL START RATE AND THE ANNUAL CLOSING RATE FOR 2025 ARE GOING TO BE JUST UNDER 5000 NEW HOME STARTS AND CLOSINGS THROUGH THE REST OF THE YEAR. WHEN WE SEPARATED OUT BY YEAR ELEMENTARY ATTENDANCE ZONES.

YOU CAN SEE THE HAYGOOD ZONE IS FAR AND AWAY BUILDING THE MOST NEW HOMES. THEY'VE GOT 1283 NEW HOME STARTS THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS. THE SECOND MOST ACTIVE ZONE IS THE MORGAN ZONE, WITH 540 STARTS. BEAZLEY 448. I SAY THIS EACH TIME. THIS IS REALLY INCREDIBLE BECAUSE YOU HAVE SO MANY ELEMENTARY ZONES THAT ARE SEEING REALLY STRONG HOUSING GROWTH. MOST FAST GROWTH DISTRICTS ARE LUCKY TO HAVE 5 TO 6 ZONES BUILDING THIS KIND OF HOUSING, BUT YOU'VE GOT IT HAPPENING IN MORE THAN 12 ZONES ACROSS THE DISTRICT. HERE'S ANOTHER WAY TO LOOK AT THIS DATA. THIS IS A MAP SHOWING YOUR ELEMENTARY ATTENDANCE ZONE OUTLINES. SO THAT KIND OF DARK BLUE LINE REPRESENTS THE ELEMENTARY ATTENDANCE ZONES.

THE GREEN SHADED AREAS ARE ACTIVE SUBDIVISIONS THAT ARE BUILDING NEW SINGLE FAMILY HOMES. THE YELLOW SHADED AREAS ARE THE FUTURE SUBDIVISIONS THAT ARE IN THE PLANNING STAGES.

YOU HAVE 93 ACTIVELY BUILDING SUBDIVISIONS. YOU HAVE 44 FUTURE SUBDIVISIONS THAT ARE IN THE PLANNING STAGES. THE DEVELOPERS HAVE NOT SLOWED DOWN. WE HAVE GROUND WORK UNDERWAY ON 2480 LOTS IN 15 DIFFERENT SUBDIVISIONS THAT WILL LIKELY BE DELIVERED WITHIN THE NEXT 6

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TAMARON IS FAR AND AWAY THE MOST ACTIVE MASTER PLANNED COMMUNITY WITH OVER 900 CLOSINGS. YOU'VE GOT AMBERLY WITH 249, SORRENTO, 241, CANDELA 239 AND STONE CREEK ESTATES 227. ANNUAL CLOSINGS IN THOSE FIVE NEIGHBORHOODS, I'M GOING TO TOUCH ON SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE BIG FUTURES THAT ARE IN THE WORKS. BROOKWATER RECENTLY DELIVERED.

THEY HAVE 2400 TOTAL LOTS. THEY HAVE 84 HOMES UNDER CONSTRUCTION. REALLY JUST GETTING STARTED WITH 87 OCCUPIED HOMES. THOSE PRICE POINTS ARE IN THE UPPER 200,000 TO THE MID 50 RANGE FOR HOMES IN BROOKWATER. HOLLY RIDGE IS A FUTURE DEVELOPMENT THAT'S IN THE PLANNING STAGES. IT'S OVER A THOUSAND TOTAL LOTS. THIS IS A D.R. HORTON COMMUNITY AND THEY THE GROUNDWORK IS UNDERWAY, SO THEY'LL LIKELY BE WORKING TO DELIVER THE INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE STREETS. SHOULD SEE HOMES STARTING IN THE SPRING OF 26 IN HOLLY RIDGE. AND IT'S IN THE BEASLEY ELEMENTARY ATTENDANCE ZONE. NEXT WE'RE LOOKING AT BRENTWOOD FARMS. IT'S ABOUT 1098 FUTURE LOTS. SECTIONS ONE THROUGH THREE HAVE 166 LOTS. THEY HAVE BEEN APPROVED AND THE GROUNDWORK IS UNDERWAY ON THE THE FUTURE PHASES ONE THROUGH THREE IN BRENTWOOD FARMS AGAIN LIKELY SEE HOMES STARTING IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE SPRING OF 26. SUMMER 26 IS WHEN WE'LL SEE THIS AREA REALLY STARTING TO TAKE OFF. NEXT IS RYAN HILL. IT'S A MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT THAT DOES HAVE SOME DEL WEBB ACTIVE ADULT LOTS. THERE ARE 770 DEL WEBB LOTS THAT WOULD HAVE NO IMPACT OF STUDENTS TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, BUT THEY'RE STILL GOING TO BE CLOSE TO 1000 LOTS THAT ARE IN THE PULTE AREA THAT WOULD LIKELY HAVE HOMES WITH KIDS. SO GROUNDWORK IS UNDERWAY ON RYAN HILL AS WELL. THOSE ARE JUST SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE FUTURES. WE DO HAVE THE FULL REPORT OF THE HOUSING ACTIVITY THAT IS AVAILABLE ON THE MULTIFAMILY PICTURE. THE THIS SLIDE IS ILLUSTRATING THE MULTIFAMILY PICTURE FOR THE HOUSTON AREA. THE BLUE BAR REPRESENTS THE OCCUPANCY RATES. YOU CAN SEE HOW THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS, WE'VE SEEN A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT IN OCCUPANCY RATES. YOU KNOW, JUST BACK IN THE FIRST PART OF THE YEAR, THEY WERE IN THAT 86 RANGE, 80%, 86% OCCUPIED. NOW THEY'RE UP TO ABOUT 88% OCCUPIED. SO WE HAVE SEEN AN IMPROVEMENT THERE. AND THE REASON IS WE'RE ABSORBING MORE OF THOSE UNITS. WE BUILT ABOUT 16,700 UNITS IN THE LAST YEAR, AND WE ABSORBED ABOUT 20,700 UNITS. AND SO WE ARE SEEING AN INCREASE IN THAT OCCUPANCY RATE.

WHEN WE LOOK SPECIFICALLY AT THE MULTIFAMILY PICTURE FOR LAMAR, THOSE PURPLE CIRCLES ARE THE APARTMENT COMPLEXES THAT ARE UNDER CONSTRUCTION. THE TURQUOISE CIRCLES ARE THE APARTMENT COMPLEXES THAT ARE IN THE PLANNING STAGES. WE HAVE 1700 MULTIFAMILY UNITS THAT ARE IN THE CONSTRUCTION STAGE. 260 OF THOSE ARE SINGLE FAMILY RENTAL HOMES, AND WE'VE GOT NEARLY 6600 MULTIFAMILY UNITS THAT ARE IN THE PLANNING STAGES ACROSS THE DISTRICT, AND WE'VE GOT 660 OF THOSE THAT ARE SINGLE FAMILY RENTAL UNITS. WE DO GEOCODE YOUR STUDENTS EVERY FALL, AND WE LOOK AT THOSE YIELDS OF STUDENTS PER HOME AND STUDENTS PER MULTIFAMILY PROJECT. AND SO THIS SINGLE FAMILY RENTAL IS A GROWING TREND THAT WE ARE SEEING MORE AND MORE ACROSS OUR CLIENTS. AND THEY HAVE A LITTLE BIT HIGHER YIELD THAN A TRADITIONAL MULTIFAMILY, BUT NOT AS HIGH OF A YIELD AS A TRADITIONAL SINGLE FAMILY NEIGHBORHOOD. SO A SINGLE FAMILY NEIGHBORHOOD TENDS TO YIELD BETWEEN 0.4 TO 0.6. MULTIFAMILY TENDS TO YIELD AROUND 0.1 TO 0.15, WHEREAS THIS SINGLE FAMILY RENTAL YIELDS CLOSER TO THE 0.2. NOW HERE'S A LOOK AT THE PROJECTIONS BY GRADE LEVEL. THIS IS THE ENROLLMENT NUMBER FROM SEPTEMBER FROM A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO. AND YOU ARE GROWING EVERY DAY. SO I KNOW YOUR NUMBERS LIKELY A LITTLE HIGHER THAN THIS. WE'RE VERY FORTUNATE. YOUR ENROLLMENT CAME IN VERY CLOSE TO WHAT WE FORECASTED. SO THE ENROLLMENT FOR SEPTEMBER WAS 48,568, WHICH WAS GROWTH OF

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BUT EVEN WITH THE HICCUPS, WE'RE STILL PRODUCING OVER 5000 CLOSINGS. SO THIS NUMBER I THINK IS A GOOD NUMBER TO PLAN AROUND IS ABOUT 27,000 ELEMENTARY STUDENTS IN FIVE YEARS, AND MORE THAN 31,000 ELEMENTARY STUDENTS IN TEN YEARS. AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL, YOU'RE ROUGHLY GROWING ABOUT A INTERMEDIATE OR A MIDDLE SCHOOL'S WORTH OF GROWTH ABOUT EVERY 2 TO 3 YEARS. SO NOT QUITE THE SAME, BECAUSE THESE ARE LARGER CAMPUSES IS THE MAIN REASON WHY YOU'RE NOT SEEING AN ELEMENT IN INTERMEDIATE OR JUNIOR HIGH NEED EVERY YEAR.

BUT AT LEAST EVERY 2 TO 3 YEARS, YOU'RE GOING TO NEED AN INTERMEDIATE AND A JUNIOR HIGH.

SO YOU CAN SEE YOU'VE GOT ROBERTS AT CAPACITY. AND THAT'S WHERE A NEW CAPACITY, A NEW BUILDING IS GOING TO COME ONLINE TO HELP WITH ROBERTS. SAME FOR LEHMAN. YOU'VE GOT NEW CAMPUSES COMING THAT WILL HELP WITH THOSE AREAS THAT ARE SLIGHTLY OVERCAPACITY. SAME AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL. FULSHEAR HIGH SCHOOL. WHEN THE NEXT HIGH SCHOOL OPENS, WE'LL SEE SOME RELIEF WHEN THAT NEXT HIGH SCHOOL OPENS. SO I'LL DO KEY TAKEAWAYS AND BE READY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. THE SECOND QUARTER 25 START RATE IS HOLDING AT ABOUT 1263, PUTTING THE ANNUAL RATE NEAR 4800 NEW HOMES. WE HAVE 93 ACTIVELY BUILDING SUBDIVISIONS, 5700 LOTS AVAILABLE FOR BUILDERS TO BUILD ON. WE HAVE A VERY HIGH PIPELINE OF FUTURES. WE HAVE 44 FUTURE SUBDIVISIONS IN THE PLANNING STAGES THAT REPRESENT ABOUT 58,500 LOTS. WE CONTINUE TO SEE GROUNDWORK UNDERWAY OF 2500 LOTS IN 15 DIFFERENT SUBDIVISIONS. THE ENROLLMENT PATTERNS ARE SHIFTING ACROSS THE STATE, BUT HERE IN LAMAR, YOU'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO SEE VERY STRONG ENROLLMENT BECAUSE OF THE SIZE AND THE SHEER VOLUME OF HOUSES, THE EXPANSION OF EDUCATION OPTIONS ACROSS THE STATE ARE LEADING TO SOME DECLINING PATTERNS. BUT I WILL SAY THAT FOR LAMAR CONSOLIDATED, THOSE THOSE PICTURES OF ENROLLMENT CHANGE ARE MANY, MANY YEARS OUT. IF I LOOK AT FORT BEND AS AN EXAMPLE, FORT BEND HAS ONLY ABOUT 6000 FUTURE LOTS LEFT, SO THEY'RE NEAR THE END OF THEIR BUILDING PIPELINE OR BUILDING WINDOW. THEY ENTERED INTO DECLINING ENROLLMENT TWO YEARS AGO, JUST TWO YEARS AGO. AND SO YOU'RE A LONG WAY FROM THAT PICTURE. AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE THAT REALLY CLEAR, BECAUSE IT'S THE SIZE OF THE DISTRICT. IT'S THE AMOUNT OF FUTURES, AND IT'S THE STRONG ACTIVITY THAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW ACROSS THE REGION AND SPECIFICALLY HERE IN LAMAR SCHOOL DISTRICT. I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. SO I'LL START OUT. MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT YOUR YOUR PREDICTION IS A 3% GROWTH RATE, 3% OKAY. DOES THAT REPRESENT APPROXIMATELY 2000 STUDENTS? YES 1800 TO 1900 STUDENTS. OKAY. 18 TO 1900. DOES THAT ACCOUNT FOR DROPOUTS, GRADUATIONS? IT DOES. SO IT'S NET NET. YES. AND SO SO YOU'RE PREDICTING THAT IN FIVE YEARS WOULD BE APPROXIMATELY 57,114 STUDENTS. IN FIVE YEARS, YOUR ENROLLMENT COULD BE AT ABOUT 57,106 STUDENTS. OKAY. AND IN TEN YEARS, 65,211 65,192. OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. I DO HAVE SOME QUESTIONS. CAN WE GO BACK TO. THE APARTMENT COMPLEX, THE MAPS? YES. MULTIFAMILY. OKAY. SO I

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HOW MANY LOTS ARE LEFT, WHAT THAT FUTURE COUNT IS AND HOW IT IS IMPACTING THE DISTRICT, THE CAMPUS. THANK YOU. I DO HAVE A QUESTION. GO AHEAD. MR. TEMPLETON. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT REALLY CONCERNS ME IS LIKE, LET'S JUST PICK A DATE IN THE FUTURE. THE YEAR 2050. MY ONE OF MY CONCERNS IS THAT WHEN THESE NEIGHBORHOODS AGE OUT, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SO MANY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS BUILT SO CLOSE TO EACH OTHER, GEOGRAPHICALLY CLOSE, AND WE'RE GOING TO BE IN A SITUATION AS A DISTRICT WHERE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO BE CLOSING SCHOOLS. SO I DON'T SEE ANY OTHER WAY TO HANDLE STUDENTS COMING HERE WITH THE STATE, THE WAY THE STATE HAS MANDATED US TO EDUCATE WHOEVER SHOWS UP AT OUR DOORS. BUT YOU'RE YOU'RE SAYING, IF I'M HEARING YOU RIGHT, THAT WE'RE NOT ANYWHERE CLOSE TO THAT AT THIS TIME? CORRECT, CORRECT, CORRECT. WE CAN KEEP ON BUILDING AND WE CAN KEEP ON DOING WHAT WE'RE DOING, BECAUSE THAT'S THE ONLY WAY FORWARD. CORRECT. AND I WOULD SAY AGAIN, CRYSTAL BALL A LITTLE BIT HERE WHERE I WOULD ENCOURAGE THE DISTRICT TO START THINKING STRATEGICALLY, WOULD BE IN ABOUT 12 TO 15 YEARS. AND THEN AT THAT POINT, SOME OF THESE BUILDINGS ARE GOING TO BE SO OLD THAT IT WILL BE TIME TO DO WHAT I THINK IS A GOOD PLANNING EXERCISE IS THE CONSOLIDATIONS AND REBUILDS. WHEN SOME OF THESE BUILDINGS GET TO BE 50 YEARS OLD, AND THEN IT'S TIME TO OKAY, THE SCHOOL BUILDING IS GOING TO LOOK DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT IN 15 YEARS. SO THEN THERE'S SOME OPPORTUNITIES THERE TO DO THE REBUILDS AND NOT PUT A BUNCH OF MONEY INTO SCHOOLS AND EXTEND THE LIFE OUT. AND YOU DON'T WANT TO PUT 5 MILLION INTO A SCHOOL. AND THEN TWO YEARS LATER, CLOSE IT DOWN. SO YOU DEFINITELY WANT TO AVOID THAT. BUT I THINK THOSE STRATEGIC PLANNING WINDOWS ARE IN ABOUT 12 TO 15 YEARS. YOUR ENROLLMENT EASILY COULD GET TO 75 TO 9000. YOU'RE GOING TO BE PUSHING TO BE ONE OF THE BIGGEST SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN TEXAS. WHENEVER WE GET FARTHER DOWN THE ROAD, THAT 50,000 58,000 FUTURE LOTS REPRESENTS ABOUT 27,000 KIDS, THAT IT'S GOING TO TAKE A LONG TIME FOR THAT TO GET BUILT. BUT THAT'S THE VOLUME OF HOUSES THAT YOU HAVE AND THE AMOUNT OF FUTURE LAND THAT YOU HAVE TO, WHERE

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AND, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE KNOW I'M AN OLD OFFENSIVE LINEMAN AND OFFENSIVE LINEMAN DON'T GET NOTICED UNTIL THEY GET CAUGHT HOLDING RIGHT. THEY GET A PENALTY. AND SO I ALWAYS, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO RECOGNIZE MR. BUCHANAN AND OUR BOND OFFICE BECAUSE WE HAVE SUCH MASSIVE DEVELOPMENT COMING AND TO BE ABLE TO OPEN, AS I SAID THIS MORNING, YOU KNOW, SIX FACILITIES IN ONE YEAR WITHOUT A HICCUP, WITHOUT A HICCUP. I MEAN, THAT IS A THAT'S PHENOMENAL TEAMWORK. AND SO I ALWAYS WANT TO TO SAY I APPRECIATE THAT TEAM. MR. BUCHANAN AND MR. MCKEEVER AND, AND THEIR LEADERSHIP AND THEIR GUIDANCE, BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO DO THIS. RIGHT. AND SO, MR. TEMPLETON, IF YOU WOULD GO BACK TO THE SLIDE WHERE IT SHOWED OUR THE EXCEL SHEET AND SHOWED THE CAPACITY AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVELS, THE SPREADSHEET AND ALL HAD ALL THE YELLOW ON THERE. ONE MORE BACK THAT WHAT I NEED EVERYBODY TO DO NOW IS TAKE OUT YOUR PHONE, TAKE A PICTURE OF THAT SERIOUSLY, TAKE OUT YOUR PHONE, TAKE A PICTURE OF THAT, AND I NEED YOU TO POST THAT AND SHARE THAT, BECAUSE THAT SHOWS EVERYONE THAT AS WE ASK THE COMMUNITY FOR PROJECTS, THAT HERE'S THE EVIDENCE THAT SUPPORTS THAT. AND SO IF YOU'RE WATCHING ONLINE, I WANT YOU TO PAUSE THIS VIDEO, SCREENSHOT IT AND SAVE IT AND SHARE IT AND SHOW EVERYONE THAT THE PEOPLE ARE HERE AND THE PEOPLE ARE COMING. AND SO IT IS UP TO US TO MAKE SURE OUR STUDENTS GET THE BEST EXPERIENCE THEY COULD POSSIBLY HAVE IN OUR CLASSROOMS, AND OUR STAFF HAS THE BEST POSSIBLE FACILITIES THAT THEY CAN GIVE THE EXPERIENCES TO OUR YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE CLASSROOMS. IF THAT GOES INTO WHAT YOU JUST SAID, ONE OF MY REQUESTS, CAN THE DISTRICT GO AND CLIP THIS PORTION OF THE PRESENTATION TO HAVE ON HAND? FOR WE KNOW THAT THE PEOPLE THAT CARE ARE WATCHING AND TUNING IN, BUT A LOT OF THE CRITICS RIGHT NOW ARE CREATING MONIKERS ONLINE THAT ARE INCORRECT. CAN WE CLIP THIS PORTION SO IT'S AT HAND SO THAT WE CAN SHARE THIS AS TRUSTEES AND THEN SHARE THIS OR THE PRESENTATION FROM MR. TEMPLETON ITSELF THAT SHOWS THAT THE GROWTH IS HAPPENING AND HAPPENED. AND IT'S HERE. JUST SO YOU GUYS ARE AWARE THAT AFTER EVERY TIME MR. TEMPLETON PRESENTS, WE POST THIS PRESENTATION TO OUR WEBSITE UNDER DEMOGRAPHICS ON OUR WEBSITE. SO THIS WILL BE THERE TOMORROW. AND ALL THE PREVIOUS ONES ARE ALREADY POSTED THERE AS WELL. THE PRESENTATION ITSELF. BUT THE DISCUSSION AND TELLING THE STORY ABOUT IT.

BECAUSE IF I SEE NUMBERS ON THE SCREEN, I'M GOING TO LIKE BUT THAT SAYING WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING IN THE CONVERSATION AROUND IT? YES, SIR. I'M SURE MR. HAMILTON HAS ALREADY THOUGHT ABOUT THAT. IT'S PROBABLY ALREADY DONE THAT. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. THANK YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME. OH, OKAY. I THINK THAT WAS IT FOR THE PRESENTATIONS. ARE THERE ANY

[13. FUTURE CONSENT AGENDA]

[14. CLOSED SESSION]

THE OPEN MEETINGS ACT TO DISCUSS PERSONNEL LAND ACQUISITIO

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