[1. Call to order and establishment of a quorum]
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          TO LEAVE NOW. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LAMAR CONSOLIDATED INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT IS CALLED TO ORDER AT 6:33 P.M. THIS IS THE REGULAR MONTHLY BOARD MEETING BEING HELD ON JANUARY 20TH, 2026. WE HAVE A QUORUM WITH ALL 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 ADERINOLA IOLA, A SIXTH GRADE AT A SIXTH GRADER AT POLLY RYAN 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 THEE. TEXAS. ONE STATE UNDER GOD, ONE AND INDIVISIBLE. OKAY. NEXT, WE HAVE RECOGNITIONS AND 
          [3. Recognitions/awards]
AWARDS. OKAY. GOOD EVENING. BOARD OF TRUSTEES. DOCTOR NIVENS LAMAR CISD COMMUNITY AND THOSE WHO HAVE JOINED US IN PERSON OR VIRTUALLY TONIGHT. THIS EVENING, WE ARE HONORING RANDALL HIGH SCHOOL'S AMAZING FOOTBALL TEAM AND COACHING STAFF, WHO MADE IT ALL THE WAY TO THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW, AS WELL AS A GENEROUS CHARITABLE DONATION BENEFITING OUR STUDENTS WHO RECEIVE SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES. AND TONIGHT, WE'RE ALSO GOING TO CELEBRATE A VERY SPECIAL GROUP OF PEOPLE WHOSE DEDICATED SERVICE TO LAMAR CISD HELPS MAKE OUR DISTRICTS, OUR SCHOOLS, AND OUR STUDENTS SUCCESSFUL. 
          I'M TALKING ABOUT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. BUT FIRST, THE RANDALL HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAM ENTERED THE 2025 SEASON AS DEFENDING STATE CHAMPIONS AND FACED EVERY CHALLENGE WITH DETERMINATION THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE SEASON. THEY SUCCESSFULLY NAVIGATED A TOUGH PLAYOFF BRACKET TO REACH THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME, WHERE THEY SQUARED OFF IN A HIGHLY ANTICIPATED REMATCH WITH SOUTH OAK CLIFF, THE SAME OPPONENT FROM LAST YEAR'S TITLE GAME. 
          AND DESPITE THE HARD FOUGHT BATTLE, OUR LIONS DID FALL SHORT, FINISHING UP AS THE STATE RUNNER UP. BUT TO PUT THEIR REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT INTO PERSPECTIVE, THE LIONS POSTED AN IMPRESSIVE 31 TO 1 RECORD OVER THE PAST TWO SEASONS, MAKING THEM ONE. 
          MAKING THEM ONE OF THE TOP TWO TEAMS OUT OF 119. IN THE UIL FIVE A DIVISION TWO FOOTBALL ALIGNMENT. IN ADDITION TO THEIR SUCCESS, INDIVIDUAL PLAYERS HAVE RECEIVED WELL-DESERVED RECOGNITION. A TOTAL OF 23 PLAYERS FROM THE RANDALL LIONS WERE NAMED FIRST TEAM ALL DISTRICT, HIGHLIGHTING THE DEPTH OF TALENT ON THE ROSTER. LANDON WILLIAMS WAS HONORED AS A DISTRICT MVP AND NAMED GATORADE TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL PLAYER OF THE YEAR, A PRESTIGIOUS ACCOLADE THAT UNDERSCORES HIS EXCEPTIONAL PERFORMANCE THROUGHOUT THE SEASON. MEANWHILE, ARIEL DOMINGUEZ WAS NOMINATED FOR HOUSTON TOUCHDOWN CLUB DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR, WHICH IS A TESTAMENT TO HIS DOMINANT PLAY ON DEFENSE AND ON THE COACHING FRONT. HEAD COACH BRIAN RANDALL RECEIVED WELL EARNED ACCOLADES, BEING SELECTED AS THE TEXAS COACH OF THE WEEK AND THE TEXANS HIGH SCHOOL COACH OF THE YEAR, FURTHER EXEMPLIFYING HIS LEADERSHIP AND THE CULTURE OF EXCELLENCE THAT HE HAS FOSTERED WITHIN OUR PROGRAM. WE ARE INCREDIBLY PROUD OF THESE INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS, AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO THEIR CONTINUED SUCCESS. JOINING US TONIGHT FOR THE BOARD RECOGNITION ARE THE FOLLOWING. RANDALL LIONS PLAYERS MASON MIXON, WEST POINT ALL DISTRICT TIGHT END TEAM CAPTAIN TYLER SKRABANEK, ALL DISTRICT QB TEAM CAPTAIN BRYCE HUSEL, ALL DISTRICT CENTER LANDON WILLIAMS, WILLIAMS, DISTRICT MVP, FORT TOUGH PLAYER OF THE YEAR. GATORADE PLAYER OF THE YEAR JULIAN GERENA, NINE FIVE, EIGHT. DEFENSIVE NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR CAMERON HYPPOLITE, NINE FIVE. DEFENSIVE LINEMAN OF THE YEAR KAMAR CHAVEZ BROWN, NINE FIVE. A UTILITY PLAYER OF THE YEAR AND ALL DISTRICT WIDE RECEIVER. AND RYAN MALLORY, ALL DISTRICT TEAM CAPTAIN. THE COACHES FOR THE LIONS ARE HEAD COACH BRYAN RANDALL, COORDINATOR PHIL WILSON, PRESTON RAMBO, CHRIS WHITE, JALEN LAVAGE, ASSISTANT COACHES CHRIS TORREY, KERRY RIGHT, ALEX MENDEZ, THOMAS PICKERILL, JASON VINEY, MARK WASHINGTON, ACE GAMES, FRANKLIN GERMAN AND PATRICK ROSETTE. WOW. THAT'S COOL. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR 
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ALL. AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THAT'S COOL. COOL. FUTURE TEXANS. RIGHT. OH. AS THEY TAKE THEIR PHOTO, IN ADDITION TO RECOGNIZING THE RANDALL FOOTBALL TEAM'S AMAZING SEASON, WE'RE ALSO GOING TO TAKE A MOMENT TONIGHT TO CELEBRATE THEIR HEAD COACH, BRIAN RANDALL, WHO WAS NAMED THE 2025 HOUSTON TEXANS COACH OF THE YEAR. DURING A SPECIAL SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT AT RANDALL HIGH SCHOOL. IN ADDITION, COACH RANDALL WAS NAMED A FINALIST FOR THE NFL DON SHULA'S COACH OF THE YEAR AWARD. AND AS A TEXAS SAID IN THEIR STATEMENT, COACH RANDALL CONTINUES TO SHAPE THE NEXT GENERATION WHILE REPRESENTING HOUSTON FOOTBALL AT ITS HIGHEST LEVEL, AND WE COULDN'T AGREE MORE. CONGRATULATIONS TO COACH. 
          CONGRATULATIONS TO THE TEAM. THANK YOU ALL SO VERY MUCH. YEAH GREAT JOB. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. THANK YOU GUYS. ON OCTOBER 17TH, THE RABA KISTNER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION HOSTED THE 2025 RABA KISTNER SPORTING CLAY TOURNAMENT AT THE GREATER HOUSTON SPORTS CLUB. 
          THIS EVENT HAS BEEN HELD FOR SEVERAL YEARS AS A COMMUNITY FUNDRAISING EVENT, AND THIS YEAR'S PROCEEDS WERE DISTRIBUTED BETWEEN TWO DISTRICTS, TOMBALL ISD AND LAMAR ISD, TO SUPPORT THEIR SPECIAL OLYMPICS PROGRAMS. LAMAR CISD RECEIVED A GENEROUS GIFT IN THE AMOUNT OF $11,000. THE DISTRICT AND THE LAMAR SPECIAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT ARE GRATEFUL FOR THE SUPPORT RAISED THROUGH THE EVENT. AND THIS EVENING, RABA KISTNER, DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, MR. SCOTT BLANK IS JOINING US TO PRESENT THE OFFICIAL CHECK TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO WELCOME HIM TO THE PODIUM AND. 
          HE CAN IF YOU COULD GIVE THE CHECK TO MISS HANSEN. PRESIDENT. YEAH. THERE YOU GO. 
          ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT. GOT IT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. TIFFANY. TIFFANY. TIFFANY. KENLEY. THANK YOU. RIGHT. I'M GOING TO TRY TO GO CATCH IT FINALLY THIS EVENING. WE ARE. YOU ALL MAY BE SEATED FOR A SECOND. FINALLY THIS EVENING, WE TURN TO AN IMPORTANT ANNUAL CELEBRATION HONORING THE DEDICATED, COMMITTED, TIRELESS SERVICE OF OUR ELECTED BOARD MEMBERS. EACH JANUARY, WE CELEBRATE SCHOOL BOARD RECOGNITION MONTH ACROSS TEXAS, AND WE WANT TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO HIGHLIGHT THE CENTRAL GUIDING ROLE THAT ALL SEVEN OF OUR ELECTED TRUSTEES PLAY IN LAMAR CISD, ACROSS OUR CAMPUSES, MUNICIPALITIES, AND OUT IN THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE. 
          SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS ARE THE LARGEST GROUP OF PUBLICLY ELECTED OFFICIALS IN TEXAS. 
          THEY EXEMPLIFY LOCAL CITIZEN CONTROL AND DECISION MAKING IN EDUCATION. THEY VOLUNTEER A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF TIME AND ENERGY TO ENSURE LOCAL SCHOOLS PROVIDE THE BEST EDUCATION POSSIBLE FOR EVERY STUDENT, AND A POSITIVE WORKPLACE FOR FACULTY AND STAFF. IT HAS BEEN A BIG YEAR FOR OUR LAMAR BOARD OF TRUSTEES, AS THEY'VE GUIDED OUR DISTRICT THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL AND ULTIMATE PASSAGE OF AN ALMOST 1.9. $1.96 BILLION BOND. THE CREATION OF OUR NEW 25 2025 LAMAR STRATEGIC PLAN, AND THE COUNTLESS OTHER LARGE AND SMALL INITIATIVES. WE ALSO GOT TO SEE OUR BOARD RECOGNIZED STATEWIDE AT THE H-E-B EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION AWARDS, AND THEY'VE BEEN THERE ALL ALONG THE WAY TO CHEER ON OUR STUDENTS AND STAFF. 
          RIGHT ON UP TO DOCTOR NIVENS, OUR SUPERINTENDENT OF THE YEAR. HIS JOURNEY ALL THE WAY TO BEING NAMED A NATIONAL FINALIST. THEY'VE BEEN WITH US CELEBRATING EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. EACH YEAR, THE TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL BOARDS DESIGNS A THEME TO CELEBRATE SCHOOL BOARDS ACROSS THE STATE, AND THIS YEAR'S THEME IS OUR FUTURE IS PUBLIC AND LAMAR ISD. 
          WHEN WE CELEBRATE BIG THINKING, BOLD LEARNING AND BRIGHT FUTURES, WE ARE GRATEFUL TO HAVE TRUSTEES WHO EXEMPLIFY THIS VISIONARY LEADERSHIP AND COMMITMENT, NOT JUST TO THE STUDENTS ENROLLED HERE TODAY, BUT THOSE WHO WILL JOIN US FOR DECADES TO COME. TRUSTEES, AT 
          [00:10:01]
YOUR SEAT THIS EVENING. OUR CAMPUSES HAVE LEFT YOU SEVERAL TOKENS OF APPRECIATION. YOU'VE GOT POSTERS AND CARDS AND GIFT BASKETS, ALL FROM THE STUDENTS AND STAFF AND FAMILIES OF OUR SCHOOL COMMUNITY. AND AS A SYMBOL OF OUR GRATITUDE, WE ALSO HONOR OUR SCHOOL BOARD WITH A TEXAS SHAPED CUTTING BOARD ENGRAVED WITH YOUR NAME AND SET WITH OUR LOGO, WHICH ACTUALLY SITS OVER THE HEART OF WHERE OUR DISTRICT IS LOCATED IN OUR GREAT STATE. BECAUSE YOUR LEADERSHIP KEEPS OUR COMMUNITY AT THE CENTER OF EVERY DECISION, MAY THIS KEEPSAKE REFLECT YOUR SERVICE, YOUR VISION, AND THE ENDURING IMPACT YOU'RE MAKING ON OUR STUDENTS, FAMILIES, AND PUBLIC EDUCATION THIS EVENING. WE'RE ALSO HAPPY TO HAVE WITH US TONIGHT, MISS DOTTIE HALL. SHE IS THE DISTRICT DIRECTOR IN THE OFFICE OF CONGRESSWOMAN LIZZIE FLETCHER, WHO HAS SENT SPECIAL CERTIFICATES FOR OUR BOARD OF TRUSTEES IN HONOR OF THIS OCCASION. AT THIS TIME WITH MISS HALL, PLEASE COME TO THE PODIUM. YOU PRESENT. HELLO, EVERYONE. GOOD EVENING. ON BEHALF OF MISS HALL HERE AT THE PODIUM. THANK YOU. ON BEHALF OF CONGRESS, CONGRESSWOMAN FLETCHER, I JUST WANTED TO COME AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK AND YOUR COMMITMENT TO OUR STUDENTS. AND WITH THAT SAID, I WON'T READ ALL THE ALL THE CERTIFICATES INDIVIDUALLY, BUT I WILL LIKE TO THANK ZACK LAMBERT, MONICA HENDERSON, VANESSA MASTERS, J.C. HODSOLL, JOHN WELSH, GEORGE ARROYOS, AND SUSAN BOX. WITH THAT SAID, THE TEXAS SEVENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT RECOGNIZES ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE ON THE LAMAR CISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR YOUR DEDICATION TO EDUCATION AND TO OUR COMMUNITY. ON BEHALF OF CONGRESSWOMAN LIZZIE FLETCHER, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE. AND NOW, TRUSTEES, PLEASE SIT BACK AND ENJOY A SPECIAL VIDEO MESSAGE. JANUARY IS SCHOOL BOARD RECOGNITION MONTH, AND THIS IS A SPECIAL TIME TO RECOGNIZE OUR VERY OWN LAMAR SIZED BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR THEIR LEADERSHIP, THEIR SERVICE, THEIR DEDICATION TO OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM, AND JUST FOR BEING GREAT PEOPLE. AS YOU WELL KNOW, OUR TRUSTEES ARE YOUR VERY OWN NEIGHBORS, OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO ARE ELECTED BY YOU, AND THEY VOLUNTEER THEIR TIME TO SUPPORT AND SERVE OUR YOUNG PEOPLE AND OUR STAFF AND YOU, OUR COMMUNITY. WE ARE ASKING STUDENTS, BIG AND SMALL, TO IMAGINE WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE IF THEY WERE ON THE SCHOOL BOARD. I THINK I WOULD LET ME THINK I WOULD. GIVE US MORE TIME TO PLAY AT RECESS, TURN RECESS INTO A 45 MINUTES INSTEAD OF 30. SINCE OUR HALLWAYS, AS YOU WALK DOWN THEM, THE TILES KIND OF PLAIN, I WOULD ADD SOME DIFFERENT COLORS AND MAYBE EVEN SOME PEOPLE CAN PAINT IT. I WOULD SAY OPEN THE VENDING MACHINES AT AT GOOD TIMES. I AGREE WITH THAT. I VERY MUCH AGREE WITH THAT. I WOULD TRY TO DO SOMETHING THAT WOULD GIVE KIDS LIKE A FREE PERIOD TO JUST LIKE ROAM AROUND OR LIKE GO VISIT THEIR FRIENDS THAT DAY, LIKE ONE DAY A THAT DAY MAYBE LIKE HAVE A DAY WHERE YOU CAN BRING SOMETHING TO SCHOOL TO SHOW YOUR FRIENDS. WE NEED TO HAVE MORE STALLS IN THE BOYS BATHROOM TO MAKE SENIOR PRANKS LESS REGULATED. I KNOW THAT MOST SENIOR PRANKS IT'S FOR STUDENT SAFETY, BUT I THINK TO BRING BACK THE FUN OF IT, IT SHOULDN'T BE. IT SHOULD BE KEPT A SURPRISE FOR MOST OF THE STUDENT BODY, MOST OF EVERYONE. 
          SO THE SENIORS CAN HAVE THEIR FUN. I FEEL LIKE THEY SHOULD ALSO BE LIKE CLASSES, LIKE SOCIAL CLASSES. TO IMPROVE LIKE THAT KIDS COULD SIGN UP FOR TO HAVE LIKE SOCIAL FOR TO LEARN SOCIAL SKILLS. I WILL TRY TO HAVE MORE ACTIVITIES DURING SCHOOL TO PREVENT BULLYING. 
          WHAT I WOULD DO ABOUT HOMEWORK IS I WOULDN'T GIVE IT A WHOLE A WHOLE LOT OF IT. LIKE, SO IT'S NOT LIKE, OKAY, DO THIS HOMEWORK ON MONDAY, TUESDAY. NOW I WANT TO GO LIKE THAT. I WOULD JUST LIKE DO IT ON MONDAY SO THAT WE'RE ABLE TO WAKE UP OUR BRAINS BECAUSE OUR BRAINS ARE MAYBE A LITTLE BIT SLEEPY FROM SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS. IF I WAS ON THE SCHOOL BOARD, I WOULD ESTABLISH A MORE STRUCTURED ORGANIZATION FOR STUDENTS TO GET ACADEMIC HELP WHEN THEY'RE STRUGGLING. MAKE SURE ALL THE STUDENTS AND ALL THE SCHOOLS WERE DOING EVERYTHING PROPERLY, AND I WOULD LET THEM HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF FUN DAYS, BUT THEY STILL HAVE TO LEARN ON THOSE DAYS. I THINK THAT WE SHOULD ALSO HAVE NUTRITION CLASSES. I THINK THAT I THINK WE SHOULD TALK ABOUT MORE LIKE THE FOODS TO AVOID FOODS TO EAT, ESPECIALLY TEENAGERS THAT ARE GROWING AND THAT THEY NEED NUTRIENTS. I SEE MORE CLASSES AND COURSES FOR LIKE STUDENTS WHO WANT TO EXPERIENCE MORE LIKE UNIQUE THINGS, MAYBE LIKE A FILM CLASS OR COSMETOLOGY CLASS, MAKE RULES FOR LIKE ON THE BOARD FOR ALL THE SCHOOLS. LIKE THINGS THEY NEED TO KEEP UP WITH, OR LIKE THINGS THEY NEED TO MAKE SURE ARE CLEAN AND ORGANIZED 
          [00:15:02]
FOR LIKE 30 MINUTES OF THE DAY. LIKE WE JUST HAVE FREE TIME WHERE WE DO LIKE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AND WE JUST KIND OF RELAXED. I WOULD PLACE MORE OF AN EMPHASIS ON ENCOURAGING STUDENTS TO BOTH PARTICIPATE IN AND ALSO ATTEND EXTRACURRICULARS, SPORTS, BAND, THE ARTS, EVERYTHING BECAUSE I THINK IT WOULD IMPROVE SCHOOL SPIRIT AND LAMAR CISD. OUR STUDENTS DREAM BIG, BUT OUR SCHOOL BOARD DREAMS BIGGER AND THEY WORK HARD TO TURN OUT AND MAKE SURE THOSE DREAMS BECOME AN OPPORTUNITY. THANK YOU TO OUR TRUSTEES FOR VOLUNTEERING YOUR TIME, FOR SERVING OUR DISTRICT WITH CARE, RESPONSIBILITY AND WITH A BIG HEART. FROM US TO YOU. I LOVE YOU GUYS. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO FOR US. 
          I THINK THEIR OVERLYING MESSAGE, THEY WANT THOSE FREE DAYS. GUYS WOULD DO NOTHING AT THIS TIME. 
          I'LL TURN IT OVER TO YOU FOR YOUR REMARKS. YES. THANK YOU AGAIN. YOU KNOW, WE SET ASIDE THIS MONTH, BUT WE KNOW THAT OUR SCHOOL BOARD WORKS FOR US, YOU KNOW, 24 OVER SEVEN. AND SO YOU IF YOU'RE NOT REALLY IN IT, YOU REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND THE KIND OF THE KIND OF EFFORT AND THE KIND OF WORK THAT IT TAKES TO GOVERN A SCHOOL DISTRICT. AND I JUST WANT TO SAY AGAIN, THANK YOU SO MUCH TO THE TRUSTEES. I ALMOST SAID MY SEVEN BOSSES, BUT, YOU KNOW, TO THE TRUSTEES FOR DOING ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING THEY CAN FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE IN LAMAR ISD. IT IS WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS VERY SPECIAL. IT'S IT'S NOT COMMON TO HAVE AN ENTIRE SCHOOL BOARD THAT IS INTERESTED IN THE SAFETY AND WELL-BEING OF ALL OF ITS STUDENTS AND STAFF, AND THIS SCHOOL BOARD IS AND IT'S IT'S VERY SPECIAL. IT'S VERY SPECIAL. IF YOU'RE NOT IN IT, YOU REALLY UNDERSTAND THAT. YOU HAVE TO TAKE MY WORD FOR IT. IT IS VERY SPECIAL. AND THAT'S WHY LAMAR IS BECOMING AN ELITE SCHOOL SYSTEM, IS BECAUSE WE HAVE GREAT BOARD MEMBERS TO HELP US GOVERN AND CONTINUE TO MOVE IT FORWARD. AND SO, AGAIN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR EFFORT AND TIRELESS, TIRELESS EFFORT AND WORK AND EVERYTHING. SO THANK Y'ALL. GOOD EVENING. 
          [4. Introductions]
PRESIDENT, BOARD MEMBERS, AND DOCTOR NIVENS. WE HAVE TWO INTRODUCTIONS TONIGHT FROM CHIEF GARCIA. GOOD EVENING, DOCTOR NIVENS, BOARD OF TRUSTEES. MADAM PRESIDENT, TONIGHT I HAVE THE HONOR OF WELCOMING TWO NEW POLICE OFFICERS TO OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT FAMILY HERE AT LAMAR CISD. WE'RE BRINGING IN A TOTAL OF 22 LONG, 22 YEARS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT EXPERIENCE WITH THESE TWO OFFICERS. THE FIRST OFFICER I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE YOU TO IS OFFICER MILLARD STAINS. OFFICER STAINS BRINGS 15 YEARS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT EXPERIENCE, MOST RECENTLY SERVING WITH THE DISTRICT OF WHARTON ISD. HE HOLDS A BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE ADMINISTRATION, AND HE IS CURRENTLY PURSUING A MASTER'S DEGREE IN FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY. OFFICER STAINS IS ALSO A LICENSED MINISTER WITH 14 YEARS OF SERVICE IN THE MINISTRY. THE NEXT OFFICER I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF INTRODUCING YOU TO IS OFFICER TAYLOR MCGREW. OFFICER MCGREW COMES TO US WITH SEVEN YEARS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT EXPERIENCE, FIRST SERVING WITH THE CITY OF VICTORIA POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THEN WITH PALACIOS ISD POLICE DEPARTMENT. IN HER SPARE TIME, SHE OWNS A CHOREOGRAPHY STUDIO SPECIALIZING IN QUINCEANERAS AND WORKING WITH DRILL TEAMS. SHE'S A BRAND NEW MOTHER, AND HER AND HER HUSBAND, WHO'S NOT HERE WITH HER TONIGHT, IS A ROSENBERG POLICE OFFICER. WE'D LIKE TO WELCOME OFFICER TAYLOR MCGREW. THANK YOU. I WILL. THANK YOU. DOCTOR NIVENS, BOARD OF TRUSTEES. IS OUR TWO POLICE OFFICERS FOR LAMAR CISD POLICE DEPARTMENT. OKAY. THIS CONCLUDES OUR INTRODUCTIONS. FOR. OKAY. WE WILL NOW HAVE BOARD MEMBER REPORTS AND SHOUT 
          [5. Board members' reports]
OUTS. TRUSTEES, PLEASE KEEP YOUR COMMENTS TO 1 TO 2 MINUTES. IS THERE ANYONE WHO WANTS TO GO FIRST? ANYONE VOLUNTEER, MR. ARROYOS? OKAY. SO I'LL GO AHEAD AND START OUT. I'D BE REMISS IF 
          [00:20:11]
I DIDN'T TAKE THIS TIME TO JUST TO REFLECT AND ON THAT CHAMPIONSHIP FOOTBALL TEAM THAT WE JUST HAD IN HERE IN THE BUILDING. I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY DID AN INCREDIBLE JOB AND BUT. YOU KNOW, I WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT WE ARE VERY BLESSED TO HAVE A COACH LIKE COACH RANDALL, WHO IS NOT ONLY BUILDING CHAMPIONS ON THE FIELD, BUT OFF THE FIELD AS WELL. AND THAT'S WHAT EXCITES ME THE MOST ABOUT THAT PARTICULAR TEAM IS THAT NOT ONLY ARE THEY CHAMPIONS ON THE FIELD, BUT THEY'RE CHAMPIONS OFF THE FIELD AS WELL, AND THAT'S ESSENTIALLY WHAT WE'RE FOCUSED ON. AND WHAT WE'RE COMMITTED TO IS PRODUCING STUDENTS WHO ARE POSITIVE, PRODUCTIVE CITIZENS. AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHO THOSE KIDS ARE. BUT BEYOND THAT, I WANT TO SAY THAT THAT FOR ME PERSONALLY AS A GRANDPARENT, AND I APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE IF I GET A LITTLE EMOTIONAL HERE. BUT IT'S BEEN AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY WATCHING NOT JUST THE FOOTBALL TEAM PERFORM, BUT WATCHING THE NATIONAL CHAMPION, RANDALL ROYALS PERFORM, WATCHING THE CHEERLEADERS PERFORM, WATCHING THEM AND THE BAND PERFORM. I WATCHED THE BAND PERFORM IN THE RAIN, YOU KNOW, WHEN ONE GAME AND THEY STOOD OUT THERE AND THEY HELD STRONG UNTIL THEY WERE ASKED TO COME ON IN OUT OF THE RAIN. BUT THEY WERE WILLING TO PLAY THROUGHOUT THAT, THAT TIME. AND I'VE, I'VE JUST I'VE JUST BEEN IN AWE OF OF ALL THESE GROUPS. COLOR GUARD THANK YOU. CHEER EVERYBODY. ROYALS AND PARENTS, THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          BECAUSE I KNOW I KNOW THE SACRIFICES WE KNOW AND WE UNDERSTAND THEM. THANK YOU FOR THE SACRIFICES. BUT STAFF, LC, ISD STAFF, THANK YOU. BECAUSE YOU MADE THE THOSE GAMES. I NOTICED THAT THE AMOUNT OF TIME YOU PUT INTO IT, YOU MAY YOU STAYED POSITIVE, YOU WERE ON THE SIDELINE, YOU WERE VIGILANT, YOU WERE DOING YOUR JOB. YOU WEREN'T THERE LIKE ME. I WAS A SPECTATOR. I GET TO TO ENJOY IT. I GET TO GO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF POPCORN, MAYBE A SOFT DRINK OR WHAT HAVE YOU. GO SIT DOWN, GO VISIT, GO WANDER AROUND LIKE THE STUDENT SUGGESTED THAT WE DO IN SCHOOL A LITTLE MORE OFTEN, BUT, BUT, BUT STAFF, COACHES, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR FOR THE HARD WORK THAT YOU PUT INTO IT. AND THEY ARE CHAMPIONS AS YOU WELL KNOW. THOSE ARE CHAMPIONS. THEY DIDN'T WIN THE THE LAST GAME, BUT NONETHELESS THEY'RE GOING TO BE CHAMPIONS. 
          AND THE THING WITH ME IN PARTICULAR, WHEN IT COMES TO SPORTS AND WHEN IT COMES TO THOSE PARTICULAR EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES, I FEEL VERY STRONGLY I'M A PROPONENT OF EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES. EVEN AS AN INSTRUCTOR, I SUPPORT MY STUDENTS WHEN I AND THAT THAT ARE IN EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES BECAUSE, INCIDENTALLY, I DO TEACH A COUPLE OF DUAL CREDIT CLASSES IN A NEIGHBORING SCHOOL DISTRICT. I BELIEVE THAT THAT THERE IS A COROLLARY BETWEEN LIFE AND SPORTS LIFE IN THOSE ACTIVITIES. YOU KNOW, IN THOSE ACTIVITIES, YOUR COACHES, YOUR PRINCIPALS, YOUR COUNSELORS, EVERYBODY WHO HAS VALUE, YOUR PARENTS, THEY'RE TEACHING YOU SOME SOME LESSONS THAT THAT WILL THAT ARE LIFELONG LESSONS, HOW TO SET GOALS, HOW TO WORK TO THOSE GOALS, HOW TO WIN, HOW TO LOSE. AND SO I GET EXCITED. I GET EXCITED ABOUT ABOUT EVENINGS LIKE TONIGHT, YOU KNOW, AND AND AT THE END OF THE DAY, ALL OF THOSE LESSONS WILL BE LIFE LESSONS THAT YOU'LL REFLECT UPON, AND YOU'LL KNOW AND YOU'LL HAVE LEARNED BECAUSE OF YOUR COACHES AND YOUR PRINCIPALS HOW TO DO THE RIGHT THING. AND I'LL END WITH THIS POINT, MADAM CHAIR, IS IS TO QUOTE DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING, YOU KNOW, DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING SAID IT IS ALWAYS THE RIGHT TIME TO DO THE RIGHT THING, AND OUR STUDENTS KNOW HOW TO DO THE RIGHT THING. SO THANK YOU. GOD BLESS YOU. WE LOVE YOU. WOW. I'M GOING TO LET THAT SIT JUST FOR A MOMENT AND AND LET US ALL ABSORB THAT, BECAUSE THAT WAS REALLY GOOD, MR. ARROYOS. MINE IS NOT NEARLY AS ELOQUENT, BUT, MRS. JOHNSON, I WOULD LIKE THE FOLLOWING THREE NAMES ENTERED INTO THE MINUTES. I WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO MRS. BARBARA JOHNSON HERSELF. MRS. MR. DEVIN GABBARD, OUR DISTRICT ATHLETIC DIRECTOR, AND MR. KEVIN PHILLIPS, WHO FACILITATED MY COMING AND GOING FROM THIS AREA TO THE FOR TO THE GAME IN ARLINGTON, TEXAS FOR THE THE RANDALL STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME. THEY JUST MADE IT VERY EASY TO DO THAT. BUT THEY JUST DO SO MANY THINGS BEHIND THE SCENES THAT THEY DON'T GET A LOT OF RECOGNITION. SO I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU TO ALL THREE OF YOU AND GIVE YOU A SHOUT OUT. TO ECHO WHAT MR. ARROYO SAID ABOUT THE THE TEACHERS AND THE STAFF AND ALL THE AUXILIARY PERSONNEL THAT WERE THERE TO SUPPORT A 
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FOOTBALL GAME, A CHILD'S GAME. IT'S A WHOLE LOT MORE THAN JUST A CHILD'S GAME BECAUSE LIKE SAID, THE LESSONS BEING TAUGHT AND LEARNED, AND THEY'RE TAKEN AWAY FROM THAT. TALKING TO SOME OF THE STUDENTS OUT THERE, SOME ARE GOING TO ARKANSAS TO PLAY, SOME ARE PURSUING GOING TO MISSISSIPPI OUTSIDE OF TEXAS. AND SO THEY'RE LEARNING THESE THINGS HERE IN OUR DISTRICT. 
          THAT'S TAKING THEM ALL THE PLACES YOU WILL GO KIND OF THING. SO BUT TO TO BE AT THE GAME AND SEE DIFFERENT COACHES THAT AREN'T COACHING FOOTBALL, DRIVING STUDENTS THAT ARE PART OF THE CHEER SQUAD AND ALL THESE THINGS, JUST SEEING ALL THESE OTHER PEOPLE THAT ARE SUPPORTING OUR STUDENTS, IT'S THOSE IT'S THAT OTHER DUTIES AS ASSIGNED THING ON THE JOB DESCRIPTION THAT OUR, OUR STAFF AND OUR TEAM AT LAMAR DOES SO WELL. SO THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE THAT SUPPORTED THOSE STUDENTS OUT THERE RUNNING AND PLAYING. AND I DO SAY I DO APOLOGIZE. I DO HAVE TO SKIP OUT OF THE MEETING A LITTLE BIT EARLY. AFTER A COUPLE OF VOTES, I GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO JUDGE NEXT YEAR'S OR I GUESS, THIS YEAR'S WINNERS FOR THE HEB EXCELLENCE AWARD, THAT OUR BOARD THIS LAST YEAR HAS WON. SO I DO APOLOGIZE. I DO HAVE TO LEAVE, BUT I'M NOT MAD AND FLIPPING TABLES. I'M GOING TO GO DO THAT. SO. OKAY. WELL, I JUST WANT TO THANK EVERYONE WHO SUBMITTED NAMES TO TO US FOR THE SCHOOL NAMING PROCESS. IT WAS REALLY WONDERFUL TO READ THROUGH ALL THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS, ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF SO MANY OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED SO MUCH NOT ONLY TO THEIR PARTICULAR FIELDS, BUT TO LAMAR C ISD. SO I KNOW THAT TAKES TIME AND THOUGHT, AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THE COMMUNITY'S INVOLVEMENT THAT. SO THANK YOU. OKAY. ARE THERE ANY BOARD COMMITTEE REPORTS THIS MONTH? OKAY. MISS JOHNSON, ARE THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS? OKAY. THEN AT THIS 
          [9. CONSENT AGENDA]
TIME WE WILL TAKE ACTION ON THE CONSENT AGENDA. ARE THERE ANY ITEMS THAT THE BOARD WOULD LIKE TO PULL? OKAY. MAY I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA? TRUSTEE WELCH MAKES THE MOTION. CAN I HAVE A SECOND? TRUSTEE LAMBERT. SECONDS. I WILL NOW CALL FOR THE VOTE. ALL IN FAVOR OF APPROVING THE CONSENT AGENDA, SAY I. THE MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. OKAY. 
          WE ARE GOING TO SWITCH OUR FUTURE ACTION ITEMS AND ACTION ITEMS UP BECAUSE TRUSTEE LAMBERT HAS TO LEAVE. SO. I'M SORRY I DIDN'T DO THE SUPERINTENDENT REPORT, I DID. I 
          [11.A. Consider approval of library materials that have been donated or proposed for procurement]
DID IT ALREADY. OKAY. OKAY. SORRY. Y'ALL OKAY. SO ACTION ITEMS. OUR BOARD. WE HAVE MR. JESTER AT THE PODIUM. PRESIDENT HUTZEL, BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND DOCTOR NIVENS TONIGHT, AS YOU CONSIDER APPROVAL OF LIBRARY MATERIALS THAT HAVE BEEN DONATED OR PROPOSED FOR PROCUREMENT, WE'LL BE REVIEWING THE STEPS OF THE LIBRARY MATERIALS PROCUREMENT PROCESS. 
          IN YOUR HANDOUTS, YOU WILL FIND A FLOW CHART TO HELP GUIDE YOU THROUGH THIS PROCESS. OUR CURRENT EFB LOCAL POLICY WAS CHANGED IN NOVEMBER OF 2025 AND STATED THAT 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 THE DONATED AND PROPOSED LIBRARY MATERIALS. THE BOARD SHALL EITHER APPROVE OR REJECT THE LIBRARY MATERIALS THAT HAVE BEEN DONATED OR PROPOSED FOR PROCUREMENT, AND AT LEAST 30 DAYS PRIOR TO THE BOARD'S VOTE TO PROCUREMENT OF LIBRARY MATERIALS, THE SUPERINTENDENT SHALL MAKE IT ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC. THE LIST OF THE LIBRARY MATERIALS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW. THIS WAS ALL DUE AS PART OF SENATE BILL 13 THAT IS NOW REQUIRING TEXAS LAW THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVE ALL NEW LIBRARY PURCHASES, NEW BOOK LIGHT PURCHASES, THE LCISD PROCEDURES FOR ACQUISITION OF LIBRARY MATERIALS, MATERIALS LCSD LIBRARY SERVICES HAS CREATED AN EIGHT STEP PROCESS FOR THE PROCUREMENT AND PURCHASE OF LIBRARY BOOKS. EACH STEP OF THE PROCESS ENSURES THAT LIBRARY MATERIALS ARE PROPERLY VETTED THROUGH EFB LOCAL REQUIREMENTS. PRIOR TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVING, DENYING, OR MODIFYING THE LIST. 
          STEP ONE OF THE PROCESS THE LIBRARIAN CAMPUS LIBRARIAN WILL SELECT BOOKS THAT ALIGN WITH THE SPECIFIC CAMPUS NEEDS AND STUDENT POPULATION REQUIREMENTS. IN STEP TWO, THE CAMPUS LIBRARIAN WILL CREATE THE INITIAL LIST AND RIGOROUSLY VET THE SELECTIONS USING THE 
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ESTABLISHED CRITERIA FLOWCHART. THEY WILL REMOVE ANY TITLES FOUND ON THE REMOVED TITLES OR DO NOT ORDER LIST. THEY WILL PROVIDE A QUOTE FROM THE VENDOR WITH PROPOSED LIST PRICING, AND THEN THEY WILL COMPLETE THE INITIAL CONFIRMATION FORM. THIS STEP ENSURES FIDELITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY WITH INITIAL SELECTION PROCESS, AND EACH CONFIRMATION FORM THAT IS SIGNED IS RECEIVES AN ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE BEFORE SUBMISSION. THE FLOWCHART THAT LIBRARIANS WILL FOLLOW WILL START WITH THREE STEPS. THEY WILL CHECK TO MAKE SURE THAT THE MATERIAL IS AGE APPROPRIATE AND EDUCATIONALLY SUITABLE. THEY WILL MAKE SURE THAT IT IS MATERIALS ALIGNED TO LOCAL POLICY AND DISTRICT GUIDELINES, AND THEY WILL MAKE SURE THAT IT MEETS AT LEAST TWO OF THE STATE COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS. IN REVIEW OF THOSE STATE COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS, I PROVIDED THEM HERE. THEY WILL LOOK FOR TWO POSITIVE PROFESSIONAL REVIEWS. THEY MAY THEY WILL LOOK AT COVERAGE OF TOPIC, AUTHOR, SERIES AND GENRE THAT FILLS GAPS IN THE SCHOOL'S LIBRARY CONNECTION COLLECTION. IT MEETS CURRICULAR AND DIVERSITY NEEDS. RECOMMENDATION FROM STUDENTS, PARENTS OR GUARDIANS, TEACHERS AND DISTRICT RESIDENTS CONDUCTED AN EXTENSIVE REVIEW OF TEXTS OR MATERIAL CONSULTATION WITH DISTRICT TEACHERS AND LIBRARY STAFF, AND CONSULTATION WITH DISTRICT LIBRARY STAFF FROM OTHER DISTRICTS. STEP THREE OF THE PROCESS. THE CAMPUS LIBRARIAN WILL SUBMIT THE LIST TO THE LIBRARY SERVICES COORDINATOR. THE LIBRARY SERVICES COORDINATOR WILL THEN CONDUCT A SECONDARY INDEPENDENT VETTING OF THE SELECTION LIST. UPON SATISFACTORY COMPLETION OF THE REVIEW, THE COORDINATOR WILL COMPLETE A SECONDARY CONFIRMATION FORM. SHE'LL THEN PREPARE IT TO BE POSTED ON THE LCAD WEBSITE FOR THE 30 DAY PUBLIC REVIEW. STEP FOUR THE LIBRARY SERVICES COORDINATOR AND THE DIRECTOR OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING WILL CONDUCT A FINAL LIST REVIEW PRIOR TO POSTING THE 30 DAYS. STEP FIVE OF THE PROCESS. THE FINALIZED LIST IS PUBLISHED ON THE LCISD WEB PAGE FOR A 30 DAY PUBLIC REVIEW PERIOD. TO GATHER COMMUNITY FEEDBACK. WHAT YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN IS A SAMPLE OF WHAT THAT REVIEWING LOOKS LIKE, AND IT'S FOUND ON OUR LCISD PAGE UNDER LIBRARY SERVICES. COMMUNITY MEMBERS HAVE THE ABILITY TO THEN SUBMIT COMMENTS THAT THEN THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES CAN WILL RECEIVE PRIOR TO THEIR VOTE. 
          STEP SIX OF THE PROCESS. THE LIBRARY SERVICE COORDINATOR SUBMITS THE SELECTION AND COMMUNITY FEEDBACK TO THE BOARD TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES PRIOR TO THE MONTHLY BOARD MEETING FOR REVIEW. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES THEN REVIEWS THE SUBMITTED LIST AND COMMUNITY FEEDBACK. IF RECEIVED AND DURING THE MONTHLY BOARD MEETING, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES MAY APPROVE, DENY, OR MODIFY THE LIST AS PRESENTED. ONCE APPROVED, THE BOARD APPROVED LIST IS RETURNED TO THE INNOVATIVE LEARNING DEPARTMENT, AND CAMPUSES ARE NOTIFIED THAT THEY MAY PROCEED WITH THE PURCHASING OF THE APPROVED TITLES. STEP SEVEN THE CAMPUS LIBRARIAN AND CAMPUS ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT COLLABORATIVELY WORK TOGETHER TO SUBMIT A PURCHASE REQUISITION THAT INCLUDES AN ITEMIZED LIST OF EVERY BOOK TO BE ORDERED. THE REQUISITION WILL THEN GO THROUGH THE LCS PURCHASING PROCEDURES TO REQUEST THE APPROVAL OF ALL SIGNATURES NECESSARY TO PURCHASE MATERIALS. THE FINAL STEP OF THE PROCESS, THE DIRECTOR OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING, IS THE FINAL REVIEWER AND THE REQUISITION APPROVAL PROCESS. BEFORE FINAL APPROVAL IS GRANTED, THE DIRECTOR WILL VERIFY THAT THE LIST MATCHES WHAT WAS WAS BOARD APPROVED. HE WILL ENSURE ALL SIGNATURES WERE RECEIVED AND THAT THE PURCHASE IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH BOARD POLICY AND STATE LAW, AND HE WILL THEN COMPLETE A FINAL CONFIRMATION FORM ONCE BOOK ORDERS ARRIVE ON CAMPUS. THE CAMPUS LIBRARIAN WILL CONFIRM THAT THE BOOKS RECEIVED FROM THE VENDOR MATCH THE BOARD OF APPROVED LIST. THEY WILL SIGN THE BOOK IN ORDER. ORDER INVOICE, MAKE A COPY FOR CAMPUS RECORDS, AND SUBMIT THE INVOICE TO THE CAMPUS ADMINISTRATOR ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT FOR PAYMENT. THIS MONTH, WE ARE PRESENTING YOU WITH A LIST OF 104 BOOKS THAT HAVE BEEN VETTED THROUGH THE CURRENT PROCESS FOR YOUR APPROVAL BOARD, WE ARE ASKING THAT YOU APPROVE THE JANUARY LIST OF LIBRARY MATERIALS THAT HAVE BEEN DONATED OR PROPOSED OR PROPOSED FOR PROCUREMENT. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? NO QUESTIONS. OKAY. DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE LIST? OKAY. AWESOME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. OKAY WITH THAT THEN MAY I HAVE A MOTION FOR THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO APPROVE THE RECOMMENDED LIST OF DONATED OR PROPOSED LIBRARY MATERIALS FOR PROCUREMENT. MISS FOX MAKES THE MOTION. DO I HAVE A SECOND, MISS HENDERSON? SECONDS. A CALL FOR THE VOTE. ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. CAN WE? I JUST HAVE AN 
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ITEM I JUST WANTED TO DISCUSS FOR DISCUSSION. OKAY, OKAY. YOU KNOW, I WAS TAUGHT IN SCHOOL NEVER TO JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER. I PRESUME THAT MEANS BY ITS TITLE EITHER. BUT I JUST WANTED TO NOTE THAT YOU KNOW WHAT WE'RE ABOUT TO APPROVE. APPROVE? WHICH I'M IN FAVOR OF, IS, YOU KNOW, INCLUDES TITLES LIKE, YOU KNOW, FOR THOSE FOLKS WHO ARE TUNING IN, HAVE NOT REVIEWED THE THE LIST ONLINE, WHICH IS ONLINE. JACKIE ROBINSON, MICHAEL JACKSON. 
          ESTOY ABURRIDO. TIOS AND PRIMOS. ESTAN LAS NUBES EL ASUNTO DEL REY, EL MUNDO DE FRANKIE, YOU KNOW, AND I COULD GO ON, BUT MY POINT IS THAT WE'RE ABOUT TO APPROVE A NICE, DIVERSE GROUP OF BOOKS, WHICH IS FANTASTIC. AND SO I COMMEND THIS BOARD, YOU KNOW, AND I ENCOURAGE THIS BOARD TO CONTINUE TO DO THAT. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE DOING. AND I JUST WANT TO SHARE WITH OUR COMMUNITY THAT, THAT THAT'S ESSENTIALLY, YOU KNOW, WHAT WHAT WE'RE ABOUT HERE AND THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE ENGAGED IN THE PROCESS OF DOING WHILE WE COMPLY WITH SENATE BILL 13. THAT'S ALL I HAVE. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. I AGREE WITH WHAT HE JUST SAID. I JUST WANT TO SAY I THINK IT'S IT'S SAD BECAUSE I'VE BEEN FOLLOWING THIS ISSUE FROM THIS DESK UP HERE FOR OVER THREE YEARS. AND I THINK IT'S SAD THAT THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE HAD TO PASS A LAW THAT IS FORCING THIS. I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT I AM STANDING UP FOR LAMAR CISD, AND I APPRECIATE THIS PROCESS. AND THANK YOU, MR. JASTER. ALL RIGHT. I WILL NOW CALL FOR THE VOTE. ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. GOOD EVENING, BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND 
          [11.B. Consider approval of RFQ 35-2025TB for selection of architects for 2025 bond referendum]
DOCTOR NEWMAN. TONIGHT WE BRING FORTH A DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE APPROVAL OF ARCHITECTS FOR THE 2025 BOND. SO WE DID AN RFQ, WHICH IS A REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS FOR ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES. THERE WERE 19 ARCHITECTS THAT SUBMITTED PROPOSALS FOR US TO VET. THREE OF THE ARCHITECTS THAT SUBMITTED THEIR PROPOSALS WERE REMOVED FROM THE PROCESS. 
          THEY WERE PBK, PFLUEGER AND JOYNER. THOSE ARE THE THREE ARCHITECTS THAT THE BOARD HAS DECIDED TO DO. OUR PROTOTYPE LAMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND SECONDARY CAMPUSES. SO THAT LEFT US WITH 16. SO ROUND ONE ARCHITECT EVALUATIONS WAS DONE BY AN EVALUATION COMMITTEE MEMBERS. THESE ARE ALL PART OF OUR BOND PROGRAM OFFICE. KEVIN MCKEEVER, SCOTT HARTFIELD, JASON TOLBERT AND DAISY VALENCIA. SO THE EVALUATION COMMITTEE GRADED EACH ARCHITECT BASED ON THEIR PROPOSAL. WHEN THE TOP EIGHT ARCHITECTS WERE THEN SELECTED TO GO TO ROUND TWO, WHICH WENT FROM A PAPER EVALUATION TO A FACE TO FACE INTERVIEW, ROUND TWO EVALUATION WAS MADE UP OF FOUR CABINET MEMBERS DOCTOR KEVIN PHILLIPS, DOCTOR MARLIN WAITES, MISS SONIA COLE-HAMILTON AND MYSELF. THE EVALUATION COMMITTEE THEN GRADED EACH ARCHITECT BASED ON THE FACE TO FACE INTERVIEWS. THEN THE TOP FOUR ARCHITECTS WERE SELECTED TO MOVE FORWARD FOR POSSIBLE APPROVAL. TONIGHT. THOSE FOUR ARCHITECTS ARE ARCADIS, STANTEC ARCHITECTURE, VLK ARCHITECTS AND WA ARCHITECTS, ARCADIS, STANTEC AND VLK WERE PART OF OUR 22 BOND, SO THE NEW MEMBER OF THE ARCHITECTURAL FIRM WOULD BE ARCHITECTS. SO BOARD THIS IS AN ACTION ITEM. SO WE'RE ASKING YOU TO CONSIDER AND APPROVE THE FOUR ARCHITECTURAL FIRMS FOR THE 2025 BOND. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR DISCUSSIONS. MR. BUCHANAN THE FIRMS THAT YOU REMOVED, THOSE ARE ALSO ELIGIBLE TO TO BID. IS THAT CORRECT? YES, SIR. THOSE FOUR, THREE FIRMS PBK. PFLUEGER AND JOINER ARE DOING OUR PFLUEGER AND JOINER DO OUR TWO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PROTOTYPES. PBK IS DOING OUR SECONDARY CAMPUSES, WHICH IS OUR MIDDLE SCHOOL, JUNIOR HIGH HIGH SCHOOLS, PROTOTYPES, SCHOOLS. SO ARE WE ARE WE VOTING TO ALLOW THEM TO BID ON NEW PROJECTS OR JUST PROJECTS THAT WOULD FALL UNDER REBUILDING THE SAME TYPE OF SCHOOL THAT'S ALREADY IN PLACE IN LAMAR? THAT'S CORRECT. THEY WOULD JUST CONTINUE TO BUILD THOSE CAMPUSES. THE REASON THAT WE WE HAVE SO MANY ARCHITECTS THAT WE SELECTED IS WE HAVE REALIZED IN THE PAST THAT HAVING MULTIPLE PROJECTS, ARCHITECTURAL FIRMS, IT'S HARD FOR THEM TO CARRY THAT LOAD. AND THEN WE USUALLY DON'T GET THE HIGH QUALITY SERVICE THAT LAMAR CCSD IS EXPECTING. SO THAT'S WHY WE KEEP ENOUGH ARCHITECTS TO KEEP THE LOAD APPROPRIATE SO THAT ARCHITECTS CAN DELIVER THE WAY THEY SHOULD. CAN YOU EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PROTOTYPE AND A BRAND NEW DESIGN? WHY WOULD WE SELECT PROTOTYPE AND NOT REDESIGN EVERYTHING? YES, SIR. SO WHEN WE MENTIONED PROTOTYPE, PROTOTYPE IS NOT, FOR INSTANCE, IF PBK HAS DONE A SECONDARY CAMPUS, SOME OF THE PLACE THOSE ARCHITECTURAL FIRMS MEET WITH OUR DISTRICT, TAKE OUR EDUCATIONAL SPECS, OUR 
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TECHNICAL SPECS, MEET WITH OUR PRINCIPALS, OUR CAMPUS PEOPLE, AND THEY DEVELOP A PROTOTYPE FOR LAMAR CISD. SO WHEN WE MENTION PROTOTYPE, FOR US, IT IS LAMAR CISD SPECIFIC PROTOTYPE. SO WHEN WE DO A NEW DESIGN, IT TAKES A YEAR LONG PROCESS JUST TO DESIGN IT. AND THEN IT COSTS US AN ADDITIONAL 3%. SO FOR AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IT'S BETWEEN 1 TO $1.5 MILLION ADDITIONAL TO REDO THOSE DESIGNS FOR A SECONDARY CAMPUS, YOU'RE LOOKING AT BETWEEN 10 TO 14 MILLION. SO THAT'S WHY WE USE THOSE DESIGNS MULTIPLE TIMES BEFORE WE GO BACK AND START OVER AGAIN. MR. BUCHANAN, CAN YOU PUT THE OTHER LIST UP? YEAH, THAT. I'M SORRY. NO, THE LIST OF COMPANIES. THERE YOU GO. SO ARE THESE COMPANIES, I GUESS. LET ME LET ME BACK UP MY QUESTION OF THE 2025 BOND PROJECTS. ARE WE GOING TO GO WITH THESE THREE COMPANIES, THE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY COMPANIES FOR ALL NEW CONSTRUCTION AND AND IF THAT'S TRUE, WHAT ARE THESE COMPANIES GOING TO BE DOING. SO SO THESE FOUR COMPANIES WILL BE DOING OUR SAFETY AND SECURITY, OUR ROOFING PACKAGES, OUR HVAC PACKAGES. WE'VE ALSO INCLUDED THIS IS WE DO HAVE SOME AVAILABLE SAVINGS FROM THE 22 BOND, POSSIBLY FROM THE 25 BOND, THAT THESE ARCHITECTS WILL BE ABLE TO DO ADDITIONAL SCOPES OF WORK THAT THE BOARD MAY APPROVE WITH THOSE FUNDS. SO THEY WON'T DO NEW CAMPUSES, BUT THEY WILL BE TOUCHING OUR EXISTING CAMPUSES WITH ROOFING, AIR CONDITIONING, SAFETY, SECURITY AND ANY OTHER ADDITIONAL SCOPE WE MAY HAVE. THANKS. WAS THE SAME RFQ USED TO SOLICIT BOTH TYPES OF JOBS. SO ONE RFQ IS USED TO SOLICIT BOTH THE NEW CONSTRUCTION PROTOTYPES AND THE RENOVATIONS. SO THE WAY THE LAW LAYS IT OUT IS RFQ PROCESS. WE JUST USE BEST PRACTICES AS WE GO FROM ONE BOND TO THE NEXT. 
          ONCE WE DO ONE RFQ PROCESS, IF THE DISTRICT IS HAPPY WITH THE THE GROUP OF ARCHITECTS, WE DON'T HAVE TO GO BACK OUT AGAIN. THE REASON THAT WE SELECTED TO GO BACK OUT AGAIN IS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE STILL RECEIVING THE BEST VALUE FOR THE DISTRICT BY KEEPING THOSE THREE FIRMS. AGAIN, IT'S SAVING THE DISTRICT SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MONEY AS WE CARRY OVER THOSE EXISTING SCHOOL DESIGNS. ANYONE ELSE? OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. MAY I HAVE A MOTION FOR THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO AUTHORIZE THE ADMINISTRATION TO USE THE RANKING GROUP OF ARCHITECTS FOR THE RENOVATION PROJECTS SELECTED IN THE 2025 BOND REFERENDUM AND ANY ADDITIONAL PROJECTS APPROVED FROM THE PAST. BOND SALE SAVINGS. TRUSTEE LAMBERT MAKES THE MOTION. DO I HAVE A SECOND? SECOND. TRUSTEE ARROYO SECONDS. ANY DISCUSSION? OKAY, I WILL NOW CALL FOR THE VOTE. ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. AYE. MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. THANK YOU, MR. BUCHANAN. YES. 
          [11.C. Consider approval of names for Elementary Schools #39, #40, #41, Middle School #8, Junior High School #8, High School #8 and Stadium]
OKAY, SO NOW WE HAVE THE APPROVAL OF THE NAMES OF THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. MISS JOHNSON, IS THERE ANY PUBLIC PARTICIPATION? IT IS THE DESIRE OF THE LAMAR CISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO APPROPRIATELY AND EFFECTIVELY FULFILL ITS GOVERNANCE ROLE IN ACCORDANCE TO BEST PRACTICES FOR QUALITY ORGANIZATIONS AND TO THE APPLICABLE PROVISIONS OF THE TEXAS EDUCATION CODE. TRUSTEES ALSO DESIRE TO AFFORD AN OPPORTUNITY FOR INPUT FROM THE PUBLIC, MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY WHO WISH TO ADDRESS THE BOARD MUST HAVE COMPLETED A PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PUBLIC COMMENT CARD AND SUBMITTED IT BEFORE THE PRESIDING OFFICER CALLED THE MEETING TO ORDER. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ALLOWS INDIVIDUALS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD REGARDING POSTED AGENDA ITEMS. PUBLIC COMMENT ALLOWS INDIVIDUALS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD REGARDING NON-AGENDA ITEMS. TRUSTEES MAY NOT RESPOND TO PUBLIC COMMENTS, AS THEY ARE PROHIBITED BY LAW FROM DISCUSSING OR DECIDING ANY SUBJECT THAT IS NOT ON THE BOARD'S PUBLICLY NOTICED AGENDA. ALL PATRONS DESIRING TO SPEAK AND WHO HAVE COMPLETED THE PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PUBLIC COMMENT FORM WILL BE HEARD DURING THE PUBLIC COMMENT OR PARTICIPATION PORTION OF THE MEETING BEFORE FINAL BOARD ACTION IS TAKEN ON AN AGENDA TOPIC. WHILE SPEAKERS GENERALLY HAVE FIVE MINUTES TO ADDRESS THE BOARD, THE PRESIDING OFFICER MAY ESTABLISH AN OVERALL TIME LIMIT FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND COMMENT AND ADJUST THE TIME ALLOTTED TO EACH SPEAKER WHEN NECESSARY. HOWEVER, NO SPEAKER SHALL BE 
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GIVEN LESS THAN ONE MINUTE. ALL OF THIS IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH HB 2840. EACH SPEAKER TONIGHT WILL HAVE TWO MINUTES. IF TWO OR MORE INDIVIDUALS ARE SPEAKING ON THE SAME TOPIC, THE DISTRICT MAY ENCOURAGE SPEAKERS TO CONSOLIDATE THEIR COMMENTS. EACH SPEAKER MUST ADDRESS THE BOARD FROM THE PROVIDED PODIUM, UNLESS SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS HAVE BEEN REQUESTED AND APPROVED. SPEAKERS ARE TO PRESENT THEIR REMARKS TO THE BOARD AND NOT TO THE AUDIENCE. 
          SPEAKERS HAVING COMPLAINTS AGAINST INDIVIDUAL DISTRICT EMPLOYEES MAY ONLY ADDRESS THE BOARD AFTER FILING A COMPLAINT FORM IN THE MANNER PROVIDED FOR IN BOARD POLICY. DBA EMPLOYEE COMPLAINTS F AND G STUDENT AND PARENT COMPLAINTS G PUBLIC COMPLAINTS. THE PRESIDING OFFICER OR DESIGNEE SHALL DETERMINE WHETHER A SPEAKER HAS FILED A COMPLAINT. ACCORDING TO POLICY, ANY SPEAKERS WHO COMPLAIN OF INDIVIDUAL DISTRICT EMPLOYEES DURING PUBLIC PARTICIPATION OR COMMENT MAY BE DIRECTED BY THE PRESIDING OFFICER TO REFRAIN FROM NAMING THE EMPLOYEE, AND WILL REFER THE SPEAKER TO THE APPROPRIATE COMPLAINT POLICY. SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS ARE MEETINGS HELD IN PUBLIC BUT ARE NOT PUBLIC MEETINGS. WHILE THE BOARD VALUES HEARING FROM MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, TRUSTEES WILL NOT ANSWER QUESTIONS OR RESPOND TO COMMENTS FROM PATRONS, SPEAKERS WILL NOT ENGAGE IN DIALOG WITH THE TRUSTEES. PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME WHEN YOU COME FORWARD. OUR FIRST SPEAKER TONIGHT IS MAXINE FALLON. I DO. GOOD EVENING. 
          THANK YOU, AND THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK. I WAS NOT ABLE TO COME TO THE MEETING YOU HAD LAST TIME IN NAMING SCHOOLS IN THE FUTURE. AND SO I APPRECIATE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO COME AND ENDORSE TROY WILLIAMS FOR THE NAME OF A LAMAR SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE. IT'S MY BELIEF THAT TEACHING IS A VOCATION. IT'S NOT A JOB. THE BEST TEACHERS I KNEW IN THE DECADES THAT I TAUGHT FELT THAT THEY WERE CALLED TO TEACH MINISTERS, DOCTORS, FIRST RESPONDERS, MILITARY PEOPLE. THEY THEY WERE CALLED TO SERVE THEIR FELLOW MAN. AND THAT'S WHAT A GOOD TEACHER IS. AND IN EDUCATION, IT'S AN AXIOM THAT THOSE WHO ANSWER THE CALL TO TEACH, THEY DO SO BECAUSE THEY LOVE NURTURING CHILDREN. THEY LOVE SCHOOL THEMSELVES WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG OR THEY LOVE THE SUBJECT. AND THEN IT'S ALSO EDUCATORS FEEL THOSE WHO FOCUS ON NURTURING CHILDREN USUALLY BECOME ELEMENTARY TEACHERS. 
          THOSE OF US WHO LOVE CHAUCER AND SHAKESPEARE AND DIAGRAMING SENTENCES AND TALKING ABOUT THE PELOPONNESIAN WARS AND THAT SORT OF THING. WE BECAME SECONDARY TEACHERS. TROY WILLIAMS WAS THE EXCEPTIONAL TEACHER WHO STRADDLED BOTH MIDDLE SCHOOL, JUNIOR HIGH AND HIGH SCHOOL. IN HIS TEACHING CAREER, HE WAS A MASTER MATH TEACHER AND ENTHUSIASTIC, ENERGETIC BASKETBALL AND TENNIS COACH. AND HE TRIED IT ALL. AND EVERYONE WHO KNEW TROY AS I DID, KNEW AT THE HEART OF THE VARIOUS AVENUES HE TOOK AN EDUCATION WAS HIS OVERRIDING NEED TO NURTURE STUDENTS THE WAY ELEMENTARY PEOPLE DO, AND THE STUDENTS WHOM HE WAS CHARGED TO TEACH, COACH AND SUPERVISE WHEN HE WAS PRINCIPAL. TROY WAS THE WHOLE PACKAGE. HE CHECKED ALL THE BOXES AND EDUCATION. HE LOVED AND NURTURED YOUNGER KIDS. HE CHALLENGED AND TAUGHT MATH MASTERFULLY TO HIGH SCHOOL KIDS AND JUNIOR HIGH. HE WAS A TEACHER, A COACH, AND A PRINCIPAL. AND WHEN I SAY JUNIOR HIGH, WE ALL NEED TO THINK OF WHAT WE WERE LIKE WHEN WE WERE 12. THANK YOU, MISS PHELAN. OKAY, I ENDORSE OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS LINDSAY DUKE. HI. MY NAME IS LINDSAY DRESNER DUKE, AND I'M A LAMAR GRADUATE, CLASS OF 2002. I HAD MISS PHELAN. I'M HERE TONIGHT TO SHARE ABOUT MY MOTHER, BRENDA DRESNER, AND TO CONSIDER HER FOR THE NAMING OF MIDDLE SCHOOLS. NUMBER EIGHT ARE ELEMENTARIES 39 THROUGH 41. MY MOTHER WAS A LIFELONG RESIDENT OF ROSENBERG AND ATTENDED AND TAUGHT IN LCISD. SHE WORKED FOR LCISD FOR 31 YEARS, RETIRING IN 2004 AS AN ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AT WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY. SHE WAS A TEACHER AT BEASLEY TAYLOR, A JACKSON CROCKETT ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AT JACKSON CROCKETT, JANE LONG, AND FINALLY WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY. THROUGH HER YEARS OF EDUCATION, MY MOTHER BECAME PASSIONATE ABOUT SIXTH GRADE EDUCATION. HER MASTER'S THESIS WAS ON THE NEED TO HAVE A SEPARATE SIXTH GRADE CAMPUS IN LCISD AND ACROSS THE STATE OF TEXAS TO GIVE STUDENTS AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN AND GROW IN THIS PIVOTAL YEAR BETWEEN 
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ELEMENTARY AND JUNIOR HIGH. MY MOTHER WAS A FIERCE ADVOCATE FOR DEDICATED SIXTH GRADE CAMPUS AND LCISD, AND EVEN SERVED ON THE TASK FORCE TO IMPLEMENT THIS, AND THIS RECOMMENDATION. THIS ACCOMPLISHMENT WAS HER GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT. MY MOTHER LOVED EVERYTHING ABOUT THESE SPECIAL STUDENTS AND THE CHALLENGES OF THIS AGE. SHE LOVINGLY REFERRED TO THEM AS WALKING HORMONES AND REEBOKS. BEING ABLE TO SERVE THESE SIXTH GRADE STUDENTS AS A HISTORY TEACHER AND THEN AN ADMINISTRATOR WAS A TRUE, LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE FOR HER. 
          DURING HER 31 YEARS WORKING IN EDUCATION, SHE WAS A MEMBER OF DELTA KAPPA GAMMA, A PRINCIPAL FOR WHARTON COUNTY JUNIOR SUMMER COLLEGES, WHERE I LEARNED TO JUGGLE, AND CLOWN COLLEGE. SHE SHOWED UP FOR PEOPLE, AND SHE LOVED HER KIDS AS SHE NICKNAMED ALL OF HER STUDENTS. SHE LEFT A LEGACY OF SERVICE AND COMPASSION AND KINDNESS. SHE ALWAYS WANTED A SCHOOL TO BE NAMED AFTER HER, AND WHEN SHE PASSED AWAY IN OCTOBER, I MADE A PROMISE TO HER THAT I WOULD TRY MY BEST. I HOPE HER LEGACY OF LOVING KIDS EXACTLY WHERE THEY ARE SHOWING UP FOR THEM EVEN AFTER THEY'VE LEFT HER CLASSROOM, AND GIVING TEACHERS THE ABILITY TO LOVE WHAT THEY DO, WILL CONTINUE ON THROUGH HER NAMESAKE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. OKAY, SO GOOD EVENING, TRUSTEES. AS YOU ALL KNOW, NAMING FACILITIES RESTS WITH THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 
          WE'VE GOT A BOARD POLICY THAT GUIDES THIS AT CW LOCAL, WHICH STATES THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR NAMING A FACILITY RESTS WITH THE BOARD. A STUDENT, STAFF MEMBER, PARENT OR DISTRICT RESIDENT MAY SUBMIT A NOMINATION. ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS 40 AND 41 AND MIDDLE SCHOOL EIGHT, JUNIOR HIGH EIGHT AND HIGH SCHOOL EIGHT WILL OPEN FOR THE 2728 SCHOOL YEAR. THE STADIUM, WHICH IS ALREADY CONSTRUCTED, WILL OPEN FOR DISTRICT USE FOR THE 2627 SCHOOL YEAR AND DURING THE LAST NAMING CYCLE, WHICH TOOK PLACE IN FALL OF 2023, THE BOARD APPROVED A SLATE OF NAMES FOR FUTURE CAMPUSES. THE REMAINING NAME FROM THAT LIST IS K DANZIGER, AND THAT IS BEING ASSIGNED TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 39. FOR VISUAL REFERENCE, HERE IS A. HERE ARE MAPS OF WHERE THOSE CAMPUSES ARE LOCATED. AND AS FAR AS OUR PROCESS ITSELF, COMMUNICATIONS ACCEPTED AND REVIEWED ALL SUBMISSIONS AND ORGANIZED THEM ACCORDINGLY. 
          MORE THAN 400 SUBMISSIONS WERE RECEIVED, RESULTING IN 153 FINAL NAMES. TRUSTEES RECEIVED A COPY OF EVERY SUBMISSION FOR REVIEW, AND AFTER A PUBLIC HEARING ON DECEMBER 16TH, 2025, WHERE THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES RECEIVED COMMUNITY FEEDBACK, THE TRUSTEES NARROWED NOMINATIONS TO A FINAL LIST FOR CONSIDERATION. THE BOARD'S ROSTER FOR CONSIDERATION INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING NAMES MARJORIE M ADAMS, BRENDA DRESNER, INNOCENCIO CANTU, PAUL SHEARER, TROY WILLIAMS, AND DEBBIE URBANSKI. THIS LIST IS PRESENTED IN RANKING ORDER. AND SO THIS EVENING, TRUSTEES, I'D LIKE TO GIVE YOU JUST A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF EACH OF THE POTENTIAL NAMESAKES. FIRST UP, WE'VE GOT MARJORIE ADAMS. SHE'S A FORCE IN FORT BEND COUNTY, A LIFELONG ADVOCATE FOR STUDENTS, FAMILIES AND THE PRESERVATION OF LOCAL HISTORY. BORN AND RAISED IN KENDLETON, SHE RETURNED HOME AFTER COLLEGE TO BUILD PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES, ORGANIZING PTAS AND STRENGTHENING STUDENT SUPPORT SYSTEMS. BEYOND EDUCATION, SHE BECAME THE KEEPER OF LOCAL HISTORY, FOUNDING THE KENDLETON HERITAGE SOCIETY AND PRESERVING LANDMARK STORIES AND AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY ACROSS FIVE COUNTIES. SHE BROKE BARRIERS AS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN TO RUN FOR JUSTICE OF THE PEACE IN FORT BEND COUNTY, SERVED AS KENDLETON TAX ASSESSOR, AND EVEN CREATED THE COMMUNITY'S FIRST NEWSPAPER. HER LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE HAVE SHAPED GENERATIONS, AND HER LEGACY CONTINUES TO INFLUENCE THE REGION TODAY. BRENDA DRESNER DEVOTED MORE THAN 30 YEARS TO LAMAR CISD AND THE FORT BEND COUNTY COMMUNITY. A PROUD GRADUATE OF LAMAR CONSOLIDATED HIGH SCHOOL, SHE RETURNED HOME TO TEACH IN THE SAME CLASSROOM WHERE HER FATHER ONCE ATTENDED, LATER SERVING AT BEASLEY, TAYLOR, AND JACKSON MIDDLE SCHOOL. BRENDA WAS KNOWN FOR BRINGING HISTORY TO LIFE THROUGH CREATIVE, HANDS ON LESSONS AND FOR DEEP COMMITMENT TO STUDENTS AND TEACHERS. SHE WENT ON TO SERVE AS A DISTRICT MATH COORDINATOR AND ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL, CHAMPIONING THE CREATION OF DEDICATED SIXTH GRADE CAMPUSES ACROSS TEXAS, AND EVEN AFTER RETIREMENT, SHE CONTINUED SERVING OTHERS AS A MASTER GARDENER AND THROUGH THE AGGIE RING SCHOLARSHIP, SHE AND HER HUSBAND ESTABLISHED. HER LEGACY IS ONE OF JOY, COMPASSION, AND UNWAVERING DEDICATION TO EDUCATION. INO CANTU'S LIFE IS A REMARKABLE STORY OF RESILIENCE, ACHIEVEMENT AND SERVICE. BORN IN GIDDINGS AND RAISED AS A MIGRANT COTTON PICKER, HE ROSE TO BECOME AN ALL AMERICAN CROSS COUNTRY CROSS COUNTRY RUNNER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AND LATER A MASTERS TRACK CHAMPION, SETTING AMERICAN AND WORLD RECORDS WELL INTO HIS 80S AND 90S. BEYOND ATHLETICS. MR. CANTU DEVOTED HIS CAREER TO SERVING STUDENTS AS A COUNSELOR AT TRAVIS AND WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY, WHERE HE FOUNDED THE LONG STANDING CANTU RUN THAT CONTINUES TO INSPIRE YOUNG PEOPLE TODAY. HE'S ALSO A PUBLISHED AUTHOR AND A MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL HISPANIC SPORTS HALL OF FAME. HIS LIFE REFLECTS HUMILITY, DETERMINATION AND THE BELIEF THAT WITH HARD WORK, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE. PAUL 
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SHEARER DEDICATED HIS LIFE TO PUBLIC SERVICE AND THE BETTERMENT OF FORT BEND COUNTY. 
          AFTER GRADUATING FROM ROSENBERG HIGH SCHOOL AND SERVING IN THE ARMY AIR CORPS DURING WORLD WAR TWO, HE EARNED HIS LAW DEGREE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AND SPENT MORE THAN 50 YEARS PRACTICING LAW IN RICHMOND. HE HELPED THOUSANDS OF FAMILIES SECURE THEIR HOMES AND GUIDED INSTITUTIONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY WITH INTEGRITY AND EXPERTISE. PAUL ALSO SPENT 21 YEARS IN THE LAMAR CISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES, INCLUDING MULTIPLE TERMS AS PRESIDENT, SHAPING THE EDUCATIONAL LANDSCAPE FOR GENERATIONS. HIS LEADERSHIP EXTENDED FAR BEYOND THE DISTRICT, SERVING AS RICHMOND'S RICHMOND CITY ATTORNEY, SUPPORTING LOCAL BANKS AND GIVING TIRELESSLY THROUGH HIS CHURCH AND CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS. HIS LEGACY IS ONE OF HUMILITY, HARD WORK, AND A DEEP COMMITMENT TO HIS COMMUNITY. TROY WILLIAMS SERVED LAMAR FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS, BEGINNING HIS CAREER IN 1963 AS A MATH TEACHER AT LAMAR JUNIOR HIGH. 
          HE WENT ON TO SERVE AS A TEACHER, COACH, ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AND PRINCIPAL, LEADING CAMPUSES LIKE CROCKETT INTERMEDIATE AND LAMAR JUNIOR HIGH. WITH CALM, STEADY LEADERSHIP. REMARKABLY, EVEN AS A PRINCIPAL, HE CONTINUED TEACHING ALGEBRA BECAUSE HE BELIEVED DEEPLY IN THE POWER OF THE CLASSROOM. HE MENTORED COUNTLESS EDUCATORS AND CONNECTED STUDENTS, CONNECTED WITH STUDENTS FROM EVERY BACKGROUND, INSPIRING MANY TO PURSUE A CAREER IN EDUCATION. AFTER SERVING AS PRINCIPAL, HE RETURNED TO FULL TIME TEACHING AT LAMAR HIGH SCHOOL AND CONTINUED SUPPORTING STUDENTS LONG AFTER RETIREMENT. THROUGH TUTORING AND VOLUNTEERING. HIS SERVICE EXTENDED INTO THE COMMUNITY THROUGH THE OPTIMIST CLUB, THE METHODIST MEN'S ORGANIZATION, AND DECADES OF INVOLVEMENT AT FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. TROY WILLIAMS IS REMEMBERED FOR HIS KINDNESS, INTEGRITY, AND THE LASTING IMPACT HE MADE ON GENERATIONS OF STUDENTS AND EDUCATORS. AND FINALLY, DEBBIE URBANSKI. 
          DEBBIE URBANSKI DEVOTED 38 YEARS TO LAMAR ISD AND BECAME THE HEARTBEAT OF EVERY CAMPUS SHE SERVED. A ROSENBERG NATIVE AND GRADUATE OF LAMARCUS HIGH SCHOOL, SHE SPENT HER CAREER SUPPORTING STUDENTS, STAFF, AND FAMILIES WITH UNMATCHED DEDICATION. DEBBIE WORKED AT GEORGE JUNIOR HIGH AND TERRY HIGH SCHOOL AND PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN OPENING FOSTER HIGH SCHOOL, WHERE SHE REMAINED UNTIL HER PASSING AS THE PRINCIPAL SECRETARY. SHE KEPT CAMPUSES RUNNING SMOOTHLY, MENTORED NEW STAFF, AND SUPPORTED STUDENTS IN EVERYTHING FROM ACADEMICS TO FINE ARTS AND ATHLETICS. DEBBIE WAS KNOWN FOR HER COMPASSION, HER WELCOMING PRESENCE, AND HER UNWAVERING COMMITMENT TO OTHERS EVEN AS SHE BATTLED CANCER. HER LEGACY LIVES ON THROUGH HER FAMILY AND THE COUNTLESS PEOPLE SHE UPLIFTED THROUGH HER 38 YEARS OF SERVICE. SO TRUSTEES AND PAST NAMING CYCLES. THE DISTRICT HAS FOLLOWED THE SAME GENERAL APPROACH THAT WE'VE DISCUSSED PREVIOUSLY. ONCE THE BOARD APPROVES A SLATE OF NAMES, ADMINISTRATION THEN CONDUCTS A DEEPER DIVE INTO EACH CANDIDATE'S BACKGROUND, THEIR CONNECTION TO THE COMMUNITY, AND THE CONTEXT OF EACH CAMPUS OR FACILITY TO ENSURE THE MOST APPROPRIATE PLACEMENT. THESE DECISIONS ARE NOT MADE BY ONE PERSON. THE RECOMMENDATION INVOLVES DOCTOR NIVENS AND THE FULL ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM, BRINGING MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES AND INFORMATION INTO THE CONVERSATION, AND WE ARE IN THE PROCESS NOW OF CONTINUING THAT DEEP DIVE. BUT TONIGHT WE WANT TO PROPOSE SOME DRAFT ASSIGNMENTS. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 39 HAS ALREADY BEEN ASSIGNED TO KAY DANZINGER. IT'S GOING TO BE LOCATED AT PEACH ROAD AND BEECHNUT STREET. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NUMBER 40 IS BEING PROPOSED FOR MR. CANTU. AGAIN. 
          HE WAS AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COUNSELOR. ALL OF HIS WORK WAS AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL. WE FEEL IT'S APPROPRIATE THAT HE RECEIVED AN ELEMENTARY CAMPUS. MARJORIE M ADAMS, AS YOU HEARD FROM HER BIO, ALL OF HER WORK WAS MOSTLY IN THE KENDLETON AREA WITH LOTS OF RICH HISTORY, SO WE FELT IT APPROPRIATE TO ASSIGN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 41, WHICH IS IN AMBERLEY, NEAR KENDLETON, IN HONOR OF MISS ADAMS FOR OUR SECONDARY CAMPUSES, YOU HEARD THE LEGACY OF MISS BRENDA DRESNER, HOW IMPORTANT IT WAS TO HAVE A SIXTH GRADE CAMPUS. AND SO WE FEEL IT'S FITTING TO NAME A MIDDLE SCHOOL AFTER MISS DRESNER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL NUMBER EIGHT. WE FEEL IT'S APPROPRIATE TO NAME IT FOR DEBBIE URBANSKI. AGAIN, HER WORK WAS AT GEORGE JUNIOR HIGH AND THE SECONDARY LEVEL. WE'VE PREVIOUSLY NAMED A MIDDLE SCHOOL AFTER A STAFF MEMBER, SO THAT FEELS FITTING. AND THEN OUR HIGH SCHOOL, TROY WILLIAMS, HE WAS A HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER. HE WAS A COACH. WE FEEL IT'S FITTING TO HONOR HIM WITH A HIGH SCHOOL CAMPUS. AND THEN LASTLY OUR CAMPUS STADIUM. WE FEEL IT'S APPROPRIATE TO NAME IN HONOR OF A COMMUNITY RESIDENT. YOU KNOW, OUR COMMUNITY RESIDENT. WHILE MR. PAUL SHEARER WAS NOT AN EDUCATOR, PER SE WAS ON THE BOARD. THAT HAS A HUGE IMPACT ON OUR CAMPUS. STADIUMS TOUCH EVERY PART OF OUR COMMUNITY. IT'S A GREAT PLACE TO BRING THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER. WE FELT IT WAS APPROPRIATE TO SIGN HIS NAME TO THAT COMMUNITY FACILITY AGAIN. TRUSTEES, THESE ARE JUST PROPOSED DRAFTS. SO THIS IS AN ACTION ITEM, AND WE'RE ASKING YOU TO CONSIDER AND APPROVE THE SLATE OF NAMES. AGAIN, WE'RE STILL GOING TO VET AND MAKE SURE THAT OUR ASSIGNMENTS ARE APPROPRIATE. AND SO TONIGHT WE'RE JUST ASKING YOU TO APPROVE THE SLATE OF NAMES. ANY DISCUSSION. THIS LIKE WHEN WE WE GET THIS BOOK BINDER LIKE THIS BIG AND WHEN WE NARROW IT DOWN. THE NAMES THAT WERE PRESENTED TONIGHT LIKE I 
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PERSONALLY HAVE RELATIONSHIP AND I'VE MET MEMBERS OF THOSE FAMILIES. NOT I MET THEM BEFORE THESE NAMES WERE EVEN PRESENTED, JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE LEGACY OF THIS NAME AND THE WEIGHT OF THEIR NAMES, THEY MATTER TO THIS COMMUNITY. SO, SO THEN AS AS TRUSTEES, WE DON'T TAKE THIS LIGHTLY. IT'S NOT AN EASY DECISION. BUT TO KNOW PERSONALLY, MYSELF, THE FAMILIES THAT COME FROM THESE INDIVIDUALS AND THE, THE, THE GOOD WORK THAT IS STILL COMING FROM THESE FAMILIES, IT'S IT'S PRETTY PRETTY PRETTY SPECIAL. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND THIS WAS ONE OF THE ONES LIKE I, I SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN DALLAS EARLIER TODAY, BUT I WANTED TO BE HERE FOR PART OF THIS VOTE BECAUSE, I MEAN, EACH ONE OF THOSE NAMES I'VE MET AND I KNOW PERSONALLY FAMILY MEMBERS FROM THESE FAMILIES. SO I JUST WANTED TO BE HERE FOR THIS. 
          YEAH. I WANT TO SAY THE ADMINISTRATION GAVE US A PRINTOUT OF ALL THE NAMES, EVERY COPY OF EVERY NAME, THE DUPLICATES, AND THE BINDER WAS THAT BIG. I WISH I WOULD HAVE BROUGHT IT TONIGHT, AND I READ EVERY PAGE, AND I THINK ALL SEVEN OF US DID, TOO. AND WE LISTENED TO ALL THE COMMENTS. AND I REALLY HAVE TAKEN THIS SERIOUS BEHIND THE SCENES, BECAUSE I KNOW IT'S A GREAT HONOR. AND THESE ARE THE SIX NAMES THAT HAVE BEEN WHITTLED DOWN FROM ALL THE OTHER NAMES PRESENTED. AND I WAS GOING TO PRESENT A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT SLATE ON HOW THOSE NAMES WERE ASSIGNED. BUT I THINK, MR. COLE-HAMILTON, I THINK THE WAY YOU EXPLAINED IT, I AGREE WITH IT. SO MY REQUEST OF THE ADMINISTRATION IS IF THERE IS A DIFFERENCE IN WHAT WAS PRESENTED TONIGHT, THAT THERE WOULD BE SOME BOARD INTERACTION BEFORE A NAME WOULD BE CHANGED WITH ONE OF THE BUILDINGS. I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE THAT BECAUSE I THINK THAT IT MADE SENSE THE WAY YOU EXPLAINED IT. IF MAYBE SOMETHING COMES UP BEHIND THE SCENES THAT IT'S NOT KNOWN RIGHT NOW, OR A REASON TO CHANGE ONE OF THE NAMES FROM THIS BUILDING TO THAT BUILDING, I WOULD JUST APPRECIATE A HEADS UP IN A DISCUSSION BEHIND THE SCENES. GOT A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT I'D LIKE TO SHARE. AS A NEW MEMBER OF THIS BOARD. 
          OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS A NEW PROCESS FOR ME. AND AND I JUST DIDN'T KNOW I WAS JUST WENT WITH THE EBB AND FLOW. I GUESS SEVERAL OF US WERE JUST THE THE NEW MEMBERS WEREN'T REAL SURE ABOUT THE PROCESS. BUT ONE THING I WILL TELL YOU IS, IS YOU'VE HEARD HOW WE STARTED OUT WITH APPROXIMATELY 400 SUBMISSIONS THAT WERE THEN NARROWED DOWN TO 150. AND WHAT IMPRESSES ME, WHAT MAKES ME SO PROUD OF THIS BOARD AND SERVING ON THIS BOARD, IS THAT I HAD NO IDEA WHOSE ZACKS TOP NAMES WERE GOING TO BE, OR I HAD NO IDEA WHOSE JOHN'S OR SUZANNE'S WERE. 
          BUT TO SEE THIS DIVERSE GROUP OF NAMES SURFACE JUST MAKES ME SO PROUD OF THIS. THIS BOARD RIGHT HERE. YOU KNOW, FOR ME, IT'S PERSONAL. IT'S PERSONAL BECAUSE MY FRIENDS WHO ARE IN THE AUDIENCE TODAY, WHO BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION THE AND ALL, I MEAN, WE COULD WE COULD JUST TALK ABOUT THESE NAMES FOR A LONG TIME. THERE ARE A LOT OF VERY GOOD, CAPABLE PEOPLE. BUT BUT I'M PARTICULARLY EXCITED ABOUT MARJORIE MILTON ADAMS. AND I KNOW THAT MISS ADAMS DAUGHTERS, WHO ARE IN OUR AUDIENCE TODAY AND FRIENDS KNOW THE MAGNITUDE OF WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE AND, AND THIS ENTIRE BOARD, YOU KNOW, WE'RE WE'RE, YOU KNOW, FOR HER NAME TO HAVE TO HAVE SURFACED AMONG 400 TO THIS PARTICULAR LIST IS HUGE. AND IT'S BIGGER. YOU KNOW, WITH MISS ADAMS, IT'S BIGGER THAN JUST WHAT WE JUST HEARD READ HERE TODAY. MY MY WIFE WAS FRIENDS WITH MISS ADAMS, AND MY WIFE HAS EMPHASIZED TO ME, YOU KNOW, MISS ADAMS HAS BEEN A CHAMPION. SHE IS A DESCENDANT OF FREED SLAVES. OKAY. SHE GREW UP IN KENDLETON. SHE WAS RAISED ON LAND OWNED BY THE DESCENDANTS OF FREED SLAVES THAT WERE PURCHASED BY THE SLAVE OWNER. SHE PROTECTED GRAVES OF THE OF THE FIRST BLACK, THE FIRST BLACK LEGISLATOR IN THE GREAT STATE OF TEXAS. THINK ABOUT THAT. HOW MANY LEGISLATORS HAVE BEEN SHE PROTECTED THAT HIS GRAVE PROTECTED THE GRAVE OF THE FIRST BLACK SHERIFF IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA? I MEAN, THIS IS HUGE. AND AND WHAT COMES TO MIND FOR ME ABOUT MISS ADAMS AND I COULD JUST GO ON AND ON AND NOT TAKING ANYTHING AWAY FROM ANYONE ELSE WHO'S BEING RECOGNIZED IN THIS PROCESS. BUT TO QUOTE DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR, LOVE IS THE ONLY FORCE CAPABLE OF TRANSFORMING ENEMIES INTO FRIENDS. AND THAT'S ANYTIME YOU 
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TALK TO ANYBODY THAT UNDERSCORES EXACTLY WHO MISS ADAMS WAS. YOU KNOW, MISS ADAMS HAD FRIENDS LIKE TOM DELAY, AND SHE HAD FRIENDS LIKE HILLARY CLINTON. TRUE STORY. AND THE PEOPLE WHO KNOW KNOW HER WILL SHARE THE SAME THING WITH YOU. IT WAS INCREDIBLE THE WORK SHE DID. AND TO THINK THAT HER FAMILY, THE MELTON FAMILY, DONATED SOME OF THE LAND THAT POWELL POINT SCHOOL IS BUILT ON TODAY, THAT SHE WAS A GRADUATE OF POWERPOINT SCHOOL. AND NOW, I MEAN, TO ME, IT'S IT'S IT'S SIGNIFICANT THAT THE PROXIMITY OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 41, WHICH IS NEAR KENDLETON, WHICH IS WHERE THE KENDLETON STUDENTS WILL LIKELY BE ZONED TO, WILL NOW BEAR HER NAME. IMAGINE THAT. YOU KNOW, GOD IS A GREAT GOD. AND I WILL TELL YOU, THIS IS THE DAY THE LORD HAS MADE. LET US REJOICE AND BE HAPPY IN IT. THANK YOU, BOARD MEMBERS. WELL, I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO TOP GEORGE'S. I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT THERE WERE THERE WERE A LOT OF NAMES SUBMITTED AND THERE WERE SOME HARD CHOICES TO MAKE. SO I JUST THANK EVERYBODY FOR TAKING THE TIME TO SUBMIT, TO COME AND SPEAK LAST MONTH AND JUST KNOW THAT IT WAS A DECISION WE DIDN'T TAKE LIGHTLY. SO. ALL RIGHT, ANYBODY ELSE? I ALSO WILL SAY THAT WHILE THERE WERE SO MANY SUBMISSIONS, THE FACT THAT THIS DISTRICT HAS SO MANY NAMES TO CHOOSE FROM, LIKE SO MANY NAMES THAT ARE WORTHY, I CAN'T THINK OF A HIGHER HONOR THAN GETTING A SCHOOL NAMED AFTER YOU IN THIS DISTRICT. SO CONGRATULATIONS TO THOSE OF YOU, IT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE WE'LL HAVE ANY PROBLEM GOING FORWARD WITH THIS. SO THAT BEING SAID, MAY I HAVE A MOTION FOR THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO APPROVE? ADAMS, URBANSKI, DRESNER, CANTU, WILLIAMS AND SHEARER AS THE SLATE OF NAMES TO USE FOR NAMING ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. OH, I'M SORRY, DO I ALSO HAVE TO SAY DANZIGER? YEAH. AND DANZIGER FOR NAMING ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. NUMBER 39. NUMBER 40. 
          NUMBER 41, MIDDLE SCHOOL NUMBER EIGHT. JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL NUMBER EIGHT, HIGH SCHOOL NUMBER EIGHT. AND FOR NAMING THE STADIUM. MADAM PRESIDENT, I AM PROUD TO CAST A MOTION. SO MOVED. ALL RIGHT, TRUSTEE ARROYO MAKES THE MOTION. DO I HAVE I'LL SECOND THAT MOTION. 
          WELCH MAKES A SECOND. ANY DISCUSSION? OKAY, I WILL NOW CALL FOR THE VOTE. ALL IN FAVOR SAY I, I MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. ALL RIGHT. CONGRATULATIONS. THANK. OKAY. 
          [Items 11.D & 11.E]
BOARD. NOW WE HAVE MISS LUDWIG AT THE PODIUM. SHE'S ACTUALLY GOING TO ADDRESS ITEMS 11 AND 11 E. GOOD EVENING, BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND DOCTOR NIVENS. THIS EVENING I WILL PROVIDE INFORMATION ON A COUPLE ITEMS ON YOUR APPROVAL LIST THIS EVENING. THE ORDER AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS AND ALSO THE REIMBURSEMENT RESOLUTION. AS YOU REMEMBER FROM LAST MONTH, WE DO HAVE A TIMELINE OF ACTIVITIES FOR THE SALE OF BONDS. THIS WILL BE THE FIRST SALE IN THE 2025 BOND ELECTION. THIS EVENING, WE ARE ASKING FOR YOUR APPROVAL OF THE ORDER AND THE REIMBURSEMENT RESOLUTION. FIRST OF ALL, THE ORDER IS THE AUTHORIZATION FOR THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS. IT'S A FORMAL DOCUMENT THAT'S PASSED BY THE BOARD THAT LEGALLY PERMITS THE SALE OF BONDS. AND THAT'S FOLLOWING A VOTER APPROVED BOND ELECTION. YOU RECEIVED A DRAFT OF THAT DOCUMENT IN YOUR BOARD PACKET, THE REIMBURSEMENT RESOLUTION IS A TOOL THAT THE ADMINISTRATION CAN USE WHEN CONDITIONS ARISE, WHERE BOND PROGRAM RELATED TRANSACTIONS AND CONTRACTS NEED TO BE ENTERED INTO PRIOR TO THE CLOSING OF THE SALE OF BONDS, PURCHASE ORDERS ARE DRAWN ON AND PAYMENTS ARE MADE OUT OF THE GENERAL FUND. THE REIMBURSEMENT RESOLUTION IS A LEGAL DOCUMENT THAT ALLOWS THE DISTRICT TO BE REIMBURSED FOR THE ELIGIBLE PROGRAM, PAYMENTS THAT ARE MADE OUT OF THE GENERAL FUND, AND THOSE REIMBURSEMENTS ARE MADE AFTER THE BONDS ARE SOLD AND THE TRANSACTION CLOSES. BOARD ACTION IS NEEDED FOR TWO ITEMS. THOSE ARE THE FORMAL TITLES. IT'S JUST THE ADOPTION OF THE ORDER AND THE RESOLUTION. WITH THAT, I CAN ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. I HAVE A COUPLE OF 
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ITEMS THAT I JUST WANTED TO DISCUSS. I DID NOTICE THAT IN THE EXPLANATION, YOU INDICATED THAT WHEN ECONOMIC CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE, WHAT WOULD WE BE? WHAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED FAVORABLE ECONOMIC CONDITIONS? WELL, A FAVORABLE INTEREST RATE ENVIRONMENT, YES. WHEN THERE'S NOT WHEN THERE'S ACTIVITY IN THE BOND MARKET, BUT NOT OVERWHELMING ACTIVITY, YOU KNOW, WITH OUR TYPE OF BONDS. I GUESS THOSE ARE THE REALLY THE BIG THINGS. SO SO WE'RE EXPECTING THAT IN THE UPCOMING MONTHS. YOU KNOW, A NICE POOL OF INVESTORS. YES. YOU KNOW THOSE TYPES OF THINGS OKAY. GOOD. AND SO DO WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO SELL ALL THE BONDS AT THE SAME TIME. OR DO WE HAVE TO DIVIDE THEM UP. WE COULD SELL THEM ALL AT ONCE. BUT WE DO THAT. WE TYPICALLY DO ONLY ISSUE BONDS WHEN THEY'RE NEEDED FOR THE PROGRAM SCHEDULE. WE WE WOULD NOT WANT TO ISSUE BONDS EARLY AND PAY INTEREST ON THEM BEFORE THEY'RE NEEDED. WHAT IF ALL OF A SUDDEN THERE WAS A CHANGE? DEMOGRAPHY. DEMOGRAPHERS CAME TO US AND SAID, OH, WAIT A MINUTE, GROWTH HAS STOPPED. YOU KNOW, ALL OF A SUDDEN, YOU KNOW, THERE THERE'S SOME CHANGES IN THE THE DEMOGRAPHICS WE'RE EXPECTING. WOULD WE STILL CONTINUE TO SELL BONDS OR WOULD WE? WE WOULD ADJUST THE BUILDING SCHEDULE AND WE WOULD ISSUE BONDS AS THEY'RE NEEDED. 
          THE BOND ELECTION IS THE AUTHORIZATION AUTHORIZATION FOR THE DISTRICT TO SELL BONDS. BUT WE ARE WE'RE NOT REQUIRED TO SELL THEM IF THEY'RE NOT NEEDED. OKAY. THANK YOU MA'AM. 
          APPRECIATE IT. OKAY OKAY. THIS IS A VERY LONG MOTION. THANK YOU, MISS LUDWIG. MAY I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE AN ORDER BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LAMAR CONSOLIDATED INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF UNLIMITED TAX, SCHOOL, HOUSE, AND OR REFUNDING BONDS IN ONE OR MORE SERIES AS DESIGNATED BY PURPOSE AND SERIES LEVYING A CONTINUING DIRECT ANNUAL AD VALOREM TAX FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE BONDS. DELEGATING THE AUTHORITY TO CERTAIN MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND DISTRICT STAFF TO APPROVE AND EXECUTE CERTAIN DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE SALE OF EACH SERIES OF BONDS, AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE AND A MOTION THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ADOPT. AN ORDER AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF UNLIMITED TAX, SCHOOL, HOUSE, AND OR REFUNDING BONDS IN ONE OR MORE SERIES AS DESIGNATED BY PURPOSE AND SERIES PURSUANT TO A DELEGATED SALE. I NEED A MOTION. YES. OKAY. TRUSTEE BOX MAKES THE MOTION. DO I HAVE A SECOND TRUSTEE? MASTERS MAKES THE SECOND. ANY DISCUSSION? OKAY, I'LL NOW CALL FOR THE VOTE. ALL IN FAVOR SAY I, I MOTION CARRIES. ONE MORE. WAS THAT IT? ONE MORE. THAT WAS THE SAME THING D AND E WAS THAT DEAN? YEAH. OKAY. YEAH. OKAY. 
          [10.A. Discussion of design development for Elementary School #40]
WE'RE GOING TO MOVE BACKWARDS TO FUTURE ACTION NOW. OKAY. GOOD EVENING. BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND DOCTOR NEMITZ. TONIGHT WE WILL BRING FORTH A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE DESIGN DEVELOPMENT FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. NUMBER 40, JUST TO REMIND THE BOARD AND THE PUBLIC. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NUMBER 40 IS LOCATED ON THE SECONDARY EIGHT COMPLEX SITE, WHICH IS ON FM 359 NORTH OF DOWNTOWN FULSHEAR. SO THIS IS HIGH SCHOOL NUMBER EIGHT, JUNIOR HIGH NUMBER EIGHT, MIDDLE SCHOOL NUMBER EIGHT, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 40 WILL SIT TO THE WEST OF MIDDLE SCHOOL NUMBER EIGHT. SO THIS IS OPTION NUMBER ONE. THIS IS OPTION ONE ADJACENT TO THE MIDDLE SCHOOL. 
          NUMBER EIGHT THAT WAS APPROVED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. OPTION NUMBER TWO. OPTION NUMBER TWO ADJACENT TO MIDDLE SCHOOL. NUMBER EIGHT. OPTION NUMBER THREE. OPTION NUMBER THREE ADJACENT TO MIDDLE SCHOOL NUMBER EIGHT. SO OUR NEXT STEP WE HAD A COMMITTEE MEETING ON JANUARY THE 14TH. THEY DISCUSSED THE OPTIONS AND VOTED ON THE OPTIONS THAT THEY LIKED THE BEST. THIS WILL BE AN ACTION ITEM AT THE FEBRUARY BOARD MEETING. SO BOARD THIS IS 
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A FUTURE ACTION ITEM. SO THERE'S NO ACTION REQUIRED AT THIS TIME. ANY QUESTIONS OR DISCUSSION? MR. BUCHANAN, THIS IS JUST FOR CLARIFICATION. THIS IS A REPEAT DESIGN OF THE CURRENT HAYGOOD ELEMENTARY. IS THAT CORRECT? THAT IS CORRECT, SIR. THANK YOU. OKAY. SO GOOD 
          [10.B. Discussion of design development for Elementary School #41]
EVENING AGAIN, BOARD OF TRUSTEES. DOCTOR NIVENS, TONIGHT, REMEMBER OUR DISCUSSION ABOUT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NUMBER 4141 IS LOCATED IN AMBERLEY. IT'S, I GUESS, SOUTHEAST OF TEXAS HIGHWAY 59. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SITE IS LOCATED WITHIN THE DEVELOPMENT. 
          AGAIN, THIS IS A HAYGOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PROTOTYPE THAT WE'RE USING AT THIS SITE. 
          THIS IS OPTION NUMBER ONE. OPTION NUMBER TWO. OPTION NUMBER THREE. AGAIN, OUR NEXT STEPS. THE COMMITTEE MET ON JANUARY THE 14TH. THEY DISCUSSED AND VOTED ON THE OPTIONS. THIS WOULD BE AN ACTION ITEM AT THE FEBRUARY BOARD MEETING. THIS IS A FUTURE ACTION ITEM AND THERE'S NO ACTION REQUIRED AT THIS TIME. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR DISCUSSION? IS THE IS OPTION NUMBER THREE. IS THAT LIKE A COPPER BUILDING OR IS IT. YES MA'AM. IT IS A METAL THAT IS COPPER. OKAY OKAY. WELL THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING. DOES IT JUST LOOK RIGHT OR IS IT. IT'S IT IS A TINTED. IT'S I WOULDN'T SAY COPPER GOLD. IT IS ON A REDDISH TINT OF THE COPPER FIELD. OKAY. THANK YOU. ANYBODY ELSE? NOPE. OKAY. 
          [10.C. Discussion of secondary schools rezoning process and draft options for Secondary Complex #8 ]
READY. ALL RIGHT. GOOD EVENING, BOARD MEMBERS. DOCTOR EVANS, TONIGHT, ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT WILL PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF THE REZONING PROCESS AND SHARE THE INITIAL DRAFT OPTIONS FOR SECONDARY COMPLEX EIGHT. AS A QUICK OVERVIEW, ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT SUPPORTS THE DISTRICT'S EFFORTS IN BALANCING STUDENT POPULATIONS ACROSS CAMPUSES. 
          THAT INCLUDES LEVELING, CAPPING, AND OVERFLOW MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING FOR NEW CAMPUSES. 
          TONIGHT, WE'RE FOCUSED ON THE OPENING OF THREE NEW SECONDARY CAMPUSES IN AUGUST OF 2027. WE CURRENTLY HAVE THREE NEW SECONDARY CAMPUSES SCHEDULED TO OPEN IN AUGUST OF 2027. THESE ARE. NEW SCHOOLS ARE PART OF OUR CONTINUED EFFORT TO STAY AHEAD OF GROWTH AND ENSURE WE MAINTAIN MANAGEABLE CLASS SIZES AND EQUITABLE ACCESS TO RESOURCES. OUR REZONING PROCESS IS GUIDED BY SEVERAL KEY OBJECTIVES. ABOVE ALL, WE AIM TO DO WHAT IS BEST FOR STUDENTS. 
          THAT MEANS KEEPING NEIGHBORHOODS AND FEEDER PATTERNS TOGETHER WHENEVER THAT IS POSSIBLE, ALIGNING ENROLLMENT WITH CAMPUS CAPACITY, AND REDUCING OVERCROWDING. WE ALSO CONSIDER STUDENT PROXIMITY TO CAMPUSES, SAFE TRAVEL ROUTES, AND EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION WITH THOSE IMPACTED FAMILIES. THESE CRITERIA HELP ENSURE TRANSPARENCY AND FAIRNESS IN EVERY REZONING EFFORT. OUR PROCESS INCLUDES FIVE MAJOR STEPS OUR DEMOGRAPHERS DEVELOP MULTIPLE REZONING OPTIONS. THESE ARE VETTED INTERNALLY AND THEN BROUGHT TO THE BOARD TO APPROVE FOR PUBLIC REVIEW. STEP TWO WE WILL OPEN A COMMUNITY SURVEY FOR FAMILIES IN POTENTIALLY AFFECTED AREAS TO PROVIDE INPUT. STEP THREE THE ATTENDANCE BOUNDARY COMMITTEE, OR ABC, WILL REVIEW BOTH THE DATA AND COMMUNITY FEEDBACK TO RANK THE OPTIONS. STEP FOUR WE WILL PRESENT THOSE RANKINGS TO THE BOARD FOR REVIEW AND THEN STEP FIVE. THE BOARD THEN SELECTS AND APPROVES THE FINAL ZONING PLANS. THE ABC PROVIDES AN IMPORTANT OPPORTUNITY FOR PARENTS AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT. EACH IMPACTED SECONDARY CAMPUS WILL HAVE AT LEAST TWO REPRESENTATIVES SELECTED BY THEIR CAMPUS ADMINISTRATOR, AS WELL AS AT LEAST ONE FROM EACH IMPACTED ELEMENTARY CAMPUS IN THE AREA. IN THE PAST, OUR PROCEDURE WAS 
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TO ALLOW THE TRUSTEES FOR THE IMPACTED AREAS TO APPOINT UP TO TWO MEMBERS FOR THE ABC. FOR SECONDARY COMPLEX EIGHT SECRETARY BOX AREA IS THE AREA THAT IS BEING IMPACTED, BUT VICE PRESIDENT WELCH HAS REQUESTED TO ALLOW ALL TRUSTEES TO PROVIDE MEMBERS TO THE ABC. 
          THAT DECISION WILL BE AT THE BOARD'S WILL. WE WANT TO ENSURE THAT THIS COMMITTEE REFLECTS OUR COMMUNITY AND PROVIDES THOUGHTFUL, BALANCED FEEDBACK TO GUIDE THE REZONING RECOMMENDATIONS. AS A REMINDER, THE ATTENDANCE BOUNDARY COMMITTEE FUNCTIONS AS AN ADVISORY BODY AND DOES NOT MAKE A FINAL DECISION FROM REVIEWING MULTIPLE DATA POINTS. THE ABC DEVELOPS AND PRESENTS A RECOMMENDATION TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES BY SHARING THE RANK ORDER OF THE ZONING OPTIONS. THIS SLIDE OUTLINES THE PROPOSED TIMELINE FOR THE REZONING PROCESS FOR SECONDARY COMPLEX EIGHT. WE'VE ALREADY REVIEWED OPTIONS INTERNALLY AND SHARED THEM WITH IMPACTED PRINCIPALS, AND AT TONIGHT'S MEETING, WE'RE PRESENTING THE PROCESS AND DRAFT OPTIONS AS A FUTURE ACTION ITEM. NEXT MONTH IN FEBRUARY, WE'LL BRING THIS BACK FOR ACTION TO APPROVE THE ABC AND THE ZONING OPTIONS. FROM THERE. THE SURVEY WILL OPEN IN FEBRUARY. THE ABC WILL MEET IN MARCH AND WILL BRING FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE BOARD IN MAY. SO THESE NEXT SLIDES SHOW ENROLLMENT PROJECTIONS AND REZONING OPTIONS FOR HIGH SCHOOL COMPLEX EIGHT. JUST BE AWARE WE DO HAVE THREE OPTIONS FOR BOTH THE HIGH SCHOOL OR FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL. THE JUNIOR HIGH AND MIDDLE SCHOOL SECONDARY COMPLEXES HAVE THE SAME ZONES, SO THEY'LL BE THE SAME THROUGHOUT, BUT IT WILL SHOW THE PROJECTIONS ALL THE WAY THROUGH. HERE IS OUR CURRENT ZONE AS YOU ARE RECOGNIZED. AND THIS BOX WILL KNOW THIS. VERY FAMILIAR WITH OUR PROJECTIONS. HERE IS OPTION ONE. OPTION ONE USES HUNT ROAD AND JORDAN ROAD AS A BOUNDARY FOR IN BETWEEN SECONDARY COMPLEX EIGHT AND FULSHEAR HIGH SCHOOL. AS A REMINDER IN THE CAPACITIES, IF YOU SEE IT IN RED, IT MEANS THAT IT IS OVER THE CAPACITY AND THE PORTABLES. ANY COLORS IN ORANGE MEANS IT'S OVER THE CAPACITY OF THE BUILDING, BUT UNDERNEATH OR FITS WITHIN THE PORTABLE BUILDINGS. HERE IS OPTION TWO. 
          OPTION TWO SHIFTS VERY LITTLE FROM OPTION ONE. AS YOU CAN SEE, THESE TWO PIECES RIGHT HERE. 
          SHIFT FROM HIGH SCHOOL COMPLEX EIGHT BACK TO FULSHEAR. ON THIS ONE WE USE HUNT ROAD AND TAMARON PARKWAY AS THE BOUNDARIES FOR THE TWO DIFFERENT SECONDARY COMPLEXES WITH THIS ONE, BY MOVING THAT BORDER UP A LITTLE NORTH, IT WOULD SPLIT TAMARON WEST THAT NEIGHBORHOOD IN BETWEEN TWO THE TWO HIGH SCHOOL, THE TWO SECONDARY COMPLEXES. HERE IS OPTION THREE. WITH OPTION OPTION THREE, WE SHIFTED FROM MORE OF A NORTH SOUTH BREAK TO AN EAST WEST BREAK. WE USED BESSIE CREEK, POLO RANCH ROAD, AND JORDAN RANCH BOULEVARD AS THE BOUNDARIES FOR THE TWO COMPLEXES, SECONDARY COMPLEX EIGHT AND THE PURPLE TRACK FULCHER. THIS OPTION WOULD ALSO SPLIT JORDAN RANCH, THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF JORDAN RANCH, IN HALF, AND THAT NEIGHBORHOOD IS IN THE NORTHERN REGION. IF I COULD CLICK THE RIGHT BUTTON UP IN THIS AREA, IT WOULD SPLIT JORDAN RANCH WITH THAT BORDER THERE. AT THIS POINT, I'D WELCOME ANY QUESTIONS OR FEEDBACK ON THE HIGH SCHOOL NUMBER EIGHT DRAFT OPTIONS. 
          OKAY. SO WE'LL GO TO JUNIOR HIGH. JUNIOR HIGH EIGHT IS GOING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE THE SAME OPTIONS THAT WE HAD FOR HIGH SCHOOL. SO I'LL JUST GO THROUGH THEM AND LET YOU SEE THE DIFFERENT PROJECTIONS. THIS IS OUR CURRENT PROJECTIONS. AND JUST SO YOU'RE AWARE, WE DID BREAK THE TABLES INTO TWO AS WE ARE ADDING THE ADDITIONAL SEATS AT BOTH LEHMAN JUNIOR HIGH AND ROBERTS MIDDLE SCHOOL. THAT WAS APPROVED IN THE BOND OF 2025, AND THOSE WILL BE GOING INTO PLAY IN 2028. SO THAT'S WHY YOU SEE TWO TABLES. HERE'S OPTION ONE WITH THE JUNIOR HIGH. THIS IS OPTION TWO FOR THE JUNIOR HIGH. AND THEN OPTION THREE WITH THE JUNIOR HIGH. ANY QUESTIONS OR FEEDBACK ON THE JUNIOR HIGH OPTIONS. OKAY. WELL YOU'LL SEE THE THREE OPTIONS NOW FOR THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS. HERE'S OUR CURRENT AGAIN WITH THE SPLIT TABLE. HERE'S OPTION ONE FOR THE MIDDLE SCHOOL. OPTION TWO FOR THE MIDDLE SCHOOL. AND OPTION THREE FOR 
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THE MIDDLE SCHOOL. AS A REMINDER, THIS IS A FUTURE ACTION ITEM, SO NO ACTION IS NEEDED FROM THE BOARD. TONIGHT WE'RE SIMPLY REVIEWING THE PROCESS TIMELINE, DRAFT OPTIONS FOR REVIEWING FOR REVIEW AND FEEDBACK. THIS ITEM WILL BE BROUGHT BACK IN FEBRUARY AS AN ACTION ITEM. AT THAT TIME WE WILL INCLUDE PROPOSED BOARD MEMBER OR EXCUSE ME, PROPOSED MEMBERS OF BOTH ATTENDANCE BOUNDARY COMMITTEES. ANY QUESTIONS OR DISCUSSION? I HAVE AN ITEM. I JUST WANT TO EXPRESS THAT I DON'T FEEL STRONGLY ABOUT APPOINTING IBC MEMBERS. I MEAN, I CAN UNDERSTAND WHERE GOLD TRACK MIGHT FEEL DIFFERENTLY OR THE OTHER TRACKS, BUT FROM MY STANDPOINT, I WOULDN'T FEEL STRONGLY. I'D REALLY BASICALLY LOOK TOWARD. 
          TRUSTEE BOX FOR HER GUIDANCE ON THIS. AND I MEAN, SHE'S GOING TO BE MORE FAMILIAR WITH WITH THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS AND HOW THEY FEEL. AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, OTHER TRUSTEES MAY GET INQUIRIES FROM RESIDENTS IN THAT AREA. SO, I MEAN, I WOULD LOOK TO OTHERS FOR GUIDANCE ON THAT AND HOW YOU WOULD FEEL ABOUT ABOUT THOSE LAYOUTS. I'LL TELL YOU MY REASONING FOR IT. 
          MY FOR IT. LET ME EXPLAIN THE IT. I'VE REQUESTED THAT AND THIS IS THE WAY WE ORIGINALLY DID REZONING WHEN I WAS FIRST ON THE BOARD. AND I THINK THAT WE DID IT FOR THE TOMAS. I'M NOT 100% ON THAT, BUT THE REASONING IS BECAUSE IF YOU LOOK AT THE MAP, IF THE COMMITTEE, THE COMMITTEE HAS THE OPTION TO EITHER TAKE ONE OF THE FOUR, I'M SORRY, ONE OF THE THREE MAPS AND MAKE A OFFICIAL RECOMMENDATION TO THE BOARD, OR THEY HAVE THE OPTION TO COME UP WITH A FOURTH MAP. SO IF THEY COME UP WITH A MAP THAT'S DIFFERENT THAN ONE OF THE THREE THAT WILL BE PRESENTED TO THEM, IT COULD AFFECT THE GREEN TRACK AND THE GOLD TRACK. SO IF YOU AFFECT THE GREEN TRACK AND THE GOLD TRACK, IT MIGHT AFFECT THE RED TRACK BECAUSE THE RED TRACK BUMPS UP AGAINST IT, OR IT MIGHT AFFECT THE BLUE TRACK ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GOLD TRACK TO OFFSET THE NUMBER OF OF OF STUDENTS THAT WOULD BE GOING TO FULSHEAR OR TO THE NEW HIGH SCHOOL. IF YOU AFFECT THE RED TRACK AND THE BLUE TRACK, YOU MIGHT AFFECT THE MAROON TRACK AND THE SILVER TRACK. SO THAT'S THE FIRST LOGICAL POINT IN MY MIND. AND THE SECOND IS THERE'S NO HARM IF I APPOINT TWO PEOPLE FROM MY PART OF THE GEOGRAPHIC AREA OF OUR 385MI■!S, AND, AND THOSE TWO PEOPLE DID NOT SHOW UP. THERE'S NO HARM TO THE COMMITTEE, AND THERE'S NO HARM IF THEY DO SHOW UP. SO THAT'S THAT'S THE REASONING. SO THAT'S MY REQUEST OF MY FELLOW TRUSTEES. YEAH, I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. I GUESS MY QUESTION WOULD BE, WOULD WE ACTUALLY BE CHANGING BOUNDARIES OF PURPLE TRACK AND GOLD TRACK OR WE'RE JUST WE'RE WE'RE JUST DOING WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE PURPLE TRACK. IF YOU GIVE THE ABC THE RIGHT TO CREATE A NEW MAP, THAT COULD BE A POSSIBILITY. OKAY. SO I SEE IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO APPOINT TWO PEOPLE, THEN GO AHEAD. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO APPOINT TWO PEOPLE, THEN YOU DON'T HAVE TO. BUT I MEAN, I WOULD IMAGINE THAT IF YOU PUT YOUR FEELERS OUT, YOU MIGHT FIND SOME PEOPLE WHO WERE INTERESTED IN IT, AND IF NOT, THAT'S OKAY. SO IT'S GOOD WITH ME. THANK YOU. DOCTOR MAXWELL. JUST SO THE FOR CLARITY, WHEN DO YOU NEED THE NAMES FOR APPOINTEES FOR ABC? IF YES, IF WE CAN GET THE NAMES PRIOR TO THE NEXT BOARD MEETING, BECAUSE I WANT TO BE ABLE TO PRESENT THOSE IN PUBLIC AND TO YOU TO APPROVE. SO WE WOULD NEED THOSE NAMES PRIOR TO THE NEXT BOARD MEETING IN FEBRUARY. SOONER THE BETTER. BUT I ALSO KNOW IT TAKES TIME. SO AS WE'RE TRANSITIONING AND THANK YOU AGAIN, MISS ORTEGA, FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT. YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO RECOGNIZE THE REAL BOSSES. BUT SO AS I WAS TALKING ABOUT EARLIER, YOU KNOW, WHEN I SAY, YOU KNOW, FOLKS REALLY HAVE NO CLUE ABOUT BOARD MEMBER DUTIES AND HOW DIFFICULT IT IS. YOU KNOW, WE JUST TALKED ABOUT APPOINTING PEOPLE TO ABC COMMITTEE AND ON THE, ON THE ON THE SURFACE, IT SAYS, OKAY, I'LL JUST APPOINT TWO PEOPLE. 
          BUT WHAT THEY REALLY HAVE TO DO IS THEY HAVE TO FIND TWO WILLING, TWO PEOPLE THAT ARE WILLING TO TAKE THE TIME TO SERVE. AND SOMETIMES THAT FIRST, THOSE FIRST FEW FOLKS DECLINED THE OPPORTUNITY. AND SO THEN I HAVE TRUSTEES OUT, YOU KNOW, CALLING AND EMAILING AND TALKING TO PEOPLE AND MEETING THEM FOR BREAKFAST, LUNCH AND DINNER, YOU KNOW, CONVINCING THEM TO SERVE AND GIVE THEIR TIME. AND SO, SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT DISAPPOINTING TWO PEOPLE, IT'S NOT IT'S NOT AS SIMPLE AS SAYING, LET ME JUST SEND TWO EMAILS AND PICK YOU TWO PEOPLE. 
          THEY REALLY HAVE TO GO OUT AND FIND FOLKS THAT ARE WILLING TO SERVE JUST AS THEY ARE DOING. 
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AND SO I'D LIKE TO BRING THOSE THINGS UP JUST SO PEOPLE CAN UNDERSTAND THE KIND OF DEPTH 
          [12.A. Instructional Update]
AND COMPLEXITY THAT THAT SERVING ON THE SCHOOL BOARD HAS. SO NEXT WE WILL HAVE OUR INFORMATION ITEMS. WE WILL HAVE OUR INSTRUCTIONAL UPDATE. AND DOCTOR LAZARD IS AT THE PODIUM FIRST AND THEN OUR CHIEF LEARNING OFFICER, MISS CHRISTY COTTINGHAM WILL FOLLOW HER. ALL RIGHT. GOOD EVENING, PRESIDENT BOARD OF TRUSTEES. DOCTOR NIVENS, FIRST I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT OF OUR CTE PROGRAMS. AND LAMAR CONSOLIDATED. IT IS A PLEASURE TO BE UP HERE TONIGHT TO GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON OUR PROGRESS, ENROLLMENT TRENDS, AND FUTURE PLANS FOR CTE AND LAMAR CISD. SO CTE IS A PORTION OF OUR DISTRICT'S COMMITMENT TO PREPARING STUDENTS FOR BOTH COLLEGE AND CAREERS. OUR PROGRAMS BLEND RIGOROUS ACADEMICS WITH TECHNICAL AND EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS, ENSURING STUDENTS ARE READY FOR THE WORKFORCE OR FURTHER EDUCATION. WE PRIORITIZE HANDS ON LEARNING AND REAL WORLD EXPERIENCES, INCLUDING INTERNSHIPS AND INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS. OUR GOAL IN LAMAR CISD IS THAT EVERY GRADUATE LEAVES LCISD FUTURE READY AND EQUIPPED FOR SUCCESS IN HIGH DEMAND FIELDS. CTE PARTICIPATION REMAINS EXCEPTIONALLY STRONG. 84.9% OF OUR SECONDARY STUDENTS ARE ENROLLED IN AT LEAST ONE CTE COURSE. THIS TRANSLATES TO. TRANSLATES TO 18,283 STUDENTS OUT OF 21,530. IN GRADES SEVEN THROUGH 12. THE HIGH ENGAGEMENT RATE REFLECTS BOTH STUDENT INTERESTS AND THE RELEVANCE OF OUR OFFERINGS TO TODAY'S JOB MARKET. AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE SCREEN, LAMAR CISD OFFERS A COMPREHENSIVE SUITE OF CTE PATHWAYS, INCLUDING PROGRAMS IN AGRICULTURE, ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION, ART, BUSINESS, EDUCATION, HEALTH, SCIENCE, HOSPITALITY, LAW AND PUBLIC SERVICE, MANUFACTURING, STEM, TRANSPORTATION, AND JROTC. SOME OF OUR PROGRAMS OFFER DUAL CREDIT OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH OUR PARTNERSHIPS WITH TSTC, GIVING STUDENTS A HEAD START ON COLLEGE AND CAREER CREDENTIALS. OUR CURRICULUM IS DESIGNED TO ALIGN WITH BOTH STUDENT INTERESTS AND REGIONAL WORKFORCE NEEDS. ALL OF OUR PROGRAMS PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDENTS TO EARN AN INDUSTRY BASED CERTIFICATION AND TO PARTICIPATE IN REAL WORLD EXPERIENCES WITH BUSINESS LEADERS HERE IN FORT BEND COUNTY. OUR MOST POPULAR PATHWAYS ARE HEALTH SCIENCE, CULINARY ARTS, BUSINESS AND MARKETING AND ENGINEERING. THESE TRENDS MIRROR LOCAL AND NATIONAL WORKFORCE DEMANDS, ENSURING OUR STUDENTS ARE COMPETITIVE IN THE JOB MARKET. WHAT YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN NOW ARE CERTIFIED CERTIFICATION PASS RATES FOR THIS SCHOOL YEAR. SO TO DATE, THESE THREE AREAS THAT YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN ARE THE THREE AREAS WHERE CERTIFICATION OCCURRED. 
          CERTIFICATION TESTING OCCURRED IN THE FALL. SO THOSE WERE IN CULINARY ARTS, BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND LAW ENFORCEMENT. I SHOWED YOU THE PASSING RATES FOR LAST SCHOOL YEAR AS WELL. 
          YOU'LL SEE THAT WE HAVE IMPROVED AND PASSING RATES 71% IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT. I DO WANT TO NOTE THAT THESE STUDENTS WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO RETEST AGAIN IN THE SPRING. SO WE ANTICIPATE THAT 71% TO INCREASE LAW ENFORCEMENT 100%. AND THEN AS YOU CAN SEE, CULINARY ARTS AT 90%. ALL OF OUR OTHER REMAINING CERTIFICATIONS. SO ALL OF THOSE PROGRAMS OF STUDY THAT WERE ON THE PREVIOUS SCREEN, THEY WILL TEST IN MARCH AND APRIL. SO THE NEW CTE CENTER, WHICH YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN, REPRESENTS A MAJOR INVESTMENT IN OUR STUDENTS FUTURES. IT WILL EXPAND ACCESS TO ADVANCED PROGRAMS AND INDUSTRY STANDARD EQUIPMENT, SUPPORTING BOTH STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. THIS BUILDING WILL BE OPEN TO STUDENTS IN THE FALL OF 2026. THE CENTER WILL HOUSE A DIVERSE ARRAY OF PROGRAMS INCLUDING ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION, AAVC ENGINEERING, HUMAN SERVICE, HEALTH SCIENCE, HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM, MANUFACTURING AND TRANSPORTATION. I DO WANT TO NOTE THAT CARPENTRY, GRAPHIC DESIGN AND DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS, DENTAL, PHARMACY, PATIENT CARE, CULINARY ARTS, AND AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY. OUR CURRENT PROGRAMS THAT WE OFFER THOSE PROGRAMS WILL BE MOVING IN PART TO THE CTE CENTER. ALL OTHER PROGRAMS THAT SEE ON THE YOU SCREEN ARE BRAND NEW THAT WE WILL BE OFFERING STUDENTS IN LCISD. THESE OFFERINGS WERE STRATEGICALLY SELECTED TO MEET BOTH STUDENT DEMAND AS WELL AS OUR LOCAL WORKFORCE NEEDS. TO DATE, 1526 STUDENTS HAVE COMPLETED OUR CTE CENTER ENROLLMENT FORM. TOP AREAS OF INTEREST INCLUDE HEALTH SCIENCE, CULINARY ARTS, COSMETOLOGY, AND ARVC. THIS STRONG DEMAND UNDERSCORES THE VALUE AND RELEVANCE OF OUR NEW CTE CENTER. 
          COURSE VERIFICATION ENDED ON FRIDAY, SO WE HAVE RECEIVED DATA TODAY FROM OUR TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT REGARDING OUR COURSE REQUESTS. ONCE WE HAVE ANALYZED THAT ALL OF THAT DATA, WHAT WE WILL DO IS WE'LL CONSIDER DOING ANOTHER ROUND OF RECRUITMENT IN FEBRUARY, IF NECESSARY, FOR 
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SOME OF OUR NEW PROGRAMS. AND IF THERE ARE MORE STUDENTS THAN SLOTS ARE AVAILABLE, WE'LL USE A LOTTERY SYSTEM TO SELECT THESE STUDENTS. AS WE PREPARE FOR THE CTE CENTER'S LAUNCH IN THE FALL OF 2026, WE HAVE SOME ITEMS THAT ARE CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS. TRANSPORTATION BILL SCHEDULE ALIGNMENT, MASTER SCHEDULING, STAFFING, AND A COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNICATION PLAN FOLLOWING COURSE VERIFICATION ENDING ON FRIDAY, WE'RE LOOKING AT DATA TO DETERMINE THE TRANSPORTATION THAT IS NEEDED FOR EACH COLOR TRACK, AND ACTUALLY HAVE A MEETING SCHEDULED THIS WEEK WITH TRANSPORTATION, WE'RE WORKING WITH THEM TO CREATE SHUTTLE ROUTES TO ENSURE SAFE, EQUITABLE ACCESS WITH REASONABLE TRAVEL TIMES. I'M WORKING WITH ALL SEVEN HIGH SCHOOL CAMPUSES TO ALIGN OUR AM AND PM SESSIONS WITH HOME CAMPUS BILL SCHEDULES, TO PROTECT INSTRUCTIONAL MINUTES, AND TO SIMPLIFY THE COUNSELING AND ATTENDANCE ASPECTS, WITH COURSE VERIFICATION ENDING FRIDAY. AND WE'RE JUST NOW ABLE TO START CREATING A CTE CENTER MASTER SCHEDULE AND WORKING TO BUILD SECTIONS BASED ON OUR LAB CAPACITY. OUR GOAL IS TO ROLL A TENTATIVE MASTER SCHEDULE OUT TO OUR HOME CAMPUSES. THE END OF THIS MONTH, WE'LL HAVE ONE ON ONE MASTER SCHEDULE MEETINGS WITH ALL OF THE HIGH SCHOOL CAMPUSES TO KIND OF LET THEM POKE HOLES ON IT IN IT, THEN TO ROLL OUT A FINALIZED MASTER SCHEDULE THE MONTH OF MARCH. STAFFING WILL ALSO BE GUIDED BY OUR COURSE SELECTION THAT JUST FINISHED ON FRIDAY. SO WE'LL TARGET INDIVIDUALS WITH CURRENT INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE IN THESE HIGH DEMAND PATHWAYS. AND THEN OH, SORRY, OUR COMMUNICATION PLAN. WE'LL BE ROLLING OUT FAMILY AND STUDENT UPDATES OBVIOUSLY THROUGH OUR SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS PLATFORMS. AND WE'LL BE UTILIZING THE HOME CAMPUSES TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE COMMUNICATING WITH STUDENTS AS WELL. MY TEAM HAS WORKED TO PREPARE COUNSELOR TOOLKITS. WE'VE DONE SOME PRINCIPAL BRIEFINGS, AND AN FAQ IS GOING TO GO OUT TO HOME CAMPUSES THIS WEEK. AND IT'S ALSO POSTED CURRENTLY RIGHT NOW ON THE CTE CENTER PORTION OF THE WEBSITE, UNDER THE CTE PORTION OF THE WEBSITE, STUDENTS AND PARENTS ARE GOING TO BE NOTIFIED OF CTE CENTER ENROLLMENT AT THE END OF MARCH VIA DIRECT COMMUNICATION, AND STUDENT AND PARENT INFORMATION. 
          MEETINGS WILL TAKE PLACE DURING THE BEGINNING OF MAY. I WOULD LIKE TO END THIS PRESENTATION BY TALKING ABOUT OUR CMR SUCCESS. THE OFFICIAL 2425 TEXAS ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE REPORT HAS BEEN RELEASED, AND I AM THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE THAT CMR PERFORMANCE SHOWED DOUBLE DIGIT GAINS. AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE SCREEN, WE SHOWED IMPROVEMENT IN EVERY AREA, BUT I WANT TO CALL SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE LAST THREE COLUMNS. OUR SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENTS SAW A SIX POINT INCREASE. THIS GAIN SUGGESTS THAT OUR SUPPORTS AND CERTIFICATION PREP, DUAL CREDIT COURSES, ADVISING AS WELL AS SKYWARD CODING ARE MAKING AN IMPACT. IF YOU SEE HERE. OUR EMERGENT BILINGUAL STUDENTS SHOWED A 22 POINT INCREASE. 
          THIS TREMENDOUS GAIN INDICATES THAT THE STRATEGIES IMPLEMENTED ARE EFFECTIVE. OUR CAMPUSES HAVE WORKED TREMENDOUSLY HARD TO ENSURE ALL OF OUR STUDENTS HAVE ACCESS TO THE TOOLS THEY NEED TO BE COLLEGE, CAREER, AND OR MILITARY READY. AND FINALLY, OUR ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED STUDENT. THIS WAS OUR LARGEST INCREASE AT 24 POINTS. THIS ONLY VALIDATES THE DIRECTION OF OUR CMR WORK. I CAN'T STAND UP HERE AND NOT ACKNOWLEDGE MISS BAINES AND OUR ADVANCED ACADEMICS TEAM. THE CTE AND ADVANCED ACADEMICS SING ALONG WITH OUR HIGH SCHOOL. CAMPUS LEADERS HAVE WORKED INCREDIBLY HARD TO PUT STRUCTURES IN PLACE TO ENSURE THAT ALL OF OUR STUDENTS ARE LEAVING US READY, LEAVING US READY FOR WHAT COMES NEXT. OUR FOCUS NOW IS IN SUSTAINING THESE GAINS BY MAINTAINING CERTIFICATION, PASSING RATES, EXPANDING DUAL CREDIT OPPORTUNITIES, AND FOCUSING ON TSI READINESS TO ENSURE THAT EVERY STUDENT SECURES AT LEAST ONE CMR INDICATOR WHEN THEY LEAVE US. SO AT THIS POINT, I WILL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS OR DISCUSSION. THANK YOU. I DO. I HAVE A I HAVE A QUESTION. YES. ARE WE ADDRESSING EDUCATION, CAREERS AND EDUCATION THROUGH CTE? YES. SO WE DO HAVE AN EDUCATION PROGRAM OF STUDY WHERE STUDENTS ACTUALLY CAN LEAVE US WITH THEIR AIDE, THEIR TEACHER'S AIDE CERTIFICATION. OKAY, I JUST DIDN'T SEE THAT ON YOUR LIST. YES, IT'S ON OUR HOME CAMPUSES. IT WILL NOT BE AT THE CTE CENTER. IS THAT THE BASICALLY THE COURSE? WELL, I GUESS THE PATH FOR EDUCATION. YES. OKAY. YES, MA'AM. OKAY. I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE FAMILIES APPLYING TO THE CTE CENTER NOW, AND I BELIEVE I READ THAT A DISCIPLINE IS NOT TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN PEOPLE ARE BEING PUT IN THE CTE COURSES. 
          IS THAT CORRECT? SO WE BY LAW CANNOT HAVE AN APPLICATION PROCESS. IT'S AN ENROLLMENT FORM. SO THERE CAN'T BE ANY BIAS AS FAR AS WHO WE'RE SELECTING WHEN LOOKING INTO WHAT OTHER DOING LOTS OF RESEARCH WITH WHAT MOST OTHER DISTRICTS DO. IT IS DONE BY A 
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LOTTERY PROCESS. NOW WE WILL HAVE THINGS IN PLACE. I CANNOT SELECT STUDENTS, NO BASED ON A DISCIPLINE REPORT OR GRADES OR ANYTHING OF THAT NATURE. THERE WILL BE THINGS IN PLACE THOUGH. 
          OBVIOUSLY IF YOU GET IN TROUBLE, RIGHT, IT'S A PRIVILEGE TO BE AT THE CTE CENTER. AND SO YOU WILL NOT FINISH OUT IF YOU DON'T MEET CERTAIN CRITERIA WHILE YOU'RE THERE. OKAY. AND THAT'LL BE WILL THAT BE WILL THEY HAVE A SEPARATE I MEAN, THEIR STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT IS THE SAME AS ALL OF LCISD. YES, MA'AM. CORRECT. BUT THEN Y'ALL WILL HAVE SOMETHING SEPARATE THAT SPECIFIES THOSE, THOSE TYPE OF THINGS THAT THAT WILL REMOVE THEM AND PUT THEM. 
          YES, MA'AM. WELL, WE'RE GOING TO WE'RE ACTUALLY WORKING RIGHT NOW TO PUT TOGETHER A HANDBOOK FOR THE CTE CENTER. AND PART OF THOSE STUDENT AND PARENT MEETINGS THAT WE'LL HAVE IN MAY. 
          THEY'LL BE REQUIRED TO SIGN OFF ON THAT AND ALL THAT GOOD STUFF WHEN WE DO ORIENTATION WITH THEM. OKAY. SO IS THERE BY CHANCE ANY PLANS IN THE FUTURE TO SET UP MAYBE A MATRICULATION AGREEMENT WHEREBY LET'S SAY OUR, OUR CULINARY STUDENTS COULD, COULD EVENTUALLY WIND UP AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON'S PROGRAM ON, YOU KNOW, COULD YOU EXPAND ON THAT? ABSOLUTELY. YES, SIR. 
          SO HOSPITALITY THAT'S WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR. YES. SO I'VE ACTUALLY BEEN IN MEETINGS WITH THAT SPECIFIC CAMPUS WE'VE GONE TO VISIT. AND SO WE'RE TALKING THROUGH THOSE THINGS, TALKING WITH WCSC ABOUT COSMETOLOGY. THERE'S LOTS OF OPTIONS TO EXPAND OUR TECHNICAL DUAL CREDIT, WHICH WE'RE WORKING ON CREATING MOUS RIGHT NOW. SO BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON IS IN THE PROCESS OF MOVING ALL OF THEIR TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS TO SUGARLAND. SO AND THEN, OF COURSE, THE FIELD OF HEALTHCARE IS JUST SO MUCH OPPORTUNITY. SO AND I'D LOVE TO KEEP THAT TALENT LOCAL. AND, AND I AND I ECHO THE CONCERN FOR GROWING TEACHERS AND HAVING TEACHERS AIDES. AND WE HEARD FROM THE HR STAFF HERE NOT LONG AGO WHERE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S AN EFFORT TO TO HELP TEACHERS AIDES BECOME TEACHERS, CERTIFIED TEACHERS. SO I'M A BIG PROPONENT OF THE, YOU KNOW, THAT THOSE MATRICULATION AGREEMENTS THAT CAN HELP STUDENTS SET STUDENTS UP FOR SUCCESS. MY MY GRANDDAUGHTER, I MEAN, SHE SHE COMPLETED THE CULINARY PROGRAM AT RANDALL, AND NOW SHE WANTS TO STUDY HOSPITALITY AT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY. SO I CAN SEE WHERE WE'RE, YOU KNOW, WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS IS OF INTEREST TO OUR STUDENTS. IT IS SETTING THEM UP FOR SUCCESS. AND THEY'RE AND THEY REALLY WANT TO PURSUE THESE CAREERS. YES, SIR. YEAH. OKAY. A FEW QUESTIONS. SO I CAN'T IMAGINE THAT THE MASTER SCHEDULING HAS BEEN EASY AT ALL. ARE WE SEE FOR EVERY PATHWAY THOUGH, ARE WE SEEING INTEREST IN EVERY SINGLE ONE TO WHERE LIKE WE HAVE SOMEONE'S APPLIED FOR THE DRONES, EVERYTHING. SO WE'RE SEEING INTEREST ACROSS THE BOARD. YES, MA'AM. I'LL BE HONEST. WE HAVEN'T. I JUST GOT THE DATA TODAY, SO I HAVEN'T HAD TIME TO LIKE IT'S 1500. 
          I'VE GOT TO GO THROUGH EVERY SINGLE COURSE REQUEST. SO I'M WORKING ON THAT. THERE IS SOMEBODY ENROLLED IN ALL OF OUR PROGRAMS OF STUDY. BUT LIKE I SAID, SOME A LOT OF THOSE THAT I SHOWED UP THERE ARE BRAND SPANKING NEW. RIGHT. SO WE JUST WANT TO SEE IF THERE NEEDS TO BE ANOTHER FORM ROUND OF RECRUITMENT. BUT YES, WE'RE SEEING INTEREST ACROSS THE BOARD IN ALL OF THEM. SO FOR THE ONES THAT ARE GOING TO BE MORE FULL AND YOU MENTIONED POSSIBLY A LOTTERY SYSTEM, DO YOU REMIND ME WHEN WILL THE KIDS BE NOTIFIED ABOUT WHEN THEY WOULD END OF MARCH? IT WAS, OKAY. LET ME MAKE SURE I JUST TOLD YOU THAT. RIGHT. I HAVE IT ON MY CALENDAR. AND THEN IS THERE ANYTHING, LET'S SAY SOMEONE WANTS TO GO INTO COSMETOLOGY? THERE AREN'T REALLY IN MARCH PRIOR LIKE PREREQUISITES. NOT FOR COSMETOLOGY. NO, MA'AM. THAT'S A TWO YEAR PROGRAM. OKAY. THE REASON BEING IS THAT THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THAT INSTRUCTOR, YOU HAVE TO BE A CERTIFIED COSMETOLOGIST. YOU HAVE TO HAVE BEEN IN THE INDUSTRY FOR A WHILE. AND SO IT'S KIND OF IT'S YOU WOULDN'T HIRE SEVEN COSMETOLOGY RIGHT TO TO ALSO SERVICE OUR HOME CAMPUSES. ALSO DOING LOTS OF RESEARCH WITH OTHER DISTRICTS THAT HAVE COSMETOLOGY. THEY MAKE IT A TWO YEAR PROGRAM AS WELL. OKAY. AWESOME. AWESOME. SO WILL WE IF WE HAVE SAY WE HAVE SOMETHING LIKE COSMETOLOGY AND IT HAS A LOT OF INTEREST AND THEN WE HAVE OTHERS THAT DON'T HAVE AS MUCH. WELL, WE CONSIDER AT SOME POINT LIKE MAYBE ADDING ANOTHER COSMETOLOGY TEACHER AND NOT ANOTHER DRONE TEACHER OR, YOU KNOW, WHEREVER THE INTEREST IS, WOULD Y'ALL BE WE WOULD SWITCH IT TO WHERE WHATEVER SEEMS MORE POPULAR, WE WOULD OFFER MORE AVAILABILITY IN THOSE AREAS. I 
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MEAN, YES, MA'AM. ABSOLUTELY. WE LOOK AT WHAT WE NEEDED TO DO, RIGHT, TO EXPAND THE PROGRAM. 
          RIGHT. WE'VE ALSO BEEN IN CONTACT WITH, LIKE WCGIC, WHO CURRENTLY HAS A COSMETOLOGY PROGRAM ON THEIR CAMPUS. SO IF WE HAVE LIMITED SPOTS, IT COULD BE AN OPTION TO PARTNER WITH A LOCAL COLLEGE OR SOMETHING OF THAT NATURE FOR SPACE AS WELL. OKAY, OKAY. DOCTOR LOZADA, DID YOU CONFIRM WITH YOUR NOTES WHEN THE FAMILIES ARE GOING TO BE NOTIFIED? END OF MARCH. END OF MARCH. OKAY, THANKS. OKAY. AWESOME. LET ME ALSO CLARIFY THAT. LIKE, FOR INSTANCE, COSMETOLOGY. THE LAWS AND REGULATIONS ARE VERY STRICT. YES. THE LAB HAS TO BE A CERTAIN SIZE LIKE EVERYTHING IS, IS IS VERY SPECIFIC. AND SO IF WE SAY, FOR INSTANCE, IN OUR AVIATION AND DRONE, WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH STUDENTS, WE COULDN'T JUST HIRE ANOTHER COSMETOLOGY TEACHER AND PUT THEM IN THAT LAB, BECAUSE THAT LAB IS REALLY DESIGNED FOR A SPECIFIC GROUP OF STUDENTS AND ONE TEACHER. AND SO THAT'S WHY I SAID WE WILL HAVE TO SEEK OUTSIDE RESOURCES LIKE WCGIC OR TSC OR WHOMEVER ELSE WILL BE ABLE TO HELP US WITH THAT OR ADD SOME ADDITIONAL SECTIONS. BUT WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE KNOW THAT THOSE LABS AND ALL THAT SCHOOL, I MEAN, ARE, ARE REGULATED DOWN TO THE MINUTE DETAIL. AND SO WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT AND THAT'S WHY THESE OUTSIDE PARTNERSHIPS WOULD BE SO CRITICAL FOR US TO MAKE SURE THAT WE TAKE CARE OF AS MANY STUDENTS AS WE CAN IN-HOUSE. I FORESEE US HAVING TO GO TO A LOTTERY SYSTEM. IN MY CONVERSATIONS WITH STUDENTS AND PARENTS AND STAFF MEMBERS ACROSS THIS DISTRICT, PEOPLE ARE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS AND THEY'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THE NEW OPPORTUNITIES. SO I FORESEE US HAVING TO GO TO A LOTTERY SYSTEM AND THEN ALSO USING OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS TO SUPPORT US WHEN WE START HAVING AN OVERLOAD OF STUDENTS WANTING TO BE IN IT. SO FOR SOMETHING LIKE CULINARY, WHICH WE DO HAVE ON OUR CAMPUSES, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TAKING CULINARY AT THE CTE CENTER AND TAKING IT AT RANDALL? YEAH. SO IT'LL BE IT'LL SO YOU WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO STAY ON YOUR HOME CAMPUS AND DO CULINARY WHERE YOU CAN FINISH OUT THE PROGRAM. BUT IT'LL BE A VERY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE AT THE CTE CENTER. WE WILL BE CATERING LOTS OF EVENTS. WE'LL HAVE THE BISTRO AT THE CTE CENTER THAT WILL BE RUNNING RIGHT. WE'LL BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, WHEREAS YOU DON'T GET THAT EXPERIENCE BACK AT YOUR HOME CAMPUS. SO I WOULD SAY THE CTE CENTER IS GEARED WAY MORE FOR, YOU KNOW, 100% THAT WHEN YOU LEAVE US, YOU WANT TO GO INTO THAT CULINARY WORLD. WE'RE GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE STUDENTS ARE PREPARED AND READY TO DO THAT WHEN THEY LEAVE US. SO MUCH BIGGER COMMITMENT FOR THOSE STUDENTS TO CTE. YES. ALL RIGHT. AWESOME. ANYBODY ELSE? OKAY. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. ALL RIGHT. I'M GOING TO HAND IT OVER TO MISS COTTINGHAM. SHE'S GOING TO GIVE YOU A BENCHMARK UPDATE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MA'AM. WELL GOOD EVENING BOARD DOCTOR NIVENS I'M GOING TO CARRY ON THE THE GOOD THINGS GOING ON IN THE DISTRICT WITH A FALL BENCHMARK UPDATE. SO AS YOU KNOW, BENCHMARK ASSESSMENTS ARE GIVEN TWICE EACH YEAR, ONCE IN THE FALL AND ONCE AGAIN IN THE SPRING TO ALL STAR TESTED AREAS TO PROGRESS MONITOR. THE RESULTS OF THESE ASSESSMENTS ARE ANALYZED AND USED TO DETERMINE NECESSARY INTERVENTIONS FOR OUR STUDENTS. FALL BENCHMARKS ARE COMPOSED OF STAR RELEASED QUESTIONS THAT COVER CURRENT THE CURRENT CURRICULUM UP TO THE POINT OF TESTING, SO ALL MATERIAL ON THE TEST SHOULD HAVE BEEN TAUGHT, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF FIFTH GRADE SCIENCE, WHICH THIS YEAR DID CONTAIN SOME FIELD TEST QUESTIONS. SO HERE ARE THE DISTRICT RESULTS OF BENCHMARKS THAT WERE TAKEN BEFORE SPRING BREAK. THE GREEN SHADED AREAS ARE GAINS FROM THE FALL BENCHMARK LAST YEAR TO THE FALL BENCHMARK THIS YEAR. PURPLE SHADED AREAS ARE DOUBLE DIGIT GAINS, AND AREAS THAT ARE WHITE STAYED THE SAME. ORANGE ARE AREAS THAT DECREASE FROM LAST YEAR. AND AS YOU CAN SEE, ONCE AGAIN, THERE ARE MANY MORE AREAS OF GREEN AND PURPLE SHOWING THAT WE ARE IMPROVING WITH INCREASES IN 18 ASSESSMENTS, OF WHICH 11 OF THOSE WERE DOUBLE DIGIT GAINS. LAST YEAR WAS THE FIRST YEAR FOR THE NEW TEAKS AND SCIENCE AND THE RIGOR ON THE FALL BENCHMARK QUESTIONS WERE LOWER THAN THEY WERE ON STAR BECAUSE IT WAS THE FIRST TIME WE HAD TESTED THOSE. AND THE DECLINE IN FIFTH GRADE SCIENCE DATA IS A RESULT OF THE ADJUSTMENT OF THE RIGOR LEVEL TO MATCH THE STAR TEST. AND THERE WERE ALSO, AS I MENTIONED, THE FIELD TEST QUESTIONS. SO THE RIGOR ON LAST YEAR'S SCIENCE TEST BENCHMARK TEST WAS LOWER THAN STAR. SO THIS YEAR WE RECALIBRATED. SO THIS YEAR THE RIGOR WAS COMPARABLE TO WHAT WE WOULD SEE ON STAR. AND SOME ACTIONS CONTRIBUTED. CONTRIBUTING TO THE GAINS ARE OUR FOCUS ON PLCS TEACHERS HAVING THE INCREASED TIME TO SPEND ON PLANNING AND TRAINING AND TRAINING AND IMPLEMENTATION OF HOW TO USE DATA TO GUIDE INSTRUCTION. SO THE PREVIOUS VIEW LETS US FOCUS ON THE CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION. A COHORT VIEW LETS US SEE HOW GROUPS OF STUDENTS ARE PROGRESSING OVER TIME. SO IN THIS VIEW, WE CAN LOOK AT 
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GROUPS OF STUDENTS TO SEE THEIR PROGRESSION FROM YEAR TO YEAR. SO FOR EXAMPLE, LET'S LOOK AT LAST YEAR'S THIRD GRADERS. SO IF WE LOOK RIGHT HERE, WE CAN SEE THAT LAST YEAR'S THIRD GRADERS WERE AT 65% APPROACHES. IF WE LOOK AT THIS YEAR'S FOURTH GRADE THEY'VE GONE UP TO 68% APPROACHES. SO THAT'S A 3% GAIN FROM LAST YEAR. IF WE LOOK AT MEATS, THEY WENT FROM 33% MEATS LAST YEAR TO 43% MEATS THIS YEAR. AND THE SAME GROUP OF STUDENTS WENT FROM 13% MASTER'S LAST YEAR IN THIRD GRADE TO 22% MASTER'S THIS YEAR IN FOURTH GRADE. SO THAT'S WHAT A COHORT VIEW DOES, IS YOU LOOK AT THE GRADE THEY WERE IN LAST YEAR AND THEN ADVANCE TO GRADE TO SEE WHERE THEY ARE THIS YEAR. THIS VIEW DOES NOT SHOW FIFTH GRADE SCIENCE OR SOCIAL STUDIES, BECAUSE THERE ARE NO ASSESSMENTS IN THE PREVIOUS GRADE LEVEL BY WHICH TO COMPARE THEM. WE DON'T GIVE FOURTH GRADE SCIENCE, WE DON'T GIVE SEVENTH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES. 
          ACTIONS WE ARE TAKING TO ADDRESS THE DATA ARE, OF COURSE, WE ARE CELEBRATING THE GAINS THAT WE'VE MADE, AND THE DISTRICT LEVEL TEAM HAS MET TO ANALYZE CAMPUS DATA, TO CREATE PLANS OF SUPPORT FOR OUR PRIORITY CAMPUSES AND CAMPUS PERFORMANCE REVIEW MEETINGS HAVE BEEN CONDUCTED WITH THOSE CAMPUSES AS WELL. LESSON PLAN AUDITS TO CHECK FOR ALIGNMENT WITH THE TEAKS AND INSTRUCTIONAL WALKS HAVE BEEN DONE AND WILL CONTINUE, AND WE WILL BE VISITING THE PLCS AND PROVIDING FEEDBACK. THE SECONDARY MATH TEAM HAS CONDUCTED DISTRICT WIDE PLANNING MEETINGS WITH ALL SEVENTH GRADE MATH TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS ON THE MONTHLY HALF DAYS TO PROVIDE SUPPORT, AND ONGOING TRAINING IS PROVIDED MONTHLY TO OUR THROUGH OUR MEETINGS WITH PRINCIPALS, ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS, AND INSTRUCTIONAL COACHES. SO AT THIS TIME, I WILL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. I HAVE A QUESTION. YES, MA'AM. DO YOU HAVE THE DATA TO SHOW HOW WELL THE BENCHMARKS ARE ALIGNING TO THE STAR SCORES, RATHER THAN COMPARING LIKE BENCHMARKS TO BENCHMARKS? DO WE HAVE IT TO WHERE WE CAN SEE IF THE BENCHMARK WAS A PROPER PREDICTOR OF THE ACTUAL STAR? WE CAN LOOK AT THAT IN MOST CASES. IN SOME CASES, THIS YEAR'S BENCHMARKS CAMPUSES ARE ALREADY AHEAD OF WHERE THEY WERE LAST YEAR ON STAR. SO WE FEEL LIKE THEY ARE A GOOD PREDICTOR. BUT IF YOU WOULD LIKE THAT INFORMATION, I CAN GET IT FOR YOU. YEAH, I'M JUST CURIOUS. OKAY. IF IF THE BENCHMARKS TRULY ARE ALIGNING AND GIVING US APPROPRIATE. OKAY. 
          STAR SCORES. YES, MA'AM. OTHER INFORMATION THAT MAYBE WE COULD GET WHEN I'M LOOKING AT ALL THOSE THE PERCENTAGES, I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE IT'S JUST ME. I'M AN AGGIE. IT'S VERY IT'S KIND OF CONFUSING TO ME. THE PERCENTAGES, THEY DON'T ADD UP TO 100%. EVEN JUST GOING FROM THE THIRD GRADE TO FOURTH GRADE, YOU HAD TWO. THAT ROSE 20%. I DON'T KNOW, I DON'T. IT'S HARD TO FOLLOW AND I UNDERSTAND THAT. THAT'S HOW THEY DO IT BACK. GO BACK TO THE ONE YOU WERE ON PREVIOUSLY, IF YOU DON'T MIND. JUST WHEN YOU SHOWED US THE EXAMPLE OF 65, 33, 13 AND THEN WE WENT TO 68, 43, 22, IT'S KIND OF CONFUSING, I KNOW. I CAN SEE THAT OBVIOUSLY MORE KIDS MASTERED. WHAT THOSE NUMBERS MEAN. SO THE LIKE 6,065% APPROACHES. THAT MEANS 65% OF THE STUDENTS THAT WERE IN THIRD GRADE MET THE APPROACHES STANDARD ON THE THIRD GRADE READING TEST. AND SO APPROACHES MEETS AND MASTERS WON'T ALL ADD UP TO 100. RIGHT. 
          BECAUSE THEN WHAT MEETS IS MEETS IS A HIGHER STANDARD. SO YOU HAVE TO HAVE MET YOU HAVE TO HAVE MADE THE APPROACHES STANDARD BEFORE YOU CAN MAKE THE MEET STANDARD. AND SO THEN WHAT MEETS IS, IS 33% OF THE STUDENTS WHO TOOK THE TEST, 33% OF THE KIDS THAT APPROACHED GOT THE MEETS. WELL, THAT'S YES, BECAUSE YOU HAD TO. SO REALLY APPROACHES WOULD REALLY BE 32. 
          NO IS WHAT I'M SAYING. NO OKAY. NO OKAY. IF WE HAVE IF WE HAVE A BUBBLE OF 100 KIDS AND THEY ALL TOOK THE THE THIRD GRADE READING TEST, 65 OF THOSE KIDS MET THE APPROACHES STANDARD. SO WE HAVE THOSE 65 KIDS IN THIS BUBBLE. THEY'RE ALL APPROACHES. SO NOW TO GET THE HIGHER STANDARD OF MEET IT CAN ONLY COME FROM THE KIDS IN THE APPROACHES BUBBLE OKAY. YEAH. 
          AND SO THEN MASTERS WOULD BE IT COULD ONLY BE THE KIDS FROM THE BUBBLE IN THE MASTERS BUBBLE. 
          YES MA'AM. DOES THAT MAKE MORE SENSE? IT MAKES SENSE. I JUST DON'T LIKE HOW THEY DO IT, THAT'S ALL. I'M. MY BRAIN DOESN'T LIKE IT. AND YES, IT DOES. SO THEN FOLLOWING THAT, THAT 65% APPROACHES 35% DID NOT EVEN GET TO APPROACHES, DID NOT APPROACH. YES, MA'AM. BUT THE WAY THEY DO ACCOUNTABILITY IS THEY ALSO LOOK AT DID THE STUDENTS MEET MAKE ANY KIND OF GROWTH OVERALL BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SOME STUDENTS THAT MAY BE SO LOW, BUT THEY 
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GREW FIVE POINTS. WELL, THAT DIDN'T GET THEM TO APPROACHES BUT THEY GREW. AND SO THEN WE WOULD GET SOME CREDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR GROWING KIDS. AND SO APPROACHES MEANS WHAT SPECIFICALLY APPROACHES MEANS THAT THEY ARE APPROACHING GRADE LEVEL STANDARD. THAT'S WHAT THE STATE. YEAH, THAT'S THE MINIMUM STANDARD FOR PASSING GRADE LEVEL. RIGHT. IT ALMOST THEY'RE APPROACHING IT BUT THEY'RE NOT THERE. YOU WOULD ASSUME THAT THAT THE MEETS WOULD BE THE THE MINIMUM MINIMUM. YEAH. ANY ANY PERSON OUTSIDE OF EDUCATION WOULD WOULD ASSUME THAT. BUT THAT'S THAT'S NOT THE WAY I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S A TEACHER OR WHO COMES UP WITH THESE DEFINITIONS, BUT IT'S NOT THE WAY IT'S T-E-A. YEAH, IT'S INTERESTING. OKAY. THANK YOU. 
          [12.B. Ft. Bend Central Appraisal District (FBCAD) Facility Plan]
MY NEXT BOARD WILL HAVE MISS LUDWIG TO TALK ABOUT OUR FOR BEING CENTRAL APPRAISAL DISTRICT PLAN. GOOD EVENING AGAIN, BOARD OF TRUSTEES. DOCTOR NIVENS, AS YOU WILL RECALL, THE FORT BEND CENTRAL APPRAISAL DISTRICT HAS DONE A FACILITY ASSESSMENT AND AN ANALYSIS. WE DID RECEIVE A LETTER FROM THE CHIEF APPRAISER, AND THE LETTER HAD THE RATIONALE FOR EXPLORING THE FACILITY OPTIONS FOR THE APPRAISAL DISTRICT, AS WELL AS THE APPRAISAL REVIEW BOARD. THEY ARE CURRENTLY LEASING THEIR FACILITY FROM FORT BEND COUNTY, AND THEY'RE PAYING ABOUT $614,000 A YEAR DUE TO THE RAPID GROWTH OF FORT BEND COUNTY AND ADDITIONAL REGULATORY AND COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENTS, THE APPRAISAL DISTRICT HAS OUTGROWN THEIR FACILITY. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE APPRAISAL DISTRICT, APPROVED THE ACQUISITION OF THE SUGAR CREEK TOWER, ONE PROPERTY THAT OCCURRED IN DECEMBER. THIS IS ACTUALLY THE RESOLUTION WHERE THEY MADE THAT DECISION IN INFORMATION THAT WAS PROVIDED BY THE APPRAISAL DISTRICT. THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS APPROVED THE ACQUISITION ON 12 FOUR. THE COST OF THE FACILITY AFTER RENOVATIONS IS APPROXIMATELY $26 MILLION. THEIR PLAN OF FINANCING IS TO FINANCE THE PROPERTY AND THE RENOVATIONS TOGETHER FOR A 20 YEAR PERIOD, AT AN INTEREST RATE OF ABOUT 4.1%. THE ANNUAL PAYMENT IS $2.4 MILLION, PLUS ADDITIONAL EXPENSES THAT ARE ESTIMATED AT ABOUT $400,000. THE TAXING ENTITIES OF THE ACTUALLY FUND THE OPERATION OF THE APPRAISAL DISTRICT, WHICH IS WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT TO US AND THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THE IMPACT ON LAMAR CISD. ANY CHANGES IN THE ANNUAL COST OF OPERATIONS OF THE APPRAISAL DISTRICT IMPACTS OUR BUDGET, BECAUSE THE TAXING ENTITIES SHARE IN THE ALLOCATION OF THEIR COSTS. THE FORT BEND CENTRAL APPRAISAL DISTRICT BUDGET FOR THIS YEAR IS $34.8 MILLION ROUGHLY, AND OUR ALLOCATION IS ABOUT 13%, OR $4.5 MILLION FOR 2526. THE APPRAISAL DISTRICT ADDED A LINE ITEM OF $3 MILLION TO FUND THIS. 
          THIS PURCHASE EXPANSION RENOVATION PROCESS. IN ADDITION TO THE 614,000 THAT THEY PAY FOR THEIR LEASE IN FUTURE YEARS AT 13%, THIS $2.4 MILLION DEBT PAYMENT EQUATES TO ABOUT A $365,000 INCREASE IN THE COST THAT LAMAR C-I-S-D PAYS. I DO SAY HERE THAT IT'S UNCLEAR AS TO WHETHER THE CURRENT FACILITY LEASE WILL BE PAID OFF OR WILL CEASE, BUT THEY ARE WORKING ON A PROCESS TO DO THAT. IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THEY ARE GOING TO PAY OFF THE LEASE WITH AVAILABLE FUNDS. THEY ARE EXPERIENCING GROWING PAINS JUST AT LAMAR, JUST AS LAMAR CISD IS. 
          THE PURCHASE AND FINANCING WERE MADE POSSIBLE BY WHAT THE CHIEF APPRAISER DESCRIBES AS CLARIFYING LEGISLATION THAT WAS PASSED DURING THE RECENT LEGISLATIVE SESSION. THE PURCHASE IS CONSIDERED APPROVED BY LAMAR CISD AND OTHER TAXING ENTITIES UNLESS DISAPPROVED IN AN OFFICIAL MEETING. THE IMPACT OF THE DISAPPROVAL IS UNCLEAR AT THIS TIME, AS THE COMMITMENTS ARE CURRENTLY UNDERWAY. IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT AT THIS POINT, SINCE THEIR DEADLINES HAVE PASSED, THERE ISN'T REALLY ANYTHING THE DISTRICT CAN DO OTHER THAN EXPRESS DISAPPROVAL. WITH THAT, I'LL ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT I'M ABLE. DO WE KNOW WHAT THE 
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CURRENT LEASE TERM IS? I DO NOT KNOW HOW LONG IT HOW LONG THE TERM IS, BUT I CAN ASK. I CAN ASK. MR. LUDWIG, WHAT CAN YOU CAN YOU SUMMARIZE WHAT OUR CURRENT FINANCIAL OBLIGATION IS TO THE FORT BEND CENTRAL APPRAISAL DISTRICT, THE CAD ANNUALLY, AND WHAT IT WILL BE WILL BE RIGHT NOW, OUR OUR COMMITMENT IS OUR PERCENTAGE OF TAX LEVY COMPARED TO THE THE WHOLE FORT BEND COUNTY TAX LEVY. SO THAT'S 13% RIGHT NOW. AND IT HAS HOVERED AROUND 13% FOR QUITE SOME TIME. SO I EXPECT IT'LL BE 13% OF WHATEVER THE CAD'S OPERATING BUDGET IS THIS THIS YEAR IT'S ABOUT $35 MILLION. SO THE DISTRICT PAYS 4.5 MILLION. DO YOU HAPPEN TO KNOW WHAT THE BILL NUMBER IS? THE LEGISLATION THAT ALLOWS THE CLARIFYING INFORMATION THAT THE CHIEF APPRAISER. AND IF YOU DON'T AT THE MOMENT, THAT'S FINE. I'M I'M CURIOUS. I BELIEVE IT IS PROBABLY PROPERTY TAX CODE SECTION 6.0 51A THAT'S I'M GUESSING THOUGH. SO I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY THIS FOR THE PUBLIC BECAUSE THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I MIGHT GET ASKED ABOUT. SO THE THE CENTRAL APPRAISAL DISTRICT, EVERY COUNTY IN THE STATE HAS A CAD ESTABLISHED BY THE LEGISLATURE. WE ARE BEHOLDEN TO THEM TO APPRAISE PROPERTY VALUES WITHIN THE FOOTPRINT OF LAMAR CISD. EVERY TAXING ENTITY IN THE COUNTY DOES THAT. IT SOUNDS LIKE THEY THEY CAN DO WHAT THEY WANT, AND WE'RE JUST BEHOLDEN TO WHATEVER THEY WANT TO DO. IS THAT WOULD YOU WOULD YOU SAY THAT THAT IS ACCURATE AS YOU UNDERSTAND THE LAW, THEY HAVE RULES AND REGS JUST LIKE LAMAR CISD DOES, AND THEY WILL PROBABLY OPERATE WITHIN THOSE RULES. AND SO WE ARE. WE ARE REQUIRED TO PAY OUR 13%. SO YES WE ARE OBLIGATED. NOW THEY DO HAVE A BOARD THAT DOES NOT SET APPRAISAL RATES. BUT THAT BOARD IS APPOINTED BY THE TAXING ENTITIES, INCLUDING THE LAMAR CISD BOARD. RIGHT. THIS IS VERY FRUSTRATING TO THE TAXPAYERS, I CAN TELL YOU THAT. AND WE HAVE NO RECOURSE BECAUSE OUR LEGISLATURE HAS SET UP THE SYSTEM THIS WAY. AND. I UNDERSTAND THEY'RE GROWING. IT WOULD JUST BE GREAT IF THEY WOULD DO AWAY WITH PROPERTY TAXES IN THE STATE, WHICH IS BEING TALKED ABOUT BY SOME IN IN AUSTIN. BUT THANK YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME. SO IT'S A PROJECTED 365,000 ANNUAL INCREASE ON TOP OF WHAT WE'VE ALREADY BEEN PAYING. IT IS IT'LL ALL DETERMINE, BE DETERMINED BY WHAT THEIR ANNUAL BUDGET IS. WE EXPECT THAT THIS THIS ANNUAL LEASE PAYMENT I MEAN, SORRY, NOT LEASE PAYMENT, BUT DEBT PAYMENT WILL BE $2.4 MILLION. OKAY. OUR OUR PERCENTAGE WILL BE 365,000. THE THE 614,000 SHOULD GO AWAY. SO IT SHOULD BE A NET DECREASE OKAY. BUT THEIR YOU KNOW THEIR OPERATING BUDGET DOES GROW AS WELL. SO IT CAN FLUCTUATE. IT FLUCTUATES EVERY YEAR. YES. BUT WE HAVE IT IN THE BUDGET. IT'S ALREADY INCLUDED IN THIS. YES. 
          YES IT'S INCLUDED IN THEIR BUDGET. AND THE 4.5 MILLION WHICH INCLUDES THAT IS IN OUR BUDGET AS WELL. OKAY. AND THEN LIKE YOU SAID, WE TECHNICALLY HAVE A DISAPPROVAL MECHANISM, BUT THE PURCHASE ITSELF CAN MOVE FORWARD ANYWAYS. THERE'S REALLY NOTHING RIGHT FOR US TO DO. OKAY. BUT THAT DOES BEG THE QUESTION. IF SOMEBODY IN THE ADMINISTRATION COULD, COULD, CAN MAYBE CONSULT ONE OF OUR LAWYERS. I'M VERY CURIOUS OF WHAT THE LEGAL OPINION IS ON WHAT IT WOULD, WHAT WOULD THE RESULT WOULD BE IF THIS BOARD WERE TO VOTE TO DISAPPROVE OF THIS ACTION? RIGHT. IT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE IT'S VERY CLEAR FROM THE LEGISLATION, BUT I'M CURIOUS OF WHAT THE LEGISLATURE INTENDED BY THAT, THAT OPT OUT. RIGHT. AND IF WE DON'T HAVE A CLEAR ANSWER, WE DON'T HAVE A CLEAR ANSWER. BUT IT WOULD BE IT WOULD BE INTERESTING IF SOMEBODY COULD MAKE A PHONE CALL OR AN EMAIL. I'D APPRECIATE THAT WILL DO, BECAUSE WE ALSO DON'T HAVE ANY WAY TO PRE-APPROVE PREAPPROVE OR KNOW THIS IS COMING EITHER. 
          JUST KIND OF HAPPENS AND WE SAY, OKAY, RIGHT, OKAY. ALL RIGHT. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS. SO OTHER 
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THAN THIS, JUST TO CONFIRM THAT WE THE DISTRICT HAS NOT HAD A FORMAL INPUT TO DATE ON THIS. 
          NO. OKAY. THAT'S IT. AND TO TO FURTHER EXPLAIN THE IMPORTANCE OF ADVOCACY. AS A TRADITIONAL SCHOOL SYSTEM, A TRADITIONAL ISD, A TAXING ENTITY, WE HAVE TO GO OUT TO THE COMMUNITY AND WORK REALLY HARD TO ASK PEOPLE TO SUPPORT US AND PASS BONDS SO WE CAN EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE, THE BEDROCK OF OUR OF THE BEDROCK OF OUR SOCIETY, OUR YOUNG PEOPLE. AND SO WE HAVE TO GO OUT AND SAY, HEY, WILL YOU PLEASE ALLOW US TO PASS THESE BOND, YOU KNOW, PASS THESE BONDS, ALLOW US TO SELL BONDS SO WE CAN BUILD BUILDINGS SO YOUNG PEOPLE CAN HAVE EXPERIENCES, SO YOUNG PEOPLE CAN GRADUATE AND GO OUT INTO THE WORLD AND BE POSITIVE, PRODUCTIVE CITIZENS. AND THEN YOU HAVE THIS TYPE OF LEGISLATION WHERE ENTITIES ARE ABLE JUST TO BUY BUILDINGS AND SAY, HERE, LAMAR, YOU PAY YOUR PORTION OF THAT BILL WITH NO INPUT. BUT AGAIN, WE HAVE TO GO BEG TO BE ABLE TO EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE. THAT'S WHY ADVOCACY IS SO IMPORTANT. THAT'S WHY WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE WE STAY CONNECTED TO OUR LAWMAKERS. SO THEY HEAR THE VOICES OF THE PEOPLE THAT PUT THEM IN POSITION, THEIR CONSTITUENTS, SO THEY WOULD KNOW THE EDUCATING OUR YOUNG PEOPLE IS THAT'S THE THAT'S THE THAT'S THE ULTIMATE RESPONSIBILITY. BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, IF WE DON'T EDUCATE OUR YOUNG PEOPLE, THEN WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO US IN THE FUTURE? HOW WHAT IS WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IN OUR SOCIETY? AND SO I JUST I I'LL LEAVE IT AT THAT. BUT MY, MY WHEN, WHEN MISS LUDWIG AND I FIRST TALKED ABOUT IT, I THINK MY EARS TURN RED BECAUSE I WAS I WAS PRETTY UPSET. I WAS PRETTY UPSET ABOUT THAT BECAUSE NOW WE HAVE TO PUT THAT ASIDE. WE YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN SETTING ASIDE IN OUR BUDGET. BUT AGAIN, JUST COMING OFF A BOND CYCLE THAT WAS THAT WAS PRETTY TOUGH. 
          THAT WAS PRETTY TOUGH. AND IT WASN'T YOU KNOW, AND WE DIDN'T GET AN 80% PASS RATE. YOU KNOW, IT WASN'T LIKE 80% OF THE PEOPLE SAID, YES, WE WANT YOU TO BUILD BUILDINGS FOR SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS. YOU KNOW, IT'S MORE LIKE 55% PASS RATE. AND SO AGAIN, ADVOCACY IS VERY IMPORTANT. SO EVERYBODY THAT'S LISTENING AND PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE, YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE TO OUR LAWMAKERS ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION. 
          [13. FUTURE CONSENT AGENDA]
THANK YOU. OKAY. ARE THERE ANY ITEMS ON THE CONSENT AGENDA THAT TRUSTEES WOULD LIKE TO PULL FOR DISCUSSION AT THE FEBRUARY BOARD MEETING? OKAY, IT IS 8:41 P.M. WE ARE 
          [14. CLOSED SESSION]
JOURNEYING TO CLOSED SESSION PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTIONS 551.071551.072551.074 AND 551.082 THE OPEN MEETINGS ACT TO DISCUSS PERSONNEL LAND ACQUISITION AND WE ARE NOW BACKN OPEN SESSION. IT IS 9:39 P.M. WE HAVE A QUORUM. ARE THERE ANY MOTIONS TO BE MADE? MADAM PRESIDENT, I MOVE THAT THE BOARD APPROVE PERSONNEL AS PRESENTED IN CLOSED SESSION. TRUSTEE HENDERSON MAKES THE MOTION. DO I HAVE A SECOND? SECOND TRUSTEE? MASTERS SECONDS. ANY DISCUSSION? I'LL CALL FOR THE VOTE. ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. 
          AYE. MOTION CARRIES. THE MEETING IS ADJOURNED. IT IS
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