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Katy ISD Regular Board Meeting, October 21, 2013
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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, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Law in regard to notice for this meeting?
Madam President, we are in compliance with the personal recommendation of the board.
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, we'll proceed to vote.
All in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
Aye.
motion carries 7 to 0 and president plow to announce the reassignment of Linnea
Griffiths be principal bunny hall no matter she's currently AP and actually
but she up open hall no matter a few years ago so happy about that
congratulations mr. Griffin and make sure your level 3 DGB a presence mr.
Mahalski I move that the board deny the level 3 DGB a dash 13-0 to 4 grievance
thereby upholding the decision of the Level 1 and Level 2 hearing officers.
Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Mohalski, a second by Mr. Adams,
that the Board deny the Level 3 DGBA-13-024 grievance,
thereby upholding the decision of the Level 1 and Level 2 hearing officers.
Any discussion?
Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote.
All in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
Motion carries 7-0.
room.
Do we have any scouts
in the audience this evening?
Any scouts that are
forced to be here and listen to our meeting
until the late night?
No. Okay.
We have a recognition. Mr. Fraley.
Next on our agenda we have a
recognition. I want to introduce Mr. Steve Stanford,
Director of Media and Community Relations.
Mr. Stanford.
Thank you, Madam President.
Board Member, Mr. Fraley.
The KDISD Police Department is a full-service law enforcement agency that was established in 1988.
The commission of the department is to effectively ensure the protection of lives and property,
preserve the public peace, and provide essential and comprehensive administration services.
The department supplies a 44-october officer service to all 181 square miles of KDISD.
At this time, I'd like to introduce KDISD Chief of Police, Mr. Mark Hopkins.
Thank you, Mr. Stafford.
President Fox, board members, Superintendent Fraley,
newly commissioned peace officers are required to publicly swear an oath of office.
I'd like to call the following people up to take that oath.
Christina Cantu, DeGarian Evans, John Todd Norsworthy, and Mark Williams Sr.
I do not have a precariat.
Raise your right hand and repeat after me please.
I, DeGarian Evans, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the duties of the office
And I will faithfully execute the conclusion of the House of Peace Officer of the State of Texas
and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution
and laws of the United States and of this state.
And I furthermore solemnly swear
that I have not directly nor indirectly
Directly.
Directly.
Paid, offered, or promised to pay.
Paid, offered, or promised to pay.
Paid, offered, or promised to pay.
Contributed, nor promised to contribute.
Contributed, nor promised to contribute.
Any money or valuable thing.
Any money or valuable thing.
Or promised any public office or employment.
Or promised any public office or employment.
As a reward to secure my appointment.
As a reward to secure my appointment.
Or the confirmation thereof, so help me God.
Or the confirmation thereof, so help me God.
Or the confirmation thereof, so help me God.
I'd like to also take this time to tell you a little bit about each one of these new officers.
Officer Cantu grew up in Humble, Texas with her parents, Alfred and Imelda Salazar and one sister, Laura Ann Salazar.
She graduated from Humboldt High School in 1996 and married Alex Kentu in 1997.
Together they have three boys, Anthony, 15, Juan, 14, and Andrew, 10.
Her father, Freddy Salazar, is a 20-year veteran of Aldine ISD Police Department
and has been a great influence in her life.
She remembers her father being extremely determined, attending University of Houston Police Academy
while still holding down a full-time job to support the family and most of those
family members are here tonight they'd be like to be recognized go ahead and
stand please
officer can too has over 12 years of public relations experience including
membership and marketing for the YMCA of Greater Houston however in 2012 officer
can too decided to change careers and attended the Wharton County junior high
junior college law enforcement Academy she graduated from there in 2013 so this
is her first law enforcement job officer can too has always liked to help out in
the community and in meeting new people in 2007 she was named HISD volunteer of
the year and presently sits on the board of directors Missouri City Little League
in her spare time she enjoys watching her boys play sports and cooking
delicious meals. Officer DeGarian Evans, jail administration, performing jail
inspections and assisting with routine jail functions. Other law enforcement
experiences include Washington County Sheriff's Office Jail Division and
Walter County Sheriff's Office. Officer Todd, John Todd Norsworthy. Officer
Norsworthy began his law enforcement career in 1995 with Fort Bend County
precinct for constables office in 1996 officer Norris worthy transferred to the
city of Katy Police Department where he helped to implement the very first
written field training policy and began serving as field training officer in
2004 officer Norris worthy transferred to Katy ISD Police Department and during
his three-year tenure then he performed as a district patrol officer field
training officer police instructor and critical incident response team member
In 2007, Officer Northworthy transferred to the
Walter County Sheriff's Office where he rose to the rank of patrol sergeant and SWAT team member.
He holds a masterpiece officer license and we're glad to have him back to Katy where he belongs.
Officer Mark D. Williams Sr. Officer Williams
enlisted in the United States Army in 1984 and served three years on active duty
as a nuclear, biological, and chemical defense specialist.
Afterwards, he continued service in the Army Reserve,
where he remained for 11 years serving as squad leader,
platoon leader, first sergeant, and supervisory agent
in the Army's Criminal Investigation Division Command.
Officer Williams served in Operation Desert Shield and Storm
as an NBC defense specialist in Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
He also served in Operation Noble Eagle as a CID agent
Legion, leading protective services details for the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Upon completing the Wharton County Junior College Police Academy in 1991, Officer Williams
began working for the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office, where he worked as a detention deputy,
patrol deputy, and a detective.
His investigative experiences include burglaries, thefts, robbery, special crimes, and homicides.
In 2007, after 22 years of service, Officer Williams retired from the United States Army
Army Reserve. However, his service did not end. In September 2009, Officer Williams left
the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office on a voluntary leave of absence to serve as an
embedded police advisor to the 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment encounter insurgency operations
in Afghanistan. Upon returning from Afghanistan in 2011, Officer Williams became a Fort Bend
County Precinct 3 Deputy Constable serving as a Patrol Deputy Field
Training Officer and Firearms Proficiency Officer. Officer Williams is
a Masterpiece Officer and recently received a Bachelor of Science degree in
Criminal Justice. He is married to Deborah Ann Williams who is also in the
audience I believe. Ms. Williams. They have one 19 year old son Mark Williams Jr.
who is currently serving on active duty in the United States Air Force.
We're privileged to have Officers Williams, Norsworthy, Evans, and Cantu
as members of the KDISD law enforcement family.
Finally, since we last met, we had a few promotions in the department,
and two of those promotees are here tonight.
Corporal Clarence Howard is now Sergeant Clarence Howard.
And number 12 in your program, but number one in our hearts, Officer Tommy Gray is now
Corporal Tommy Gray.
Thank you very much for having us tonight.
Mr. President, if I could, I want to thank the board for their wisdom in establishing
a police department many, many years ago, and Chief Hopkins for your leadership as well.
We have an outstanding force, and I come to rely on these guys a lot.
And we're very glad to have you guys join the team.
You're joining an outstanding force.
We're glad to have you on your board.
Welcome.
We're very privileged to have you join us,
and we know that our community and our children will be better because you're here.
And welcome to heaven.
That's what I call KDISD.
I love it here.
And now you are, I mean, hearing all about you makes you sound incredible, as I like to call you, K-O-B-D, kind of a big deal.
So we're very proud of you.
And all of us are available for delicious dinners, Ms. Cantu.
Thanks for being here.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
consent agenda gentlemen we'll move to item one fire equipment I'm a Stevenson how are you
Good evening, President Fox, Superintendent Fraley, and members of the board.
I have one contract to bring before you this evening, and while it's not one of our larger contracts,
it's a little bit complex in that it has a number of vendors involved.
This contract is for the fire equipment inspection, repairs, parts, and supplies.
It involves a number of different systems because we have different manufactured systems
that were placed in the buildings as they were constructed.
So we've had to involve a number of vendors to get these items serviced.
So after consideration of all the proposals that were received, the recommendation
for the primary vendor to service the fire alarm and inspections and for testing
and repair services will be classic protection services.
However, we will have to award other vendors for those items that are still under warranty
or the parts or captive components where they can only be serviced by the manufacturer.
So there will be additional awards under that category of fire safe protection services,
advantage interest, Wilson fire equipment and supplies, firetron, allied fire protection,
and firetrol protection services.
The next section we are talking about fire sprinkler backflow preventer and pump and fire pump inspections and testing and the recommendation is to award that to AB fire protection.
Then we're talking about the next section is inspection and service of kitchen and paint booth suppression systems and the recommendation is to award to fire TRON.
The recommendation for the purchase of fire extinguishers is to award fire troll protection services.
And the last section for service is to award fire safe protection services for the purchase of fire extinguishers.
All of these vendors that are recommended are recommended on the basis of best value,
and they will bring both quality service and products to the district.
Then we have a recommendation for multiple awards for all the items that may not be specifically listed that we might run into when we are having these items serviced.
And that will be to award to all the vendors that were submitting proposals.
It's a one-year contract with an option for four additional one-year renewals, and the annual expenditure is anticipated to be $60,000.
dollars anybody want to talk about fire fire extinguishers anything thank you mrs stevenson
our next two presentations are by mr mcelwain easements good evening how are you good evening
president fox uh board members uh mr fraley uh this is a standard item that i bring before you
folks each time we build a new school it's actually a great milestone in a project because
it indicates that we're getting close to wanting permanent power in the building
to be able to start air conditioning those facilities it's hard to believe
when we start saying well these two new schools are scheduled to open next
August which probably is just right around the corner what we're talking
about this evening are the two new elementary schools the one and if I may
address both of these together because it's similar similar board items the
school in Pine Mill Ranch which is on Pine Mill where it's Drive and winding
Point Lane and the elementary school in Cross Creek Ranch which is on Flewellin
Oaks Lane we're requesting tonight an easement for Centerpoint to provide
electrical service to both of these campuses and we're bringing this to you
now because we are anxious to get the power to the campus so that we can start
bringing in the mechanical equipment to start up the air conditioning come the
the new year any questions thanks so much
okay mr. McElwain you're next with the design associated with the new science
technology engineering well I'm pleased to present this next item to you this
evening I'm joined this evening going from your right to the left Michael Todd
in the blue shirt here with SHW as is Jennifer Hendrickson and Laura Sockleben.
Michael doesn't have a speaking part tonight but he's largely responsible for
the graphics that you see this evening the renderings on this particular
project. As you know we and Dr. Sarah Martin the Director of Career and
Technology as you know the board retained SHW at the July meeting for the
the design of the STEM Project Center which is one of the three student
activity facilities which is included within the upcoming bond referendum. Once
the approval was received to retain SHW we immediately commenced design on
these projects to meet the aggressive schedule on this project. This project is
scheduled to be complete pending the the results of the bond referendum. It's
scheduled to be complete in December of 14. Before I turn it over to the SHW team
I just wanted to indicate that since July we've had several meetings of the
Design Committee. The Design Committee was and this particular project was
comprised of approximately 28 individuals several which were community
individuals. We met several evenings out at the Bistro at the Miller Career and
Technology Center and SHW worked tremendously well with the with the with
the we love the Bistro and no one invited us next time next time next time
it was it was after hours unfortunately the Bistro was but it was a great venue
to hold these design meetings. So without further ado I'll turn it over to I think
Jennifer to present this project.
Thank You Peter, President Fox, board members and Superintendent Fraley. We're
very honored to be architect for this very unique project. We're gonna go real
quickly not to spend a lot of time tonight but just to give you an update
on where we are design wise. Let me make sure. I want to start off with thanking
Thanking the Board of Trustees and administration.
Mr. McIlwain mentioned the community members, several of them, a few of them are in the
audience here tonight.
Some more will be here when we come next meeting.
A lot of the KDISD members as well as SHW group.
Once we finish the design meetings with the committee, we also have had several meetings
with several departments to further our design to make sure we can refine it and bring the
information to you today.
We went with energy management, the police department, maintenance operations, community
services as well as technology.
So we made sure that we covered their needs inside this facility.
I'm going to spend just a few seconds on the design process.
Peter alluded to the many meetings that we had.
It was a very collaborative process.
This slide shows you, we showed some case studies to the community and the four headings
in bold, quality light, connection to the outdoors, functionality, flexibility and openness,
and the aesthetic of the space were issues that we all discussed as a group and the committee
guided us in our direction as how the design evolved as we're presenting it today.
So it truly was born from the committee members telling us which way to head down the street.
These are some pictures from the vision sessions that we had.
You can see we were really busy writing and exploring the first two meetings.
So these are some pictures of that activity.
We presented this very early on when we came to the three overriding vision goals for the
project.
Fundamentally is to create a dynamic place to have very exciting activities, a place
for creativity, communication, collaboration, and most importantly flexibility, and to provide
a space for exploration and hands-on discovery.
So this is a really a unique learning environment that all the schools will be able to participate
participate in and it's science, technology, engineering and math will be the focus and
it'll just be a very awesome space for the students to learn and grow in.
The program, real quick, is the building is just under 24,000 square feet.
The biggest space in the building is the high bay space.
It's about 5,000 square feet and it's the main activity bay.
Laura's going to go through with how they relate to one another, but the other key spaces
to look at are the project bays.
There's eight project bays in the facility today.
And then some ancillary building support, data, electrical, mechanical spaces.
And at the very front we have a foyer for controlled entry and some office space.
I forgot to mention there's some shared spaces which include a shared shop as well as some
rooms you'll see that we've labeled flex project rooms.
They can serve as community training, staff development, as well as an auxiliary project
room.
So the colors that you see on the slide here will translate into the plans that Laura is going to go through next.
Thank you, Jennifer.
Next I'm going to take you guys through a tour of the building.
So we'll start with the site plan and then move into the floor plan.
This is just showing where we are located.
We're adjacent to the Miller Career and Technology Center.
There's a lot of synergies between what goes on in that building and what will go on to this building,
so it made sense for those to be next to each other.
Site plan, you can see on the left, Katy Land Drive, and then the drive that comes into
the complex where Miller and Rains and Road Stadium are.
We're situated kind of facing towards Miller and towards Rains.
We figure most of the traffic will be coming from those two facilities, so you have pedestrian
access from those.
You'll look north is up on this plan and you'll see that there's a bus drive up
there. That's something that we have as an alternate that we hope that we can
get in this project so buses could come in and drop in at the front but then
you'll see there's some additional parking that was added on the east side
of the building about 18 spots and that also is a location where buses would be
able to come in and as well as fire trucks and things of that nature. You'll
You'll notice at the back there's two little notches that come out of the bottom corners
of the building.
Those are your service yards and the access, the concrete that is access to those for maintenance.
And then of course to bring in some larger items because this is a project space, there's
going to be a lot of larger items coming in and out of this building.
Here's the floor plan and I'll kind of start at the top right.
You see that kind of light blue area, that's the reception and there's an office that's
right off of that so you have a secured vestibule when you first walk into the
facility and from that point you go into the gray area which is the Commons and
the high bay space and I'll show you in a minute how this is actually we call it
the high bay because the elevation in there is higher than everywhere else
because that's where there's going to be a lot of activity that is going to need
that that high ceiling space you've got your two flex projects areas in the blue
up at the top. Like Jennifer said, those are multi-use. They can be used as classrooms,
for training, distance learning, all sorts of things. There's a folding partition in
between there, so it can be opened up into one larger space or two smaller. And they're
both about classroom size, and they have their own storage associated with that. Then of
course on either side of that high bay space, you see the project bays. And there's two
two components to that. There's the kind of project build space and then the purple is kind of storage
slash smaller tools. So for instance, the robotics teams, they would be using that back space for
their drill presses, their bandsaws, what you would call the dirty stuff that goes on and then
the program in the electronics happens in that green space. You'll see that we intentionally
place those right next to the high bay space. One of the things that we heard
from the committee is visibility is very important. They wanted everybody to be
able to see what everybody else is doing in here because it has the opportunity
or presents the opportunity for learning between the groups that are all in here.
The shared shop is that kind of orangey yellow at the bottom and you'll see
there's some big doors overhead doors that go into there and then also down at
the bottom of the plan. So if you were bringing something in and out of here if
one day they do solar cars or something of that nature you can get those things
in and out of this building again we really try to design for maximum
flexibility so that whatever comes in and out of this building it will be
functional in this building and then everything you see in the kind of red is
your support spaces so your restrooms your electrical mechanical data and all
of those this is just a quick slide to show you that we wanted to also think
about the future so as we design this we thought okay what happens is the district grows and you
need more groups in this so this is how this might look in the future if it ever needed expansion you
could add four more project bays and of course an another high bay space in the center and then
you've got those support spaces as well because you'll need more restrooms more mechanical things
things of that nature. As we were laying this out we wanted to make sure that
these project bays were actually functional for the needs of the students
that are going to be coming in here so we did a site visit to the Cinco Ranch
robotics team and actually saw what they have how they use it and we laid it out
in this space to make sure that what we're building is actually going to work
for the needs of some of these groups. And then we put this in here because we
think it kind of shows give some clarity on the transparency of this building you'll see there's
glass in between the high bay and each of those project bays and then again between the project
bays and their the purple space which is that kind of storage slash tool area and then you'll
also notice that there's some large overhead doors in between each of those that is designed again
for more flexibility so if you wanted to combine open up two of those bays or three of those bays
and create larger spaces for different functions that's possible within this building.
This is a section through the building, so when we say high bay, that's that high space in the center.
If you've ever seen the robotics videos, which I'm sure most of you guys have,
they're throwing frisbees and basketballs, and they need high space.
They don't need ceiling tile like you have in here,
because if things are being thrown you don't want that in anything that's going
to get damaged so it's a very clean functional space I mean this is just
looking in the long direction you'll see the only space that has a ceiling if you
look far to the right that's that flex project bay slash classroom it has a
ceiling for of course acoustics and the things that might happen in that space
These are just some quick views that go around the building. So this is from that entrance that
kind of faces the road that comes in and Miller. And then we'll work our way around. And you can
see there's glass. There's glass at the front that's all north facing. So we're letting in
good light, less heat gain, not direct light. Something we also know is that robots don't mix
well with direct light the electronics get messed up so we wanted to have a lot
of day lighting but we didn't want to mess up what's actually happening in the
building and this is working our way around towards the view from Katie land
which you'll see here and you can see those I call them we call them light
monitors but they look kind of like little sawtooth coming up off the top
there those are in there's one in each project Bay again they're north-facing
so we're getting some north-facing natural light into those spaces just to
create a better working environment for the students and this is looking at the
back where the shared shop is here's an aerial shot of the site I'm just showing
how it relates to the Miller Center to that road that comes in and this is that
the front entry night shot so one of the things you'll notice is that glass in
the front you know we showed the night shot because again the transparency was
very important to the group they wanted within the building to see what was
going on inside but then also as you're passing by from outside we wanted to
spark some interest this is there's different things going on in this
building and so we wanted it to look different we wanted it to pique the
interest of the community of other students and draw them in this is from
from the corner of Katie Land and the drive coming into the site.
And you'll notice I didn't mention earlier where you see that brick right there.
That is kind of a bench height wall, and it's actually a courtyard to the outside.
Another thing that was important was capturing as much space as possible.
So at the back of the shared shop and also here, there's a courtyard type
space where the kids can come outside and use that space as well.
Here's a view of the high bay space.
You'll notice that you have the glass going into each one of those project bays.
Right now we've put numbers on them, but it could become something else on the glass.
So each one starts to have an identity.
So whatever's happening in there, that could start to show up on the glass as it faces out into the high bay.
Then you'll notice on the north side up there, that white space, that's a marker wall.
so that as kids are out there doing things, they can be writing notes.
working out things together and again learning in front of everybody with
everybody pulling everybody in this is a view south looking at the shared shop
again just showing the openness the other thing I should mention is you'll
notice that there's benches in between each project bay yeah you can see it in
the lower left and the high bay and the reason is visibility was very important
but we also know we have robots running around and competing in here and robots and glass may not mix.
So this was a way to get some seating built in so that you could see a lot of collaboration happen in the space,
but then also it's functional. It protects the glass and prevents, hopefully, maintenance issues.
This is just a view we showed with the practice field that robotics uses.
So you could kind of get a feel for what might happen in here. Yes, ma'am.
Absolutely.
Is that the garage door type thing there at the back of this rendering?
Yes.
So that's the back of the building and they could bring colors and things.
So there's a garage door there and then if you were to walk through that garage door,
there's another one on the other side of that shop.
So you can go all the way through there.
Directly outside.
Directly outside.
I interrupted before you were finished and you might have already gotten to that.
I see we have other questions.
Do you want us to wait until the end?
You can ask now.
Okay, Dr. Proctor, go right ahead.
This fits with that question.
Is there any need, because you have doors between the four bays on each side,
is there any need to have a door on either side from any one of the bays?
like say you know Bay 7 and Bay 3 to bring bigger things in and out of that
main area well and I forgot to mention and thank you for bringing that up each
door you can see the doorways that go into each one of those those are
actually eight foot wide so it's two four foot leaves that open up okay and
that's that's big you feel that's big enough to get big things in and out
absolutely okay if I could add to that we toured the Toyota STEM Center and
that's the type doors they had to get cars in and out and we thought that was
a good idea and and asked them to replicate it great yeah and you know we
wanted we didn't want to do the overhead doors from the highway in there because
of the amount of movement you're going to have the students going in and out of
there it's not very practical to have those big doors so this gives you that
flexibility and functionality of going in and out but it can open up to the
eight foot wide so you can get if you go into solar cars all that you can get in
there if you try to take a hummer through there it might be a problem but
I don't think that's what's going to be happening in this facility so thank you
very much if I can just add to we toured as as mr. Gnell mentioned the the Toyota
Center at this at the start of the presentation I alluded to the community
committee members many of those folks are related to a number of these firms
We had a representative from Toyota that was on the on the committee as well as representatives from General Electric
BP Exxon Mobil
Floor so a lot of the community members were directly related to this particular
project and those you know the questions you asked are exact questions that came up in our committee meetings that
Started us to start making those larger openings and make sure we had
maximum functionality
I think there would be great interest and lots of questions.
It's okay if we keep going?
Mr. DeBrell, you're next.
In your dirty area where the band saws and that heavier material,
what type of ventilation are you looking at?
Right now there's going to be ventilation,
but not as much as in the shared shop.
There's going to be a lot more of what you would see,
the exhaust systems for the shop equipment.
With the band saws and all of that, they don't have the same requirements.
They're not welding, they're not doing wood cutting or any of that stuff there.
But we are working with our mechanical engineer to make sure that we meet whatever safety
requirements we need to in those spaces.
One more question.
The height of this ceiling and this high bay?
It's 20 foot clear to the bottom of the structure.
So right now I think it's 24 feet to the top of the steel.
But what was important, especially for the robotics people, was that we have 20 foot
clear to anything hanging into that space.
I just wanted to reiterate, Laura had mentioned that, that one of the committee
members was Mike Outlaw, who is the leader of the Cinco Robotics team, and he had perfect
attendance at all of our meetings.
Not only the meetings at the Bistro, but there were also some outside meetings that we had
with him so we were I guess joined at the hip so to speak with respect to his
specific requirements and his expertise that he could bring to the development
of the space not only in two-dimensional but also in three-dimensional functional
requirements. One final question. In meeting those requirements you could do
anything within his requirements so that kind of set the stage for the baseline.
line. Mr. Griffin was next. Peter since these groups tend to be rather large do
you plan the overflow parking to go behind the existing Miller Center and
are we going to have enough lights so that the kids since they're working
after hours can get safe to and fro? Yes we'll be looking at all of those areas
as we move through this is the design stage you know should the board approve
this particular project and subject to the results of the bond
referendum we then move into the construction document phase where we'll
be looking at more detail at those type of specifics.
Mr. Huckabee. Um to the uh project bay I was looking I didn't see
anything what are the actual dimensions of the
project room versus the store room?
Because I could see some approximate things based upon some other deals but I
couldn't. Yeah so the project room is 35 feet in
the long direction and it's about 25 feet in the short direction and then
your base storage slash tool room is about 21 feet by 25 yeah so the project
base base is about 860 square feet and then the base storage is about 500 square
feet and you'll notice that there's each one of those base storage has a small
mechanical closet pulled out of it another thing that we're looking at as
we design this building because you're not going to always have every bay full
and there's a lot of activity that's going to happen after hours at odd hours
in this building we wanted to make sure that our mechanical systems are designed
to be flexible as well so that we're not running this whole building at the same
time we want to save as much energy as we can so that's why those you see those
in each project base so that each one of those can be controlled individually
good excellent great go next slide and like I mentioned before this is just
kind of a sample set up in that high bay space where they could be set up the
competition fields and run the robots yeah and you'll notice you'll see person
sitting on the benches viewing what's going on so you've got that built-in
viewing and collaboration. This is a view in that project bay and the point of
this is really just to show that you can see out into the high bay you see that
large opening in between the two so that that could be opened up again you know
maximum flexibility and then of course you see the light natural light coming
in from the ceiling above and again you see exposed structure same thing in the
high bay you know very industrial tech you know technical finishes do we have
certain do we have the ability to host one of the contests with this facility
right now this facility it does not have seating you've got a capacity in that
high bay of about 330 people so I think it's mostly a practice facility when you
you bring in competitions you're gonna bring you bring in fixed seating you
build a lot more restrooms and things of that nature that would make this thing
start to get a lot bigger in size I'm going to do that the Merrill Center yeah
that that's why I was gonna get a Merrill Center yeah you have facilities
that would host that very well you could host demonstrations here very easily or
you could have you could have special events in this room that are unrelated
to the robotics it could be some you could host something that for the staff
and all meet there and have a work group or just a celebration or something it's
just wide open for possibilities and we did you know we talked to some of the
robotics teams and and one thing that they said is a lot of times they'll be
hosted by other places that have teams not to do a competition but to do a big
practice where they all kind of come out because they're all competing on the
the same field with the same parameters so that could cut that kind of
collaboration could happen here as well
okay project schedule and budget as Peter covered earlier we started in July
we've been working through schematic design and design development with the
committee and then with personnel from the district and of course we're
presenting to you tonight with the hopes that the next board meeting the project
will be approved to move forward pending the results of the bond election we would then go
into construction documents and have those completed and ready for bidding in february
and then of course the facility would go through construction and be open in december of 14.
and then we're at about 24 000 square feet just under like jennifer said the total project cost
at this point is 4.5 million dollars are there any additional questions I love
the design I love the ideas that race through my mind and I know many people's
minds when you see this building which doesn't exist in Katy ISD so should the
voters award this building to us I see great potential to that my question is I
love the windows right that's the connection and being connected to other
people and the creativity that happens when you see something and it sparks
right that's so so great the large opening at the back and then you have
the future expansion I'm just wondering like did you all to talk about all of
those things like like when you have the future expansion now you've got great
whatever is great big has to drive through longer ways and things so did
Did you talk about that? I wondered about the placement of that orange thing at the back if we add to it.
We did, and what you'll see, I brought back up the floor plan, and you'll see that shared shop, again, it's got the openings on both sides.
When you do the future expansion, we would have a large opening into that high bay.
We'd have the same large openings that go into those project bays.
Right now, you see the red, which is the support spaces.
between those two if the if that future expansion happened and there needed to
be direct access in between there that's where that would happen where you see
the carve outs for the service yards potentially the service yard would get
bigger there might be a way to come in from the side there so we did talk about
what we didn't want to do was lock ourselves in and so that's part of that
discussion exactly what I was thinking that as the future expansion that to
come in from this end let's call that South right is that so yeah you're still
that is up you're correct good job let's just pretend like that South if you had
to if you had something in the middle of that big future expansion to get all the
way to this in your you're just creating so I wondered if you had something from
the side so let's create a side entrance and call it the Fox idea for interest
There you go. You'll put a sign over here.
The fox entrance. Okay, Ken. The fox hole.
I have one last question and then Mr. DeBrell, I promised you another turn.
Just want to make sure that we have enough in place and enough ideas that we don't lock it into one idea, robotics.
but that this has such incredible potential if if it comes to be that we
have I just see you went to the Toyota Center I'm sure you have lots and lots
of I married an engineer and a son's an engineer I mean they would just be all
excited about this so lots of ideas lots of places I see for interesting things
and have we planned for future potential and it's all of that in mr. canal if I
could take a swing at that one initially when we took a look at the number of
project days we were looking at a smaller number but as we began to have
discussions on what it could be and how much space you may have we came to the
point to saying that we really needed a larger number of project days so you
you have the opportunity there to have those eight project bays doing eight different things
with eight different schools or eight combinations of schools.
In addition to the, you see the classrooms kind of to the north of the diagram there,
that with the folding wall there, that can be a big room or two smaller rooms,
which can be additional bays.
Add to that the opportunity for projects that have to go outside for whatever reason,
and you don't quite see it on here, but it's in the upper left-hand corner of the area,
would give you a pad there where you could be doing experiments outside,
plus whatever you would be doing on the inside for demonstration.
So really the intent of this was to provide maximum flexibility,
realizing that we could not definitely determine everything that we would expect the STEM Center to be doing over the next 20 years.
but we believe that this floor plan gives us the options to provide us the most flexibility working with the team that we could come up with.
The 20-foot ceilings is enough for whatever?
Do you feel like that's because aren't gymnasiums 24 or 26?
Say that again?
What about gymnasiums?
Gymnasiums are taller than that.
Is it enough?
I don't see us doing a gymnasium, but I see a float.
What if you want to create a float?
What if you want to create a throne?
I still think the 20 feet would be pretty good.
And I just want to add one last comment to what Mr. McAnill had said.
During our committee meetings, we explored how elementary campuses could come here and visit
and see what's happening in the middle schools as well.
Because the high school activities, some things will happen during the day,
but a lot will happen after night.
So there's opportunities for all grade levels to at least come and see what's happening here
and then get excited about.
Well, and Sarah, I know, is anxious because there's
a lot of possibility that's been mentioned
from a career technology perspective
that it's almost limitless.
And we've tried to provide a campus that
has so much flexibility that the teaching and learning folks can.
And I know that they haven't got all their ideas formulated yet,
but they're pulling everything together.
other. Mr. DeBrell. Great design. I think it's very forward-thinking moving forward
with the STEM project but I have a concern about security. I don't know
Chief maybe you can speak to this because we know these young people are
going to be out there at night sometimes late into the evening. Any provisions for
security so we can assure their safety? Well there's going to be standard
security as we have in the rest of our facilities intrusion protection as well
as CCTV but I think our biggest prevention is the adult chaperones we
would have to mandate adult chaperones while the students are there and I would
again great great ideas great design I would just maybe make a comment that
this is not for any one group it's not for one thing it is limitless and for
every student in our district and I'm appreciate the presentation mr. president
and I appreciate those comments there because that does well was gonna say
when you think about our mission statement about those unpretty learning
experiences that kids create in the future that's what this is about our kids are
going to go in there and they're going to imagine things and create things that we
don't have a clue about right now and so this is designed to be very flexible to
allow maximum creativity and whatnot and I've got to say that SACW went
beyond my imagination and I'm just blown away and I talked to your CEO Marjorie I
talked to Kyle Bacon your chief operations officer as well and said I'm
just so pleased with the way you all work with the community with your
committee and the way you interpret their input and this is just really
blown my mind I really appreciate you guys thank you very much thank you to
those who served on the committee I know it took a lot of time and mr. Fraley or
for our graduates?
Yes, ma'am, it does.
As a matter of fact, STEM is one of the five endorsements.
So it's absolutely aligned with the new graduation
requirements.
Yes, ma'am.
And if I could add, and the thing about this
is this is not your typical classroom sit
and get kind of place.
This is a project center.
This is where kids bring their designs
and where they create their designs,
manufacture their designs.
And we're already working in partnership
with several companies in the area in terms of sponsorships.
and we have some visions of specific type things I can't get into right now
but we're very excited that the interest from some of our local companies has
has been really spurred and we're excited about what can happen with that
may I ask one more question the I understand that we still have the second
floor of the Miller Career Center to be expanded at some point but that facility
does not have 20 foot ceilings and does not would not have been an option for
this type of project center is that correct thank you thank you very much
for your presentation I'd be remiss if I didn't acknowledge our Campbell art is
the project manager from my department that's been working night and day on this project great to see
you here mr campbell thank you mr mack michael wayne back over number two
we have a resolution to designate a district administrator for the public agency the
the PARS plan.
Mr. Schneider?
Is Mr. Schneider presenting here?
Mr. Schneider?
Don't take that personally.
They do it to us all the time when they leave.
Hi, Mr. Schneider.
Welcome.
We're glad you're here this evening.
Thank you.
President Fox and school board members, Mr. Fraley,
the resolution that you have in front of you
is just a required document.
The PARS trustee organization, that
has to do with a lot of the retirement benefits
benefits that we offer and that was decided back in 2001. When they did an audit recently,
they came through the process and noticed that our policy, there was no, at the time
when they passed it, there was no designee as in who has the authority to oversee this
program and the trustees of their organization require that you have a resolution to do so.
So this is just a formality to meet their expectation that was missing in the policy
when they did the audit.
So the request is just to name the position of my position to be the overseer, which it
already is.
It's just designated in policy.
Thank you.
Any questions?
No.
Board members, this one cannot be moved to consent because the resolution will be read
into the record.
any objection to moving tab 1 to the consent agenda so moved item 3 our
district improvement plan good evening mrs. Holland it's great to see you
you're bringing someone with you that doesn't look like free to preach but
you'll introduce her to us the plan that we bring before you tonight is the
a result of a lot of hard work on a lot of people's part. It has been a very collaborative
and cooperative effort involving all divisions and all departments. As you know, the basis
of the district improvement plan is the needs assessment that Dr. Creech had presented earlier.
And one of the individuals in her department who's worked very closely with us in this
whole process is Allison Matney, who is director of research assessment and accountability.
accountability, and I want to acknowledge Allison and the team back there that has helped
us to pull all the data together that formulates the plan.
The plan that we are presenting to you tonight has been reorganized from what you're used
to seeing.
It involves a much more integrated approach with a goal focus rather than a departmental
or division focus.
It is Mr. Fraley's intent that we as a cabinet will evaluate the progress toward each of
these goals on a quarterly basis and we
intend for this to be a dynamic working
document it is not a document to be
shelved we will adjust and modify the
document as information and situations
dictate for example we do not have all
the information on House Bill 5 yet so
there is still work to be done there but
we believe that the reorganization of
the plan helps us to ensure that both
the district that the district plans and our campus improvement plans will be
mutually supportive because the goal there is a goal focus rather than a
focus on departments or individual activities so we're quite pleased to
bring the plan to you for consideration any questions thank you so much any
objection to moving this to consent agenda so moved thank you ladies
We have the LEP enrollment and bilingual exception application presented by Dr. Lawson.
Mrs. Ferris, how do you do?
It's great to see you over here.
Good evening.
Hi, Mrs. Ferris.
How are you?
We're doing well.
I'm Alisa Ferris.
I'm the director for ESL and bilingual programs.
Linda Shepherd is assistant director.
and we're here tonight to request your permission to prepare and submit our
bilingual exception report for 2013 2014 this year as of October 7th we had nine
thousand two hundred and thirty five and just within the last week we've added
15 or so more students to our ELL population that's up from about six
6% from last year. We qualify for bilingual programs by the virtue of having at least
20 students in a certain language population across a particular grade level in our school
district. So with 20 kindergarteners who speak Urdu, let's say, we would qualify for that
program. And so the bilingual exception is being written for eight languages this year.
Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, Urdu, Vietnamese, Korean, Hindi, Portuguese, and Telugu.
We have one that dropped off this past year and that was Tagalog.
We are down a few students in that group so we just missed needing the bilingual exception
for that language.
Do you all have any questions for us about that?
Is this very similar to years past?
Yes, it is.
This is a routine waiver that we request?
When we could have bilingual programs in all these other languages
because of the population we have here in Katy, yes.
And other districts do this similar?
Yes.
Request similar waivers?
Seventy languages and eight of them do qualify for bilingual programs,
but we request this waiver so that we can serve them through wonderful
second language programming through our ESL. Thank you. Mr. Griffin. Ma'am how did
these numbers compare like statewide or national wise? Are we pretty much a
snapshot of people in Texas or do we have unusually high number of kids in
this program? Without doing some heavy research I would say that we are fairly
fairly well in line with across the state. I don't know nationally.
Okay, thanks.
Any objection to moving this to consent agenda? So moved.
Thank you for being here this evening. Nice to meet you, Ms. Shepherd.
Thank you very much.
Good evening, Dr. Caskey.
You have our tab number five.
I think I have two things in the second part of the presentation.
Okay.
I'll move over here if that's okay.
The first thing I have this evening, well, good evening, President Fox, board members,
and Mr. Fraley.
I bring before you this evening the standard timeline for accelerated
instruction waiver this is a waiver that comes before you every three years and
basically what it does is it allows us time to give students accelerated
instruction after the third administration of star so students in
grades five and eight who are not successful in reading and our math were
required to provide them accelerated instruction after each test
administration because the third test administration falls in the summer we
don't have time in order to provide that instruction to the students so this
waiver allows us to provide that instruction the first six weeks of
school again this is a standard waiver any questions any objection to moving it
consent so moved thank you
instructional materials
bill
Okay, good evening again.
The presentation this evening is actually twofold.
One is to provide you with an update on our instructional materials allotment, and secondly
is to seek your approval for advanced placement Spanish language resources that were not ready
when we brought before the board our instructional materials list in the spring.
Again, to start with a brief history to keep coming back to Senate Bill six
and the creation of the instructional materials allotment was created in 2011
to provide school districts with flexibility in purchasing the materials
that best meet the needs of the students in our district.
It also expanded the definition of instructional materials.
beyond that of just the textbook and it created an allotment based on a per
pupil amount and whenever I can highlight this I choose to do so to let
you and the public know that KISD does not rely solely on textbooks as our main
resource for delivery of the curriculum but we have a multitude of instructional
resources within our classrooms including online resources literature
literature libraries, technology, and many other hands-on tools for our students to bring
learning to life in the classroom.
An update on the instructional materials allotment budget.
In 2012, 2013, we ended the year with a little over $3.5 million in our budget.
In 2013-14, we received a little over $5 million.
You need to remember that we are in year one of the second biennium of the instructional
materials allotment.
We did have some expenditures thus far this year, and that was for growth.
So we have already had to expend some of that money simply for growth.
We did apply again this year for an additional amount, being a high growth district.
We did receive close to $170,000 for that, which leaves our 2013-14 instructional materials
allotment at a little over eight and a half million dollars. Proclamation 2014
this is the largest proclamation that we've had in the last few years. You can
see that the materials that we are looking at adoption for implementation
next year for grades K through five we have math and science. For our junior
highs grades six through eight we also have math and science. At the high school
level we have several of our high school science courses as well as our
technology applications courses these are all courses that are identified in
proclamation 2014 in addition to that we have some courses that are not specified
in proclamation 2014 that also require updated instructional materials you'll
notice a lot of these are advanced placement courses as well as some of our
elective courses so these are also courses that we have to use the same
process with as far as adopting materials and bringing them before the board for approval.
So our timeline.
In September we established review committees.
We do have representation from all of our campuses.
We also solicited parent participation through campus e-news, a press release, and our district
website.
It's that tiny little URL on there, but it was very, very easy for parents to go on,
express an interest in what committee they would like to serve on. Coming up
November and December the committee's will be reviewing instructional
materials. In the month of January we will have the materials on display here
at the ESC to continue to collect information from the community.
We also have an online survey. In February the review committee will make
recommendations to our district instructional materials allotment team
team, and then recommendations we're anticipating bringing them before the board in April.
We have review committees that represent, again, all campuses.
They consist of general education teachers as well as specialty teachers, parents, instructional
coaches, and curriculum staff members serving on those review committees.
committees. Kind of part two of this is the request for us to secure AP Spanish language
and cultural resources. There has been a change in this particular AP exam and the materials
that we have do not meet the needs or the demands for the changes in this exam. So we
bring before you this evening some materials to be approved for our AP language and culture
course and the committees have reviewed materials and they are recommending
these resources by Vista higher higher learning and where do we go in the
future you will notice that in 2015 and the next three subsequent years we do
have rather large proclamations coming up so this is exciting that we're
putting this process into place with proclamation 2014 and we'll continue to
to improve the process as we go, but you can see they're on the horizon.
We have lots of instructional materials that we'll be reviewing and looking at for our
students.
I'm here to respond to any questions that you may have.
Madam President.
Mr. Griffin, thank you for the audible.
This is kind of a lengthy question.
Here's a kind of problem that my kids have run into this year.
They don't have the greatest teacher.
they have a teacher in the classroom and by having a book as a reference material
only they were presented with homework so the textbook really didn't give them
the information that they needed they didn't get then the information from the
teacher like they needed so she ended up having to do a lot of internet research
and there happens to be a couple schools out there that do a really good job of
putting a lot of stuff on the internet we have the best district in the world
is there any way with the technology that we have in our school that instead
of using other school districts or other teaching facilities to have like each
one of our teaks taught by some of our outstanding teachers like Katie happens
to have probably the best chemistry AP chemistry teacher in the whole wide
world you know the kids at Morton Ranch can't utilize that teacher or Cinco or
or seven lakes but if we could somehow take our great teachers that we have in
some way encapsulate their teaching techniques you know are some of our
teachers who might need a little help could watch those videos is there any
work with this instructional material that we can kind of capture our great
teachers so that all of our kids throughout the district has that you
know help if they need it because I agree with you the textbook is reference
only but there's times if our kids aren't getting it from their teacher
where do we want them to go there are a lot of different resources that are out
there I know that teachers post resources on their websites I like the
idea that you pose about us videotaping and kind of look into Darlene over there
I think we do some of that do we not we do tape some of our teachers and we have
those those sessions that are actually stored and teachers can go and download
download those and view those sessions. So those are practices that we do have into place. We have
tons and tons of resources in Katie for our teachers. Yeah, but like my kids too, maybe we
need more information out to the students because, you know, I was helping her with a lot of this
stuff and man, it was very hard. At least she didn't know where to go or I didn't know where
to go to find that help. But the internet in general was really easy. But I just, I found
it difficult that man the textbook was horrible you know on the lessons that she needed to and
she didn't know where to go so you know we went to the internet if if we had it that would be
really good if that information was passed out a little bit better thanks mr fraley i see a
celebration mr griffin you're an air force academy grant correct yes sir it was it was hard for you
we have not lowered standards in kdsd we have not lowered standards at all all right
We truly have a tremendous number of outstanding teachers across this district.
Sometimes teaching styles and whatnot may connect better with students and whatnot.
So we do have a structural management system, the ability to capture, share lessons,
and the idea of having some model lessons on video, video vignettes, I think is an excellent idea to look at.
and I know we have that in some places and we just need to expand and continue
growing that mr. de Brown two questions what percentage of instructional
material do we currently have online that's available to our students as
opposed to basically just about everything I would say just about
everything I would say just about and when you purchase now they'll give you
the on you know they like to give you the online with the hard copy of the book okay so with that
are we moving more to a classroom set of books yes sir yes sir um the survey that you're planning in
january how are we communicating that survey is available to the public what's the plans
on communicating that out come on uh president campus newsletters similarly to how we solicited
parent responses for participating on the committee front page of the website.
We are also going to have, I guess, exhibits of all of the books that are under consideration
and have some sort of Google Doc form where they can use their smartphones to give feedback as well.
We'll be e-blasting it out like the survey we got last week sometime as well.
We can certainly consider that. What we've done is we've looked at the campuses that put it out through their e-news.
So we did not e-blast it to the whole district. It pertains just to teachers and parents.
Dr. Proctor?
Just a question on a timeline. So in January, will you have a list of the materials that we want to use?
will there be like a a central place where someone can see all of the
materials in case you know you said you have them you'll have some here but I
mean if is there some way for me to find out what you have here without coming
here I mean that's you know I'm thinking if somebody has an interest in certain
certain area and they want to see if we have materials there, could they look online and
then say, yeah, I want to come by and see what we have?
MS.
We can put that up.
MS.
Mr. Huckabee?
MR.
Mr. Griffin experienced something I've been trying to get people, parents the last
two years to understand is that, and I still have some parents who they think that it's
live and die by the textbook and the textbooks are I mean by the time they
get them to us they're they're obsolete right and in way I tell a lot of the
parents I said you know if there's something you don't understand go to
YouTube I promise you you'll find the answer and it'll teach you and there'll
be thousands of teachers or students who have put projects on there that are
unbelievable and actually what I've done this year and I've started it through my
director of instruction in order to replace a test grade they had to make a
project with animoto or video or something that I could upload and I'm
actually creating my own YouTube page just for my class and we'll be putting
the student projects out there so that anyone from here on out can go and see
and she was tickled to death about it and then when I sent her some of the
the project she was really shocked at how some of the kids extensively is that
because there a lot of them were asking questions I said go I said what I keep
telling you go to YouTube and look see how they did them model it you know and
some kids were okay and some kids were fantastic but it's that is a phenomenal
resource mr. Mahalsky thank you could you go back to the slide that had the
kind of the allegation balances. Yeah so looks like on the ending balance for the
last year you know we have fairly sizable balance and in this 2013-14 and
now is that just a one-year allotment or is that a biennial allotment? We will
receive we're anticipating about that much again for next year. Okay my
question is this I'm just trying to get a little better understanding of how you
I guess manage that obviously that we have some flexibility now with I guess
Senate bill 6 and and we're given the dollars and we kind of figure out how to
spend them we had a little carryover does that do we feel like we need that
for the upcoming proclamations or I guess my question is more do we ever
feel like we're going to spend all of it and you know how does that I guess how
do you mean this is the first time first time for us so we have been very
conservative without a proclamation this is the first proclamation that IMA has
been involved with so we're very we're going to monitor it very very closely
okay good president if I may also if you look at the number of proclamations yet
to come and you don't know what subsequent legislatures are going to
allocate you get that's why we were very very careful this first time around
because there was no assurance that they would allocate the money for the same amount for the next biennium.
And they meet again in 2015, and we don't know what's going to happen then.
And they'll meet again in 2017.
And you see we have other proclamations coming about, and we're growing,
and you'll get a report next week about our growth.
So I think it was wise that we did take what we did when we did it.
Does that make sense?
We did what we did when we did it.
It's kind of a Yogi Berra thingy, I guess.
But we've been very, very conservative with expanding these resources
because they've combined textbooks along with technology.
We no longer have a technology allotment.
They're all combined now.
And we don't quite have everyone on board with electronic textbooks
that don't require you to buy the hard copy as well
and then have access to it online.
So will these be enough dollars?
We don't know.
And as Mr. Fraley stated, there's a portion of this money that we do have to allocate to technology because they lost their fund.
So we do work closely with John and his staff as well.
I certainly like a conservative approach when it comes to spending.
Mr. Adams?
Dr. Caskey, then am I to assume that this is a formula-based amount that we are receiving?
and secondly as we have talked about fund balances in the past the state has
always I'd fund balances and I just in piggybacking on mr. Mahowski's comment
is that should we try to spend it so that they can't take it back from us
this is not part of the fund balance per se on districts books and this is the
money that the state has actually allocated for them to draw down on. Now
if you're saying they're giving us money on one hand and might look at our fund
balances on the other hand I can't answer that part. I guess would they look
at the the underspending if we have any money in those funds to take it back. And
this kind of scare has been going on since it started and Senate Bill 6 says
it rolls over from biennium biennium. So they'd have to change the law.
And then additionally, there were districts that spent all of their money and didn't have
funds for their beginning of the school year because of the delay in allocating the
September 1 allotment.
Madam President, when the initial effort at this came about,
there were conflicting directives or suggestions sent out. One set would say
spend it all and some districts did. Then they said well our bad maybe you
shouldn't do all that because what was gonna happen next time around. We erred on the
part of the latter. I just don't know what was going to happen and plus we
don't know the pricing of these construction materials is going up and
up and up and up and up without a doubt I would piggyback on mr. Griffin's
statements except that probably we're going to disagree about was it the best
chemistry teacher you said you I know one too but it's not the same one I bet
mine's best and so because we have those best in the whole wide world how
incredible would it be if they could post their best lessons somewhere I know
I know that KMAC was a place where they could share information teacher to teacher.
And I know we have technology with smart boards where I've seen some teachers take a great
lesson and put it on for kids who might have been absent or maybe just temporarily absent
in the chair.
At night when you go home to do the homework, you can look back and see the lesson again.
With the technology we have now and with the incredible teachers, the best in the whole
whole wide world that are right here in KDISD.
How great to be able to share that school to school, zip
code to zip code.
I think that would be an incredible thing.
And I agree with Mr. Huckabee just this once, that we saw a
presentation at a conference about iTunes U. iTunes U. And
And there was almost every subject covered in iTunes U.
So there are places where parents like me can go to help
get calculus help for your children.
And it's free.
And it's free.
So there are lots of resources when someone thinks they
aren't smart enough to help their kids.
But our teachers are incredible.
We're so grateful for them.
And the best chemistry teacher is at my house.
And I do believe chemistry is one of the textbooks that's
indicated in proclamation 2014.
Um, President, I love that idea of
videotaping some of our teachers and
allowing that resource to be used by
parents and students at night so they
can review the lesson. Free to KDIs these
students, but uh, Mr. Moore, could we charge
people outside of district to utilize
that?
So good.
Madam President, you mentioned KMAC and ability to share lessons there.
You can do this in the current, in the new.
What's it called again?
Forethought.
Forethought.
Also, your smart board software has a, if you wear your headphones,
you can actually record your entire lesson,
and what will show up on the screen is what you're putting on the smart board,
but your voice is following it the whole time.
And then you can leave, you know, it becomes a permanent deal to use and that's what I use when I'm not going to be in class.
Thank you for your presentation.
Any other questions?
Any objection to moving this item, instructional materials, to the consent agenda?
So moved.
Thank you very much.
Our final discussion for consideration tonight is the October 2013 budget amendments.
Good evening, Mr. Smith.
Good evening, Ms. Fox and Board and Mr. Fraley.
I'm going to start out with some accounting stuff and housekeeping that we're going to take care of.
The first four amendments deal with year-end, and those are items that we bought
or attempted to buy and did not get delivery before year-end.
Those were the startup supplies at Tompkins High School and Katy High School.
in the amounts of $625,060 and $10,500 respectively.
And then we also did not receive the or did not have the project finished for the secure door access system,
nor did we receive our white fleet prior to the end of August 31st.
So because of that, that's going to be shown up in our fund balance when the auditors present that in January.
We're amending the budget now to spend those funds in this budget year.
The other two are increases to the general fund.
One is two-way radios required by the FCC, and as I understand it, it's a standard change
to a digital format that we're required to move to.
And then we did not intend, but we lost the use of one of our pallet jacks, and we needed
to replace that, and that's $6,730.
The other remaining items are moving monies from one function to another.
That would increase the expenditures in the general fund budget by $1,585,689.
Then moving away from the general fund over to the food service fund or special revenue
fund, the kitchen renovations at Taylor High School, we had some accounting issues such
as retainage and not quite finished with the punch list on that by August 31st.
And so we are moving budget, it will be in fund balance of the food service fund,
and moving budgeted expenditures of $288,460 over to the 13-14 school year there.
In all, the general fund and the special revenue fund or food service fund budgets increased by $1,874,149.
Madam President.
Mr. Maholsky.
Okay, so let me make sure I understand this.
Most of this is a timing difference. It was not delivered.
So we can expect when we get the audit then that the actual general fund balance for August 31st
is going to be higher than what that final amended budget was.
That is correct.
By those amounts.
That is correct.
Part of our underspending.
Very good.
And then the other thing is we're using funds from the food service balance to do the kitchen renovations.
still that was something I think we've been doing now for a couple of years
right that helps us with some I guess there's a maximum
balance you can have in that fund to some degree.
That's correct. And that helps us with that. That's correct.
Very good. Any objection to
moving this item to consent agenda? So moved.
Thank you Mr. Smith.
Future meetings, we'll meet again on Monday, October 28th for our regular board meeting.
There's a reception for our namesakes on Monday evening as well.
It's here. It's at 5.
Maria, do you have that information?
The reception?
It's at 5 to 6.30.
counting the board meeting to start at 5.30.
Our meeting will start at 5.30, so it begins at 5 o'clock.
So we'll see you there, and then we will recognize our namesakes on Monday night.
It's in ESC 1030. It's just on the hallway.
Okay, great.
Actually, sir, it's going to be in the 1,200 rooms.
We moved it because of the size.
I didn't get my invite.
It's on the right date, Maria.
reasons.
October 28th. See you then.
Having no further business,
8.32, this meeting is adjourned.
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