A public archive of Katy ISD governance records.

What this is

A Better Legacy is a public reference archive documenting what elected Katy ISD trustees said, voted on, moved, seconded, and participated in. It exists so a voter, journalist, parent, or researcher can look up a trustee's documented record from primary public sources.

The site is not a blog and not a news outlet. It presents evidence — meeting minutes, video with timestamps, roll-call votes, official documents — beside the assertions that describe them, so the record can be verified while reading.

Who publishes it

Publisher disclosure

About the data

Trustee vote counts on this site are sourced from a summary export of the BoardDocs archive generated 15 August 2026. The following limits apply to every count shown until they are updated:

1. Recent members are undercounted. 321 of 356 known meetings were processed at export time. Trustees seated in 2023–2026 have not yet had their full record captured.
2. Only votes BoardDocs published are counted. BoardDocs is not necessarily complete. On 29 May 2018 the board made and passed six motions on video that do not appear in BoardDocs. Gaps of that kind exist and are documented separately.
3. First and last vote are not term dates. They bracket a trustee's recorded voting activity. Actual appointment, election, and resignation dates come from canvass records and minutes.
4. "Assent %" is a descriptive statistic, not a judgment. It counts recorded yeas against the trustee's total recorded votes. Most school-board business is routine consent-agenda work; that is true of every district.
5. Name matching is exact-string. Misspellings in source minutes can split one person into two records or merge two people. Records are spot-checked; report anomalies via the corrections process.

Source policy

Factual assertions on documentary pages link to primary records — official agendas, minutes, board video, and public documents — whenever practical. When a primary source is unavailable or unstable, the archive says so rather than citing secondary reporting.

External video timestamp URLs are used only after their behavior has been tested. Local copies of underlying district videos and documents are maintained for preservation and analysis; the public site generally points users to the district-hosted originals.

Transcript policy

Machine-generated transcripts are used as discovery tools. They are not automatically elevated into permanent quotations attributed to named people.

When a statement by a named person is presented as a permanent documentary quotation, a human has listened to the recording, confirmed the speaker, checked the wording, and corrected it if necessary. Verified quotations are the only form of quoted speech used in documentary narratives about named living people.

Editorial boundary

The documentary archive may show what a trustee voted, what a motion said, what someone said on video, what the minutes state, what public money was authorized, what happened afterward, and whether a record exists in the district's published system. It does not state unsupported conclusions about a person's motive, character, intent, or morality.

First-person commentary from the publisher is clearly labeled and lives at /commentary/. It does not mix into mechanically generated trustee records or documentary evidence pages.

Corrections

Errors in the archive are corrected in place and logged here with the date, the scope of the correction, and a brief description of what changed.