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Katy ISD Regular Board Meeting, October 26, 2015
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- 0:00 to 1:57 Item 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.
- 1:57 to 7:07 Item 4 Pledges of Allegiance 4.1 Kaylea Marhofer, 5th Grade, Katy Elementary
- 7:07 to 9:05 Item 5.1 Public Relations Society of America Gold Award
- 9:05 to 14:53 Item 5.2 Katy Rodeo Committee Presentation
- 14:53 to 20:57 Item 5.3 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists
- 20:57 to 25:49 Item 5.4 Texas Principals Month
- 25:49 to 37:53 Item 6 Public Hearing 6.1 Presentation of the District's Rating on the Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas (FIRST) 6.2 Receive public input regarding the district's rating on the Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas (FIRST).
- 37:53 to 1:37:19 Item 7.1 Katy Independent School District 2015 Demographic Update
- 1:37:19 to 2:07:06 Item 7.2 Simon Mall Youth Foundation
- 2:07:06 to 2:13:37 Item 8 Open Forum
- 2:13:37 to 2:14:20 Consent Agenda Consent Agenda 9.1 Consider Board approval of the minutes for the Board meetings held in September 2015. 9.2 Consider Board approval of grant ratifications. 9.3 Consider Board approval of the October 2015 budget amendments. 9.4 Consider Board approval of the September 2015 financial statements. 9.5 Consider Board approval of the September 2015 check registers. 9.6 Consider Board approval of the September 2015 tax report. 9.7 Consider Board approval of the use of the BuyBoard contract with Shade Structures, Inc. for the purchase and installation of the sun shade structures for Cinco Ranch High School, Katy High School, Mayde Creek High School, Morton Ranch High School, Seven Lakes High School, Taylor High School, and Tompkins High School. 9.8 Consider Board approval of the proposal for tennis, soccer, baseball, and softball equipment, supplies, and apparel. 9.9 Consider Board approval of an Electric Easement to CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC, associated with Katy Independent School District-owned property on Kingsland Boulevard west of Pederson Road. 9.10 Consider Board approval of the Limited English Proficient (LEP) Enrollment and Bilingual Education Exception/ESL Waiver Application for 2015 - 2016. 9.11 Consider Board approval of a missed instructional day waiver for Stephens Elementary. 9.12 Consider Board approval of the Campus Performance Objectives and the District Improvement Plan. 9.13 Consider Board approval of an Interlocal Agreement with Memorial Municipal Utility District and Katy Independent School District (Katy ISD). 9.14 Consider Board approval of Amendment One and Amendment Two to the Drymalla Construction Company, Inc. Construction Manager at Risk contract for the Guaranteed Maximum Price related to infrastructure and renovation/building addition work at Memorial Parkway Junior High School. 9.15 Consider Board approval of the design of the build out of the second floor shell space and first floor renovations at the Miller Career and Technology Center
- 2:14:20 to 2:26:25 Items 10 - 13 10. Discussion/Action 10.1 Discuss and consider Board approval of the district's Vision statement. 11. Information Items 11.1 Donated Items to Katy Independent School District 11.2 Quarterly Investment Report 12. Future Meetings 12.1 Board Work Study Meeting – Monday, November 16, 2015 12.2 Regular Board Meeting – Monday, November 23, 2015 13. Adjournment
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Item 3
Good evening everyone. Thank you for attending tonight. We love to see this many people show up at our board meetings and we'll try to get you out of here just as quick as we can. Superintendent says we're going to try to beat midnight. The board will now convene an open meeting. Today is Monday, October 26, 2015 and the time is 641 p.m. The Board met earlier this evening in closed meeting. Any action arising from discussions in a closed meeting must be taken in a subsequent open meeting. This is a meeting open to the public, not a meeting of the public. There are students and other guests present to maintain decorum. Respectful behavior is expected. Disruptive behavior or comments will not be allowed. The KDISD Board of Trustees meets monthly to receive reports from the staff and to take action as recommended from the Superintendent. Whereas there may not be a lengthy discussion or a litany of questions tonight, please know know that we've had the agenda for a week. As a Board, we have reviewed each agenda item in our Public Works Study meeting with the Board, I'm sorry, with the Administration team where we would be able to ask questions and receive answers. Thus, as a Board, we should have appropriate knowledge of each agenda item and should be prepared for our responses concerning the content of this meeting tonight. Mr. Fraley, will you verify that we're in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meeting Act with regard to the notice for this meeting?
Mr. President, we are in compliance. The first item is the personnel report.
Mr. President.
Ms. Fox.
I move that the Board approve the personnel report as recommended by the Superintendent.
Second.
I have a motion by Rebecca Fox, seconded by Brian Mahalski, that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the Superintendent in closed meeting. Any discussion? Those proceed to vote. All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Those opposed? Motion passes 7-0.
President, pleased to introduce Ms. Kaylee Morhoffer, who will be leading us in our place. Kaylee, we're under your direction. Everyone please stand.
Item 4
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state, under God, one and indivisible.
All right, trustees, this is Ms. Kaylee Mohoffer. She's a student at Cady Elementary, where Ms. Leslie Smuts is the principal. And her parents are David and Shannon Mohoffer. I guess they're close by. And brothers and sisters Zoe and Asher is the big brother, right? I see you on the front there. Haley likes basketball and soccer, and mom knows something about sports. She's a coach as well. And Haley also loves science. And what the teacher said about Kaylee is Kaylee Mohr exemplifies what it means to be a KD Elementary Tiger. She comes eager to learn with a positive attitude. She is service-oriented and serves as a safety patrol monitor, helping students safely into the building. Kaylee is responsible and respected by her peers. She is elected student council representative for her class. and Katie is a dynamic young lady with a winning personality a drive to learn and a promising future this from his country mrs. neighbors your fifth grade teachers Katie and have you great job
hello my name is Kaylee Marhoff and I'm a fifth grader at Katie elementary I'm involved in many activities at Katie elementary I'm in choir student council Safety Patrol and I have represented Katie Elementary in the Elks Lodge hoop shoot contest. I play soccer and basketball. I participate in Girl Scouts and I am very involved in my church the Commons. I enjoy hanging out with my friends playing sports and spending time on the lake slalom skiing and tubing with my family. I love many things about Katie Elementary including all the tiger traditions. Some of the traditions are I Love Monday where students get to perform and display their many talents and we sing the K.E. song. Book fairs where we get to buy a lot of cool books. Spirit store where we get to buy spirit accessories to support our school. AR store which is when students get to buy books with the points they have earned by reading throughout the year. Fourth and fifth grade choir performs at Dewberry Farms as well as Astros game each year. Field day is a fun and exciting event where we get to play active games and compete against friends. I love Katy Elementary and believe it is a very special place because all of my teachers are so nice and really good at what they do. My principals are very supportive and involved in all we do I have made some wonderful friendships with so many great people my dad and Aunt Julie also went to Katie Elementary from kindergarten through fifth grade so I'm glad to keep to be able to keep the tradition going my Papa Cohen Dotsie also comes to speak to our entire school about veterinary and medicine and he has done this for many years I feel very fortunate to have called Katie elementary my school for the past six years thanks for your time this evening God bless
next time you can speak up there how about that look an honor and recognition
of you getting to come and do the pledge you're getting this super cool bag that only the kids they get to come up here and get the pledge you're the only ones that get it keeps things hot when they're hot cold when they're cold so it's something just special to you guys that come up here were you nervous
mr. president yes it's also nice to have Kaylee's grandparents seated right right behind her here to celebrate with her and also one of our namesakes Sharon Rhodes who lives across the street from them and from Rhodes Elementary they're all here to celebrate her too it's great to have you here Dr. Dothrean. Thank you.
All right do we have any scouts today? If you are could you stand up tell us your name and what badge you're working on there's a lot of people. All righty no scouts so we'll move on to number five recognitions miss Sanders good
Item 5.1
evening president Griffin board members and superintendent Fraley each year the public relations Society of America Excalibur Awards recognize outstanding public relations professionals programs and projects this year Katie I see won a a gold award for the 2014-15 Annual Enrollment Benefits Brochure and Interactive Guide distributed to employees. At this time, I would like to introduce KDISD Director of Risk Management, Lance Nelman, to accept this award on behalf of KDISD and give a brief overview of the award.
Real briefly, I wanted to introduce our partners, Long Ground Company and THCP. As you'll know, this is part of our interlocal agreement with HISD to provide benefits to our employees. This is really a neat award for our department because we were competing against Fortune 100 corporations and we were able to stand out and really do some really innovative things. I'm very proud of our team and I think our benefits department is A-plus. So here it is and thank you so much.
Congratulations.
Next I would like to introduce Gary Johnson, President of the Katy Rodeo Committee, George George Thomas, Board Member and Rodeo Arena Director, and Doug White, Katy Rodeo Committee Board Member, for a special presentation.
Item 5.2
Good evening. Mr. President, Board Members, Superintendent Fraley, I'd like to thank you for allowing the Rodeo Committee the opportunity to make our annual FFA Chapter Operating Fund distribution at this meeting. As many of you know, we hold a Rodeo in conjunction with the FFA Livestock Show every year. The monies raised from the event are distributed to the FFA Chapters in various ways. Over the years, we've distributed monies to pay for animal vaccinations, student teacher development courses, FFA American degree fees and distributions to the General Activity funds such as this tonight. This year our distribution to the activity fund is $65,000. The activity fund monies help offset the high cost of events, travel, and development opportunities for our students in the district. At this time I'd like the ag teachers or students to come up from each of the chapters. Katie, FFA.
Wait, let's take one photo at a time so we'll get the K to campus in here.
Okay, we can do that. Get one and then we'll do one altogether. altogether.
We have Taylor FFA.
Nate Creed.
Cinco Ranch
Martin Ranch
Really.
Can we get some right here?
Can we get them to come right here?
Seven lights.
okay everyone squeeze in
I'd like to thank mr. president the board and the superintendent for this opportunity and we look forward to working with you for next year's rodeo in February
Thank you to the Katy Rodeo Committee.
Thank you.
Mr. President. Yes, Mr. Fraley. As they take their seats, I want to again thank Mr. Johnson and the whole team with him tonight for their hard work. You're seeing some of the hardest working students in KDIC. These students, they work hard year round on their projects and to see them the week of the auction, it's just amazing what they do and all the support of the volunteers and the parents. It's truly amazing. I'm glad we have them.
Yep, me too. Thank you, Mr. Johnson, for all the work you've done to help our schools out.
Next, I would like to introduce to you KDISD's 2016 National Merit Scholarship Semi-Finalists. These students are among 16,000 semi-finalists named in this year's National Merit Scholarship program. They were selected based on their results on the PSAT National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. They now have the opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,400 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $32 million to be offered next spring. Students, please come forward as I call your name.
Item 5.3
Spindana Akaraju, Tompkins High School.
Parini Balakrishnan, Seven Lakes High School.
Michael Michael Burton Seven Lakes High School Sarah Campbell Seven Lakes High School
Mincy Chah Taylor High School
Kirtana Chaka Seven Lakes High School
Ishani Chakrabarty Tompkins High School
Brandon Chang Seven Lakes High School
James Chen Seven Lakes High School
Shauna Chen Taylor High School Kevin Chang Seven Lakes High School Youngsook Choi Taylor High School Robert Costas Taylor High School Carol Cox Taylor High school daniel d'angelo seven lakes high school
juan de veer single ranch high school
anusha Gandhi seven lakes high school
jonathan gomez seven lakes high school
Connie Guo Seven Lakes High School
Abney Halabi Seven Lakes High School
Jane Hubsher Taylor High School
Sadeed Khan Cinco Ranch High School
Jane Kim Cinco Ranch High School
grace Kim seven lakes high school
Justin Cleaver Cinco Ranch High School
Lee Kwan seven lakes high school
Esther Lee Tompkins High School
Cheryl Lee Taylor High School
Chufan Liang Taylor High School Aaron Leo Seven Lakes High School Alice Lou Seven Lakes High School Eric Lou Taylor High School Deepa Muthusamy Taylor High School Thomas Wynn Taylor High School
Kyler Powell Taylor High School
Akshay Ponoose Seven Lakes High School
Jiaxing Chen Taylor High School
Rishabh Ray Seven Lakes High School
Elizabeth Robinson Cinco Ranch High School
Tenmaya Srivastava Seven Lakes High School
Pranay Tamenayana Seven Lakes High School
Melinda Wang Tompkins High School
William shoe single Ranch High School
running shoe seven lakes high school
Sean shoe Taylor high school James Yang Taylor high school Emily Yang Tompkins High School Kong Shi Yi Seven Lakes High School Andy Yee Tompkins High School
Megan Yu Taylor High School and Stephanie Zhao Seven Lakes High School
Congratulations to each of these students.
Thank you.
Thank you.
As you are aware, Texas Governor Greg Abbott recently proclaimed October 2015 as Principals Month. Tonight, we would like to recognize all of our principals for their dedication to our students, staff, and our schools. In his proclamation, Governor Abbott states, As school leaders, principals are entrusted with our most valuable resource, our next generation of leaders. These students are our promise for the future, and it is critical that they receive the rigorous and well-rounded education. Principals are more than just caretakers of their schools. Principals are expected to be educational leaders, disciplinarians, community builders, spokesmen, budget analysts, and guardians of policy mandates and initiatives. principals set the academic tone for their schools and work collaboratively with teachers to set performance objectives and maintain high curriculum standards at this time I would like to invite our elementary teachers up to the front to take a photo with our board what I think I'm sorry I'm elementary principals up to the front
Item 5.4
Thank you.
Thank you.
Please join me in thanking them for all that they do.
Thank you.
And now we'd like to have our secondary principals come up for a photo.
Just see if it will move.
Instead of a big light turn, just a little stand and a telescope and then you can see the thing.
But you should expect that.
Thank you.
Thank you.
All right, we're finished with the recognitions tonight. We move on to Section 6 on public hearing. 6.1 is a presentation of the district's rating on the financial integrity rating system of Texas. Mr. Chris Smith, the Chief Financial Officer, will give a brief report on the district's rating of the Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas, known as FIRST. Afterwards, the Board of Trustees will receive public input regarding this topic.
Item 6
Thank you, Mr. Griffin, and good evening, Mr. Fraley and Board. I'm pleased to announce or to present the financial report card if you will on the finances of the district. You should have a little package, about 10 pages, and in that it contains the presentation that we're going to go over, a printout from TEA of the calculations both from this year and from the year before. It has disclosures which are the reimbursements from September 1, 2013 to August 31, 2014, outside compensation and fees received by the superintendent and the board, which are none, gifts received by the superintendent or board, which are none, and business transactions by the board, which are none. This presentation will also be published on the school district's financial services webpage, also known as the Financial Transparency Platinum award-winning webpage, later this week. As you know, School First was adopted during the 1999 legislature, and it really took effect with the 2001-2002 fiscal year data. data and we presented this back in 2003 for the first time so I guess it's been around about 12 years TM e8 TAA has implemented numerous changes over the years and they did so again this year and it's probably the most significant changes that they made you know last year we presented 21 indicators this year the good news is there's only seven indicators next year based on the financial data that we just the fiscal year we just ended August 31st 2015 2015, there will be eight additional indicators for a total of 15, but this year it is just seven.
The purpose of FIRST is to expand public education accountability system in Texas to financial services. The primary goal is to improve management of districts' financial resources and to assure the maximum allocation of resources are set aside for instructional purposes. services. Several new indicators are more easily recognized and interpreted both by the public and the finance industry. And these new indicators have a wider sliding scale to arrange a low, medium and high point allocation and those range from zero to ten points. Failure meet the requirements of a critical indicator. Those first five indicators would cause a failure of first and then the ratings the the first year is different than following years to allow the transition period so again this time next year it'll be significantly we'll add additional eight indicators and it'll be scored a little differently uh to determine our rating uh tonight uh if we have score between 16 and 30 points with no critical fail we pass or we fail if we score 0 to 15 points and a critical indicator Okay, to begin the indicators, indicator one, was the annual financial report filed within one month after the January 28th deadline? And again, these are written as they were to say yes on all of them. So yes, ours was filed well before the deadline. Was there an unmodified opinion in the annual financial report? Yes, we had an unmodified opinion in the financial report a modified opinion would be one where we would not want to get a modified opinion from our auditors but we is unmodified which is good was the school district compliance in compliance with the payments terms of all debt agreements at the end of the fiscal year and yes we were in terms of with our with our debt obligations was total unrestricted net asset balance in the statement of net assets greater than zero and yes ours was well greater than zero the one solvency indicator this year was the district's administrative cost ratio equal to or less than the threshold and yes and it was low enough that we got the full ten points and in fact I'll point out this the sliding scale on that in there in green and that's districts over ten thousand we could have as high as eight to receive a percent to receive all ten points and our rating our percentage was just under four percent three point nine four percent we've historically had a low administrative cost ratio one of the lowest around and And it could be more than double, and we would still pass this indicator with 10 points.
Financial competency indicators. Did the comparison of PEIMS data to like information in the financial report have a variance of 3% per fund type or less? Yes. Yes, ours was .00 and seven more zeros, 7.8% accurate. It was just some rounding. It was like less than $500 in rounding for an excess of $700 million. So, yes, that's pretty accurate. Was the annual financial report free of any material weaknesses in internal controls? And yes, we were free of material weaknesses in our internal control processes. So that's all of them this year. We passed all four of the yes-no indicators and we received 30 of 30 points. So we passed and that's the highest rating possible established under the guidelines by TEA this year. I will say that the majority of districts, I think just under 97 percent, will probably passed as this year and next year they're going to set the bar higher and I think I've seen reports as less than 55% will get the highest superior achievement that we've been given in years past so there they are making a little harder with these next indicators but I feel confident that we will still be high up there so we for the 13th year we got the highest rating we could get and the future indicators they're going to add one critical they're gonna add to have six solvency indicators and they're going to have financial competency indicator, one of those. And beginning next year, it can be superior. Again, that's what we've been 12 years in a row prior to this year. Above standard, meet standard, or substandard. The future indicators, again, these will be the financial year we just ended on August 31, 2015. 2015 that will be audited beginning a couple of weeks. We'll be presenting these indicators this time next year. And this is where did the school district make timely payments to teachers retirement system, teachers workforce commission, Texas workforce commission or the IRS. And yes, we do that and we will do that. Future solvency indicators, there are six of those. Was the number of days cash on hand and current investments in the general fund for the school district sufficient to cover operating expenditures and yes ours was and that's that goes back to the importance of fund balance some some school districts would borrow money when the school year starting in august and september was the number of days of cash on hand and current investments in the general fund for the school district sufficient to cover operating expenditures and yes ours was as well was the measure of current assets the current liabilities ratio for for the school district sufficient to cover short-term debt?
Was the ratio of long-term liabilities to total assets for the school district sufficient to support long-term solvency? And again, I'm not reading the results of these, because we haven't had our audit. And I feel confident in these, but there's nothing to score at this time. I'm just giving you this for your information. Did the school district's general fund revenues equal or exceed expenditures? expenditures, and if not, was the school district's cash on hand greater than 60 days? Again, going back to the need for cash and a healthy fund balance. Was the school district's debt service coverage ratio sufficient to meet requirements of debt service? Did the school district not have a 15 percent decline in students to staff over three years? If you had a decline that would mean you were less efficient and and that's why they're looking for no declines in that ratio. And then the one additional financial competency indicator would be did a school district not receive an adjusted repayment schedule for more than one fiscal year for an overall allocation of the foundation school funds.
As a result of financial hardship there are districts that get overpaid by the agency and then when they realize they were overpaid and they've spent the money they asked for a payment schedule back to help them with cash flow needs and believe it or not and that would be the indicators for next year that we will go over with answers next year but at this time I would like to thank mr. Fred and his leadership and cabinet and all the administrators that throughout the district and of course the board for for making finance important,
and but still being able to do things that are in the classroom, which for the children, in a very substantial, impactful way.
Board, any questions? Mr. Smith, I wanna thank you for your, I wanna thank you for your briefings. You and your staff are doing an outstanding job. The updates that you give us, the confidence that you have, it just shines. and as a board this is one of the greatest things at the community and as an administration that we can see and I want to thank you for your you and your hard work and mr. Fraley low administrative cost you're doing all this asking so much from your people thank you for getting this much work out
of them first for us fewest people as you're using I hear about it every year staffing time. But again, as you noted, we could double what we're spending, be within compliance and get all 10 points.
We celebrate that, but again, it is because folks who are doing a lot of work. They're putting a lot of extra loads and you need to recognize that.
At the same time, though, we do understand that the money should be spent in the classrooms, supporting instruction mainly. But the support we have, we have talented folks and my job I always try to keep as many of them happy as possible. But, Mr. Smith, thank you and your team. You all have not tried to part. We've had this recognition a number of years, and you all were in maybe the support role at that time. Now you're supporting and leading it, and I can't thank you guys enough for all that you do. Not everyone gets all available points. We've done this a number of times, and that's because of you all's work. So thank you very much.
Okay.
Okay, this moves us to 6.2, receive public input regarding the district's rating of the financial integrity rating system of Texas, known as FIRST. We had signed up before the meeting, and we had nobody sign up to speak, so this is the end of the public hearing. So we'll move into Section 7 on reports. 7.1, Katy Independent School District 2015 demographic update by Mr. Gannell.
Item 7.1
Thank you, President Griffin. Good evening Superintendent Fraley and trustees. Tonight, not surprisingly, we're talking about growth again. Remember all the way back to last month, we talked about Katy area growth trends and we talked about commercial development. Tonight we talk about demographics in the district and really that starts painting the picture for the future. Next month we'll come talking to you about attendance boundaries and why we're gonna do that. because we're growing we'll be opening three new schools next year so tonight I'm going to be assisted by a whole bunch of folks you know first I just want to give a shout out to Scott Dunlap who's who's still with us until December and in his relief Jim Farren who will take his place as best he can as demographer he's ready willing and able and in in bright but Scott's going to be be missed. Now presenting the presentation tonight or most of the presentation tonight is a population and survey analysts. PASA for short. They're the largest demographic firm in Texas. They've been performing demographic studies for more than 30 years so they're quite good at it. They've been our partners for many years. Leading the effort will be Dr. Pat Gussman. She's president of PASA. She is a demographer whose career spans 36 years. She told me not to tell you that and I forgot.
She has taught the graduate demography course at Texas A &M University. She has managed demographic updates for municipalities and for the Texas Department of Transportation. For the past 23 years she has worked with school districts throughout the state of Texas, aiding districts with projections of housing in a population for small aerial units in order to plan the siting and timing of new schools and to plan attendance zones.
You will also hear from Dr. Chris Poole. Dr. Poole is an attorney and the chief data analyst at PASA whose principal responsibilities include attendance zone planning and long-range facility analysis.
Chris has led the attendance boundary recommendations for the district over the last three years. One question that we often get is just, just, hey, how accurate are your enrollment projections? Well, you know, they're pretty darn accurate. If you take a look here, you can see what the enrollment trends have been as far as a projection compared to the state's PEIM snapshot, which was taken on the last Friday in October, that's the public education information management system snapshot. And compare that to the projections, and you see that generally they sit right on top of each other. This year, as of Friday, we have 72,771 students enrolled in passive projected four PEMS, 73,578, which is 99.8% accurate, which is great, taking into account the downturn we had in the economy to some extent. So without further ado, I'm going to ask Dr. Gussman if she will come up and lead us through this presentation.
We certainly do appreciate the opportunity to be here this evening and to summarize briefly the annual demographic update and hope that if you have comments, please feel free to interject our questions and we certainly appreciate any information that you'd like to provide to add to this discussion we did want to emphasize that this year the upper grades increased at a slightly higher rate than the elementary grades and that have seen fluctuations in the projections of elementary students due to fluctuations in kindergarten as a percent each year. For example, this year based on daily counts that are changing there were about 10 to 15 added kindergarten students as opposed to the 8.4% increase last year which was a big increase and so there are reasons for As far that, 28% now approximately are purchasing homes that are entry level homes in the state, statewide as opposed to an earlier period when it was about 40% at the peak for this higher percent increase in kindergarten for younger families in this district. So there's been quite a change over time. And then if we look at the projections of housing in the district for the last three years, again they're not comparable because they're not the same dates, but if you look at the addition of multifamily that's the most striking difference. And actually that projection of multifamily of 17,000 almost 300 should just about double the multifamily units within the district. So it's really a critical change. That happens as districts mature but there's still a big demand for housing in that district. It's a coveted district. So you it's just virtually a law that you'll see more multifamily units as a proportion of the overall housing. Now one thing to keep in mind in regard to methodology is that most demographic vendors nationwide as well as locally look at extrapolations of past growth and so for any one subdivision they might look at that subdivision and extrapolate from the latest time frame of growth but in Katy since some of your subdivisions actually build out within two to four years you'd be projecting that growth over and over again a house on top of a house and so we cannot do that for this district in other words for small areas you have to almost have a grassroots approach where you look at every subdivision every undeveloped parcel of five acres or so or more and of course projecting where where the multifamily development is probable. So also in this district though, we know that you have very low ratios of students in some subdivisions, very high in others, especially the master plan communities. The ratios tend to be very high. And then you have regeneration in older subdivisions, adding in new students without a single new house. As well as declines in those older subdivisions. So that's something to keep in mind as we look at this data. And, of course, this is interesting, the 10 highest growth districts based on the official data that we last have, which was for last year at the end of April. So it's interesting to see where Katie ranks in that time frame. Likewise, after our demographic team has contacted the area districts, you can see that Katie had interestingly the largest increase in students this year. Now that was a real departure relative to last year because Houston and Aldine, for example, had the vast majority of their added students, which was quite large in both districts due to international immigration.
Now here then we're looking at the numeric increase over a five-year time span. So again it's so interesting to look at Katy out of 62 districts in the Houston consolidated metro area. We were saying 64 but there was just a smattering of two districts to be included. They were just small fractions and so we are leaving them out at this time. Now looking at the births of mothers in this district with place of residence in this district and estimating kindergarten without adding in net in-migration, no movement into the district, you fenced it off, you can see that there's still going to be an increase in the kindergarten population. And so even without a single added home. Now looking at the first grade because that's a little bit more secure than kindergarten and comparing that to fifth grade we know that this year 22 of the attendance zones had more first graders than fifth graders. So you might say why do we care we care because it is so important to follow that through time we work with your surrounding neighbors and they have the converse so what happens when you have a large fifth grade and a very small first grade and you have it year after year after year and that's what the districts that surround you in some cases are facing very important to look at this because if that continues over time you can imagine the impact on attendance zones utilization of schools and so forth now here there are several ways we could have presented this but you can see the growth over time the district of course is continuing to grow but the growth rates are different and yet right Right now, even as we face the oil price plunge that continues, we see that there was significant growth this year.
Mr. Gannell did not mention in February we revised the projections downward about 600 students, and so it would have been right on target, Mr. Gannell, if we were concentrating on that target enrollment. enrollment. Now, knowing that KD is unique, really unique in about ten very important ways, we as demographers look at travel times to work because every minute counts and that is an important criterion that individuals use in deciding where to live. The low percent of economically disadvantaged students is a factor. The test scores and passage rates and then just generally the quality of life characteristics, the educated population, high median incomes, so so interesting for this district. Now in looking at the state as a whole we can see that the economically disadvantaged student population has Katy as one of these low percent disadvantaged districts ranking 8th out of 62 districts that have 20,000 or more students. And what makes this so much an anomaly is that this is a large district geographically and here in terms of enrollment, which normally means diversity. And in this case, this district is a statistical outlier among the largest districts in this regard. It's the one and only. And then if we We look then at the percent of economically disadvantaged. Again, last year's data released at the end of April, you see the light blue districts of which Katy is again one of those districts. And not only does that attract parents, but it attracts developers. This is a variable that they're very interested in. Likewise, we're using what we consider to be the most reliable indicator across districts. And you'll see, interestingly, that Katy ranks fourth, again, uniquely because of its large enrollment. So this is very interesting when you look at the enrollment relative to all other districts, with Plano and Conroe having the next largest enrollments on that list.
And here again you can see Katie in red relative to the Houston metropolitan area districts. Now back to kindergarten. That is such a critical factor. Without following the fluctuations in kindergarten enrollment, the projections would be much easier. It's very difficult to know year by year for every elementary what the kindergarten increase will be especially when we see this change that's occurring but again this was due more to oil price declines and younger parents fear lack of job stability and so that has a very direct impact on the younger families moving here. And yet at the same time when we look at private schools, especially the charter schools, in if we look at the blue column that's more or less in the middle, the rightmost blue column, because that's kindergarten and above, comparing the numbers of students in each of the charter and private schools for which we could gather data. And of course here Here we again see Harmony Science Academy is another big draw. But if you look at then those schools in total and see that there are 2,500 of kindergarten plus enrolled representing 2.9% of the total students of the school age population in the district. Now there are a smattering of students that go to other private schools, of course, that are not counted here because they're maybe accompanying their parents to humble each day or to other distant locations downtown Houston for example employment trends the thing to look at is in the last six months the unemployment rate has crept up as if you look at the three counties in all three three counties. So it's creeping upward and that is what we have to watch because again, the single most important characteristic in individuals relocating to Katy is job stability. They're not going to be willing to make a move if they're fearful of job certainty. Likewise, we know that like attracts like and just as in the past, the educational and medical services followed by professional and administrative services and this year for the first time instead of manufacturing retail trade is the third ranking and I think we'll we'll stay that way now within this district and the second ranking variable that helps us understand which master plan communities and which subdivisions will grow the most rapidly has to do with transportation improvements and so of course we're seeing such an increase in commercial infrastructure but at the same time residential acceleration due to the Grand Parkway and then some specifics in regard to Martin roads roads widening, the Cane Island Parkway, and we have a long list in the report, but the West Park tollway expansion and also the 1093 improvements in turn lanes will have a big impact on this district and the build out of the district. Housing projections has one slide that may be the most important map to look at and it shows in purple the areas that are built out and then we can add another 22% to that that theoretically are parks preserves reservoirs conservation easements and districts they are not going to develop so then that gives us a pretty hefty number of 64% essentially built out plus Plus we do know that another 16% can be added to that. That would lead us to 80% being basically actively planned, actively building out, or already built out. Again, assuming that we don't start developing within the reservoirs, which will not occur. her. Now then looking at what is still for sale that will have a big impact, maybe the most interesting is what's called Northwest Katy, Troy Maxwell's assemblage up in the Northwest and he has split that into three parts, each of which will be a separate development. One is already under contract now and so that's going to have a big and immediate impact. when those parcels are sold. This year, the actively building subdivisions added 72% of the students. And normally it's a bit more. So normally the new homes and new subdivisions in this district add up to 80% or more. But also the existing older homes added more last year. This year they added 230 students. Last year it was 815. So, you know, that was less of an impact. But the apartments, of course, with 520 students are becoming more and more significant. And the ratios of students per unit are becoming higher and higher every year. Now Katie, this second quarter, and we don't have third quarter data, ranked second among the metro area districts in regard to housing starts and second in regard to new home closings you know for about two years you ranked first and for the 20 years prior to that Cy Fair basically ranked first and so it's so right now Fort Bend has ellipsed the district I think for just a short time and if the the oil prices can clip up a little bit, 10 to 15 percent, then we'll see Katie ranking first, not that that's critical. But it's interesting to compare districts and necessary to do so. So one thing that is important, not necessarily in rank order, but for you to know which master plan communities are evolving and changing the most as we evaluate this data today relative to last year Cinco Ranch is virtually built out a lease on is got 160 acres now that they are developing that they will have no students next fall it will be the following year Cross Creek has about 360 160 homes that we estimate will be occupied next fall, but we need to emphasize that Cross Creek may have the greatest possibility for variation or the reliability of our projections are of concern for that very large master plan community simply because it could fluctuate greatly with the local economy. So we have to watch that very carefully. But, you know, right now, of course, they're very successful. And there will also be one apartment there, too, in the near term. Then we mentioned Northwest Katy. It used to be called Monterey Oaks. And they do have two super muds. So, again, a very attractive area, even though floodplain challenges that are being successfully overcome with the permitting process. Kane Island, I think we were there in September and there were about eight models available, but no homes occupied in September. Bridgeland I had understood was to be the second as the Sci-Fair portion is rapidly building out. But I have been told by Peter Houghton that they will not be developing the Katy portion portion for another decade or longer.
And that may change over time. So here if you look at the right most column this is the numeric summary or rank in that right column of what we can expect over time and the impact of each of these big developments and keep in mind that these master plan communities make families feel secure and so the ratios are high in those unless it's specifically set aside for water termed active adults now the largest growth over 10 years are in the Williamsburg that's just north of I-10 you remember the Williamsburg subdivisions okay these are apartments in three sections then in 6B that's where the new Chevron purchase is but there to be some strong multifamily there within Monterey Oaks which is also Northwest Katy in quotation Tasha Marks. AVEX also in that general area right by Northwest Katy up in the Northwest. And then Katy Boardwalk is to have about 500 units, although what you see in the press is only the commercial side. But that's what we're told by the Economic Development Board. Now here then what you see here for this first year for the next 12 months is mainly apartments.
So right up, I don't know if you can see this or not, but right up in here is View Kingsland. Over in here is, you know, this is already seven apartments. I believe. Seven, counting the two under construction, and they are you can see them on Kingsland one is called a song a stream song stream song and one is the Haven at West Green then further over again these have always been apartment epicenters but Grand Crossing has another apartment called Vista at Grand Crossing and then another apartment just a half a block away Elon 99 and then further over here in the red remember where the where Mike Baker's 80 crossing development is just south of I-10 so right now there are probably three apartments and then there are two assisted living and independent living facilities and one apartment still being occupied in two new apartments there. So you know a lot of apartments in that general area. And so it's interesting that you see the growth in the next year that's oriented to apartments. And then in the south that would be the Cross Creek development. And then of course if we look out five years you see a lot of red and the red along I-10 in the far east that long strip that particular land use zone will have a high rise yes so very very interesting and then of course not heavily oriented to students but then in the north that's lisan and other related single-family developments yes sir could you go back one slide what is significance of the colors the colors are very significant red and gold mean hot or red and gold mean the important developments are the hot spots and then blue now you know blue is a little bit deceiving because see right in here 66 land use on 66 there's a new apartment there but it has been sputtering and is about to be sold by the developers so you know it's it's in blue which normally means not much is happening but there is some activity in areas that are older and we presume that they were built out where there are seven to 15 acres there can always be an apartment in a district like Katy so here again it's interesting to see where the development is occurring and Cross Creek very active over the next five years but otherwise the primary activity for single-family development has moved to the northwest and then likewise this is looking at even five years further out where only the northwest is of interest the ten years then 2015 to 2025 a summary here and then finally the build out in the northwest and specifically we know of around 16,700 plus housing units in those red locations but we anticipate other infill. So we anticipate from 2025 to build out about 31,000 housing units but again we can specifically know just under 17,000. It's just that that wouldn't encompass, but yet if we put anything on a map, it's geo-referenced and becomes student, so it cannot be put on a map. The overall number of housing units, 47,000, again with a very large proportion, especially in the first five years, because we know with greater than 50 percent probability that they are going to occur whereas in the last five years we don't have that information so we've omitted it and that's important to keep in mind we have not included all of the multifamily if we don't have a great deal of certainty that they will occur because again we're geo referencing students in 300 units plus and right now the ratios are so high we would never want to place an apartment at a location where it will not occur and I should emphasize that in the report starting at about page 186 we've listed the 48 apartments that are happening right now and next year and the year after and if you have any comment about those they've taken us quite a while six months to bring bring together and if you differ with their accuracy or want to comment on them we most of all need help with apartments because they're happening so fast so many if you can imagine 48 in three years time that's a lot of apartments and so again if you feel that some are uncertain or you want to provide us with any information about apartments that's what we most need help with and I expect that will be true for every year hence forward yes sir in regards to the apartments and you know we've had a push in certain areas or
low-income housing apartments and we've been able to fight those off you know because it's just in the community doesn't doesn't necessarily want to see those but are you taking into account those as well or are you projecting?
Just two or maybe three quick comments about your question. One is that yes we follow the tax credit applications carefully and two you know the US Supreme Court voted in the last three or four months on a Texas tax credit case and it was this had a surprising outcome because the the Dallas and Houston housing authorities stated that they wanted to keep the same application criteria which had an emphasis toward lower income locations where there needed to be regeneration and rejuvenation predominantly and so they wanted to retain that but the US Supreme Court voted no that they wanted to disperse tax credit development to more suburban locations and so I think you need to be aware of that because that hasn't had a chance to show an impact yet and then I had one other thought I'm sorry I maybe can think of it later but But so it's going to be very important to follow that as a consideration because actually there are many districts now that have tax credit villages, and they're beautiful facilities, but they provide a lot of challenges at the same time. And that has been something that has been unique to Katy, that they have said we don't want a large number of tax credit units. So it's going to be a big decision point now.
Mr. President? Yes, Ms. Frederick. Dr. Guzman, you mentioned earlier about an apartment complex that was kind of sputtering and maybe on the selling block, so to speak.
In Highland Knolls. It's a beautiful area.
In your experience, when those complexes, when you have such a fast increase of development and you kind of put a glut on the market.
Oh, right, right.
With the app with the with the development tip focused on market rate Rental amounts what tends to happen when as a golden mark got on the market though
You've brought up such a good question and one that's so relevant to this district because with this oil price squeeze Then we have projected fewer in other words those that have been emphasized are those primarily in the pipeline. You know, it's hard to step back after you've already invested in the land. You're just at a crossroads. And so this one, and you would know probably the developer's name, I can't think of it right now, it's right to the G. And he has said he's going to go ahead and finish it and then sell it. And so we don't know even if it might be, it's in an area that I think would appeal to maybe all retirees. And so I really don't know what will happen to it.
I can tell you having worked next to a neighboring district for about 12 years, what happened when their population really dropped, they had a lot of empty apartment complexes sitting on the ground, what happened there.
And so you're thinking that definitely the area may get overbuilt. And I think there's already a perception that it is.
I think there's that risk. And I don't want to read any more into it than just that there's that risk It's just that these folks they have projects in the pipeline. They've got to build them and then how to get some of the money back
So right now I think despite that we've almost gone a year because I consider Thanksgiving Day the day we all realized that the oil prices were going to be much much different and Yet right now. I think the utilization levels are still high in the district district. This is going to be the number we call.
About 96%, I think. Okay. We'll get back with you. Actually, the utilization level is high right now. But I do think, yes, they're over. I think we should think in those terms. Now, the ratios have most of the time, most of the years that we've worked with the district, the ratio has been about a .27 students per unit among the general population complexes, those that attract families. And you can see what's happened in the last few years. So this year it's .37 students per unit. That means it's a very attractive, it usually means it's a lower socioeconomic urban core district or it's a very attractive suburban district to have a ratio as high as you evidenced here. Now here you're looking at the lowest and the highest ratios and we won't dwell on those because I know there's some other data that would be considered more important but again in looking at this you get a feel for the eastern side is having more emptiness relative to the the newer development. Now projected student enrollment over the 10-year period is 98,900 and again if we had had another high year of kindergarten enrollment affecting the elementary grades it would have tipped the hundred thousand mark. Kindergarten affects every grade thereafter it just can't be overemphasized how important that is and then also keeping in mind that there was a loss of momentum the district has continued to grow but a loss of momentum in terms of the big boom in purchasing new housing right now under the high growth scenario there would be a hundred and five thousand students in last year we said that as well but it was for 2024 it was about 105 I believe and then the low growth scenario would be of interest to us for next year if the price of oil doesn't get over say $50 a barrel a bit if it can't creep up 10 to 15 percent then we might be interested in following that and which is what we did this year as a February we started using the low growth scenario and worked perfectly. Now then, Chris Poole is going to briefly give you a summary of the projections for the existing attendance zones, what they look like and how the level of utilization looks for each one.
Ms. Okay, I promise I'll be quick. I know you guys have other stuff to do. You guys aren't strangers to this and so you know that we once we are finished with all of the data gathering for housing what we end up with is projections of students by grade group for every year of the ten years of the projection period for each of our land use zones and so if we were never going to build any more schools we could just do it to the current attendance zone level but we know that we're going to be building schools changing attendance zones so we have to gather that data down to the lane use zone level and then put it back in your current attendance zone so we know where to start. But it's very important here to realize that and to remember that the projections shown here are the geocoded student population and that is the kids that are projected to live in that zone that are those are not the kids that are projected to attend that school that's an entirely different thing. You've got kids transferring around for a host of reasons especially in this section of the district you've got Bear Creek, Creek, Schmalz, Rhodes, Stevens, Sundown, and McRoberts that all have bilingual programs. And so you've got in some cases a hundred or more students transferring around to some of these bilingual programs. So don't get hung up on the numbers that are shown. Just understand the up or the down and the level of the up and the down for any of these and how that might impact the schools that you've got here.
Same sort of thing here in the southeastern portion of the district. Some of these little areas, if you'll remember, you might think of them as built out, but I think Dr. Gassman mentioned a few little areas, little pockets, some apartments. I think there's some little sections of Lane-U-Sones that are beginning to show a little regeneration. And this is the area of the district that we were working in very heavily 10, 15 years ago, of course, when we were looking maybe almost 20 years ago at this point and so now the the focus of course is shifted off to the southwest and then ultimately to the northwest we are also showing the 16 and the 20 data we know that we are projecting 10 years out but we know that our five first five years is going to be much more relevant than our second five years but we would like to understand where we're headed where we think we're headed by going ahead and having our 10 10 years of projections there.
For the southwest, we understand that you guys know what's going on out there, and you saw it on the maps. You saw those red and orange hot spots. Randolph, for example, could be, if we carry on out and we never open another school in that area, could be operating at 187% of its capacity. Woolman could be at 242, Davidson at 189. And so that's why we'll be looking at the zone for the new site. It sits right here, the Elementary 38. And so it should be able to help in the short term with those attendance zones that are going to be very overutilized if we do not open another school there. We won't ever see those 2020 numbers because we will be opening new facilities along the way.
And then in the northwest. Ah, the northwest. It's the way the southwest used to be, right? So again, we've got Frans and we've got Morton Ranch and we've got Hutzel and we've got King that have bilingual programs all throughout this area. And so there are, you know, vast numbers of students transferring around. But the sheer number of students projected to come into Katy and to King is a little astounding. Katy, it's also very important to remember that their capacity is 643 students. And that's substantially lower than a lot of these additional facilities that the district has been building in the last 15 or 20 years that have a capacity of 1,030. So when you see 728 or 1,268, 1,268 at another school might not concern you. It's going to be an issue for Katy because it's such a smaller facility to start with. So we could see, you know, if we never open another school to relieve Katy as much as 300 percent of utilization of that facility. but King it could house we have projections in that brown it's right now the King zone is all of this brown it's everything here and we're projecting a seven hundred percent level of utilization and so in other words seven elementary schools should be able to be filled by the end of the projection period and what is the King attendance zone and that's all of that red up there that we've been showing you guys and talking to you about.
And then the good thing of course is that we've got relief for King coming right here. This is where that new site is. It looks like that's Morton Ranch. Morton Ranch is down here.
That's just the way the label hit because I was trying to make it big so we could see it. So that's the new facility and it should be able to help King and so that we shouldn't have that many students there.
We've pulled these into a chart that shows the level of utilization the district uses utilizes the schools very well very heavily and so I know that that's that's something that helps the taxpayers and in the district here what we're showing here is a lot of districts started looking at about a hundred and twenty percent of capacity as a need for a new school so on these charts will see a hundred and twenty percent highlighted in yellow and then a hundred and fifty percent
highlighted in orange and so Davidson of course will get its relief with elementary school 38 and then there's just a lot of yellow and orange just an awful lot of yellow and orange poor King 178 percent of capacity if we were not opening elementary school 39 there in the north and so this is something we just have to start here we have to start every single year and honestly we now look at this sometimes I get a little overwhelmed but it's just every year we We start and we go with what the plan was and do we need to make any changes and where is their land available and how are these schools going to get relief and start rolling it out and checking the data and checking the plan. So then at the junior high school level, it's really the junior high and the high schools are going to kind of mirror sort of what the elementary schools are. Of course, the biggest concerns in this particular one are Seven Lakes. if we were not opening that new junior high then we could see 2,200 kids almost we could see 2,400 at Wood Creek but luckily the new facility that we'll be zoning for is sitting right here in the middle of Wood Creek and Seven Lakes and so it should be able to help both of those facilities if we don't get some relief ultimately for Katie you know the same sorts of things we could be looking at 340 or so percent of capacity so it's it's the same same song and dance it's It's the growth and you know where it is, but sometimes it's important to actually see the numbers.
Here's the famous yellow and orange. I'm moving the little red pointer out of your way. And Wood Creek and Seven Lakes, you know, these numbers look really big, but they do not take into account the opening of the new junior high next fall. Same sort of thing at the high school level. The students, they just keep coming and they ultimately go to high school. and so we would be looking at 4,700 kids at Morton Ranch if you guys didn't open that next high school up there we could be looking at 4,300 at Tompkins and Katie could have over 8,000 students in it by the end of the projection period so we know that that's a possibility we know that that number isn't exactly what we're going to have but we have to keep it in mind and understand where we're headed and so the next facility can help Katie and Morton Ranch right in here and And then another one down in here and in Tompkins. And so Katie should be able to get relief from both ends there to help handle the really large number of students projected in that area.
And just this is what it looks like on the chart, if you want to see all of those scary, scary numbers.
I've got about two slides left. and again summary showing what the projected student population will be by 2025 years from now 86,400 is the moderate growth projection and then around 98,900 within 10 years likewise keep in mind that this district unlike spring branch that built out in about 15 years will be building out in about 35 actually but you know we've seen the the 26 year period already and we know basically the housing units that will be projected they may be a little lower and mr. Fraley's pointed out such a good point and we can't tell you the percent occupancy now but we will and you know what's important though over the long term is that we have the locational configuration of growth reliably outlined so it may be a little slower or it may be a little faster a lot of that has to do with how many families move in with large numbers of children and that's very hard to project and as well as their grade grouping orientation by subdivision so basically then that concludes our data and we appreciated being here before we take questions just run through the next steps a lot of information that we have to digest we got it earlier today and we're working on it already with the goal to bring an attendance boundary modification to you on November the 16th we have a two-week public feedback and survey you know immediately following that with the goal to what reason something to the board is a final recommendation hopefully approval in december december is important because right after that we start going into staffing and start thinking about budgeting so are there any questions
mr adams thank you mr griffin um dr guzman just uh for more of my education i want to put your book down for a second is um you talked about the unemployment trend back several slides ago go I'd like to hear a little bit more about that and because I'm I'm a little bit concerned about that in the sense that I need I need better confidence from you that the numbers that you're showing us are our true numbers and I totally trust everything you've done up and because we I've been here a long time and I and you've done a great job but in in the United States today a lot of the unemployment numbers there are people that have quit looking for jobs and I'm just I'm just trying to get my head around the fact of that number that you have and you may only be able to report those from the sources that you receive those from from the Texas Workforce Commission or others so that That's number one question. Would you like to answer that one first?
So definitely that lack of employment may be 15%, but we're, of course, only using Texas Workforce Commission figures that you saw. However, you know, one thing that is maybe the most important is, and you've been through these last two downturns prior to this one in terms of oil prices, And in both cases, Katy was absolutely fascinating because it was relatively unimpacted. And that was because of relocations and consolidations so that folks were coming from other states to Texas in consolidating offices. At the same time, Katy had furloughs, they had early retirements, and that's not also being described accurately in the press, the retirements that are forced, basically, in terms of the oil companies, per se. But in sum, for those last two downturns, there was no loss in regard to the projected student population, not one student. It was fascinating. because actually Katie was in such a big demand for office relocation in the times that we've had historically in your tenure in terms of oil price downturns. But this is so very different, and from day one was different. From day one, it was going to be obvious that Katie was going to lose some of its momentum in regard to growth. That would be starting Thanksgiving Day now 11 months ago. So definitely, as the oil price continues to remain stably low, then that affects every sector of the economy in Katy. Katy is affected despite its diversity. So yes, you look at the slides and see that Katy added more students than 62 school districts, but it would have added another 600 without this this change that's occurred so job stability the most important factor in students moving into the district but and I concur with that and of course a kitty ISD is a large employer itself of folks and so we are we are stable you know in the sense of keeping people on board here one of the things that just is just a comment is that in in my business and what I see and talking to others in different industries is the fact that that Katie over the years has become a much more diversified area in terms of types of jobs that are available out here we've got Geico of course out here and other companies large car dealerships and and others and that are coming so I think that we've been fortunate in the sense that as you say is that maybe what other areas are seeing is is harder hit but maybe we are taking some of that back there's no doubt though that the oil and gas business is having an impact on this area we were seeing it and and even even this past week we read where some of the major service companies were projecting larger layoffs and I don't think we've seen the bottom yet but but one of the things that we can we can look at and know is that we've got a great district in that there will be people continue to come here and when the uptick comes the second you know again in the future that that we will certainly be a destination district for a lot of those people that will be. And again, you are now. So it's just a very relative situation where there's been about an 18% loss in regard to housing starts relative to the relative to last year in closings, but on the other hand, still that tremendous increase. So you're absolutely right, but you know that is going to be important just as we did last year to be very constantly looking at the data and watching the housing situation in particular because that's such a microcosm of what's happening.
Mr. Burrell.
I'm excuse me. Thank you so much. You've always had a very fascinating report to me One question well two questions actually one a few years ago You talked about the geographic center of Houston moving down I 10 in at I 10 and the beltway now we call city center and in about 10 or 15 years in and up at Mason Road and Intent is that still the trend?
Well, definitely there's, you know, one easy way to look at this is that you can't move east or you'd be in the sea. And even Aggies can understand that. And I say that as an Aggie. And yet the growth has been to the north and the west and continues to be to the north and the west. And especially in regard to students, you can see that, you know, last year the big boom at this time was in Katy adding housing so rapidly and the second big growth center was Conroe and then both of them and Conroe has the woodlands so the both the both of the districts have been affected somewhat but yes there's still that epicenter and that's a good that's such a good question and that would we can address that by looking at census blocks and seeing the change but But no, that would be a great project. So how do you think that would affect urbanization of our area? Well, definitely it's going to keep the district in demand because there are affordable parcels of land left to develop, and they're right here in Katy. So definitely it's going to continue to build out and be adding population and students.
Mr. Mohoski?
Dr. Guzman, we've been talking a little bit about kind of the overall economy and how it impacts growth here in our district. And I think you can see that historically a little bit if you go back to 2010, 2011, where the growth rate did slow down, kind of when there was a national recession going on, right? You've also, in projecting out to the future now, you know, you provided kind of that three scenarios of growth, where you had a high growth range as a projection a low growth projection in a moderate so I guess my first is how confident are you in that range and I know that that that range gets wider as time goes out which makes sense but my question I guess is what at first how confident are you know in that range and and I think your your track record kind of speaks for itself over the course of the time that you've been working specifically for KDISD and your projections have been quite accurate, but what indicators should we look for either on the high end or the low end maybe if that could potentially get us out of that range that you're projecting? I really don't foresee
that we'll get out of that range, but we could if the price of oil became $28. We we wouldn't see that interest in the transitional housing provided by these 48 multifamily complexes that all basically have 300 plus units and uh so there there definitely could be ways to get out of it but you know this is these are reasonable lows and highs they're what we call the maximum feasible high and that's going to be based on how many young children move in and that could happen easily, then the low is very feasible too because based on the glut of oil and the fact that that is an overriding factor affecting many sectors of the economy, all sectors in this district, that despite the diversity it still is having its pervasive impact and so that would be what would most concern me because the housing is fairly predictable it's in place at this point ready to go it's just got to meet the demand of buyers
mr. Fraley at the risk of being risky
you reference the Supreme Court ruling yes sir and the preference to disperse and make the suburbs more diverse in terms of the affordability of housing. There was a lunch meeting today and a high-ranking state official is really pushing the school's choice issue and whatnot.
Getting way out there you could almost see a meeting of those two interests of having more affordable housing subsidized in the suburbs for the desirable schools and giving low-income families in inner cities more support to get to those schools under the school choice movement is that a way out there scenario I don't think so I think that's a good philosophical question to address and an important one you know we worked with spring they're basically built out spring ISD they made a decision it's probably been 12 years ago or so to encourage tax credit departments and so that was all the tax credit developers needed was encouragement from the school district because the school district can say yay or nay basically and so that district transitioned so greatly demographically in terms of its composition test scores and so forth that it made me very leery then and that but that was a philosophical decision and I think those are very important considerations to have affordable housing is important and in the school choice idea is very appealing to many many individuals so I I think we should start thinking along those lines and and of course it makes planning more more difficult and those like Mr. Smith won't know what the amount of monies he'll be bringing in each year would be perhaps.
But yes, I think that could make the challenges greater, much greater, in looking at utilization, predictability of each school and so forth.
Thank you, Dr. Guzman and Dr. Poole, for your presentation. I think you've given us a lot to think about and thank you for helping us make plans.
Thank you very much Mr. Rick.
Thank you all so much. All right, 7.2, Simon Small Youth Foundation by Dr. Caskey.
Item 7.2
We're assembling our team here. This is a team effort tonight. Thanks.
Good evening, President Griffin, board members, and Mr. Fraley. I'm pleased to be here this evening to share with you a possible partnership between KDISD and the Simon Youth Foundation. Oops
Okay, the slides look different I Want to begin this evening by giving you an overview I want to share with you a little bit about what the Simon Youth Foundation is Who would benefit from a Simon Youth Foundation Academy or program in KDISD? And we're here tonight to determine if the board is interested in us to further pursue this partnership and to outline Possible next steps that we would have to take First a little bit of history about the Simon Youth Foundation. It was created in 1999 by the Simon Property Management employees. They are an independent non-profit 501c organization. Simon Youth Foundation offers community school partnerships to school districts who include a Simon property within their school district. Being here in Katy ISD, that particular property would would be our Katie Mills Mall. In 2008, the Simon Youth Foundation was a recipient of the Crystal Star Award from the National Dropout Prevention Center Network, and they continue to have programs that are highlighted as exemplary programs that address dropout preventions. Across the United States, currently there are 25 Simon Youth Foundation Academies located in 12 states currently the state of Texas has two of these academies so where did all of this begin this is not a program that you apply for it's not one that you know you fill out an application for this is a very selective program and the fact that the CEO dr. Michael Durnall reached out to mr. Fraley and I believe we have the general manager Don Massey here was part of that original meeting back in July of 2015 and they extended an invitation to us this is a program that you have to be invited to be a part of and they extended an invitation to partner with Katie ISD this past summer currently in Katie Mills mall Don's here to answer any of those questions that you may have there is a space that's already been identified 5,000 square foot space located within the mall that has been designated if we can if we pursue this partnership as a Simon Youth Foundation site and basically what happens is the Simon Youth Foundation contracts with an architect and they have been very willing and open to work with us and who that architect may be and what that space may look like but they collaborate with a local school district to design the learning space within the mall then Simon Youth fully built out that mall space to create whatever type of learning environment it is that that we identify and this is to meet some of our districts most at-risk learners and I want to be clear that the one of the interesting pieces of this is they don't have a program to offer us it's our program so they provide us the space and then everything that happens inside of that space is less is left up to the school district to design and to develop Simon Youth Foundation also pays the lease on the space for the duration of our partnership which can be renewed I believe it's every four or five years. So when this opportunity first presented itself, we formed an internal team. I'd like to introduce them to you here this evening. We have Dr. Steve Robertson working on that team. He's one of our area assistant superintendents. Heather DeVries, who is our dropout prevention coordinator. We have Becky Bracewell Tucker, who's not here this evening. I'm going to explain in a minute why she's not here this evening. Also from our maintenance and operation shop, We have Kathy McDonald and Mark Teat and I'll pass with you working very very closely with Mr. Gunnell and his team on what this space would look like what he's very concerned about HVAC and all of those types of things So we have had them tied at our hip over the past couple of months and also Don Massey the general manager of Katie Mills Mall so the team came together and The first trip that we took was to San Antonio to look at the Judson learning learning Academy which is a Simon Youth Academy. We asked a lot of questions. We're really trying to, we're in the fact-finding stages of would this be a good fit for Katie and do we have a need for a program like this in Katie? The team, I didn't get to go to go on this one because I was at a different conference, but the team also visited a Simon Youth Academy at the Outlet Marketplace in Orlando, Florida. And I would like to share that the Simon Youth Foundation has funded our folks to go visit these particular of these particular academies and Simon youth has also sponsored two of our staff members to attend the national dropout conference which is currently being held in San Antonio and that's where Becky Bracewell Tucker is right now and Heather drove back in for the presentation this evening but Heather was sharing with me that it's a great networking opportunity for other Simon youth foundations across the country to come and to network and to share best practices and Becky's already fired up so so we have great great things we're splitting this yes but as what we have learned so far is that we are very supportive of Katie establishing Assignment Youth Academy and Katie Mills and really looking at an emphasis in that program state space on career and technology so who benefits well of course our students are the primary beneficiary of a program like this it would provide our most disenfranchised students and access to a flexible non-traditional learning environment the program would emphasize one-on-one individualized learning and a very very small class setting of course technology would also be infused into that learning it creates a program inclusive of career and workforce readiness skills and utilizes community business partnerships to provide the on the job training and one of the the beautiful things about having a program in the mall is easy access to all of the retail that we have right there so students taking their course work and then being able to go out and do a work-based study and then come back in and do their studies another unique piece is that Simon Youth Foundation has a partnership with CVS where they actually bring instructors in and train students on all CVS related activity anywhere from the pharmacy that aspect of a CVS to running the cash registers to making sure that inventory is there and stocked to greeting customers so a myriad of different job opportunities within CVS a very strong partnership that I know they're very proud of this would also enhance our existing dropout prevention and recovery practices and And another thing just to highlight is that they award over a million dollars worth of scholarships to the Simon Youth Foundation graduates on an annual basis. So they are ready and willing with a lot of cash, not only to help to get the programs up and started, but to also to continue to support the students.
So where do we go from here? Again, as I said, I'm here this evening to gauge an interest from the board to see if this is an avenue that you would like us to pursue. Because if so, our timeline is getting pretty short as we would have to build out and design and hire architects. And we're looking at a projected opening, if you're supportive, of next fall, the fall of 2016. We would have to develop our letter of intent and our MOU. The CEO is in San Antonio right now. He regrets that he can't be here for this presentation, but he's at the national conference But he has penciled in December 7th on his calendar. His name is dr. Michael journal journal And he is excited to be back here in December To if you were interested in learning more about the program, of course We would have to develop and submit a budget design and develop the components of that instructional program We've learned a lot listening to other Simon you foundation academies. We'd have to develop marketing and application process and then of course recruit teachers and staff so in summary we've been approached to offer a pop to enter into a partnership with the Simon youth foundation and Katie ISD and let me talk a little bit about the students that this program would serve because you might be thinking well we have rains already and one of the things that we we don't have here is a part that we don't have in Katy is what happens to the students after they've dropped out and so this program would really be targeted at our dropouts at students who have already dropped out and currently we have between 200 and 300 of those students in Katy and if we could recoup those students to come back into a learning environment and eventually graduate from Katy ISD and ultimately earn that diploma we think that that's a great piece and it's a piece that we're missing these kids don't want to go Go Reins. And the mall really provides a different type of atmosphere, if you will, that they might be in a safer learning environment, more willing to come in to finish up their coursework and eventually graduate. Again, I mentioned our staff who've gone out and conducted those site visits and future considerations or program design, budgeting, and how we move forward. Another piece is that if we were to connect this program under the auspices of RAINS, then RAINS would also be eligible for those scholarship dollars as well. So that's another piece I know Becky's very excited about. She's hounding them right now trying to get every little penny, but that's it. If we structure it that way as another component of our alternative offerings here in Katie under that umbrella of RAINNs then that also provides those opportunities for those students as well. And I do have a quick video that I want to...
The mission here with SYF is to give students a second chance at not just obtaining a high school diploma but putting their lives back together and setting them on a clear direct path towards success.
Growing up we really didn't have much like we lived in cherry parks almost getting evicted a lot of times like the struggles were just making me like not want to show up to school not make me want to do anything. After coming here, it really turned my life around.
I found that trying to get to school while dealing with chronic illness was just a challenge. As sick as I was, I never thought reaching my high school diploma was going to be possible. I just wanted to give up, hide in my room, drop out of school, and never go back.
Students that come here are generally disenfranchised from the traditional high school. I have to provide for my family, I have to pay bills.
I had way too many absences to the point where I had almost no hope that I was going to graduate.
My mom has been paralyzed for about 10 years now. I'm one of her main caregivers. So it was either school or my mom.
I dealt with a lot of depression and anxiety. Entering high school with that made it really difficult for me.
It's something that they've really never experienced before. That someone really genuinely cares about their well-being. I would not get through these classes without that nannery thing.
It was really such a relief to have people around me that understood that I'm not a bad kid. I was just going through a rough patch.
Being in a much smaller-than-life community helps me focus more. I'm much more productive. The atmosphere, it's more intimate, it's more personalized. The instruction is one-on-one for the students. The whole concept is to change the kids' outlook on school.
This place is really like a stepping stone for me. I never thought I'd see myself in a cap and gown graduating.
It's been a long hard road, but today we celebrate the accomplishment of graduating from high school.
The $1 million scholarship money was given out to students that attend these academies throughout the country.
I heard a little bit about this student who was afraid that they weren't going to be able to actually achieve their dreams because as I understand it, culinary school is way too expensive. Andrew?
I'm told it's all my dream of becoming a chef. The people here at SYF have supported me through my hardest times. I never thought that I would even make it to graduation, and here I am.
Now I feel like I can be pretty much anything. Feeling good.
I have no idea how proud I am.
When I am able to give them their high school diploma, there isn't a price tag that you can really put on my job.
Thank you for the amazing teachers.
Thank you for the quality of education.
Thank you for caring.
Thank you for the second chance. Thank you for the opportunity.
Thank you for helping me succeed. Because of SYF, I am a high school graduate.
I am a high school graduate.
I am a high school graduate. Thank you, Simon Hughes Foundation.
Thank you, Simon. I'd like to personally thank the Simon Hughes Foundation. You really can't articulate how that feels to see a young person develop into such a great human being.
and we're here to respond to any questions that you may have and seek your direction and mr. president mr. president mr. Fahey I was gonna say I was one how many some my daughter's money back she's us at the kid news mall all the time as it is I want to think mr.
Don Massey has been tremendous asset to our community in a very short period of time. He's come on board, he's gotten very active in leadership at Katy, he's come to Development Council,
Board of Directors, and just being a great corporate citizen, really appreciate his involvement in the community. And because of him, the Foundation knew about us. Of course, they knew they had the mall, but they didn't know that they would have a great partner. He explained to them to us to them and they approached us this summer. Some of these had to happen. First of all, I wanted to make certain that it was a feasible endeavor. We have a lot of folks who want to be part of KDACITY. You know, they want to be here as families, as students, but also just to have the KD name associated with their business, so to speak. Some of these, salmon doesn't need us. They have a lot to offer us. But they came to us wanting to be a partner, but we want to make certain that we had the ability to make this happen and that there was an interest in it. We get approached by a lot of folks and we can't associate with just anybody. I was very impressed with folks that came down to visit. Of course, Mr. Massey himself, as a person, is someone I have a lot of respect for, appreciation for. Mr. Fring, Heather, you've gotten pretty excited about this, I'm told.
And what we wanted to make certain, though, was that it was feasible and sustainable. And that's why I miss McDonald and mr. T's are there and brother canals always one cover all the bases four or five times and I want to get that done before go or to you guys What's I knew the heart of this board is you want to do where you can work? Yes, I? Didn't want to give you an idea of something to do that. We couldn't do This I think we can do if there's an interest Thank you. Mr. Dubrow
well thank you I think this is wonderful thank you for the time it took to research it thank you for the efforts to put it all together just thank you I think this is what this community needs at this time thank you so much
mr. muskie yeah first I just want to say thank you to Simon youth foundation and Simon property management for wanting to invest in our community that that really says a lot right there in itself that that you are are investing in communities that you are in and and for the betterment of the school system there and and uh individual students that uh you know may not get this opportunity otherwise so as you were giving the report i actually wrote down a couple of questions which you happen to answer subsequently in the report but i'm going to go ahead and share those questions with you because I'm very happy with the answers that kind of came out of it so I asked do we believe this could further lower our dropout rate with the program and do we believe this will create an opportunity for success for certain students that otherwise may not exist for them and I believe undeniably from your report the answers to both of those are yes absolutely and and with that you know I just gotta say I love it I love it because it potentially creates an opportunity for students that we may not otherwise reach and we are always advocates for opportunities for our students and and and secondly uh the the fact that it's that it's katie asti's program um obviously with the support of simon youth foundation and things that they are bringing to it but with that i mean i have complete confidence and faith that this administration can put together a horrific and tremendous program that will help students achieve the success that they might not be able to otherwise so with that yes I'm very supportive of the idea of this across
the country they do have a 90% graduation rate so again with that very small individualized learning they see very high success rates with their students who are in the program.
Ms. Fox. Mr. President, thank you. Thank you for the presentation. I've echoed my colleagues. It's very exciting.
But I wrote down a dozen questions and I'm not
sure, sure, but Mrs. Doyle said I can only ask two. Is, is, this may not be the meeting for the questions. Maybe in December would be a better time to ask some of the questions but I do want to say I've known Mrs. DeVries for a very long time and I love love love your desire to never give up on any student and I've watched you look at dropouts and just offered them one more opportunity so it's great to see you on the row here with them and Mr. Massey thank you for what you're doing so yeah like I'm super excited to shoot from the video about this program but I have a million questions like will we be paid a DA will who pays for the teachers is it a flexible schedule and I can I can
really answer some of those right for you so the district the the responsibility of staffing is for the district we would pay the staffing we would pay for technology we've already began some of those cost figures we would recoup a DA from these students so this would be money coming back into the GOF that we're losing with the dropouts even though they've already dropped out mm-hmm we can recoup them okay I'm all right Chris yes yes okay we were closely with his staff as well because those are some of our questions going into it so there is there is a cost to the district the staffing is a cost to the district but this space also is flexible enough if we wanted to offer professional learning after hours if we wanted students to come in for evening courses because it would be operational as the mall hours are which is extend beyond our school day so I think the possibilities are just at this point limitless as we kind of dream about what this could be for students some other opportunities as far as a possible is that a TV studio maybe you have a TV studio you have a studio yes yes yes yes so they're just some different opportunities that we have but I can keep going I might be able to answer
those okay so would like mrs. Tucker be the principal she would probably be the
principal who oversaw it just as a on paper and she's obviously been involved that we were probably looking at a coordinator who would run it so not a principal but a coordinator who would look at running the day-to-day operations of the program and also that person is responsible for a lot of community outreach looking for the partnerships looking for the possible job so it's a different role than a principal very very different role than a principal it's typically a small staff or looking at maybe five to six teachers of course a counselor would be on board the counseling component is large a possible part-time social worker is another piece that we're looking at within that budget so again it's very small intensive support for the students we've talked about starting and they did this in Judson as well they have 25 students they might have more like 60 we would work up to that but we're thinking originally 25 students would come in to the for the a.m. program and then they they would leave and a different 25 students would come in for the afternoon program. So a lot of flexibility in their schedule because, again, most of these students are working. So they have jobs or they may even have children or siblings that they're taking care of. So really being cognizant of their home life and giving them the flexibility to ultimately get them the diploma.
You answered about six of my questions right there. How many students, how many teachers, flexible schedules. I know that Mr. Fraley has thought this all out and he wouldn't have even mentioned it to us If he hadn't thought about how we're gonna pay for it. Do we we're good with the budget, right? I mean, this is very exciting. But can we pay for it? And do we have I I know you guys don't have any extra Spare time so I'm looking at you going. How do you have time to put this together? But it's
Other duties as assigned.
Mr. Fredy. We've certainly spent considerable time having the conversation. There is a cost or there is an investment. And if we can bring our children back into the school system and get them gainfully employed or even advance their employment opportunities, I think that the return will be well worth the investment.
This is my last thing.
Go ahead.
I absolutely know that there an educated populist pours back into our community and an uneducated populist does the reverse and so I mean it's awesome. Mrs. Doyle has questions and she's giving them to me but I'm going to let her take credit. Mr. President.
Mrs. Doyle.
I actually have one because a couple of the questions as she was asking questions and you were speaking that were coming to mind. Is it an entirely new curriculum that you'll that you will create for these students or do they follow this similar curriculum?
What the students are currently following in our schools, you know, we've visited two different sites and they both ran it very very differently For example Judson was very individualized So you might have a science teacher working with 10 or 12 students one might be taking biology One might be taking chemistry and so they're working through a different curriculum I'm still the teaks that because we're required to teach the teaks but it wouldn't be the full-blown KDI SD curriculum in Judson I know it was very individualized some computer work where the students were working through modules on a computer remember the point is to get the kids graduated to get these students graduated however in Florida it was a very different model they were running a multitude of different alternative programs all following the district curriculum so that model was a little bit different but I think we would stay as tried-and-true as we could to our KD curriculum as much as possible again it's it's not like you have 25 students taking English one to be able to work through the curriculum and some of the types of activities but we're required to teach the teak so those would
absolutely be embedded and you said there was 25 a.m. students and 25 p.m.
students that's our max that's no no no no that's that's the the minimum that we would start with to get the program up and running and get it started. We could feasibly, what do we think, in 60, 70, go up to 60, 70 in the a.m. and then again in the p.m.
Okay. And so I'm assuming when you say p.m., you're talking into, you know, late to possibly 9 p.m.
No, no, absolutely not. So the morning group would come in. Heather, you want to come on up?
You can come up.
Talk about the schedule a little bit. Right.
So we're trying to figure out a way that we don't overuse our teachers So we would typically have what we're thinking is an 8 to noon and then like a 1 to 4 or 5 or overlap kind of the lunch Section have students eating lunch if you were the first section and the second group coming in to have lunch So that everybody gets lunch so it's lunch in the courtyard No, the food court?
No. Because if that's the case, we may have a lot of students that are like, I'm leaving Seven Lakes because you can eat.
No, we have to adhere to all of our guidelines for lunch. So, we're having some very creative conversations about lunch. But they would have it in the space. The space is pretty controlled. We didn't know it was there until Dawn showed us. So it's it has an exterior entrance and You would never know it was there so that the students wouldn't really go in through the mall They come straight in from the outside of the mall into the school and that's pretty much the controlled space
That's what I was kind of asking about the p.m Because if it did go later in the evening I was kind of there was there going to be security there to monitor kids Walking with their cars, but now that you're answering that it's still daylight hours. Okay Okay. It's just kind of processing the logistics of it and imagining what it could be like. It's very interesting and very exciting as well. Thank you so much.
Mr. President. Mr. Frady. It's important to note that we've kind of focused on can we do this period at a basic level, and we can. I have a suspicion that with the folks involved that are involved, they won't stay basic for long.
Mr. President, would we be providing transportation to these students? It would be, there would not be any district provider of transportation. These students would be on their own. No, but there's plenty of parking on that side of the mall.
Right. And Dawn said even during peak holiday season, there is plenty of parking.
Right. No, I know that, but I've been there a couple times. times but um but I'm just wondering if a child part of their reason for having dropout issues or already have dropped out and has getting to school is it going to be easier for them to get to the mall if they don't have transportation to get them to school or don't have their own car their parents don't have vehicle I didn't know what that looked like in aiding their success success um most of the students that we're we're looking at you know we're there are overage under credit kids lots of them do have cars or a family vehicle and it would definitely be part of the conversation if they're able to commit to the program that they would be able to to have that transportation available
especially if we get the buy-in of their family they really do find a way to get the student there especially if we're trying to assist them in earning that diploma so it where we didn't feel like right it would be feasible all right
dr. Caskey thank you for having the presentation and I think I would like to point out that the board I think is allowing mr. Fraley to give his staff staff members much more work to pursue this idea. And we look forward to you bringing back more answers and solidifying this a little bit more.
Thank you, Mr. President. Again, I want to thank Dr. Kaskin, Mr. Freese, and of course Mr. Massey and our whole team out there for this work. This has been on top of other things, but I'll be honest. There was some initial reluctance. that as they got more information about it, I can't hold them back now. They're kind of pulling me forward, and I'm okay with that. So thank you guys so much. Thank you, Board, for allowing us to go forward. The next steps, we'll have the CEO here next month, and we'll be looking at the ARCA's agreement. Thank you all very much. Thank you.
Item 8
And that moves us into Section 8, Open Forum. At this time, the Board of Trustees will hear from patrons who wish to speak. By Board policy, a maximum of 30 minutes have been allotted for this forum. The time allowed will be divided equally among those who have signed up to speak. The maximum amount of time allowed for any one speaker is five minutes. Our Sergeant-at-Arms, Mr. Joe Adams, will alert you when you have one minute remaining. Individuals who have written comments to present to the Board should provide them to the Secretary or Board Services, Ms. Sharon Nowak. These written statements will be shared with the Board after the meeting. Due to the posting requirements of the Open Meeting Act, the Board is only able to respond to a statement that is directly related to a posted agenda item. For clarification purposes, the Open Forum is not a dispute resolution forum. The Board is not trying to prevent any patron from speaking. The intent is to redirect patrons to the proper grievance process so that action be taken as appropriate. Employees or members of the public who wish to express complaint about a student matter or district personnel reminded they must follow and exhaust all administrative remedies prior to presenting complaints to the board we have one speaker tonight as I announce your name please come to the podium and state your name tell the board whether or not you reside in Katy ISD and whether or not you have children presently enrolled in Katy ISD Jordan Woolley you have five minutes to speak to us if you don't want to use that time you don't just as much as you want today
I was given an assignment in school that questioned my faith and told me that I that God was not real our teacher had started off saying that the assignment had been getting problems all day and we were asked to take a poll to say whether God is fact opinion or a myth and she told anyone who said that a fact or opinion was wrong and that God is only a myth and she started saying telling kids that they were completely wrong and that when kids would argue she had told them that we would get in trouble and whenever we asked why we were led to believe that he was true if he is untrue she told us to ask our past pastors um when i tried to argue she told me to prove it and i tried to reference things such as the bible and stories that i've read before from people that have died and went to heaven but have come back and told their stories and she told me that both were just things that people were doing to get attention. And I know that it wasn't just me who was affected by it. My friend, she went home and she started crying, and she was actually supposed to come with me, but she didn't think she could. So, my friend, she turned in her paper and she had still put that God was a fact and to be true. And my teacher crossed the answer out several times, telling her that it was completely wrong. And my other friends, she got really upset and she started arguing with the teacher. and the teacher got mad and my friend she wound up slamming everything off of her desk because she got really aggravated with the whole issue and whenever my friend and I came home we immediately told our parents about it and we called the principal and she said that she would handle it but she said that the teacher had already gone home and another child in my class had asked the teacher if we could like try to put what we believe in on the paper and she said you can if you want to get the problem wrong which will fail you'll fail the paper if you do and um I felt like this was really wrong and I didn't feel like it was fair for my faith and my religion to have anything to do with what I'm learning about in school. And I had known before that it, I know that our schools aren't really supposed to teach us much about religion or question anything about religion. And when I tried to talk to my teacher about it, she told me that it's not It doesn't have anything to do with religion because the problem was just saying that there is no God
Mr. Fred, thank you. First of all, thanks for coming in that truly. Sorry that you feel your faith was question did you point out the principles that was made aware of this today and and and And we'll have a chance to work on that as per district policy procedure. So thank you for coming tonight We will definitely looking into that Very much appreciate it. Very brave of you. Yeah, thank you, honey Good job ma'am.
Yes, thank you Ms. Jordan.
Ma'am, we have one little quick question.
I may have missed it. What grade were you in again? I'm in seventh grade. Seventh grade. Okay, thank you. Mr. President, I have a question. What school?
I'd rather we not have that at this point in time. You have a resolution process that we need to follow. I think getting to these details right now would be out of your own process. the process will be unfair to a lot of folks and uh and putting her on the spot is not a good thing my recommendation yeah thank you it was a brave of you thank you
all right uh section nine is a consent agenda
Consent Agenda
mr president mr adams the board touches previous agendas recommend items 9.1
through 9.1 15 I have a motion by Joe Adams a second by Ashley van that the board of trustees approves a consent agenda is recommended in items nine point one through nine point one five any discussion let's proceed to vote all those in favor raise your right hand and say aye I was opposed motion passes 7 to 0
That moves us to our discussion action section 10.1 discuss and consider board approval of the district's vision statement Which present yes, mr. Mahowski
Items 10 - 13
Given that I was unable to be with you guys when you worked on this explicitly
out of support and for the work that you did do that night I wouldn't and then an appreciation for the work that you did do that night I would like to make the following motion I move that the Board of Trustees approves the district's
vision statement be the legacy I have a motion by Brian Mahalski a second by Rebecca Fox that the Board of Trustees approves the district vision statement
be the legacy. Any discussion?
President. Mr. DeBrell. A couple of things. I would first like to thank Ms. Fox, who I believe a few years ago really began the process and put us on a journey to get to this point during her presidency. I would like to thank Mr. Maholsky last year as he
continued along that path. I'd like to thank Mr. Fraley. The night that this came about it came from his mouth.
But he sat back and he listened to what we were all saying and brought it down to those three words. And I think that's important to acknowledge. college. Today, I didn't plan it this way, but I happened to have a lunch with a young man by the name of Sherman Hampton. And Sherman and I were having lunch for business reasons. But in our conversation, I found out that he was a graduate of May Creek High School back in the early 90s, or mid to late 90s.
Sherman had a desire to become an attorney.
said his parents moved to Katy because they wanted to give him and his siblings the best opportunity or good or a great quality education and that's why they moved there and he graduated from May Creek in the 90s he then went on to college and he had an opportunity he wanted to become an attorney when he graduated college yet to earn some money to go to law school so he decided to teach in Houston and taught for over six years in a very difficult school and today he's an assistant district attorney in Fort Bend County and a graduate of May Creek and part of that lunch was he was asking me where he and his family should move to Katy because he has to stay in Fort Bend but he wants to get his kids into Katy ISD and I tell that story because Sherman is being that legacy and when I think about these words I think about boys that have come before us I know oftentimes we joke with mr. Adams about his tenure on the board and how you know Noah landed the ark and the next year Joe Adams was elected to school board in K is but he was such part of that legacy himself we're building schools and land that passed boards purchased because they had a vision just last week we moved forward with the renovations of the second floor of Miller because past boards were legacy and they they had that vision and what I so like about this statement is the challenge to be be that legacy for us what will we look like when we reach build-out that's a question for us what type of education will deliver to the students of this community when we're at that point that's a question for us supporting programs to like tonight but dr. Caskey brought up that's being that legacy so I just I could go on and on but I'm gonna just choose to stop because I support this so much and the the challenge that it is to each one of us to be that legacy that KDISD already is.
Mr. President.
Ms. Fox.
So coming to a vision statement is, we have learned, very difficult. With seven people having diverse talents and gifts and experiences and backgrounds, backgrounds, and living in a great place like Katy, we wanted to include it all. We wanted to include the academics and the community and the staff and the volunteers. We wanted to include it all and how do you capture that in a vision statement that you can say when anyone asks you about it without having to look it up. It was just really hard. We said, as we talked about it last month, was it last month maybe we talked about the the one that we had been working on and you know like Mr. Gibrell has said for a few years we've been just kind of building it and refining it and when we got it out and looked at it again it just wasn't right this was too much and thank you Mr. Maholski for saying what we're all thinking is within it but at that moment he also said we'll know it when we hear it and when those words came it was like be the legacy and you just think about it like is it it too but you just you just think about it and everything fits there right every dis because we have to know that every decision we make at this desk and be applied toward our vision which is to be the legacy and what I love about it is a lot of things but let Let me say only this, that legacy speaks to the people who have come before us, those here today, and then those who will come. Because to be the legacy, you can't rely on other people. Legacy is to leave a gift to someone. And so I can't just take from it. I have to be the legacy. I have to contribute to it. And so for all the people who came before and paved the way for me, and for our children to have great success in KDISD. People voted on bond elections to provide for the schools my children went to. And so I continue to stay, even though our children are gone. My husband and I continue to stay and contribute to other children to pay it forward in a way. And be the legacy is exactly about that. We can't leave it the same. We must contribute. And those who will come after us will continue to contribute to that legacy. and I'm proud of the boards who have come before and Mr. Adams has been a part of many of those and so many other great people and our namesakes when I think about our namesakes and the legacies they have done it just all ties together and and I hope that in some small way that I will contribute and I'm proud of all of you sitting here and how much you're contributing and and I'm excited to be a part of the legacy
Well, I would go ahead. Okay, first of all, I want to commend the board for hanging in there You had a couple years and yes, you had mrs. Fox. Mr. Rossi crack a whip on you as well and But you hung in there because again where your heart is this community is without question and You heard tonight several things when you heard that as the district we have superior ratings financially You heard our students celebrate it with the National Marriage Scholar recipients. You saw our community come forth to FFA with a financial contribution which is just a small token of what they truly bring to us. And then you agreed to invest in another initiative to help more and more students.
Without a doubt, we have our share of critics. We know that. And people are very quick to point to the flaws in things. things. But sometimes you have to give yourself permission to acknowledge that you're pretty good. Act a little better than pretty good.
We're not perfect, but in the context of things, at a high level, there's a lot of excellence in this district, historically, currently,
and we will have more of it in the future, without a doubt. And so when you talk about being the legacy it is not a past tense thing it is all past present challenges for the present and a challenge for the future and it truly is mrs. Fox as you pointed out the idea of honoring the past preserving the present and paying it forward in the future without a doubt and so I'm just very excited about it I I have a lot of ideas with that already. And I think this truly can be something that we can all be very happy with. I just want to thank the board for hanging in there with each other and with us as well and letting us sit back and listen to you talk through this and finding out that we're not that far apart, pretty much on the same page. We really are. A lot of things get in the way, but when it comes down to the real nitty-gritty, I get real technical here we have a lot of things to celebrate and it's okay things to be okay
all right then I get to close it up are there any more all right I just think it was ironic when we were sitting around talking about this I think the one thing that turned the aha moment was when we read the definition at a dictionary of what a legacy means an inheritance or gift one leaf to another and I thought that was a great thing and for me what hit at home was my kids were third-generation graduates of Katy this place was great so my dad brought me here and I can tell you Katy was much better for me than it was from my dad and now when I brought my kids here I wanted to have the same thing that I had and I was shocked because it was a thousand million times better for them than it was for me so I for those that came before me I thank Thank you. And I am so proud to say I had a motion by Brian Mohalski and a second by Rebecca Fox that the Board of Trustees approves the district's vision statement, Be the Legacy. Let's proceed to vote. All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Those opposed? Motion passes 7-0. Be the Legacy. And Mr. Fraley, I hope that we can see this in multiple areas.
Yes. And let me see. As we continue, number 11, informational items, donated items of the Katy School District and quarterly investment report of 11.2 are in the agenda items along with our future meeting will be board work study meeting will be Monday, November 16th, and a regular board meeting will be Monday, November 23rd. Having no more further business, this meeting is adjourned at 9.07.
Official documents
Agenda
The district's own agenda for this meeting, as published on BoardDocs.
Official agenda, Regular Board Meeting Agenda, 26 October 2015 →
Board packet · 52 documents
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- October 2015 Donated Items Katy ISD Table 26 KB
- 4th Quarter Report 2015 101515 84 KB
- 1 Financial Statements - Sep 2015 15 KB
- 2 Analysis Func Obj - Sep 2015 17 KB
- 3 Check Registers - Sep 2015 7 KB
- 1 - PBK Letter of Review for Shade Structures Project 40 KB
- 2 - Proposal - Shade Structure - Cinco Ranch HS 333 KB
- 3 - Proposal - Shade Structure - Katy HS 1028 KB
- 4 - Proposal - Shade Structure - Mayde Creek HS 977 KB
- 5 - Proposal - Shade Structure - Morton Ranch HS 347 KB
- 6 - Proposal - Shade Structure - Seven Lakes HS 983 KB
- 7 - Proposal - Shade Structure - Taylor HS 980 KB
- 8 - Proposal - Shade Structure - Tompkins HS 365 KB
- 9 - Shade Structures Proposal TAB 76 KB
- 10 - Shade Structures Proposal EVAL 76 KB
- 1 - RFCSP 1546 - Tennis Soccer Baseball Softball Equipment Supplies Apparel - TAB 37 KB
- 2 - RFCSP 1546 - Tennis Soccer Baseball Softball Equipment Supplies Apparel - EVAL 33 KB
- Atty Ltr (Electric Easement - CenterPoint - ES #40) 124 KB
- Electric Easement - CenterPoint - Elem #40 521 KB
- 1_ Function and object code description 12 KB
- 2_ REVENUES, EXPENDITURES AND FUND BALANCE 1015 87 KB
- 3_KISD_2015-16 Budget 1015 22 KB
- 101315 Budget Amendment Detail 112 KB
- Board Grant Summary-October 8 KB
- Grant Descriptions-October 67 KB
- BOARD DOCS-LEP Enrollment Supporting Doc. 2015-2016 107 KB
- 2015-2016 District Improvement Plan 454 KB
- Elementary CIP 2811 KB
- Junior High CIP 1150 KB
- High School CIP 709 KB
- Attorney letter Memorial MUD, Hayes 132 KB
- Interlocal Mem MUD, Hayes 2709 KB
- Architect Ltr - MPJH GMP Recommendation Letter_Amendment 1 136 KB
- Atty Ltr (A133-2009 GMP Amendment No 1 Memorial Prkwy JH Renovation) 122 KB
- MPJH-GMP Amendment One-Drymalla 9255 KB
- Architect Ltr - MPJH GMP Recommendation Letter_Amendment 2 137 KB
- Atty Ltr (A133-2009 GMP Amendment No 2 Memorial Prkwy JH (Renovation-Additions)) 122 KB
- MPJH-GMP Amendment Two-Drymalla 9276 KB
- 2015-10-19 KISD_MCTC DD Booklet_10.9.2015 7497 KB
- 2015-10-19 KISD_MCTC DD Board Presentation 20032 KB
- MIN 09 21 2015 Work Study PENDING APPROVAL 97 KB
- MIN 09 28 2015 Regular Meeting PENDING APPROVAL 104 KB
- Tax Report September 2015 9 KB
- SYF Bd Pres 10 26 15 416 KB
- KISD School First 13-14-Board 351 KB
- 102615 Demographic Update 2015 8871 KB
- MIN 09 21 2015 Work Study 3101 KB
- MIN 09 28 2015 Regular Meeting 2066 KB
- Electric Easement SIGNED 2736 KB
- Interlocal SIGNED 2560 KB
- Amendment One SIGNED 1549 KB
- Amendment Two SIGNED 1543 KB
Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 3.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the Superintendent in Closed Meeting.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 002 · AGENDA 9.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 9.1 through 9.15.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 003 · AGENDA 9.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 9.1 through 9.15.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 004 · AGENDA 9.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 9.1 through 9.15.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 005 · AGENDA 9.4
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 9.1 through 9.15.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 006 · AGENDA 9.5
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 9.1 through 9.15.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 007 · AGENDA 9.6
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 9.1 through 9.15.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 008 · AGENDA 9.7
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 9.1 through 9.15.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 009 · AGENDA 9.8
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 9.1 through 9.15.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 010 · AGENDA 9.9
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 9.1 through 9.15.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 011 · AGENDA 9.10
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 9.1 through 9.15.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 012 · AGENDA 9.11
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 9.1 through 9.15.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 013 · AGENDA 9.12
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 9.1 through 9.15.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 014 · AGENDA 9.13
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 9.1 through 9.15.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 015 · AGENDA 9.14
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 9.1 through 9.15.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 016 · AGENDA 9.15
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 9.1 through 9.15.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 017 · AGENDA 10.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the district's vision statement: Be the legacy .
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |