The Board will now convene an open meeting. Today is Monday, October 27, 2014 and the time is 6.33 p.m. The Board met earlier this evening in closed meeting. Any action arising from discussions in a closed meeting must be taken in a subsequent open meeting. This is a meeting open to the public, not a meeting of the public. There are students and other guests present to maintain decorum. Respectful behavior is expected. Disruptive behavior and or comments will not be allowed. out the kitty SD Board of Trustees meets monthly in a regular meeting generally to receive reports from the staff and to take action on recommendations from the superintendent whereas there may not be lengthy discussions or a litany of questions tonight please know that we've had the agenda for over a week as a board we've reviewed each agenda item in a public work study session with the administrative team where we were able to ask and receive answers to our questions aboard we should have appropriate knowledge and should be prepared for our responses regarding the content of this meeting tonight Mr. Fraley, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas open meetings law in Regard to the notice for this meeting. It's president. We are in compliance for some is the personnel report
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Katy ISD Regular Board Meeting, October 27, 2014
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- 0:00 to 7:25 Items 3 & 5 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.) 5. Pledge of Allegiance 5.1 Gillian Grace Winchester, 5th Grade, Pattison Elementary
- 7:25 to 18:57 Item 4 Public Hearing 4.1 Presentation of the District's rating on the Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas (F.I.R.S.T.) 4.2 Receive public input regarding the District's rating on the Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas (F.I.R.S.T.).
- 18:57 to 34:43 Item 6 Recognitions 6.1 National Mark of Excellence Winners 6.2 Katy ISD FFA Chapters/Katy Rodeo 6.3 National Achievement Scholarship Semifinalists 6.4 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists
- 34:43 to 1:24:14 Item 7 Report 7.1 Katy ISD 2014 Demographic Update
- 1:24:14 to 1:33:41 Item 8 Open Forum
- 1:33:41 to 1:34:29 Consent Agenda Consent Agenda 9.1 Consider 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. 9.2 Consider Board approval of a Pipeline Easement Agreement to SiEnergy, L.P. associated with District owned property within the Cross Creek Ranch subdivision. 9.3 Consider Board approval of a Water Line Easement to North Fort Bend Water Authority (NFBWA) associated with the Bonnie Holland Elementary School campus. 9.4 Consider 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. 9.5 Consider Board approval of the change of Healthcare Benefits administration from Mercer Human Resource Consulting (Mercer) to ADP. 9.6 Consider Board approval of the Limited English Proficient (LEP) Enrollment and Bilingual Education Exception/ESL Waiver Application for 2014 - 2015. 9.7 Consider Board approval of the Memorandum of Understanding for Operation of a Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program (JJAEP) with Fort Bend County. 9.8 Consider Board approval of Board Policy Update 100 and Local Policy Updates. 9.9 Consider Board approval of the minutes for the Board meetings held in September 2014. 9.10 Consider Board approval of the October 2014 budget amendments. 9.11 Consider Board approval of the September 2014 financial statements. 9.12 Consider Board approval of the September 2014 check registers. 9.13 Consider Board approval of the September 2014 tax report.
- 1:34:29 to 1:39:59 Item 10 Discussion/Action 10.1 Discuss and consider 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. 10.2 Discuss and consider 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.
- 1:39:59 to 1:40:37 Items 11 - 13 11. Information Items 11.1 Quarterly Investment Report 11.2 Donated items to Katy Independent School District 12. Future Meetings 12.1 Board Work Study Meeting - Monday, November 17, 2014 12.2 Regular Board Meeting - November 24, 2014 13. Adjournment
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Items 3 & 5
Mr. President Dr. Adams moved the birth trustees approves the personnel report is recommended by the superintendent a
Second I Have a motion by
Mr. Adams seconded by mrs. Doyle that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report is recommended by the superintendent there any discussion Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Motion passes 6-0. Please note that Mr. Charles Griffin is not with us this evening.
President, we want to go ahead and move the pledge up now if we can, so we'll be led by Ms. Gillian. Yes, I believe we do. Will you please stand?
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
honor the Texas flag I pledge allegiance to the Texas one state under God one and indivisible
all right tonight we have a shilling she's a student with us here at Paterson elementary school is with her parents I mean Richard you're going the front row there mom's out with the camera and of course a proud principal Ms. Walker there out of her and Julian has brothers Jacob and Mary Kate here supporting her as well and Julian's special interests include where she loves her family these are her words all right and her many friends she takes dances she plays basketball her favorite subjects are writing social studies and math but the teacher say about Julian Julian sorry is Julian is a bright caring student she always gives her best to her students, classmates, and school. And we're lucky to have her, and this is from a third grade teacher. Jillian is a genuine, wonderful young lady. We're thrilled to have her, another teacher. There's more. Jillian was the most responsible kindergartner. I'm going way back. She could always be counted on to do the right thing, get her work done neatly, and in a timely fashion. She always treated her classmates kindly. She was a friend to all from her kindergarten teacher. Some things just haven't changed, sadly.
feeling glad to have you welcome tonight hello my name is Julian Winchester and I'm a fifth grader at Paterson Elementary School my school opened in 1989 25 years ago this year we are celebrating with a birthday party on November 20th I have been a student at Paterson since kindergarten and I've made a list to share with you tonight of 25 things I love about Paterson number Number one, splash day in kindergarten. Number two, Thanksgiving powwow in kindergarten. Number three, Pattison has a very kind and caring atmosphere. Number four, field day in the fall and carnival in the spring. Number five, colonial days in third grade. Number six, choosing books from our library and my favorite librarian, Mrs. Karner. Number seven, fifth grade sock hop. number eight habitat for humanity prep math project number nine science class weekly labs number ten writing fiction stories number eleven basketball and volleyball and PE number twelve getting to sing with the younger kids in our music programs number thirteen learning how to shade in our club with miss majority number 14 my teachers acting out social studies lessons number 15 our teachers are willing to do anything to help us learn number 16 our principal mrs. Barker helps keep us safe and always compliments kids in the hallway number 17 winter parties and Valentine parties number 18 PTA and what they do to help the school number 19 having the privilege to use technology every day in our classrooms number 20 I love my friends at Patterson number 21 field trips number 22 fishing at the outdoor Learning Center number 23 camp ride along in fourth grade number 24 shopping at the book fair and finally number 25 one of my favorite teachers is Miss Cantu because she's so funny and we really have a connection my years at Patterson with my brother and sister have been the best as you can see Patterson is definitely worth celebrating Thank You miss Barker for this great honor and thank you for your kind attention
Jillian that was fantastic 25 things that's a lot but that's just wonderful that you mentioned that Ms. Walker was here as your principal and all. The great thing about Pattison Elementary is that my son was there the very first day that that school opened and we got rezoned to that school. It was fantastic and it's still fantastic. We want to thank you for being here tonight in front of all these people to give the pledge to us and to tell us a little bit about your school. Know how proud you are because I can see it right here. We thank you for doing doing that. As a recognition, we want to give you this certificate tonight that's signed by our Board President and Mrs. Fox as well about giving the pledges and you have this and keep it for keepsake. And then we have this nice little bag that we only give to people that say the pledge. It keeps hot things hot and cold things cold. Okay? So we thank you again so much.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
Thank you.
Okay.
Item 4
Trustees, I'll direct your attention to Item 4.1 on our agenda item. This is the presentation. presentation of Chris Smith the CFO will give a brief report on the financial integrity rating system of Texas and Afterwards we will receive public input regarding the topic. Welcome. Mr. Smith
Good evening Jillian I tell you it's gonna be pretty tough for me to follow those 25 points because I've got 20 points and they're not near as exciting as yours. I hate to tell everybody but But annually, Texas Education Agency prepares a report card, if you will, on school districts' finances across the state. Tonight, the public hearing tonight is to go over the KDISD report card. And during that, there's 20 indicators that they grade us by. This whole process is called Schools First. Our report card is called Schools First, and that stands for Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas. It began in the 2001-2002 school year. It's changed over the years. I think what we're seeing tonight was in existence last year, and every year, TEA talks about making slight modifications to it. The purpose is to expand public education accountability for finances across the state. Primary goal is to improve management of school districts' financial resources, and it's to to ensure the maximum allocation of resources are for instructional purposes.
Again, like Jillian's 25 fun things, we have 20 indicators of which we're going to go by. Again, they're not as fun. Critical indicators will be the first group, fiscal responsibility and fiscal performance. The second group, budgeting and personnel and cash management.
Again, as far as the report card goes, if you score between a 64 and a 70, you have superior achievement. 58 to 63 is above standard achievement. Standard achievement is 52 to 57 and substandard achievement is less than a 52. Or to answer no to one question, indicator 1, 2, 3, or 4, any of those will give you a no answer or to both 5 or 6. So critical indicators these are the ones that will get you if you don't pass them was the total fund balance less non-spendable and restricted fund balance greater than zero in the general fund and in our case it was yes we have just over three months operating supply and our general fund was the unrestricted net asset balance in the statement of net assets greater than zero the answer is yes we We had a net assets greater than. I will say that these are all intended to say a yes answer, so some of these will be asked a little strangely. The intent is to answer it with a yes. And here's one example. Were there no disclosures in the annual financial report and or other sources of information concerning default on bonded indebtedness obligations? Basically, has the district made all its bond debt payments? and the answer is yes was a financial report we filed within one month after the January 28th deadline within one month after the January 28th deadline well we filed ours before the January the 28th deadline yes where was there an unqualified opinion in the annual financial report did the district receive a clean audit well yes it did did the annual report not disclosing any instances of material weaknesses? Or basically, were the district's controls sufficient to prevent potential errors? And our answer was yes. As far as moving forward to the next group, fiscal responsibility and financial performance, was the percentage of total tax collections, including current delinquent, greater than 98%? The district's, our district's three-year average is over 100% tax collection, or just slightly over. So yes. Did the comparison of PEIMS data, that's Public Education Information Management System of Texas, did that data compare to what's in our financial report or what we reported to TEA? And yes. Or was it within 3 percent? And our answer is yes. And in fact, we were .000078% or about $500 off because of rounding and excess of over – I forget the amount, but we were $538 off, which is pretty close. Were debt-related expenditures, net of IFA and EDA and the debt service fund less than $350 per student or did we exceed 5% growth?
7% growth over five years or does one penny raise $200,000 or more? Well, in our case, the answer is yes on that. We had 14.62% growth as compared to seven and our one penny raised just about $2.2 million. million dollars was there no disclosure in the annual financial and the annual audit report of material non-compliance yes there was no disclosure of material non-compliance the district had full accreditation status in relation to financial management practices basically do we have a monitor or conservative assigned yes we had full accreditation in relation to financial management it When it comes to budgeting, was the aggregate of budgeted expenditures and other uses less than the aggregate of total revenues and other resources and fund balance in the general fund? And the answer is yes.
If the district's aggregate fund balance in the general fund and capital projects fund was less than zero, and ours was not, were construction projects adequately financed? And ours were, and yes. yes was the ratio of cash and investments to defer revenues in the general fund greater than one to one on August 31st of 2013 in this case and the answer is yes personnel standard standpoint was the administrative cost ratio less than the standard in state law our administrative cost ratio is one of the lowest in the state is three point nine one percent it could be in order to continue to pass this could be as high as 11.5 percent we'd still get a yes but 3.91 percent again is if not one of the lowest the lowest in the state was the ratio of students to teachers within TEA recommended ranges yes ours was it was 15.8 teachers per students per teacher that ranges from 13.5 to 22 students per teacher and ours was again 15.8 was the ratio of students to total staff between TEA recommended ranges for a district our size yes it was 8.3 students per staff the range was 7 to 14 on that so yes from cash management perspective was the decrease in undesignated unreserved fund balance less than 20% over two fiscal years well we did not have a decrease in our fund fund balance so the answer is yes was the aggregate total of cash and investments in the general fund more than zero at the end of the fiscal year and yes our cash was and investments were greater than zero at the end of the year in investment earnings in all funds exclude debt service excluding debt service fund and capital projects fund meet or exceed a three-month Treasury bill rate basically that was point zero seven percent was the index and yes we exceeded that we had excuse me we had about point three seven percent return on our investments so those are all twenty indicators and we answered yes to all of them so I think it would be no surprise that we received 70 out of 70 points was his superior achievement I believe this is the 13th year in a row that we earned the highest rating that we could or basically kept our A-plus rating. And I think that says a lot about our board, superintendent, and the community for demanding excellence because I think looking at our finances, they are in excellent condition. And this information that I went over tonight is available on TEA website. and each of you should have a report that goes over this the information that I just went over as well as some other required information such as reimbursements and compensation which there were none received by the superintendent which there was none outside of the district gifts there were none business transactions there were none outside of the district and we have the contract posted on our website and in addition we have some financial solvency questions at the end of your package that were requested for the first three months of this operating year that we filled out back in February and all that again was acceptable to maintain a superior superior rating and at this point I'll be glad to ask and ask answer any questions you may have
Mr. Smith, first of all, I want to say thank you to you and your team for the quality work you've done. This is your first year being CFO. You've been involved with us, what, 17 years now, I think, in the district?
MR. Not that long. MR.
Not that long? Okay. It seems like a long time now. I'm sorry, 11 years. MR.
I know I look it, but...
MR. That all came about last year, I think. MR. Yes, sir. MR. But you have an outstanding team and you've been part of this team for the last 11 years. Yes, sir, and I just want to publicly say how much I appreciate what you guys do and You guys bring to the task during every campaign board election or bond election There's always this little rhetoric about more transparency with no specifics behind it It's the allegations not being transparent and yet the comptroller's own report has shown year after year the quality of our expenditures equality of our transparency and The fact that we get more bang for our buck in the fast report as well I just want the folks to know you have every reason to be confident in the district's financial management, not by our standards, but by the Comptroller's standards. Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
Thank you very much, Mr. Smith. We do have an agenda item for a public hearing and to receive public input regarding the report that Mr. Smith just made. However, no one signed up for that. So we will conclude this part of the agenda and move on to recognitions
Item 6
Recognize miss Lucy tiger just the recognition
Good evening. Mr. President board members and superintendent fairly Each year, the Foundation for Music Education announces a select group of high school and middle school bands to be chosen for the Mark of Excellence honors. This year, we are proud to announce that two KDIC bands were selected as national winners in the Mark of Excellence honors, the Beckendorf Junior High Honor Orchestra and Beckendorf Junior High Varsity Girls Choir. At this time, I would like to recognize the directors from each of these groups. From the Beckendorf Junior High Honor Orchestra, Director Carol Buttes, and from the Beckendorf Junior High Varsity Girls Choir, Director Janet Menzie.
For our next recognition, I would like to introduce Gary Johnson, President of the Katy Rodeo Committee, George Thomas, Board Member and Rodeo Area Director, Arena Director, I'm sorry and Doug white Katie rodeo committee board member
mr. president board members and superintendent Fraley like to thank you for allowing the rodeo committee the opportunity to make our annual FFA chapter operating fund distribution at this meeting as many of you know we hold the rodeo in conjunction with the FFA Livestock Show each February. The monies raised from the event are distributed to the FFA chapters in various ways. Over the past 10 years we've distributed over a half a million dollars to the FFA by paying for things like animal vaccinations, student teacher development courses and events, FFA American degrees and distributions such as these for the activity funds to allow the kids and the teachers to attend events, judging competitions and team competitions. This year our distribution for the activity fund is $65,000. These activity funds help offset the cost of everything we've discussed and I'd like to at this time have the ag teachers come up to receive their checks.
We also have a few FFA students here with us tonight.
Can we get everyone to scoot around to the edge so we can get a group photo?
Thank you.
Thank you to the Katy Rodeo Committee for your support of the district's FFA programs.
Mr. Johnson, thank you guys so much. You guys do an awesome job. We appreciate having you in the partnership. Thanks again, sir.
More than 1,600 high school seniors have been designated as 2015 National Achievement Scholarship semifinalists by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. These scholastically talented young men and women now have an opportunity to continue in the competition for approximately 800 achievement scholarship awards worth more than $2.5 million to be offered next spring. We're proud to announce that KDIC has three national achievement scholarship semifinalists this year. Students please come forward as I call your name. Brianna Eheimer, Seven Lakes High School.
Aluwatafi Alemi Seven Lakes High School and Calistis Iziocafor Seven Lakes High School
Congratulations and best of luck moving forward.
For our final recognition this evening, I would like to introduce to you KDISD's 2015 National Merit Scholarship semifinalists. These students are among 16,000 semifinalists named in this year's National Merit Scholarship program. They were selected based on their results in the PSAT National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. They now have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,600 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $33 million to be offered next spring. Students please come forward as I call your name. Sumit Agarwal, Shingo Ranch High School.
Ryan Albosta, Taylor High School.
Keon Amirpanahi, Seven Lakes High School.
Tasif Azad, Seven Lakes High School.
Elisa Barnett, Seven Lakes High School.
Diksha Bader, Seven Lakes High School.
Dylan Bray, Cinco Ranch High School.
Michael Brennan, Seven Lakes High School.
Colby Brown, Seven Lakes High School.
Rohan Chakraborty, Seven Lakes High School.
Linhan Chen, Seven Lakes High School.
Raida Chowdhury, Cinco Ranch High School.
Jeremiah Kolich Taylor High School
Ishani Desai Taylor High School Nishant Deshmukh Seven Lakes High School
John Dial Cinco Ranch High School Tiffin Droud Cinco Ranch High School
Jana D'Souza Seven Lakes High School
Alexandra Du, Cinco Ranch High School.
Melissa Fu, Seven Lakes High School. Matias Hanco, Taylor High School. Laura Hu, Seven Lakes High School.
Jacqueline Wong, Cinco Ranch High School.
Raymond Wong, Cinco Ranch High School.
Yaukun Wong, Cinco Ranch High School.
Miles Hubsher, Taylor High School. Seoyoon Jang, Cinco Ranch High School.
Yun Jung, Cinco Ranch High School.
Jenny Kim, Seven Lakes High School.
John Kim, Taylor High School.
Krithika Kupasamy, Taylor High School.
Adelaide Kwan, Taylor High School. Jiwoo Lee, Cinco Ranch High School.
Albert Lee, Taylor High School.
Q Li, Cinco Ranch High School.
James Lueo. Taylor High School Andrew knee Cinco Ranch High School Marian Olson Taylor High School Michael pan Seven Lakes High School Sean Park Taylor High School Louise Plata, Cinco Ranch High School.
Matthew Rosson, Taylor High School.
Emily Saunders, Taylor High School.
Amruta Srinivasan, Taylor High School.
Leah Stevenson, Taylor High School.
Sarah Stokes, Seven Lakes High School.
Thank you.
Samir Suresh, Seven Lakes High School. Michael Tien, Seven Lakes High School.
Spencer Taylor, Cinco Ranch High School.
Nicole Ting, Seven Lakes High School.
Ashnee Vias, Seven Lakes High School.
Eden Williams, Seven Lakes High School.
Jenny Shiu, Cinco Ranch High School.
Christina Shiu, Cinco Ranch High School.
Diana Shiu, Seven Lakes High School.
Jeanette Shiu, Taylor High School. Kevin Shiu, Taylor High School. Neil Yernany, Taylor High School.
James Yoder Cinco Ranch High School
Murad Yousefi Taylor High School
Andy Yu Taylor High School
Safiya Zaidi Taylor High School and Emily Zhang Taylor High School
We wish each of these students continued success and hope to see them back in the spring.
Thank you.
There's a lot of kids.
Three, two, one.
this concludes our recognitions this evening I also realized that I inadvertently left out one of our standard recognitions that we always make are there any scouts in attendance tonight If so, would you please stand state your name? Troop number and tell us what badge you're working on And you might want to wait just a minute until it kind of clears out more
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okay Scouts please stand tell us your name your troop number and what badge you're working on. We'll start over here.
Thank you.
All right, welcome.
Okay, welcome. I believe we have one over here.
Item 7
Well, welcome all of you. Thank you for being here tonight. And I think we'll get you out at a reasonable time, actually. so Next on our agenda tonight. We have the KDSD 2014 demographic update Mr. Gunnell, I think will be accompanied by dr. Pat Guzman and dr. Chris pool from population survey analysis Welcome. Mr. You know
Thank you president. Mahowski. Good evening superintendent and trustees Population survey analyst is the largest demographic firm in Texas They specialize in working with public school districts and have been performing demographic studies for over 30 years. They have been our consultants for many years. You will be hearing from Dr. Pat Gussman. Dr. Gussman is the president of population and survey analyst, PASSA for short. She is a demographer whose career spans 35 years in population analysis. She has taught the graduate demography courses at Texas A&M University. In addition, she has managed demographic updates for municipalities and for the Texas Department of Transportation. For the past 22 years, she has worked with school districts throughout the state of Texas, aiding districts with projections of housing and population in order to plan the siting and timing of new schools and to plan attendance zones. You will also hear from Dr. Chris Poole. Dr. Poole is an attorney and chief data analyst at PASA whose principal responsibilities include attendance zone planning and long-range facilities analysis as well as aggregation or merging of student data into geographic areas such as current and future attendance zones. Chris has led the attendance boundary modifications for the district for the last two years. One question that we often get about PASA's projection is how accurate are their enrollment projections? And the short answer is they're extremely accurate. But let me show you a little more detail.
On this chart, you can see what PASS's enrollment projection was compared to the Public Education Information Management System at their snapshot date, which is normally taken the last Friday of October. You can see the PEIM snapshot enrollment lies virtually on top of PASS's projections over the years. Last year our enrollment accuracy was just a hair under 100%. As enrollment stood last Friday, we had 70,334 students enrolled compared to PASA's projection for this coming Friday of 70,440. That's an accuracy rate above 99.8% and we still have a week to go. The PEIMS Snapshot this year will be taken on October 31st. Now, what you see in the presentation today, you see a lot of data. The data will show that we continue to grow rapidly in both new housing and new students. And last month you saw in a presentation on development that Katy ISD continues to be a destination location for families. The presentation today is rather lengthy. We timed in at just under 40 minutes earlier today. I asked Pat to do something a little different this year. it's to give a summary on the front end and on the back end so without further ado I'm going to ask dr. Gusman to come and take the clicker away from me ready Pat got a bottle of water here for you too
we certainly appreciate being here this evening and do hope to give you a brief summary of the data this year having worked for the district now for almost 20 years I can tell you that this year has been the most exciting in regard to growth. So the growth has become accelerated and that's always interesting from a demographic perspective.
To briefly cover some high points that you might want to remember but there won't be a quiz, keep in mind that the elementary student growth is growing more rapidly than the other two grade groups. That's important because they form bulges and those bulges then enter the other grades. During the downturn and the recovery, this has not been the case. In other words, the fact that elementary students are again the leaders in growth is important because that tells us that there is very high growth in these younger grades. Now last year we We projected for the elementary students around 40,600 this year.
For the next five years through 2019, we projected almost 42,000 students will be enrolled by 2019. Now, why is that important? It's almost 1,500 more students at the elementary grades than we had been expecting or that we had been advising the district would occur. Why has this happened? One reason is the really strong increase in one grade, kindergarten. So if there's any one grade to watch and to be able to diagnose what the future enrollment holds its kindergarten and in the last three years after five years of low or very slow growth at the kindergarten level due to lack of readily available mortgages and the general downturn the last three years have had high growth of seven percent five percent and eight point four percent this year in that in the kindergarten growth so very critical plus the fact that there are more apartments available and younger families with young children are anxious to move to Katy schools and they can be in those apartments at sometimes while finding a single-family home at a later time and then not only are the apartments increasing but there are other factors that are causing the single-family homes to increase and we'll review those shortly. So we mentioned apartments and in the next year there will be 3,250 approximately at a minimum apartment units added and as far as our firm that is a record number for any one year. So this district also has a high ratio of students per per unit in apartments. And putting those two factors together means that you're really leaping forward with elementary students. And then if we look at projections of new housing, we had a smaller number of both single family and multi-family units last year projected projected for 10 years forward, with under 12,000 projected multifamily last year for 10 years forward and this year, 15,650 for the 10 years forward. So again, big demand for housing in this district and now with the drainage permitting having improved and will be evaluated on an individual development basis that has opened up whole new worlds in three weeks time in terms of the rapidity of build-out in the northwest. So again another reason for an acceleration in housing growth and of course we continue to watch the number of employees that are growing. And I don't know if this is a critical indicator, but out of the 13,709 school districts in the nation, Katy is 23rd in regard to growth for the latest data that we could find. That's 2010 data. So it's old hat by now, but fascinating. Now keep in mind that the only who prepare projections tend to use past rates of change or past rates of growth. We develop the projections based on individual subdivisions and apartments and use employment as sort of a sacred umbrella to oversee the aspirations of builders and developers. Now, in looking at demographic trends, keep in mind these red districts and see that Katy had the largest increase this year in added students of the 64 districts in the consolidated metro area. Likewise, over a five-year period, you see that Katy had exactly 11,000, while Houston Houston ISD, which added North Forest as a component, had 11,200. Now one thing that is important is looking at growth in KD relative to the rest of the state. So if we look at this increase of pre-PEIMS data of almost 2,900 added students, only KDISD is leaping ahead with around 3,400 with pre-PEEMS enrollment growth. Now if we look at kindergarten that's important to look at what we expect to be the growth in kindergarten each year and we're simply using as one barometer the births in the district and aging those births five years forward and wanted you to see that there is no real stability in regard to those births, that if you fenced in the district and didn't allow any more net in-migration of students, would you still grow? Absolutely yes. Because you're seeing a growth in births each year. Now, one thing that we have to look at and be very serious in considering is subdivisions that are growing and declining throughout the district and that is happening and at the same time though we see that the first grade is greater than the fifth grade or 19 of the attendance zones at the elementary level that you see in green the yellow attendance zones are those that have a slightly smaller first grade than fifth And so right now, there are 52,000 students out of 70,400 that live in existing, built-out subdivisions. And so it's very important to follow which of those are continuing to grow and regenerate and add students, and yet some of them are becoming empty nest oriented. So we have to look at both. both. And yet the majority of the growth, of course, is coming from where the new homes and the new apartments. But we still have to watch these older subdivisions that are built out and they are not in the net in decline at all. So we are assuming over the next ten years they will not be.
You wanted to see that? Okay.
And also, starting on page 65, since you've had to suffer through a report, you might want to look at the maps to see which subdivisions are declining the most of the built-out subdivisions, which ones are growing the most, but keep in mind that it's these master plan communities like Cinco that are really increasing with adding over 400 students this year and Cross Creek adding 400, the active subdivisions. So the growth has fluctuated. Of course it was much lower in the years of the downturn and early recovery but we wanted you to be able to follow that knowing that the district has reached such a large size that this 4.26 percent is going to be more the average that you could anticipate through time and in a conservative or moderate scenario might be even higher than you might anticipate through time. So now going back to review overall, we've talked about high enrollment at the kindergarten level. We've talked about the fact that there is a fairly low percent of economically disadvantaged students in the district, definitely for a large district that's the case. Now Now also we'd like to emphasize that the commute time is very important, but actually over a long, long timeframe that has declined.
Over a 20-year timeframe because more and more businesses are in the district and there's no need to travel to them. And then of course it's a highly educated population and definitely has the highest median income of any district in the region.
When we look at the 60 districts that are the large districts in regard to student population, Katy ranks eighth in terms of being economically disadvantaged, are looking at that percent of free and reduced lunch student population. So it ranks eighth from the lowest, but yet at the same time if we look at the star test results and passage rates, Katie is third. Now typically those should be ranking hand in hand, but it says a great deal about the experience base of the administration and teachers that there really is a instead of that 89 or 90 percent correlation that that is not the case for Katie so Katie is ranked higher in regard to test scores and these two indicators of the indicators that builders and developers tend to look at so it was the president rather yes me
mr. president was focused excuse me dr. Gusman may I ask you a clarifying So did I hear you correctly that we're eight in economically disadvantaged, so that should really correlate to around eight in performance, academic performance?
You should, but you're higher, which we're always interested in. So that's very unique among the Houston area districts.
That's very interesting.
One of a kind.
One of a kind. Well, we're very proud of our academics.
It's really a good situation. MS.
Thank you for that clarification.
And the percent of students, again, passing the STAAR Test grades three through eight, which we've used as an indicator, you can see here that Friendswood is that 15-square-mile leader always, and then behind that, Tomball and Katy. So what's so miraculous is that large districts don't tend to have these characteristics. So it makes this district very unique, very unique. And here in looking at growth trends we've emphasized again the kindergarten and can't over emphasize it as important in looking to the future. And also we have to look out to set the stage for future growth in regard to what percent of the students are attending private schools. So although right now only 3% are attending, we know that the expansions are anticipated in private schools and there will be a slightly higher enrollment at the same time KDISD's enrollment is growing. So in the next five years we still anticipate only 3% and we work with districts that have 16 and 17 percent in private schools. So you know keep it in mind this This is a low proportion.
One quick question. Does that number include homeschool and any charter school students?
It includes charter school but not homeschool. And we've not been able to adequately measure that. We could make some guesstimates.
Employment trends are critical, especially as we look at the percent of unemployed unemployed because that has to be low and it has to be stable for folks to buy houses in the district. So home buying is so tied to happy workers and happy workers are those that are employed. And we see that if you look at say Fort Bend County, you can see the downturn in the percent of unemployed. And that's really important and useful in providing an optimism about home sales. And also while we're talking about employment, keep in mind that we do follow trends and leading indicators in employment, but consistently this district attracts individuals that are in education and medical fields as well as those that are administrators and in professional and managerial services. services, followed then by manufacturing and that has not changed. It's been very consistent. So again, to summarize, we know that unemployment is lower each month in the Houston area since 2008, gradually reducing back to normalcy. But at the same time this year we had a huge increase in jobs in Houston through August, 107,400 for that year ending in August 2014. And one other parameter that's important, of course jobs and of course water, and we've only briefly mentioned the improved conditions for developers who want to be able to develop in the northwest part of the district. So there will be availability of infrastructure in that area. There will be possibility to get permits for drainage and for muds to evolve. So there's a much more optimistic view about infrastructure and water availability and drainage. At the same time, it's so fascinating to see how arterials affect growth. Wherever we see a major new arterial, we see new housing. It's just amazing to follow. So the Grand Parkway is really obvious and we've looked at the same size catchment area for segment E as far ExxonMobil and those are just neck and neck in regard to housing units and so at the same time though you know that's almost old news we all know the growth along the Grand Parkway there's still some major parcels that remain but we have to keep in mind the West Park tollways improvements Kingsland Boulevard Boulevard to be extended over to Peterson Road there will be one segment that will likely never be completed but nonetheless that will have a major impact 1463 widened to four lanes and then to me one of the big improvements has been some of the core roads Road, it's completion now, Gaston, Balkan Landing and so forth. They've really changed the district in terms of accessibility. Now the housing projections, of course, here are the utility districts, but where you don't see anything but white, you know there are are no muds and that may be the most important aspect of this. Of course on the east side, 18 percent of the district is comprised of the reservoirs on that side of the district. So they're off limits for growth. Now speaking of growth and what is left to develop in the district, right now if we do include the reservoirs, the Katy Conservancy and parks, we're going as well as all development, the district is 78% built out. And so of the land that remains, about 45% of that land mass that remains is in the floodplain. But that's not going to be a deterrent and has not been to this point. You know, the big portions, for example, of Taylor High School are floodplain. And so, you know, with drainage and, again, with the new permitting process, then that's going to be much less a deterrent than was thought to be the case as late as one month ago. And these are the parcels of five-plus acres that are for sale. So this gives you some idea in the north, those parcels that look like an H or the northwest land owned by Troy Maxwell. There are other parcels in the district that are quite large, a Beckendorf parcel on the west, and then parcels along the Grand Parkway still that are holding out for commercial land use. But if they were to sell for residential prices, they would be grabbed up immediately, and they would no longer be on this map. So the student growth, and of course we've geocoded every child at their address who is enrolled in the district, and 81% of those students new to the district were added and actively building out subdivisions. and then around 543 students, or about 19% of the added students, were in apartments.
And again, if we look at housing starts, right now Katie is first again, because first in housing starts among the 64 school districts. districts. And while Katy had lost some inventory and therefore had dipped a tiny bit in housing starts, now there is going to be massive new lots available. For example, particularly in Cross Creek where they're opening up five sections. Now a huge amount of territory in the district is going to be opening up with new lots this year. So keep that in mind that Katie is the leader in regard to starts as well as closings. Now only look at maybe the first few of these single family developments that are listed. Almost all of them are master plan communities. The new Newland communities development and right now they don't have their concept plan complete. Please. their revised one with the new drainage situation but it will be around 5,200 lots. Then Cross Creek is really as I mentioned going to be accelerating this year and by the way they're getting more dense as they gradually evolve. You know really interesting approach to development where with each year there's greater density not as much predictability. Martin Creek Ranch, Ventana Lakes, neither of those are new developments. Bridgeland is going to be fast in the fray. Silver Ranch and Cinco Ranch and then in the north, Marsil Lakes and King Crossing, both new in the north. Now if we look at multifamily, these are just your crib sheets for the largest developments over the next few few years. And you do know that the apartment complexes are larger in terms of number of units. And that, you know, is having its impact as well. And then this very lengthy table shows every multifamily complex that will add at least one unit to be occupied during during the next 12 months. Some of these are already 5% occupied, 40% occupied, 90% occupied, so they're only adding a few more occupied units. And others are still being constructed right now. And again, when we sum this, then you see the pressure that's going to be placed on specific schools, especially elementary schools, when all of these complexes are finished next fall.
This map shows where the growth centers are for just a little over a year forward and then this shows the first five years of the 10-year projection period with the Southwest continuing to build out but now for the first time new growth in the north. And then if you see growth along I -10 that's typically apartments where you see red.
This map shows the last five years of the projection period and you see that the you know the rice harvest is a hollow term these days. There is no rice to harvest and definitely will not be after this construction commences and here then we look at the the 10-year projection of the Northwest and Southwest in particular so that sums to 46,000 housing units of which 15,600 are to be multifamily. And keep in mind that right now we have only about 18,000, over 18,000 units, 18,500 maybe. So, you know, in a fairly short time period, we'll be doubling the multifamily.
And that happens, it's a law, it's inevitable when it's a coveted school district and then then certain areas begin to develop to the limit that they can, except for parcels that are out parcels left for multifamily. And this is the district where, you know, if any district were to be in demand in that regard, it would be this district. And then, of course, 30,500 single-family units. So what does that mean? If you look at the last row, it suggests that there will be 118,000 single-family homes by 2024 and 33,760 multifamily units, making multifamily units 22% of all of the housing. But keep in mind that only a third of the apartments have students in them. So right now, it's under 9% of all the students that are in apartments.
Ratios of students per household. Again, we just talked about apartments, and the average ratio is a .36. And that's quite a bit higher than other districts. It's so interesting to look at Katy, because they also, in about a year, are going to be mimicking you in terms of number of apartment units, but they have a lower ratio of students per unit. But parents really want to be in this district, and if the way they can move in is with apartments, then that's what they want to do. And the ratio right now per single family home is .72, less than a child per home. The average for the state is about a .63. three. So you can just zip through here and see where the students are almost two per house. And then here know that some active adult communities have no children and others have evolved with no children. And that's what you see here on this list.
Are any of you on this list.
So here then look at the projected total enrollment. We anticipate 98,000 at the end of this 10-year period and 84,000 which is an easy number to remember within five years by 2019.
And this is a conservative moderate growth scenario.
So if we used a high growth scenario which basically we change very little but kindergarten then there would be a hundred and five thousand. Right now for the moderate growth scenario the kindergarten projections keep in mind that they were eight point four percent kindergarten growth. That's a number this year. Okay, we project under the moderate growth scenario that the highest year will be next year at 5.7% growth. So that's very conservative. So the high growth scenario could become a reality. But if that, you know, 5 to 8% continued over 10 years, it's years. Now, Chris Poole is going to briefly briefly talk about each of the elementary zones and their growth.
Ms. Okay. I know that was a lot. But we're just going to look at what that means for the elementary school attendance zones, the junior high zones, and the high school zones. And so we're going to zoom in and pan around here and just talk a little bit about the geocoded student population. And I know you're already nodding your head.
I think I heard heard Mr. Gannell use the word catch basin the other day. I think I'm going to steal that and start using that in districts because the attendance zone is just the starting point. If the student lives in the Schmalz attendance zone that's where they start but they may be in a program that is placed at a different facility. So the elementary school level you all have around 3,500 students that are not attending school in their catch basin. They are transferring around for one reason or another maybe with a parent that teaches or it may be for a bilingual program or something like that. So the geocoded student population is just the start, but it is where we start and it gives you an idea of a little bit of the growth that we are expecting here. This is showing 2015 and 2019. We go ahead and project on out to 2024. We know that the second half of the data is less reliable than the first half of the data, so that's why we're just starting here with 2015 and 2019. But do be aware that some of these facilities have design capacities that are smaller than the 1,030 that Katie has been building for quite some time and that even those design capacities are being used in different ways if there's space in the district needed to
office space for someone then they may utilize a facility differently than the design capacity so for example Schmaltz is losing 112 students it's got a capacity of about a thousand and thirty wolf is losing 212 but then you turn turn around and look at McRoberts and it's got a capacity of around 935 and it's gaining 178 students for programmatic reasons.
Similar sort of thing in the southeast. West Memorial, for example, loses 143, but then Memorial Parkway turns around and gains 264. And so I think a lot of you, Fielder, of course, is always a big question. It gains 376 students transferring in as a net because of some of the programs.
And in the southwest, I think we're used to really studying and gasping when we see numbers in the southwest. And there's still some gasp to be had here. Wood Creek, we're looking in five years, could be 1776. It's got a capacity of 1,030. Same thing for Woolman at 2203, large numbers at Davidson and Randolph. off. But those numbers are starting to taper off some. You know, we're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel maybe in the southwest just a little bit. And Woolman we're projecting, for example, in 10 years' time for there to be about 2,300 students. So that's still two elementary schools' worth of children to be expected in the Woolman attendance zone. Similarly with Wood Creek, 2,000 students, 2,046 projected in 10 years' time. Randolph and Davidson, Randolph, I think, is expected in ten years to be over 1,600 students. So there's still plenty of growth despite the facilities that have been opened recently by the district. There's still plenty of growth expected to occur in this sector of the district. But I think from if you've been looking at those maps that Dr. Gussman was showing earlier with all that red in the north, now you can see what has recently happened in the southwest west turning toward the northwest. And Katy, for example, it has a much smaller capacity than these 1,030 schools that the district has been building. It's got a capacity of 643. And we're projecting in ten years' time for there to be as many as almost 1,900 students in what is now the Katy Elementary Attendant Zone. But I think the thing that is the most interesting on this particular map is the King Attendant Zone. In five years' time, it could have 3,100 students in it. And by the end of the projection period with all of that growth we could be looking at as many as 7,500 elementary school students living in that zone and like I say if your new schools are a thousand thirty you can do the math that's that's a lot of additional need just in that one particular attendance zone similarly at the junior high school level I think these numbers are going to sort of not be a surprise because we've got growth in the Southwest expected and a good deal of growth in the in the north expected there is some growth that I'm sorry there are some net transfers occurring at Cinco Ranch but the rest of them that you guys said earlier you had 3,500 students at the elementary school transferring around those numbers are much smaller at the junior high and at the high school level and so most of the junior highs are within about 50 of their geocoded student population one way or the other so this is a really pretty a pretty good starting point but But you can see, Katy Junior High expected to have over 4,000 junior high school students by the end of the projection period, 3,000 at Wood Creek, almost 2,500 at Seven Lakes.
And then at the high school level, the numbers just, they keep coming. Again, there's not nearly as much in the way of transferring going on at the high school level, but you can see Cinco Ranch, Seven Lakes, Taylor, Maid Creek, all of these very well utilized. then 3,800 in Tompkins we could be looking at 4,000 very quickly at Morton Ranch and then also 4,000 quickly in Katy and then the numbers just go up because Katy's attendance zone includes all of that in the northwest and all of that that red that is coming in
I've been very patient to hear a vast amount of numbers thrown out, but we have just a few more comments in conclusion. we wanted to emphasize to keep in mind that you can expect 84,000 students by 2019 under a very conservative moderate growth scenario and I did want to emphasize at the same time that importance of kindergarten if we kept the kindergarten growth the way it has been this year then we would have by By 2019, 88,000 students. And by 2024, 118,000. So we have to be so watchful, changing nothing else from the moderate growth scenario, but just the number and percent of kindergarten students. So it's so important to watch those early grades. They determine the future. They are going to spell the actual increase per year. And right now the district is at that turning point with three years of high kindergarten growth. And to reemphasize, it was 7 percent, 5 percent, and 8.4 percent. And we're suggesting the very highest growth for any one kindergarten year for the next ten years is 5.7 percent. So we have a conservative, most likely, projection series that we're presenting to you. then please keep in mind too that and we've worked I mentioned Spring Branch and Richardson because those two districts built out in approximately 10 years and so they've been built out for 30 years or more and at and Spring Branch the neighbor has 44 square miles so it was easier for it to build out and yet this district has 181 square miles and as you've noticed still has plentiful landmass for development this district to date has been high growth for around 24 or 25 years and really I guess what startled me the most was to to know that if we had 46,000 housing units over the next 10 years, that we'll add another 30 percent of the population to a district that many thought was already maturing. So it is amazing to see that impact. We'll have 151,000 housing units, and right now we've got about 108 or something thousand. And so there's still so much growth left in this very large geographic area. And then with that new territory opening up in the northwest, even post-2024, which is outside our 10-year contractual projection period, then we nonetheless see easily another another 34 to 35,000 housing units, excluding many of the apartments that will crop up in places where we now think commercial development may occur because, again, as the district starts to mature, there will be a greater demand for those parcels that are left to be residential and not commercial. commercial. So in conclusion then, we have to keep in mind this long timeframe of growth that this district has experienced and know that there's no rest for the weary, I suppose, in regard to the school board's thoughts of the future. And if you have any questions, we'd be glad to try to answer any question or look up any information that you might need.
Dr. Guzman, Dr. Poole, I appreciate the presentation. It's always very thorough and very accurate as we have experienced in the past. Dr. Guzman, I'd like to go back for a minute, I guess from an overall viewpoint. You talked about commuting while ago and about 31 minutes commute. I know that those folks that are on the Katy Freeway in the mornings any time after 6 o'clock experience a lot longer commute to 31 minutes I mean it's probably an hour to get in not saying your numbers are wrong and I and I don't know how you came to the 31 minutes but but the question I have in relation to that and where I'm going with that is the fact that is there a point I mean because the infrastructure and and and the roads that we're talking about and you talked about widening of things and for the like the West Park tollway for instance And I know that I haven't heard anything I've seen the extension part of it, but I haven't heard anything about the widening down on down towards town or Houston But but when we talk about that we talk about the north west side of town where we know that like any hockey road is a two-lane road and It's you know at what point are You know it They can't build quickly up there and expect for those roads to be able to handle that traffic like that. So I guess my question is this. At what point does transportation or the infrastructure, whether it's road or facilities or whatever, throttle or choke back the growth? I mean, how much can people stand as far as a commute? Oh, I mean I bought and thought about that is that would you see people climbing on the on the tollways and paying $10 one way right now just about to go downtown and and it's packed It's packed and I'm just from your view or maybe dr. Poole's view what what? Can you just discuss that a little bit?
No, I think you brought up such an important point. You've critical, the critical element. But keep in mind that more and more of the jobs of those who live in Katy are here in Katy. And when we first began working with the district, that wasn't the case. So everybody had to drive somewhere. And that's no longer the case. every year there are more and more firms as well as office space that is being so rapidly developed but then your point you're right about the Northwest and probably 70% of the cost of improving those roads will be dependent on developers like with razor Road for example and more than adequate a beautiful roadway resulted. So hopefully we'll see that and then Martin roads improvements have greatly enhanced this new Marcello Lakes development as well as Cane Island. And Cane Island I think was going to be challenged in regard to transportation and rapid access but now with improvements to these roads then then that can be overcome. So I anticipate that developers are going to, just as they'll do with Fulcher Parkway, you know, it was going to take 18 developers and our landowners. It's down to 12 or 14 now with assembling of parcels to put in Fulcher Parkway from 10 to 1093. So that's going to open up a whole new area that was choked. and I anticipate that's what will happen in the Northwest but that's you pointed out such a thorny question so what you're saying in is is that the
developers will have to step up to develop the transportation routes as opposed to maybe the county so if I'm just thinking the Fulshire Parkway is the most important thoroughfare right now that is dependent heavily on the partnership of developers in that area so that for their projects to succeed the Fulcher Parkway has to succeed
this president well you mentioned how Cross Creek Ranch as they develop they're getting more and more dense. Is this a trend that you're seeing with some other developers that might impact the Northwest, more dense developments? That's a good question too. Now, to be very honest, I don't normally see the situation where once a development has a general plan and then a major preliminary plat, that it becomes more dense. That is an oddity, but it's one that Johnson Development follows elsewhere and they have a good organization and a way of handling that but that's not common. However, in regard to the Northwest, again on September 26th, the drainage permit situation changed and so that is what will cause the greatest change instantly in demand for land and the price of land in the Northwest because now on an individual basis each developer is going to be able to develop more acreage more lots per acre than they had initially conceived so that will allow greater density
Any other questions?
Dr. Guzman, Dr. Fulop, I mean, as always, your report is very thorough, and then the work that you do really is very important, obviously, as we plan for the growth of this district and continue to try to provide amazing opportunities for our students as we continue to build out and grow this district. So certainly appreciate you coming here and giving us this thorough report tonight.
Thank you. We were very grateful to be here and have your time this evening.
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Item 8
to close out the public?
No. Thank you.
Once again, you guys, when are we going to address Common Core? I saw Ms. Fox on television talking about the bond, which is totally different. She sat on TV and the opening line on this piece that one of the news stations had was I'm tired of the lies. I'm tired of the lies. I've been called incompetent. I've been talked about by this board around town and I've started to receive numerous phone calls of how some people on this board and other people in this administration here are going around talking about Common Core and how to bring it into the district it's already here now I'm being called a liar and I'm tired of lies and I'm being told I'm coming up here when I brought up proof that it's in KDISD I don't think any of you really looked at what it is and how it comes from the UN our school system comes from the state not the federal government our school system is not supposed to be totally on the internet where at any point in time nothing is approved and they can change that curriculum we have curriculum coming in from the College Board pre AP history changing history. Hopefully we've stopped that at the State Board of Education level. We have Joe Adams that's going to be on the TASB board and finances. I hope you use that position to stop this nonsense. You guys have the extreme chance to be one of the people that actually changes what's going on and stop this madness of turning our schools into communism and to turn it back into to a republic. You've already voted and sent a declaration that we're a democracy. That needs to be changed. It needs to go to the governor that we are a republic. If our key institution of education does not have a clue of how our governments run and what form of government we have in their declarations and can't change it, we have a problem.
Now, I've asked several times and at a meeting where it is on the agenda why you've approved 21st century learning building plans and architecture. By law, I'm supposed to have an answer and haven't gotten it yet. That is Common Core. 21st century learning is from UNESCO, from the UN. You can change the words all you want, but the plan's all the same. Parents are waking up. I've asked for years, when can we address this? When will you seriously look at it? because our children's grades are going to start changing. It is going to start showing. When our own school board doesn't know how our government's run, we have a problem.
The second issue is on the bond. I'm really ashamed of how
people are acting right now. We're all adults. It's a yes or no vote and each one of us has one. Far too much money and far too many bribes are going through. They may be legal, they may not be legal. But it's embarrassment to live here in Katy ISD with the way this bond is going. The chat boards and the way some people are being treated is insane. It may not be by the board, but might be by some in the community. We're adults and every election is an embarrassment in Katy. Can we grow up and be an example to our children, please? And I really want an answer on this Common Core. I started out trying to get you to read a two-page law to protect our children on the internet, and the internet is an integral part of this Common Core. I'm not against the internet, but I am against Common Core and the data collection that goes around it with FERPA. You just had the geotagging of our children with this report. You just had a consultant that gets information from our district on our children without our permission. Prime example of one data point, possibly more, that this private company gets on our children without our permission. What else are you giving out? Can we get some answers? Can we start having a conversation because people are starting to get angry and Common Core is in KDISD. We have enough proof and we're seeing it
Our second and final speaker tonight is Jalen Stewart
Is it Jalen or Jacqueline I'm not okay welcome
I would like to speak on behalf of fine arts students and KDIC about the bond. I know that it's going to be built like a stadium and things like that. A lot of really good things, not just for sports and football and soccer and things like that, but also for the fine arts students. like I was in band and a lot of times it's really tough for us to get to the stadium on time and we have to rush out of the school and get there and have to dress on the bus which is really uncomfortable when you have in the case of color guard 44 girls changing on the bus at once it gets really hot and everyone gets kind of like really funky attitude so I think it would be really nice because we get to have dressing rooms for not just the girls but also for the guys so everyone can change and look really nice so when we go out and perform you get to see the best of us and that's really important to me that you get to see all of our best and I think it's a really nice thing for all the students in KDIC because we all get to share this amazing space where we can make really great things happen and yeah so I think it would be really great for everyone and especially it would be keeping a lot of the students in favor especially for fine arts not just for sports which is also a really big part of Katy but um yeah thank you thank you very much mister thank you Jaylen appreciate you coming this weekend we had our bands performing in another district and I'm ready to have them perform in Katy ISD without a doubt and I think what a lot of folks have lost sight of with all this campaign talking, Ms. Bafal, and I agree with you 100 percent, it's an embarrassment,
without a doubt, that we're building for students, for children, but we're not talking about children.
And that's what embarrasses me. When you look at the demographic report we just had, look at the growth, look at the demand for this place we call KDISD.
97 % of the market share for the most part of students,
school -age children are here.
Why can't we be proud of what we've created?
Why are we always trying to tear it down just to get some kind of political
recognition? Someone said at a conference we were at that some folks create drama so they can be a star in something.
Some folks create their own drama to be a star in.
and none of it is serving our community very well. Ms. Aylen, you'll probably do what we do. Thank you very much for being here tonight.
Consent Agenda
Okay, Trustees, I'll direct your... We are now at the consent agenda portion of our agenda.
And the Chair will entertain a motion.
Mr. President.
Mr. Dubrow.
I move that the Board of Trustees approve the consent agenda as recommended in items 9.1 through 9.13.
Second.
I have a motion by Mr. DeBrell, seconded by Mrs. Vann, that the Board of Trustees approves the consent agenda as recommended in items 9.1 through 9.13. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
Motion passes 6-0.
Item 10
next item on this agenda tonight is a discussion action item related to an order authorizing the issuance of 80 is D limited tax refunding bonds which was presented last week at our work study by mr. Smith and the chair will entertain a motion is Doyle I move that the Board of Trustees adopt an order authorizing the issuance of Katie independent school district limited tax refunding bonds and one or more series setting certain parameters for the bonds authorizing a pricing officer to approve the amount interest rate price including the terms thereof and certain other procedures and provisions related there to okay a I have a motion by Mrs. Stoll, seconded by Mr. DeBruyne, that the Board of Trustees adopts 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. Do we have any discussion?
We actually have two very similar items here on two separate orders. And I have a, before we take a vote, I have a portion of this order that I need to read.
For Agenda Item 10.1. 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. Really the same language as the motion.
Okay. Okay. There's no other, no discussion, no further discussion than what we had at our work study last week. We will proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
Motion passes 6-0.
We'll now entertain a motion for item 10.2.
Mr. President.
Ms. Fox.
I move that the Board of Trustees adopt an order authorizing the issuance of KD 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.
A motion by Mrs. Fox, seconded by Mr. Adams, that the Board of Trustees adopts 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 there to there any discussion on this item mr.
Ed this question would be for mr. Smith, please Mr. Smith, in relation to this, this is a total of about $28.8 million here that we would have a potential savings for.
So therefore, that would give us more capacity as far as debt. And then if this bond that's coming up on November 4th that the public will be voting on, if that were to pass, we talked about a possible increase in taxes but would this preclude that from happening if this were to if we approve these with the interest rate savings
that we think we could garner when this was presented along with the assumptions that we're currently using yes that would be a true statement that I think that we would need to recommend an increase in our service tax rate he said
that next president I want to clarify that this included an increase in the tax rate
any any further questions or discussion hearing none I will read the order one more time and then we will proceed to vote 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 authorizing a pricing officer to approve the amount the interest rate price including the terms thereof and certain other procedures and provisions related thereto
proceed to vote all those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye Aye.
Aye.
Motion passes 6-0.
We look forward to you taking the action that will save us millions of dollars of interest.
Items 11 - 13
Trustees, I will draw your attention to the information items in your packet. 11.1, the quarterly investment report. and 11.2 the donated items to KDISD. Our future board meetings, we will have a board work-study meeting on Monday, November 17, 2014, and a regular board meeting on November 24, 2014, and there being no further business, we are adjourned at 8.14 p.m.
Official documents
Agenda
The district's own agenda for this meeting, as published on BoardDocs.
Official agenda, Regular Board Meeting Agenda, 27 October 2014 →
Board packet · 40 documents
The district's own backup material for this agenda, retrieved from BoardDocs. Each file was checked against the size BoardDocs states for it.
- October 2014 Donated Items KISD Table 25 KB
- 1 - Financial Statements - Sep 2014 12 KB
- 2 - Analysis Function Object - Sep 2014 15 KB
- 3 - Check Registers - Sep 2014 7 KB
- Atty Ltr (Pipeline Easement Agmt with SiEnergy LP) 90 KB
- Katy ISD Pipeline Easement SiEnergy & Exhibit- 09-12-14 Accepted Version 237 KB
- 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
- KISD-HCSO Interlocal 09-26-2014 19 KB
- 1 - ADP vs Mercer Transition 81 KB
- LEP_Enrollment_Supporting_Docs_2014 33 KB
- MOU for LCISD-NISD-KISD-2014-2015 (LCISD-Judge Signed) - 081514 5621 KB
- Board Policy Update 100 and Local Update October 2014 14473 KB
- 1_Function and Object Code Description 12 KB
- 2_ Revenues, Expenditures and Fund Balance 1014 86 KB
- 3_KISD_2014-15 Budget 1014 21 KB
- Budget Amendment Detail 120 KB
- MIN 9 15 2014 Work Study pending approval 148 KB
- MIN 9 22 2014 Regular Meeting Pending Board Approval 278 KB
- 4rd Quarter Report 2013-14 88 KB
- Katy ISD Limited Tax Refunding Bond Order 2014 90 KB
- Katy ISD Unlimited Tax Refunding Order 2014 90 KB
- Demographics Update 102714 Rev. 8307 KB
- Sanitary Sewer Easement with Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No 169 398 KB
- Storm Sewer Easement with Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No 169 396 KB
- Water Line Easement with Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No 169 402 KB
- Pipeline Easement with SiEnergy 428 KB
- Memorandum with North Fort Bend Water Authority 378 KB
- Water Line Easement with North Fort Bend Water Authority 701 KB
- Work Study Minutes September 22 2014 241 KB
- Regular Meeting Minutes September 22 2014 224 KB
- MOU with Fort Bend 406 KB
- Recorded - Water Line Easement 404 KB
- Recorded - Sanitary Sewer Easement 394 KB
- Recorded - Storm Sewer Easement 390 KB
- Recorded - Pipeline Easement Agreement 4701 KB
- Water Line Easement 2012 1172 KB
- NFBWA Memorandum of Water Line Easement (RECORDED) 1370 KB
Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 3.1
PassedI move that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the Superintendent.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 002 · AGENDA 9.1
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards to Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 169 a Sanitary Sewer Easement, Storm Sewer Easement, and Water Line Easement as depicted in the attached easement documents associated with Katy ISD owned property within the Cross Creek Ranch subdivision.
MOTION 003 · AGENDA 9.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 9.1 through 9.13.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 004 · AGENDA 9.2
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards to Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 169 a Sanitary Sewer Easement, Storm Sewer Easement, and Water Line Easement as depicted in the attached easement documents associated with Katy ISD owned property within the Cross Creek Ranch subdivision.
MOTION 005 · AGENDA 9.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 9.1 through 9.13.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 006 · AGENDA 9.3
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards to Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 169 a Sanitary Sewer Easement, Storm Sewer Easement, and Water Line Easement as depicted in the attached easement documents associated with Katy ISD owned property within the Cross Creek Ranch subdivision.
MOTION 007 · AGENDA 9.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 9.1 through 9.13.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 008 · AGENDA 9.4
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards to Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 169 a Sanitary Sewer Easement, Storm Sewer Easement, and Water Line Easement as depicted in the attached easement documents associated with Katy ISD owned property within the Cross Creek Ranch subdivision.
MOTION 009 · AGENDA 9.4
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 9.1 through 9.13.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 010 · AGENDA 9.5
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards to Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 169 a Sanitary Sewer Easement, Storm Sewer Easement, and Water Line Easement as depicted in the attached easement documents associated with Katy ISD owned property within the Cross Creek Ranch subdivision.
MOTION 011 · AGENDA 9.5
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 9.1 through 9.13.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 012 · AGENDA 9.6
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards to Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 169 a Sanitary Sewer Easement, Storm Sewer Easement, and Water Line Easement as depicted in the attached easement documents associated with Katy ISD owned property within the Cross Creek Ranch subdivision.
MOTION 013 · AGENDA 9.6
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 9.1 through 9.13.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 014 · AGENDA 9.7
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards to Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 169 a Sanitary Sewer Easement, Storm Sewer Easement, and Water Line Easement as depicted in the attached easement documents associated with Katy ISD owned property within the Cross Creek Ranch subdivision.
MOTION 015 · AGENDA 9.7
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 9.1 through 9.13.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 016 · AGENDA 9.8
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards to Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 169 a Sanitary Sewer Easement, Storm Sewer Easement, and Water Line Easement as depicted in the attached easement documents associated with Katy ISD owned property within the Cross Creek Ranch subdivision.
MOTION 017 · AGENDA 9.8
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 9.1 through 9.13.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 018 · AGENDA 9.9
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards to Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 169 a Sanitary Sewer Easement, Storm Sewer Easement, and Water Line Easement as depicted in the attached easement documents associated with Katy ISD owned property within the Cross Creek Ranch subdivision.
MOTION 019 · AGENDA 9.9
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 9.1 through 9.13.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 020 · AGENDA 9.10
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards to Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 169 a Sanitary Sewer Easement, Storm Sewer Easement, and Water Line Easement as depicted in the attached easement documents associated with Katy ISD owned property within the Cross Creek Ranch subdivision.
MOTION 021 · AGENDA 9.10
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 9.1 through 9.13.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 022 · AGENDA 9.11
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards to Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 169 a Sanitary Sewer Easement, Storm Sewer Easement, and Water Line Easement as depicted in the attached easement documents associated with Katy ISD owned property within the Cross Creek Ranch subdivision.
MOTION 023 · AGENDA 9.11
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 9.1 through 9.13.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 024 · AGENDA 9.12
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards to Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 169 a Sanitary Sewer Easement, Storm Sewer Easement, and Water Line Easement as depicted in the attached easement documents associated with Katy ISD owned property within the Cross Creek Ranch subdivision.
MOTION 025 · AGENDA 9.12
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 9.1 through 9.13.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 026 · AGENDA 9.13
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards to Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 169 a Sanitary Sewer Easement, Storm Sewer Easement, and Water Line Easement as depicted in the attached easement documents associated with Katy ISD owned property within the Cross Creek Ranch subdivision.
MOTION 027 · AGENDA 9.13
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 9.1 through 9.13.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 028 · AGENDA 10.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees adopts 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.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 029 · AGENDA 10.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees adopts an Order Authorizing the Issuance of Katy Independent School District Unlimted 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.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |