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[1. Notice and Return]
WE HAVE A QUORUM IN THIS MEETING HAS BEEN DULY POSTED.GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO THE PUBLIC HEARING OF THE DALLAS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
WE'LL DISPENSE WITH THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND A SALUTE TO THE TEXAS FLAG AS WE FINISH
[2. Moment of Silence and Pledge of Allegiance]
THAT IN THE PREVIOUS MEETING.THE FOLLOWING TRUSTEES ARE EITHER PHYSICALLY PRESENT OR PARTICIPATING SIMULTANEOUSLY BY VIDEO CONFERENCE. A QUORUM OF THE BOARD IS PHYSICALLY PRESENT AT THIS LOCATION.
DISTRICT ONE EDWIN FLORES, DISTRICT TWO, JUSTIN MARSHALL, DISTRICT THREE DAN MICCICHE IS NOT WITH US YET. DISTRICT FOUR KARLA GARCIA, DISTRICT FIVE MAXINE JOHNSON, DISTRICT SIX JOYCE FOREMAN, DISTRICT SEVEN, BEN MACKEY, DISTRICT EIGHT JOE CARREON AND DISTRICT NINE JUSTIN HENRY.
OUR SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, MICHAEL HINOJOSA JOINS US AND I AM BEN MACKEY, BOARD PRESIDENT.
IN ORDER FOR THE BOARD TO HOLD THIS MEETING AND EFFECTIVE MANNER.
I WANT TO LET IT BE KNOWN THAT THE MEETING WILL BE CONDUCTED IN AN ORDERLY FASHION AND ASK THAT THE PUBLIC TO ABIDE BY THE RULES OUTLINED IN BOARD POLICY BED LOCAL PERTAINING TO PUBLIC PARTICIPATION.
ADDITIONALLY, IT IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE FOR A PERSON WITH INTENT TO PREVENT OR DISRUPT A LAWFUL MEETING TO SUBSTANTIALLY OBSTRUCT OR INTERFERE WITH THE ORDINARY CONDUCT OF A MEETING BY PHYSICAL ACTION OR VERBAL UTTERANCE, AND THEREBY CURTAIL OTHERS EXERCISE OF THEIR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS.
EVERYONE IS ASKED TO PLEASE WEAR A MASK OVER YOUR NOSE AND MOUTH WHILE ON DISTRICT PROPERTY. ANY PERSONS WHO REFUSE TO WEAR A MASK BECOME BOISTEROUS OR DISRUPTIVE WHILE ADDRESSING THE BOARD OR WHILE ATTENDING THIS MEETING SHALL BE ASKED TO LEAVE BY OUR SECURITY OFFICERS.
FAILURE TO LEAVE WHEN REQUESTED TO DO SO BY OUR SECURITY OFFICERS MAY RESULT IN THE PERSON BEING ESCORTED FROM THE MEETING OR SUBJECT TO ARREST, SO WE WILL NOW MOVE ON TO ITEM 2.02, RECOGNITION OF ELECTED OR PUBLIC OFFICIALS DO WE HAVE ANY ELECTED OR PUBLIC OFFICIALS HERE? SEEING NONE, WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM THREE, OUR PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THE
[3. Public Comment on School FIRST Annual Financial Management Report]
SCHOOL FIRST ANNUAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT REPORT.OUR AGENDA NOW CALLS FOR THE PUBLIC FORUM SEGMENT OF OUR MEETING.
SPEAKERS, PLEASE BE REMINDED THAT SUBSTITUTIONS ARE NOT ALLOWED.
IF YOU SIGN UP TO SPEAK, YOU CANNOT SPEAK ON BEHALF OF SOMEONE ELSE.
SPEAKERS WHO FAIL TO ADHERE TO THIS RULE WILL BE INTERRUPTED AND INFORMED HER OUT OF ORDER. MS. SCULLY, WILL YOU PLEASE CALL THE SPEAKERS? YES, WE HAVE ONE SPEAKER, TAMMY BROWN-RODRIGUEZ.
YOU WILL HAVE THREE MINUTES TO SPEAK.
TAMMY BROWN-RODRIGUEZ? THIS CONCLUDES OUR SPEAKERS.
ALL RIGHT. WE'LL NOW MOVE ON TO ITEM FOUR DISCUSSION OF THE SCHOOL FIRST ANNUAL FINANCIAL
[4. Discussion of School FIRST Annual Financial Management Report]
MANAGEMENT REPORT. DR.HINOJOSA? YES, MR. PRESIDENT, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD ARE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT FOR OPERATIONS, WILL COVER OUR ANNUAL FINANCIAL RATING FROM THE STATE OF TEXAS.
DWAYNE THOMPSON, IF YOU'LL PROCEED, PLEASE.
THANK YOU, PRESIDENT MACKEY TRUSTEES AND DR.
HINOJOSA WILL QUICKLY RUN THROUGH THE FIRST RATING FOR THE YEAR.
THAT'S THE FINANCIAL INTEGRITY RATING SYSTEM OF TEXAS.
AND THERE ARE SOME CHANGES FOR THE.
FOR THE TWENTY ONE, I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO MOVE DOWN HERE FOR THE '21 AS OPPOSED TO '20. AND I'LL GO THROUGH THOSE, BUT BASICALLY, THIS IS A RATING SYSTEM FOR ALL.
ALL SCHOOLS IN TEXAS TO BE ABLE TO DO COMPARISONS BETWEEN DISTRICTS.
SO THAT'S THE OVERVIEW AS WE GET DOWN TO THE ACTUAL PERFORMANCE.
IT MEASURES VARIOUS THINGS AND WE ARE REQUIRED BY LAW TO HAVE A PUBLIC FORUM, WHICH WE ARE DOING AND THEN WE IDENTIFY THE RATINGS AS THEY COMPARE TO THE PREVIOUS YEAR.
SO THIS YEAR, THE RATING SYSTEM BECAME MORE RIGOROUS, THEY ADDED FIVE MORE INDICATORS.
ALSO, THERE ARE WHAT'S CALLED CRITICAL INDICATORS, WHICH ITEMS ONE THROUGH FIVE IF YOU FAIL ANY OF THOSE, REGARDLESS OF YOUR SCORE OF ANY OTHER, YOU FAIL THE RATING SYSTEM.
AND THEN THE CEILING INDICATORS, WHICH I'VE IDENTIFIED THERE AS THE DIFFERENT QUESTIONS ARE EITHER PASS FAIL.
AND IF YOU IF YOU FAIL THOSE, THEN YOU, IT RESULTS IN A REDUCTION OF BETWEEN FIVE AND TWENTY ONE POINTS, A REDUCTION ON YOUR OVERALL SCORE.
AND THEN THEY ALSO RAISE THE PASSING SCORE FROM 60 TO 70.
THAT DOES NOT. THEY DID NOT CHANGE THE OVERALL RATING WHEN IT CAME TO WHAT IS SUPERIOR OR THOSE TYPE OF THINGS. BUT JUST TO PASS, THEY REQUIRED YOU TO GET 70 POINTS INSTEAD OF 60.
SO THIS IS A BREAKDOWN OF THE VARIOUS WHERE SCHOOL DISTRICTS FALL.
AS YOU CAN SEE, THERE WE ARE AS SUPERIOR IN AS AN A.
RIGHT AROUND 84 PERCENT OF DISTRICTS IN THE STATE ARE IN THAT CATEGORY AS COMPARED TO 88 PERCENT IN THE PREVIOUS YEAR.
SO YOU CAN SEE THERE WAS THERE WERE A FEW DISTRICTS THAT MOVE FROM THE SUPERIOR DOWN TO A B OF ABOVE STANDARD BECAUSE THE ABOVE STANDARD WENT UP TO 10.88, UP FROM 7.94 THE YEAR
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BEFORE. SO THOSE ADDITIONAL INDICATORS DID CAUSE SOME SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO GO DOWN FROM SUPERIOR TO ABOVE STANDARD.THIS IS THE 10TH YEAR WE DID SCORE 96 OUT OF 100.
LAST YEAR'S SCORE WAS 98 OUT OF 100 AND I'LL WORK THROUGH THOSE ITEMS AS WELL.
SO IF WE GO TO THESE ARE THE ACTUAL QUESTIONS, AND THE INDICATORS, SORRY.
THESE ARE THE ACTUAL INDICATORS, THESE THESE ITEMS YOU EITHER PASS OR IT'S YES, NO.
AND BASICALLY THAT IS, DID YOU GET YOUR AUDIT IN TIME? DID YOU HAVE ANY DID YOU HAVE AN UNMODIFIED OPINION, WHICH WE DO NOT HAVE THAT? DID YOU DEFAULT ON ANY PAYMENTS AND ARE YOU BEHIND ANY PAYMENTS TO ANY STATE AGENCY? SO THOSE ARE QUESTIONS THAT COME UP.
AND THEN ITEM FIVE, BECAUSE OF THE CHANGE, THEY HAVEN'T SCORED THAT SINCE '20.
BUT AS WE MOVE THROUGH, IF YOU SEE AN N/A IN 2020, THAT WAS A QUESTION THAT WAS NOT ASKED.
AND NOW THERE ARE THEN, WHICH IS ITEM SIX, WHICH WAS THE ASSIGNED AND UNASSIGNED FUND BALANCE. AND BASICALLY THAT QUESTION IS ASKING IS IT RELATES TO A DECREASE, BUT I'LL QUICKLY MOVE THROUGH HERE.
THE TWO THAT ARE WE DID NOT RECEIVE A 10 OUT OF 10 WAS THE SAME AS LAST YEAR ON ITEM 11, WHICH IS LONG TERM LIABILITIES TO TOTAL ASSETS.
AND WHEN I REVIEWED THAT PARTICULAR LINE ITEM ON QUESTION 11, THE FLOOR TO GET A PERFECT 10 WAS ZERO POINT SIX ZERO OR LESS IN THE RELATION BETWEEN CURRENT LIABILITIES AND OR BETWEEN LIABILITIES AND DEBT, AND WE WERE AT A 0.6007.
SO BASICALLY ABOUT A 5.5 MILLION DIFFERENCE.
BUT WE WERE RIGHT AT THE CUSP OF BEING AT THE 10 POINTS, BUT SINCE WE WERE OVER, DID NOT.
THEN THE LAST ONE IS WHERE WE GOT EIGHT POINTS, AS ALWAYS.
ITEM NUMBER 13 IS ALWAYS A QUESTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE COST RATIO.
SO IF YOU RECALL AND THESE ARE INDICATORS FOR '21, BUT IT'S FOR THE 19-20 SCHOOL YEAR, WHICH WAS THE START OF COVID.
AND SO WE HAD SEVERAL EXPENDITURES THAT WERE INSTRUCTIONAL RELATED THAT DID NOT HAPPEN IN THE LAST PART OF THE YEAR BECAUSE OF THAT CIRCUMSTANCE.
AND SO THE DENOMINATOR OBVIOUSLY CHANGED.
SO WHERE WE WERE AT LAST YEAR AT 10 POINTS, NOW WE'RE AT EIGHT POINTS, WHICH WE WERE JUST ABOVE THE MINIMUM THRESHOLD.
I HAVE LOOKED AT WHAT WE WOULD YOU WHAT WOULD BE THE '22 INDICATORS AND I BELIEVE BASED ON WHAT WE RUN THAT AND WE THINK THAT WILL AGAIN BE AT 96 POINTS FOR THE NEXT FIRST RATING. SO I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS.
AGAIN, THESE ARE A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE TWO YEARS AND THE ONLY TWO ITEMS THAT WEREN'T AT THE. TEN POINTS SCALE, WHICH IS THE HIGHEST YOU CAN POSSIBLY GET WAS ITEM 11 AND 13.
SO I'LL ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE.
TRUSTEES, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS HERE? WE'LL START WITH TRUSTEE GARCIA.
GOOD AFTERNOON. QUESTION ON NUMBER INDICATED 19.
SO IS THIS FIVE POINTS THE HIGHEST POINTS AWARDED FOR NUMBER 19? YES. OK, SO ALL OTHERS ARE SCULLS ZERO TO 10.
RIGHT? OK, AND THIS IS A NEW INDICATOR? AND THIS IS A NEW INDICATOR. YES, MA'AM.
OK. THIS WOULD BE THE SAME FOR 2022? THAT'S CORRECT. OK.
I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY THAT. THANK YOU.
TRUSTEE ARE THERE OTHER QUESTIONS ON THIS? I HAVE A QUICK QUESTION. CAN YOU, RAMI, GO TO THE FIRST PAGE THAT SHOWS WHAT OUR SCORE WAS THIS YEAR AT 96 THIS YEAR? YES, SIR. OK, AND YOU MENTIONED THAT WE ARE YOUR PROJECTIONS BASED ON OUR INCOMPLETE DATA CURRENTLY FOR NEXT YEAR, WHICH IS LAGGING IS ALSO A 96? CORRECT. AND IS IT BECAUSE THOSE TWO INDICATORS ARE STILL TWO POINTS BASED ON OUR PROJECTIONS FOR THE ADMINISTRATIVE COST RATIO? THANK YOU FOR THAT EXPLANATION.
IS THAT BECAUSE AGAIN, THERE WAS A SUBSTANTIAL NUMBER OF INSTRUCTIONAL EXPENDITURES THAT WERE IMPACTED BY COVID? OR IS THIS MORE SO BECAUSE WE'RE INCREASING THE NUMERATOR OF ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS? SO THERE'S TWO THINGS FOR THE THE YEAR THAT WE JUST ENDED, AND THAT WOULD BE THAT WE HAD A LOT OF ITEMS THAT WEREN'T, WE STILL AREN'T TRAVELING AND SO FORTH WITH OUR STUDENTS, FIELD TRIPS AND SO FORTH.
BUT THERE WERE ALSO ITEMS THAT WE MOVED OVER TO ESSER EXPENDITURES.
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SO THERE WAS A DOUBLE IN THE YEAR WE JUST ENDED.THAT WASN'T APPLICABLE FOR THE YEAR OF THIS RATING.
I GUESS MY OVERALL QUESTION FOR THE PRELIMINARY DATA FOR THE CURRENT YEAR WHERE YOU'RE SAYING WE'RE STILL STAYING AT THAT EIGHT OUT OF 10, MOST LIKELY IS THAT BECAUSE THE NUMERATOR IS EXPANDING, THE DENOMINATOR IS SHRINKING OR? THE DENOMINATOR IS SHRUNK.
ALL RIGHT. SEEING NO OTHER QUESTIONS.
THAT WAS OUR ITEM FOR DISCUSSION AT THE SCHOOL FIRST ANNUAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT REPORT.
IN THIS MEETING IS ADJOURNED.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.