[1.0 Call to Order ]
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          GOOD EVENING. I HEREBY CALL TO ORDER THE CALLED BOARD MEETING OF CROWLEY I.S.D BOARD OF TRUSTEES. AND CERTIFY THAT WE ARE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 551.041, SUBCHAPTER C GOVERNMENT CODE, AS AMENDED BY THE 89TH LEGISLATURE. 
          PURSUANT TO PUBLIC NOTICE OF THIS MEETING AND A QUORUM IS PRESENT. REQUEST THE OFFICIAL ROLL CALL, PLEASE, MR. KIRSHNER. TRUSTEE PLACE ONE, DR. NEDRA ROBINSON. PRESENT. 
          TRUSTEE PLACE TWO, DR. 
          LATANYA WOODSON-MAYFIELD. 
          PRESENT. TRUSTEE PLACE THREE, MR. MICHAEL LASTIC. PRESENT. 
          TRUSTEE PLACE FOUR, MS. JUNE W. DAVIS. PRESENT. TRUSTEE PLACE FIVE, MS. CECE WATKINS. 
          PRESENT. TRUSTEE PLACE SIX, MR. GARY GRACIA. PRESENT. 
          TRUSTEE PLACE SEVEN, MS. KALISHA STEVENSON. PRESENT. 
          SUPERINTENDENT, DR. MICHAEL MCFARLAND. PRESENT. THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, SIR. I EXTEND A WARM WELCOME TO EVERYONE PRESENT FOR TONIGHT'S MEETING. THE MONTHLY MEETINGS OF THE BOARD ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, AND WE ARE PLEASED THAT YOU HAVE JOINED US. AS WE CELEBRATE ACHIEVEMENT, REVIEW INFORMATION, AND MAKE POLICY DECISIONS RELATED TO THE EFFECTIVE OPERATION OF CROWLEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
          COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS FROM THE AUDIENCE WILL BE CONFINED TO THE TIME DESIGNATED FOR CITIZENS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD. THE QUORUM AND COURTESY ARE IMPORTANT ELEMENTS IN EFFECTIVE PUBLIC MEETINGS. 
          PLEASE SILENCE YOUR CELL PHONES OR COMMUNICATION DEVICES BEFORE WE BEGIN OUR PROCEEDINGS. 
          AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING AND YOUR INTEREST IN CROWLEY ISD SCHOOLS. THAT'S 
          [2.0 Celebrations / Board Points of Pride ]
GOING TO BRING US TO AGENDA ITEM 2.0, CELEBRATIONS AND BOARD POINTS OF PRIDE. 
          TRUSTEES, WE WILL START TONIGHT WITH TRUSTEE WATKINS. ALL RIGHT. NORTH CROWLEY BOYS BASKETBALL, SO I KNOW IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF US IN HERE, BUT WE NEED TO GET EXCITED BECAUSE OUR BOYS DID THAT. 
          AFTER THEIR THRILLING WIN OVER DUNCANVILLE TUESDAY NIGHT, NUMBER TWO NORTH CROWLEY PANTHER BOYS BASKETBALL TEAM IS STATE BOUND THIS SATURDAY. 
          RIGHT? YES. THE PANTHERS WILL TAKE ON NUMBER FOUR BRENNAN HIGH SCHOOL AT THE ALAMO DOME IN SAN ANTONIO AND TIP OFF IS SET FOR 5 P.M. SO GET YOUR TICKETS AND START YOUR SPREE. SPRING BREAK BY CHEERING ON NORTH CROWLEY TO THE STATE TITLE. ALL RIGHT? A LITTLE BIT MORE, THOUGH. IF YOU CAN'T MAKE IT TO SAN ANTONIO, FANS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS ARE INVITED TO WEAR BLUE AND HELP US SEND OFF THE TEAM TOMORROW MORNING AT PANTHER FIELDHOUSE. FANS WILL LINE UP OUTSIDE THE GYM AT 8.15 A.M., AND THE BUSES WILL ROLL OUT AT 8.30 A.M. 
          LET'S GO, PANTHERS. THANK YOU, TRUSTEE WATKINS. TRUSTEE DAVIS. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT GRACIA. SPANISH SPELLING BEE. 
          AFTER AN INCREDIBLE 18 ROUND SHOWCASE OF TALENT AND DEDICATION AT THE ANNUAL REGION 11 SPANISH SPELLING BEE, WE'RE BEYOND PROUD TO CELEBRATE ARMANDO SANCHEZ, A FIFTH GRADE STUDENT FROM SYCAMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. FOR WINNING SECOND PLACE OVERALL, ARMANDO WILL NOW PREPARE TO REPRESENT SYCAMORE, VALLEY, ISD, AND REGION 11 AS ONE OF THE TOP 32 SPELLERS TO ADVANCE TO THE STATEWIDE SPANISH SPELLING BEE, HOSTED IN EL PASO THIS JUNE. GOOD LUCK, ARMANDO. THANK YOU, TRUSTEE DAVIS. TRUSTEE LASSICK. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT GRACIA. TASB GOVERNANCE CAMP. FOUR OF OUR OUTSTANDING STUDENT TRUSTEES PRESENTED AT THE TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL BOARDS GOVERNANCE CAMP TO SHARE HOW STUDENT VOICE IS BEING HEARD DURING CROWLEY, I.S.D. SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS. THEY SPOKE TO SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS FROM ACROSS TEXAS ABOUT THE IMPACT OF STUDENT VOICE AND OFFERED GUIDANCE ON HOW OTHER DISTRICTS CAN LAUNCH THEIR OWN STUDENT TRUSTEE PROGRAMS. WE ARE PROUD OF THESE YOUNG LEADERS FOR REPRESENTING WITH CONFIDENCE AND PURPOSE. 
          KUDOS TO DESTINY, VINCENT, XANTHE, AND JOHN FOR THEIR SERVICE AND HARD WORK. I HAVE TO SAY, I HAD THE HONOR, PLEASURE OF BEING THERE. I WAS THERE. I WITNESSED IT. I SAW THEM. THEY WERE FANTASTIC. I WAS SO PROUD OF THEM. THEY WERE GREAT. I HAD A LOT OF COMMENTS. THEY HAD MOVED ON AND RETURNED HOME, BUT I STAYED, AND EVERY SESSION THAT I WENT TO, EVERYONE WAS JUST SAYING, WOW, CROWLEY, THAT IS INCREDIBLE. THOSE STUDENT 
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TRUSTEES, WHAT A NOVEL, GREAT IDEA. SO ANYWAY, I HAVE TO ADD THAT. THAT'S GOING TO BRING ME TO MY ESPORTS AT THE STADIUM. AND LAST WEEKEND WAS AN INTENSE COMPETITION OF OUR MOST SKILLED STUDENTS THAT TOOK PLACE AT THE CROWLEY ISD MULTIPURPOSE STADIUM. AND AFTER SEVEN AND A HALF HOURS, SENIOR JORDAN CONNELLY, FROM NORTH CROWLEY, WAS CROWNED AS THE MADDEN 26 ESPORTS CHAMPION AND HAS EARNED AN AUTOMATIC BID TO STATE. IN TOTAL, 32 PLAYERS COMPETED FROM DISTRICTS ACROSS THE STATE, AND WE WERE EXCITED TO HOST IN OUR STADIUM AND WATCH THE ACTION LIVE ON OUR AMAZING VIDEO BOARD. 
          CONGRATULATIONS, JORDAN, AND GOOD LUCK AT THE STATE COMPETITION. 
          AND, DR. ROBINSON. HEY, I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE A MOMENT TO RECOGNIZE SOMETHING OUR DISTRICT IS VERY PROUD OF. ON TUESDAY, MARCH 10TH, EVERY JUNIOR AT CROWLEY HIGH SCHOOL AND NORTH CROWLEY HIGH SCHOOL HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE THE SAT TEST RIGHT ON THEIR CAMPUS. AT NO COST TO THEM OR THEIR FAMILIES, THE SAME OPPORTUNITY WILL BE OFFERED TO THE TO THE CROWLEY COLLEGIATE STUDENTS ON APRIL 14TH. THIS INITIATIVE REFLECTS OUR COMMITMENT TO MAKING COLLEGE AND CAREER OPPORTUNITIES ACCESSIBLE TO EVERY STUDENT BY PROVIDING THE SAT DURING THE SCHOOL DAY. WE'VE REMOVED BARRIERS THAT TOO OFTEN STAND IN THE WAY, SUCH AS TESTING FEES, TRANSPORTATION, OR SCHEDULING CHALLENGES. 
          EVERY JUNIOR WAS GIVEN AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE AN IMPORTANT STEP TOWARDS THEIR FUTURE. TRUSTEE STEVENSON. 
          THANK YOU, PRESIDENT GRACIA. 
          FUTURE CHEFS, IF YOU'VE EVER WATCHED CHOP DOING YOUR OWN FOOD NETWORK, THEN YOU HAVE... THEN YOU HAVE A LOVE FOR WHAT HAPPENED IN CROWLEY, ISD. LAST WEEK. 16 FINALISTS GRADE 3 THROUGH 5 GATHERED AT THE BRJ, BR JOHNSON CTE CENTER. I CAN'T EVEN READ THIS EVENING, I'M SORRY. BRJ CTE CENTER, TO COMPETE IN THE SODEXO FUTURE CHEF COMPETITION. THESE YOUNG CHEFS CAME READY TO COOK. THEY SHOWCASED THEIR CREATIVITY AND THEIR CULINARY SKILLS. WHILE PREPARING DISHES INSPIRED BY FAVORITES FROM AROUND THE WORLD. EVERY PARTICIPANT WENT HOME WITH A CHEF COAT, HAT, APRON, MEDAL, AND BUTTONS. FIRST PLACE HONOR WAS CLAIMED BY FOURTH GRADE BAILEY, IS IT ROUGE? ROUGEAU. ROUGEAU, OKAY. 
          FROM JACKIE CARDEN ELEMENTARY FOR HER SEAFOOD EGG ROLL. WE WANT TO SAY CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THAT COMPETED IN THIS SPECIAL EVENT. 
          BUT I JUST WANT TO SAY THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME I HAD EGG ROLLS. 
          NOT EGG ROLLS, BUT ACTUALLY SEAFOOD EGG ROLLS. 
          AND IF I TELL YOU IT WAS SO DELICIOUS, I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE BOARD TO TRY IT. I HOPE SHE GETS TO COME AND PREPARE FOR US. BUT THANK YOU AND CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE PARTICIPANTS. AND WE WILL ROUND THIS OUT WITH DR. 
          MAYFIELD. YES, THANK YOU, PRESIDENT GRACIA, AND YES, I WOULD LOVE TO TRY SOME SEAFOOD EGG ROLLS. 
          PRE-KINDERGARTEN AND KINDERGARTEN ENROLLMENT OPENS ONLINE APRIL 1ST. OUR THEME FOR THIS YEAR IS LAUNCHING LITTLE LEARNERS, AND WE'RE SO EXCITED TO HELP YOUR CHILD LIFT OFF INTO LEARNING IN CROWLEY, ISD. 
          VISIT THE DISTRICT WEBSITE TO SEE IF YOUR FAMILY QUALIFIES FOR FREE. PRE-K AND LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR TUITION-BASED OPTIONS AS WELL, STARTING AT $200 A MONTH. OUR HIGH-QUALITY PROGRAMS OFFER FULL-DAY PRE-K AT ALL CISD ELEMENTARY CAMPUSES. IF YOU NEED IN-PERSON ASSISTANCE, MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR SATURDAY, APRIL 11TH, FOR OUR ANNUAL PRE-K AND KINDERGARTEN ENROLLMENT EVENT FROM 9 A.M. 
          TO 3 P.M. AT THE BILL, R. 
          JOHNSON, CT.E. CENTER. WE WILL HAVE A TEAM READY TO ASSIST YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND GET YOUR STUDENT READY FOR THEIR LEARNING JOURNEY TO LIFTOFF. LET'S CONGRATULATE OUR PRE-K AND KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM. THANK YOU, DR. 
          MAYFIELD. DR. MCFARLAND, ARE THERE ANY? PRESIDENT GRACIA. 
          YES, MA'AM. I DO HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE SAT DAY FOR JUNIORS. SO, FIRST OF ALL. 
          I THINK IT'S JUST AMAZING THAT WE CAN OFFER THIS FOR OUR STUDENTS AT NO COST TO THEM, AND IT'S CONVENIENT BECAUSE IT'S DURING THE DAY. 
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BUT MY QUESTION IS, DO ALL OF OUR JUNIORS TAKE THE SAT ON THAT DAY? OR IS IT JUST FOR THOSE THAT WANT TO TAKE IT? ACTUALLY, ALL JUNIORS TAKE IT ON THAT DAY. 
          SO THEY TAKE IT? YES. OKAY, EVERY JUNIOR. OKAY, THAT'S GREAT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MS. DAVIS. THAT'S GOING 
          [3.0 Board President Review Open-Forum Regulations - Open Forum]
TO BRING US TO AGENDA ITEM 3.0, OPEN FORUM. PER BED LOCAL, THE BOARD SHALL ALLOT 30 MINUTES TO HEAR PERSONS WHO DESIRE TO MAKE COMMENTS TO THE BOARD. IF YOU WISH TO PARTICIPATE IN AN OPEN FORUM, YOU MUST SIGN UP IN ADVANCE BY COMPLETING AND SUBMITTING THE ELECTRONIC FORM ONE HOUR BEFORE THE MEETING BEGINS AND INDICATE THE TOPIC YOU WILL ADDRESS. 
          THE ELECTRONIC FORM IS AVAILABLE AT WWW.CRAWLEYISDTX.ORG. 
          FORWARD SLASH OPEN FORUM. 
          FOR INDIVIDUALS UNABLE TO SIGN UP WITH THE ELECTRONIC FORM, A PAPER COPY OF THIS FORM IS ALSO AVAILABLE AT CROWLEY ISD CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION BUILDING. AND MUST BE SUBMITTED IN PERSON ONE HOUR BEFORE THE MEETING. WHEN CALLED, SPEAKERS SHALL STATE THEIR NAME AND ADDRESS. 
          SPEAKERS WILL BE CALLED IN THE ORDER OF WHICH THEY REGISTERED. 
          COPIES OF ANY DOCUMENTS FOR THE BOARD SHALL BE EMAILED TO THE COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER AT THE TIME OF REGISTRATION, AND ONLY ONE PERSON MAY SPEAK AT A TIME. RESIDENTS AND VISITORS WHO HAVE SIGNED UP TO ADDRESS THE BOARD ARE ALLOTTED THREE MINUTES TO SPEAK. A COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER WILL SIGNAL YOUR REMAINING TIME. 
          AND UPON EXPIRATION OF THE TIME LIMIT, YOU WILL BE EXPECTED TO STOP SPEAKING AND CONCLUDE YOUR COMMENTS. GROUPS CONSISTING OF TWO OR MORE PEOPLE SHALL APPOINT ONE PERSON TO PRESENT THEIR VIEWS BEFORE THE BOARD. PLEASE REFRAIN FROM USING SPECIFIC NAMES WHILE MAKING COMMENTS, AND PLEASE FACE THE BOARD MEMBERS AT THE DAIS WHILE MAKING COMMENTS. 
          FOR BED LOCAL, THE BOARD SHALL NOT TOLERATE DISRUPTION OF THE MEETING BY MEMBERS IN THE AUDIENCE. IF AT LEAST ONE WARNING FROM THE PRESIDING OFFICER, ANY INDIVIDUAL CONTINUES TO DISRUPT THE MEETING BY HIS OR HER WORDS OR ACTIONS, THE PRESIDING OFFICER MAY REQUEST ASSISTANCE FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS TO HAVE THE INDIVIDUAL REMOVED FROM THE MEETING. THANK YOU. 
          MR. KIRCHNER, WHO IS OUR SPEAKER? GOOD EVENING. WE HAVE ONE OPEN FORUM SPEAKER THIS EVENING, DR. LIZ PIGNON. GOOD EVENING, BOARD MEMBERS, TRUSTEE, AND SUPERINTENDENT. 
          MY NAME IS LIZ PIGNON. I LIVE AT 793 RAPPORT WAY, AND I'M HERE AS A PARENT OF FELICITA, AN EMERGENT BILINGUAL STUDENT WHO ALSO RECEIVES SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES AND IS CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF GETTING HOMEBOUND SUPPORT. I'M SPEAKING SPECIFICALLY ABOUT AGENDA ITEM 6.5, THE REMOTE HOMEBOUND INSTRUCTION WAIVER, WHICH IS PLACED ON THE CONSENT AGENDA TODAY. 
          WHEN SOMETHING THAT DIRECTLY AFFECTS MEDICALLY FRAGILE STUDENTS AND STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES IS HANDLED THROUGH CONSENT, FAMILIES CAN FEEL LIKE IT'S JUST A ROUTINE CHECKBOX, WHEN IN REAL LIFE, IT SHAPES WHETHER A CHILD RECEIVES INSTRUCTIONS, RELATED SERVICES, AND THE LANGUAGE SUPPORTS IN A WAY THAT IS TRULY ACCESSIBLE. 
          TA GUIDANCE IS REALLY CLEAR THAT REMOTE HOMEBOUND IS NOT A DIFFERENT PROGRAM. IT'S A WAIVER THAT ALLOWS OUR HOMEBOUND INSTRUCTION TO BE DELIVERED REMOTELY FOR FUNDING AND ATTENDANCE PURPOSES. WHILE STILL MEETING THE UNDERLYING HOMEBOUND REQUIREMENTS FOR FACE-TO-FACE. 
          FOR A SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENT, THE ARD COMMITTEE MUST DETERMINE THAT REMOTE HOMEBOUND INSTRUCTION MEETS THE STUDENT'S NEEDS AND DOCUMENTS IN THE IEP. AND ALL OTHER SPECIAL ED HOMEBOUND REQUIREMENTS. THAT MUST STILL BE MET. THIS IS A HIGH-STAKE DETERMINATION, NOT JUST PAPERWORK. THIS MATTERS DISTRICT-WIDE. 
          IN YOUR LATEST PAPER REPORTING, CRAWLEY ISD'S CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM RATE... HIGHER THAN THE STATE RATE, AND ATTENDANCE IS LOWER THAN THE STATE. 
          STUDENTS WHO ARE MEDICALLY HOMEBOUND AND STUDENTS WHO NEED THESE INTENSIVE SUPPORTS ARE A BIG PART OF THAT PICTURE. IF WE WANT BETTER OUTCOMES FOR OUR SPECIAL NEEDS KIDS, WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE OUR MOST VULNERABLE STUDENTS ARE THE FIRST TO LOSE INSTRUCTIONAL TIME OR THE LAST TO RECEIVE QUALIFIED SUPPORT. 
          MY REQUEST TONIGHT IS SIMPLE. 
          PULL 6.5 FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA. 
          FOR A BRIEF PUBLIC EXPLANATION, U.S. FAMILIES DESERVE TO HEAR HOW MANY STUDENTS THIS AFFECTS, HOW THE DISTRICT ENSURES CERTIFIED INSTRUCTION IN IEP SERVICE MINUTES, HOW BILINGUAL ELL SUPPORTS ARE DELIVERED DURING REMOTE HOMEBOUND, AND WHAT DOCUMENTATION AND OVERSIGHT IS IN PLACE SO THESE IMPORTANT SERVICES ARE CONSISTENT AND AUDITABLE. AND FOR MY CHILD AND OTHERS, JUST LIKE I'M ASKING 
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FOR CLARITY. COMPLIANCE, AND A REAL PLAN THAT U.S. 
          FAMILIES CAN TRUST. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND FOR SERVING OUR COMMUNITY HERE IN CROWLEY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, DR. PIGNON. THAT'S GOING 
          [4.0 Public Hearing]
TO BRING US TO AGENDA ITEM 4.1, PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE 2024-2025 TEXAS ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE REPORT, TAPER. AT THIS TIME, WE WILL BEGIN OUR PUBLIC HEARING TO REVIEW THE 2024-2025 TEXAS ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE REPORT. 
          INDIVIDUALS DESIRING TO SPEAK. SPEAK DURING THIS PUBLIC HEARING WERE REQUIRED TO SIGN UP AT LEAST ONE HOUR BEFORE TONIGHT'S MEETING. WE WILL START WITH THE PRESENTATION AND THE COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, FOLLOWED BY PUBLIC COMMENTS. DR. 
          MCFARLAND. MR. PRESIDENT, BOARD MEMBERS, MR. HILL HERE IS PREPARED TO ADDRESS THIS ITEM. MR. HILL. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING, DR. MCFARLAND, BOARD PRESIDENT GRACIA, AND DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. EACH YEAR, THE DISTRICT IS REQUIRED TO COMPILE A SERIES OF DOCUMENTS PUBLISHED BY TEA INTO AN ANNUAL REPORT. THE COMPLETE REPORT CONTAINS THE TEXAS ACADEMICS PERFORMANCE REPORT, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS TAPER, AND OUR DISTRICT AND SCHOOL QUALITY REPORTS, CREATED BY CROWLEY ISD, IN ADDITION TO OTHER STATE AND FEDERAL DOCUMENTS. THE INFORMATION IN THE ANNUAL REPORT IS BASED ON DATA FROM THE 2024-2025 SCHOOL YEAR. 
          BOARD, AS YOU KNOW, THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS WE'VE PUBLISHED OUR SCHOOL QUALITY REPORTS. WE BEGAN CREATING THESE REPORTS IN THE ABSENCE OF RATINGS TO SHARE THE PERFORMANCE AND KEY METRICS FOR OUR SCHOOLS. THAT MATTER MOST TO YOU AND THE COMMUNITY. THE SCHOOL QUALITY REPORT IS DESIGNED AS AN EASY TO READ, ONE PAGE FORMAT DOCUMENT FOR THE DISTRICT AND FOR EACH CAMPUS. THE GRANTS AND TRANSFORMATION DEPARTMENT AND COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT DESIGNED THESE REPORTS BASED ON DATA FROM TAPER. SO HERE YOU'LL SEE THE 2024-2025 CISD DISTRICT QUALITY REPORT. 
          STARTING IN THE TOP, YOU'LL SEE STAR DATA THAT'S INCLUDED IN THE TAPER REPORT. 
          IT'S A CONDENSATION, OR SUMMARY OF THAT STAR DATA. 
          THE SAME THING IS REFLECTED ON EACH OF THE DISTRICT, OR, SORRY, EACH OF THE CAMPUS PAGES. 
          ADDITIONALLY, YOU'LL SEE INFORMATION REGARDING ENROLLMENT, BUT YOU'LL ALSO SEE INFORMATION REGARDING BEHAVIOR AND ATTENDANCE ALSO INCLUDED IN TAPER. THERE'S ALSO ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT TAPER DOES NOT PROVIDE, INFORMATION THAT OUR STUDENTS AND OUR FAMILIES VALUE, SUCH AS THE TOTAL SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED TO CROWLEY ISD STUDENTS. THE SCHOOL QUALITY REPORTS. AND TAPER ARE AVAILABLE ON THE CROWLEY ISD WEBSITE. AND THE COMPLETE ANNUAL REPORT IS AVAILABLE PRINTED IN THE FRONT OFFICE OF EVERY CROWLEY ISD SCHOOL AND THE FRONT OFFICE HERE OF THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING. 
          AT THIS TIME, THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION OF THE ANNUAL REPORT. THANK YOU, MR. HILL. MR. KIRSHNER, DID WE HAVE ANYONE SIGN UP IN ADVANCE TO MAKE ANY COMMENTS DURING THE PUBLIC HEARING? YES, SIR. WE DID HAVE ONE INDIVIDUAL SIGN UP FOR COMMENTS, DR. LIZ PIGNON. 
          AGAIN, MY NAME IS DR. LIZ PIGNONE AND I LIVE AT 793 RAPIDWAY, CRAWLEY, TEXAS. 
          PRESIDENT GRACIA, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, AND DR. 
          MCFARLAND, THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TONIGHT DURING THE PUBLIC HEARING OF THE TAPER REPORT. YOU KNOW, I'VE ALWAYS BEEN A FAN. 
          CRAWLEY ISD DOES MANY, MANY THINGS WELL. BUT SPED SERVICES HAS ALWAYS BEEN SOMETHING THAT I'VE ALWAYS VOICED TO THE BOARD MANY TIMES ABOUT MY CONCERNS. BECAUSE I'VE BEEN A MOM OF FOUR SPECIAL NEEDS KIDS WHO'VE BEEN IN THE SYSTEM. I HAVE VOLUNTEERED HUNDREDS OF HOURS TO THE CROWLEY ISD PTO, ZONING, CURRICULUM, SAFETY AND HEALTH. I'M ONE OF THOSE PARENTS, I'M NOT 
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COMPLAINING. I ALSO ROLL UP MY SLEEVE AND SAY, HOW DO I MAKE THIS WORK? SO I HAVE REALLY BIG CONCERNS. THE TAPER SHOWS THAT CROWLEY ISD'S ACCOUNTABILITY SCORE IS A C. 
          AND THE DISTRICT'S SPECIAL EDUCATION DETERMINATION STATUS IS NEEDS ASSISTANCE. IT'S SOMETHING I HAVE BEEN CONSTANTLY TELLING THE BOARD. 
          SECOND, THE REPORT SHOWS SIZABLE ACHIEVEMENT GAPS FOR STUDENTS RECEIVING SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES. 
          DISTRICT-WIDE, 43% OF STUDENTS MEET GRADE LEVEL IN READING, COMPARED TO ONLY 22% OF STUDENTS IN SPECIAL ED. AT RICHARD ALLEY, 48% OF 6TH GRADERS MEET GRADE LEVEL IN READING, BUT ONLY 15% OF THESE STUDENTS RECEIVE SPECIAL ED SERVICES, MET THAT SAME STANDARD. 
          THIRD, THE STUDENT SUPPORTS REFLECTED IN ATTENDANCE AND STAFFING. 
          INDICATORS ARE ALSO SO CONCERNING. DISTRICT-WIDE, CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM IS 24.4 AND IT IS 27.6 FOR STUDENTS RECEIVING SPECIAL ED AT RICHARD ALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL. 
          CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM IS 18.4 OVERALL, BUT 34 PERCENT OF STUDENTS IN SPECIAL ED. WHY ARE SPECIAL ED KIDS NOT WANTING TO COME TO SCHOOL, OR WHAT'S KEEPING THEM FROM COMING? AT THE SAME TIME, THE TEACHER TURNOVER RATE IS 27.3 AT CROWLEY ISD, COMPARED TO THE STATE AT 18.8. THESE DATA POINTS SUGGEST THE NEED FOR PROACTIVE, SUPPORT-BASED IMPROVEMENT, NOT DISCIPLINE-HEAVY RESPONSES. 
          TEXAS DISTRICTS WITH SIMILAR DEMOGRAPHICS PUBLICLY DESCRIBE FRAMEWORKS THAT FOCUS ON EARLY SUPPORT. 
          FOR EXAMPLE, DUNCANVILLE DESCRIBES MTSS, AN INTERVENTION PROCESS WITH UNIVERSAL SCREENING AND TIERED SUPPORT. THEY ALSO HAVE COUNSELING, SEL SUPPORTS, CEDAR HILL HIGHLIGHTS COMPREHENSIVE COUNSELING, SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING, AND PROVIDES DISTRICT SUPPORT AROUND ATTENDANCE AND TRUANCY. 
          MANOR ISD DESCRIBES DISTRICT-WIDE MTSS, MAINTAINS ATTENDANCE AND TRUANCY PREVENTION LEADERSHIP, SUPPORTS PARTNERSHIPS THAT EMBED ON CAMPUSES. SO I'M ASKING THREE SOLUTION FOCUSED QUESTIONS. WHAT IS CROWLEY? THE ISD'S WRITTEN IMPROVEMENT PLAN. WITH MEASURABLE TARGETS AND TIMELINES FOR MOVING FROM NEEDS ASSISTANCE IN SPECIAL ED AND CLOSING THAT ACHIEVEMENT GAP FOR OUR SPREAD. KIDS IN THE TAPER. TWO, WHAT MTSS AND EARLY LEARNING PROCESS AND PROCESS AT EVERY CAMPUS TO FLAG ACADEMIC STRUGGLE AND CHRONIC ABSENCE EARLY, ESPECIALLY FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITY, AND CONNECTING WITH FAMILIES TO SUPPORT. THREE, WHAT IS THE DISTRICT DOING THIS YEAR TO REDUCE TEACHER TURNOVER? I RESPECTFULLY ASK THE BOARD TO MONITOR THESE. INDICATORS AND REQUIRE PUBLIC PROGRESS UPDATES AT REGULAR INTERVALS. 
          THANK YOU. THANK YOU, DR. 
          PIGNOL. AT THIS TIME, OUR 
          [5.0 Adjournment - Public Hearing]
PUBLIC HEARING IS ADJOURNED AND WE WILL TRANSITION BACK INTO OUR REGULAR MEETING. 
          [6.0 Consent Agenda ]
THAT'S GOING TO BRING US TO OUR CONSENT AGENDA. 
          TRUSTEES, ARE THERE ANY ITEMS THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA? AND IF NOT, IS THERE A MOTION? PRESIDENT GRACIA, IN RESPONSE TO DR. PEEK'S QUESTION, I WOULD LIKE TO INSERT, AND WE'LL PUT THAT ON THE NEXT, OR IS THERE A TIME FRAME FOR IT? MS. STEVENSON AND BOARD PRESIDENT, BOARD, THIS ITEM IS NOT A TIME-SENSITIVE ITEM. HOWEVER, WE ARE PREPARED TO ADDRESS IT TONIGHT. IF YOU'D LIKE FOR US TO PULL IT AND GIVE YOU A PRESENTATION ON THAT, WE'RE PREPARED TO DO THAT. 
          YES. I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE PULL 6.5 FROM THE AGENDA, FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA. WE HAVE A MOTION BY TRUSTEE STEVENSON. IS THERE A SECOND? WE HAVE A SECOND FROM DR. 
          MAYFIELD. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? HEARING NONE, MOVE TO VOTE BY A SHOW OF HANDS. 
          ALL IN FAVOR? WITH ONE ITEM REMOVED. SO WE'RE 
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VOTING ON TO POOL 6.5. 
          AT A LATER TIME. HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO DO IT. OKAY. SORRY. 
          TRUSTEE STEVENSON, CAN WE HAVE A, IS THERE A MOTION TO PULL THE 6.5? YES. I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE PULL THE 6.5 IN AGENDA. WE HAVE A MOTION BY TRUSTEE STEVENSON. IS THERE A SECOND? WE HAVE A SECOND BY DR. MAYFIELD. MOVE TO VOTE BY A SHOW OF HANDS, OR, I'M SORRY, ANY DISCUSSION? NO DISCUSSION. MOVE TO VOTE BY A SHOW OF HANDS. ALL IN FAVOR? TO REMOVE THAT, YES, MA'AM. THE MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. SO NOW WE NEED TO MAKE A MOTION FOR PASSING THE CONSENT AGENDA. 
          IS THERE A MOTION? I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE THIS CONSENT AGENDA WITHOUT 6.5 REMOTE HOMEBOUND INSTRUCTION. WE HAVE A MOTION BY TRUSTEE ROBINSON. IS THERE A SECOND? WE HAVE A SECOND BY DR. MAYFIELD. MOVED TO VOTE BY A SHOW OF HANDS. OH, I'M SORRY, ON THE COMPUTER. AND THE MOTION PASSES. THAT'S GOING 
          [6.5 Remote Homebound Waiver]
TO BRING US TO AGENDA. ITEM 6.5, REMOTE HOMEBOUND INSTRUCTION WAIVER. DR. 
          MCFARLAND? MR. PRESIDENT, BOARD MEMBERS, THIS IS AN ITEM THAT WE ARE PREPARED TO DISCUSS TONIGHT, AND WE ARE REQUESTING ACTION TONIGHT, BUT WE ARE ALSO PREPARED TO DISCUSS IT. WE HAVE BOTH MS. BAPTISTE AS WELL AS MS. WILLIAMS, OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL ED, TO ADDRESS THIS ITEM. GOOD EVENING, BOARD PRESIDENT GRACIA, DR. MCFARLAND, AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES. TONIGHT'S ITEM, REQUEST FOR REMOTE HOMEBOUND INSTRUCTION, IS ALL THREE OF OUR VISION PLANS TO BROADEN STUDENTS, EMPOWERED STAFF, AND A SAFE AND HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT. THE REQUEST FOR THIS WAIVER IS BASICALLY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE IN COMPLIANCE AND IN ALIGNMENT WITH MEETING THE NEEDS OF OUR MOST MEDICALLY FRAGILE STUDENTS. SO THEY CAN HAVE A FREE AND APPROPRIATE PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION. THEIR MEDICAL PROVIDERS HAVE DETERMINED THAT THEY NEED TO RECEIVE INSTRUCTION REMOTELY. AND SO THAT CAN ONLY BE DONE WITH THE APPROVAL OF A WAIVER FROM THE BOARD. WE ALSO HAVE A FEW STUDENTS WHO ARE WITH MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES AT THIS TIME. SO IN ORDER FOR US TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THAT INSTRUCTION, WE NEED TO. GET YOUR APPROVAL TO SUBMIT THE WAIVER TO TEA. 
          AND WE HAVE STUDENTS THAT ARE CURRENTLY PENDING. RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE THREE GENERAL EDUCATION STUDENTS AND ONE SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENT. THAT IS PENDING FOR, UH, FOR HOMEBOUND VIA THE VIRTUAL PLATFORM. WE ALSO KNOW THAT WITH THIS, UH, POPULATION OF STUDENTS BEING THAT THEY'RE GENERAL ED STUDENTS. THEY NEED TO HAVE THEIR SEAT TIME IN ORDER TO GET THEIR HIGH SCHOOL CREDITS. AS WELL AS THOSE STUDENTS THAT ARE IN MIDDLE SCHOOL. WHICH IS WHY WE'RE COMING TO THE BOARD AND ASKING FOR THE APPROVAL OF THIS. 
          OVERALL, WE HAVE 48 STUDENTS THAT RECEIVE HOMEBOUND IN CROWLEY, ISD, AND OF THE 48, 13 OF THOSE STUDENTS ARE SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENTS. 
          OTHERWISE, THEY'RE RECEIVING IN-PERSON INSTRUCTION FROM THEIR HOMEBOUND TEACHER EACH DAY. SO, MS. WILLIAMS, WOULD YOU JUST KIND OF WALK THROUGH US, THE PROCESS OF WHAT A STUDENT AND A PARENT AT HOME WOULD EXPERIENCE AND ACTUALLY TAKE US FROM... THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE PROCESS, WHEN WE MAKE THE EVALUATION TO DETERMINE WHETHER THAT'S NECESSARY OR NOT? YES. SO WE START OFF WITH THE PARENT MAKING A REQUEST AND INFORMING THE DISTRICT THAT THEIR CHILD WOULD NEED TO HAVE HOMEBOUND SERVICES. WE PROVIDE THEM WITH A NOTICE OF RELEASE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION IN WHICH WE REACH OUT TO THE STUDENT'S PHYSICIAN. 
          AND WE GET THE INFORMATION DIRECTLY SENT TO US FROM THAT PHYSICIAN. INFORMING US OF WHERE THEIR CHILD IS AND HOW THEIR CHILD IS PERFORMING AS FAR AS HEALTH-WISE. AND SO WHEN WE RECEIVE THAT INFORMATION, AND WE REVIEW IT IN A HOMEBOUND COMMITTEE 
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MEETING. IF IT'S A GENERAL EDUCATION STUDENT, THAT MEETING TAKES PLACE AT THE CAMPUS LEVEL WITH THEIR COUNSELOR AND ALL OF THE STAFF MEMBERS THAT WILL BE IN THERE THAT HAVE A PROPERLY CONSTITUTED GENERAL EDUCATION SECTION 504 MEETING TO DISCUSS HOMEBOUND. IF IT'S A SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENT, IT HAS TO GO THROUGH THE ARD PROCESS, WHICH ALREADY DELAYS THE PROCESS FOR US TO PROVIDE INSTRUCTION TO STUDENTS. BECAUSE WE'RE REQUIRED, BY IDEA TO GIVE PARENTS A FIVE-DAY NOTICE PRIOR TO SCHEDULING THAT ARD COMMITTEE MEETING, SO THAT'S FIVE MISSED INSTRUCTIONAL DAYS PRIOR TO THAT. SO ONCE WE HAVE THAT MEETING AND IT TAKES PLACE AND THE COMMITTEE AGREES, AND THE NURSE IS ALSO A PART OF THAT COMMITTEE. 
          TO REVIEW THE DOCUMENTS, THE COMMITTEE AGREES WHETHER OR NOT THE STUDENT NEEDS TO HAVE HOMEBOUND SERVICES. 
          NOW, WE START SERVICES FOR THOSE STUDENTS IMMEDIATELY, WHERE WE'RE HAVING THAT FACE-TO-FACE INSTRUCTION. 
          HOWEVER, WE HAVE SOME STUDENTS THAT ARE DEALING WITH SOME TERMINAL ILLNESSES WHERE THEY CANNOT BE EXPOSED TO OTHERS. 
          THEY'RE NOT ALWAYS SPECIAL ED STUDENTS. THEY'RE GEN. ED STUDENTS AS WELL. AND SO BECAUSE OF THAT, THEY SUBMIT DOCUMENTATION TO US FROM THEIR PHYSICIANS REQUESTING THAT THEY RECEIVE REMOTE HOMEBOUND SERVICES. 
          ONCE WE DO THOSE THINGS, THEN WE SUBMIT THAT INFORMATION, ASKING FOR THE WAIVER. BUT ACCORDING TO THE STUDENT ACCOUNTING HANDBOOK, WE CAN STILL GIVE HOMEBOUND WITHOUT RECEIVING FUNDING, BUT IN ORDER FOR US TO ENSURE THAT WE CAN COMPENSATE THE TEACHERS THAT ARE ACTUALLY GOING OUT AND PROVIDING THOSE SERVICES TO THE STUDENTS, WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ABLE TO GET THE ATTENDANCE FOR THOSE STUDENTS AS WELL. 
          AND THAT'S THEIR COMPENSATORY EDUCATION CREDIT THAT THEY RECEIVE. ONCE WE DO THOSE THINGS, WE GO BACK AND WE MONITOR THE SYSTEM. EVERY TIME, EVERY MONTH, WE MONITOR THE SYSTEM TO MAKE SURE THAT IT IS WORKING, THAT THE STUDENTS ARE RECEIVING INSTRUCTION, AND THEN WE END IT THERE. SO, IN ADDITION, MS. WILLIAMS, EXPLAIN WHY WE HAVE TO ACTUALLY APPROVE THE WAIVER. 
          THE WAIVER HAS TO BE APPROVED IN ORDER FOR THE DISTRICT TO RECEIVE FUNDING FOR THE STUDENTS. THANK YOU. 
          IN ADDITION TO BEING COMPLIANT WITH THE TEXAS EDUCATION CODE. SO, WITHOUT THE WAIVER APPROVAL, WE'RE NOT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE TEXAS EDUCATION CODE. IS THERE NOT HAVING A WAIVER? OR THROUGH THE... IS A TEACHER TO BE PUT ON, I'M GOING TO SAY, FOR INSURANCE PURPOSES, THAT'S VERY BROAD, I KNOW, BUT HAVING THIS WAIVER, DOES THAT ALSO PROTECT THE TEACHER? YES, BECAUSE NOW THEY'RE PROVIDING OFFICIAL INSTRUCTION THROUGH THE DISTRICT'S PROCEDURES, RATHER THAN JUST GOING OUT AND PROVIDING INSTRUCTION OR DOING HOMEBOUND INSTRUCTION WITHOUT HAVING THAT INFORMATION IN PLACE. THANK YOU. 
          TRUSTEES, ARE THERE ANY OTHER? TRUSTEE DAVIS. I HAVE A QUESTION. SO WOULD YOU REPEAT AGAIN? WHAT HAPPENS? WE HAVE THIS ITEM. WE HAD IT IN OUR CONSENT AGENDA, SO WE PULLED IT. WHAT HAPPENS IF WE DON'T GO BACK AND APPROVE THAT TONIGHT? SO, MS. DAVIS, BASICALLY, WHAT HAPPENS IS THAT WE CONTINUE TO PROVIDE THE SERVICES, BUT WE DON'T GET COMPENSATED FOR THE EXPENSE OF PROVIDING IT, SIR. SO IT IS A WAIVER. TO THE REQUIREMENT, AGAIN, THE LAW BASICALLY REQUIRES US TO HAVE DOCUMENTATION AND ACCOUNTING OF THE ATTENDANCE. 
          IN ORDER FOR US TO GET FUNDED FOR THE RESOURCES THAT WE ACTUALLY PROVIDE. 
          WITHOUT THE WAIVER, THEN, A STUDENT RECEIVING HOMEBOUND SERVICES DOES NOT MEET THE STANDARD. THAT WILL ALLOW US TO GET COMPENSATED FOR THE EXPENSES THAT'S REQUIRED. AND CAN WE AFFORD THAT? NO, MA'AM. 
          I MEAN, WITH A... BUDGET TO PROVIDE SERVICES THAT WE CAN'T GET COMPENSATED FOR. AM I UNDERSTANDING THAT CORRECTLY? YES, MA'AM. OKAY. THANK YOU. 
          MS. WILLIAMS, DID YOU HAVE A COMMENT? NO. OKAY. TRUSTEE? DR. ROBINSON? I HAVE A QUESTION, BECAUSE PROBABLY ALMOST A DECADE AGO, I HAD A STUDENT THAT WAS IN A SEVERE ACCIDENT. AND SO THEY WERE... RECEIVING HOMEBOUND SERVICES. AND SO I COLLABORATE, COLLABORATED WITH THE HOMEBOUND TEACHER TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE ASSIGNMENTS ONLINE. IS THAT A THING THAT GENERAL ED TEACHERS TYPICALLY DO? OR DOES THE HOMEBOUND TEACHER JUST FOLLOW THE SCOPE AND SEQUENCE AND DOESN'T MEET WITH THEM? THE HOMEBOUND TEACHER WOULD BE THE PERSON THAT'S PROVIDING THE INSTRUCTION TO THE STUDENT, BUT THEY ALSO STILL HAVE ACCESS TO THE ONLINE PLATFORMS THAT THEIR TEACHERS CREATE, LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE CANVAS ACCOUNTS AND... 
          THE GOOGLE CLASSROOM, THEY CAN ALSO USE THOSE. AND IT ALLOWS THEM TO GET THEIR SEAT TIME FOR THEIR 90% SEAT TIME BECAUSE IT'S OFFICIALLY DOCUMENTED. I HAD A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. 
          MS. T. STEVENSON? YES. AND THIS IS JUST FOR UNDERSTANDING FOR ME. 
          SINCE A PARENT IS HERE ASKING FOR IT TO BE PULLED AND GET CLARIFICATION ON IT, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS JUST TO GET CLARIFICATION ON WHAT WE'RE VOTING ON. SO THE WAIVER, 
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I'VE WRITTEN MY QUESTION. WHAT IS THE WRITTEN TARGET PLAN FOR THE DISABILITY? I MEAN, IS THERE A PLAN FOR EACH STUDENT, OR IS IT GENERAL FOR ALL STUDENTS? IT'S AN INDIVIDUALIZED PLAN FOR ALL STUDENTS, BECAUSE BASICALLY THEY HAVE TO HAVE A MINIMUM OF FOUR HOURS, BUT SOME STUDENTS RECEIVE SIX HOURS OF INSTRUCTION, SOME MAY EVEN RECEIVE EIGHT HOURS OF INSTRUCTION, DEPENDING ON WHAT THEIR NEEDS ARE. AND DID THE PARENT REQUEST FOR THE CHILD TO BE HOMEBOUND, OR IS IT JUST SOMETHING THE DISTRICT DETERMINED THE CHILD NEEDED TO BE HOMEBOUND? AND THEY ASKED THEM? CORRECT? IT'S ALWAYS PARENT INITIATED. OKAY. THANK YOU. I THINK THAT'S ALL MY QUESTIONS. THANK YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME. THANK YOU, TRUSTEE STEVENSON. DR. MAYFIELD. YES, THANK YOU, PRESIDENT GRASSI. I JUST WANT A CLARIFICATION FOR ME SINCE THE AGENDA ITEM IS UNDER SPECIAL ED, BUT THE PROGRAM IS FOR BOTH GENERAL AND SPECIAL ED. SO DOES THIS MEAN, UNDER THIS ONE, THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING SEPARATE, OR WAS IT? THIS MAYBE DIDN'T NEED TO BE TITLED. SO OUR HOMEBOUND EDUCATION IS HOUSED UNDER THE SPECIAL ED UMBRELLA. 
          WE SERVICE BOTH GENERAL ED AND OUR SPECIAL ED STUDENTS WITH IEPS. SO THAT'S WHY IT IS UNDER THAT SUBCATEGORY. SO IT IS FOR BOTH. OKAY. AND JUST FOR MY UNDERSTANDING, FOR GENERAL ED, FOR INSTANCE, IF A STUDENT IS NOT MOBILE, CAN BE, FOR WHATEVER REASON, AN ACCIDENT, THEY CAN'T GET TO THE, YEAH, ACCIDENTS, SOMETHING LIKE THAT. SO ALL OF THAT REQUESTS BECAUSE THEY CAN'T GET TO THE CAMPUS, THAT FALLS UNDER THIS AS WELL. IT FALLS UNDER HOMEBOUND, SO THERE'S TWO SEPARATE TYPES OF HOMEBOUND. IN-PERSON, HOMEBOUND, WHERE A TEACHER COMES TO YOUR HOME FOR FOUR HOURS A WEEK. WE'RE GOOD TO GO, WE DON'T NEED ANY WAIVERS OR APPROVAL FOR THAT. 
          WE NEED APPROVAL FOR REMOTE, VIRTUAL, BECAUSE THAT IS NOT WITHIN THE TEXAS EDUCATION CODE. SO WE HAVE STUDENTS WHO HAVE COMPROMISED IMMUNE SYSTEMS, WHO CANNOT HAVE VARIOUS PEOPLE COMING IN AND OUT OF THEIR HOMES. AND WE ALSO HAVE STUDENTS WHO HAVE SOME MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES, WHO. 
          IT'S BEEN RECOMMENDED THAT THEY HAVE LIMITED ACCESS TO PEOPLE COMING IN AND OUT OF THE HOME. SO THE PURPOSE OF THE WAIVER RIGHT NOW, AT THIS TIME, IS TO ADDRESS JUST THOSE FEW STUDENTS SO WE CAN EDUCATE THEM REMOTELY AND NOT IN PERSON. IS THAT THE FOUR STUDENTS YOU MENTIONED EARLIER? AND JUST FOR CLARITY FOR ME, BECAUSE I'M STILL TRYING TO GAIN AN UNDERSTANDING. SO FOR THE STUDENTS WHO NEED THE REMOTE VIRTUAL TRAINING, THE TEACHERS, IF WE DO NOT... VOTE AND APPROVE THIS TODAY, THEY DO NOT GET PAID FOR IT? OR WE JUST DON'T, THE DISTRICT DOESN'T GET PAID? IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT PAYMENT, IT'S ABOUT RECEIVING SERVICES. SO THAT'S ONE SMALL COMPONENT. 
          WE'LL STILL MAKE SURE THAT STUDENTS HAVE LESSONS, BUT IN ORDER FOR IT TO COUNT, NOT COUNT AGAINST THE STUDENT SEAT TIME EITHER, THEIR ATTENDANCE AND TRUANCY AND DIFFERENT THINGS LIKE THAT, IT IS IN OUR BEST INTEREST AND THEIR BEST INTEREST TO GET THIS WAIVER APPROVED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. RIGHT, BUT, AND I GET IT, BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO MAKE THE BEST DECISION FOR THE STUDENT, BUT I'M JUST SAYING FOR MY CLARITY, SOMEWHERE I GOT CONFUSED. I DON'T UNDERSTAND IF THE TEACHERS GET PAID OR NOT FOR IT, OR IF THE DISTRICT GETS PAID FOR IT. THE TEACHERS ARE PART OF THE DISTRICT. RIGHT. NO, THE TEACHER WILL GET PAID. OKAY, BREAK IT DOWN LIKE A THREE-YEAR-OLD FOR ME. I'M SORRY. SO IF WE CAN GO BACK TO THE SLIDE, GO BACK TO, LET'S GO BACK TO THE SLIDE. WHERE YOU HAVE THE WAIVER, THE DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THE WAIVER IS SPECIFICALLY FOR. SO, YOU KNOW, WE'LL JUST, LET'S JUST SIT RIGHT HERE FOR A SECOND TO MAKE SURE WE'RE CLEAR ABOUT WHAT THIS IS. SO BASICALLY, THE WAIVER APPLIES, I'M JUST GOING TO READ THIS BULLET, ONLY WHEN ALL OF THE HOMEBOUND PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS ARE STILL MET, EXCEPT FOR IN-PERSON DELIVERY. AND WHAT THIS IS DOING IS THIS IS ACTUALLY GIVING US THE ABILITY TO ACCOUNT FOR, IN OUR STATE FUNDING FORMULA, THE INSTRUCTION THAT IS DELIVERED REMOTELY. LOOK AT THE THIRD BULLET. SO, WITHOUT THIS WAIVER, THEN WE CAN'T LEGALLY REPORT THE STUDENT AS PRESENT, SO IT DOESN'T COUNT FOR THE STUDENT AS ATTENDANCE, AND WE ALSO CAN'T RECEIVE THE ADDITIONAL FUNDING. AND SO WITH THE WAIVER, WE CAN ACCOUNT THE STUDENT AS PRESENT, AND WE CAN RECEIVE FUNDING. 
          WITHOUT IT, WE CAN'T DO THAT. 
          THAT'S WHAT WE'RE REALLY WAITING FOR. ARE WE CURRENTLY PROVIDING REMOTE SERVICES? ABSOLUTELY, FOR THOSE STUDENTS IN THEIR IEP. RIGHT. YES. THIS 
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WILL ALLOW US TO ACTUALLY GET COMPANY. GET REIMBURSED FOR THAT. OKAY. 
          TRUSTEES, ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? NO. THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH. SO, WITH THAT BEING HEARD, IS THERE A MOTION FOR AGENDA ITEM 6.5? I MAKE A MOTION. SO I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE APPROVE THE WAIVER AS PRESENTED. OH, I'M SORRY. I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE APPROVE.6.5, THE WAIVER, I CAN'T FIND IT ON MY SCREEN, BUT HOMEBOUND REMOTE. 
          INSTRUCTIONAL WAIVER. WE HAVE A SECOND BY TRUSTEE DAVIS. MOVED TO VOTE BY A SHOW OF HANDS. 
          ALL IN FAVOR? AND THE MOTION PASSES. THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH. THAT'S GOING TO BRING US 
          [7.0 Future Action Item(s)]
TO AGENDA ITEM 7.1, RFP 061-2026 THROUGH 2029, INSTRUCTIONAL PARTNERSHIP SERVICES. DR. MCFARLAND. MR. PRESIDENT, BOARD OF MEMBERS, MR. KIRSHNER IS PREPARED TO ADDRESS THIS ITEM. MR. KIRSHNER. MR. PRESIDENT, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, AND DR. 
          MCFARLAND, ITEM 7.1 IS A FUTURE ACTION ITEM. NO DECISION NEEDED TONIGHT, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION THERE FOR YOU ABOUT THE RFP FOR OUR INSTRUCTIONAL PARTNERSHIP SERVICES. THIS IS FUNDED THROUGH A STATE GRANT, THE LASSO GRANT, AND WILL PROVIDE A LOT OF COMPONENTS FOR INSTRUCTION ACROSS CROWLEY ISD. THERE'S MORE INFORMATION THERE ABOUT THE REASON FOR THE GRANT, HOW IT WILL BE UTILIZED, THE AMOUNT OF THE GRANT, YOU'LL SEE. IT'S $750,000 FOR YEAR ONE, AND THIS WILL BE BROUGHT BACK TO YOU FOR POSSIBLE CONSIDERATION AT A FUTURE MEETING. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS FUTURE ACTION ITEM, DR. CRYSTAL POPE IS HERE TO ANSWER THOSE. THANK YOU, MR. KIRSHNER. TRUSTEES, ARE THERE ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? THANK YOU, SIR. AND THEN I HAVE ONE MORE FUTURE ACTION ITEM FOR YOU ALL. 7.2? YES, SIR. ALL RIGHT. THAT'S IT. 
          THIS IS SENATE BILL 546 ON THREE-POINT SEATBELTS ON SCHOOL BUSES. YOU'LL SEE THERE IN YOUR BOARD BOOKS, THE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS SENATE BILL REQUIREMENT THAT OUR BOARD AND OUR POLICY REVIEW COMMITTEE IS LOOKING AT, ALONG WITH MS. BATISTE AND DURHAM TRANSPORTATION. THEY'LL BE BRINGING BACK A RECOMMENDATION TO YOU ALL AT A FUTURE MEETING. WE JUST WANTED YOU ALL TO BE AWARE. 
          THANK YOU, SIR. TRUSTEES, ARE THERE ANY COMMENTS, QUESTIONS? THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU. DR. 
          MCFARLAND. MR. PRESIDENT AND BOARD MEMBERS, I'D JUST LIKE TO FOLLOW UP. I BELIEVE AT THE LAST BOARD MEETING, ONE OF OUR STUDENT TRUSTEES HAD A QUESTION ABOUT GPS, WELL, REALLY, ABOUT PARENTS BEING ABLE TO. TO KNOW WHERE THE BUSES ARE AND ALL THAT. SO WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON SOME PILOTS. I'D LIKE TO ASK MR. WALKER TO COME UP AND JUST GIVE US A HIGH-LEVEL OVERVIEW OF WHERE WE ARE. 
          WITH ROLLING OUT THE ABILITY FOR PARENTS AND STUDENTS TO TRACK WHERE THE BUSES ARE. 
          YES, SIR. GOOD EVENING, BOARD. RIGHT NOW, WE ACTUALLY GOT THE CAPABILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY IN ALL THE BUSES, AND THE PLAN WAS TO ROLL IT OUT WITH SYCAMORE STARTING AFTER SPRING BREAK. SO WE DO HAVE THAT ABILITY. AND WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE IS IF A PARENT HAS A STUDENT AT SYCAMORE, THEY CAN SEE THAT STUDENT'S ROUTE. 
          THAT'S THE ONLY ROUTE THEY CAN SEE, AND THEY CAN SEE IT FOR UP TO A TWO-HOUR SPAN. SO IF IT'S A HIGH SCHOOL KID AS WELL, THEY'LL ALSO HAVE ACCESS TO THAT HIGH SCHOOL ROUTE. 
          AT THAT TWO-HOUR TIME FRAME AT THE TIME OF DISMISSAL AS WELL. SO, BOARD, I JUST WANT TO REPORT BACK TO YOU THAT WE HAVE ELECTED TO PILOT AT A SMALL GROUP. 
          TO LEARN THIS BY THE END OF THE YEAR, TO KIND OF HAVE A REALLY GOOD IDEA OF HOW WE ROLL IT OUT GOING FORWARD. 
          BUT I DID WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WE ARE FOLLOWING UP ON THAT. TRUSTEE DAVIS? YEAH, I THINK THAT'S GREAT THAT WE'RE LOOKING INTO THAT. BUT IF I HAVE MULTIPLE STUDENTS, IF I HAVE THREE STUDENTS, YOU SAID, I CAN ONLY SEE THAT STUDENT. 
          SO I CAN'T LOOK AT MY OTHER TWO STUDENTS IF I PULL UP ONE ROUTE FIRST? YOU CAN LOOK AT ALL THREE, DEPENDING ON WHAT TIME THEY'RE DISMISSED. 
          SO IF YOU HAVE AN ELEMENTARY STUDENT, MIDDLE, SCHOOL, AND HIGH, YOU CAN SEE ALL THREE ROUTES. 
          OKAY, WHAT IF I HAVE TWO ELEMENTARY STUDENTS AT DIFFERENT SCHOOLS? AS LONG AS THEY HAVE THE ID NUMBER, 
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THEY CAN SEE THE ROUTE. OKAY. 
          YES, MA'AM. AND THE GOOD THING ABOUT THIS ALSO IS THAT OUR ADMINISTRATORS CAN ALSO SEE THE ROUTES. SO THEY'LL KNOW IN ADVANCE ANY LATE BUSES OR ANY SITUATIONS THAT ARE GOING ON. 
          SO THAT WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL. I THINK THAT'S GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. MR. WALKER, I HAD ONE QUICK QUESTION. OR DR. 
          MCFARLAND, WOULD WE BE ABLE TO USE THIS FOR JV BASKETBALL THAT GOES OUT TO SOMEWHERE ELSE? SOME OTHER HIGH SCHOOL OR SOMETHING? NO, BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT PART OF THE STRUCTURED ROUTES. THIS IS DESIGNED TO SEE THE STRUCTURED ROUTES IN THE MORNING AND ALSO IN THE EVENING OR P.M. BUT I WILL ASK AND SEE WHAT THAT ADDITIONAL TECHNOLOGY, WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE. I WILL FIND THAT OUT. THANK YOU, SIR. 
          TRUSTEES, ARE THERE ANY OTHER? DR. ROBINSON? I JUST WANT TO SAY, THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD. I KNOW, DR. 
          MCFARLAND. I THINK I SPOKE TO YOU A FEW YEARS AGO. 
          BECAUSE MY SON TOOK THE BUS TO NORTH CROWLEY, AND ONE MORNING I WAS AT WORK, AND HE CALLED ME. HE WAS LIKE, MOM, THE BUS ISN'T HERE. AND SO HE SAID, WELL, MY FRIEND AND I WILL JUST WALK. 
          YOU CAN JUST WALK DOWN RISING CHURCH FOR HEWLIN. SO A FRIEND OF MINE CALLED ME. HE WAS LIKE, NEDRA? I WANT TO LET YOU KNOW, I SAW YOUR SON WALKING AND HE JUST THOUGHT HE WAS SKIPPING SCHOOL. I WAS LIKE, NO, THE BUS DIDN'T COME. SO THEY'RE JUST WALKING TO SCHOOL. 
          THEY'RE JUST TAKING THEIR SWEET TIME. BUT THEN I CALLED MCFARLAND BECAUSE I WAS THINKING, WELL, HE'S IN HIGH SCHOOL, SO HE CAN DO THAT. 
          BUT IF YOU'RE IN ELEMENTARY AND YOUR PARENTS ARE AT WORK, HOW DO YOU KNOW THE BUS DIDN'T COME? IF YOU DON'T HAVE A WAY TO TRACK IT AND SEE, AND THEN, I DON'T KNOW, YOUR CHILD MAY HAVE ENOUGH SENSE TO GO BACK HOME. I DON'T KNOW, WITH KIDS AT DIFFERENT LEVELS. THANK YOU. 
          I JUST THINK THIS IS A GOOD THING TO EASE PARENTS' MIND AND MAKING SURE THEY GET ON THE BUS AND GET TO SCHOOL ON TIME. AND THEN ALSO COMING BACK FROM SCHOOL. BECAUSE I KNOW SOMETIMES THAT'S TRICKY, TOO, WHEN BUSES ARE DELAYED AND YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT YOUR CHILD. WHY AREN'T THEY HOME YET? SO I'M GLAD THAT WE'RE ROLLING OUT THIS SOFTWARE. JUST A COMMENT. JUST A COMMENT. 
          YEAH, I'M EXCITED, TOO. FIND OUT HOW THIS IS GOING TO OPERATE, BUT HOW SOON WILL THEY ROLL THIS OUT? AFTER SPRING BREAK AT SYCAMORE. YES, MA'AM. YES, MA'AM. AFTER SPRING BREAK AT SYCAMORE. AND ARE WE ALREADY GIVING THE PARENTS INFORMATION ABOUT THE APP? SO WE ACTUALLY HAVE A YOUTUBE TUTORIAL, HOW-TO, AND THE TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT, I'M SORRY, THE COMMUNICATION DEPARTMENT, WILL GET THAT AND WILL BE ABLE TO PUSH IT OUT. AWESOME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. WALKER. 
          [8.0 Study Session]
AND THAT'S GOING TO BRING US TO AGENDA ITEM 8.1, DEMOGRAPHER UPDATE. DR. 
          MCFARLAND. ALL RIGHT, MR. BOARD MEMBERS AND, EXCUSE ME, MR. PRESIDENT AND BOARD MEMBERS, OF THIS NEXT ITEM, I JUST WANT TO KIND OF PREPARE YOU. THIS IS A... 
          DETAILED ITEM IS A DEMOGRAPHER'S UPDATE. AND WE WANT TO REALLY TAKE TIME TO JUST KIND OF WALK THROUGH THIS UPDATE. YOU WILL HAVE QUESTIONS, I'M SURE. IT'S A LOT OF INFORMATION. SO WE'VE ASKED, MR. ALEXANDER, OUR DEMOGRAPHER, TO COME FORWARD. 
          AS YOU CAN TELL, WE HAVE HIM A WHOLE DESK BECAUSE HE'S GOING TO BE STANDING FOR A MINUTE. 
          SO I JUST WANT TO PREPARE YOU. BUT, AGAIN, IT'S SO IMPORTANT FOR US TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING IN OUR COMMUNITY. AS IT RELATES TO GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT, AND POPULATION INCREASES AND DECREASES, AND OTHER THINGS, ALL THESE THINGS WILL HAVE IMPLICATIONS ON DECISIONS THAT WE'LL MAKE. 
          AS IT RELATES TO BUDGETING, AS IT RELATES TO NEW SCHOOLS, AS IT RELATES TO SCHOOL BOUNDARIES. AND SO WE WANT TO TAKE SOME TIME TONIGHT TO REALLY BUILD YOUR AWARENESS. 
          SO I ENCOURAGE YOU TO STOP US AND ASK QUESTIONS. 
          WE'LL WALK THROUGH IT. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE LEAVE WITH A GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT'S HAPPENING IN CROWLEY, ISD. WE'RE DEFINITELY EXCITED TO HAVE MR. ALEXANDER HERE TONIGHT. AND SO MR. ALEXANDER, OUR DEMOGRAPHER, IS PREPARED TO PRESENT THIS ITEM. THANK YOU, DR. MCFARLAND, PRESIDENT, GRACIA, BOARD MEMBER. PLEASURE TO BE HERE AGAIN TONIGHT. 
          SHARE SOME EXCITING INFORMATION WITH YOU ALL. LET'S BEGIN BY LOOKING AT THE HISTORY OF THE ANNUAL SNAPSHOT DATE NUMBERS. A NOTE THERE, ON THE FAR RIGHT-HAND SIDE OF THE SLIDE, THAT THE OFFICIAL NUMBER FOR THE 25-26 SCHOOL YEAR ENROLLMENT 17,000, JUST RIGHT AT 17,100. THAT IS ANOTHER RECORD HIGH FOR THE DISTRICT. 
          YOU CAN SEE THAT THE DISTRICT'S ENROLLMENT HAS INCREASED 10 OUT OF THE LAST 11 YEARS. IF YOU LOOK AT THE INSET CHART ON THE UPPER LEFT, YOU CAN SEE THAT. 
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OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS, THE DISTRICT HAS EXPERIENCED A NET GROWTH OF ALMOST 1,400 TOTAL STUDENTS. THAT'S AN 8.7% INCREASE. THAT'S ABOUT DOUBLE WHAT THE PREVIOUS FIVE-YEAR PERIOD PRODUCED. IF YOU LOOK OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS, THE DISTRICT HAS GROWN BY ABOUT 2,000 TOTAL STUDENTS. 
          NOW, THIS LAST YEAR, GROWTH WAS... ABOUT 1%, JUST A LITTLE BIT UNDER 1%. A YEAR AGO, AT THIS TIME, WE WERE LOOKING AT, IN OUR LOW SCENARIO, ABOUT 17.1%. SO RIGHT NOW, AS YOU'LL SEE WHEN YOU GO THROUGH THE REPORT, THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A LOW GROWTH AND A MODERATE GROWTH SCENARIO. AND RIGHT NOW, THE NUMBERS ARE LEANING MORE TOWARDS THE LOWER GROWTH SCENARIO, WHICH IS JUST UNDER 1%. SO THESE ARE YOUR YEAR-OVER-YEAR NUMBERS. THE PERCENTAGE GROWTH NUMBERS IN THE CHART ON THE UPPER RIGHT. SO THIS PAST YEAR, ENROLLMENT WAS UP A NET OF 54 TOTAL STUDENTS. THAT'S JUST UNDER HALF A PERCENT. SO YOU SEE THESE LAST TWO YEARS AT ABOUT HALF A PERCENT GROWTH. 
          THE THREE-YEAR RATE AT 0.7 PERCENT. FIVE YEARS, WE'RE STILL JUST UNDER 2 PERCENT AT 1.7, AND THEN THE TEN YEARS ABOUT ONE. SO REMEMBER THESE GROWTH RATES WHEN WE GET TOWARDS THE END IN OUR PROJECTIONS. BECAUSE WHAT WE? WHAT WE'RE EXPECTING AS YOU GO THROUGH ALL OF THIS IS THAT WE'RE GOING TO KIND OF STAY IN THAT ONE PERCENT OR A LITTLE BIT HIGHER GROWTH RATE MOVING FORWARD. 
          NOW, WITH THE DISTRICT BEING AT RECORD HIGHS, YOU WOULD EXPECT THE ATTENDANCE LEVELS TO BE NEAR THOSE RECORD NUMBERS AS WELL. YOU CAN SEE HERE THE NUMBERS IN TWO-YEAR INCREMENTS IN THE CHART AT THE TOP OF THE TABLE AT THE BOTTOM. 
          SINCE 2018, YOU CAN SEE THAT ELEMENTARY FOR THE DISTRICT HAS GROWN TO A RECORD HIGH, JUST RIGHT AT 7,000 TOTAL STUDENTS. THE NUMBERS FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL HAVE BEEN A LITTLE BIT FLAT THESE LAST TWO YEARS, AND THEN HIGH SCHOOL HAS BEEN UP. 2023, AND IT WAS THE PEAK, AND THEN STILL REAL CLOSE TO THAT RECORD HIGH THAT WAS SET TWO YEARS AGO, WITH 5,400 PLUS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. THIS TABLE HERE HIGHLIGHTS THE ENROLLMENT TOTALS BY GRADE, BUT WHAT'S INTERESTING... WHAT I THINK IT'S INTERESTING TO POINT OUT HERE IS THAT WHEN YOU SHADE THE HIGHEST GRADE LEVEL TOTALS, YOU CAN SEE THAT. THERE WAS A GROWTH WAVE THAT CAME INTO THE DISTRICT BACK INTO THE 2009 TO 2013. THE ORIGINAL GROUP KIND OF FADED OUT ABOUT 2013, 2014, BUT THEN YOU CAN SEE HOW THAT NEXT WAVE, THAT WAS IN 2013 TO 2015, THAT'S WHAT'S AGED UP. THROUGH THE DISTRICT THESE LAST FIVE TO TEN YEARS, AND YOU CAN SEE THAT IS WHAT IS PRODUCING THE RECORD HIGH SCHOOL NUMBERS THESE LAST COUPLE YEARS. YOU CAN, YOU CAN SEE THIS YEAR THAT YOU HAVE THE LARGEST NUMBER OF SENIORS THAT YOU EVER HAD, WITH JUST OVER 1,200 TOTAL STUDENTS. AND THAT'S THE RESULT OF THAT, THAT GROUP THAT HAS GROWN THROUGH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT THESE LAST TEN PLUS YEARS. 
          NOW, NOW YOU CAN SEE OVER ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE, THAT ANOTHER... WAVE OF GROWTH. MR. ALEXANDER, COULD YOU? COULD YOU POINT TO IT SO THEY CAN FOLLOW YOU ON THE OR SO I CAN FOLLOW YOU? YEAH, YOU JUST POINT TO THE WAVE THAT YOU JUST MENTIONED. 
          IF YOU CAN GO BACK AND JUST, YEAH, SO HERE'S WHAT I WAS REFERRING TO, THAT INITIAL ONE. AND THEN YOU CAN SEE HOW IT SLOWED DOWN A LITTLE BIT HERE, BUT THIS IS THE ONE THAT WAS CONSISTENT ALL THE WAY THROUGH. 
          AND ONCE YOU GOT INTO THE JUST BEFORE THE PANDEMIC PERIOD, YOU HAD THAT RECORD GROWTH IN MIDDLE SCHOOL. AND THEN THAT GROUP HAS AGED UP AND HAS TRANSLATED INTO THE HIGHER NUMBERS THAT YOU'VE SEEN IN HIGH SCHOOL THESE LAST FEW YEARS, INCLUDING THAT RECORD CLASS SIZE RIGHT THERE. SO, BOARD MEMBERS, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS JUST ABOUT THIS CHART? I KNOW IT'S A LOT OF INFORMATION, AND JUST ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT EITHER WHAT YOU SEE ON THE CHART OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT? SO OVER HERE ON THE LEFT IS ANOTHER WAVE THAT'S FORMING AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL. SO YOU CAN SEE RECORD NUMBERS HERE FOR... SECOND GRADE, YOU CAN SEE HOW THAT'S FROM KINDERGARTEN AND PRE-K BACK JUST A COUPLE YEARS AGO. SO THAT IS BEGINNING TO WORK ITS WAY UP THROUGH TOWARDS THE INTERMEDIATE, MIDDLE SCHOOL GRADES. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, WE'RE WATCHING SOME OF THE SOFTENING IN SOME OF THE NUMBERS IN THE EARLY GRADES. SO I'M GOING TO SPEAK TO THAT HERE IN JUST A SECOND. 
          BEFORE I DO THAT, I WANTED TO SHOW YOU THAT EACH YEAR WE GET OUR NUMBERS, OUR CENSUS-BASED NUMBERS, FROM OUR NATIONAL DATA SOURCE. 
          SO THEY'RE PRESENTED HERE. 
          SOME NOTABLE CHARTS THERE 
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ON THE UPPER LEFT, TOTAL POPULATION, JUST UNDER 127,000 PEOPLE LIVE IN THE DISTRICT, 46,000 TOTAL HOUSEHOLDS. WHAT IS DIFFERENT FROM WHAT THE OVERALL POPULATION AND HOUSEHOLD GROWTH IS DOING VERSUS THE ENROLLMENT? IS THAT IT'S A LITTLE BIT FASTER PACE. 
          AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT HERE COMING UP IS WHY SOME OF THE SLOWDOWN IN GROWTH COMPARED TO WHAT WE'RE SEEING OVERALL. 
          THERE'S SOME MAJOR THEMES THAT ARE HAPPENING ACROSS DFW AND OTHER MARKETS IN TEXAS THAT MANY DISTRICTS ARE EXPERIENCING TODAY, AND SO I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH THAT. BUT THEY'RE SORT OF HERE ON THIS SLIDE. YOU CAN SEE THE... REALLY, THE AGING IN PLACE IS ONE OF THE THINGS I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT, BUT YOU CAN SEE THE PERCENTAGE OF POPULATION JUST GRADUALLY GETTING SLIGHTLY OLDER, MEDIAN AGE UP A LITTLE BIT, AND THEN SEEING THIS STUDENT AGE PER HOUSEHOLD DECLINE JUST A LITTLE BIT. SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT ARE INDICATORS OF WHAT'S GOING ON. WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT'S COMING IN VERSUS WHAT'S... WHAT'S EXITING. THE YELLOW LINE REPRESENTS YOUR 12TH GRADE ENROLLMENT, THE HISTORY OF IT, ALL THE WAY BACK TO 2008. SO YOU CAN SEE AS THAT LARGE CLASS IS AGED THROUGH. 
          IT HAS ACTUALLY GROWN LARGER THAN WHAT'S COMING IN. SO THIS IS, WHEN DISTRICTS ARE POSITIONED. 
          LIKE WHAT YOU SEE ON THIS SIDE, ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE OF THE CHART, THAT'S RAPID GROWTH WHEN YOU'VE GOT MORE COMING IN THAN WHAT'S EXITING. 
          BUT HERE, THE DISTRICT KIND OF WENT INTO THAT, WHERE EVERYTHING WAS KIND OF SIMILAR AND MORE OF A FLATTER PACE. BUT WHAT THIS IS INDICATING IS THAT JUST, FOR EXAMPLE, THERE'S... 
          17,100 AT SNAPSHOT ROLL-UP IS 16,900. SO ESSENTIALLY, YOU'RE FALLING BACK JUST A LITTLE BIT WHEN YOU JUST ROLL FORWARD. SO A LOT OF DISTRICTS TODAY ARE EXPERIENCING WHERE THIS, WHAT'S COMING IN IS MUCH DIFFERENT THAN WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 12TH GRADE AND KINDERGARTEN? AND FIRST GRADE ENROLLMENT IS WIDENING. 
          SO IT'S SLOWING GROWTH FOR THEM. FOR YOU ALL. IT'S BEEN, THEY'VE BEEN PRETTY SIMILAR, BUT THIS RIGHT HERE IS GOING TO CONTRIBUTE TO SOME OF THAT SLOWER GROWTH AS YOU FALL BACK JUST A LITTLE BIT EACH YEAR. 
          NOW, WHAT'S ENCOURAGING IS THAT YOU ALL ARE NOT SEEING THAT SITUATION WHERE YOU HAVE MORE STUDENTS AT THE SECONDARY THAN ELEMENTARY, AND YOU COUPLE THAT WITH A DECLINING BIRTH RATE. 
          YOU'RE NOT SEEING THAT. YOU HAVE A BIRTH RATE THAT'S GOING UP. THOSE NUMBERS ARE REPRESENTED BY THE BLUE LINE HERE. THESE COME FROM THE TEXAS STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. AND THESE NUMBERS ON THE RIGHT ARE MOVED FIVE YEARS FORWARD. SO THAT'S YOUR 2021, 22, AND 23 BIRTH RATE. SO YOU CAN SEE THE LOCAL BIRTH RATE IS ACTUALLY AT THE HIGHEST POINT IT'S BEEN IN THE LAST 15 YEARS, IN 2023. 
          THAT IS AN INDICATION THAT KINDERGARTEN SHOULD CONTINUE TO GROW. SO LOOKING AT THE HISTORICAL RATIO BETWEEN THE TWO, WE'RE PROBABLY LOOKING AT ABOUT 1,110 KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS NEXT YEAR. SO THAT'S THE WAY THAT WE UTILIZE THIS CHART. BUT I WANT TO EMPHASIZE THE GOOD NEWS IS YOU ALL ARE SEEING AN ENROLLMENT OR A BIRTH RATE THAT'S INCREASING. THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE LINES IS WHERE YOU HAVE A LOT OF MOBILITY. THAT MEANS THERE'S MORE. YOUNG CHILDREN THAT ARE BORN HERE THEN ARE ACTUALLY ENROLLED, SO THIS, THIS IS PART, THIS IS ALL. THESE ARE ALL GOING TO TIE TOGETHER WITH THE STUDENT YIELDS, WITH THE LITTLE BIT SLOWER RATE OF GROWTH AND THINGS LIKE THAT. AND I'M ABOUT TO SHOW YOU, DID ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT ANY OF THE DATA THAT I'VE SHOWED YOU SO FAR? TRUSTEES, DOCTOR DR. MAYFIELD YES, JUST A QUICK CLARIFICATION POINT. SO WHEN YOU SAY THE CISD BIRTHS, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE I UNDERSTAND. IS THAT LIKE, I GUESS, IN LAYMAN'S TERMS, THE ELIGIBLE STUDENTS OR GRADE-LEVEL STUDENTS IN OUR CISD? WELL, IS THAT WHAT THAT MEANS? NO, IT IS A MOTHER THAT LIVED IN ONE OF THE FOUR ZIP CODES WHEN THEIR BABY WAS BORN. THE STATE RECORDS THE STATISTICS BY THE ZIP CODE OF THE MOTHER'S ADDRESS. 
          OKAY. SO, AND IN MY MIND, THAT MEANS THEY'RE IN OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT, THEY'RE ELIGIBLE, BUT THE GREEN 
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IS WHAT WE'VE TAKEN IN. 
          CORRECT. FIVE YEARS LATER. 
          FIVE YEARS LATER. SO THERE'S OBVIOUSLY MOBILITY AND THINGS BETWEEN THE TWO SETS OF NUMBERS, BUT WHAT IT DOES, IT JUST SHOWS YOU THE RELATIONSHIP, TYPICALLY. I MEAN, LOOK AT THE LINES, THEY'RE PRETTY CONSISTENT THROUGHOUT. BUT THIS DOES SHOW THAT MORE WERE BORN HERE THAN ACTUALLY ENROLLED FIVE YEARS LATER. AND THAT JUST MEANS THERE'S A LOT OF COMPETITION, THERE'S A LOT OF MOBILITY, ALL OF THAT. OKAY, THAT'S WHERE I WAS GETTING AT. THIS IS ONE WAY TO SEE IT IN THIS CHART. 
          OKAY, THANK YOU. PROFESSOR T. 
          STEVENSON? WITH THAT BEING SAID, I'M ABOUT TO HIT YOU WITH THE LARGE NUMBERS. SO WITH THE NEW VOUCHER BILL THAT JUST CAME OUT, I KNOW WE WERE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THIS, RIGHT? I WAS READING WHERE 160,000 STUDENTS HAVE ALREADY APPLIED. IS THAT CORRECT? I BELIEVE SO. AND THEN OUT OF THAT, 160,000, WELL, ACTUALLY, 117,000 FROM PRIVATE SCHOOL AND HOME SCHOOL, ONLY 36,000 WERE ACCEPTED FROM PUBLIC SCHOOL, CORRECT? WELL, YOU KNOW MORE ABOUT THE DETAILS ON THE APPLICATION THAN I DO. 
          WELL, THE QUESTION IS, BECAUSE I KNOW THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME DATA OUT THERE, ARE WE GOING TO GET INFORMATION REGARDING THE STUDENTS IN OUR AREA THAT MAY HAVE APPLIED OR GOING TO APPLY? BECAUSE I'M WONDERING IF THAT'S GOING TO AFFECT OUR NUMBERS FOR OUR STUDENTS. ELEMENTARY, RIGHT? WELL, IT'S ONE OF THE GREAT QUESTIONS THAT'S OUT THERE. BUT RIGHT NOW, THE BILLION DOLLAR FUND, IF THE TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR AVERAGE VOUCHER WAS TO GO OUT, THAT IT IMPACTS 1.8 PERCENT OF THEM, POTENTIALLY STUDENTS ENROLLED IN TEXAS. SO RIGHT, IT'S REALLY A SMALL NUMBER AT THIS POINT. THE QUESTION IS, HOW DID THEY DETERMINE? HOW DOES THE STATE DETERMINE WHO IS GETTING THE VOUCHERS? IS? IS IT $2,000? HOMESCHOOL INCREMENTS, IS IT $10,000 PRIVATE SCHOOL INCREMENT? IS IT A SPECIAL NEEDS THAT'S EVEN MORE SO? AND THEN GEOGRAPHICALLY, HOW DO THEY ALLOCATE IT? SO THIS INITIAL ROUND, OUR BIGGEST CONCERN HAS BEEN THE $2,000 VOUCHER FOR HOMESCHOOL. 
          BUT INITIALLY, WE FEEL LIKE, FROM WHAT I'M HEARING, A LOT OF THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE APPLIED ARE ALREADY IN PRIVATE SCHOOL. RIGHT. SO WE HOPE THAT THE STATE WILL PROVIDE DATA, BUT I'M NOT SURE WHEN THAT WILL BE. I JUST DIDN'T KNOW IF YOU HAD THAT DATA IN RELATION TO YOU GIVING US NUMBERS WITH WHAT THE DISTRICT LOOKS LIKE NOW. I'VE JUST ADDED IT INTO OUR, LET'S BE REALLY CAUTIOUS ABOUT OUR KINDERGARTEN FORECAST. 
          WE'VE DONE THAT IN A LOT OF PLACES BECAUSE WE'RE SEEING... 
          YOU ALL HAVE, IF YOU LOOK AT THE NUMBER HERE, YOU PEAKED AT 2023, AND SO IT'S DOWN A LITTLE BIT. SO WE'RE USING ABOUT THIS NUMBER IN OUR LOW SCENARIO AND 1,100 IN OUR MOST LIKELY. 
          BUT THIS IS WHERE SOME OF THE NUMBERS HAVE BEEN ODD IN OTHER DISTRICTS, WHERE THEY HAVE SEEN KINDERGARTEN DROP TO, THEIR NUMBERS DROP TO... 
          15-YEAR LOWS, 21-YEAR LOWS. 
          IT'S PARTLY DUE TO THE AGING IN PLACE THAT I'M GOING TO SPEAK TO HERE IN JUST A SECOND, BUT IT'S ALSO THE NUMEROUS CHOICES THAT PARENTS OF YOUNG CHILDREN HAVE RIGHT NOW. SO WE'RE TRYING TO FACTOR IN ALL OF THESE THINGS AS WE TRY TO PREDICT THE FUTURE. THANK YOU, TRUSTEE STEVENSON. 
          TRUSTEE DAVIS? YES, JUST VERY QUICKLY, ON SLIDE NUMBER SIX, I WANT TO BE SURE I'M UNDERSTANDING THAT CORRECTLY. 
          SO WHEN I LOOK AT THE AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD SIZE, AND IT SAYS 2.68, 2.77, 2.73, ARE WE TALKING ABOUT CHILDREN IN THOSE HOUSEHOLDS? THAT'S THE AVERAGE. WELL, IT'S ALL HOUSEHOLD TYPES TOGETHER. SO YOU COULD HAVE FAMILY HOUSEHOLDS, SINGLE HOUSEHOLDS, ALL IN THAT NUMBER. THAT 2.7 IS VERY AVERAGE. FOR DFW, SOME OF THE LARGER NUMBERS WOULD BE OVER THREE. THE AREAS THAT HAVE A LOT OF SINGLE PROFESSIONALS, THEY'LL BE IN 2.4. 
          FOR CHILDREN? NO, JUST OVERALL HOUSEHOLD SIZE. OKAY, BECAUSE DIDN'T WE USED TO GET SOMETHING THAT GAVE US AN AVERAGE NUMBER OF CHILDREN PER HOUSEHOLD? YOU'RE ABOUT TO GET IT. 
          SORRY? YES, MS. DAVIS, YOU'RE ABOUT TO GET THAT. OH. YES, YES. JUMP THE GUN. THAT'S THE YIELD. OKAY. GOOD QUESTION. 
          BUT WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT THERE, THAT'S THE AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD SIZE IN CROWLEY, ISD FOR ALL HOUSEHOLD TYPES. 
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OKAY. SO, OF THAT 46,214 TOTAL HOUSEHOLDS, THE AVERAGE SIZE IS 2.73. 
          THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE SAYING. 
          OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. SO EACH YEAR, WE, WELL, MOST YEARS WE'RE GEOCODING. SO THIS YEAR I DID ANOTHER ROUND OF GEOCODING. THOSE YELLOW DOTS THAT YOU SEE UP HERE ON THE MAP ARE STUDENTS THAT WERE ENROLLED IN THE DISTRICT AS OF THE FEBRUARY DATA THAT I MAPPED. 
          AND SO JUST BACK UP A LITTLE BIT, THE GREEN DOTS ARE GEOCODING FROM 2019. SO WHAT I'M TRYING TO SHOW YOU IS THAT BACK BEFORE COVID, HERE'S THE GEOGRAPHIC DISPERSION OF ALL OF THE STUDENTS ENROLLED. AND THE YELLOW DOTS ARE ALL OF THE KIDS THAT ARE THERE NOW, AND YOU CAN REALLY SEE THE GROWTH. ONE OF THE POINTS OF EMPHASIS IS THE GROWTH THAT YOU ALL HAVE EXPERIENCED IN THAT CENTRAL WESTERN PORTION AND THEN DOWN HERE TO THE SOUTH. 
          AND THESE ARE A REFLECTION OF WHY YOU ALL PASSED A BOND AND WHY YOU ALL ADDED KARIS AND BAYLOR AND ALL OF THESE THINGS. SO IT'S JUST A VISUAL SO YOU CAN SEE. YES, SIR. SO COULD YOU EXPLAIN JUST WHAT GEOCODING IS, AND KIND OF HOW THAT COMMUNICATES, WHAT MESSAGE THAT COMMUNICATES TO US? IT SIMPLY MEANS THE MAPPING OF THE STUDENT'S ADDRESS. VERY COMPLICATED, RIGHT? SO IT IS THE PUTTING A DOT ON THE... 
          THAT INDIVIDUAL STUDENT'S ADDRESS. AND NOTE THAT FOR THINGS LIKE APARTMENTS AND SIBLINGS, THE DOTS ARE STACKED ON TOP OF EACH OTHER. AND THEN ALSO, BOARD, THE FLAGS REPRESENT OUR SCHOOLS. YES, SO RED ARE YOUR ELEMENTARIES AND BLUE ARE MIDDLE SCHOOLS, AND THE GREEN ARE HIGH SCHOOLS. 
          SO, MR. ALEXANDER, WHEN WE LOOK AT THE MAP AND WE SEE THESE DOTS THAT ARE WELL OUTSIDE OF THE... THE BLUE LINE, OUR DISTRICT BOUNDARIES. TALK TO US ABOUT WHAT THOSE REPRESENT. 
          WELL, THOSE ARE YOUR STUDENTS THAT ARE TRANSFERRING IN FROM OUTSIDE THE DISTRICT, BUT THEY CAN ALSO BE YOUR EMPLOYEES, STUDENTS OF EMPLOYEES. SO ALL OF THAT WOULD ROLL TOGETHER. 
          IT WOULD BE ANY TRANSFER THAT YOU APPROVE FROM OUTSIDE THE DISTRICT, PLUS STUDENTS THAT ARE COMING IN FROM YOUR EMPLOYEES. SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE PERCENTAGES IN THE TABLE, BASICALLY WHAT THESE LAST THREE YEARS OF GEOCODING IS SHOWN AS. 
          ABOUT 97% OF ENROLLMENT COMES FROM STUDENTS THAT ARE RESIDENT, STUDENTS LIVING WITHIN THE DISTRICT BOUNDARY, 3% TRANSFER FROM THE OUTSIDE, AND THAT INCLUDES STUDENTS OF EMPLOYEES. ANOTHER THING TO LOOK AT IS THAT 1685 WAS ACTUALLY THE SAME THE LAST TWO YEARS. YOU DON'T SEE THAT MUCH. 
          RIGHT. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THAT, AND YOU LOOK AT THE NUMBERS THAT THE OVERALL CENSUS IS COUNTING, YOU KIND OF GET A SENSE OF ALL OF THE, AS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT FOR YEARS, THERE ARE KIDS THAT ARE OUT THERE, THEY'RE HOMESCHOOLED, THEY'RE IN CHARTER SCHOOLS, THEY'RE IN THE LOCAL PRIVATE SCHOOLS. 
          THAT NUMBER, WHEN YOU COMPARE THAT, IS A LITTLE MORE THAN 05,000. SO THAT'S ANOTHER THING THAT YOU CAN TAKE AWAY FROM LOOKING AT THAT. SO. 
          BUT GENERALLY TODAY, THESE LAST THREE YEARS, YOU ALL HAVE HELD YOUR OUTSIDE TRANSFERS AROUND 500. I HAVE A QUESTION. TRUSTEE DAVIDSON. 
          THANK YOU. OKAY, SO ALL OF THESE STUDENTS ON THE PERIPHERY OUT HERE THAT ARE TRANSFERRING IN, DO WE KNOW WHERE THEY LAND IN THE BIG PICTURE WITHIN? OUR BOUNDARIES, SO THAT THAT GIVES US INFORMATION ABOUT BUILDING? DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? WELL, THEY'RE INCLUDED. 
          THEY'RE INCLUDED IN HERE. 
          THEY'RE INCLUDED IN THE TABLE YOU SAW OF ALL THE NUMBERS. THEY'RE NOT EXCLUDED. THIS IS JUST THAT 17,100. THERE THEY ARE. OKAY. 
          AND THEY'RE IN THE ENROLLMENT PROJECTIONS AND ALL OF THE DATA FOR EACH CAMPUS. 
          OKAY. SO WE KNOW WHERE ALL OF THESE OUTSIDE GREEN AND YELLOW DOTS FALL ON THE INSIDE. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? SO WE WOULD KNOW INTERNALLY, BECAUSE WE WOULD KNOW THEY ARE ALL THESE STUDENTS ON GREEN AND YELLOW, WOULD BE ON SOME TYPE OF TRANSFER. AND SO WE WOULD HAVE DOCUMENTATION OF THAT ONCE THEY TRANSFER IN 
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TO THE DISTRICT. OKAY. SO IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT FOR HIM TO BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY THAT BASED ON JUST THIS GEOCODING. 
          BECAUSE ALL IT DOES IS IDENTIFY WHERE PEOPLE LIVE, WHO ARE ATTENDING THE DISTRICT, BUT IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY IDENTIFY THE SCHOOL. OKAY. SO THIS IS JUST A VISUAL FOR US TO KNOW HOW MANY FROM OUTSIDE THE DISTRICT ARE COMING IN. 
          ABSOLUTELY, YES. AND WHERE THEY LIVE AND WHERE THEY'RE COMING FROM. SO THEN WE COULD THEN GO, AS WE BEGIN TO LOOK AT BOUNDARIES, THAT'S WHEN WE REALLY NEED TO KNOW. WHERE STUDENTS ARE ACTUALLY ATTENDING SCHOOL. SO THESE GREEN DOTS WOULD ALL BE DIFFERENT COLORS, BASED ON THE BOUNDARY OF THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. AND SO WHEN WE'RE MAKING DECISIONS ABOUT REDRAWING BOUNDARIES, WE ARE NOT CONSIDERING THE EXTERNAL, THE STUDENTS WHO ARE LIVING OUTSIDE OF THE BOUNDARIES FIRST. WE CAN ACTUALLY SAY WE HAVE SEATS AT THIS CAMPUS NOW, SO YOU NOW ARE ABLE TO GO TO THAT CAMPUS. THAT'S KIND OF A CASE. WE NORMALLY MANAGE THAT CASE BY CASE. AND YOU THINK ABOUT 551, THAT'S DIVIDED OVER 28 CAMPUSES. SO THAT COULD BE ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE, AND HIGH. SO IT'S NOT AS LARGE OF A NUMBER AS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE. OKAY. THANK YOU. DR. 
          ROBINSON? I HAVE A QUESTION, MR. ALEXANDER. THE GREEN DOTS ARE FROM FIVE YEARS AGO. DO YOU HAVE A PRESENTATION THAT SHOWS IT WITHOUT THE GREEN, SO WE CAN SEE WHERE THE CLUSTERS ARE? THE OVERLAY IS... I'LL HAVE TO SEND YOU THAT SLIDE. YES, CERTAINLY. YEAH, I JUST DID THIS FOR VISUAL EFFECT, SO YOU ALL CAN KIND OF SEE HOW THE GROWTH I'M GOING TO SHOW. THE NEXT SLIDE TIES INTO SOME KEY POINTS THAT I WANT TO MAKE. BUT JUST ON THE GEOCODING, UNDERSTAND THAT NOT ONLY IS IT THE ADDRESS DOT, WE HAVE PEMS DATA FOR THAT, SO WE CAN LOOK AT IT BY ATTENDANCE ZONE. SO WE'LL KNOW THE GRADE, WE KNOW IF THERE'S ANY KIND OF SPECIAL PROGRAM, OR THIS IS HOW WE DETERMINE. 
          FOR EXAMPLE, THE BOUNDARIES FOR BAYLOR ELEMENTARY. IT STARTED WITH THIS. THIS IS THE DISTRICT LEVEL, BUT WE GO TO EACH ATTENDANCE LEVEL. SO WE CAN BREAK THESE DOWN BY YOUR K-5 STUDENTS, YOUR MIDDLE SCHOOL, AND YOUR HIGH SCHOOL. AND IT ALSO IS OUR KEY DATA THAT LEADS INTO WHAT NEW HOME CONSTRUCTION IS YIELDING IN TERMS OF PRODUCING NEW STUDENTS. 
          THAT'S COMING UP HERE JUST IN A SECOND, BUT WHAT I WANTED TO SHOW YOU IS USING SMALLER GEOGRAPHIES, PLANNING AREAS, AS I'VE LABELED THEM HERE, I WANTED YOU TO SEE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ENROLLMENT BEFORE THE PANDEMIC AND THIS SCHOOL YEAR. 
          AND SO EVERYTHING THAT'S SHADED IN GREEN, THOSE ARE AREAS THAT HAVE SEEN ENROLLMENT GROWTH. 
          AREAS THAT ARE SHADED IN BLUE YOU ARE AREAS THAT HAVE EXPERIENCED AN ENROLLMENT DECLINE. SO THIS IS WHERE I THINK THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT VISUAL FOR YOU ALL TO UNDERSTAND. BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT SO MANY DISTRICTS TODAY ARE EXPERIENCING, THAT THEIR OLDER, MORE MATURE AREAS HAVE BEEN DECLINING, AND SOME HAVE DECLINED. SO MUCH THAT THEY'VE OVERWHELMED THE NEW GROWTH THAT YOU GET FROM NEW RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT. 
          WHEN YOU LOOK AT YOUR CHART, IT MAKES SENSE BECAUSE YOU CAN GO UP THERE TO THE SIOUX CROUCH AREA, GO UP TO OAKMONT. YOU CAN COME ON DOWN TO, YOU HAVE ALL OF THE SUMMER CREEK MEADOWS. 
          MR. ALEXANDER, COULD YOU POINT TO LIKE THE 35 AND THE CHISHOLM TRAIL, SO WE CAN KIND OF ORIENTATE OURSELVES? SO YOU'RE LOOKING AT CHISHOLM TRAIL RIGHT HERE, TOLLWAYS RIGHT THROUGH THERE. 
          SO JUST, FOR EXAMPLE, THE GROWTH AREAS, EVERYTHING YOU SEE IN GREEN, HERE'S DAVIS, HERE'S LANO SPRINGS, OVER A THOUSAND HOUSES RIGHT THERE. YOU CAN SEE ALL THE GROWTH THAT'S COME IN AT CHISHOLM TRAIL RANCH AND ALL OF THAT OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS. 
          YOU CAN MOVE ACROSS, HERE'S NORTH CROWLEY HIGH SCHOOL, RIGHT THERE. YOU CAN SEE THE CORRIDOR RIGHT HERE, HERE'S MCCART THROUGH HERE. THERE'S S.H. CROWLEY AND ALL OF THE GROWTH THAT HAS COME IN. 
          FOR EXAMPLE, LIKE A ROSEMARY RIDGE, YOU KNOW, AND ALL OF THE NEWBERRY POINT AND ALL THE STUFF THAT'S NOW KIND OF SPLIT BETWEEN S.H. CROWLEY AND BAYLOR ELEMENTARY. DOWN HERE, YOU HAVE THE BRIDGES, SUBDIVISIONS LIKE THAT, LASSITER RANCH. YOU HAVE CREEKSIDE, CREEKSIDE SOUTH, ALL OF THAT RIGHT IN HERE. THESE AREAS THROUGH HERE, THOUGH, WERE THE NEIGHBORHOODS FROM 20 YEARS AGO. IT'S SUMMER CREEK, 
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SUMMER CREEK MEADOWS, SUMMER CREEK SOUTH. POINTER CROSSING, FOX RUN, MEADOW CREEK, MEADOW CREEK SOUTH, THESE WERE ALL SOME OF THE TOP SELLING NEIGHBORHOODS IN DFW BACK RIGHT AROUND 2000, 2005. WHAT THIS? WHAT I'VE BEEN SHOWING IS THAT AGING IN PLACE IS OCCURRING MOSTLY IN THESE NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE ABOUT 20 YEARS OLD. AND THAT'S WHAT A LOT OF DISTRICTS ARE EXPERIENCING. 
          AND THE REASON FOR THAT HAS TO DO MAINLY WITH INTEREST RATES AND PRICES OF HOMES AND THINGS. I'M GOING TO SPEAK TO THAT HERE IN A MINUTE. 
          BUT WHAT I WANTED YOU TO SEE IS THIS IS A VISUAL OF WHY GROWTH IS NOT FASTER. 
          EVERYBODY FEELS LIKE IT SHOULD BE FASTER, RIGHT? WE'RE DOING A RECORD NUMBER OF HOMES. WELL, THIS IS MODERATING, THESE DECLINES ARE MODERATING THE OVERALL GROWTH IN THE DISTRICT. I'M GOING TO... THEY CERTAINLY COULD HAVE MOVED. THEY CERTAINLY COULD HAVE BEEN REPLACED BY A HOUSEHOLD WITH. WHAT WE GENERALLY HAVE SEEN IS THAT THE HOUSEHOLD WITH THREE KIDS 15, 20 YEARS AGO IS REPLACED BY A HOUSEHOLD WITH ONE OR TWO KIDS. 
          IN JUST AN INCREMENTAL DROP. 
          OR I STILL LIVE THERE AND NO ONE ELSE CAN REPLACE ME. 
          BUT THAT IS THE BIGGEST THING, AND I'M GOING TO COME TO THAT HERE. LET ME JUMP AHEAD TO THAT, AND I'LL COME BACK TO THE YIELDS. BECAUSE THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR YOU ALL TO UNDERSTAND, BECAUSE THIS IS IMPACTING SO MANY DISTRICTS, ESPECIALLY IN TARRANT COUNTY, DALLAS COUNTY, AND THEN I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU A MAP HOW IT'S SPREAD TO DENTON, COLLIN COUNTY, AND OTHERS. WHEN INTEREST RATES JUMPED IN 2022 FROM 3 TO 7, HOUSE PRICES DOUBLED IN THE DISTRICT. SO SINCE THAT TIME, REALLY, THIS IS ALL OF DFW. THIS IS TOTAL SALES IN BLUE. THE LAST THREE YEARS, FLAT. HERE IN THE DISTRICT, THESE ARE PRE-OWNED SALES PER YEAR IN THE DISTRICT. YOU ALL WERE SEEING THE TURNOVER OF ABOUT $1,400, $1,500 A YEAR. WHAT WE HAD RELIED ON IN OUR ENROLLMENT PROJECTIONS IS THAT A LOT OF THESE AREAS WOULD STAY AT LEAST LEVEL, RIGHT? BECAUSE THEY WERE CONSTANTLY CHURNING WITH FAMILIES. GROWING AND MOVING UP, AND THEY WOULD BE REPLACED BY A FAMILY WITH YOUNG KIDS, OR MOVING INTO THE AREA. THAT HAS, THE AMOUNT OF TURNOVER, AS YOU CAN SEE, HAS GRADUALLY SLOWED DOWN THESE LAST FEW YEARS, AND IT'S NOW AT THE SLOWEST PACE THAT WE'VE SEEN IN MORE THAN 12 YEARS. AND IT'S RELATED TO THE INTEREST RATE, IT'S RELATED TO PRICES. SO PRICES HERE FOR AN THE MEDIAN PRICE FOR AN EXISTING HOME IN THE DISTRICT, YOU KNOW, ABOUT, LET'S JUST SAY EVEN $250,000 IN 2022. WELL, $50,000 INCREASE, MEDIAN OF 50, OR AN INCREASE OF $50,000 JUST THESE LAST FEW YEARS. 
          WELL, THAT'S A $300,000 HOUSE THAT'S 15 YEARS OR OLDER THAT NEEDS WORK AT THAT HIGH INTEREST RATE. 
          RIGHT HERE COME THE NEW HOME BUILDERS, ABLE TO OFFER A NEW HOME IN THE DISTRICT FOR 360, IT'S A LITTLE MORE, BUT THEY BUY THE RATE, THE 4.9, AND WE'RE IN THIS PERIOD WHERE IT'S HARD TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE PRICING OF EXISTING HOMES AND NEW HOMES, AND IT'S FAVORED THE NEW HOME BUILDERS, AND THEY PULLED PEOPLE FURTHER OUT. AND THE BEST WAY TO VISUALIZE IT IS WITH THIS. THIS IS THE PERCENTAGE GROWTH FROM... 2019 TO 2024, IT'S THE LATEST FIVE YEARS THAT I HAVE, EVERYTHING SHADED IN RED, THAT IS, THOSE ARE SCHOOL DISTRICTS THAT HAVE GROWN. EVERYTHING SHADED IN BLUE HAVE DECLINED. 
          AND SO WHAT WE HAVE SEEN IN WHAT I'VE BEEN REFERRING TO, THIS AGING IN PLACE, THE DRAWING OF OUR COMPETITION FROM WHERE NEW RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT IS OCCURRING. YOU CAN SEE IT HERE. IT'S MOVED FURTHER OUT. AND THE DISTRICTS THAT ARE IN TARRANT COUNTY AND DALLAS COUNTY, MOST OF THEM HAVE EXPERIENCED ENROLLMENT DECLINES. AND MANY OF THEM HAVE HAD TO CONSOLIDATE OR CLOSE SCHOOLS. 
          IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, THAT HAS SPREAD EVEN FURTHER 
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INTO LOUISVILLE, ISD, PLANO, ALLEN, LOVEJOY, MCKINNEY, ALL CLOSED SCHOOLS. NOW, WHEN I GET THE DATA FOR THIS YEAR, FRISCO'S GOING TO GO NEGATIVE. SO THEY'RE DOWN FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE 90S. SO WHAT? THE AGING IN PLACE IS VERY REAL. 
          MANY PEOPLE ARE HOUSE LOCKED. 
          THEY'VE REFIED. THEY HAVE A 3% MORTGAGE AND THEY'RE NOT GIVING THAT UP UNTIL RATES COME DOWN. AND SO RATES ARE HOLDING AT 6, JUST A LITTLE BIT BELOW 6, RIGHT ABOUT 6. SO NOT A LOT OF CHANGE. 
          TO WHAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. 
          SO THIS HAS CAUSED AREAS LIKE THE NORTHERN PART OF THE DISTRICT TO EXPERIENCE THE AGING. A LOT OF THAT GREEN WAVE OF GROWTH THAT YOU MOVE THROUGH, A LOT OF THOSE KIDS, THEY MOVED IN UP HERE BACK THEN AND MOVED AND AGED THROUGH. SO YOU'RE GETTING NEW KIDS. I HAVE A QUESTION. 
          WHAT DOES MINUS 171 MEAN? THAT'S THE NET CHANGE FROM ENROLLMENT IN THAT AREA. 
          OKAY. SO, FOR EXAMPLE, IS THAT FOX RUN, POINTER CROSSING, THAT AREA RIGHT IN THERE IS JUST SOUTH OF MARY HARRIS? IS THAT RIGHT, I THINK, MARY HARRIS RIGHT THERE? CARDIN? THERE'S CMS RIGHT THERE.THIS AREA RIGHT HERE IS JUST ENROLLMENT. THIS YEAR IS 171 STUDENTS LOWER THAN IT WAS IN THE FALL OF 19. AND SO THIS IS A COMPARISON OF ALL GRADES. SO I HAVEN'T BROKEN IT OUT BY THIS AREA, YOU KNOW, FALL AT A PARTICULAR ATTENDANCE LEVEL. 
          BUT GENERALLY I WANTED TO SEE THAT, YOU KNOW, NEIGHBORHOODS OUT HERE, WAS THAT PARKS AT DEER CREEK OUT HERE, YOU KNOW, IN POYNTER, THEY... ANOTHER NEIGHBORHOOD THAT WAS EXTREMELY POPULAR BACK 2010. SO WHERE THE NEW CONSTRUCTION IS OCCURRING, YOU ALL ARE GROWING. AND THAT'S ANOTHER PIECE THAT I'M ABOUT TO TALK ABOUT. BUT IT'S THE REASON THAT GROWTH HAS SLOWED INTO THAT HALF A PERCENT RANGE. 
          THESE THINGS ARE CONTRIBUTING TO THAT. THE YIELDS SHOW. SOME OF THAT GRADUAL CHANGE AS WELL, WHERE YOU WERE SEEING THE TYPE OF HOMES BACK 10 YEARS AGO, WERE YIELDING 0.5 OR SO. AND THEN WE'VE TALKED THESE LAST SEVERAL YEARS ABOUT THE YIELD BEING 0.4. AND THEN THIS YEAR, THE YIELD'S AT 0.35. WHEN YOU GO THROUGH THE LIST OF SOME OF YOUR TOP SELLING NEIGHBORHOODS, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A LOT OF 0.3S ON THE YIELD. THAT YIELD SHOWS... THAT NOT, IT'S A MIXTURE OF THINGS. IT SHOWS THAT THERE'S DIFFERENT HOUSEHOLD TYPES THAT ARE BUYING. SOME DON'T HAVE KIDS. 
          THERE ARE NOT EVERY, THOSE WITH KIDS, NOT EVERY ONE OF THOSE KIDS IS ENROLLING IN THE DISTRICT FOR VARIOUS REASONS. 
          BUT IT'S, WE'VE BEEN HOPING, I KNOW, DR. MCFARLAND AND I HAVE BEEN LIKE, I HOPE THIS GOES TO HIGHER, BUT IT'S BEEN STUBBORNLY. 
          CONSISTENT AROUND 0.4 AND 0.3 IN MANY OF THESE NEIGHBORHOODS. SO, FOR A SECOND, MR. ALEXANDER, SO YOU ASKED ABOUT YIELDS EARLIER, MS. DAVIS. THIS IS REALLY, SO EXPLAIN WHAT A YIELD IS AND WHAT THAT MEANS FOR US. SO WE LOOKED AT ONE OF THOSE GROWTH AREAS. 1,300 HOMES BUILT IN LLANO SPRINGS, 01,329 HAVE YIELDED. AS OF THIS YEAR, 545 ENROLLED STUDENTS FOR A YIELD OF 0.4. 
          SO LET'S SAY THERE WERE 500 MORE LOTS TO GO IN LIONEL SPRINGS. WHEN I FORECAST THAT OUT, I'M USING THAT YIELD OF 0.4, BUT I'M ALSO USING A 0.2 FOR ELEMENTARY. SO IT'S ESSENTIALLY SAYING THAT EVERY FIVE HOUSES IS BRINGING AN ELEMENTARY STUDENT TO CROWLEY, ISD. THE FOUR, THE THREE AND A HALF, IT'S TAKING THREE HOUSES TO BRING YOU ONE STUDENT. AND EVERY YEAR THAT WE'VE MET, YOU HAD AN AGGRESSIVE, A RESERVE, AND A MEDIUM. WHAT IS, CAN YOU REMIND ME, WHAT THOSE THREE? WELL, WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT YOUR MODERATE AND YOUR LOW, THE MODERATE, WE'RE KEEPING THEM HERE AT 
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ABOUT 0.35. THE LOW IS WE'VE MOVED SOME OF THEM DOWN TO 0.25. NOW, THE CHALLENGE FOR THE DISTRICT, AND YOU ALL HAVE KNOWN THIS, IS THAT YOU ARE IN A LOCATION WHERE YOU HAVE COMPETITION FOR YOUR STUDENTS. THEY'RE EVERYWHERE, FOR DIFFERENT CHARTER SCHOOLS, PRIVATE SCHOOLS, HOMESCHOOL, ALL OF THAT. AND A LOT OF DISTRICTS, ESPECIALLY IN DALLAS AND TARRANT COUNTY, ARE DEALING WITH THAT BECAUSE THAT'S THE OTHER ENTITIES THAT... BUILT THEIR SCHOOLS RIGHT WITHIN YOUR BOUNDARY. 
          BUT WE'RE HAVING TO FORECAST WITH ALL OF THAT IN MIND, AND THAT'S WHY THESE YIELDS WOULD SEEM PRETTY, THEY'RE LOWER, BUT WHEN I SAY THEY'RE LOWER, IT'S BECAUSE YOUR FAST-GROWTH DISTRICTS, SAY, IN PROSPER, FAST-GROWING DISTRICT. YOU'RE GETTING A 0.8, PERHAPS, A 1. 
          SALINAS, ABOUT A 0.6. 
          DISTRICTS LIKE O'WILEY, 0.7. 
          BUT MANY DISTRICTS ARE SEEING THEIR YIELD COME DOWN. BECAUSE THE LOTS, IF THEY DO HAVE NEW HOME DEVELOPMENT, THE LOTS ARE GETTING SMALLER, THE HOUSES ARE GETTING SMALLER. 
          AND AS THE LOTS ARE 40 FOOT WIDE AND THE HOME IS 2,500 SQUARE FEET, THEY'RE YIELDING SMALLER FAMILIES THAN 20 YEARS AGO, WHEN THE LOTS WERE 65 FOOT WIDE. OR 75 IN THE HOUSE WITH 03,500 SQUARE FEET, FIVE BETTER. SO ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE CONTRIBUTING TO A LITTLE BIT SLOWER PACE. 
          TRUSTEE STEVENSON? THANK YOU. 
          YOU MADE A COMMENT EARLIER ABOUT THE NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS IN THE NEW ADDITION THAT WE HAVE, AND YOU SAID THAT THERE ARE SOME STUDENTS THAT ARE NOT IN THE DISTRICT, CORRECT? WELL, THAT'S BECAUSE OF WHAT... WELL, MY QUESTION IS, DO WE HAVE THE DATA OF HOW MANY OF THOSE STUDENTS ARE NOT IN THE DISTRICT? WE ONLY HAVE A DISTRICT NUMBER THAT THE TEA PROVIDES ONCE A YEAR. AND MR. ALEXANDER, I WANTED TO MAKE A QUICK STATEMENT. I MEAN, YOU TELL US WHAT THE YIELDS ARE FOR, WE'LL TAKE YOURS, PROSPER. BUT THE REASON, I MEAN, THERE ARE SEVERAL REASONS, BUT ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS WHY PROSPER YIELDS ALMOST A ONE-TO-ONE IS BECAUSE THERE AREN'T THE TRINITY VALLEYS, THE COUNTRY DAYS. ALL OF THOSE OTHER PRIVATE SCHOOLS, CHARTER SCHOOLS, AND EVERYTHING ELSE, YOU GO TO PROSPER BECAUSE YOU WANT WHAT THAT IS, WHATEVER THAT IS. SO JUST PUTTING IT OUT THERE. AND ALSO, BOARD, ONE OF THE WAYS WE USE THIS, THIS IS REALLY FOR US A FORECASTING TOOL. SO WE TAKE THESE YIELDS, AND SO AS WE SEE NEW NEIGHBORHOODS DEVELOPING, WE DON'T AUTOMATICALLY SAY, OH, THERE'S A NEW NEIGHBORHOOD, WE NEED A SCHOOL. WE SAY, WELL, THERE'S A NEW NEIGHBORHOOD. 
          WE'RE ALL GOING TO GET X NUMBER OF STUDENTS FROM THAT NEIGHBORHOOD. THEN WE TAKE THE NEXT STEP. SO LET'S SAY WE THINK WE'RE GOING TO GET 200 STUDENTS FROM THIS NEW NEIGHBORHOOD. 
          THE NEXT LOGICAL QUESTION IS, OKAY, WHAT GRADE LEVEL ARE THOSE STUDENTS? AND SO THEN WE HAVE THE GEOCODE TO KIND OF DETERMINE THAT. SO IT'S REALLY A FORECASTING TOOL FOR US TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T GET TOO FAR AHEAD OF OURSELVES. NOW, YOU LOOK AT THE YIELD FOR A SINGLE-FAMILY HOME, THERE'S ONE YIELD. BUT IF APARTMENT COMPLEXES OR MULTIFAMILY, THERE'S A DIFFERENT YIELD. SO WE USE, ANYTIME WE KNOW THERE'S A NEW FACILITY COMING TO OUR AREA, THEN WE ACTUALLY TAKE, ACTUALLY, THE DEMOGRAPHER IS AWARE OF THAT, PROBABLY A YEAR AHEAD OF TIME. SO WE TAKE ALL THAT INTO CONSIDERATION. AND WHY THIS IS CRITICAL RIGHT NOW FOR US IS IN OUR CURRENT BOND, WE HAVE A FUND SET ASIDE TO PURCHASE LAND FOR ADDITIONAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, MIDDLE SCHOOLS, HIGH SCHOOLS, AND ALL THAT. IN ORDER FOR US TO KNOW REALLY WHAT MAKES THE MOST SENSE FOR US, WHERE WE SHOULD PURCHASE THAT LAND, WE HAVE TO KIND OF KNOW WHAT'S COMING IN, WHAT TYPE OF PROPERTY COMING IN, HOW MUCH OF A YIELD. THEN WE MAKE GOOD DECISIONS BASED ON THAT. SO IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO NOT GET EXCITED AND LOOK AT WHAT WE KNOW AND SEE AND OPERATE BASED ON WHAT WE SEE, BUT BASED ON THESE YIELDS AND KIND OF WHAT'S HAPPENED HISTORICALLY AS WELL. IN THIS PROCESS, YOU MENTIONED THE WORD BOUNDARIES EARLIER. IT USED TO BE WHEN WE HEARD THAT WORD, IT WAS LIKE, OH, NO, BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE THIS TOOL TO USE. SO PEOPLE RODE AROUND IN THE DISTRICT AND TRIED TO FIGURE OUT WHERE TO DRAW THE LINES AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO HAVING THIS IS A MUCH MORE, NEEDLESS TO SAY, SCIENTIFIC WAY OF DOING IT, BUT MORE BELIEVABLE, TOO, BECAUSE YOU HAVE IT RIGHT HERE TO SUPPORT YOUR DECISION. 
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SO... I'M SO GLAD WE'RE IN THE AGE OF TECHNOLOGY. 
          WELL, TO DR. MCFARLAND'S POINT, ONE OF THE THINGS WE'VE HAD A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT IS, BECAUSE YOU ALL CONTINUE TO SEE A LOT OF MULTIFAMILY-TYPE DEVELOPMENTS COMING IN, AS WELL AS THE BUILD-TO-RENT NEIGHBORHOODS. 
          THE BUILD-TO-RENT IS KIND OF A NEW PHENOMENON HERE IN THE FORT WORTH, CROWLEY AREA. AND YOU ALL HAVE SOME OF THE HIGHEST CONCENTRATION OF THAT TYPE OF NEW DEVELOPMENT, WE DIDN'T REALLY KNOW WHAT THE YIELD WAS GOING TO BE. I THINK YOU MIGHT REMEMBER A COUPLE YEARS AGO I WAS TELLING THEM, WE'VE GOT TO LET THIS PLAY OUT. BECAUSE THESE ARE ALL NEW TYPES OF DEVELOPMENTS. WELL, NOW I CAN TELL YOU THAT AFTER ABOUT 01,000 BUILT-TO-RENT UNITS HAVE BEEN PUT ON THE GROUND HERE IN THE DISTRICT, IT'S GIVEN YOU 80 STUDENTS. SO THE YIELD'S ABOUT 0.1, LIKE A HIGH-END APARTMENT. 
          COMPLEX. SO WHAT I'VE PROVIDED HERE IS SO, NOT ONLY DO WE HAVE THE FORECASTING TOOL WITH SINGLE FAMILY, WE KNOW. 
          WHEN, SAY, THE CITY OF FORT WORTH APPROVES ANOTHER 400 UNIT APARTMENT COMPLEX, WE HAVE A PRETTY GOOD IDEA OF WHAT THAT MEANS FOR GROWTH IN THAT AREA ONCE IT'S BUILT OUT. AND SO THESE ARE THE LATEST NUMBERS FOR THE DISTRICT, WHERE MOST OF THE APARTMENTS TODAY ARE YIELDING ABOUT. 0.2. THE NEWER ONES ARE 0.15, AND THAT'S VERY NORMAL FOR WHAT WE'RE SEEING ALL ACROSS DFW. THE NEWER APARTMENTS THAT ARE MORE THREE- AND FOUR-STORY ARCHITECTURE HAVE CLOSED PARKING. OR IT'S JUST LESS OF YOUR TRADITIONAL, WHAT THEY CALL GARDEN STYLE, WHICH IS TWO STORIES OR THREE, WITH A LOT OF EXTERIOR PARKING AND MORE THREE-BEDROOM UNITS. 
          IT MAKES SENSE, RIGHT? YOU'VE GOT FEWER PEOPLE THAT ARE RENTING IN THOSE UNITS THAT HAVE LARGE FAMILIES. SO WE USE THESE NUMBERS AS A FORECASTING TOOL. JUST LIKE WE DO WITH THE SINGLE-FAMILY. WE MOVE AHEAD HERE TO, YOU HAVE SOME SLIDES IN THE REPORT ON THE MACROECONOMIC CONDITIONS FOR DFW. I'LL JUST SPEAK TO REALLY HIGH LEVEL RIGHT NOW. 
          THERE'S BEEN, IT'S BEEN A GOOD COUPLE YEARS FOR THE HOUSING MARKET. THINGS ARE SLOWING A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE JOB GROWTH IS A LITTLE BIT SLOWER THAN WHAT IT'S BEEN. 
          I'VE GOT SOME SLIDES IN HERE. 
          YOU CAN SEE THAT THE JOB GROWTH NUMBERS ARE LOWER, BUT DALLAS-FORT WORTH AND TEXAS ARE STILL LEADING THE NATION. 
          HERE'S, ON THIS SLIDE, GROWTH BY EMPLOYMENT SECTOR. A LOT OF THE HIGHER-PAYING JOBS ARE FOUND IN THESE TWO SECTORS, THE FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES. 
          PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS SERVICES. 
          THOSE HAVE BEEN FLAT TO DECLINING. THE TECH SIDE IS, WITH AI CONTRIBUTING TO SOME OF THESE LOSSES HERE. 
          BUT REALLY, THE GROWTH IN PRIVATE HEALTH SERVICES, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S VERY WIDESPREAD OUT HERE IN THE SOUTHWEST PORTION OF FORT WORTH. 
          WITH YOUR HOSPITALS AND ALL OF THAT TYPE OF CARE. SO THOSE ARE JOBS THAT THAT SECTOR IS GROWING. VIBRANT HOUSING MARKETS NEAR AREAS OF DFW THAT HAVE STRONG GROWTH IN THAT SECTOR. WE'RE ALSO SEEING TEXAS AND DFW LEAD THE NATION IN MIGRATION FROM OUT OF STATE AND INTERNATIONALLY. 
          THE KEY POINT IS THAT THIS LAST YEAR IT'S BEEN SLOWER IN TERMS OF MIGRATION FROM OUT OF STATE. AND INTERNATIONALLY, WE'RE STILL SEEING VERY STRONG NATURAL GROWTH FROM PEOPLE THAT HAVE STARTED FAMILIES HERE OVER THESE LAST SEVERAL YEARS. 
          SO ALL OF THAT TO SAY THAT THERE'S STILL A GREAT FOUNDATION FOR RESIDENTIAL GROWTH IN DFW. AND I'M GOING TO LEAD INTO THE NEXT PORTION OF THE REPORT, WHICH IS YOUR RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT. DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS JUST IN GENERAL? TO THIS POINT. 
          TRUSTEES, WE'RE GOOD, SIR. ALL RIGHT, SO THESE NUMBERS ARE REALLY EXCITING BECAUSE THEY'RE THE MOST WE'VE EVER COUNTED IN A LOT OF WAYS, EVEN WITH ALL OF THE HEADWINDS THAT YOU CAN READ ON THE PREVIOUS SLIDES. 
          IN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 2025, YOU HAD 622 MOVE-INS. 
          THAT'S THE MOST WE'VE EVER COUNTED IN THE DISTRICT, 
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SO RECORD CLOSINGS FOR, UM, HERE IN CROWLEY, ISD. NOW STARTS HAVE SLOWED DOWN A LITTLE BIT. WE'VE SEEN A MARKET-WIDE SLOWDOWN OVER THE LAST FEW QUARTERS. 
          BUILDERS HAVE GOTTEN A LITTLE BIT MORE CAUTIOUS WITH SUPPLY LEVELS AND THEIR AMOUNT OF BUILDING THAT THEY'RE PUTTING ON THE GROUND. 
          BUT OVERALL, IN 2025, YOU ALL HAD JUST UNDER 2,100 TOTAL MOVE-INS. NOW, THIS IS A COMBINATION OF SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES AND YOUR BUILD-TO-RENT. 
          SO IN THE CALL OUT HERE, I'VE GOT. ABOUT A THIRD OF THOSE WERE BUILD-TO-RENT MOVE-INS. 18% OF THE STARTS. 
          SO WE'VE SEEN A LITTLE BIT OF A DRAWBACK ON THE BUILD-TO-RENT PRODUCT. 
          BUT RIGHT NOW, YOU'RE SEEING REALLY STRONG NUMBERS IN TERMS OF RESIDENTIAL GROWTH. 
          DEVELOPERS HAVE PUT ALMOST... 
          THEY PUT ALMOST 1500 NEW LOTS ON THE GROUND IN 2025. WHEN YOU LOOK AT HOW CROWLEY COMPARES TO ALL OF THE DISTRICTS IN DFW, CROWLEY'S NOW IN THE TOP FIVE. IN TERMS OF ACTIVITY, OVERALL NEW HOME ACTIVITY IN DALLAS-FORT WORTH. YOU CAN SEE NORTHWEST IS NUMBER ONE, AND YOU CAN SEE PRINCETON, MCKINNEY, AND DENTON-ICE, DEAN CROWLEY WITH THE ACTIVITY THAT'S GOING ON HAS MOVED UP. CROWLEY HAS BEEN THE TOP PRODUCING AREA, KIND OF BACK AND FORTH WITH MIDLOTHIAN. 
          ON THE SOUTHERN SIDE OF THE FW FOR SEVERAL YEARS, BUT RIGHT NOW, YOU KNOW, PRETTY GOOD GAP BETWEEN WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE AND THEN OTHER PLACES. SO THIS IS A VERY AFFORDABLE NEW HOME MARKET. 
          MOST OF THE HOMES TODAY ARE IN THAT $300 TO, SAY, $600 PRICE RANGE. KIND OF IDEAL FOR AFFORDABILITY TODAY, THE MEDIAN AT $368. AGAIN, ANOTHER THING THAT KIND OF PULLS AWAY FROM THE EXISTING HOME SIDE. 
          YOU CAN GET, YOU HAVE SO MANY CHOICES, YOU CAN GET A NEW HOME IN THE DISTRICT COMPARATIVELY FOR A VERY, VERY, FOR A GOOD PRICE. BUT WHEN YOU GO BACK AND YOU LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, YOU'LL PROBABLY HEAR OTHER DISTRICTS LIKE A PRINCETON OR, YOU KNOW, EVEN OUT TO THE EAST. SO THAT AS THE MARKET GROWS NORTH AND EAST, AND EVEN OUT IN EAGLE MOUNTAIN, SAGINAW AND NORTHWEST, A LOT OF THE... 
          PRICE POINTS THAT ARE DRIVING THAT GROWTH ARE IN THAT, SAY, 400 TO RIGHT ABOUT 700 TODAY. 
          AND YOU ALL HAVE A SIMILAR LOOK ON THE PRICE RANGE SPECTRUM THAN MOST OF THOSE TOP PERFORMING DISTRICTS. NOW, 87% IS OCCURRING IN THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, AND WE'RE SEEING THE NUMBERS IN THE CITY OF CROWLEY GRADUALLY BEGIN TO INCREASE. BUT A LOT OF THESE... TOP PERFORMING NEIGHBORHOODS. THEY'RE LISTED HERE. THEY'RE PRIMARILY ON THE WEST SIDE IN THE DAVIS ATTENDANT ZONE. THEY'RE IN THE SOUTH, IN BAYLOR. AND THEN NOW WE SEE THE S.H. 
          CROWLEY AND THE WALKER ATTENDANT ZONES. THIS IS A ROLL-UP OF ALL OF THE ACTIVITY, THE CHART ON THE RIGHT. SO JUST IN THE LAST 2025, THE LAST CALENDAR YEAR, ANOTHER 581. 
          HOMES WERE MOVED INTO JUST IN THE DAVIS ATTENDANCE ZONE. 
          SAME THING, 560 IN THE WALKER ATTENDANCE ZONE. NOW, BOTH OF THOSE AREAS HAVE A HIGH PROPORTION OF BILL-TO-RENT WITHIN THAT NUMBER. SO IF YOU MOVE INTO MORE OF THE S.H. 
          CROWLEY, BAYLOR NUMBERS, WHERE THEY'RE JUST UNDER $200 TO $300 A YEAR, THOSE ARE PRIMARILY TRADITIONAL, SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSES. SO MOST OF THESE... AREAS ARE GONNA FEED INTO SUMMER CREEK, STEVENS OR ALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL. AND THEN MOST HAVE OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS HAVE SHIFTED AS MORE DEVELOPMENT HAS BEEN IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE DISTRICT. WE'VE SEEN THE NUMBERS IN THE CROWLEY HIGH SCHOOL, IT'S IN ITS OWN GROW. 
          IN BACK TO BACK. YEARS OF OVER 900 PLUS STARTS HAVE TRANSLATED INTO OVER 1200. 
          CLOSINGS IN THE CROWLEY HIGH SCHOOL ZONE JUST IN 2025. SO THE NUMBERS FOR NORTH CROWLEY ARE STILL STRONG. THEY'RE FLAT TO DOWN JUST A LITTLE BIT, BUT STILL 800 TO 900 HOMES. 
          BUT WITH ALL THE ACTIVITY GEOGRAPHICALLY BEING IN THE AREAS THAT ARE PRIMARILY SUMMER CREEK, STEVENS AND ALLEY ATTENDANCE ZONES, I'LL SHOW YOU HERE ON THE MAP, THEY FEED INTO CROWLEY HIGH SCHOOL. SO BEFORE I SHOW YOU THE MAP, JUST COMMENT ON INVENTORY. 
          THERE'S ABOUT 1,000 HOMES THAT WERE UNDER CONSTRUCTION. THE CHART ON THE LEFT IS FULLY 
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DEVELOPED. LOTS. THESE ARE LOTS THAT ARE ON THE GROUND, READY FOR A HOUSE TO BE STARTED AT ANY TIME. YOU CAN DRIVE IN FRONT OF THAT VACANT LOT. 
          SO THERE'S ABOUT 3,200 LOTS THAT ARE IN THAT CATEGORY. AND THEN WE HAVE 2,400 LOTS THAT ARE UNDER DEVELOPMENT. THERE ARE... 11,000 OR MORE LOTS THAT ARE PLANNED ON PAPER, PLUS THERE'S OVER 4,000 APARTMENTS. SO WHEN YOU ROLL IT ALL TOGETHER, RIGHT NOW, AS OF THE FIRST PART OF 2026, WE'RE LOOKING AT ABOUT 17,500 LOTS IN THE PIPELINE. TO GO OVER THESE NEXT. HOWEVER MANY YEARS IT TAKES TO BUILD THROUGH ALL THESE. 
          BUT REMEMBER, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS, MAP THAT I'VE PROVIDED YOU, THE AREAS IN YELLOW ARE ACTIVELY BUILDING. THE AREAS THAT ARE ORANGE, THOSE ARE WHERE DIRT WORK, OR PURPLE, THAT'S THE STREETS AND DIRT WORK ARE TAKING PLACE. 
          AND THEN BLUE ARE PLATTED LOTS, BUT THEY'RE FUTURE SUBDIVISIONS. SO REMEMBER THE GEOCODING MAP WHERE I HAD 19 AND 25 AND I WAS SHOWING ALL THAT GROWTH? WELL, A LOT OF THAT IS FROM ALL THAT DEVELOPMENT THAT'S OCCURRED THERE AND THEN OCCURRED RIGHT IN HERE, WHERE ALL THAT YELLOW IS. SO THERE'S SOME MAJOR ONES THAT WE WAITED FOR FOR SEVERAL YEARS. 
          THEY'RE FINALLY UNDERWAY, ONE OF THOSE BEING ROCK CREEK RANCH, WHICH IS DOWN BY TARLETON STATE, FORT WORTH. SO YOU CAN SEE THIS IS 3,500 LOTS ON... BOTH SIDES OF THE CHISHOLM TRAIL PARKWAY. HERE'S A PICTURE FROM DECEMBER. 
          THEY'VE GOT THEIR FIRST PHASE GOING, AND THEY'VE GOT D.R. 
          HORTON, THE BUILDER HERE, HAS GOT SEVERAL LOTS GOING IN MULTIPLE PHASES THERE, AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE PHOTOGRAPH. D.R. HORTON ALSO HAS, OVER NEXT TO THE CTE, LONGHORN ESTATES, WHICH HAS JUST DELIVERED ITS FIRST PHASE, AND THEY HAVE, YOU KNOW, YOU, ANOTHER THOUSAND LOTS TO GO HERE. YOU CAN SEE THESE. 
          SO JUST IN THAT AREA, SOUTH OF DAVIS, AND RIGHT HERE NEAR THE CHS AREA AND CTE AREA, YOU CAN SEE. THOUSANDS OF LOTS ARE ALMOST DELIVERED AND WILL HAVE HOUSES ON THEM HERE OVER THE NEXT FIVE TO TEN YEARS. SO, MR. ALEXANDER, SO THESE PICTURES WERE TAKEN WHEN? DECEMBER 12TH. 
          DECEMBER 12TH, RIGHT. BECAUSE NOW THERE ARE HOMES IN SOME OF THOSE AREAS. PROBABLY, YES. 
          SO, AND THEN ONE OTHER ONE, ANOTHER BIG DEVELOPMENT, HUNTER'S RIDGE. IT SHOULD BE HUNTER'S RIDGE AND DEER CREEK MEADOWS. YOU CAN SEE THE STADIUM, ISD STADIUM, THE INDOOR FACILITY CONSTRUCTION THERE. WALKER IS OVER HERE. 
          THAT'S ONE OF THE BIG BUILT-TO-RENT NEIGHBORHOODS, THE COTTAGES AT DEER CREEK MEADOWS. AND THEN ALL OF THIS. TOGETHER IS ANOTHER 01,700 LOTS THAT ARE, H.S. 
          STEVENS IS JUST RIGHT OUTSIDE THE PICTURE THERE, ON THE EAST SIDE OF 731. SO ALL OF THIS INVENTORY AND ACTIVITY, WE PUT IT IN A FORECAST. WE USE THOSE FORECASTING TOOLS THAT WE DISCUSSED. FIRST THING IS, I GO THROUGH EACH INDIVIDUAL NEIGHBORHOOD AND DO A CLOSINGS FORECAST. WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS THE ROLL-UP FOR THAT. WHAT, WHAT? WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT HERE IN THE NEAR TERM IS ABOUT $1,600, $1,700 A YEAR. 
          THIS IS SOME OF THE AREAS THAT ARE GOING TO BUILD OUT. IT COULD FALL BACK A LITTLE BIT TO $1,500 IF SOME OF THE DEVELOPMENTS ARE DELIVERING IT MORE IN THE $2,829 TIMELINE. SOME OF THEM COULD CERTAINLY SPEED UP, BUT AS OF RIGHT NOW, I'M TRYING TO BE A LITTLE MORE CAUTIOUS WITH... PUSHING A LOT OF THE FUTURE PHASES THAT ARE NOW LOOKING LIKE THEY'RE COMING IN THE 28-29 SCHOOL YEAR. 
          THAT'S WHAT IS REPRESENTED IN BLUE. THE RED ARE YOUR APARTMENTS. SO WE'VE GOT THOSE 40, 43, 4500 APARTMENTS THAT ARE PLANNED THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT, FORECASTED OUT AS WELL. SO ESSENTIALLY, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, YOU COULD SEE ANOTHER 8400 SINGLE FAMILY HOMES. BUILT IN THE DISTRICT. OVER 10 YEARS IT COULD BE 15,000, 16,000. SO IF YOU'RE BUILDING 1,700 A YEAR, HERE YOU GO. 
          BUT YOU ARE, LIKE I SAID, YOU'RE ALREADY ONE OF THE TOP AREAS FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION. SO WHAT DOES THAT MEAN IN TERMS OF ENROLLMENT FOR THE FUTURE? SO THESE ARE THE DISTRICT LEVEL 
          [01:45:01]
PROJECTIONS WITH A A VERY CONSERVATIVE LOW, YOU'RE MODERATE, AND YOU'RE HIGH. AND SO BACK TO PRESIDENT GRASSI'S POINT ABOUT ARE WE FACTORING DIFFERENT LEVELS? YES, THIS IS THE LOW SCENARIOS WHERE WE HAVE A LOWER YIELD, WE'RE A LITTLE MORE CONSERVATIVE ON KINDERGARTEN, AND THROUGHOUT OTHER FACTORS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, THINGS THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT WITH VOUCHERS AND ALL OUR... 
          MORE SLOWING GROWTH IN THAT LOWER SCENARIO. IF WHAT WE'VE SEEN THE LAST TWO YEARS, TWO TO THREE YEARS, CONTINUES, THEN THE LOW SCENARIO IS THE PATH. IF THINGS IMPROVE A LITTLE BIT, JUST GET TO ONE, THEN THAT'S THE BLUE LINE. SO EVEN IF YOU'RE ON THE LOW SCENARIO, THAT'S A NET GROWTH OF ALMOST 01,000 KIDS. OVER FIVE YEARS. 
          AT A 1.3% AVERAGE GROWTH OVER THE NEXT THREE YEARS, YOU BEGIN TO PUSH TOWARDS 700, 800 MORE KIDS, AND EVENTUALLY UP TO 1,400. SO THAT BLUE LINE IS VERY SIMILAR, THINK ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE FIRST LINE, WHERE WE HAD, YOU ALL WERE AT 1360-ISH FOR 8.7% OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS. IF A LOT OF THE TRENDS CONTINUE, IT'S STILL GOING RIGHT ALONG THAT PATH. 
          BUT THAT MEANS ALMOST 1,400 MORE KIDS IN THE DISTRICT OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, AND 03,200 OVER 10 YEARS. SO... THE HIGH SCENARIO IS FASTER. UP UNTIL TWO YEARS AGO, WE HAD BEEN LOOKING AT 2% TO 3%, AND SO WE BACKED OFF OF THAT. BUT I'VE STILL GIVEN YOU ONE OF, HEY, IF THESE NEIGHBORHOODS START YIELDING MORE OF A 0.4%, 0.45%, SOME OF THEM OCCUR A LITTLE SOONER THAN WHAT I'VE FORECASTED. 
          IN THE OTHER SCENARIOS, YOU CAN SEE A LITTLE BIT FASTER GROWTH. 
          NOW, WHAT IS THAT? HOW'S THAT LOOK WITH CAPACITY? THIS IS A SUMMARY OF THE MODERATE SCENARIO. SO THIS IS YOUR ONE TO ONE AND A HALF ANNUAL GROWTH RATE. WHAT THE TOTAL USAGE OF YOUR FUNCTIONAL CAPACITY, OF ALL YOUR CAMPUSES, WHAT THAT KIND OF LOOKS LIKE GRAPHED OUT OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS. SO LET ME SEE IF I CAN EXPLAIN SOME OF THIS TO YOU NOW. IF YOU LOOK AT ELEMENTARY, THIS NUMBER, IT'S 78% OF ALL OF THE SEATS AS OF THIS YEAR. 
          BUT IT WAS BACK UP OVER 100, BUT YOU ADDED KARIS AND YOU ADDED BAYLOR. AND SO THAT BROUGHT THEM DOWN. AND SO WITH THE ADDITION OF THAT CAMPUS, AS IT'S GROWING TOWARDS 80%, BUT IN 27, YOU'RE GOING TO ADD... AN ADDITIONAL 600 SEATS WITH MIDDLE SCHOOL FIVE, THE K-8 CONFIGURATION, THEN THAT'S GOING TO GET A LITTLE BIT MORE RELIEF. AND IF IT STAYS IN THAT ONE, ONE AND A HALF GROWTH RATE, THEN THE OVERALL USES OF YOUR CAPACITY IS GOING TO BE RIGHT IN THAT IDEAL. 
          AROUND 75, 80 PERCENT. NOW, EVENTUALLY, IT'S GOING TO GET UP TO 90. THIS IS WHERE THINGS GET REALLY TIGHT. 
          IN TERMS OF NEEDING MORE SPACE. HIGH SCHOOL LINE IS IN BLUE, SO WITH THE EXPANSION THAT'S OCCURRING AT NORTH CROWLEY AND THE REBUILD OF CROWLEY HIGH SCHOOL, YOU CAN SEE. IT'S ALREADY UP TO 92% AND HOW IT DROPS WITH THE ADDITIONAL SPACE. IT SHOULD ALSO MOVE YOU ALL BACK INTO THE MORE IDEAL UTILIZATION FOR MANY YEARS. MR. ALEXANDER, AT THE NINTH GRADE LEVEL, AT 32, 33, IS IT THAT HIGH? BECAUSE MANY SLIDES AGO, 37 SLIDES AGO OR SOMETHING, THERE WAS A NEW TREND? THERE'S A BUBBLE. YES. OKAY. THAT IS ABOUT AN 80-STUDENT, ONE-YEAR BUBBLE. I WENT BACK AND CHECKED IT TWICE TO MAKE SURE. WHAT IS THAT? BUT THAT'S WHAT THAT IS, THAT LARGE CLASS AGING UP THROUGH AND REACHING FRESHMAN YEAR. TRUSTEES, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? SO ONE THING I'D JUST LIKE TO ADD, JUST FROM A PLANNING STANDPOINT, IF YOU CAN GO BACK LIKE TWO SLIDES. THAT'S A GOOD ONE, YEAH. SO WHEN MR. FISHER AND I AND THE TEAM, WE START TO PREPARE FOR THE BUDGET, YOU 
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KNOW, ONE OF OUR FINANCIAL PRINCIPLES IS TO BE. CONSERVATIVE AS IT RELATES TO REVENUE GENERATORS. AND SO THESE STUDENTS, THESE NUMBERS WOULD REPRESENT REVENUE GENERATORS. AND SO IF WE WERE NOT BEING CONSERVATIVE, WE MAY WOULD SAY WE'RE GOING TO HAVE 17,242 STUDENTS. 
          BUT WHAT WE'RE GOING TO, WHAT WE WOULD PREPARE FOR, IS ACTUALLY ABOUT 17,000, REALLY ABOUT, MR. FISHER WOULD LIKE TO PREPARE FOR ABOUT 16,956. I'LL BE PUSHING IT FOR 17,000. BUT YEAH, BECAUSE WHAT THAT DOES IS THAT BUILDS IN A CUSHION FOR US IN CASE THERE'S SOME KIND OF CHANGE. WE DON'T KNOW, AND TO YOUR POINT, MS. STEVENSON, THEY RECENTLY RELEASED NUMBERS FOR THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS WHO'VE ACTUALLY APPLIED FOR THE VOUCHERS. BUT WHAT THEY HAVE NOT RELEASED IS THE NUMBERS HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED AND ALL THAT. SO WE'RE WATCHING THAT NUMBER, AND WE KNOW IT'S GOING TO IMPACT US IN SOME KIND OF WAY. WE JUST DON'T KNOW HOW AND HOW SEVERELY. AND SO WE'RE PREPARING, YOU KNOW. PREPARING FOR THAT. ALSO, WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT, IF YOU CAN GO TOWARD THE LINE WITH ALL THE DIFFERENT LEVELS, THAT WOULD BE GOOD. SO AS WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS, YOU MAY REMEMBER A COUPLE YEARS AGO WHEN WE STARTED THE BOND PROCESS, WE REALLY, WE WANT OUR FUNCTIONAL CAPACITY, THAT IS THE AMOUNT OF CAPACITY THAT WE ACTUALLY CAN USE IN THE BUILDING. WE MAY HAVE CLASSROOMS, OTHER SPACES IN THE BUILDING THAT WE'RE NOT ACTUALLY USING FOR CLASSROOMS. SO FUNCTIONAL CAPACITY IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN THE OVERALL CAPACITY. WE MAY HAVE A BUILDING WITH AN OVERALL CAPACITY OF 750, BUT THE FUNCTIONAL CAPACITY MAY BE CLOSER TO 680, BECAUSE THERE ARE SPACES THAT ARE NOT BEING USED FOR A CLASSROOM. 
          BUT WHEN WE LOOK AT THIS CHART, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE STAY UNDER ABOUT 85%. SO AS LONG AS WE'RE IN A SPACE BETWEEN THE 70% TO 85%, THEN WE'RE ACTUALLY OPERATING AT AN OPTIMUM LEVEL. WHEN WE BEGIN TO GO EITHER BELOW 70%, THEN THERE'S ECONOMY OF SCALES THAT WE HAVE TO START TO QUESTION. SO AGAIN, IF YOU HAVE A CAMPUS WHERE WE'RE ONLY USING 60% OF THE CAPACITY, WE'RE EXPENDING ADDITIONAL MONEY. 
          AND THAT'S WHEN DISTRICTS BEGIN TO MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT CLOSING CAMPUSES AND DOING THOSE OTHER THINGS. WHEN WE ALSO GO OVER 90%, IF WE'RE GOING OVER 90% FOR TOO LONG, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE OVERCROWDING ISSUES. 
          AND SO YOU CAN LOOK THROUGH AND YOU'LL SEE THE DIFFERENT DECISIONS THAT WE'VE MADE TO TRY TO MAKE SURE WE MANAGE THAT. 
          WE SET AN IDEAL RATE. 
          FOR AN IDEAL SIZE FOR AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, THE IDEAL SIZE FOR US IN PLANNING AND BUILDING IS A MINIMUM OF 400. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE AT LEAST 400 STUDENTS, AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE STAY AS CLOSE TO 600 AS A MAXIMUM. SO THE IDEA IS TO HIT SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE 400 TO 600, AND WE DO HAVE RIGHT NOW, WE KNOW THAT MONTESSORI IS ABOUT 380, AND THEY'RE GROWING, AND WE'RE GROWING EVERY YEAR, SO WE KNOW THAT NUMBER WILL GET TO WHERE WE NEED IT TO BE. WE ALSO KNOW JUNE DAVIS IS ABOUT 6.07, RIGHT? SO WE KNOW WE HAVE TO EITHER LOOK AT DOING SOME BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENTS AND ALL THAT. SO THOSE ARE THE KIND OF METRICS WE USE TO MAKE THOSE KIND OF DECISIONS. YOU HEARD HIM MENTION K-8. THAT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WE'VE ACTUALLY SETTLED ON YET, BUT WE ARE ACTUALLY BUILDING A MIDDLE SCHOOL 5 IN A WAY THAT WE COULD POSSIBLY USE IT AS A K-8 IF NEEDED. BECAUSE OUR MIDDLE SCHOOL NUMBERS, THE MIDDLE SCHOOL RANGE IS ACTUALLY YOU. 
          THE MINIMUM IS ABOUT 700 IS WHAT WE WANT FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL, AND THE MAXIMUM IS ACTUALLY 01,200. IDEAL IS ABOUT 800. 
          RIGHT NOW, SUMMER CREEK IS RIGHT AT 1,100. ALLEY IS ABOUT 1,200, AND HF IS RIGHT AROUND 7, AND THEN ALSO CMS IS ABOUT 8. SO WHAT WE KNOW IS ALLEY, WHEN YOU LOOK AT ALLEY, THE SIZE OF ALLEY AND THE SIZE OF SUMMER CREEK, THEY'RE ABOUT 220 TO 240. 
          ABOVE WHAT WE NEED THEM, WHAT WE'D LIKE THEM TO BE. SO WHEN WE OPEN UP MIDDLE SCHOOL 05, WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO DO IS FIGURE OUT, COULD WE TAKE 200 FROM BOTH OF THOSE CAMPUSES AND HAVE 400 SEAT 6 THROUGH 8? AND THEN, IF THERE'S STILL A NEED TO DO SOME ADJUSTMENTS WITH THE BOUNDARIES AROUND S.H. CROWLEY AND JUNE DAVIS, WE DO SOME REDRAWING OF BOUNDARIES TO POSSIBLY MAKE THAT A K-8. 
          AGAIN, THOSE ARE DECISIONS THAT WE'LL MAKE AND BE MAKING OVER THE NEXT YEAR, BUT WE ARE JUST... AS WE'RE CONSTRUCTING, WE'VE ALREADY INSTRUCTED MR. REES TO CONSTRUCT THE BUILDING SO IT'LL BE FLEXIBLE, SO THAT WE CAN USE IT FOR A MIDDLE SCHOOL, AN ELEMENTARY, OR A COMBINATION OF THAT. WITH MEADOW CREEK, WE SAW THE DECLINE IN THE NUMBERS. SO WOULD THAT BE A SCHOOL THAT YOU WOULD TAKE SOME OF THE OTHER STUDENTS FROM OVERCROWDING IN THOSE AREAS TO MEADOW CREEK? THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. 
          AND SO THE MEADOW CREEK, IF YOU ALL CAN REMEMBER THE CHART WHERE WE SHOWED WE HAVE THE GROWTH VERSUS NOT HAVING THE 
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GROWTH FOR A LOT OF DIFFERENT REASONS. SO YOU SEE MEADOW CREEK, JACKIE CARDIN, PARKWAY IN THAT AREA, WE HAVE NUMBERS THAT ARE LOWER. 
          AND SO WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT HOW CAN WE RECONFIGURE MEADOW CREEK AND JACKIE CARDIN, AND POSSIBLY PARKWAY TO MANAGE THAT AREA. WE HAVEN'T DECIDED EXACTLY YET WHAT THEY'LL LOOK LIKE, BUT WE ARE LOOKING AT WHAT ARE WAYS WE CAN MANAGE THAT. THE OTHER THING IS THAT WE DID MENTION IS WE HAD ABOUT 175, 150 TO 175 PARENTS WHO ACTUALLY WERE INTERESTED IN PRE-K-3 PROGRAMS. THAT ACTUALLY WAS JUST ABOVE THE LINE TO QUALIFY FOR PRE-K-3. AND SO IF WE HAVE, AND THIS IS KIND OF BACK TO YOUR POINT, MS. STEVENSON, IF WE HAVE CAPACITY IN ANY OF THOSE THREE BUILDINGS, WHETHER IT'S JACKIE CARD, MEADOW CREEK, OR PARKWAY, WE COULD SET ASIDE SEATS FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD STUDENTS. 
          OF PARENTS WHO ACTUALLY DON'T QUALIFY FOR FUNDING BUT ARE ABLE TO PAY. AND THAT'S ANOTHER WAY FOR US TO ATTRACT AND CAPTURE SOME OF THOSE STUDENTS WHO ARE MOVING IN THIS AREA. YOU ALL REALIZE THAT IF YOU LOOK AT RENT IN THIS AREA, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT $1,900 AND IN SOME CASES, $2,000 FOR... 
          YOU KNOW, 11, 11, 100 SQUARE FOOT HOME. AND SO, IF A PARENT IS ABLE TO PAY $2,000 A MONTH IN RENT, THEY'RE LIKELY NOT ABLE TO QUALIFY FOR PRE-K. PAY PRE-K, BUT THEY CAN ACTUALLY PAY FOR IT. SO ANYWAY, WE'RE LOOKING AT THOSE THINGS, AND WE'LL HOPEFULLY BY, NOT HOPEFULLY, WE PLAN TO BY APRIL. HAVE MADE SOME DECISIONS ABOUT HOW WE CAN MAXIMIZE AND CAPITALIZE ON THAT. QUICK QUESTION. AND I KNOW IT'S PROBABLY NOT EVEN ON THE RADAR, BUT HEARING YOU SAY MONTESSORI IS ALMOST AT CAPACITY, WOULD WE BE LOOKING AT ANOTHER MONTESSORI CAMPUS, LIKE AT MEADOW CREEK OR BECKY CARDEN SOMEWHERE? ARE WE THINKING ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW? SO MONTESSORI, IF I SAY THEY WERE ALL IN CAPACITY, SO THEY'RE AT ABOUT 380 STUDENTS RIGHT NOW. 
          AND SO WHAT HAPPENS AT MONTESSORI, AS STUDENTS MOVE UP TO THE NEXT GRADE, WE ADD A GRADE LEVEL. SO THIS YEAR AT MONTESSORI, WE HAVE PRE-K THROUGH SIXTH GRADE. 
          NEXT YEAR, THOSE STUDENTS WILL REMAIN THERE AND WILL MOVE UP. 
          AND THOSE STUDENTS WHO ARE IN SIXTH GRADE THIS YEAR WILL GO TO SEVENTH GRADE IN MONTESSORI. AND WE'LL ADD A NEW GROUP OF PRE-K AGE STUDENTS, FOR LACK OF A BETTER DESCRIPTION. THEY DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE GRADE LEVELS, BUT FOR OUR PURPOSES, WE'LL DO THAT. SO WHAT WE ANTICIPATE IS THAT MONTESSORI WILL BE OVER THE 400 STUDENT MINIMUM STARTING NEXT SCHOOL YEAR. SO NEXT YEAR, THEY'LL BE OVER THE 400 STUDENT MINIMUM. 
          HOWEVER, WE HAVE CAPACITY AT MONTESSORI. MR. REEVES, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT... 
          BUT I BELIEVE OUR CAPACITY AT MONTESSORI IS REALLY STILL WAY ABOVE THAT, SIGNIFICANTLY ABOVE THE 400. AND YOU ALL REMEMBER, WE HAD CAPACITY TO BUILD AN ADDITIONAL WING THERE EVENTUALLY. WE'RE NOT THERE YET. WE BELIEVE THAT IT WILL PROBABLY BE THREE MORE YEARS BEFORE WE EVEN GET TO THE 600 NUMBER, BUT WE THINK WE'LL BE ABOVE THE 400 NUMBER NEXT YEAR. 
          YEAH. TRUSTEES, ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? DR. 
          MAYFIELD. OH. MR. ALEXANDER, THANK YOU SO MUCH. GREAT PRESENTATION. THAT'S GOING 
          [9.0 Executive Session]
TO BRING US TO AGENDA ITEM 9.0. WE WILL ADJOURN TO EXECUTIVE SESSION. THE BOARD WILL NOW ADJOURN TO EXECUTIVE SESSION PURSUANT TO TEXAS CODE 551.071 FOR PRIVATE CONSULTATION WITH THE BOARD'S ATTORNEY AND 551.074 FOR PERSONNEL. THE BOARD WILL RETURN IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING EXECUTIVE SESSION. 
          WE ARE ADJOURNING TO EXECUTIVE SESSION AT 8.02 P.M. WE ARE BACK 
          [10.0 Consideration and Possible Action Item(s)]
IN OPEN SESSION AT 827 P.M. 
          CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ITEMS AGENDA ITEM 10.1 EMPLOYMENT OF THE MINISTRIES ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL, DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL PROGRAMS COMPLIANCE TO CCM. OUR ACCOUNT ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEMS. WE HAVE A RECOMMENDATION. YES, MR. 
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PRESIDENT, I RECOMMEND DR. 
          MORKIBA-WARFIELD, FOR THE POSITION OF DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL PROGRAMS, COMPLIANCE AND CCMR ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM, AS RECOMMENDED. WE HAVE A MOTION BY TRUSTEE STEVENSON. IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND. WE HAVE A SECOND BY TRUSTEE DAVIS. MOVED TO VOTE BY A SHOW OF HANDS. 
          [11.0 Level III Grievance Hearing]
ALL IN FAVOR? AND THE MOTION PASSES. THAT'S GOING TO BRING US TO AGENDA ITEM 11.1. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CISD BOARD POLICY FNG STUDENT PARENT LEVEL THREE APPEAL HEARING, THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS TO CONSIDER A STUDENT GRIEVANCE INVOLVING A COMPLAINT AGAINST THE DISTRICT BROUGHT UNDER LOCAL POLICY FNG. 
          UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF 551.074 
          [12.0 Executive Session ]
OF THE TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE, THE BOARD WILL NOW ENTER CLOSED SESSION TO CONSIDER A STUDENT GRIEVANCE. THE BOARD WILL RETURN IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING CLOSED SESSION. THE TIME IS 8.29 P.M. WE HAVE RETURNED 
          [13.0 Consideration and Possible Action Item(s)]
TO OPEN SESSION AT 9.59 P.M. 
          IS THERE A MOTION REGARDING OF THIS GRIEVANCE? AND I MOVE THAT THE BOARD ACCEPT THE LEVEL ONE FINDINGS AND THE LEVEL ONE AND LEVEL TWO RESOLUTION FOR THE REASONS SET FORTH THEREIN. HOWEVER, I FURTHER MOVE THAT THE BOARD REMAND THAT GRIEVANCE AND LEVEL TWO FOR THE RESOLUTION OF THE NEW ISSUES RAISED. IS THERE A SECOND? WE HAVE A SECOND BY MS. DAVIS. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? HEARING NONE, MOVE TO VOTE BY SHOW OF HANDS, ALL IN FAVOR. AND THE MOTION PASSES. 
          WITH NO FURTHER BUSINESS TO BRING FORTH THIS BOARD, WE ARE ADJOURNING AT 10 O'CLOCK P.M.
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