August 23, 2016

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Good evening. The Board will now convene an open meeting. Today is Tuesday, August 23, 2016, and the time is 713 p.m. The KDSD Board of Trustees met last week in a work study meeting to hear information from staff and receive recommendations from administration and the superintendent. Board members were able to ask questions and receive answers from administration. Administration we should be prepared with responses and our action tonight The board met earlier this evening in closed meeting by law any action arising from discussions in a closed meeting Must be taken in subsequent open meeting dr. Hint. Will you verify that we are in compliance? With the provisions of the Texas open meetings act with regard to the notice for this meeting

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Madam President, KDISD is in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act with regard to the notice for this meeting tonight.

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Madam President.

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Mr. Griffin.

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I move that the Board of Trustees denies the level 3 FNG grievance and FNG 15-042 , thereby upholding the decisions of the level 1 and level 2 hearing officers, and have the administration review FNG 15-042-A and update the Board on the policy.

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Second. I have a motion by Mr. Griffin and a second by Mrs. Doyle that the Board denies the Level 3 FNG grievance and FNG 15-042-A, thereby upholding the decision of the Level 1 and Level 2 hearing officers and have the administration review FNG 042A and update the board on this policy. Any discussion? Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.

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Aye.

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The motion passes 7-0. The board will entertain a motion for accepting professional staff.

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Mr. DeBrell. I move that the Board of Trustees approve the personnel report as recommended by the superintendent.

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and close meeting. Second. I have a motion by Mr. Dubrow, a second by Mr. Mahalski. The Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the Superintendent and closed meeting. Any discussion? Hearing none, we'll vote. All in favor raise your right hand to say aye. Aye. Motion passes 7 to 0. And now we'll have the Pledge of Allegiance. What an honor to have our KDSD Police Department present the colors and lead our pledges. Please rise.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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Order arm.

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Thank you.

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What a privilege it is to have our own KDISD Police Department present our colors this evening. Thank you so much, gentlemen and ladies, for doing that. The school board has adopted a resolution honoring our police department and our people who keep us safe, and it begins next Monday. So we're looking forward to all the celebrations that you'll have on campuses and boys and girls and all of us we honor you and we're grateful for you thank you for being here do you have any scouts in the audience this evening earning badges no not this time we'll move to recognitions

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next on our agenda i'd like to introduce miss maria corrales manager of media relations and multimedia for the recognitions portion of our meeting tonight

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good evening madam president board members and superintendent dr. Lance Hent thanks for being here and thanks to all our guests for being present as well the school board-based law enforcement award of excellence is given in recognition of a school districts dedication commitment and collaborative efforts towards providing a safe and secure learning and working environment as demonstrated through ongoing preparedness prevention and response activities the award is presented to Katy Independent School District in recognition of their flagship community partnership program the safe schools parent Academy this program offers parents and community members an opportunity to be a part of the district's foundational belief that that learning requires a safe, healthy, and high quality environment. During an eight month period, the Safe Schools Parent Academy focuses on empowering participation to become involved in school safety and in actively promoting a community approaching to maintain and positively learning and a working environment for students and staff. Will the recipients of this award please come forward when I call your name? John Brimmer, Emergency Management Coordinator. Officer James Grima, Safe Schools Program Manager. Leah Marsconi, Manager of Community and Internal Relations. Let's give them a round of applause. Congratulations on this achievement.

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Next, Katy Independent School District appreciates our local and state media who always take a fair and balanced approach to share both the challenges facing our schools and the successes achieved by our teachers, students, and staff through fact-based research and reporting. We are pleased to share with you this evening that the district's two nominees of the Texas Association of School Boards 2016 Media Honor Rolls have been awarded this recognition by TASB. Will the recipients of this award please come forward when I call your name? Bethany Knipp of the Community Impact Newspaper. Katrina Katsarellas from Katie magazine and will all the employees of these two media outlets please also come forward and join their co-workers

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Thank you.

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Congratulations and keep up the good work. Next, the National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security, also known as NCS4, offers the certification for sports security personnel, which is designated to ensure that the recipient is skilled and trained in the most current techniques, strategies, and solutions used to mitigate safety and security risk inherent to spectator sports venues. This July, Ben Rawlins, General Manager for the Leonard E. Merrill Center, earned this certification. Mr. Rawlins is one of only 36 in the country to have earned this certification, and only one of three in the national K-12 education environment to hold this certification. KDISD has been involved with NCS4 for the past several years, often writing best practices manuals and presenting on large event safety and security for this national organization. Please join me in congratulating Ben Rawlins on his outstanding accomplishments. Thank you. And as many of you know, this month KDISD staff had the opportunity to meet our new Superintendent, Dr. Lance Hent, at three separate convocation events. I'd like to give you just a few minutes just to take a peek into what those convocations consisted of.

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I am honored to be here this afternoon as we kick off the 2016-2017 school year. We have a new superintendent that's going to be taking the reins.

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I've been lying to you for a while, but you're trying to introduce this guy, so I got some jay in you. I taught him.

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That's right.

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When I look at you, I see legacy makers. Last year your school board worked for months developing, looking for, deciding on the perfect vision statement. And there's no better vision statement for you and for us than Be the Legacy. You see, legacy is an inheritance or a gift that one leaves to another. and we chose be the legacy because of the people who have come before us and paved the way and poured into each of us to create who we are

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Well how are you KDISD? I am excited to be here!

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Thank you, thank you, thank you so much. It is great to be home. I want to have a little fun this morning. It's time right here.

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Board of Trustees. Let's go. Come on, come on. Out of here. All the way. There you go. Back again. Over here. All the way around. Up top. All right. Let's give yourselves a round of applause. That was awesome. Hopefully that got you stirring a little bit.

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And this is my promise to all of you. I will say yes more than I say no. I promise I will roll up my sleeves and I'll get in the arena with you. I promise to be visible on your campuses, your departments. I promise to be visible in your classrooms. I promise I will work hard for all of you and our hard work will bring added success to the Katy Independent School District. And our legacy, our legacy will make a difference in the lives of those 75,000 plus students that are going to show up next Monday. Now hear me when I say this, if you only take one memory from this convocation, I hope you take a whole bunch, but if you take one, the memory I want you to be able to fall back on is please never forget the purpose and the meaning behind our vision. Be the legacy. Be the legacy to 75,000 students. I look forward to getting to know all of you. I can't tell you how happy and pleased and excited I am to be here. I look forward to visiting your schools and departments. I want you all to be creative. I want you to take chances. Make learning fun for the students and I promise your hard work will be fun and rewarding for you as well. I wish all of you a fantastic 2016-2017 school year and just one more item here. One last non-negotiable and I mean this and I don't think it's going to be a problem for this group. I want you to work hard and I want you to play hard. It's okay to have a party once in a while. On behalf of the KDISD Board of Trustees and myself, have a great school year. Thank you for being here today.

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Now I would like to ask all of those involved in planning the 2016 Superintendent Convocation to please come forward as I read your names. Dr. Andrea Grooms, Denise Kaufman, Leah Marchione, Ben Rawlins, Todd Handling, Dr. Christine Christine Caskey, Dr. Frieda Creech, Lee Cruz, Elisa Farris, Mr. Tom Gunnell, Mike Robinson, Dr. Bill Wood, Karen Eaton, Chief Robert Jinks, Captain Kevin Tabor, or Taybor, rather, Donna Pittenger, Kathy McDonald, Dr. John Alauni, and Janet Tice. Big round of applause for them.

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behind this group you know I'm gonna deviate a little bit from the script and I apologize I think staff is starting to recognize that tends to be a habit of mine but you know I met with the staff three weeks ago actually came down on I think a Monday before the Monday that I I actually started work here a little more than two weeks ago. And we were planning convocation. I've never put on a convocation in less than three weeks. And I remember telling the staff, look, guys, we'll never have a second chance to make a first impression. And what I will tell you is this group jumped at it and just, I mean, went above and beyond to make sure that we treated our teachers to something that was, I would hope, memorable. to them but also something that they could take be inspired from go back and start the school year off with a bang i learned a long time ago in a convocation you don't keep them in there longer than an hour all right so we got them in we sent a message and we got them out and uh i i'm just so appreciative to this group and all the hard work that they did again in less than three weeks to put this together so Andrea I'm sorry I deviate it from the script there I will say this though I can tell you there is no more no more of a bigger group that's more proud of your accomplishments than the seven folks sitting up here to my right you know dr. and you are exactly right from the

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board of trustees wow wow it was so incredible and we are still hearing about it right i mean it's it's still buzz there's just lots of buzz and uh all three of them were amazing uh the maintenance and operations one packed house right it's so precious they were so sweet and and we had ice Ice cream at the end, always great, a few hula hoops. Right? Like, it's a celebration. People love being a part of KDISD because of the work that you guys do. Right? We are KDISD, and it's because you guys make it look easy, and it isn't. Transporting all of those teachers and principals to the Merrill Center in the rain. and they were tweeting about it but we knew that we were having a party right Maria because they were tweeting about it from the bus the picture started once they got in the bus and they were so excited and it was just a celebration this weekend my new daughter-in-law I still love saying that was at a bridal lunch in downtown Houston somewhere and she said they were talking about the KDISD convocation but there were teachers there and they talked about the convocation and how it was like a so inspiring to them and they couldn't wait to get to work and they couldn't wait to work for KDISD because it it just is such a solid place I don't know how you did it but I knew we knew as they entered the building as they were tweeting as they as they did the wave as they brought their news their noisemakers and clackers and the energy in that room right was electric and and it was it we expected great and it was just bigger louder more exciting more energetic than any of my expectations and as the school board has adopted an ambassador program where we're going going around to campuses and we've been giving first week visits and we're going to adopt campuses and have an ambassador program where we're out there. Every campus has talked about it and thanked us and we said, you're welcome. You're welcome, you all don't care. So wow, just it was hands down the best convocations we've ever had and what you're going to do

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next year members and president I'll start there's a certain time of the year where you have all these award programs you know the Academy Awards Oscars the Grammys and I don't watch them but my daughter does where they talk about clothes that you wear and all this other stuff and what I loved about the convocation is how you guys focused it so much on the educator on our teachers teachers, on administrators. And why I started with the awards program is I think, you know, those programs are about people who entertain us, about people who get on a screen where we listen to them on the radio and they make us happy for a moment. But the people you chose to focus this convocation on are teachers on the front lines of the preservation of of our liberties. Our state constitution says that the reason we have public education is that educated populace is crucial to the preservation of our liberties. And I just want to thank you guys. You could have focused on anything, but you focused on those teachers and the hard work they do, those educators. And you made that their Academy Awards, their Oscars. And I just love that so I appreciate your hard work everything you guys did I know our police department was out there directing traffic And you guys probably was you were wetter than the people coming in the building that day because you were just so committed to them So we just uh I just appreciate all you guys hard work. Thank you so much

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madam president I Just want to say that this is the third year that we've done back-to-school visits but by far has been the most energetic and and positive that I have seen every single campus that I have walked into. And so what you did at the convocation, exciting them and just bringing them all together like that and making us all feel that we are one Katie and we work together and we support each other and the energy and the positivity that was brought by Dr. Hint and his message and Ms. Fox, they have now brought it to those kids. those kids are bouncing around those schools those teachers are smiling the administrators are smiling even when you got the baby walking down the hall crying because they don't know where they're going or it's a kindergartner that misses their mama it's just you can feel the energy difference this year in the schools already and and you know it's the second day of school and there's a lot of craziness going on you know and so I appreciate you and I thank you for for letting us be part of that because it's just been a game changer already for our district and it's been wonderful so thank you each and everyone

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now let me just say now we have to plan for next year

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thank you guys very much you know the the whole theme was be the legacy and you guys are absolutely legacy makers we're so proud of you thanks and maintenance and operations i mean you guys are back and your food service I everybody's happy so I took a picture today you'll probably see it on social media after I get home tonight can post it of their one of the schools brought dr. Lance sticks you know with dr. Lance heads on them right and so I might have borrowed one of them to bring with me to schools this week and we went to the cafeteria today we had a lot saying you'll see it on social media very soon he might have been wearing a hair net and an apron hair net and an apron right so fun so now he's ready to go to work thank y'all so much oh wait we want a picture y'all get together we're all coming we're all coming

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All right, ready?

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Better than good. Y'all are great.

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Thank you.

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Thank you. And this concludes the recognition portion of this meeting tonight.

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Madam President.

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Mr. Griffin, I'm ready.

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I move that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items

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6.1 through 6.13. I have a motion by Mr. Griffin and second by Mrs. Vann that the Board of Trustees approves the consent agenda as recommended in item 6.1 through 6.13. All in favor raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Motion carries 7 to 0. 7.1

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Board will enter.

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a motion. Madam President. Mrs. Doyle. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the 2015-2016 final amended budget for the Katy Independent School District. Second. I have a motion by Mrs.

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Doyle, a second by Mr. Mohalski that the Board of Trustees approves the 2015-16 final amended budget for Katy Independent School District. Any discussion? Questions? Mr. Smith, do you have anything new to add no ma'am it's last week okay all in favor raise your right hand and say aye motion passes 7 to 0 mrs. van I move the board trustees approve the resolution to commit and assign fund I have a motion by mrs. van a second by mrs. Doyle that the Board of Trustees approves the resolution to commit and assign fund balance it sounds like this the state of Texas counties of Fort Bend Harris and Waller resolution whereas the governmental accounting standards board GASB has adopted statement 54 GASB 54 as a new standard for governmental fund balance reporting and fund type definitions effective for fiscal years starting after June 15 2010 and whereas the Board of Trustees shall approve all commitments and delegates the responsibility to assign fund balances to the superintendent or his designee assignments may occur subsequent to fiscal year end it is hereby resolved and ordered that annually the Katy Independent School District commits a portion of its general fund unassigned fund balance as stated in board policy CE local be it resolved that the district commits a portion of its fund balance for contributions to the district's health insurance plans be it resolved that the district commits a portion of its fund balance for local special revenue funds not restricted by funding source or its intended purpose be it resolved that the provisions of this resolution shall be effective as of the date of adoption and shall remain in effect until modified by action of the Board of Trustees passed approved and adopted this 23rd day of August 2016 Rebecca Fox president Courtney Doyle secretary Katie SD Board Board of Trustees. Any discussion or questions? Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote on this resolution. All in favor, raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Motion passes 7-0.

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Madam President. Mr. Mahalsky. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the 2016-2017 official budget for Katy Independent School District. Second. I have a motion by Mr. Mahalsky,

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A second by Mr. Dubrow. The Board of Trustees approves the 2016-17 official budget for Katie Independent School District. Any discussions or questions? Any more new information for us since last week? Okay. We had. Thank you so much for the multiple presentations and complete explanation of a very complicated budget, Mr. Smith. All in favor, raise your right hand and say aye. Aye.

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Aye.

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motion passes 7 to 0 okay at this time we'll move to our information items 2017 appraisal district budgets is attached for your information and we also have a certification of anticipated tax collection rates for the 2016-17 for your information and then we have two board member reports for board members As you know, from time to time, board members will serve on a committee, and this is our time to hear from them as an assignment. And it is my pleasure to have Mr. Henry DeBrell, board sergeant at arms, to provide information from his TASB board of directors meeting held on July 28th. Mr. DeBrell.

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This was my first meeting. It was quite the experience. I want to thank you guys for allowing me to serve on the TASB board. I'm really enjoying it. The TASB board seems to do most of its business through committees. There's committees for everything that they do. I was assigned to the legislative committee, so I think someone maybe sent in a memo or something like that. So I'll focus my comments on what the legislative committee is talking about. obviously we're going to another session this upcoming spring so some of the major issues that are facing us obviously are our state funding with the recent Supreme Court decision basically saying that the funding of public schools are at an adequate level for minimal standards but I don't know of any district in the state of Texas that will educate its children to a minimal most standard so that's something that's going to be faced in the next legislative session also we have um the deal with testing we took a strong stance on that two years ago uh and that's going to be moving forward uh hoping to see some serious changes in in testing look into some of our district experts like dr caskey to tell us what can we do to fix this we want accountability What we are with testing right now seems to be a little bit, a lot much. And then finally, vouchers are back. If you look in your packet, I'm not going to read the letter, but you have a letter here from Thomas Ratliff. He is the vice chair of the State Board of Education. And he wrote this letter about the proposed, it's a voucher program, but it's called, what what is it here, parental savings account, education savings account. And he likens it to another entitlement program. So if the state of Texas goes down this road for education, it would be like creating another entitlement program. So I look to you to take a look at that. I love the chart. I called Mr. Mahalsky about this. Last session, I believe Mr. Mahalsky and I were talking about this very idea that this was another entitlement program. We actually ran the numbers and I find that very fascinating for us numbers nerds. So Again, I want to thank you Another thing they did talk about there's this wonderful program called grand. Oh public it started in the Austin area The school districts in and around all the the greater Austin area and I brought two videos that they showed up at the TASB board that may be coming to Houston soon. I'll tell you a little bit about that after we watch these videos. Scott, you ready to go? Alright.

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I know parents want to send their kids to outstanding schools. Let me show you the outstanding school I go to. It's the public school not far from my house. Lots of choices academically. Highly rated and experienced teachers. I love all of the activities. My school has everything. Texas Public Schools, the closer you get, the better they look. I'm not old enough to serve on a school board. I'm not old enough to vote in school bond elections. I'm not old enough to debate vouchers or testing or funding. I'm just a kid. I'm just a kid. I'm just a kid. I'm just a kid. A kid that counts on you to make sure my school is the best it can be. Please take the time to support Texas Public Schools. More than 5 million students like me are counting on you.

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so those were developed by TASB you'll begin to see those on you know television stations across the area we're moving in a direction here in the Gulf Coast of forming a go public Gulf Coast and go public is basically the idea of districts across district lines working together to change the public's impression of the public school system because obviously if we're honest we're serving from we're suffering right now from a little bit of negative publicity because of some things that have happened over the past couple of decades so the go public campaign is an opportunity for us to begin to change that we're a part of that I've been going to some meetings about that go public Gulf Coast is just forming in the formative stages and and you'll be hearing about it in months to come. Dr. Hinn, I'd like to invite you to our next meeting. Several superintendents are getting involved, and I feel strongly that Katie needs to have an equal voice with that. In front of you, you have some little buttons I brought back about stand-up for public schools, just a little bling or something I thought I'd bring back for you guys. I enjoyed it. I look forward to serving. Our next meeting will be during the convention here in Houston in September. and we'll talk to you about that after that meeting is done. Thank you. If you guys have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them.

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As far as the legislative agenda, I really believe that one of the deficiencies of the school district, for as long as I can remember, is that we've never really, the district has never really gone to the public in a real timely way it goes to its supporters it goes to its friends it goes to the PTO's but in terms of going to people who may not always agree with what the district is doing should be involved in the legislative agenda and given the fact that the legislative agenda from TASB was mentioned I thought I'd go ahead and take an opportunity to make that point Thank you.

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MS.

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Thank you, Mr. Scott. We have in the past gone to the public on numerous occasions and it's always great to do and to get feedback from the public in many different areas. And so… MR.

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May I respond? MS.

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Yes, sir. MR.

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There is a difference between talking to the public and actually listening to the public. And there are people out there who have very serious, empirical, legitimate concerns about things that are going on in the state of Texas. Go public is a great PR campaign. Go public with what? Go public with the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about the academic performance of children? children, go public with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about how we hold programs accountable. It's all part of the legislative agenda. It's all part of transparency being more than a word, more than a phrase. It's part of how you go public. And that's the issue that I would want to address.

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Madam President? Mr. DeBrell, please. I know last time around when we had a legislative session Mr. Mahulski and I worked with Some of the ladies from the Republican Women's Club and some other community members Which is got I appreciate your passion on this so I honestly look forward to working with you and any other board members as We approach the legislative session and we begin to form our legislative agenda for Katie I'm putting something out in agreement with our public and not only we make a statement But that we all take action on and we begin to talk to our legislators about those things I'm looking forward to that opportunity as we move in that direction

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Me too. I've learned a lot about the legislative process from you. Mr DeBrell and it's a pleasure to work with our legislators and have real real dialogue with them about about things that affect Katy because they have a very difficult job. One size does not fit all. And we bring a lot of awareness to that, and I look forward to it too. Any other comments? This time, Mr. Mahalsky, you are the naming committee chairperson for our stadium, and we had a survey. We brought the results, and then we had the committee meet once, And so you're going to give us an update on that. Yes. Thank you, Madam President

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so if you'll recall last month, we we did review those survey results and And approved a committee charter to move forward with that committee. So the first committee meeting was held on August 3rd I would say was very productive interactive and and the committee came to a consensus on some things Ultimately that committee is charged with bringing back to this body a recommendation at some point But there's a lot to do between now and then to get to that point So there were a couple of items that I wanted to bring to everyone Here's attention because they are a bit of a difference from what? We had discussed when we reviewed the survey results and kind of and kind of how it was expected okay, but So there was a discussion in the committee on the survey and and one thing since the committee felt that since 43 of the respondents felt the district should not solicit corporate naming rights for the stadium, that there had to be a way to keep the naming of the stadium from being as divisive as it could be. So actually what came out of that was kind of somewhat of a hybrid model that was suggested that would allow the naming of the student activity complex consisting of both stadiums and common grounds. If you'll recall in the survey there was actually a question about that it was not heavily supported but it included the Miller Career Center it included Raines High School it included that the Shaw Center and I believe that that was maybe a bit confusing in that people were thinking maybe we were looking at renaming all of that or that entire larger piece of property but but actually the athletic facilities within that complex itself which will include the two stadiums and the parking lots that go with them is easily segregated so that that was kind of suggested that yeah you could would allow potential selling of the naming rights of that complex consisting of both stadiums and common grounds committee felt that that addressed the concern of the reins OAC and Miller losing their identity if they were being thrown into a broader complex the other thing that that that that suggestion would do is it allows kind of the traditional naming of this second stadium itself after an attribute or individual that would address some of the desires from some committee members and and that I've heard around for the stadium to have a permanent name rather than than a shelf life of a contract that would have on it so really that's that's kind of where the committee is kind of moved at this point in time there will be another committee meeting tomorrow August 24th and so I just kind of leave that with the board to discuss and give any feedback and on potentially moving in that direction

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and impression if the media wants to come to these committee meetings can Can they?

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No, I do not believe these.

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Mr. Scott, so in order to, what we've found is that in order to protect the integrity of the committee and for those people who would like to come out and possibly be interested in naming, the name of the facility. To keep those people from being individually sectioned off or solicited or influenced in any way, we've decided to keep the committee as a whole. I'd be happy to share with all board members who's on the committee, but at this time we have not made those committee members, the committee meetings open and it's to protect the integrity of the process.

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The concern I have is you have three members on the board, and it sounds to me that the committee is doing more heavy lifting than just getting all possible options on the table. It seems the word consensus was used here. And I have some concerns that a three-board member committee that is working with others to achieve a consensus is gray. And that's my only concern. Run it by Horton and Thompson. If they don't feel like there's exposure there, I'm just trying to be a good guy and protect. tech because once I heard consensus and three members of the board my my journalism background kind of pops up so I think you need to be careful there but

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it's not consensus of the trustees it's that committee operating and I understand what you're saying thank you for your input to appreciate it very much and I think that's why they're very careful not to share with each other and they have not shared with us any names they've not shared with me names those kinds of things it just was it's great to hear from you though I appreciate very much this feedback in that we understood the survey and the survey was 5743 57% said yes sell the stadium name but not the complex name and we all agreed that that name that question on the survey was a bit confusing and it surprised me that it said no to the complex but it's because we listed all those other entities and people were giving feedback to me as they were to you that we don't want to change the names of all those places so and the committee saw that too so i think what you're saying to us is that kind of a community feedback the people on the committee represent all areas of our community they're very trusted people who represent our interests very well you and I think understand who we are as a community. And so what you're saying to us is probably it was the feeling was, had it been better worded, it may have, that interest may have flipped, that we could keep a permanent name on the second stadium and name the complex that encompasses the two stadiums and the parking lots right there.

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Right, just the athletic complex.

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Just the athletic complex.

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That's correct. student activity some complex that's right so how are you all feeling about

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that that's that agree with what you feel as a community member I think before they go to the next committee meeting just it's not exactly what we were thinking last time but it sure makes sense to me you know what they're saying that makes sense that makes more sense than when I looked at it and thought i think that question was misunderstood about the company any other feedback to take to

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the committee madam president is it the intent of the committee to bring back a list of names for a field is that the intent is that the goal

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i believe the incentive committee is to bring back a recommendation to this board

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on a name correct i think you need to post the meeting but that's just me

50:09 Unknown speaker not human verified

Madam Mayor, it's my understanding that we possibly have outside entities that are looking at sponsoring. One or multiple could be or could not be chosen and my concern, Mr. Scott, with what you're saying is that those entities may not want to be exposed at this point and I think that that needs to be honored and respected.

50:32 Unknown speaker not human verified

That's a contract issue and I agree with that. I have I literally have no problem with that the issue that I'm talking about is the district has full authority without anybody being involved in negotiating contracts There's that's just black-letter law. Yeah, you don't have to be a lawyer that is protected the concern that I have is that if the committee's function is to bring back a recommendation there are some Attorney General's opinions that address that and I just want us to be careful that's that's the full scope of what I'm saying it's a it's a trickier area than it might first very good point mr. Scott

51:14 Unknown speaker not human verified

and yes we will definitely take those comments under advisement and make sure were in accordance.

51:26 Unknown speaker not human verified

Any other feedback? Questions? Thank you very much. We look forward to a recommendation or any other presentations that you'd like to bring to us. Thank you for doing that. And thank you, Mr. Scott, for your input. if you'll look, future meetings, we have a special board meeting next Monday night, our team building meeting Monday August 29th 2016 at Taylor High School during our we will take a recess in the middle for our summer graduation during that time that's why it's at Taylor High School because our summer graduation and one of our funnest events when things that we enjoy the most our range Christ high school graduation will be that night it's open to the public and as a posted meeting we have a board work-study meeting on September 19th on Monday and our regular board meeting on Monday September 26th after two days of sweet babies in our schools and being able to see how exciting all of it is it's it's been a great great couple of days and I look forward to much more success there being no further business before this board this meeting adjourned at 8 o 5 p.m.