The board will now convene an open meeting. Today is June 23rd, 2014 and the time is 7 08 p.m. The board met earlier this evening in closed meeting. Any action arising from discussions in a closed meeting must be taken in a subsequent open meeting. This is a meeting open to the public, not a meeting of the public. There are students and other guests present. To maintain decorum, respectful behavior is expected. Disruptive behavior and or comments will not be allowed. The KDSD Board of Trustees meets monthly in a regular meeting generally to receive reports from the staff and take action on recommendations from the superintendent. Whereas there may not be lengthy discussions or a litany of questions tonight please know that we've had the agenda for over a week. As a board we've reviewed each agenda item in a public work-study session with the administrative team where we were able to ask and receive answers to our questions. Thus as a board we should have have appropriate knowledge and should be prepared for our responses regarding the content of this meeting tonight. Mr. Fraley, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meeting Law in regard to the notice for this meeting? Mr. President, we are in compliance.
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Katy ISD Regular Board Meeting, June 23, 2014
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- 0:00 to 5:28 Items 1 - 3 2.1 Consider the Level Three DGBA Grievance (DGBA-14-003) regarding a teacher complaint from Mayde Creek High School. (Texas Government Code 551.082: For the purpose of considering discipline of a public school child or children or to hear a complaint by an employee against another employee if the complaint or charge directly results in a need for a hearing.) 2.2 Discuss security improvements. (Texas Government Code 551.076: To consider the deployment, or specific occasions for implementation, of security personnel or devices; or a security audit.) 2.3 Update on Superintendent's reassignment for the principal of Williams Elementary 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.) 2.4 Update on Superintendent's reassignment for the principal of Fielder Elementary 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.) 2.5 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.) 2.6 Consider Board approval of the Superintendent's evaluation. (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.) Page 2 of 3 6/19/2014 2.7 Consider Board approval of the Superintendent's contract. (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.) 2.8 Consider Board duties. (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. Reconvene from Closed Meeting - The Board will reconvene from Closed Meeting. The presiding officer will verify that the meeting has been duly called and notice of the meeting has been posted for the time and manner required by law. 3.1 Consider the Level Three DGBA Grievance (DGBA-14-003) regarding a teacher complaint from Mayde Creek High School. (Texas Government Code 551.082: For the purpose of considering discipline of a public school child or children or to hear a complaint by an employee against another employee if the complaint or charge directly results in a need for a hearing.) 3.2 Update on Superintendent's reassignment for the principal of Williams Elementary 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.) 3.3 Update on Superintendent's reassignment for the principal of Fielder Elementary 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.) 3.4 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.) 3.5 Consider Board approval of the Superintendent's evaluation according to the terms discussed in Closed Meeting. (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.) 3.6 Consider Board approval of the Superintendent's contract according to the terms discussed in Closed Meeting. (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.)
- 5:28 to 16:42 Items 4 & 5 4. Pledge of Allegiance 5. Open Forum
- 16:42 to 39:52 Item 6 Cinco Ranch High School Robotics Team 624, Cryptonite
- 39:52 to 42:39 Item 7.1 Discuss and consider Board approval of the Education Support Complex audio/video upgrade.
- 42:39 to 1:07:48 Item 7.2 Discuss and consider Board approval of the salary schedules for teachers, bus drivers, and level C1 through C4 employees for the 2014 - 2015 school year.
- 1:07:48 to 1:11:52 Item 7.3 Discuss and consider Board approval of the stipend schedule for the 2014 - 2015 school year.
- 1:11:52 to 1:14:05 Item 7.4 Discuss and consider Board approval of an interlocal agreement with Fort Bend County for disaster recovery.
- 1:14:05 to 1:18:21 Item 7.5 Discuss and consider Board approval of a Memorandum of Agreement between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center and Katy Independent School District for NASA Continuity of Operations Program.
- 1:18:21 to 1:22:33 Item 7.6 Discuss and consider Board authorization for the Board President to write a letter to the proper authorities to request consideration of a prohibition of certain alcohol sales within 1,000 feet of a Katy Independent School District building.
- 1:22:33 to 1:23:17 Consent Agenda 8.1 Consider Board approval of Job Order Contracting method and the use of LECS, Ltd. through the HCDE Choice Partners Cooperative for the generator installation and emergency system upgrades at Rhodes Stadium. 8.2 Consider Board approval of the 2014 - 2015 Teacher Data Portal of the Texas Assessment Management System waiver. 8.3 Consider Board approval of a high school elective math course addition for the 2014 - 2015 school year. 8.4 Consider Board approval of the Discipline Management Plan and Student Code of Conduct for the 2014 - 2015 school year as presented. 8.5 Consider Board approval of Morton Ranch High School Track resurfacing. 8.6 Consider Board approval of additional department staffing needed to address growth for the 2014 - 2015 school year. 8.7 Consider Board approval of grant ratifications. 8.8 Consider Board approval of the June 2014 budget amendments. 8.9 Consider Board approval of the May 2014 check registers. 8.10 Consider Board approval of the May 2014 financial statements. 8.11 Consider Board approval of the May 2014 tax report. 8.12 Consider Board approval of the minutes for the Board meetings held in May 2014.
- 1:23:17 to 1:32:47 Item 9 Planning for Growth: 2014 Bond
- 1:32:47 to 1:33:22 Item 10 - 12 10. Information Item 10.1 Donated Items to Katy Independent School District 11. Future Meetings 11.1 Board Work Study Meeting - Monday, July 21, 2014 11.2 Regular Board Meeting - Monday, July 28, 2014 12. Adjournment
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Items 1 - 3
First item is level 3. Yes, earlier this evening the board heard a level 3 DGBA complaint in closed session regarding case number DGBA-14-003. In accordance with chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code, any action regarding this matter must be taken in an open session. Do I have a motion on
the DGBA level 3 teacher complaint? Mr. President. Mr. Adams. Move the Board of Trustees deny the one remaining grievance item level 3 DGBA grievance in the case number DGBA-14-003, thereby upholding the decision of the Level 1 and Level 2 hearing officers. Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Adams and a second by Mr. Griffin that the Board deny the one remaining grievance item in the level 3 DGBA grievance in case number DGBA-14-003, thereby upholding the decision of the level 1 and level 2 hearing officers. Is there any discussion on this motion?
Hearing none, we will proceed to vote. All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
Aye. The motion carries 6-0.
Mr. Mahalski, I was unable to attend the hearing, so I will abstain from this vote.
Yes, we have one abstain by Mrs. Fox, who was unable to attend earlier. So the motion carries 6-0 with one abstention.
Mr. President, I'm pleased to announce the current reassignments of Principal of Williams Elementary, Mr. Angel Bateman, the AP there, and Principal of Philadelphia Elementary, Mr. William Rhodes, currently HR coordinator. I guess those were both acceptable.
With that I'm very excited about these two folks and really appreciate the all the staff for their work. Next item is the personnel reports. Mr.
President. Mr. Dubrow. Move that board approves the personnel report as as recommended by the superintendent.
Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Dubrell, seconded by Mr. Adams, that the board approves the personnel report as recommended by the superintendent. Any discussion? Hearing none, proceed to vote. All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Motion passes 7-0.
We'll see. Our next item tonight is to consider board approval of the superintendent's evaluation. Mr. President. Ms. Fox.
I move that the board approve the superintendent's evaluation as discussed in closed meeting.
Okay.
I have a motion by Mrs. Fox, second by Mr. Griffin, that the board approve the superintendent's evaluation according to the terms discussed in closed meeting. Any discussion? Hearing none, we'll proceed to the next item. to vote all those in favor raise your right hand and say aye all right motion passes 7 to 0 our next item tonight is to consider the approval of the superintendent's contract mr. president mr. deBruyne the board approved the
superintendent contract according to the terms discussed in closed meeting our
second I have a motion by mr. Dubrow seconded by mrs. Doyle at the board approves the superintendent's contract according to the terms discussed in closed meeting any discussion hearing none we will proceed to vote all those in favor raise your right hand and say aye motion passes 7 to 0 mr. president
miss Fox sorry during the discussion part man just add a caveat that this is is the time to do all this according to his contract. We always take this action in June. So this is just standard procedures for us. Thank you.
Items 4 & 5
Okay. I guess now it is time for our pledge.
Pledge by everyone.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the flag for which it stands, One nation, under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all.
On the Texas flag, I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state, under God, one and indivisible.
Everyone gets a lunch bag tonight.
Do we have any scouts in the audience tonight? If so, please stand up, state your name, your troop number, and what badge you're working on.
My name is Omar. I'm a troop 584.
Very nice. Thank you for being with us this evening. We'll try to get you home by midnight.
All right. We are moving right along to the open forum portion of our meeting tonight. At this time, the Board of Trustees will hear from patrons who wish to speak. By Board policy, a maximum of 30 minutes have been allotted for this forum. The 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 public 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 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 mic 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 Katy ISD. Tonight we have three speakers, so they They will be allotted five minutes each.
Once you have one minute remaining, our Sergeant in Arms, Mrs. Doyle, will give you a little reminder that you have one minute left. And our first speaker tonight is Annie Berry.
Good evening, Ms. Berry.
Hi.
My name is Annie Berry. I am a resident of Katy and I do have children that attend Katy ISD schools.
My name is Annie Berry and I'm a civil engineer with my engineering training pursuing my professional engineer's license. I'm here representing many parents of Rylander Elementary students to bring to your attention the concerns that we have with the proposed development that is going in across the street from the school I have worked in the development engineering department for municipality in which I watched residents fight the construction of a Walmart next to their homes I am NOT here today to fight Walmart I'm here as a concerned parent of a kindergartner and a third grader love it commercial is proposing a Walmart market and gas station to be built directly across the street from the front entrance of Rylander elementary which currently has one of the highest enrollments of any Katy ISD elementary school we are concerned about the impact that this will have on the existing traffic problems during drop-off and pickup the benzene exposure that our children will receive from the gas pumps and the sale of alcohol and tobacco so close to a place where our children go to learn although the traffic study conducted by Traff data and associates was approved by the traffic engineer it did not take into account all of the traffic around a school some statistics show that 41% of pedestrian accidents occur between 3 and 4 p.m. the traffic report lists the afternoon peak times as 430 to 630 p.m. and it does not take into account pedestrian traffic we respectfully request that you require the developer to issue a recount of traffic to include the actual school peak times of 315 to 430 p.m. and to consider the pedestrian traffic in its findings we request that the developer install safety measures to protect school walkers and their guardians such as raised pedestrian crosswalks or lighted pedestrian signals the proposed gas station will have nine gas bays within 400 feet of the front sidewalk leading to the school they will be located approximately 800 feet from the main air intake for the entire school we are very concerned about our children's exposure to benzene from the gas pumps and we ask that you protect our children and take any action necessary to stop the developer from building a gas station next to the school Texas alcohol and beverage code section 109.33 states that the commissioners court of a county may enact regulations prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages by a dealer whose place of business is within either 300 feet of a church public or private school or public hospital or 1,000 feet of a public school if the commissioners court or the governing body receives a request from the Board of Trustees of a school district under section 38.007 education code the current requirement for the sale of alcohol is restricted to 300 feet but we formally request that in this circumstance the requirement for the sale of alcohol is restricted to at least 1,000 feet from Rylanders property not the building but the property Kilpatrick Elementary School was successful in enacting this requirement and this situation contains the same circumstances we ask that the school board contact Commissioner Andy Meyers to put this requirement into place immediately before the Levitt commercial or Walmart applies for their TABC permit we appeal to the school board's power and influence to help us mitigate the traffic and environmental safety conditions that will be created by the Walmart marketing gas station as well as its sale of alcohol and tobacco thank Thank you.
Thank you, Ms. Berry. Our next speaker tonight is Mark Middlestead.
Welcome, Mr. Middlestead.
Thank you. My name is Mark Middlestead, and I am a resident of Katy. And I do have children that attend Katy ISD schools. and I'm also here in regards to the Walmart going in across from Ryland Elementary as previously stated those are all concerns something else to take into consideration is we do have a lot of walkers and bicycle riders that attend the school and not just right on their elementary but you've also got kids that go to Cinco Ranch junior high and Cinco Ranch high school that there's no bus service there so those kids are walking through that area as well so you've got that concern also you've got the environmental the benzene impact packed. You know, we've reached out to Senator Hager's office, we've reached out to Representative Zerwas' office, and everybody seems to be focused on legislators out, you know, so we're here appealing to you, to KDISD, to try to help protect our children, help us protect our children, and help us protect our community.
I don't have any prepared remarks, and I hadn't really planned
on speaking this evening, but, you know, I'm sure that many in the gallery, you know, and there's, we've there's a we've got a petition with over 1,800 signatures we've got Facebook page up say no to West Humber Parkway Walmart you know we're doing whatever we can to try to protect our children and we ask that Katie ISD help us as well we've reached out to a Commissioner Myers office we've met with Commissioner Myers Commissioner Myers has stated that there's nothing the county can do so we're appealing once again to Katie ISD help us protect our
children that's all thank you mr. middle stood and speak quite well without prepared remarks so good job our third and final speaker tonight is Gabrielle Leonard good evening miss Leonard good evening my name is Gabrielle I am the resident of Katy I have lived here my entire life ever since I was a a baby so I am proud to call Katie my home and I always have.
I'm here because my children are going to Rylander Elementary and I'm concerned about the effect this Walmart, this construction is going to have on our community and mostly the school and the children who will have to walk and bike to school twice a day, five days a week. The exposure of benzene is also a concern and I'm going to read something from the CDC. PC is short. The major sources of benzene exposure are tobacco smoke, automobile service stations, exhaust from motor vehicles, industrial emissions, vapors and gases from products that contain benzene. Auto exhaust and industrial emissions account for about 20% of the total national exposure to benzene. Benzene is a major component of gasoline and is used in many manufacturing processes. Living near gasoline fueling stations or playing near gasoline fueling stations or hazardous Hazardous waste sites will increase your exposure to benzene. People are advised not to have their families play, work, or live near gas stations, manufacturing plants, or hazardous waste sites. This is frightening because this is exactly what is happening to a school with over 1,400 children. Day in and day out, this is what they're going to be exposed to. not only the traffic from the delivery trucks gas trucks garbage trucks but now this too so we're stepping up and we're trying to hear we're here so you for help and we hope that you can help us for our kids for their future
Thank you, Ms. Leonard.
Mr. President, if I may, first I want to thank the speakers for coming up and speaking tonight. The Board already has item 7.6 on the agenda tonight to talk about the alcohol sales. And I notice my Chief Operations Officer just talked to Chief Felice. We'll look at the safety issues in traffic as well. Thanks for your bringing that to our attention tonight as well. Thanks so much.
That concludes our open forum tonight, which brings us to my favorite part of our board meeting every June, when we have the Cinco Ranch High School Robotics Team 624 Kryptonite come present to us.
Item 6
Mr. President, you all may have noticed we have a special guest tonight. I know we're there blinking and whatnot. For this evening's report, we have a very talented group in attendance. This group of students has learned to master the art of problem solving, competition, and scoring goals all at the same time. Please join me in welcoming the Cinco Ranch High School Kryptonite Robotics Team 624 up to the podium. We have Mr. Mike Outlaw, who is a Bush Club representative and I know our faculty sponsor Stephen Fish was somewhere, is he here tonight or is he absent? absent. Is Mr. Fish absent tonight?
But this year's team, Robi, did exceptionally well
at all the regional meets as well as the championship meet and even took home the prestigious Chairman's Award at the Alamo Regional. I want to swallow your thunder.
I can go on and on about this
team and what it means to our school district, our community, but I'll let Team 624 talk about it. Mr. Trotlaw, welcome, sir.
Thank you very much. I'd like to, all I can say about this season for 624 was wow. I mean, it has been an amazing journey for the team. I think that without a doubt the highlight has been the STEAM Center and what the board has done to show support for robotics in KISD. It's already shown its value and direction of where we can take the program because of the support that you've given us. We've got two new teams now started in the KISD for this coming season. As a matter of fact, we had both of those teams at a competition this past Saturday at Strait Jesuit. They put on a competition with our robot here in the same game we played this season. We set Taylor High School's brand new team up with a robot, and their students got to actually run and play in the competition. Tompkins also got a robot, the Woodlands team loaned them a robot and they got to play and experience the competition as well so we're looking forward to assisting those two teams and and sets a KISD up with five robotics teams now of the high school so we're with along with Seven Lakes with Cinco Ranch and with with Morton Ranch so it's a it's really a really an achievement as a Thank you, Superintendent Frehley. As you pointed out, we also won a Chairman's Award at Alamo, which is the first for our team and the highest award you can win at a regional. We also were very successful at the championship. The top 400 teams across the country were invited to that. And as far as scoring goes in team individual performance, we came in second out of 400 teams. And in the group competition, we came in very high and made it into the quarterfinals for our division that we were in. It's the highest we've ever achieved as well there. We're looking forward to what this summer brings to us. It's a 365-day-a-year program for us, and we're going to Indianapolis to compete with the top team. The top 70 teams across the country are meeting in Indianapolis in July. And then we do all the Texas teams again at what's called Texas Robot Roundup in Austin in early August. And then we start the new school year, hit the ground running, and it'll be a fun time. I'd like to let the students talk, though, and the main thing is we have our senior, graduating senior president, Bill Waters, would like to say a few words, and then after that our incoming president as well. So thank you very much.
Mr. President, Superintendent Fraley, and the board, Thank you for letting me speak today. I'd like to give you a little bit of perspective where I'm coming from. I've been on this team for four years. I was president for the past year and officer on the team before that. And I'd just like to, especially to some of the new faces here today, I want to impress upon you how productive this team is, not in only building robots but in building people. And I want to thank KDISD for your involvement because a lot of what you do is what makes our team so successful. personally in about a week I'll be heading up to New York to go study and join the army with West Point the United States Military Academy and a lot of what I talk about when I talk to people about why I got in there and what I intend to study out there by the way in mechanical engineering a lot of it is involved with building robots right there and a lot of it is because of this team and it's because of Katie I see support and my experiences with the sinker ranch robotics robotics team that have influenced me on this path. And it's not just me. Other students as well. I see every student in the audience right here has been affected by this team. Students that come in as freshmen and they don't know what engineering is or how to use a wrench or make a presentation. And by the time they're a senior like I am, they're up here talking to the KDISD executive board. I'm definitely not the only student that's done this. And they're going to BP and they're teaching other students about the value of the program. and they're going to defense contractors and you know showing them and impressing them with our robot and they're going to trade shows and they're doing all kind of sorts of things in industry and in the community to show what a great program this is again at building our students and all of that and everything we do we represent KDISD because of what you guys do for our team again I can't say this enough your support is a lot of what makes this possible so I'd like to thank you for that. With that I'd like to introduce you, like I said I'm leaving in a week, so I'd like to introduce you to our new president Dylan Bray who I'm sure is also extremely excited to continue our partnership with KDISD. Thank you.
Thank you Mr. President, Superintendent Fraley and the board for allowing me to speak tonight. As you've heard from Bill, we have a very we've had a very exciting and successful year and there are several factors that have contributed to the success first and foremost we have an exceptionally talented group of students who dedicate themselves and apply themselves to learn outside of the classroom and contribute to our team second we have a hard-working and dedicated group of professional mentors who work with our team teaching both technical and leadership skills to our students and third but most definitely not least importantly we were fortunate to call Katie our home nothing we do would be possible without the continued support of the KD community and of KDISD. For that, as the incoming student president, and on behalf of the students on our team and across KDISD who wish to pursue a career in science technology, I thank you. As a three-year member of Team 64, I've seen our program change so many of my peers, contributing to their development as emerging leaders both in and out of school. The construction of the STEAM Center will allow us to expand FIRST Robotics and other science programs throughout the district giving more students access to two opportunities in higher level higher level opportunities to learn about science and technology thank you for your continued support and on behalf of my teammates we are excited to continue our partnership with KDISD and our school in our future endeavors thank you
Mr. President, I hope you all heard that we now have up to five robotics teams in the district. For years this team has had to work out of personal garages and they've also had to rent space not knowing where their home would be. They were almost kind of homeless in a sense. and they hung in there and only because of the commitment of this program but also because of the special volunteers we have the parents of current students but a lot of parents of former students the parents think they can't let it go so they keep hanging around but also our corporate partners you can see the stickers it's like NASCAR over there but these are folks who do believe in in this and when we talk about our mission of helping students create the future That's what's happening here. That's what's happening here. We have students who are going to some of the top universities in the country from A&M, Georgia Tech, West Point, and those are just three I can remember off the top of my head. And I'm just so excited about the work, entering a NASA, those types of things. things. And I got so excited when I went to the banquet that I haven't stopped yet. And I want to thank the board for your support of this initiative. And just again to you, young men and women, thank you so much for all that you all do. I was in a conference this summer on the West Coast, since past spring on the West Coast. And the superintendent from the state of Oregon, and she was talking about some competition in St. Louis. I said, said well I had a team there wants the green hair I know them I took their pictures and you guys represent us very very well so really appreciate all that you guys have done as ambassadors the school district also this community thank you all very very much mr. president miss Fox at the ground
breaking for the new steam center the Center for imagination and innovation it It was just such a delight to share that day with you. And I will never forget when the robot had a shovel and shoveled some dirt. I thought it's so appropriate. And we're just so stinking proud of you. Thanks for all you do. And, Mr. Fraley, am I correct? This all happens outside of the classroom. This is not a class during the school day. This is commitment far beyond the school day. And your success proves your talent and your commitment. And we're just proud of you.
Mr. President. Mr. Dubrow. You guys are just incredible with the different robots you come up with, the different, the engineering. When I look at this and think, wow you guys are in high school, the future of America is secure if we have more and more students like you coming out of, coming out of our schools. But I have one question. Can the robot do something?
Like throw that ball or
something like that I mean I'll catch it
oh it's coming at you Alright, alright.
He's pretty quick.
Woah!
Woah!
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Great job!
That is so cool
Was there a video tonight also? Or okay, can we get that?
Okay, here we go.
Thank you.
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I just gotta get you out the cage, I'm a young, never strange Gonna need a spark to ignite My songs know what you did in the dark
I swear you light a room, light a room, light a room You bring up the fire You bring up the room, you bring up the room You bring up the room, you bring up the fire Radio F2
Radio F2
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Again, thank you all so much. Students, stand up. I want you all to see we have males and female students. All right? Congratulations, guys. Thank you all so much.
Okay. We love to take pictures with those toys. We'll come down.
And parent, volunteers, will you all stand up for a second? second let's see if the parent volunteers and I know this is just a small sampling of them. Henderson, Zaloff, thank you guys so much.
Now who of you still have students in school that are volunteering? So of all those that we have two or three. So we got these guys they just can't let it go and I'm glad you don't let it go. Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Yeah, it should.
Okay, and I can reflect on that too. Yeah, that's okay.
Okay.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Oh yeah.
One more time.
One more time.
It's so much faster this year, right? It just seems so few that last year, right? Is it 40? No, 40.
They call those vacuum cleaners robots.
It's called a Roomba.
Thank you.
Mr. President, I'd just like to say I attended the banquet, the latest banquet they had, and this group of individuals not only celebrated the successes they had at the several tournaments that you attended, But one of the things that impressed me was how together you work as a team and that the leadership skills and as demonstrated by your former president and your incoming president as well and just a great group of students that you are. I was very impressed at that banquet and it was a long banquet but it was a good banquet and we celebrated a long time, but I tell you what, it went by very fast. And I can tell you students one thing for sure. I sat at the table with some of the sponsors from BP and others. They could not say enough good things about how proud they were and how glad they were to be participating with you and all the other companies that are there working, Oceaneering and all these other companies as well. well. So take home the pride, wear it, and then come back next year and let's bring home the championship next year. Thank you.
Congratulations again, thank you guys and your new home is being built.
The robot is exiting the building.
Mr. President, I love how the students, the other students that are in this building, never took their eyes off that robot the whole night. We have some future kryptonites right here for you.
Okay, we are moving to the discussion action portion of our meeting, 7.1, the ESC audio-video upgrade.
Item 7.1
Mr. President, just a couple of quick things that we gave a report last week regarding, and there were a few questions that came up. One was regarding the usage and we quickly put together information we had for room 1200, a total of over 1,865 reservations last year of 180, 195, five-day, seven-day school calendar and 242 in this room and 1430 as well. and you had a question regarding some of the the vendors there were three vendors mentioned last time I believe and one vendor could not and they all came from the cooperative purchasing network we thought one vendor could not meet the compressed timeline another vendor wind up wound up not being in the corporate purchasing network and that's what left us with the one vendor so all the beers is right within $15,000 to be sure, is that correct? That's correct. Okay. So what other questions do you have? Mr. Dr. Linder, do you have anything to add to that?
We'll be happy to answer any questions.
Mr. President. Mr. Griffin. I would move that the Board of Trustees approve the proposed audio-video upgrade awarding the contract for the Education Support Complex audio-video upgrade to data projections and to the architectural and engineering services to PBK.
I'll second.
I have a motion by Mr. Griffin, a second by Mrs. Vann, that the Board of Trustees approve the proposed audio-video upgrade awarding the contract for the education support complex audio-video upgrade to data projections and the architectural engineering services to PBK. Any discussion?
Question? Mr. Adams. Mr. Alvarez. Can you confirm with me that the contract has been drawn up and that these numbers that are mentioned in here, as far as the amounts go, are in the contract? Yes, sir. We have a copy of the contract, and it matches the numbers that were displayed on the item. All right. Thank you very much.
Hearing no other questions, We will proceed to vote. All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
Motion passes 7-0. Thank you, Mr. Ron. Thank you.
Our next item is to discuss and consider board approval of salary schedules for teachers, bus drivers, and level C1 through C4 employees for the next school year. Mr. Snyder.
Item 7.2
Good evening, Board President, Board members, and Mr. Fraley. I believe you have in front of you the proposed teacher salary schedule we've worked on since early April in comparison with the other districts that have made some moves and changes to their schedules. What you see proposed before you is kind of a hybrid model of not just a straight percentage across the board for the teacher salary schedule, but rather one that addresses some specific increases.
The average increase or the weighted average for the teachers that are currently in our district by number is a 5.65 percent increase the range is from just approximately 3% is the lowest increase to just over 7% being the highest and this teacher per so teacher salary schedule is focus the the increase is greatest at the years between 6 and 20 and those are where more than two-thirds of our current teaching staff are located. So it really, rather than just jump to the $50,000 mark on that first year starting salary, which a lot of the neighboring districts have done, this one addresses more of what KDISD represents, we feel. And it's proposed to you. So, again, it's not a straight percentage across. It's a whole new schedule. And if you also have a graph attached, or you should have like this. If you notice the blue line in that, the bottom blue line, is your current salary schedule compared to the other district's salary schedules. And then, of course, the proposed one is the orange line in the middle.
If you notice, the current salary schedule is pretty much well below everybody else, and the proposed one gets us right in competitive salary range with everybody else. We don't feel that we need to be above them. It's competitive with them. It's affordable and manageable.
So approving it at this time helps us tremendously and won the recruiting at the end of this time frame. There's a lot of teacher positions that we still have yet to fill.
And having that in stone where we know what we're offering them for next year helps us out tremendously, not to mention the budget process as we work into July and August.
That's the teacher salary schedule. Do you have any questions about that one
before we talk about the c1 mr president if i could first i want to thank mr snyder and miss edmunds and mr smith and his team for their work uh if you look at the side by side like this i think you got this tonight uh it helps you uh to understand what we tried to do when you look at this if you look at um the four lectures the number of teachers at each step pay grade okay and you'll notice that as we were looking at uh those uh we can get beginning teachers in here at at a high salary. And that's been the process in the past where we try to outrace each other to have the same or higher first sorting salary. But what we realize is that we need to look at our experienced teachers who have been here at least five years. They have fresh development now. We're more invested in them and they stay with us. And so if you look at the current salary schedule at year six and then the proposed in the new hybrid model you see about a 7% increase there. We're saying you've been with us five years so at year six we've invested in you and now we're gonna invest in you more and try to incentivize you to stay with us. We get them in here at the earlier part of the salary schedule right out of college and many fall in love and move away and we've hired them but we don't keep them. If you've been here five years chances are you want to stay here. Your life is probably getting somewhat settled in and whatnot and we want to recognize that incentivize you to even and stay because we know that we are the best and we retain the best and we really want to reward those who are staying in here with us. If you look at year six and then look at year 20, you'll see the tremendous increases from where they are now, I won't say tremendous, but at year 20 it's a six percent increase. In the past we've done two percent, three percent, last year 3.5 and it's been across the board but now we're recognizing those more on the upper end who've been with us longer or the middle years have been with us longer keeping up with the districts around us going from our current 47,000 to 49,000 it still is a four percent increase which is again about a percent and a half percent one or two percent of our what we've done in the past so to speak we're very excited about trying to hit the bulk of our staff with the larger increase and and And so what they'll make next year, if this is approved, at year six is what they would have been making, is more than they would have made at year 14. So we're accelerating the increased payment, and they'll get a higher pay sooner, and it'll be with them a little bit longer, and hope they stay with us longer as well. So that was the thinking behind this.
I'd like to add to it, too, that two things, as Mr. Fraley stated, to the critical being a 26-year employee of public education. There's a critical time there between year 6 and 20 where people are deciding what their next move is. Is it to stay in education? Is it to become an administrator or move up or change position? Those are critical stages. And anything we can do to recruit the master teachers, the people that are developing that way, to stay in KDISD is money well spent. And it also will get out, and it's attractive to teachers that have a few years experience, those ones that fall in love in another district. And KDISD is an option when they're moving to the Houston area. So it's a win-win in that regard. And in April, we discussed this is something that all districts are addressing at this current time. This isn't something we just decided we wanted to jump out and do on our own. We want to stay competitive. We believe that KDISD has many other reasons to attract teachers and this is a sought-after place to come and work in but we don't want to give reasons not to.
I will also add to and this is for another conversation but we think that we're very competitive if not even leading the pack in terms of other benefits that we provide for our employees in terms of increased premiums on the health insurance, whereas the year before last year, you picked up 100% of the health premium increase and still gave the staff a 3% raise. Last year you gave the staff a 3.5% raise and picked up 50% of the increased premium. And I don't know anyone that's doing that to that degree. So we don't have the $50,000 starting salary that some around us are doing, but they're also not paying the health insurance. So a larger part of their salary is going toward the increased health insurance premiums. and we feel that this makes us very competitive, but also I think it does recognize those who stay with us a little bit longer.
Any questions on that?
Mr. Griffin. Mr. Fraley, do you have any problems attracting teachers, like at the new hiring thing we did at the Merrill Center?
Teacher fair.
Yeah, teacher fair, I'm sorry.
I think I can say we don't really have a problem with folks wanting to come here. We also don't want to take advantage of the fact that they want to come here to where we don't compensate them competitively either.
Now there are some areas that we still struggle with and that's where folks aren't seeking certifications such as bilingual and always math and science are tough places. But across the board we feel we're very attractive to those in our new profession. We try to make ourselves more attractive to those that have been with us and we try to incentivize them to stay with us.
moving on to the next actually i have one one question related to that i kind of like like what we're looking at doing here especially with you know rewarding i guess some teachers that have some experience now and are kind of moving in moving into those level six through ten years especially i guess my question is really but probably a little bit more for mr Mr. Smith, do we believe that this kind of model is a sustainable model moving forward? And how does it fit in the overall budgeting process, I guess?
Of course, we've been looking at what the other districts are doing, and then the charge has been to be able to do what we can for the most teachers as possible. from a sustainability standpoint. Obviously when you give a pay raise it is a gift that keeps on giving if you will and so it does need to be sustained and we do feel that we have we're still a growing district.
Everything that would
be an advantage to help us sustain it is in our face is on our side as far as we're a growing district. We have property values that are growing and as As we grow, I'm tongue-tied for the right word, but it makes it easier to sustain something like this. Does it create challenges? Sure. We spend money. It makes it we have to manage tougher, but it's where the money needs to be spent in the classroom, and that was Mr. Frehley's goal, and it is sustainable.
Mr. President, if I could add, Mr. Smith is being a little modest there because he put us through the wringer. He and his team looking at these numbers crunching, and we went out, I think to what, 2018, 2019, somewhere around that time frame. And yes, this is sustainable with a very conservative revenue growth estimate and a very, I don't want to, I guess kind of liberal expenditure. estimate and we think that we'll meet somewhere in the middle more on the positive side in terms of our financial health the HR a question answer to your
question is we will definitely have to manage our staffing in the future with a very efficient and effective plan just at the campus level but throughout the district so we help that manage to stay in the budget guidelines Chris and I work very closely our departments work very closely together and analyzing that
and we'll continue to do so.
Mr. President, I appreciate this very much. I
certainly know a lot of teachers and we all do.
The skills that they have to
manage a classroom and so many boys and girls year after year and class after class. In light of the added responsibilities and more demands from state curriculum and higher standards and the excellence that is expected in Katy ISD, our teachers feel that and they just keep doing it no matter how much we pay them they just keep doing the right thing for boys and girls. I'm delighted to be able to tell the teachers that at about year six when they're like the skills they have the management skills they have they can go out and run their own businesses certainly real estate and Katie has taken a lot of our finest teachers because they have great communication and management skills and that market is where you make a lot of money and work less I mean they work hard but certainly not like that so I love that we can retain the people who who have been there at about six to 20 years, they're their best. We have the best. And I'm glad that we're able to offer them something to entice them to stay and keep producing incredible students like the ones we saw tonight. Thank you for this. I like that it's not across the board. I really like this.
Mr. President, if I could add also, even at the upper end, you said I was still going to get around a 3% increase, which is about normally what we do anyway. way. But we are accelerating it early in their career, which benefits them in their retirement years to have a higher salary earlier and even a little bit longer. And it helps them as they're
sorting their families as well.
And Ms. Fox, I would argue that it's our teachers have created a phenomenal market for the area realtors.
Very good. Mr. President. Mr. Adams. Mr. Snyder,
one of the things that I'm always a little bit concerned about is the fact that as we just to make sure that we need to be very very much aware that as these other districts are at the 50,000 mark that we even though we say you know we've got a lot of great things that our district brings that people want to come here is that we certainly want to watch and not get a separation there for the future and while we're rewarding those and in the right places and doing the right things here but I just I just am just saying to you that I would like for you to just be very cognizant of the fact that that we don't need a separation we want to stay tight with with what we've got here and we are tight and I know that spring branch is probably at the same thing that we are and people want to go and teach there as well but in Lamar consolidated I think it's going to be right here as well so it's on the west side out here I think this is this is right where we need to be.
I completely agree. And I think that's part of the step of this move. So in the future, if somebody else or the other districts start to jump forward on us, it's not as big a jump if we have to make it at that time. And the counter to that is managing your other staffing allocations and your other resources so that you can afford that. Because 80% plus of our budget is personnel. And we have an obligation to take care of them and be competitive with the market.
Moving on to the second page of that, you have the increases that we're proposing to the C1 through C4 salary schedule. It's just a dollar increase to the minimums on the C1 through C4.
These are our auxiliary workers throughout the campus. And if there's any area that can use money, that's definitely one of them. And then also, we want to propose an increase to the bus drivers at $2.50 an hour increase to the minimum being at $1625 for bus drivers. We analyzed many different options of what we could do to help our recruitment in that area. And in the end, I think I proposed, and I talked to you about the different options. We could spend $100,000 more in recruiting expenses or efficiencies. But in the end, is that money going to make that impact, or will it do better going into bus drivers' hands? And we feel like that this is the best move at this point. We have some other things on the table to think about moving forward as we grow. And you've talked about the multi-bill system that can change things and help in ways. But at this time, this is the safe move. And also, I think it's a great advertising tool to try and pull some bus drivers to our district. And it's definitely a need, as you well know.
I just want to make sure we don't miss that we are proposing a dollar per hour increase to our employees and then a 250 per hour increase to bus drivers, which makes us very, very competitive there. So we're very excited about that because these are folks who have not complained. They're salt of the earth. They have given and they have the same expenses in terms of buying gas and groceries that higher salaried folks do. So we looked at some requests for salary adjustments on the upper end and we paired those back to do more at the lower end.
We upped the schedule. Doesn't directly affect everybody with the dollar more, but we upped the schedule. It gets kind of litigious trying to figure out how and when we do everything, but it has an impact on them. But it isn't across the board as we're talking about the bus drivers per se. And I do want to note, too, the bus drivers, $250 an hour is about $2,200 a year increase. So keep it in relationship. That is good. It's very good. But into the other ones that you have proposals for, it gives you an idea of how much money that actually is to that person.
Mr. President. Mr. Griffin. Mr. Schneider, how many employees do we have that are C1 through C5 excluding bus drivers?
Approximately. I'm going to try and get into progress.
Around 342. Okay. That's an estimate. Give or take one or two. I would say roughly $350.
The C1s to the C4s, we're only bringing up the minimum, the midpoint, and the max. The employees that are below the new minimum will be given an extra dollar per hour, so it will not impact all of the employees on C1 to C4. They will get the normal raise that we give. If we give none, teacher raises. in this situation it's only going to impact anybody that's below the new
minimum so see once he for will get if it's a minimum they'll bump them up a dollar yes sir and then what raises to the C 1 to C 4 and we when we propose
that a future date what okay things are non campus personnel okay understand thank you then that that percentage would hit them mr. Brown with the bus bus driver increase, how does that compare to our neighboring districts? Nobody's finalized anything at this time. Most of them said 4%. Sci-Fair went 4%, which took them over $15 an hour, and I don't know the exact number there. As we well know, and we've all talked about this, that some of them wait for a decision, and then they find out what they do to be competitive. It's a hard number to compare. The previous data, it's way above what people were paying last year. but the increases per se in that area are hard to state until school starts so I believe it's more than competitive and above what other people are ready to afford to pay and I think that step up shows your community and your bus drivers they're important and gives us something to sell and recruiting them
hopefully what do we expect the impact to be on the just the bus drivers alone
on or do you have you calculated that thousand dollars about night roughly nine hundred thousand dollars
president it's Fox mr. Schneider it'll be interesting to see if that raise helps us recruit I would guess that it would but it's the retention once once everyone else finds out and they come up, Mr. Adams said it best a few meetings ago when we talked about it a couple, that we'll come up and then they'll come up and we'll have to come up just because the demand for these bus drivers, qualified bus drivers, is so tight that pretty soon I hope money is enough to get them and retain them. So I know that you're probably still looking at other ideas of other things to retain. this should be a good recruiting tool, and then we'll need to find a way to retain. And it's not just a money game. Pretty soon we're going to price ourselves out of the market.
And I concur, and I think we all face that problem. I think with the other things on the table, the discussion over the next year, maybe going to a multi-bill system helps us reduce the number that we have to hire, gives them an opportunity to make more money, can be ways that we retain. But we do need to look at other things. There's the 12-month pay option and trying to manage that, just things that they're interested in, you know, so that are important to them.
But for the course of right now, until those decisions are made, we really feel this is the best recruiting tool at the time.
So the cost per, what will bus drivers make per hour?
Just $16.25 on the minimum. $16.25.
$16.25. Thank you. That's very good.
Mr. Griffin. I've got just a quick question on the motion itself because I understand why I was confused. We're talking about the salary schedules for teachers, bus drivers, and level C1 through C4 employees. But we're really not talking about the salary schedules for the C5 bus drivers or C134, just the minimum rate. Is that correct?
I believe.
Do you have the document that says non-teacher salary? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. The document that has the non-teacher salary schedule? Because it shows that we're going to increase the minimum, midpoint, and max on each one of them, so we are adjusting the actual schedule for the C1s through 4s. We're not necessarily changing the schedule for bus drivers because they're on the same pay grade with a lot of other C5 employees. We made a notation at the bottom that only the bus drivers will go to the new minimum on the C5 rate. If you are an electrician or a plumber and you're a C5, you will stay at the $1,375.
Okay, so they're not adjusted yearly. They just have a minimum, midpoint, and maximum? Yes. Okay, thank you.
For clarification, though, these others, the P1 through 7, the T1s through T14, and the other C schedules are going, they will have an adjustment at some point in time.
We will propose one. Right. On a different action. At this time. And part of those things, the reasons that they aren't before you today, it depends on what happens with this and how much money there is to make the next suggestion. Okay. Yeah. That would be part of the budget workshop.
I want to make sure everybody listening kind of understood where we were with that.
Again, as you say, we're looking at the lower salaries getting those set first versus putting them in the mix with everything else. At the higher salaries employees, they're important as well. We want to make certain we make a real impact with our lower paid employees to get that done first.
Mr. President.
Mr. Abreu.
I move that the board approves as recommended by the superintendent the salary schedule for teachers, bus drivers, and level C1 through C4 employees for the 2014-2015 school year as presented. Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Dubrell, second by Mrs. Fox, that the board of trustees approve as recommended by the superintendent the salary schedules for teachers, bus drivers, and level C1 through C4 employees for the 2014-2015 school year as presented. Any further discussion? Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Aye. Motion passes 7-0. Thank you. Thank you. And I believe, Mr. Snyder, you have another one to present to us.
Item 7.3
These are the stipends to increase for next year. In the document that you have, it's just the increases there that are in green are the changes.
As you know, there's four pages of stipends. This comes from the process that we have in place in Katy where we have a stipend committee. This year it was academic stipends that we looked at. And this committee is made up of principals and area superintendents and HR. throughout the district. And we spend three or four meetings, I think, we met this year to discuss which things we needed to present to you as increases.
But you'll note each one that's in green is the change that we're recommending or proposing to you tonight.
Mr. President. Mr. Adams. Mr. Snyder, so are these all of the stipends? Yes, sir.
Do we not, am I missing this, or do we not give a stipend for a debate?
debate.
Oh, is it speech under speech? Yeah, I'm sorry. Sorry, I see it now.
I was looking under debate. Speech and debate. Speech and debate. They're stalling.
I see it now, thank you.
Again, these were sentiments presented by the principals on their campuses and area superintendents and academic departments, C&I, T&L, they were all involved in some of the proposals.
Some of these are, forgive me, I don't know exactly which ones, are returning back to to what cuts were made to save money in 2011. Things that were taken away or reduced. That was most of what the stipend proposals were.
Mr. President. Mr. Griffin. I move that the Board of Trustees approve as recommended by the superintendent the stipend schedule for the 2014-2015 school year as presented.
I have a motion by Mr. Griffin, seconded by Mr. Dubrow that the Board of Trustees approve as recommended by the Superintendent the stipend schedule for the 2014-2015 school year as presented. Is there any further discussion? I actually have one question, well one comment and one question. One is, you know, very few changes actually. Most of these look like they're staying the same. there's one looks like it's a new one TAC teacher I was just curious what that was or attack TAC what's that anyone know or remind me if anybody can remember
right teacher assessment for now teacher teacher access Center tracks access it is over that's right can you explain what that is real quick one
yeah we go to that to Harry
great book okay for the campus basically they have a great book problem I got to call one person to come and help you can imagine there's probably several and
that's why the principal's asked for this so that's a campus level or be one at each campus okay okay seeing no other questions we'll proceed to vote all those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye motion passes 7 to 0 thank you Thank You mr. Snyder next we're trying to talk about an inner Interlocal agreement with Fort Bend County for disaster recovery. Chief Hopkins, Mr. Brimmer.
Item 7.4
President Mussofsky. Mr. Rowans. Board members. Superintendent Fraley. You may know June 1st started the hurricane season for us. So these interlocal agreements, the next two items, the interlocal agreements are timely. And the first one is with Fort Bend County for points of distribution. and all both of these interlocal agreements are authorized by state and and our federal law and they've been reviewed by legal the first one with Fort Bend County is the points of distribution will be things like ice water other supplies for recovery from hurricanes or other other disasters and And the partnership includes the outside of our facilities, the parking lots mainly. But if you have specific questions about this interlocal agreement, I have both Mr. Bremer, the emergency management coordinator, who has been championing these interlocal agreements.
Rollins.
Ben Rollins.
Ben Roll is for facilities, so any specific questions about facilities, maybe he'd be able to answer. So any questions about that first interlocal agreement?
Mr. President. Mr. Adams. I move the Board of Trustees approve the interlocal agreement with Fort Bend County for disaster recovery as presented.
Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Adams, seconded by Ms. Vann, that the Board approve the interlocal agreement with Fort Bend County for disaster recovery as presented. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Aye. Motion passes 7-0. Now we'll talk about NASA.
Item 7.5
The next interlocal agreement is with the National Aeronauticals and Space Administration, specifically the Johnson Space Center in Houston. And that interlocal agreement is very similar to the one we have existing with the Coast Guard, and it's for housing advanced personnel for recovery of the Johnson Space Center to work out of our facility until they can get back into the space center after a hurricane or other disaster. disaster they'll work out of Katy until that advanced team can get back into Into the Johnson Space Center again. This is authorized by state and federal law And it's been reviewed by legal
Mr.. President Mr.. Frey would you plan on putting them in the stem center so that they can help our robotics? Instead of sending that ball to Henry maybe they could send it to the moon next time
We will have a great partnership with them, Mr. Griffin.
Mr. Griffin, the interlocal agreement designates the Merrill Center as the priority place, but it also has a clause in there that we can put them where we can accommodate them. So if the Merrill Center is occupied, then the STEAM Center would be just as good. One other question. So are you saying if the right conditions line up, the first word spoken on Mars could be Katie?
Well, I'm not predicting times.
Is that in the agreement if they're here? Do they have to say Houston? Would they have to say Katie? That's not in the agreement. We might want to look at that. That's not in the agreement.
Question, Mr. President? Yes, Mr. Adams. Chief Hopkins, do they have interlocal agreements with other folks, or would they actually come to Katy, or would they have an option to go to other venues besides Katy? My understanding is it's Katy. Yeah, the attraction of Katy is that it's far enough away that these are essentially their write-out teams or their team fast response back-end teams. were far enough away that they feel like they can be safe, close enough that they can get back, and Katy really was the option that they felt was best for that. All right, thanks.
And this is just an assumption on my part, but we had such a success during the last hurricane with the Coast Guard that could have had some bearing on their decision to come to Katy.
Mr. President, if I could add, I believe in the past the Coast Guard was stationed out of Fort Hood, Is that correct? Or Colleen, they were a little bit further away, and this was their search and rescue location. So that cut down their time to rescue folks considerably, and there were several folks rescued by the staff stationed here during the time of Hurricane Ike.
That's right, and many people were rescued because of their being stationed here in Katy.
Mr. President, I move that the Board approve the Memorandum of Agreement between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center and Katy Independent School District for NASA Continuity of Operations Programs as presented.
I have a motion by Ms. Doyle, seconded by Mr. Griffin, that the Board approve the Memorandum of Agreement between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center and Katy Independent School District for NASA Continuity of Operations program as presented. Any further discussion?
Hearing none we will vote. All those in favor raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Motion passes 7-0.
Thank you Chief Hopkins, Mr. Brimmer, Mr. Rollins.
Okay. Now we are to item 7.6, discuss and consider board authorization for the board president to write a letter to proper authorities to request consideration of prohibition of certain alcohol sales.
Item 7.6
Mr. President.
Mr. Dubrow.
This is something I'd like to see us do, not only for the situation near Rylander, but we're building schools at a very rapid rate. Our community is growing at a very rapid rate. And wherever we drop a school, it seems to attract a whole lot of retail. And I think to have some control over who our neighbors are is something that we should take very seriously. I would hate to see some bar or something like that come in near one of our schools, simply because it's in a major thoroughfare so to give us this extra 700 feet of a safety for our kids I believe is a safety measure for all of our young people to give them that extra 700 feet
mr. president was Fox I moved the board authorized the board president to write a letter to the proper authorities to request consideration of a prohibition of certain alcohol sales within 1,000 feet of a Katy Independent School District building.
I have a motion by Mrs. Fox, seconded by Mrs. Vann, that the Board authorize the Board President to write a letter to the proper authorities to request consideration of a prohibition of certain alcohol sales within 1,000 feet of a Katy Independent School District building. Any discussion?
Mr. President, with force of permission, I'll have staff also consider the things we learned tonight as well, the other variables involved with it. I've driven by that location, and it is ‑‑ I have concerns about the location of such a huge retail establishment right there at that intersection. I don't know the future plans, but that just concerns me.
Now, one question on that establishment, Mr. President. Is Walmart the anchor or the only store that's there? Any idea?
I think the anchor is also space for outside retail,
great outside space, and the gas station is not engaged.
There you go.
Mr. President. Ms. Fox. So my question is, does the school district really have authority when the speakers came and spoke to us this evening, much as I'd love to call Walmart and say, oh, no, you didn't, you know, because we're the school district. We can't really do that, can we, Mr. Fraley?
I don't think we can stop their coming there because, you know, but the issues of safety, the traffic study, maybe requirements in terms of curb cuts and directional of the traffic, those are things to look at.
The benzene, you know, that's not a minor thing. It's not a minor thing. So I don't know what we can do with that. But whatever our concerns are will be addressed and what we can do we will do.
Right. And I would add on this particular thing, certainly we are limited in our authority on what we can do. In this case, there is a potential way to make a request of the county that may have a positive impact. I mean a thousand feet is not that far away but 300 feet is much much closer so if we can if we can through our request have a positive impact that will make our schools safer that's certainly our intent any other discussion and we will proceed to vote all those in favor raise your right hand and say aye motion Motion passes 7-0. Thank you.
We have now moved to our consent agenda. Mr. President. Mr. Griffin.
Consent Agenda
I move that the Board of Trustees approve the consent agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.12.
Second.
I think they spoke at the same time. I'm sorry.
Yeah, it is. Okay. Well, I heard a motion by Mr. Griffin, seconded by Mr. Adams, that the Board of Trustees approve the consent agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.12. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Motion passes 7-0.
Item 9
So you guys thought it was best to be around?
Yeah, well, yeah. He was speaking over there. The speaker must be coming to listen. Okay, that moves us to our discussion action of 9.1. Mr. Gannell, do you have anything for us this evening on the Planning for Growth 2014 bond?
I'll give you a quick update. First, you should have a handout. It says Bond Committee Meeting Schedule. and on the flip side it has something that says major future milestones. It's a sheet that kind of looks like this. And just to bring you up to date where we are, this past week we finished our ninth meeting with the bond committee and we will move on to meeting number 10 this Wednesday. Last Tuesday we merged the tables from 15 tables to five. We are not done with that work. so you will see that next week we have monday june the 30th as a meeting and you see one there for july 2nd it says if needed that was at the discretion of the committee if they needed it looks like they probably will and this morning we fired off after talking with the committee chair and the facilitator about putting a hold for the date on july 9th to give us enough time to have a deliberation the committee doesn't want to be rushed they want to make sure that they work through it methodically and the voices get to be heard before they complete their deliberations so those are some changes that you may not be aware of on the flip side of that the major future milestones just because it surprises a lot of folks when I mention it the last day to call the election is on August the 18th Monday August the 18th and you see that school starts you you know just a week later normally uh... we would have the expectation we'd be able to talk to folks uh... you know sometime uh... between the time school started and i was called that's not going to be the case and just want to call it to your attention
mr president
stocks
they'll talk to people who just make presentations with the facts
that that is correct we can present all the facts this historic documents that that exists that the folks have gone on record to to say things. I'd imagine that the committee will be using those to affect over the course between now and November.
Mr. Griffin? Mr. Gannell, are we keeping feedback as this process is going so that the next time that we have a bond committee put together that we can take the lessons learned and improve on it for next time?
One thing we believe in is continuous improvement and we will get an out brief or a survey from everybody who participates to see what we can improve for next time around.
Mr. President.
Ms. Fox.
Mr. Gannell, maybe kind of an odd question here, but was any consideration given to maybe
partway through discussion or presentation to the board, kind of here's where we're going, and that way if the board had any values that it holds hard and fast that the committee would have kind of some of that exchange with them or or our I I
don't believe that was put in a charter I'd love to try to schedule it and certainly can bring that up with the committee chair to see if he would like like to provide a presentation at the next work study. The other possibility is if the board wanted to have a special meeting to discuss it, if they could find some calendar time to do it.
I wonder if maybe, I'm not sure if that's something the board members would care about. But I just wondered if maybe, by the time it, here's why I'm, do you mind, Mr. DeBrell, let me just tell you where I'm going is by the time the presentation comes to us and this committee has poured its heart and soul into it it's it's just almost impossible to make any changes but if we have values that are not quite represented there I wondered if maybe there was a time probably it is like I go to a lot of the bond committee meetings but I don't listen to the discussions I'm not sure what the discussions are I'm just kind of there to to show my support of their commitment to us so I just I just kind of wondered about that from
previous experience I would like to see reporters where they are but I would think that would be better suited for a work study I think if we go special meeting we run the risk of all of a sudden people piling in to hear that this is what's going on I mean we had a report on ABC that we were having a special meeting for the bond and we're actually just you know swearing in new board members and installing officers so I think we want to be very careful about
calling a special meeting and people coming in if I could the deliberations are not complete you know we had 15 groups and now we have five and they're they're not fully aligned so even given a report now might be great from table a but may not be reflective of what Table E is currently recommending. You see that we have really another month to work through the process, at which point they've even come to a consensus. Right now they are still deliberating that. Mr. Griffin.
Ms. Fox, I would be afraid that if we change the procedure, the policy, or what we call this, even with us getting a brief and then putting changes in it, we now derail the process that we agreed upon when we started that's why i asked are we getting continual feedback and then maybe modifying it for next time but i do know those work those groups are working hard and i i've heard tempers are you know kind of on edge and i'm afraid that if we would just start to bias that procedure now you might make say one group really happy and then the other four might just they didn't let work for nothing i'm almost for wait let that let this process go and then we'll give it feedback and try to modify it next time
if if we need to do that I I agree with what mr. Griffin said and you know in terms of interjecting ourselves in the process because I do think that that it would cause some problems And the thing, though, that it's unfortunate, the fact is that the process and what you've been doing is nobody's fault, but it's just taking a long time to pull it together when you have a committee this large. And my experience and what we've worked with before and watching other boards and other districts is there's a little bit more time that they have to – they may come back and say, we don't think that we can go with that amount or something like that. and they kick it back to the committee and say, you know, here's an amount we think we could live with and let them deal with it. And I think it's a delegation back to them. It's unfortunate, and I certainly understand what Mrs. Fox is saying about the things, but I think we do need to be very, very careful because it becomes political football if we get too deep in it.
Mr. President, just a clarification. in no way was I trying to orchestrate or influence just kind of an understanding of like everybody has agreed to these ten things or thirty things or whatever I don't know how many things there are just this is where they're in agreement and these are the things are still working on and just kind of and I hear from committee members they like the process it's hard work I'm there I feel it and see it so I know they're working very hard I'm not trying to tell them want to do and it's a brand new process so i was just asking but i'm totally in agreement with with
not doing it and my hat's off really to the committee members because they've they've stuck this out now since april and we're going to be working through july and finally august to get to the presentation and they've just been doing outstanding work giving up their own time which which is just so greatly appreciated.
Right. And if I might, you know, my hat's off to the committee members as well. Several that I've talked to I know are taking this very seriously and working very hard to try to get the right product for our community and for our district at the end of the day. And it's contemplated here on your schedule that at their next work study is when they will make their recommendation, right? If we get close to that and it's looking like they're not going to be ready at that time, then perhaps we look at maybe a report or something from them at the or but if
I could one of the nice things about presenting the recommendation in July is it gives the opportunity to take whatever feedback they get from from the board and spend the next next few weeks to deliver it over that if they need to right and the and they fully understand that the board has the full authority in putting putting the bond package on on the ballot other comments okay board
Item 10 - 12
members trustees if you will help direct you to your documents on the donated items that you have a report and our future board meetings are our board work study meeting on Monday July 21st and our regular board meeting on Monday July 28th there being no further business we are adjourned
Official documents
Agenda
The district's own agenda for this meeting, as published on BoardDocs.
Official agenda, Regular Board Meeting Agenda, 23 June 2014 →
Board packet · 28 documents
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- June 2014 Donated Items KISD Table 10 KB
- MIN 5 19 2014 Special Pending Approval 80 KB
- MIN 5 19 2014 Work Study Pending Approval 118 KB
- MIN 5 27 2014 Regular Meeting Pending Board Approval 131 KB
- 1 - Financial Statements - May 2014 15 KB
- 2 - Analysis Function Object - May 2014 17 KB
- 3 - Check Register - May 2014 7 KB
- May 2014 Tax Report 59 KB
- LECS quote for Rhodes Stadium Project 1529 KB
- MRHS Track 26 KB
- Board Grant Summary-June 8 KB
- Grant Descriptions-June 67 KB
- Data Projections Proposal 1138 KB
- PBK - Architectural Engineering Proposal 92 KB
- Katy POD Interlocal (2) 196 KB
- 2_ REV EXPN 0614 87 KB
- 3_KISD_2013-14 Budget 0614 22 KB
- 4_Function and Object Code Descriptions 12 KB
- BudgetAmendmentDetail 290 KB
- 17295_MOA with Katy ISD Continuity of Operations 2014 Rev 1 36 KB
- 0-062314 Board Bond Information 378 KB
- Letter to Judge 31 KB
- DiscussAction 7.4 Interlocal Agreement SIGNED 129 KB
- DiscussAction 7.5 Memorandum of Understanding SIGNED 285 KB
- Consent 8.12 Minutes Special SIGNED 106 KB
- Consent 8.12 Minutes Work Study SIGNED 271 KB
- Consent 8.12 Minutes Regular SIGNED 253 KB
- DiscussAction7.6 Letter SIGNED 39 KB
Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 3.1
Passed(Denies Relief) I move that the Board deny the one remaining grievance item in the Level III DGBA grievance in case number DGBA-14-003, thereby upholding the decision of the Level I and Level II Hearing Officers. OR (Grants Relief) I move that the Board grant the one remaining grievance item in the Level III DGBA grievance in case number DGBA-14-003, thereby authorizing the relief as stated in their complaint.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
MOTION 002 · AGENDA 3.4
PassedIt is recommended that the Board approves 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 003 · AGENDA 3.5
PassedIt is recommended that the Board approve the Superintendent’s evaluation as discussed in Closed Meeting.
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 3.6
PassedIt is recommended that the Board approve the Superintendent's contract according to the terms discussed in Closed Meeting.
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 7.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the proposed audio/video upgrade awarding the contract for the Education Support Complex audio/video upgrade to Data Projections and the architectural and engineering services to PBK.
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 7.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve, as recommended by the Superintendent, the salary schedules for teachers, bus drivers, and level C1 through C4 employees for the 2014 - 2015 school year as presented.
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 7.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve, as recommended by the Superintendent, the stipend schedule for the 2014 - 2015 school year as presented.
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 7.4
PassedIt is recommended the Board approve the interlocal agreement with Fort Bend County for disaster recovery as presented.
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 7.5
PassedIt is recommended that the Board approve the Memorandum of Agreement between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center and Katy Independent School District for NASA Continuity of Operations Program as presented.
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 7.6
PassedIt is recommended that the Board authorize the Board President to write a letter to the proper authorities to request consideration of a prohibition of certain alcohol sales within 1,000 feet of a Katy Independent School District building.
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 8.1
PassedIt is recommended that the board of Trustees approve the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.12.
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 8.2
PassedIt is recommended that the board of Trustees approve the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.12.
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 8.3
PassedIt is recommended that the board of Trustees approve the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.12.
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 8.4
PassedIt is recommended that the board of Trustees approve the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.12.
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 8.5
PassedIt is recommended that the board of Trustees approve the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.12.
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 8.6
PassedIt is recommended that the board of Trustees approve the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.12.
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 8.7
PassedIt is recommended that the board of Trustees approve the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.12.
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 8.8
PassedIt is recommended that the board of Trustees approve the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.12.
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 8.9
PassedIt is recommended that the board of Trustees approve the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.12.
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 8.10
PassedIt is recommended that the board of Trustees approve the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.12.
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 8.11
PassedIt is recommended that the board of Trustees approve the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.12.
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 022 · AGENDA 8.12
PassedIt is recommended that the board of Trustees approve the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.12.
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 |