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Katy ISD Regular Board Meeting, August 27, 2013
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and the time is 635 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. This is a meeting open to the public, not a meeting
of the public. There are students and other guests present. To maintain decorum, respectful
behavior is expected. Disruptive behavior and or comments will not be allowed. The KDISD
Board of Trustees meets monthly in a regular meeting generally to receive reports from
the staff and to take action on recommendations from the superintendent. Whereas there may
not be lengthy discussions or a litany of questions tonight, please know we've had this
agenda for over a week. As a board we've reviewed each agenda item in a public
work-study session with the administrative team where we were able
to ask and receive answers to our questions. Thus as a board we should have
appropriate knowledge and should be prepared for our responses regarding the
content of this meeting tonight. Mr. Fraley 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?
Mr. President, we're in compliance with the first items of the hiring seven
resignation pressure contractual 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. Adams that
the board approves the personnel report as recommended by the superintendent.
Any discussion? Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All in favor raise your
right hand and say aye. Aye. Motion carries seven to zero.
The President, tonight's pledge will be led by the KC Police Department, present the colors.
All right.
Colors, march.
They're just going to present colors and you start the pledge.
Well, order, march.
One, two, cover.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for
which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Honor of the Texas flag, I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible.
Thank you.
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That was a real treat.
Thank you, gentlemen.
Do we have any scouts in the audience joining us this evening working on any badges?
If you do, please stand and introduce yourself to us.
Scouts on the second day of school are probably getting into routine.
Okay.
Now we'll have the recognitions for this evening.
Good evening, Mr. Steve Stanford from our communications department.
It's nice to see you.
Good evening, Madam President, board members, and Superintendent Fraley.
Every year, the National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security
presents the Professional of the Year Award at their national conference and exhibition.
This award recognizes a member of management in the field that has, over the past year,
demonstrated outstanding leadership in addressing safety and security issues.
This year the award was presented to KDISD's Chief Operations Officer Tom
Gunnell for establishing and implementing standards for large event
safety through the 64,000 student KDISD district improvement plan. Along with Mr.
Gunnell I would like to ask the members of his team who are instrumental in
development of this plan to come up as well. This is Debbie Decker, Executive
Director of Athletics, Ben Rollins, General Manager of Facilities, and John
Brimmer, Emergency Management Coordinator.
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if I could before the team leaves here we we all know that safety is a team
effort and we're safe in our schools we're safe in our district because of
the efforts done by really everybody three of us here including me four but
but our teachers, our principals, and all the rest.
Over the last year, we focused on large event safety.
You see it at our football games.
You see it at our graduations.
And it goes back a couple years ago when we actually got a grant from the Department of Homeland Security
for emergency management, and we took a look at what we could do to improve the district.
One of the things was large events.
So over those couple years, I had implementers and I had helpers
and I had a whole group of folks who helped me, and the three all-stars are standing right there.
So Ben and Debbie for the work that they did in actually implementing
and working it at the grassroots level and implementing it.
And John Bremer, who wrote the in-depth standards that serve as the backbone.
Got some good news, too, from NCS Ford, the National Center for Sports Spectators, Safety, and Security.
I think I've got enough S's in there.
and they they've invited us to help us to help with the national curriculum on
the K to 12 level when we went to their conference a year ago we were the only
K to 12 there this year there were many of them and now it looks like it's
branching off into a entire branch of its own also got word earlier today that
John Bremer is the only member I think of the Nunn Connecticut is that right
right for the sandy hook review that's being done by the Department of Homeland
Security and he's been invited to speak now I understand and know in Washington
DC thank you
next this evening we would like to congratulate Katie junior highs Janie
Spees for being selected as a Region 4 Secondary Teacher of the Year.
Ms. Spees was selected as a Region 4 Secondary Teacher of the Year out of 92
nominations from 46 area school districts. She will move on to compete
against other education service centers for the finalist spot at the state level
and ultimately an opportunity to be named Texas Teacher of the Year.
Congratulations once again.
For our next recognition we have a very talented group in attendance. The Cinco
Ranch Kryptonite robotics team 624 has learned to master the art of
problem-solving competition and throwing frisbees all at the same time. Earlier
this summer the Cinco Ranch robotics team competed in the Texas Robot Roundup
in Austin against the top teams in Texas as well as teams from Louisiana and
Hawaii. For the second year in a row their alliance won the overall
competition and took home the winning trophy. This year the team was also
invited as one of the top 70 teams in the US and Canada to compete in the
Indiana robotics invitational held in Indianapolis once again
once again achieving national ranking status students please come forward as
your name is called
Midgee Burbauer
Nicholas Bergbauer
Britt Boland
Dylan Bray
Zoe Burch
Ben Budden-Edelson
Leah Button Edelson
Maricyn Donis
J.T. Early
Isaiah Escobar
Kutub Gandhi.
Johnny Goforth.
Stephanie Grace.
David Gross.
Sam Hudson
Justin Kleber
Daniel Lambert
Matthew Lowe
John Mann
Eddie Powell
Ubeshek Rutre
Susanna Simmons
Bill Waters
Jordan Wood
Wood, Nassau Shue, and James Yoder.
Parents, if you want to come on up and grab a picture,
please feel free to do so.
All right.
Congratulations again to these talented students.
Madam President.
Mr. Stanford, before they leave, I want to recognize Mr. Stephen Fish, the faculty advisor back there from Secret Run Chinese School.
Mr. Fish, that was a great job.
And it's important to know that a lot of the help these students get are from parents who no longer have students in school.
Is that right, Mr. Outlaw?
They've been involved for a number of years.
Thank you all so much for what you guys do.
It's outstanding work.
Mr. Wood, please.
Team 64, just a thank you again for this special recognition.
And to remind you that the students do a lot of the work here on the team,
but without people like you and without the adults that help us out
and the parents on the team, there's no way we would succeed in the level we do.
So a special thank you from Team 64.
That's all.
Congratulations.
Madam President, if I could also add,
had a former member of this team graduate from St. Clair Ranch High School last year
spent the summer working at NASA on a special project. Underachiever. So
stinking proud of you. Congratulations. Okay at this time we will move into our
open forum. The Board of Trustees will hear from patrons who wish to speak. By
board policy a maximum of 30 minutes have been allotted for this forum. The
The time allowed will be divided equally among those requesting to speak.
The maximum amount of time allowed for any one speaker is five minutes.
Individuals who have written comments to present to the board are encouraged to provide the statements to the Director of Media and Community Relations, Mr. Stanford, that you just saw here.
Those written statements will be shared with the board.
Due to posting requirements of the Open Meetings Act, the board is only able to respond to a presentation that is directly related to a posted agenda item.
For clarification purposes, the open public forum is not a dispute resolution forum.
The board is not trying to prevent any person from speaking. The intent is to
redirect people to the proper grievance process so that action can be taken as
appropriate. Employees or members of the public who wish to express complaints
about a student matter or district personnel are reminded they must follow
and exhaust all administrative remedies prior to presenting complaints to the
the board. As I announce your name please come to the mic, state your name, tell the
board whether or not you reside in Katy ISD and whether or not you have
children presently enrolled in Katy ISD. This evening we have nine speakers. Each
speaker has been allotted three minutes and 30 seconds. When you have one minute
remaining our sergeant at arms, Mr. Griffin, will lean into the microphone
and say one minute for you to have an idea. Our first speaker this evening is
Laurie McFarling good evening Mrs. McFarling it's good to see you I'd like
to remind you I don't represent my family I represent myself I am Laurie I
am NOT a patron I'm part of one of we the people you need to learn who we are
I heard this week that there was another teacher arrested and given 60 years for
pedophilia and porno on the internet we've already had one teacher who
who stalked children and we had three members of our HR group that were under investigation.
The question I have is why are these people being let go from KDISD? I am not accusing
KDISD of saying he did anything here, but did he is the question. And what is going
on with the other gentleman, well not really gentleman, the pedo that was stalking the
little girls and what's going on with the three members that are under investigation
that did not turn this in. It's very shocking some of the things that I read
in one of the policies you have on the agenda tonight on student records. I'm
going to read something from this policy. It says a personal identifier such as
the students biometric records defined as a record of one or more measurable
biological or behavioral characteristics that can be used for automated
recognition of an individual for example fingerprints retina and iris patterns
voice prints DNA sequence facial characteristics and handwriting Social
Security number or student number I know a few months ago you had a super secret
meeting on identification and security that we could not get any information on
you read down a little bit further in this policy and there's a quote
quote, directory that's not quite defined.
And in this directory, basically what it says,
a parent or eligible student may not use the right of refusal
to opt out of the directory information disclosures
to prevent the district from disclosing
and requiring a student to disclose a student's name,
identifier, which means teachers can have medical records,
or institutional email address,
which you give all the students after sixth grade.
Parents opt out of that, I hope.
Who gets this information in this directory?
Is this one of the directories open to the public?
We've already had children stalked via these emails from the teachers.
Is the general public now allowed to get these emails of our children?
That's the question I have in this policy.
Now does the general public have access to the directory
and they can have access to our students' email?
My son's information is still on the net.
I've asked you to get it off with his assignment from December.
full name picture and assignment it also states that a contractor consultant
volunteer or other party to whom the district has outsourced instructional or
excuse me institutional services or functions may be considered a school
official under this paragraph provided that the outside party and it lists what
they do so we have third parties that can get this information as well what
What are you guys doing to our kids?
This is part of common currency scope that we keep telling you that's going on here.
I know for a fact that Mr. Fraley is heavily involved in it with TASA,
and the state senators are now going to go after TASA and investigate it.
Now, I know you don't like the bad press, but you're putting yourself into this situation.
I say pull us out of TASA and TASB because this is from...
Thank you, Mrs. McFarland.
Madam President, quickly, what she's reading from is what was passed by the state legislature, not by the feds.
And it says some directorial information does not include some information that she said was included.
Our next speaker is Tommy Harrison.
My name is Tommy Harrison and I'm a patron in the district.
I have two children that graduated from Taylor High School, one in 2001 and one in 2004 and
they both had children this past year so they'll hopefully be in the district.
I don't see any of us moving from here.
And I'm here to speak in favor of the school activity facilities referendum.
referendum. I just, this school district as exemplified by the people you recognized at
the beginning of this meeting stands for excellence. We have so many excellent programs across
the board and that's something that I strive for in my personal and my professional life
and so I'm really glad that our school district places a premium on excellence. I've been
reading a book lately called Daring Greatly by Brene Brown and in that book she talks
talks about a concept about minding the gap.
And the gap she's talking about is the gap that goes back many years between the train
station and the train.
You don't want anybody falling into that gap.
And it's kind of ironic how Katy is named after the Katy Railroad, which was big into
trains.
The gap that we're trying to work to close, there's basically three gaps.
One is we've got seven high schools and we have one football stadium.
So how do we get from where we are, which is a stadium that's being overutilized
and can't quite accomplish what needs to be accomplished, to where we need to be?
I think the charrettes process that the school adapted that incorporate a lot of different minds into that process,
working with the architects, has done an excellent job and we've got a good product.
The other two projects, the STEM project, science, technology, engineering, and math, I think that's a great project.
As exemplified, these kids are going to be able to use that, and their little brothers and sisters,
and the kids that are now in elementary school that are going to be going through the process.
What better way to go from where we are, which is an excellent school district,
district, but doesn't really have the facility that we need to be able to enrich these mines
to where we'd like to go, which is a better program.
Once again, a lot of people are being included in this process to where we can have the most
excellent, the best facility possible.
Then lastly, the agricultural sciences complex that we're looking at out in the north part
of the district.
what better way to use the funds of the school district and with safety in mind,
not only of our students that are having to travel the northern part of the district
down to where the sale facility is now, but to be able to have that in one area
and also the safety of the animals.
So I applaud the school district for setting up a forum and a process
by which we can come to good decisions.
I think this is a good decision, and I applaud the school district
for putting this issue forward before the voters and I would encourage all the
voters to look at the projects and to vote favorably on November the 5th. Thank you.
Thank you Dr. Harrison. Our next speaker is Dr. Thomas Inman.
Good evening.
My name is Dr. Thomas Inman.
Good evening.
Doc Inman to my friends.
I live in the Katy School District and I have one dollar left at Taylor High School.
I want to say how proud I am to be the first vice president of the Taylor Band Boosters
Organization.
organization, and far too often the only people this board hears from are making complaints,
demanding, and voicing some disapproval of their actions.
I would like to take this opportunity to try something completely different.
I simply want to, on behalf of the Taylor High School Band Booster Organization, the
band directors, students, and their parents, to express our sincere and heartfelt thanks
and gratitude for this board's continued support of the Fine Arts program and KDISD.
In particular, I want to thank all the members of the board for their support of the Taylor
High School Band Program and helping to make our annual March-a-thon a huge success.
I would like to give special recognition and thanks to Superintendent Alton Fraley, Assistant
Superintendent Area 1, Dr. Linda Minnius, former Taylor High School Principal and new
Assistant Superintendent of Area 3, David Kindler, Board Member Brian Mikulski, and
and former board member Chris Crockett.
Let me also thank our own assistant principal, Russell Fowden, 12th grade principal Julie
Henson, 9th grade principal Kathy Steen, and the many alumni and their parents who braved
the summer heat and came out on Saturday, August 17th to march alongside our kids in
a show of commitment and support.
I can't begin to tell you how much it means to the kids to see their leaders actually
standing beside them and marching along with them.
This physical presence and support has a huge positive psychological impact on
our children. Far too often they hear people talk a good game but then little
comes of it. Two weekends ago they saw our board members, school leaders, faculty
and parents not only talk the talk but walk the walk. Actions always speak
louder than words and our kids got the message loud and clear, we care. We once
again generated local support from our community by procuring donations from
business and homeowners alike just some of the community business leaders that
participated were Academy Chick-fil-a John Eagle Honda Randall's smoothie King
H-E-B and Fiesta our Marchathon has become our community's official kickoff
of the new school year and fall band and football season it builds and
strengthens the relationship our school has with its neighbors and business
partners. Families once again gathered on their lawns to witness the
award-winning Taylor Jet Band playing, marching, and stopping to perform
concerts. We hope to continue to grow this in the years to come.
Don't you just love it when technology doesn't work right? As board members you
have the unenviable position of trying to maintain the highest academic
standards, ensure quality teachers and staff, and establish a stimulating and
safe learning environment. Just to make it more interesting, you were asked to do
all this with a shrinking budget and calls for no new property taxes. We all
harbor desire to be liked, so you also hope to make decisions which everyone
will agree with and no one will dislike.
In other words, an impossible and often thankless job. As a Katy parent, I am
thankful that this board and its wisdom and insight dr. Inman thank you for
being here
our next speaker is Olivia Jones good evening miss Jones we're glad you're
here. Ladies and gentlemen, good evening. Good evening Superintendent Fraley and
Madam President. My name is Olivia Jones. I am a husband. David have been residents
here in Katy since 2008. Our youngest daughter, Anna, is beginning fourth grade
in the two-way immersion program this week at Memorial Parkway Elementary. She
will graduate, God willing, in 21 months with a fifth grade education in two
languages thanks to the farsighted investment of the school district and
and the help of the teachers and the parents in that program.
Tonight I want to focus on Katy ISD's leadership
in dual language education at the secondary level.
Our neighbor, Houston, the fourth largest city in the nation,
is bilingual, biliterate, and bicultural,
and has been for decades.
Wide sectors of our local economy
rely on the bilingual professionals in health care,
research, and energy.
Katy's primary education system has made the leap,
initiating and maturing the two-way immersion project for over the past 10 years from a grant
application to its first look at an elementary school graduating class in 10 months may 2015
our conclusion is that our secondary education program in Katy ISD needs a dual language track
how have other school districts in Texas handled the challenge for San Juan's parents used the
legal system to require the school district to spread out dual language education across all 12
12th grades.
Spring Branch, just to our north, took a look at a perceived impending charter violation
to expand its 20 appointed seats at Westchester Academy for International Studies to two different
middle school programs.
Let's take a look at that program.
The handouts we've provided give you a little bit of a breakdown at how the middle school
program is going to look at one of Spring Branch's middle schools this fall for their
dual language education students.
Spring Branch opened three pathways at two existing junior highs.
All of the dual language junior high students received daily core instruction in five periods,
three in Spanish, two in English.
Two periods are in English daily, that would be English language arts and one additional core subject, math, Texas history or science, depending on which grade level you're in.
One period is in Spanish language arts daily through eighth grade and the other two remaining core courses are taught in Spanish.
All students sit for the advanced placement exam in Spanish at the end of eighth grade.
This amounts to approximately two hours and 15 minutes a day in Spanish instruction.
We can do this in Katy. We can do this.
Students choose how to allocate their remaining time between blocks of instruction in PE, additional Spanish language arts, or the standard junior high electives.
Katie ISD is well positioned to take the lead in dual language education.
At the secondary level, Katie's home to an extensive pool of bilingual professionals.
There's a high level of parent awareness that dual language offers the best cognitive training
for their children regardless of their native language.
And our administration understands the benefits of dual language instruction for all student
populations.
Let's set the bar high.
Thank you all for supporting dual language education in Katy and bless you
for serving our kids. Thank you.
Thank You Ms. Jones. Our next speaker is Pete Gavril. Good evening Mr. Gavril.
It's good to see you. Good evening Madam President, Board
members, Superintendent Fraley. I want to thank you very much for allowing me the
opportunity to speak tonight. I want to talk tonight about a topic I am
extremely passionate about and that is volunteering. As we have experienced
tonight and seen tonight in many occasions, Dr. Redmond, Dr. Harrison, the
young man with the STEM group, Katy prides itself in working in the
community and being a leader not just in the community but the state and even
nationally. This is evidenced by the influx of people and businesses coming
in wanting to be a part of it and the ability we have to partner with these
community members and businesses. So when I speak tonight about the issues coming
up regarding the bond referendum, it only opens more opportunities for volunteering.
When you look at the student athletic facility, not only the band but other
types of activities that we look to see going on in that facility and in the
existing facilities that we do have. Also we're looking at the STEM. A lot of
people were kind of not clear and being exposed to what the STEM represents, but
But when you see what's happening tonight and you hear a young man talk about what goes on in the background with so many parents and other volunteers, it just brings a lot of pride to a lot of people.
Then you look at the ag situation.
That is just going to expand Katy into being a boomerang into this community and in the state with how much it's grown just in the fact that I've been here since my two kids graduated from Taylor 09 and 012.
We've gone from a little old facility right in my backyard to what we have now.
It's just outstanding to be a part of that.
and I want people to really understand that this referendum coming up in
November it's obvious what's going on with the students and the faculty but
look at the opportunities for volunteering with other students parents
grandparents neighbors and people just in the community that is something I
want to make sure that people do remember and see that we do have that
opportunity in Katy to do that with this referendum thank you very much
Thank you Mr. Gavriel. Our next speaker is Valerie Rodriguez.
Good evening Mrs. Rodriguez, welcome. Thank you. Good evening parents, teachers, students,
some of them have left board members superintendent Fraley and madam
president thank you for this opportunity to speak I have been a resident of Katy
for 22 years I'm a native Estonian and I'm also a do-over parent I have a child
who graduated from Taylor High School in the band my most wonderful years Taylor
High School band in 2000 and my husband and I adopted two children two brothers
others. And so we decided to accept the challenge of a do-over. And I have seen this school
district grow by leaps and bounds and I cannot even imagine wrapping my mind around all the
issues that you gentlemen and ladies have to deal with. And I have seen just amazing,
fabulous things that have been given to the students here and to the parents. And of course
I'll get a lot of feedback back from the parents too, some of it good, some of it bad.
But, you know, we need to look at everything,
and we appreciate the opportunity to speak about everything.
My husband and I, James, adopted two brothers in 2005,
and our grandparents immigrated from Spain.
Both of our grandparents did.
And, you know, as they raised their children, their descendants did not learn Spanish
because it was important to learn English.
and so my husband and I don't speak a word of it.
So we had a goal for our children.
We actually have 18 goals for the children that we adopted,
and the goals were to become fluent in speaking, reading, and writing in Spanish.
We've been blessed by the services provided by KISD from the very beginning.
Our boys came to us with disabilities,
and Project Tyke has been involved and worked with us for three years.
Amazing people at Project Tyke.
I mean they were at our house two days a week for three years and they brought
these children through they taught us how to help them they helped them
overcome their disabilities that they were born with and prepared them to be
fully integrated in regular classrooms and they were accepted in the TWI
program we live in Greenway Village in a district zone to Fielder Elementary and
we were thrilled when we learned that KISD was going to help us accomplish one
of the goals that we have for our children the parents are just really
really involved in this and we know it's a tiny program and y'all are involved in
so many excellent programs but we really do believe that it's it's a it's a
change it's a change that needs to happen in this in this district and we
need to catch up with what some of the other districts are doing we did a we
We did a review of a district that has some of the same demographics that Katie does,
and that's the Clear Creek Independent School District.
I did provide a handout for you all.
They actually have two-way immersion program in every elementary school in their district.
Every fifth grader graduates being bilingual.
and now they're developing an intermediate program they reviewed
three different programs of Pasadena ISD the Isleta ISD program in Houston ISD
and they found thank you miss Rodriguez for being here and we have your your
information to review thank you our next speaker is Bob McSpadden
evening mr. McSpadden we're glad you're here
Dr. Fraley and President Fox the board I appreciate the opportunity I'm Bob McSpadden
I live in the district. I looked it up. I had two children that actually graduated in 94-97.
Last time I spoke, I didn't remember. Sometime in the last century, I think that's what I said.
I want to talk a little bit about the stadium. As it's gotten out in the news and people have looked at it,
people ask the same question that I actually asked when I participated in the Design Charette.
And before I went, I heard we were going to build it right next to the other stadium, and I thought, well, that's kind of crazy.
And I heard people say that and I thought, well, that is kind of crazy.
But what I want people to do is to look into it.
This decision wasn't made lightly.
I have a few points about the advantages.
The shared infrastructure.
There will be, what I mean by that is one of the issues, you say, well, what about the traffic problems?
Well, you're going to have officers to cover both stadiums.
And the games, you never know how long they're going to be.
They're going to be out at different times.
so you have all those officers to handle whatever traffic happens and the roads are improving.
And there's shared services that we have, shared infrastructure. But the biggest thing is,
saves money. One of the goals in the design charrette was we wanted to come up with a project
that did not raise the tax rate if at all possible. Well that land anywhere else would be
from 30 to 40 million dollars and I believe we would have to raise taxes if it were that high.
The other thing I want to tell people to do is there's rumors, there'll be more rumors,
to go to the website and look at the frequently asked questions.
And if your question's not on there, somebody else is thinking about it, post the question.
So make yourself an educated voter so when you do go vote, you have good basis and not
based on what your brother-in-law told you or what you heard done at the coffee shop,
that you'll find out that we actually do need the facility and there is a reason
for putting it where it is which is economic and a lot of other reasons and
I'm going to tell you a little secret I am a football fan I never played
football I'm a band guy I was in the band if it wasn't for band I probably
wouldn't have gotten out of high school because it gave me a really good reason
and the students you saw here with the STEM project and all these
these extracurricular activities actually gives their not as exciting education more
meaning.
And this is just another way to serve our students and to get them involved in other
aspects.
One of the fun things I do at Rhodes today is I talk to the cameraman, the students that
are filming the game, because my brother's actually in that business.
And I ask them about it and what they do and what they learned.
So it's just a very broad spectrum of benefit more than football and the
siding is economic and has a lot of advantages. But thank you very much and I
do support the bond issue. Thank you. Thank you Mr. McSpadden.
Our next speaker is Bill Clybur.
Did I say that correctly?
Cleaver?
Did someone?
Okay, maybe he had to leave.
leave someone named bill sign up and i'm saying your name incorrectly on the
okay he probably didn't like the one minute morning that sergeant at arts keeps giving
our final speaker is dr lisa babin good evening dr babin it's good to see you
um i hate public speaking i'm horrible at it so we'll just apologize profusely beforehand
hand I'm dr. Babin I have two children in the district I'm very proud of my
children being in this district I would not be here if I did not love the
district and did not have a reason for being here I have some compliments some
concerns and some minor complaints nothing major I want to say first off
that I love Tompkins I love how you seamlessly seamlessly integrated that
into the existing community to make it look like that it was always there the
wrought iron and brick around the detention pond oh my and guess what I
I want that for somewhere else.
And there's a reason why.
But further up the road from there, Andy Myers put the road through.
And at your transportation center, there's brick and wrought iron there too.
And it looks really sharp.
I mean, it makes our district look fabulous.
So I'm here tonight to mention to you that on the East Transportation Center,
which I'm a huge fan of, I love those ladies up there,
we have barbed wire fencing.
And it really is old.
and I got a phone call today from one of my favorite people in the district
telling me that you know it was on the radar but I really wanted to bring it a
little further to the attention and it affects our community because it makes
it look like we are some sort of alternative institution up there like
we're holding our buses hostage our band hostage which everybody knows I'm a huge
bandite and it's just not really pretty okay and I mean I know a lot of people
say that that's not important it's not bricks and whatnot but it really does
add or detract from the community and it's time to address that we're 30 years
old and we have houses to sell up there and we have a school to fill up there
too and so when you're taking people through the community and they're
looking at things they're going why are y'all holding your band and your buses
hostage okay when we've been on the other side and we can buy a new house
over there and everything's pretty and nice so I'd really like to see that
addressed I'd also like to see two trash cans at the back of the pack they we
have two outside our Performing Arts Center thank you for the retro up fit
grade we love that but those trash cans are constantly full and don't get
emptied and the trash spills out of them I'm back there a lot with the band
students volunteering back there and I'm kind of tired of picking it up I don't
mind picking it up but literally I've had to go home and get trash bags to
pull the trash out it just doesn't get emptied enough and we think we need to
encourage the students to utilize more trash cans maybe another one on the other side where the band
entrance hall is um the arrows at the front of maid creek high school kudos to whoever painted
those and redirected the traffic there um it it it has never ever in the 20 years i've been around
flowed so smoothly so big time raise for that person um the pod there's a pod on the side
we'd like y'all to move that before Friday we have buses that come in to
deliver our football players on the side of the pack it needs to go football and
Martinets come in on that side and it was really kind of dicey on the first
day of school so that needs to just be moved maybe over to the parking lot
where the Martinets and football players park we need some sidewalks we have two
areas that y'all have missed and it just is not safe children are walking in the
street so I probably need to get with mr. Bremer and discuss that with him and
And then I'd like to see more effort on teaching our younger
children in the recycling effort.
I worked the band lock-in, and I recycled the aluminum cans.
I went to China this summer.
A water bottle is worth $0.16 in the train station,
which I'm a big train person.
And these people put their cards in,
and they put their water bottles in,
and they get $0.16 on their .
Thank you Dr. Babin. Mr. Fraley?
Mr. Fraley, two things. One thing, Dr. Babin, I was out at May Creek Monday morning and Dr. Steele talked to me about the fence as well.
And she's the one I think that had the idea about the arrows and the break up in the front parking lot that I noticed as well.
So she may get a raise. We'll see about that.
Another thing, I misspoke earlier regarding the student director information policy there.
I really wanted to say it was not part of CSCOPE. It was not part of CSCOPE.
C-Scope is curriculum and this is by director information.
Okay, that concludes our public forum portion of the evening.
Okay, gentlemen, I'll direct you to the, let me see, do we have any reports?
So it's time for our consent agenda and the chair will entertain a motion.
Madam President.
Mr. Moholsky.
I move that the Board of Trustees approve the consent agenda as recommended in Items 1 through 12.
Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Moholsky and a second by Mr. DeBrell
that the Board of Trustees approve the consent agenda as recommended in Items 1 through 12.
All in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
Motion passes 7-0.
0.
And action item that has to be read but the chair will entertain a motion and then I'll
read the resolution.
Mr. Adams.
I move the Board of Trustees approves the resolution as presented regarding the assignment
and commitment of the August 31st fund balance.
Second.
Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Adams, a second by Dr. Proctor,
that the board approves the resolution about the assignment
commitment of the August 31, 2013 fund balance.
Resolution of the KDISD Board of Trustees.
Whereas the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, the GASB, has adopted Statement 54, GASB 54,
as a new standard for governmental fund balance reporting and fund type definitions effective for fiscal years
starting after June 15, 2010. And whereas the Board of Trustees shall approve all
commitments and delegates the responsibility to assign fund
balances to the superintendent or his designee, assignments may occur
subsequent to fiscal year end. It is hereby resolved and ordered that
beginning with fiscal year August 31, 2012, the Katy Independent School
district commits a portion of its general fund unassigned fund balance as
stated in board policy CE local be it resolved that the district commits a
portion of its fund balance for contributions to the district's health
insurance plans be it resolved that the district commits a portion of its fund
balance for local special revenue funds not restricted by funding source for its
intended purpose be it resolved that the provisions of this resolution shall be
effective as of the date of adoption and shall remain in effect until modified by
action of the Board of Trustees. Passed, approved, and adopted this 27th day of
August 2013. Any questions?
Madam President. Mr. Adams. I think it should read starting September 1, 2012 as
as opposed to august thirty first two thousand
september one two thousand
for the record to any to read it again or just that amended motion
make a correction
that beginning with fiscal year September 1 2012 any other discussion
hearing none we'll proceed to vote all in favor raise your right hand and say
aye motion carries 7 to 0 thank you for that clarification board members I'll
direct you to the information items donated items and the 2013-14 appraisal
district budgets and our future meetings are Monday September 16 2013 is our
board work study and Monday September 23 2013 is our regular board meeting having
no further business this meeting is adjourned at 726
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