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Construction manager David Mott (presentation) told the board that Jimmy Ray Elementary and Wama STEAM Elementary are finished and that Hancock building exterior and interior punch list items should be completed by the end of the month. Findlay and Howard junior-high renovations were described as on track to be completed over the summer. Staff said they expect furniture and final fit-out at Waukesha Creek to happen in the summer of 2027 as the district prepares the campus to open.

Site conditions and schedule
Mott said the Waukesha Creek site has required substantial excavation through \"white rock\" and that heavy equipment and staged trenching are being used to break and remove hard subsurface material. Plumbers and utility contractors are working on precut trenches and backfilling to allow follow-on crews to work more efficiently; Mott said recent permit comments from the city were largely editorial rather than substantive and are not expected to hold the project.

Capital and Prop C notes
- Prop A: staff told trustees Prop A projects remain on or under budget.
- Prop C: some savings from projects have been reallocated to other long-term building improvements, including replacement of geothermal systems at certain campuses. The district said it expects to remove geothermal across remaining campuses by the 2026 school year and to install chiller towers on the first building to be converted.

Other work and schedule items
- Track and field work behind Hancock is scheduled for summer 2025.
- Findlay and Howard junior-high interiors and additions should be complete this summer; Hancock final cleaning and punch list follow in early summer.
- Waukesha Creek: staff reported the site pad and athletic wing remain among the larger elements still to be completed; contractors are staging trailers, safety meeting trailers and parent-drop-off preparations as work progresses.

Budget and procurement
When trustees asked about budget status, staff said Prop A projects are on or under budget and that Prop C projects have enough savings to permit prioritizing additional infrastructure investments this summer. The construction manager said a major contractor will have approximately 125 workers on-site across seven campuses during a busy summer schedule.

Ending
District staff concluded that the construction program is advancing and that officials will continue to brief the board monthly and through the bond oversight committee. Trustees asked for continued updates on schedules and budget lines as work proceeds.

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In a board workshop presentation, district staff described two rezoning concepts and community survey results. \"About 54% of our community suggested grades 9 and 10 be how we open Waukesha Creek,\" a district presenter said, noting the district is leaning toward opening the new campus with ninth and 10th grades and adding one grade per year thereafter. The district described the target opening for Waukesha Creek as the 2027-28 school year, with full four-grade operation expected by 2029-30.

District officials told trustees the two plans try to meet priorities set for the new campus: socioeconomic balance, clear feeder patterns from elementary to junior high to high school, and distributing the district's two comprehensive high schools so they would be in different University Interscholastic League (UIL) districts if practicable.

Why this matters: The map choice affects which elementary and junior-high students will feed which high school, projected campus utilization and measures of economic disadvantage at each campus. The board emphasized that the district wants to avoid overloading one campus and to preserve clear feeder relationships.

Key details from the presentation
- Survey participation: staff said about 384 community responses were collected. Roughly 54% of respondents preferred opening with grades 9 and 10; the next largest preference was ninth grade only; about 7% were undecided.
- Capacities and enrollment: both comprehensive high schools are designed for about 3,200 students. Using current-demographic assumptions staff presented year-of-open enrollment projections in which both campuses would ultimately settle near 1,800'1,900 students when fully enrolled.
- Socioeconomic balance: under plan 1 (which follows current elementary boundaries), the presenters showed roughly 51.1% economically disadvantaged at Waukesha Creek and 51.8% at Waukesha High School on today's numbers. Plan 2 produced a slightly larger gap (about 53.5% vs. 49.6%). Staff cautioned these are today's snapshots and will change over time.
- Boundary specifics: staff identified a small adjustment along FM 1446 that would shift five elementary students from one elementary zone to a neighboring zone to clean up the line; the district said that would not be a major realignment.

Transfers, grandfathering and transportation
District staff outlined proposed campus-transfer rules to allow limited student movement between the two comprehensive high schools:
- One-time transfer: the district proposed a one-time transfer option for students who want to move between campuses for an academic program not offered at their home campus. Staff said all transfers would require the student's family to provide transportation; the district would not run buses for transfer students.
- Grandfathering: students who have already earned at least one high-school credit at Waukesha High School would be permitted to remain at Waukesha High School rather than move to Creek; this option would be time-limited as the opening cohorts phase in.
- Revocation: the district told trustees that if a student transfers to participate in a program and later leaves that program the transfer could be revoked and the student returned to the home campus.

UIL and eligibility implications
Board members raised concerns about athletic recruiting and eligibility. A district official summarized UIL procedure for a new campus: the district must apply annually to UIL; UIL uses a formula (district staff said it multiplies reported enrollment by roughly 1.33) to place campuses for realignment. The district warned that students who take a transfer, then later return, may face UIL penalties: a student who transfers back can lose a year of varsity eligibility under current UIL rules. Trustees asked staff to make those eligibility consequences clear to families.

Community engagement and next steps
Staff proposed a series of summer town halls and alternate times to maximize community participation; staff gave tentative June/July/August dates and said meetings would be broadcast live (the department noted Facebook Live as one option). Trustees asked that town-hall feedback be collected and summarized for the board before the August regular meeting; staff said the district aims to bring recommended rezoning maps back for board consideration on Aug. 11 so families would have advance notice well before the planned campus opening.

Board response and direction
Board members expressed a general inclination toward the plan that preserves existing elementary feeder alignment (Plan 1) while asking staff to refine the transfer and grandfathering rules and to continue revising feeder assignments at the junior-high level to avoid creating \"haves and have-nots.\" Trustees also asked staff to continue work with the demographer and to return with more detailed feeder maps, demographic breakdowns and the compiled town-hall feedback.

Ending
District staff said they will continue modeling enrollment, demographic and utilization scenarios and will schedule community meetings this summer; the board asked staff to return with a recommendation in August.

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Canvass and election results
Trustees read and adopted the canvass of the May 3 election results. The board recorded the final tallies for two contested places: for Place 6 Dusty Autry received 764 votes (total votes cast 1,171) and for Place 7 Debbie Timmerman received 811 votes while Daniel Hobbs received 339 votes (total votes cast 1,150). A motion to accept the canvass as read carried by voice vote (7-0).

Officer elections
Following the canvass, trustees nominated and elected the board's officers for the 2025-26 school year. The board approved a motion electing Dusty Autry as president, Debbie Timmerman as vice president and Ryan Pitts as secretary. The motion passed 7-0.

Hiring, personnel and consent agenda
On an action item the board approved the recommendation to hire Justin Bell as director of bands at Waxahachie High School. A district administrator who recommended Bell said he has demonstrated \"the highest standards of musical excellence, leadership, and integrity,\" and trustees approved the hire on a unanimous voice vote.

The board also adopted a multi-item consent agenda (items A through Y), which included routine business, travel approvals, facility upgrades to be funded through Prop C and extracurricular trip approvals; the consent motion passed 7-0.

Why this matters: The canvass makes recent election results official, the officer elections set leadership for the coming year and the personnel and consent votes set the immediate operational and programmatic path for the district ahead of summer work and the coming school year.

Meeting procedure
A judge administered oaths of office to newly elected members later in the evening, and trustees recessed into and returned from a closed session before continuing agenda items. No contested motions failed; recorded outcomes were unanimous in favor.

Ending
Board members asked staff to circulate town-hall notes and other follow-up items emerging from the workshop earlier in the meeting. Trustees adjourned after completing the evening's business.

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Waxahachie ISD board canvasses election results, elects officers and hires WHS director of bands; consent agenda approved