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December 7, 2015, and the time is 642 p.m. The Board met earlier this evening in
closed meeting. Any action arising from discussions in a closed meeting must be
taken in a subsequent open meeting. Mr. Fraley, will you verify that we're in
compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meeting Law in regard to the
notice of this meeting? Mr. President, we are in compliance. The first item is the MOU,
you and run to understanding mr. president mr. de brel move that the
Board of Trustees approves the memorandum of understanding I mean for
Ben County and Katy Independent School District as presented in closed session
I have a motion by Henry de Beryl second by Ashley van that the Board of
Trustees approves the memorandum of understanding between Fort Bend County
and Katy Independent School District as presented in closed meeting any
discussion hearing then we'll proceed to vote all those in favor raise your right
hand and say aye aye those opposed motion passes six to zero next item is the personnel report
mr president mr mahalsky made it the board of trustees approves the
personnel report as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting
i have a motion by brian mahalsky a second by courtney dole that the board of trustees
approves the personnel report as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting
any discussion hearing none we'll proceed to vote all those in favor raise your right hand and say
say aye. Aye. Those opposed? Motion passes six to zero. Do we have any scouts in the
audience today? Nope. I think they're going to save that up for our next meeting. And
now we'll move to our recognition section. Peace Officer, Oath of Office, Mr. Jinks.
Good evening, President Griffin, Board members, and Superintendent Fraley.
Newly commissioned peace officers are required to publicly swear or affirm an oath of office.
Tonight we have one newly commissioned officer.
I would like to ask Officer Shannon Dressard to come forward and take the oath and be recognized
as a member of the Katy ISD Police Department.
Please raise your right hand and repeat after me.
I, Shannon Dresser,
I, Shannon Dresser,
do solemnly swear,
do solemnly swear,
that I will faithfully execute the duties,
that I will faithfully execute the duties,
of the Office of Peace Officer,
of the Office of Peace Officer,
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Officer Dresser was born and raised in California.
She graduated in 2009 from the University of Hawaii, Manoa,
where she was the featured twirler, earning a Bachelor's of Art in Sociology and a minor in Speech.
She also received a Graduate Certificate in Conflict Resolution in 2010.
In 2011, Officer Dresser graduated from the police academy and began her law enforcement
career with the Honolulu Police Department.
She followed her parents' footsteps as both her mother and father are retired sergeants
from the Los Angeles Police Department and her stepfather is a police officer for the
Santa Monica Police Department.
In 2014, she was awarded a scholarship to Argosy, Hawaii for being the first runner-up
up in the Miss Hawaii pageant.
And in July 2015, Officer Dresser
completed her master's of science degree
in organizational leadership.
She moved from Hawaii to Katy to be
with her boyfriend Chance, who is an active military police
sergeant serving as an army recruiter in the Katy area.
Officer Dresser began her career with Katy Police Department
in September of 2015.
Help me welcome Officer Shannon Drescher.
Welcome, Officer Drescher.
And who did you bring with us?
My boyfriend, Mr. Cowpea.
Hey, thank you very much.
Thank you very much. Appreciate it and welcome aboard.
Thank you.
That removes us to the report section 5.1, proposed partnership with Simon Youth Foundation.
Good evening, Chairman Griffin, board members, and Mr. Fraley.
We are pleased to be back again this evening with more information on our potential partnership with the Simon Youth Foundation.
Joining me this evening is the president and CEO of Simon Youth, Dr. Michael Durnall, as well as John Suter, who is their program coordinator.
And they have had a busy day today in Katy.
They started their morning with Ms. Graceville Tucker over on her campus, learning about the wonderful programs that we have there.
Later, John spent the latter part of the morning with team members from Technology and Maintenance
and Operation to have further discussions with them on this potential partnership at
Katy Mills Mall and specifically how their work will intersect with the work of Simon
Youth.
So I know that they've had a busy day today in Katy.
Also joining us this evening, we have Don Massey, who is the General Manager for Katy
Mills Mall.
And then on our internal team who has been working on this project, we have Ms. Bracewell
Tucker joining us this evening, Dr. Steve Robertson back here, and then also Ms. Heather DeVries.
And we're going to start, Dr. Durnall is going to share some more specific information with you
about the Simon Youth Foundation. He is much more of a wealth of knowledge than I was when I was
here in October, I promise you that. And then Heather is going to follow up with some of the
details that we've worked on since we were here last in October. I do want to let you know that
it is our intent while this is a report this evening it is our intent that this
would move to an action item at the December 14th board meeting and I'm
gonna turn it over to dr. Darrell
no Scott there we go figured it out good evening thank you so much for allowing
Simon youth foundation to be here to tell a little bit more of our story the
hospitality that we have enjoyed today has been amazing thank you all so much
for making us feel so welcome here. As Dr. Caskey said, my name is Michael Durnall and I have the
great pleasure of serving as the President and CEO of the Simon Youth Foundation. I am literally
wrapping up my fifth year in that program, starting my sixth year next week on Monday,
but it has been a great opportunity to work with school districts and school partners across the
country to talk about the program that Simon Youth Foundation has and brings to life for our partner
school districts. Simon Youth Foundation started in 1998. Many, many years ago we
never thought that we would see the day that it is today that we have the kind
of organization that we do. Let's face it, some of the first customers in a
shopping mall were probably kids playing hooky. So what better way than to turn
that assets on its head and think about ways in which we can put those kids back
to school by while they're at the mall the Simon Youth Foundation staff and the
mall managers knew that they weren't necessarily teachers or school
principals or those kinds of positions that could really impact kids but they
knew that they could use those assets so if we think about the dropout crisis
that exists in the United States right now we know that every 26 seconds a
student chooses to drop out of high school somewhere in the country and
those who drop out of high school are 90% less qualified or disqualified for
applying for more jobs than or other career paths. They will also learn earn
more than $350,000 less in their life and those are numbers that are going to
be important that we'll come back to later in this presentation. Simon as you
know is has a local impact here in Katy. There's over 3,000 people that are
currently employed at Katy Mills. Sales are currently over about three million
dollars a year there from the mall and involved in the Katy Economic Development
Council and tourism boards here. As you introduced earlier, Don Massey, who's the
general manager there, participates in many community events, sponsorship of
Katy ISD and the Chamber of Commerce and many, many others. So it's those kinds of
connections that we feel is terribly important that makes this partnership
ripe for this area. We know that school partners come in various shapes and
sizes. We work currently in 13 states across the United States. We have 29
partnerships in operation right now with those school district partners across the
country and all of those come to this to this partnership with different goals in
mind. We're very cognizant of the great work that Katie does and for us it is a
best in brand association for the Simon Youth Foundation to be associated with
Katie. Katie would join if they decided to become involved with our partnership,
would join other school districts like Orlando Public Schools in Orlando,
Florida which was this year was the Brood winner, prize winner, which is
basically for those of you who don't know sort of the equivalent to the Nobel
Nobel Peace Prize for education systems in the United States. So we have a great opportunity
to work with some really fine public school districts and we would look at this partnership
with Katie in that same manner. Simon Youth Foundation, the foundation does not grant
funds publicly. We invite our partners and so this part of the process of working with
Dr. Caskey and her team is about part of that introduction and that ask to be part of those
schools coming together. So what does Simon Youth Foundation do? What is the
value that we can bring to those relationships? It's like what we like to
call the SYF advantage. So currently we only work with public school partners
across the United States. We do not partner with charters or private schools.
Because of Simon being primarily an organization that deals in real estate,
we have space and infrastructure opportunities that we can create
original build-outs of innovative educational environments and leverage
something we call the third teacher concept. We also work because we work
nationally we have a gateway to pathways of working with other school districts
and their alternative models to reach the disenfranchised population taking
those students who are often described as at risk to what we like to talk about
at promise for making good on those opportunities. We only work with school
districts who are interested in offering diplomas to these students to re-engage them. It is not a
GED mill or anything like that. We're very pleased of our 90 percent graduation rate, the majority of
which are on-time graduations for those Core 40 and cohort-based programs which vary state by state.
We also have a lot of career and workforce development opportunities that we leverage
for those and I'll tell you about those in a minute. And we are have been a nationally
nationally recognized innovative network, the National Dropout Prevention Conference
and Consortium has recognized not only our teachers but also our program. And then we
also offer a dedicated scholarship program to the students who participate in the Simon
Youth Academies. We also have a package of annual enhancement grants that those districts,
those schools are able to apply for. And then we also offer a high degree of professional
professional development for our teachers. We bring together a group of retired superintendents
who have worked in our districts. We use them as experts in residence. They provide ongoing
consultation and resources to our students as well as our teachers. Many of our teachers
work in isolation across the country. Again, this is not something that would be the case
here in Katy, but something available still. We bring our teachers together once a year
to help them feel connected to the work that we're doing.
We also have an annual competition of annual administrator and teacher of the year awards
that are also come with a cash prize for those teachers.
And then we have many student enrichment opportunities that we provide as part of this relationship
too.
These partnerships are also national and community based.
Not only would the students have the opportunities to be involved with the local Simon Mall here,
but also the National Simon Corporation. We like to work with the local district
and the local area to create a community advocacy council. Again, many of the
students who come to the academies are often so disenfranchised they don't have
a parent-teacher organization that they feel connected to. They don't have a
booster club and we like to work with local business leaders to create that
opportunity. The workforce development that we've talked about in the past, last
Last year, Fifth Third Bank, which is a regional bank in the Midwest and West, provided financial
literacy curriculum for all of our schools that our teachers and our students were able
to make themselves available to.
It's the Dave Ramsey National Curriculum.
We have an ongoing partnership with CVS that allows our students to be certified in front
of house, pharmacy tech or logistics before they graduate high school and then go on to
work opportunities.
And then again, many of our retailers on our mall sites hire them.
And then also too we broker higher education relationships so our students can take their scholarships and leverage those towards attending college, post-secondary education or trade or other certification opportunities.
One of the things that we'd like to propose as we've been talking with the team here at Katy is very much the recognition of Raines High School.
We have started adopting non-mall-based schools to receive the same benefits that a mall-based school would have.
So they have the opportunity to collaborate with the malls, the jobs, the internships, the capital improvement opportunities, all of those things that we've outlined.
And again, I was so impressed with the opportunity to spend some time at Rains this morning. The students are an amazing group of kids.
They, boy, they tug at your heart, but I'm also likewise impressed by how professional and polished they are.
It's clear that they respect the space that they're in and respect the education that they're getting there
Congratulations to all of you who make that happen
And then one of the things that I want to spend a little bit of time talking about is what we believe is another part
Of our advantage is something we call our third teacher concept
Students have probably at least three teachers in their life right their family of origin the teacher in the classroom
but we also like to think about space as a teacher and the way in which an
environment can have an impact on a student's opportunity. We know that
students tell us across the country that when they come to one of our mall-based
schools they feel more comfortable academically, physically, socially,
mentally than they have in other places where they've just never fit and that's
really the thing for us is that we know that one size doesn't fit all and
And even in the most progressive districts and the districts that provide all of those opportunities,
there are some students who literally just still fall through the cracks because they haven't found the right place for them.
And we think that is one of the things that we can do.
So our space inspires students with innovative technology and design,
and also promotes individualized and differentiated learning environment so the student can be more successful.
Just some real quick pictures of our newest academy that was opened just about six weeks ago in Indianapolis, Indiana
We took five roughly five thousand square foot of space on in a urban center mall
It is literally in downtown, Indianapolis
two blocks from the Colts Stadium about three blocks from the Pacers a field house a
Block from the State House in in central, Indiana
It is a school now that is servicing up to 50 students. It's flexible, providing a lot of alternatives.
We have a national partner with Steelcase Furniture. You'll notice that furniture is set to accommodate
students who, everything who experience hyperactivity to students who
are battling obesity or young women who are pregnant feel comfortable. I'm a big guy.
I never fit in a desk growing up right so I love this furniture because you can
sit down and feel like it's something that accommodates you our spaces are
exciting and innovative in their environments and this is all an
opportunity that will work here with the local staff to custom design a space
that meets the needs of Katy and the Katy Independent School District and the
teachers who will be working there we use a lot of technology this is a media
escape just some of the information that they use. You can plug in laptops. It
creates an opportunity for an in learning environment where students, much
like this room where there's many screens around, the students can post
their work and the teacher can critique it in that. We like to think our
classrooms are not the traditional kinds of classrooms that you've seen before.
This school was designed specifically because the teacher wanted to be able to
to break down the school into one multipurpose room
to do a lot of different kinds of things.
So all the furniture is on casters.
It can be rearranged at a moment's notice
and used for multiple settings.
Orange, if you haven't noticed,
probably don't have a lot of guys show up
in orange bow ties to your meetings,
is our signature color for the Simon Youth Foundation.
We think orange is one of those symbolic colors
it doesn't create by itself, right?
You remember the old color wheel?
It takes yellow and orange together,
much like for Simon Youth Foundation to be successful it requires collaboration
and that's what we're interested in promoting so we really try to create an
environment that's very transparent the students feel good about being involved
in and have the opportunity to take advantage of that's just a sample layout
of how we accommodate space and again part of our processes work to work hand
in hand John Suter who's with me tonight is our architect and designer for the
the foundation and he would work side by side with the local school district
whoever is designated to help create a space that meets the needs of the local
school district and a point that I want to make too is you know the mall is a
place for better or worse is open 364 days a year often 14 hours at a time and
while our primary objective in working with the school district is to create
this Academy there's a lot of unused time in that space too which because
Because this becomes a district facility, we encourage you to think creatively about how you use that.
Is there a need for school at night, on the weekends?
It's a small facility that could be open for testing on the weekends so you don't have to open an entire school.
We want you to think about this as another facility in your sort of menu of places to use for that.
Don will be someone who will be very excited to have the mall open and you consider that part of your campuses too.
So as I said, results are a big part of what we talk about. We currently have 27 academies
that are open right now in 12 states. The 90% cumulative graduation rate we're very
proud of. Now nationally you will know that most people will report graduation statistics
around 80%. I know that here in Katy your number way surpasses that and is very, very
high but that 90% for us is very important you may not think that a 10%
between an 80% national and our 90% is that much but for us it's significant
because those students who graduate from assignment youth academy were actually
probably destined to never graduate high school so the Delta of change there is
really 90% 13,000 graduates since we opened our doors in 1998 our very first
school is just about probably, I don't know my geography very well, about two and a half
hours directly west of here in San Antonio, Texas at the Rolling Oaks
Academy there at Judson Independent School District is our first school.
Here's a very quick profile of the students that we served last year, or
well an average from 2010 to 2014. You know a broad diversity of students from
from their ethnic and demographic background.
Nearly half of the students would qualify
for free and reduced lunch.
About 12% were parents or would be parenting
while they're with us.
And as many as 8% experienced some level of homelessness
when they were with us.
We know that fully a third of the students we work with
are the first ones in their family to graduate high school.
And many of them at 16 and 17 years old
are the economic engines for their own family.
I could not imagine that responsibility as a 16 year old, but it's regular for our kids to face that on a daily basis.
The final part of our program is our scholarship program. We have awarded over 1,400 scholarships since 1998, and $13 million total in that.
Every year we award about a million dollars in scholarships. Currently Katie
Mills gives away at least one $1,500 scholarship to any student who lives
within 50 miles of here. When the academies open both if we are able to
adopt drains as well as the Academy at the mall those scholarships go up to a
baseline of $3,850 all the way up to $10,000 a year in scholarships that
that student would be available for to underwrite, again,
whether it's a two-year program, a four-year program,
or a trade school, or some sort of certification
that the student would want to be interested in.
The last thing that I would like to say that I think I was
classically trained as a biology teacher.
I spent 30 years in higher education,
retired as a president of a university campus in Chicago.
I know that there's a lot of well-meaning people who often
try to legislate what happens inside of a classroom. I think the genius of the
Simon Youth Foundation is that we know where our limits are and we know what we
can get out of a great partnership. So we like to create the space, we like to
create the opportunity and the environment and then we like to get out
of the way because we like firmly believe that the local school district
and the local people working in those schools know a heck of a lot better what
what needs to happen for their community than we do.
But it is about the partnership.
And so I think I'm gonna turn it over to Heather
who will talk a little bit about
sort of what can happen here locally.
So thank you very much.
Thank you, Dr. Durnall.
The proposed staffing plan includes
four content area teachers, a CATE instructor,
as well as a Spanish teacher with ESL certification.
Additionally, to meet the needs of this very at-risk student population, support staff
will include a site coordinator to serve in the administrative capacity, a counselor,
a half a unit for a student support staff member, and an administrative assistant whose
primary duty will be that of a registrar.
There will also be a staffing position to address food service and custodial needs.
In an effort to provide a flexible schedule, we're proposing two four and a half hour
modified school sessions to serve our disenfranchised students. The morning session
will run from 8 a.m. to 12 30 p.m. with instructional time ending at noon for the first session. The
afternoon session will begin at noon with instructional time actually beginning at 12
1230 because it's our goal to offer lunch to all of the Academy students from 12 to 1230 and
To allow our teachers to have their duty-free lunchtime
So the administrators will step in to oversee that time period at school
We also want to make sure that this flexible schedule allows for the opportunity for career and workforce readiness
Being in the mall
We know that we're gonna have students who are gonna work in the morning come to school in the afternoon and vice versa
So we want to encourage that partnership with them all.
Instructionally teachers and administrators will collaborate with students to review their transcripts, their graduation plans, and
end-of-course results to determine whether they need credit recovery,
original credit, and end-of-course needs or collection of all three so that each student we're making sure that we're
individualizing their learning plan and when we so we know when they come in
exactly what they need and what areas we need to specifically address teachers
will deliver and facilitate instruction via online courses virtual courses
through direct teach peer and independent study perhaps as well
there's also the possibility through the learning space that's definitely
flexible to account for large group instruction when and if the skills cross content areas and
grade levels or via supplemental instructions such as soft skills and career readiness that we know
all student participants participants can benefit from we also see the potential for one-on-one
student-teacher engaged engagement so we're certain that that student learner is engaged
in the learning process and that we can assess their learning effectively.
We're very fortunate in Katy ISD to already have a plethora of web tools to access as our students work on their course requirements,
both original and credit recovery, and we envision the academy using tools such as Canvas, the Katy Virtual School,
KD Online Learning Academy through Edgenuity, and remediation through tools such as Read180
and Mathimagine, all as a means to individualizing instruction and meeting the needs of each
re-engaged learner.
In terms of specifically which students in KDISD will fill the seats of the proposed
academy, we're focusing on those high school students who have exited a KDISD campus during
the school year and who did not successfully pursue their education
elsewhere as a result these students are at risk of reporting draw as dropouts
and have not earned a Texas high school diploma limiting their future academic
and employment opportunities as of December 1st there were 144 students who
fit this profile I do want to say that this number is very fluid at this time
of the year as many of our students and their families are very mobile. Some of
these students have been cleared from potential dropout status with their
successful enrollment in other academic settings in the state of Texas and
outside the state of Texas. However, you can see that there are more than enough
potential students candidates to fill the Academy. I want to assure you that
our normal dropout prevention and recovery protocols that have been
historically very successful are still in place will remain in place but this
creates an opportunity and an option an additional option in Katy to offer our
most disenfranchised students we do have the potential for revenue by way of
reengaging these students who have withdrawn from the academic setting
totaling over two hundred thousand dollars the majority of the costs
associated with the Academy is by way of teachers and support staff who are going
to individualize instruction and meet the needs of these disenfranchised
students we've worked very closely with the budgeting office to develop this
proposed budget you see tonight and we will be happy to take any questions you
may have. Our team members need to come up as well. Mr. President. Mr. DeBrell. I
have two questions. One is the programs at the Academy mimic those at Reigns.
Reigns is outstanding. Reigns is great. We're gonna have a little more
flexibility because we're gonna be taking in students throughout the year.
So students will not come in, for instance, a six-week or a nine-week period.
period, we'll have to create that individually for students.
So Becky and I have worked closely together.
We'll work on master scheduling to make sure that we're capturing our students.
We'll be working on developing courses.
So it won't look the same because really it's definitely more individualized, where you
can go into our classrooms and you may see some very real instruction, live instruction.
You may see that at the Academy. It's going to be dependent upon what the students need when they come in
One more follow-up. Well the students that attend will they would
Will we be able to recapture some of the costs using water? Are they subject to water?
Yes doing the four hour four and a half hours
Mr. Adams
Thank you for your presentation
You were talking about the students that were there and then we were talking about getting
them graduated or going towards graduation and where they would be going after they graduated.
I noticed in the listing of personnel that you had there, there were no counselors there.
Did I miss it?
It's there.
There's a counselor and a half.
of you yes so that will be there to help them to as far as their where they
choose to with where their career will take them absolutely and and Becky and
I've worked together we've you know we're already kind of throwing around
she offers a I think it's business endorsement that she's still able to
offer it rains we may use some of those career and technology opportunities so
that yes we'll have a counselor who'll be there to make sure that that we're
providing that student with the optimum opportunity for success.
And Mr. Fraley, in terms of what just kind of bouncing off of what Mr. DeBrell said as
far as cost, as far as budgeting for this, do we have this in our budget at this time?
We are looking at the funds and we can afford it.
We work with Mr. Smith on this as well.
Okay sir, thank you.
Is the goal of the program to capture an at-risk student, to get them caught back up, to reintegrate
back into the normal education that we offer at Katy, or is this, you showed the slide
like at 9th and 10th where we have students that are dropping out, is it more to capture
them, find them an environment that they're comfortable with and then they'll stay there
until they graduate?
We potentially envision that we could have both opportunities.
If we have a ninth grader who's fallen behind and we're able to reengage them and maybe
catch them up a little bit and they say, I want to go back to Katy High School, we definitely
want to make sure that door stays open for them to reintegrate into their home campus.
But that will come up, I'm sure, as we potentially go forward.
Sure.
Thank you.
Mr. President?
Mr. Dubrow.
The students that I because I noticed you had some twelfth graders on here as well the students that graduate from the program
Will they graduate from the Academy their home campus or reigns?
It will be a KD isd wherever their home campus
We're likely starting as a program and so their diploma will say whatever their campus of residency is
Ms. President?
And this is about 50 students, correct?
To start with, 25 in the morning, 25 in the afternoon.
But we have the capacity to go up to, Judson said 45 is ambitious.
That's kind of where they are for their four and a half hour, four hour session.
So we know that we have the potential to grow, certainly.
So but starting with 25 and 25 for for an enrollment to begin the year of 15
Doyle
Small that kind of answered mine too, but I want to clarify because you gave us kind of a proposed staffing model and a proposed budget
So are you saying that with the proposed staffing model and budget that was presented here that would equate to 25 each?
And if you went up to 45 would there be additional no we could still manage it with that staffing
Okay, you have the questions
Thank you, but thank you for the presentation and thank you for trying to capture the kids that
Normally would fall through the cracks and give them just another opportunity to at him and get them through that high school education
So they can be productive. Thank you all. Thank you
Mr. Pakistan, we're excited about the work ahead too and the partnership.
Thank you all for coming to us.
Appreciate it.
Thank you.
All right, that brings us to 5.2, Highly Qualified Compliance Report.
Ms. Edmonds.
Good evening, President Griffin, Superintendent Fraley, and school board members.
tonight Katie shields and I will present the 2015 highly qualified compliance
report most of you know HQ is part of the no child left behind Act which was
implemented in 2002 2003 and by the 2005 2006 school year districts were required
to staff at a hundred percent HQ and they also implemented the special ed
portion of the highly qualified report.
Teachers must meet several components in order to be considered in HQ under the NCLB definition.
They must have the full state certification, have a bachelor's degree or higher, or demonstrate
subject matter competency by mastering the content area exam or a combination of college
hours, professional development, and years of experience.
There is a lot of misconception between federal NCLB HQ and teacher certification.
Just because a teacher is Texas certified does not mean they will automatically be HQ.
Teachers who are allowed to teach certain courses under the state certification assignment
rules may not meet the federal definition of highly qualified.
An example would be CTE teachers teaching CTE courses for fine arts or science credit
must be highly qualified in two areas.
That means a K teacher must have a K certification as well as a fine arts or
science certification.
A better example would be a special ed self-contained teacher.
A special ed self-contained teacher who is certified in special ed 6 through 12
and also teaching math must have a math certification on top of the special ed
certification.
So HQ has defined some of their core academic courses which are English, Reading Language
Arts, Mathematics, Science, Foreign Languages, Civics and Government, Economics, History,
Geography and Fine Arts.
Under the NCLB we have several reporting requirements.
One is the annual compliance report that must be submitted to TEA every November in which
which we are compliant with as of November 18, 2015.
That compliance report is based off of our snapshot date which we take in September of
2015, actually for this year, 2015, but we must stay compliant throughout the school
year.
The second part of our reporting is our annual public reporting which is why we are here
tonight reporting to you guys.
So what's new?
Well, in October of 2015, members of my HR staff attended a Region 4 training.
And in that meeting, they discovered that special ed teachers, which going back to the
example I just gave a slide prior to this one, that teachers that are in self-contained
classrooms such as life skills and autism must have the dual certification.
I'm not going to get into the details here because in a slide later I will give you all
of the details on that.
but the reason why those teachers have to have both certifications because our
special ed students are receiving instructions and course credit for their
course subjects the teachers are required to be certified in both areas
and because our district require or allow our students to have those course
credits and of course subjects special ed self-contained teachers must have
that core course certification as well
So our plan, after attending the meeting, we decided, Katie and I decided together that
we needed to do an internal audit to decide and make a determination if we are fully compliant
with our special ed teachers. Out of the 348 special ed teachers, we discovered that 331
are HQ. That means we have 17 special ed teachers that are not highly qualified. I want to make
it very clear that does not mean that they are not qualified to teach.
In the state of Texas they are qualified, they just do not meet the NCOB definition
of highly qualified.
Every principal and teacher have been notified of those requirements and as of now the parents
have received a notification of which teachers are not highly qualified in those classrooms.
rooms.
Okay, so what do our numbers look like right now?
Well, for regular ed, our numbers are 99.81 for 2015, which is pretty consistent with
the last 12 years, and those are actually regular ed classes taught by HQ teachers.
Special ed classes are 95.06, and that's where you will see the drop from 1415 to 1516.
After conducting our audit, we did realize that we had some teachers who were not highly
qualified by this definition because they did not have the certification in the core
course area.
Then we have the regular ed teachers, which is 99.83.
So we have a difference in the teachers, and that number is pretty consistent with the
last 12 years as well.
The only reason we would have regular ed numbers not at 100% is because we're always going
going to have a handful of classrooms that do not have regular teachers in them.
They have long-term subs.
And that could be for various reasons, such as, I want to say, resignations.
And the principals are very, very adamant about making sure they hire the right
individuals.
So if you have yourself a very good long-term sub, you're not going to rush and
just hire anyone in that classroom.
classroom. So they tend to keep and we support them keeping a long-term sub. An area that
is very hard to fill is sometimes foreign language. So I think altogether we have only
six regular Ed teachers that are not HQ and that's because all of those positions are
being held by long-term sub at this time. So our regular Ed teachers again it's 95.11
due to the certifications and the core courses.
That's okay.
You can go ahead.
Okay, so teachers receiving high-quality professional development,
that's 100%.
We've been pretty consistent with that each year.
So what happens now and where are we today?
After discovering the special ed issue with our certifications,
Katie worked very diligent with our principals that have teachers
teachers and special ed self-contained classes that are not HQ.
What we've done was we have created, I am so sorry, I'm stumbling right now, we've created
individual plans for each of those teachers.
What do those plans consist of?
Each teacher has been given a mentor.
We have provided a link for preparation materials in order for them to prepare for their exam.
And the expectation is that each teacher passed that core exam by the end of the school year.
We also have a district HQ teacher continuous program plan that has been written and will be submitted to TEA by December the 16th.
TEA will take additional snapshots of our highly qualified teachers by the end of the school year for reporting purposes only.
What happens if any of those teachers do not pass the certification by the end of the school year?
We will find a home for them. We will find an assignment that they are actually qualified to teach.
So at this point, we reported on November the 18th and by December 5th, our numbers
had slightly increased.
Of course, on my slide, I have to be honest with you and report what was reported to TEA,
but we continuously monitor those and if teachers can become certified before the end of the
school year, our numbers will continuously grow.
So our special ed classes has increased from 95.06 to 95.35 and the special ed teachers
have increased from 95.11 to 95.69.
Every time a teacher out of that 17 becomes certified in that core course, those numbers
will continuously increase.
And it is our hope that each of those teachers are fully certified in the HQ status by the
end of this current school year.
If not, again, we will find placement for them in which they are qualified to teach.
And again, I want to reiterate, and I can't say enough, it does not mean that they are not qualified to teach.
It just means they do not meet the NCLB, the national requirement for highly qualified.
But they are qualified, certified teachers.
Do we have any questions?
questions.
I just got one quick one.
I'm always leery of titles whether you're highly qualified or qualified.
Are our teachers providing our students with the best education that they can regardless
of their HQ status?
Yes sir.
Thank you very much.
Yes sir.
All right.
That moves us to, thank you very much.
Thank you.
That moves us to item six, consent agenda.
We'll get to see Ms. Evenson up here for a while.
6.1, consider future board approval of the proposal for proportional items.
Good evening, President Griffin, board members, Superintendent Fraley.
I'm bringing forward three contracts for your consideration this evening.
The first contract is the proposal for promotional items and apparel. This
actually is a combination of two contracts that we previously had. We had
one for proposed promotional merchandise and one for promotional apparel. We've
decided to combine those contracts because it was basically the same
vendors that sold this type of merchandise to our schools and
departments and it would be easier and more efficient for the school's
that only have one contract of reference.
So we went out to the schools and requested any companies
that they might be interested in purchasing from,
as well as we've looked at our past history.
And from that, we developed an approved vendor list,
which we are presenting to you this evening.
All the vendors on the list have either done business with KDISD previously in this area
or have excellent references and qualify to be a KDISD vendor.
Although the majority of these expenditures are actually done through activity fund purchases,
there are some that are done through the general operating fund and principal activity funds,
and any of these are the special revenue funds.
Any of these type of expenditures that are over $3,000 will require that competitive close to be done.
The schools are encouraged to seek out local vendors when doing these quotes
and purchase based on the best value criteria. This contract will be effective
from the date of award for a period of one year with an option for two
additional one-year renewals. The total expenditures which includes the student
and activity funds were $1,180,000 over the past 12 months and it will include these funds
as well as the general operating fund and special revenue funds as approved by the board.
Thank you.
Any questions?
Thank you, ma'am.
6.2.
Okay.
The next contract I have for your consideration this evening is we're asking for the board
to approve the use of the interlocal purchasing system, which is the TIPS
cooperative, so that we can contract with Global Synthetics Environmental LLC to
install artificial turf on the practice field at Seven Lakes High School. The
Seven Lakes High School athletic boosters have generously donated the
funds to do this, a total of $87,750. We sought out contracts that
were available to us and with the help of the booster club and the vendor that
was selected was global synthetics LLC again which is available to us through
the tips cooperative and that's through the Texas education region 8 service
center it was the opinion of the staff that the quote met the best value
criteria for the district they're also known as geo surfaces and geo surfaces
are global synthetics will provide all the materials and labor to install the
turf and will do everything except for the permits which the district will be
required to obtain. The design has been reviewed by staff at PBK Sports and it
was determined that no further engineering was needed for the
drainage or the installation of the turf and there is no additional engineering
needed either for the additional permits for the necessary permits. So the
The recommendation is to approve the contract for the purchase and installation of the drain
turf field at the Seven Lakes High School practice field through Global Synthetics Environmental
LLC, who does business as Geo Services, through the TIPS cooperative.
If approved, the vendor will start work shortly with the completion being in approximately
90 days.
Again, the total cost of the turf, with the exception of any permitting cost, is $87,750,
which is being funded through the donations from the Seven Lakes High School Athletic
Boosters.
I would like to thank those donations.
What an awesome opportunity for the students at Seven Lakes.
I love when we have people donate that much work and time to take care of our students.
Thank you, ma'am.
6.3.
I should be able to bring that forward, yes.
I have one other contract and I do have a couple of experts here this evening.
John Brimmer, who is the project manager, and we also have Ryan Hood from PBK here this evening.
This contract is to consider the approval and design construction administration services
associated with the safety and security improvements and retrofits included in the 2014 bond program projects.
The $748 million bond authorization of 2014 included a project for safety and security retrofits and improvements.
These projects include, but are not limited to, the installation of additional and replacement of some existing security cameras,
cameras, installation of access control at specific locations, exterior emergency call
and public address systems, outdoor cameras, and reinforcement of entryways with better
security monitoring.
The goal is to build a system that integrates all of this together to aid in intelligent
building access and control systems, expanded video surveillance, and a total convergence
of all data so that the security issues can be identified and mapped to aid in the responses
that might be needed. However, to build such a system it's very complex and it
is necessary to work not only on the current operational system but to design
a system that can grow as the district grows and additional technology becomes
available. Mr. Brian Hood, who's president of PBK Technology Consulting Division,
heads a team of experts that has performed similar projects for many
educational and business entities including Klein ISD, Conroe ISD, Humble ISD,
and the University of Houston. This knowledge of current security technology
will assist the district in the design of these funded projects with the goal
of building a fully integrated system such as technology as the technology is
expanded throughout the district. So Mr. Hood's team would coordinate the
information from the various departments of the district that are involved in
this and will assist in the design and management of any resulting construction projects.
The design and services and management fee for the projects will be 6% of any construction
costs and attached is a contract that designates that charge.
The contract has been reviewed by the district's legal counsel.
Thank you.
Any questions?
Thank you very much, ma'am.
Thank you.
Thank you. 6.4, 6.5 belong to Mr. McIlwain.
Good evening, President Griffin, board members, Superintendent Fraley.
The two agenda items that are before you this evening are associated with two of the new schools that are currently under construction.
The first item is associated with a water meter easement at Elementary School number 38.
Elementary School 38 is the elementary school currently under construction in the Cinco Northwest subdivision.
It's located at the corner of Westridge Creek Lane and Horizon Bluff Lane within that subdivision.
The water meter easement is at the northeast corner of the site adjacent to Horizon Bluff Lane.
By approving this particular easement, we'll enable a water connection to service this particular facility.
Any questions?
Thank you, sir. And 6.5?
The next item is an item that you've seen before.
It's actually an item that's it's a good milestone because once you see this item
it's a close indication that the HVAC equipment is soon to be installed in
this particular campus. We are talking about the junior high school number 14
located within the Hawks Landing subdivision. We are recommending
engineered air balance to conduct the air testing and balancing work
associated with the heating ventilation air conditioning systems soon to be
be installed in the building this amount that you see before you is contained
within the approved total project cost of the project thank you any questions
thank you mr. McElwain thank you
sorry that moves us to section 7 which are the action items 7.1 yes ma'am I
move that the Board of Trustees approves a minute 3 to the juror tech
Incorporated construction manager at-risk contract for the construction of
the student activity facility second stadium for the total guaranteed maximum
price of 48 million eight hundred and twenty two thousand nine hundred and
twenty four dollars and approves the total project cost associated with the
amendment three not to exceed fifty three million eight hundred and twenty
one thousand nine hundred and fifty eight dollars I have a motion by
Courtney Doyle second by Joe Adams that the Board of Trustees approves
Amendment 3 to the Duratec Inc. Construction Manager at Risk contract
for the construction of the Student Activities Facility Second Stadium for
the total guaranteed maximum price of $48,822,924
and approves the total project cost associated with Amendment 3 not to
exceed $53,821,958. Any discussion?
session. We'll proceed to vote. All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye. Those opposed? Motion passes 5-0.
We're going to pause for just one second.
and we're on a item 7.2 we just pause for a second and we can continue this
president mr. Adams moves the Board of Trustees approves amendment for the
Durrell tech incorporated structure manager at risk contract for the
construction on the student activity facility second stadium for the total
guaranteed maximum price of two million six hundred ninety four thousand three
$312 the total project cost associated with amendment 4 not to exceed two million nine hundred and four thousand three hundred twelve and approves the
use of the
2010
bond authorization savings fund this
Second I
Have a motion by Joe Adams a second by Courtney Doyle that the Board of Trustees approves amendment 4 to the Duratec Inc
construction manager at risk contract for the construction of the student
activities facility a second second stadium for the total guaranteed maximum
price of two million six hundred ninety four thousand three hundred and twelve
dollars with the total project cost associated with amendment for not to
exceed two million nine hundred and four thousand three hundred and twelve
dollars and approves the use of 2010 bond authorization saving to fund this
amendment any discussion questions present mr. Dubrow how much is left in
2010 on the 2010 bill. I don't know the exact number but I know we have enough to cover this expense.
I'll let the CFO confirm that. We'll get that to you guys before we go back to you and update it.
Any other questions? We'll proceed to vote. Those in favor raise your right hand and say aye.
aye those opposed motion passes 5 to 1 that moves us to discussion action 8.1
discuss and consider future board approval of the attendance boundary
modifications ABM for the 2016-2017 school year mr. evening president
Griffin trustees and superintendent Fraley I'm gonna be a little bit
redundant tonight I went through most of this presentation a couple weeks ago so
you may be familiar with some of the slides but some folks are kind of new to
seeing what we're doing on these presentations and like to run through it
all if I could so not news to anyone here but as I said last month tonight we
are writing another chapter of here we grow again as we discuss attendance
attendance boundary modifications or ABM for short.
I'm assisted tonight by Dr. Shelby McIntosh
from K-12 Insight and Dr. Chris Poole
of Population Survey Analysts, commonly called PASA.
Dr. McIntosh is Vice President of Research
for K-12 Insight and you may remember her
from the work she did with analyzing feedback
from the 2014 community survey,
as well as her presentation on public sentiment.
to our transportation sustainability initiatives.
K-12 Insight is based out of Washington, D.C.,
but I'm pleased to report that Dr. McIntosh is a native Texan.
Dr. Poole will be discussing the details of the attendance boundaries.
PASA out of College Station is the largest demographer
in the state. They specialize in planning for school districts and have been our
demographic consultant since 1996. And you can see that here tonight I have
a deep bench for any questions that might come up our presentation goals tonight include providing
an overview of growth in the abm process review of the abm feedback boundary recommendations the
three new schools as well as the two landlocked schools in october passive provided projections
for the district that shows continued growth the public can find the details on the october
Demographers Update at our KDISD website. Here you see three growth scenarios for
planning purposes. We use the moderate growth scenario. You can see here that
the moderate growth projection pushes our enrollment over 86,000 students in
just five years and we will be knocking on the door of having a hundred thousand
students in ten years. Our enrollment report from today, December 7th, shows the
district has 72,849 students as an aside two years ago when we last discussed
attendance boundary I told the board we had 67,074 students on December the 6th
that's an average growth of 29 students a year
over the last two years. Unlike in the past where future growth has dominated the southwest quadrant
of the district, much of the future growth is shifting north of I-10. An example of this is
Cross Creek Ranch at just under 2,000 occupancies is projected to have just a few more occupancies
than land use zone four over the next five years. Land use zone four is in the northwest quadrant
and it contains Newlands Ellison development.
But hold on to your hats.
When we look out six to ten years,
projections for land use zone four surpasses 2,000 occupancies
while Cross Creek Ranch completes its KDISD build-out and adds only 54 units.
Now I want to call your attention to this slide.
It's a revisiting of the slide that we showed two slides ago.
It's the five-year growth slide.
Please note an important anomaly to the growth pattern.
This slide is identical with the exception of the black arrows that I showed you before.
The black arrows point to land use zones within West Memorial Elementary's attendance boundary
that show rapid growth as identified by the red and orange colors.
Normally these colors are associated with new developments, and you have seen these colors over the last decade
in the planned developments like Single Ranch and Firethorn and Cross Creek Ranch in the southwest quadrant.
But because West Memorial Elementary attendance area lies immediately adjacent and south of Interstate 10,
there is easy highway access and a lot of vacant land that was available for commercial or for multifamily development.
West Memorial Elementary continues to grow in projected enrollment,
enrollment whereas other established elementary schools has stabilized or declined.
Roughly one quarter of the entire district's I-10 frontage on the south side of I-10 is
within West Memorial Elementary's attendance boundary.
Fortunately, we are adding six schools as a result of the 2014 bond that will help us
manage growth.
Two new elementary schools are scheduled to open next year.
one elementary 38 is located in Northwest Cinco and the other elementary
school 39 is located in Ventana Lakes. We will be presenting a recommendation for
those two elementary schools tonight. Additionally elementary school 40
located near Young Ranch and Willow Creek farms is also a 2014 bond project.
Although initially planned to open in 2018 we are moving that project forward
a year to open in 2017 after analyzing the passive projections an abm for that campus would be a year
from now junior high 14 will open in hawks landing next year and we will be presenting a recommendation
for that campus tonight junior high 15 and high school 8 both located in ventana lakes are
scheduled to open in 2017 and we will be discussing their abm next year this slide summarizes the
the process for this year's ABM.
Past NKDISD administration jointly developed
the options you see tonight.
Campus leadership also participated
in the development of these options.
Board meetings will be held, including tonight,
to discuss the recommendations,
and they will be publicized through a variety of mediums.
And we have solicited feedback from the entire community.
We'll talk about that in a little bit.
We fully understand and appreciate
that adjusting a boundary can be emotional.
In order to be clear, since 2008, we have made the point that once a recommendation
is made, criteria for changes include meeting school capacity, keeping developmental sections
and land use zones together when you can, enrollment projections going out five years,
stabilizing attendance areas where you can, balancing enrollment numbers between neighboring
schools, and minimizing impact of future attendance boundaries.
boundaries. As far as the schedule goes, we're on track. You've seen this slide since July. We went to the board and talked about a scope of work back in July, provided the demographic update in October. In November, just last month, we talked about a preliminary initial recommendation for ABM, and then we went out with a survey, and tonight we're coming back with our formal final recommendation.
There are many milestones depending on the ABM decision.
This includes meeting with stakeholders, selecting a school name, a mascot, and most importantly
and you can see that on this slide is the beginning of the staffing process.
I am pleased to report that we received more feedback and better quality feedback for this
ABM than we have in the past.
If you remember two years ago I announced that we had 7,279 responses which was our
most ever.
You can see this year that online alone we had 8,895 responses.
But let me talk for a couple minutes about the elephant in the room.
You will hear shortly about the survey feedback and that four of the five ABM recommendations are strongly supported,
both by the KDISD community and the impacted schools.
schools. There is one ABM that although supported by the survey respondents as a whole, is not
supported by the Nottingham Country Elementary community. That ABM was the initial preliminary
recommendation you saw last month to relieve overcrowding at West Memorial Elementary.
You will see this slide again during Dr. Poole's presentation, but I think it is important
for us to remember that the reason we are considering modifying West Memorial Elementary
elementary boundaries is because without relief the school which is already
overcrowded would reach a hundred and seventy percent of capacity in just a
couple of years according to the West Memorial Elementary principal she was
looking at the real possibility of having fifth grade fourth grade third
grade and even second grade in portable classrooms although our most common
elementary school design capacity is 1030 West Memorial Elementary has a
design capacity of only 684. Tonight Dr. Poole is bringing forward a revised
recommendation that takes into account the feedback we received including that
of the speakers you heard from in open forum. The revised recommendation still
offers substantial relief to West Memorial Elementary, reduces the number
of apartment units planned to be moved to Nottingham Country Elementary and
allows Cimarron Elementary School to absorb one existing and one future
apartment complex currently in West Memorial Elementary which will help
Cimarron Elementary stabilize an otherwise projected declining enrollment.
I believe our process has worked well and tonight we are pleased to bring
forward a recommendation that carefully considered feedback to help craft a
a better recommendation.
Just to touch on our communication efforts,
in November we did a number of things,
social media posting, e-news website was put online.
Right after that we went live with the survey,
I have those results tonight.
After tonight we go through a variety of mediums
and start providing even more information out to the public
including e-news, principal e-news communication,
social media press releases website updates and when the board approves the the recommendations
on December 14th hopefully we'll go out with a little amplification that information and if you
look down the timeline there you can see that it gets to the point of backpacking notices to kids
families as well as direct mail outs those who aren't aware there's an easy way to get to the
the website for attendance boundary modifications.
You can go to our website.
You see a big banner there.
You can go through the highlights,
and either one will get you to the landing page for attendance boundary modifications.
So it is now my pleasure to introduce Dr. Shelby McIntosh from K-12 Insight,
and she's going to walk us through the ABM survey results.
Ready?
I'm ready.
All right.
Good evening, President Griffin, members of the board,
Superintendent Fraley. It's a pleasure to be back at Katy and presenting to you
this evening. As Mr. Gannell said, I'm here to present to you the results of
the survey that we administered last month which asked for feedback from the
community on these attendance boundary modification proposals. A few details
about this study. We sent out almost 75,000 emails inviting parents and other
community members to take the survey. Each email included an individual link
to give them access to the survey. There was also a public URL posted on the
district's website that provided access to the survey. If individuals contacted
us saying that they had not received an individual email from us, we were able to
give them a link to participate in the survey. The survey was also available on
paper per request and available in Spanish. The survey was open from
November 18th to December 2nd and we sent reminders to those who had not yet
taken the survey on the 25th the 30th and December 2nd the day that the survey
closed it's important to note that these results do not reflect a randomized
sample we wanted everyone who wished to participate in the survey to have an
opportunity to do so one note I should also say we received some emails from
participants who requested additional information about the ABM process in general or about the
specific proposals and we were able to redirect those individuals to the district's website where
a lot of that or all of that information actually was ready readily available to them so it was a
nice way to sort of close that loop and connect them with the wealth of information available
there as we said that the purpose of this study was really or the primary purpose was to gather
information about how families might be potentially impacted by the proposed ABMs
but also to gauge their support for each one of the proposals. We'll go through in
this report each one of the proposals individually and you'll see the
the support reported both looking at participants overall and then looking at
just those participants who might be specifically impacted by each proposal.
proposal.
So a little bit about who participated.
As I mentioned, we sent out almost 75,000 email invitations.
From those invitations, we got back just over 8,000 responses and another 733 through the
public URL.
As Mr. Gannell mentioned, this is the highest number of survey responses we've received
from any surveys we've done within your district.
Looking at who those participants are, you can see the large majority of them were parents, 74% of them.
Another 10% were employees who were also parents, so you could say 84% had children currently enrolled in district schools.
Another 9% are community members, and 8% were employees.
You see the note there that 356 survey participants indicated that they own a business within KDISD.
It's a little higher than we expected, so keep in mind that's self-reported, but another interesting note there about who took the survey.
A little bit more about those individuals.
48% of them said that they live in the southwest quadrant of the district, another 32% in the southeast quadrant of the district,
and then you see another 11 there for the northwest quadrant and another 9 for the northeast quadrant.
It's a nice distribution looking at the tenure or the amount of time that the individuals
had lived within the district.
Most of them, a far majority of them, 15 years or less within the district, but you can see
31 percent 8 to 15 years, 24 percent 4 to 7, and 27 1 to 3 years.
We'll switch now to looking at each of the proposals individually.
And again, you'll see the amount of support when we look at all participants together,
And then you'll also see it looking at just those that are potentially impacted by each proposal
The first one here is elementary 38. So on the left you see all participants
7619 of those you can see the percentage that fully support somewhat support and do not support that specific proposal
when looking at the
potentially impacted participants on the right you'll notice the number drops down to
709 and really the biggest difference in the percentages is that there were more
participants that were not sure when you look at everyone together which makes
sense if they're not specifically impacted by that but when looking at
those who are impacted by this proposal for elementary 38 you can see a strong
majority 80% of them either fully support or somewhat support this
proposal. Looking next at elementary 39, see very similar results here. A few more
or higher percentages when looking at everyone together do not or are not sure
but when we look at just those impacted participants again you can see a strong
majority 77% either fully support or somewhat support this recommendation.
The third one here, which is also for a new school, this is the junior high 14 proposal.
Again, very similar findings here when you look at all roughly 7,500 participants that chose to answer this question.
Strong levels of support, higher percentages that's not sure compared to those looking on the right.
Or if you look at the right where 74% either fully support or somewhat support.
Those are the three recommendations tied to opening new schools.
the last two that we'll look at are the two proposals meant to alleviate
overcrowding at two of the elementary schools the first one here is the
elephant in the room issue that mr. Ganel referred to and you can see what
he mentioned before that when we look at all participants on the left again about
7,500 people there's support for this proposal but when you look at the
roughly 400 people who took the survey who might be impacted by this proposal
proposal, 59% of those said that they do not support this proposal.
We dug a little deeper into who those 59% are.
So I have a slide here that gives you a bit more information about them.
You can see most of them, 98%, are from Nottingham Country Elementary.
90% of them also have children in the second grade or younger.
You can see there are five, that's not 5%, that's actually five survey respondents said
that they had been impacted by an ABM before so by and large most of them had not. Almost half of
them said that they currently drive their children to school and when we gave them a list of potential
reasons that they might not support this the one most frequently selected 85 percent of the
participants selected that one there about feeling that the proposal doesn't balance enrollment
between the existing schools. Again this was the original recommendation not the one the revised
recommendation that Dr. Poole is going to review with you here in a minute. One
of the nice things that happened through this process is that as this information
was coming in, the district leadership was able to actually proactively look at
the comments that were coming in and look at some of the alternatives that
survey participants were offering and make that revised recommendation based
on this feedback. So it was a nice productive proactive process that
occurred as the survey was open.
The last recommendation here is the one to alleviate overcrowding at Rylander.
You can see the support jumps back up again similar to the first three recommendations.
Looking at just those potentially impacted, 68% there either fully or somewhat support
that recommendation.
Similar to the previous recommendation, we did want to give you a bit more information
about those 15% who did not support it. Again, we're talking about fewer people
here, just about 80 people, but nonetheless this is some of the
information about them. About 75% are from Rylander Elementary. They
referenced a lot of transportation related issues for not supporting or not
liking that recommendation. Two-thirds of them like how close they are to their
current elementary school. They have children, almost half of them have
children who walk to school and mention that they felt transportation might be a
challenge if this proposal was accepted.
Just a couple of key findings here and I'm happy to answer any questions that
you all have. That first one which we've said a couple of times now of the five
proposals four of them received strong support whether we're looking at all
participants together across the Katy ISD community or just looking at those
potentially impacted by the proposal. The fourth one there that did not receive as
much support came specifically from the Nottingham Country Elementary community
as we've said before. I've listed some additional feedback from those
participants there. This feedback came from open-ended responses. We asked
them to explain in an open-ended question why they did not support that
proposal and so the main themes that came out of those explanations were
safety issues related to traffic concerns mobility overcrowding at drop
off and pick up lack of sidewalks for walkers were mentioned they discussed
concerns about overcrowding at Nottingham country when bringing in
additional students the potential that that that might have or potential
impact that might have on individualized instruction or programs for special
populations of students and then finally there they discussed fears or concerns
associated with the kinds of students that would be rezoned to their elementary school,
often referencing stereotypes associated with low-income and transient students.
Those, again, are the key findings from this survey.
I'm happy to take any questions that you all have.
Mr. Adams?
This is just more about the way you do your business in K-12.
Sure.
How do you avoid duplication of entries?
Great question.
So with those, our primary mode of administration are the individual survey invitations.
Those links within those emails can only be used once.
So once that person has used it, if they forward their email on to another person, that person can't use that link.
And that was the majority of the emails we received from participants were people who had received forwarded emails
or someone had posted that link publicly and they were trying to access it and couldn't.
With the public URL, so the, I think it was roughly 800 people who took it via that link,
we have a report in our system that allows us to monitor for behavior linked to what we call ballot box stuffing.
So we look at multiple responses from the same IP address in a short amount of time,
and then we look at patterns in their responses.
And so if it's clear someone posted up somewhere and tried to take it over and over and over,
that would show up in that report, and we didn't see any instances of that.
this survey. President? Mr. Dubrow. What was the open rate on your emails opposed to those that
actually took the survey? It's a great question. I'll have to look at that. We actually, after we
send out all of those 75,000 emails, when we get any emails that bounce, we provide that list to
the district so that they can clean up their contact list if needed. But I can look up the
percentage of people who opened the survey versus those that actually took the survey.
Thank you.
These open-ended questions, can you give me an example? Like are you just basically saying tell
me why you don't? Yeah. Give me an example to see how we resulted in these three responses.
Absolutely. So there were a few opportunities for that within each proposal. So the first,
let's use the ABM for elementary 38 as an example we would ask them do you
fully support somewhat support do not support this recommendation and if they
said they somewhat support it or do not support we'd ask them to explain the
factors that are impacting their level of support and those are the comments
that we read through to pull these themes there was also an open-ended
question asking them to provide alternative recommendations if they said
they do not support the proposal which were the recommendations the district was able to read
through as the survey was open thank you very much welcome i know it's the moment you've been
waiting for so we have dr chris pool who's going to run through the recommendations for the
the attendance boundaries.
MS.
I haven't seen you guys in so long.
It's been so long.
Okay.
A lot of this information you all have seen probably a couple of times at this point,
so I'm going to go ahead and go through it fairly quickly, but there is some new information
there at the end.
The first map shows the projected geocoded students by current attendance zone, and it's
very important to remember these maps show the geocoded students.
That means that the transfer students are not included in these figures, and we know
that the students transfer for a lot of reasons including programs like the
bilingual program. We presented this map in October during the demographic update
presentation. Elementary 38 sits in 52C right about there and if Elementary 38
were not open in time for the fall of 2016, Woman could be projected to have
1,694 students and Davidson 1,691 and then Wood Creek would be projected to
have 1364 but would grow to over 1600 students in the next couple of years if
it did not receive relief so this is the attendance zone that we were
recommending for elementary 38 it pulls two lane you sons from Davidson that's
Lane you son 73 B which is Churchill farms and Lane you son 67 D which is a
Silver Ranch subdivision it also pulls 67 G and 52 C from Wood Creek Elementary
I'll move my little dot here.
Laney's Zone 67G is a Silver Ranch subdivision and Laney's Zone 52C is more Cinco Ranch.
Laney's Zone 52D and 51C are from Woolman and they contain Cinco Ranch, Bandera Glen
and Tamarin Lakes.
And again, we're starting with the current elementary attendance zones and the projected
geocoded students on the northern side of the district.
district. If we did not open a new school, King would be projected to house over 1,500
geocoded students in the fall of 2016 and it also includes a bilingual program presently.
Its attendance zone is very large and includes almost all of that projected growth that Mr.
Gunnell showed earlier as so much of that growth is expected to occur in the northwest
in the next ten years. Morton Ranch is also expected to exceed its capacity of 1,030 and
And the new school, luckily, sits right here, right in the middle of them.
It's presently in the Morton Ranch attendance zone.
This is the recommended attendance zone for Elementary 39.
It pulls completely from King and from Morton Ranch.
The southern boundary of the zone is Morton Road from Katie Hockley to the Grand Parkway.
And then it shrinks the attendance zone for Morton Ranch to only a zone that is south and east of the Grand Parkway.
I know we had a question about that enrollment figure a little bit last week, but that school should be getting bilingual students a bilingual program in place later.
Elementary 40 is projected to open in Laney Zone 50B that's out in the west in the fall of 2017.
This means that Elementary 38, Katie, and Woolman would need to maintain these recommended attendance zones through the fall of 2016.
It is important to note, though, that the capacity of Katy Elementary is much smaller
than any of the newer elementary schools in the district.
Similarly, assuming a successful 2017 bond referendum, the administration is planning
to open a new elementary school to relieve Randolph in the fall of 2019, and as part
of our update next year, we'll be evaluating interim options for Randolph.
These are the current junior high attendance zones. Both Wood Creek and Seven Lakes would
be projected to be very heavily utilized in the fall of 16 if a new school were not opened.
But luckily the new school sits right here in the middle sort of of Wood Creek and Seven Lakes in 67A.
This slide shows the projected attendance zone for junior high 14. This particular zone pulls
land use zones entirely from Wood Creek and from Seven Lakes. The district is
planning to open a new junior high in the fall of 2019 pending a successful
2017 bond election. So the school is expected to sit in the Seven Lakes
junior high attendance zone and Cross Creek Ranch and so the schools would
have to get through the fall of 2018 with these current attendance zones
intact in this scenario. And so then once again we were asked to look at which
schools were currently operating at more than 125 percent of capacity that were
not expected to receive relief from the opening of a new school. These included
Fielder, West Memorial and Rylander along with Beckendorf Junior High. Like we
talked about about I guess it's been a month ago, Beckendorf is aging out and so
we're expecting its enrollment to continue to decline a little bit before
leveling off so as a result we're not recommending any changes to its current
attendance zone. The older elementary is expected to reduce its bilingual
program with the opening of elementary 38 freeing up capacity at Fielder so some
of the element of the bilingual students will attend elementary 38 and elementary
38 has additional space being built into that facility to handle the Southwest
quadrant one-way bilingual program as a result we're not recommending any
changes to the field or elementary zone but we are recommending changes to West
Memorial and Rylander West Memorial's attendance zone is currently projected
to have more than 1,100 geocoded students with several apartment complexes
expected to continue to fill in the area. The enrollment today is currently 886
because there are some transfers out including a lot of those that
are in the bilingual program. Its capacity is 684 students. And right next
door is Nottingham Country with a geocoded student count of just more than
600 and a capacity of 1,053. The current enrollment at Nottingham is around 630.
And additionally, we'll talk a little bit about Cimarron.
It has a geocoded student count of just over 700 students with a current enrollment of
around 670.
So last month our preliminary recommendation was moving Lane-New-Sone 44 to Nottingham
Country from West Memorial.
And so that would be moving this Lane-New-Sone here to Nottingham Country.
It contains approximately 270 geocoded students projected for the fall of 2016.
and so the hope there was to balance out the enrollments at each one of those schools.
Tonight we've created a new option that we're recommending.
It's an option two.
It splits Lane-New-Sone 44.
It sends some students to Nottingham Country while leaving some students at West Memorial.
And then it also splits Lane-New-Sone 42 down here,
sending one existing and one future apartment complex to Cimarron from West Memorial.
As you may recall from the open forum last week, several community members suggested
that these two areas be considered, both the sharing of Laney Sun 44 and the splitting
of Laney Sun 42 to Cimarron.
The split of Laney Sun 44 sends approximately 101 currently enrolled students at West Memorial
to Nottingham.
This would include students in Mason Creek Village, the Pines, and I'm going to stumble
over the name here aletian kingston villas and the new stream song and haven at west green those two
apartment complexes that are currently being occupied and so this slide is also one that you
saw with mr ganel it discusses a little bit about the possibilities for option one and option two
but i'd like to concentrate on option two uh the plus for option two is that it provides immediate
relief to west memorial via sending some students on to cimarron and those 101 that i mentioned on
to Nottingham Country. But we would probably be needing to continue to
monitor the size of the kindergarten classes in these areas to see if we're
going to see a little bit of growth, maybe a little bit of regeneration, or
some areas that are going to be declining a little bit. The plus here is
that it splits the current West Memorial students between three campuses,
Cimarron, West Memorial, and Nottingham Country. But it will require us to
continue to assess this situation over the next several years.
And then on to Rylander, just briefly.
Rylander was another school that we were asked to assess.
It has trended slightly upward and slightly downward,
depending on the little bubbles in the student population.
But for the most part, it's maintained a projection of approximately 1,300 students for quite some time.
Rylander abuts Griffin, which has a geocoded student population of just under 700 students,
but because the district has moved several programs into Griffin in order to better use its capacity,
its current enrollment is near 933 as a capacity of 1,030.
So we have suggested moving Lanny's Sons 68C and 68D to Griffin
and both of these Lanny's Sons Porter Cinco Ranch.
This would bring Rylander closer to its capacity
and would bring Griffin up closer to its capacity once you account for the special programs.
programs. Together those laney zones have approximately 150 students.
Do you all have any questions?
Mr. Adams.
Just for clarification, you said West Memorial Elementary has a capacity of how many students?
684. 684.
And what we're looking at here as far as going from the revised option 1, 834 to 875 to 894 over the next three years,
in that we're going to have West Memorial still at 923, 977, and 1001.
There are quite a few students that are transferring out of West Memorial,
and so we're anticipating those numbers and we've got to look at this a lot of
different ways we have to under try to understand several things like the
kindergarten class that's difficult to get at is it going to be the same as it
was are we training and trending up or trending down was it a bubble that sort
of thing so we've looked at that we've looked at you have a lot of students in
that area transferring out for various reasons and so the numbers that we've
come up with here based on transferring the students around look to be about 820
for West Memorial for 2016.
On up from there, I've got about 2020 at 946.
And so it helps West Memorial.
This is why, though, I think we will need to continue to watch it.
And it does move some students,
but it allows us the opportunity to buy a little time
and continue to assess the situation.
The other thing that we have is we have apartment complexes coming in,
and we also have to understand the ratio of students
that are actually going to appear in those apartment complexes.
Mr. Adams.
Just one more question.
Using that same logic, could you give me numbers for Nottingham Country with options?
We've got 780 to start in about 16, 819, 854.
And the capacity that we're given is 1,030,
but we do realize that there are some additional programs that alter that capacity.
Thank you.
Ms. Phan?
Did you say what the building capacity was for Cimarron?
Ms. Cimarron is, and I may have to look that up.
Do you have it off the top of your head, Scott?
Seven, you're doing a, got a couple of portable buildings there and you're doing a little bit of an addition.
861.
Ms. 861, that's current?
No.
Ms. 861 is capacity.
Ms. 861, the current capacity.
Okay.
Our enrollment is 6,000.
Ms. Okay.
And then when you say continue to assess, so we could be back here this time next year.
or a couple of years from now we think you know we've bought several years of time but that allows
us to continue to look when we uh ran the numbers and and took a look where we were at west memorial
it was uh dropped down to under the 125 threshold for the next two years so in two years i think
we'll be talking about it if we need to thank you very much mr what is the capacity for more
Memorial Parkway there's a memorial Parkway it's got a disjointed bilingual
program
Scott says 742 and it's got a very full bilingual program of 260 okay so they're
numbers are showing 518 right now but you're saying add another 200 and what
two hundred and sixty two so you've got it written down somewhere if I could
that school currently has ten portables too and that's one of the reasons that
you were proven the renovation in addition there is to try to remove some
of those portables because it just has so much so much program need mr.
Mr. Gunnell, I've got a quick question for you.
You know, I think sometimes we see these numbers and that,
but what about the West Memorial students?
Is option one, option two, which one of these options is best for our students?
You know, I'm glad you asked.
You know, option two has a lot going for it that option one didn't.
Normally we don't bring a change in recommendation.
Normally we just stick with one.
But the opening up of Cimarron Elementary into the discussion,
into a three-way split instead of a two-way split helped immeasurably. I'm
not particularly eager to bounce kids around more often than I need to, so
option two, if you keep an eye on it, will fulfill that need
for at least the next couple of years. I remember reading one of the responses
and I said, well, you know, they looked at our recommendation and said they're just
doing the quick easy thing. Well, I kind of like doing the quick easy thing, by
the way you know it kind of works out but after further analysis we're better off with option two
we think it's a superior recommendation than option one so if we were to move this item to
consent the recommendation is option number two all right option two is our recommendation thank
you mr mahalsky um given that and just looking at kind of splitting up len you saw on 44 i just want
want to talk about feeder patterns beyond elementary here and can you tell
me what the impact is there I'm gonna ask Scott Dunlap if he can to respond to
the feeder question the way the feeder patterns are right now is those
elementary students would go to 44 we'll call it 44 a which is on the west side
those would continue to Westmore junior high and then the small group on when
move on to taylor high school the ones on the east side of lane zone 44 which would go to nottingham
then they would go to westmore junior high and then on to taylor high school
what follow up because then you said the same thing on both you said both of those would go
to those will actually do the exact same thing taylor high school they have both go to taylor
high school they both go to westmore junior high okay so same as it is now same way as it is
currently what about the the kids in the newly created one for Cimarron are they
similar on West Memorial Katie high school mr. Adams I just like to to
commend our staff on employing K-12 Insight to do an unbiased survey here and getting
the true thing.
I also want to commend the staff in taking a second look at this.
I also want to commend our community for giving us input and just to the transparency that
we have with what we do and even the folks that come and speak to us to know that we
do listen to to what you have to say um and we all we all got emails and uh you the thing is is that
it's not not everyone's going to be happy but but i think that the option two makes us makes us
at least happy you know and gives us gives us some some room for growth and gives us the relief that
we have at west memorial because uh all kids are important we want them all to have a great
education and by doing this i i commend the staff on on the bringing back an uh
an option that i think is a very workable solution
miss mr doyle mr president okay so i may play devil's advocate and please just bear with me
for a second while i get through it and don't throw anything just yet um i just have to look
at the fact that we're not really relieving West Memorial with option two
we're adding we're splitting that the 44 my fear is the second grader is I'm
trying to think about where are we going to be in a couple of years is there a
potential and in a couple of years we're going to take what we've divided and go
back to option one anyway and now the second grader that's been moved in two
years is going to be moved again as a fourth grader you know when when we look
for immediate relief they get it they're down how many kids in a year West
Memorial 150 right on 101 those those those kids
are going to the same school that they were going to anyway.
They're going to West Memorial Elementary.
Whether at some time in the future they go to Nottingham or any other school is yet to be determined.
That's one of the reasons that every year we take a look at the demographics,
and we do look five years out.
And what we are saying with this attendance boundary is that for two years we're good,
and in two years we have to look.
And if we still have an issue with a hundred and twenty five percent of enrollment at that point of any of our schools
We need to figure out a way to resolve that so kids won't move twice
twice if those kids in the
Western part of land use zone
44 who are at West Memorial now and when continue to be at West Memorial for the next two years
If you said it's not enough relief you want to slide them at some point
That would only be one move as opposed to bouncing them now and then bringing them back in two years
President mr. Dubrow
I'd like to thank you Tom for listening to the the public as well
Because you're right. I've been through this dance several times with you and you don't like to change Lansing's owns a whole lot
So I appreciate the fact that you and your staff listen to
to the Discord and the people from Nottingham country.
And I appreciate them because again,
if you've been through this a couple of times,
you don't always get very respectful comments and emails
as some of these people have sent.
So you've been very respectful, very professional.
I definitely appreciate you.
Ms. Vann.
I'd just like to echo what Mr. Adams and Mr. DeGraw said.
They said exactly what I want to say and probably better.
but and thank you mr. Cornell for taking the time and thank you to the parents
who have communicated to us in the community and that's one of the things
that makes a just strong and awesome district as parents who get involved and
get involved in the right way so thank you very much and thank you to your team
for taking the time to listen and answer a lot of our questions I know you had
questions coming from us too so I really appreciate that thank you are there any
Any other questions?
Any objection to move this item to consent?
So moved.
8.2, discuss and consider future board approval
of material testing services.
Mr. McIlwain.
Good evening once again, President Griffin,
Board Member, Superintendent Fraley.
This item, you've seen something similar
with other new projects where after the guaranteed
maximum price or construction pricing is approved,
materials testing is required immediately thereafter as it's required
as a first phase as part of as part of initial steps in construction. This
particular item is for materials testing associated with the second stadium. The
funding which is identified is within that approved board item which you folks
just proved earlier in the meeting this evening. We are recommending HTS for this
particular work. They are being endorsed by the design team. They have done
geotechnical work on this site already so they're very familiar with this
particular site and the specifics on the project. Thank you. Any questions? Any
objection to move this item to consent? So moved. 8.3 sir. The next two items are
associated with Memorial Parkway Elementary School, the comprehensive
renovations at Memorial Parkway Elementary School and at Cimarron
elementary schools. If you can recall in July of this year we brought before you
the design for both of these projects and the board approved both of these
designs. I have to once again recognize I recognized Sine Bell the the principal
at Cimarron as well as Troy Kemp the the principal at Memorial Parkway Elementary
for their involvement during the design phase. They've also been extremely
valuable as we work through the construction document phase on this
particular set of projects. Firstly I'll speak to Memorial Parkway Elementary
School. That particular project we are recommending Amendment 1 to Ansel O'Brien
Construction Limited for this particular project for a total project cost not to
exceed $19,111,484. James Bryant who's one of the founders of
Ansel O'Brien is here this evening. This particular project is extremely complex
not dissimilar from Memorial Parkway Junior High,
insofar as this particular project actually
is spanning multiple summers.
And in the end, it became more complex
than what we had originally anticipated.
Mr. Gunnell mentioned in the previous item
the addition on this particular campus.
There's a significant building addition
on this particular campus, which will house students
which are currently in a number of portables
on this particular site.
We've also within the addition created some flex special education spaces as well.
Another difference on this particular project is that there's a comprehensive kitchen renovation project associated with this particular work.
Once again, Stantec, Jennifer Hendrickson is in the audience and Parul Vyas, they're the architects on this particular project.
you're very familiar with their work and we are anxious to move forward with this
particular project as I mentioned it's it's complex it's going to span over two
summers as well as during the year with respect to the building addition the the
funding for this work funds are available to support the final total
project cost of this project without impacting our ability to complete all
the projects within the bond program thank you mr maholsky i notice here that one source of the
funds there is from the district food service funds and we know that we have balances there
but they are restricted in how we use them are we maximizing that that's correct mr robinson has has
has worked quite diligently and we're very appreciative of his ability to gain some funding
for the kitchen renovation work.
Very good. Well done.
It's a good idea to try to maximize those.
Any other questions?
Any objection to move an 8.3 to consent?
So moved.
8.4.
The next item, as I mentioned, is associated with Cimarron Elementary.
Once again, Sinead Bell is in the audience this evening.
Very appreciative of her involvement throughout this whole process.
We are recommending Amendment 1 to Dramala Construction for this particular project.
This project is not as complex as the Memorial Parkway Elementary project.
I'm pleased to report that this one is actually slightly under the allocation,
the bond allocation for this particular work and one significant difference
between possibly this one and the Memorial Parkway Elementary is that in
2011 the kitchen renovation was already completed at at Cimarron Elementary.
entry. So once again we're anxious to commence work on this project. This will
be one that we're hoping that we can complete within a summer, within one
summer. Any questions? And I should, I should if I may, I did want to recognize,
I recognize Stantec on the on the other project. I wanted to recognize Pfluger
architects on this particular project. They've been Michelle Dudley, Martin
and Brennan they've worked quite quite well with the campus on this project any
objection to moving this item to consent so moved mr. McElwain thank you for you
and your team for all your hard work I can't imagine trying to juggle this many
projects this many numbers and keeping them all going in the correct direction
thank you thank you and you know it's all about the kids and we're extremely
proud of our ability to contribute in that way I would have ulcers with your
your job. Thank you, sir. Thank you.
8.5.
Ms. McDonald.
Yes. Good evening, President Griffin, school board members, and
Superintendent Fraley. Tonight I'm bringing forward for your consideration
an interlocal agreement with Harris County Municipal Utility District
number 346, Nottingham Country Elementary
Parent Teacher Association in Katy Independent School District. It is
recommended that the board approve the interlocal to construct recreational
facility improvements at Nottingham Country Elementary. Through this
agreement, Katy ISD would review and approve the design and assist in the
administering and inspecting of the project during construction. The project
is estimated to be completed within six months from the effective date of this
agreement. Funding in the amount of $40,000 will be provided by Harris County MUD number 346 and
$5,000 by the Nottingham Country Elementary PTA. At the conclusion of the agreement, KDISD agrees
to own, operate, and maintain the project, which will be available for public access.
This agreement was reviewed and approved by the district's legal counsel.
Mr. Adams. Ms. McDonald, is this the same MUD district as Mason Creek?
Or not. No, sir. It's a different one different one. It's a different one
Miss van
Is this primarily for the track?
Yes, ma'am. It is
And so some work would be able to be started over Christmas with us passing. That is our hopes. Yes right now
They're pretty much going without a track right? Yes, ma'am
For the full track the full track, right, but it won't be completed for six months
But they'll be able to start over Christmas. No, we're hoping that it's completed within that time
But we generally give a six month period from the time of the effective date. Thank you
No other further questions any objection to move in the side of consent so moved
Thank you for working with the community once again. We have another outstanding project for the kids zero cost item for us
Thank you community. Thank you. Yes
All right that brings us to a eight point six to says discussing consider future board approval
December 2015 budget. Ms. Butterfield. Good evening, President Griffin, Trustees,
Superintendent Fraley. Tonight there's only one budget amendment and it is a
transfer between different functions. There is no impact on the general
operating fund balance for the approval of this amendment. Thank you. Any
questions? Any objection to moving this item to consent? So moved. Thank you,
Thank you, Ms. Butterfield.
That brings us to Section 9, Future Meetings.
The regular Board meeting is Monday, December 14th, in just 2015.
And a note that the posting will be done on Friday due to staff training requirements.
And having no further business before the Board, this meeting is adjourned at 8.33.
Official documents
Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 3.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Memorandum of Understanding between Fort Bend County and Katy Independent School District as presented in Closed Meeting.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
MOTION 002 · AGENDA 3.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the Superintendent in Closed Meeting.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
MOTION 003 · AGENDA 7.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves Amendment Three to the Durotech, Inc. Construction Manager at Risk contract for the construction of the Student Activity Facility: Second Stadium for the total Guaranteed Maximum Price of $48,822,924 and approves the total project cost associated with Amendment Three not to exceed $53,821,958. Not Present at Vote: Ashley Vann
5 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| joe-adams | Yes |
MOTION 004 · AGENDA 7.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves Amendment Four to the Durotech, Inc. Construction Manager at Risk contract for the construction of the Student Activity Facility: Second Stadium for the total Guaranteed Maximum Price of $2,694,312 with a total project cost associated with Amendment Four not to exceed $2,904,312, and approves the use of 2010 Bond Authorization savings to fund this amendment.
5 Yes · 1 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | No |
| joe-adams | Yes |