The Board will now convene an open meeting. Today is Monday, October 21st and the time is 6.52 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. Mr. Fraley, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Law in regard to notice for this meeting? Mr. President, we are in compliance.
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Katy ISD Board Work Study, October 20, 2014
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- 0:00 to 1:48 Item 3 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 Board approval of accepting professional staff resignations and hiring 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.) 3.2 Update on Superintendent's reassignment for the principal of Katy High School. (Texas Government Code 551.074: For the purpose of considering the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline or dismissal of a public officer or employee or to hear complaints or charges against a public officer or employee.)
- 1:48 to 39:50 Item 4.1 Planning for Growth: Consideration of Alternatives
- 39:50 to 49:17 Item 4.2 Instructional Materials Allotment and the timeline/process that will be followed for selection of instructional materials included in Proclamation 2015, as well as supplemental resources needed by the district.
- 49:17 to 1:07:48 Item 4.3 Willow Fork Drainage District and Katy ISD Partnership for a 32-acre Community Park
- 1:07:48 to 1:13:15 Consent Agenda Consent Agenda 5.1 Consider future Board approval of site utility and infrastructure easements to Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 169 associated with District owned property within the Cross Creek Ranch subdivision. 5.2 Consider future Board approval of a Pipeline Easement Agreement to SiEnergy, L.P. associated with District owned property within the Cross Creek Ranch subdivision. 5.3 Consider future Board approval of a Water Line Easement to North Fort Bend Water Authority (NFBWA) associated with the Bonnie Holland Elementary School campus.
- 1:13:15 to 1:19:36 Item 6.1 Discuss and consider future Board approval of the Interlocal Agreement between Katy Independent School District and Harris County Sheriff’s Office to participate in the Multi- Agency Task Force.
- 1:19:36 to 1:23:08 Item 6.2 Discuss and consider future Board approval of the change of Healthcare Benefits administration from Mercer Human Resource Consulting (Mercer) to ADP.
- 1:23:08 to 1:27:13 Item 6.3 Discuss and consider future Board approval of the Limited English Proficient (LEP) Enrollment and Bilingual Education Exception/ESL Waiver Application for 2014 - 2015.
- 1:27:13 to 1:28:17 Item 6.4 Discuss and consider future Board approval of the Memorandum of Understanding for Operation of a Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program (JJAEP) with Fort Bend County.
- 1:28:17 to 1:29:17 Item 6.5 Discuss and consider future Board approval of Board Policy Update 100 and Local Policy Updates
- 1:29:17 to 1:49:46 Items 6.6 & 6.7 6.6 Discuss and consider future Board adoption of an Order Authorizing the Issuance of Katy Independent School District Limited Tax Refunding Bonds in one or more series; setting certain parameters for the bonds; authorizing a pricing officer to approve the amount, the interest rate, price, including the terms thereof and certain other procedures and provisions related thereto, allowing the district to refinance multiple bond series issued in the past, with the potential to save approximately $4.4 million dollars. 6.7 Discuss and consider future Board adoption of an Order Authorizing the Issuance of Katy Independent School District Unlimited Tax Refunding Bonds in one or more series; setting certain parameters for the bonds; authorizing a pricing officer to approve the amount, the interest rate, price, including the terms thereof and certain other procedures and provisions related thereto, allowing the district to refinance multiple bond series issued in the past, with the potential to save approximately $24.4 million dollars.
- 1:49:46 to 1:53:11 Item 6.8 Discuss and consider future Board approval of the October 2014 budget amendments.
- 1:53:11 to 1:53:45 Items 7 & 8 7. Future Meeting 7.1 Regular Board Meeting – Monday, October 27, 2014 8. Adjournment
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Item 3
Mr. President.
First item is for a report. Mr. Griffin.
I move that the Board of Trustees approve the personnel report as recommended by the superintendent
Okay
Have a motion by Mr. Adams, I mean, mr. Griffin seconded by mr. Adams that the board Proves the personnel report as recommended by the superintendent There any discussion All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye
motion passes 7 to 0 there's never an else we're going Katie high school I see there's no interest in what I'm gonna announce that right now now please announce the reassignment of dr. Rick Hull principal Katie high school from Carter's junior high congratulations you'll do a fine job excited about had a great report from the committee on the campus based committee what what their
information the feedback oh do we have any scouts in the audience tonight please stand up give us your name your troop number and badge you're working on it here's that we have none tonight they must all be Texans fans okay we will We'll move straight into the reports section of our agenda. Our first report will be Plannering for Growth, Consideration of Alternatives.
Item 4.1
Mr. President, I don't know who's going to be controlling the PowerPoint over there because I don't have it over here. It should be up on the screen.
I don't have the clerk all right, so Mr. Gunnell, you'll kind of click for me. Mr. Chairman, I want to first begin by saying a question came to me by staff some time back regarding what they were hearing, the Charter Island community, regarding what if the bond doesn't pass? We've got all this opposition against what's going to happen. I said, well, let's just leave that alone for the time being because if we begin talking about it, we wouldn't be asking for the permission to borrow funds to build those schools. We didn't feel there was a case to be made for it. And if we begin talking about what ifs now, the allegations are going to be that we're fear-mongering. Because there are some things that may not be as supportive as others. And if we don't talk about it, I realize then now we're being arrogant. We know it's going to pass. Or we're being irresponsible for not considering the fact that the last two of the four bonds have failed. And that should this one fail, it should be three out of five. There is a lot more to it than a stadium, if that's the case. I say that because there was opposition to the bond in 2006 that failed, opposition to the one in 2010 that did pass, and there were no stadiums on either one of those referendums. I don't accept that it's a stadium that raises a big question. There's always opposition. As you can see, the margin of victory is not all that great. At one time it was only 37 votes. So it's a real possibility that the bond could fail. Then they shared with me a survey done by Community Impact and the number one concern based on the survey, overwhelmingly, was what if the bond doesn't pass? So we began talking about it. Now obviously, as I said earlier, if the bond passes, then back to scenario A, Tom, coming back up a little bit there. I'm going to back up.
But if it does pass, then we know that we'll start selling bonds and get board approvals for new designs for the schools and hiring architects for the projects in terms of them available in January 2015. Then we'll begin the construction timing and maybe work contracts in spring of 2015 and begin construction then as well. Okay? Now if it does not pass, then we have to worry about these things. The question of will a spring 2015 bond keep us on track, the answer is no. It will not, because when you have lost three out of five elections, why should you think the next one's going to pass? You'll be spending your time planning to provide some type of relief with the resources that you know that you have. As you look at the schedule here, the November 2014 bond, If it passes, bond funds available January 2015. You can see the board maybe approving some contracts at the end of March 2015. Construction began April 2015. And just elementary and junior high, you're going to have about a 14- to 16-month construction. So you can look at the school's opening May to July 2016, moving into August, which is our normal routine. Let's say that we were to have a May 2015 bond and it were to pass within funds available July 2015, but you're approving contracts in September, getting construction perhaps in October, you're going to have the earliest completion November 2016 to January 2017, so you have a mid-year move-in if you were to do that. But between now and then, we will be spending our time figuring out how to accommodate the 3,000 students.
In this scenario, 2014 bond, you see
that for King and Woodland Elementary, you've got to get through the 2015-16 school year at that projected capacity. I'm going to click so I can circle that so you can see it. And the same thing with Seven Lakes Junior High and Wood Creek Junior High. So you've got to get through 2015-16, and that's what your projected enrollment is going to be. And then you can avoid 2016-17 numbers. If you have a 2015 bond, then you've got to get through 2016-2017 at this enrollment before the school can open up in 2017-2018.
So the current assumptions, right now we're looking at keeping the same scope of work, but we know if the bond fails we've got to make some adjustments. But still looking at an estimate of 10 percent construction increase, so you could wind up paying more money in the current ask, but having fewer projects because of the way inflation goes. Interest rates we know will be creeping up over time, so we want to get things sold as early in the first quarter as possible. In the construction market, we've noticed that a lot of the sub-trades are pretty stretched, and so the demand is not only just Katie's needs. It's SyFair's needs, it's HIC's needs, it's Clear Creek, it's a number of other places that we'll be competing with. In 2010, we had a very favorable market for us because of the economy around us, and we had some very good bids, and we were able to create some savings, so that we were able to add two more elementary schools out of the savings. And then the schools will have to go another year before they get relief.
If I could add to that, that competition in the marketplace is not just school districts, it's all the construction you see going in the greater Houston area.
Exxon plants is using a lot of concrete.
So I agree to begin the conversation, but I want to get some input and make certain that what we were looking at as we looked at different districts around us that this community had a chance to weigh in on it so we utilized our standing groups we have the Canadian Improvement Council that includes it's in the education code as a requirement we have staff we have community folks we meet with them I guess it's pretty monthly Bonnie and so that so they have a vested interest I'm a parent roundtable which are our volunteers and they know everything you and what's going on with them on a monthly basis. We have a leadership team, which includes all the principals and directors in central office. We got feedback from them as well. And so at this time, I want to introduce Ms. Laura Freeman, who is actually on the kick as well as the parent roundtable, to just kind of share with you all what she experienced and to assure you that it was a very inclusive process. We looked at some things on our own, and they had a chance to add some things to it.
Oh, Miss Freeman. Thanks being here, man. Thank you. Good evening again. My name is Laura Freeman I'm a member of the kick and of the parent roundtable
Our committees were asked Mr. Gunnell and kind of brought to our committees in September we need to start thinking about well, what if it doesn't pass and so Basically he provided us the list of tools that in options that we could consider He told us that he collected them from other school districts that were dealing with high growth. And we broke into little groups within our committee and talked about the ones we thought that would work the best and the ones that we really, really, really didn't want to see happen. As you can probably know, people in our community are not all unified. Everybody has their own opinion. and I appreciated the fact the district asked my opinion because I'm not you know shy or nervous to give you that opinion I will offer it at any time you want but anything anyway and you can see some of those things they're not some of them are not necessarily new like portables and refurbing of space and some other things were new like investigating options for instructional delivery and leasing out building space and mr. you know also said if you have an idea of what we could do please write it down and let us know so you know we looked over this whole list and these are what we came up with so the most preferred options in the group or something that we're already doing portables repurposing a space rezoning nobody really likes those things especially rezoning thing but I mean it's a solution and we realize that when giving these options these aren't really a solution to the problem of too many students it's just a way to make it work within what we already have and we understood that some classes might have to be held in non-traditional settings like gyms or packs we know that those aren't the best places to learn but they would provide a seat basically so kids wouldn't have to be outside. The committee suggested things that the things that they suggested were the spring to have a spring bond to eliminate inter-district transfers to cap the enrollment of a school at a certain percentage and then bust the overflow to another campus and then to move like one complete grade grade level to a different school. I think that where people got this idea was from when they opened up May Creek High School, May Creek Junior High, and May Creek High School kind of eighth grade went to the high school for a while there until everybody got filled up. And I could understand how that would be feasible in a situation like May Creek, since May Creek are on the same piece of land and, you know, walkable to one another. I'm not exactly sure because people are concerned because Tompkins is not at capacity. I'm not exactly sure how that could work but I mean it's something that we could consider.
Let me think.
Yeah so the least preferred.
These were pretty much yes we do not want these
things to happen. The best out of the worst situation were a little bit harder to narrow down but these were really really specific the the groups did not want to eliminate the non-mandatory classes we think that the non-mandatory classes are what make Katie Katie and people come because of those classes and when you know the classes that we're talking about are like the two-way immersion behavior and invention having a separate art and a separate music teacher at the elementary level the teacher general ed teacher could just teach art and music but we actually separate them out um theater band dance art choir all those at the secondary level and then athletics at the secondary level and pre-ap or ap classes at the secondary level are things that we are not required to have we do not want to do that if at all possible because that would stink and they didn't want to increase the class size and class size is told up to us by the state for K through fourth grade but fifth grade and up you can have any we like having the smaller class sizes year-round school was or schooling and shifts was not really popular you You know, people like vacations. Leasing out the building space is required. I really don't want my kid to go to school at an old Kroger. And eliminating assigned classrooms for secondary teachers. So those are the things that we didn't like. Yes, Ms. Fox? Or, sorry.
Mrs. Freeman? Yes. The numbers at the end of these, is that the number of votes it got? Is that 24, 16? What are those?
Yes, that's the number of votes that those particular options received from the groups.
But let me clarify that a little bit. You had four different groups that met, and they were all broken into tables, and tables generally, I guess, had eight, nine people at each table.
They got to discuss it. They got to pick which ones they had as their least preferred, which ones their most preferred, and this is the net result of that. so when it says minus 24 there were 24 tables that said program evaluation of all non-mandatory programs or classes above whatever the medium was so there could have been 36 tables that said this and 12 that said something else as put it on the other side of the ledger the most positive so I just wanted to thank
Mr. Ganell in the district for actually asking our opinion. I know that some of these things are really really really hot-button Topics especially rezoning and stuff like that And I think that it was made clear to all of the people in the committee's that this will not solve the problem It's just a holdover and provide a chair for a kid in a building It doesn't solve the problem of the overcrowding of the schools. I
Think mr. I really appreciate you as well I've heard from some that concern that this is going to raise taxes, the bond, going to raise taxes. And I would point this out to you. We have now gone in eight years in a row and the tax rate has not changed. It's gone up one penny.
That's what you see in
the yellow bar, horizontal bar.
The challenge or the issue is when you look at those two
green boxes. In 2007 you were paying maybe $2,500 in taxes. 2013-14 is $3,000. And like me, you've gotten your recent appraisals and you've gotten your tax, anticipated tax obligation and it's higher than it was before. And there's no bond referendum, there's no tax rate increase. But the issue is that property value in Katy ISD is appraised by the county appraisal district, not by the board, not by the administration, it's by the county appraisal district, based on a number of factors including market demand. That top average market value is the market demand, market price for your property, 2007-2008. Just below it is the average tax value when you put in the exemptions. You look at 2013-2014, you'll see that that 180 has now increased to 215. That's why the taxes go up. Whether you build new schools or not, you're going to pay more in taxes because this is a highly desirable place to be in. Now you can pay more taxes by making this a less desirable place to be in. And then when you get a job transfer and try to sell your house, you're probably going to walk in with the check versus walking out with the check. That's a reality. So things are important to note that. that. A couple other final points if I could.
We've got to make plans to
accommodate the 3,000 new children who came in this year alone. That's what we'll be doing this spring.
If you don't have a bond funds available then you're going
going to be making plans with 6,000 kids. Because we're growing right now and the only way to stop the growth is to make this place less desirable. Student enrollment Enrollment and programs drive facility needs. If you don't want the facilities, you've got to revisit the programs and the enrollment. Our facilities are built to serve children's programmatic needs, children's academic needs. You don't want the facilities, then you have to look at the programs without a doubt.
With or without bond funds, we have an obligation to provide for our students and all the programs we wish to keep.
By Texas law, and unlike a lot of other places around the country, there are no builder impact fees that we can assess. If we wish to provide facilities for our kids, we must ask the community's permission to borrow funds. That's what bond referendum is. It's asking permission to borrow money to build facilities. Texas is a low tax state. We pride ourselves on that. That's why we have led this country really in job growth.
With jobs come
employees. With employees come families. With the families come children. With the children come need provide space for them to be educated in. The state does not pay for this. The local school districts have to do that and residents agree to tax themselves to pay for it or in our case allow us to borrow money without increasing the tax rate but let the increase of the property value because of the health and desirability of our community pay for it. But you'll pay more money with or without new facilities.
We're going to know that.
That all I have, Mr. President. Thank you, Mr. Fraley.
Mr. Rowe?
I'd like to talk about the capping a little bit, because when I see some of our schools and how much they're overcrowded, I mean, we've talked about the stress on the core. one thing that really gets me is we have a school that's so overcrowded say to the extent that would Creek is we have administrators in that school that wake up every morning trying to figure out how to feed kids how to get them in safely and get them home safely and not about instruction that they have to think about the logistics more than the instruction because the volume demands And I think pass or fail, we need to begin to have a discussion about capping enrollment at some level at some of these schools for safety concerns, but primarily, I will say, for instruction.
MR.
President, without a doubt, and I recognize Ms. Finneson there, she has a very nice set up of portable cottages, instructional colleges, the McElwain's, how you call it, something like that. And I would like to see her appraises, along with many other staff, principals, superintendents, who have done an amazing job of maintaining a quality program. But you're right, Mr. Brill, this is what keeps her up at night, what gets her up early in the morning, because she cares about her children. We all care about our children. And sometimes you have some tough choices to make, and those who aren't on the line with you won't always understand them. You've got to have the courage to make those decisions anyway and know that you're going to be supported.
Mr. Griffin. Mr. Fraley. Currently we have 301 portables. Say the bond referendum isn't successful and as we have growth on the north side of Interstate 10, what are we going to do with the children? I would imagine real quickly, I believe Wood Creek Junior High is almost maxed out with portables. What are we going to do with these children? Are we going to do what?
Well, again, we have an obligation to provide space. So you'll be looking at not only your instructional programs but also your support. Because we have a lot of staff members who are out there working in support. We have a lot of small classes. And you may have to consolidate some classes to utilize the space. And my reluctance again, it sounds bad. You're supposed to say, well, they're making it all up. We do that now. But we'll have to do more of it because you'll have more children And and your your resources your funds come out of the bond savings that we've had from Previous bond projects or you go to the gof which is where you pay for everything else And that's just reality you know and whether you believe it or not. That's just reality
I'm One thing I'd like to discuss a little bit more well, I guess first comment is You know regardless of the results of this bond referendum We're obviously charged with doing the best that we can for the students of this district and we're absolutely going to do that now certainly Certainly, if we are looking at some of these options, most of them are not appealing. So it will create some additional challenges, and we'll have to review. And I appreciate the work that was done by these groups and Ms. Freeman for reporting this to us, because I think we can all kind of look at this list, and none of these things are really appealing to us to have to implement. but I but I do recognize the work that was necessary to kind of they're going to get there and talk about the you know what what we would do in this in this instance there is one that that made the least preferred options that I want to highlight a little bit because I would I actually if I was on the committee I think would probably have this on the first page and that's the and the assigned classrooms for secondary teachers because one thing that that could do is actually and on those campuses increase capacity now I know that that's not something we want to do as well and certainly would be an additional challenge for for our teachers who are the most important employees I think we have in this district that have direct impact on our children day in and day out however that is that is one that I think we will be looking for ways to increase the operating capacity of each and every school and so that's one that I think you know I was a little surprised I guess that it was in the negative column although barely I was presenting the
results of the committee's overall you know so although I wasn't charging you with that I just want to make sure I do you know yeah it was just committees overall that you know yeah no thank you for that
mr. president also if you notice the asterisks on those slides those are items that the committee generated the rest of things that we did with our staff there with the research this is still open-ended if someone out there has great ideas of how we can go without having more facilities built please send them to me yeah people emailing things all the time emails with information I'll take it
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Hypothetically speaking and I'm gonna use Wood Creek as an example because she's here Where would we put more portable classrooms at Wood Creek? Is there land to put more portable portable classrooms around Wood Creek junior high? Is there miss venison
You can squeeze the end, but we're we're taking a look at that now of options that we have there there is more land that that would create its accessibility to us to the school is a is another question so it's something that we started looking at now and over the next couple months we'll do our planning and determinations remember next week we get an update on our demographics from from pass a population and survey analysts and that'll allow us to recalibrate our numbers for next year and see where we are.
Mr. President, if I could, it's important for the board to realize, the community needs to know as well, that we had a bond referendum in 2006 with one plan for 2009 that we delayed because of the fear of the economy across the country. So we came back in 2010, a year later, so we're still a year behind the normal rotation, but both to the facility master plan. So, overbuildings is part of the planning to avoid overbuilding, but it's not to take the place of buildings. And because we're a year behind, they are taking the place of buildings that would have been open perhaps had we not delayed the bond a year.
Mr. Griffin.
Mr. Frady, provided that it doesn't pass, we're going to run on GOF funds, strictly. How long can we continue to do our day-to-day operations as we're doing today with the added growth without making changes?
We were very careful with that. We have worked to build up a fund balance that Would see us through because as tax dollars flow in revenue wise it's not always here the first day of school So to avoid borrowing money, we you know we and we do a little flowing there And we get some from the state in increments as well, so we're in good shape that way But if you start tapping into that to pay for your ongoing things It's just a matter of time. It depends upon how long you have to go and what you try to do. But you'll be paying for portable buildings, some of the GOFs, some we may have a few bond savings that we may look at, but it's not a whole lot. It won't take the place of building new schools that 47 percent of the ask currently are the renovations that we've asked for. And it's also going to put us in a situation where cash flow becomes a challenge.
Mr. Rowe.
We do have Ms. Finneson here, and she does an incredible job with the numbers that flow into Wood Creek every day. She does a phenomenal job. But I'm looking at the 2014-2015 projections for Wood Creek at 1866. We're currently above that, almost by, what, at least 50 or 60 kids. and 1617 we're looking at 24 24 24 24 kids what does that look like because I've been in Wood Creek with 19 something I couldn't imagine adding another 500 kids what does that look like a nightmare I know
know we we created two bell schedules this school year in in anticipation for having 2200 kids next year we can keep six lunches was which which is what we have right now in essence we're running two schools in one we have six lunches two bell schedules, 28-ish buses. After that point, I'm going to be real honest with you, we would have to go to a minimum of seven lunches for 24, because I'm over right now, so that would probably put me about 2,500. Minimum would be seven lunches if eight, so that would have us eating at 945 to 130 if we went seven lunches. So if we went eight, you can do the math. You'd have to back it up 15 minutes on each side.
In fact, I could add also, you can add more classroom space, but then the core, as you said, Ms. Burrell, in terms of your cafeteria, as well as your restroom facilities. That becomes a challenge.
Traffic. I mean, what would we do with traffic around a school? Mr. President.
Ms. Fox.
We are talking about physicality. We are talking about walls and a parking lot and a driveway and a lunch schedule.
These are boys and girls and their parents moved here for opportunity.
And if you have 2,400 children, Mrs. Finneson, you can't have that many children play a sport. or be in them. arts or get the extra things that Katie is known for that's why families are moving here because we are exceptional we provide exceptional opportunities for our students and mr. Mahalsky while I understand what you're saying about floating teachers and that will work logistically our teachers can take a rolling cart and move from class to class to class to find an empty classroom to teach a class and they'll do it well but that's not treating our teachers well we pay we've given a salary every year that I've lived here our teachers have had a salary increase and we pay more for their insurance than we're required and other districts do because we care about treating our teachers well because they made a life choice to make an impact in boys and girls that's what this is about it's not about buildings it's about making an impact for our children our families and our employees
mr. president mr. well we have some schools that have lower student enrollment but it's my understanding that those schools house special programs for specific needs for specific children so in looking at creating creating attendance boundary modifications and then reviewing available space and repurposing space within campus, we're also now at a risk of taking those campuses that are addressing special needs for specific groups of children and shutting all of that down as well to then do an attendance boundary modification which could potentially backfill the district, if I'm not speaking correctly. So now there's another loss that we're addressing students that will like you were just saying a whole population of students Who will then suffer a loss something that they've come accustomed to? They're gonna have to give up because we're gonna have to rezone and Start taking those classrooms that we were using for specific special needs and make and do away with those programs and that's upsetting setting.
Mr. President, Ms. Boyle, you're correct. We have some programs that we utilize for small and large students, two full classrooms. And the quality of the program really demands that. We can, again, revisit the program, redo the ARDS and IEPs, and then take over some of that space. But it does challenge, it does do a disservice, as Ms. Fox was saying as well, to find those quality experiences for our children and and i guess you know as a parent i wouldn't move to a place for all they have and then work to make sure they don't have it anymore after my kids have had
it i can imagine that mr president mr adams i i certainly echo mrs fox's uh feelings about that and miss finnison i certainly feel for you as far as what you have going on there and um for villains but the you're right is many many more but I think that you know we may be forced into a situation though to where we may have to make some of these tough decisions and that that would be an absolute shame to have to do that some people may look on it and say well you should have done this a long time ago but when people say that they don't understand the picture they don't understand what's behind things they don't understand about the school needs and the and the portable buildings but when you start looking at undoing programs or eliminating programs and when you take opportunities away from children it's it's disheartening and as mr. Fraley has said is that people move here for a reason and that that's for our school district and and the the opportunities that we offer here. But at the same time, if you had to enter into that and you had to do that, the sad part is there will come a time when the public will maybe come back and support something like that, and then you have to go back and undo everything you've done again. So you're disrupting people both ways as far as that goes. else so you know it may be some hard decisions and I understand what mrs. Freeman said and I know it's not very popular about going to school at Kroger's but our son like that but you know and I'm certain on an advocate of it but it may be something that we're we're have to look at we may be forced into doing if if the patrons decide that they don't want to pass a bond which doesn't have have any tax increase but provides wonderful opportunities for the students of KDISD.
Mr. President, I was made aware today of some communications that went out saying that we're going to have our doomsday board meeting tonight. And you had a TV camera early because they expected the doomsday. It won't be a doomsday. But things will be different. This team is going to make things work, but it won't be the same. You won't pay less in taxes.
You'll be getting less than what you paid for previously.
The sky's not going to fall. We won't let it. But what's going to fall are the things folks move here for. I trust this team. And without a doubt, they're going to bend over backwards, as they already do, do to prevent a lot of other things from happening that folks never know about. Our guys work in a very preventive mode as well. What we will be doing is focusing on the capital side of things more so than the social side of things. You've got to have space. That's the issue. That's why you build facilities, because you have programs that demand it, you have growth that demands it, and if you don't want to provide facilities, you have to look at your growth and your programs. That's just reality. It's not politics. It's not doomsday. It's reality. We can sit in a closed room and make some decisions. Then we'll be the call for lack of transparency will go out. So in being transparent and having a public conversation, is it doomsday? Is it fear -mongering?
Or is it facing the reality?
This is a public decision. The public has said we want to know what's going to happen if this scenario presents itself. Mr. Griffin?
I think I can piggyback on what Mr. Adams and what you're saying, Mr. Fraley. My dad graduated from Katy. He lived here so that I could go to Katy, which I graduated from. I brought my children here so that they could enjoy the education. My son's moved back, but I think the biggest disappointment I could ever have was if this community changed enough so that it didn't support our students. It didn't support the community and they decided that they didn't like what we had and they want to go a different path Because I guarantee you my kids wouldn't want to meet wouldn't want to come here if things were changing
President well, I remember from I think it was when I was growing up high school science this for every action There's an equal and opposite reaction
And you just said the reaction If this bond doesn't pass, the focus on instruction will shift to a focus on logistics and finding places with people.
But as Ms. Fox said, people come here because of our instruction. Because our band students test not 50 or 60 percent higher than the state level, but hundreds of points higher than the state level. Our athletes test higher than others on state tests. That's why people move here. We're going to be focused on just finding places to put people. And I think that would be a shame. That would be a shame. That would be a negative reaction.
I think I'm going to, I guess, conclude this kind of report and our commentary on it. I certainly I think mrs. Fox hit it on the head we are all about the opportunities that we afford our students both inside and out of the classroom in fact this whole community is a classroom for our students I kind of go back to the mission statement for Katie Asti Katie independent school district the leader in educational excellence together with family and community provides unparalleled learning experiences designed to prepare and inspire each student to live an honorable fulfilling life create the future that's what we're here for yet we're sitting here talking about providing the facilities necessary to do that with the ever-increasing enrollment that we have that is that is our challenge so without without a bond passing in the next couple of weeks then those challenges become ever greater and that mission becomes much more difficult to obtain okay for that we have another report dr. Caskey will be presenting our about our instructional materials a lot
Item 4.2
Welcome, Dr. Caskey. Thank you.
I'm going to talk about instruction, if that's okay. You're a little nervous.
Good evening, President Michalski, board members, and Mr. Fraley. I'm here this evening to provide you an update on our instructional materials allotment. I want to start with a brief history, a brief background. This is an allotment that was created in 2011 when the Texas legislature passed Senate Bill No. 6. And what this did is it created the instructional materials allotment from the existing state textbook funds and also the technology allotment funds. So those funds were combined and then they were divvied out across the state based on a per-people allocation. And what this did is it gave districts the flexibility in how we purchase and what we purchase for instructional materials in our classrooms and the definition became much more broad than just the textbook but we're we are able to purchase technology computer software workbooks supplemental materials and the like to support our curriculum and each time I stand before you I always share this slide with you and that is that our KDI is the curriculum is very robust and it It is not solely reliant upon a textbook. We look at a multitude of instructional materials, including online resources, literature libraries, hands-on learning tools to support our students in the learning environment. This is a brief budget update as to what our instructional materials allotment looks like. We ended the 2013-2014 school year with a little over $8 million. dollars we received an allotment for the 1415 school year of a little over 5 million in between there we had our purchases to fulfill proclamation 2014 which are being used today at an expenditure of a little over 10 million the state does allow us to apply for a fast growth district additional funds our application I think was in the day after the state announced that the The deadline is October 31st, and so we are waiting on those additional funds, which leave us with a balance of a little over $3 million, or close to $4 million remaining in our instructional materials allotment. So what's on the horizon for us now? We're currently in implementation of Proclamation 2014, and we are embarking upon Proclamation 2015, which is basically what TEA outlines as the instructional materials at the state level for review. So you'll notice on K through five we have social studies and fine arts courses that are up for instructional materials review and at the high school level in addition to that we have our high school math courses you might recall that K through eight math is being implemented this year high school will come next year and we also have one career and technical education class our principles and elements of floral design.
In addition, there are a number of courses
that the state does not outline within the proclamation. So these are some additional courses that we have identified that either have outdated materials no longer in print, or curriculum has changed. You'll notice that many of these are advanced placement courses. So these are some of the additional courses that we've identified which will be in need of new or updated instructional materials included any approved new courses we'll be bringing those courses before you in November and so we have to budget for those as well so what does the timeline look like for this upcoming adoption we've established our review committees that happened last month we are requesting parental participation and we are also we reach out to every one of our campuses when we get input on our review of instructional materials in In October through December, these materials will be reviewed. In January, we reach out even further to larger groups of teachers on the campuses. We use an online survey. We also have all of our instructional materials on display here at the ESC. In February, those committees will be making their recommendations to the district team, and then we'll be back before you in April or May with our recommendations, which would require board approval. Our committees are very comprehensive. We have a lot of different teacher groups representative on the committees, including general educators as well as special educators, our bilingual and ESOL teachers, career and technical education, as well as fine arts this time because we do have a K-12 fine arts adoption. We have parent representatives, instructional coaches, curriculum staff, and we also work very closely with instructional technology when we're considering our online textbooks and online resources. resources. So upcoming proclamations. We received word early this year that TEA has delayed Proclamation 2016, and part of that is a result of districts being very worried that they had the funds in their IMA accounts to be able to support the proclamations coming forward. So TEA's answer to that is delay it. So that's what we're looking at for 2016, which pushed all of those other adoptions as you can see to 17, 18, and then 2019. That concludes our brief presentation and update on the instructional materials allotment. We're here to answer any questions that you may have.
Ma 'am, does dual credit, do we purchase a material?
The students purchase their books for dual credit. Okay.
Mr. President. Ms. Fox. Dr. Caskey, when you talk about the
committees who come together and look at that, so teachers come, they go through the book outside of class time? That is correct. They serve on the committees
outside of class time. Do we do subs? For some committees we do provide subs, but I I think we're set up at Tompkins.
Oh, so my comments and questions here come from a presentation that I observed. And do we look at anyone outside to help us with expertise in that area, or do we just rely on teachers and parents looking at the materials for themselves?
It starts with the state, and the state has the identified materials on the state list. So we always start with that state list, which is supposed to be aligned to our TEKS. And then we do have teachers that are looking to make sure that that alignment is there with our KDISD curriculum. I know that there are vendors out there who provide that service, and we have looked into that to see if it would be beneficial to KDISD. We're continuing to pursue some of that, but at this point we've not deemed that that's a necessary step in the process.
MS. Okay. This presentation that I saw had a service provided that was able to drill down and really, really drill down to while it looks like it absolutely aligns with TEKS, they look for those Common Core portions of something that comes in. And I know that we do not teach Common Core in KDISD, but because 46 states use Common Core curriculum, There are so many things marketed for Common Core that it appears that it is or there will be a worksheet that has Common Core on it that a teacher will choose to print, those types of things. So that service had those kinds of things to look for there and then even to drill down more into the actual examples and things like that. I went into the presentation knowing that it was unnecessary because we do a great job in KDSD and I walked away being completely and thoroughly impressed at the thoroughness of it and I thought about all the time that we might be able again talking about our teachers and how much they give and give and give when we ask could you they say absolutely and what else that this service might be something that would be so beneficial to our teachers and to you Dr. Caskey that I just wanted to offer and say you know if if that's something you might look at it
and and we we have them we're going to do it again Ms. Coy has already told me that she is slated to to attend one of those presentations that's in Houston? A lot of big districts are using it.
And this is for people, for people cost, and when you've got 70,000 students, it ended up being about almost $20,000. So we also have to kind of look at a cost benefit as far as our curriculum staff really delving into the material and looking for alignment versus paying for the service.
Right. But if we're paying substitutes?
But they're going to, we always want teacher input put on what we are purchasing anyway. So there's always going to be that review.
I'm not recommending. I just wanted to pass on what I saw, which was impressive. And I know what you all do is very impressive. So thank you.
Thank you, Dr. Kaskin.
Item 4.3
Okay. Board members, I'll direct you to our third and final report of the night. Mr. Peter McElwain is going to present on the Willow Fork Drainage District and KDISD partnership for a 32-acre community park. Welcome, Mr. McElwain.
Good evening. President Michalski, Board Member Superintendent Fraley. I'm extremely pleased this evening to introduce an update on the development of the 32-acre community park, which is actually adjacent to the Cinco Ranch campus. as far as the location goes it's the 32 acres is on the north side of the bayou adjacent to the Grant Parkway. I'm joined this evening by a number of folks. April Renberg who is the Vice President of the Willow Fork Drainage District Board. Dan Smith who is a member of the Willow Fork Drainage District Board. Matt Klein who is with TBG Partners which are the landscape architects and planners for the project and Annette Stevens who's with Alan Boones Humphrey Robinson attorneys for the drainage district and just a bit of a recap back in 2011 actually March 2011 was when the board entered into a lease with the drainage district to leave a long-term lease actually 50-year lease for that parcel of property after which point in time the drainage district actually conducted an election, a bond election to raise funds for this particular project which was successful. And this evening and also in July of 2013, the TBG partners and the drainage checks have actually presented an update to the board at that particular point in time, a schematic design with respect to the project. So this evening Matt Klein will be giving an update on the status of the project, the schedule of the project and I'd be remiss if I didn't also recognize the efforts of Kathy. Kathy MacDonald unfortunately is ill this evening and she has been actively involved in this project to get to this point and once again it's an exciting project that I think will we know will be beneficial to the campus as well as the community at large. So at this particular point in time I'll turn it over to Matt.
Thank you Peter. Thank you members of the board for allowing us to come here again. This is really an exciting opportunity, something that that will fork through the vision of April and other board members that kind of went down this path in 2011 really with a great vision talking about the community of Katy and trying to really provide these amenities and reinvest in the community to improve the lifestyle of the residents out here. Back in 2011, as Peter mentioned, the bond was approved and subsequently we started to begin design and implementation of several projects. One of the first projects that started was actually working with KDISD with Ron Chandler, I see him here, Kathy McDonald, Mr. Gunnell, was going into ten campuses within the school district that that were within Willow Forks boundary and providing $100,000 to each school to create projects, outdoor environments that were a benefit to the school as well as the community as a whole. So in the summer of 2012, we embarked on construction with those and it was a very seamless process with all the different PTA members working with us and working with the school board and Kathy McDonald as far as what they wanted to see at the different schools. So it was really a collaborative process and something that we think met with great success with all the different schools So we've since that time we've embarked on over at La Cintera the central green project Which has been a resounding success success with You know just adding to the the success of La Cintera as a whole. We also completed phase one improvements out at the Fort Bend baseball complex out at the western end of George Bush Park On this next phase of projects here, we're looking at the 32-acre park. Currently under construction, we're calling it Exploration Park, which is adjacent or near Creech Elementary on Mason Road, just east of the Ballard House that was constructed. We also have trails that are in this next phase of projects. And in the future phases, we have an additional approximately 29 miles worth of trails. We have an expansion to the baseball complex, so a pretty robust program.
I'm going to go through a real high-level overview of the 32-acre park. We're working to get a better name than 32-acre park, so that will be something that will be forthcoming. But as Peter mentioned, the park sits north of Cinco Ranch High School adjacent to the Grand Parkway. As part of the project, there's access that needs to be provided in parking. that will be an extension of the existing road that's at the eastern end of the campus we're working with Fort Bend County to construct that road so it's another partnership in this deal is working with Fort Bend County to extend that road provide parking all the way along that road as well as a parking lot at the end of that at the end of that road for access to the park it will also benefit the practice fields that are out there where people are just you know finding places to park it as it speak as it sits right now so we're looking at providing approximately 250 or so parking spaces possibly up to getting closer to 280 spaces and then the bulk of the park is actually sits north of the bayou that's that really comprises most of the uses there we've gone through several community meetings we've been speaking with folks within Katie ISD about the programs and amenities that we can provide there that will benefit the community benefit the school district we've we've had discussions about what opportunities there are with Cinco Ranch high school given its proximity and distance it doesn't work necessarily so well for daytime classroom activities but after-school programs we're looking at opportunities for education out there for various clubs just to give you a kind of a brief overview this is a very passive park we're not looking at overly program spaces we're not looking at sports fields out there so a lot of these images that you'll see in the next two slides it's really about creating a sense of place and feel and character out there it's really a large piece of property to provide people opportunities to go jogging and running the potential for fishing and then other kind of unprogrammed activities we're looking at bike trails cross-country is one that we've been focused keenly on the opportunity for for disc golf here i know mr ganell is is appreciative of the opportunity to play out there so just again passive use spaces educational components and educational signage
getting a little bit more into the specifics and again if anybody has any questions please just stop me if you if you've got questions about anything in particular but i'm going to start with kind of the parking lot arrival coming across the bridge that's going to be constructed across the ditch there this bridge as some people may may start to take notice behind sink or ranch high school there's going to be two pedestrian bridges that are under construction we're going to repeat that over here to provide that connectivity this also connects to the rest or future trails that will be all throughout the community coming over the bridge and into the park we're looking at this vista overlooking this lake it's approximately five acres we're looking at opportunities for some the use of the water within that lake to irrigate the site as well as other greater opportunities for reuse irrigation throughout the community and we've really kind of set it up with the active use programs or the the more active spaces up front so again if somebody's coming there on a weekend and they're you know they're have a cooler they've got it's a little bit closer walk so immediately to the left we have a small pavilion with restroom facilities there's going to be a small playground that's associated with that So again birthdays, you know weekend activities out there. It's something that's that's close and easy to get to Moving to the right we have that open lawn space that is approximately the size of a football or soccer field again We're not talking about programmed activities or program sporting events out there But if there's a youth soccer team that needs an extra practice facility and they've got some portable nets They have the opportunity to go out there and do that We're also looking at the integration which I'll get to a little bit later as far as a cross-country facility and how we can provide routing for that and create something that is a unique and distinct amenity for the community as you kind of move back into some of the other areas one of the big things that we're focused on obviously 2011 everybody remembers the drought so we're focused on the overall use of irrigation so we're trying to provide passive spaces natural spaces a little bit of a reestablishment of the Katy Katy Prairie in some instances but really focused on the environmental aspects of it one of the things that that we're real proud of and appreciative of the board and allowing us to pursue is the idea of this this park facility being essentially off the grid so that we've got facility every the lighting that we have out here is solar inside of the pavilion space we've got solar on the roof we're gonna have another building out here that's gonna have solar power there's a few things that unfortunately just don't generate enough power to provide everything pumps for the irrigation off the lake takes a little bit more juice than we can generate but as much as we can be off the grid we're looking at those opportunities last i'll just kind of focus on on some things that we've been working back and forth with the school district and pat dowling about the cross-country facilities as well as biking and jogging and running trails we're looking at the possibility of where these the the start of these events are whether it be on the existing practice facilities on the south side of the bayou or as on side or inside of this 32 acre park but the idea is to create a self-contained system in here creating a lot of undulation everything that we dig out of the lake is going to be placed on site to create a lot of topography one of the things that we've heard is katie is so flat when our runners get to the state meet and they go to Austin they have a real hard time so we're looking at utilizing the opportunity that we have with the spoils from the lake to create some topography create some interest out there and just having a little bit of topography for the everyday walker and jogger is always a little bit more interesting than just a flat site. so we're working in context of you know the up-and-down nature of this opportunity for the the jogging and walking and biking trails but also interspersed within this is providing the opportunity for disc golf and other passive recreational activities what this kind of this kind of lays out and this is a little bit of a preliminary plan is just the various loop systems and we're right now kind of going through refinement of trying to create these varying distances of half-mile loops, mile loops, and so forth. Just to give you guys kind of a quick update on where we sit process-wise and schedule-wise, like I said, we've been working with Mr. Gunnell and Kathy McDonald and having plans reviewed. We are looking at going out to bid later this month with the anticipated start being after the first of the year. We're looking at about a seven-month construction period. period. Again, as you guys are well aware, everybody in the construction industry is very, very busy, but that's what we're looking at is about a seven-month construction period. As I mentioned, the county is going to build the road facilities in the parking lot. We're still in final negotiation with them, but right now it's anticipated that they will start construction in the summer of 2015 so that it dovetails with the completion of the park so that we're not under construction necessarily when the county is not under construction for those facilities when there's football practice in the fall so we're really working hand in hand with the county as well as all the other partners that are involved in the project to make sure that this thing is executed well so far everything that we've we've been working back and forth with Katie ISD on this project as well as ten schools before us just been just been a pleasure at this point if you guys have any questions I can certainly answer mr. president Fox thank you so
much for this presentation i live in willow fork and i voted yes because i'm so excited about all you're very welcome i love your vision for our community and i have to start by saying thank you for all those hundred thousand dollars at all those schools and i was there for a couple of the ribbon cuttings and i think even before all of that you helped mrs paytoe i hope i'm right here creech elementary right did you all do some creech elementary yes when mrs paytoe and i were there and and you know it's just it what you do just improves the community and and uh we're just awfully grateful for that and i know that mr fraley talks about people don't move here for the rolling hills and waterfronts and now we won't be able to say that mr griffin thank you for doing
in this park it's awesome and i just want to be the first to say i cannot wait to beat mr ganel in a game of frisbee golf but my question is is who's going to maintain day-to-day operational control of this and provide security uh will fork is going to be responsible for the maintenance as
well as security as the projects that are being built with the bond proceeds they're slowly adding increased security throughout the different facilities so this is one that has been an ongoing discussion the timing of when these come on and when they add more patrol so it's something that is going to be a will for responsibility mr. president I apologize
if I don't know the answer to this and I'm not sure if I should be asking mr. Fraley or you but this is land that Katie I stand correct why would we have not used this land for a stadium well I appreciate the question first of all we
We can't get access off of Grand Parkway. And plus, we need more than 32 acres for the site. And second, do you really want to add Friday traffic to the football game at Lost in Terror?
I don't want to add anything off of Grand Parkway. I can't get from one end to the next since they opened it up heading in the opposite direction.
But that's a good question. And we have talked about that. And I guess you could back way into it through the neighborhood, but you still don't have enough space.
Okay.
Thank you. Mr. President.
Mr. Brown.
outside of George Bush Park is this the largest park in for being County Katie
will this be the largest parking for being county I I couldn't say definitively I don't think it I don't think it is I think there's some larger
ones down to the south where but in the KDI SD portion of Fort Bend County for I'm not saying Fort Bend County, Katy, I'm saying Katy ISD.
If not, it's got to be pretty close.
Mr. Adams. To base this off of Mr. Griffin's question, and this is getting waved down in the weeds, but based on the fact that this is Katy ISD property, you're encouraging families to come out here and have picnics and time together. And a lot of times when people go on picnics, they like to bring beverages. So how do you police that or control that?
Mr. Adams, it happens now on our campuses.
On our campuses?
Oh, come around some Sunday morning or Monday morning.
you sell cancer i know that on sometimes when you have the uh soccer teams and soccer games and all that but i i guess we we try to control that but uh we would ask our patrons to respect that it is still district property i'm sure there'll be signage up about that right yeah
well i mean i can say from other facilities we willow fork provides rules and regulations central green would be a great example of it there's rules that prohibit certain types of beverages clean up after yourself. Willow Fork also has a pretty significant maintenance program so that if people do happen to bring those up and the patrol doesn't catch them, it gets cleaned up pretty quickly. I think Central Green is a great example. I don't think anything makes it more than an hour past an event being actually out on site. So pretty diligent about being a good team player in the community.
Mr. President.
Ma'am.
will the park have hours and closing facilities I know I'm growing up in Katy teenagers can like to find big open dark spaces and will there be a way to secure
it after dark like the gate closing or yeah it's a dawn-to-dusk facility it's it's a difficult site to control completely because it does have access from the adjacent neighborhoods and and people will be able to walk in from the the neighborhoods to the north and even the pedestrian bridge doesn't necessarily cut off access there is still kind of a land bridge along the edge of Grant Parkway so you know to the the greatest extent possible there is controlled access and there are hours
mr. president okay I want to publicly thank the willow fork folks really looking forward to the project thank you for the way you work with us and kept us surprise and want to thank the board for its willingness and visionary decision a few years ago I guess it was so I'm very excited about it I look forward to being the referee of the frisbee contest make sure that there's no wagering with
beverages afterwards all right Thank You mr. I concur thank you the board that showed up here tonight and thank you mr. Klein for a very enlightening report
Consent Agenda
Okay, so that moves us to our consent agenda portion of the agenda and I think we will stay with Mr. McIlwain for the next three items. So proceed when ready.
Good evening again, President Moholsky, Board Member, Superintendent Fraley. This evening I have three agenda items before you, all easements associated and related to growth in the community. The first two board items are associated with the Cross Creek Ranch development. The first the easement is to Fort Bend County Mud 169 and it's a sanitary sewer, storm sewer and water line easement on our property and it's just for the benefit of the audience where our property is located within the Cross Creek Ranch development and this is the property for a future high school and a junior high school is located near the intersection of Fort Bend Drive or Fulshire Bend Drive and and Cross Creek Bend Drive. Fulshire Bend Drive will be similar and parallel to Frye Road. Right now, if you can recall, in the Cross Creek Ranch development, Frye Road enters in from 1463, heads west and connects to Cross Creek Bend Drive. Where Fulshire Bend Drive, it will align with Cinco Ranch Boulevard on the west side of 1463. enter into the Cross Creek Ranch development and and connect through to full to Cross Creek Bend Drive. Close to that intersection will be where our site is for the future high school and junior high and associated with that obviously will be the required utilities water utilities and other utilities. As has been our practice we have been working closely with the utility with the utilities to ensure that proper infrastructure is put in place in a timely manner so that when it's time for us to build on a particular parcel of property the utilities are there. So once again the first item is a sanitary sewer easement, storm sewer easement and water line easement to mud 169. All of these items easements that I'm talking or presenting this evening are associated with the perimeter property lines of these properties so like there's nothing that would affect the the school proper if I may move to the next you may want one quick question is that particular property and cross Creek Ranch is it is it located within the city of Fulshire or is it that would be that would be located within the city of Fulshire okay so but it's a Fort Bend County mud that were that's correct we'll be providing those okay that's correct the next item is associated with the same parcel of property and it's a pipeline easement to SI Energy Limited. It's a five-foot-wide easement along the southwest property line.
Mr. Griffin?
Mr. McElwain, since the terms in here about if they need to do any maintenance that are pretty specific that they can go in and do it, do y'all on y'all's plots mark like a no-build zone or no-build line so that subsequent people don't accidentally come and say put a structure up and then if they need to do work on there we lose that?
Well, we have that on record. We have that on title, the meets and bounds of this particular easement. Does that answer your question?
Yes, sir. So we kind of do a self no-build zone on that line?
That's correct, yeah. We're aware of these lines.
Thank you.
you. The next easement is actually associated with an easement which was brought to the first phase of this easement at Bonnie Holland Elementary School was brought brought before the board back in May of 2012. This is an easement to North Fort Bend Water Authority and it's associated with their work to to develop surface water distribution throughout the community and essentially, Bonnie Holland Elementary is just one of a number of parcels of property that they're actually looking to acquire easements on in order to connect the dots, so to speak, with respect to creating this massive distribution line for surface water since the move will be to surface water in the future. The first phase of this particular easement, as I mentioned, was approved by the Board back in May of 2012 and it was associated with the western portion of the Bonnie Holland Elementary site, so essentially up the west property line along Gaston Road and along the rear property line of the school to their existing water plant facility. This phase of the easement is the much smaller phase. It actually exits the site by way of property adjacent to Trophy Lane and Fair Meadow Lane and this will complete their their easement project as far as Bonnie Holland Elementary School
is concerned. Okay thank you Mr. McElwain. Thank you.
And that will bring us to our discussion action portion of tonight's agenda and our first item will be be presented by Chief Hopkins.
Item 6.1
Welcome, Chief.
Thank you, sir. Mr. Mikulski, board members, Superintendent Fraley. About a year ago, several school districts was impacted by gang violence. Not on campus, not on our campus, but some of our students were involved in some violence, serious bodily injury or death in a neighboring school district. When those things started happening, I took the initiative to start a discussion with other school districts and the Harris County Sheriff's Office and what we could do to enhance interdiction of gang violence. What we found out was because of laws and policies and regulations and what have you, we couldn't share information readily. And we were fighting each other, if you will, for the same goal. So we came up with this interlocal agreement and it is between KDISD, Harris County Sheriff's Office, and six other school districts. And the purpose of the interlocal agreement is to establish a multi-agency task force to provide effective coordination of intelligence gathering, investigation, and enforcement of crimes committed by street gangs. These street gangs are operating in Harris County, in the Katy ISD, in other school districts. They don't necessarily create any problems on campus, but it's our students out in the community. We need to be able to share this information and do gang interdiction. This interlocal agreement outlines responsibilities, resource sharing, statutory protection for both the school district and the Sheriff's Office and the term of the agreement is one year with with ten possible annual renewals the agreement can be terminated for cause or no cause with just a mere written notification to the other parties involved in the agreement and the agree this agreement has been reviewed by the Office of Governance and Legal Affairs.
Mr. DeBrow. Chief, you're talking about these gangs, are you talking about hardcore gang members involved in organized crime or more groups of kids
with criminal mischief? It has gone, it's both, but what we're looking for and and identifying of those organized crimes yes sir so have they put in place
a recruitment structure that reaches into some of our schools yes that is my understanding it's been a while since I was involved with paying activity or preventing it should I say not you're not gonna throw me a sign are you no No, I'm not.
But back when I was involved with preventing young activity or intervening in it, one of the primary deterrents was co-curricular activity, keeping the young people involved after school primarily until mom and dad got home at night. Is that still the case?
That is the best tool we have currently. I think what we're looking at in this interlocal agreement are those people who are beyond So they're entering that they're beyond that they're beyond criminals. Okay. Yes, sir. Now you also have to understand that about 20 years ago 24 years ago We were involved in a almost identical interlocal agreement with Harris County and four other school districts and we put a lot of gangsters in jail. This task force did.
Ten years, we went ten years on the west side of Houston with no gang activity and then they started getting out of prison and we started seeing the, we started seeing a
gang culture and I'm not speaking of just specifically KDISD but the the whole region. And it's a family affair, if you will.
Generational. We have gangs who are generational, and they bring their little brothers and their little cousins and their sisters into their gangs. And prevention is one thing, and we do that, but this is enforcement this is this is to to interdict the violent crimes that those guys commit after they're recruited how far down is their
recruitment activity go because it goes down as junior junior high school high school that's dangerous yeah
thank you chief one other question this this scene seems to be a very good good step working with with Harris County Sheriff's Office and the other school districts and of course we have additional law enforcement agencies that work within our boundaries as well is there any thought of adding them to thinking Fort Bend and Walter County along with the city of Katy city of Fulcher any thought of adding them to this agreement or having separate agreements potentially with with them I think is probably both of those are possible if you'll notice I asked we asked that the board authorized me to sign this document and that is because we can we can bring people in and out much easier than having to bring it back to the board each time okay I think we certainly all appreciate the different law enforcement agencies working together for the benefit of our community absolutely there's no other questions are there any objections to moving this item to consent all right thank you very much thank you very much
Item 6.2
our next item mr. no man about benefits good evening everyone president McConskey board superintendent Fraley here to this evening to discuss the the transition of Benefit Administration from Mercer Consulting to ADP.
If you'll recall back in August of this year, the Board met with you and we talked about some cost saving methods. We proposed to you a health care plan for 2014-2015. The plan included consideration to change Benefit Administration from Mercer Human Resource resource consulting to ADP. A review of the pricing proposal submitted to the district by ADP suggests the proposed change is in the best interest of the district. This recommendation is based on attractive pricing that may be locked in for a period of four years. Additionally, by changing benefit administrators, the district will recognize immediate upgrades in technology and will be able to use some analytic data support and allow for greater service to our employees enrolling in benefits. It is anticipated that change in benefit administrators will be effective on 4-1-15 following the exchange of data, system testing, and proposed alignment of benefits provided by the district. The conversion will run parallel to the existing Mercer system with no anticipated interruption to the district or its employees in the delivery of benefits. benefits. It is estimated as a result of this conversion, the district will recognize a net savings of $120,000 this year. Based on conservative estimates for the life of the four-year contract, the district will achieve a total savings of $738,000. The efficiencies will be recognized by the district by accessing ADP services through an interlocal agreement that exists with HISD. Houston and Aldine have all converted to ADP along with Dallas ISD. It is anticipated the change of benefit administration of the existing health care plan will provide a continuity of operation and remain control will be with KDISD while simultaneously reducing the cost of the the health care plan. As I may add, we continue month to month and week to week to lower our administrative costs to our health care plan so that we can each year maintain a cost-efficient program. I would welcome any questions that you may have at this time.
Questions? Is there any objection to moving this item? Mr. Adams. Mr. Nauman, thank you for the presentation so this is contingent upon us staying with our own self-insured program right yes sir we are additions in the contract that would allow us to
cancel that if an event that we for whatever reason if we decided for instance to go to TRS or something like that yes sir
there any objections to moving this item to consent Thank You mr. Nolan thank you
Item 6.3
Thank you.
The next item on our agenda, 6.3, board approval of a LEP enrollment and bilingual education exception. I believe Linda Shepard will be presenting to us. Welcome.
Good evening, board members and Mr. Fraley. I'd also like to introduce Jennifer Perplek. She's instructional officer for elementary ESL and a very integral part of our application for our bilingual exception and ESL waiver. Tonight, we are here to report our LEP numbers as required by the Texas Education Code. Currently, or as of October 1st, we had 10,756 LEP students. These are our limited English proficient students who participate in our bilingual and ESL programs. Out of curiosity, Jennifer and I ran it tonight and we've had another couple of hundred come in in the last week. So we're now up to 10,952. That's about 16% of our overall KDISD population. Additionally, each district with an enrollment of 20 or more students of limited English proficiency in any language classification in the same district per grade level shall offer the required bilingual education program. Our district has this category following with Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, Urdu, Vietnamese, Korean, Portuguese, Telugu, Hindi, and Filipino. So this year we are asking for a bilingual exception for these nine languages. What that means is we will be submitting an application in the same manner that we have a Spanish-English program instead of having a bilingual program we would offer alternative services which we do so through the use of our ESL services. The district has applied for a bilingual exception this will be our 13th year to apply and we've been approved each year. Components of the application require professional development including sheltered instruction and the strategies that help our English language to become successful successful with language and academics. Additionally, this year, KDISD is requesting an ESL waiver for two teachers who are providing services to ESL students. These students are scheduled to take the Texas supplemental exam to become ESL certified this semester.
It is recommended that the Board of Trustees grant approval for the superintendent to prepare, sign and submit the 2014-2015 bilingual exception and ESL waiver application. If you have any questions?
Mr. DeBrow?
Do you have any idea of how many different languages are spoken within KDISD?
Ninety-one.
Ninety-one.
And then we have a few that we call other, that you may have just one child that speaks a tribal language or something like that, but 91 that are identified.
Wow.
including Cajun French I have to check if it's listed as Cajun French any other
questions mr. president this was Fox Shepard this is in keeping with the one
we do this every year this is standard right this is the 13th year that this year miss purple is driving some of the data collection and this is my first sure not to be in that seat and it's been really nice she's done a fabulous
job thank you for your report hey is there any objections to moving this item to consent unheard thank you very much I am we were very grateful to have professionals such as yourselves I mean with almost 11,000 16% of our students and 91 languages on top of this stuff because I can tell you it's all Greek to me thank you very much okay yeah yeah yeah my Greek is limited a Kappa Kappa Gamma where I swear my money goes for my daughter is this Holland you We're going to talk about JJAEP, all right? Correct.
Item 6.4
Mr. Mavosky and members of the board, Mr. Fraley, several months ago I presented the Memorandum of Understanding from Harris County JJAEP, as we're required to do by law, and tonight I bring you the MOU from Fort Bend County. There are no changes in the language of this MOU. This is the same MOU that you have approved the last few years. the cost has not changed and we are asking for two seats as we have the past few years so we would ask the board to consider approval of the MOU with Fort Bend JJ AEP there any objections to moving this item to consent okay and I believe we have some policy updates you're going to discuss with the thing We have Board Policy Update 100. I'm pleased to say this is one of our smaller updates in a while. And in reviewing the update with various departments and department heads, we are way ahead of the game in this particular update. Most all of the legal policies, in fact all that I know about, are already being implemented. The local policies are not so much change in policy or practice but more alignment of language from the legal and to make sure that we are in compliance with things. So really there's not much in the update that we were not expecting or that we are not already doing.
Item 6.5
Chair Greg Musil.
Are there any questions relating to policy update? Any objections to moving this item to consent? None heard. Thank you very much, Ms. Holland.
Items 6.6 & 6.7
Okay, these next two agenda items, 6.6, 6.7, we'll be talking with Mr. Smith about. And these are the kind of items that I get a little bit excited about because it's about saving us money. So with that, Mr. Smith, we'll turn the floor over to you.
you you're my kind of guy there mr. Mahalski a good evening and board I want to start off by telling you a personal story well mr. Greer this is clearance Greer from RBC capital markets passes out the handout I'm going to tell you a personal story about our family and the crossroads that we were in And not quite two years ago, we got a phone call that somebody inquired about, hey, a friend of mine, have you refinanced your house? And we hadn't. And I decided to look into it. Interest rates were low. I'd heard about it, but decided, eh, a lot of trouble. Then I looked at it, did the math, and said, I'm crazy if I don't. So my wife and I refinanced our mortgage on our home and saved significant dollars for our family. What we're going to talk about tonight is very similar to that practice. We just use a little bit different words and it's a little different mechanism. We're going to talk about refunding. We're going to talk about refunding bonds, not refinancing a mortgage, but refunding bonds. bonds.
Throughout the budget process, we spoke about this refunding and told you that within 90 days of February the 15th or November the 15th, we would probably be coming to you with a refunding opportunity that we're eyeing that would save interest on our outstanding debt. We talked about the potential for that to be as part of a new bond sale as well. well. Regardless, new bond sale or not, there is the refunding out there. Within the last couple of weeks, the yields in the muni market have decreased or they've gone down like interest rates on mortgages have gone down. And they've gone down pretty significantly. And again, Clarence Greer from RBC Capital Markets, I'm not going to steal his thunder, but I would would like him to come up and talk to you about what kind of savings that we're looking at right now. And also here is Rick Witte from Andrews-Kirth, who's our legal counsel on these type of transactions. So I'll turn it over to Mr. Greer.
All right. Thank you, Chris. Again, Board President, members of the Board, Mr. Fraley, what we're talking about in front of what I passed out on page four is a synopsis of the general overview of you know let me just click to it as well of the current market that Chris was alluding to and looking at where we were just a year ago versus where we are today in the context of interest rates you can see the yield curve where the top of the light blue is where yields were a year ago going from one year all the way up to 30 years and the black line is where we are in the current market. So you can see there's a very wide gap between the blue and the black line that represents just the shift in yield curves, lower rates, and an opportunity for refinancing opportunities. So the lower bottom quadrant of the page, you can see the U.S. Treasury shift in yield curve. And the same thing is true. You can see the municipal market is a little bit more pronounced and the opportunity is wider. And that's driven by a few things. number one as far as US Treasuries and there was a lot of global scare as relates to the year yeah I know the European market is somewhat you know it's a global but yet still drives our market and global investors and I got scared about what's going Middle East there's a flight to quality trade meaning a lot of people just decided to pull their money out of stocks put it right into the bond market and because that's a safe haven and so with that we've seen you know yields of us treasury bonds drop and our market is a function of of that market so you can it's a nice narrative to the left but then also what drives municipal was driving municipal yields lower it's just a lack of supply you know it's very notable that just across the country from california to illinois all across is very notable that municipal bond issuances are down about 20 to 30 percent nationally and that's just you know for a lot of different reasons on page number five we kind of drill down a little further as relates to the difference you know you know in terms of rates like to call your attention to where we say January 1st 2007 the president where he said under the current market at 10 years I got 189 and And this was done, keep in mind, compared to the maximum of 486, the minimum of 147. And then so a 20-year bond, you can see we're at 253. The maximum it has been since 2007 is as high as 574. And the minimum, you can see, is 210. 10 and in the 30 year is a 285 versus a 594 versus a 247 and then you can kind of see how that compares to the maximum the average over to the right so while the general consensus is over time over the next two to three years with the Fed not interacting in the market and buying bonds and supporting the market general interest rates are going to be moving higher but what we've been observing over the last several weeks is an acceleration to lower interest rates just because global demand, global shifts in expectations and just flight to quality trades. And just to kind of give you one further level into that synopsis is on page six. You can see how, I'm not going to kind of to look at everything, but just note to the word that says year, in the 10-year, we've seen, and this is from September 19th to the present, we've seen almost a 37 or 37 hundredth of 1% or 37 basis point decline. So all the way down to 40 basis points in 20 years and 33 basis point decline. and it's it's you know the question that we always get is this sustainable and we never thought it was going to get this low this fast but there are things that are just going on that warrants it kind of giving you a look since 1961 give you a big picture item interest rates have you know today's 387 level you know is is lower than about 86% of historic rates since 1961.
So it's just very powerful. As you can see to the right, the yield range, the average rate is about 25% of the time. If you look at it since 1961, rates are about 5% to 6%. So to be at a 387, a great time to be an issuer. And not only that, it's a great time to be a high quality issuer like KDISD, high quality paper, and so that makes all the difference in the world. So where's the opportunity? Behind tab two is what we call a refunding opportunity, or what you would call a refinancing. Let's just skip to page number 10, it kind of gets right to the bottom line of the results. Well we have two different series, we have limited tax and unlimited tax. We have bond council to kind of explain the difference, you know in terms of why they were set up that way But you know, we have some bonds that are approaching the current call And so those bonds are outstanding, you know at a rate that we could be replaced and to save money and You have some other bonds or unlimited tax that are you know, some of which are approaching a current call But some of them are one to two years away Which means that there is a time lapse between the date that we deliver the bond proceeds the bonds we can we actually call it from the bond investor and that gap is called an escrow that we have to set up so when we look at these refunding results to the bottom where we're looking at first unlimited tax there's an opportunity for the existing debt portfolio to take about refinance about 135 million dollars of bonds saving taxpayers you know over 18 million million dollars on the present value basis 20 debt service savings total taxpayer savings of 24 million and and that represents about 13 percent present value savings you know just to give you a context anything over 4% the district has pulled the trigger on and move forward with and you have a smaller refunding opportunity of 21 million dollars of limited tax bonds that saves total taxpayer savings about 4.4 million, present value dollars 3.8, again 18%. So on a combined basis, we're looking at just under $29 million of taxpayer savings, present value savings $22 million of over 14%. And this is phenomenal savings. So when you look at it in the context of the cash flow, a lot of numbers on the page, But at the end of the day, it's about the combined growth savings the column to the far right and so you can see if we were to Execute the transaction today in today's market you would be looking at about 1.5 million dollars of savings Or you know several years eight hundred thousand the first couple of years Tapering down to about just under two one point two million dollars a year again total to twenty eight point eight million billion dollars total taxpayers and I think the market has improved since we last ran this. So what we are here to talk about and Rick we can expound on it more is to with acceleration with the volatility and just looking at these existing bonds that you have outstanding here the refunding candidates below. If certain thresholds could be met such as we can achieve 4% savings and we can reduce them out of negative arm i may mention that some of the bonds we're looking at you know the call date we're not within 90 days of the first call date and so the question becomes i can save taxpayers money today or do i wait a year or two years from now and hope that interest rates are the same rate that they are right now keep it in mind interest rates haven't been lower but 13 of the time looking back at data since 1961. so it's like a bird in the hand if you will and so but we want to set a threshold, we recommend that if we can achieve about a 50% negative arbitrage ratio that we feel that that's a comfortable trigger point. And so that would achieve savings of upwards, again in today's markets, of $28 million to taxpayers and have a lot of other implications that also, you know, Chris might have alluded to before as it relates to the future and the ability to layer on debt. debt. And this is, you judiciously have done this over years in terms of being very judicious and deliberate about paying back debt quicker. All the numbers represent net of fees and it's also not extending the final maturity. And so whatever bonds were maturing at seven years we did not extend it, we just kept it the same structure. So this is simply just replacing the interest rate with the lower yield that the current market forces the opportunity. And so with that, I know Rick, you want to come up and ask anything to it?
Good evening. Rick Woody, Andrews-Kirth. Great to see all of you again, especially on a good occasion to save some money. We will draft all the legal documents, including the orders authorizing the issuance of the bonds, the refunding bonds. We would do those in parameter style that would allow you to authorize the sale and then we would come back at a later date and actually sell the bonds. I'm happy to answer any questions that you have on the legal documentation.
Mr. Adams. It may be legal but can you explain to us a little bit about when does a bond become eligible for refunding is it is there certain parameters to that I know you were talking about within 45 days before can you explain that to us I think we've had some comments and some people in the in the district that have said you know we're not moving fast enough to refund or to refunding of this and another certain parameters and of course one of the biggest things we were looking at is what the rate is make sure that we can meet those you know where we want to be
with that that's a great question so you have two types of refunds you have the current refunding which is within 90 days of the first call date and so you know let's kind of give an example on on page um so when you look at the call date of the bonds that we're looking at here the top the limited tax the call date is you know you have some bonds with the march 3 15 2015 so if you're within 90 days of that call date that's a current refunding you can do as many current refundings as you want to do. There's no tax prohibition to that. Now the bottom half of this, you have bonds that are outside of that 90-day window. That's considered an advance refunding and so you're in advance of the 90 days. The tax law was amended in 1986. It only gives you one opportunity to refund bonds in advance of the 90-day call. So it's like a silver bullet, you get one bite of the apple and so So what you're trying to do is you're trying to optimize that time period. And so when you're looking at refunding, the question we say, well, if I want to pull the trigger in advance of the call date, beyond the 90 days, that creates this negative arbitrage. And I'm trying to minimize that. And that's where the 50% threshold. So with interest rates moving lower, that's what it is. We've been able to monitor it and every day, you know, it's actually been giving you more and more opportunities to save more money
Well
Mr. Smith, maybe this is a question for you on that mountain slide. We've seen quite a bit of Here recently does this give us any extra capacity? one Obviously add more debt on but once this bond passes
to negate any type of tax increase yes this this transaction would create a quicker step down in our in our projected tax rate and it would allow us under the current assumptions that we've been using uh to really have no effect on on tax rate you're saying at this point if we do this we'll
have a zero tax increase under these assumptions that's correct
um okay help me understand a little bit on how the just the process of these refundings because if you're if I'm a bond holder like if I've purchased a a KDISD bond, there's really no effect, right? If I purchased a bond in 2004 that had a 5% coupon on it or whatever, I'm going to continue for 30 years. I'm going to continue to get paid out on that, correct?
Right.
And so they have a call date. And so, like, if you were the purchaser of the 2007 A's, they have a call date of 2016, you will continue to receive principal and interest payments of that call date until those bonds are called away from you. if the if the district shows not for whatever reason it got to 2016 interest rates are at 7% there's no financial reason to call in those bonds and so what the bondholders looking at is what's the probability of these bonds getting called away from me and give them the coupon that they have in in the replacement you know it's pretty high so they're really not expecting any cash flows above beyond 2016 they're probably already looking at it but let's talk about that for a second you know what the moment that they become and we deliver refunding proceeds they're no longer looking to the district to read for the principal and interest into the call date there was an escrow of US Treasury securities and it used to be that was triple-a and I was it gave them a price differential in the market as well it's called pre-refunded bonds you know so it does give that it's a good thing to the bond investor and I would
just add that with an advance refunding the bonds would be legally defeased so they wouldn't show up as debt of the district so it's not like you have legally defeased bonds and refunding bonds outstanding bond holders are looking to a separate pot of money so it's a is a single transaction okay um
so so one of these numbers that you presented earlier on kind of the net present value of the debt service savings and whatnot that was based on rates as of 10 3 right so right so they got better and they've got better they got better sense and but but the actual savings realized would be when the when
the refunding transaction it actually occurs that's right and the market seems to improve you know the general consensus was that it was gonna kind of trade within a market range if you will okay so what what you're asking us to do is basically
give you an order within certain parameters to be able to complete these refunding to be able
to accelerate the the transaction on a standalone basis that certainly certainly makes sense
any other questions because there's an order involved we cannot move these two items to consent sent but I guess they will be coming back to us with an order next week that
is that correct fairly thank you very much I just I just want to move one more thing there are neighboring districts that have called and said are y'all gonna go you know look at refunding bonds because what the markets doing and there are neighboring districts that are doing the same thing to their boards and again what this is go ultimately going to do if you approve this next week we'll be able to get our bat ready to swing at the target that will save the district significant dollars well we certainly appreciate both mr. Smith and your department and our professional experts that assist us in these endeavors and certainly we are always looking for ways to save money especially especially if we can cancel debt in the process thank you
Item 6.8
Our final discussion action item this meeting is the October 2014 budget amendments evening
We have nine budget amendments to bring to the board tonight Eight of them are transfers of existing budget between different account code functions and one budget amendment is significant. It is a timing amendment that is summarizing all of the different projects that needed to cross a fiscal year.
The amount of this amendment is $5,518,541 in total. It represents multiple projects. The timing amendment is for goods and services originally budgeted in 2013-14.
This amendment establishes budget for items ordered but not received or projects not completed prior to August 31st. That unused budget from 2013-14 will fall to fund balance and this 2014-15 amendment will make available the same resources to fund these expenditures after September 1st, 2014. This amendment represents multiple requests summarized into one amendment. just to bring efficiencies to the process so that you don't see multiple amendments for the same purpose of timing. The majority of this amendment are related to the following major projects. $3,235,360 to complete the Center for Imagination and Innovation, $1,529,100 to finish retrofitting the school bus fleet with air conditioning units, $290,151 startup supplies for Tompkins High School, $253,959 startup supplies for Randolph Elementary, and $197,549 startup supplies for Davidson Elementary. The remainder represent purchases where products was not received prior to the August 31st fiscal year close, $3,300 for ERP programming to retire fixed assets, $4,086 for a stage curtain at May Creek Elementary, and $5,036 for athletic uniforms at Morton Ranch High School.
Any questions? So the adjustment that you just described to us, basically it's a timing difference. So that is that additional $5 million plus is going to be added to what we, I guess, approved as the final amended budget for the last fiscal year, which was August 31, 2014. And then it will become an expenditure here. So it's just really a timing difference. Is that correct?
That's correct.
Okay. Okay. Is there any objection to moving this item to consent? Thank you very much.
That concludes all our discussion action items. Our next board meeting will be our regular board meeting scheduled on Monday, October 28, 2014. That is correct, right?
Items 7 & 8
Is it the 27th? Is today the 20th? Okay. I am already ahead of day. Excuse me. Monday, October 27th, 2014. There being no further business, we are adjourned at 8.46 p.m.
Official documents
Agenda
The district's own agenda for this meeting, as published on BoardDocs.
Board packet · 18 documents
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- Offer Letter 446 KB
- Atty Ltr (approval of Bonnie Holland NFBWA Easement) 107 KB
- NFBWA - Water Line Easement - FINAL 407 KB
- NFBWA - Water Line Easement - Memorandum - FINAL 387 KB
- Atty Ltr (Pipeline Easement Agmt with SiEnergy LP) 90 KB
- Katy ISD Pipeline Easement SiEnergy & Exhibit- 09-12-14 Accepted Version 237 KB
- KISD-HCSO Interlocal 09-26-2014 19 KB
- 1 - ADP vs Mercer Transition 81 KB
- 32 acre park_BFjHYn 4069 KB
- LEP_Enrollment_Supporting_Docs_2014 33 KB
- 1_Function and Object Code Description 12 KB
- MOU for LCISD-NISD-KISD-2014-2015 (LCISD-Judge Signed) - 081514 5621 KB
- 2_ Revenues, Expenditures and Fund Balance 1014 86 KB
- 3_KISD_2014-15 Budget 1014 21 KB
- Budget Amendment Detail 120 KB
- Board Policy Update 100 and Local Update October 2014 14473 KB
- Bond- A Consideration of the Alternatives- 10 20 14 1097 KB
- Katy Independent - Refunding Overview 2014-20-14 457 KB
Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 3.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees 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 002 · AGENDA 3.2
UnknownThe Superintendent is reassigning Rick Hull as principal for Katy High School.