Godley ISD Board of Trustees Special Meeting & Budget Workshop - June 8, 2026

Hello. Okay. The time is now 6 o'clock. I call this meeting of the Godly Independent School District to order. Let the record show that a core members are present that the meeting has been duly called and notice of this meeting has been posted in accordance open act Texas government code chapter 551. Um I would like to call former board member Craig Stevenson for the invocation and to follow that up with the pledges. Mr. Stevenson. All right, if we could all pray together. Thank you, Lord, for this day. Thank you for the opportunity to hear to

be about the business of the school district. Uh thank you that you have given us life, health, and strength. We ask that you uh be with us in all decisions that are being made here today and all of those be in accordance with your will in Jesus name. Amen. And for the American pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic For which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. And the Texas pledge. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee,

Texas, one state under God. one and indivisible. Thank you, Mr. Stevenson. Uh, moving forward, we'll hear u public participation. The board welcomes your um public interest and if you wish to address the board forum regarding specific items on tonight's board agenda, we have uh three. I'll ask Kayla and then Miss Miller and then Miss Olsen. Kayla is speaking on 5A, 5B, and six, which are the grievances and the budget. Good evening. So, first um regarding my grievance, my question is why was the district giving confidential emails within days regarding safety and security from a trustee

to Ashley Keter side, a criminal running an organized crime operation who is now behind bars? Was the district involved in this organized crime operation targeting myself and others who they deemed as adversaries? And then Ann's grievance. It was brought to my attention after the board meeting that the attorney misstated very important facts during the last Grievance hearing, claiming the student was still assessing pornographic material on the school laptop after being unenrolled from the school when in fact that event was from a prior year. The parent was also not notified of that happening in the prior

year. Why are we not notifying parents of very important matters such as these? We have technology linewise that should be able to handle flagging and sending automatic emails to parents easily. How are students even able to access porn on school laptops during the school day? In March, when I reviewed the search history logs, it appeared that AI was used as a loophole to access pornographic material otherwise filtered out by search browsers. Get rid of AI if it cannot be monitored properly. And get rid of one-on-one devices. Studies show academic scores improve with pencil and paper

anyways. Go back to computer class where students are only on devices for specified periods of time or have a few classroom devices where students can take turns using computers for research purposes where there is better monitoring. You are the gatekeepers. You have control over what students are able to access while on school devices on school Wi-Fi. And if our current technology team is incapable of monitoring this, perhaps we need to look for a change in leadership. Regarding the budget workshop, again, once again, you did not post your budget tonight with your agenda for the public,

which you are required to do per Texas government code section 551.043 and the Texas Open Meetings Act. I notified you of the of this at the last board meeting where you also did not post your budget with the budget workshop agenda. Why do you refuse to be transparent with the public? What do you Have to hide? Better yet, post your entire board book for the public like the city of Godley and many other school districts do. I found the proposed budget after digging around on the website. Last month, you proposed a 2.4% budget increase. And

this month, it has increased to a 4.2% budget increase. This is not only fiscally responsible, it's hurting taxpayers who are hurting and they need tax relief. Thank you, Miss Lane. Next we'll hear from Miss Miller. She's speaking on the budget. Can you hear me? So I'm going to read from a document um that refers to property taxes. It says change in the use of land especially from agriculture to urban should be subject to public control and regulation. How that is to be enforced? Legal controls, compul compulsory registration, changes in administration boundaries, development, building and local

permits, assembly and repotting, physical controls, property taxes, tax penalties, and tax leans. Recapturing plus value, excessive profits resulting in the increase in land value due to the development and change in the use of one or more principal causes of the concentration of wealth in private lands. Taxation should not be seen only as a course of revenue uh for the community but also as a powerful tool to encourage development of desirable locations to exercise a controlling effect of the land market and to redistribute to the public at large the benefits of the unearned increase in land

values. The unearned incre increment resulting from the rise in land values resulting from change in land use of land from public investment or decision or due to The general growth of the community must be subject to appropriate recapture by public bodies i.e school board. How do they do that? Levying of appropriate appropriate taxes, capital gains taxes, land taxes and betterment charges and particularly taxes on unused and unutilized land. Periodic and frequent assessment of land values in and around cities and determination of rise in such values relative to the general level of prices. Instituting development charges

or permit fees and spec specifying the time limit within which construction must start. Adopting pricing and compensation values or policies relating to value of land prevailing at a specified time rather than at its commercial value at the time of acquisition of public authorities. What I just read to you is out of the United Nations Human Settlements Vancouver Declaration. They are the ones that mandated property taxes and you are to tax people out of their homes essentially with unrealized gains and capital gains. That is essentially what you're doing. And I would say to back up Kayla,

this is the budget of the city of godly 69 pages front and back. This is what the school district gives. This is unacceptable. If the city of Godley can be transparent with how they're spending taxpayer dollars, you should, too. It's our money. Thank you, Miss Miller. Miss Olsen, you're up. I know I don't need to be that loud. I'm just going to reiterate some of the things that were said here already. I think that the attorney owes an Kubisc an apology. That was an egregious lie at this point. It could have been a mistake and

it could have been corrected that night. Could have been corrected any time before tonight. So the fact that those he those facts were misrepresented as though an and her son were trying to get away with something is really deplorable. So, I would hope you'd encourage your attorney and the firm to first of all know what they're talking about and second of all, when they make a mistake, own it immediately and apologize. And guys, I'm going to come every single time when it's budget time. I have asked over and over and over and over and over

and over and over like a broken record for you guys to do a detailed line item budget. You know, we have on the website which is not on the homepage as uh the law states. It's on a different link that you have to go to. It's a half a page. Not even a full page anymore, just a half a page. So, I don't know why you think that the people of this town would trust you with their money when you can't simply make a detailed budget. The city has seemed to find out how to do

this for many years. So, I'm asking you guys again and again and again. It's our money. Just give me a line item detailed budget. I don't know why that's so difficult. Lastly, I just want to say that um yeah, probably a little off topic. I'll probably get a warning letter, but teachers have an incredibly difficult job. Like an impossibly difficult job. So, I just want to reiterate that we don't have a teacher problem here. We don't. We have a leadership problem. And of course that goes all the way up to Mike Morath after watching the

committee. It's really disappointing. And I just want to reiterate, we don't have a teacher problem. They have an impossible job. So please, leadership, step up and do the right thing. Thank you, Miss Olsen. Next, we'll move on to um agenda item five, our grievances and complaints. Our uh first at this time, we'll move into um consider level three complaint filed by A citizen in accordance with section 551071, 551.074, and 551.0821 0821 of the Texas Government Code, which is commonly known as the Texas Open Meetings Act. The board will conduct this hearing in open session. Prior

to the board holding the level three appeal hearing, the board may meet with its attorney, Stu Madison, to discuss the procedural steps involved with this level three appeal. Pursuant to Texas Government Code 551.071, we will call the participants into open session. When we are ready to begin the level three hearing, we will adjourn into close session at this time to meet. The time is 6:12. are we there? Okay. Welcome. My name is Terry Goodlo. I'm the president of the board of trustees of Godley ISD. For the record, today is Monday, June 8th, 2026. The board

is now convened in close session for the purpose of hearing a level three complaint filed by Kayla Lane. This proceeding will be tape recorder to ensure that an accurate record is kept for the record. Each person is asked to state their name, reason for attendance, relationship to Mrs. Lane, and whether they have a friendship with Mrs. Lane if applicable. We will start with board members. Jamie No relation. Jamie Roy. No relation. No relationship. Thank you. Simone Mabry, trustee. No relationship. Christa Hiner, Board of Trustees. No relation. Terry Goodllo, board president, trustee, no relation. Jeff Neil,

trustee, no relation. Jay Houston, trustee, no relation. Marissa Smith, trustee, no relation. Thank you. For the record, a quorum is present. At this time, I would like to instruct all participants to please avoid talking when another person is speaking so that the tape recording will accurately reflect the proceedings. Further, please endeavor to make your oral statements as clear and complete as possible. Remember that the tape recording will not reflect gestures or any other form of nonverbal communications. This hearing will be conducted as an administrative presentation in accordance with applicable policies and laws. It will be

based on the record made from the previous hearings. The board members have been supplied with a copy of this record in advance of this hearing. The record includes the grievance and documents filed on April 7th of 2026. This is not a formal legal proceeding and no strict rules of evidence or procedure will apply. Each party will have an opportunity to make its presentation to the board. The parties will not be permitted to cross-examine each other. There will be an opportunity for the members of the board to ask questions of council or any presenter. However, the

members of the board are not subject to questioning by either council or any person in attendance. The board's decision must be supported by the record. The vote will be taken in open session following the hearing this evening. The complaint, Mrs. Lane will present her argument based on the record first. This presentation will be followed by the administration's presentation. The complaintant will be allocated 15 minutes and the administration will also be allocated 15 minutes to make their presentation. Each party may reserve some of their time for rebuttal. Each party is allowed only one rebuttal. Mrs. Lane's

rebuttal will follow administration's presentation. Administration's rebuttal will follow Miss Lane's rebuttal. No additional rebuttal will be granted regardless of the amount of time a party has remaining. Please clarify we are in open session. Please keep in mind that this is an official school board proceeding and all in attendance are expected to maintain proper boardroom decorum and professionalism at all times. The only individuals permitted to speak during this hearing are those individuals presenting. Members of the board and Anyone the board asked to speak. Should anyone feel the need to behave inappropriately or interrupt such proceedings, you

may be asked to leave. Does anyone have any questions as to how this hearing will be conducted? Very good. Okay. Now that we have reviewed the procedures for the hearing, it is time to determine the qualifications of the board members to hear and consider this matter. I will ask each member of the board whether you can consider the information presented at this hearing and make a decision in a fair and impartial manner. In if any member of the board feels that he or she cannot do so, the board member should so state at this time

and not participate in the hearing. Do I have anyone? Yes. You will participate or you will abstain? I will participate and I can remain uh impartial. Okay. Simone Mabry impartial. Christa Heiner impartial. Terry Goodllo impartial. Jeff Neil impartial. Jake Houston impartial. Marissa Smith impartial. Thank you. Let the record reflect that each of the board present has indicated that he or she can consider the information presented at this hearing and make a decision in a fair and impartial manner. Mrs. Lane, who will be making the presentation for you. Miss Head, you have 15 minutes to make

your presentation to the board. Miss Head, the board's attorney, Stu Madison, will keep the time and will indicate to you when you have approximately two minutes left. If in your allowed time, Miss Lane, you may proceed with your presentation at this time. or miss head. Hello. Okay, there we go. All right. My name is Georgia Head and I am um representing Kayla Lane tonight. I'm her advocate. I'm a volunteer advocate. So, greetings board president. I would like to uh before I start, I would like to reserve eight minutes for rebuttal, please. If somebody would please

give me a um heads up when that happens. Are y'all gonna put the time on the No. Okay, got it. All right. Just want to make sure. All right. Good evening, y'all. Um, I just want to start out by saying the current Texas government, as you well know, is not very tolerant of the public school system right now. in fact that it seems that everyone from our governor to the education commissioner to the Texas House to our very own House representative is trying hard to tear apart public ed. I'm a 30 plus year public ed

teacher and leader. I belong to a volunteer organization who advocates for public ed. I will fight for public ed. But let me tell you something. School districts such as yours behaving badly is part of the reason that Texas government is trying so hard to tear apart public ed. Abbott and Morath would like nothing more to come in here and take this district over. But you know what? I don't want that. I will, like I said, fight against that because I believe in local control. You all were elected by your community to control this district. It

is really important that you do that. It's not a popularity contest. It's serious. It's very serious. The state and their cronies are watching. With that being said, you need to seriously consider the actions that have occurred that I will present in this grievance. These things were done to Mrs. Lane. It should not matter what you all think about her or whether you like her. Put the shoe on the other foot. What if this happened to you individually as a trustee? What if this happened to a parent who is one of your closest friends? What would

you do then? How would you react? What would you think? What do you think the TEA will think when they see this? And let me walk you through this complaint. This is real simple, real cut and dry. I hope that you've had time to look over it in your board books. But what happened on um March the 24th? Oh, excuse me. On Sunday, March the 22nd, Kayla Lane as a board trustee had a parent that contacted her with a concern. So, she sent an email to two people, only two people in this district. Brian Hunt,

your safety and security um director, and Officer Canos, who as you know is a Godly ISD police department chief. Okay. Two people. She sent it to two people. It was private. Four days later, it shows up on a podcast done by Ash Ashley Keterside, which has been mentioned earlier tonight. She has since been arrested. She's still sitting in jail. She's charged with racketeering and prostitution. Okay. Now, I did several public information requests requesting emails as I can do as a public citizen. I'm a resident of this county. I have a vested interest in any school

district in this county in this state. I did a public information request asking for emails between those two individuals that I mentioned and Ashley Catcher side. Guess what came back? Zero said district said no emails occurred. However, Ashley Keterside posted a picture for all to see, very, very public the exact Email that Kayla Lane had sent to Brian Hunt and Officer Canos. I find it interesting that um in some of the public information requests that I did, there were no emails from them to catcher side, but the headings at the top, you can kind of

tell when they're searching up emails to fulfill a public information request, there's a specific heading that comes up. This one was like uh my initials, a date, and then the um recipient's initials and so on and so forth. And then the copy that Ashley Ketcher side posted on Facebook on her little podcast, Champagne and Pearls, which was basically just 100% out to get Trustee Lane. She put the copy of the email. It looks by the heading, same type of header that I got in my PIS that somebody printed this and probably, I'm just having to

guess because I have no way to know 100% sure, handed it to catcher side. And that's not right. Okay. Is there anything else you want to add right now? So, this investigation has been made very public. There has been press releases by the district attorney that this is an organized crime organization meant to target people that they deemed adversaries such as myself. Why was the school district aiding a criminal in this operation? That is the question I have and I have had for a Very long time. What involvement does this district have with an organized

crime ring? And we will save the rest for rebuttal. Thank you, Miss Lane and Miss Head. Members of the board, I'm going to ask that you hold your questions, if any, until the conclusion of the presentation by both sides. Mr. Right now, will you be making the presentation on behalf of the administration? You have 15 minutes to make the presentation on behalf of the administration. The board's attorney, Stu Madison, will keep the time and will indicate to you when you have approximately two minutes left in your aotted time. Mr. Ride Out, you may proceed with

your presentation at this time. Excuse me, Terry. Anyone who's speaking, the sun is hitting you in a very bad spot. I didn't want to interrupt Miss Lane when she was speaking. Feel free to move forward or backwards if you need to so that you're not being blinded by the sun. Okay. And now I'll request uh actually five minutes for the rebuttal. Okay. Uh members of the board, uh the administration uh basically followed the uh the law. There was a uh a PI for all emails to and from Kayla Lane uh from December 23rd to the

current March 2026 uh by Ashley Keterite. And that's uh how the district responded to to the P. Um the email dated 32226 that uh was mentioned by uh the complaintants here before me uh was included in the in the P and uh that's I mean that's basically how they how they came about it. Uh there's uh the email that was dated uh 3:226 from uh from Miss Lane to Brian Hunt stated that uh they had a concern about a citizen that uh reach out to Miss Lane uh stating that they saw Miss Keter side quite

often during the school hours uh inside the Legacy Elementary School and that considering videos uh and her mental instability and her criminal history that she was very concerned. Uh this was basically she knew that it was going to be a public document and it was something that could be uh guarded and uh then subject to public scrutiny. Uh if you don't want something to be scrutinized, then you probably should not be sending out uh emails to uh to the public domain. U if So basically there was no there's no uh there's nothing there's no evidence

that there was any kind of uh internal uh communications that were shared inappropriately or that somebody uh distributed the uh the email uh outside of the recognized protocols. Uh and uh anything else is really just speculation uh by the complaintants. And there's no obviously there's no uh there's no motive dark motive or any kind of uh working with any kind of uh criminal enterprise that like they like they mentioned here before me. Everything was done accordance to uh to the legal process. That's uh that's that's what there is. Miss Lane, you have eight minutes for

rebuttal should you choose to use it. If so, the timekeeper will indicate to you when you have one minute left in your aotted time. Eight. Yeah. Okay. So, I actually have um I appreciate what Mr. Rojos said, but it's incorrect. Um I actually have the copy because we also did a PIR for all PIs from Ashley Keteride. So, I do have that. Um what Mr. Rohos was saying could be great, but it's not because the dates Don't line up. the PI we got back. Um, Ashley Keterside did a PIR and said, "Can I please have

all emails to and from Kayla Lane from December 2023 to current March 2026?" The problem with that is she sent that email on March the 7th. Okay. So, the date we're talking about would not be quote current. And then um Kayla's email was dated 3:22, which was a good um what 3 weeks after Ashley's current. So that that just you can pretty much disregard what he had to say. So again, I'm going to say Kayla sent an email to two people totally after Ashley Keteride's PIR. Okay, she sent that PI on March the 7th. Kayla

sent it on March the 22nd, a good three weeks later. Two people, Brian Hunt and Officer Canteros. Four days later, Ashley did not do another PIR. Four days later, she had Kayla's email literally in her hands and posted it for all to see. So again, I would like to ask you, think about if this was you and a criminal involved in racketeering and prostitution, running an organized crime ring, had one of your emails. I mean, yeah, it's all fine and good as a trustee. You shouldn't put something out there that you don't want the public

to see. I agree with Mr. Rohos on that. This wasn't something like that. And that that is incorrect. And just think if it were you or a parent, a good friend of yours, another teacher that this happened to. Somebody in this district was putting information into Ashley Keteride's hands and she didn't discover that with the P. Also, as I have stated since the beginning of this very unfortunately very public event with Ashley Ketride is that surely as a district we can agree on the safety of children and when you have a criminal inside your school

that's a safety issue. My email as a trustee was regarding a very very important safety issue. That is not something meant to the public. You go back to executive session to discuss safety issues because it is close to the public. So again, the dates don't even line up. Her PI was on March 7th. The date of my email was on March 22nd. The 10th business day is March 20th. So it's even after the 10 business days you have to respond to a PI. The dates do not add up, but again, this is a safety and

security issue. You have a a criminal who is currently still behind bars that the district was giving security information to. That's very concerning. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Rat Out. You have 11 little well over 11 minutes for your rebuttal. We'll let you know when you have a minute left. Sir, I hate to interrupt you, but I don't think that your microphone is on. That that better. Yeah, sounds that's all. I'm not sure when their request for the uh for the new uh or for their P was uh was there. There might have been another

one that uh that was requested by catcher after the 7th. U and that's how she got it. Uh other than than that, you know, labeling uh somebody a criminal before they're tried or anything. I'm not going to go that far as far as them being uh in the school and getting things from the school district. Uh but that's it seems to me like uh this is just really a personal matter that uh that has been going on between uh Miss Lane and uh the other parties and really does not involve the uh the board or

the or the or the really the school district uh In spite of wanting to drag the school district into uh what ends up being just a a personal uh vendetta from both sides. Uh so I think the board should just uh uh basically affirm the uh that the the past uh grievance. Thank you. Thank you members of the board. Are there any questions that we need to address? We're going to move into our um second grievance hearing. Again, my name is Terry Goodllo. I'm president of the board of trustees at Godley ISD. For the record,

today is Monday, June 8th. The board is now convened in open session for the purpose of hearing a level three complaint filed by Anne Kubisk. The proceeding will be tape recorded to ensure that an accurate record is kept. For the record, each person is asked to state their name, reason for attendance, relationship to Mrs. Kubisk, and whether they have a friendship with Mrs. Kubisk if applicable. We'll start with the board members each. Start with Jamie. Jamie Roy, trustee, no relationship. Simone Mabberry, trustee, no relationship. Christa Hiner, trustee, no relation. Terry Goodllo, trustee, no relation. Jeff

Neil, trustee, no relation. Jake Houston, trustee, no relation. Marissa Smith, trustee, no relation. Thank you. For the record, a quorum is present. At this time, I would like to instruct all participants to please avoid talking when another person is speaking so that the tape recording will accurately reflect the proceedings. Further, please endeavor to make your oral statements as clear and complete as possible. Remember that the tape recording will not reflect gestures or any other form of non-verbal communications. This hearing will be conducted as an administrative presentation in accordance with applicable policies and laws. I will

it will be based on the record made from the previous hearings. The board members have been supplied with a copy of the record in advance of this hearing. The records include the two grievances and documents filed on March 28th of 2026. This is not a formal legal proceeding and no strict rules of evidence or procedure will apply. Each party will have an opportunity to make his presentation to the board. The parties will not be permitted to cross-examine each other. There will be an opportunity for the members of the board to ask questions of council or

any presenter. However, the members of the board are not subject to questioning by either council or any person in attendance. The board's decision must be supported by the record. The vote will be taken in open session following the hearing this evening. The complainant, Mrs. Kubisc, will present her argument based on the record first. The presentation will be followed by administrative administration's presentation. The Complainant will be allocated 15 minutes and the administration will also be allowed 15 minutes to make their presentation. Each party may reserve some of their time for rebuttal. Each party is allowed only

one rebuttal. Mrs. Kubisk's rebuttal will follow administration's presentation. Administration's rebuttal will follow Mrs. Kubisk's rebuttal. No additional rebuttal will be granted regardless of the amount of time party has remaining. Please keep in mind that this is an official school board proceeding and all in attendance are expected to maintain proper boardroom decorum and professionalism at all times. The only individuals permitted to speak during this hearing are those individuals presenting members of the board and anyone that the board asked to speak. Should anyone feel the need to behave inappropriately or interrupt such proceedings, you may be asked

to leave. Now that we have reviewed the procedures for the hearing, it is time to determine the qualifications of the board member to hear and consider this matter. I will ask each member of the board whether you can consider the information presented at this hearing and make a decision in a fair and impartial manner. If the member of the board feels that he or she cannot do so, the board member shall so state at this time and not participate in the hearing. Jamie Roy, impartial. Simone Mabry, impartial. Christa Hiner, impartial. Terry Goodlo, impartial. Jeff Neil,

impartial. Jake Houston, impartial. Marissa Smith, impartial. Let the record reflect that each member of the board present has indicated that he or she can consider the information presented at this hearing and make a decision in a fair and impartial manner. Mrs. Kubis check is not here. It doesn't look like is that Miss Head? Are you going to be presenting on her behalf? Thank you. Um you'll have 15 minutes to make your presentation to the board. The board's attorney, Stu Madison, will keep the time and indicate to you when you have approximately two minutes left in

your allotted time. Mrs. Ahead, you may proceed with your presentation. Okay. And once again, Stu, if you could give me eight minutes, I'd like to reserve eight minutes. Okay, thanks. Um, Miss Cubichek could not be here tonight. I am her parent advocate. I have um advocated for her all the way through this grievance process. It started with a level one and went to level three which was heard on March 16th and then this is a new one. Um, I want like to start out by saying ISD can either be reputable and above board or the

law will force it to. And again, as I mentioned previously during the last grievance, the current Texas government is not very supportive of public ed right now. Um, and we all can obviously see that. And it's really, really hard for me as a pro public volunteer to go to Austin and stand before the House Education Committee and fight for the Public school system and fight against vouchers and etc. When the local ISDs are not following the law and trying to sweep every imperfection under the rug, it is really hard to defend you in Austin when

you are acting this way. If you as a board and as a district do not want to make the necessary corrections where you are not following the law, we are forced to go to the attorney general and in this particular case to file a Texas state bar complaint. The Texas Education Agency will also be notified and a formal complaint will be filed there. And I also suspect much civil litigation to follow. I don't expect perfection from schools. Like I said earlier, I've spent 30 plus years of my life in them. I'm a product of public

education. I sent my both both my boys to public ed. I love public ed. But what so I don't expect any kind of perfection from them. But what I do expect is accountability. And that is not a very hard ask. Do the right thing and then move forward. As all of you except the two that were uh just newly elected are aware, I stood before you and presented a grievance on March 16th, very recently. During that grievance hearing, attorney offered presented three documents that were not in the board books and they had not been presented

to me nor the parent in various public information request. This is in direct violation of Texas Government Code 552. It is also against Texas education code the grievance Policy and this is also establishing a pattern that I've noticed with this particular law form law firm sorry in a grievance I conducted in neighboring Joshua ISD several years ago Liser and Crash did the exact same thing. They left out major documents they used in the presentation. So this at best is downright unethical. It's just wrong. Back to the hearing here on March 16. While the board was

deliberating in close session, attorney offered allowed me to copy the documents in question. I had never seen them and the parent had never seen them. Yet, attorney offered use them to make her case. Once the mother reviewed these documents, she observed they were from a previous school year when her child was in middle school, not the school year of which the grievance pertained. Another glaring problem with these documents is that they prove once again the child had been accessing inappropriate information that triggered a flag to the administration and the parent was never ever informed. Board,

I urge you to read the grievance recently submitted in its entirety. It should be in your board book. Um, I should not even be standing here today discussing this. Attorney Alfred was in the wrong. It was pointed out to her that she was wrong. Yet, nothing was done to correct this. There were plenty of opportunities. The assertations attorney offered used these documents to make on 316 were wrong. And then to add insult to injury to the family, once These wrong this wrong information was publicized, local infamous podcaster Ashley Keterside, who has since been arrested and

is still sitting in jail, felt it necessary to denigrate this family and use this false information in a public episode of her Champagne and Pearls video series. And I have to ask you, is this the kind of information this district would like to align itself? Because that's exactly what you're doing. The original grievance being heard on 31626 was simple. We had very minimal requests. Basically, just do better. Let parents know what's going on with their kids. And that's really not a hard ask. Just work with the parents and keep them informed. Yet here we are

with even greater problems simply because Godly ISD chooses to not acknowledge there is a problem with their students routinely accessing dangerous and inappropriate information during school hours. Please consider the right thing for the sake of the kids. Okay. And I want to show you there's a document in your board book. I'm not sure what page because I don't have that in front of me, but it's the addendum to the Cubich grievance. It's number five. I had I caught an error in my dates. I say 9226 and it should be 9225. So the school year that

was in question during this grievance was school year 2526. Miss Cubichek's son was in high school. Okay. Um I want to show you these three documents. And again, these were not in the board book. They had never ever been Provided to me nor the parent during multiple public information requests when we asked an overarching allin information type question. She had three documents that she used these three documents. One was stated 10:24 of 2023, 1023 of 2024, and 929 2023. We were talking about school year 2526. Documents from 2324 should have never ever been used. So

number one, the fact that they weren't provided to the parent nor me and they were not in the board book is bad news. Secondly, and I don't think that attorney offered did this intentionally. I don't think she had she did it with any kind of malice. I think it was an oversight, but the minute she saw and was pointed out that hey, these were when he was in middle school, she had opportunity right then to correct it. What she was saying is that even after they withdrew him from school, he was still accessing inappropriate information.

Now, while she was standing there saying that, Marty with it and Dr. Deer was listening to it all. Anytime they could have said, "Thank you." At any time, they could have said, "Oh, well, that's not right. A student can't access their um Chromebook credentials once they're withdrawn." But that was never pointed out. After attorney offered gave me copies of these and I saw what had happened, I had Decided not to do anything until the podcast was made and that person decided to make it very public and the comments just went wild attacking this family and

the child. That's not right. And that's exactly what you've aligned yourselves with. And I called Mr. Madison and I said, "Hey, can we work this out friendly? Work it out. Let's fix it. Let's get it all fixed. I had hoped that would happen. That didn't happen. So, here we are again. And I'm a volunteer. I don't get paid to do this. I came back from a long trip just to be here tonight. I don't like doing this. But again, I cannot go down to Austin and stand in front of the House committee and fight for

a public school district when y'all are acting like this. Wasn't a hard ask. Just apologize to the parent. Kids are going to be kids. They're going to access inappropriate information. I taught high school for 30 years. It's going to happen. But just say, "Oh gosh, we need to tighten our, you know, batten down the hatches a little bit more and tell mom." You know, call the mom. I'm a teacher. I know how hard that is. I hated calling parents. Pick up the phone if you got a kid back there that he's just looking at porn

all day. And you can tell by those logs what he was looking at. And I know the IT guy was trying to tell you that that's not exactly what was happening. But when you go through those logs, you can see he was not working. and a good teacher. And I know you have plenty because he told me, that child told me, "Oh, there's some classes I couldn't do that in." But then there were others he could sit back there and do it all day. Why doesn't the teacher walk around and say, "Hey, bud. What's going

on? Why are you failing? Let's call mom and let her know." That's all I asked. Call mom. Members of the board, I'll ask that you hold your questions, if any, until the conclusion of the presentation by both sides. Mr. Ride Out, will you be making the presentation on behalf of the administration? Yes, I am. You have 15 minutes to make the presentation on behalf of the administration. The board's attorney, Stu Madison, will keep the time and will indicate to you when you have approximately two minutes left in your allotted time. Mr. Ry, you may proceed

with your presentation at this time. All right. Thank you. And I'll ask for a five minute uh rebuttal set aside, please. Five minutes. Members of the board, uh the administration has followed the law as far as uh notifying uh the parent. They try to notify the parents as quickly as possible. It's uh not always uh possible to notify everybody immediately, but uh the administration tries to notify parents as soon as possible uh if their child has accessed any inappropriate material. uh to do it in a more uh in a faster way to to make sure

that the parents know right away you would have to probably hire more folks to uh help implement such a policy. Uh currently the way that it's done it's uh it's done properly and it's Uh it may not always be immediate but it is effective. Uh now as far as um as far as the the two documents out of the three documents that uh that were used in the in the grievance, uh I'm sure that uh uh Miss Alfred was not intentionally trying to do anything uh wrong or or to use them, but uh the fact

that they uh that they're also from a different or two different school years uh two years ago I think are uh indicate they're not really that uh relevant to the to the current situation of uh of the grievance. Um and the child the child uh students can access their Chromebook uh sometimes after they withdraw uh from GISD uh simply because uh it's not uncommon for students to withdraw from school and then uh reenroll back into the district in the next few weeks. And sometimes it's uh it's easier for technology to leave the uh the computers

active for a period of time rather than to deactivate their profile and then have to reactivate it uh again. uh for example, GISD uh had almost 3,300 students enrolled in the 2526 school year and Processed uh uh 3560 student withdrawals uh and student enrollments uh during the year. So it's unrealistic for anyone to have real uh time knowledge about exactly what's what's happening uh all the time. So that's it for now. That's it for now. Miss Head, you have six minutes and one second remaining for your rebuttal should you choose to use it. Mr. Madison

will let you know when you have one minute left. Okay. Thanks. All right. So, Mr. Mr. Rojos started out by saying that the district followed the law. They notify parents and they have a system. It's not always not uh possible to notify parents immediately. Um that was what our original grievance was about. But this particular grievance has nothing to do with that. Um but I would like to say a couple of things about that. No, I know what it's like to be a teacher. Um you teach whatever seven hours a day, eight hours a day,

all those classes. You can't do it immediately. It's impossible. Okay? And like I mentioned while ago, there's some really good teachers out there. They know what their kids are doing. They know what to watch um for. But if you've got a kid, and this one, this particular one was like that, and I went over that in depth on um March the 16th in that grievance. But if he had really good grades at first, and then all of a sudden he's failing and he's not turning in his work, and he's not, you know, a good teacher's

going to say, "Hey bud, what's going on?" Or at least watch him. The mom had contacted the school and asked for help long before she withdrew him. And you know, if I was that leader in that school, I would have told that teacher, "Okay, this this child, you need to watch him." And I've had some kids like that in my career. And when they would come in, I would be like, "Hey, buddy, your your place. If I'm standing up, you're beside me. If I'm at my desk, you're beside me." Okay? That's not hard. And at

the end of the day, send mom and dad an email. That's not hard. Okay? I know teachers are overworked. I know that. I've been there. I am there. I've done it. And I don't expect perfection again. Okay, but back to this grievance at hand. Um, so I don't believe that it would um I know it's impossible to notify parents immediately. He was saying you'd have to hire more folks to implement. No, just just notify them at the end of the day. You know, that's that's not a hard ass. That's all we were asking. Um, he

said these three documents were not relevant to the current situation. That's my whole point. These three documents were used in this grievance. The grievance we had was for school year 2526. Attorney offered use documents from the school year 2324, 2425, and 2324 again. So, she's the one that brought in information number one that we never had and number two that were not relevant. So, I agree with Mr. Rojos. Of course, these documents are not relevant. That's why I have a problem. And again, this Shows right here. These happened in 23 and 24. That parent was

never notified. Okay, so he was talking about can't do it immediately. What about we're looking at three years now? Still hadn't been notified. Three years, nobody made a call that little Johnny was searching up big boobs and violence. Okay. Um, and as far as sometimes students can access after they're withdrawn, again, that's beside the point because these were from different school years, his login credentials were cut completely off the day after he um or the day uh that he was withdrawn. Those credentials were cut off. He was not accessing the school Chromebook after that. But

yet, attorney offered, and again, I made a big point of that while ago. I'm not saying she did it maliciously, but once it was pointed out as an error, nothing at all was done to correct it ever. And that is a very big pattern that I see going on with Godly ISD. Again, I don't expect perfection. None of us are perfect. No district is perfect. But just just take some responsibility, do what's right, fix it, and move on. That's that's not hard. Just like in the original grievance, nothing was a hard ask, and yet it

was denied. I suspect this one will be tonight as well. That's that's all I've come to expect. I have worked with other school districts where the board actually apologized. Glenrose board apologized to a teacher that I was representing a grievance and they made everything right. That's the kind of stuff that I like to see. And again, it's really hard for me to go fight for public ed in Austin when this behavior is going on because now the TEA will receive this. Um, I think that's all I have to say about that. Thank you, Mr. Ride

Out. You have 11 minutes and 24 seconds remaining for your rebuttal if you choose to use it all. Mr. Madison will give you a time when your one minute is left. All right. Thank you. First I want to correct that uh I think there was a misstatement saying that uh that I said that those were not relevant they weren't relevant as to the outcome of the grievance upon which the original uh complaint was made. So even if those were used or not used it's not going to change the outcome of the original grievance. Uh they're

from past years. They're not relevant to now. And so really, you're not you're not changing anything uh other than they came up mistakenly and now they're trying to be used as a crutch, as a basis for trying to get the board to overturn uh the grievance. Uh that's that's not a uh a wise uh a wise time of the really of the board's uh function. Uh and also the uh also the the one last thing that I'd like to kind of mention is that uh whatever was posted by the person that Uh that posted the

the things about the child and the family, I mean those are things outside of the board's purview. Those are things that are not uh obviously everybody has first amendment right and uh private citizens can take it against private citizens. Uh that's what they're our courts for. Uh but I don't think it's anything where the board has any uh anything to be involved with at this time. So that's it. Thank you. Thank you. The board will go into close session and answer any questions. Yeah, I have some questions for our attorney. Okay, we'll go into close

session. You can ask those. Close session will start at 7:18. Thank you. It is now 8:19. The board reconvenes in open session to consider the items discussed and closed. Um, first we'll hear the grievance consider grievance hearing of Kayla Lane. Do I have a motion? I move that the board deny in part and grant in part Mrs. Lane's requested relief on the issue as follows. Granting her requested relief on additional training and all other requested relief is denied. I have a motion by Christa. Do I hear a second? I'll second the motion. I have a

second by Jamie. Any other discussion? I have a motion by Christa and a second by Jamie to approve in part and deny in part. All those in favor? Motion passes unanimously. Next, we'll hear the grievance hearing of Mrs. Kubichek. I move that the board deny in part and grant in part Mrs. Cubichek's requested relief on the issue as followed. We grant written correction and direct the attorney to issue written correction on behalf of the attorney and all other relief is denied. Oh, thank you. Um, all other requested relief on both of Mrs. Cubichek's grievances is

denied. Do I have a second? I'll second the motion. I have a motion by Christa and a second by Jamie to approve in part and deny in part the grievance of Miss Kubichek. All those I'm sorry. Any other discussion? All those in favor? Motion passes unanimously. Thank you, Mr. Madison. Next we'll move into our budget workshop for 2627. Spencer, good evening board. Um so this is our budget workshop um with proposed budget uh that is posted online. And so I wanted to go through uh a few different items and talk through some of the questions

that you have. I'm sorry. I just want to ask a quick question. There were a couple of comments made this evening in public um comment about our budget not being posted correctly. Can you speak to that? And um I saw multiple line items being um on our website and so I just I'm a little confused as to where the halfpage comments and things like that are coming. So can you explain where they could find that a little easier? So all of the information um is posted on our website under the budget and um tax page

um which is accessible from our Homepage that you can get to. So um all of that information should be available. Yes. And we are following all legal guidelines on posting our correct. As far as we're aware, the uh OMA um specifically states that um you can include a physical copy of the proposed budget unless the proposed budget is accessible on the homepage of the district website. So, um we do have it posted as far as we know. Thank you for answering that. You're welcome. All right. So, uh, going through some of the things that I

just want to make sure that we're we're looking at and, um, thinking about when we're going through the budget is, um, again to develop parameters that enable the the district to be financially solvent, um, to meet the short-term and long-term goals aligned to the vision, missions, and goals for Godley ISD. And so um through that this workshop is going to be related to reviewing the proposed accounts and then for you as the board to consider any um changes before uh the budget is considered for adoption after the budget hearing. So, we're going to go through

uh enrollment and some trends. Uh looking at the current year 2526 expectations uh and then move into the 2627 items, going through staffing, um looking at a cost effectiveness review and seeing what We've done over the past couple of years. Uh looking at the revenue and expenditure projections, um looking at some long range planning items, and then again going through those additional options and next steps. So, this is a three-year look of our enrollment and our attendance rates. So, you can see our enrollment uh for this year was right at 3,300. We're expecting that to

go up um conservatively uh by 3,000, excuse me, by 150 to 3,450. Uh you can see our attendance rates. Uh, one of the your board goals was to look at increasing attendance. And so in 24-25, we were 94 and a half%. Um, our principles and our parents have done a great job in getting the kiddos to school um this year, 2526. And so you can see that we finished just over 95% attendance, which is um marketkedly better than than where we were at previously. And so we're projecting um next year to continue to see that

growth in attendance and and making sure that we get the kids in the classroom. Some of the things that uh are impacted by these numbers, so state funding, classroom ratios, staffing ratios, program ads, and space issues. One of the ones is the the 22 to1 ratio, which is based on enrollment. Um, so we have to have 22 to one in each classroom, but on any given day, we have, you know, nine, we have 5% of the kids that are out. And so, um, just as we go into the next, um, legislative session, that's something that

they're potentially, um, hopefully looking at instead of us funding us off of ADA Potentially going to enrollment funding. So, some of the things that we're seeing this year, uh, and I'll talk about this a little bit more in detail, is increase in our Johnson County Shared Service agreement for our special education cooperative payments. Um, we're continuing to to uh invest in SEP raises. Um, and there's additional positions and needs that you as a board have identified. Um, and so those come with additional costs. uh increases in food service costs as well as uh lower participation

in the the NLS NSLP, so the National School Lunch Program. Um so specifically that's for um families that are um qualifying for free and reduced lunch but are not filling out the um paperwork and then returning it to us so that their kids can get either free or reduced lunch prices. Um, so that's something that we're going to focus on this year and making sure that um we get everybody who is qualified um there. And so we'll be we'll be doing a couple of outreach things. Uh and then just maintenance of of current buildings and

assets um are are some things that are going to be additional costs. some of the positive moves that we've seen uh that we've had the increase in student attendance um as well as the campus and departmental um directors, coordinators, principles, etc. um have been utilizing their budgets much more efficiently uh and effectively uh over over the past Year. And um there's been a couple examples of of us utilizing purchasing cooperatives where um I know one purchase order came in the other day and we ended up getting it on contract through a cooperative for about $6,000

less than what we would have paid. And so, um, everybody's doing a great job of realizing these things and making sure that we're utilizing, uh, our our budget correctly. And then our insurance and utility costs are are now leveling out. Um, so I had a meeting with our insurance provider and we're looking at a relatively small increase or hopefully level on uh insurance. And so that would be that would be a great thing. some of the uh items and revenue. So from the beginning when we had our certified values from um the the counties, so

we're under three counties, Hood, Tarant, and Johnson with the majority of it in Johnson County. Um at the beginning it was a little over it was 1.973 billion. So 1 bill973 million. Um now it's around 1 bill922 million. So, we lost around $50 million of taxable value, which the state makes up a lot of that because it's an inverse relationship, right? So, um as your local share goes down, the state share goes up. Um except for our tier 2 pennies, um that uh are called enrichment. And so, we lose what's called the guaranteed yield on

that piece. Uh the other thing is uh we budgeted uh ADA at 3,50. We actually came in around 334. Some of this again is related to um the fact that Lynx students graduate during the year. So we don't get the full ADA for them depending on when um when they graduate. And so we're kind of still fine-tuning and and making sure that we can get that calculation a little bit closer. And so when we look um we're being conservative on the ADA for next year to to try to alleviate that. uh we had a greater

than expected participation in in preK and interest revenue earned and then looking at sponsorship and donations um dipped a bit, but we're actually in our next cycle of um sponsorship um contracts and so we should see that um go up moving forward on the expenditure side. When we look at the proposed final budget that um we'll bring to you next week during uh the 15th board meeting, um you'll see that what we what I did on their proposed is we have anywhere from a $500 to $600,000 um budget surplus that we're going to add back

into fund balance. Uh over the past couple of years, there has been some expenditures um and additional invoices that come into us late that um have not been identified early on. And so what happens is that causes our function level budget to to be over. And so to avoid that, what we're doing is um going ahead and allocating all of that into the different level functions. um Fully expecting when the audit reconciles the budget, all of that will go back into fund balance. But what that does, it protects us from going over budget on on

any function. Uh a lot of departments came in under budget this year. I was uh super super proud of that. Uh and then we did have a a lot of cost in kitchen equipment. A lot of our kitchen equipment um is older and so there were a lot of repairs associated with that. Uh we're looking into uh potential options of of getting um new kitchen equipment that way that's more efficient and then potentially doesn't have as as many repairs. But that was something that we experienced pretty pretty heavily this year. Some of the the items

as we move into 26 27 um special education funding. So, um, in true, um, state funding fashion, they, uh, tell us that we're going to get an increase. Um, but we're not going to know what that increase is until after our fiscal year is over. Uh, the in HB2, it was written to where special education funding has to be at least $250 million more in the 2627 year than it was in 2526. The problem is is that we won't know um what that final funding number is until September of 2027, which is when we get

the near final settlement. And TEA has already told us this. Um it's on their uh FAQs. So, what we're going to do um is we're going to base our numbers uh off of currently known information and prior year calculations. That's generally what's the the guidance that's Out there. Uh but what this also means as we plan for the 2728 year at this time next year, we still won't want know what those numbers are. So we fully expect um that we're going to have some additional changes in the 2728 year. So, all that being said, special

education funding, um we hope that it's going to go up for us with with the amount of students that we have um that we service in special education, but fine-tuning that number is going to be um a work in progress over the next 18 months. Are we going to play that very conservatively? We are. So, what we're doing is I'm I'm keeping it level. Um, so like as if we were not going to get any additional funding, but we know that our specific special education numbers continue to rise. Um, and so the the new model

is going to a tiered intensity model. And so theoretically, um, if we have students that are receiving a higher level of intensity, uh, then we will receive the funding associated with that as opposed to how it's currently done and it's based on instructional setting. So there's a a shift in how and how it's going to be uh funded there. And I think yeah, so um we're going to uh continue to try to be conservative on on that side. Can I ask a quick question and it may be related, but I know that one of the

biggest um increases in our budget was through for JCSSA. So, when you're talking about um the funding from the state and you said you're trying to keep it level, but if in fact that funding comes through, then I guess it's still an increase to our overall budget. Correct. It it is we'll be getting the income to cover it. Correct. So, not necessarily yet. It would something. So how um big picture how school funding works is that um we receive what's called the nearfalum which is based on our summer ps that we submit in June. We

receive that in September of any given year. As we move forward into April of any given year, that's when we get what's called the final summary of finance, which is based on taxes and audit and everything else. And so, um, as an example, this 2526 school year that we're ending this month, um, we will get the nearfal in September of 26, we won't know the final final funding number until April of 27. And so, um, my job is to utilize summary of finance templates and make sure that we're calculating that as best as possible. And

so, um, that's the process that we'll go through as we move forward with with special education. Um but I have some specific items on JCSSA um here in in just a bit because essentially um the amount that we're increasing in non-payroll for the 26 27 year is solely related to JSCSA. Everything else is being level. You you may not know the data right here. So sorry to put you on the spot. Do you um I'm after what our special education enrollment looks like. Are we anticipating a increase? So, as of right now, um the last

meeting that we have the the co-op, we were sitting at 736 um special education students that are being served through J uh JCSSA. What does that compare to last school year? Um I just trying to see if it's Yeah, I don't have that number off the off the top of my head. I know um our percentage of GSASSA continues to rise um because as we continue to grow and have more students in the special education program um the payment that we have to with JCSSA also increases and I assume it we won't have the data

for the new the upcoming school year until when till like is it October September so the um first what's called the fall pes which is October snapshot when um we to really get the first amount of data um is is in October. Um so we will know how many students we have that are being serviced in that program and all the other programs. Um one of the things with the the new um bill moving to the intensity of services is that um individual education program IEPs um they have to um 50% of them have to

be redone to the intensity model by October. And so, um, there's going to be a concurrent use of we're reporting both Items in the 2627 year again to try to meet that $250 million more statewide. But to answer your question, we receive more and more special education students each year, I believe. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Uh the other thing uh vouchers so ESAs uh those start this year 2627 and so um just as a reminder if we have any students that leave with vouchers um there is no hold harmless. Um and so essentially what that

means is they leave we don't get that money because they left to go do vouchers. Um it's just like they were unenrolled from our school. So there's no hold harmless provision associated with that. Uh and then kind of on top of that, student counts. Another thing um that we talked about earlier is that the funding is tied to attendance and not enrollment. And so that can that can change uh annually. There has been some talk in the interim charges that um that might be something that they look at, but um I wouldn't count on it

for for right now. And sir, yes. Before you move on from that, just on the vouchers thing, I'm sure y'all will track this, but is there that has to be applied for, correct? like for the correct. Yes. So there will be data that we're going to know and have quarterly updates or whatever it is or is it like there was a deadline. That's it. There was a deadline um and we can get that number. I believe we we can get that number. One of the other things that we're doing to um try to help the

students that are going to be in this migratory process, if they go to vouchers and then come back or even homeschool and come back or um move around from different ISDs, um we're looking at a um migratory voucher um demographic study so that we can capture those kids, identify them, and then make sure that they receive the support that they need if they're coming back or or moving around and so that is something that we're looking at. Yeah. Also the how many voucher into us I'm sure will be yeah part of that. We can definitely

try to get that number for you. Interesting. Yeah. All right. So um just wanted to to throw this up. So, our our budget and tax rate notice um as um is written in uh Texas education code, there has to be at least 10 days um that the notice is in the paper before we can hold the budget um hearing. Um unfortunately, there was a staff member who was out at the newspaper that we use. Uh we approved it on a Friday. It was supposed to run um that next Wednesday. Uh it did not get in

there. um it was just an oversight on their part and so we had to um get that Published and so that's why there's going to be a special meeting um on the on the 17th instead of everything on the 15th. But um this is on our website. Um it has our proposed um last year um rates with the proposed rate as well as the the rate to rate to maintain. Uh this is our tax uh excuse me our taxpayer impact statement. This is another new um item from the legislature. Um this is based on information

from our county appraisal districts as of May 31st. And so May 31st is before the certified date which is July 25th of any given year. So this is based on um the median taxable value of homestead categories that were provided to us. Um these numbers will change because certified values are going to be a little bit different from the preliminary values but um once we receive that information we will make sure to get this updated. This is also going to be included um in the notice um every single month that we potentially talk about budget.

Um there's no publishing uh online option for the tax imp excuse me our taxpayer impact statement. Um it's also posted um outside our district administration. So Spencer, it looks like to me um the estimated property tax bill for an average homeowner would be going down. That that's correct. So when we look at values here in just a little bit, um the the majority of where we saw the increases um were on the commercial side. And so um there was um not very much associated with um the homesteads and so yes, that's why we would see

the average um or the median go down. So, thank you. That's Yeah. And and another thing um as we as we look here in just a little bit um proposing that um we potentially start lowering um our enrichment tax rate um to to help out um taxpayer and we can kind of see what that looks like as we move forward. Staffing. Uh so again um we're looking at proposing um step increases and um increasing the the stipens uh for coaching um UIL and then uh fine arts um something that stipens hadn't been touched in quite

a while. And so um we're trying to bring up uh our stipens to make sure that we're competitive with with other districts in the area. And so, um, just as as we continue, um, to look at this, our payroll budget went up, um, by about, uh, $1.1 million this year, um, associated with step raise increases, um, new positions, benefit increases, stipen increases, etc. And so, as we look at potentially increasing Salaries as we move forward in the form of raises, um, you can see how that adds up um, very quickly. These are some of the

the new FTEES again for student safety and and teacher support. So, we added a middle school assistant principal um our own special education coordinator uh for the 26 27 year uh in preparation for us to potentially um look at separating from JCSSA and the 2728 year. Uh we added instructional technology specialists um for uh training for teachers and then athletic trainer CTE that we um had proposed last time. Uh some of the items potentially that we can recapture that are already approved in the budget um bus driver and maintenance depending on um on needs. And

so if we don't have a need for another route then obviously we wouldn't need to to hire another bus driver. Um, and then, um, same thing with maintenance, but I know those those guys are working hard, so I don't necessarily want to want to take that, uh, away from them, especially when they need help. Uh, future needs. These are just some of the items uh, that we put up there. Um, teachers, special education, classroom support, um, CTE. Uh again, all of the items as we look at how do we support the students uh and the

teachers, this is something that we're constantly looking at to see what um we can afford in the budget and then also make sure um regardless of cost, we're supporting the needs of of the students. So, one of the things uh I wanted to look at in cost effectiveness is what we're currently spending and how we're spending it and making sure that we're doing it um efficiently. So, what uh I looked at is uh only doing small increases to campus budgets based on the number of students that they have, demographics, etc. Um they all came in

under budget. Um, and so I'm not trying to take money away from them, but until, again, we show the need that we specifically need that funding to support the students. Um, we're not just going to inflate budgets to inflate budgets. We're going to try to make sure that we're only budgeting what we're going to actually spend. There were other increases related to extracurricular. So, our band is significantly increasing. Um, athletics, um, academic, UIL, um, and then other just market costs for things being more expensive. Attorney expenses, all expenses across the board continue to to rise.

Yes. Um, one of the things I I did look at um was reducing uh administrative budgets. I talked about this last time, specifically in um central administration, we reduced that non-payroll budget. And so this is um just kind of a a brief graph of what it looks like for uh non-payroll changes. So again um this is just the general fund, our 199 fund. So on the left hand Side of the graph is the totals um the four million to the 10 million there. That's the the range for our non-payroll. on the right hand side um

is the range for our to total budget 25 million to to 45 million. The red line is our non-payroll. The the blue dash line is the total budget. And so what I want to what I want you to see is our non-payroll changes in 2425. Um we reduced that by about four and a half%. um the 2526 budget uh year was essentially a um correction year. And so if you take um that that 12% and we reduced it by four, we're essentially averaging that 4% in growth in our non-payroll budget each year. And then you

can see our total budget changes um are going up uh 8% 9% mainly due to payroll and JCSSA. Um, and so again, we'll we'll show you that here in just a little bit. Spencer, can you explain what you mean by a correction year for people that need that explanation? Sure. So, what when when I came in, so 2425 was the first full year. Um, and really it wasn't a full year because that was our 10 um our 10-month year. And so 2526 this year is is really the first full year. And so what we did

is we looked at um all the costs and made sure that they were um associated with What we actually needed to spend. Uh and we weren't just putting money to put money in accounts. Um the the example that I always give is a lot of times there can be a filing cabinet line item um in supplies 63.99 that's stuck there for years. Um well, you bought that filing cabinet 5 years ago, so we don't necessarily need that any more. And so we went through line by line and and looked at the specific costs that were

associated. Um and again that year um we saw significant increase about um 14% I believe in insurance. Um that was also the first full year of all of our utilities for um our new buildings. And so that's kind of how how that got there. But we we expand we took on 12 months of expenses in a 10-month budget, right? Like we knew that that was we only we only did 10. So, we only had 10 months. The only the only thing that was a full 12 months was payroll, but it was budgeted in a 10-month

or it was expens budget. So, there So, the the 10 months was just non-payroll expenditures. We got to keep and add back to fund balance those additional two months and they instead were put on the next year budget. Yes. That should all be evened out by now, correct? Yes, it is. Yep. Um, so this is our JSSA year-over-year cost uh from 2324. Again, that slight dip in 2425 is because we were only having 10 months of expenditures. So, as a fiscal agent, we weren't going to charge um the school districts, including ourselves, for a full

12 months if we were only going to spend 10 months. And so that's why you saw that go down a little bit. Um the yellow dashed line or excuse me the yellow line there is potential separation date. Um so you can see our our payments just a little over $3 million now to JCSSA and that is just the general fund money that we have there. Um we actually um have about 625,000 of um federal revenue that is allocated to the co-op itself. And so when we look at total all-in costs were about $3.6 million to

JCSSA currently. Um it's been going up about 250400,000 each year. And so I fully expect that to happen again in 2728 if we do not separate. which means that we have around $4 million of godly ISD money that we could have our own special education program and utilize that. Um that's something that we have to decide as a board by September 1st um of this year. And so um the co-op wants to wants us to to give them plenty of notice. We've let them know that we're considering it, but um we are looking at making

we have the numbers, the special Education numbers before we before we start to pull out. We obviously will also um be looking at if we have space in our buildings. That is that is another um piece uh specifically as we as we look at it. Um do we have space to have our uh behavioral units? Do we have space for uh the staff that need needs to come over? We think we have a couple of options uh that are relatively in inexpensive instead of building a complete new building. And so we'll we'll look at that

um for sure as we move forward. Is that going to be on our in our August meeting or our July meeting? So we have plenty of time to really look at everything. So this is uh again just the general fund. What I wanted to show you was the JCSSA increases. So our total non-payroll increase for this year 24 excuse me 2526 was a little over a million dollars. Um essentially a little under half of that was solely related to our increase of the JCSSA payment. As we move into the 2627 school year, the total non-payroll

increase that we had was just under 400,000. Our JCSSA increase itself was a little over 400,000 which means that we cut all of the non-payroll budget. We cut it by $424. So it's essentially flat. So we Kept our nonpayroll flat. And so through that what we did is we reduced uh budgets for example in central registration and other areas and moved them to more student focused areas all without increasing the budget. So we move budget from one area to another area. These are our taxable values. I talked about this a little bit earlier. The the

single asterisk is related to um the 2526 year showing that we were at that 1.973 uh billion and moved to the 1.922 billion. The preliminary numbers that we have from all three counties right now um is 2 bill1,5507,92 which is about a 4.62% increase again almost solely related to uh the uh uh excuse me the commercial. And so what we had, we actually had a 12,000%, excuse me, a,200% increase in our circuit breaker homestead um for those commercial pieces. So we'll talk a little bit about that more when we look at the specific tax rate

and different things of that nature, but the main point coming across is um it's pretty much related to commercial increases in value and not necessarily um related to to home home. Spencer, I could have misunderstood, but I wrote a note here. When earlier when you started, you said that we had lost 50 million in taxable value. Yep. So, what happens is we receive certified values from all the counties and that's what we report to TEA. Uh, and that's how we get our maximum compressed rate August 1st. So, we get our certified values the 25th of

July. We get an MCR rate. uh published that with TEA on August 1st. From that time in July of 25 when we received that, based our budget on that, based our tax rate on that, um the value went from 1.973 to the 1.922. And so again, um the state makes up a lot of that difference, but it's not exactly one one. And so that's why we saw a reduction in our uh estimated taxable uh income from uh our maintenance and operations. Speaking of of tax rates, uh again the 2627, this is what was published in

the tax rate notice. Uh the 7845 uh and then the 50 cents. There are again items that could potentially change this. If we receive our maximum compressed rate and that lowers the tax rate, um then we would lower the tax rate on the M side and we have a refunding opportunity in August uh to look at potentially paying down some additional debt sooner to save on interest. And so that's something that we'll be bringing to you uh in in August or September before we set the tax rates. The projections for uh the local revenue uh

is looks like this. So, our local tax revenue, a little over 15 million, other local revenue, which is our athletic event revenue, our interest revenue, prek, tuition, uh, sponsorships, etc. Uh, that's about 714. Our state funding, which is made up of the school foundation, uh, our ASF, FSF, uh, as well as the on behalf, uh, and the on behalf Medicare Part D. All of that's the 26 uh almost 27 million and then the federal funding is related to SHRs and uh Medicaid as well as indirect costs. So all in looking at around 43,294,000 of revenue.

So what does that look like on the expenditure side? Uh our our payroll is 33.7 million. uh our contracted services is just under 1.3 million supplies just over two million and we have other costs which are related to travel fees conferences um trainings for teachers stuff like that um at 858,000. Our utilities and insurance by itself is a little under 2.4 4 million and then you can see that JCSSA cooperative at $3 million coming in at the exact same number of the 43,294,329. So the initial proposed budget is a balanced budget and I'll talk to

you about potential options that we can look at moving forward. Spencer, can you speak to contracted services? You kind of gave examples of everything else except for Yeah. So great question. And so the contract to services um would be specific items for maintenance. So when we have um things that we send out to be repaired or um send things for our transportation department to be repaired or if we have uh individuals come in to present so um to our teachers curriculum different things of that nature. That's what uh contracted services would be. So So I

have a quick question. The did that answer the question? Oh, sorry. Um, does the projected payroll does that include two two part question here. Does that include the step raises that you mentioned earlier? It does. It does. What about the FTES? It does. Okay. So, both of those are in these projections. Correct. Yes, sir. Yep. One of the things that's been um really important for us, we've talked about um as a board is our fund balance. So, you can see in 23 um the ending 23 years. So 22 23 we were about 4.7 million. Um

after the 232 24 year it was down to 2.8 million. So the first thing that we did is came in we wanted to look at putting our fund balance back to a healthy level. And so you can see 2425 2526 we're adding back to that almost to that same level we were a few years ago. Uh, and then this next year, um, projecting Only about a $12,000 increase, and that's pretty much going to be related to if everybody uses all their budgets, um, except for $12,000, that would go back back to fund balance. Spencer, can

you tell us what a healthy fund balance covers? Why we keep like what's why is the $4.2 million a magic number? We don't want to go too far above. We don't want to go too far below. So I would actually like to see this almost double um what what it is. So typically what you want is around uh 25% which is three months uh worth of your total um uh expenditures. So of the $43 million we would want 25% of that in fund balance. Um historically that that is there. I will say that as you

see a lot of other school districts around are are adopting use of fund balance budgets um and are consistently having that go down just because the funding from the state is not necessarily um keeping up with inflation based on on what they're giving us. And so um keeping that money there helps with some of those options on the bottom. So, um, if we have deductibles from storms that come in, um, space where we need to add space, um, portables, raises, different things of that nature, that's what we would use, uh, fund balance for. And then

the so there's three funds uh, as a board that you consider for adoption. The general fund, the child Nutrition fund, and then the debt service fund. So this is the child nutrition fund which is um coded 240. This is our local revenue um which are um what parents and students pay for their lunches uh every single day. It's about 674,000. State funding. The state doesn't really give us um a lot of money. They give us what's called state matching. Uh and so you see the majority of it based on federal funding, which is what that

national school lunch program and the free and reduced claims are are for. And so as we continue to see increased cost in special or excuse me, in child nutrition, we want to try to see if if they can give us more money and then obviously serving those students. Um last year I believe uh we had a multi,000 um uh balance left on a lot of accounts. One of the things that user board has decided that we are not going to let uh any kid go hungry. So we're still going to give them something even if

they have um a deficit in their uh fund or in their food balance account. And so some of those students if we can identify them instead of them having to pay again if we can get them on the free and reduced then we can actually have the federal government pay us for for some of those students. So just before you move on from that I know that that has been a topic Previously about our um child nutrition being in the negative. Uh, so what I'm hearing you say, and we need to try and convey this

to our community members, is that if they can qualify for those additional funds that we are going to only benefit from filling out that form, getting that approval because we're going to feed them no matter what. So, this is just helping us not to have that. Correct. And and historically, one of the other pieces that the state gives us is what's called compensatory education, which is based on the low socioeconomic. And so, if they're going to qualify for free and reduced lunch, um the state's going to give us additional funding on the maintenance and operation

side to make sure that those students have what they need to get to school when they're here, they receive their support that they need, etc. So, it's it's it's almost twofold in that capacity. What's our what's our process though to to educate a parent or to to for that application? So, it's included in the uh enrollment package. U but it's not required. We can't require that someone fill it out. Uh and so it's there. We're also going to look at going back to paper copies, making those available at new student registration as well as um

at the front desk of every campus. But is there it it sounds like we could benefit from some sort of prompted process when there's a deficit that we could send out that application? I don't know. I'm just asking like we we can look at options for sure. Well, and maybe some kind of um explanation of what it is also like I mean there's a bajillion things you go through when you enroll, you know, that online. I definitely like the paper copy. I really think that that would be beneficial in addition to the digital version. But

yeah, maybe um some of our students that we already have identified that you know that we for like mentors care you know what I mean like those kids they probably are going to fall in that potentially and you could go ahead and say hey some kind of program well because we're eating it otherwise so that yeah if we could if we get that application filled out they qualify then we don't eat it we get funded for that and I think some of the other options too is that some of the parents and students might not

know that if they don't have a balance they can eat. Um, and so we might have some that potentially aren't doing that because they're afraid they don't have the funding. Um, but yet if we can get them qualified, that's something that we could take the stressor off of them. I feel like when we put together short little videos um, and put them out on social media or on the on the website, I feel like people watch them more than they read something we send home or that's included in the registration um, paperwork. So maybe at

the beginning or at the end of the summer before we start, you know, enrolling all of these children, maybe we need to put a little something out there that's like, you know, did you know um you know, filling out this form when you enroll your student can I mean even if you don't think you might qualify, go ahead and fill it out anyway kind of a situation. You read my mind. Yeah. Uh we are also going to make this a big emphasis at our back to school bash. Uh so there's going to be lots of

services uh uh there including free and reduced applications, bus routes, assistance with Skyward online registration. Uh Miss Penny has been working really hard on getting some other services there. So the Lions Club is going to be do up there doing vision screening. Uh we hope to have information or actual on-site athletic physicals. Uh some immunizations and uh and school supplies. So, uh we will have a a desk for our our child nutrition, but we will be communicating a lot about it. Uh all those kids uh that have previously qualified stay qualified for I think maybe

60 days or something like that. there's a time in October where we if they don't reapply they have to re requify and we have we have that list of whoever you know that we can communicate with but uh we also want to make it sure that everybody that knows that if they qualify uh that that they need to fill out the paperwork. It's really uh much easier uh to target elementary parents uh secondary parents it's much harder uh but if they have older siblings and an elementary parent fills it out then all their kids qualify.

So, but yes, we'll do a lot of communication about it. And to be clear, can they qualify at any time during the year or or apply for that anytime during the year? Yes, we can look at qualifying them anytime they fill out the application. Correct. Spencer, I had a question about I know food costs have increased for everybody and we've talked about not increasing the cost of our lunches. Is that something that we're looking at sooner than later? So, actually, um, our our trial nutrition director, um, just sent me an email today for what's called

the paid lunch equity, so PLE tool, uh, and because we have a positive fund balance in there. Currently, we're not required to raise prices. Um, it's always a double-edged sword there. So trying to negotiate increasing that to make sure that we have the funding to pay for it. Then also keeping in mind um the the costs associated on those on those parents and students. So um my initial thought process for 2627 is that we were not going to to increase it. Um but we can always look at that and see if if we need to.

Um I believe it it was last year the year before we went up uh on the cost to to get some of it. Um to be honest with the amount that we receive based on let's just say a a five cent or even a quarter uh cent increase it doesn't really impact it that much. And so my viewpoint is I would rather take that pressure off of the parents and then us figure it out and me figure it out on on the other end to to move some stuff around. So you can see as we

look at the 240 uh expenditure again the uh supplies which Are our food cost 6341 as our food cost uh that outpaces what our payroll is. So that just shows you how much um cost that we have associated there. Um there is going to be a little bit of of use of fund balance because again we had that 1.8 8 million and we're looking at the 1 point almost $2 million in costs and I'll show a summary here in just a bit. Uh the next one that we have is our uh debt service. This is

where we pay our bond payments. So you can see uh our tax revenue, other local revenue is essentially just um interest revenue. So when um they're paid uh they sit in the bank and that acrru interest which also goes to help pay down that debt rate. And then we have state funding, uh, 1.3 million, so looking at a little over 11 million. And then we have our bond payments and debt servicing fees. Uh, you can see that there's potentially an opportunity for us to to utilize some of that to pay down debt early, save on

interest, not extend the term, um, but again to try to save uh taxpayers money in the long run. So this is the combined uh projections on the lefth hand side. those um categories and then you have general fund, food service, debt service, and everything combined. So, you can see it's a balanced budget currently for the general fund about $143,000 use of fund balance and trial Nutrition. Uh and then if we don't do anything uh looking at potentially adding to uh the debt service, which can be used to pay down uh the the debt later on,

long range planning. So, some of the things we're we're looking at, I'm sure you've heard we had a um a committee on 4day work week. Uh one of the things that we saw when we looked at it is that it really didn't have a financial impact or if it did, it took a year or two to figure out what that is going to be. And so, um as we potentially look at doing that or not doing that, um that's something that we would need to to look at. also look at the impact of our hourly

um staff and overtime and different things of that nature. Um but again, just wanted to bring this to you. We are looking at it. Um and so the other piece that um we're looking at, teacher incentive aotment, again this is additional money, teacher incentive aotment, TIA, is not going away. Um I think the state's going to just continue to put more money into that. And so we've already started the process of looking into what would that look like for us. Um if it is something that we would want to do, we would need to apply

by April of 2027. Um with the first items not coming until 2930 or 3031, which is just crazy to say. Um but that's um kind of the the time frame. So it's not a not a quick process. And then uh replacement cycles. So, roofs, HVAC units, vehicles, buses, buses, um kitchen, um appliances, what We what we talked about, um your question about where would our behavioral unit go if we uh separated from JCSSA? Um one of the items that something that we're going to have to look at, especially as we continue to grow, uh potentially

redistricting our elementarymentaries. Uh so, our uh legacy school, we've completely um tapped that out. we don't think we can find another um space in there. And so uh instead of putting kids in transfers and move over, that might be something that we have to look at as we move forward. Uh and then with that um are we looking at investing in portables um long term? Those are some of the other items again that that we would have to um to address. Remind me real quick when we've discussed the potential for portables that comes with a

whole host of security concerns and X Y and Z and all of that, but cost and longevity just quick. Yeah. So, uh cost for one is is going to be about $150,000 um all in. And then depending on kind of if if you buy one um that's on the cheaper side, is that going to last longer? Um they also have uh lease options, which essentially means you're just paying for it and then after those four or five years um you either get a new one or you send it off um and you don't have it

on your property anymore, but you don't have the asset associated with it. You're you're just paying for it. What's the difference in that cost like? It's essentially it's essentially the same. Um so you're renting it uh on almost the the same cost. There's a little bit of savings because you don't have the um associated um utilities and and different things that are going to be permanent because generally if we were going to do a rent one, we're not going to put plumbing or anything in there. Um so you're going to save on that a little

bit. And so on the opposite side, they charge you the be associated with bringing it and then taking it back. And so that's why it ends up being almost the almost the same cost. And then some additional um options for consideration. Again, this is a proposed budget. Um so we are not going to consider an adopted budget until after the hearing. So this can change between now and the adopted budget. Again, if if you decide you wanted to look at some of these, I know one of the items that I'll bring to you as a

as a change, um we recalculated the JCSSA numbers. They originally calculated on the April 30th um students. We looked at it with the um co-op director and we've now based it on the May 31st um students at the ending of the year. And so that increased our our payment by about $5,000. So not not necessarily a lot. um potentially looking at reinstating an approved FTE. So, it's something that um the board has approved prior and we had a federal programs and title one community um Support uh position. And so, again, if that's something that we

want to look at bringing back, we would have to add that into the budget. And then as we see in certain high need areas, so math and science, um there's some difficulty in in attracting some highly qualified candidates. And so do we look at potentially increasing stipens for those high need areas to to attract those better u candidates? And so that note kind of there at the bottom um is that it would require us to use fund balance in the 26 27 year with the expectation that we um as God ISD would potentially be more

efficient in how we use our special education funding that we are sending to JCSSA. uh and so we would potentially be able to recapture some of that so that in 2728 it would go back to to a balanced budget if we decide to do that. So we're essentially we talked about it last time that the use of fund balance we try to level it out um across a year we want to make sure that the kids are receiving what they need and the support that what they need. Just because one year has more funding than

the other doesn't mean that that kid shouldn't have the same opportunity year-over-year. And so that's generally why uh we would potentially use fund balance. So the next steps uh June 17th is the budget and tax rate hearing. Uh that's when uh we will consider the uh adopting The 2627 budget and then in August or September uh we would consider adopting the maintenance and operation M and INS um which are interest and syncing debt service tax rates. That is all I have for you. Any any other questions? Um, discussion, thoughts? Pretty thorough. Want to make sure

any questions? And to clarify, the cost associated to portables would be from operational budget, not not INS. That's correct. it would be something that we have to utilize our maintenance operation 199 fund for. So instead of hiring two teachers, we buy a building. Thank you board. Yeah. Yeah. So on your um next to last slide you had um the okay would require the use of fund balance in 2627 with the anticipation to recapture uh cooperative cost due to potential separation program in 2728 and then earlier you stated that um we must decide by 91. Was

that for this year 2627 or 2728? It would be for 2728. Thank you for the clarification. Yes. So, we would stay in the JCSSA program for um 2627 uh and then recapture that to a godly program in 2728. Um something just because there might be questions out there if there are staff that are in JCSSA that are working in godly ISD. Essentially what that would mean is they would just transfer from being a JCSSA employee to a godly ISD um employee based on um if we needed them to go back through the the hiring process

etc. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Spencer. All right. Next, we're going to consider um possible action to amend board policy be local regarding scheduling of board training sessions. Yes, board. This is just an add to be local that will give us the flexibility to have board training um during work hours because of course you guys know the legislature created the law that required all board meetings to be outside of work hours. But um if we the exception would apply to meetings at which the only subject on the agenda aside from open pledge closed

that sort of thing would be board member training. It would give us that flexibility. As you guys know our last team of eight we were here until midnight. So it would just help us um do that for training. I make a motion to approve the amendment to board policy be local as recommended and presented. I'll second. Have a motion by Simone and a second by Jeff. Any other discussion? All those in favor? Motion passes unanimously. I believe next we'll go into uh close session to to discuss personnel 19. Thank you. 55 based on 55. What

is it? 07. Thank you. Got it. We will re reconvene at 10:44 and from our closed session to open and I motion to adjurnn. A second. What? Well, we were going to consider the termination of employee contract. Oh, no. We had to Okay. All right. Motion I move to. Thank you. A second. Awesome. Good night everybody.