The board will now convene an open meeting. Today is May 27th and the time is 641 p.m. The board met earlier this evening in closed meeting. Any action arising from discussion 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 the notice for this meeting? Mr. President, we are in compliance. Okay. One housekeeping item, please Please note that we will be moving one agenda item tonight. Agenda item 9.1, a report titled KDISD Education Foundation and BP STEM grant program will be moved after the recognition section of our agenda prior to the open forum. Before we move to the superintendent's personnel report, I'm going to ask that we take a moment of silence this evening. First, to remember the members of our armed services that gave the ultimate sacrifice defending the freedom of our great nation. And also, the mourning of the loss of one of our own, Mr. Robert Shaw, who served our community with honor and integrity for 15 years as a member of this Board of Trustees.
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Katy ISD Regular Board Meeting, May 27, 2014
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- 0:00 to 1:41 Call to Order Call to Order - Upon announcement by the presiding officer that a quorum is present, the meeting will be called to order.
- 1:41 to 2:10 Item 3.1 Consider Board approval of hiring and accepting resignations of professional contractual personnel. (Texas Government Code 551.074: For the purpose of considering the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline or dismissal of a public officer or employee or to hear complaints or charges against a public officer or employee.)
- 2:10 to 2:45 Item 3.2 Consider Board approval of accepting the resignation of Heather Miller, professional contractual personnel. (Texas Government Code 551.074: For the purpose of considering the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline or dismissal of a public officer or employee or to hear complaints or charges against a public officer or employee.)
- 2:45 to 3:02 Item 3.3 Update on Superintendent's reassignment for the principal of Memorial Parkway Junior High School. (Texas Government Code 551.074: For the purpose of considering the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline or dismissal of a public officer or employee or to hear complaints or charges against a public officer or employee.)
- 3:02 to 6:25 Item 4 Pledge of Allegiance 4.1 Christian Castulo, 5th Grade, Morton Ranch Elementary
- 6:25 to 54:59 Item 5 5. Recognitions 5.1 Leadership Katy Class of 2014 5.2 2014 District-wide Campus Teachers of the Year 5.3 2014 National Assistant Principal of the Year 5.4 National PTA Reflections Winner 5.5 Pan American Student Forum Convention Winner 5.6 Men’s Singles State Tennis Champion 5.7 George Foundation Scholarship Recipient 5.8 Continental Math League National Winners 5.9 Destination Imagination State Champions 5.10 Houston Endowment Jones Scholars 5.11 National Merit Scholarship Winners 5.12 2014 Katy ISD Valedictorians and Salutatorians
- 54:59 to 1:22:21 Item 9.1 Katy ISD Education Foundation and BP STEM Grant Program
- 1:22:21 to 1:55:14 Item 6 Open Forum
- 1:55:14 to 2:17:56 Items 7 - 13 Due to technical difficulties, audio is unavailable for the rest of this meeting after the 29 second mark. 7. Consent Agenda 7.1 Consider Board approval of the proposal for specialty printing services. 7.2 Consider Board approval of the proposal for musical and performing arts equipment and supplies. 7.3 Consider Board approval of the Job Order Contracting method and the use of KBR through the TCPN Cooperative for the demolition of the Danover Street facility. 7.4 Consider Board approval of the contract for the renovation of the Katy High School parking lot. 7.5 Consider Board approval of the proposal for the renovation of the Memorial Parkway Elementary parking lot. 7.6 Consider Board approval of a Water Line Easement to the City of Katy, Texas. 7.7 Consider Board approval of 2014-2015 Honors (PreAP) courses identified as exempt from No-Pass, No-Play. 7.8 Consider Board approval of a Foreign Exchange Student Waiver. 7.9 Consider Board approval of a low attendance waiver for Katy Junior High, West Memorial Junior High, West Memorial Elementary, Hutsell Elementary, and Winborn Elementary for the date of March 4, 2014 due to bad weather. 7.10 Consider Board approval of Board Policy Update 99 and local policy. 7.11 Consider Board approval of the Interlocal Cooperation Agreement for the collection of Katy ISD property taxes by Fort Bend County. 7.12 Consider Board approval of the April 2014 tax report. 7.13 Consider Board approval of grant ratifications. 7.14 Consider Board approval of the May 2014 budget amendments. 7.15 Consider Board approval of the April 2014 financial statements. 7.16 Consider Board approval of the April 2014 check registers. 7.17 Consider Board approval of the minutes for the Board meetings held in April 2014. 10. Discussion 10.1 Morton Ranch High School Track 10.2 Planning for Growth: 2014 Bond 11. Information Items 11.1 Donated items to Katy Independent School District 12. Future Meetings 12.1 Board Work Study Meeting - Monday, June 16, 2014 12.2 Regular Board Meeting - Monday, June, 23, 2014 13. Adjournment
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Call to Order
Thank you, Mr. President. First item is personnel report.
Item 3.1
Mr. President.
Mr. Griffin.
I move that the board approve the personnel report as recommended by the superintendent.
Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Griffin and a second by Mr. DeBrell that the board approve the personnel report as recommended by the superintendent. All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye. Motion carries. Passes 7-0.
Item 3.2
This item is accepting the resignation of Heather Miller.
Mr. President.
Mr. DeBrell.
I move that the board approves the recommendation by the superintendent. of accepting resignation of Ms. Heather Miller. Second.
I have a motion by Mr. DeBrell, a second by Mr. Griffin, that the board, as recommended by the superintendent, approve accepting the resignation of Heather Miller. Any discussion? Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye. Aye.
Motion passes 7-0. Mr. President, trustees, I'm pleased to announce the reassignment of Emily Craig, currently Wood Creek Junior High principal assistant principal to become principal of Memorial Parkway Junior High we're happy to have her on board there and yes she did ask for the job so we'll remind her that every day very good congratulations today our pledge will be led by Mr. Christian Costolo Christian y'all please stand
Item 3.3
Item 4
I pledge allegiance to the flag of United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, honor God, and the visible with liberty and justice for all.
honor the Texas flag I pledge allegiance to the Texas one state under God one and the invincible
great job sir we met mr. Christian Castillo who was a student at Morton rich elementary school parents are Alberto and Josephina and Costello he's on the front row there and has a sister Daisy sitting on the front row smiling proud of her younger brother. Christian likes playing soccer and video games. His favorite subjects are science and math. Here's what the teachers say about Christian. He is an outstanding, enthusiastic, and creative student who was always ready for challenges and accomplishing goals. And when it comes to showing off Martin Ranch Elementary pride, there is no one like Christian. His enthusiasm is contagious. Christian glad to have you sir. Welcome.
MRE is the most special place I've ever been in my life. I like people who work here. The teachers that care of us, they're the best. One thing I'll never forget is Mrs. Hubble. She helped me. She helped me with every single problem I've had since when I was little.
I'm glad to have you, sir. Ms. Griffin, something for you.
Awesome.
Kristen, look at all these people that you got to talk to. We are so proud of you. And thank you for coming and doing the pledge. In honor of doing the pledge, we give you a certificate of recognition. We're going to take a picture in a second. and probably something that you'll like better is our famous lunchbox, and only the bravest of the brave get that lunchbox. Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Do we have any scouts in attendance this evening? If so, please stand up, state your name, your troop number, and what badge you're working on.
All right, welcome. Welcome.
All right. Thank you for being here tonight. Oh, OK.
Any others?
Item 5
Yeah, we'll definitely try to have you home by midnight tonight, OK? OK, we'll move forward to the recognitions portion
of our of our meeting. I'm going to call Mr. Nees Cantuta for those
recognitions to us tonight.
Good evening Mr. President, board members and
Superintendent Fraley. For our first recognition this evening I would like to introduce the Director of Community Partnerships Mrs. Janet Tice.
Mr. President, Board Members, Superintendent Fraley, good evening. It's my honor to join you in celebrating our 11th year that we have just completed of Leadership Katie with the graduation of this year's class, the class of 2014. Leadership Katie is a unique, in-depth, interactive, year-long learning experience designed to give our community members a behind-the-scenes look at district operations and to build relationships with district leaders as you know. Launched in 2003 with 50 members, the program has now nearly doubled in size. Memberships based primarily on campus principal and leadership Katy alum nominations. This year we've traveled the district meeting nine for nine monthly meetings at seven different Katy ISD campuses and facilities. We've explored topics from school finance, growth and demographics, teaching and learning, support services, school governance and and more. The key to our success of Leadership Katy is our people, the Katy ISD administrators who do a fabulous job of sharing their knowledge and their experience with our Leadership Katy members. And then, of course, the members themselves in this year's class has been a special group. We've grown quite fond of them and hate to see them leave. If you will please join me in welcoming, we've got a few of them here. Our Leadership Katy class of 2014 members would please come forward so that we can thank them for their service and congratulate them for their graduation. If you're a member of the Leadership Petty Class of 2014, please come up this way.
Each year, campuses across KDISD select one teacher as their Campus Teacher of the Year. From this select group of individuals, the district is tasked with the challenge of naming two district-wide teachers of the year, one from the elementary level and one from the secondary level. This year, the selection committee carefully reviewed more than 50 campus teacher of the year profiles and through a point system, selected two talented educators who share the passion and dedication for Katy ISD students. students. Please join me in recognizing KDISD's two district-wide teachers of the year. Teachers, please come forward when I call your name. Jana Miller, elementary district-wide teacher of the year from Katy Elementary. And Jason Hills, secondary district-wide teacher of the year from Tompkins High School.
Janna Miller teaches kindergarten at Katy Elementary. Miller is not only involved in the classroom, but also in the outside community, volunteering for her church and contributing to the growth and prosperity of her community. Jason Hill teaches agriculture sciences and is the FFA advisor at Tompkins High School. He is actively involved in service as part of the FFA organization, including volunteering at the Katy FFA Special Rodeo and the Texas Food Bank. Congratulations to Katy ISD's 2014 district-wide teachers of the year.
Earlier this year before being promoted to principal at Bear Creek, Dr. Lorena Sertucci was selected as a district 4 assistant principal of the year by the Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association. Since that time Dr. Sertucci was chosen as a National Assistant Principal of the Year for Texas. As a National Assistant Principal of the Year for Texas, Dr. Sertucci will receive $2,500 and will represent the state at the national level. Unfortunately, Dr. Sertucci was unable to attend this evening due to a prior engagement.
Each year the National PTA Reflections program recognizes students of all ages for bringing a selected theme to life through choreography, film production, literature, music composition, photography, and visual arts.
Students from all over
the nation are encouraged to reflect on the theme and express themselves through original artwork. This year Cinco Ranch Junior High's Trinity Schaefer received an award of excellence for her film production in top entry titled ocean dream congratulations on this accomplishment
This year, students from Beckendorf Junior High and Seven Lakes High School took top honors at the 30th Annual Science Olympiad National Tournament at the University of Central Florida on May 17. The Science Olympiad is one of the most prestigious science, technology, engineering, and math competitions. This team surpassed over 120 schools at nationals to win this title. I would like to introduce the 2014 Science Olympia team lead by Mr. Scott Lytle. Students, please come forward when I call your name. From Beckendorf Junior High, Asishi Chakraborty.
Elise Gu.
Rhea Gupta Kenneth Killinger
Keith Liang
Meghna Bhattura
Aditya Shah
Nasri Shah.
Sri Varanasi.
David Wang.
Alex Wu, Kevin Wu, Jennings Yeh,
Louise Jeng and now from Seven Lakes High School Heather Sweeney
Karen Tay
Eric Yu
David Yu. Dava Yuen.
Thomas Young.
Congratulations on this achievement.
. I know, I know.
You guys like to do it again?
Two or three?
The power of communications.
Yeah, let's get to communications and do it again.
I'll do it.
The Pan American Student Forum is a youth organization established to offer students a better opportunity to learn more about the Americas and Spanish-speaking world. During the 2014 Pan-American Student Forum Convention in San Antonio earlier this year, Taylor High School's Maureen McLennan won first place in the Civilization category and was selected to receive the Myrtle L. Tanner Scholarship in the amount of $1,000. Please join me in congratulating this very talented student.
Thank you.
For our next recognition this evening, I would like to introduce our Executive Director of Athletics, Debbie Decker.
Thank you. Good evening, Mr. President, Board Members, and Superintendent Fraley. I have the honor tonight to introduce to you Taylor High School's Peter Leung. Peter had a phenomenal year in the 5A Men's Singles Tennis Division. after losing only one match this entire season Peter topped the 2014 season off as the 5a men's single state champion in addition Peter is also a finalist for the Houston touchdown club scholar athlete awards which will actually be announced tomorrow night so Peter if you'll come on up also joining Peter tonight are his parents his cousin his sister crystal who by the way won the the 2011 Women's Double Tennis Championship, also from Taylor High School. In addition, I'd also like to recognize Coach Emma McDougall and newly hired Coach Tim Calhoun. Congratulations, Peter.
Thank you, Peter.
The George Foundation was established in the 1970s to assist students in meeting their educational potential by removing the financial barrier to higher education. The Foundation's scholarship programs have provided more than $14 million to assist outstanding students in their educational journey. This year, Brian Kim, a Seven Lakes High School senior, is a recipient of the George Foundation High School Scholarship. Brian will receive $5,000 annually for a four-year total of $20,000. Congratulations on this accomplishment.
At this time, I would like to recognize students who are national winners in the Continental Math League Euclidean Division Competition, a math problem-solving contest involving more than 300 schools from across the United States. To become a national winner, these students had to achieve a perfect score at each of the monthly meets. Congratulations to the following Pattison Elementary students. Danny Tang, National Student winner for the Euclidean Division, Grade 5.
Emma Hopkins, National Student winner for the Euclidean Division, Grade 5, and this is the second year that Emma has earned National Student recognition.
Jason Lee, National Student Winner for the Euclidean Division, Grade 4. This is also the second year that Jason has been a National Student Winner.
Please join me in congratulating these talented students.
Next, we will recognize our Destination Imagination state champions. Destination Imagination is a non-profit organization that provides opportunities for students from more than 30 countries to experience critical and creative thinking, collaboration, and problem solving. KDISD has two Destination Imagination teams win first place in their respective categories at the state tournament and advance to the global tournament the Alexander Elementary FDI agents and Cinco Ranch High School die harder students please come forward when I call your name the Alexander Elementary FDI agents Matthew Crabtree
James Liu
Charlotte Minsk
Emily Wynne
Daniela Ramos
sitar serena bus and from Cinco Ranch high school mad kakima Joey goo
Fay Han
Lindsey Lee
Ross Miglin
Cameron Volkham
and Catherine Wu.
Congratulations to these students.
Each
Each year, Houston Endowment selects graduating students from Houston Area School Districts as Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Scholars. Candidates are nominated by each participating high school, and a Rotary Club of Houston committee makes the final selection based on academic achievement, economic need, leadership skills, community service, and character. This year a total of 21 KDISD students were selected as Jones Scholars. Students as I call your name please come forward.
Megan Berge, Cinco Ranch High
School. Amber Shen -Gutzby, Mady Creek High School.
Dixie Ennis, Morton Ranch High
Alexis Flores Benicord, Mady Creek High School
Emilia Gonzalez, Seven Lakes High School
Ryan Jha, Mady Creek High School
Michelle Lee, Taylor High School
Deidre Martinez, Morton Ranch High School.
James Ning, Morton Ranch High School.
Courtney Wayne, Morton Ranch High School.
Nassim Neofishas, Katy High School.
Krishali Patel Cinco Ranch High School
Sameha Raman Katie High School
Giselle Rajwani Taylor High School
Sameha Raman Katie High School
Vishwet Rowe, Cinco Ranch High School.
Amy Redhair Taylor High School.
Lauren Rees, Cinco Ranch High School.
Brandon Smith, Katie High School.
Angel Valdez Seven Lakes High School
Eamonn Waseem Taylor High School
congratulations to each of these students
Thank you.
For our next group of recognitions, I would like to introduce KDISD's National Merit Scholarship recipients. You may have seen some of these students earlier in the year as we recognize them for being named as semifinalists. However, tonight we are introducing them as winners. I also want to mention that we are expecting another round of scholarship winners to be released between now and mid-summer. So keep an eye out for these names on the KDISD website. Students, when I call your name, please come forward.
Chikwania Anagbugu, Seven Lakes High School.
Susan Elia Taylor High School.
Joey Gu, Cinco Ranch High School.
Austin Kawoi, Taylor High School.
Serena Manjaba, Cinco Ranch High School.
Rowan Murphy Seven Lakes High School
Oh just partner Seven Lakes High School
Anthony cheese Seven Lakes High School
come here with our Seven Lakes High School
Danacha Sadia Porn Taylor High School
Siddharth Sita Pally Seven Lakes High School
Vidisha Srivatsa Seven Lakes High School
Monica Sue Sevenlinks High School
Katherine Wu Cinco Ranch High School
Jonathan Zong Taylor High School
Congratulations to all of these students.
They should be out there.
For our final recognitions this evening, I would like to introduce our high school principals as they name their 2014 valedictorian salutatorian. please welcome the principal of Cinco Ranch High School mr. James cross
well there you are I was gonna say good evening mr. president I looked forward and went wait you're not there so good evening mr. president board members and Mr. Fraley. It is my honor to be here tonight once again to share with you Cinco Ranch's top two graduates, the salutatorian and valedictorian. We'll begin this evening with our salutatorian and if we could have Joey Gu back down here again. Come on down Joey.
You have seen Joey a couple times tonight and so So we're proud to have him back down as our salutatorian for Cinco Ranch.
I'd like to take a moment to also recognize his parents, if they are in the audience with us tonight. His father, Yagwang Gu, and his mother, Yaoping Han. If you are with us, please stand and be recognized.
There they are.
All right. As you might imagine, Joey is a diligent student with a wide variety of interests. He participates in numerous extracurricular activities, such as Marching Band, National Spanish Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta, National Honor Society, and National Chinese Honor Society. He holds leadership positions in three of these organizations as well. In addition to being active in terms of extracurricular activities, Joy also excels academically. That may be an understatement. Distinguishing himself as a National Merit Scholar and a recipient of numerous scholarships, Joey will be attending Brown University next year as part of the program in liberal medical education. Again, it is my privilege to present to you Joey Gu, Cinco Ranch Salutatorian.
And now for our valedictorian, I'd like to welcome to the front Serena Priya Madhaven.
and I would also like to recognize her parents as well this evening if they're in the audience I saw your mom I didn't see your dad yet so I hope he's here dad is Raghu Madhaven and her mother Swati Madhaven so if you would there we go
And Serena will be attending Duke University in the fall as an Angier B. Duke Scholar, National Merit Scholar, and Schlumberger Founders Scholar. With regards to the Angier B. Duke Scholar, I learned just the other day there are only 19 of these scholarships given across the the United States and Serena was one of those. So very impressive.
She plans to study biomedical engineering and global health. She envisions a career as a teaching research practitioner and she hopes to improve medicine in underserved nations and to streamline cancer treatments to make them more cost effective and affordable. Serena currently presides over the Science National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta, and Quiz Bowl. She is also chair of Relay for Life, having founded and directed the 5k fundraiser, Kilometers to Combat Cancer, for the American Cancer Society. In her free time, she enjoys rock climbing, piano, power napping, that has to get her through all this stuff, traveling, and I can relate to this every now and then, Netflix marathons. So it is my privilege once again to present to you Cinco Ranch's valedictorian Serena Madhaven.
Okay, at this point, please welcome the principal of Katy High School, Dr. Steve Robertson. Thank you.
Good evening Mr. President, Board Members, and Superintendent Fraley. As principal of Katy High School, it is my honor and privilege to introduce our salutatorian, Hannah Matea. Hannah, come on up. There you are.
Hannah is the daughter of Chris Matea and Tammy Ficus. us. Hannah, if Chris and Tammy would please stand so we can recognize you.
Hannah has a GPA of 4.7414. She is a recipient of the Top 10% Scholarship and the Enterprise Bank Scholarship. In addition to earning these honors and achieving this impressive GPA, Hannah has been a member of the Katy High School Orchestra, Swim Team, Creative Writing Club, and the National Honor Society. She has fond memories of the camaraderie and support of the swim team. Hannah will attend the University of Texas where she will study computer science. Her career goal is to be the next Bill Gates.
Her advice for incoming freshmen is do not slack off your freshman year. Our salutatorian, Hannah Matea.
And our valedictorian has already been up here once tonight. I'd like to recognize our valedictorian, Sameha Rahman. Sameha, come on up.
Sameha is the daughter of Hafiz and Saleha Rahman. Would you please stand so we can recognize you as well? There he is with the camera. Good job.
Samia has a GPA of 4.7818. She is a recipient of the Jones Scholarship and the UIL Scholar Award. She has received numerous Katy High School Honor Awards including the Coveted Achievement Award. While earning these honors and achieving this impressive GPA, Samia has served as the Spanish Club Vice President and as a member of the Peer Mentor Leadership Team, Katy High School Orchestra, Mu Alpha Theta, and HOSA. Her favorite high school memories are from her service with our fish camp. She especially enjoyed the fish camp dances and interacting with the freshmen. Sameha will attend the University of Southern California and she aspires to be a trauma surgeon. Her advice for incoming freshmen is try your best in every class, get involved, and enjoy your high school experience. Sameha Roman, our Valedictorian.
Thank you.
Now please welcome the principal of Mighty Creek High School, Dr. Casilda Steele.
Good evening, Mr. Board President, members of the board and Mr. Fraley. It is with pride that I introduce the salutatorian of the class of 2014 for May Creek High School, Amber Chin Goodspeed.
Her parents are Robert and Misty Goodspeed and her dad's here tonight.
She graduates with a GPA of 4.6667. She will be attending John Hopkins University in the fall and plans on majoring in business and pursuing a career in medicine. She has received several scholarships for her studies, which include the Hopkins V Scholarship for $220,000, dollars the Jones I know wow the Jones scholarship and the Ronald McDonald House charity scholarship she is a member of multiple organizations which include the May Creek Varsity Orchestra Student Council class officer Cripple Creek fiddlers the Hugh Bryan youth leader National Honor Society in the Asian Student Union throughout her school career she's completed over 200 200 volunteer service hours and has received the President's Volunteer Service Award and the McCool Humanitarian Award Congratulations, Amberton Gittsby
The valedictorian for the class of 2014 for May Creek is Dylan Mowry
His parents are Ross and Linda Mowry.
Dylan graduates with a GPA of 4.7115. He plans on attending the University of Texas at Austin to continue his studies of the world with a degree in international business. Dylan received the JA Titan business simulation scholarship from the Rotary Club. Throughout his time at May Creek High School he's been awarded several academic challenge awards. He's also been a College Board AP scholar with distinction and a member of the National Honor Society and the Theatre Club. Congratulations Dylan Mowry.
Now please welcome the principal of Morton Ranch High School, Mr. Lee Cruz.
Good evening Mr. President, members of the board, Mr. Fraley. It is my honor tonight to present the Morton Ranch High School Salutatorian and Valedictorian. Our Salutatorian for 2014 2014 is Dominic Kizik. Dominic come on for come on up
Dominic is joined tonight by his parents Benjamin and Dagmar Kizik. Y'all can wave for us
Dominic has been a busy student in high school Obviously he was awarded with five letters while in high school one of those was for academics and four for swimming He's been captain of the swim team this year. He has over 300 hours of community service during his high school career. His awards include two outstanding student awards, an AP scholar with honor, PSAT National Merit Commended Student, and the KDISD Excellence Award for Science for Morton Ranch High School. Dominic plans to attend Case Western Reserve University in the fall to double major in biomedical science or biomedical engineering, excuse me, and biochemistry. His long-term plan is to attend medical school and become a cardiovascular surgeon and medical researcher. Dominic also, as you can imagine, was a member of our National Honor Society. His final GPA in high school or GPA at this point in high school is four points.
our valedictorian this year is carolyn yow carolyn would you come on up
Carolyn is joined tonight by her father, Taseer Karaja, her mother, Ye-Yu, and her brother, James Yao. Would you all please wave?
Caroline has a very interesting story from high school. She was a four-year band member at Morton Ranch High School. As a matter of fact, she first learned to play her instrument in high school and this year served as president of the band and section leader for the flutes. Quite an accomplishment. She has participated in the academic decathlon team as team leader, National Honor Society, where she served as vice president, Mavs, and the principal's communication network. Outside of school Caroline enjoys volunteering and hanging out with friends, and I put this in quotes because she wrote it down, when there aren't piles of homework to complete. Additionally she loves to learn about various cultures and plans to continue her passion by joining multiple cultural groups, cultural appreciation groups in college. Carolyn was an at-large winner in the KDISD Student Excellence Awards. She is a PSAT National Merit Commended student and also College Board AP Scholar with distinction. In the fall, she plans to attend the University of Texas in Austin to major in electrical engineering with a possible double major in business. Her post-college goal is to attain a position with NASA where she can use her electrical engineering degree. Her GPA is 4.7414. Please congratulate Carolyn Yau.
Now please welcome the principal of Seven Lakes High School, Mr. Ted Verling.
Thank you.
Mr. President, members of the board, Mr. Fraley, thank you for having us this evening. It is my honor to present to you the salutatorian at Seven Lakes High School, Manmita Gundampalli.
Manmita's parents are Jay Pratap Gundampalli and Mun Orama Gundampalli. They're here tonight.
Van Mitha boasts a GPA of 4.833334.
She is a member of the FBLA, Future Business Leaders of America, Spartans Out Serving, National Honor Society, Pre-Med Society. She is a lover of taekwondo and also a member of the Mu Alpha Theta group.
and she will be attending Rice University to study bioengineering and she would like to be a cardiologist and I am certain she will be a wonderful one man meet the good Nepali
and our valedictorian is mr. Ojas potness
I did pronounce that correctly, it is Ogis. I have known Ogis since sixth grade, I promise you that's right. Ogis has a GPA of 4.8406. His parents, Dad Shailesh and Mom Nita Potniss.
And O just got me a little bio here and I won't read the whole entire thing. He has a passion for medicine, bonding with his second family, the Science Olympiad group, of which he was one of the charter members back at Beckendorf seven years ago. So awesome group, has been a big influence on his life. loves playing soccer outside of school and as volunteering as the vice president co-founder of the Red Cross Club as well as a member of the NHS he loves paddle boarding hanging out with his brother and friends and in his free time he enjoys watching House of Cards hiking and eating shawarma so it must be the shawarma oh just in the future he will go into the medical field and would like to be I believe a doctor neurologist is that correct oh just And Ojas is going to the University of Texas, so he's sticking with the orange. Ojas Potten.
At this point, please welcome the principal of Taylor High School, Mr. Jeff Stocks.
Mr. President, distinguished members, Mr. Fraley, I'm proud to be here tonight to introduce our salutatorian and valedictorian for Taylor High School for 2014. I'll start with our salutatorian. I'll announce him. He's not here this evening but I believe his parents are. Our salutatorian is Ganalan Karun. Mr. and Mrs. Karun are you here this evening? If you are please stand.
Okay we'll say all kinds of things about you that aren't true.
Ganalan is a finished this year with a GPA of 4.8 He is going to be attending the University of Texas at Austin in the fall and study electrical and computer engineering.
In school, Ganahlan competed at a national level in speech and debate and FBLA and he wants to become an entrepreneur, which you can bet your boots that he will become. Ganahlan Karun, salutatorian for Taylor High School.
Our valedictorian is Amy Marsden. Amy, come to the front please.
Mr. and Mrs. Marsden, would you please stand?
Amy attacked her studies this year with single-minded purpose.
She studied 99% of her time, because you can't do it for 100% of your time. time and when I asked Amy something interesting about herself she said she's the third valedictorian in her immediate family
I'm pretty sure that's a record Amy is going to be attending the University of Texas at Austin where she's going to study chemical engineering and do after college whatever she darn well pleases she has a she's finishing this year with the GPA of 4.8246.
Valedictorian for Taylor High School, Amy Marston.
Congratulations to each of these students, their parents, and the many KDISD staff members that worked with them over the years. this concludes our recognitions for this evening
Thank you.
Thank you.
Item 9.1
amazing students to celebrate and and that took a little while but it was well worth it as we discussed earlier we're gonna move now agenda item 9.1 the report section for the KDISD Education Foundation and BP STEM grant program and now we have some teachers to celebrate as well so mr. John do either Thank You
Mr. President and Board of Trustees and Mr. Fraley, I'm Ken Yonda. I'm the KDISD Education Foundation Board Vice President. Our President Chris Crockett was not able to be here tonight, but I am reporting in compliance with the Memorandum of Understanding between the KDISD Education Foundation and KDISD. The Katy ISD Education Foundation had just an outstanding 2013-2014 fiscal year. In just our second year of activities, we've done a lot of great things. Our mission continues to be to unite the community in making targeted investments in our schools, and those investments have been primarily in the form of grants to teachers. Although our fiscal year doesn't end until the end of August, most of our work this year is complete and we're beginning preparations for our next year. Some of our most significant achievements for this year are as follows. First, we consider it to be a great achievement of the great support that we've got from the Board of Trustees. So many of you have been at our events and supporting us in many different ways and we really appreciate that, especially Mr. Mikulski who has served as the official representative of the Board of Trustees on the foundation. Thank you all very much. We've also continued to strengthen our Board of of directors, as well as our operating processes and procedures. As a new foundation, we've been working very hard to make sure that we're good custodians and stewards of the funds that we've received. And we've developed a very strong board of members. I believe in your materials, you have the list of all the members of our board. We've also grown in support from community board members, as well as the support for many of the ISD administrators, including Mr. Fraley, Dr. Caskey, Mr. Smith, numerous campus principals, teachers that have been supporting us, and of course our amazing administrative liaison Janet Tice. This year we raised about $200,000 in the foundation.
We did this in a couple of different ways. The first was the continuing contributions of our original three-year groundbreaking investors. This was the second year of their three-year commitment and we raised over $60,000 from just that group of groundbreaking investors alone. We also began this year a new multi-year program for Keystone investors, so any of you in the audience that want to invest in us the next year talk to me after the meeting about being a Keystone investor. We had two really great successful events that really did do a great job of uniting the community as well as helping us raise funds. The first one back last September we had the Fireflies and Food Trucks event at the No Name No Label Brewery which was very surprising because people thought where are we having this event? But we did a great job of bringing the community together at No Label and had a great event there. Our second event in April was our Jazz with a Latin Flair event that we had and we had it in conjunction with the Katy Jazz Festival, so we really brought two great organizations together in April. We also were very pleased to have an amazing $50,000 grant from BP, who joined us this year as our first cornerstone investor. So we did a great job. We now have pressure on us to raise even more funds for next year, but we will make every effort to do that. We also then did something with that money, and what we did was award grants. We received grant requests from teachers for over $340,000. We were not able to fund all of those, even though we raised a lot of money. We were able to fund grants of merits totaling $209,599 to 158 teachers on 28 different campuses. I think that's worth a round of applause.
But before I turn it over to Janet, who's going to recognize the teachers specifically in these grants, I want to thank all of our hard-working foundation board members as well as community members who are not on the foundation board but actively work on our fundraising, marketing, grants, or other committees. If I could please have those members of our board and our committee members that are in the audience, if they could stand to be recognized as well, just stand in place. Thank you.
With that, let me turn it over to Janet, who's going to tell you a little bit more about the grants that we were able to award. Thanks.
Janet Thanks, Mr. Yonda.
Mr. President, Mr. Fraley, Board of Directors, we are grateful for leadership of our Board of Directors Foundation. They are great people, as evidenced by Ken Yonda, our Vice President, and Chris Crockett, Steve Jones our treasurer Mr. Fraley serves as secretary and it's an excellent group of people that have a privilege of working with them as director of community partnerships with KDIC and the loan administrative liaison to the foundation it's I want to say it's an honor to introduce this year's inspiring imagination grants but it's a thrill let's just be honest this is our second viable year as a foundation last year we we awarded grants to 117 teachers this this year's convention 158 last year 18 campuses this year's 28 last year 30 grants this year 55 and last year we gave away eighty eight thousand dollars and then he mentioned this year two hundred nine thousand dollars five hundred two hundred nine five hundred ninety nine thousand dollars spread across sixteen elementary five junior highs and seven high schools in Katy ISD and we're we're so proud of that absolutely thrilled that you should all clap we told our grant winners over the last two weeks as we did our cash crew surprise visits to their classrooms and their faculty meetings to declare them winners that it sounds like when we say over two hundred thousand dollars that they are one of many when in fact they're one of a few our board funded half the grants that we received because those were the grants that they chose that they saw as of merit as they call it these are the grants that presented imaginative ideas for classroom activities we say is the Education Foundation we help extraordinary teachers do extraordinary things in the classroom for their students and these are in fact extraordinary teachers and they wrote and presented to us extraordinary grants who all survived a three-step arduous evaluation process so it's a big deal to get a KD ISD Education Inspiring Imagination grant. As Mr. Yonda mentioned, we're honored this year to be the recipient of our first Cornerstone Investor, the contribution given us by BP and BP is represented here tonight by John Curry, the Associate Director for Special Projects. BP's contribution to the foundation includes their continued long-term support for the successful, excuse me, Cinco Ranch robotics team and the following Inspiring Imagination grants chosen for for our BP STEM grant program. I'd like to ask Mr. Curry to come forward as we begin our recognition. And in doing so, I would like to say to him and all of our friends at BP who we've come to know that they really have become partners and friends in our foundation family. And we are ever grateful for their friendship and their support. So our BP STEM grant winners are from Creech Elementary Super STEM Lab, Miss Elise Jacobson and her team please come forward from Hayes Elementary Gems GEMS Club girls excelling in math and science and stem boxes Miss Laurie McKnight and her team Brandi Pickens from Nottingham Country Elementary if we build it they will come stem lab K through second grade miss Peggy Sutherland and her partner Mary Sarver
from Miller Career and Technology Center mobile iPad lab miss Julie Trevino and her team please come forward for Morton Ranch junior high inspiring eighth grade math students with TI inspire navigator system miss Carrie Horgan and Catherine LeBay and I'm not sure either of them could be here tonight but let's clap for them anyway shall we from Seven Lakes High School wait just a momentum miss Ann Rogers David Bent Schneider and Mark Wallace please come forward from From Taylor High School, Journey to the Edge of Space, Mr. Don Adams and Richard Johnson, please come forward.
And from Windbourne Elementary, Recycled Robots, Miss Catherine Kellen, Terry Howard, and Christine Lucio. If you're here, please come forward.
I believe we're going to take a photograph with Mr. Curry and his BP STEM grant program winners.
Thank you.
Thank you again to BP. We are grateful Mr. Curry. You guys stay where you are. Our teachers, if you will please stay put. I want to thank also, as we arranged, Leah Marchione and Communications Department, Tammy Stringer for their help with our work with the foundation and their support. And now, please join me in celebrating the rest of our Inspiring Imagination grant winners, a stellar group indeed. a world of music at your fingerprint fingertips excuse me Cimarron Elementary miss Tammy bolts please come forward
engagement collaboration community connecting science and social studies to the world through project-based learning Cimarron Elementary miss Lori Davies second year that she has won a grant kindergarten project-based learning adventure Simran elementary miss Kimberly McDonald and her team please come forward classic literature modern delivery using technology to motivate digital learners to read timeless children's books Simran elementary miss Melissa Norred and her team robots rule engineering is cool Creech elementary Ms. Donna Parker please come forward.
Incorporating technology for non-traditional learners, Galbo Elementary, Ms. Kathy Langford and her team. Can you dig it, Hayes Elementary, Ms. Katie Beard and Kathleen Netland.
Growing Healthy Choices, Hayes Elementary, Miss Sarah Hernandez and her team.
Rocking with Robots, Hutzel Elementary, Miss Donna Parker.
Donna is also a second year winner for an Inspiring Imagination grant. History Speaks Volumes, Hutzel Elementary, Miss Kimberly Smith and Megan Atchison.
bookstore on the bayou May Creek Elementary miss Jessica Crandall and Julie brigance creative character fusion Nottingham Country Elementary miss Susan Covington and Sarah Flores sensory motor lab Patterson Elementary miss Christina par and Gail Pope building community inspiring creativity Rhodes Elementary miss Jennifer Patterson and holding chin
guiding math into the future Schaefer Elementary miss Ashley Lancaster and her team out of the box resources Schaefer Elementary miss Alicia long and also a second time winner second year winner
tap into the energy of writing Schaefer Elementary miss Heather Peck and her team let it grow let it grow let it grow Stanley Elementary miss Michelle luster and her team please come forward there's an app for that Stanley Elementary miss Beth Truex and her team the garden stem project Stevens Elementary miss Seda Chapa and Penelope Flores creating a classroom of today for students of tomorrow Williams Elementary miss Stacy Levin and her team technology work Williams Elementary Miss Carol McNabb
turning kidders into coders William Elementary Miss Debbie Muke and her team I collaborate I communicate I create Williams Elementary Miss Virginia Neely
discovering the world through nonfiction Wilson Elementary miss Christina bib
living the life of a nonfiction reader matters woman elementary miss Bridget Alim and her team
picture-perfect science woman elementary miss la monique Johnson and Tracy huss
program lights action woman elementary miss Cheryl Stallings and her team
connecting to the global classroom project McMeans junior high miss Karen Lewis and her team tablets for education Memorial Parkway junior high mr. Kenneth dequeer and his team and tablets for education the additional grade levels Memorial Parkway junior high mr. Scott Villar and his team Apple Technology in the eighth grade science classroom seven likes junior high miss Caitlin Gardner and her team English English language arts and social studies cross-curricular integration Wood Creek junior high miss Tanya Swindell and chase McLaurin
forensic scientist project May Creek high school miss Karen Goodwin and her her team.
Target 220 College and Career Readiness, Maid Creek High School, Ms. Penny Rosas and Rick Kirby.
Math 360 Labs Peer Tutoring Program, Maid Creek High School, Ms. Tess Zimmerman and her team.
pharmacy mini lab Miller Career and Technology Center miss Elizabeth Tucker and Brenda Weibel informational text in the classroom Martin Ranch High School mr. Jim Heisler 100 stories told Martin Ranch High School miss Karen Sparks and her team another second year winner food for thought rains high school miss Shannon Goldsmith and Karen Richards
heat them up speed them up thermodynamics and thermochemistry Seven Lakes High School miss Doris Hamilton and her team array of hope a gene Gene Analysis of Cancer Using Microarrays, Seven Lakes High School, Miss Sarah Mullinax and her team.
Applications of Atomic Emission, oh my goodness,
spectroscopy, yeah, and that other S word in the Pre-AP and AP Chemistry Classroom, Seven Lakes High School, Miss Jennifer Knotts and her team, her very smart, intelligent, big word, team.
18 to 20 year old applied and fundamental work-based learning transition project Seven Lakes High School miss Cheryl Rochella and her team
raising learning by the power of 10 Seven Lakes High School miss Madeline st. Julian and her team iPads are winter to the world Taylor High School miss Amy Campbell and Sue Thomas and last but not least community-based tutoring program Taylor High School miss Katie Statham and Jerry Beard before we take our picture if you guys will enjoy me in one huge massive round of applause to the sweetest faces I've seen all day. Congratulations!
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
As she continues, you guys look at her, don't look at me. But I'd like to add my thanks to Mr. Yondas, to the Board of Trustees, who I can't see right now. For your support of all our community engagement programs in KDIC, it means the world to us. And most particularly at this time for your support of the KDIC Education Foundation and your vision for establishing this relationship. and allowing us to do this for our teachers. My friends tell me that we actually might be able to get a better group photo of you guys on the stairs out in the lobby. So once Leah is finished, if you will all join us out there for a quick photo op, then we can return to the board meeting when we're done. But most of all, just know that we're proud of you guys, and we really do appreciate your work you've done well. Well done. Great job. off.
Mr. President.
Mrs. Fox.
Mr. Yonda and Mrs. Tice, because this is a report, the board would like to address you if that's all right. so I'll begin so many years ago this was a dream of ours to have an education foundation someone who could do exactly what you all have done to bring together the community and the businesses and to be able to find a way to to equalize classrooms from corner to corner edge to edge of our district and you talk about numbers of campuses and numbers of teachers that you have reached in two short years and I was just wondering I wonder how many students that is and I know that would be impossible to calculate because these grants are not just about one time spend the money it's over it's about ongoing and far-reaching way past one group of students from an imagination of a teacher or a group of teachers so I just see this as a as a as an impact that cannot be measured and it it thrills my heart and my husband and I are one of the founding donors because we know what the possibility what the potential is and you have so far exceeded expectations with your with your ideas and creativity and how to reach people and how to bring immediate impact into classrooms and I will try to do this my friend told me that not to cry you put your tongue on the roof of your mouth you can only do that if you're not speaking so my friend Robert Shaw served on this board for 15 years he's my friend and he mentored me how to be a trustee and he would go to when we go to trainings that we go to around the state he would always attend the ones about an Education Foundation because his dream
he lost his battle with cancer this week but not before he saw the Education Foundation come to fruition and we talked about it just before he passed and how how great it's doing and his family has asked for any donations did of flowers for donations to come to your foundation and i know that you will see much of that because of his love for what you all are doing thank you we're grateful we appreciate
that mr president mr debris done a great job raising money this past year and actually for the past two years um i have one question since our meetings are streamed out to the public if If someone wants to donate, how can they go about doing that? Please speak into the microphone.
This is www.kdisdeducationfoundation.org for an online donation, or they can contact me directly at 281-396-6031. And they make the check payable to whom? KDISD Education Foundation. Thank you for that. Thank you, sir.
Thank you so much for your report. One of the things that amazes me the most is, yeah, it's been a lot of work. There's been amazing creativity with the events and everything, but everyone involved does it with a smile on their face. And it's just so worthwhile and it's a lot of fun.
So, well done. It's an honor to do this for our teachers. Thank you guys for giving us the opportunity. We're grateful. Thank you all.
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Item 6
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At this time the Board of Trustees will hear from patrons who wish to speak. By Board policy, 30 minutes have been allotted for this forum. 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 executive director for communications, Dr. Andrea Grooms. These written statements will be shared with the board. Due to the 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 forum is not a dispute resolution forum. The Board is not trying to prevent any patron from speaking. The intent is to redirect patrons 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 that they must follow and exhaust all administrative remedies prior to presenting complaints to the Board. As I announce your name, please come to the microphone and state your name, tell the Board whether or not you reside in Katy ISD, and whether or not you have children presently enrolled in KDISD. Tonight we have 11 speakers. Each speaker will be allotted three minutes each to speak. Our Sergeant-at-Arms, Mrs. Courtney Doyle, will remind you when you have one minute remaining.
Our first speaker tonight is Courtney Johnson.
Good evening, Mrs. Johnson.
Hello, and thank you for allowing me to speak. My name is Courtney Johnson. I live in Katy. I have a kindergartener that will be entering Fielder Elementary this fall in the TWI program. And I'm sure that you've heard a lot about the TWI program, but you haven't heard from me. The reason I am coming to speak to you today is regarding my place of employment. I work at a preschool. I handle enrollments. I give tours. I answer the phones. but it's not just any preschool it's a Spanish immersion preschool every family that comes there wants the same thing a bilingual child and almost all of our families are english-speaking families we opened last April with nine students three of whom I birthed myself and we just enrolled our 90th in two months from April till summer camp we went from nine students to 50 on a daily basis by Christmas we were turning away families we added two new classrooms when the yarn store closed down next door and we just enrolled our 90th student last um last may i'm excuse me on monday i'm here to tell you that these families they keep coming and they keep coming and they keep coming and they keep coming they are families that want bilingual children the interest in bilingualism is incredible everyone that works there is a native spanish speaker except me which is why i answer the phones the students that are enrolled in this school are are ages two, three, four, and five. Their parents, on average, are paying 500 bucks a month to have a bilingual child. And all of them ask me the same question. What's next? After I pay all this money, where does my child go? A lot of these people are relocating to Texas, and I say, don't buy a house until I talk to you about TWI. Because it's so cool that Katy, Texas, that used to be a little rice town, has a public school education that offers bilingual program. for English-speaking students to learn a second language. I'm really proud of Katie, and I think that you should be too. But what I hope for these students, and what their families hope for these students, is not just to speak the kind of Spanish that you can help somebody in an airport. They want the kind of Spanish that changes their lives, the kind of Spanish where you can write a resume, the kind of Spanish where you can translate a document, the kind of Spanish that gets you a job. and that kind of Spanish doesn't come in the fifth grade it comes later now I know the TWI program doesn't affect that many students we only had nine but if you build it they will come and in fact they're already here and they keep coming so please will you build it you might only have nine when you start or or 25 or 40. But if you put it in place now, you'll figure out the kinks before the hordes of people arrive. And that is a lesson well learned. What's more, listening to you talk about how you have the ability to impact lots and lots of children, I have four that you could impact. And you can look back and say, I did.
Thank you, Mrs. Johnson.
Our next speaker tonight is Nancy Salazar.
Good evening. My name is Nancy Salazar and I have two children in KDISD in the two-way immersion program. I would like to begin with an analogy tonight, if you may allow me. Say a child is presented with a Popsicle and she's told there's a possibility she might be able to have it. She pictures her in her mind, all of its beautiful colors. She can already see herself holding it, imagining what it will taste like. She trusts the person offering it sincerely because she thinks, she believes that that person had no other intention but to truthfully desire to give her the opportunity to have it.
The child then is told to wait as there are certain things
that need to be worked out. So she waits and waits and waits. Then all of a sudden the child is told you may not have the opportunity to have it after all there are no reasons offer as to why it's just plain no well about two weeks before the KDSD board elections our district did something equally as surprising it opened the door for Katie to his parents to talk about the options for the students in the two-way immersion program to continue into secondary the secondary program is comprised of at least two classes a language class and a content content class in Spanish. Another option would be to a minimum allow these children to take a Spanish class which is already part of the KDSD curriculum. This would prevent them from losing ground and instead continue on the language learning pathway they have been on immediately upon entering junior high. These options could also be made available to as many other students in other programs capable of undertaking this course of study at sixth grade level. But as far as the conversation, it all just suddenly stopped, and no one gave an answer as to why. We sincerely hope it was not because the school board elections were over with. But back to the child analogy. The child does not represent the adult involved in these conversations. That child is representative of the hundreds and possibly one day thousands of children in our district who stand to benefit from the TWI program being expanded into secondary.
One minute.
We were told by a board member that when it comes to a proposition in the district, the board of trustees is the what and that the district administration is the how. The conversation started because the first part of that equation was addressed. Everyone was left waiting for the second part, the how, to be answered by district administration. On behalf of the students, Katie Twist is simply asking our district to come back to the table. and give these children currently in the program an opportunity to continue learning on the pathway they embarked on six years ago. Ultimately, it's most important education for the board and the administration to know how the children are not left behind, and why not. Thank you.
Mr. Salazar, next speaker tonight is Marvin Coleman.
Welcome, Mr. Coleman.
Thank you. Good evening. My name is Marvin Coleman, Jr. I live in Katy. I have two children in the TWI program at Fielder Elementary. As was mentioned earlier, when it comes to steering a school district in the direction of meeting its mission, the board of directors is the what and the school administration is the how. Katie Twist has now heard of the what and the possible how. But after more than a year of waiting to hear the outcome of continuing two-way immersion in junior high, we're hearing late May and students from two schools are about to graduate fifth grade not understanding why the district is telling them no. No, we cannot make two classes happen for you to continue in the program. So these bright young students, full of potential, drive, and ambition, and their families are still waiting to hear from you, the district leadership, valid reason as to why not. Our school district has been known to move mountains, to take great strides in addressing our phenomenal growth. But this growth comes with greater needs than just the need for shelter under which to learn. It must meet the needs of the future of the students representing this growth, of the diversity and of all the opportunities that come with that from an educational standpoint. That's the business we're in after all, aren't we? Speaker after speaker, month after month, dual language proponents have approached you all collectively and individually. We presented answers to the questions being sought. We relayed to you the needs of these students and of the students clamoring to get into the program. We've presented you with expert commentary, statistics, and reports. We've even gone so far as to seek and obtain funding, even though we've been told that the funding is not the holdup after all. As we've discussed with you all, every box has been checked. Whatever perceived obstacle that might or might not exist is not insurmountable for the school district such as ours. It's time to get serious about addressing this immediate need and incredible opportunity for our kids. We must give all of our students what they need now to prepare them for the future. Let's all of us, we as a family and community, part of the KDISD mission statement, our board and our administration, all get back to the playbook. As a former football player, here we go. It's fourth down and goal to go. We train these youngsters. They're prepared. They're pumped. They're ready to go. Let's not let them down, especially when it would take so little to help them reach their goal. Say yes to the futures and to the futures of all the other students after them. Say yes to TWI and secondary. Thank you in advance for all you've done and all we know you can do to make the bright future as a reality. Thank you for this time.
Thank you, Mr. Coleman. Our next speaker tonight is Kristen Rodriguez.
Welcome, Mrs. Rodriguez.
Good evening. My name is Kristen Rodriguez. My husband and I reside in Katy with our three daughters, the oldest being a TWI second grader at Memorial Parkway Elementary. Two years ago, Davis School District in Utah was at a similar place as Katy ISD finds itself in now. Its first class of dual language elementary students were moving on to junior high. The district chose to implement a secondary program because, as the World Languages Supervisor recalled, we had to think, what are we going to do for these kids? We couldn't just drop them. Why is Katy ISD dropping its dual language kids? kids. As a teacher within that Davis district said about secondary programming, there's no academic reason not to do it. We have already established that dual language programs in multiple languages are growing rapidly across the nation in districts representing a wide range of student demographics. More and more programs are moving to middle or junior high and even high schools. Why is that? Leading experts, Doctors Leo and Richard Gomez, who have helped over 450 districts to implement programs across the country, namely in Texas, assert that because continued academic literacy development stops once the language stops, the longer students learn in both languages, the stronger the biliteracy development, and the higher the academic outcomes for both groups. Some numbers were brought up during a past board discussion as to how long it takes to learn a language, as justification for keeping the program at the elementary level only. Unfortunately, the research I believe that was being cited was incorrectly applied. Those of us who are language teachers and professionals understand that it takes much longer than a few hours a day for the duration of elementary school. It's simply not enough exposure and time in the new language. From my home state, a recent article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune covered a story on how across Minnesota language immersion programs are growing and growing up, citing that the number of immersion programs have doubled since 2006. Once limited to elementary schools, they're reflecting a national trend and spreading to middle schools and even high schools. Dr. Tara Fortune, an immersion expert at the University of Minnesota Center for Advanced research on language acquisition who advises schools across the state, nation, and world said it's about positioning Minnesota economically and politically to really be players on the world scene. If what is already going on throughout the world and what is quickly gaining popularity across the country doesn't interest you, then take a look at what is happening right here in Texas where the number of public school students are enrolled in two-way dual language programs has doubled in the past few years to over 60,000. Following the national trend, Texas secondary programs are also on the rise. Our neighbors HISD and Spring Branch already have them. A page on the Spring Branch ISD website announces secondary dual language program, a new choice for SBISD students and families. It asserts we believe students require instruction that fits their needs. The district has added such programs to two more campuses and states that will offer continued dual language programming through the child's educational career in SBISD. It says doing so will be filling a great need for students in Spring Branch ISD. Districts across the nation, across the the state and right here in our backyard are adding secondary programs. This isn't the latest fad in education, it's a legitimate and consistent trend with years in the making. Your answer has been that KDISD doesn't need a secondary dual language program and doesn't want one. But please explain why not.
Thank you, Mrs. Rodriguez.
Our next speaker tonight is James McGill.
Did I say that correctly? Yes, sir. I don't know that I need a mic, but I'll use one anyways. I actually don't have a prepared speech. I was called up to speak at the last minute on behalf of TWI. I have two children in KDISD, one my youngest in the TWI program, my oldest in fifth grade, both in Filder Elementary. Speaking on behalf of those looking to learn foreign languages, we all know the academic benefits associated with that in terms of the cognitive abilities, the mathematical abilities, the ability to relate to other culture, etc. So I think that's pretty well understood and agreed fact. But when we look at first through fifth grade, is that really enough to have a child learn the language and really incorporate it into who they are to be able to take that through the rest of their life? I would argue that the summer vacation effect would show that that's not the case. As we know, when students go on vacation over the school year, the math, the language they learn, that all really falls away. Now imagine the summer vacation that lasts three years between the fifth grade and elementary going all the way through high school. That is quite the summer vacation effect. I would argue that the language that they learn in first through fifth grade would be lost by the time they actually leave elementary and then go into high school itself. I would also argue that the pragmatic benefit, the pragmatic benefits of having Spanish, especially in a city city such as Texas or any other language would far outweigh the cost of having an additional three years of language programs. I mean, overall, when you look at the academic benefits, the pragmatic benefits, and really the summer vacation effect, I would argue strongly in favor of continuing the secondary education of the TWI program and continue Spanish throughout. So no fancy speech and didn't have a lot of facts and figures, but that's my heartfelt and off-the-cuff remarks. Thank you very much.
Thank you, Mr. McGill, and I will say that was very well delivered for not having a prepared speech.
Our next speaker tonight is Tom Jackson.
Welcome, Mr. Jackson, our esteemed neighbor.
Good evening, President Murkowski, trustees, Superintendent Fraley, patrons of the district. I do not live in your district, but I appreciate being given the opportunity to address you this evening. First, please accept my condolences on your loss of leadership. My name is Tom Jackson. I and my compatriots are all proud members of the Sons of the American Revolution, celebrating celebrating our 125th birthday this year. I am not here to praise your district for being one of only three in the greater Harris County area where every campus met standards, nor am I here to burnish your trophies that your athletic prowess has achieved, nor sit in row five and applaud your high performing performing arts, nor am I here to say thank you for letting us sprinkle a little patriotism in history to approximately 5,000 of your students over the past 10 years. Rather, I am here tonight in the shadow of Memorial Day as a national presenter for JROTC for four different high school districts, rather four different districts within the greater Harris County area to shine the spotlight on one of yours, your naval JROTC unit at Maid Creek High School. Captain Kilpatrick succinctly states the mission of the unit is to instill in the cadets the value of leadership, service to the United States, personal responsibility, and a sense of accomplishment. Fine words, but you must listen to his annual address as we have for each and every year that that this unit has been on the Maid Creek campus. In 2011, he chose to speak of duty, not rights. In 2014, he talked about how their mission is best accomplished by the cadets themselves. No better example than a peer example. A peer example leaves no room for excuses. If they can do it, so can you. They are peers not just for themselves, but the entire student body. body. In today's world of public education, high ideals are no longer enough. Quantifiable achievement is required. Despite funding cutbacks, this unit has been designated a distinguished unit again this year. They have been for every year of their existence. They currently rank 11 out of 55 units in their area. The cadets are active in two nationally sponsored STEM STEM programs. 2013 these cadets were national finalists in the JROTC academic bowl, but in 2014 as you're well aware, they were the national champions. From inception, five cadets have received the ROTC four-year scholarship. A full ride is always worthy of recognition. In the last six years, these cadets have performed over 22 hours of community service, 5,200 hundred of those just in the past year. When you listen to the cadets speak, either at the podium at the change of guard,
Thank you, Mr. Jackson.
Our next speaker tonight is Laura Freeman.
Welcome, Ms. Freeman.
Hi, Mr. President, Board of Trustees, Mr. Fraley. My name is Laura Freeman. I do live within KDISD and I have for many years and I have two children currently in KDISD. I wanted to introduce you tonight to Holly Goddard and Jace, who has been very patient because his data plan ran out. In April of 2013, my daughter came home from school and complained about a substitute teacher. And my standard response is, well, you know, the good thing about a substitute is that you wait a couple days and your regular teacher comes back. And she's like, no, mom, you don't understand. I'm like, okay. She's like, yeah, my teacher's not coming back for a year. I was like, a year? Oh, my gosh, is something wrong? No, mom, she joined the Army. I was like, ooh. Two major things went across my mind. holy cow what did my child do to this teacher that made her join the army and then two why does the United States Army allow junior high teachers to join just like that we're going to have no junior high teachers I then found out from Mr. McCord that coach Goddard as I knew her was also major Goddard and a member of the Army Reserves and she was called up and had to serve her year so I felt it it was only appropriate to recognize Jace for his service to our country by letting his mom come back or go and serve her duty, Major Goddard says serving her duty and for coming back to Morton Ranch Junior High and to welcome her home. So that's what we wanted to do.
Thank you.
Mr. President, a clarifying question. If you ladies would step back, please. The board can, by law, ask a clarifying question. Major Goddard, where did you serve?
I was at Fort Hood.
Fort Hood. And what was your assignment?
I can't get away from the teaching field. My unit is a, they go out, basically I was the officer in charge, and all the deploy units that drive the big trucks, the mine resistant trucks, that was my team's job to train them how to drive those trucks.
Thank you for your service. Thank you.
Clarifying question, Mr. President. Ms. Fox. What do you teach at Morton Ranch Junior High?
Girls PE.
Thank you for your service. Thank you, Mrs. Freeman.
Thank you.
Our next speakers tonight are Diana Lopez and Raquel Castillo. Welcome ladies.
Our school gives us food that sometimes makes us sick, has hair in it, and if we don't like the food we'll stop eating it. And if we stop eating it our school and district will make less money because of so many kids bringing homemade lunches instead of school lunches if schools make less money we will probably get low education and not learn things that we are supposed to be learning plus my classmates my classmates have been and still are sending money for their lunches and when they buy it the lunch lady tells them that they still owe money well we made a goal of a hundred signatures and a petition and our total was 104 signatures and they were all in the fifth grade some first grade whole school side a lot of people that didn't get to sign they still agreed that that we should still have better cafeteria food thank you ladies would you like to
To hand in your petition, you may offer it to Mrs. Nowak, who is coming to meet you.
Thank you for sharing with us.
Our next speaker tonight is Brett Lowe. Welcome, Mr. Lowe.
Thank you, Mr. President, Board. My name is Brett Lowe. I have currently four children in KDISD. One will start next year. That would make five children that I have in your school district, in your schools.
I had the opportunity to spend Memorial Day at home. My company let me do that. and because of that we have we have a philosophy where we see it we own it I happen to experience yesterday which you may not know the bad weather that occurred there was quite a bit of a storm at 310 an email said please come pick up your children at 345 at the same time an issuance for a tornado watch was occurring parents all over the district were deployed to get their children we're up in lines waiting to pick their children up in this foul weather another email went out we're going to be holding your children now that being said you have parents waiting to pick up their children outside the school my concern is this you now have parents outside of school with the potential for a tornado You have children in a school being protected, and I applaud that plan without any doubt. That being said, what is your plan for those parents that have now deployed to pick their children up that are in harm's way with that potential? Notification wasn't made until after that there were going to be dismissals at 4.15 that afternoon. My wife stayed and waited the entire time from 3.15 until 4.15 through the time frame that she was told, all of us were told by news and media that there was a watch. That concerns me. The reason that does is that I, my background as a global crisis management emergency response coordinator for the industry that works on the energy corridor, door you have to have a second plan you need to have some other option you need to have some way to make notification to those parents that either are too busy texting not listening to the radio but waiting for those children I ask you to think look at review your current plan and how to engage the process to have those parents notified either brought into the school and I understand Raptor is a huge thing and I have no problem with that but in an emergency like a tornado, Raptor should go out the door, parents brought in or segregated to another place because at that point you've now created a liability. You've asked your parents to come to that school. They're sitting in a tornadic situation. If they are lost, where did those kids go? They become an even more of a problem for you.
Mr. President, I don't know about the 310 email, but I do know that many schools' parents were brought inside. At your school, I don't know why that didn't happen at your school. So that's not a district issue. But we will look into it anyway, though. I would like you to let Mrs. Grooms know which school you're talking about.
Thank you, Mr. Lowe.
Thank you.
Our next speaker tonight is Lori.
And thank you finally for addressing me correctly. I appreciate that. We've got a couple problems still again in the district, and they need to be addressed. We've had several teachers caught with inappropriate actions with students. In the United States, we do have to assume they are not guilty until it is proven. But to allow these teachers to resign is inappropriate. appropriate. Our district is supposed to be number one and we should find a mechanism where they are terminated should they be found guilty with the accusations and having one teacher found on a Sunday in a portable with a $50,000 bond. That's a termination, not a resignation, ever, for any company, any school, or for any child. It's absolutely unacceptable the second you guys forgot to ratify the grants again you didn't have your vote you might want to do that here before the meetings open but did you put the teachers in harm's way again by accepting grants without him having approved prior to them being handed out the foundation and the entire way it has has been set up is that question. Now you have a group of people, closed meeting, setting their agenda and putting their focus and their agenda on the schools, yet you have we the people who come up here month after month. You just heard several of them. We the people that pay the taxes coming up here saying we want programs, yet you allow a private foundation, which the public is closed out of, which which was a duty you were supposed to have in the district, and you gave it to a private organization that you set up with our taxpayers' money.
What's wrong here? For those Boy Scouts that are here, this is the way our country is run. We, the taxpayer, are the ones that are supposed to say how the money's spent. We're not a private corporation, and we, the people, are not to be ignored. board. This board has quite a few issues they need to get corrected. There's many more. And last month I was not answered and it was on the agenda. Why you approved the UN's UNESCO's 21st Century Learning Architectural Designs. That is Common Core. Straight and simple. It is in KDISD and I have been lied to. It is straight on TASA and TASB's websites. This agenda needs to stop. It's communistic and it goes against parents' rights, principles, and the way our country is fundamentally set up.
Our final speaker tonight is Mr. Robert Willoughby.
Welcome, Mr. Willoughby.
Well, I want to start off saying, Mr. Brill, congratulations on your victory. Glad to see you for another three years. I want to say hello to Ashley Vann and Courtney Dole, and that was in no particular order, so you know. I do like the fact that you have your 90-day temporary names on, just in case it doesn't work out for you. That's nice, but it's good to see you guys. So I'm saying hello to you, but at the same time I'd like to say goodbye to Robert Shaw. Robert wasn't someone that I knew well, but I knew well enough. And he meant a lot to a lot of people, and I just wanted to make sure that he was recognized at the podium from the We the People and to thank him for his service. and I pray for his family for comfort. See you guys soon. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Willoughby. That concludes our open forum this evening. We will move on to the consent agenda. The chair will entertain a motion.
Items 7 - 13
Mr. Adams.
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Official documents
Agenda
The district's own agenda for this meeting, as published on BoardDocs.
Official agenda, Regular Board Meeting Agenda, 27 May 2014 →
Board packet · 45 documents
The district's own backup material for this agenda, retrieved from BoardDocs. Each file was checked against the size BoardDocs states for it.
- May 2014 Donated Items KISD Table 9 KB
- 1 - Financial Statements - April 2014 15 KB
- 2 - Analysis Function Object - Apr 2014 17 KB
- 3 - Check Registers - Apr 2014 7 KB
- Proposal TAB - Specialty Printing Services 89 KB
- Proposal EVAL - Specialty Printing Services 87 KB
- Proposal TAB - Musical and Performing Arts Equipment and Supplies 61 KB
- Proposal EVAL - Musical and Performing Arts Equipment and Supplies 85 KB
- 1 - S & G Engineering REC Letter for Katy HS Parking Lot 43 KB
- 2 - S & G Engineering TAB for Katy HS Parking Lot 68 KB
- 3 - S & G Engineering EVAL for Katy HS Parking Lot 93 KB
- 1 - WD Engineering REC for Memorial Parkway Elem Parking Lot 51 KB
- 2 - WD Engineering TAB for Memorial Parkway Elem Parking Lot 40 KB
- 3 - WD Engineering EVAL for Memorial Parkway Elem Parking Lot 102 KB
- Atty Ltr (10 ft Water Line Easement - City of Katy) 120 KB
- Water Line Easement +Survey - KISD 177 KB
- FM(LEGAL)[1] 193 KB
- TASB Policy Update 99 49654 KB
- Ft Bend Interlocal Agreement for the collection of taxes 313 KB
- Board Grant Summary-MayOther 6 KB
- Grant Descriptions-MayOther 6 KB
- Board Grant Summary-MayFoundation 6 KB
- Grant Descriptions-MayFoundation 5 KB
- MIN 4 21 2014 Work Study 105 KB
- MIN 04 21 2014 Workshop 57 KB
- MIN April 28 2014 Regular Meeting 103 KB
- Tax Report April 2014 18 KB
- 1 - KBR Proposal for Demolition of Danover Facility 210 KB
- 2 - UPDATED - Memo Regarding Change to KBR Contract for Demolition of Danover Facility 48 KB
- 3 - UPDATED - KBR Proposal for Demolition of Danover Facility 279 KB
- 4 - UPDATED - Loflin Proposal for Demoliton of Danover Facility 36 KB
- Katy ISD_Res Expressing Intent to Defease Outsanding Bonds_FY Ending 8_31_15 Rev 79 KB
- 2_ REV EXPN 0514 87 KB
- 4_Function and Object Code Descriptions 12 KB
- 3_KISD_2013-14 Budget 0514 sb 8 KB
- BudgetAmendmentDetail sb 25 KB
- Consent 7.11 Interlocal for Taxes SIGNED 308 KB
- DiscussAction 8.2 Resolution to Defease SIGNED 52 KB
- Consent 7.17 Work Study 4 21 Minutes SIGNED 265 KB
- Consent 7.17 Workshop 4 21 Minutes SIGNED 33 KB
- Consent 7.17 Regular 4 28 Minutes SIGNED 202 KB
- Consent 7.6 Water Line Easement SIGNED 163 KB
- Consent 7.8 Foreign Exchange Waiver SIGNED 44 KB
- Foundation 54 KB
- Recorded - 2014 05-27 - KISD Waterline Easement rec 228 KB
Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 3.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board approve the Personnel Report, as recommended by the Superintendent.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 002 · AGENDA 3.2
PassedIT IS RECOMMENDED THAT THE BOARD, AS RECOMMENDED BY THE SUPERINTENDENT, APPROVE ACCEPTING THE RESIGNATION OF HEATHER MILLER.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 003 · AGENDA 7.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 004 · AGENDA 7.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 005 · AGENDA 7.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 006 · AGENDA 7.4
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 007 · AGENDA 7.5
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 008 · AGENDA 7.6
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 009 · AGENDA 7.7
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 010 · AGENDA 7.8
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 011 · AGENDA 7.9
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 012 · AGENDA 7.10
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 013 · AGENDA 7.11
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 014 · AGENDA 7.12
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 015 · AGENDA 7.13
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 016 · AGENDA 7.14
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 017 · AGENDA 7.15
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 018 · AGENDA 7.16
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 019 · AGENDA 7.17
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 020 · AGENDA 8.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees ratify the District's participation in the Katy ISD Education Foundation Inspiring Imagination Grants project.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 021 · AGENDA 8.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the Resolution Expressing Intent to Defease Certain of the District's Outstanding Bonds.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |