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The KDISD Board of Trustees met last week in a work-study meeting to receive information and recommendations from staff, administration, and the superintendent.
Board members were able to ask questions and receive answers and should be prepared with responses and action tonight.
The Board met earlier this evening in a closed meeting. By law, any action arising from discussions in a closed meeting must be taken in an open meeting.
Dr. Hint, will you please verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas
Open Meetings Act with regard to notice for this meeting?
Board President, we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings
Act with regard to this meeting tonight.
Madam President.
Mr. Griffin.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the
Superintendent in closed meeting.
Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Griffin and a second by Mr. Maholski that the Board of Trustees
approves the personnel report as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting any
Discussion hearing none will proceed to vote all in favor raise your right hand to say aye aye
Motion passes 7 to 0
And at this time I am gonna introduce to you
Sashory they're gonna lead us in the pledges of allegiance a little information about Cory fifth grader Patterson elementary school principal is Debbie
Barker mom Julie Cohn grandfather Ed Kowalski brother Alex a sophomore at UT
Austin students special interest Corey loves to play soccer the name of his
team is the Texans who by the way played tonight all right
Corey also likes video games and playing outside with his friends favorite
subjects are math and science let me quote about the student from one or more
of his teachers boy is a fun-loving creative young man he comes to class
every day with enthusiasm and a passion for learning as a new student Cory
quickly found his place with his classmates and in Patterson we are happy
that he has joined us for fifth grade learning adventure that's the Engelman
fifth grade homeroom teacher and Maggie McCauley fifth grade math teacher all
All right, where is Corey?
You're up, our man.
Thank you, sir.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
honor the Texas flag I pledge allegiance to the Texas one state under God one and indivisible
the stage is yours Cory passin is an awesome place to come to every day because of its
dedicated teachers as well as its friendly students everyone has made me
feel special and welcomed in my first year at Katy School District thank you
Corrine mrs. van has something for you
so much for leading us in our pledges today and welcome to Katy ISD you get
the pledge of allegiance here before a board meeting get a special certificate
and you get this very special lunch bag.
We like to say it keeps the hot things hot and the cold things cold.
And we only give out so many of these a year. So congratulations.
And thank you again for reading our pledges to us tonight.
Thank you.
Thank you for having us.
At this time, we will have our public hearing presentation of the district's rating on the financial integrity rating system of Texas called First.
Mr. Smith will give us a presentation. Good evening Mr. Smith.
Steve and Dr. Hint, it's a pleasure to be in front of you tonight to
give our Schools First annual report. Schools First was adopted during the
1999 legislature. First is the statewide accountability system. It started with
with the 2001-2002 fiscal year.
I'm going to be going over the 2014-15 fiscal year tonight.
So it's a year that our fiscal year ended on August 31st of 2015,
well over a year ago.
But it's at that point where the Texas Education Agency is ready
for us to give our first results.
TEA implemented many changes over the years,
and they've done so again this year.
The first rating is designed to encourage public schools
schools to better manage their financial resources in order to provide a maximum allocation possible
for districts' instructional purposes.
Last year was a transition year, as I mentioned a minute ago.
Last year, the prior year, there was 20 indicators.
Last year there was only seven for that transition year.
They're back up to 15, and I expect the bar or some of the ratios that they ask us to
do tonight that scores KDISD 10 points, I expect those to get a little tougher each
year for the next couple of years so there are scores that we can get and
I'll just go over the first couple or 70 to 100 points and we'll score a superior
achievement or 50 to 69 points we would score above standard or a B and I won't
bother anyone with the other ones so there's some indicators there's 15 of
these those that are in red on the top left are critical indicators that means
If we fail one of those then we automatically fail schools first and we get the the substandard achievement
But we didn't fail any of those
I'll let you know now and these are all worded by the Texas Education Agency's so that the answer is yes
So yes is good. So sometimes it's kind of strange the way they're worded
So was the financial annual financial report filed within one month of the January the 28th deadline
They want us to file it by the 28th, but they give us 30 days
we filed ours on the 26th of January like within a week after the trustees
approved it in January of yes was there an unmodified opinion in the annual
financial report yes it was unmodified unmodified is a good sign was the annual
financial report free of any instances of material weaknesses in internal
controls yes it was free of material weaknesses and internal controls was the
the school district in compliance with payments terms on all its debt obligations? Were we
current on our loans? And yes, we were current. Did the school district make timely payments
to Teachers Retirement System, Texas Workforce Commission, the Internal Revenue Service,
or any other government agency? And yes, we were timely, always timely, but we were timely
during our audit as well yes was the total unrestricted net asset balance in
the statement of net assets greater than zero in other words where your net
assets more greater than zero and ours were 188 million at 188 point six
million which is greater than zero where the number of days of cash on hand in
current investments greater than enough to cover 90 days and our district had
had 109 days cash on hand. So we were well above 90 days at 109, almost 110 days of cash
on hand. So yes. Was the measure of current assets to current liabilities ratio for the
school district sufficient to cover short-term debt? The answer is yes. We had current assets
of $477 million and current liabilities of $116 million. So we had a 4 to 1 ratio, which
is well above where we needed to be was the ratio of long-term liabilities to total assets for the
school district sufficient support long-term solvency the answer is yes our ratio of 79.73
we would not have scored the full 10 points on this category and because we had an excess of
five percent enrollment growth we passed that one automatically at 10 points but we would not have
quite got ten points I think it was eight points had we had we not had that
the enrollment growth and what that says is the state recognizes the strains that
growing and enrollment them at the rate that Katie ISD does does put on you and
they do recognize that did the school districts general fund revenues equal or
exceed expenditures did we did we take in more money than we spent and the
answer is yes we did was the debt service coverage ratio sufficient to
meet the required debt service yes we scored a 1.20 i'm sorry 1.20 is what it took to score 10
points on this and we scored a 1.63 so we're far above passing on this indicator was the school
district's administrative cost ratio equal or less than the threshold and for our size school
district we could have 8.5 percent of our expenditures in the administrative cost ratio
I'm pleased to say that we're one of the lowest in the Houston area and we had 3.9 percent
3.9 zero percent administrative cost ratio. So well, well, we could double our administrative costs and still be under that ratio
Did the school district not have a decline in students to staff ratio over three years?
students to staff ratio is the total number of students divided by the total number of staff and
Yes, we did have we did not decline 15%
We did have a 8.34 percent, or 18.34, 8.34 students for every staff member in the 13-14 school year.
And then we had 8.13 students to staff ratio in the 14-15 school year.
So we did get, we did lower on that by 2 percent, but we did not lower by 15 percent.
That's one we need to watch because as that number lowers, it gets richer or the spending increases.
So we need to watch that one.
Did the comparison of PEMS data to information in the annual financial report have a variance of less than 3%?
Yes.
We reported $576,900,000 in all fund spending through PEMS.
We were $548 off.
that is ninety nine point nine nine nine nine nine percent accuracy that's just
because of rounding within the peems module at EA so that's the only reason
we were off but we could have been off seventeen point three million dollars I
think three percent a little generous but because five hundred forty eight
dollars is far far better than seventeen point three million dollars I was the
annual financial report free of any material non-compliance for grants,
contracts, and laws related to local, state, and federal funds? Yes, it was free
of any material non-compliance. Did the school district not receive an
adjustment adjusted repayment schedule for one or more fiscal years through the
foundation school program? In other words, did the school district have a
hardship that needed to adjust the payment schedule from TEA on how we
we receive our funds and yes we did not receive an adjusted payment schedule so
this is my second to last slide we did score 100 100 out of 100 points again we
could have scored anything I think it was above a 60 and still been a set of
had a B but we were scored 100 out of 100 and got all the criticals right and
this is the highest rating possible established under the guidelines by the
Texas Education Agency. I think each of you has a report here that looks like
this and I'll talk a little bit about what's in this. Of course it's the
presentation that I just went over. It has the accountability rating straight
from TEA in it for both the 14-15 school year and it also has the prior year
accountability ratings for your use. It does have required disclosures and those
disclosures are reimbursements by the superintendent and trustees outside
compensation and fees received by the superintendent and there were none gifts
were received by the superintendent and or trustees and there were none and
business transactions between the district and any trustees meaning did
the district do business with a trustee and there were none so that little part
part of the report is anticlimactic, but it is required and
This this presentation and the report that you that I have handed to you
It will be at the back of it and posted to our website in the morning
for the public's
perusal
And that's all I have on schools first report and president
Mr.. Griffin, mr.. Smith
Superior job, thank you. Thank you
Mr. Smith?
Mr. Scott?
Happy birthday.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you.
Madam President?
Mr. DeBrell.
Mr. Smith, how many consecutive years have we achieved this superior rating?
I believe it's 16.
It goes back to the 2001-2002 school year.
So I guess that's 14 years.
Congratulations on that.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for your presentation.
always great to hear that how strong KDISD is financially and appreciate you
and your staff and providing this report and keeping us keeping us solid okay
there are no members who have both who have signed up to speak at our public
hearing so I declare this the end of the public hearing at this time we'd like to
recognize any scouts in the audience if you are a scout and you're here working
on a badge please come to the front row and then we are going to hear your name
and please tell us your name your troop number and what badge you're working on
this evening Zach Henry I'm a part of troop 584 and I'm working on the
citizenship in the community mayor badge we're really glad you're here thanks for
being here any other scouts next on our agenda I'd like to introduce miss Maria
Corrales manager of media relations and multimedia for the recognition's
portion of our meeting tonight. Good evening Madam President, Board members,
and Superintendent Dr. Lance Hint, and good evening to everyone who is present
here at our board meeting tonight. We'll start out with the National Association
of Secondary Principals and the National Association of Elementary Principals and
the American Federation of School Administrators who have selected October
as the National Principals Month. The month is set aside to honor the hard
work and the dedication of principals across America. The key to student
success is a great school and the key to a great school of course is a great
principal. A proclamation is presented to the Board of Trustees for their approval
to dedicate the month of October in honor of all our principals across the
district and to take the opportunity to express our gratitude for their
commitment to student success. At this time I'd like to ask President Fox to
read the proclamation once again. Proclamation of the KDISD Board of
Trustees. Whereas principals play an essential role in making a school great
and whereas principals are an important part of district leadership and vital to
the overall success of teachers and students and whereas principals are a
valued and respected group of administrators that sustain the
district's most important assets, its people and students. Whereas principals
principals are supportive, dedicated, and determined to encourage students and staff,
whereas contributions of principals impact student lives on a daily basis.
And therefore, the Katy Independent School District Board of Trustees does hereby proclaim
that the month of October will be observed as Principals Month throughout the district.
The Board also encourages students, staff, and parents to express their appreciation
to Katy ISD principals for their dedication and commitment to their campus community,
staff and students signed the 26th day of September 2016 Rebecca Fox president
Katie Asti Board of Trustees Thank You madam president principals who are with
us tonight please come forward and thank you for your dedication and passion for
our students and campus communities
I hope we all, we kind of get, come on George.
Hey, we're going to do this.
Uh-oh.
Let's give them one more round of applause.
The proclamation I read is a very formal way of saying we think you guys rock and we heart
you very much.
Next, I would like to introduce Gary Johnson, President of the Katy Rodeo Committee, George
Thomas, Board Member and Rodeo Arena Director, Doug White, Katy Rodeo Committee Board Member,
Troy Fagardi, Katy Rodeo Committee Board Member for a special presentation.
Good evening.
Madam President, Board members, and Superintendent Hynck, I'd like to thank you for allowing
on the Rodeo Committee the opportunity to make our annual FFA Chapter Operating Fund
distribution at this meeting. As you know, we hold the Rodeo in conjunction with the
FFA Livestock Show every year. The monies we raise are distributed back to the FFA Chapter
in various ways. Over the past 11 years, we have distributed monies by paying for animal
vaccinations, student and teacher development courses and events, FFA American degrees for
for students and distributions such as these to the activity fund for each chapter.
This year our distribution to the activity fund is $65,000.
These activity fund monies help offset the cost of events, travel, development courses
and allow the students to continue to pursue their dreams in FFA.
To accept this donation, I'd like to call forward the FFA advisors for each high school.
For Cinco Ranch, I'd like to call John Ford, Dean Fox, Aaron Jinsky, and Amanda Coxall.
For Katie High, I'd like to call Heather Harvey, Ashley Laird, Jacob Price, Seth Lucas, Josh Vodnall, Daniel Powell, and Jamie Walsh.
For Maid Creek, I'd like to call Glenn Hughes, Chelsea Lawandowski, and Ronnie Muszynski.
For Martin Ranch, I'd like to call Charlie Boyce, Abby Bozarth, Kobe Finke, Stephanie
Knight and Corey Spikes.
For Seven Lakes, I'd like to call Joe Boshay, Matthew Goodwin, Breanne Warhol.
And for Taylor High, I'd like to call Sarah Burke, Dorothy Reuter and Jerry Dean Shemek.
And for Tompkins High, I'd like to call Katie Sheffield, Madison Johnson, and Michael
Watzman.
And at this time, I'd like to thank Madam President, the board members, and Superintendent
Height for the opportunity to make this donation, and we look forward to working with you for
next year's rodeo, which will be in February.
Thank you.
Thank you.
thank you to the Katie rodeo committee for your support to the district's FFA programs
Ms. Corrales, it's also great to see so many of our FFA students here representing
your high schools and your programs and wow, it's great to see you here.
You're here several times a year and you always make us proud and you make us smile. Thanks for being here
Next I would like to introduce Katie ISD's
2017 National Merit Scholarship semi-finalists these students are among
16,000 semi-finalists named in this year's National Merit Scholarship
Program and were selected based on their results on the on the PSA teen National Merit Scholarship qualifying tests these
These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to compete for 7,500 National
Merit Scholarships worth $33 million that will be offered next spring.
Students when I call your name please come forward.
We are going to start out first with Cinco Ranch High School.
and Kyriel Sarah have Orson Sabrina Hodgins Christina Lee Julie
Julie Leu.
Trisha Madhaven.
Aray Muralidaran.
Sean Ngo.
Amol Patel.
Elizabeth Perego, Sabrina Pereira, Michael Sporkin, Jamie Tan, Henry Wong, Alyssa Wu,
From Katy High School, we have Holly Meyer.
From Maid Creek High School, Wahiba Hanan.
From Seven Lakes High School, Monish Elankesian.
Dora Grafunkel.
Ian Koster, Veda Kilkearney, Melinda Lee, Rachel Lopes, Madhura Pradudasai, Jessica
Jessica Xu.
Cleo Sun.
Heather Sweeney.
Sindhu Vinca.
Michelle Zia.
Thomas Zieng.
Sharon Su.
Andrew Yang, Francine Yang, Kevin Yang, Jingxi Yu, Justin Zhang, and Helen Zhou.
from Taylor High School. We have Jack
Boris.
Christopher Elliot.
Lance Goblin.
Athena
Kovner.
Angela Lynn.
Shudzian N.
Gautham Nair, Jessica Rail, Maria Sterzu, Zian To, Kyle Wang, and Matthew Willen.
From Tompkins High School, we have
Gianni Lang, Audrey Liu, and Matthew Vargas.
We wish each of these students continued success and hope to see them back in the spring.
Give them a round of applause.
Okay, one more big round of applause for these beautiful students.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Next, the National Debate and Speech Tournament has been held across the country since 1931,
and today it is the largest academic competition in the world.
Each year, more than 3,500 high school students participate in a week-long competition to
determine the most prestigious title in the high school academics, and that's national
champion.
The special accomplishment of Tompkins High School is just that.
Despite being a young school, it has produced several qualifiers to the tournament in the
past few years.
This year, Junior Ping Rui Tong learned his qualification to the tournament by placing
in the top three of 60 competitors from our district in the category of
congressional debate he advanced to semi-finals at the national competition
Byron soup qualified by placing in the top four of our district in
exemplary speaking Byron is one of the few students to qualify for the national
competition as a freshman senior Amman Gil Rajani placed in the top three
competitors for Lincoln Douglas debate for our district this was a month's
second time qualifying for the competition gentlemen they already came
forward together with your speech and debate coach Weston Elkins please come
and take a photo with our board member and receive your certificates of
recognition
Next, the Future Business Leaders of America, also known as FBLA, is the largest career
student organization in the world.
Each year, FBLA helps over 230,000 members prepare for business careers by bringing business and education together in a positive working relationship through innovative leadership and career development programs.
Today, we recognize the first place national winners from the National Leadership Conference.
Students, please come forward when I call your name.
In the category Computer Game and Simulation Programming, three teammates from Seven Lakes High School created a standalone executable program that displayed creativity, programming skill, and conveyed a topic message.
Felipe Obregon, Pani Padise, and Thomas Pratt.
In the category Introduction to Information Technology, which tests student knowledge on computer hardware, the function of computer components, and the ability to identify problems with computer hardware and systems, from Seven Lakes High School, we have Naveen Venka.
In the principal and procedures category from Tompkins High School, Satvik Sriyankar earned
first place in this highest competitive event testing student understanding of the FBLA
organization bylaws, handbook guidelines, publications, creed, and national goals.
Congratulations to all of you on these outstanding achievements.
achievements.
Congratulations.
K-12 education technology leaders can achieve certification through the Consortium of School
Networking as a Certified Education Technology Leader, also known as CETL.
Earning the CETL certification demonstrates mastering the knowledge and the skills needed
to define the vision for and successfully build 21st century learning environments.
This certification requires a tremendous commitment of time and successfully passing
a certification test which includes a written essay. Only a handful of Texas districts have CETL
certified individuals and we're proud to say we have four of them here at KDISD. Will Dr.
Dr. Alauni, the Chief Information Officer, and the following directors, please come forward
when I call your name.
Jamie Hins, Business Intelligence.
Joe Christopherson, Technology Operations.
Carrie Rampelli, Enterprise Systems.
And Brenda White, Project Management.
We're very proud of your hard work and dedication that you demonstrate daily.
Congratulations on your cert- recognitions.
The Markham Award is an international creative competition that recognizes outstanding achievement
by marketing and communication professionals. Each year the organization receives nearly
6,000 entries from across the world. The KTISD update earned a gold winner award recognizing
the update as an electronic newsletter that exceeds a high standard of excellence and serves
as a benchmark for the industry. The department was also awarded honorable mention by Markham
in the category of information video for its video featuring our canine officers,
Marcel and Juno, our four-legged heroes that snip out trouble and keep KDISD safe.
This was produced to honor the KDISD Police Department
during the district's police week from August 23rd to September 3rd.
Will Dr. Andrea Grooms, Chief Officer, Denise Cantu-Kaufman, Director of Communication,
and other communication department staff members in attendance please come forward
Congratulations.
to all of them. Oh okay on Friday September the 30th of this year this is
we got to save the best for last. Mabel Hill was in Cougar Cafe at Bear
Creek Elementary School when a boy came up to her unable to speak and he was
turning purple. She immediately recognized that he was choking and she
performed the Heimlich maneuver. She stayed with him until he was taken to
the nurse for medical attention her heroic actions saved this little boy's life mrs hill has been
making a difference in the lives of many children as a special education paraprofessional but on
this day she quickly took action and it made her a true hero by saving one of our students
tonight we wish to honor mrs hill for her heroic effort and present her with the board of trustees
meritorious service award in recognition of her life-saving action well mrs. Hill
Alejandro Fernandez his family and his teacher please come forward
Thank you.
How cute is he?
Good job.
Thank you, Madam President, Board Members, and Superintendent Dr. Lance Hintz.
This concludes the recognition portion of our meeting this evening.
Board members, at this time I will direct you to a report, the Katy Independent School
District 2016 demographic update.
As always, it's delightful to have Dr. Pat Guzman and Dr. Chris Poole with Population
and Survey Analysts here to give us our annual report.
Good evening.
Welcome.
MS.
Thank you.
We appreciate the opportunity to have a brief summary of the demographic update this evening
and you will know that it will be online with the district as well as at our firm's site
tomorrow.
We did want to mention that in the last seven years, although the projections become less accurate with each ensuing year and we update and revise that data annually, the greatest deviation has been 1% in the last seven or so years.
years. And at the same time, it's interesting to see that the highest growth has been in
2014, over 3,000. That's been our last growth spurt in the oil boom that has now left us.
And then also in 2005, 3,600 student increase. So the district isn't as stable historically
historically as it will be in the future. I think we'll see a much more stable growth situation
moving forward.
Now in terms of looking at the highest growth districts, it's good to compare this district
statewide out of the
63 districts that are the largest districts in the state, Frisco ranks second and of course
generally speaking out of the the all all districts of course is second in
numeric growth if you look at the red districts you'll see those that this
past year based on teams had the highest increases with Katie as the leader we
anticipate that that will also be the same this year but without official data
we're right now calling to interview each of these districts to get their
almost PEMS ready data for the student growth for the year. Likewise if we look
at the last five years again using only the official PEMS data you'll see that
Katie led in the 62 consolidated metro area school districts in total
enrollment growth. Now if we look at the last two years, note that kindergarten as
you know is very important for so many reasons. It's a precursor of what's going
to come in every ensuing year. This year it just very slightly has declined and
we're not yet at PEMS but basically there. And then last year it was 17% of
of 1% in terms of very small, small growth.
So ideally, we like to see, if there's any one grade
that we'd like to see leap forward,
it would be kindergarten.
Because then we know there will be that bulge moving through,
and we'll see continued increases
in the student population.
There's several reasons that account for that.
Of course, the oil price plunge and the creeping unemployment
employment problems as well as the fact that the district itself is building out.
And then finally and most importantly, the price of new homes simply prices out these
youngest homeowners.
Here we're looking at fencing in the district so that we can look at the aging of those
tiny infants born in the district five years forward.
and we see that there was a plateau 13, 14, and 15, but now we can expect slight
increases based on previous birth dates. This excludes though net in migration
which accounts for the majority of the growth that we see in the district in
kindergarten. You'll see here that this continuum shows a six to eight percent
in the earliest year shown and then now in the three and a half percent range.
But know that this doesn't necessarily mean that you're seeing fewer students
students numerically. In other words, as we grow each year, that percent can get smaller,
but we're still adding that predictable number of students. So please keep that in mind.
And it's for the next 10 years going to be about 2200 to 2400 per year. And so that doesn't
that doesn't decline although the percents do get lower. Maybe it's
important to state simply that developers and builders look at many
different parameters or characteristics as they seek to choose this district in
which to develop or in which to build homes and that it's important to
understand the comparative advantage that this district has. And definitely we see that
in the low percent of economically disadvantaged students, the other quality of life characteristics
like median income, for example, where this district is the leader. Again, there are so
many characteristics that make this district unique. Definitely unique in the 62 districts
in the consolidated metro area. And again, these quality of life districts definitely reflect that uniqueness.
Here, to drill down a little further, Katy is ninth in the state in terms of economically disadvantaged,
and fifth of the districts that are 20,000 or more students in the test results for grades three through eight.
Now this is of course last spring's data.
So again you see the ranking is very high for such a large district.
The other districts in terms of enrollment are quite a bit smaller and therefore more
homogeneous.
So Katie has to fight a little harder to get these high rankings.
One thing that has changed a great deal is the growth in private and charter schools.
So while we're continuing to see high growth in the school district, don't think that that
growth is higher than is this selection of alternative campuses.
In 2014, there were around 2,800 enrolled, and then last year it was around about 3,400,
and this year it's been around 4,600. So you can see there's a significant
increase each year and we will continue to see that. Now some of these schools
are literally doubling in capacity but many even in the district aren't
attracting only KISD students but students from three or four different
school districts. Employment trends, again we've always found that that's the chief
predictor in the growth of this this district and unemployment rates have
been creeping up each month but in September maybe that creep has
stabilized and of course that that is very important. At the same time the
The second most important factor in predicting growth in this district is transportation
improvements, particularly when developers don't have to pay for them.
So that that helps them leap into the fray, buy parcels along the improved Martin Road
to the west, for example, and other places where there have been roadway improvements
that allow them to leap into the development process.
Maybe one of the most interesting is just outside the boundary of the district, State
Highway 36 is from Freeport up to Hempstead going to have a big impact on this district,
although it's just to the west of Form-de-Market Road 2855.
But we'll actually be allowing traffic in the western part of Katy to use that State
highway and at the same time the undeveloped portion of the west along I-10 and U.S. 90
will be in much greater demand and a lot of that land is now for sale for commercial purposes,
e-commerce, distribution centers and so forth because this is going to allow this major
transportation hub from the port of Freeport up through this area. Now in looking at housing
projections, maybe we could simply say that the district is building out rapidly. The beige color
is that area where within the 10-year time period of our projections there
will probably still be land in that area that would be about 18% or less in 10
years of the land remaining so the district is becoming a mature district
rapidly and yet at the same time we know that the district as you noted is
increasing with more students in any district in the Houston area. So one of
the things that is important in the way that we look at growth is what parcels
are for sale and of course if you look in the bottom right you'll see the top
hat of the district so this is a little deceiving but those red parcels are very
critical in looking at the next few years and at the same time we study
those parcels that have just sold in the last year in two years because those are
the ones where we have to isolate out the residential development that's
planned now in this particular slide you can see that 38% almost a thousand of
the added students this year were from apartments and that's really not going
to decline even though there is a decline in permits of new apartments
generally but Katy is still very much in demand. There's fewer apartments than
there would have been without the oil price situation but definitely moving
forward because as the district builds out it's almost a law that infill
parcels will be in big demand in this district for multifamily. So maybe the
most important figure here is not the actively building out subdivisions, which really added
the lion's share, 59 percent of the growth, but the built out subdivisions, which only
added 2 percent. And so that's what we have to follow are the majority of the subdivisions.
There are 387 subdivisions in the district and the majority of those actually are built
out and we've got to follow those very carefully to see if they're regenerating
or if they're going to be in some cases deep decline with students. This past
second quarter we don't have third quarter data yet. The district decreased
in housing starts by 19% for the year. Only those second quarter data, no
no third quarter data available. The same year's time frame would have been 24%. So
those are the important numbers to remember. But this appears to have bottomed out as well.
So employment was shaky and unemployment trending upward and is stabilized and the decline in
housing starts now should have stabilized, but we don't have that third quarter data
to verify this. I won't go over the important master plan communities that
are going to have such a big impact on the district and and maybe just
emphasize as you well know that these master plan communities are the ones
that have the highest ratios of students per house. Parents feel secure and
comfortable in these developments and they're the ones that really pack in the
students. And of course if you want to look at the characteristics of each of
these, it would be good to look online in our report to get an update about what's
left. And you know Cross Creek is interesting in that they have replatted
their final plats to have smaller lots and there are more lots and more
children. And so that you know final is never final is it? Now here keep in mind
in looking to those future subdivisions that may or may not have anything more
than an owner of the lands name. No market name as yet, but we know that
despite locations like the City of Houston down 84% with multifamily
permits that these larger parcels are still having reserves for multifamily in
in the northwest. And when we look at all of the future growth, it's all in the northwest.
So we don't even need to think about the rest of the district at some point in terms of
new housing. We're just going to concentrate on the northwest. And to do that type of development
requires a unique set of developers that have a tremendous knowledge of drainage, hydrology,
and the way to fix the floodplain to make it work for them so that they can develop in that area.
And to continue that train of thought, again, in the northwest,
there will be continued purchase of those parcels.
And once all of those major parcels are purchased, which should be occurring in the next three to four years,
then they'll all build out real rapidly.
So it won't be a long, drawn out process once they all get underway and once the new
east-west corridors are available for those developers in the northwest.
This last column shows Newland communities, which is Allison having 3,766 occupied homes
in the next 10 years, whereas now you know they are just getting underway. The
Northwest Katy should be in quotation marks. That's Troy Maxwell's what will be
partitioned out into three developments and so forth. So here we're looking at
specific multifamily developments that are either in the occupancy stages or
about to be occupied and you can see this is a long list right this is the
second part of that long list and these are things that are imminent and they
these units are summed to seven thousand four hundred and sixty that are yet to
be occupied on those two pages of lists so you can see the district went from
from having two or three new apartments per year to a whole new arena of focus.
And right now, for the next 10 years, about 38% of all of the new housing units will be multifamily.
So here then are those that are long-term planned that we need to account for.
Many are reserves on parcels that are single-family on the whole.
Here you see for the first five years of the projection period, the reservoir in the southeast simply means there's right on the edge of it an apartment continuing to be occupied on Highway 6.
But wherever you see red, you'll know generally speaking those are the hot spots.
And then here, this is the last five years of the 10-year projection period.
And again, very northwest oriented.
And in this case, mainly single family.
Here then the 10-year period summarized and so you know we used to say the
district was growing north, south, east and west with the focus on the southwest
but that has changed. This is looking to the build-out of the district and the
district will never be truly built out because there will be teardowns and a
a redevelopment, but there remains about 29,000 housing units to continue to be developed
for the first time.
And then that will yield around 16,000 students.
But know that the blue areas that you see here may be somewhat in decline.
And so that may balance off the growth by that time frame.
44,360 housing units are projected then in the next 10 years.
And if we look at how many students we could expect for new home, it's .72.
Of course, in the master plan communities, though,
they can leap up to one around 0.91, 1.1 students per unit. 0.36 in apartments
because this is a very coveted district so there's a high ratio of students in
apartments. Now if we look at the projected enrollment then based on this
data we project around 98,000 it's hard to believe at the end of the 10-year
period and you can see in the green numbers reflecting growth that they do range from
just under 2200 in one case, 2020, to almost 2500, but in the 2200 to 2400 range.
And we know that it's possible that with higher ratios and with regeneration in the blue built
out subdivisions that we could have around a hundred and two thousand in ten
years in the district and as low as ninety two thousand so I appreciate your
time and Chris Poole is going to briefly summarize the growth per attendance zone
zone that's expected.
So as you guys know, one of the main reasons that we do this study every year is so that
we can understand when and where and how you need to build new facilities.
And so that was an awful lot of data, but it doesn't turn into where do I need a new
school until we create a model and we generate projections by land use zone, by grade group
for each of the years of the 10-year period.
And so we take that data and we put it back into your current attendance zones and we start comparing that to the capacity
so that we can understand when and where you need those new schools.
So what I have here is just a brief look at the geocoded student population.
It's very important to keep that in mind, particularly in the northern part of the district here at the elementary school level,
because the geocoded students are the students that reside in the attendance zone.
And so therefore we consider anyone a transfer if they go to a school outside
of where they're actually living. And so for your bilingual programs or for if a
child goes to school with a parent at a different school, we consider those
transfers but we're trying to match children with rooftops. And so that's
where how we start with these geocoded students and then we have to to get to
the actual enrollment we have to understand the transfers and the
the programs at any given facility.
So what we're showing here is in parentheses there is the capacity of the facility.
Most of the facilities that the district is building that have built in the last decade
or maybe 15 years have been around 1,030 for the elementary schools.
But it is important to keep in mind that ones like Katy have a capacity of 643.
And so you may be used to thinking about 1,000 students, but 1,000 students at Katy is a
different story.
Also, we've highlighted here with a dash and a BIL those that are bilingual programs.
A lot of these schools have lots of different programs in them, and they may be clustered
in various areas, but the bilingual ones are the easiest ones to show quickly on a map.
We can see here that Hetzel, for example, has a bilingual program, and I think it includes
an additional 200 or so students into that school.
One of the big things though, Bethke, you know, we're showing 2017 through 2021 and
you can see the very rapid growth we're expecting there.
We project 10 years forward, but we know that we want to concentrate on the first five years
because we know that that's going to be more reliable.
We like to have the second five years because we want to know where we think we're heading.
Things change, but we still want to look out in the future.
Bethke in 10 years we could be projecting around 7,000 elementary
students in that area because that's all of that growth there in the north that
we were just talking about. Katy any other time 1988 students at Katy would
be very scary compared to Bethke maybe it's not so bad but those are the sorts
of figures that we're looking at here. We're just working clockwise around the
district and you can see the hatch marks we had a discussion about maybe it would
would be interesting to put that on there. People may see what appears to be vacant land,
but it's reservoir. And so that's what's highlighted there. We've got several facilities
here that do have bilingual programs. There's an awful lot of transferring going on in the
northern part of the district here. But even then, Galbo, with its capacity of 867, we're
looking at 1,121 students in a few short years. We could be looking at 1,500 or so later on.
Then further on to the southeast, it's the same sort of thing.
We've got an awful lot of the area here in Wolfe and Pattison and Creech that is not going to build out because it's a reservoir.
But then we do have enrollment shown, and you can see that Griffin now has around 1,000 students in its enrollment.
Right now there are a couple of hundred students transferring into Griffin, and so that will go ahead and bring it up near its capacity.
We always get a question about that.
And then in the southwestern portion of the district, there used to be just one or two schools that fed this whole entire area.
And now, of course, it's so very, very dense, the ratios are extremely high for every home in this area.
So you can see that Randolph is still definitely going to be needing relief.
Woolman is definitely going to be needing relief.
Jenks is going to need a little relief.
Its capacity is a little different.
It's built for a bilingual program.
Schaefer is over capacity.
And several of these schools in this area are projected to exceed their capacity.
Now, Woman can get some relief from Bryant.
And then we ultimately do have another facility expected to come online for Randolph.
But it's going to be very, very full in the interim time.
Let's interrupt real quick.
That's the information I've been sending to the board.
Randolph, what I'd like to do is just pay a little bit of attention to that growth over there.
We've got a elementary 41 that's slated for 2019, and I've asked the board to consider
pushing that forward to 2018.
There's several options that we have.
We can let it get to 1,600 students.
We'd have to add multiple T buildings at about $100,000 per T building.
You could domino some kids to Jenks, Jenks to Wollman.
I wouldn't recommend that or you can move kids past Jenks and woman to Bryant wouldn't recommend that I
Think really the two options we have is either fast-track the elementary 41 one year or prepare to just endure
1600 kids at Randolph until we can open the school night
Okay, can I go on to junior high okay bet
So this is a map of the junior high attendance zones, and it's a similar sort of thing.
The schools that end up in the biggest crunch are those that have their attendance zones there where the growth is expected to occur.
So we can look at the Katy attendance zone there.
We could expect as many as almost 3,000 students in 2021, as many as 4,000 students in 2026 as a possibility.
McDonald also has a capacity of 1220.
It's a tiny bit smaller than some of the schools that have been built more recently.
And we could see 1,700 in a few years, 2,000 ultimately.
But, of course, Stockdick Junior High is going to be coming online,
and we'll be talking about that shortly.
And then to the southwest, you can see Seven Lakes is going to need some relief,
Wood Creek some relief, Tay's some relief,
but there will be a junior high in the south in the next few years to take care of those.
And then just very briefly at the high school, this is the current zones.
Of course, it doesn't include Pato, and so I'm glad that it doesn't include that because Katie,
you know, 5,400 kids might not be very good at Katie, but it could be as many as like 8,000 students.
One thing, though, that's important to remember is when Pato comes online,
It's not just Katy that is going to be needing relief.
Morton Ranch is projected at 4,140, as many as maybe 4,700 toward the end of the projection period.
So Katy can continue to get relief with its attendance zone stretching south of I-10.
It can continue to get relief also from the south when the new southern high school comes online in several years.
And so it has other options, but Morton Ranch will need some relief there from Payto.
So we'll be bringing those forward with the ABM next month.
And so at this point, I think we'd like to open it up to questions.
Madam President?
No questions.
Wait.
We just need a moment of silence.
Mr. Scott does not have a question.
Anyone else?
You guys, it's so much information we're just like, wait, go back, I want to look at that
again.
Is that true?
Oh, wow.
We tried to boil it down, but we want you to have what you need.
Yes, we do have what we need, and we have it so that we can go back and look at it over
and over.
And this presentation will be posted to our website just shortly after the meeting's over,
maybe in the morning.
So it's just staggering.
We open new schools every year, and we have all these great kids coming, and then we see
that all these great kids are still coming.
So we have a lot of really fantastic educators
in this community doing fantastic things
for children and their families.
And so it's not surprising to us,
but then you see the numbers and your jaw drops a bit
and we're like, wait, wait, wait.
So it's kind of hard to have a question.
It's a little bit overwhelming.
You guys always have a very thorough presentation
and for that we're very grateful
and we'll listen to it again and soak it up some more
and do all that. Thank you for being available for further questions when we have them.
We will be available.
As always, yes. We appreciate you very much. Thanks so much.
Madam President.
Mr. Mahalski.
I move the Board of Trustees approves the consent agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.17.
second i have a motion by mr mahalsky a second by mrs vann the board of trustees approves the
consent agenda as recommended in item 8.1 through 8.17 all in favor raise your right hand and say i
aye the motion passes seven to zero
row item 9.1 discuss and consider board approval of 23 growth units we talked
about last week's meeting mr. um good now how are you I'm so sorry
he's feeling great I just like this it doesn't say your name right here how are
are you I'm doing well good evening madam president good evening board of
trustees good evening superintendent hint I'm obviously standing in for
Yolanda Edmond who was I sent off on an emergency errand so you know forgive me
for that and I'm gonna try to cover the best I can and as quickly as I can the
2016-17 budget included student growth estimates and all types of enrollment
population based on the need for additional growth units we looked at
special education and bilingual ESL enrollment at length last week although
this was not our snapshot teams data we feel confident that the increase in
enrollment particularly special ed enrollment will allow us to recognize
additional revenue in our budget as a result of enrollment growth in excess of
projections next month with the November budget amendments we will not only
increase our expenditure budget but will also increase our revenue budget
accordingly it is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves 23 growth
units for the 2016-17 school year for ESL and special education as recommended
by the superintendent and if you recall board last week we came to you with 25
we went back and looked at it although we don't have teams data until the end
of October based upon the information we have we have increased numbers more than
projected in those special populations. I'd also like to remind you if you
recall I kind of put Chris on the spot with the increased enrollment in those
special programs we do receive more funding through ADA and we believe that
it's going to pay for the 23 growth units over a period of time.
Madam President. Mr. Scott. We're having a string of administrative birthdays so
So happy birthday to you, and if we can figure a way to get Dr. Caskey up, we could wish her one.
Happy birthday, Ms. Caskey.
Happy birthday.
Dr. Caskey.
Thank you.
Yeah, we have three of them.
No cake?
No candles?
No song?
I don't know.
We should have planned better.
We have an action item here.
Okay.
Thank you.
Yes.
Madam President.
Mr. Michalski.
I move the Board of Trustees approves 23 growth units for the 2016-2017 school year for ESL
and special education as recommended by the superintendent.
Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Moholsky and a second by Mrs. Doyle that the Board of Trustees approve
23 growth units for the 2016-17 school year for ESL and special education as recommended
by the superintendent.
Any discussion?
Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote.
All in favor, raise your right hand to say aye.
Aye.
The motion passes 7-0.
Thank you, Mr. Gannell.
Okay.
And item 9.2 is here for a motion.
Madam President. Mr. DeBrell. I move that the Board of Trustees approves pursuing the
District of Innovation designation for KDISD and the appointment of an
Innovation Plan Committee as presented by the administration. I have a motion by
Mr. DeBrell, a second by Mrs. Doyle that the Board of Trustees approves pursuing
the District of Innovation designation for KDISD and the appointment of the
the Innovation Plan Committee as presented by the administration.
Any discussion?
I do.
Mr. Scott?
Very light.
It is my hope, and I just want to be on the record for that,
that this committee will have extraordinary transparency.
I hope that when the committee comes back and brings its recommendations
or its presentations, that we will have a full feel for what was discussed,
not only the recommendations but what may may not have made it to the
recommendation level. Thank you. Any other questions or discussion? Hearing none,
we'll proceed to vote. All in favor raise your right hand to say aye. Aye.
Motion passes 7-0. Thank you. And now we'll have a discussion about planning for
growth and possible bond planning. Dr. Hintz? Yes, you just saw the pass of
information and I briefly talked to you about elementary 41 and looking at a
fast track in idle conversation or one-on-one conversation with board we've
discussed a little bit about possibly looking at a 2017 November bond and then
there's been discussion about the possibility of stretching it if at all
possible to a November 2018 bond I just wanted to get a little feedback I've
sent some information to you a little bit of a timeline of course there's
pros and cons to both I mean let me just give you the concern that I would have
for pushing it to a November 18 we'll have seven lakes junior high larger than
any junior high even Wood Creek when we were at full capacity there if we don't
do something with the Cross Creek Ranch elementary school you heard me we would
have the potential there of having one of the largest elementary schools in the
history of Katy ISD so I just wanted to know and get some feedback from the
board what direction of course we're going to bring back a recommendation to the board
uh in november i'd also like to remind going back and looking at some notes of the bond committee
that there were some projects pulled from the bond committee and i think their discussion was
and i believe that it was presented to the board that we would get on a schedule more or less you
know the kids are coming and when kids are coming you're going to have to build facilities bricks
bricks and mortar as I call it. We're looking at 2200 to 2500 growth in a year. There's something
to be said getting on a schedule, an every three year schedule. Also what I'd like to remind this
group is in 2018 November, there's going to be a governor's race. All right, so we've got to be
concerned a little bit about where that proposition is going to be on a ballot. So again, just wanted
it to get some input from the board regarding what your concerns may be or what you may feel is
necessary for the administration to pursue president mr mahulsky so um yes i think there's
certainly some merit in trying to get on a schedule at the same time i think there's a couple
of variables you got to look at each time i think if it sometimes it does maybe make sense to push
that out an additional year and and what I would say I think the two important
variables are one the current bond program that we are in how are we doing
with that what does that look like if you recall well you wouldn't recall but
if my board would recall the 2010 bond had significant amount of savings that
bond was passed at a time where the country was in a recession we were able
to get things built at less than we had estimated and we were able to build
Randolph and Davidson elementary with with savings from that bond program
which in turn allowed us to have a little bridge and prolong both the 2014
bond and out another year I don't think we're in that situation necessarily
this time with the 2014 bond it seems like most of those projects are coming
in very close to where they were estimated some may be a little bit
higher some might be a little lower but I don't not sure that there's going to
to be as significant of bond savings from that and then the other thing are
we on plan according to the enrollment growth and and you know based on what we
report we just saw and everything else I think we pretty much are so I you know
given the needs that if we push this past 2017 for another year we're either
going to have to probably come up with some funds from our general operating
fund to to bridge some of that or yeah you know then then or we end up with
schools that are well over their capacities maybe at record levels and I
think everyone realized that the Wood Creek junior high prior to the 2014 bond
passing was not necessarily an ideal situation of enrollment for our facility
yes I certainly see an argument of kind of staying on that schedule because I
I think the variables that are most important are occurring in a way that would probably support that.
Madam President.
Mr. Griffin.
Mr. Superintendent, what kind of projects are you looking at, let's say for the 2017-2018,
elementary schools, a junior high, what's the scope that you would be looking for?
Clarify that.
What do you mean?
what are the actual elementaries are you looking at another uh on the 14 bond we had a bunch of
money for the it oh absolutely you know the way i'd envision a bond whether it was 1718 of course
it's going to have to be for elementary junior high possible high school needs in the future
always when you add kids you're looking at replacing old buses with new buses the addition
of buses but i i'll tell you i don't think that it's going to be a bells and whistles type and i
I don't foresee that in the future, actually.
I foresee bonds for growth and bonds for equity.
Thank you.
Tom, is there anything you'd like to add to that?
Yes, sir.
Next bond is going to be a lot different than this past bond.
There were a couple special projects in this past bond that you will not see in the next bond.
So fundamentally, it's going to be a much more bricks-and-sticks bond than maybe we've seen in the past.
You were to put me on the spot and say what am I looking at?
I don't know, maybe four elementaries, maybe two junior highs and a high school.
Madam President.
I have no problem in principle if you want to advance Randolph.
That seems like a pretty critical issue and there may be a couple of others that when you get down to it.
I'm going to be a little bit of a contrarian on the bond issue in this sense.
That was an excellent report tonight, and it's going to make it a lot easier
when I actually start digging into those numbers, so I want to thank you for that.
I thought it was actually a very good presentation.
I want to step back and I want to look at how many buildings we're going to be building
between now and 2026.
six these these are numbers that are that you war game and you don't have to
hit it exactly to know what universe you're in and I am NOT personally
convinced and it's not an allegation I just it's the absence of information I
think that the district might take this time to take a deep breath and see if we
We want to build elementary and junior high schools under a potential different design than what we've built currently.
We've got a long way to build.
I believe that every bond dollar should be like a gold brick at Fort Knox.
We've got a tremendous obligation to these students.
I encourage everybody to go drive this district outside your home and see what is happening here.
So we're going to be building for a long, long time.
And I would even like to see perhaps bringing some people in from the Comptroller's Office
or those that dealt with bond construction and did their report on design.
Nothing definitive.
I'm not saying anything definitive.
The only thing I know is tonight, out of all the paperwork I've done,
I really hope we don't have to name an architect next month
because I'm sure not ready to do that.
This analysis is not the analysis that I want to see.
It doesn't mean that we hire an architect under the current status quo.
That's not being contrarian.
It's not saying I'm not going to help do bond issues.
Anybody that doesn't understand we're going to be building schools
schools for the next 10 to 15 years doesn't have a driver's license or they don't use
it.
I mean they're not looking.
So that's just my comment tonight.
Thank you.
Ms. Vann?
I have an easy question.
Mr. Griffin and Mr. Moholsky asked some questions that popped to my head already so for the
sake of not being redundant I won't re-ask those in a different way.
On the paperwork that you sent us you said there would be a bond review committee of
a hundred max right um what do you foresee that group um being made up of the last bond committee
was twice the size um they functioned very well i thought it was a very well well-run process
but a big group of people for a very large scope job um but you had noted that it was a hundred
max so i was just wondering if you could speak to what you thought the makeup of that group was
Yeah, well, actually, the bond committee will be by the board.
I mean, we'll make recommendations, but it will be very similar to the makeup of the previous.
Those that want to serve geographically, northeast, north-south, southeast, southwest, central,
those areas that will be most effective, I think that it's important that we have a collective group of individuals that serve on that,
and many of which who may be individuals that served on the previous bond.
one more right and to speak to mr. Scott's comment he mentioned about
wanting to have a new design on the junior high in high school but it's my
understanding that would cost the district more money because typically we
use the same design and alter that design to fit a piece of land or changes
that we see fit so is that I mean I'm correct in understanding that going back
and hiring a new architect to start all the way over with another design instead
instead of having a, keeping one design for a few years,
cost the district much more money.
Madam President.
Mr. Scunn.
I don't know how many 3% buildings we're building right now.
I really don't.
I mean, one of the first questions I'm going to want to look at is how many 3%
architectural fee buildings are we building, okay?
Okay?
And it may not be a new design.
Architects build buildings everywhere.
They build buildings in, I mean, design buildings in different schools.
And we have the ability to drive a harder bargain, I'm absolutely convinced,
in terms of how we deal with architects.
architects. The first thing I'm going to want to know is how many 3% architectural design
buildings do we do? Are we having facade changes and paying 6%? I don't know. I've looked at bond
issues from other school districts where there are facade changes, and I really question, and
these are not questions, I'm not an architect, I'm not an engineer, I don't even play one in real
in real life, but I do talk to a lot of engineers
and I do talk to a lot of architects
who work across multiple districts.
So I'm not talking about reinventing the wheel.
I'm talking about perhaps a higher degree of scrutiny
going forward as we look to 2026.
And I'm not doing this, I'm not doing this to raise,
but since the question the question has come up you know there are people in
this community and I'm one of them who believe that the school district has
overbuilt many of its projects okay and am I going to go into which ones I
believe that is the case I just want I want to be able to fully support the
next bond issue and I want to be fully comfortable with the process and for the
last six years in the last three bond elections I have been anything but
comfortable with the process but I have a higher burden now and the higher burden
is I'm on the school board okay and I know that we have to build buildings
Thanks.
CHAIRMAN BRYANT.
GO AHEAD.
MR.
MADAM PRESIDENT.
MS.
GRIFFIN.
MR.
SMITH, YOU SHOW US A REALLY NICE PICTURE.
EACH YEAR, YOU KNOW, YOU SHOW HOW MUCH MONEY WE HAVE AND YOU SHOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
WHAT WE'RE PAYING IN DEBT AND THEN YOU SHOW US THAT LITTLE EXCESS.
SO IN 2017, WOULD WE HAVE ENOUGH EXCESS WITH THE AMOUNT OF MONEY WE BRING IN TO WHAT WE
OWE IN DEBT TO BE ABLE TO COVER THE FOUR ELEMENTARIES, TWO JUNIOR HIGHS AND ONE HIGH SCHOOL?
Can we do that in 2017 without adjusting our tax rate, or are we going to have to wait until 2018 so that we get more debt paid off to have enough buffer?
And I know I didn't use your right high-tech terms.
I think what you're asking is based on what Mr. Ganell said earlier about four elementary, two junior highs and a high school and other issues,
we've looked at that in our long-range forecasting and our debt plan.
And it does appear as though we could do a bond election in 2017 or 2018 without affecting the tax rate,
based off the assumptions that we're using today.
Is that what you're asking?
Yes, sir.
Thank you.
And that helps make the decision, because if you're looking at the kids and we can keep our tax rate the same,
to me it seemed like we'd want to lean towards the kids and give them some facilities now.
And this is exactly what I was wanting in this conversation because I can't I'm not going to answer every question
Nor do I want to pretend to act like I know the answers
But what this does is it gives me information to go back to my cabinet work with team
To explore some of the questions and some of the information you've provided. I haven't yet heard anybody advocate for
Pushing it to 218
now I think we've got some direction from the board and we
start working on looking at a 17 I also have heard or have heard have not heard
anybody that would advocate for not maybe pursuing fast-tracking elementary
41 to an 18 opening which may mean just on elementary 41 we have to bring some
documents to the board in the next couple of months all right so I
I appreciate it.
Thank you, Board.
So I would weigh in and say the important thing for one of the important things I look at.
When we delayed the last bond to give us some more time with the downturn in the economy and whatever,
we saw such growing pains at some of our campuses.
and while we managed that well and we had incredible staff to manage that well
and we put resources and portable buildings that wrapped around to the
front of the school and we got a lot of calls about how ugly it was the
neighborhood to do that we were able and a lot of fear about how the students
would be kept safe we did it but it was not ideal learning conditions it
It absolutely took away opportunities for students.
When you have twice as many students in a campus than it's built for,
you don't have twice as many teams or twice as many fine arts
or twice as many cafeterias or any of those things that give students that well-rounded.
What we pride ourselves on in KDISD is the whole child
and and the things we do the fine arts and the athletics and the clubs and all
you can't have you can't have dad-daughter dance you can't have right
you can't have family night when you do back-to-school night you have to do it
five nights in the week because you can only do one grade level at a time it's
it's not the community that we want when we are so crowded that we are managing
size instead of optimizing learning this board knows we can't build them fast
enough right so thank you for the direction appreciate that hundred people
on a bond committee gives me a little pause just a little I know that 200 is a
lot to manage but for remember but boy did we have a great bond committee you
got a zero because when we said when we when we saw that some couldn't come
anyway it was watching it was awesome but I wasn't managing it but that it you
guys did a great job of doing all that okay and present yes mr. Griffin go
right question mr. Ganel is it safe to assume that pretty much from this point
forward we do in multi-story schools I
I think that's a good assumption. We have this model now, to Mr. Scott's point earlier, for a repeat or a modified repeat, get significantly less than the rate that you're paying for the initial design.
They seem to be well-liked. We'll look for opportunities to improve them as time goes on and call them modified repeats when we bring them to you.
Thank you.
Madam President.
I've observed something with the numbers and I'm going to make the statement and then we
can go watch a football game.
It appears to me that when we design elementary schools, that the moment we open that school,
it's overused, underbuilt and overcapacity.
Okay?
And I don't, one of the things that I passed out to the board was I'd like to see a usage and design.
I have no idea because I couldn't afford to get $3,000 to $4,000 or $5,000 to pull the data,
and I never got invited to be on a bond committee.
So I was never really able to look at how we do design versus utilization.
I walk through elementary schools and I see full-size classrooms, four, that are taking
up eight kids or nine kids.
That's a reality.
I don't know if the bond committee answered those questions or even asked them.
So I'm not a devotee of the bond group.
I think that the bond group needs to have a higher level of due diligence to ask the
questions that some of us out in the community have had legitimate questions
about and so I'm not wanting to slow the train I really did not want to do that
but on the other hand I'm glad to hear that we have repeat designs that that is
just absolutely essential and but I have could I have concerns when I walk into
elementary schools before I got to be on the board okay and when I look at
stadiums that could be built for a lot less money and when I look at different
projects as I've done over the years I just want to have a better closer
understanding of facilities and planning okay that's what I want and that's the
approach I'm going to take if I have to pull the data myself but I'm not just
that I'm willing to do whatever you want to do on these Randolph and others.
That's our obligation.
That's our due diligence obligation.
Okay.
Thank you very much.
Okay.
Board members, I'll direct your attention to item number 11, information items,
donated items to Katy Independent School District and our quarterly investment report
and to future meetings.
We get to come back here again on Monday, November 14th and Monday, November 21.
Having no further business, this meeting is adjourned at 8.12 p.m.
Official documents
Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 3.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the superintendent in Closed Meeting.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 002 · AGENDA 8.1
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the board meetings held in September 2016.
MOTION 003 · AGENDA 8.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 004 · AGENDA 8.2
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the board meetings held in September 2016.
MOTION 005 · AGENDA 8.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 006 · AGENDA 8.3
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the board meetings held in September 2016.
MOTION 007 · AGENDA 8.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 008 · AGENDA 8.4
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the board meetings held in September 2016.
MOTION 009 · AGENDA 8.4
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 010 · AGENDA 8.5
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the board meetings held in September 2016.
MOTION 011 · AGENDA 8.5
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 012 · AGENDA 8.6
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the board meetings held in September 2016.
MOTION 013 · AGENDA 8.6
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 014 · AGENDA 8.7
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the board meetings held in September 2016.
MOTION 015 · AGENDA 8.7
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 016 · AGENDA 8.8
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the board meetings held in September 2016.
MOTION 017 · AGENDA 8.8
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 018 · AGENDA 8.9
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the board meetings held in September 2016.
MOTION 019 · AGENDA 8.9
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 020 · AGENDA 8.10
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the board meetings held in September 2016.
MOTION 021 · AGENDA 8.10
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 022 · AGENDA 8.11
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the board meetings held in September 2016.
MOTION 023 · AGENDA 8.11
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 024 · AGENDA 8.12
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the board meetings held in September 2016.
MOTION 025 · AGENDA 8.12
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 026 · AGENDA 8.13
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the board meetings held in September 2016.
MOTION 027 · AGENDA 8.13
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 028 · AGENDA 8.14
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the board meetings held in September 2016.
MOTION 029 · AGENDA 8.14
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 030 · AGENDA 8.15
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the board meetings held in September 2016.
MOTION 031 · AGENDA 8.15
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 032 · AGENDA 8.16
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the board meetings held in September 2016.
MOTION 033 · AGENDA 8.16
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 034 · AGENDA 8.17
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the board meetings held in September 2016.
MOTION 035 · AGENDA 8.17
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 8.1 through 8.17.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 036 · AGENDA 9.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves 23 growth units for the 2016 - 2017 school year for ESL and Special Education as recommended by the superintendent.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 037 · AGENDA 9.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves pursuing the District of Innovation designation for Katy ISD and the appointment of the Innovation Plan Committee as presented by the administration.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |