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the time is 7 o'clock p.m. The board met earlier this evening in closed meeting.
Any action arising from discussions in a closed meeting must be taken in a
subsequent open meeting. Mr. Fraley, would you verify, will you verify that we are
in compliance with the provisions of the Texas open meetings law in regard to the
notice for this meeting? Madam President, we are in compliance. First item is the
hire and accepting resignations of professional contractor or personnel.
Madam President. Mr. Griffin. I move that the board approves the personnel report as
recommended by the superintendent. Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Griffin, a second by Mr. DeBrell
that the board approves the personnel report as recommended by the superintendent.
Any discussion? Hearing none, proceed to vote. All in favor, raise your right hand and say
aye. Aye. Motion passes 5-0.
Mr. Mihalski is out on business and Mr. Huckabee is ill.
Mr. Chair, I have a separation agreement with an employee reference in case number DFBB-2013-001-teacher.
Madam President.
Mr. DeBraille.
I move that the board with the separation agreement with the employee in reference in case DBFBB 2013-001 teacher.
Second.
I have a motion by Mr. DeBraille and a second by Bill Proctor that the board approves the superintendent's recommendation
to consider a separation agreement with an employee referenced in case DFBB-2013-001-teacher
and authorizes the superintendent to sign the agreement.
Any discussion?
Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote.
All in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
Motion carries 5-0.
This item is the naming of the chief information officer.
Madam President.
Mr. Adams.
I move the Board of Trustees approves the recommendation of the Superintendent of Dr. John Alaunee for Chief Information Officer.
Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Adams, a second by Mr. Griffin that the Board approves the Superintendent's recommendation of Dr. John Alaunee for Chief Information Officer.
Any discussion? Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Motion carries 5-0.
Do we have any scouts here this evening?
I don't see any recognized.
I'm presently next to the consent agenda items.
Mr. McMeese will come up and
the new but not improved Regina Stevenson.
I'm just making
so
president box members of the board and in
mister fairly a adopted tonight to present
the proposal for furniture and equipment for
for Oprah Tompkins High School.
You'll see numerous references throughout the recommendation
letter that we also refer to as High School 7.
The reason we do that is that when this RFP was issued,
we did not yet know the name of that campus.
So that's why you see that redundancy appearing
throughout.
I am presenting on behalf of the Purchasing Department
in Regina, who is away on school business today as well.
The purpose of this contract is to award a contract for classroom and administrative
furniture for the new high school, to also include equipment to move that furniture,
such as chair trucks and book trucks, and also for the installation of that furniture.
Due to the very substantial quantities of furniture, they require to furnish an entire
high school campus.
We believe that a separate contract would present the best value for the district.
So an RFP was issued as opposed to trying to buy this furniture equipment off of our existing furniture contract,
which is for indefinite quantities.
As a result, savings were achieved when compared to our current contract for indefinite quantities.
when we believe that those savings represent around 7 to 8 percent in terms
of total cost since the design of the schools have modified a repeat and after
meeting with the construction and teaching and learning officials it was
determined that the new high school would in general use the the current
instructional model for classroom and office furniture setup so when
developing the RFP we use the current district specifications and the
standards for each of those items that we've listed.
We also believe, as we reviewed the proposals, that the best value would be realized by awarding
one vendor for each group of items.
We can realize greater efficiency in this manner, as we can have a limited number of
vendors that might be involved in either installation or chasing down the warranty items that will
inevitably ensue.
And it's also a more secure process for us from an installation standpoint as well, since
there will be a limited number of vendors with installers in the building at any one
point in time.
Some of the grouping of items examples include classroom furniture other than teacher desk,
include administrative office furniture along with teacher desk, that's a separate category,
and you'll see throughout some other smaller groups, folding tables, art tables,
cafeteria tables, and so on. The evaluation criteria included the product
quality, the cost of the product, and also very importantly the
ability to meet the district needs in delivery and installation of the
furniture. The recommendations, as I mentioned, were by groups of items. In
In almost all instances, it was awarded to either the lowest cost for an individual type of item
or for the lowest overall cost in a group of items as well,
and that's for items that met the district specifications.
When it was not the lowest overall cost, an example,
the only example I believe is with administrative furniture and the teacher desk,
the recommendation is to the next lowest overall cost,
And the reason for that recommendation was that was deemed to represent the best value
for the district because of the installation history we have with that particular vendor
as well.
The recommended vendors for the various groups of items, there were three vendors ultimately
recommended.
Indico Sales for classroom furniture other than teacher desks and chair trucks.
JR Inc. for the administrative furniture, the teacher desk, folding tables, room dividers,
lecterns, cafeteria tables, and book trucks. And lastly, the third vendor
recommended was Educators Depot for art room tables and table trucks as well.
Annual expenditures, the cost of this contract is expected to be around
$950,000. That may change as quantities may change slightly as we go through the
installation process and these funds are included in the 2010 bond authorization
as well. Any questions? Dr. Proctor? I believe you said this was a better value than what we have on our
current list. Yes, sir. Roughly about 7%. Can we, if we need things like this purchased for other facilities, use this to
purchase those? It would probably not be appropriate for that, Dr. Proctor. We have
another contract in place for furniture for indefinite quantities okay and so we
would really have you know since this contract was good specifically for that
purpose okay just trying to save a little money yes sir you met the guy
right there who loves to save money
any other questions Thank You mr. McMean I believe you have our next
Next representation for the disposal of surplus choir uniforms.
Really, we're presenting this on behalf of really the Fine Arts Department
and specifically McMean's Junior High,
who has just very recently replaced their choir uniforms,
existing choir uniforms, over 10 years of age or so.
They have sought to repurpose some of those choir uniforms throughout the district.
They may go to other music programs at other district campuses
that might have a need for the performance wear.
In some instances, I think, according to Mr. Bryant,
these are also used for costumes for Finite Place, those type of things as well.
Anyway, the choir director at McMeans Junior High solicited,
tried to inquire of other area districts, specifically, I believe, in particular,
Houston ISD to see if there were any needs out there.
And some of you on the board may recall we've actually done something similarly
a couple of years or so ago as well.
Well, nevertheless, Revere Middle School, an HISD school that's located near Westheimer in Sam Houston,
Tollway, expressed an interest in the black dresses.
It's about 50 of them or so.
Generally speaking, our board policy allows for us to dispose of any furniture or equipment that's deemed surplus.
It has a caveat in there, the provision, if you will, that we have to dispose of at fair market value.
But there's not much value in these uniforms as well.
We don't expect any residual value.
As I said, we redeployed those that we can throughout the district.
And so to donate them is really outside the parameters of my office, given our board policy as well.
And so donation of these items is allowed.
It does require the approval of the board.
It's allowed by our board policy and the Texas Education Code.
And doing this, of course, would certainly serve a beneficial and public purpose as well.
and allow allows a school in need perhaps have something that might not
otherwise have thank you we're glad that we have that opportunity to share this
with another school can still use it Mr. Bryant and his group yeah thank you
very much Mr. Rinkmeets next is our campus performance object any objection
to moving this item to consent okay well please move item 1 to consent and
And campus performance objectives.
Dr. Minas and Mrs. Pato, how are you?
We're good.
President Fox, members of the board, and Mr. Fraley,
last month Mrs. Holland brought forward the district
improvement plan required by Texas Education Code.
The code also requires that the principal of each Texas school
develop campus performance objectives and improvement
plans each year.
Tonight we're bringing to your attention the performance
objectives set by each Katy campus. The statute indicates that the performance
objectives should be based on the student achievement indicator system. Yet
as Mrs. Holland noted last month, the Texas accountability system is under
revision and until very recently we had no information from TEA regarding
individual student performance on the STAAR Test administered last spring. This
This made setting performance objectives more difficult and speculative than in prior years.
You received an electronic file with the performance objectives set for
each school by the principal and campus staff in the areas of reading, writing,
math, science, and social studies as applicable to the grade levels served by the school.
As you could see, there is variety in the performance targets.
In the absence of guiding information from the state, some schools chose to use the federal
AYP targets of 93% for reading and 92% for math.
Others set targets based on incremental improvement steps that would allow the school scores to
reach the 90% or better mark in the near future.
We'd be happy to try to address any questions.
Any questions about the campus performance objectives?
Dr. Meenis, we've been, as we'll talk about later, we've been talking about goals.
Our board has been doing that, and we certainly talk about campus performance objectives through that,
and what our campuses are doing and how they're setting those, and just all of us together,
working together to make this happen. Thank you for providing this information to us.
It's extensive, and we've looked at it and appreciate it very much.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Any objection to moving this to consent agenda?
Okay, so moved.
Now we have a closed campus list for the 2013-14 inter-district transfers.
Hi, Mrs. Payta.
Hello.
Good evening.
As you know, students in KDISD typically attend the schools to which they're zoned based on
the address of their homes within the district.
And at times, parents request voluntary transfers for their children to attend other KDISD schools.
schools and such transfers must meet the criteria established in local board policy.
So pursuant to board policy FDB local, I'm submitting for your consideration the list
of campuses that are recommended to be closed to new voluntary student transfers for the
2013-14 school year.
Each campus listed on the related memo that you have has been identified as being either
above capacity or close to their building capacity related to the projected enrollment
enrollment figures for 2013-14.
And please note that building capacity is computed without the inclusion of the existing
portable buildings on that site.
So are there any questions that I might answer for you related to this topic?
Dr. Proctor, go ahead.
Is there a way that we can see what the number for each one of these schools is?
I'll be happy to provide.
I mean, it would be nice to know what the numbers are so that we can say, okay, they're closed this year, ta-da,
but next year their situation has changed so we can maybe open them, maybe not.
So we have a target number that this is about what we're working at.
I'm happy to provide that for you.
The numbers that we typically have used at this standard practice has been,
And if the building is within, at an elementary level, within 50 students of its building capacity, we close it.
And if it's within 100 students at a secondary campus, we close it.
Because we had talked at one time about even considering the mix of programs at certain schools may dictate how open or closed that would be.
we might think an elementary school has plenty of space but due to the program
requirements of the programs we have put in there it doesn't so it might be good
to see what our numbers in that context would be just a suggestion and if I
could and we do do this on an annual basis next year with the opening of high
school seven you may see some something different on my school numbers probably
not junior high for a while and elementary is going to be pretty tight for a while we think but
but this is an annual thing and i think having information would be we can do that for you sir
mrs pato did you see this list change very much from last year we added a few more elementary
schools that's approximately half of our elementary schools now are closed to transfers
that's what i was i was surprised to see that 18 elementary schools are at capacity that's very
And some of these were surprising to me, but thank you very much for this list.
Mr. DeBrell?
How close is May Creek?
Because I know Morton Ranch is over capacity.
So how close is May Creek to capacity?
Well, May Creek High School has a building capacity of,
or actually has a projected enrollment of 2,640 students,
and the building capacity is 3,000 in all of our high schools.
Thank you.
Okay, any more?
Thank you, Mrs. Pato.
Any objection to moving this item to consent?
So Mrs. Pato will send that information.
Do you want to move it to consent?
Oh, sure.
Okay.
So moved.
Next is our summer work schedule.
Hi, Dr. Harris.
Good evening.
Madam President, Mr. Fraley and Board, you have an item before you for the four-day week
schedule.
It would be followed from June 10th through August 8th.
This allows the central administration to be dark and the campuses, except for those
campuses that have summer school programs on them.
This allows us to save energy, which makes Mr. Gunnell very happy.
Dr. Harris, this is just typical what we do every year, right?
Yes, ma'am.
There's no changes.
We take the instructional calendar and adjust the dates based on that.
Any objections to moving this to code?
Just a question first.
and do we encounter any problems to afford a week not being able to we're
closed and someone wants to get a hold of us or we're we're closed and we want
to get a hold of someone is there any logistical problems with at the district
level the external agencies that we deal with no sir we've not had any major
problems I can tell you I know finance and HR sometimes because of our hiring
in the processes we're doing we're here open on Friday but we've never had a
major problem communications that's fine move it to consent okay any objection to
moving it to consent so moved mrs. Holland is here to talk to us about a
resolution to suspend portions of EIA local and EIC local for the 2012-2013
school year. Thank you.
Hi Mrs. Holland. Good evening Madam President, members of the board, Mr. Fraley.
As many of you know, the Commissioner has announced that districts are allowed to defer implementation of the statutory provisions
to have the end of course exams count as 15% of the students grade for the 2012-13 school year.
In fact, this is the second year that that provision has been deferred.
Since we are in the middle of a legislative session and we know that this is a topic that
is being discussed, we really don't know what decision may come out of the legislature.
Rather than changing our existing policy, which may in fact be the policy later, we
are recommending that the board adopt a resolution that would set aside the existing policies
policies for this short period of time and allow us not to make policy changes in the
event that we have to go back to the policy as it currently exists. So we are asking for
the Board to approve the resolution to allow us to set these two policies aside temporarily.
Any questions?
A clarification. We had to adopt a policy to include the 15 percent and we did that.
yes before we knew that we would have it waived so so this is to waive it again
if we have adopted the policy as recommended by legislative action so
never used that's right this one cannot be moved to consent because the
resolution must be read next Monday night right so and you have our next one
which is the memorandum of understanding for the juvenile justice alternative
education program with Lamar consolidated independent school district
Okay.
Katie ISD, because of our location, has a memorandum of understanding with two different
counties, Harris County and Fort Bend, for our JJAEPs.
We have already received board approval for the MOU for Harris County several months ago
and have just recently received the MOU from Fort Bend.
There are no changes in this MOU.
It's the same as the one that you have approved in recent years.
In fact, no dollar amount has changed.
It's $7,000 per seat, for permissive seats, and we have asked for two seats for this year.
That is the same number that we have requested in past years.
We are very judicious in the use of those seats.
We are basically asking for the board to approve the MOU with Fort Bend consistent with what
we have done for the past several years.
Questions?
Any objection to moving this to consent?
Okay, so moved.
Thank you, Mrs. Holland.
And our seventh.
In accordance with Board Policy BQ, which is the overarching policy in planning and decision-making,
the Board is required to review our district goals periodically.
periodically, and in doing so, we want to ensure that those goals are supported not only by the district's mission, but by state guidelines as well.
We do have, for your consideration, some five-year True North district goals that we would ask you to approve,
and these would become our broad goals that would serve us over the next five-year period.
I could add, and again, once this happens, then staff will continue the work of developing
what we call performance objectives with each goal and then key performance indicators as
well.
We will look at having some of those objectives approved for an annual, for a one-year work
period with indicators that we will look forward to to determine whether or not we've accomplished
those goals or not.
So that will happen once we know that these are the five goal areas that we're looking
yeah dr. Proctor just a clarification on what we did last Monday I would think
that if we're gonna adopt these as our board goals for the district and I don't
want this to be taken in the wrong way not use the term true north but the
five-year Katie ISD board goals what district goals and show that the board
adopted these because there may be some confusion of re-carrying over the old
the older version that was not a board adopted thing and just use KISD district
district five-year district goals.
Madam President.
Mr. Griffin.
I'd just counter to you, Bill.
I kind of like the true north.
I mean, the district's been using it for a long time.
There was a tremendous amount of community input that was put into making the true north.
That's the direction that we've been going.
When you see this, this is going to be like the here's the top goals,
and as a district this is how we we waterfall it down so here's our ultimate
district goals and then here's how the administration and the teachers and
everybody's apply it so this kind of gives us to the top down so I kind of
like the name it it makes us feel at least to me this is our whole entity
that we have president mr. deBrow I'm not on either side of these things
because i think a rose by any other name would still smell as sweet but what i would like for
us to review right now is how we got here this just didn't come up today we've been working on
this since august an extra meeting extra time away from our families to adopt this we've labored over
this for probably about six months here under your leadership so um i would ask that we review how we
actually got here to this point so that everyone can understand why we're here
today and where we're going where we're going next well I certainly will take
this opportunity to say thank you to you gentlemen it's been hard work and I have
stretched you and asked you to meet and together we talked about in the summer I
I remember I called each one of you,
and we talked about the importance of working together
and defining our goals.
And it took a lot of extra time.
And you all met the challenge.
And I think that we had some of the best discussions
we've ever had.
And we refined what our visions and our desires
are for our students and for our staff and for our community.
And these goals were, this shows a lot of work.
and a lot of determination and a this is our heart for our kids and I'm so proud
of you and I'm so appreciative of the work that you've done in the sacrifice
that's that you've made to get here and mr. Fraley thank you for working with us
and being patient with us and for understanding where we were and I think
we had incredible conversations and people who attended these open meetings
every one of them talked about how impressed they were about the dialogue
that happened about the conversations that we had about the values that we
shared and where we came to a common good and it's it's about our it's about
our kids and and it's also about our campuses it's about our facilities it's
it's just far-reaching and the work is not finished now we'll work with
with administration and we look forward to you developing,
once we adopt these goals, then you will begin to develop the,
how do we get there?
We're the what and you're the how.
And together we will accomplish these.
And I don't care what it's called either,
but I love the true north because it shows our focus.
It shows a direction.
And we'll have new dates.
and we know we know that we did this work and it's I'm thrilled I'm thrilled
with this and again not not saying anything about what proceeded if I'm if
I understand what everybody put a lot of time and effort to into is this is the
the first time the board has actually sat around a table
multiple hours on multiple Monday, Tuesdays, Thursdays,
or whenever they delivered pizza and worked on setting goals.
And I don't want that to get lost.
I don't want to diminish how we got to where we are.
but the you know the law states board goals and you know I want to make sure
that people know now we have adopted board goals that's all and the board has
adopted this the board has adopted district goals right and we started in a
very unique place that not every board does and that's to talk our first
meeting was to come together and talk about board goals about what we wanted
for the seven of us and how that set us on the path to getting here.
So we do also have some board goals, but these are district goals adopted by the board.
Madam President, if I may, I can tell you that my leadership team is very excited to have this about to be formalized, so to speak.
we've been operating not in the dark but through a framework that you all actually did approve a couple of years back, these five goal areas.
I, too, Dr. Proctor, thought about, okay, do we need some kind of renewal or refreshing or whatever?
You know, Southern Baptist, you've got to always have a theme.
Sorry.
And so we've talked about that and what staff said to me is they like the true north.
For one, it provides stability.
I can be easily bought into something else.
I'm not going to mention the name at all.
But what I like is that you all began a lot of work, a lot of dialogue, a couple of exchange meetings with the community,
and you created a synthesized list that came from several pages of stuff.
Mm-hmm.
To 25 declarative statements, some that can be turned into goals or objectives,
some are more like value statements.
And then you had five different areas.
And you did that in isolation of the True North document.
And someone asked, well, don't we have something that we can look at?
We brought True North and you realized, and it cross-referenced that, you're already on
the same page as most of the leadership team.
Right.
And which, as Mr. Griffin said, came from the two critical issues symposiums we had back in the spring of 2008.
They gave us these five areas.
It came from our community.
So the staff is very excited about where we're about to get to.
They're very excited about this being a multi-year set of goal areas because, if you think about it, all of our work really falls in one of these five areas.
We'll have an annual work plan that will come from this.
that will have annual performance targets and we want to again identify those three E's,
you know, expectations, the evidence we're going to look for,
and we need to talk also about the enablers.
What are the things resource-wise, behavior-wise that we must have in place
to make these things become manifest because these things don't happen because you wish them to
or that you hope them to.
You have to work to make it happen and so we're very excited about that.
We see this as really helping us to focus the work as we're growing.
This becomes our MISTI, so to speak, and we're saying bring whatever you have, but this is our song.
These are our focus areas.
That last one, organizational improvement, that's where you really look at how you grow to the next level.
You begin having conversations there about how you grow to the next level.
So this is not a stopping point.
but it really is it's beginning and whatever you call it it's fine by us the
staff was just accustomed to sure with although Tom Gunnell says well in the
name the true north is thank you Tom
but we're just very thankful and I guarantee it's a celebration of what the
board's gotten to it really is I turn my mic off thinking like you too but the
mic was also didn't count I hear what you're saying dr. Proctor and I think
that the ownership and the leadership that we've provided in this is it's
solid no matter the name like Mr. DeBrell says. And I'd like to thank you for pushing us as hard as you did.
Could you turn your microphone on and say that? No, I won't be there.
I'm just so proud of y'all. Okay so
if we move this to consent agenda then we won't be able to read them out
next week before we vote on them what do you think should we I think we should
hold it off I think so too let's let's read them next week before we vote on
them ceremonial but impactful how do you feel okay and for the record I want to
thank sister Holland and really all the staff that worked with this dr. Caskey's
team do a lot of the narrative of the the verb is there and we really
appreciate all you guys your input very much so thank you mrs holland okay maria that one will
not go to consent did you get that okay now we'll talk about her right where are we
resolution extending the depository contract mr smith how are you how are you this evening
I hit a button on my way up.
I lost my place.
I guess that's an argument for staying with paper and not trying to be a techie.
But tonight I'm pleased to present our proposal of extending our depository contract.
Texas Education Code 45.201 through 45.209 allows the school district to extend the contract of its depository each two years for a total of four years past the original award date.
If you'll recall back in March of 2011, we presented, after much analysis of about nine banking organizations, a recommendation to go with Prosperity Bank.
bank. That comes to an end, that two year agreement comes to an end on August 31st,
2013 and our proposal is to extend that contract from to September 1, 2013 through August 31st,
2016, 15, 15 I'm sorry. And just a little bit about our relationship, you know, when
When you guys awarded the contract two years ago now, it was by far the best contract that we'd received.
There are, I'm pleased to say, only changes that benefit KDISD for this extension moving forward.
Right now, and this doesn't sound like a lot, we receive 50 basis points on our money market deposits.
deposits. 50 basis points is one half of 1%, which is not a lot of return on investments,
but it's significantly better in the benchmarks. You know, the three-month T-bill is 11 basis
points or .1 or 10% of one and just 50 basis points is very envious and they're willing
willing to extend that on our contract for the next two years.
And we, again, have a very good relationship with Prosperity Bank.
They're a partner.
In addition to being our service provider, when one of our campuses has a deposit issue,
they call that campus, and the customer service has been second to none.
So I would like to recommend that we would consider that resolution to extend that contract
for two years.
Any questions? Okay, this cannot be moved to consent because it has a resolution.
So, and now we have the budget amendments. Mr. Smith?
I believe for the February budget amendments there are 12 of them presented before you.
Eight of those move monies from one function to another.
There are four that are increasing or four amendments that are asking for additional monies.
that is to move the library rotation for those four campuses and increasing those
by $5,000 per campus and basically what that is a replenishment of the library
funds for those four schools and we periodically we have a rotation set up
to where we can go in and infuse new media and material into those libraries
periodically and we're just increasing that amount those increases with total
$20,000. Mr. Smith would you just help me with that a little bit more is this the
normal time that happens? I noticed that when I looked through these these four
kind of stood out to me just happened sometimes they request it it's a is it
an annual thing? There is a formal rotation set up and the amount is different from
elementary junior high and high school obviously elementary schools I believe
the basic rotation is $5,000 and it increases to $20,000 the junior high and
35,000 at the high school and then whenever it's their time to get into the
rotation we infuse gives them additional monies to infuse books at that time this
is basically doubling that elementary library rotation from five thousand to
ten thousand dollars and it's primarily because of the electronic media that
they're using okay that answered my question any other questions any
objection to moving that to consent so moved okay thank you very much our next
item up for discussion is legislative priorities that improves it's good to
see you first time before the board and I'm present if I could as they take
their season get ready to chat with you a little bit really appreciate the work
of dr. grooms and sister Holland for their work in providing for you a
side-by-side document that shows various organizations and whether or not they've
indicated something as a legislative priority so to speak what's important to
note is that where they have the excess in the box with organization and for
there may be one and one and not in another organization the absence does
not indicate opposition to it it just was not one of those that popped as a
priority by guarantee you look if you look at the first page that first item
restore custody to state general revenue public education budget you don't see a
a check or an X under all the organizations, such as the ATP, for instance,
if I guarantee it, they're not opposed to that. They would welcome that.
And you'll see within the documents some things that were heavy on the ATP
agenda that didn't come up with an X under the other organizations,
but there's not opposition to it. It just was not
something that was listed, the way the language read, to be easily identified as
priority. And plus, many of the organizations had a much more
a larger document to look through and so this does not reflect everything but in
the certain areas that we looked at in terms of finance curriculum instruction
assessment accountability these are the priorities that were easy to identify
and as we walk through this Chris dr. grooms and such I will talk to you a
bit about the process but also I do invite dr. Caskey brother more brother
you know to weigh in with their perspectives the doctor creatures here
as well I think on the kind of assessment side and any HR stuff like
as well. So we're all at your disposal to answer any questions or at least respond to
your questions and thoughts. Dr. Grooms.
Madam President, members of the board, Mr. Fraley, Ms. Holland and I are here to present
to you, as Mr. Fraley described, a summary chart of legislative priorities by organizations.
These priorities have been developed by statewide organizations that represents boards of trustees,
administrators, Texas PTA, Texas professional educators, the Texas School Alliance, and
the Fast Growth Schools Coalition.
This list is not exhaustive, as Mr. Fraley noted.
It does not represent all legislative priorities of each of these groups.
Rather it shows those priorities that these groups have chosen to highlight for the 2012
through 14 legislative session.
This chart is presented to you for your consideration to determine whether it is in the interest
of the district to identify and adopt its own set of legislative priorities.
Madam President, you've done quite a bit of research and I want to thank you guys for
that.
I would say that we need to look at maybe our top five or six items that are important
to us.
some of these things they sound great but we know that they're not going to
happen others person I don't necessarily I wouldn't necessarily support and some
of them don't really matter to us as far as here in Katy ISD so I think we need
to look at some things that really matter to this community and focus our
efforts on those items as far as that's concerned if I fed president mr. rail
Well, you're exactly on the money there.
So we figure that following any discussion we have tonight,
we'll also provide it for you in your packet, a summary of the bills passed,
filed on the House side and on the Senate side.
So you can take a look at those as well and just decide which handful of items
we want to say that for KDICs, we're going to say, guys, go to Matt for these things.
It doesn't mean that the other ones aren't important.
It's just that you can't walk into anyone's office and say, well, what do you care about?
we have this list of 75 items there's a thank you but if you say there are a lot
of things to look at but for us because some of these things are more applicable
to Katie than other districts and and say these are the ones that we really
want you to focus on for Katie I see so we have an option there one thing that's
not on here and I'm gonna call it the Bonnie Holland bill that's to get those
five days I didn't have a discussion with a couple of our legislators about
that and the opposition to just moving not giving us five extra days but moving
five days from the end of the calendar to the beginning of the calendar is
simply the tourism lobby they don't want to move it they want to leave it the way
it is I think that should be one of our priorities that cost the state zero
zero dollars
and i think it would greatly impact
let's start there
it's not gonna cost any money when i ask me for any more money we're asking you
just to move some days around
and stand up to this one line
members of my career and mr brooklyn page six of the local governments
uh... typically best called under the idea about having local control
uh... and so it's a little bit so we can we can articulate that in particular
that that's where the kind of captured that idea because this is really amazing
how it goes from local control to controlling the locals.
Think about that.
And we really would love to have.
We think that we know what works best for us here in Katy Astley.
I agree with your mention on that.
So that's the school calendar start date is what that really would fall under.
You know, I brought this up, and then I got to looking at it.
And one of the difficulties is who we all are in this thing.
I'm a member of TASB.
I'm a member of ATPE.
I was on the platform committee that wrote the education platform in Fort Worth this year for the Republican Party.
and those may not all they may not all coincide at any one point in time and so
it's something that that is difficult is
saying who we are and when are we and I know this is gonna sound like Yogi Berra
and when are we that person because some of these do have different priorities
and then on some of these if you say you're for or against it it it gets a
little bit difficult unless you see how it's going to be implemented because if
it's something that say we either want this but then it doesn't come out the
way you want it like end of course testing or something else you know it becomes a be careful
what you pray for you might get it and so there's a great list and i've gone through all of these
and it's it's really good you know and i think if the board can identify like mr fraley said two
three four five things and this is kind of singularly important to us right here
at this place fast-growing district and all of that great but not try to eat
this whole thing in one swallow because it would be too and there are there are
not a lot of bills that directly deal with these yet there are some shell
bellbells out there that allude to these things, but you don't know where you're going.
So I think Mr. Dubrell made a good statement.
Are there a few things that we can say, this is really important to us where we are?
What happens a lot is I'll get calls from our elected officials.
They'll say, well, this is pending.
How does this impact Katie?
And so I'll contact our guys and they'll let us know either from the finance standpoint what it does or from a curriculum standpoint what it does for us and whatnot.
And so as we're part of many organizations, such as TASB has over 900,000 members of districts of various size and values and communities and whatnot, and we're not going to be on the same page with all those things.
And so some of those things, our membership does not mean that we're in support of.
Because the democratic process, they go through their consensus making, you've been there,
you raise your hand, and the more that hands go up that says this is ours,
even though some hands may have been against it.
And so, kind of the gentleman's agreement is that we're not going to actively support for the thing,
advocate for the things that hurt us.
But we're going to be very clear that whereas we understand that they have this priority,
it is not ours and whatnot.
What the strength comes, though, is that there are a number of organizations that,
if they haven't adopted it but we see it very unique to KDISD, we may be able to forge a partnership so that other folks will advocate for that as well.
And so that's important that we're going through this exercise to identify the things that we really see as relevant and unique to KDISD, so to speak.
We were talking with some folks earlier about we have lots of special laws for schools that don't do well.
What about those that do do well?
And we have been very successful as a school district for lots of reasons.
But we still find ourselves on the receiving end of a lot of things that they target other districts that don't really help us at all and could even hurt us.
You sent out the targeting the newspaper full employment act for publishing agenda.
I thought you all made me get a kick out of that.
that but again the and what you're talking about specifically is that right
now there's a long-standing public requirement that you have to post
notices in certain publications and the description may or may not be one in our
community right that's widely read whereas we can post on our website or
send out electronically and there's lots of folks will see that there's
legislation pending now regarding calling bond elections about transparency and whatever.
And I'm all for that, but my concern is when you start adding certain language to the ballot
and the ballot language gets that long, that's an automatic no for me because I don't get
it.
Because you ask for that and then when the language shows up on the ballot, does it really
say what you thought it was going to say for the average person?
And so I think there may be other ways to meet the gist of the legislation, but maybe not in that same form that's proposed then.
The accountability system, they had hearings around the state, and community after community said, less testing, less testing, less testing.
We got the star accountability system and more testing, more testing, more testing.
Because as they started developing it, as Sam Raven said, he was making sausage.
It was at a pretty site.
And this didn't taste good either.
So I guess tonight, just as you've had this, you'll have it for the rest of this week, you'll have it next week.
We can approve something this time next week, or we can take another step this time next week.
can come again up following that but I know in March we're going to have a lot
of meetings interactions I like elected officials that be nice to say that these
are the things that are very important to Katie Ashley we appreciate your
paying special attention to it I think president the accountability system the
testing is one I think we can all find agreement we need to find a way to pull
some of that back as a mrs. Fox said you know you have schools that if you're two
years failing and all sorts of bad things start happening to you but yet
you could be two years exemplary and our ten years exemplary you could be a blue
ribbon school and you still test the same that doesn't quite seem right or
fair I mean we need to figure out how to pull that testing back I think that
That's exactly what I was talking to some legislators about, that I know there's a lot of discussion this time about school choice, and it is targeted toward students to not leave any students behind, that there are some failing schools, failing children.
children and they're right, those children should not be left behind.
Those children should be passing, maybe an entire school or an entire district.
We know of districts that have to have TEA come in and help them out.
But to have, I'm asking our legislators, what can you do for us?
KDISD is a successful school district.
We're doing well and we want to do better.
And some of these mandates that they're giving are meant to help the districts, but in the
same breath they restrict the districts who are doing well.
These mandates that come to us, the rules that they make to help failing school districts
actually hold us back from, imagine what we could do if we didn't have to have some of
of the mandates that tell us when to start school, how many days to test.
We're exemplary and we have been many campuses year after year after year.
Why must we test every student every year multiple times benchmarks and all
of those things. That is a waste of taxpayer money. That is a waste of our
incredible teachers and resources. That is a waste of the parents who are
investing in our district. I would like to see legislation targeted for
for successful school districts as much as it's targeted for failing schools.
Amen.
On the record.
And now we need to find what that is and go to them with three or four or five.
I like what Bill Rutherford always tells us.
Do three to five.
Three to five goals.
Three to five issues because those you can work on,
whereas these are pages of great ideas from lots of people.
I'd like to see our board come together and get three to five things
that we can take to our legislators and says here's how you can help us help our
children so did you see anything we have until 821 so we have I'm just teasing
mr. Griffin but we have is there anything on here you'd like to discuss
tonight that you'd like to see us work on mr. Griffin I just have a quick
question so when we identify the the topics that we have emphasis on are we
then going to want our TASB representative to then go to TASB and say, I don't see an
X, obviously they don't have this piece of paper, but then to go to them and say, hey,
I would like for us, TASB, to really put emphasis on this so that it now becomes one of their
bright Xs, same with the superintendents.
If I can tip, what happens is most organizations adopt their program well in advance of the
session.
Yeah.
Then things are going to happen in the session.
Now, a lot of the things they identified as priority for them is nowhere on the radar screen, or it becomes an out-of-the-box note on those topics.
And so there's a lot of movement.
And so I think what you're saying, asking for something that really happens a lot, we would do the same thing with administrative groups.
Go to them, and first of all, you want to see is there any active opposition to it, or can you get some support behind it so that when folks start calling around the state asking what do you think about these things, folks are saying, you know what, it's a pretty good idea.
So we're not behind at all. I think we're probably a little bit ahead of the game in terms of having more of a focus and not just a bunch of exercises that all of a sudden are no longer on the radar screen.
Well, Madam President, one of the things that I think it's important to do whenever you do adopt three to five of these that you would like to take is that when you talk about, like, an example would be the number one would be to restore the state general, you know, funding for us,
is to explain to the legislatures, to give them written information about how it impacts Katy.
And once they see dollar and cents about things like that or what we can have or can't have, that's what it is.
I mean, statements are great, but we've got to show them in dollars and cents about what we're doing.
and recently in Washington, D.C., and talking to our legislators up there
about the FRN conference and the No Child Left Behind or everything else
and just saying that you guys are putting mandates on us, unfunded mandates on us.
You've got to fund this stuff because we can't continue to do this.
And what you have to take to the legislature, whether they're state or national,
is to say this is what is costing us.
you've got to put it in the hard dollars for them to see that. What we would do is
what staff would do is once we have the confirmed priorities then we'll do the
workup on them with the fiscal impact, talking points, those types of things.
When we attended, excuse me, when we attended the Gulf Coast meeting last
week and that's another part of our the region four coming together represents a
a quarter of the state's children.
And so when these districts get together to talk about things,
we looked at some of the legal terms that says the Supreme Court,
after the last lawsuit, I believe,
told the state that they are required to look at how much it costs
for the things that they mandate for us.
They are required to do a study that tells them how much money it costs for
all the mandates they give to us. They did it once, they realized that they
weren't paying enough for it and they've not done it again. And it says the state
shall do a study, shall do a study every time they meet, was it once a year or
every biennium but but it was they only did it once when they realized they
weren't funding it they just stopped doing the studies so they know that they
are caught they are cutting funds and adding cost and in the in the meantime
tying our hands and our success is suffering I believe from that dr.
Proctor yeah you know Joe made a great point if you have talking points if we
We had three to five things, and I used to use the tact of put it on a card that you
can put in your pocket.
You have your three things, you have your few points underneath it.
You're not relying on a legislator to remember anything because they do get busy, but if
the topic comes up and it's one of your three points, they can pull it out of their pocket
and say this is what my district wants to do and so the more narrow and I think
impactful you can be rather than say we run everything on a list the better off
you are and I think the interpretation upon who's writing the definition of
what adequate is you know it's one of those things that lawyers say don't ever
ask a question unless you're for sure you know the answer and again that was
kind of that was in one of my nervous moments I guess the chair is looking for
direction from you all in order to have something that we can adopt as our
legislative priorities and then speak with unity to our legislators about what
most impacts Katie what are the three to five things we would most like to be
focused on how would you gentlemen like to come about that do you want to look
at it over the week in order to vote on something for next week it has to be
done by Friday so that we could
on the agenda and be ready for that or do you want i think time is of the essence because the sooner
we get to our legislators the better what do you well i think that we have to do this in cooperation
and in concert with our administration because i think that the the administration can best help us
because they know the impact on these things uh probably in a greater fashion than we as board
members do i'm not asking them to do our work because we'll certainly support whatever they
come with but but I think that you know the funding issue would be a primary one
that you talk about maybe it would be one about allowing us to have the start
of school control control is another one that you want to talk about so from
there I mean then you could get then you could go below the line and talk start
talking about the educational aspect about things that affect our teaching
and things things of that nature and that are real impactful to us but
But I certainly agree with Dr. Proctor and everybody else is that don't go over five.
I mean, because just let's keep it to an elevator conversation if we can.
So I don't know.
I mean, I'm not prepared to sit and do this all tonight.
I think that I could agree on funding that they've not done,
and I could agree on the calendar local control would be to the intestine president I would say
with the funding there's a lot around it the one thing that really bugs me about it is how they tie
kids sitting in a seat to funding an education time spent sitting in a seat does not mean you're
getting educated but then that's how we get money from the state there needs to
be something tied to enrollment so that we have some ability if some of our
seniors want to leave after half the day and get a job we should still get credit
for that if we have students that can get it done online then we should still
get credit for that why is it sitting in the seat it's how is I mean do we have
some tie to some furniture lobby that I don't know about you know something
going on you know like the transportation I mean tourism guys we
just bid a contract to say don't ask the question I don't really know the answer
for if I could offer this what may help us kind of frame it is we look at it in
terms of those factory north areas and look at and maybe put these documents
items in here within those areas there.
And you're going to have pretty much a category of accountability,
finance, governance, and start from there
with the overlay of the True North goal areas.
And we can get that done.
And then it's a matter because a lot of this language,
you can't really do school finance and only mention one thing.
There are a lot of pieces to it.
it. And so you may have, so if I can offer this, you may have three areas, which may
have three to four bullets underneath each area, but they're all integrated and are related.
Just something to think about. So we can do the overlay of that and get that to you all
and then as I say, we'll do the workup.
I think that's exactly what Dr. Proctor was talking about. It's a bolded area and
and a little three or four bullets underneath.
Superintendent Fraley, I'd ask your feelings
about anything that's tied to very much funding
because of the lawsuit that's going on.
And until the lawsuit has decided,
what I'm hearing from legislators
is they are afraid to do anything about funding
until they know the solution to the lawsuit.
So to focus very much on funding,
they're going to just stall until we know what the because this the judge
Dietz ruled that the way the state's funding education is unconstitutional so
now we have an appeals process and until that has happened I'm not sure that
they're going to tackle very much funding but if we could get some of the
things like fewer testing days maybe even a local control back with the
school start date some of if I could offer this madam president that's what
they're saying but the reality is the Supreme Court's not gonna give them a
solution they would only give them a how they'll say it is not constitutional you
must do something then they've got to come back come up with the how so I
think we're being talking with them now okay to help them develop a response to
that question again we hear that here all the time it sounds great to those
those who don't understand the way the process works.
They'll be told, yeah, RNA is constitutional,
it's not constitutional.
And then they've got to come up with a how.
And I think it's okay to go ahead.
We know there are some things that benefit Katie,
for instance, value growth in this district.
Right now, we've not gotten the full benefit of it.
That's kind of changing a little bit.
We want to lock that in.
Because this state brags about being attractive
to families and companies.
Well, those companies are moving to districts
like KDISD with their families.
And so we're part of the attractiveness of the state's business outreach, and yet we've been left on our own to pay for it.
And so we want them to help us where they benefit from increased sales taxes.
We want to benefit from the fact that our values grow.
We want to keep the revenue from that value growth.
So those are some things that I think are pretty unique to KDISD.
and the idea of getting help with the instruction facilities,
that helps KDIC as well.
Because all those things are drivers for the investment,
public education that says it is equitable or it's not equitable,
it's efficient, it's not, it's adequate or it's not.
It's those three areas, adequacy, efficiency, and equity.
And I think we can begin kind of getting on the radar screen
some possible solutions because the streaming court's not going to come back
and give them the fix, I don't think.
They'll say you've got to fix it.
Brother Moore, is that kind of what you're hearing?
And please, if I'm wrong, tell me that, because if not, I'll be out there saying what's wrong.
No, different organizations have different attitudes about the funding.
Some of the organizations are saying there's not going to be any $5.4 billion given back at this point in time.
So concentrate on the individual items.
because I did hear the other day a number thrown out at $500 million by one of the committees
that they might have available to address some of the problems.
And then you have organizations that will say keep it in front of them all the time
and let them know, continue to let them know that it is a priority for the districts.
You know, I'm partial to fast growth because there are things there that are small dollars
that possibly could get done.
And KDV in a fast growth district, it's specific to us.
And one of the things is the, looking through here it looks innocent, but it's the new instructional
facility allotment money.
That's the money you used to get per student for every time you opened a new school, you
got $250, received $250 per student.
It was $500 per student and they never made it to $500, they reduced it to $250.
That is still in law, but they didn't fund it in their budget process.
The law says that you receive it, but there was no money there.
This year we opened three elementaries, a junior high, et cetera, et cetera.
We didn't receive a cent from the state for that.
We would have if they had funded it.
Next year we have a high school opening.
Hopefully they'll fund it then so we'll receive monies.
Those things are small dollar items, and this is just a philosophical thing,
and some of the districts go that way, or some of the organizations try to flag those dollar items
that they know that the legislature may confine money for and won't cost a lot.
If I could add, I kind of like both philosophies.
One is keep in front of them because when they turn around looking for a solution,
I would like them to at least have hours in front of them when they turn around.
The second is there are some quick wins they can get in advance of it.
I think what Brother Moore was talking about, and I like that approach as well.
And those are things that, you know, Brother Moore is a lot more familiar than most of us are about what those things will look like and the actual impact will really be a benefit to the district, not just something nice to do.
And on the assessment accountability side, I think that the reason we're getting movement now is because there's been a unified voice about that.
And so I would ask you to consider at least lending your voice to someone that language there.
Of course, you've got House Bill 5, Senate Bill 3, being on the graduation plan.
KDSD needs to be all over that.
I wonder about the summer school.
I know every time we get the summer school presentation, they talk about the state raises
the standards.
Kids are having a harder, students are having a harder time reaching the standards.
The state requires us to do extra tutorials in the summer, but they fund none of it.
Is that correct?
maybe because summer school is coming quickly we could ask them because at our
grassroots meeting last week they also said that there is money this year Texas
economy had a better year than they expected so there is money there and
that was one of the topics tossed around was asked them to help pay for the
summer school which really they have created is that right dr. Creech with
with the increased standards and those kinds of things.
So she's got a whole list for us.
Maybe that's something.
I don't know, Dr. Grooms, what you'll find with that
or if that meets with the board.
But maybe that summer school would be something quick
and we could say we need money for exactly this much.
And I don't know if it's that much money overall.
Mr. Fraley, you may have an idea.
I just tossed it out.
It is a deficit.
and we want children to learn but again they raise the standards they spend all
that money on testing implementing the new star program getting all the testing
companies to write the test and then when kids can't succeed it's our fault
and go fix it at our expense so madam president can I ask just a
clarification on one of them is talking about the charter schools it's on page
Does the charter schools have a big lobby group this year that's trying to pull finances
out of the public school system?
Do we need to have a very big push talking about how we take all the kids and, you know,
we do all this work trying to get all of our kids graduated because it is one of the legislative
agendas and we have three of the blocks marked.
You know, maybe we need to continue to make the case of, you know, we get all the kids
and we do this for everybody and we're trying to bring you know all this forward
as we don't we're not charter schools where you selectively pick which kids
you get I could tell you that there are three two other groups that can have
that annex on there because the language is not specific but on conversation
we've been a part of there's almost an animal support within education
community with concerns about this area here without a doubt in terms is there a
a large lobby group, it sure is.
Okay.
And a lot of money behind it because the more you can allow privatization of public education dollars,
that's a moneymaker.
Yep.
That's a moneymaker.
Because whether you are successful or not, someone's made a profit.
Whether the children succeed or not, someone's made a profit.
For a lot of us, many of the few years, when I can retire, I can be very well off.
and so I have a lot of concern for the students.
I'm not opposed to having choice.
I'm not opposed to giving kids a safety valve out of a failing place,
but let's be very reasonable and very honest about it,
and if we're going to say that we need to get these schools removed from overregulation
that you yourself have put in place,
if it's bad for that school of 200, it's bad for the school of 65,000.
So that's where I am about that.
Dr. Proctor, you've worked with Senator Patrick, I think, on some things.
Has he given you very much insight into what he was talking about?
I know he copied a lot of the Florida stuff.
How do you feel?
Some of the stuff there that I've talked to a friend,
some of the stuff that's worked and some of the stuff that has now worked
and where it is all now.
Now, you know, they had a voucher program at one time, and that was ruled unconstitutional, just flat-out handing vouchers out.
They do have a voucher program for learning disabled students that is constitutional.
institutional in talking to a friend of mine who works over there. He thinks theirs is
a little too broad because if you're going to have a student with a learning disability
go to a school, they should have the program that treats that disability and that wasn't
it's all how you write it's all how you write the laws charters charters were
done and are done differently over there they and I don't like to get into it
here and there whatever a charter comes through a school district over there and
a school district gets to look at do they have the financial wherewithal is
it a yes no you know what are there and after the same standards and all
all that and then if you get in a contest with well this district never
approves anybody then it goes to the State Board of Ed to resolve that kind
of issue I was surprised to find out that charters here are totally separate
like we don't even get to look at which surprised me because actually over there
they have some working agreements between district and the local charters
and all that so they have he is looking at some of the some of the things that
have been done there and you know truthfully I think they've been a mixed
bag over there just like they have around the country you know I haven't
seen a bill by him I asked to see I asked a couple people I just got it to
see well if I just got it then it's it's new because as of like three days ago I
said what's floating out there and I didn't get anything you know look look
through it and I'm not sure this is I think he's he's having a meeting coming
up soon a meeting coming up soon the end of this month on president's back
charters choice what I don't think I don't think he's followed that bill this
one Senate bill 3 is about the accountability system graduation plans
right I I haven't seen right the because I keep asking about the bill and
everybody keeps saying what bill and you know that's that's that's how they play
play the game.
Madam President, question for...
And you said he's having a meeting, is that like here or with...
No, I think up there.
...with advisors or...
I think I would have to look at their calendar and see when they have a committee
meeting.
You know, they had the big committee meeting on CSCOPE.
Right.
And he scheduled that in advance and I heard that he might have a meeting like
to deal with what may or may not, and maybe that's why they're doing it, may or may not
be in a bill that he wants to sponsor and hear from all sides going on that one.
Okay, thank you. This is a question for Dr. Proctor. You are a delegate at the TASB
convention. Mm-hmm. And we see TASB under here so I'm assuming a lot of this
stuff you were in on. Was there a lot of support around certain items and not
around others from that delegate meeting? Actually they had had some, they had
had had some precursor meetings, and we were only dealing
with a certain part of it.
So let's say the train had compartments A, B, and C.
And I think you gave us the pep talk to go into the meeting.
A and B were kind of OK, and we still need to discuss C.
and whatever was done there, and I forget which one of these,
I would have to go back and refresh my memory.
The vote was generally everybody to eight.
Were you in the eight or the everybody?
No, we were taking bets with the eight get up to nine or ten.
And there was one that was a lot closer.
I'm kidding about the eight, but it really was on most of the issues because most of them were pretty straightforward
On that and I think the one issue that was closed had to deal with
Very rural districts and very urban districts, and I'm sure that's nothing new for anybody around this table
but I
When you get to that meeting as a delegate, and I'm really glad we chose you 7-0 to do that
But thank you for doing it
there is an opportunity to make changes
because you amended a bill and made it better
you added some dual credit something in there
so there's opportunity to make a few changes
minor changes in there
and anybody could talk
about this is good, this is not good
they have open microphones
so some things can be amended and you made one of them better
And I appreciate that because you know how much I love that dual credit and more opportunities for kids.
So thank you.
Thank you.
A quick recap then.
So we will, as a staff, go back and kind of try to overlay the true north, the five goal areas that we looked at the board adopting on Monday night with here.
There may not be a clean fit of all of them, but I think that the majority of the overwhelming premise or thing we're looking at, I think we can do that.
And from there we can draft some priority language to look at on Monday night, between here and Monday night.
Okay.
Good to go.
Thank you for the great discussion.
We have one more.
Thank you.
Thank you, Lady.
We have one more thing, and I will read this proclamation into the record for tonight.
Whereas LD Robinson, founder of the KDISD FFA Livestock Show and Rodeo, had a vision
and a determination to take a small program and make it big.
And whereas the KDISD FFA Livestock Show and Rodeo is among the largest of its kind in
the state of Texas, celebrating exceptional talents of KDISD FFA students.
And whereas the vision of LD Robinson continues as the KDISD FFA Livestock Show and Rodeo
for more than 70 years, supports KDISD students through multiple enrichment activities,
and whereas the KDISD FFA Livestock Show and Rodeo helps to pave the way to college for students
through the L.D. Robinson Scholarship Fund,
therefore the KDISD Board of Trustees does hereby proclaim Wednesday, February 20, 2013,
as L.D. Robinson Day in the KD Independent School District, signed this 18th day of February 2013.
Does that need a vote?
Or do we just move?
Yeah, I need a motion and a second.
So moved.
Second.
Dr. Proctor and Henry DeBrill, all in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
Motion passes 5-0.
I think that concludes our business this evening.
We have another meeting on Monday, February 25th at the regular scheduled time.
Any other discussion?
This meeting is adjourned 822.
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