July 28, 2014

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The board will now convene an open meeting. Today is July 28th and the time is 644 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 to 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 have reviewed each agenda item in a public work-study session with the administrative team where we were able to ask and receive answers to our questions. Thus as a board we should have appropriate knowledge and should be prepared for our responses regarding the content of this meeting tonight. Mr. Fraley, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Law in regard to the notice for this meeting? Mr. President, we are in compliance.

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There will be no recommendation on the Wolf job tonight. We have not been able to verify some references, so we're working on that and we'll get back with you all when we have a recommendation there. Next item is the Personnel Report.

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Mr. President. Mr. Griffin. I move that the Board of Trustees approve the personnel report as recommended by the Superintendent.

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Second.

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I have a motion by Mr. Griffin, seconded by Mr. DeBrell, that the Board of Trustees approve the personnel report as recommended by the Superintendent. Any discussion? Hearing none, we will vote. All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.

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Aye. Aye.

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Motion passes 6-0. Note that Mrs. Fox is absent this evening.

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Next item is the updated department staffing.

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Mr. President.

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Mr. Dubrow.

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I move that the board approves the updated department staffing needed to address the growth in the 2014-2015 school year as presented in closed meeting. Second.

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I have a motion by Mr. DeBrell, seconded by Mr. Griffin, that the board approve the updated department staffing needed to address growth for the 2014-2015 school year as presented in closed meeting. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, we will vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Motion passes 6-0.

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Okay.

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Okay. Do we have any scouts in the audience this evening? If so, please stand up, state your name, troop number, what badge you're working on. I don't see any. Okay, we will move to the pledge.

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Okay. OK, we are now moving to the open forum portion of our agenda. 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, who is seated on this side of the room. These written statements will be shared with the Board. Due to posting requirements of the Open Meetings Act, the Board is only able to respond to a presentation that is directly related to a posted agenda item. For clarification purposes, the open public forum is not a dispute resolution forum. The Board is not trying to prevent any patron from speaking. 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 mic and state your name, tell the board whether or not you reside in Katy-Astee and whether or not you have children presently enrolled enrolled in KDSD. Tonight we have four speakers who will each be allotted five minutes. Our Sergeant at Arms, Ms. Courtney Doyle, will let you know verbally when you have one minute remaining. Our first speaker tonight is Lori.

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I'd like to also remind you, you never answered my question, which was on the agenda regarding Common Core, UNESCO, and the designs that you had for the architectural two months ago. I would like an answer to that of why you're bringing the UN in. The next thing I'd like to address is we had several teachers that were allowed to resign that caused harm to our children. They openly admitted or were caught acting inappropriately with our children, and you allowed them to resign to go back to the community. I don't care what other action is taken, children that are harmed at KDISD by KDISD employees should be terminated. Otherwise you are just as guilty as they are, letting them off. Do not ever let this happen again when our children are attacked under the age of majority by these teachers and acting inappropriately. Do not let them resign again. Again, you put a message out there. We have this issue in KDISD with many people going after our children and harming them. These were not the only two. They were just two in one month. It's an embarrassment. And then it's a horror to know that this board lets them resign. They're out free to do this to another child. And until their court case, they're out free to work and do this again. It's up to you and your duty to make sure our children are safe. You're not doing that. The second thing, on the illegal children that are coming in and they are illegal, there are loopholes. There is a great concern in this community over the illnesses, the cost, and how things are going to be handled through KDISD. We also have an issue with gangs and fight clubs at some of the schools. I've personally turned in YouTube videos several years ago to the police on fight clubs at one of the schools. Last year we asked this board and this district to get with the community to address this and they refused. I went to Honduras two years ago after they had a coup. Driving around the first corner was a little boy ten years of age holding a handgun. These are the kids that are coming into our school district a handgun this is the life they live there will be gang activity some of them are ill these concerns these people have are real yes some of them are children that are very innocent some are not we need meetings not with a company paid by the board and by our tax dollars but by you an open meeting for the public where we can talk and you can put on the agenda an open Open meeting to discuss the immigration issue and have an open time for it. Because people work. And have it on a Saturday. Listen to them. They're concerned and they're scared. Things are going to happen. This country is getting close to war. Whether you want to admit it or not, we need to start addressing these things. It is bad out there. I have friends on the border. you need to address it common core last thing it is in KDISD I was lied to by your one employee point-blank you guys do need to look up and listen it is the law we need to address it what's coming through via the internet what's coming through via the curriculum is very scary to a lot of parents A lot of it's coming through to the PTA and we have two PTA moms here. Arnie Duncan was talking just a few weeks ago to all the PTA moms in this country here in Texas. You need to get educated on what it is and how it is destroying our education system. One minute. AP history is coming down. The State Board of Education is trying to get this approved and the College Board is trying to get this approved before the legislature gets into effect. This will change history. It does not address our historical facts. I would like, if it gets approved, that you deny it, push it off, and do not consent to it. If you haven't looked into it, look into it now. There are some very serious issues, and if you guys don't change your attitude of not communicating with the public, there are more parents like me waking up in this community. I can't help you. I've screamed for years and asked you with my phone, give me a call and meet with me. But when they all wake up and see what horrors they're waking up to that this board has done to them, I feel for you guys because it's happening. It's time for a meeting. It's time to fess up for what's going on and what you've done, and let's clean it up. having Pearson what's in bed with Microsoft thank you our next speaker

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tonight is Medina brazel I pronounce that correctly my apologies welcome

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Medina Brazel I have two children in Katie ISD about eight years ago we chose KDIC because it was kind of sold to us as like the second coming of Christ of public school systems I can't say that I've been overwhelmed by it really but that's the side the Common Core she's right about that when you print up the little things off the you know the homework sheets off the website it says right across the bottom Common Core standard yada yada yada but that's not why I'm here um my daughter is going into sixth grade and she has been through four elementary schools in kdisd because of the population growth and i understand you know when you've got people going kdisd kdisd come here now you know you're gonna get a lot of people moving here but it's become like a habit every year i get an email that says well we were expecting a growth of 10 000 and we got 15 000 and please stand by while we scramble to accommodate all these additional children okay fine you know for the first two months of last year my daughter had had no teacher. There was 34 children in her class. And I can totally dig that. You guys can't control the rate of build and all that kind of stuff. But I'm sitting here watching the news, and they're talking about how it's no longer just kids walking over the border. They're actually going to start flying people in. Let's go send a plane down here and get a whole bunch of kids and bring them in. And inevitably, these kids are going to be here in Katy ISD. Now, these kids are innocent. They can't control where they come from, they can't control the poverty in their lives, and I feel sorry for every single one of them. But at the same time, as a parent, if we're having problems dealing with just the inflow of people who come here because of the jobs, what are we going to do when we get a whole bunch of illegal aliens dumped in our lap? Many of whom have never been in a public school system, many of whom come from violent backgrounds, many of whom may be carrying disease, maybe, you know, there's their hunger that puts additional stress on our ESL programs on our you know Spanish language and everything else all the teachers not having enough teachers and this is a regular problem we don't have kids flowing across the border in this great of numbers now being the patient person that I am I've been paying a lot of attention to the KDISD website and to the news assuming that certainly they would be understanding that's you guys that we need to have some information about what's going on and I'm sure that there must be a grand master plan going on somewhere here in the background but it's not being presented to anyone here on the outside and again I'm a patient person and I'm willing to wait for it but I started sending emails through the communications department and I've got nothing now I don't know how you get something on the agenda around here but I've sent I think three emails now over a period of three weeks and if you said that you you sent the agenda last week, then I would have liked to have hoped that this would have been on the agenda by now. So I'd like to ask, you know, what are your plans for, A, handling a possible flow of illegal alien children, finding out who they are, you know, whether or not they're infected with disease, pests, you know, whatever, keeping our children safe from violence, and also having enough resources to go around, and when this is all going to be communicated to the community that's it thank you miss revel our next speaker tonight is

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Judy Martin

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welcome miss Martin my name is Judy Martin I live in Katy and I have a granddaughter in KISD superintendent president and board let me say I support the position of the bond for school it's an improvement however I do oppose the stadium being in that part of the bond I feel that that would be better off as a separate bond I oppose it based on location and cost I would like to know exactly what 58 million dollars includes we don't need to be like Washington let's pass it and see what's in it I find Katie Memorial I find it interesting katie memorial hospital can be build a huge adjacent part of their hospital for 85 million and we're spending 58 million on a hospital i mean on a football stadium i'd also like to know what the neighbors around the stadium have to say about a second stadium in their backyard and i also think the possibility of hiring a marketing company to try and pass this bond is ridiculous it's a waste of taxpayers money and of school funds thank you

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thank you miss Martin our final speaker tonight is David Ellis welcome mr. Ellis

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my name is as you said David Ellis I do live within the KDISD area and I just remember that I have a grandson in KSD. My children are long since passed out. Fortunately, my issue is a lot less weighty than any of the others this evening. I'm a long-time resident of Williamsburg Settlement Subdivision and also a board member. And I did send an email to all of you this morning, expressing concern about portion of the campus of Diane Winborn Elementary School, which as you know is within our subdivision. Specifically, it's the portion that's on the corner of Prince George and Crutchfield. There is a low canopy of trees there and I guess that That is the reason why the grass now does not grow. And every time it rains, the water just drags the sand and the soil. And I did, I hope you could all see the photographs that I took of it this Saturday. It's really an eyesore. And I'm concerned because you've got new potential residents who come looking for homes in our subdivision who have kids, obviously are very interested in the school, because it's a good school, and they like to come and look at it and visit. And when they see the state of that portion of the campus, it just makes somewhat of a mockery of the effect that the board, our board, is having on trying to keep the standards up within the subdivision by enforcing our deed restrictions. And although I've got no factual basis for saying it, I have to believe that it does have a negative effect on people's perceptions, and it may well cause some of them to decide to move elsewhere and not to move into our community. And to the extent that that may be occurring, that obviously has an effect on our property values. So as I said in the email, I believe KSD wants to be a good neighbor, and I would ask you to give a little consideration to anything that can be done to correct what is really a blight on our subdivision. So thank you for the opportunity of bringing this to your attention.

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Thank you, Mr. Ellis. Mr. President, thank you. I saw a copy of the pictures today, and so we'll be looking into what caused that. It's at Windbourne Elementary.

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Yes, sir. We'll take a look at it tomorrow. Thanks. Okay, that concludes tonight's open forum. And we will move on to the consent agenda portion. Mr. President.

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Mr. Adams. I move that the Board of Trustees approve the consent agenda as recommended in items 6.1 through 6.16.

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Second.

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I have a motion by Mr. Adams, seconded by Mrs. Doyle, that the Board of Trustees approve the consent agenda as recommended in items 6.1 through 6.16. Is there any discussion? We'll proceed to vote. All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye. Motion passes 6-0. Now moving to discussion action item on our agenda to discuss Board approval of a notice of public meeting to discuss the budget and proposed tax rate. Mr. Smith?

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This is an annual item. The notice of meeting to discuss the budget and proposed tax rate is done every August. We're required to do it within 10 days before our public work study on the budget that's going to be August the 18th. We plan on having the publication run in August the 7th's paper. We don't have the numbers. Those are coming in from the appraisal districts literally as we speak to put in the notice. But we do we will be publishing a dollar twelve six six maintenance and operations tax rate and a 40 cent debt service tax rate. That'll be for the eighth year in a row and just to give you an idea it is a quarter page ad this is last year's and and it will be run there and it will will have those two tax rates which are the the basis of the budget that you'll

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be looking at later tonight okay so this is basically a requirement by law that that we post this notice. So Chair will entertain a motion. Mr. Griffin.

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I move that the Board of Trustees approve the publishing of the notice of public meeting to discuss budget and proposed tax rate, a maintenance tax rate of 1.1266 per $100 evaluation, and a debt service tax rate of 40 cents per 100 valuation.

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Second.

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I have a motion by Mr. Griffin, seconded by Mrs. Vann, that the Board of Trustees approve the publishing in the notice of public meeting to discuss budget and proposed tax rate, a maintenance tax rate of $1.1266 per $100 valuation and a debt service tax rate of $0.40 per $100 valuation. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, we will proceed to vote. All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Motion passes 6-0. I'll direct you to item 8.1 on our agenda, to discuss a contract with American Logistics Company for specific alternative transportation. Mr. Robinson and Mr. Anders, I believe, will be presenting. Welcome, gentlemen.

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Thank you, and good evening, President Mahalski, board members, and Superintendent Fraley. We appreciate the opportunity to discuss and consider a contract with the American Logistics Company, or ALC, for specific alternative transportation. In our ongoing effort to address our driver shortage, we met with ALC recently, and I'd like to note that Mr. Mike Dunn, Regional Vice President with ALC, is in the audience this evening. As you know, many state mandates affect the operation of the KDISD Transportation Department. One of those mandates is the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, which compels a district to provide transportation for homeless children meeting certain qualifications. If a child qualifies to attend KDISD, the district is bound to provide transportation whether that child lives within the boundaries of KDISD or not. And this past year the most glaring example as we had a child that lived close to Hobby Airport. We had a bus that left here in the morning at 430 to pick that child up and take them back in the evening. For the past year the cost of complying with this mandate was over $900,000. In an effort to find an alternative source of transportation for these children and free these buses and drivers for irregular routes, the Transportation Department contacted ALC. ALC is a purchasing cooperative vendor specializing in specific transportation needs and used by many districts to provide this service. Based on the past year's experience, it is believed that contracting with ALC for this specific service would free about 15 buses and drivers per day for regular routes. The cost for ALC to provide this service, based on the past year's experience, would have been a little over $455,000, or $465,000, excuse me. The Transportation Department costs for 2014-15 have already been budgeted and in our discussions with the accounting department, we could be paid by reallocation of the existing, some of the existing budgeted funds. We would recommend the use of the McKinney-Vento as a pilot that could possibly be expanded to other specific groups within the districts if economically feasible. We're happy to answer any questions that you might have.

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Mr. President. Mr. Fraley, does the district have any say in what children attend our school district, or does that pretty much stay driven?

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Actually, McKinley-Vento is a federal law that we must comply with, and no, we don't have an option there. We must provide, as Mr. Robinson said, transportation, if there are any certain qualifications, and that is the cost that it has been. And we're thinking we can do this almost half that cost, but we still must comply with it.

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Mr. President.

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Mr. Rowe.

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Why all the way at Hobby? Obviously that's outside of our district. What are the qualifications that determines a child that far is going to have to come over here for school?

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I can read you the qualifications if you'd like. there are many. Enlighten me. Okay. A homeless child or children according to this Act means an individual who lacks a fixed regular and adequate nighttime residence and includes children in use who are sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason, or living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, camping grounds due to the lack of alternative accommodations are living in emergency or transitional shelters or abandoned in hospitals or are awaiting foster care placement and there's some other issues there but basically if a child has lived in the KDISD area or attended one of our schools in the past and the guardian wants the child to attend KDISD and we're bound by law to provide that transportation. So if I'm understanding

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this correctly and mr mahosky or the accountant helped me with the math between the reinsurance fee which i like to call a shakedown of 475 000 last year last week and now this 900 and seven thousand dollars we're over a million dollars 1.3 million dollars or like i like to put it about 26 teachers

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for two unfunded mandates we could give you a much larger number if we accounted all the unfunded mandates up I assure you. Yeah I'm sure because every week it seems to

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grow. Thank you so much for finding an alternative source to to leave some of the pressure on our Transportation Department. I know the pressure on them is great. I applaud your efforts to find an alternative source to meet this mandate.

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Mr. Griffin. Does this contract meet all the requirements given to us by the state and federal regulations? Absolutely. We've we met with Mr. Dunn

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and he can probably tell you in more detail than I can, but their requirements are stricter than ours are as far as vetting bus drivers. They have to meet standards that our bus drivers don't meet necessarily.

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Thank you.

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I have one final question. You kind of gave the reasons or I guess the criteria for who this mandate applies to, but obviously in the news right now and even a couple of our speakers tonight talked a little bit about immigration. Do we know how this particular mandate and those go together? I mean, if we did have immigrants coming into KDISD, are there scenarios where they may be deemed homeless and we'd also have to provide transportation under this particular mandate?

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I'm not sure that we would under this mandate because one of the qualifications is if they have lived here before or attended a school in Katy ISD. I'm not sure how that would apply to immigrants to tell you the truth.

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Mr. President.

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Mr. Rowe.

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But under a similar mandate, these kids are outside of Katy ISD. Some of these kids coming in could be anywhere and we'd have to provide transportation for them in a greater Houston area. because obviously our borders don't extend down to Hobby Airport.

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I think as you said, Mr. President, if they have attended a K-2 school before, and the theory is that this provides some stability in their educational servicing. And until we have immigrants in here, and I don't see that happening to the degree that a lot of folks are concerned about, but we're looking at that. We're working on a regional basis with all the area districts to look at this matter. and the worst case scenario would be should someone somehow wind up here and enrolled in our school district and then six months later perhaps relocate to another family to the Woodlands or some of the place then under this act would be required by federal law to provide the transportation from that space back to the school they were in in Katy and stay should they so demand that service

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It kind of sounds like the mandate is intended to provide some consistency for students that may become homeless during while they're students at a certain campus and I can see the goodness in the thinking about

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it but in operation practicality right is a major challenge because it's not

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just for the continuation of that year you're saying that if a child became homeless in that school year let's say move to the woodlands we would continue to provide transportation but we would have to continue to provide transportation for subsequent years as well. Am I understanding this right? I'm not sure there's a timeline. There's no timeline. If they've attended a Katy ISD school and they move to the Woodlands or Hobby Airport, they're eligible to be, for us to provide transportation back to Katy for school.

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That's my current understanding of it. Does their define, meet the definition of homeless is that correct or no

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transplant we're not you know we have a homeless liaison here in the in the district and they're they're the experts basically they tell us hey this is considered homeless we have to provide the you know the transportation but the way I understand it you know once they if they change schools like they went from junior high then go to the high school then we would not be we would not have to provide that transportation or once they go from elementary school to the junior high then then we would not have to provide that transportation

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Mr. Adams. And I think that we need to understand too, as a board, is that the true definition of homeless doesn't mean someone that's living under a bridge. It could be a child that basically doesn't have an address or live in a hotel or things like that or with a relative as well. The question I have is back into the focus of with Mr. Dunn and the services that they would provide. Is this a service that is provided on an as-needed basis, on a day-to-day basis, or is this a service that is provided or will be provided to us on a regular basis with a route, much like we have with our buses now? How do we determine how much we need them or how little we need them? That's the first question. The second question is how can we be assured that this this company would provide us with enough drivers to be able to meet the need of KDISD?

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The answer to your first question, Mr. Adams, is that the ALC is really flexible in what they can provide. They provide this service for many school districts in this area already related to to the McKinney-Vento issue. But they can do individual runs on demand. And they can set up routes for specific children or groups. It just really depends on what our needs are and how they can fit into it. Now, on the driver situation, Mr. Dunn has assured us that he does not have an issue with the drivers that he uses because, number one, they're not commercial drivers. They are drivers, many who own their own vehicles and have contracted with ALC to provide a service with them, they're subcontractors.

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All up please. Are the, these folks that provide their own vehicles, are they school buses, are they vans or what would they be?

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They may be Suburbans, they may be vans, they may be cars. depending on the number of children in that particular route that need to be transported. It could be a bus if it's enough children. Right. Ms. Van. Since we are

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putting children in these vehicles, are the drivers screened properly just as we would with our school bus drivers as far as their background? We're putting including children in their care and making sure it's a safe relationship between driver and student?

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Yes, ma'am. The drivers are vetted very thoroughly. They are placed on a probationary period with ALC before they ever drive children. The contract provides a hold harmless agreement for Katie and they provide insurance, an umbrella insurance policy to cover any accidents that would be involved with that transportation.

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Mr. President.

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Mr. Brown.

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What about the background check? Do they pass the same background checks as our drivers?

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I believe it is to an extent. Get Mr. Dunn to tell you the specifics.

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Mike Dunn, regional vice president for ALC. The background check and the driver vetting is almost identical to what the current yellow bus drivers do. Every driver is enrolled in the Texas DPS system, just like the bus driver. We additionally do a background check through our own system, a contractor, where we get 24-hour results, which is in addition to what yellow bus drivers do. Every driver is enrolled in a random drug and alcohol consortium, like the yellow bus drivers. The training is, there is no yellow bus training. It's more specific to different types of student behavioral issues, conflict resolution, maybe a little bit more on that side to replace yellow bus centric training. But overall, our drivers go through everything a yellow bus driver will and maybe a little bit more.

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Mr. President, how many students do we currently have in this program? How many? You say it's going to relieve 15 buses and drivers for regular routes.

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Last year at one point in time we had 109 students, yes, and we were using 25 buses. And, of course, some of those are a.m. and some are p.m., so it's not necessarily would be really even 25 buses but around 10 to 12 in there because like the other district is also responsible for for half of the route so like we did in the morning they might do it in the afternoon if we do an afternoon that the other district would do it in the morning so so we share with district whatever district they reside in we would be shared we share the cost

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with it. Does that make sense? Okay. Okay, any further questions? So we expect this may come for an action item at a future time, right? Okay, thank you very much, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Anders. We're now at 8.2 on the agenda, planning for growth, the 2014 bond.

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Well, you have the information and you've met with the bond committee, seen the recommendation, and we're working through the process of helping to make sure that more folks understand what's in it and bring it forth to you all for your consideration of possibly calling it next month. Mr. Cannella, anything else you have, sir?

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You pretty much have it. But Basileas is completing a survey, and they have completed the survey. They're analyzing the data right now. Those initial results will be provided to the bond committee at a special bond committee meeting on August 5th at Taylor High School. And then on the 11th, we plan to bring it to the board in a special meeting. So that's what's up next. It'll be their 14th meeting.

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Okay.

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Mr. Griffin.

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Mr. Fraley, where can individuals go to look for information about the bond? Since we had a patron who, I guess, wasn't involved with the bond committee or the information that's out there, where's a good place to go to get educated on it?

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The e-mail box, our website, soon their post office box or the mailbox. Or pick up any local newspaper, pretty much. It's all over the place. And we've met with the media, Mr. Mahoski and I and some staff, last week in a media roundtable. and so we've had several stories come out and we'll have other pieces coming out to to make sure that the public is fully aware of the facts of what's in this bond referendum proposal from the committee and the facts of what the board ultimately calls in terms of reference and the facts regarding going forward what this all entails

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Okay, thank you. We are now at the report section. Dr. Caskey is going to present a portrait of a graduate for us.

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Good evening, President Mihalski, Board members, and Superintendent Fraley. I'm pleased to be here this evening to present a revised version of the KDISD Portrait of a Graduate. In 2011, the Teaching and Learning team first began discussions about the portrait during the development of the KDISD Instructional Cornerstones, of which you just received little notepads, very timely for this evening, of our Instructional Cornerstones. It became evident at that time while there were honorable attributes to the current version of the portrait of a graduate, the team agreed that it needed to be updated. Before you this evening, ta-da, is the result of much discussion, collaboration, communication, and creative thinking. You can see that the KDISD instructional cornerstones serve as the bedrock or the foundation for our students as well as for our curriculum. As students engage in learning experiences that are designed to be meaningful and relevant, it is our intent that when students are ready to graduate and walk across our KDISD graduation stage that they are ready to create the future. In other words, once they leave the stage having experience with the cornerstones, they They will be academically prepared. They will be independent learners, responsible citizens, effective communicators, innovative thinkers, creative problem solvers, and honorable collaborators. The portrait before you this evening represents the work of multiple stakeholder groups, including our parents, our students, and our administrators. It also represents the graduates of each of our seven comprehensive high schools, including Raines High School. We believe that we have captured the intent of the KDISD mission and we are eager to have these posted throughout our school district and I'm here to respond to any questions that you may have looks

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different okay thank you dr. Caskey our next report is the budget update mr. Smith

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All right, well, good evening again. And, Mr. Moholsky, before I get started, I don't want to forget by saying the last slide of my presentation, about 10 o'clock tonight, no, no, I'm playing. The last slide I am going to ask you to read just as a heads up. But I'm pleased to talk to you about the 14-15 budget. And what I want to talk to you about tonight is I want to kind of set the stage where we are on the 13-14 budget, the budget that we're in and will be until August 31st, the 14-15 assumptions that were used and have been used since January to build the budget, the 14-15 initial budget projections for the general fund, the special revenue fund, which is food services in our case, and debt service fund. And then I want to talk briefly about local and state issues. Just to give you an idea of where we are with the 13-14 budget, that again, that ends next month. This was the budget that was originally adopted in August of 2013, and you can see that we have amended the budget throughout the year, and we still stand with a firm, healthy bottom line. There's been many changes to revenue and expenditures, and that does include the steam center and expenditure. Items to consider with the 13-14 budget as we move forward are student demographics. The 13-14 year, we reached our budgeted enrollment very quickly into the year. The tax collections, we budget 100% tax collections typically with current and delinquents and P&I, they come in a little higher than that. that. Uh, Shars is federal revenue, which is a very small portion of our budget, but Shars is our third largest single item from a revenue standpoint in a budget. There could be some accounting reasons why we have to double that up. That's good news because that could add $5 million to the number that we saw a few minutes ago to our bottom line. Um, and, uh, it's just a matter of will that happen this year and be recorded in the 14 budget or will we be able to hold that off a year until the 15 budget my my double down bet would be that we have to do that this year of course under spending is a large uh consideration especially this year in wrapping up the 13 14 budget we never spend 100 of the budget there will be departments with uh with unspent crumbs there will be departments that don't have their money their budgets spent there'll be a project that got put on the shelf and then there's also you know turnover which creates underspending however we also will really analyze the salary accruals we'll have to book 10 instructional days that happen in the next school year back into this school year and it's the accounting maneuver that that we do and that will increase our expenses in the month of August which will eat into the underspending that we have and we'll be analyzing that to make sure that we don't that that doesn't that accounting maneuver doesn't mess anything up in our budget and I don't expect it to but that is going to be under the microscope in the next six weeks initial budget projections for 1415 before I get started into that I'm going to tell you a story that happened probably about 27 hours ago. I was visiting with my mom and dad and she said, because they had asked me to come help them with something and I needed to brush up on this. And she said, how many people are involved in your budget? And I looked at her and I said, my mom, and I said, oh, a couple of hundred. And her jaw dropped. And you know, we've got We've got 59 campuses and we have the departments. And those department chairs and campus principals have been involved. Of course, the superintendent and the cabinet have been involved. The financial clerks have been involved. The board has been involved and heard discussions on the budget. There's been probably more than 200 throughout this, and we start this in January, involved. So this is a big, a whole lot of work that's going to look simple tonight and and I would be remiss if I didn't say that Sherry Butterfield, our Director of Budget and Treasury and her staff, Karen Mitchell, are the glue that holds all of those pieces of this budget together. But to start with the overview of the budget I just want to talk a little bit about and I hope you can see that highlight. I'm trying to focus a little bit there on enrollment. It does show an increase of 3,376 students in budget enrollment. That's for 5% enrollment growth. I don't think that's a surprise to anyone. Taxable values, this was a little surprise when we found out about this number back in May. A 15.7% increase in our taxable values. That is substantial. That's the largest that I I can recall that we've had, um, we appraisal districts were to have certified their values on the 25th, which was last Friday. We've yet to get that information. But from one, uh, and that number was a little higher than we that they had provided us initially. Uh, there's absolutely no reason why we think 28 billion is not a not a good number. I think right now it is spot on at this point but we will know more about that as as next as we move in toward next week and in the next month new facilities of course last year we opened one high school and only at the ninth and tenth grade level that was all we open this budget is built on opening an 11th grade at that school and adding us a whole class full of students and the two elementary schools Davison and Randolph Elementary Schools. From a staffing standpoint to have those two schools in the grade levels and the 3,376 students we're looking at 317 new teacher staff and 211 non teacher staff that would be campus principals, cafeteria workers, custodians, etc. This budget that you'll be seeing is using 5.65% on the teacher pay schedule that was approved back in June and 3% that was approved last month for the non teacher pay schedule is in here. Okay there's 13, 14 and 14, 15 side-by-side. I'm only going to talk about a couple of lines. I'm going to make this a little easier on your eyes in a second but we do you do see the increase in the tax revenue based on the increase in values use the same tax rate and the state funding you can see a 14 million dollar increase in state funding I want to I want to note that that footnote there says that for about 4.7 million of that is one time the state's only going to give it us that one year so that meant number is not as big or should not show as much growth as it does it's a one-time year to help us with the TRS 1.5% payroll surcharge for to hold help TRS or the teachers retirement system. I'll talk a little bit more about that in a second. So to make that side a little easier on your eyes 43% 43% of our budget revenues comes from state. 55% the The lion's share comes from local revenues, primarily property taxes. And 2% federal programs is 2%. That's about $11 million and about $5 million of that's SHARS. So behind taxes and state funding comes the SHARS that I mentioned earlier. So there's a way that maybe we'll finish that year with a larger piece of that federal program revenues for the 13-14 year. This is the 14-15 year. Okay, this is going to be a little bit different than you've seen in the past. Kind of surprised me, but then it didn't. Salary and benefits are 85% of the budget that you see tonight. Generally, that's about 87%. There's some one-time expenditures for a technology retrofit cycle and some things that we're doing from capital expenditures on our campuses that are bringing that percentage down, down, but it generally runs around 87%. Uh, but again, that, that additional non payroll expense, uh, is one time and will only be here this year. So again, uh, 85% still, the lion's share is tied up into salary and benefits. We are very labor intensive, uh, business, uh, industry as you, as you can see. Okay. Payroll costs, uh, just to set the stage of where we, how we do that. We take the current teacher salaries and we add the new positions from the prior year and the salary increases that were given by the board the prior year and we pull that up just as a starting point those three added together as a starting point for salaries and then we take the non teaching positions and do the same thing and we pull that up as a starting point for our salaries for both current teachers and non teachers are those that are not tied to the pay teacher pay pay scale. And then the salary increases that were approved are on here and you can see the amounts that those are of $13 million and $3 million respectively at 5.65% and 3%. Other compensation, not payroll related, but I mean, payroll related, but not salary related. Other compensation, this would include substitutes, substitute teachers, stipends, overtime, supplemental payroll, the summer school budget is an example of the largest supplemental payroll we have. tutorials, detention, all of those are other compensation that we have. Oops. And then benefits, you can see a large increase of almost nine million dollars or just over nine million dollars in benefits. And again, we would have a normal increase in our benefits because of the new staff that we have, but I do want to point out that for about four and a half million of that is from that TRS surcharge. And that is a large jump. You won't see that larger jump again, because of the TRS surcharge, but on this side of the budget, the expenditure side of the budget, that will continue. It's not going to be a one-year thing. That will continue. TRS on behalf is a matching. This is the TRS, this is the state's portion of their funding of TRS, or the teacher's retirement system. This is not cash that leaves our books, our coffers. It's recorded as a revenue and it's an expense and it's a cash expense by the state. It just is recorded as an expense by KDISD or by any school district. So we have a total payroll budget of $499,890,977 or just under $500 million. Just to talk about PRS because it just a little bit, 1.5% is the district share and that's to help the teachers retirement fund maintain soundness. There was a $330 million appropriation and that was made during the last legislative session to offset the this new provision and it's just a one-year offset that I mentioned. They give it to us that based on ADA so if our ADA is higher then then then they anticipate our amount of money there goes up if it's lower our amount of in and goes down so it's tied to ada so with ada go staff and that's the theory behind that and the writer language again indicates it's a one-time only revenue uh the employee contributions are expected to rise over to 7.7 percent over time currently our rate is 6.4 percent uh it's going to rise to 6.7 percent as of september 1. that means on the september 15th paycheck it will it will go slightly more towards TRS out of the individuals of payroll however it will go to their account at teachers retirement that's expected over time to climb to 7.7% state their contribution when I showed you earlier the TRS on behalf is also going to increase from from 6.4% to 6.8%. So they are going to be helping fund that program, the Teachers Retirement Program appropriately also, again, all in an effort to continue making it sound. Non-payroll costs, just talk about these briefly, both campus and department allocations increased slightly. That increase is primarily due to student growth and just larger utility budgets, larger supply budgets, etc. because of growth. The tourist contribution remains just a small increase with the value out there. We are expecting numbers. This number will change between now and next month. It'll be more fine-tuned. We just don't have that when this went when this was was produced still don't. Capital outlay doesn't change very much. Non-allocations actually goes down. The big changes that you see are the technology retrofit, about a little over seven million dollar increase. That's part of our plan. It's been a part of our long-range plan for the general fund for years. Back Back since 2010, when that bond authorization happened, we put this in the long-range plan, knowing that for the 13-, 14-, 14-, 15-year, the technology retrofit would need to come out of the general fund. The STEM and STEAM Center, we anticipate those additional expenses to hit next year's budget. Going back to the underspending, there will be some underspending there, and that will be in fund balance, And we'll amend a little bit of that budget that's in our current budget to expense that, again, accounting jargon in the appropriate accounting year. And then there's major maintenance, repair, and replacement on equipment in the district that's there. Again, I would say of those last three items, $15 million of that is probably a one-time expense and will not be in next year's budget. budget. How's our budget look from a visual standpoint broken down? Again, 85% is in payroll. This is interesting. For the first time in many years, the purchases and contracted services, that purple piece, is not the second largest number. And the reason it's not is because supplies and materials, the green piece, is now the largest number. And it's because we've added the technology retrofit to that and so therefore the numbers surpassed it but I want to talk about the purple piece for just a second the largest percentage of that purple piece by far is the utilities that run the district and you know the elementary schools junior highs and high schools cost money to run and I just find it very interesting that 85% of our budget is personnel and the largest portion was typically the largest portion of that purple piece the large very largest portion of that is utilities and then supplies would be next fuel and fuel for vehicles but and then other operating is 2% and capital outlay is just one a mere 1% of the budget so how does that look overall if you put all that together it would look 584 million 264 thousand thirty one dollars in revenues five thousand five hundred seventy five million two hundred fifty seven thousand five hundred forty six in expenditures I want to talk a little bit about the transfers out that's two numbers that make that out three million dollars is transfer out to the health insurance fund we have as health as you know a self-insured health insurance program and we budget that in case the fund has a year that's a tough year and we transfer it out at the end at the end of the year that's in our current budget and we've been carrying that as well as we assign fund balance in our financial financial statements to make sure that that fund is protected. The other large portion of that, or about $3,237,982 of that is the BABS. That money comes to us from the IRS. We record that as revenue in the general fund. It's federal revenue in the general fund, and then we transfer it out to the debt service fund. and that's what we've used as a big tool to hold down our tax rate to 40 cents on the debt service side so that comes in recorded in the general fund and goes out and helps manage the tax rate and then the tours the transfer in the waterfall in that's to cover the expense the operating expenses of the merrill center and we won't know exactly what those are but typically we'll spend these uh this last couple weeks in july and the early part of august to try to estimate what those are for the final amended budget so a change in fund balance of three point three million two hundred sixty eight thousand five hundred and three that would be 28% of our fund of our expenditures or I'm sorry that would be an addition to fund balance which would mean a existing ending fund balance of 161 million that's about 28 percent of our expenditures and that is right in the sweet spot of being not not overly uh too much and and not and and too small that would be about what where people are looking at between 25 and 30 percent so we're still still good there uh just another way to look at these expenditures uh and i find this really interesting so i wanted to make sure we included here this is just the general fund we have a schedule similar to this in the caffer that includes all funds but this is just the general funding and as you can see the very vast majority of the funds that we spend are going to the classroom that blue that bluish color a column on the left is instruction instructional related stuff and curriculum related items that go strict to the kids the red item the 37.8 million that's instructional and school leadership That's, you know, your principals, your assistant principals district-wide, office staff, paraprofessional staff, etc. on those campuses. The green section of $58.7 million, that's support services. That's guidance and counseling. That's your counselors, your nurses on your campuses, transporting kids to and from school. It's all our co-curricular activities, both academics, athletics, and fine arts. And then evaluations and assessments is part of that green number. Administrative support, that little purple deal at $11.7 million, that's what people look at and they say, that's administration. That's my offices in financial services, the superintendent's office, human resources, purchasing, those kind of departments would be administrative support. You can see that's the smallest portion of our budget. Support services non-student, that's plant maintenance operations. That's the utilities, the largest portion of that. That's yard crews, landscaping, electricians, plumbers, et cetera. trip. And then security, the police and security staff that we have throughout the district and data processing make up that number. And then the small orange section, our ancillary services is community education, facilities and construction, shared services arrangement, the TERS, the tax increment reinvestment zone, our county appraisal fees, there's the three county appraisal districts that charge us to appraise our property here located in the district and then tax collections for our tax collection services. So that's kind of how the budget looks from an expenditure wise on where the money goes. Special revenue fund, it's our food service fund and it has a healthy fund balance at 3.7 million dollars, almost 3.8 and as you recall a couple of years ago we kind of got dinged for having too high a fund balance and we've been working at trying to get that spent down and as you can see this budget actually will do that if you look at a million to seventy change to fund balance we do think that this is this we know that this will turn after this year one of the things I want to point out is if you look at local revenues those haven't been coming along as strong local revenues are what mom and dads pay for lunches in the lunch lunchroom and those those have been sluggish comparatively to the other growth and then you can see the federal program revenues at 10.8 million dollars that's the 30% of our students that are on free or reduced lunch okay and that's the feds sending that money to the to the district through the Texas Education Agency we claim that money monthly and of course in expenditures payroll is a large expense you have to have folks to cook serve and food and collect money and clean up but the largest portion of that is the supplies and materials it's the cost of cost of goods sold or the food so that's the largest portion of that and then so we'll end the year again in 14 and 2015 with another extremely healthy fund balance for food service fund debt service fund we think dissipate about a 51 million dollar fund balance there you can see that this is interesting point the state revenues have actually gone to nothing it's because our property values have grown to a point where if you take our wealth per average daily attendance we don't we don't qualify for state assistance in our debt anymore that's a good thing it would be nice if we weren't on the the cusp of getting in there not getting it if we were way behind it if those those funds were way behind us, that would be good. But there's not equalization in debt service funds after that target that we just passed. I want to point out the property taxes and interest earnings. Obviously, the property taxes are the largest portion of the revenues for that. Interest is a small portion. Basically, that's fund balance and what small investment return we get on that fund balance. Expenditures is $114,498,000. Transfers in, you know, the construction fund, the capital projects fund, those proceeds are in interest. We take that interest and we put it to the debt service fund in the form of a transfer as a way to manage our tax rate. And that's, you know, other districts, some districts do that to build more and do more things with it. We've historically done, and it's a good fiscal thing, it's been a good tool to manage our tax rate. And then there's the transfer in from the BABS, the $3,237,000. Again, that's revenue to the general fund transferred to the debt service fund. And so we think that we'll have a small net change to fund balance and and again I want to point out that this is budgeting 100% collections for for tax purposes Okay, just looking at it. There's a summary of all three of our budgeted funds. You'll see this again next month It'll be similar to this. I'm not going to say that there won't be any changes, but whatever changes we have We hope that will be minor and that there won't be material to these changes. But, you know, across the board there, the fund balances look within reason, and those are three good budgets. As far as local issues, just to kind of wrap up, taxable values, I mean, there's growth happening in KDISD. That's what's bringing the kids. That's what's causing taxable values to increase. I think we can all agree that we don't see any signs of that slowing. We do think that the taxable values will hold and will continue to increase over time. But we'll be monitoring it, I can assure you. Competitive teacher salaries, the board, Mr. Fraley, made a great effort to maintain competitiveness with this, and I've heard a lot of positive comments myself. itself. Of course, we're always trying to maintain and put the money there towards the teachers. Health insurance both is not uncommon with any company, especially with school districts. The health insurance is something that we manage because we have our own fund, but we're always paying close attention to it to make sure that we're keeping that fund healthy and supported so that we can continue to control it because our alternative is not good with the TRS active care enrollment trends of course we'll be getting updated numbers in October from this dr. Goosman we'll use those enrollment numbers to re-update our long-range plan we're constantly doing that and we're looking at enrollment trends daily every day we run I'm sorry sorry, every week we run a report. There's a report run every day, but that's like watching the stock market to me. I can't stand it. I look at it weekly, but we track them by week to see how our enrollment's holding up to what we budgeted and then hold our breaths when Dr. Guzman delivers her report in October. And then, of course, the upcoming legislature is something that we will be watching closely. And with that said, just to give you an update on the legislature and how it may affect the budget, they're returning in January on the 13th for the 84th session. state finances, the state's budget should be in better shape. They're anticipating large surpluses over the last couple of years. That's due primarily to property value growth in KTISD. It is one example of property value growth across the state. And sales taxes has remained strong. Of course, we know the state has issues with health and human services. There's water issues, there's transportation needs, those are unmet. There's rising TRS costs, again, teachers retirement system costs. I've talked about mechanism they're doing to keep that TRS or the retirement portion sound. Yet to be addressed is the TRS active care insurance or the TRS care, which is the retired insurance. And that will be something that will need to be addressed. And in what positions will they take relative to IFA, that's instructional facilities allotment, EDA, existing debt allotment? Those are debt service fund related. Those are the two that went to zero. They've talked about increasing that yield, and if they increase that yield, we may be back into the EFA, EDA, IFA business. That is yet to be seen. And then NIFA, the new instructional facilities allotment funding, you know, that went away back in 2011 and has cost KDISD millions of dollars. That's the $275 that we got per student in new schools. So we missed out on those funds for the four elementary schools that opened in 2000 and the fall of 2012 and we missed it for Seven Lakes Junior High and in Tompkins High School and these two elementaries that will be opening we will those funds are not available. Legislation did not legislature did not funding that so we hope that that's one of the items that they'll consider consider putting back into the formulas so that as we continue to grow, we can get those costs that help offset the cost of opening new schools. And of course, there's the ongoing funding lawsuit that we'll be watching that'll be taking, that'll be evolving over the next year. Just a quick timeline where we are. Friday, July the 25th, the certification of appraisal role by chief appraisers, we've seen one of three. I don't expect to see one. I thought we'd see one today. There'll be another one we don't expect to see for another week or two. Tonight the board approves the publication in the newspaper of the notice to discuss the budget proposed tax rate, and I appreciate that. The notice of anticipated collections rate is in a memo in your information items. Again, we expect about 100% collection rate on current taxes. The KDSD board will be meeting to discuss, or the board president is going to read something here in a second, talking about the next time we discuss the budget on August the 18th. And we have to publish something. This is an unfunded mandate that we'll publish in the paper on the 7th of August, and that that will meet the legal requirements of quarter it's a quarter page ad that will discuss our property values and the anticipated tax rates and the fact that we are having a public meeting that mr. Mahalski is going to read about here in just a second and then we have that public hearing and then on Tuesday August the 26th we hope that the board adopts the budget by law we had need to have have the budgets adopt by August 31st and by Monday September the 22nd we'll be looking at formal adoption of the tax rate so the notice that is just a notice adoption of the tax rates won't happen until September and with that I will

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turn it over to you mr. Bosco hey thank you notice of public meeting to discuss budget and proposed tax rate the Katy Independent School District will hold a public meeting at 6 30 p.m. August 18th 2014 in the boardroom education support complex 6301 South Stadium Lane Katy Texas 77494 the purpose of this meeting is to discuss the school districts budget that will determine the tax rate that will be adopted public participation and the discussion is

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invited. And thank you and with that I'll be glad to answer any questions that you may have. If not I will I want to again thank the hundreds of people that have been involved in this since January. It's a it's an arduous process that has a lot of moving parts and again Sherry and her staff do a great job and HR is very involved in that as well. Yolanda Edmond I just see over there she's involved with crunching the numbers for the salary portion and there's a lot of hands that put this together and they'll be still working on it between now and next month but again I don't expect material changes. Mr. Griffin. You know one part

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you didn't mention in here is how often that y'all are looking to save the district money for any opportunities. I know Mr. Gunnell's done that a lot of times with electricity and you just did it recently with the bonds thank you for looking for every opportunity to save us as much money as you can absolutely thank you mr president yes mr

1:14:27 Unknown speaker not human verified

brother so i guess i want to thank mr smith and his team this is mr smith's first year to carry it the ball from start to finish across from end zone end zone he's done a great job and his team has been outstanding uh the folks in hr miss that man is there back there has been tremendously helpful with the salary work which is it's an 85% of our budget and just reiterate that this would be the eighth consecutive year that we're recommending no tax rate increase in this district questions if you could roll back to the

1:14:55 Unknown speaker not human verified

debt service page yeah I think that's it okay first I guess does this obviously what we've been talking quite a bit about a proposed bond referendum referendum, an election which may be called in the next month. Does this budget here contemplate the sell of any or the issuance of any bonds from that proposed?

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No, sir.

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Okay.

1:15:21 Unknown speaker not human verified

If the election is successful, we will sell bonds in, I'm going to guess, January. At that time, we will amend the budget for the expense on those bonds between now and between that point in time and the end of August. So we will amend the budget expenditures at that time. However, also we'll be increasing that transfer in because we will receive proceeds. The proceeds will earn income while we're beginning the construction. So that money just doesn't sit there and sit there and wait for us to spend it. We invest it and earn a rate of return, although not great. rate, we do earn a rate of return. So it will look different with the, if the election is

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successful but by this time next year. So with that, the proposed bond as recommended by the bond committee which we heard last week contains a potential tax increase of one penny. Is that correct? Yes, sir. What was, in 2010 we passed a bond that I think projected about a four cent tax increase however that never occurred due to a number of factors but but to kind of just to point out a couple of things there as well is um you were i think you were basing the next year's the following year's projections of a uh taxable base of about 30 billion is that correct after after this two years or about eight about seven percent it's about seven Where we had in this current year, we're anticipating about a 15% jump in the taxable valuation. Okay, so if we were to have that same type of growth again, that in itself could potentially take care of the penny increase.

1:17:11 Unknown speaker not human verified

Yes, that would definitely have an impact on that increase.

1:17:15 Unknown speaker not human verified

And additionally, on $30 billion, one penny is what, about $3 million worth of debt service in a given year? Yes, sir. In which case, if the board elected, and that were to come to pass, could also use a portion of this fund balance to fund as well, or the general operating fund. Is that correct?

1:17:35 Unknown speaker not human verified

If that was the board intent, yes, sir.

1:17:37 Unknown speaker not human verified

OK. Just wanted to point out that there are certainly some tools available to, depending on what occurs, that may even help in the case of not having to raise taxes even through this bond referendum.

1:17:52 Unknown speaker not human verified

And just to add one thing, Mr. Moholsky, our bond debt plan assumes that first sale to be current market rates plus 75 BP or 75 basis points. That's probably a conservative number. I'd like to say it's real conservative, but it's not. It's realistic. And then again the increase in values next year are built on 7% and we've averaged about an 8.5% excluding this year that we're in. If you take this 15% year out and go back 10 years, we've averaged about 8%.

1:18:34 Unknown speaker not human verified

Thank you for that information. I mean there's certainly variables that we've got to look into the future and kind of estimate. So there's no guarantees on those, but certainly I think taking a conservative approach is appreciated.

1:18:46 Unknown speaker not human verified

And I would be insane and not sleep tonight if I didn't say they could also go the other way. Sure. But we don't think so because they're conservative. But you never know what could happen with interest rates. Who would have thought four years ago they would have done down the amount they went down? We were using the words in our office, what is the new norm, because they were changing so much. So things can change, but we think that based on everything we see, that's good conservative numbers, and you're spot on.

1:19:20 Unknown speaker not human verified

Well, one thing I'll say is what has been normal, I think, is the finance team in the department here at KDSD has been very responsible in the way they've managed the finances of this district. So for that, we are grateful.

1:19:31 Unknown speaker not human verified

Well, thank you, and that's the leadership of the board, Mr. Fraley, and I would be remiss if I didn't say Mr. Moore did a good job getting this going.

1:19:41 Unknown speaker not human verified

All right.

1:19:41 Unknown speaker not human verified

This way.

1:19:46 Unknown speaker not human verified

Okay, that concludes our reports tonight. Trustees, I will direct you to items 10.1 through 10.3 on your agenda, information items and your materials. and for future meetings we will have our board work-study meeting on Monday August 18th and our regular board meeting the second day of school Tuesday August 26 2014 there being no further business this meeting is adjourned at 8 0 5 p.m.