[VIII.A. Bond Steering Committee Update - Dr. Dennis Womack (Chief Operations Officer), Angela Brown(Chief Communications Officer) and Cindy Powell (Cooperative Strategies) SPPG4]

DR. HUNT. YES, THANK YOU.

PRESIDENT CAVINESS.

AS THE COMMITTEE IS HOPEFULLY AWARE, WE HAVE BEGUN A BOND PROCESS IN CISD AND I'M GOING TO ASK FOR CINDY POWELL FROM THE COOPERATIVE STRATEGIES, WHICH IS AN OUTSIDE AGENCY THAT WE'RE USING, AS WELL AS HAVING DR.

WOMACK, OUR CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER, AND ANGELA BROWN, CHIEF COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER ON STANDBY IF NEEDED, TO UPDATE THE COMMUNITY AND BOARD ON WHERE WE ARE WITH THE BOND STEERING COMMITTEE WORK.

SO I'LL TURN IT OVER TO MRS. POWELL. WONDERFUL.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

PRESIDENT CAVINESS BOARD MEMBERS.

DR. HUNT, IT IS WONDERFUL TO BE WITH YOU ALL TONIGHT.

MY FIRM, COOPERATIVE STRATEGIES WAS CONTRACTED BY THE SCHOOL DISTRICT TO HELP FACILITATE THE PROCESS WHERE THE DISTRICT PUTS TOGETHER A FACILITIES MASTER

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PLAN. AND IN PARTICULAR, WE WERE CHARGED WITH DEVELOPING A FIVE YEAR PLAN FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

AND THAT PLAN TAKES INTO ACCOUNT THE CONDITION OF ALL OF YOUR EXISTING BUILDINGS, ALONG WITH ENROLLMENT PROJECTIONS AND AN ANALYSIS OF THE CAPACITY YOU HAVE IN YOUR EXISTING BUILDINGS COMPARED TO FUTURE ENROLLMENTS TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF SPACE, APPROPRIATE AMOUNT OF SPACE.

AND THEN ALSO THE DISTRICT'S EDUCATIONAL VISION, THOSE INSTRUCTIONAL PRIORITIES THAT THE DISTRICT IS LOOKING TOWARDS THE NEXT FEW YEARS TO MAKE SURE THAT THE BUILDINGS WE HAVE AND THE SPACES WILL SUPPORT THOSE THAT PROGRAMING.

AND THEN MOST IMPORTANTLY, THAT WE ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY IN THIS PROCESS AND BUILD A FACILITY MASTER PLAN THAT REFLECTS AT STAKEHOLDER FEEDBACK.

EVERYTHING THAT WE ARE DOING IS THROUGH THE LENS OF THE DISTRICT'S CORE VALUES.

AND SO WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THAT AT EACH MEETING.

AND AS WE CONTINUE TO GO FORWARD AND REALLY GET TO THE MEAT OF THINGS WHERE WE ARE LOOKING AT SPECIFIC OPTIONS TO ADDRESS THE IDENTIFIED NEEDS AND THEN ULTIMATELY RECOMMENDATIONS, WE WILL MAKE SURE THAT THAT WE ARE DOING SO WITHIN THE FRAME OF THE DISTRICT'S CORE VALUES.

SO THIS SLIDE LAYS OUT THE PROJECT ITSELF.

EACH CIRCLE REPRESENTS A DIFFERENT MAJOR ACTIVITY IN THE WORK, AND THE COLORS REPRESENT WHO'S RESPONSIBLE FOR IT.

AND SO TONIGHT WE ARE ALMOST AT THE HALFWAY POINT IN TERMS OF THE SPECIFIC STEPS IN THE PROCESS AT THAT INTERIM REPORT TO THE BOARD. SO THE TWO PURPLE CIRCLES ARE THE BOARD.

THE MAROON CIRCLES ARE DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION, THE BLUE CIRCLES ARE THE BOND STEERING COMMITTEE, AND THEN THE GREEN CIRCLES ARE THE BROADER COMMUNITY.

SO WE HAVE TODAY GATHERED A TON OF INFORMATION.

WE'VE BEEN EVALUATING IT, DISTILLING IT.

WE'VE SHARED IT WITH THE STEERING COMMITTEE IN TWO SEPARATE MEETINGS.

AND YOU'LL HEAR MORE ABOUT THOSE IN JUST A MINUTE.

THE DISTRICT CURRENTLY IS IN THE PROCESS OF HOSTING FACILITY TOURS.

THERE WERE SEVERAL LAST WEEKS.

I THINK THEY'RE STILL MAYBE THREE EVENINGS THIS WEEK WHERE THERE WERE MULTIPLE TOURS.

WE'VE HAD A FUTURES CONFERENCE LAST WEEK AND AN ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE, AND WE'LL GO THROUGH SOME OF THAT DETAIL IN THE NEXT FEW SLIDES.

GOING FORWARD, WE HAVE STILL A WORK SESSION NEXT WEEK WITH THE DISTRICT CABINET AND SOME EXTENDED MEMBERS THAT HAVE VERY SPECIFIC ROLES IN DIFFERENT INSTRUCTIONAL AREAS TO DEVELOP OPTIONS THAT WILL ADDRESS THESE NEEDS THAT WE HAVE IDENTIFIED TO DATE. AND WHEN I SAY OPTIONS, THERE MAY BE ONE OPTION TO ADDRESS A PARTICULAR NEED.

THERE MAY BE THREE OPTIONS TO ADDRESS A PARTICULAR NEED.

THAT WILL JUST VARY DEPENDING ON WHAT THE THE INDIVIDUAL TOPIC IS.

WE'LL THEN ROLL THOSE BACK OUT TO THE STEERING COMMITTEE AT THEIR MEETING.

NUMBER THREE, TAKE THEIR INPUT, ROLL IT BACK OUT TO THE BROADER PUBLIC FOR ONE MORE COMMUNITY FORUM, WHAT WE CALL A COMMUNITY DIALOG WITH ANOTHER ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE SPECIFIC TO THOSE THOSE OPTIONS THAT WE'VE DEVELOPED.

AND THEN WE'LL TAKE ALL OF THAT FEEDBACK TO HELP US KIND OF NARROW DOWN THOSE OPTIONS INTO A SET OF RECOMMENDATIONS THAT THE STEERING COMMITTEE WILL THEN HAVE INPUT ON.

THE STEERING COMMITTEE WILL ULTIMATELY BE THE ONES TO VOTE AND BRING FORTH CONSENSUS SET OF RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE BOARD IN JANUARY.

SO OUR WORK IS VERY MUCH ON TRACK.

WE'VE GOT A LOT OF HEAVY LIFTING TO DO IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS, BUT WE'RE VERY MUCH ON SCHEDULE.

SO. WE'VE TALKED ABOUT, I THINK BEFORE IN SEVERAL MEETINGS I'VE BEEN IN THIS DISTRICT COMES TO THIS PROCESS WITH A LOT OF DATA, A LOT OF WORK THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS.

AND I REALLY APPLAUD THE DISTRICT FOR THIS AND THE BOARD FOR TAKING THESE STEPS.

WE ARE RELYING ON WORK FROM THE DISTRICT DEMOGRAPHER IN TERMS OF ENROLLMENT PROJECTIONS, A CONDITION ASSESSMENT THAT WAS PERFORMED BY THE DISTRICTS, BY AN ARCHITECT FIRM WORKING FOR THE DISTRICT.

RECOMMENDATIONS FROM A FACILITIES PLANNING COMMITTEE, AND THEN, VERY IMPORTANTLY, A SERIES OF RECOMMENDATIONS AND REPORTS FROM THE DISTRICT'S VISIONING COMMITTEE.

THEY'VE BEEN EXTREMELY HELPFUL TO INFORMING AND GUIDING OUR WORK.

THE SUMMER COOPERATIVE STRATEGIES THEN PERFORMED AN ADA SURVEY OF ALL OF YOUR BUILDINGS AND ALSO AN EDUCATIONAL ADEQUACY ASSESSMENT.

SO ALL THIS INFORMATION NOW IS COMING TOGETHER AND WE'RE STARTING TO CONNECT THIS INTO THESE OPTIONS THAT WILL DEVELOP GOING FORWARD.

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I ALWAYS THINK OF THIS IS LIKE A GIANT PUZZLE.

WE'VE GOT ALL THESE PIECES THAT WE'VE GOT TO FIT TOGETHER AND SOME OF THEM ARE VERY INTRICATE AND CHANGE IN ONE THING MAY AFFECT FOR OTHERS.

SO THIS IS WHERE WE'RE STARTING TO MAKE THOSE CONNECTIONS.

SO THE BOARD APPOINTED A STEERING COMMITTEE, A BOND STEERING COMMITTEE OF 60 INDIVIDUALS.

THEY'VE HAD TWO MEETINGS AND THEY THEMSELVES IN THE FIRST MEETING, ELECTED CO-CHAIRS.

ONE BEING JIM WALKER, WHO'S HERE THIS EVENING, AND THEN A STUDENT, DYLAN PATEL, WHO COULD NOT BE HERE THIS EVENING.

BUT I THINK JIM IS GOING TO COME AND ADDRESS A LITTLE BIT OF THE WORK THAT THE STEERING COMMITTEE IS DOING.

THANKS, CINDY. JIM WALKER, 400 [INAUDIBLE] COURT.

YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S BEEN A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE THUS FAR SERVING ON THE STEERING COMMITTEE.

I'VE BEEN HONORED TO BE ELECTED CO-CHAIR WITH DYLAN PATEL, A VERY FINE YOUNG MAN.

DR. HUNT HAD SUGGESTED THAT WE INCLUDE IN THIS BROAD GROUP OF DIVERSE STAKEHOLDERS SOME OF THE STUDENTS.

AND I THINK WE'VE ALREADY SEEN THAT THEIR INSIGHT AND THE INPUT THEY PROVIDED HAS BEEN INVALUABLE.

AND DYLAN CERTAINLY NO EXCEPTION TO THAT.

HE'S A VERY FINE YOUNG MAN AND HE'S BEEN SO DILIGENT AND SO EARNEST IN THE PROCESS, AND I'VE REALLY BEEN PROUD OF HIM.

SO IT'S BEEN A GREAT GROUP.

I THINK WE'RE WORKING TOGETHER VERY WELL.

COOPERATIVELY AND COOPERATIVE STRATEGIES HAS GOT THIS NAILED ALONG WITH THE VISIONING COMMITTEE AND ALL THE WORK THAT'S PROCEEDED AS I THINK WE'RE GOING TO COME UP WITH SOME EXCELLENT RECOMMENDATIONS AND A FREE ALL TO CONSIDER.

THANK YOU. SO THE STEERING COMMITTEE HAS MET TWICE. THIS SLIDE, IT GIVES YOU A REAL HIGH LEVEL LOOK AT WHAT THEY WILL DO AT EACH MEETING.

SO THE FIRST TWO MEETINGS, WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME SHARING OUT A LOT OF THIS INFORMATION THAT HAS BEEN DEVELOPED OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS AND THAT WE'VE TRIED TO SYNTHESIZE AND DISTILL INTO SOME MANAGEABLE CHUNKS.

AT THAT FIRST MEETING.

THEY SPENT ABOUT 45 MINUTES, I GUESS, IN TABLE GROUPS DISCUSSING WHAT THEY SAW AS OPPORTUNITIES FOR A POTENTIAL FUTURE BOND PACKAGE AND CHALLENGES.

AND I'LL SHARE THAT WITH YOU IN JUST A MOMENT.

STEERING COMMITTEE NUMBER TWO, WE CONTINUED OUR DISCUSSION AROUND JUST THE DATA ITSELF, AND THEN THE THE COMMITTEE MET AGAIN IN TABLE GROUPS AND THEY REVIEWED THE DRAFT OF THE SURVEY, THE QUESTIONNAIRE THAT WE POSTED ONLINE IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE FUTURES CONFERENCE. THEY HAD WONDERFUL FEEDBACK ON THAT.

YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES THOSE OF US IN EDUCATION GET TOO DEEP IN THE WEEDS ON ALL OF OUR ACRONYMS, AND WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE SAYING, BUT MAYBE NOT EVERYONE ELSE KNOWS WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.

SO THEY MADE WONDERFUL SUGGESTIONS THAT REALLY IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF THE SURVEY QUESTIONS THAT WE HAD DRAFTED.

SO THAT WAS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED AND THEY ARE VERY ENGAGED.

I HAVE TO TELL YOU, I'VE WORKED WITH A NUMBER OF STEERING COMMITTEES AND A NUMBER OF JUST COMMITTEES, PERIOD, IN MY 30 YEARS OF WORKING IN PUBLIC AND IN FINANCE AND IN BOND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT.

THIS PARTICULAR COMMITTEE COMES VERY ENGAGED AND VERY INFORMED.

THEY'RE EXCITED ABOUT THE WORK.

THEY CARE DEEPLY ABOUT THIS DISTRICT AND THE KIDS WHO ARE ON THIS COMMITTEE, AS MR. WALKER SAID, THEY THEY HAD PROVIDED WONDERFUL INSIGHT ALREADY.

THEY INFORMED US ABOUT SOME OF THEIR ACTUAL EXPERIENCES, THINGS SUCH AS THE TENNIS CENTER AND IN OTHER AREAS.

WE HAD A YOUNG MAN AT THE FUTURES CONFERENCE THIS LAST WEEK THAT ASKED WONDERFUL QUESTIONS.

AND SO I'VE REALLY ENJOYED HAVING THAT FEEDBACK BECAUSE THE STUDENTS BRING A PERSPECTIVE THAT NONE OF US AS ADULTS CAN CAN CONVEY TO PEOPLE.

I DON'T CARE HOW MUCH DATA YOU HAVE.

SO GOING FORWARD, THEN THE NEXT THREE MEETINGS WE WILL SHARE OUT WITH THEM THE RESULTS OF THE SURVEY THAT WE JUST WRAPPED UP LAST WEEK. AND WE WILL SHARE OUT THESE OPTIONS THAT WE ARE GOING TO DRAFT IN THE NEXT WEEK OR SO AND HAVE THEIR FEEDBACK ON THOSE OPTIONS AND HELP IDENTIFY WHAT THEY SEE AS CHALLENGES OR BENEFITS FOR THE SPECIFIC OPTIONS.

WELL THEN HAVE THAT THAT SECOND PUBLIC FORUM OR THAT COMMUNITY DIALOG AND TAKE BROAD INPUT THERE ALONG WITH ANOTHER ONLINE SURVEY AROUND THOSE OPTIONS. THEN WE'LL SHARE THAT BACK WITH THE STEERING COMMITTEE FOR MEETING NUMBER FOUR AT THAT POINT.

AND THAT'S WHERE WE'LL ALSO HAVE NARROWED DOWN THOSE OPTIONS TO A SET OF RECOMMENDATIONS FROM ADMINISTRATION TO THE STEERING COMMITTEE.

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THAT'S WHERE ULTIMATELY THE STEERING COMMITTEE WILL LOOK AND SAY, OKAY, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO TWEAK THIS, TAKE THIS OUT OR WHATEVER.

YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE WE NEED TO CONSIDER.

THEY'LL HAVE THEIR INPUT ON THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS.

AND THEN ULTIMATELY, IT WILL BE THE STEERING COMMITTEE THAT DISCUSSES AND VOTES ON A SET OF RECOMMENDATIONS TO BRING TO YOU.

SO THAT'S KIND OF THE FLOW OF THEIR WORK GOING FORWARD.

BUT THEY THEY'VE BEEN WONDERFUL TO WORK WITH.

SO I MENTIONED AT THAT FIRST MEETING, THE STEERING COMMITTEE MET IN TABLE GROUPS AND WE ASKED THEM JUST BASED ON WHAT THEY'D SEEN SO FAR, TELL US WHAT WHAT THEY SAW AS OPPORTUNITIES OR CHALLENGES.

AND SO I TOOK THE INFORMATION THAT THEY PROVIDED, AND I LOOKED THROUGH THEIR FOUR THEMES, AND I TRIED TO CATEGORIZE ALL THE COMMENTS INTO SOME COMMON CATEGORIES.

AND SO WHAT YOU SEE ON THE SLIDE NOW ARE THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT WERE IDENTIFIED.

AND SO THERE WERE SIX DIFFERENT BROAD THEMES THAT I SAW IN WHAT THEY COMMENTED ON.

ONE BEING ENHANCEMENTS VERSUS CAPACITY.

I THINK THIS COMMITTEE WAS SEEING ALREADY THAT THE DISTRICT IS GROWING, BUT THAT GROWTH IS SLOWING DOWN.

SO WE ARE NOT AT A PLACE WHERE WE ARE TRYING TO PROVIDE OR NEEDING TO PROVIDE AN EXTENSIVE AMOUNT OF ADDITIONAL SQUARE FOOTAGE TO ADDRESS FUTURE ENROLLMENTS.

SO THEY SEE THAT AS AN OPPORTUNITY THEN TO FOCUS ON WHAT WE HAVE AND IMPROVE THE SPACES THAT WE HAVE AND INVEST IN PROGRAMING THAT WE HAVE.

WE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT AT THAT FIRST MEETING ABOUT TRANSFERS, TRANSFERS INTO COPPELL ISD AND TRANSFERS OUT, AND THEY RECOGNIZE THAT OUR TRANSFERS OUT ACTUALLY EXCEED THE NUMBER OF KIDS TRANSFERRING INTO THE DISTRICT.

SO THEY SEE THIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY AGAIN TO INVEST IN PROGRAMING TO HELP FLIP THAT, IF YOU WILL, OR MAKE A DENT OR A CHANGE IN THAT THAT TRIM .CHOICE PROGRAMS WAS SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN IMPORTANT TO THE COMMITTEE ALL ALONG.

ALSO LOOKING AT CAREER TECH PROGRAMING, EXPANDING PRE-K OPPORTUNITIES, LANGUAGE IMMERSION, HEALTH SCIENCES, ALL OF THESE ARE PROGRAMS THAT THAT THE COMMITTEE IS ALREADY SUGGESTING WITHOUT MUCH INPUT AT THIS POINT FROM THE DISTRICT OR FROM COOPERATIVE STRATEGIES ON SPECIFIC PROGRAMS THEY SEE AS OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH THIS PROCESS.

EFFICIENCIES. THEY RECOGNIZE THAT THERE ARE SOME OPPORTUNITIES WITHIN THE DISTRICT TO GAIN SOME OPERATING EFFICIENCIES, SUCH AS HOW THE ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENTS FUNCTION, HOW AND WHERE WE ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE LARGE MEETING SPACES OR VARIETY OF SPACES FOR TRAINING, SPECIAL EVENTS, MEETINGS, WHAT HAVE YOU.

THEY ALSO SEE THIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO IMPACT STAFF TALENT RETENTION, MAYBE THROUGH SOME OF THE INVESTMENTS THAT WE MAKE HERE.

SO ALL THAT FALLS INTO THAT CATEGORY OF EFFICIENCIES.

THEY THOUGHT THAT THE DATA THAT THEY HAVE RECEIVED SO FAR WAS VERY HELPFUL AND THEY ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THERE'S A LOT OF IT.

AND THEY PARTICULARLY LIKE WHAT THEY'RE SEEING FROM THE VISIONING COMMITTEE AND THE DIRECTION AND THE THOUGHT THAT IN THE EXTENT OF OF WORK AND EFFORT THAT WENT INTO THOSE THAT SERIES OF RECOMMENDATIONS AND THEN COMMUNITY BENEFITS, THEY IDENTIFIED SEVERAL THINGS SUCH AS OVERALL INCREASE IN HOMEOWNER VALUES THE CHANCE TO LIVE THE PROMISE OF TRANSPARENCY.

I THOUGHT THAT WAS A REALLY INTERESTING ONE AND THEY'VE COMMENTED.

I'VE HAD PEOPLE COMMENT TO ME AFTER OUR MEETINGS THAT THEY FEEL VERY, VERY COMFORTABLE WITH THIS PROCESS AND FEEL LIKE THEY ARE THEY REALLY HAVE ACCESS TO A LOT OF INFORMATION.

AND TRUE, THEY'RE PARTNERS AT THE TABLE IN IN DEVELOPING THIS SO.

IN TERMS OF CHALLENGES, THEY FELL REALLY INTO FOUR CATEGORIES.

THE BROADEST ONE OR THE FIRST ONE BEING COMMUNICATIONS, JUST EVERYTHING FROM COMMUNICATING THROUGH THIS PROCESS.

AND THEN ON POTENTIALLY IF A BOND ELECTION IS CALLED, COMMUNICATING TO THE PUBLIC IN THAT REGARD, THE EXPANSE OF NEED EXPLAINING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RECAPTURE FOR M&O TAXES VERSUS THE I&S TAX RATE THAT SUPPORTS BOND PROGRAMS AND THE FACT THAT THERE'S NO RECAPTURE THERE AND THEN GETTING OUT THE VOTE.

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SO THOSE THINGS ALL FALL IN THAT COMMUNICATIONS CATEGORY.

PRIORITIZING THE NEEDS WAS THE BIGGEST ONE.

THEY ALL RECOGNIZED THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF NEEDS, THERE'S A LOT OF DATA, A LOT OF THINGS TO THINK ABOUT HERE.

AND SO THAT THAT'S AN AREA THAT THEY THINK WILL BE A CHALLENGE AS THEY MOVE FORWARD.

I THINK THEY DO RECOGNIZE THAT THE NEEDS ARE THERE'S NOTHING FRIVOLOUS IN WHAT THEY'VE SEEN SO FAR.

AND SO WHEN WE PUT DOLLARS TO THESE THINGS AND THEY MAY HAVE TO MAKE SOME CHOICES, THEY RECOGNIZE THAT THAT WILL BE WILL BE DIFFICULT. COST ARE CERTAINLY A CHALLENGE AS WE PUT TOGETHER A CAPITAL PACKAGE, THE RISING INTEREST RATES, THE INCREASE IN CONSTRUCTION, COST INCREASE IN GENERAL OPERATIONAL COSTS, THE POTENTIAL IMPACT TO HOMEOWNERS AND THROUGH THE TAX RATE AND THE CURRENT GROWTH IN PROPERTY VALUE.

SO ALL OF THESE THINGS THAT ARE VERY, VERY MINDFUL OF.

AND THEN FINALLY, THE THE ELECTION ITSELF.

WE'VE HAD A TICK OF CONVERSATION ABOUT THE CHANGE IN LAW THAT NOW REQUIRES SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO BREAK OUT CERTAIN PROJECTS INTO STANDALONE PROPOSITIONS.

AND SO THEY'RE THEY'RE ALREADY ASKING SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT, AND THEY'VE RECOGNIZED THAT AS BEING A CHALLENGE SO.

SO THE THINGS THAT WE ARE FOCUSED ON AS WE BUILD THIS PLAN YOU SEE HERE ON THE LIST, I MEAN, FIRST AND FOREMOST, ANY TIME WE PUT TOGETHER A FACILITY MASTER PLAN, THE CORE THEMES ARE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ENOUGH SPACE OR THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF SPACE TO MATCH YOUR ENROLLMENT.

YOU DON'T WANT TO HAVE TOO MUCH.

YOU DON'T WANT TO HAVE CERTAINLY DON'T WANT TO BE CAUGHT TOO LITTLE.

AND THEN ALSO ENSURING THAT WE ARE TAKING CARE OF WHAT WE ALREADY HAVE.

AND I ALWAYS USE THE ANALOGY OF OUR HOMES.

RIGHT. SO MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE TAKING CARE OF THE BUILDING SYSTEMS, THE ROOFS, THE HVAC SYSTEMS, THE THE FINISHES INSIDE THE BUILDINGS, THE ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS, PA SYSTEMS IS ONE THAT WE'RE WORKING ON HERE TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ALL FUNCTION LIKE WE NEED THEM TO FUNCTION AND THAT OUR KIDS ARE SAFE, WARM, DRY.

AND THEN NEXT, MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT KINDS OF SPACES FOR THE PROGRAMS WE ALREADY OFFER AND THOSE THAT WE MIGHT WANT TO LOOK TO ADD TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT SUPPORTS THE OBJECTIVES WITH THE CURRICULUM.

AND THEN OPERATING EFFICIENCIES.

WE ALWAYS LOOK FOR THOSE OPPORTUNITIES AS WE BUILD A MASTER PLAN TO GAIN EFFICIENCIES PERHAPS, OR EVEN ON THINGS THAT MAY BE IMPLEMENTED THAT ARE NEW.

WE LOOK FOR THOSE OPPORTUNITIES FOR RECOMMENDATIONS AND FOR THE POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS THAT GO INTO A BOND PACKAGE TO ACCOMPLISH MULTIPLE THINGS.

THAT'S WHERE YOU GAIN A LOT OF VALUE AND THEN MAKING SURE THAT THAT WHATEVER WE BRING FORWARD AS A COMMITTEE IS A FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE PLAN.

SO AS WE LOOK TO THAT FIRST ITEM IN MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF SPACE, THE RIGHT CAPACITY FOR OUR FUTURE ENROLLMENTS, WE STARTED VERY BASIC POINT ENROLLMENT PROJECTIONS.

THESE ARE THE ENROLLMENT PROJECTIONS FROM [INAUDIBLE] EDUCATION FROM LAST FALL.

I THINK THEY ARE WORKING ON THIS YEAR'S NUMBERS AND WE'LL HAVE THOSE, I THINK, IN THE COMING MONTH OR SO.

BUT IN OUR BASE YEAR FOR OUR STUDY, WHICH WAS LAST YEAR, WE HAD 13,154 KIDS.

THE PROJECTION IS THE DISTRICT WILL CONTINUE TO GROW OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS, ALTHOUGH THAT DISTRICT IS SLOWING AS THE DISTRICT BUILDS OUT.

SO THE THE PROJECTION IS THAT OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS, THE DISTRICT WILL GROW BY ABOUT 712 STUDENTS, WHICH IS A LITTLE OVER 5%. THE BULK OF THAT GROWTH IS EXPECTED TO TAKE PLACE IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.

SO THAT'S THE FIVE YEARS THAT THE STEERING COMMITTEE HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH LOOKING AT.

AND SO THAT IS OUR FOCUS.

BUT WE WILL ALSO WE WILL BE MINDFUL OF ENROLLMENT PROJECTIONS ALL THE WAY UP TO TEN YEARS AS WE BUILD THESE RECOMMENDATIONS.

ONE OF THE FIRST STEPS THAT COOPERATIVE STRATEGIES DOES WHEN WE START A PROCESS LIKE THIS IS WE TAKE THOSE ENROLLMENT PROJECTIONS AND THEN WE ANALYZE, WE CALCULATE THE CAPACITY, THE PROGRAM CAPACITY IN EACH BUILDING PROGRAM CAPACITY IS DIFFERENT THAN A BUILDING CAPACITY BECAUSE IT TAKES INTO ACCOUNT THE PROGRAMS THAT YOU ARE OPERATING IN YOUR BUILDINGS CURRENTLY.

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SO EVERY PRINCIPAL GAVE US INPUT ON HOW THEY USE EVERY TEACHING SPACE IN THEIR BUILDING.

AND THEN WE POPULATED THAT WITH WHAT WE CALL THE LOAD, THE NUMBER OF KIDS YOU WOULD PUT IN THAT SPACE.

AND LARGELY THOSE ARE YOUR STAFFING RATIOS.

AND SO WE DETERMINE FROM THAT INPUT THE CAPACITY OF EACH BUILDING AND WE THEN COMPARE IT TO ENROLLMENT.

SO IF YOU TAKE ENROLLMENT.

DIVIDE IT BY THAT CAPACITY THAT GETS WHAT WE CALL UTILIZATION, WHICH IS AN EFFICIENCY FACTOR.

SO IF YOU LOOK ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THE SCREEN HERE, YOU'LL SEE THREE COLUMNS THAT ARE COLOR CODED.

THOSE ARE THE UTILIZATION PERCENTAGES WE CALCULATED FOR COPPELL FOR THE BASE YEAR OF OUR STUDY, FIVE YEARS OUT AND THEN FINALLY TEN YEARS OUT.

SO THE BOX ON THE BOTTOM RIGHT SHOWS THE SCALE.

AND SO FOR US, ANYTHING BETWEEN 85 AND 95% IS WHAT WE CONSIDER OPTIMAL.

YOU CAN GO ALL THE WAY UP TO ABOUT 105, AND THAT'S MANAGEABLE STILL.

SO IF YOU GET BETWEEN 95 AND 105, THAT'S WHAT WE CONSIDER FULL UTILIZATION, BUT IT'S STILL VERY MANAGEABLE.

IT'S ONLY WHEN YOU GET OVER 105% THAT YOU REALLY NEED TO START LOOKING AT ADDING SOME CAPACITY.

SO WHAT I CAN SHARE WITH YOU HERE IS JUST AT THE VERY HIGHEST LEVEL.

IF WE LOOK AT TOTAL OF ALL THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, YOU CAN SEE THEY ALL FALL IN THAT 85 TO 95% RANGE.

SO ALL VERY, VERY GOOD HEALTHY UTILIZATION.

SAME THING, MIDDLE SCHOOLS, HIGH SCHOOLS IN FIVE YEARS AT THE HIGH SCHOOLS, COLLECTIVELY, THOSE FACILITIES RISE UP INTO THAT WHAT WE CALL THAT FULL RANGE.

WE WILL.

I'LL SHOW A SLIDE, I THINK, IN JUST A FEW MINUTES OR SLIDES BY WHAT WE CALL PLANNING AREAS WHERE YOU'LL SEE INDIVIDUAL CAMPUSES HERE.

THIS SLIDE SIMPLY SHOWS A BREAKDOWN.

THE FIRST SET OF BARS OR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, THEN THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS, AND THEN THE HIGH SCHOOLS.

AND THIS SHOWS IN A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT FORMAT.

THE INFORMATION WE JUST LOOKED AT THE BLUE BAR IN EACH.

SEGMENT. HERE IS THE CAPACITY, THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR THAT GRADE SPAN.

THE OTHER THREE COLORED BARS THEN ARE THE ENROLLMENTS AT THE ORANGE BARS, THE ENROLLMENT AND OUR BASE YEAR.

THIS PAST YEAR, THE GRAY BARS IS THE ENROLLMENT PROJECTION FIVE YEARS OUT AND THEN THE YELLOW BARS, THE PROJECTION TEN YEARS OUT.

AND AGAIN, IN EVERY CASE, EVEN TEN YEARS OUT, WE ARE IN A GOOD PLACE IN TERMS OF TOTAL CAPACITY AND ENROLLMENT.

WHAT THIS TELLS US IS THAT THE DISTRICT DOES NOT NEED TO BUILD ANOTHER BUILDING TO ADDRESS ENROLLMENT GROWTH.

WE'VE GOT CAPACITY.

THERE ARE SEVERAL PLACES WHERE WE GET FULL, AS YOU'LL SEE IN JUST A MINUTE.

BUT THERE ARE OTHER WAYS TO ADDRESS THAT, SHORT OF BUILDING A NEW BUILDING STRICTLY FOR ENROLLMENT GROWTH.

AND SO THAT'S VERY HELPFUL BECAUSE NEW SCHOOL AND COMPLETE NEW SCHOOL IS VERY, VERY EXPENSIVE.

ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FOR CINDY AT THIS POINT? OKAY. YOU GET MORE INTO THE DETAIL ABOUT THE INDIVIDUAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND THAT KIND OF THING.

COMING UP IN THE NEXT FEW SLIDES, YOU'LL SEE THAT.

SO WHEN WE WORK WITH A DISTRICT, WE WILL TYPICALLY BREAK IT INTO CHUNKS, IF YOU WILL, WHAT WE CALL PLANNING AREAS. IT HELPS JUST REALLY IT MAKES THE PLANNING WORK A LITTLE MORE SIMPLE.

IN THE CASE OF COPPELL, WE'RE TREATING ALL THE HIGH SCHOOLS AS ONE PLANNING AREA.

ALL THOSE FACILITIES.

THERE'S ONE PLAN AREA ACROSS THE DISTRICT.

SAME THING WITH MIDDLE SCHOOLS.

ONE PLANNING AREA TAKES INTO ACCOUNT ALL THREE OF THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS ACROSS THE DISTRICT.

FOR THE ELEMENTARIES.

WE ARE WE ARE USING THREE SEPARATE PLANNING AREAS AND WE'RE EACH ONE IS THE BASICALLY IT'S THE FEEDER PATTERN FOR EACH OF THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS. ALL RIGHT.

SO HERE THESE ARE THE SLIDES THAT WILL SHOW YOU THE DETAIL FOR INDIVIDUAL BUILDINGS.

THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION ON THESE SLIDES.

BUT IF YOU LOOK, AGAIN, THE THE THREE COLUMNS ON THE FAR RIGHT WILL FOCUS ON THAT.

SO THESE ARE THE FOUR SCHOOLS, FOUR ELEMENTARIES THAT ARE IN THE COPPELL MIDDLE SCHOOL EAST FEEDER SYSTEM.

AND IF YOU LOOK IN THE FAR RIGHT, THE THREE RIGHT HAND COLUMNS, YOU'LL SEE THOSE SAME UTILIZATION PERCENTAGES THAT WE LOOKED AT A COUPLE OF SLIDES AGO. ANYTHING HIGHLIGHTED IN BLUE MEANS THERE'S SOME SURPLUS CAPACITY IN THAT CAMPUS.

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ANYTHING. AGAIN, THE GREEN, THAT'S BETWEEN 85, 95%.

IT'S VERY HEALTHY OVERALL UTILIZATION.

THE ORANGE BOXES ARE THE ONES THAT ARE INTO THAT FULL CATEGORY.

SO YOU CAN SEE HERE, IF YOU JUST FOCUS INITIALLY ON THE BOTTOM ROW OF THE CHART, YOU'LL SEE THAT FOR THE BASE YEAR AND THE FIVE YEARS OUT, THIS FEEDER PATTERN IS VERY MUCH INSIDE OF THAT, THAT WHAT WE CALL THAT VERY HEALTHY RANGE EVEN AS A WHOLE TEN YEARS OUT THERE JUST TOUCHING THAT THAT FULL.

UTILIZATION RATE.

FOR THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS THAT FEED INTO MIDDLE SCHOOL NORTH.

AGAIN, THERE ARE FOUR SCHOOLS HERE AND YOU CAN SEE A LOT OF BLUE IN THE FAR RIGHT HAND SIDE.

SO ACROSS THIS PLANNING AREA, THERE'S A LOT OF SURPLUS IN IN THE BUILDINGS.

WITH THE MIDDLE SCHOOL WEST FEEDERS STORIES A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.

CANYON RANCH IS DEFINITELY FULL.

IT'S IN THAT THAT FULL CATEGORY.

NOTHING. NONE OF THE SCHOOLS.

I SHOULD HAVE SAID THIS A MINUTE AGO.

NONE OF THEM ANY GRADE SPAN ACROSS THAT 105% MARK.

SO THERE THERE ARE NONE INDIVIDUALLY EVEN THAT THAT EXCEED THAT THAT UTILIZATION THRESHOLD THAT WE REALLY START TO SEE IS SOMETHING THAT THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED. BUT CANYON RANCH IS IS QUITE FULL.

RICHARD LEE, IS IT A GOOD PLACE? IT'S IN THAT OPTIMAL CATEGORY.

VALLEY RANCH IS LIKEWISE FOR THE NEXT AT THE FIVE YEAR MARK IN TEN YEAR MARK IN THE VERY HEALTHY RANGE.

SO AS WE BUILD THE MASTER PLAN, ONE OF THE THINGS WE WILL LOOK AT IS THAT UTILIZATION AND AS WE CONSIDER PROGRAMS AND POTENTIAL CHANGES IN THE SPACE ITSELF, WE HAVE TO BE VERY MINDFUL OF THIS.

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAS HAD A LOT OF ATTENTION ARE THE SPACES IN THOSE OLDER BUILDINGS, THE FOOTPRINT SCHOOLS WANTING TO INFUSE A LITTLE MORE SPACE FOR COLLABORATION, HANDS ON LEARNING, THAT SORT OF THING.

WHEN YOU START TO RENOVATE EXISTING SPACE, YOU HAVE TO BE VERY MINDFUL THAT IF YOU TAKE AN EXISTING SPACE THAT'S BEING USED FOR CLASS TODAY, THAT NOW REDUCES THAT BUILDING CAPACITY.

SO THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT GOING FORWARD IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS THAT AS WE BUILD THESE OPTIONS, WE WILL CHECK AND SEE, MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE STILL OK IN TERMS OF CAPACITY OR ANSWER THE QUESTION HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THAT WE STILL HAVE THE APPROPRIATE AMOUNT OF CAPACITY? ALL RIGHT. SO WITH THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS, ALL THREE OF THEM ARE LISTED HERE.

THE SCHOOLS, WELL, MIDDLE SCHOOL, EAST AND MIDDLE SCHOOL NORTH, ALL BOTH HAVE SURPLUS CAPACITY.

MIDDLE SCHOOL WEST IS IN THAT OPTIMAL RANGE UNTIL AT TEN YEARS OUT.

AGAIN, IT JUST STARTS TO BUMP UP INTO THAT THAT FULL RANGE.

SO THEY'RE THEY'RE IN GOOD SHAPE.

THE HIGH SCHOOLS.

YOU'VE GOT THREE DISTINCT BUILDINGS THAT OFFER DIFFERENT PROGRAMING.

SO WHAT WE SEE HERE IS THAT NEW TECH, THEY ARE EITHER IN THAT OPTIMAL RANGE OR MAYBE A TICK IN THAT SURPLUS CATEGORY.

BUT COPPELL HIGH SCHOOL AND THE NINTH GRADE CENTER BOTH HAVE OCCASIONS OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS WHERE THEY ARE IN THERE MOVING INTO THAT VERY FULL UTILIZATION.

AND SO, AGAIN, AS WE LOOK AT OPTIONS TO ADDRESS PROGRAMING OPPORTUNITIES AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE WILL BE VERY MINDFUL OF IS THE CURRENT UTILIZATION.

AND I MENTIONED THAT WE LOOK FOR EFFICIENCIES AND THOSE OPPORTUNITIES TO BRING RECOMMENDATIONS THAT ADDRESS MULTIPLE THINGS.

THIS MAY BE A PLACE WHERE THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A CHANGE IN A SPACE OR ADD A SPACE OR SHIFT SOMETHING A BIT THAT HELPS IMPACT THE THE OVERALL UTILIZATION OF THE SCHOOLS.

ARE THERE QUESTIONS ON? I HAD A QUESTION ABOUT THAT, THAT SLIDE RIGHT THERE.

WHAT'S HOW EXPLAIN THE 85 TO THE 80 AND THEN TO THE 90.

I DON'T UNDERSTAND ON NEW TECH.

SO AGAIN, YOU KNOW, THIS IS IT'S FOLLOWING YOUR ENROLLMENT PROJECTIONS OVER A PERIOD OF TIME.

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AND SO THE DEMOGRAPHERS HAVE PROJECTED, IF YOU LOOK AT THE NUMBERS IN THE THREE COLUMNS TO THE LEFT OF THE PERCENTAGES, YOU SEE THAT WHAT THEY PROJECTED FOR NEW TECH IS A SLIGHT DIP IN ENROLLMENT AND THEN BACK UP.

IT'S A CHOICE THAT'S BASED ON IT'S A CHOICE ON HISTORICAL TREND AND WHAT THEY'RE SEEING AS THE ENROLLMENT PATTERN THAT SCHOOL.

RIGHT. BUT IT'S. YEAH.

BUT IT'S A CHOICE SCHOOL.

SO IT IS IT'S VERY SUBJECTIVE THOSE NUMBERS.

SO I'M JUST I'M LOOKING AT THE BEGINNING TO THE END.

SO IT'S IT'S ALL GROWING THINGS.

YOU KNOW, I HAD A QUESTION, TOO, BACK ON THE ELEMENTARY FEEDER PATTERN FOR WEST.

SO I KNOW THAT THESE NUMBERS I MEAN, LET ME LET ME ASK YOU THIS.

DID THE IN THIS PROCESS AND I GUESS IT'S THE DEMOGRAPHER, RIGHT? DR. HUNT? THE DEMOGRAPHER PROVIDED ALL THIS DATA.

WHAT I'M WONDERING ABOUT IS SOME OF THESE.

SOME OF THIS INFORMATION IS.

I GUESS I WOULD.

I JUST. ARE THE PRINCIPALS INVOLVED AT ALL IN THESE NUMBERS SO THEY HAVE SOME INPUT INTO THIS AS WELL? SO WHERE WE HAVE ENGAGED THE PRINCIPLES HAVE BEEN IN, WE ASKED THEM TO TELL US HOW THEY USE THEIR ROOMS. WE HAVE PRINCIPLES IN THE CABINET AND IN THE BROADER GROUP THAT ARE HELPING TO LOOK AT THIS DATA AND DEVELOP OPTIONS. AND THEN WE'VE WORKED WITH THEM ON CONDITION NEEDS OF THEIR BUILDINGS AND IDENTIFYING PARTICULAR THINGS THAT THEY KNOW ABOUT THAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS.

AND THEN THE DISTRICT HAS MET WITH PRINCIPALS, ESPECIALLY THOSE FOOTPRINT SCHOOLS AND VARIOUS PEOPLE WHO HAVE CONNECTIONS WITH THE FOOTPRINT SCHOOLS TO IDENTIFY SPECIFIC NEEDS FOR RENOVATIONS AROUND THOSE SCHOOLS.

SO WE'VE HAD A LOT OF INVOLVEMENT AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO HAVE INVOLVEMENT FROM THE PRINCIPALS.

THE ENROLLMENT PROJECTIONS TEND TO BE BASED ON ON ACTUAL PEIMS DATA FROM PREVIOUS YEARS, BUT NOT NECESSARILY BY GRADE. IT'S MORE ABOUT WHAT ACTUALLY THEY WILL START WITH IT BY GRADE.

AND I CAN SPEAK TO THAT BECAUSE IN MY FORMER DISTRICT WE ALSO USE ON TO EDUCATION.

I'M VERY FAMILIAR WITH HOW THEY DO THEIR PROJECTIONS, BUT IT DOES START.

CAMPUS BY CAMPUS, GRADE BY GRADE, AND THEN THEY TRACK INDIVIDUAL COHORTS OF STUDENTS.

MOVING FROM ONE GRADE LEVEL UP TO THE NEXT, AND YOU WILL GET ON OCCASION, YOU MAY SEE A PARTICULARLY SMALL CLASS OR A PARTICULARLY LARGE CLASS OF KIDS THAT THEN, YEAH, THEY TEND THAT THAT JUST, YOU KNOW, THEY FLOW ON THROUGH THE SYSTEM FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS.

YEAH, WE DEFINITELY I MEAN, I'M JUST THINKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE PEDAGOGY IS DIFFERENT IN SOME OF THOSE SCHOOLS THAN OTHERS AND JUST MAKING SURE THAT PRINCIPALS ARE INVOLVED IN THOSE. THOSE NUMBERS AND COUNTS ARE REALLY IMPORTANT.

ABSOLUTELY. YEP.

THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT.

SO WE TALK NOW ABOUT THE SPACE.

DO WE HAVE ENOUGH SPACE? THE ANALYZING CAPACITIES AND UTILIZATION, HOW WE WILL ACCOUNT FOR THOSE THINGS MOVING FORWARD.

NEXT BIG THING IS HOW DO WE TAKE CARE OF THE BUILDINGS WE ALREADY HAVE AND THE NEEDS THAT WE HAVE? SO THIS IS A VERY SUMMARY PRESENTATION OF THE NEEDS THE CONDITION NEEDS AT THE EXISTING BUILDINGS.

AND SO THE ESTIMATES, FIRST OF ALL, ARE ON THE FAR RIGHT, AND THEY TOTAL UP TO ABOUT $91 MILLION.

THE RATINGS THAT YOU SEE HERE WERE ASSIGNED BY [INAUDIBLE] ARCHITECTS.

THEY ASSESSED ALL THE BUILDINGS A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO.

WE HAVE TAKEN THAT INFORMATION AND WORKED VERY CLOSELY WITH DR.

WOMACK AND HIS TEAM AND GOING THROUGH THEIR REPORTS AND THEN ALSO GOING THROUGH WHAT THE MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT KNOWS ABOUT THE THE STATUS, THE CONDITION OF ALL THE DIFFERENT ELEMENTS OF EACH OF THESE BUILDINGS TO IDENTIFY NEEDS.

YOU WILL NOTICE THAT THE MORGAN RATINGS, THEY RATED BUILDINGS.

THREE RATINGS.

THERE WAS EITHER A MEET STANDARD AND EXCEED STANDARD OR A BELOW STANDARD.

SO THOSE ARE THE ONLY THREE RATINGS THAT THEY ASSIGN.

THE GREEN APPEARED TO EXCEED STANDARD.

THOSE VERY LOGICALLY ARE THE NEWEST BUILDINGS AND THEN THE COPPELL NINTH GRADE CENTER, WHICH HAD EXTENSIVE RENOVATIONS TO IT THROUGH THE LAST PART.

THE MEETS STANDARDS ARE THE SCHOOLS.

THAT PROBABLY WERE THE NEWEST PRIOR TO THOSE OR HAD THE MOST RECENT MAJOR RENOVATIONS PRIOR TO THOSE.

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THE BELOW STANDARD YOU'LL SEE PRIMARILY FOCUSED AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL.

AND FIRST, LET ME SAY YOUR BUILDINGS ARE ALL IN GOOD CONDITION.

I ALWAYS WORRY WHEN PEOPLE SEE SOMETHING LIKE THIS, WE DON'T WANT THEM TO THINK THAT THE BUILDINGS ARE JUST CRUMBLING AND THEY'RE TERRIBLE PLACES TO BE.

WHAT THIS IS AN INDICATOR OF IS THE EXTENT OF WHAT WE CALL LIFE CYCLE REPLACEMENT NEEDS IN BUILDINGS.

AND SO YOU'LL SEE THAT WE INCLUDED THE YEAR BUILT AND IN AN AVERAGE YEAR CONSTRUCTED HERE FOR EACH BUILDING.

ALL OF THOSE BUILDINGS, THE ELEMENTARIES THAT HAVE THAT BELOW STANDARD WERE THE EIGHT FOOTPRINT SCHOOLS THAT WERE BUILT LARGELY IN THE EARLY NINETIES.

AND THEN PINKERTON WHICH I BELIEVE IS MAYBE 80 YEARS OLD.

EVEN SO, YOUR BUILDINGS ARE WELL CARED FOR.

YOU ALL HAVE DONE A FABULOUS JOB OF MAINTAINING THEM.

BUT JUST AGAIN, LIKE OUR HOMES, YOU GET TO A POINT WHERE YOU HAVE TO REPLACE THE HEATING AND COOLING SYSTEM OR THE COUNTERTOPS OR THE ROOF OR WINDOWS OR WHAT HAVE YOU. SAME THING HERE.

I DO EXPECT THAT THIS COST ESTIMATE THAT YOU SEE WILL LIKELY GO DOWN A BIT.

I EXPLAINED THIS AT THE FUTURES CONFERENCE THE OTHER NIGHT AS WE CONTINUE TO WORK THROUGH THE DETAIL THAT MAKES THIS UP.

WE'RE REFINING THE COST ESTIMATES THEMSELVES AND THE SCOPE OF WORK.

SO IN PARTICULAR, THERE WAS ONE ITEM, IT WAS AN UPGRADE OF PA SYSTEMS THAT TOUCHED ALMOST ALL THE BUILDINGS EXCEPT THE BRAND NEW ONES THAT WHEN WE COSTED IT OUT, WE INCLUDED NOT JUST THE EQUIPMENT ITSELF, BUT A FULL WHOLESALE REPLACEMENT OF ALL THE COMMUNICATIONS CABLING IN THE BUILDING, WHICH WAS MORE EXTENSIVE THAN WHAT THE NEED REALLY IS.

SO AS WE FINALIZE THIS, I EXPECT THAT NUMBER TO COME DOWN.

WE WILL ALSO CONTINUE TO WORK WITH SEVERAL SOURCES TO UPDATE THE UNIT PRICING, IF YOU WILL, THE CONSTRUCTION PRICING THAT IS THE BASIS FOR THIS, BECAUSE AS WE ALL KNOW AND HEAR AND READ IN THE NEWS, THINGS ARE CHANGING QUICKLY AND FREQUENTLY IN THAT INDUSTRY.

SO WE WILL MAKE SURE THAT RIGHT UP UNTIL THE POINT THAT WE MAKE HAVE A FINAL SET OF RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH CURRENT CONSTRUCTION COST ESTIMATES AND THEN TAKING INTO ACCOUNT AN ESCALATION FACTOR GOING FORWARD.

I JUST HAD A QUESTION. WHY IS VICTORY PLACE NOT INCLUDED IN THE HIGH SCHOOL AREA? THAT'S JUST BECAUSE IT DOESN'T HAVE A BOUNDARY AND BECAUSE IT IS MORE OF A SUPPORT SPACE.

THIS IS WHERE WE'VE CARRIED IT.

YOU KNOW, 10% OF OUR KIDS GRADUATE FROM VICTORY PLACE.

AND WE CAN CERTAINLY WE MEAN IT JUST SEEMS LIKE IT MAKES SENSE TO BE IN THAT.

I DON'T KNOW. MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT BOND COMMITTEE COULD DECIDE SOMETHING ABOUT THE COMMITTEE COULD CONSIDER.

I'M ONE OF 60.

GO FORTH AND LEAD.

ON YOUR SHOULDERS. YEAH.

NO, NO.

SO THIS CHART SIMPLY TAKES ALL THOSE DOLLARS THAT WE JUST SAW IN TOTAL AND BREAKS IT DOWN BY THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF NEEDS.

WE USE AN INDUSTRY STANDARD CATEGORIZATION FOR NEEDS.

YOU CAN SEE ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE, AGAIN, A LIST THAT PRIMARILY WHAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED AND WHAT [INAUDIBLE] IDENTIFIED AS NEEDS ARE JUST LIFE CYCLE REPLACEMENT NEEDS.

AND SO THESE ARE EXAMPLES OF THEM HERE ON THE RIGHT ROOFS, HEATING AND COOLING AND FIRE ALARMS, FURNISHINGS, PLAYGROUNDS, GYM FLOORS AND SEVERAL OF THE JUNIOR HIGHS AND HIGH SCHOOL BUILDINGS, FOOTBALL FIELD, TURF AND TRACK.

BUT YOU CAN SEE THAT WHERE THE DOLLARS LARGELY FALL ROOFING ELECTRICAL THAT'S PRIMARILY THOSE PA SYSTEMS WE WERE TALKING ABOUT.

THE FURNISHINGS IS A BIG TICKET ITEM WHEN YOU'RE TALKING WHOLESALE FURNISHINGS, THESE OLDER BUILDINGS, AGAIN, LIFE CYCLE KINDS OF NEEDS.

IT KIND OF GIVES YOU A SENSE OF WHERE THE NEED IS.

YEAH, I LIKE THAT. THANK YOU.

WE ALSO PERFORMED AN ADA SURVEY, AND IT'S NOT A COMPLIANCE AUDIT, BUT IT WAS A SURVEY OF ALL OF YOUR BUILDINGS.

AND GENERALLY WHAT WE FOUND, THE BUILDINGS ARE GENERALLY ACCESSIBLE.

MINOR DEFICIENCIES, AS YOU SEE THE NOTE THERE AND THE THINGS THAT WE PRIMARILY FOUND WERE AND WE'VE GOT EXAMPLES OF THEM

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HERE IN THE PHOTOS, EVERYTHING FROM JUST THE THE THE PARKING SYMBOLS NOT BEING PAINTED, THE HANDICAP ACCESS SYMBOL NOT PAINTED IN THE BLUE SQUARES.

WE SAW THAT IN SEVERAL PLACES.

THE ONE THAT HAS THE MOST POTENTIAL COST IMPACT FOR A BOND WOULD BE EXAMPLES LIKE THE FAR LEFT ON THE SECOND ROW. THE RAMP IS LIFTING.

WE'VE GOT SOME PLACES WHERE SIDEWALKS ARE SETTLING OR A RAMP IS LIFTING IN ONE PLACE AND NEEDS TO BE REPLACED.

AND THEN ALSO THE VERY MIDDLE PHOTO, WE SAW A LOT OF THIS.

THOSE CURVE CUTS ARE NOT STANDARD ACROSS THE DISTRICT.

THEY'RE NOT PAINTED.

THEY DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE THE LITTLE BUMPS, LITTLE BUBBLE THINGS.

I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT THOSE ARE CALLED THE DOME.

THE DOME. MATT, EVEN IT'S A LATE END PIECE.

AND SO THAT'S LARGELY WHAT WE'LL BE BRINGING FORWARD IS RECOMMENDATIONS TO INCLUDE WITH A MASTER PLAN.

AN ACCESS OUT TO PLAYGROUNDS AND TWO COVERED SPACES AT THE ELEMENTARY.

SO THOSE ARE THE KINDS OF THINGS THAT WE NOTED, AS IS CONCERNS THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED, EDUCATIONAL ADEQUACY.

WE ALSO ASSESSED THIS THIS SUMMER WE WORKED WITH THE ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM TO BUILD A MATRIX OF THINGS THAT WE EXPECT TO WANT EVERY STUDENT TO HAVE, WHETHER IT WAS ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE SCHOOL, HIGH SCHOOL OR ACROSS, IN SOME CASES, ALL SCHOOLS.

AND SO WE WALKED ALL THE BUILDINGS AND WE SCORED THEM ALL.

SO THE BOX AND THE THE THE LEFT AT THE BOTTOM SHOWS THE THE SUMMARY RESULTS HERE BY CATEGORY.

WE SAID THAT ANYTHING THAT SCORED LESS THAN A 60 WOULD BE CONSIDERED POOR.

AND SO. PINKERTON AND VICTORY PLACE FALL INTO THAT CATEGORY.

THEN IF YOU TAKE THE FROM 60 TO 100, THAT'S 40 POINTS.

IF YOU SPLIT THAT INTO THREE EQUAL BUCKETS, THAT'S HOW WE CAME UP WITH THE RANGE OF SCORE FOR EXCELLENT, GOOD AND FAIR.

THE NEWEST SCHOOLS, THE TWO NEWEST CANYON RANCH AND WEST FALL INTO THAT EXCELLENT CATEGORY.

THOSE REALLY WERE THE STANDARDS AGAINST WHICH WE WERE MEASURING IN THE KINDS OF SPACES IN THOSE SCHOOLS WHERE THE STANDARDS AGAINST WHICH THE OTHER BUILDINGS WERE MEASURED.

THE GOOD CATEGORY.

AGAIN, NEWER SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLS THAT HAVE HAD A LOT OF RENOVATION WORK DONE RECENTLY.

AND AGAIN, THERE YOU SEE IN THAT FAIR CATEGORY.

THESE ARE ALL EIGHT OF THE FOOTPRINT SCHOOLS AND NEW TECH.

AND SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT EDUCATIONAL ADEQUACY, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE KINDS OF SPACES THAT THE SCHOOLS HAVE.

AND AN EXAMPLE WOULD BE AT THE ELEMENTARY.

DO THEY HAVE A LARGE APPROPRIATE MUSIC ROOM FOR MOVEMENT AND IN DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES, ART ROOMS, THAT SORT OF THING? THOSE ARE JUST A COUPLE OF VERY MINOR EXAMPLES.

ALSO, COLLABORATION SPACE OR SPACES FOR HANDS ON LEARNING ACTIVITIES.

THAT'S WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT EDUCATIONAL ADEQUACY.

AND THOSE ARE THE KINDS OF THINGS THAT THOSE FOOTPRINT SCHOOLS ARE ARE A BIT DEFICIENT IN.

SO THAT'S WHY THEY ALL WOUND UP IN THAT FAIR CATEGORY.

THE WORK FROM THE VISIONING COMMITTEE REALLY HAS INFORMED THE WORK, OUR WORK AND THE WORK THAT THE STEERING COMMITTEE HAS DONE AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO.

STEERING COMMITTEE OR THE VISIONING COMMITTEE, RATHER, MADE A SERIES OF REPORTS TO THE BOARD ACROSS THE SUMMER, AND THEY HAD IDENTIFIED 12 PRIORITY AREAS.

AND THOSE THAT ARE HIGHLIGHTED HERE IN THE DARK COLOR OR THE BLUE COLOR ARE THE THE PARTICULAR AREAS THAT HAVE CAPITAL NEEDS ASSOCIATED WITH THEM. SO FOR BOND PLANNING PURPOSES, THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT WE'VE BEEN MOSTLY FOCUSED ON, ARE THOSE THINGS THAT HAVE THE CAPITAL NEEDS.

SO WE'VE SUMMARIZED THOSE AREAS WITH THE CAPITAL NEEDS AND TRIED TO CALL OUT THOSE CAPITAL NEEDS ON THE NEXT SEVERAL SLIDES FOR INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS. THERE WERE THREE BROAD INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS THAT HAVE THAT HAVE BEEN BROUGHT FORWARD AS PRIORITY AREAS FOR THE DISTRICT, AND THEN THEY HAVE CAPITAL NEEDS NOW ATTACHED TO THEM IN ORDER TO FULLY IMPLEMENT THEM AND BE SUCCESSFUL WITH THEM.

PRE KINDERGARTEN IS ONE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE VISIONING COMMITTEE TO EXPAND ELIGIBILITY FOR PRE-K AND TO ENSURE THAT ALL OF OUR PRE-K SPACES ARE APPROPRIATE KINDS OF LEARNING SPACES.

AND SO TODAY, ANY FOUR YEAR OLD IN THE CITY AND THE DISTRICT THAT MEETS THE STATE'S ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS WILL QUALIFY FOR PRE-K.

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PRE-K ENROLLMENT HAS BEEN GROWING DRAMATICALLY SINCE THE 18-19 YEAR.

IT'S 302 STUDENTS THIS PAST YEAR, AND THAT'S UP 70%.

THE ENROLLMENT IN PRE-K LARGELY TRACKS WITH THE PERCENTAGE OF KIDS WHO ARE ENGLISH LEARNERS.

TODAY, THERE ARE FOUR SCHOOLS THAT OFFER PRE-K IN COPPELL AND THEY'RE AUSTIN, DENTON CREEK, LAKESIDE AND WILSON ALL UP ON THE NORTH PART OF THE DISTRICT. AND SO IN THE SOUTH PART OF THE DISTRICT, THE SPACE AVAILABLE FOR THIS PROGRAM RIGHT NOW IS LIMITED.

SO THAT'S PART OF WHAT WE'LL BE WORKING TOWARDS IS WHAT KIND OF SOLUTIONS CAN HELP ADDRESS THESE RECOMMENDATIONS.

FOR CAREER TECH.

THERE WERE RECOMMENDATIONS PRESENTED TO YOU ALL TO ADD FOUR NEW PROGRAMS THAT INCLUDE CYBERSECURITY, ADVANCED MANUFACTURING, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY AND AVIATION.

AND THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS CAME BASED ON THE COMBINATION OF STUDENT INTEREST AND THEN ALSO OPPORTUNITIES IN THE WORKFORCE.

SO THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE'VE RECEIVED OR THAT YOU ALL RECEIVED INDICATE THAT THERE'S A NEED JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT KINDS OF FLEX SPACES THAT CAN SERVE THESE PROGRAMS AND POTENTIALLY OTHERS THAT ARE ALREADY IN PLACE.

THERE WAS NOT A RECOMMENDATION BROUGHT TO THE BOARD TO CREATE A STANDALONE NEW CAREER TECH CENTER.

THERE WAS A DESIRE TO KEEP THEM ON THE EXISTING CAMPUSES JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE THE RIGHT KINDS OF SUPPORT SPACES.

AND THEN LASTLY, ON THE INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS, THE CHOICE PROGRAMS IN PARTICULAR, THE DISTRICT HAS A PROGRAM, VERY ROBUST I'VE PROGRAM AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL AND AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL.

THERE WAS A RECOMMENDATION BROUGHT FORWARD TO ADD MAYBE A MIDDLE YEARS PROGRAM WHICH WOULD SPAN, I THINK IT'S GRADE SIX THROUGH TEN THAT DOESN'T IN AND OF ITSELF HAVE SPACE NEEDS.

AS WE LOOK AT THAT PROGRAM AND WHERE IT MIGHT BE LOCATED AND THAT COULD IMPACT CAPACITY OR UTILIZATION, BUT NO NEW SPACE NEEDED FOR THAT.

NEW TECH IS AN AREA SCHOOL THAT THE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED THAT THE DISTRICT LOOK AT MAKING INVESTMENTS THERE AND RENOVATING THE BUILDING, POSSIBLY EXPANDING THE OPPORTUNITIES THERE AND POSSIBLY ALIGNING A PROGRAMING OPPORTUNITIES WITH SOME OF THESE NEW OR MAYBE EVEN EXISTING CAREER TECH PROGRAMS. IN THE AREA OF FINE ARTS.

THE COMMITTEE BROUGHT TO THE BOARD RECOMMENDATIONS ON SEVERAL AREAS, INCLUDING ORCHESTRA, PERFORMANCE, FACILITY AND REHEARSAL SPACES.

SO ORCHESTRA HAS BEEN RECOMMENDED AS A POTENTIAL NEW PROGRAM FOR THE DISTRICT AND IT WOULD BE PHASED IN POTENTIALLY STARTING WITH SIXTH GRADE.

AND THERE ARE TWO SCHOOLS THAT WOULD NEED SOME ADDITIONAL SPACE TO ACCOMMODATE ORCHESTRA, AND THAT'S MIDDLE SCHOOL NORTH AND THE HIGH SCHOOL.

THE OTHER MIDDLE SCHOOLS IN THE NINTH GRADE CAMPUS HAVE SPACE.

PERFORMANCE SPACE IS PRETTY LIMITED.

HERE IN COPPELL, THERE ARE TWO SPACES.

THERE'S THE AUDITORIUM, THE HIGH SCHOOL, THERE'S ALSO THE AUDITORIUM AT THE NINTH GRADE CENTER.

THEY BOTH HAVE CAPACITIES LESS THAN 750, AND SO IS THE FINE ARTS.

PROGRAMING HERE IN THE DISTRICT HAS GROWN AS JUST ENROLLMENT IN GENERAL HAS GROWN.

THE DISTRICT REALLY HAS OUTGROWN THOSE SPACES.

THERE'S NOT ADEQUATE CAPACITY TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE VARIOUS PERFORMANCES.

SO THE RECOMMENDATION WAS MADE TO THE BOARD TO LOOK AT THE POSSIBILITY OF A NEW AUDITORIUM THAT WOULD ACCOMMODATE BETWEEN 1200 AND MAYBE UP TO 1500 SPECTATORS. REHEARSAL SPACES JUST KIND OF GOES BACK TO THAT, MAKING SURE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT KIND OF SPACE FOR THE PROGRAMS YOU HAVE AND WHETHER IT'S THE KIND OF SPACE OR THE AMOUNT, THE CAPACITY OF SPACE AT TWO SCHOOLS AT COPPELL HIGH SCHOOL AND AT NORTH, THEY'RE BOTH IN NEED OF SOME EXPANSION OF SOME OF THE FINE ARTS SPACES TO ACCOMMODATE CURRENT PROGRAMS AND ANTICIPATED GROWTH.

AND POTENTIALLY ORCHESTRA.

IN TERMS OF ATHLETICS.

THE STEERING OR THE VISIONING COMMITTEE BROUGHT FORTH RECOMMENDATIONS AROUND TENNIS AND SWIMMING AND DIVING.

THESE ARE THE TWO AREAS THAT ARE BOTH GROWING AND THEIR CURRENT SPACES ARE A BIT UNDERSIZED FOR THE PROGRAM, AND IT'S SIGNIFICANTLY UNDERSIZED FOR THE EXISTING PROGRAMS. TENNIS AT THE HIGH SCHOOL, WE HAVE THE TENNIS CENTER.

THERE ARE 12 COURTS THERE.

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THE NUMBER OF COURTS IS OK.

BUT THE LOCKER ROOM AND I'VE CIRCLED IN RED THE PICTURE THAT'S IN THE TOP IS IS TOO SMALL TO SUPPORT THE CURRENT PROGRAM.

THERE ARE OVER 100 KIDS AT THE HIGH SCHOOL IN TENNIS.

AND THEN ALSO KIDS COME UP FROM THE NINTH GRADE CENTER AND COMPETE HERE AS WELL.

THE LOCKER ROOM TODAY WILL SUPPORT 50 KIDS, 25 BOYS, 25 GIRLS.

ALSO, THE COURT LIGHTING IS NOT SUFFICIENT.

THERE ARE COURTS THAT ARE TOO DARK TO PLAY ON IN THE EVENING.

SO THAT'S AN EFFICIENCY FACTOR.

AND SO THE RECOMMENDATIONS WERE THAT WE ADDRESS THE ENLARGED LOCKER ROOM, REPLACE THE LIGHTING, THE SOUND SYSTEM THERE.

SWIMMING AND DIVING.

LIKEWISE, AS YOU'VE HEARD AND WELL KNOW, THAT PROGRAM IS GROWING, HAS OVER 120 KIDS IN IT PRACTICES HELD AT THE YMCA HERE IN COPPELL.

THAT'S A SMALL FACILITY AND IT TAKES FOUR PERIODS A DAY TO ACCOMMODATE ALL THE ATHLETES.

SO THE RECOMMENDATION HAS BEEN TO LOOK AT HOW DO WE GET MORE SWIMMING POOL CAPACITY POTENTIALLY AND HOPEFULLY WITH A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE WITH THE Y ON THAT.

IN TERMS OF MULTIPURPOSE BUILDING OR AGAIN, OPERATING EFFICIENCIES FOR THE DISTRICT.

RECOMMENDATION WAS BROUGHT FORTH FROM THE VISIONING COMMITTEE TO THE BOARD TO LOOK AT CONSOLIDATING DEPARTMENTS, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW YOUR DEPARTMENTS ARE LOCATED IN THREE DIFFERENT BUILDINGS ACROSS THE CITY AND THAT IN AND OF ITSELF CREATES SOME INEFFICIENCIES.

AND THEN THERE'S IN PARTICULAR A LACK OF APPROPRIATE MEETING SPACES AND NOT JUST JUST LARGE SCALE SPACES THAT CAN BE SIZED FOR DIFFERENT KINDS OF EVENTS, WHETHER IT'S PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OR A LARGE RECEPTION OR A LARGE MEETING BANQUETS OR ANY NUMBER OF ACTIVITIES. SO THERE WAS RECOMMENDATION BROUGHT FORWARD TO LOOK AT MAYBE A SINGLE BUILDING THAT COULD ADDRESS ALL OF THOSE NEEDS.

SO I PRETTY MUCH GONE THROUGH THE GIST OF WHAT WE'VE SEEN IN TERMS OF NEEDS THAT HAVE BUBBLED UP.

ALL THE SCHOOLS, FIRST AND FOREMOST, IS TAKING CARE OF WHAT WE HAVE AT THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, LOOKING AT UTILIZATION ACROSS SCHOOLS, MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT KINDS OF SPACES.

PREKINDERGARTEN IS A NEED WE KNOW WE NEED TO ADDRESS, AND PLAYGROUNDS IS ANOTHER ONE THAT HAS IT'S PART OF CONDITION NEEDS.

BUT PLAYGROUNDS IS SOMETHING WE NEED TO ADDRESS MIDDLE SCHOOLS AGAIN, CONDITION NEEDS, MAKING SURE WE HAVE THE RIGHT KINDS OF SPACES AND LOOKING AT PROGRAM OPPORTUNITIES, HOW CAN WE GROW TO BETTER SERVE THE PROGRAMING ITSELF, TO BETTER MEET THE NEEDS OF ALL OF OUR FAMILIES? SAME THING AT THE HIGH SCHOOL THERE.

QUESTIONS FOR CINDY.

I KNOW WE GOT SEVERAL OTHER SLIDES, BUT OTHER QUESTIONS.

I DO HAVE A QUESTION AND WE MAY PASS IT BY TOO FAR 64.

THE FACILITY CONDITION SUMMARY JUST A I GUESS IT'S A DOCTOR QUESTION.

I DON'T KNOW. WE WON'T BE GOING BACK.

OKAY. YEAH, BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO MESS UP OUR SLIDES, BUT WHAT'S YOUR QUESTION? MY QUESTION IS ABOUT I KNOW LEE ELEMENTARY HAD A BUNCH OF DRAINAGE ISSUES, SUNKEN CEMENT, A BUNCH OF THAT THEY WERE RATED AS EXCEED STANDARDS ON THEIR FACILITY.

AND I'M JUST CURIOUS IF THAT'S STILL THE CASE OR IS THAT AFTER ALL THAT OR ARE WE CONSIDERING ANY OF THAT? SO I CAN TAKE A STAB AT THAT AND DR.

WOMACK MAY EVEN WANT TO CHIME IN.

YES. I MEAN, IT IS THE BUILDING AS A WHOLE EXCEEDS STANDARDS.

WE HAVE DRAINAGE.

I THINK THAT WE CAPTURED IN THE CONDITION NEEDS AT THAT BUILDING.

SO WHERE YOU SEE AT LEE FINALLY ON THERE, MILLION THREE.

SOME OF THAT MILLION THREE IS TO TAKE CARE OF SOME OF THAT DRAINAGE NEED.

OKAY. I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE IT REFLECTED [INAUDIBLE] BECAUSE I KNOW A NEW SCHOOL, YOU KNOW, IS IS NEW AND EXACTLY GREAT.

BUT IF IT'S NOT NEW AND GREAT AND IT'S GOT AN ISSUE, IT'S GOING TO BE A SINKHOLE.

EXACTLY. EXACTLY.

THANK YOU. IT'S GOING ON.

IT'S IN HERE.

YEAH, YEAH, I KNOW. I CAN'T BELIEVE IT.

I KNOW. IT JUST SEEMS LIKE FLEW BY.

THANK YOU. I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS TOO ABOUT THIS SECTION.

SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE EDUCATION, NOT ADEQUACY RATINGS, CAN WE HAVE ACCESS TO THE RUBRIC OR WHAT WAS USED TO DETERMINE THAT? YES, ABSOLUTELY WE CAN.

AND THAT QUESTION CAME UP LIKEWISE FROM THE STEERING COMMITTEE.

AND SO WE HAD TOLD THEM AT THE NEXT MEETING, WE'LL GIVE THEM THE BIG MATRIX.

SO THAT AND THEN SECONDLY, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT OUR CHOICE PROGRAMS, IF YOU ALL TALKED ABOUT SPANISH, SINCE TWO OF OUR CAMPUSES ARE CHOICE FOR THAT DLI, THAT SPANISH DID THAT, HOW DOES THAT FIT IN? SO THAT WILL BE SOMETHING THAT AS WE WORK ON OPTIONS IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS, WE START TO PUT ALL THESE PIECES TOGETHER AND SAY, WHAT ARE THE NEEDS?

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THEN THAT'S THE POINT AT WHICH THAT KIND OF A DISCUSSION WOULD WOULD TAKE PLACE.

ONE MORE AS WE TALK ABOUT COMMUNITY, WILL THE COMMITTEE TALK ABOUT COMMUNITY USAGE OF THE PROPOSED FACILITIES? FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU WERE TO HAVE A, YOU KNOW, A NEW TRACK OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, WHAT ABOUT ACCESS FOR THE COMMUNITY? DOES THAT COME UP AT ALL IN THE IN DISCUSSION OR COULD IT.

WELL, SO THE CHARGE TO THE COMMITTEE IS TYPICALLY AROUND BRINGING RECOMMENDATIONS ABOUT THE THE CAPITAL NEEDS THEMSELVES.

WE CAN INCORPORATE IF THE IF THE COMMITTEE DOES WANT TO BRING FORWARD A RECOMMENDATION THAT THE COMMUNITY HAVE ACCESS TO PARTICULAR THINGS, THEN YES, THAT COULD BE PART OF THOSE. MS. POWELL, AS YOU SAID, WILL COME UP WITH A RECOMMENDATION FOR THE CAPITAL NEEDS.

WHAT I'M WONDERING IS HOW WOULD WE COME TO KNOW IF WE SPEND THAT MUCH CAPITAL, IF IT GETS APPROVED BY THE COMMUNITY AND WILL END UP BUILDING A PARTICULAR FACILITY OR EXPANDING A PROGRAM LIKE AN IVY PROGRAM OR MULTI-PURPOSE CENTER WITH A NEW ADMINISTRATION BUILDING WITH SO MANY OTHER CHOICES? HOW DOES IT IMPACT OUR BUDGET? HOW DO WE COME TO KNOW? BECAUSE IT'S ONE THING TO SPEND ON CAPITAL EXPENSE IF YOU CANNOT AFFORD IT YEAR BY YEAR.

SO THAT'S A VERY GOOD QUESTION.

AND YES, MRS. SIRCAR ALREADY HAS A SPREADSHEET TEMPLATE SHE'S WORKING ON, AND I THINK SHE SHARED WITH ME SHE'S ALREADY STARTING TO POPULATE IT SOME WHERE WE WILL DO JUST THAT. SO IF THERE'S A RECOMMENDATION AROUND A PARTICULAR PROGRAM, WE'RE GOING TO LOOK TO SAY, YOU KNOW, DOES IT REQUIRE US TO ADD SOMEBODY OR SOMEBODIES? AND IF SO, WHAT IS THAT RECURRING COST? LIKEWISE, IF THERE'S A RECOMMENDATION THAT ALLOWS US TO SAVE SOME MONEY, WE'LL CAPTURE THAT TOO ALONG THE WAY.

BUT YES, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE LOOK AT.

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YOU WENT BACK ON YOUR SLIDES, BUT IF YOU GO BACK FORWARD, I KNOW THERE ARE SOME SLIDES THAT WILL TALK ABOUT THE FINANCE OVERVIEW PIECE.

THEY ARE WHAT? WE HADN'T EVEN GOTTEN TO THAT YET.

YES, BUT WE'VE BEEN ON THIS AN HOUR, SO I'M JUST TRYING TO HELP US MOVE ALONG.

YEAH, NOT TRYING TO RUSH ANYBODY, BUT JUST BE MINDFUL OF THAT.

HERE THESE ARE SLIDES ABOUT THE TAXPAYER IMPACT.

THE OPERATIONS THEMSELVES WILL COME LATER ONCE WE KNOW WHAT OPTIONS WE'RE TRYING TO COST AT.

WE DON'T HAVE ANY OF THAT INFORMATION YET.

ALL RIGHT. WE HAVE SHARED WITH THE STEERING COMMITTEE THE CHANGE IN TAX RATES OVER TIME, BEGINNING BACK 2018 TO 2022. THE RATE HAS COME DOWN LARGELY BECAUSE THE STATE HAS BEEN BUYING DOWN THE M&O RATE, BUT THE OVERALL TAX RATE HAS DROPPED 16 AND A HALF PERCENT, WHICH IS PUTS US ALL IN A GOOD PLACE AS WE START TO LOOK AT POTENTIAL CAPITAL INVESTMENTS.

HILLTOP SECURITIES THE DISTRICT'S FINANCIAL ADVISORS HAVE ALREADY PRESENTED TO THE STEERING COMMITTEE A RECOMMENDATION OR NOT RECOMMENDATIONS, BUT INFORMATION ABOUT POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF DIFFERENT SIZES OF BOND PACKAGES THEY MODELED FOUR RANGING FROM 200 MILLION UP TO 350 MILLION AND THE POTENTIAL TAX RATE IMPACTS ON THOSE.

AND YOU CAN SEE THE TAX RATE IMPACT IN THE SECOND COLUMN HERE.

SO A $200 MILLION BOND PACKAGE WOULD POTENTIALLY RAISE THE TAX RATE 3.4 CENTS AND THEN $350 MILLION $0.08. I WILL TELL YOU THAT THE ASSUMPTIONS THAT THEY USED IN BUILDING THESE WERE VERY CONSERVATIVE, VERY LIMITED PROPERTY VALUE GROWTH, HIGH INTEREST RATES.

THEY THEN CALCULATED THE IMPACT TO THE OWNER OF DIFFERENT SIZES OF HOMES, A $400,000 HOME, $600 AND $800,000.

SO THAT INFORMATION HAS BEEN SHARED WITH THE STEERING COMMITTEE.

AND AGAIN, WE POINTED OUT TO THE STEERING COMMITTEE THAT WITH THE I&S RATE, IT IS NOT SUBJECT TO RECAPTURE ALL OF THE I&S TAXES, STAY WITH THE DISTRICT TO HELP PAY FOR THOSE CAPITAL INVESTMENTS.

WE CONDUCTED A SURVEY, AN ONLINE SURVEY THAT CLOSED AT NOON LAST WEEK AT OVER 1800 RESPONSES, IT WAS AWESOME. THE RESPONSE RATE.

WE ARE GOING THROUGH THE OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS.

THERE WERE OVER ABOUT 450 SEPARATE RESPONSES TO QUESTION NUMBER TEN, WHICH IS SAID, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANT TO SHARE? AND THERE WERE MANY AND SOME OF THEM ADDRESS MULTIPLE THINGS.

AND SO WE'VE BEEN TO HELP FACILITATE THE PROCESS WHERE THE DISTRICT PUTS TOGETHER A FACILITIES MASTER PLAN.

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AND IN PARTICULAR, WE WERE CHARGED WITH DEVELOPING A FIVE YEAR PLAN FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

AND THEN MOST IMPORTANTLY, THAT WE ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY IN THIS PROCESS AND BUILD A FACILITY MASTER PLAN THAT REFLECTS AT STAKEHOLDER FEEDBACK.

EVERYTHING THAT WE ARE DOING IS THROUGH THE LENS OF THE DISTRICT'S CORE VALUES.

AND SO WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THAT AT EACH MEETING.

SO THIS SLIDE LAYS OUT THE PROJECT ITSELF.

EACH CIRCLE REPRESENTS A DIFFERENT MAJOR ACTIVITY IN THE WORK, AND THE COLORS REPRESENT WHO'S RESPONSIBLE FOR IT.

AND SO TONIGHT WE ARE ALMOST AT THE HALFWAY POINT IN TERMS OF THE SPECIFIC STEPS IN THE PROCESS AT THAT INTERIM REPORT TO THE BOARD. SO THE TWO PURPLE CIRCLES ARE THE BOARD.

THE MAROON CIRCLES ARE DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION, THE BLUE CIRCLES ARE THE BOND STEERING COMMITTEE, AND THEN THE GREEN CIRCLES ARE THE BROADER COMMUNITY.

SO WE HAVE TODAY GATHERED A TON OF INFORMATION.

WE'VE BEEN EVALUATING IT, DISTILLING IT.

WE'VE SHARED IT WITH THE STEERING COMMITTEE IN TWO SEPARATE MEETINGS.

AND YOU'LL HEAR MORE ABOUT THOSE IN JUST A MINUTE.

THE DISTRICT CURRENTLY IS IN THE PROCESS OF HOSTING FACILITY TOURS.

THERE WERE SEVERAL LAST WEEKS.

I THINK THEY'RE STILL MAYBE THREE EVENINGS THIS WEEK WHERE THERE ARE MULTIPLE TOURS.

WE'VE HAD A FUTURES CONFERENCE LAST WEEK AND AN ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE AND WE'LL GO THROUGH SOME OF THAT DETAIL IN THE NEXT FEW SLIDES.

GOING FORWARD WE HAVE STILL A WORK SESSION NEXT WEEK WITH THE DISTRICT CABINET AND SOME EXTENDED MEMBERS THAT HAVE VERY SPECIFIC ROLES IN DIFFERENT INSTRUCTIONAL AREAS TO DEVELOP OPTIONS THAT WILL ADDRESS THESE NEEDS THAT WE HAVE IDENTIFIED TO DATE. AND WHEN I SAY OPTIONS, THERE MAY BE ONE OPTION TO ADDRESS A PARTICULAR NEED.

THERE MAY BE THREE OPTIONS TO ADDRESS A PARTICULAR NEED.

THAT WILL JUST VARY DEPENDING ON WHAT THE THE INDIVIDUAL TOPIC IS.

WE'LL THEN ROLL THOSE BACK OUT TO THE STEERING COMMITTEE AT THEIR MEETING NUMBER THREE, TAKE THEIR INPUT.

ROLL IT BACK OUT TO THE BROADER PUBLIC FOR ONE MORE COMMUNITY FORUM, WHAT WE CALL A COMMUNITY DIALOG WITH ANOTHER ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE SPECIFIC TO THOSE THOSE OPTIONS THAT WE'VE DEVELOPED.

AND THEN WE'LL TAKE ALL OF THAT FEEDBACK TO HELP US KIND OF NARROW DOWN THOSE OPTIONS INTO A SET OF RECOMMENDATIONS THAT THE STEERING COMMITTEE WILL THEN HAVE INPUT ON.

THE STEERING COMMITTEE WILL ULTIMATELY BE THE ONES TO VOTE AND BRING FORTH CONSENSUS SET OF RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE BOARD IN JANUARY.

SO OUR WORK IS VERY MUCH ON TRACK.

WE'VE GOT A LOT OF HEAVY LIFTING TO DO IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS, BUT WE'RE VERY MUCH ON SCHEDULE.

SO WE'VE TALKED ABOUT, I THINK BEFORE IN SEVERAL MEETINGS I'VE BEEN IN THIS DISTRICT COMES TO THIS PROCESS WITH A LOT OF DATA, A LOT OF WORK THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS.

AND I REALLY APPLAUD THE DISTRICT FOR THIS AND THE BOARD FOR TAKING THESE STEPS.

WE ARE RELYING ON WORK FROM THE DISTRICT DEMOGRAPHER IN TERMS OF ENROLLMENT PROJECTIONS, A CONDITION ASSESSMENT THAT WAS PERFORMED BY THE DISTRICTS, BY AN ARCHITECT FIRM WORKING FOR THE DISTRICT.

RECOMMENDATIONS FROM A FACILITIES PLANNING COMMITTEE AND THEN, VERY IMPORTANTLY, A SERIES OF RECOMMENDATIONS AND REPORTS FROM THE DISTRICT'S VISIONING COMMITTEE.

THEY'VE BEEN EXTREMELY HELPFUL TO INFORMING AND GUIDING OUR WORK.

THE SUMMER COOPERATIVE STRATEGIES THEN PERFORMED AN ADA SURVEY OF ALL OF YOUR BUILDINGS AND ALSO AN EDUCATIONAL ADEQUACY ASSESSMENT.

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SO ALL THIS INFORMATION NOW IS COMING TOGETHER AND WE'RE STARTING TO CONNECT THIS INTO THESE OPTIONS THAT WILL DEVELOP GOING FORWARD.

I ALWAYS THINK OF THIS IS LIKE A GIANT PUZZLE.

WE'VE GOT ALL THESE PIECES THAT WE'VE GOT TO FIT TOGETHER AND SOME OF THEM ARE VERY INTRICATE AND CHANGE IN ONE THING MAY AFFECT FOR OTHERS.

SO THIS IS WHERE WE'RE STARTING TO MAKE THOSE CONNECTIONS.

SO THE BOARD APPOINTED A STEERING COMMITTEE, A BOND STEERING COMMITTEE OF 60 INDIVIDUALS.

THEY'VE HAD TWO MEETINGS AND THEY THEMSELVES, THE FIRST MEETING ELECTED CO-CHAIRS, ONE BEING JIM WALKER, WHO'S HERE THIS EVENING, AND THEN A STUDENT, DYLAN PATEL, WHO COULD NOT BE HERE THIS EVENING.

BUT I THINK JIM IS GOING TO COME AND ADDRESS A LITTLE BIT OF THE WORK THAT THE STEERING COMMITTEE IS DOING.

THANKS, CINDY. JIM WALKER, 400 [INAUDIBLE] COURT.

YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S BEEN A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE THUS FAR.

SERVING ON THE STEERING COMMITTEE.

I'VE BEEN HONORED TO BE ELECTED CO-CHAIR WITH DYLAN PATEL, A VERY FINE YOUNG MAN.

DR. HUNT HAD SUGGESTED THAT WE INCLUDE IN THIS BROAD GROUP OF DIVERSE STAKEHOLDERS SOME OF THE STUDENTS.

AND I THINK WE'VE ALREADY SEEN THAT THEIR INSIGHT AND THE INPUT THEY PROVIDED HAS BEEN INVALUABLE.

AND DYLAN CERTAINLY NO EXCEPTION TO THAT.

HE'S A VERY FINE YOUNG MAN AND HE'S BEEN SO DILIGENT AND SO EARNEST IN THE PROCESS, AND I'VE REALLY BEEN PROUD OF HIM.

SO IT'S BEEN A GREAT GROUP.

I THINK WE'RE WORKING TOGETHER VERY WELL COOPERATIVELY.

AND COOPERATIVE STRATEGIES HAS GOT THIS NAILED ALONG WITH THE VISIONING COMMITTEE AND ALL THE WORK THAT'S PROCEEDED AS I THINK WE'RE GOING TO COME UP WITH SOME EXCELLENT RECOMMENDATIONS AND FOR YOU ALL TO CONSIDER.

THANK YOU. SO THE STEERING COMMITTEE HAS MET TWICE. THIS SLIDE GIVES YOU A REAL HIGH LEVEL LOOK AT WHAT THEY WILL DO AT EACH MEETING.

SO THE FIRST TWO MEETINGS, WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME SHARING OUT A LOT OF THE INFORMATION THAT HAS BEEN DEVELOPED OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS AND THAT WE'VE TRIED TO SYNTHESIZE AND DISTILL INTO SOME MANAGEABLE CHUNKS.

AT THAT FIRST MEETING, I SPENT ABOUT 45 MINUTES, I GUESS, IN TABLE GROUPS DISCUSSING WHAT THEY SAW AS OPPORTUNITIES FOR A POTENTIAL FUTURE BOND PACKAGE AND CHALLENGES.

AND I'LL SHARE THAT WITH YOU IN JUST A MOMENT.

YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES THOSE OF US IN EDUCATION GET TOO DEEP IN THE WEEDS ON ALL OF OUR ACRONYMS, AND WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE SAYING, BUT MAYBE NOT EVERYONE ELSE KNOWS WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.

SO THEY MADE WONDERFUL SUGGESTIONS THAT REALLY IMPROVED THE QUALITY OF THE SURVEY QUESTIONS THAT WE HAD DRAFTED.

SO THAT WAS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED.

THEY ARE VERY ENGAGED.

I HAVE TO TELL YOU, I'VE WORKED WITH A NUMBER OF STEERING COMMITTEES AND A NUMBER OF JUST COMMITTEES, PERIOD.

IN MY 30 YEARS OF WORKING IN PUBLIC AND IN FINANCE AND IN BOND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT.

THIS PARTICULAR COMMITTEE BECOMES VERY ENGAGED AND VERY INFORMED.

THEY'RE EXCITED ABOUT THE WORK.

THEY CARE DEEPLY ABOUT THIS DISTRICT AND THE KIDS WHO ARE ON THIS COMMITTEE, AS MR. WALKER SAID, THEY THEY HAVE PROVIDED WONDERFUL INSIGHT ALREADY.

THEY THEY INFORMED US ABOUT SOME OF THEIR ACTUAL EXPERIENCES, THINGS SUCH AS THE TENNIS CENTER AND IN OTHER AREAS.

WE HAD A YOUNG MAN AT THE FUTURES CONFERENCE THIS LAST WEEK THAT ASKED WONDERFUL QUESTIONS.

AND SO I'VE REALLY ENJOYED HAVING THAT FEEDBACK BECAUSE THE STUDENTS BRING A PERSPECTIVE THAT NONE OF US AS ADULTS CAN CAN CONVEY TO PEOPLE.

I DON'T CARE HOW MUCH DATA YOU HAVE.

SO GOING FORWARD, THEN THE NEXT THREE MEETINGS WE WILL SHARE OUT WITHIN THE RESULTS OF THE SURVEY THAT WE JUST WRAPPED UP LAST WEEK. AND WE WILL SHARE OUT THESE OPTIONS THAT WE ARE GOING TO DRAFT IN THE NEXT WEEK OR SO AND HAVE THEIR FEEDBACK ON THOSE OPTIONS AND HELP IDENTIFY WHAT THEY SEE AS CHALLENGES OR BENEFITS FOR THE SPECIFIC OPTIONS.

WE'LL THEN HAVE THAT THAT SECOND PUBLIC FORUM OR THAT COMMUNITY DIALOG AND TAKE BROAD INPUT THERE ALONG WITH ANOTHER ONLINE SURVEY AROUND THOSE OPTIONS. THEN WE'LL SHARE THAT BACK WITH THE STEERING COMMITTEE FOR MEETING NUMBER FOUR AT THAT POINT.

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AND THAT'S WHERE WE'LL ALSO HAVE NARROWED DOWN THOSE OPTIONS TO A SET OF RECOMMENDATIONS FROM ADMINISTRATION TO THE STEERING COMMITTEE.

THAT'S WHERE ULTIMATELY THE STEERING COMMITTEE WILL LOOK AND SAY, OKAY, WE NEED TO TWEAK THIS, TAKE THIS OUT OR WHATEVER.

THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE WE NEED TO CONSIDER.

THEY'LL HAVE THEIR INPUT ON THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS.

AND THEN ULTIMATELY, IT WILL BE THE STEERING COMMITTEE THAT DISCUSSES AND VOTES ON A SET OF RECOMMENDATIONS TO BRING TO YOU.

SO THAT'S KIND OF THE FLOW OF THEIR WORK GOING FORWARD.

BUT THEY THEY'VE BEEN WONDERFUL TO WORK WITH.

SO I MENTIONED AT THAT FIRST MEETING, THE STEERING COMMITTEE MET IN TABLE GROUPS AND WE ASKED THEM JUST BASED ON WHAT THEY'D SEEN SO FAR, TELL US WHAT WHAT THEY SAW AS OPPORTUNITIES OR CHALLENGES.

AND SO I TOOK THE INFORMATION THAT THEY PROVIDED AND I LOOKED THROUGH THEIR FOUR THEMES, AND I TRIED TO CATEGORIZE ALL THE COMMENTS INTO SOME COMMON CATEGORIES.

AND SO WHAT YOU SEE ON THE SLIDE NOW ARE THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT WERE IDENTIFIED.

AND SO THERE WERE SIX DIFFERENT BROAD THEMES THAT I SAW IN WHAT THEY COMMENTED ON.

ONE BEING ENHANCEMENTS VERSUS CAPACITY.

I THINK THIS COMMITTEE WAS SEEING ALREADY THAT THE DISTRICT IS GROWING, BUT THAT GROWTH IS SLOWING DOWN.

SO WE ARE NOT AT A PLACE WHERE WE ARE TRYING TO PROVIDE OR NEEDING TO PROVIDE AN EXTENSIVE AMOUNT OF ADDITIONAL SQUARE FOOTAGE TO ADDRESS FUTURE ENROLLMENTS.

SO THEY SEE THAT AS AN OPPORTUNITY THEN TO FOCUS ON WHAT WE HAVE AND IMPROVE THE SPACES THAT WE HAVE AND INVEST IN PROGRAMING THAT WE HAVE.

WE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT AT THAT FIRST MEETING ABOUT TRANSFERS, TRANSFERS INTO COPPELL ISD AND TRANSFERS OUT, AND THEY RECOGNIZED THAT OUR TRANSFERS OUT ACTUALLY EXCEED THE NUMBER OF KIDS TRANSFERRING INTO THE DISTRICT.

SO THEY SEE THIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY AGAIN TO INVEST IN PROGRAMING TO HELP FLIP THAT, IF YOU WILL, OR MAKE A DENT OR A CHANGE IN THAT TREND.

CHOICE PROGRAMS WAS SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN IMPORTANT TO THE COMMITTEE ALL ALONG.

THEY ALSO SEE THIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO IMPACT STAFF TALENT RETENTION, MAYBE THROUGH SOME OF THE INVESTMENTS THAT WE MAKE HERE.

SO ALL THAT FALLS INTO THAT CATEGORY OF EFFICIENCIES.

THEY THOUGHT THAT THE DATA THAT THEY HAVE RECEIVED SO FAR WAS VERY HELPFUL AND THEY ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THERE'S A LOT OF IT.

AND THEY PARTICULARLY LIKE WHAT THEY'RE SEEING FROM THE VISIONING COMMITTEE AND THE DIRECTION AND THE THOUGHT THAT IN THE EXTENT OF WORK AND EFFORT THAT WENT INTO THOSE THAT SERIES OF RECOMMENDATIONS AND THEN COMMUNITY BENEFITS, THEY IDENTIFIED SEVERAL THINGS SUCH AS OVERALL INCREASE IN HOMEOWNER VALUES, THE CHANCE TO LIVE, THE PROMISE OF TRANSPARENCY.

I THOUGHT THAT WAS A REALLY INTERESTING ONE.

AND THEY'VE COMMENTED.

I'VE HAD PEOPLE COMMENT TO ME AFTER OUR MEETINGS THAT THEY FEEL VERY, VERY COMFORTABLE WITH THIS PROCESS AND FEEL LIKE THEY REALLY HAVE ACCESS TO A LOT OF INFORMATION.

AND TRUE, THEY'RE PARTNERS AT THE TABLE ININ DEVELOPING THIS.

IN TERMS OF CHALLENGES, THEY FELL REALLY INTO FOUR CATEGORIES.

THE BROADEST ONE OR THE FIRST ONE BEING COMMUNICATIONS.

JUST EVERYTHING FROM COMMUNICATING THROUGH THIS PROCESS.

AND THEN ON POTENTIALLY, IF A BOND ELECTION IS CALLED, COMMUNICATING TO THE PUBLIC IN THAT REGARD, THE EXPANSE OF NEED EXPLAINING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RECAPTURE FOR M & O TAXES VERSUS THE I&S TAX RATE THAT SUPPORTS BOND PROGRAMS AND THE FACT THAT THERE'S NO RECAPTURE THERE AND THEN GETTING OUT THE VOTE.

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SO THOSE THINGS ALL FALL IN THAT COMMUNICATIONS CATEGORY.

PRIORITIZING THE NEEDS WAS THE BIGGEST ONE.

THEY ALL RECOGNIZED THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF NEEDS, THERE'S A LOT OF DATA, A LOT OF THINGS TO THINK ABOUT HERE.

AND SO THAT THAT'S AN AREA THAT THEY THINK WILL BE A CHALLENGE AS THEY MOVE FORWARD.

I THINK THEY DO RECOGNIZE THAT THE NEEDS ARE THERE'S NOTHING FRIVOLOUS IN WHAT THEY'VE SEEN SO FAR.

AND SO WHEN WE PUT DOLLARS TO THESE THINGS AND THEY MAY HAVE TO MAKE SOME CHOICES, THEY RECOGNIZE THAT THAT WILL BE DIFFICULT. COSTS ARE CERTAINLY A CHALLENGE, AS WE PUT TOGETHER A CAPITAL PACKAGE, THE RISING INTEREST RATES, THE INCREASE IN CONSTRUCTION COST, INCREASE IN GENERAL OPERATIONAL COST, THE POTENTIAL IMPACT TO HOMEOWNERS AND THROUGH THE TAX RATE AND THE CURRENT GROWTH IN PROPERTY VALUE.

SO ALL OF THESE THINGS THAT ARE VERY, VERY MINDFUL OF.

AND THEN FINALLY, THE ELECTION ITSELF, WE'VE HAD A TICK OF CONVERSATION ABOUT THE CHANGE IN LAW THAT NOW REQUIRES SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO BREAK OUT CERTAIN PROJECTS INTO STANDALONE PROPOSITIONS.

AND SO THEY'RE ALREADY ASKING SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT, AND THEY'VE RECOGNIZED THAT AS BEING A CHALLENGE.

SO THE THE THINGS THAT WE ARE FOCUSED ON AS WE BUILD THIS PLAN, YOU SEE HERE ON THE LIST, I MEAN, FIRST AND FOREMOST, ANY TIME WE PUT TOGETHER A FACILITY MASTER PLAN, THE CORE THEMES ARE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ENOUGH SPACE OR THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF SPACE TO MATCH YOUR ENROLLMENT. YOU DON'T WANT TO HAVE TOO MUCH.

YOU DON'T WANT TO HAVE CERTAINLY DON'T WANT TO BE CAUGHT TOO LITTLE.

AND THEN ALSO ENSURING THAT WE ARE TAKING CARE OF WHAT WE ALREADY HAVE.

AND I ALWAYS USE THE ANALOGY OF OUR HOMES, RIGHT? SO MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE TAKING CARE OF THE BUILDING SYSTEMS, THE ROOFS, THE HVAC SYSTEMS, THE FINISHES INSIDE THE BUILDINGS, THE ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS, PA SYSTEMS IS ONE THAT WE'RE WORKING ON HERE.

TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ALL FUNCTION LIKE WE NEED THEM TO FUNCTION AND THAT OUR KIDS ARE SAFE, WARM AND DRY.

SO. AND THEN NEXT, MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT KINDS OF SPACES FOR THE PROGRAMS WE ALREADY OFFER AND THOSE THAT WE MIGHT WANT TO LOOK TO ADD TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT SUPPORTS THE OBJECTIVES WITH THE CURRICULUM.

AND THEN OPERATING EFFICIENCIES.

WE ALWAYS LOOK FOR THOSE OPPORTUNITIES AS WE BUILD A MASTER PLAN TO GAIN EFFICIENCIES PERHAPS, OR EVEN ON THINGS THAT MAY BE IMPLEMENTED THAT ARE NEW.

WE LOOK FOR THOSE OPPORTUNITIES FOR RECOMMENDATIONS AND FOR THE POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS THAT GO INTO A BOND PACKAGE TO ACCOMPLISH MULTIPLE THINGS.

THAT'S WHERE YOU GAIN A LOT OF VALUE.

AND THEN MAKING SURE THAT THAT WHATEVER WE BRING FORWARD AS A COMMITTEE IS A FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE PLAN.

SO AS WE LOOK TO THAT FIRST ITEM IN MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF SPACE, THE RIGHT CAPACITY FOR OUR FUTURE ENROLLMENTS, WE STARTED VERY BASIC POINT ENROLLMENT PROJECTIONS.

THESE ARE THE ENROLLMENT PROJECTIONS FROM ZONDA EDUCATION FROM LAST FALL.

I THINK THEY ARE WORKING ON THIS YEAR'S NUMBERS AND WE'LL HAVE THOSE, I THINK, IN THE COMING MONTH OR SO.

BUT IN OUR BASE YEAR FOR OUR STUDY, WHICH WAS LAST YEAR, WE HAD 13,154 KIDS.

THE PROJECTION IS THE DISTRICT WILL CONTINUE TO GROW OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS, ALTHOUGH THAT DISTRICT IS SLOWING AS THE DISTRICT BUILDS OUT.

SO THE THE PROJECTION IS THAT OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS, THE DISTRICT WILL GROW BY ABOUT 712 STUDENTS, WHICH IS A LITTLE OVER 5%.

THE BULK OF THAT GROWTH IS EXPECTED TO TAKE PLACE IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.

SO THAT'S THE FIVE YEARS THAT THE STEERING COMMITTEE HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH LOOKING AT.

AND SO THAT IS OUR FOCUS.

BUT WE WILL ALSO WE WILL BE MINDFUL OF ENROLLMENT PROJECTIONS ALL THE WAY UP TO TEN YEARS AS WE BUILD THESE RECOMMENDATIONS.

PROGRAM CAPACITY IS DIFFERENT THAN A BUILDING CAPACITY BECAUSE IT TAKES INTO ACCOUNT THE PROGRAMS THAT YOU ARE OPERATING IN YOUR BUILDINGS CURRENTLY.

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SO EVERY PRINCIPAL GAVE US INPUT ON HOW THEY USE EVERY TEACHING SPACE IN THEIR BUILDING.

AND THEN WE POPULATED THAT WITH WHAT WE CALL THE LOAD, THE NUMBER OF KIDS YOU WOULD PUT IN THAT SPACE.

AND LARGELY THOSE ARE YOUR STAFFING RATIOS.

AND SO WE DETERMINE FROM THAT INPUT THE CAPACITY OF EACH BUILDING AND WE THEN COMPARE IT TO ENROLLMENT.

SO IF YOU TAKE ENROLLMENT DIVIDED BY THAT CAPACITY, THAT GETS WHAT WE CALL UTILIZATION, WHICH IS AN EFFICIENCY FACTOR.

SO IF YOU LOOK ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THE SCREEN HERE, YOU'LL SEE THREE COLUMNS THAT ARE COLOR CODED.

THOSE ARE THE UTILIZATION PERCENTAGES WE CALCULATED FOR COPPELL FOR THE BASE YEAR OF OUR STUDY, FIVE YEARS OUT AND THEN FINALLY TEN YEARS OUT.

SO THE BOX ON THE BOTTOM RIGHT SHOWS THE SCALE.

AND SO FOR US, ANYTHING BETWEEN 85 AND 95% IS WHAT WE CONSIDER OPTIMAL.

YOU CAN GO ALL THE WAY UP TO ABOUT 105, AND THAT'S MANAGEABLE STILL.

SO IF YOU GET BETWEEN 95 AND 105, THAT'S WHAT WE CONSIDER FULL UTILIZATION, BUT IT'S STILL VERY MANAGEABLE.

IT'S ONLY WHEN YOU GET OVER 105% THAT YOU REALLY NEED TO START LOOKING AT ADDING SOME CAPACITY.

SO WHAT I CAN SHARE WITH YOU HERE IS JUST AT THE VERY HIGHEST LEVEL, IF WE LOOK AT TOTAL OF ALL THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, YOU CAN SEE THEY ALL FALL IN THAT 85 TO 95% RANGE.

SO ALL VERY, VERY GOOD HEALTHY UTILIZATION.

SAME THING, MIDDLE SCHOOLS.

HIGH SCHOOLS, IN FIVE YEARS AT THE HIGH SCHOOLS, COLLECTIVELY, THOSE FACILITIES RISE UP INTO THAT, WHAT WE CALL THAT FULL RANGE.

I'LL SHOW A SLIDE, I THINK, IN JUST A FEW MINUTES OR SLIDES BY WHAT WE CALL PLANNING AREAS WHERE YOU'LL SEE INDIVIDUAL CAMPUSES HERE.

THIS SLIDE SIMPLY SHOWS A BREAKDOWN, THE FIRST SET OF BARS ARE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, THEN THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS, THEN THE HIGH SCHOOLS.

AND THIS SHOWS IN A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT FORMAT.

THE INFORMATION WE JUST LOOKED AT.

THE BLUE BAR IN EACH SEGMENT HERE IS THE CAPACITY, THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR THAT GRADE SPAN.

THE OTHER THREE COLORED BARS THEN, ARE THE ENROLLMENTS - THE ORANGE BARS, THE ENROLLMENT AND OUR BASE YEAR.

THIS PAST YEAR, THE GRAY BARS, THE ENROLLMENT PROJECTION FIVE YEARS OUT, AND THEN THE YELLOW BARS, THE PROJECTION TEN YEARS OUT.

AND AGAIN, IN EVERY CASE, EVEN TEN YEARS OUT, WE ARE IN A GOOD PLACE IN TERMS OF TOTAL CAPACITY AND ENROLLMENT.

WHAT THIS TELLS US IS THAT THE DISTRICT DOES NOT NEED TO BUILD ANOTHER BUILDING TO ADDRESS ENROLLMENT GROWTH.

WE'VE GOT CAPACITY.

THERE ARE SEVERAL PLACES WHERE WE GET FULL.

AS YOU'LL SEE IN JUST A MINUTE.

BUT THERE ARE OTHER WAYS TO ADDRESS THAT, SHORT OF BUILDING A NEW BUILDING STRICTLY FOR ENROLLMENT GROWTH.

AND SO THAT'S VERY HELPFUL BECAUSE NEW SCHOOL AND COMPLETE NEW SCHOOL IS VERY, VERY EXPENSIVE.

IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS FOR CINDY UP TO THIS POINT.

OKAY. WE GET MORE INTO THE DETAIL ABOUT THE INDIVIDUAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND THAT KIND OF THING.

OKAY, WE'RE COMING UP IN THE NEXT FEW SLIDES.

YOU'LL SEE THAT. SO WHEN WE WORK WITH A DISTRICT, WE WILL TYPICALLY BREAK IT INTO CHUNKS, IF YOU WILL, WHAT WE CALL PLANNING AREAS.

IT HELPS JUST REALLY IT MAKES THE PLANNING WORK A LITTLE MORE SIMPLE.

IN THE CASE OF COPPELL, WE'RE TREATING ALL THE HIGH SCHOOLS AS ONE PLANNING AREA, ALL THOSE FACILITIES.

THERE'S ONE PLAN AREA ACROSS THE DISTRICT.

SAME THING WITH MIDDLE SCHOOLS.

ONE PLANNING AREA TAKES INTO ACCOUNT ALL THREE OF THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS ACROSS THE DISTRICT.

FOR THE ELEMENTARIES, WE ARE USING THREE SEPARATE PLANNING AREAS AND EACH ONE IS THE BASICALLY IT'S THE FEEDER PATTERN FOR EACH OF THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS.

ALL RIGHT. SO HERE THESE ARE THE SLIDES THAT WILL SHOW YOU THE DETAIL FOR INDIVIDUAL BUILDINGS.

THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION ON THESE SLIDES.

BUT IF YOU LOOK, AGAIN, THE THREE COLUMNS ON THE FAR RIGHT WE'LL FOCUS ON THAT.

SO THESE ARE THE FOUR SCHOOLS, FOUR ELEMENTARIES THAT ARE IN THE COPPELL MIDDLE SCHOOL EAST FEEDER SYSTEM.

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ANYTHING AGAIN, THE GREEN THAT'S BETWEEN 85 AND 95%.

IT'S VERY HEALTHY OVERALL UTILIZATION.

THE ORANGE BOXES ARE THE ONES THAT ARE INTO THAT FULL CATEGORY.

SO YOU CAN SEE HERE, IF YOU JUST FOCUS INITIALLY ON THE BOTTOM ROW OF THE CHART, YOU'LL SEE THAT FOR THE BASE YEAR AND FIVE YEARS OUT, THIS FEEDER PATTERN IS VERY MUCH INSIDE OF THAT WHAT WE CALL THAT VERY HEALTHY RANGE EVEN AS A WHOLE TEN YEARS OUT THERE JUST TOUCHING THAT THAT FULL UTILIZATION RATE.

FOR THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS THAT FEED INTO MIDDLE SCHOOL NORTH, AGAIN, THERE ARE FOUR SCHOOLS HERE AND YOU CAN SEE A LOT OF BLUE IN THE FAR RIGHT HAND SIDE.

SO ACROSS THIS PLANNING AREA, THERE'S A LOT OF SURPLUS IN THE BUILDINGS.

WITH THE MIDDLE SCHOOL WEST FEEDERS, STORY'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.

CANYON RANCH IS DEFINITELY FULL.

IT'S IN THAT FULL CATEGORY.

NOTHING. NONE OF THE SCHOOLS.

I SHOULD HAVE SAID THIS A MINUTE AGO.

NONE OF THEM, ANY GRADE SPA,N CROSS THAT 105% MARK.

SO THERE ARE NONE INDIVIDUALLY EVEN THAT EXCEED THAT UTILIZATION THRESHOLD THAT WE REALLY START TO SEE IS SOMETHING THAT THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED. BUT CANYON RANCH IS QUITE FULL.

RICHARD LEE, IS AT A GOOD PLACE.

IT'S IN THAT OPTIMAL CATEGORY.

VALLEY RANCH IS LIKEWISE FOR THE NEXT, THE FIVE YEAR MARK AND TEN YEAR MARK IN THE VERY HEALTHY RANGE.

SO AS WE BUILD THE MASTER PLAN, ONE OF THE THINGS WE WILL LOOK AT IS THAT UTILIZATION AND AS WE CONSIDER PROGRAMS AND POTENTIAL CHANGES IN THE SPACE ITSELF, WE HAVE TO BE VERY MINDFUL OF THIS.

WHEN YOU START TO RENOVATE EXISTING SPACE, YOU HAVE TO BE VERY MINDFUL THAT IF YOU TAKE AN EXISTING SPACE THAT'S BEING USED FOR CLASS TODAY, THAT NOW REDUCES THAT BUILDING CAPACITY.

ALL RIGHT. SO WITH THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS, ALL THREE OF THEM ARE LISTED HERE.

THE SCHOOLS, WELL, MIDDLE SCHOOL EAST AND MIDDLE SCHOOL NORTH, ALL, BOTH HAVE SURPLUS CAPACITY.

MIDDLE SCHOOL WEST IS IN THAT OPTIMAL RANGE UNTIL TEN YEARS OUT.

AGAIN, IT JUST STARTS TO BUMP UP INTO THAT THAT FULL RANGE.

SO THEY'RE IN GOOD SHAPE.

THE HIGH SCHOOLS, YOU'VE GOT THREE DISTINCT BUILDINGS THAT OFFER DIFFERENT PROGRAMING.

SO WHAT WE SEE HERE IS AT NEW TECH, THEY ARE EITHER IN THAT OPTIMAL RANGE OR MAYBE A TICK IN THAT SURPLUS CATEGORY.

BUT COPPELL HIGH SCHOOL AND THE NINTH GRADE CENTER BOTH HAVE OCCASIONS OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS WHERE THEY ARE IN THERE MOVING INTO THAT VERY FULL UTILIZATION. AND SO, AGAIN, AS WE LOOK AT OPTIONS TO ADDRESS PROGRAMING OPPORTUNITIES AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE WILL BE VERY MINDFUL OF IS THE CURRENT UTILIZATION.

AND I MENTIONED THAT WE LOOK FOR EFFICIENCIES AND THOSE OPPORTUNITIES TO BRING RECOMMENDATIONS THAT ADDRESS MULTIPLE THINGS.

THIS MAY BE A PLACE WHERE THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A CHANGE IN A SPACE OR ADD A SPACE OR SHIFT SOMETHING A BIT THAT HELPS IMPACT THE THE OVERALL UTILIZATION OF THE SCHOOLS.

ARE THERE QUESTIONS ON? I HAD A QUESTION ABOUT THAT, THAT SLIDE RIGHT THERE.

WHAT'S, HOW EXPLAIN THE 85 TO THE 80 AND THEN TO THE 90.

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I DON'T UNDERSTAND ON NEW TECH.

SO AGAIN, YOU KNOW, THIS IS, IT'S FOLLOWING YOUR ENROLLMENT PROJECTIONS OVER A PERIOD OF TIME.

AND SO THE DEMOGRAPHERS HAVE PROJECTED, IF YOU LOOK AT THE NUMBERS IN THE THREE COLUMNS TO THE LEFT OF THE PERCENTAGES, YOU SEE THAT WHAT THEY'VE PROJECTED FOR NEW TECH IS A SLIGHT DIP IN ENROLLMENT AND THEN BACK UP.

IT'S A CHOICE SO IT'S VERY SUBJECTIVE, THOSE NUMBERS.

I'M LOOKING AT THE BEGINNING TO THE END.

SO IT'S IT'S ALL GROWING.

YOU KNOW, I HAD A QUESTION TOO BACK ON THE ELEMENTARY FEEDER PATTERN FOR WEST.

SO I KNOW THAT THESE NUMBERS, I MEAN, LET ME ASK YOU THIS.

IN THIS PROCESS, AND I GUESS IT'S THE DEMOGRAPHER, RIGHT? DR. HUNT? THE DEMOGRAPHER PROVIDED ALL THIS DATA.

WHAT I'M WONDERING ABOUT IS SOME OF THESE, SOME OF THIS INFORMATION IS, I GUESS I WOULD, I JUST THOUGHT, ARE THE PRINCIPALS INVOLVED AT ALL IN THESE NUMBERS, SO THEY HAVE SOME INPUT INTO THIS AS WELL? SO WHERE WE HAVE ENGAGED THE PRINCIPLES HAVE BEEN IN, WE ASKED THEM TO TELL US HOW THEY USE THEIR ROOMS. WE HAVE PRINCIPLES IN THE CABINET AND IN THE BROADER GROUP THAT ARE HELPING TO LOOK AT THIS DATA AND AND DEVELOP OPTIONS.

AND THEN WE'VE WORKED WITH THEM ON CONDITION NEEDS OF THEIR BUILDINGS AND IDENTIFYING PARTICULAR THINGS THAT THEY KNOW ABOUT THAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS.

SO WE'VE HAD A LOT OF INVOLVEMENT AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO HAVE INVOLVEMENT FROM THE PRINCIPALS.

THE ENROLLMENT PROJECTIONS TEND TO BE BASED ON ACTUAL PEIMS DATA FROM PREVIOUS YEARS.

BUT NOT NECESSARILY BY GRADE.

IT'S MORE ABOUT THEY WILL START WITH IT BY GRADE.

AND I CAN SPEAK TO THAT BECAUSE IN MY FORMER DISTRICT WE ALSO USED ZONDA EDUCATION.

I'M VERY FAMILIAR WITH HOW THEY DO THEIR PROJECTIONS, BUT IT DOES START CAMPUS BY CAMPUS, GRADE BY GRADE, AND THEN THEY TRACK INDIVIDUAL COHORTS OF STUDENTS.

MOVING FROM ONE GRADE LEVEL UP TO THE NEXT, AND YOU WILL GET ON OCCASION, YOU MAY SEE A PARTICULARLY SMALL CLASS OR A PARTICULARLY LARGE CLASS OF KIDS THAT THEN YEAH, THEY TEND THAT JUST, YOU KNOW, THEY FLOW ON THROUGH THE SYSTEM FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS.

OKAY. YEAH, WE DEFINITELY I MEAN, I'M JUST THINKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE PEDAGOGY IS DIFFERENT IN SOME OF THOSE SCHOOLS THAN OTHERS AND JUST MAKING SURE THAT PRINCIPALS ARE INVOLVED IN THOSE NUMBERS AND COUNTS ARE REALLY IMPORTANT.

ABSOLUTELY. YEP.

THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT.

SO WE TALK NOW ABOUT THE SPACE.

DO WE HAVE ENOUGH SPACE? THE ANALYZING CAPACITIES AND UTILIZATION, HOW WE WILL ACCOUNT FOR THOSE THINGS MOVING FORWARD.

NEXT BIG THING IS HOW DO WE TAKE CARE OF THE BUILDINGS WE ALREADY HAVE AND THE NEEDS THAT WE HAVE? SO THIS IS A VERY SUMMARY PRESENTATION OF THE NEEDS, THE CONDITION NEEDS AT THE EXISTING BUILDINGS.

AND SO THE ESTIMATES, FIRST OF ALL, ARE ON THE FAR RIGHT, AND THEY TOTAL UP TO ABOUT $91 MILLION.

THE RATINGS THAT YOU SEE HERE WERE SIGNED BY CORGAN ARCHITECTS.

THEY ASSESSED ALL THE BUILDINGS A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO.

WE HAVE TAKEN THAT INFORMATION AND WORKED VERY CLOSELY WITH DR.

WOMACK AND HIS TEAM AND GOING THROUGH THEIR REPORTS AND THEN ALSO GOING THROUGH WHAT THE MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT KNOWS ABOUT THE STATUS OF THE CONDITION OF ALL THE DIFFERENT ELEMENTS OF EACH OF THESE BUILDINGS TO IDENTIFY NEEDS.

YOU WILL NOTICE THAT THE CORGAN RATINGS, THEY RATED BUILDINGS.

THREE RATINGS.

THERE WAS EITHER A MEET STANDARD, AN EXCEED STANDARD OR A BELOW STANDARD.

SO THOSE ARE THE ONLY THREE RATINGS THAT THEY ASSIGN.

THE GREEN APPEARED TO EXCEED STANDARD.

THOSE VERY LOGICALLY ARE THE NEWEST BUILDINGS AND THEN THE COPPELL NINTH GRADE CENTER, WHICH HAD EXTENSIVE RENOVATIONS TO IT THROUGH THE LAST PART.

THE MEET STANDARDS ARE THE SCHOOLS THAT PROBABLY WERE THE NEWEST PRIOR TO THOSE OR

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HAD THE MOST RECENT MAJOR RENOVATIONS PRIOR TO THOSE.

THE BELOW STANDARD YOU'LL SEE PRIMARILY FOCUSED AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL.

AND FIRST, LET ME SAY YOUR BUILDINGS ARE ALL IN GOOD CONDITION.

I ALWAYS WORRY WHEN PEOPLE SEE SOMETHING LIKE THIS, WE DON'T WANT THEM TO THINK THAT THE BUILDINGS ARE JUST CRUMBLING AND THEY'RE TERRIBLE PLACES TO BE.

WHAT THIS IS AN INDICATOR OF IS THE EXTENT OF WHAT WE CALL LIFE CYCLE REPLACEMENT NEEDS IN BUILDINGS.

AND SO YOU'LL SEE THAT WE INCLUDED THE YEAR BUILT AND AN AVERAGE YEAR CONSTRUCTED HERE FOR EACH BUILDING.

ALL OF THOSE BUILDINGS, THE ELEMENTARIES THAT HAVE THAT BELOW STANDARD WERE THE EIGHT FOOTPRINT SCHOOLS THAT WERE BUILT LARGELY IN THE EARLY NINETIES.

AND THEN PINKERTON, WHICH I BELIEVE IS MAYBE 80 HERE SO EVEN.

SO, YOUR BUILDINGS ARE WELL CARED FOR.

YOU ALL HAVE DONE A FABULOUS JOB OF MAINTAINING THEM.

BUT JUST AGAIN, LIKE OUR HOMES, YOU GET TO A POINT WHERE YOU HAVE TO REPLACE THE HEATING AND COOLING SYSTEM OR THE COUNTERTOPS OR THE ROOF OR WINDOWS OR WHAT HAVE YOU. SAME THING HERE.

I DO EXPECT THAT THIS COST ESTIMATE THAT YOU SEE WILL LIKELY GO DOWN A BIT.

I EXPLAINED THIS AT THE FUTURES CONFERENCE THE OTHER NIGHT.

AS WE CONTINUE TO WORK THROUGH THE DETAIL THAT MAKES THIS UP, WE'RE REFINING THE COST ESTIMATES THEMSELVES AND THE SCOPE OF WORK. SO IN PARTICULAR, THERE WAS ONE ITEM, IT WAS AN UPGRADE OF PA SYSTEMS THAT TOUCHED ALMOST ALL THE BUILDINGS EXCEPT THE BRAND NEW ONES, THAT WHEN WE COSTED IT OUT, WE INCLUDED NOT JUST THE EQUIPMENT ITSELF, BUT A FULL WHOLESALE REPLACEMENT OF ALL THE COMMUNICATIONS CABLING IN THE BUILDING, WHICH WAS MORE EXTENSIVE THAN WHAT THE NEED REALLY IS.

SO AS WE FINALIZE THIS, I EXPECT THAT NUMBER TO COME DOWN.

I JUST HAD A QUESTION. WHY IS VICTORY PLACE NOT INCLUDED IN THE HIGH SCHOOL AREA? THAT'S JUST BECAUSE IT DOESN'T HAVE A BOUNDARY AND BECAUSE IT IS MORE OF A SUPPORT SPACE.

THIS IS WHERE WE'VE CARRIED IT.

YOU KNOW, 10% OF OUR KIDS GRADUATE FROM VICTORY PLACE.

AND WE CAN CERTAINLY MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT BOND COMMITTEE COULD DECIDE.

SOMETHING BOND COMMITTEE COULD CONSIDER.

I'M ONE OF 60.

[LAUGHTER] LET'S GO FORTH AND LEAD.

ON YOUR SHOULDERS. YEAH.

NO, NO.

SO THIS CHART SIMPLY TAKES ALL THOSE DOLLARS THAT WE JUST SAW IN TOTAL AND BREAKS IT DOWN BY THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF NEEDS.

WE USE AN INDUSTRY STANDARD CATEGORIZATION FOR NEEDS.

YOU CAN SEE ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE, AGAIN, A LIST THAT PRIMARILY WHAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED AND WHAT CORGAN IDENTIFIED AS NEEDS ARE JUST LIFE CYCLE REPLACEMENT NEEDS.

AND SO THESE ARE EXAMPLES OF THEM HERE ON THE RIGHT - ROOFS, HEATING AND COOLING AND FIRE ALARMS, FURNISHINGS, PLAYGROUNDS, GYM FLOORS IN SEVERAL OF THE JUNIOR HIGHS AND HIGH SCHOOL BUILDINGS.

FOOTBALL FIELD, TURF AND TRACK.

BUT YOU CAN SEE THAT WHERE THE DOLLARS LARGELY FALL, ROOFING, ELECTRICAL THAT'S PRIMARILY THOSE PA SYSTEMS WE WERE TALKING ABOUT.

THE FURNISHINGS IS A BIG TICKET ITEM WHEN YOU'RE TALKING WHOLESALE FURNISHINGS, THESE OLDER BUILDINGS, AGAIN, LIFE CYCLE KINDS OF NEEDS.

IT KIND OF GIVES YOU A SENSE OF WHERE THE NEED IS.

YEAH, I LIKE THAT. THANK YOU.

WE ALSO PERFORMED AN ADA SURVEY, AND IT'S NOT A COMPLIANCE AUDIT, BUT IT WAS A SURVEY OF ALL OF YOUR BUILDINGS.

AND GENERALLY WHAT WE FOUND, THE BUILDINGS ARE GENERALLY ACCESSIBLE.

MINOR DEFICIENCIES, AS YOU SEE THE NOTE THERE AND THE THINGS THAT WE PRIMARILY FOUND WERE, AND WE'VE GOT EXAMPLES OF THEM

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HERE IN THE PHOTOS, EVERYTHING FROM JUST THE PARKING SYMBOLS NOT BEING PAINTED, THE HANDICAP ACCESS SYMBOL NOT PAINTED IN THE BLUE SQUARES.

WE SAW THAT IN SEVERAL PLACES.

THE ONE THAT HAS THE MOST POTENTIAL COST IMPACT FOR A BOND WOULD BE EXAMPLES LIKE THE FAR LEFT ON THE SECOND ROW. THE RAMP IS LIFTING.

WE'VE GOT SOME PLACES WHERE SIDEWALKS ARE SETTLING OR A RAMP IS LIFTING IN ONE PLACE AND NEEDS TO BE REPLACED.

AND THEN ALSO THE VERY MIDDLE PHOTO, WE SAW A LOT OF THIS.

THOSE CURVE CUTS ARE NOT STANDARD ACROSS THE DISTRICT.

THEY'RE NOT PAINTED.

THEY DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE THE LITTLE BUMPS, LITTLE BUBBLE THINGS.

I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT THOSE ARE CALLED THE DOME.

THE DOME. MAT EVEN.

IT'S A LAID IN PIECE.

AND SO THAT'S LARGELY WHAT WE'LL BE BRINGING FORWARD IS RECOMMENDATIONS TO INCLUDE WITH A MASTER PLAN.

AN ACCESS OUT TO PLAYGROUNDS AND TO COVERED SPACES AT THE ELEMENTARY.

SO THOSE ARE THE KINDS OF THINGS THAT WE NOTED, A CONCERNS THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED.

EDUCATIONAL ADEQUACY.

WE ALSO ASSESSED THIS THIS SUMMER WE WORKED WITH THE ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM TO BUILD A MATRIX OF THINGS THAT WE EXPECT, WANT EVERY STUDENT TO HAVE, WHETHER IT WAS ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE SCHOOL, HIGH SCHOOL OR ACROSS, IN SOME CASES, ALL SCHOOLS.

AND SO WE WALKED ALL THE BUILDINGS AND WE SCORED THEM ALL.

SO THE BOX AND THE LEFT AT THE BOTTOM SHOWS THE THE SUMMARY RESULTS HERE BY CATEGORY.

WE SAID THAT ANYTHING THAT SCORED LESS THAN A 60 WOULD BE CONSIDERED POOR.

AND SO PINKERTON AND VICTORY PLACE FALL INTO THAT CATEGORY.

THEN IF YOU TAKE THE FROM 60 TO 100, THAT'S 40 POINTS.

IF YOU SPLIT THAT INTO THREE EQUAL BUCKETS, THAT'S HOW WE CAME UP WITH THE RANGE OF SCORE FOR EXCELLENT, GOOD AND FAIR.

THE NEWEST SCHOOLS, THE TWO NEWEST, CANYON RANCH IN WEST, FALL INTO THAT EXCELLENT CATEGORY.

THOSE REALLY WERE THE STANDARDS AGAINST WHICH WE WERE MEASURING IN THE KINDS OF SPACES IN THOSE SCHOOLS WHERE THE STANDARDS AGAINST WHICH THE OTHER BUILDINGS WERE MEASURED.

THE GOOD CATEGORY.

AGAIN, NEWER SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLS THAT HAVE HAD A LOT OF RENOVATION WORK DONE RECENTLY.

AND AGAIN, THERE YOU SEE IN THAT FAIR CATEGORY.

THESE ARE ALL EIGHT OF THE FOOTPRINT SCHOOLS AND NEW TECH.

AND SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT EDUCATIONAL ADEQUACY, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE KINDS OF SPACES THAT THE SCHOOLS HAVE.

AND AN EXAMPLE WOULD BE AT THE ELEMENTARY.

DO THEY HAVE A LARGE APPROPRIATE MUSIC ROOM FOR MOVEMENT AND IN DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES, ART ROOMS, THAT SORT OF THING. THOSE ARE JUST A COUPLE OF VERY MINOR EXAMPLES.

ALSO, COLLABORATION SPACE OR SPACES FOR HANDS ON LEARNING ACTIVITIES.

THAT'S WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT EDUCATIONAL ADEQUACY.

AND THOSE ARE THE KINDS OF THINGS THAT THOSE FOOTPRINT SCHOOLS ARE A BIT DEFICIENT IN.

SO THAT'S WHY THEY ALL WOUND UP IN THAT FAIR CATEGORY.

THE WORK FROM THE VISIONING COMMITTEE REALLY HAS INFORMED THE WORK, OUR WORK AND THE WORK THAT THE STEERING COMMITTEE HAS DONE AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO.

STEERING COMMITTEE OR THE VISIONING COMMITTEE, RATHER, MADE A SERIES OF REPORTS TO THE BOARD ACROSS THE SUMMER, AND THEY HAD IDENTIFIED 12 PRIORITY AREAS.

AND THOSE THAT ARE HIGHLIGHTED HERE IN THE DARK COLOR, THE BLUE COLOR ARE THE THE PARTICULAR AREAS THAT HAVE CAPITAL NEEDS ASSOCIATED WITH THEM. SO FOR BOND PLANNING PURPOSES, THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT WE'VE BEEN MOSTLY FOCUSED ON, ARE THOSE THINGS THAT HAVE THE CAPITAL NEEDS.

SO WE'VE SUMMARIZED THOSE AREAS WITH THE CAPITAL NEEDS AND TRY TO CALL OUT THOSE CAPITAL NEEDS ON THE NEXT SEVERAL SLIDES.

FOR INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS, THERE WERE THREE BROAD INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS THAT HAVE BEEN BROUGHT FORWARD AS PRIORITY AREAS FOR THE DISTRICT, AND THEN THEY HAVE CAPITAL NEEDS NOW ATTACHED TO THEM IN ORDER TO FULLY IMPLEMENT THEM AND BE SUCCESSFUL WITH THEM.

PREKINDERGARTEN IS ONE.

THERE WERE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE VISIONING COMMITTEE TO EXPAND ELIGIBILITY FOR PRE-K AND TO ENSURE THAT ALL OF OUR PRE-K SPACES ARE APPROPRIATE KINDS OF LEARNING SPACES.

AND SO TODAY, ANY FOUR YEAR OLD IN THE CITY AND DISTRICT THAT MEETS THE STATE'S ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS WILL QUALIFY FOR PRE-K.

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PRE-K ENROLLMENT HAS BEEN GROWING DRAMATICALLY SINCE THE 18-19 YEAR.

IT'S 302 STUDENTS THIS PAST YEAR, AND THAT'S UP 70%.

THE ENROLLMENT IN PRE-K LARGELY TRACKS WITH THE PERCENTAGE OF KIDS WHO ARE ENGLISH LEARNERS.

AND TODAY THERE ARE FOUR SCHOOLS THAT OFFER PRE-K IN COPPELL AND THEY'RE AUSTIN, DENTON CREEK, LAKESIDE AND WILSON ALL UP ON THE NORTH PART OF THE DISTRICT. AND SO IN SOUTH PART OF THE DISTRICT, THE SPACE AVAILABLE FOR THIS PROGRAM RIGHT NOW IS LIMITED.

SO THAT'S PART OF WHAT WE'LL BE WORKING TOWARDS IS WHAT KIND OF SOLUTIONS CAN HELP ADDRESS THESE RECOMMENDATIONS.

FOR CAREER TECH, THERE WERE RECOMMENDATIONS PRESENTED TO YOU ALL TO ADD FOR NEW PROGRAMS THAT INCLUDE CYBERSECURITY, ADVANCED MANUFACTURING AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY AND AVIATION.

AND THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS CAME BASED ON THE COMBINATION OF STUDENT INTEREST AND THEN ALSO OPPORTUNITIES IN THE WORKFORCE.

THERE WAS NOT A RECOMMENDATION BROUGHT TO THE BOARD TO CREATE A STANDALONE NEW CAREER TECH CENTER.

THERE WAS A DESIRE TO KEEP THEM ON THE EXISTING CAMPUSES JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE THE RIGHT KINDS OF SUPPORT SPACES.

AND THEN LASTLY, ON THE INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS, THE CHOICE PROGRAMS IN PARTICULAR, THE DISTRICT HAS I'VE PROGRAM, VERY ROBUST I'VE PROGRAM AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL AND AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL.

THERE WAS A RECOMMENDATION BROUGHT FORWARD TO ADD MAYBE A MIDDLE YEARS PROGRAM WHICH WOULD SPAN, I THINK IT'S GRADE SIX THRU TEN THAT DOESN'T IN AND OF ITSELF HAVE SPACE NEEDS.

AS WE LOOK AT THAT PROGRAM AND WHERE IT MIGHT BE LOCATED, AND THAT COULD IMPACT CAPACITY OR UTILIZATION, BUT NO NEW SPACE NEEDED FOR THAT.

NEW TECH IS AN AREA SCHOOL THAT THE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED THAT THE DISTRICT LOOK AT MAKING INVESTMENTS THERE AND RENOVATING THE BUILDING, POSSIBLY EXPANDING THE OPPORTUNITIES THERE AND POSSIBLY ALIGNING ANY PROGRAMING OPPORTUNITIES WITH SOME OF THESE NEW OR MAYBE EVEN EXISTING CAREER TECH PROGRAMS. IN THE AREA OF FINE ARTS.

THE COMMITTEE BROUGHT TO THE BOARD RECOMMENDATIONS ON SEVERAL AREAS, INCLUDING ORCHESTRA, PERFORMANCE, FACILITY AND REHEARSAL SPACES.

SO ORCHESTRA HAS BEEN RECOMMENDED AS A POTENTIAL NEW PROGRAM FOR THE DISTRICT AND IT WOULD BE PHASED IN POTENTIALLY STARTING WITH SIXTH GRADE.

AND THERE ARE TWO SCHOOLS THAT WOULD NEED SOME ADDITIONAL SPACE TO ACCOMMODATE ORCHESTRA, AND THAT'S MIDDLE SCHOOL NORTH AND THE HIGH SCHOOL.

THE OTHER MIDDLE SCHOOLS IN THE NINTH GRADE CAMPUS HAVE SPACE.

PERFORMANCE SPACE IS PRETTY LIMITED.

HERE IN COPPELL, THERE ARE TWO SPACES.

THERE'S THE AUDITORIUM, THE HIGH SCHOOL, THERE'S ALSO THE AUDITORIUM AT THE NINTH GRADE CENTER.

THEY BOTH HAVE CAPACITIES LESS THAN 750.

AND SO AS THE FINE ARTS PROGRAMING HERE IN THE DISTRICT HAS GROWN, AS JUST ENROLLMENT IN GENERAL HAS GROWN, THE DISTRICT REALLY HAS OUTGROWN THOSE SPACES.

THERE'S NOT ADEQUATE CAPACITY TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE VARIOUS PERFORMANCES.

AT TWO SCHOOLS AT COPPELL HIGH SCHOOL AND AT NORTH, THEY'RE BOTH IN NEED OF SOME EXPANSION OF SOME OF THE FINE ART SPACES TO ACCOMMODATE CURRENT PROGRAMS AND ANTICIPATED GROWTH.

AND POTENTIALLY ORCHESTRATE.

IN TERMS OF ATHLETICS.

THE STEERING OR THE VISIONING COMMITTEE BROUGHT FORTH RECOMMENDATIONS AROUND TENNIS AND SWIMMING AND DIVING.

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THERE ARE 12 COURTS THERE.

THE NUMBER OF COURTS IS OK.

BUT THE LOCKER ROOM AND I'VE CIRCLED IN AND READ THE PICTURE THAT'S IN THE TOP IS TOO SMALL TO SUPPORT THE CURRENT PROGRAM.

THERE ARE OVER 100 KIDS AT THE HIGH SCHOOL IN TENNIS.

AND THEN ALSO KIDS COME UP FROM THE NINTH GRADE CENTER AND COMPETE HERE AS WELL.

THE LOCKER ROOM TODAY WILL SUPPORT 50 KIDS, 25 BOYS, 25 GIRLS.

ALSO, THE COURT LIGHTING IS NOT SUFFICIENT.

THERE ARE COURTS THAT ARE TOO DARK TO PLAY ON IN THE EVENING.

SO THAT'S AN EFFICIENCY FACTOR.

AND SO THE RECOMMENDATIONS WERE THAT WE ADDRESS THAT, ENLARGE THE LOCKER ROOM, REPLACE THE LIGHTING, THE SOUND SYSTEM, THEIR SWIMMING AND DIVING.

LIKEWISE, AS YOU'VE HEARD AND WELL KNOW, THAT PROGRAM IS GROWING, HAS OVER 120 KIDS IN IT .

PRACTICES HELD AT THE YMCA HERE IN COPPELL.

THAT'S A SMALL FACILITY AND IT TAKES FOUR PERIODS A DAY TO ACCOMMODATE ALL THE ATHLETES.

SO THE RECOMMENDATION HAS BEEN TO LOOK AT HOW DO WE GET MORE SWIMMING POOL CAPACITY POTENTIALLY AND HOPEFULLY WITH A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE WITH THE Y ON THAT.

IN TERMS OF MULTIPURPOSE BUILDING OR AGAIN, OPERATING EFFICIENCIES FOR THE DISTRICT.

AND THEN THERE'S IN PARTICULAR A LACK OF APPROPRIATE MEETING SPACES AND NOT JUST JUST LARGE SCALE SPACES THAT CAN BE SIZED FOR DIFFERENT KINDS OF EVENTS, WHETHER IT'S PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OR A LARGE RECEPTION OR A LARGE MEETING BANQUETS, ANY NUMBER OF ACTIVITIES. SO THERE WAS RECOMMENDATION BROUGHT FORWARD TO LOOK AT MAYBE A SINGLE BUILDING THAT COULD ADDRESS ALL OF THOSE NEEDS.

SO I PRETTY MUCH GONE THROUGH THE GIST OF WHAT WE'VE SEEN IN TERMS OF NEEDS THAT HAVE BUBBLED UP.

ALL THE SCHOOLS, FIRST AND FOREMOST, IS TAKING CARE OF WHAT WE HAVE AT THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, LOOKING AT UTILIZATION ACROSS SCHOOLS, MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT KINDS OF SPACES.

PREKINDERGARTEN IS A NEED WE KNOW WE NEED TO ADDRESS, AND PLAYGROUNDS IS ANOTHER ONE THAT HAS IT'S PART OF CONDITION NEEDS.

BUT PLAYGROUNDS IS SOMETHING WE NEED TO ADDRESS.

MIDDLE SCHOOLS AGAIN, CONDITION NEEDS, MAKING SURE WE HAVE THE RIGHT KINDS OF SPACES AND LOOKING AT PROGRAM OPPORTUNITIES, HOW CAN WE GROW TO BETTER SERVE THE PROGRAMING ITSELF, TO BETTER MEET THE NEEDS OF ALL OF OUR FAMILIES? SAME THING AT THE HIGH SCHOOL THERE.

QUESTIONS FOR CINDY.

I KNOW WE GOT SEVERAL OTHER SLIDES, BUT OTHER QUESTIONS.

I DO HAVE A QUESTION AND WE MAY PASS IT BY TOO FAR.

SIXTY FOUR, THE FACILITY CONDITION SUMMARY.

JUST I GUESS IT'S A DOCTOR HUNT QUESTION.

I DON'T KNOW. WE WON'T BE GOING BACK.

AND I'M JUST CURIOUS IF THAT'S STILL THE CASE OR IS THAT AFTER ALL THAT OR ARE WE CONSIDERING ANY OF THAT? SO I CAN TAKE A STAB AT THAT AND DR.

WOMACK MAY EVEN WANT TO CHIME IN.

YES. I MEAN, IT IS THE BUILDING AS A WHOLE EXCEEDS STANDARDS.

WE HAVE DRAINAGE.

I THINK THAT WE CAPTURED IN THE CONDITION NEEDS AT THAT BUILDING.

SO WHERE YOU SEE AT LEE, WE FINALLY ON THERE 1,000,003.

SOME OF THAT MILLION THREE IS TO TAKE CARE OF SOME OF THAT DRAINAGE NEED.

OKAY. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE IT REFLECTED CURRENT THIS QUESTION.

YEAH. BECAUSE I KNOW A NEW SCHOOL YOU KNOW IS IS NEW AND EXACTLY GREAT.

BUT IF IT'S NOT NEW AND GREAT AND IT'S GOT AN ISSUE, IT'S GOING TO BE A SINKHOLE.

EXACTLY. EXACTLY.

THANK YOU. YEA, YEA, YEA.

I KNOW. I CAN'T BELIEVE IT. I KNOW.

IT JUST SEEMS LIKE FLEW BY.

THANK YOU. I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS TO ABOUT THIS SECTION.

SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE EDUCATION, NOT ADEQUACY RATINGS, CAN WE HAVE ACCESS TO THE RUBRIC OR WHAT WAS USED TO DETERMINE THAT? YES, ABSOLUTELY WE CAN.

AND THAT QUESTION CAME UP LIKEWISE FROM THE STEERING COMMITTEE.

AND SO WE HAD TOLD THEM AT THE NEXT MEETING, WE'LL GIVE THEM THE BIG MATRIX.

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THEN THAT'S THE POINT AT WHICH THAT KIND OF A DISCUSSION WOULD WOULD TAKE PLACE.

ONE MORE AS WE TALK ABOUT COMMUNITY, WILL THE THE COMMITTEE TALK ABOUT COMMUNITY USAGE OF THE PROPOSED FACILITIES? FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU WERE TO HAVE A, YOU KNOW, A NEW TRACK OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, WHAT ABOUT ACCESS FOR THE COMMUNITY? DOES THAT COME UP AT ALL IN THE DISCUSSION OR COULD IT? WELL, SO THE CHARGE TO THE COMMITTEE IS TYPICALLY AROUND BRINGING RECOMMENDATIONS ABOUT THE THE CAPITAL NEEDS THEMSELVES.

WE CAN INCORPORATE IF THE IF THE COMMITTEE DOES WANT TO BRING FORWARD A RECOMMENDATION THAT THE COMMUNITY HAVE ACCESS TO PARTICULAR THINGS, THEN YES, THAT COULD BE PART OF THOSE. MS..

POWELL, AS YOU SAID, YOU'LL COME UP WITH A RECOMMENDATION FOR THE CAPITAL NEEDS.

WHAT I'M WONDERING IS HOW WOULD WE COME TO KNOW IF WE SPEND THAT MUCH CAPITAL, IF IT GETS APPROVED BY THE COMMUNITY AND WILL END UP BUILDING A PARTICULAR FACILITY OR EXPANDING A PROGRAM LIKE AN IB PROGRAM OR MULTI-PURPOSE CENTER WITH A NEW ADMINISTRATION BUILDING WITH SO MANY OTHER CHOICES? HOW DOES IT IMPACT OUR M&O BUDGET? HOW DO WE COME TO KNOW? BECAUSE IT'S ONE THING TO SPEND ON CAPITAL EXPENSE IF WE CANNOT AFFORD IT YEAR BY YEAR.

SO THAT'S A VERY GOOD QUESTION.

AND YES, MRS. SIRCAR ALREADY HAS A SPREADSHEET TEMPLATE SHE'S WORKING ON AND I THINK SHE SHARE WITH ME.

SHE'S ALREADY STARTING TO POPULATE IT SOME WHERE WE WILL DO JUST THAT.

SO IF THERE'S A RECOMMENDATION AROUND A PARTICULAR PROGRAM, WE'RE GOING TO LOOK TO SAY, YOU KNOW, DOES IT REQUIRE US TO ADD SOMEBODY OR SOMEBODIES? AND IF SO, WHAT IS THAT RECURRING COST? LIKEWISE, IF THERE'S A RECOMMENDATION THAT ALLOWS US TO SAVE SOME MONEY, WILL CAPTURE THAT TOO, ON THE WAY.

BUT YES, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE LOOK AT.

ALWAYS THINK OF YOU.

YOU WENT BACK ON YOUR SLIDES, BUT IF YOU GO BACK FORWARD, I KNOW THERE ARE SOME SLIDES THAT TALK ABOUT THE FINANCE OVERVIEW PIECE.

THEY ARE. WELL, WE HADN'T EVEN GOTTEN TO THAT YET.

YES, BUT WE'VE BEEN ON THIS AN HOUR, SO I'M JUST TRYING TO HELP US MOVE ALONG.

YEAH, NOT TRYING TO RUSH ANYBODY, BUT JUST BE MINDFUL OF THAT HERE.

THESE ARE SLIDES ABOUT THE TAXPAYER IMPACT.

THE OPERATIONS THEMSELVES WILL COME LATER ONCE WE KNOW WHAT OPTIONS WE'RE TRYING TO COST AT.

WE DON'T HAVE ANY OF THAT INFORMATION YET.

ALL RIGHT. WE HAVE SHARED WITH THE STEERING COMMITTEE THE CHANGE IN TAX RATES OVER TIME, BEGINNING BACK 2018 TO 2022. THE RATE HAS COME DOWN LARGELY BECAUSE THE STATE HAS BEEN BUYING DOWN THE RATE, BUT THE OVERALL TAX RATE HAS DROPPED 16 AND A HALF PERCENT, WHICH IS PUTS US ALL IN A GOOD PLACE AS WE START TO LOOK AT POTENTIAL CAPITAL INVESTMENTS.

HILLTOP SECURITIES THE DISTRICT'S FINANCIAL ADVISORS HAVE ALREADY PRESENTED TO THE STEERING COMMITTEE A RECOMMENDATION OR NOT RECOMMENDATIONS, BUT INFORMATION ABOUT POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF DIFFERENT SIZES OF BOND PACKAGES THEY MODELED FOR RANGING FROM 200 MILLION UP TO 350 MILLION AND THE POTENTIAL TAX RATE IMPACTS ON THOSE.

AND YOU CAN SEE THE TAX RATE IMPACT IN THE SECOND COLUMN HERE.

THEY THEN CALCULATED THE IMPACT TO THE OWNER OF DIFFERENT SIZES OF HOMES, A $400,000 HOME, 600 AND 800,000.

SO THAT INFORMATION HAS BEEN SHARED WITH THE STEERING COMMITTEE.

AND AGAIN, WE POINTED OUT TO THE STEERING COMMITTEE THAT WITH THE INS RATE, IT IS NOT SUBJECT TO RECAPTURE ALL OF THE TAXES, STAY WITH THE DISTRICT TO HELP PAY FOR THOSE CAPITAL INVESTMENTS.

WE CONDUCTED A SURVEY, AN ONLINE SURVEY THAT CLOSED AT NOON LAST WEEK AT OVER 1800 RESPONSES.

AWESOME. RESPONSE RATE.

WE ARE GOING THROUGH THE OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS.

THERE WERE OVER ABOUT 450 SEPARATE RESPONSES TO QUESTION NUMBER TEN, WHICH IS SAID.

IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANT TO SHARE? AND THERE WERE MANY.

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AND SOME OF THEM ADDRESS MULTIPLE THINGS.

AND SO WE'VE BEEN SPLITTING THOSE OUT AND THEN WE'RE ASSIGNING THEM TO CATEGORIES.

AND WE'LL HAVE THAT IN THE COMING WEEKS OR SO.

AT OUR FUTURES CONFERENCE LAST THURSDAY NIGHT, WE MADE A VERY SCALED DOWN PRESENTATION OF SOME OF THIS INFORMATION, AND THEN WE HAD THE TABLE GROUPS.

THERE WERE 12 SEPARATE TABLES AND WE HAD THEM WORK THROUGH FOUR QUESTIONS THAT WERE REALLY EXCERPTS FROM THAT ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE AND HAD THE TABLES COME TO A CONSENSUS.

AND EACH TABLE SUBMITTED ONE RESPONSE.

AND SO THAT'S WHY THERE'S ONLY 12 HERE.

BUT THAT'S A VERY HELPFUL EXERCISE.

WHEN YOU GET GROUPS OF PEOPLE AND YOU'RE ALREADY ABLE TO DEVELOP CONSENSUS.

NOBODY SAID, WELL, WE WEREN'T ABLE TO COME TO AGREEMENT ON WHAT WE WANTED TO, YOU KNOW, WHAT OUR OPINION WAS.

AND SO ALL THAT INFORMATION NOW IS BEING DISTILLED, SYNTHESIZED TO BE SHARED BACK NEXT WEEK AS WE BUILD OPTIONS AND THEN WE'LL BE SHARED WITH THE STEERING COMMITTEE AT THE NEXT MEETING.

SO I APOLOGIZE.

THAT'S A LOT OF STUFF HERE.

BUT I DID WANT TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE PLENTY OF TIME FOR QUESTIONS.

SO ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS OR THOUGHTS FROM THE BOARD BECAUSE SEVERAL OF OUR IN ADDITION TO JIM WALKER IS CO CHAIR, SEVERAL OF OUR BOND COMMITTEE MEMBERS ARE IN THE AUDIENCE AND ALSO WATCHING FROM HOME.

SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE AWARE OF WHERE WE ARE WITH THIS PROCESS.

HAVE ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS.

JUST ONE QUESTION THOUGHT COMMENT THAT I THAT I HAD WHEN WHEN YOU GUYS WERE CAPTURING WHAT THE WHAT THE NEEDS MIGHT BE PER CAMPUS, IS THERE GOING TO BE ANY REPORTING OUT TO THE STEERING COMMITTEE ON WHICH OF THOSE THINGS SO LIKE LET'S SAY I'LL JUST SAY LEE BECAUSE YOU'RE HERE AND THAT MAKES IT ALL OKAY TO SAY THIS BUT LET'S SAY IN 2016, THE LAST BOND LEE GOT ALL NEW FURNITURE AND FURNITURE IS ON THE LIST AGAIN. IS THERE ANYTHING BEING NOTED ON THE CAMPUSES AS FAR AS WHAT WAS DONE IN 2013 AND 2016 RELATIVE TO THE REQUESTS THAT ARE BEING MADE BY THOSE CAMPUSES? SO WE'VE LOOKED MORE GLOBALLY AT WHAT WAS DONE IN THE 2016 BOND PROGRAM.

THE NEEDS THAT ARE ON HERE REMEMBER SPAN THE WHOLE FIVE YEARS.

SO THEY MAY HAVE GOTTEN FURNITURE AND THEY MAY HAVE GOTTEN IT AT THE BEGINNING.

RIGHT. AND SO NOW AT THE END OF THIS FIVE YEAR PERIOD, IT MAY BE TIME TO START REFRESHING SOME OF THAT SO THAT THE INFORMATION ON CAMPUS BY CAMPUS WILL CERTAINLY BE SHARED OUT WITH PRINCIPALS HAVE ALREADY HAD SOME INPUT IN THAT.

BUT YES, THEY WILL HAVE A CHANCE TO LAY EYES ON THAT AND SAY, NO, THIS ISN'T RIGHT OR YOU LEFT THIS OFF OR WHY IS THIS HERE? SO I'M JUST WONDERING, AS YOU GUYS ARE PRIORITIZING, IS THE COMMITTEES PRIORITIZING THINGS BY CAMPUS, IF THAT WILL BE A DATA POINT THAT THEY'LL HAVE FOR REFERENCE? NOT SPECIFICALLY IN THAT WAY, BUT IT IS MORE THAT A, WE ARE TRYING TO MAKE DECISIONS, EQUITABLE DECISIONS OFF OF REPLACEMENT CYCLES.

AND SO WE'RE REALLY ONLY BRINGING TO THEM THOSE THINGS THAT WILL CYCLING.

THEY'RE CYCLING AROUND IN THIS FIVE YEARS PLUS ANY BROAD LEVEL PROGRAM CHANGES.

YOU GOT TO THE ESSENCE OF MY QUESTION.

SO THANK YOU. YES.

IF NOT, YEP.

I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS AND A COMMENT.

SO MY FIRST QUESTION WITH THE SURVEY, THOSE 1800, THAT SEEMS AMAZING.

IS THAT WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT? THAT WAS A LOT MORE THAN WE EXPECTED.

OKAY. OKAY. WELL, THAT'S GOOD TO HEAR.

AND SECONDLY, HOW IS THIS BEING SHARED WITH THE COMMUNITY AS THE PROCESS IS EVOLVING? YES. SO WE THE THE DISTRICT HAS A PAGE ON ITS WEBSITE DEDICATED TO THIS PROCESS.

AND WE ARE POSTING ALL THE MATERIALS THAT ARE SHARED WITH THE STEERING COMMITTEE ON THAT WEBSITE.

WE WILL SHARE THE RESULTS OF THE SURVEY WITH THE STEERING COMMITTEE AND THEN WE WILL POST THOSE ON THE WEBSITE AS WELL.

SO EVERYTHING THAT THE STEERING COMMITTEE GETS WILL ALSO BE POSTED FOR THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY TO SEE.

WONDERFUL. AND THEN MY COMMENT IS, WHEN I GO BACK TO THAT INITIAL SLIDE WHERE YOU OUTLINED THE PROCESS AND YOU SEE THOSE GREEN, I THINK CIRCLES IN PARTICULAR, I JUST WANT TO AFFIRM THAT.

I THINK THIS IS A REALLY STRONG PROCESS.

AND I JUST AS I LOOK AT THAT, I JUST FEEL REALLY CONFIDENT ABOUT WHERE IT'S GOING.

I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT'S GOING TO LEAD, BUT I FEEL LIKE THE PROCESS IS GOOD FOR GETTING THERE.

SO THAT WAS MY COMMENT.

THANK YOU. AND I THINK WHAT WE'VE SEEN IS A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF ENGAGEMENT, WHICH IS ALWAYS A VERY GOOD THING.

MS. POWELL. OUR NEXT SUPERINTENDENT REPORT IS FROM OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP, MARY KEMPER, AND OUR DIRECTOR OF FEDERAL PROGRAMS, ROBIN WEBB ARE COMING

[VIII.B. ESSER Funds Update - Robyn Webb (Director of Federal Programs) and Mary Kemper (ExecutiveDirector for Instructional Leadership) SPPG1 & SPPG2]

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FORWARD TO UPDATE THE BOARD AND THE COMMUNITY ON THE ESSER FUNDS.

AFTER OUR LAST MEETING IN SEPTEMBER, WHERE WE HAD THE PUBLIC HEARING.

AND THEN WE'VE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY FOR COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO PROVIDE INPUT, WANTED TO SHARE WITH THE BOARD WHERE WE ARE AT THIS TIME.

YES, I JUST HAVE A QUICK UPDATE TONIGHT, GOOD EVENING BOARD MEMBERS.

DR. HUNT, IT'S NICE TO SEE YOU TODAY.

I'M GOING TO START OUT WITH THIS SLIDE.

AS YOU KNOW, COPPELL ISD HAS BEEN AWARDED APPROXIMATELY $6.6 MILLION IN ESSER FUNDING SINCE THE SIGNING OF THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN IN 2021.

THE DOLLARS ALLOCATED THROUGH THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL EMERGENCY RELIEF OR ESSER FUND CONTINUE TO BE CRITICAL TO GETTING OUR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS BACK ON TRACK AND READY FOR LEARNING NEW ACADEMIC CONTENT AND TO FACE ANY ADDITIONAL CHALLENGES THAT HAVE RESULTED FROM THE DISRUPTION IN LEARNING CAUSED BY THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC.

ON THIS SLIDE, I HAVE LISTED THE ALLOWABLE USES FOR ESSER FUNDING.

I'M NOT GOING TO READ OUT EVERY ONE OF THEM, BUT YOU GUYS CAN SEE LARGELY THEY'RE ADDRESSING LEARNING LOSS AND MAKING SURE OUR FACILITIES ARE, YOU KNOW, HYGIENIC AND SANITIZED, AND WE'RE NOT TRANSMITTING ANY COVID.

AND THEN ALSO WE HAVE ANY KIND OF SUPPLIES, MATERIALS, EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY, PROVIDING MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES AND SUPPORTS FOR OUR STUDENTS, AND THEN ALSO PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING SUMMER LEARNING AND ANY OTHER LEARNING ACTIVITIES THAT WE NEED TO IMPLEMENT TO MEET THE COMPREHENSIVE NEEDS OF OUR STUDENTS.