The Board will now convene an open meeting. Today is Monday, April 20th, 2015, and the time is 6.30 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 the notice for this meeting?
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Katy ISD Regular Board Meeting, April 20, 2015
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- 0:00 to 1:19 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.)
- 1:19 to 7:10 Item 4 Recognitions 4.1 Peace Officer Oath of Office – Katy ISD Police Officers
- 7:10 to 20:26 Item 5.1 Health Care Plan Update
- 20:26 to 1:07:02 Item 5.2 Redesigned College Board PSAT and SAT
- 1:07:02 to 1:21:27 Consent Agenda Consent Agenda 6.1 Consider future Board approval of the Job Order Contracting method and the award of the contract to Sterling Structures, Inc. through The Cooperative Purchasing Network (TCPN) for the renovations of the natatoriums. 6.2 Consider future Board approval of the proposal for the waterproofing and skylight package. 6.3 Consider future Board approval of the Job Order Contracting method and the use of KBR through The Cooperative Purchasing Network (TCPN) to complete the minor construction associated with installation of the walkways, canopies, and electrical services at the sites of portable buildings to be relocated to various campuses during the summer of 2015. 6.4 Consider future Board approval of the Job Order Contracting method and the use of KBR through The Cooperative Purchasing Network (TCPN) to complete the minor construction associated with the installation of the walkways, canopies, and electrical services at the various sites of the new portable buildings being installed during the summer of 2015.
- 1:21:27 to 1:23:13 Item 7.1 Discuss and consider future Board approval of an Interlocal Agreement with Cinco Southwest Municipal Utility District 3, Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District 142, and Katy Independent School District.
- 1:23:13 to 1:25:36 Item 7.2 Discuss and consider future Board approval of the disposal of out-of-adoption instructional materials.
- 1:25:36 to 1:30:26 Item 7.3 Discuss and consider future Board approval of a lunch meal price increase for elementary students and junior high students for the school year 2015 - 2016.
- 1:30:26 to 1:32:03 Items 7.4 & 7.5 7.4 Discuss and consider future Board approval of the 2015 - 2016 Professional Development and Appraisal System (PDAS) and Katy Development and Appraisal System (KDAS) Calendar. 7.5 Discuss and consider future Board approval of the 2015 - 2016 PDAS (Professional Development Appraisal System) Second Appraisers.
- 1:32:03 to 1:50:21 Item 7.6 Discuss and consider future Board approval of the Instructional Materials Allotment (IMA) Update and Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Certification.
- 1:50:21 to 1:52:32 Items 7.7 & 7.8 7.7 Discuss and consider future Board approval of grant ratifications. 7.8 Discuss and consider future Board approval of the April 2015 budget amendments.
- 1:52:32 to 1:52:57 Item 8.1 Regular Board Meeting – Monday, April 27, 2015
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Item 3
Mr. President, we are all in compliance. The first item is the personnel report.
Mr. President. Mr. Griffin. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the Superintendent. Second.
A motion by Mr. Griffin, seconded by Mr. Adams, that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the Superintendent. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, we will proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. motion passes 7 to 0 do we have any scouts with us this evening if there are would you please stand up tell us your name your troop number and what badge you're working on any scouts must all have a STAAR Test tomorrow I guess something like that okay well now we'll move to
Item 4
the recognitions portion president want to recognize uh right now deputy chief police robert
jinks good evening mr president board members superintendent fraley the ktisd department police department is a full -service law enforcement agency established in 1988.
the mission of the department is to effectively and efficiently provide for the protection of lives and property preserve the public peace and provide central and campus administrative services.
The department is compromised to 50 officers serving all 181 square miles of KDISD. At this time, I would like to introduce officers Tarek Middleton and Isosa Ehanore and ask Ms. Nowak, Secretary of Board Services, to administer the oath of office.
Please raise your right hand.
Eric Middleton. I, he says that he had a ray. Do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the duties. And I will faithfully execute the duties of the Office of Peace Officer, of the Office of Peace Officer, of the Katy Independent School District, of the Katy Independent School District, of the State of Texas, of the State of Texas, and will to the best of my ability, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend, preserve, protect, and defend, the Constitution and laws of the United States, the Constitution and laws of the United States, and of this state. and of this state. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations.
Officer Tarek Middleton was born in Houston and was raised in Katy. We attended Katy Elementary, Katy Junior High, and Katy High School. While at Katy High School, Tarek was a standout basketball basketball player, earning Most Valuable Player in 1982 and 1983. In 1989, Officer Middleton earned an associate's degree in electronic engineering technology from the National Education Center, Bryman Campus. Officer Middleton has also worked in the financial services field as a life insurance agent. In 2005, he joined the KDISD as a campus security guard. Officer Middleton attended the Wharton County Junior College Police Academy in August of 2009, and a short time after graduating, he accepted a position with Fort Bend County Sheriff's Department as a reserve deputy. On January 15, 2015, Officer Middleton joined the KDISD Police Department as a police officer.
Nigeria, West Africa, but was born in Germany. The family moved back to Nigeria where officer a hunter a grew up and attended school when he graduated from high school his family relocated to Maryland while officer a hunter a and his siblings attended college officer a hunter a moved to Texas in 2005 where he found his passion for law enforcement and
joined the Travis County Sheriff's Office as a corrections officer after completing his basic peace officer Academy at San Antonio law enforcement Training Center in 2010 officer hunter ihana ray joined the Bexar County precinct 3 constables office and then in 2013 he transferred to the Judson ISD Police Department officer ihana ray decided to move the Houston area to be closer to his family and continue a career with the Katy ISD Police Department in February of 2015 officer ihana ray and his wife Wilma married November of 2011 please have me welcome them to the KTISD police park thank you
very much gentlemen we were very appreciative that you're here with us I do have to ask officer Middleton did you ever get any pickup games when you're back at Katie High School with Mr. Griffin over here.
Well said.
Congratulations. Mr. President, if I could, I want to welcome both of you gentlemen to the force. You are joining a very fine department. One we're very proud of. You know they have my full support and the support of this board as well. Thank you for what you do and glad to have you on the team. Thank you very much. Thank you your family here. Oh Yes
All right Yeah, well family, please please stand up and be recognized as well
all right welcome aboard thank you for the you're the family now yeah there we go
okay trustees I will now direct your attention to the report section of our agenda tonight our Our first report of the evening of two is a health care plan update, and it will be presented by Mr. Mike Robinson.
Item 5.1
Welcome, Mr. Robinson.
Thank you, President Hoskey, Board members, Superintendent Fraley. I appreciate the opportunity to be here this evening and present you with an update of the health care plan. We've finalized the 2014 numbers, and while they were not that great, We wanted to present you with the reasons why they turned out the way they did and give you a glimpse at 2015. I will also give you a brief update on TRS active care and the affordable care impact that we anticipate for 2015. And then we'll cover the next steps in our process for this year. The slide on the graph on the left shows the division of the cost or the funding for the health plan for 2014. You'll notice that the district contribution and the employee contribution, the district contribution is normally about 60 percent of the total plan cost. However, due to the $4.6 million loss in 2014, that pushed the district contribution, which was covered by the GOF pushed the district contribution to about 64%. Some items of interest, just so you'll know, that the cost per covered employee in 2014 was $8,533, which is up about $1,000 per employee over 2013. The cost per covered member was about $4,804. $4.00. Every day we incur over $77,000 in medical claims 365 days a year and pharmacy claims are about $29,000 a day every day of the year.
We often hear that
the raises that we provide for the employees are taken up by health care increases. This is a graph that you saw back in August when we presented the 2014 the 2014 or 2015 projection. The area on the left of the slide shows the salary at various levels and what 3% equates to on a monthly increase. And on the right side, the premium increases for the various plans, most of them were 3%, and you can see what the 3% there equates to compared to the 3% raise at the various salary levels. The bottom of the slide shows the total employee premiums per plan and at the very bottom it shows that our monthly district contribution is $385 per employee while the state mandate is $225 per employee. The 2014 2014 projection initially we projected a 1.2 million dollar loss plus the Affordable Care Act impact which we were uncertain as to how many people would actually join our plan as a result of the laws that were passed in the actual 2014 was a 4.6 million dollar loss the factors that in that were involved in that and that loss was a and an unexpected growth in plan membership by about 10% I A medical trend of about 7%, which is the cost of inflation. If nothing else had happened, the planned cost would have gone up by that much. The ACA impact was estimated at about $700,000 for 2014. And the biggest factor for the loss was the large claims that we experienced for the year. At the bottom of that slide, you can see that for claims over $50,000, The number did not necessarily increase more than in the prior year, but the cost increased by $5 million, and that is what accounted for most of our loss for last year.
This slide shows the graph that shows the benefit-eligible employees on the blue line, the number of participants on the red line, and the per-employee per year cost on the green line. And you can see as if if we do nothing else we continue to grow the cost of the plan grows along with the growth of the district.
To look at just the last three
years or two years plus the projection for 2015 the 2013 loss was of 1.3 million or 1.4 million dollar loss and that year we used the balance of our fund fund fund balance as part of it and paid the balance in the general operating fund. In 2014, we had a $4.6 million loss, which was paid from the GOF. And our initial projection that you saw in August of last year from Mercer was a $5.4 million loss for 2015.
Part of that projection included a margin to cover them in case they missed their projection. Made their projection pretty conservative. And we believe that with the plan changes and the premium changes that we made that were effective January 1st of this year, that the impact will be more in the neighborhood of a $3 million loss and the impact that will be to the general operating fund the district share will be about 1.6 million.
So what is TRS Active Care doing for 2016? That's a very good question we don't know yet. Generally they have their benefits designed and premiums out by by late February, early March. But because of the session this year and the funding issues regarding active care, they're not going to have an enrollment in May. And they're not going to announce the changes until June. So it'll be June before we actually find out. There are five options that they've considered in a sustainability study they did. did. They're all very expensive proposals as you might imagine because they have not done well in that plan.
The 2014 and 15 initiatives that they had, they
eliminated the benefit plan with the highest benefits, Active Care 3. They offered a new exclusive provider organization in the four urban areas of Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin. And they increased deductibles in two of the plans and raised the spouse and family premiums. They did improve their net cash position for 2014. In 2013, their net cash position was a negative $118 million, and for 2014 it was a positive $23 million. So the changes they made the year before did impact the cost of the plan significantly.
Affordable Care Act cost for 2015, we are estimating at 1.7 million. Those costs are made up of the fees that you see there, temporary reinsurance fees, medical plan design changes, prescription plan design changes, integration fee with our carrier to track the changes that were mandated to make, a medical device pass-through tax and and an RX company pass-through fee. All of those add up to about $1.7 million cost to the impact of ACA for 2015. In addition, there are several bookkeeping issues that we're going to have to address. The first one will be about February of next year. every employee of the district will get a form similar to a W-2 that shows the individual's name, the number of dependents, whether or not they're covered on our plan, the cost of the plan. And this is all designed to feed back into the government so that they can tell if we owe any additional penalties for not providing the plan that they say we're supposed to provide. But the good news is we are in compliance. compliance, we won't be paying any penalties, but it is a significant bookkeeping problem for all employers.
Our next steps will be to consult with district administration to determine our funding model for next year, for 2016. We already started considering the options for the next year going forward. There are several bids out. One is for the RX plan and the voluntary plans are out to be it also we'll have that information for you in the summer I will present our options to the benefit Advisory Committee update the board in July as we usually do and come back in August with the recommendation for 2016 happy to answer any questions you may have mr.
president sir on your slide the yearly data cost yes from oh four to oh ten Another one with the graph on it. On that one, from 2004 to 2010, you had a relatively consistent increase in costs, but we've got that big spike from 2013 to 2014. What are the projections for 2014 to 2015? Is that line going to continue to go straight? Is it going to cost more, or is it going to kind of flatten out? What are y'all's projections?
Well, we don't believe it would be that sharp of an increase simply because of large claims. Excuse me. We had a significantly bad year in large claims in 2014. It's the worst year we've had since I've been here. And we had gone for about three years where that was relatively flat. You know, it was increasing a couple hundred thousand, but nothing like the five million that we saw. all but if I knew how to predict that claims cost I'd probably be a wealthy
man so okay thank you it's president mr. Adams are there such
a things as a stop limit on medical claims like you do on other things that that you could impose for to avoid that hit that we took yes sir mr. Adams there
There is. There's stop-loss insurance, both aggregate and individual stop-loss policies. And we carried those for years, and we paid an exorbitant amount of money for very little benefit. For example, we dropped the stop-loss coverage year before last. It was costing us about $2.5 million a year for the coverage, and we were getting basically no benefit from it because we were having to buy such a high level of stop loss, a $600,000 limit was $2.5 million, and anything below that, the cost went up too high. So if we had self-insured without any stop loss from 2003 when we put this plan in, we'd have about $7.5 million in the bank.
Mr. Brill.
Hi.
The temporary reinsurance fee? Yes, sir. What exactly is a temporary reinsurance fee?
The reinsurance fee is a fee that's being collected from all employers to basically fund the large claims for the Affordable Care Act. They don't have insurance, stop-loss insurance. So to protect the plan from the large claims, they instituted a fee on all employers. It's a per head fee per year. It reduces next year, but last year it was $63 per employee across the nation.
MS. Follow-up? Of the $1.7 million, how much is that fee?
MR.
That fee was $633,000.
MS.
And that's basically just a payment to the federal government to help them out?
MR.
Yes, sir.
MS.
In normal terms?
Yes, sir. Yeah, shake that
Any other questions
Thank You mr. Robinson, we're very much. I guess we'll see you again in July. Absolutely. All right Our next report tonight
Item 5.2
Report on the redesigned College Board PSAT and SAT We have a couple of presenters this evening. Ms. Debbie Pennington, the Senior Education Manager for the College Board, and Ms. Eileen Lindley, Director of Secondary Curriculum and Instruction. Welcome, ladies.
Good evening, President Mikowski, Superintendent Fraley, and members of the board. where the Department of Secondary Curriculum Instruction wanted to provide you with an overview of the redesign of the SAT and the district response to those changes and we have here with us tonight Miss Debbie Pennington from the College Board to share with you those changes.
Good evening and thank you so much for allowing me to come share some what we think is really great news from the College Board and our efforts to help and support students so thank you this evening my goal tonight is to give you a big picture overview I'm thrilled to see all the families in the audience hoping that you're here to find out a little bit more about this information too so I'm gonna give you a big picture I'm happy to answer whatever questions that we have available for you okay here Here we go. To tell you just a little bit of background as we get into the information about the redesign of the SAT exam, the College Board is a membership organization that's been around for over 100 years. We are members that are made up of K-12 institutions and colleges and higher ed institutions. We are a nonprofit organization. So the things that we do and our purpose and goals are led by our members and our goal is always to support students everything that we do is coming back to help and support students and So with that in mind we had some conversations with our higher ed membership and they expressed some concerns with us about The tools that we have now have available to report out Information about students they're trying to match their the students that apply to their institutions with the right college and we really want to make sure that when a student is applies and is accepted to a university that they will be successful when they get there because across the nation we have a crisis and our crisis is in per capita number of college graduates and we are sliding behind worldwide in that number of college graduates every year so the College Board and our higher ed institutions and our high schools are working very hard to find a way to help match the right opportunity that lets a student own their own future so part of that is that the College Board has created our college readiness benchmark the SAT is that the most researched assessment in the world if we're going to do it we have to do it right and it has to be a good product and our research tells us that a student in high school who takes a rigorous course load which would be similar to a four by four in Texas makes average grades in those courses which would be a B and they score at least a 1550 combined score on the SAT of math reading and writing those students will be able to go to college and graduate within four to six years with B's that's the research and so with that goal in mind we have aligned our college readiness benchmark benchmark of a 1550 combined score and we have matched it back to our 11th grade and our 10th grade and our 8th grade assessments. We find that when we give this benchmark and more and more students are taking the SAT, especially in Texas, every single year that fewer students are reaching that benchmark. So we know that we've got our work cut out for us to make sure that those students do do find the right institution that is going to be able to make them meet their success. If the College Board is going to make this commitment, we're not going just to take a test and throw it out there and say, here, have fun with this and show up on Saturday morning. We want to do it right. And with this redesign, you're going to see it's going to come about in four major areas. We are going to give you a very clear, a focused assessment. We are going to tell you what's on the test, what is being assessed. We are going to give you clear benchmarks and proper data. We are going to have no secrets. Everything is going to be out there for everyone to see, no surprises. We are going to offer personalized practice and information for students for free. Everything that we are going to offer them in terms of practice is free. We are dedicated and committed to the idea that no student should be at a disadvantage no matter what their zip code is because they don't have money to pay an extra organization to provide what is being assessed on their high school curriculum so that is a very clear part we're going to spend some time tonight looking at some of that personalized practice college opportunity is paying for college college is expensive and so the College Board is committed to helping students pay for college and that students of low income will receive receive college SAT fee waivers that allow them to take the assessment for free, send their scores to universities for free, and this year we instituted a new policy where low-income students have four college application fee waivers so they can apply to four or more, which is a much better opportunity for them to match the correct institution where they will be successful. We find that of those students who are enrolling in higher ed institutions where their academic skills are not matched, are not graduating, and that is significant among our low-income students. If we get them in the right institution, they will graduate. If they go with low expectations of a university, they're not finishing. So that's going to be a big commitment on our part to provide how to pay for college information to all students. And then we also want to match that with career opportunities and make sure that students understand what the our growing Technology and our world is changing. What's that going to match up in terms of the education that they will receive? So that's kind of the whole Big picture of what we're going to be looking at So now let's kind of take a look at what that redesign is all about now the cameras are coming out here we go In the past up until this year. Let me explain the redesign assessments For the SAT, the current SAT is still being administered in May of this year. It will be administered in June this year and again next October. After October, the current SAT as it exists will no longer be and the information I'm providing now will take place. The first time students will participate in the redesign SAT will be in March of 2016 so if they are currently a sophomore they will be a junior next year their first opportunity will be in their junior year of March next year the PSAT which is the practice SAT and given by KDISD to all of your sophomores and juniors will go into effect as a redesigned assessment in October of this coming school year. So the next time they see the PSAT and I'll throw some more, we're really good at the College Board with letters and so we will get to the PSAT and MSQT momentarily.
We'll get you there. So
currently the assessment comes in three parts, a reading, writing and mathematics portion. Going forward the essay will be optional. We will continue to score the the exam for 800 points for the evidence-based reading and writing. Math will be up to 800 points. The optional essay will receive a separate score of up to 800 points. It will be a student option as to whether or not they would like to sit and take that part. Currently a student will go in on a Saturday morning and the first thing they do is take the essay and then they'll take the other portions of the exam. Going forward the students will will come in and do the reading and the math. At the end of that three hours, those students that do not wish to take the essay may get up and they will leave. And they'll have 50 minutes to take the essay. There will be eight key changes to the SAT. Now I'm going to go through and give you little examples of all, and maybe then I'll pause. And that might be a good time to kind of let you assess what's going on. I love this. I wish my children would pay this much attention to me. It's kind of like I want to tweet that out to my family. Look at this. All right, I will tell you that all this information is on our website and we have several of them at the end I'll have that web page for you to be able to go through So I'm going to take these one at a time and give you a chance and we'll talk about them I've got some sample questions so that you can see what they look like the first key change or Realignment will be that those fancy SAT words those ones work that you you everybody knows someone who knows those words We all have to have that one and they will always be our friend because we need to know one person who knows those words right they're gone we are going to be looking at relevant relevant words that are used in adult careers and business these are going to be words that you come across every day now if I asked you the definition we don't always know the definition but you put it in context we understand what you mean so going forward all of our vocabulary will be based in reading reading context and it will have lots of substance around it so students will be able to figure out what are they talking about and have a conversation with that document as opposed to a definition. So let me give you an example of what that would be. This is a sample of what you might currently see on the SAT. Some people love these questions because you not only have to know the understanding of one word, you have to be able to take two words and match them up appropriately. I know some of you are trying to, am I as smart as a 10th grader, aren't you?
Going forward, these questions are gone. You will now see a sample such as this. We're going to give you a section of reading. We will have a word such as vacated and you will have to tell us how that word could be changed to fit within the context of that paragraph.
And they will come with different levels. There will be a wide range of from easy to hard questions. But you can see the idea of what we're trying to do here is give kids a chance to show what they know and what skills they have and not about what they don't know. We're also going to ask them why. Why did you do that? That is not a question that they answer very well when parents ask it. So on this set of questions that you will see on the SAT exam, what you're going to find is we'll ask them a question about the meaning or the understanding of a reading or the meaning of a piece of math work that they did. And then we're going to come back and we say, why did you choose that answer? Why did you do that? That is a real-world relevant question for adults. Why did you pick that? Where did you find in that reading that one key piece of information that told you this is the right analysis, this is the right direction? So we're going to be asking them and I don't know is not an answer choice.
It will be integrated with
charts and graphs throughout the assessment. So just like what you're looking at today you're seeing samples of written material you're seeing charts graphs data spreadsheets and you have to look at all that information combined together to figure out the analysis of what's going on that's real world so we're going to offer that opportunity for students to see a combined selection of real-world information for them to analyze and for them to understand Another change will be analyzing sources. We want to know that they are aware of a wide range and variety of materials, not just literature, not just newspapers. We want to know that they can read things that would happen in real-world situations. These are going to be real and honest things that happen out there in the world, not just things that can just be made up. Very clear writing is what we're expecting on the essay and that will be part of the essay question and I'll show you a little bit about that math is now focused on three old math is now focused on three key areas there will be problem-solving and data analysis and we will tell you exactly what percentage of the exam will come from that there will be what we call the heart of algebra which is what our colleges and universities tell us they have to know what kids can do and then the passport to advanced math. Keep in mind that across this across the country we have a wide range of colleges and universities and they have a wide range of needs for students. Some have different sets of expectations and the more information we can give them helps that university match that student to their institution. And so you've got some that are looking for high high ranges of of math and some that are not looking for that. And to give a university a math score of a 680 doesn't tell them anything. So we're now going to be able to provide that information, and I'll show you the score reporting. So that Passport to Advanced Math is going to give those students who are taking very high math courses an opportunity to really showcase what they know. But for those students that are not in those classes, it's not necessarily the key thing that their institution is looking for. So here's an example of a current math assessment. Most of the time you're not going to find two families trying to overlap their stays in a hotel over five nights, over 14 nights, and which of the families and how's it all going to match up? Well, if you take your time and you look at it, you can kind of see what kind of assessment this question is asking, but it's not very real world. Got a lot of random pieces of information in there and students have to spend a lot of time problem-solving just to find out what the problem is asking so now we're going to give them a piece of information it's going to be a real-world situation with a researcher you please note that there is also a graph there the graph is asking you to find the data that is correctly stated by what the researcher is looking for in the graph
Okay, just wanted to give everybody a chance to take a look at it. Again, real world context, make sure that you understand things that are happening out there in the world that kids will be able to read, process science, social sciences, and career scenarios, those are going to be there. You will now have an analysis and science and social studies score. This will not be about dates and facts and figures. It will be about those concepts that students are actually learning in the classroom. A key important part to the College Board and something very dear to our hearts is that we add those documents that made the United States a great country and this is going to be the addition of founding documents that are around our great global conversation. Those things are going to talk about freedom, justice, and human dignity. Does this mean, and the question has come up, does a student have to go back and take extra courses in American history? And we have a lot of international students that take the exam abroad and the answer is no. It's a reading base, but the more that you know and understand about freedom, justice, and human dignity and what the argument is, always you're going to do a better job of understanding if you've heard those concepts before. But no prior knowledge And there will be no list of documents that we're going to put out there and sell about you need to, you know, the top ten things you need to read about great global conversations to be successful on the College Board. If you ask a psychometrician, they would tell you the way the College Board scores the SAT is no different in the results as looking at right-wrong. However, we know people understand right and wrong when it comes to answer choices. So going forward we're going to make it very easy to understand. You don't have to guess as to whether or not you start at the end in the middle of the test and only answer C when the question is followed by two verbs and a noun. We're just not going to, you know, let's make it simple. This is what it's going to be. So that is what the eight changes look like. I want to show you what the scoring is going to look like and how we're going to report out the tools. But give you a chance to see. All of our assessments will be aligned. So we have an eighth grade PSAT practice a great PSAT for grades eight and nine that are aligned to those abilities in eight nine we have the PSAT the practice SAT which is administered here in Katy in grade 10 then there is the PSAT nmsqt there is only one PSAT exam given on one day in the year that the National Merit scholastic qualifying test. That is the PSAT that is given in October. KDISD will be administering the PSAT to 10th and 11th graders I believe. It is not set yet but I believe everyone's going to take the same test on the same day in October so that students are all going to be qualifying for that. And in just a moment I'm going to show you some really neat things about additional additional scholarships that will be coming.
Just to be sure that you
understand, we are going to be sure that our assessments are aligned. We are not giving college material to high school kids. This is a admissions exam to see what you know from high school. So in eighth grade, where are you on track for college ready? This is just an example. We're going to start with very simple concepts in eighth grade we're going to get maybe two steps by the time that they're on the PSAT and then more complex by the time they get to the SAT so let's take a moment I'm going to let you take a look at this and this is how we're going to be providing your data from the SAT I need to point out that the person that created this graphic was more about getting the words lined up than they were about proportions so the evidence-based reading and writing is of equal weight to the math it is of equal weight to the math they are both 800 points however so let's take the left-hand side and take a look at what scores you will be net the data students schools districts states and universities will all be getting this data reported to you based on your assessment there will be a score from 200 to 800 on your reading and writing you will have a separate score on your analysis in science there will be a science a social study score and those social studies and science scores you just notice a cross math and writing and reading because there is more to science and social study than just a reading text so they're going to be cross scores scores there. You will have a separate reading score and a writing and language score. Words and context, just pulling those questions out, you'll have a score. You'll have a score for that command of evidence, why did you do that questions, ideas and standard English conventions. With this information starting as early as eighth grade, looking to be what is on track for these very carefully aligned assessments, we are hoping that students can take this information, see where they score and say, well, I'm going to take this in 11th grade for National Merit I'm going to take it just because I'm practicing for the SAT they'll know where to focus their study and districts will know about curriculum and instruction to make sure that they're getting appropriate feedback for that online on time college prep as they're trying to prepare students in math you'll also see they'll have some separate scores for just math the heart of algebra you'll see that that passport to advanced math is there So I will say that the higher institutions, if you want to go to Caltech, if you're looking to go to Harvard or Rice and you want to major in engineering and they really need to know what you know in math, here's your chance to highlight it here. However, if that is not your goal, you've got lots of places on here to highlight your math scores. This is not the place to redo your four-year plan so everybody has to take calculus. This is a wide range of assessment so that we have a wide range of universities get the information that they need. We think that this is going to be great data to provide back to the schools and universities. It will all be online for them. The essay will also come with its own score. There will be three sub scores so that students, if they take this part again, they're going to get some feedback. Do they need to work more carefully on their analysis or did they just not read the prompt correctly? We announced the writing prompt in March of 2014. We are not changing the writing prompt. We want no secrets. Telling you what the question is, it's out there. We are not changing the writing prompt this year, next year, or any year after it for quite a while. It's there. We want you to know what the question is so when you come in, we know how well you can write, not how well you can make stuff up when you get there. So that's and you know it's really it's that it's that real-time assessment where it's what the student can do not what they've had you know had time to have checked and rechecked. This is a prototype so if it doesn't look like this and I'm not never done look like this in October don't you come bring in those pictures back.
We want all students to have this information we want to tell
you all of your cross test scores your sub scores we're going to give you a link to your online assessment where you can download your assessments and see every question that you answered and be able to link it back in. We're also going to link it back into what is going to be what I think is the most phenomenal test prep and SAT practice that has ever been invented. Nobody has anything like this, so I'm going to ask if you're familiar with Khan Academy. Khan Academy is a free online tool done by a gentleman by the name of Sal Khan. He helps students learn. It is a website that is currently being viewed by over 3 million students, different students each month. They go there to learn. We have partnered with Khan Academy for a free online assessment so that students can look at their PSAT and their SAT and we can help prepare them for success. So what's going to happen with this is students will be able to go online to the College Board. They're going to go to their two minutes. They're going to be able to go to their account and the student will be asked would you like to share the results of your PSAT exam with Khan Academy. And if they say yes, and they will go through a series of questions, and they say yes, the data from their assessment, only the data, not their name, not their zip code, nothing else will be transferred to a separate platform that is being designed that is not currently out there. And Khan Academy will take that assessment, they will evaluate it and come back with a personalized study plan for that student. It will give them a diagnostic practice, answer these questions, come back, well this is the skill, they'll analyze how you answered your questions and they'll say this is the skill within those questions you're not getting right. So let's go practice here or you got this let's move on to the next thing or it will kick them out to the other platform where they'll get some videos to teach them the skill because if practicing questions aren't going to help you got to know the skill and so that's where where we're headed with this. Starting in June, it will be launched, where students who will be taking the October PSAT can take a practice test. And starting in June, this is here for them, along with 7,000 practice questions and 10 SAT practice exams. By the end of the summer, students who want to do this on paper and pen will be able to take a photograph with their phone on the SAT app and have their assessment scored by their phone which will link them in and they can continue to work with Khan Academy on their individual SAT on their telephone on top of that we know that all kids most of them now in high school has some form of a smartphone we do have that data but they don't have a place to work on this so College Board will be announcing very soon or these other organizations will be announcing very soon we have some very large community based partners now where students can go outside of the school day and there will be adults there that can help them with their Khan Academy and I'm talking very large very big community projects that they've never tried anything like this but a place where kids can go after school for free to be able to do this. In addition to the PSAT NMSQT, the National Merit Scholastic Qualifying Test, we now have announced partnerships with these organizations that in addition to the National Merit funding, 178 million dollars worth of brand new scholarship money will now be linked to the National Merit Assessment coming out in October. That's in addition to the the current PSAT NMSQT. If you're not familiar with the Jack Kent Cook Foundation, that is for gifted students. So you can see why we're very excited about some of this. It's revolutionary. Please stay tuned for what's going to be released in June about the Khan Academy and about these major, major partners that are going to be helping us. All this information is available on deliveringopportunity.org and there are practice PSAT exams on the K-12 online now on college readiness college board org there's a lot of information so I Won't give you an SAT exam to see if you mastered it
Questions mr. President good first mr. We're honored to have you with us glad it thanks so much for your information to the parents This meeting is being recorded and will be available to be viewed by this segment only if you wish I think it'd be a push tomorrow afternoon I believe and also this her presentation is on our website right now. I look at these slides on the website right now
President mr. Brown This question for you or maybe even dr. Caskey we have the teaks in Texas that we teach to And past years our young people obviously have done very well in their SAT scores How much of the current TEKS preparation will benefit young people in taking this new design test?
The TEKS include the Texas College and Career Readiness Standards. And the Texas College and Career Readiness Standards are aligned completely with the College Board College and Career Readiness Standards. standards. So you will not see that not a single thing needs to be changed as long as our teachers and our students are adhering to all the components of the TEKS. Very comfortable with that alignment.
Mr. Griffin. Ma'am, I might be confused. On the essay question, if the essay question never changes, can you just show up and have it all memorized and just start writing? I was hoping somebody was going to ask it. The essay question won't change, but it's going to be, I'll paraphrase, it's along the lines of read the following
document and explain what evidence and what sources and how did the author present their argument to defend their thesis. So the source document will change with every assessment. But if you know how to read something, analyze it, and clearly present your argument in an essay, you'll do well. So that's the skill that we're assessing as opposed to we've had some interesting different essays that catch kids by surprise. And we don't want to do that. We want to know do they, colleges want to know do you have the skill to be able to read and write.
Thank you. Mr. President. Yes, thank you, Ms. Pennington, for your presentation tonight. I think that this redesign is definitely going to take some of the mystery out of the SAT and is definitely going to make it a better forecaster for college readiness of students going forward. I have two questions. First, are there any accommodations being made available for children with disabilities?
Our student services with disabilities will continue on. We do have those accommodations. When you look at what is made available on the SAT, it is a different set of rules than what you have to abide by for STAR and tax.
We don't require one -on -one testing and some
things like that. We have a fabulous program and students, once they submit their request for accommodations that can be done in ninth grade or even that can be done in ninth grade, they never have to request that again for an AP exam, for a PSAT or an SAT. It's one one and done. They will always receive them. Thank you. And my second question
and I'm sure you'll answer it concisely is what would you say the main reason, and I'm coming from experience, I've got a senior graduate from high school and we did the SAT and the ACT and different experiences with both, but what would you say the main reason is that now the essay will be optional? The essay
provides different sets of information and the colleges really value the information that is there. However, we have some that don't require it.
It now becomes a personal choice between that student and the institution where they're applying to go to school. The institutions use that, but not necessarily as part of their admissions. They'll use it for placement, or they'll use it as a tiebreaker between students, or they won't use it at all so now it really becomes much more personalized
this ball bouncing off of what Ashley saying so would you have the option if you went in and you took the SAT and you opted out of the essay portion and then you decided I want to apply to a college that's going to require that portion can you then go in and take just that portion at a separate time or do you You have to do the whole thing, they'll have to go back and take another SAT exam.
And that is because you can't compare one SAT score with another one because everyone is given it a different time and it's a different test. So if you took it in March, you cannot compare it to your June score. There are two different tests, two different norms, two different populations of students. So that university would want to see how that student performed on that essay along at the same time that they took the math and the reading
any questions um I have one what can you go back to the page on the SAT scores and sub scores
yes that's one thank you um so what's kind of been the feedback I guess from the institutions of our our learning on this and I guess give us kind of an example on how they would use some of these sub scores specifically to measure I guess what they're looking for in a successful student the feedback we're
getting is very positive I will say that they still have two years before they have to decide and put into any kind of policy how they're going to use it because it's sophomores now and they won't be applying to college just yet what I am hearing and again it's just general conversation from our higher ed along the lines of being able to put place students in honors courses those tiebreakers let's say that you want to be in the College of Liberal Liberal Arts and maybe your science scores not so good but your history is great or they'll give some more information about a student because they're looking to place you in their institution they are not looking to deny and that's kind of a misunderstanding they really really are looking for the right kids to fit out their profile and they think this is going to help the the very selective schools are very happy with this they just especially the passport to advanced math it tells them so much about what kids can do the community colleges are also very excited because that heart of algebra that key to understanding in college will be a separate score so they may not do as well on something else but but they've got what they need to be successful.
I think you made a very good point. They do, they want, and students enroll, but they want students that are going to succeed in their institute. So this will help them.
They're looking for your kids, and this, we hope, will help us match them to the right place. I always say, just because you can buy the T-shirt in Walmart does not mean it's the best institution for you to send your money to.
Very good. Okay, any other questions? Okay. Thank you very much.
Thank you so much. Please don't hesitate to let me know if you have others
And now I get to share with you what we've done so far with this information other than bringing miss Pennington here to Just talk with you tonight To be very short. So this is the district response to the changes being made to the SAT and the PSAT and MSQT Of course, it's really only two classes of students. The class of 2016, our current juniors, they'll be hearing a lot about this, but they took the PSAT last year, and they have opportunities to take the current SAT through the fall of next year. Our current sophomores are the students that are in the transition year. They took the current PSAT last year and they will be taking the redesigned PSAT this year. So it's that group of students that the redesign is of most interest. And then they will have the redesigned SAT in the spring of their junior year and through their senior year as well. And of course our freshmen only have the redesign to worry about.
In early spring we started talking about the changes to to the SAT with the curriculum coordinators and had a lot of discussions about the implications for both instruction and professional development.
And out of that came a plan to bring Ms. Pennington in to talk with our instructional coaches and our secondary department chairs and our coordinators and solicit input from those groups as well, again, about instruction and professional development. And at that time, we made plans to plan a communication plan plan to inform principals, counselors, the school board, and the broader community. Representatives from assessment, communications, counseling, and curriculum were all involved in that. The conversation about instruction, we were looking at the question of what instructional experiences do students need to develop the skills that contribute to success on the redesigned SAT, and you will see a number of threads here throughout this conversation.
You'll notice the focus on a broader range of text in English language arts and social studies, a shift in vocabulary instruction from those SAT words to words taught in context, an emphasis on the use of evidence in language arts, science and social studies, and more cross-disciplinary applications in language arts and in math. The conversation in math centered in part on the new TEKS and how they very closely align with the changes that they've made to the SAT.
We have also redesigned or are in the process of redesigning the SAT ACT prep course along the lines of the redesigned SAT. That work has started just last week. And principals and last week we presented to secondary counselors and test facilitators.
The e-news letter went to parents and community members and staff informing of this presentation and it also linked to the essay document on the district website. So we are presenting here tonight and then after tonight we'll have a letter to freshmen and sophomores detailing the changes to the PSAT in October. In the past, that letter has gone out in September or at the beginning of school to sophomores and juniors. This year, we're sending it out at the end of this semester to freshmen and sophomores so that they have the opportunity to take advantage of the free Khan Academy site over the summer. So our goal is to inform you about the changes, to update you on the district response, and to share the plans we have in place for communicating these changes to the school community. And I'll take any questions.
Thank you. Ms. Fox?
Mr. President, thank you so much for the great presentation. First off, I love the Khan Academy help. That just equalizes it for all boys and girls, right? I love that. It's not what can you afford, but it's offered for everyone, and that's the most exciting piece for me. Do we, when we're rolling these things out and all of these changes, my mind immediately goes to our overworked counselors already are they how do you think this will impact them do we have enough people in place to help with the HB 5 redesign and now the new SAT coming do you feel like that's just another parent night how do you what do you what are you thinking well
based on the conversation we had with them last week I think that this was in time for them to incorporate it into the nights that they're having this year so So it was, I think, really good timing on that part. Several mentioned that they're having sophomore information events in the next couple of weeks, and they can include this information there. So I think it was kind of just-in-time information.
Follow-up, Mr. President. So am I correct in understanding that this is information they can give to students and parents, and then we can direct them to our website that already has it, to the SAT website, to all of those things sending them to great information and great Presentations like I love this and how it'll go up tomorrow on our website for people to look at that's correct. It's not I'm hoping it's not added work for counselors, but it's information. They will pass on to students and parents right is that correct? Thank you
Mr.. President mr.. Griffin this might be for dr. Caskey. I love the Khan Academy I mean holy mackerel I think miss me and miss Fox have talked about multiple times using some of the interactions and there's a great facility already set up to do that do you think our teachers are gonna start using links more to the Khan Academy to help getting some of these concepts into our students since we have
such a our teachers use multiple resources within the classroom I don't know Eileen if there's something you've talked with the instructional coaches about or as another resource for teachers to you I think that I do think think that they use it as needed, but I also think that this is personalized practice for the student. And so it is a very, this is what you need now. So I think it is more, for the redesigned SAT, it is more of how does this student need to use this. Now I think as they augment the site, they're planning to put more and more features on that thing to where teachers can pull in classes. And the redesign of the SAT and ACT prep course, we're anticipating using the Khan Academy as part of that in that course
with the personalized plan that the student has to increase their to increase their skills so I think there's lots of ways that that can be used but it is so personalized and for the redesigned SAT first and foremost we
need to get this up free and for kids in June second what will happen is there there will be coming a feature for teachers to incorporate their class, and we envision them as coaches, that they will be individual coaches working on coaching skills and be able to see that feedback and help guide the students in the right direction. Khan Academy gives them badges and awards and things like that that also help motivate the students to improve their success.
Thank you.
Mr. Adams. Thank you for the presentation tonight both Miss Pennington, I mean the the thing that I'm very impressed about is the fact that this district has reached out to the SAT folks and to become transparent about what's coming down the down the road and Be able to expose it to our our patrons and to allow them to be aware and to also explain it and take the time to explain it because I'm sure there are some districts that the kids will just show up and and have a surprise when they get there about it but the great thing about this is that it allows such a great ability for parents and for students to be able to succeed and this is this is what we as a district and whatever child chooses to do post high school this this will help them and then being able to to achieve those goals, whether it's to go to a Harvard or Rice or to go to just a vo-tech school or whatever. But I'm very, very pleased with what I'm hearing. And just the transparency of this from the district and the administration is to be commended for that.
Thank you.
That's my credit. Ms. Lindley, I want to thank you again for your work. She's been all over this. and we understand our parents and their values and what they want the children as it was by the crowd tonight and so we have been working in advance in preparation for these changes from East math and just instructional coaches and the testing coordinators and all the things that you have really helped spearhead are doing one point your leadership miss as well thank you very
much yes thank you very much for a great and I also want to say thank you to the parents that are in attendance tonight I mean this may be the the best crowd we've had for a work study since I've been on the board so it shows that you care about this and you care about your students succeeding and that is something we are very passionate about so I ask that you help us spread the word that these changes are coming in and point people to the presentation that is on the district website and it's together we can we can achieve this and give our students great opportunities and that's what we want to do thank you
Thank you.
Okay, trustees, I will direct your attention to the consent agenda portion of our agenda tonight. We have four items in this section and they will, I believe, all be presented by Mrs. Regina Stevenson. Oh, Mrs. McDonald may be joining her. All right.
Consent Agenda
right welcome good evening president Mahosky board members superintendent Fraley I have four comp well it's really four groups of contracts to bring before you for your consideration tonight the first one is for the repairs of the natatoriums or for the renovations of the rent men editoriums these are at Cinco Ranch High School Morton Ranch High School and Seven Lakes High School because of the complexity of the project we contracted with PBK mr. Brian hood to help us explore and design their needed renovations and with his assistance we were looking for firms that were qualified to do this work it was determined that sterling structures was was the best qualified firm to perform the work and fortunately they were available to us through a job order contract through the Cooperative Purchasing Network, or TCPN. In the evaluation of the proposal from Sterling, it was found that by using the job order contracting method we were getting what is current market pricing based on the construction index pricing that's used by the cooperative and therefore the recommendation from Mr. Hood was to award these projects to Sterling Structures through the TCP and cooperative. That will represent the best value for the district. The proposed cost for Senco Ranch High School is $391,842 and includes all payment and performance bonds as well as an owner's contingency of $12,000. For Morton Ranch High School the cost is $396,001 and includes again all payment and performance bond and another content owners contingency of $12,000 the last one is the cost for seven lakes high school and it's seven hundred and eleven thousand three hundred and forty five dollars it also includes all the bonds and an owner's contingency of twenty one thousand a copy of the proposals is attached for your review and additionally a matrix with a comparison of all the different items that are being done at the natatoriums is there as well. The not to exceed cost for the renovations of the natatoriums as presented is $1,499,198. They're included in that as an owner's contingency of $45,000. That does not include our engineering costs, but the funding will be provided from the 2014 bond fund program.
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all ask one more uh... what is the reason i guess for the much higher prices of alexis golden the other
and if you remember we did some work last year at cinco ranch high school so a lot of the mvp work was done at that process and seven lakes has not had that and also we've already placed up work at Morton Ranch High School and that's part of the seven lakes project so seven lakes has everything that both of those schools have already received plus any
other questions move on to six point two okay then the next group that I have to present to you is for the waterproofing services for Katy high school back junior high small elementary school and McMeans junior high Cinco Ranch junior high Creech elementary school King elementary school Kilpatrick elementary school and Rylander elementary school this will provide waterproofing services for all of these schools the scope of the work includes the repair and resealing of the exterior ceiling at all control and expansion joints and at all wall penetrations as well as providing miscellaneous through wall flashing and roof repairs again to assist with developing the specifications we contracted with PBK and mr. Todd Spohr although he's not here this evening we do have a representative from the company if we have any questions the criteria included quality quality of work and past experience after consideration of all of these factors the recommendation for best value is to award the contract for Katie high school back junior high and small elementary elementary school to charter roofing for the not to exceed cost of two hundred and thirty four thousand which includes the payment and performance bond as well as a ten thousand dollar owners contingency for Katie high school and a five thousand dollars owners contingency for both Beck and Schmalz elementary school for Beck junior high and Schmalz elementary school charter roofing has done many similar jobs for the district in the past and they've performed successfully for Conroe independent school district in Houston independent school district for McMean's junior high Cinco Ranch junior high preach elementary school King elementary school Kilpatrick elementary school and Rylander elementary school the recommendation for the waterproofing services is to award to Walton roofing who represents best value and that's for the not to exceed cost of two hundred and ninety four thousand dollars this cost also includes all bonds and a five thousand dollar contingency for each site and Walton Roofing has also performed similar roof work for Katy Independent School District. It should be noted that during the evaluation process we found that none of the contractors presenting to us were qualified to do our skylight repairs therefore the skylight repairs were not awarded as a part of this contract and we will be purchasing skylight repairs through another cooperative from a company that is qualified to do these type of repairs it's a very specialized repair the tabulation and evaluation are attached for your review the work is scheduled to begin on June 6 will be completed by August 7th and it's being funded from the 2014 bond fund program
any questions mr. bro miss Stevenson is any one of these roofing companies inside the borders of KDISD anyone any of them local are inside KDISD yeah
but these this was the previous item was purchased through the the ECPN this why
this was actually competitive so this is actually competitively procured directly
to KDISD with with basically two contractors that are getting the
different projects that is correct that is correct we split the work to be sure that we could meet our timeline for one thing be sure that we had enough resources to make sure the work was done during the summer and that it would be completed on time and that was part of the evaluation by our engineering group thank you we'll move on to 6.3 the next group is for this is to build the construction of the walkways the canopies and the electrical services that are needed for the portable buildings that we are relocating at Seven Lakes Junior High and at Davidson Elementary School. We again went to PBK to help us with designing the work that was needed and we are purchasing these services through the Cooperative Purchasing Network, TCPN, and we are recommending that we contract through KBR. For these two schools the The total cost will be $161,386. We do have copies of the proposals attached for your review. All work is to begin shortly after approval of the contract, if approved, and it is scheduled for completion by August 1st. The total not-to-exceed cost is, again, $161,386, and this will be funded from the General Operating Fund.
Mr. President? I hope that this question's within the scope of the 6.3. I was fortunate enough to be at a principal roundtable this previous week, and some of the teachers were talking about how some of our older parts of the addition were starting to get an influx of new children. We thought most of the growth was going to happen north side. We're starting to see a bunch more on the south side. Are these portable buildings coming up to take care of some of the unexpected growth
that we're starting to see Southside yes no yes sir a combination of growth and then some growth in programs as well as just enrollment growth if I could to say
another word about that that with the portables we evaluated them pretty closely we worked with the area superintendents to determine any areas of need we've gone through those lists a couple times and you see later on you uco budget budget amendment for i think three additional portables that we were that we believe were short for next year
okay thank you
okay move on to six points the last group i have for your consideration is this is again doing the canopies the walkways and the electrical services but this is for a group of new portable buildings that we're having installed in the district. This is for Katie High School, Wood Creek Junior High, Seven Lakes Junior High, Davidson Elementary, Randolph Elementary, Walman Elementary, and West Memorial Elementary School. Again, we went to PBK and asked for their engineering expertise in designing the necessary documents to have this proposal done. We then went through the TCPN cooperative and we obtained quotes from KBR. Again we've had them reviewed to be sure that we are getting fair market pricing based on the latest construction index pricing that is part of the cooperative contracts. The quotes from KBR include all the required bonding and include a 5% owner's contingency for each project. So the total recommendation for all projects that I just listed is $1,447,063. And this is going to be funded through the general fund, repurposed budget, and our project savings for the 2010 bond authorization. It should be noted that these will begin shortly after contract approval, if approved, and is scheduled for completion by August 1st of 2015.
15 mr. president this Fox mrs. Stevenson these are all new portables being added for growth everywhere yes ma'am West Memorial Elementary that must be what you were talking about mr. Griffin some of our established neighborhoods that have been around a long time so how many portables are they getting at West
Memorial or do we know West Memorial Element are we have mr. tight here to
answer those questions West Memorial will get two buildings and some of these
schools are so very very new Davidson and Randolph our newest elementary and already needing portables so I mean tough but it speaks to the success of Katie that people are coming here for the school district thank you
just right okay someone else I think was to reference a question about this kind of unanticipated growth not really this this is what we're planning for we're playing for it uh other than maybe what's more elementary you know a lot of home sales over there are regentrifying and families moving in with school-age children and uh dr guzman spoke to that a little bit last back in october about that and now we're seeing the results of the trend that she knows that This just KDSD apart from other other places
Question mr. Adams This question may be more for mr. Smith than anything. Is that you made a comment that Would be funded from the 2014 and some savings 2010 sorry savings from 2010 and also some gof I've just had a question as far as why would we go to gof or any of this? as opposed to just putting it all from the bottom we do have some money budgeted for capital improvements in the general fund that we don't anticipate using and by doing this we're basically able to buy all the technology that's going into all the portable buildings and expense those to the general fund as opposed to using bond funds for those at one time expense don't have to borrow for those short-term assets so we're basically through the budget amendment that you'll see later situation situated in the extra money all the technology so the infrastructure can be bought with bond funds buildings themselves and the improvements to the buildings but the technology for the most part it's going
to be bought with the general fund just a little add into that the bonds have have been sold and they have a longer payoff period than we like to apply to take no that's that this stuff he's Texas lingo for that say a portion of the bonds have been sold week of the 2000 the 2010 box yeah oh well I for
want to appreciate the finance team looking at all aspects of that and then and then managing those resources in the most appropriate manner. So, slave taxpayers.
Any other questions on 6.4?
Thank you, Mrs. Stevenson. Mrs. McDonald, it looks like you get to stay here for a little bit longer.
I get to stay one more time.
We will now move to the discussion action portion of our agenda. 7.1 will be presented by Mrs. McDonald.
Item 7.1
Yes, sir. Good evening, President Moholsky, members of the board, and Superintendent Fraley. Tonight I'm bringing forward two interlocal agreements, one with Cinco Southwest Municipal Utility District 3 and the second one with Fort Bend Municipal Utility District 142. These agreements will be formed with Katy ISD to construct recreational facility improvements at Fred and Patty Schaefer Elementary School. The recreational facilities will be provided for a shade structure over their basketball court. They will be available for public access when the school district is not using it. Through this agreement, Katy ISD would oversee the design, the construction, and maintenance of the project once it's complete. The completion is expected to be within six months of the effective date of this agreement. agreement. Funding for the project will be provided by the Cinco Southwest MUD, District 3 of $5,000 and Fort Bend Municipal MUD will provide $10,000. At the conclusion of the agreement, KDISD agrees to own, operate and maintain the project. By accepting these agreements, the district will gain $15,000 in recreational facility improvements at Fred and Patty Schaefer Elementary.
entry discussion happy to ask any answer any questions hey are there any
objections to moving this item to consent thank you thank you the next item on our agenda 7.2 is a talk about disposal of out of adoption instructional materials mr. Reid will be presenting welcome mr. Reid thank you
Item 7.2
sir good evening as it Mahowski members of the board and mr. Fraley for the Texas Education Agency's cycle of adoption for textbooks at the end of this school year the k2 through 12 social studies high school math and k K-12 fine arts textbooks currently in use will go out of adoption. The TEA requires your permission, your blessing, before any of those textbooks can be sold or disposed of. It is estimated that we will have approximately 120,000 textbooks to dispose of in those subjects that I just listed. The district will reserve the right to dispose those in a variety of options, including recycling or partnership with charitable foundations. If we do recycle, we'll net an estimated $4,000 to the GOF after freight cost. I would like to emphasize that we will not dispose of any of these textbooks in any manner whatsoever until the state legislature has finalized the funding plans to us and we're able to order replacement books. So it's not to get in the position that we've disposed of something and don't have its replacement yet. and depending upon how expeditiously the legislature does that we could be just fine or we could be scrambling madly at the end of this summer so I recommend that the Board of Trustees approves the disposal of the K through 12 social studies high school math in K through 12 fine arts textbooks that will go out of adoption at the end of the 2014-15 school year as presented are there any
questions any questions okay are there any objections to moving this item to consent all right all right thank you very much mr. thank you sir
Item 7.3
next we get to talk about price increases for lunch school lunches oh Always a great topic.
Good evening, Ms. Bittenger. Good evening, President McCloskey, board members, and Superintendent Fraley. The Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 included a rule called the National School Lunch Program School Food Service Account Revenue, which requires school districts participating in the National School Lunch Program program to ensure sufficient funds are provided to support the cost of lunches served to students not eligible for free or reduced-price lunches. It also required these funds be deposited into the nonprofit school food service account and gradually adjust the weighted average lunch price until the required price is reached. The intent of this rule is that the paid meal price must be at least equal to the difference between the free and the paid meal reimbursement rates. The price is a moving target and is adjusted annually. Currently the target price is $2.98 which is more than our current weighted average price of $2.20. The United States Department of Agriculture provides price adjustment calculator template which we use to calculate the and determine the weighted average price requirement. Due to this mandate, elementary lunch prices were increased last year, 5 cents, from $2 to $2.05, and high school meal prices were increased, 25 cents, from $2.25 to $2.50 for 2014-15. The recommended new price structure for next school year, 2015-16, is to increase the elementary lunch price 20 cents from 205 to 225 to increase the junior high price from 20 25 cents from 225 to 250 and to maintain the high school lunch price at 250 this new price structure results in a weighted average price of two dollars and 35 37 cents for next school year the The recommended price structure maintains compliance with USDA pricing requirements, which ensure continued receipt of federal dollars to effectively support our programs. District lunch prices will remain similar to most other area school districts as they are also mandated to increase their prices. Because any price increase can be gradually implemented, the average district lunch prices remain lower than the target price ultimately mandated.
These lunch price changes maintain compliance with USDA regulations, thus ensuring continued receipt of federal funds in support of the Child Nutrition Program and positively impacts the Child Nutrition Special Revenue Fund for about $622,000 in the next year.
Not a fun thing to ask for, but something that is necessary. Are Are Are there any questions?
Any questions?
So my understanding, we currently take in more revenue than we pay out for our lunch.
Not much. We are squeaking by.
Squeaking by. But I believe there's also some mandates on what you can maintain in that fund balance. Yes, or you can. How does this impact that, or will it put us in a?
You cannot have more than a three-month fund balance and currently we do not have more.
If you add $622,000 in revenues, we still won't meet that. That's correct. Because I believe there were a couple of years ago where we were above that amount and we had to use some of that for actually some kitchen equipment and things of that nature.
Right, that was an accumulation of many years and we were also able to help the district in helping build some kitchens with that which was a great thing that we were able to do. But many requirements are coming forward from the federal government for things that we need to serve and we also want to maintain our kitchens and we also need to provide professional training for our staff so those are all costs that we want to be able to absorb and not certainly put that burden on the general fund okay any other questions any
objections to moving this item to consent thank you thank you very much
Items 7.4 & 7.5
Next two items will be presented by Ms. Yolanda Edmond. Welcome, Ms. Edmond.
Ms. Yolanda Edmond Good evening, President Mahowski, School Board members, and Superintendent Fraley. Texas Education Code and Texas Administrative Code requires the Board to approve an annual teacher evaluation calendar. So I'm here to present to you for your consideration the 2015-16 Professional Development Appraisal and Katy Development Appraisal System calendar.
Mr. President.
Ms. Fox.
Ms. Edmonds, this is similar to every year?
Every year. It is required each year, and it pretty much follows our school calendar for the school year.
Any other questions? Are there any objections to moving this item to consent?
Okay.
Okay. The second item I am here to present is a 2015-16 PDOS Second Appraiser List. This list is in the event that a teacher requests a second appraiser. Board policy requires that we have a pre-established list for the superintendent or a designee to choose from. And this is standard each year as well.
Any questions any any objections are moving the sign-up to consent unheard Thank You mrs. Ed thank you next we will talk about our instructional materials allotment dr. caskey She is.
Item 7.6
Ms. Coy, moving to the podium. All right. Welcome.
Thank you. Good evening, President Michalski, board members, and Mr. Fraley. We're pleased to be here this evening to provide the board with our recommendations for instructional materials identified through Proclamation 2015. Specifically, the items that we're going to bring before you this evening for consideration are K-12 social studies, grades K through 12 Fine Arts our high school math courses and we do have a couple of other high school courses that we've identified in need of additional instructional materials so hopefully this will this will answer mr. Reid's concern about our textbooks being here as I was a reminder four years ago with in 2011 the Texas legislature passed Senate Bill 6 and at that time it created in Texas what we now call the instructional materials allotment and that fund came from the existing state textbook fund at the time and then also the technology fund and those funds were pulled together to give districts more flexibility and how we determine what instructional materials we need and which ones we want to identify so our instructional materials include more more than just textbooks. We're now able to purchase things such as workbooks, supplementary materials, technology equipment, and computer software out of our instructional materials allotment. It's also important to note that districts receive our instructional materials allotment based on a per pupil amount. And just as a reminder, as I shared with you at our previous board meeting, quite in detail how our KDISD curriculum is developed, it's important to note that our KDISD curriculum is not the textbook it is not solely reliant on the textbook but we have a number of instructional materials and resources in our classrooms for our students to use every day including online resources our literature libraries technology and many other hands-on materials for our students to access our KDISD curriculum this is our instructional materials selection timeline we began this past fall with identifying the teams that would be looking and reviewing instructional materials. These teams are leaded by our curriculum coordinators and we had teachers and instructional coaches as members of those teams. In November and December the committees came together and they reviewed lots and lots and lots of instructional resources to make the very best determination about what your resources best align with our KEISD curriculum. During the month of January we then took those top three to four selections and put them out onto our campuses for a wider range of teachers Significance input we also had these materials on display here at the ESC building to get any input from any outside stakeholders that chose to do So during February and March the committee's came back together They reviewed that information and then they form related their recommendations that I'm here to present to you this evening. I'm gonna do this
Try to keep me on track here Strayed a little bit from the script We did So you have before you a long long list on this page right here are all of our social studies recommendations You can see kindergarten all the way through ap European history We have the name of the textbook and then the publisher for the textbook We have actually two pages of fine arts as you know We have a very robust fine arts program here in Katie I see with with lots of courses and opportunities for our students
and moving on to our high school mathematics recommendations and I did mention we had a couple of additional recommendations including some instructional materials and resources for our floral design course for a fashion marketing course for latin one and then also for advanced placement environmental science I do think it's important to note while it's not delineated on these slides we try to keep them condensed free this evening but a number of these materials come and print and also online format we also move to where possible class sets of books where teachers can utilize the books within their classroom but it may not necessarily be a hardbound book that the student takes home but the student would be able to access the content at home online so that is the case for for many many many of the resources that you see being presented this evening.
Okay, what I want to do now is quickly go over our proposed IMA expenditures. We started in our IMA account with close to $4 million. The cost of this proclamation, the materials associated with this proclamation, are a little over $11 million. Don't be alarmed by the deficit number that you see there. what the state does is we're not slated to get our next allotment until September the 1st however the state does allow us to draw down out of this particular account so even though it is in the red it is anticipated that we will receive at least 5 million but with our into with our anticipated growth and also with the conversations I know that mr. Smith has been in with some of his counterparts across the state concerns across the state about the amount of money being allotted to the instructional materials allotments we should we feel pretty confident that we're going to be okay so we're going to go ahead and start ordering these materials once the board approves at your board meeting later this month so that's what our account balance looks like each year districts are also required to certify annually to the state board and to the commissioner that each subject in the curriculum is aligned to the teaks and all of the materials that we're bringing before you this evening have been vetted and are aligned to our Texas essential knowledge and skills and just a note of upcoming proclamations as I said there's been some conversation at the state level and currently as our legislature is in session to to talk about the instructional materials allotment as I shared with you before we've been we've been very frugal with our expenditures with our instructional materials allotment we have allocated our funds appropriately and that's not so much the case with some other districts across the state and the state is taking a look at that now that some districts have not been funded adequately within their instructional materials allotment to be able to handle the proclamations particularly this one with two k-12 adoptions as it's a rather large proclamation that we're moving into right now and with that in mind the state has suspended proclamation 2016 so you'll will probably come to you for instructional materials but nothing that's going to go for a state adoption next year coming up in 2017 you can see it's a much smaller adoption with our career in technical education languages other than English and then a particular special topics and social studies course then moving into a really a primarily elementary adoption in 2018 with ELA and pre-k and then you can see there for 2019 what's on the horizon so this is a relatively large adoption that we have coming up in front of us right now so So our next steps are to submit the TEKS certification to TEA to start ordering those books so that we can work on our disposal process. And then as always, we continue to refine our selection process for future proclamations. At this time, I want to thank Ms. Coy who works very, very closely with the process. She is the spearhead behind all of the details to keep us on track. And I'd also like to thank we have here members of our curriculum instruction team. And I'm not sure if we had any teachers who were able to join you have any teachers who are able to please stand up Thank you. Thank you for your time anybody who served on our IMA
There you go Sally's last one so thank thank you. Thank you But a lot of work goes into this we had a lot of teachers involved with this and unfortunately They couldn't all be here with us this evening But I do want to give a thank you to all those involved within the process and we're here to answer any questions that you may have
Thank you, Dr. Caskey. Any questions?
Mr. President.
Ms. Fox.
Dr. Caskey, thank you for the presentation. And I wanted to say that you all put the list of textbooks somewhere where teachers could access it before tonight. So I got a call from a teacher, and she said, I was going to come to your board meeting tonight, but I was able to see the book we really like is going to be recommended to you. So I'm not going to be there. we're really really busy so when they aren't here I know that they're tired and exhausted and working really hard every day so my kudos to all the communication I mean the SAT thing that's out and the sorry to call it a thing but the SAT presentation and this and the textbooks and things so I just think that's really great and communications is rocking it so love that my question for you is about the textbooks class sets I love that because I think it's just very efficient however some of the children have most every child has a smartphone my teacher friend told me everybody has a smartphone but that may be their only tie to the internet once they leave school and it's very hard to read or do work on a smartphone so that's that was the concern is if there aren't textbooks to send home with them and I ask about iPads could maybe iPads go home but if the only internet connection they have is on a smartphone is that anything that you're talking about or dealing with or I know you've talked about it so what are your ideas right absolutely um
students do have access of course at school to that electronic technology but But also, we allow students to check books out if they can't access it any other way. We have certain students required by their IEP or also required by 504 who need to have that book at home. And so we do make those available. So we don't want any child to go without a book and we do make those arrangements for students. I don't know if Dr. Lalne could speak a little more to the technology and taking their technology home.
Yeah, with the devices, we also allow the students to check out the hotspot from the library so they're able to also get
connected through that device follow-up question mr. president dr. alani are we seeing that boys and girls are really good about bringing it back the next day like they only have a one-night assignment and are we are we seeing they're bringing them back I think maybe some teachers are nervous about doing in the technology thing for fear they're not coming back and and i've i just everything we've heard says the opposite that they're so proud to have it that they're very responsible with it but
i'm not sure what what we haven't yes we have not seen any problems with students returning back either the ipads which they can check out also or the hot spots
driven mr. Smith will this affect our fund balance or is this going to be just projected out of our normal general operating fund we had this a lot of
conversations about this yeah you know depending on the timing when they come in we're probably just going to do a balancing transaction and then I the structural materials a lot of money basically when the when the things come in and then when we get the new funding we understand hey thanks
well when the kids check out the hotspots or the iPads or whatever type of device are we're going to get additional ones with this allotment we're gonna get some more devices for them to be able to check out at this time mr.
Mr. DeRub, we have not allotted. As you can see, our budget is pretty tight. And so within this particular allotment, we have not budgeted for hotspots nor iPads within our IMA account.
So how are we handling that with student population? Is there enough on campus for the kids to check out who don't have access at home?
We work with the principals to make sure we have a certain ratio based on the student population of hotspots. So as the student population increases, we do increase them. We did budget also part of the 2014 bond additional devices for hotspots and iPads for the libraries for the next three years.
Any questions? Dr. Kasky. on the The I am a fund the full roughly four million dollars that we have remaining that If memory serves me right this is actually I think it's gonna be the third year that we're using this structure And so that's actually probably under spending from the first two proclamations, correct, correct But now we've got a very expensive Proclamation which is going to affect every district in the state. I'm assuming assuming. So have we extrapolated at all what that's going to cost overall? Because that's going to be quite an expenditure for this legislative session to come up with. As far as the $11 million? Yeah. Ours is $11 million. I'm saying the state of Texas, statewide,
it's supposed to be $1 billion. $1 billion? So $500 million for each biennium. And the last two
years were a fraction of that I would guess because I don't know exactly how
much the other memory serves but we but looking at our expenditures so for the 11 12 12 13 by and then we spent about 10 million and then looking at the 13 14 14 15 it's a little over 10 million okay so is the state I guess estimating what
what this is gonna cost I guess per student on all and per student basis to
try to come up with I will say that both the house House bill one budget and Senate bill one budget both carry the same amount for increase in instructional materials allotment I think the state realizes that they underfunded it last biennium and there's a substantial increase to both budgets at this time for the next biennium so hopefully and since we managed it well we should be able to get through this next proclamation relatively easy some districts are not but we do think that the amount of money monies will be increasing okay which should put us in a good position when the next proclamation rolls around in 2017 right stay a little bit ahead of it yes that's that's the
plan mr. president if I could I wanted to sing the kudos of dr. Gaskin mr. Ms. Coy as well, when this first started, a lot of districts rushed out and spent every dime they had. And we were cautious, even though we were encouraged by TEA to go ahead and spend all the money. We were still very cautious about it.
The money we'll get this fall, I think, is in the current biennium that was already approved and appropriate by the state, correct? So we know what we have coming.
They haven't told us yet. We'll know this summer what the September 1st.
But what they would give us but money's been appropriated by the state already, but what we get because of our growth
So the question mark, right? Correct. So we're anticipating at least five million based on what we've received in the past Right and that does not take into consideration growth that we've had over the past year Or the or the new money where the new money if if that makes it through the legislature
If there's five 5.1 million students and we have about 1.4 percent of it so if we take the total amount that the state is allotted our section is about 7 million we're hoping that it's going to be that that's if they give us 50% now we're also hoping that they give us a higher percentage in the first year as opposed to splitting up between the two any other questions president mr. bro last Last month, Dr. Kasky, you gave an excellent presentation with the Common Core, the current curriculum standards,
and you showed us those very two pretty much same math books except for one little corner. Do you anticipate any little corners, any wording in this allotment that could cause us some problems?
No, actually, that was a teacher resource that I shared with you. So, no, no, sir, these are all Texas textbooks. They've all been approved by the state of Texas. Those are my words in the queue. I'm sorry. No common core on the cover right no no common girl on the cover. Yeah, we have Texas editions, Texas editions was based on the seats
Ma'am did I hear you right did you say we have one point four percent of all the students in the state of Texas?
My quick math on my calculator earlier today is correct Wow one point yeah, that's my point one million students. I calculated seventy thousand
and thank you and again the last I saw both the house and the Senate 216 million additional dollars for the biennium 1.4 percent that would be roughly about a million and a half a year or three million if that makes it through that would be substantial increase in addition to our growth in
students are there any objections to moving this item to consent thank you very much asking this going
well for the fine ex finance section of our meeting well evening miss Butterfield
Items 7.7 & 7.8
good evening Lord okay start with grant ratifications we have two small grant ratifications tonight from Target to fund field trips each of these grants are in the amount of $700 and one is for Morton Ranch High School and the other one is for Hutzel elementary and again these are to fund some field trip
expenditures any questions any objection to moving these items to consent okay we
have a lot of budget amendments tonight there are 25 budget amendments and 23 of them affect the general operating fund and all but one of them are moving existing budgets between different functions the one budget amendment that is increasing the expenditures by $8,000 is to provide funding for some substitutes to be used during teacher training for the new Iowa assessments that training will be held in May we have two amendments affecting the construction fund there is no change in the fund balance one in the amount of of $5,457,714, and this is to support construction of the elementary schools 38 and 39, which was approved last month by the board. In addition, $5,275,810 for the purchase of buses and the video equipment that goes along with them. those were also presented last month both of these transactions are coming from the project savings within the 2010 bond authorization any questions any
objections to moving this item tickets thank you very much we will have our regular board meeting on Monday April 27th one week from tonight 2015 and there being no further business we are adjourned at 8 23 p.m.
Item 8.1
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- 1 - 042715 - RFCSP 1530 - Waterproofx and Skylight - PBK TAB and EVAL - KHS, BJH, SES, MMJH, CRJH, SCE, RKE, OKE, RRE 250 KB
- 2 - 042715 - RFCSP 1530 - Waterproofx and Skylight - PBK REC - KHS, BJH, SES, MMJH, CRJH, SCE, RKE, OKE, RRE 56 KB
- Board Grant Summary-April 6 KB
- Grant Descriptions-Apr 5 KB
- 2015-2016 PDAS and KDAS Calendar 90 KB
- PDAS statutes 3486 KB
- 2015-2016 Second Appraisers List 14 KB
- 1 - 042715 - SLJH Relocated Portables - KBR Proposal 2015 137 KB
- 1 - 042715 - KBR Proposal 2015 - New Portables - KHS 149 KB
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- 2 - 042715 - KDE Relocated Portables - KBR Proposal 2015 156 KB
- 1 - 042715 - Katy ISD Natatorium Upgrades Proposals 94 KB
- 2 - 042715 - PBK Recommendation Letter for Natatorium Renovations 34 KB
- 3 - Sterling Natatorium Components 604 KB
- Interlocal CR-SW MUD 3 1805 KB
- Interlocal FT Bend MUD 142 2538 KB
- IMA and TEKS Certification 2015-2016 46 KB
- 1_Function and Object Code Description 12 KB
- 2_ REVENUES, EXPENDITURES AND FUND BALANCE 0415 87 KB
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- Board-SAT 334 KB
- 042015 Board update Health Care Plan April 2015 Rev 2 344 KB
- Board Presentation 4 20 15 Final 472 KB
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