Good evening. The Board will now convene an open meeting. Today is Monday, May 16, 2016, in the time of 6.32 p.m.
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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 Act regarding the notice for this meeting?
Mr. President, we are in compliance. The first item is the personnel report.
Mr. President.
Mr. Dubrow.
Move that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting.
Second.
I have a motion by Henry Dubrell, second by Rebecca Fox,
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 aye.
Aye.
Those opposed?
Motion passes 6-0.
Ms. Courtney Doyle had a family emergency that she needed to take care of tonight.
Mr. President, I'm pleased to announce again that we'll be reassigning Ms. Rhonda Ward,
the Assistant Superintendent for Student Support Services, for the retirement of Dr. Linda
Minas.
Congratulations.
Congratulations.
Mr. Fraley, you seem to reward people for doing a good job with more work.
Well, that's kind of the American way.
I guess that means you're not retiring?
I'll be doing mommy duty.
Mommy duties.
Whatever she tells me to do.
Got a lot more than this, I tell you.
Do we have any scouts in the audience today?
No.
Then that moves us to Section 4, our recognitions.
I think we have some people right there in the front.
4.1, peace officer, oath of office by Deputy Chief Keith Meyer.
Hello.
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 call upon officers the hobble braids to come forward to take the oath and be recognized as a member of the KDISD
police department
Ms.
Raise your right hand and repeat after me.
I Zahaba Raiz.
Ms.
I Zahaba Raiz.
Ms.
Do solemnly swear.
Ms.
Do solemnly swear.
Ms.
That I will faithfully execute the duties.
Ms.
That I will faithfully execute the duties.
Ms.
Of the Office of Peace Officer.
Ms.
The Office of Peace Officer.
Ms.
Of the Katy Independent School District.
Of the State of Texas.
And will, to the best of my ability,
preserve, protect, and defend
the Constitution and laws of the United States
and of this state.
So help me God.
So help me God.
Congratulations.
Officer Zahava Raiz was born and raised in Houston, Texas, the youngest of six children.
After graduating from Stephen F. Austin High School in June of 2001,
Officer Raiz attended Houston Community College.
In June of 2012, Officer Raiz began her law enforcement career as a dispatcher
with the Harris County Precinct 5 Constable's Office.
In December of 2012, she graduated from the University of Houston Downtown with a Bachelor
of Science in Criminal Justice.
Wanting to further her career in law enforcement, Officer Raiz attended the University of Houston
Downtown Criminal Justice Center Police Academy, graduating in June of 2013.
In November of 2013, Officer Raiz went to work at Lone Star College, where she served
as a patrol officer.
In February of 2016, Officer Raiz joined the Katy ISD Police Department.
please help me to welcome off right east of Katy ISD thank you very much and it's
so good to have you all right and that moves us to our section 5 reports 5.1
cooperative purchasing contracts management fees report my miss Stevenson
either place I'm not used to reporting from the podium good evening
superintendent Fraley president Griffin board members I have one very quick
report to make according to school statutes to have section 44 0 3 3 1 we
must report to you any fees that are paid to cooperative purchasing programs
in the period immediately following the fiscal year it took a long time to get
these figures from the cooperatives because they were waiting on the vendors to pay them
before they turned in the report to us.
And so you'll see on there, although we belong to a number of cooperatives, the only time
we pay a fee is when we are purchasing vehicles, and the fee is paid per purchase order.
And so what we do is try to combine our vehicle purchases into as few purchase orders as it's
possible to do as the orders come in to us so that we pay as low a fee as is
possible to pay to the cooperative so to the by board we paid $2,000 for total
purchases of five million seven hundred and forty thousand seven hundred and
twenty two dollars and to HGAC we paid fees of six hundred dollars for a
purchase order that was seven hundred and one thousand two hundred dollars
Thank you board. Any questions? Thank you very much for that report. And our next report is
5.2 School Health Advisory Council. And that's Mr. Grimmett.
Good evening, President Griffin, members of the board, Superintendent Fraley. It's my pleasure
to be here tonight to discuss our annual School Health Advisory Council meetings
that we held throughout the year. I'm here tonight with my co-chair Amy Nongbree
and we we meet with the board at least once annually with a detailed
account of all of our activities that we discussed this year. This year we were
we were very fortunate we had a lot of parents teachers administrators health
care professionals community members law enforcement members and nonprofit health
organization members who attended our meetings this year our focus areas focus
on eight coordinated school health areas of focus health education physical
education parent community involvement staff wellness promotion counseling and
mental health services, healthy and safe school environments, health services and nutrition
services.
These are our meeting dates.
We met twice in the fall and we met twice in the spring.
And now Amy will discuss the summary of activities.
Good evening, Board.
Good evening, Superintendent Fraley.
Good evening, President Griffin.
Our activities for this year consisted of reviewing the contents of the SHAC webpage
on the KDISD website.
We reviewed the Food Day 2015 activities and events that occurred in October.
We reviewed the new rules for the Texas Department of Agriculture exempt days for schools.
We reviewed the information on influenza preparedness.
We reviewed the KDISD emergency communication exercise.
We reviewed the components, purpose, and history of FitnessGram.
We reviewed the counselor training and district plans for crisis intervention.
We reviewed and proposed revisions to the KDISD wellness policy.
We selected a parent representative for the annual presentation to the school board.
We celebrated Carol Moore's service of 15 years to the SHAC and we welcomed new director
of health services, Therese Hinote, to the SHAC.
As you can see, we covered quite a few topics throughout the year.
So do we have any questions concerning our meetings?
Board?
No.
Well, thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
And that brings us to Section 10, the Consent Agenda.
And Mrs. Stevenson, you have, I think, eight items for us tonight, starting with 6.1.
Good evening again.
President Griffin, Board Members, Superintendent Fraley. I do have eight
contracts to bring forward for your consideration this evening. The first
contract is to consider a future board approval of the job order contracting
method and the use of Brown and Root through the Cooperative Purchasing
Network, which is called TCPN, to complete the minor construction that's
associated with the installation of the walkways, canopies, fire alarms, public
address system and electrical system services at the portable building
relocation sites during this coming summer. To accomplish this project
the district contracted with PBK MEP group to do the design work and to
issue our specifications. Once all the work was done was reviewed it was
determined that the best method for completing this project would be job
job order contracting and the quote from Brown and Root provided the best value for the district.
The quote from Brown and Root will include not only the work but an owner's contingency
of 10% which will make it a not to exceed cost of $1,837,899 for all the schools listed
in the documentation presented to you.
The work will begin shortly after school is out and was scheduled for completion by August
1st of 2016. It will be funded from the General Operating Fund. Thank you. Board,
any questions? Thank you, ma'am. 6.2. Okay. 6.2 is to replace that fire alarm and
intercom system at Katy Junior High School. This is due to the aging of this
technology there. To develop the specifications and design for the
project the maintenance and operations department contracted with again with
mr. Brian hood a PBK MEP group although the project will utilize the existing
intercom wiring intercom speakers the fire alarm and communication system will
be updated resulting in better communication and overall safety for the
students and staff PBK not only assisted the district in the design and the
specifications but also in contacting provincial providers for this project
and although a number of firms were contacted, only two chose to bid. After the analysis of all projects received, the recommendation is to award to CLS Technology at a cost of $382,534, which includes all permits and bonds, as well as an owner's contingency of about 3%.
The project will again begin shortly after school is out and will be
completed before the start of the 2016-2017 school year. The original
project funding was $304,534 from the 2014 bond funds and the other
$78,000 is coming from 2014 bond fund savings from other projects. Thank you
Board any questions? Ma'am I got a quick question I think McDonald might be the
best to answer this one. This is talking about you know safety for our kids fire
alarms and upgrades and all that. Some of our schools have really nice digital
marquees in front of them. Is there any interoperability between what's going on
in the school and any of those marquees and I know Katy Junior High can't have
one but you know like there's something going on some of those marquees would
seem like they would be able to provide some information is there any of that
yet in our systems you mean mr. Griffin during an emergency that's without
information not to my knowledge at this time and it might be a good question for
John Brimmer or mr. Gunnell might have some information there but let me go
ahead and try to answer that we've talked about that in our last you know
hot wash up post exercise review that we had about the interoperability of the
the boards and being able to use them for messages for example on made Creek
perhaps a sign would say water ahead I mean whatever you may say we're looking
into that as it currently stands messages can be submitted from the
school but it would require a manual intervention by by them to do it we'd
like to integrate all our systems of both alarms and warning systems much
like they do on the interstates okay thank you very much sorry to get
everybody out of their seats thank you any questions board for 6.2 all right 6.3
okay the next contract I have for your consideration is the approval for
the proposal for the replacement of the uninterrupted power supply at the Katy
Independent School District data center the UPS at the Katy Independent School
District's data center is now 13 years old and certainly needs to be upgraded.
The system is necessary to maintain continuous network operations and to
prevent loss of data. Accordingly the district's technology department
developed the specifications needed for the upgrade. They were contacted
potential providers and gave them an opportunity to tour the center and
develop recommendations for the replacement. A number of proposals were
received and the equipment was proposed was carefully reviewed and evaluated by
a team that was led in the technology department by Joe Christopherson our
director of technology operations and after consideration of all of the
criteria listed the recommendation is to award to Solaris power systems LLC at a
cost of one hundred and eighty six thousand five hundred and fifty dollars
the team felt that this definitely represents best value to the district
The purchase and installation of the uninterrupted power supply for the district's data center
will be funded from the 2010 Bond Fund project savings.
The project will begin upon contract renewal, I mean contract approval, excuse me, and is
scheduled for completion by August 31st of 2016.
Thank you.
Board any questions?
Thank you, ma'am.
in 6.4 okay the next contract the next contract I have for your consideration is
to consider the future the board approval of the job order contracting
method and the approval of the contract with sterling structures through the
cooperative purchasing network for the renovation of the Cinco Ranch high
school ninth grade center vestibule as a part of the ongoing goal of improving
safety and security at district sites funded with the 2014 bond fund the
entrance vestibule at Cinco Ranch high school ninth grade center needs to be
renovated to achieve the district goal for better security at this campus mr.
Todd Lane of the okay architects was contracted to develop the design and the
specifications due to the fact that the district wishes to begin the work as
soon as possible so that it can be completed by the start of the 2016-2017
year the architect and the district staff determined that the job order
contracting method would be the best way to accomplish this and it would provide
the best value solution after a review of the available contractors through
that cooperative the district contacted sterling structures as they provided
many similar projects or they've done similar projects for the district the
prop the proposal submitted by sterling structures was reviewed by mr. Lane and
and was recommended for acceptance.
The Sterling Structures proposal is in a not to exceed amount
of $68,979, which includes all bonding costs and an owner's
contingency.
Work, again, is scheduled to begin as soon as the school
year ends and will be completed before the start of the 2016,
2017 school year.
And it will be funded from the 2014 Bond Fund Safety
and Security Projects.
Thank you.
Yes, ma'am.
Out of all of our ninth grade campuses, I'm most familiar with Seven Lakes because I have
children there as far as going in the ninth grade.
When I visit other campuses, I typically go into the main hall, a main entrance.
Of all of our campuses that have the similar ninth grade setup, how many have this same
– I know to go through the ninth grade center, there's no button that's pushed.
You just – you go in.
once you're giving your Raptor sticker you go through the door there's yeah that the controls
for the ninth grade centers are in a different project that will be coming to you later this
particular location at Cinco Ranch there is literally no door so it's the same entrance
at Cinco Ranch that you entered to go to the PAC Center as to the ninth grade office.
And that's why we have to create a separation of that space from the rest of the school.
Appreciate it.
Like I said, I'm not more main entrance friendly for all the other high schools besides my
home high school.
So appreciate your answer.
Thank you, ma'am.
and that 6.5 okay the next contract I'm bringing forward is to consider the
approval of the job order contracting method and the award of a contract to
construction masters of Houston incorporated through the choice partners
cooperative for the renovation of the special education classroom area at
Nottingham Country Elementary School that that area needs to be renovated to
better serve the students and staff and accordingly at the the maintenance
Department contracted with Miss Michelle Dudley of Pfluger architects to design
the necessary renovation and to develop the specifications again because the
type timeline it was determined by the district staff and the architect that
the best method for contracting would be to utilize a job order contracting
method available to us and after review of available contractors quotes were
salt quotes were sought from both construction masters of Houston and
Brown and Root through the Choice Partners Cooperative. After evaluating
the quotes received, the quote from Construction Masters Incorporated of
Houston was determined to present the best value for the district. The total
cost is $375,818.47, includes all bonding and permits and as well as an
owner's contingency. This project too is scheduled to begin as soon as the school
year ends and will be completed before the staff returns in August of 2016. The
the renovation of the special education classroom area at nottingham country
elementary school will be funded through as general operating fans special
project allocation
any questions
thank you man that six point five and six point six
okay the next time contract i have this
to uh... consider approval of the job order contracting method in the award of
the contract of course down paving and constructions
through Choice Partners Cooperative for the civil work at the maintenance and
operations department annex. In order to complete the civil work needed for the
maintenance and operations department annex including tree removal, ground
preparation, site concrete installation and the installation of a turn lane, the
district contracted with Mr. Todd Lean of VLK Architects to do all the design
and specifications. Again due to our tight timeline it was determined by the
the staff and the design team that the best method of contracting would be to utilize
the job order contracting method and utilize contractors that are available to us through
that cooperative.
After review of all the available contractors, the district chose CoreStone Paving and Construction.
This firm is well qualified to perform the necessary services and can meet this extremely
tight timeline.
line. The cost from CoreStone will be $727,180 and includes all bonds but does not include the cost of permits. The permits, if required, will be the district's responsibility. The project would be started shortly after the board approved and would be completed before the start of the 2016-2017 school year. The civil work at the Maintenance and Operations Department Annex will be funded through the General Operating Funds Special
project allocation. Thank you. Board, any questions? Alrighty ma'am, 6.7. The next
thing I have for your consideration this evening is the approval of an
interlocal agreement with the educator ESC Center or Education Service Center
Center 14 for participation in the National Cooperative Purchasing Alliance.
As you saw from the report earlier, the district does belong to a number of purchasing cooperatives,
and we certainly utilize those contracts whenever they present best value to the district.
In order, however, to have this, to belong to a cooperative, the board must agree to
an interlocal agreement with the other educational or other governmental entity.
The National Cooperative, if there is one, it must be managed or they must be represented by an entity within the state of Texas as one of its governing agencies.
And for this particular cooperative, it is ESC 14.
This ensures that all Texas procurement laws are followed and that the contracts awarded can be utilized by Texas governmental entities.
This particular cooperative, National Cooperative Purchasing Alliance, was brought to us by
Gerald Cutler, the building automation manager, because he has found that there are some contracts
on this particular cooperative that we could look at getting quotes from for our building
automation systems to perhaps make this procurement process even more competitive and perhaps
save the district some money in the future.
the contracts would only be utilized again if they present best value to the
district so we would like to recommend that the word of trustees approve the
interlocal agreement and the membership to the National Cooperative Purchasing
Alliance through ESC 14 thank you mr. Adams this is mr. Cutler here yes I just
want to thank you for having a heads up and recognizing that and you know that's
good for you as far as the Katie acid egos appreciate your thank you thank you
very much and that moves us to your last item I guess last time I kind of jumped
around that we the next contract I have to bring forward is for the board to
approve the job order contracting method and the approval of the contract with
with core stone paving and construction for the renovation of the Nottingham Country Elementary
driveway and sidewalk alterations.
This is due to the additional portable buildings that are being moved to the campus this summer.
Because of that, the sidewalks and driveways at Nottingham Country Elementary School must
be modified to meet the requirements of the traffic impact analysis performed by the county.
To review the needed changes and develop the specifications and plans, the district contracted
with Mr. Michael Golding of S&G Engineering Consultants. And after review
of all the specifications needed and the timeline again that the district must
meet to have the campus ready for the start of school for 2016-2017, it was
determined that job order contracting would be the best method. And the, after
available contractors were reviewed, it was determined that core stone paving
and construction through the Choice Partners Cooperative would provide best
value to the district. The firm is well qualified and very much able to meet the
very constricted timeline. The cost from core stone paving construction for this
work is $67,376 and includes the bonds but does not include any permits. The
permits if needed will be the responsibility of the maintenance
department. The project will start shortly after school is dismissed for
this year and it will be completed before the start of the next school year.
The renovation of the sidewalks and driveways at Nottingham Country Elementary School will be funded through the General Operating Fund's special project allocation.
Board, any questions?
Just a general comment.
I guess Nottingham is getting portables and they're getting their stuff redone.
I guess some of our older additions now are starting to get a little bit of turnover for new kids.
Thank you very much.
That's it for the consent agenda.
And that moves us to item 7 discussion action
7.1 discuss and consider future board approval of the 2016-17 honors pre AP courses
Evening president Griffin members of the board and mr. Fraley tonight
I bring forward to for your consideration the list of courses that KT ISD wants to exempt from no pass no play
The UIL allows advanced placement courses and dual credit courses
and then the district can identify additional courses the courses on the
list in front of you are the same courses as last year they are the pre
AP courses that we want our students to be exempt from from no pass no play can
I answer any questions for you any objection to moving this item to consent
thank you very much this item is so moved and this brings us to a 7.2
discuss and consider future board approval of the 2016-2017 kindergarten waiver. Ms. Walker.
Good evening Superintendent Fraley, President Griffin and members of the board.
I'm bringing forward for your consideration an opportunity to approve a pre-k waiver of a
210-minute school day. During the 84th Texas Legislature there was a bill passed that changed
the way we account for student time from days to minutes and the change impact at
pre-kindergarten programs particularly half-day programs significantly so TEA is
allowing districts to apply for a one-time waiver that will allow
districts the opportunity to continue with their current schedules into the
16-17 school year and then have the opportunity to transition to a schedule
based on 210 minutes for the 17-18 school year. Are there any questions I
can answer? Board, any questions? I don't think so tonight. Any objection to
moving this item to consent? So moved. That brings us to 7.3 ma'am. Yes, this is
the timeline for accelerated instruction waiver. This is a routine waiver that
that comes before the board every three years.
Our fifth and eighth grade students
who do not meet standard on STAR
are required to receive accelerated instruction
after each attempt.
And for those students who take the test in their summer,
there isn't adequate time to receive the results
and provide the accelerated instruction.
So what this waiver allows us to do
is to provide that accelerated instruction
during the beginning of the school year,
during the first six weeks.
Are there any questions?
Mr. Adams.
So this is to help kids that didn't pass the STAR,
but what would we be doing to help them to be ready for STAR?
In other words, I mean, this is after,
so something we're doing ahead of time to make sure that the kids that we recognize
is probably going to be maybe not passed.
Certainly for those students who we recognize may have difficulties through our RTI process
We're able to provide interventions for them on an ongoing basis and certainly our general curriculum provides
significant preparation for the students as well
Yes, ma'am
So I'm hearing a lot of
Conversations about parents opting out of star
right and it's their right to do so but that causes those boys and girls then
who choose not to take star they have to go to summer school is that correct if
they never take the star they're required to be in summer school is that
true the student success initiative requires that students take the test at
fifth and eighth grade and that they have three opportunities to test and if
they do not pass they are subject to the SSI
requirements.
MS.
Which is not a KDISD requirement.
Is that a State requirement?
It's a State requirement.
MS.
A State requirement for them to be in summer school at the district's expense,
not at the State expense.
The district pays for summer school.
MS.
We pay for summer school, yes.
MS.
I hate this STAAR Test.
I'm just putting it on the record.
Thank you.
Thank you, Board.
Any objection to move this item consent?
So moved. Thank you very much
This moves us to a 7.4 discuss and consider future board approved with the renewal the voluntary student and university UIL activity
Nelman
Good evening President Griffin distinguished board members and Mr. Fraley
General fund expenditures for this coverage in 2015-2016 were at $226,729, which included
the University Interscholastic League premium of $210,715 and the Catastrophic
premium of $16,014. The renewal premium for 2016-2017 is $216,194, which includes the
UIL premium of $200,180 and the catastrophic premium of $16,014. The renewal premium represents
presents a reduction in total premium in the amount of $10,535.
In general, the UIL accident policy is paid for by the district and provides medical benefits
for accidents incurred by students who participate in UIL activities such as athletics, fine
arts and career and technology education.
The plan is secondary to any other available insurance the participant may have and includes
supplemental catastrophic policy. State law allows districts to purchase this
type of insurance but is not mandatory. The insurance package also provides
voluntary accident insurance for students which includes options for
at-school coverage with or without dental accident coverage. Those who elect
voluntary coverage pay the associated premium directly to the carrier. It is
It is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the voluntary student accident insurance
and the district provided University Interscholastic League catastrophic accident insurance
policies for renewal.
I would welcome any questions that you may have at this time.
President?
Yes, sir.
If a student doesn't have any other type of coverage, does this take on a full coverage
type situation?
No, it does not.
there's a schedule of benefits that is paid. If again there's the UIL activity,
if the student is involved in a UIL activity, football, basketball,
cheerleading, band, choir, and they're injured in that participation whether it
be practice or an actual event, then this coverage comes into play. The student can
can elect to pay for premium if it's a non-UIL participating type event.
But there's a schedule of benefits, and it does act as supplemental to any primary policy that would happen.
Now, you mentioned cheerleading. Is cheerleading UIL?
Okay.
So it wouldn't cover the cheerleaders?
Yes, it would.
Because they're part of the UIL?
Yes, because it's now part, it's governed by a UIL.
Very good. Thank you.
Mr. Mohoski.
Could you just give us an idea historically what, I guess there are claims filed on this
policy each year, but I guess the other part is it's secondary to other available insurance,
but can it go towards, does it give any benefit towards deductibles of that insurance or anything
like that?
No, it does not.
It's a scheduled benefit, whatever it, if you have a broken arm, it may, or let me back
up.
When you have an insurance procedure done, there's an associated CPT code, and it will pay for a scheduled benefit associated with that code.
But if their primary health insurance is paying for that already, it's really not?
It sits on top.
To answer your question, it could act to defer that deductible cost.
Okay, okay.
Yeah, right.
And I guess, is a claim automatically filed when we have an injury that's reported?
It is.
Because we have a very good working relationship with the athletics department here at Katy.
Our trainers are trained instantaneously to give those claim forms to the parent.
And on instance where we have a significant injury, my department helps coordinate our
patrons through that process.
sometimes it can be frightening when that happens to their child so we kind
of help facilitate that following the claim and follow up that things are
moving in the right direction thank you thank you buddy else nice article in the
paper mr. Norman thank you thank you did you see it mr. Griffin no I didn't he
talking about he lives in anawak Texas and he's the long distance well long
long-distance drive every day and they had a very nice article in Chronicle I
think it was in the Chronicle you got that and and featured him with a nice
picture in front of his car so how many miles you have only three hundred and
twenty three thousand miles thank you very much thank you sir any objection to
move in 7.4 to consent so move thank you thank you folks and that moves us to a 7.5 mcdonald
good evening president griffin board members and superintendent fraley tonight i'm bringing
forward for your consideration and future approval an easement to center point energy
associated with the KTISD owned property located on the Willow Fork Park site.
The power line easement Centerpoint has requested is depicted on the attached
easement documents. The power lines currently run through the middle of the
site. In June of 2015, you as a board approved an easement to relocate those
same lines to the perimeter of the site in an easement abandoned by Fort Bend
Bend County Drainage District. However, upon further review, the design team, the Willow
Fork design team determined the easement should be moved an additional 30 feet into the interior
of the park. This would prevent the poles and lines from being right up next to the
neighborhood fences for Falcon Landing. CenterPoint will submit an easement release document to
to KDISD for the easement that was executed in 2015 June.
This easement agreement was reviewed and approved
by the district's legal council.
We also have Matt Klein with us tonight with TGB Partners.
If anybody has any questions, Matt or I would be
either one happy to answer them.
Thank you.
Board, any questions on 7.5?
Any objection to move this item of consent?
So moved, thank you.
Thank you.
and 7.6 mr. McElwain a good evening president Griffin a board member
superintendent Fraley I'm joined this this evening by dr. Castillo de steel is
in the audience tonight how do you get the back Steve Pittman David Owens from
Anzalobion Bryant who is a construction manager for the project and Stuart
Campbell who is the architect on record for the May Creek High School
comprehensive renovation project. As you recall we brought this project before
the board. We identified the complexity of this project. I have to recognize Dr.
Steele, the amount of time that she has spent working with us hand in hand
because when we when we address a project such as this so it's important
for us to address every every functional space in the building with the intent
that we do not have to go back to this particular campus at some later date. So
we try to address it in a fully comprehensive, holistic manner. What I
have before you this evening is Amendment 1 to the Ansel O'Brien
Construction Manager Risk Contract for the comprehensive renovation of May Creek
High School. The final total project cost identified can be completed with
available funds within the bond authorization and we are actually
utilizing thanks to Mr. Robinson food services funds to help assist with
respect to the the kitchen renovation work at the particular campus. So once
again this particular project is a project that scheduled to be
substantially completed in 2018. There's a tremendous amount of phasing that's
involved the Anzal Bliant team as I mentioned Steve and David Owens have
been fully engaged on this project up in the ceiling space looking at all the
various systems that need to be addressed in this particular project so
once again I'd be more than pleased to answer any questions that you may have
on this project thank you mr. Griffin miss Fox hi mr. McIlwain I'm I agree
with you 100% do it right while we're there not come in and out and in and out
much more expensive to do it that way but this cost is for engineering fees
and insurance and code reviews that wasn't included in the first what's it
for oh that's that's a load that's our what we classify as our loading cost
that's included on every one of our projects so what's so in other words
that's in addition to the the contractors cost there's the the
architectural fee cost the permit fees those are fees that are over and beyond
on furniture and equipment other permit costs we have that on every project this is an amendment
but that's not a budget it's not a budget amendment no I get it it's an amendment one
amendment project for the looked at to the contract the console that the the the 49 million
dollar number is that is the Anzlo Bryant number that's the construction cost the other cost is the
not to exceed cost which would include furniture equipment all other costs associated with the
project okay thank you yes sir so I'm looking at the project funding portion
of this and looks like it about bond allocation of 50 little over 51 million
dollars actual cost is going to be 56.7 is that correct okay so because there's
a line I'm in here so supplemental supplemental available bond funds I
I wasn't sure what that meant.
Oh, that, and working with Mr. Smith,
that's funding that's available within the bond.
It's not identified a particular project.
So we do have savings, per se,
that can be utilized on this particular project.
It's similar, not dissimilar,
to how we addressed Taylor High School
in the last bond authorization,
where there was some additional work
because once we got into the scope of required work,
the scope increased the cost on the project
And there were funds in the bond program so working closely with mr.
Smith and he can address the fact on available funds for this work
And I you know and I know I believe there's a review committee meeting even maybe later this week
I think you know would like to periodically get kind of get a reconciliation of all of that because we are having
Some projects that have savings some that are going over what we projected right and right and right and of course then we know that
It's going to be probably somewhat tight on the overall
2014 bond package? Mr. Michalski please given the construction please you know
with respect to and I'll answer this particular question I'll ask Mr.
Smith to follow up we work extremely closely with the business office as we
and that's why six over the past few bond elections we've been very
successful because we've been able to do not only every project that we said we
would do but we've been able to actually for the students be able to do more
Obviously we want to make sure that we've got enough
Capacity in there. Maybe mr. Smith might want to sure it as it stands now you hit the nail on the head. Mr
Mahalski we we have had projects some come over some kind of come under
We do feel comfortable that this would be a project that if we approve the overage amount that we can afford that through the overall
Scope and be able to get all the projects still complete that we that we promised the voters we would
What we would do is if approved we would follow up next month and have as part of our budget amendment
And we would take the original allocation to
The higher amount okay. No I appreciate that and I appreciate the work you've done historically it's been fantastic
World we live in today, you know makes me a little bit nervous. So just kind of want to make sure we're in front of
I appreciate those comments miss Mahalski and obviously on this project
I think I mentioned last month that this May Creek project is probably the most complex one we have in this particular bond program and
I think that the final cost echoes that but at the same time and
Dr. Steele could probably attest to this that when we're complete with this project
It's going to be transformational in nature similar to the Taylor High School where we're addressing not only the building systems
But also the functional relationships within the campus
us we are very much looking forward to seeing that happen yeah and this presentation was really nice
last week our last thank you thank you mr griffin that's what i was going to say mr griffin like the
presentation the big color presentation we got is very exciting for main creek high school and it
will be transformational for for academics and that's really good and so thanks for bringing
this i'd like to echo mr maholsky's comment about keeping a and maybe it's for mr smith more than
anything but maybe keeping us a little more informed on the running totals on
how those things are coming you know we get a lot of information but as we go
through these especially bond projects and bond dollars and where they are it
you know it would just be easier for us I think if we had more of a running
total or periodic updates thank you for that's exactly what I was thinking you
took the words out of my mouth and so echoing it. Any objection 7.6 to consent?
So moved. Thank you. And thank you sir appreciate it. And 7.7 Miss Holland. Good
evening President Griffin, members of the board, Mr. Fraley. Tonight we bring for
your consideration. Update 104 to ask that you approve the legal policies and
adopt the local policies included in this update. This is the second of the
post legislative updates that we brought forward. I'm happy to say this one is
much lighter than the last one that we brought. Most of the policies in this
update are legally reference policies. You've already heard evidence that some
some of that these policies have already moved forward. With our SHAC report tonight and
some other things that you are hearing about, we are already implementing the legal policies.
Most of the changes in local policy are moving the names of individuals that you have to
designate for certain roles into exhibits so that when those roles change or a title
changes or something of that nature, it doesn't have to come back for the Board for us to
to update those things and make them easily available to the public.
That would be things such as your Title IX coordinator, your 504 coordinator, your liaison
for homeless students.
So with this change, we'll be able to notify parents much more easily by getting those
updated numbers and so forth on the website.
In addition to Update 104, we are bringing one local policy forward for your consideration.
In January, at one of your work study sessions, one of your special meetings, you looked at
some possible revisions and a philosophy statement for the district at AE.
In that statement, we have now included the cornerstones that have become so much a part
of our curriculum.
We would ask for your approval and adoption of that local policy so that we could make
those changes in in our manual any questions thank you for working on the
philosophy and tying that into the mission statement it really looks good
and ties it all together really nice mm-hmm it will board any objection to
moving this item to consent so moved thank you ma'am and that moves us to 7.8
discussing consider future board approval resolution which in a minute
it will be read by our secretary.
That should be not yet.
Good evening, Mr. Griffin, Mr. Fraley and Board.
Item 7.8 is an integral part of our debt management plan.
The resolution presented before you identifies bond series that are callable and therefore targets for either
refundings or defeasances as we move forward in the 16-17 school year, our budget year.
This is a cap. We're not anticipating defusing all these. It just gives us the capacity for planning so we can defuse some and refund the rest.
It's all in an effort to try to continue to maximize our aggressive efforts at reducing our interest expense.
Most of these that are listed before you, these series, will be refunded.
Basically, or currently, we're looking at about a 16% savings on those, depending on
what the interest rates do over the next six to eight months.
Those savings could increase or decrease, but 16% savings will be a very substantial
amount of interest expense savings.
Again, ongoing management of our debt plan is aligned with our long-term goals in managing
our growth and agrees with our historic practices and with what we've told rating
agencies about our debt management plan. These debt tools, the refundings, fund
balance use, defeasance, using interest on proceeds to go back into to our debt
service are all things that we do to manage tax rate fluctuations over time.
This is again just step one of the process.
This resolution, step two, will be the budget process in June, July and August.
Step three will be in September, October.
We'll come to you with a recommendation on those that we are going to be refunding to
give us parameters for that to go out for refunding.
That's it.
Thank you very much.
Ms. Ashley Vann, will you read us the resolution?
Resolution expressing intent to defuse certain of the district's outstanding bonds,
State of Texas, Counties of Harris, Fort Bend, and Waller,
a independent school district.
Whereas the Katy Independent School District, a district,
has duly issued and there is now outstanding approximately $36,560,000
of its limited tax refunding bonds series 2007 C, 162,755,000 of its unlimited tax refunding
bonds series 2007 B, 12,195,000 of its limited tax refunded bonds series 2008 B, and approximately
approximately $21,475,000 of its variable rate unlimited tax refunding bonds Series 2012B,
collectively the outstanding bonds.
And whereas the Board of Trustees, the Board of the District, determines to express its present intention to
defuse up to approximately $25 million in aggregate principal amount of such outstanding bonds in the
the district's fiscal year ending August 30 31st 2017 now therefore be it
resolved the district the Board of Trustees of the Katy independent school
district that section 1 the board declares its present present intent to
defease up to approximately 25 million dollars in an aggregate principal amount
of such outstanding bonds in the district's fiscal year ending August 31st
2017 the board hereby directs the superintendent and any other employees
and agents of the district to identify potential bonds of the outstanding bonds
recommended to be defeased as contemplated by this resolution the
board intends to take subsequent action to identify and defease such bonds
notwithstanding the foregoing the board reserves the right to not defease any of
the outstanding bonds upon a determination by the board the funds of
the district intended for such purpose will be better utilized for one payment
of debt services on any outstanding bonds or unlimited tax bonds to be
issued to the contribution to any refunding of the outstanding bonds or
three the reduction of future interest and sinking fund tax levels of the
district as soon approved this 23rd day of May 2016 Charles Griffin president
Board of Trustees Katy independent school district Ashley vans secretary
Board of Trustees Katy Independent School District or do y'all have any
questions any objection to move this item to consent thank you sir so moved
that brings us to 7.9 sir 7.9 currently we have an outlaw it's an ongoing
agreement with Harris County to collect our taxes for the properties located in
Harris County. Fort Bend County requires us to update our agreement for their
collection of taxes. Fort Bend County tax office collects the taxes for KDISD
both in Fort Bend and Waller County properties. So they do both properties
and they require this agreement that you have attached to be updated annually.
it was actually it's a one-year agreement with a one-year option to
extend it that can be done we're they're doing a good job collecting our taxes
and this is just a formality to continue business as we're doing now thank you
as a miss mahosky mr. Smith are there any any changes to the terms of this
agreement from last year no sir other than the dates or no changes thank you
board any objection move this item to consent so moved and uh 7.10 mrs butterfield
yes ma'am good evening president griffin superintendent fraley and trustees
Tonight we have 11 budget amendments and some of note.
We have one amendment for the summer camp at the Shaw STEAM Center
to recognize the tuition revenue and to increase the expenditure budget
for the costs associated with that camp.
General fund expenditures then increase for $338,454
dollars related to the startup of the Simon youth foundation Academy six
hundred thousand dollars for the Nottingham country elementary
renovations that you heard about earlier tonight including some classroom space
and some driveways and sidewalk renovations needed and two hundred
ninety four thousand and eighty seven dollars for special ed programs the
increase in expenditure budget the remaining budget amendments are offsets
between different functions and the approval of these gof amendments will
decrease the general operating fund balance by a million two hundred thirty
two thousand five hundred forty one dollars we have one debt service
amendment I'll read the numbers to 1516 year revenues increased two million four
$425,813 to recognize the receipt of state hold harmless funds generated by increase in state homestead exemptions.
Other sources and uses increased $27,614,988 and $27,459,965 respectively to recognize amounts required to record the issuance.
of the 2016 a and 16 b bonds from earlier this year approval of these amendments will result
in a 450 837 increase to the debt service fund balance so that's basically recognizing a little
revenue setting up the expenditure budget for defeasances and recognizing all the other sources
and uses on the on the bond transactions from earlier this year thank you or any
questions any objection to move this item consent to move thank you ma'am
thank you sir and that moves us to a section 8 the open forum at this time
the Board of Trustees will hear from patrons and open forum as established by
board policy the first 20 speakers who signed up will be allowed to speak a
maximum of 30 minutes have been allocated for this forum the time will
divided equally among those who have signed up however the maximum amount of
any time for any one speaker is three minutes the time clock is visible on the
podium and each speaker will see the time remaining if speakers wish to share
non-confidential written material with the board then copy should be provided
to the secretary for board services or the chief officer for communications
government relations and administrative support written material will be given
to the board after the meeting due to posting requirements of an open meeting
Act the board is able to respond only to a statement that is relative to a posted
agenda item speaker shall limit comments to issues that can be presented in a
public forum student disciplines specific student issues and personal
matters must be addressed through appropriate channels established by
policy and presiding and the presiding officer shall determine whether speaker
has attempted to solve a matter through this proper channels persons who wish to
participate in open forum were required to sign up at least 15 minutes before
this meeting began speakers who have not provided their first and last names will
not be allowed to speak as I announce your name please come to the podium
state your first and last name our first speaker this evening is miss Tiffany
Tiffany Jerison.
Yes ma'am, right there.
Okay, my name is Tiffany Jerison.
Good evening, President, Superintendent, Trustees, fellow Katy residents.
I understand the vote of transgender facilities will be statewide and or district-wide
Including all grade levels, but I would like to speak to our elementary schools and elementary school parents for just a moment this coming fall
I have a son entering third grade and a daughter entering entering kindergarten
So the transgender issue in elementary schools is very close to my heart
First let me say that I believe that God-given Anatomy and DNA
DNA should definitely trump feelings or emotions, especially when we are discussing sweeping
legislation that affects the masses.
After all, a doctor doesn't announce anything else when you're born except what?
It's a girl or it's a boy.
Can we all be completely honest here and discuss the logical side of the argument?
The number of non-transgender students greatly outweighs the number of transgender students.
In fact, the actual number of people in our country who identify as a transgender is less
than 1%. Let's think about that number. Less than 1%. Even less is the amount of
people that claim to be transgender who are within public schooling, public
schooling age groups. Why are we even standing here today having to make a
case for this? There really is no case. We are talking about less than 1% of our
society that even identifies as such. Where is the voice of the majority?
Apparently it has disappeared along with our legislative branch of government and constitutional law creation
Also, think about what the potential scenario looks like when your six-year-old daughter enters a bathroom and then a boyfriend
who believes or identifies himself as a girl enters that same bathroom?
Or what about a more mature student, possibly a junior high, high school student?
Say high school boys or girls and the safety and privacy issues that this executive order possesses.
Is your child's privacy less sacred than the privacy and security of less than 1% of the populace?
How about the students that identify as transgender?
If the minority of the population care for them so much, are they not concerned about
putting them in harm's way by allowing them to enter into the opposite sex bathrooms?
Aside from the legal issues that this presents, there's a major safety issue threat that comes
along with it. I'm not promoting violence, but rather stating fact based on human behaviors,
especially when we're talking about teenagers. Aside from the schools, think about moms and dads
out there and their natural instinct to protect their sons and daughters when they're using
facilities in public places. Again, enormous security issues to welfare of
all parties involved. Whether it is not the state or federal, the federal or state
government nor the public schools systems responsibility to tell my
children what is morally or politically correct, that is mine and my husband's job
and we will now not allow it any other way. For me and my family we are proud to
to be clear. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Our next speaker is Ashley Shanahan.
Hi, my name is Ashley Shanahan. Thank you for inviting the parents of KDISD to share today
concerning the facility order that was just released this past week from
President Obama and the Department of Education our daughter recently took
part in the Dukes program and scored in the top 6% of all Texas students on the
ACT and was awarded because of this and we as parents recognize that this is in
part because of a great teaching within Katy I steam our kids teachers are also
very loving and helpful and are enjoyed by our children and so thank you again
for having helped produce this for our kids.
Also, I want to share that we are a very pro-family,
and we want the best for all kids coming here.
And today isn't about being against any particular group within our community.
We actually have a huge heart to bless people and children
and families within the community.
That having been said, I'm a parent of three children,
two already in KDISD, and my concern is most for them.
them. My obligation as a parent is to protect them, and we all know and can recognize that
boundaries are incredibly important, not only for children and families, but also for communities
to thrive. Otherwise, we wouldn't have need of HOAs, city ordinances, that sort of thing.
As a parent, I can see how necessary boundaries are for my own children. There is a solution
to help all students and transgender students alike.
However, removing boundaries of protection
for what I had heard at best 4% of the population
from the other 96% is not the solution.
Mostly, if boundaries separating biological sex,
something that is concrete and unchangeable
despite inner desires, are removed,
we know by several documented cases nationwide
where such boundaries have been removed
that there will be perpetrators and violators of our children the portion of
our society who is most in need of our protection my family and friends would
rather my family and friends would rather have less economically in our
schools than have greater federal funds but sacrifice safety of our children
including the safe sacrificing the safety of transgender students also
Also, according to the DSM-5, as many as 98% of gender-confused boys and 88% of gender-confused
girls eventually accept their biological sex after naturally passing through puberty.
I cannot, in society, there's a certain order, and I cannot claim certain discounts or exemptions
simply because I ask for them.
And to reorder a whole society by behaviors alone would cause many problems and chaos
in society.
Lastly, if you obey the given order pertaining to bathrooms and locker room facilities from
President Obama, I and many others who have spoken will have no choice but to withdraw
our children from public schools no matter...
Thank you, Madam.
Thank you.
And our next speaker, you might know him, is Ryan Shahan.
Good evening, Board.
As my wife explained, our daughter is in the top 6% of Texas students, and I have to admit that she gets it from my wife.
So just bear with me as I go through my single arguments.
But I will have to give credit to the Beckendorf staff.
Whenever this presidential decree came through and the letter was released, I immediately called the staff to find out what the response would be.
And they handled it with great professionalism.
them. They were very good so much credit goes to the Beckendorf staff. It is a
very great school. My only point that I kind of want to bring up is in regards
to the external factors. So to change the external factors in order to provide
what is assumed as peace to an internal turmoil that these children as
transgender children are going through is not going to have the effect that we
believe it would have. To simply change the external factors and say that we'll
provide a restroom for all transgender kids to go to or you can go to the
restroom of your choice is not going to provide that inner peace that we so
think that they actually are going to have. So what we would create is a lack
of safety for the children that our kids are going to the children that go to
these schools. For example, and I don't like to bring up previous events, but for
this one I think it's necessary. At a certain junior high, a young girl took an
inappropriate picture of herself and texted it to a young boy. That young boy
instead of discreetly hiding that text and putting it away to where nobody else
would see it and maintaining the integrity of that girl even though she
made that poor choice, instead texted it out to a countless number of others. So
So now that one text message of a very poor choice is now reverberated across the stratosphere, the textosphere, the blogosphere, the everything else sphere that's come up in the most popular times to actually go forth.
And now 20 plus other boys actually see this picture of this girl.
Those 20 then text it out to their friends, whose friends text it out to their friends.
So now you see this one girl who made a very poor choice.
His life is ruined.
because of that one poor choice and because of the reaction of those boys.
Now, I am also a father of boys.
I am a boy.
Some of you may be married to boys.
Some of you have boys, raised boys.
You've been around boys.
You know the mentality of boys.
The mentality of boys is not to be discreet about things, but instead to brag.
It is to release.
It is to chase.
It is to show, this is what I found.
Look at this.
If we create an environment for those boys to now assume that they are a woman
in order to get into a locker room, in order to get into a bathroom, then they'll take that opportunity.
There are boys out there that will absolutely take the opportunity to do so and jeopardize the integrity of our girls.
She made a poor choice.
However, ours don't have to, but they're still going to be treated.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
And our next speaker is Chantel Willis.
Good evening everyone. My name is Chantel Willis and I just learned like last week that
summer school was only offered to bilingual kids and kids failing the start test in fifth
grade and I don't think that's fair for the parent or for the child. All children should
should be equally able to attend summer school if they are struggling and if they are having a hard time with school.
It should not just be offered for bilingual kids and kids that failed to start tests in fifth grade.
I have two children, one going into sixth and one going into second grade.
And we resided in Katy because we were told that Katy was an awesome school district.
so we want me my husband want the best for our kids, but
Being told that our kids can attend summer school unless they're bilingual or if they felt the STAAR Test
That's completely unfair
Each child should have an equal opportunity to attend summer school if they are struggling in certain areas and not just go straight
to being
Retained back into that same grade
That's all I have.
CHAIRMAN BRYANT L. Thank you, Mr. Fraley.
And our next speaker is going to be Jamie Torres.
MR.
JAMIE TORRES, Hello.
My name is Jaime Torres.
I am a father of three beautiful girls, husband, small business owner here in the community,
And I agree with the Shahans as well that we have an excellent school district.
I've got a four-year-old little one that we live right behind Morton Ranch,
and so she's, like, all excited to hear everything.
And I don't get to go to all the games and all that,
but it brings joy to my heart when I hear the band out there playing.
I hear the kids playing and all that stuff, you know, and I'm like, I'm excited.
I just, you know, I'm blessed to hear it.
I really wanted to come and talk to you guys because I wanted to voice for my
family and for my community and I wanted to tell you thank you for just building
the culture that you guys have built I know that we might not know all the work
that you put into it I'm just barely seeing this this is my first time to
this meeting but the transgendered bathroom issue did it did kind of shocked
me. I was disappointed when I saw that, not with you folks, but with the federal government.
I'm sure you guys may agree, you may not agree, but when I was sitting here and I was thinking
and praying about what I'd like to tell you, as soon as I sat down, I noticed that flag over there.
It says, come and take it, and there's a cannon, and then there's another. There's one right here
by Mr. Mikowski. It says independence, and then there's another one over here that says liberty
to your death and so I picked those out right away but what I'd like to ask is that you'd
represent us well. You'd represent us as parents. I got my little one in there right now and as a
matter of fact, if I was a teacher at a school or even if I was walking in Katie Mills Mall and I
saw a teenage boy going to the women's room, I got to admit I'd go get him and tell him,
Son, you're in the wrong spot, you know, and it's just natural instinct. I think we may all have that instinct, you know, and
I'm just asking that you guys would
that you guys would
Liberty or death independence and come and take it. I just I just pray that every last bit of
Fight that you guys got in you
that fight that when you decided that you wanted to run for school board,
every last fiber of that, I ask that you would pour that into representing me
and my wife and my kids and my community and my family
because now is that time.
They're coming and taking it.
Just fight for us.
And that's it.
Thanks.
Our next speaker is Lillian Torres.
That's my wife.
She decided not to speak.
Okay, thank you.
And our next speaker, Ms. Laura Freeman.
Hi, I'm Laura Freeman.
I'm a KDIC resident, and I have two children currently in KDIC.
These are my helpers for the evening.
President Griffin, board members, Mr. Fraley.
I'm here tonight representing KDIC Council of PTAs.
I am the current president.
This is my last hurrah as I roll off in July.
I've had the honor and privilege to represent these exceptional people over the past two
years and while it hasn't always been easy, it has been amazing.
We have a district full of different types of parents, yet they are able to unite for
the benefit of all of our children.
I have thanked them for allowing me to see all that they have do over the past two years,
but I wanted to thank y'all for partnering with the PTA.
In August 2015, we started off the year with 51 PTAs in our council.
We are ending this year with 54.
Yay! In 2014-2015 we had 27,630 PTA members in Katy Council alone. This year
we are ending the year with 29,161 members. Awesome. This does not include the members of the
three new PTAs that were just formed this spring. Overall, Texas PTAs membership increased by just
over 5,000 members last year in Katy alone we increased by 1,531 members we
are still the largest council in the great state of Texas and if you do the
math we are 6% of the entire state's population of PTAs right here in Katy
because we're so fantastic we won two major awards in February one word the
high-five award was given to all the councils in the state that had the
the highest membership numbers of the past five years.
Fifteen councils in the state of Texas received one.
Katie was one of those 15.
The second award we won was the Continued Growth Award.
Three councils in the state of Texas achieved that award, and Katie was one.
So we're doing awesome, and they're recognizing that we're doing awesome.
One minute, Ms. Freeman.
As we finish off the school year, the next year is already waiting for us.
The newly elected council board, being led by Jeannie Griffith, is already getting prepared
to go to Austin in January.
We know that the funding of public schools, as it always will be, will be a hot-button
issue in the coming session.
Just today, Lisa Holbrook, Texas PTA president, acknowledged that the ruling on the school
finance by the Texas Supreme Court should not be seen as permission to ignore the problems
we know exist in our public school system.
Texas PTA vows to continue to work with legislators and other advocates to create a system of
funding that is fair and gives all students the education they deserve we will be helping to craft
a solution to make every child's potential a reality through quality education thank you for
allowing these awesome parents and our ptas to work in our schools without the support of
administrators across the district we would not be able to build our communities or reach the
million hour volunteer mark i appreciate your continued support thank you thank you miss freeman
and all your helpers are doing a phenomenal job and our final speakers
for the night are Nicholas Freeman and Bailey Williams you can you can pull
that microphone down if you want grab a hold of it there you go
good evening president Griffin board members mr. Fraley my name is Nicholas
Freeman and I am in student at friends Elementary my name is Bailey Williams
and I am a student at Franz Elementary. Our parents went to KDISD schools. My dad
graduated from May Creek. My mom graduated from May Creek and my dad
graduated from Katy. My brother is Morton Ranch class of 20, I mean yeah 2010 and
my sister is class of 2018. My sister is Morton Ranch class of 2018. My brother is
class of 2020 and my little sister is class of 2025. We are the Morton Ranch class of 2023.
Because our big sister started in kindergarten we were small. I was nine months old and I was six
months old. We have been at France our whole lives. France is 12 years old and we are 11.
We have been volunteering with our moms that entire time. We had a truly unique experience.
We are now graduating the junior high and leaving a place we feel that is our home and moving on to another awesome school.
We wanted to thank you for the following teachers and administrators that have made an impact on us.
Ms. Wolf, Ms. Rankin, Ms. Keith, Ms. Colopy, Ms. Duka, Ms. Halibut, Ms. Harava, Ms. Dunn, Ms. Holland, Ms. Bernard, Mr. Freeman, Mr. Smith, Ms. Polanka, Ms. Pick, Ms. Harvey, Ms. Whitman, Mr. Link, Ms. Bartlett, Ms. Sylvan, Ms. Dawkins, and Ms. Leonard.
Thank you for finding the right people for us.
We will always think of France as our second home because of the great people working there.
Firebirds for life!
awesome presentation guys if y'all ever want to come back we'll listen to you
every single time if y'all want to give us a nice talk I was a class of 85 from
Katie though old mr. president if I could yes sir first of all miss Wilson
has one get with you a little bit about your concern thanks for coming to us
tonight well thank you young man for celebrating the teachers we have over
4,000 classroom teachers Katie Asti and they rockin so thank you for howling
the special ones you have we appreciate that and to miss freeman the pta council
80s pta is just awesome we have more members in our council than the whole state of west
virginia that's still correct and probably other states as well and so wow wow so thank you guys
for all that you do we really appreciate it and again we couldn't do what we do without you guys
you're part of the secret sauce and i acknowledge that and and i'm just so thankful to have had the
chance to work with you and the whole council. You guys are doing a great job.
Regarding the transgender issue,
we were not given any kind of forewarning. We heard
the night before that a letter was going to come out tomorrow and it's like,
thank you, Mr. President. That's what we need right now.
We are working with our attorneys right now to see what we have
to do because this is not carried the way of the law as far as we understand it.
We want to make certain that, one, that we keep the district covered legally.
That's one thing.
But I also want to make sure that every child has a safe environment to learn in.
Every child has that.
So we will continue to work with our students, with our families,
school by school to make sure that the right decisions are made.
And we'll get through this, I do believe.
And I believe in our community being able to work with folks.
And I just wish we didn't have to do this right now.
from the federal mandate so to speak we have worked with our students for years
and you haven't had any issues that people watch my attention will continue
to do so and just work through this and make certain that we if we will follow
the law right now this letter is not it's not the law this is a letter so we
do understand that thank you for coming tonight gives us work with it appreciate
it thank you very much uh uh section nine future meetings our regular board meeting is going to be
monday may 23rd 2016. we're going to have a special board meeting on may 18th at 11 a.m in this room
the canvas votes for the may 7th election and then we're going to have a special board meeting
on may 18th at 1 30 at the omni uh houston hotel westside to conduct superintendent interviews
having no further business before the board this meeting is adjourned at 753.
Thank you.
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