October 7, 2024 at 7:00 PM - Regular Meeting

Opening Items

A. Call to Order

B. Invocation

C. Roll Call

D. Public comment/audience participation

Special Items

A. Acknowledgments and Appreciations
A.  Lion Leader Recognitions for August/September--Responsibility

Information Items

A. Campus Report

A.1. Elementary/Junior High School

A.2. Roby High School

B. Athletic Director's Report

C. Business and Finance Report

C.1. Cash Position

C.2. Expenditures

C.3. Check Register

D. Superintendent's Report
A.  Attendance for the first six weeks was 96.56%.  According to the Commissioner, school districts missed out on $380,000,000 due to poor attendance last school year.  We lost $8,060 for the first six weeks roughly.  All districts budget based upon actual student counts and not average daily attendance.  Our legislature needs to change funding to being based upon student counts and not average daily attendance.  Truancy became a civil matter and not criminal in 2015, thus there are no real penalties for compulsory attendance laws.
B.  State Assessment Goals at the Meets Level Percentages Worksheet
C.  Current Student Counts: Our student count was 292.5 on October 1, 2024.  On October 1, 2023, our student count was 297.

Consent Agenda

A. Previous Board Minutes

B. Monthly tax report from the Fisher County Appraisal District

C. Roby CISD Monthly Bills

Regular Agenda

A. Discuss and take action on employment and/or resignations of school personnel.
B.  Discuss and take action on Winter Incentive Stipend to be dispersed as a separate check on December 18, 2024. We had a 5.3 million dollar fund balance for the 22/23 school year.  We approved budget amendments totaling 1.5 million dollars for the 23/24 school year pending the audit.  Thus, we have 3.8 million in fund balance to start the 24-25 school year.  I am recommending a $1,000 winter incentive stipend for each employee within the district; therefore, that total amount would be $68,000.
C.  Discuss and take action to include paid holidays for the director of maintenance and the assistant director of maintenance in their stipends rather than in their 92 hours each month.
D.  Discuss and take action to approve the Emergency Operations Plan for 2024-2025.

Closed Session

A. Personnel Matters: The board is not required to conduct an open meeting to deliberate the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of a public officer or employee or to hear a complaint or charge against an officer or employee. However, the board may not conduct a closed meeting for these purposes if the officer or employee who is the subject of the deliberation or hearing requests a public hearing. Tex. Gov’t Code § 551.074.

B. Student Discipline: The board is not required to conduct an open meeting to deliberate in a case involving discipline of a public school child. However, the board may not conduct a closed meeting for this purpose if the child’s parent or guardian makes a written request for an open hearing. Tex. Gov’t Code § 551.082.

C. Assessment Instruments: The board shall conduct a closed meeting to discuss or adopt individual assessment instruments or assessment instrument items. Tex. Educ. Code § 39.030(a).

Closing Items

A. Future Agenda Items

B. Board Calendar--November 11, 2024 at 7:00 p.m.

C. Board Member Comments

D. Adjournment