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Katy ISD Board Work Study Meeting, November 14, 2016
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The Board met earlier this evening in a closed meeting. Any action arising from discussions in a closed meeting must be taken in a subsequent open meeting.
Dr. Hint, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act regarding the notice for this meeting?
for president Fox we are in compliance provisions of the Texas Open Meeting Act
regarding the notice of this meeting tonight the chair will entertain a
motion from madam president mr. de Broglie a move that the board of
trustees takes action to terminate the probationary contract of clearance Apple
be the third May Creek high school assistant choir director based on
information provided in close a meeting I further move that the board finds a
that good cause exists to terminate the probationary contract of Clarence Appleby III,
May Creek High School Assistant Choir Director,
and that the Board authorizes the Board President to take all action necessary
to notify him of the Board's decision.
Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Dubrow, a second by Mrs. Doyle,
that the Board of Trustees takes action to terminate the probationary contract
of Clarence Appleby III, May Creek High School Assistant Choir Director,
based on the information provided in closed meeting it is further moved that
the board finds that good cause exists to terminate the probationary contract
of Clarence Appleby the third main Creek High School assistant choir director and
that the board authorizes the board president to take all next action
necessary to notify him of the board's decision any discussion hearing none
will proceed to vote all in favor raise your right hand and say aye aye motion
motion passes 7 to 0. Madam President. Mr. Moholsky. I move the Board of Trustees
approves the personnel report as recommended by the Superintendent in
closed meeting. Second. I have a motion by Mr. Moholsky, second by Mrs. Vann that the
Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the
Superintendent in closed meeting. Any discussion? Hearing none, we'll proceed to
vote. All in favor raise your right hand to say aye. Aye. Motion passes 7 to 0.
I move that the Board of Trustees names Mark Teet as the Executive Director for Maintenance
and Operations as recommended by the Superintendent in closed meeting.
I have a motion by Mrs. Vann, a second by Mr. Dubrell, that the Board of Trustees names
Mark Teet as the Executive Director for Maintenance and Operations as recommended by the Superintendent
in closed meeting.
any discussion hearing none we'll proceed to vote all in favor raise your right hand and say aye aye
I'm passing seven to zero thank you very much do you like mr. T is here in the audience yes
go ahead mr. teeth end up and be recognized congratulations you have very big shoes to
to fill mcdonald we will miss you very much enjoy your retirement yeah
we have any scouts in the audience this evening you're here working on a badge
please stand and be recognized okay our first report is planning for growth the
preliminary attendance boundary modification for 2017-18 probably nobody
Nobody really cares about this, but go ahead, Mr. Gunnell.
Welcome, everyone.
Good evening, President Fox, Trustees, and Superintendent Hint.
Not news to anyone here, but tonight we are writing another chapter of Here We Grow Again
as we discuss attendance boundary modifications, or ABM for short.
I am assisted tonight by Dr. Chris Poole, a population and survey analyst, commonly called PASA.
PASSA is out of College Station, is the largest demographer in the state.
They specialize in planning for school districts and have been our demographic consultant since
1996.
Dr. Poole will be discussing the details of the attendance boundaries.
Jim Ferrin, who is an invaluable member of the district, he is the internal demographer,
also assisted in the preparation of this presentation.
Jim is our geographic information specialist and is able to do drill down analysis of information provided to him from PASA, local agencies, and the counties.
Our presentation goals tonight are pretty simple, to provide an overview of growth in the ABM process, to review last year's ABM where we looked at landlocked schools over 125% of capacity, and boundary recommendations for three new schools.
schools.
Last month, PASA provided projections for the district that shows continued growth.
The public can find the details on last month's demographic update at our KDISD website.
Here you see three growth scenarios.
For planning purposes, we used a moderate growth scenario.
You can see that the moderate projection pushes our enrollment to over 86,000 students in
in five years and we will be knocking on the door of having a hundred thousand
students in ten years our enrollment report from the 9th of November of this
year shows the district has 75,000 355 students as an aside last year when we
discussed attendance boundaries I told the board we had 72 thousand eight
hundred thirty six students we gained a total of just over 2,500 2,500 students
comparing year to year
Unlike in the past where future growth has dominated the southwest quadrant of the district,
much of the future growth is shifting to north of I-10. An example of this is that Cross Creek
Ranch had just over a thousand housing occupancies is projected to have less occupancies than land
use zones four or six over the next five years. Land use zone four in the northwest quadrant
and contain Newlands Ellison development.
Land use zone 6, also in the northwest quadrant, contains Ventana Lakes.
And for those of you not used to our land use zones, the smaller the number, the further up there north,
generally the 40s and above are south of I-10.
Okay, but hold on to your hats.
When we look out 6 to 10 years, projections for land use zones 1 and 2 and 3, 4, 6, 7, and 20,
Each surpasses 2,000 occupancies, but nearly all Cross Creek Ranch, Firethorn, and Northwest Cinco have completed their KDISD build-out.
Fortunately, we are adding six new schools as a result of the 2014 bond that helped us manage the growth.
Three schools have opened this year, and three schools will open next year.
Bryant Elementary in the far west center of the district will open near Peterson and Kingsland.
Stockdick Junior High and Paytoe High School are scheduled to open next school year located in the Northwest Quadrant at Peak and Stockdick School Road.
We will be presenting a preliminary recommendation for discussion for these three schools tonight.
Additionally, Elementary School 41 located in North Cross Creek Ranch could open in 2018 if the Board approves the project.
an ABM for that campus would be a year from now later tonight Peter McElwain the district
architect and planner will be bringing forward the architect for this project this slide summarizes
the process for this year's ABM pass on Katie is the administration jointly developed the options
you will see here tonight campus principles of the impacted schools were instrumental in
developing the plan we met with the impacted principals and their area superintendents five
times over the last few months to ensure the campus administrators had maximum
opportunities for input board meetings will be held including tonight to
discuss the recommendations which will be publicized through a variety of
mediums and we will be soliciting feedback from the entire community as
far as the schedule goes this past summer we talked with the board about
the ABM scope of work last month we brought forward the demographic update
tonight we bring forward the preliminary ABM recommendation start our survey
tomorrow and that will run for a couple of weeks and then December we bring the
ABM recommendation to the board for discussion and action there are many
milestones dependent on the ABM decision this includes meeting with stakeholders
projecting numbers by grade level for all schools and most importantly on this
slide beginning the staffing process just to touch on communication efforts
over the next two months our communications will focus on increasing awareness and collecting and
reviewing feedback prior to the ABM final recommendation once the ABM has been approved
we have a robust communication strategy in both both English and Spanish for getting the word out
you can see the multiple efforts and ensuring everyone who is impacted by the ABM is made
fully aware of any changes by February.
Since we began using electronic surveys in 2011, feedback we received has steadily increased
in each of the past four years.
You can see on this graph our feedback has increased 13-fold when you compare last year's
feedback to 2010.
In 2015, we've had 8,895 feedback responses.
Our English survey will be available tomorrow.
we're still working on the Spanish survey and it'll be no available no later than Wednesday
you can access the information of this year's ABM through the KD ISD website and now it's my
pleasure to introduce dr. Chris Paul from Pasa who will walk us through the ABM preliminary
recommendations Chris good evening here we go again we were asked to design an
attendance zone for Bryant Elementary for Stockdick junior high and for Pato
high school we were also asked to review and assess those attendance zones that
were addressed in last year's ABM for those schools that were landlocked and
were exceeding 125 percent of capacity so we'll start with that last item first
In the fall of 2015, we were asked to look at overutilized landlocked schools and to
assess the need for change at those schools.
Those included Fielder Elementary, West Memorial Elementary, Rylander Elementary, and Beckendorf
Junior High.
So once the bilingual program was opened up at Jenks, Fielder received relief and then
West Memorial received relief by moving students to Nottingham Country.
And we'll have to want to continue to monitor the enrollment at both of those schools.
schools.
Rylander received relief by an ABM last year to Griffin and Beckendorf is projected to
actually decline over the next several years, so as a result, we did not put forth an ABM
for Beckendorf last year.
And so as you can see in the last column of this chart, Fielder, West Memorial and Rylander,
although above their original design capacity, they're still within acceptable working range
and we'll continue to watch them for any future changes.
Beckendorf was not changed.
It's still sitting at 125 percent of capacity, but like I said, it's not expected to grow
it's expected to actually decline so we continue to recommend leaving its
attendance zone intact so moving on to the ABM for the new schools as we've
probably said before in the meetings here the ABM process is a bit of an art
as well as a science and each ABM is very unique that said we have to begin
the process by developing a set of working assumptions and these
assumptions here are rolled over from the assumptions used in the last ABMs
they include that the ABM will address only the opening of the three new
schools. The next facilities open due to a bond referendum passage would come in
2019 at the earliest unless the board approves the opening of an additional
elementary school in the south in 2018. The new high school will open with next
year's freshmen and sophomores only. Grandfathering is not a
consideration unless the students will be either a junior or a senior in the
fall of 2017 and then siblings will be allowed to remain at the older siblings
campus as long as there's an unbroken chain so we'll start the discussion
tonight with the ABM for Pato the current attendance zones here for Katie
and for Morton rancher shown as we discussed in October both of these
schools will need relief but most especially Morton ranch as Katie can
still get relief from the new school in the southern portion of the district and
so shown here is the recommended pay to attendance zone with the grandfathering
of the 11th and 12th graders accounted for for those first two years of enrollment.
This leaves Morton Ranch the ability to continue to add approximately 300 additional students
expected to be gained in that attendance zone in the next several years.
It provides a good level of utilization in the first few years for Pato, but we know
that Pato, with all the growth expected to come in that far northern portion of the district,
will be needing additional relief in the north at the end of the projection period.
It drops Katie's enrollment to a more manageable number, but it does not pull so many kids
from Katy that Katy would then be too low when the future Southern High School is opened.
The northwestern boundary between Katy and Payto is Morton Road and then that boundary continues
north to capture Hunter's Terrace, Heritage Park West and some other smaller developments that are
in the City of Katy. The attendance zone then follows along France which is also the City of
Katy boundary and then it turns north along the Grand Parkway. The boundary then turns on Morton
sending Waterstone, Lakes of Bridgewater, etc. to Payto. And to be clear this City of Katy remains
within KD High School's new attendance boundary. So moving on to Stockdick Junior
High, this map shows the projected geocoded students by current attendance
zone and like we've discussed before, KD Junior High and McDonnell Junior High
both have capacities of around 1,200 students so it's obvious that they both
need relief. Then this map shows the recommendation for the Stockdick Junior
High attendance zone. Stockdick splits with Katy Junior High largely down Katy
Hockley Cut-Off down to France and then the eastern boundary of Stockdick is the
Grand Parkway. Under these attendance zones, McDonald is ultimately projected
to grow to right at 1,200 students which should hopefully set its attendance zone
for quite a while. In the year subsequent to 2019, both Katy Junior High and Stockdick
Junior High are expected to far exceed their capacities but they'll of course
be getting relief from additional facilities in the north in the future.
And finally, we'll move on to Bryant Elementary.
Shown here again, we've got the current zones with the projected enrollments for those zones.
Katy Elementary School and Woolman Elementary School are both in need of relief.
Katy's projected enrollment might look low, but like we've talked about before, its design
capacity is only 643 students compared to over 1,000 for most of the other facilities
in the district.
So this is the recommendation for the Bryant Attendant Zone.
It's important to note that both Bryant Elementary School and Katy Elementary School are both within the Katy City limits.
Bryant would then stretch south of I-10, taking in Willow Creek Farms and Sarah and then Trails of Katy.
So this should provide long-term relief to both Wilman and Katy, but Bryant will still need future relief as Kane-Allen and the other subdivisions in that area build out over the next 10 years.
The difference between the design capacity of Katie being so small and Bryan Elementary
is why we have such a disproportionate shape and size of the attendance boundaries.
So that's what we have.
I think we'll open it up to questions.
Board members, questions?
Madam President.
Mr. DeBrell.
Can you go back to the slide with Katie High School, please?
sure the current or the new
recommendation this one yeah now when
you're looking at the 3307 are you
saying that that is before the pooling
Cross Creek Ranch would come online yes
bring some more relief yes at that time
we'll bring more relief to Katie Heist
we could relieve Katie and Tompkins and
some of the other facilities in South
are going to need relief Tompkins in
particular yes down in that just in that area we could provide relief to katie from the south
what's the building capacity uh it's about three thousand three thousand and and keep in mind too
this only runs out to 19. if you were to run it further there would also be additional neighborhoods
developing so that number will be growing after 19. so we have to provide relief to this well it's
something we have to take a look at when we build that new uh new high school as to where to split
those lines and the reason you see a little drop there 33 to 34 to 33 is the
grandfathering of the kids and the growth combination of the two together
madam president mr. Scott not really a question because we're very early
relatively early in this process from a board standpoint but I do understand
that dr. hint is working on a more thorough presentation in terms of the
the design capacity, the actual usage capacity of buildings,
and I'm going to be interested in seeing that as I evaluate this information.
I'm a long way from, I think, I'm assuming everybody is,
but I personally am a long way from being able to process this data at this point
so that I fully understand it.
I look at McDonald Junior High School, for instance,
and I notice, let me go back if I can, I'm sorry.
I noticed that out to 2019 we have still have continued growth at McDonald Junior
High School is that correct yes ultimately this design should sit
McDonald around 1,200 kids which is right near its capacity so that was kind
of the plan here is a long-term look for McDonald but it's going to go to 1,200
but then it will go back over a period of time over a period of two or three
years thank you 2017 to 2019 it's pretty stable when will it when would you is that going to
stabilize McDonald it should that was the idea let me pull up some numbers in terms of look at
both MacDonald and Martin ranch and say what are you looking at beyond 2019 is that pretty much it
2021, for example, at McDonald's, we're projecting 1136.
Did you hear that?
2021 at McDonald's is 1136, based on these numbers.
22 is 1147.
Ultimately on and out at 2026.
And, you know, we like to use the up-close numbers, and we know that the future numbers are going to be less reliable.
But all the way out to 2026, we're at 1245 for the McDonald's zone.
That's a long time.
It is a long time.
from now so we were showing right now a projection of 1494 at McDonald that's a
high growth campus that exists now that was with McDonald with that piece West
as it exists right now exactly and so we've peeled off a lot of that actually
and sent it to stock deck and so McDonald as we're recommending it to sit
would be at a thousand and three and seventeen and then on up as high as
twelve hundred so this is pretty much going to stabilize McDonald and Martin
ranch pretty near the sun i hate to say always and forever but that was the idea to the 2020s
right okay uh morton ranch you ask about that too um it's uh 12 55 12 54 in 2020 i've got 1268
that sort of thing
question in relation to some of our other crowded we have many crowding going on a lot of our
schools and we're handling it pretty well but what is the capacity the billing capacity for
McDonald and Morton Ranch in comparison to the current numbers and the projected numbers both
Both of those are, at least McDonald's is around 1,200.
Let me get that.
1,220 for McDonald's and 1,400 at Morton Ranch.
Most of your highs in the footprint of Morton Ranch are about 1,400.
1,400, that's the current capacity.
That's the capacity the district has been building for for quite some time.
And for Stockdick?
For Stockdick, too, right?
1,400 going forward.
Okay, thank you.
Any other questions?
I appreciate very much the presentation, and we have seen this.
We found something, Mr. Gunnell, that I believe works really well.
When you see that you get 9,000 responses through our online survey and through the website
and through the Parent Patron Assistance Center,
we get a lot more feedback than we did when we had an open mic night and we'd
get about 30 or 40 people so this gives access for all of our people to be able
to tell us how this affects them and then we take all of that information and
look to see if there's something new that we haven't considered and make
adjustments through that time what is the timeline we will see this we will is
This is not an action item, the presentation?
Right.
You know, there's a couple of options.
We'll bring forward the ABM recommendation next work study meeting.
After the survey has gone from the 15th to the 30th, that will give us a couple days to be able to analyze it.
The plan right now is to have K-12 Insight do the presentation on what the feedback provided.
In the meantime as we get the surveys in we're not going to wait to the last day to start looking at surveys
We'll get some indications early on is whether we're tracking right or not tracking right or if there's anything else that we
We should consider which is the case last year when we made some modifications to the ABM between November and December
Not saying we're going to do that this time, but we'll look at all those inputs
And then bring it to the board for a decision at our December regular meeting right for discussion on the
the 5th and for hopefully approval before during the regular board meeting in december great okay
we look forward to the input from our community you know we look forward to that and so
there will be lots of opportunities will these maps be posted tomorrow on our website so that
people will be yes they will be all the information that we provided today you can always
look at it too on on video but the entire presentation will be ready
tomorrow in fact even maybe tonight how quick I she's not in her head yeah so
it'll be ready tonight and the best place to go is to the ABM link on our
main page you can get there a couple ways pops up as a banner and it's on the
right hand side there's frequently asked questions there along with the maps and
additional information the people will be able to see it online and then also
this video that's right discussion here will be available tomorrow morning
through our board website board meetings go to the board videos you'll be able to
see it and share it with neighbors okay thank you very much thank you miss pool
for being here okay board members I'll direct you to item 4.2 we have a project
update the agricultural science facility phase 2 mr. canal miss Cassman thank
Thank you again, President Fox, trustees, and Superintendent Hint.
Tonight I would like to provide the board and public an update on the schedule for the Agricultural Science Center expansion.
The Ag Science Center expansion is an item of the 2014 bond referendum.
The construction manager at-risk delivery method for this project was approved by the board in November of 2014.
2014
Stuart builders out of Houston is the construction manager and was approved by the board in March of 2015
Design development was approved for this project in April of 2016
The original completion date was projected for December of 2017
Although the district is working to get drainage from and utilities to the site
Necessary agreements are still being negotiated
Additionally, new floodplain maps and Harris County Flood Control District regulations
have required us to look again at the site's hydrology.
A 2017 completion date is unrealistic and completion should not be expected until 2018.
The barn for Pato High School is still expected to be completed in the fall of 2017 and that
item will be brought forward to the board for approval next month and board
we had a brief discussion sent you some information as you know this was always
a three-phase project we've got pay toe as mr. Gunnell indicated we'll be
bringing that to the board at our next board meeting that phase two which is
the site work indoor show arena pavilion and project center we will get that
process moving. It's the multi-purpose arena and associated paving that we're
looking at waiting until number one utilities and drainage is appropriately
negotiated in the best interest of the school district and number two to see
what our funding mechanism looks like at the end of this bond program in order to
take take care of phase three dr. Hint when you say the pay toe you mean the
barn yes a pay toe barn for the agriculture that is correct the AG
portion for pay toe high school mr. Scott uh did I understand correctly has
the design documents been completed do we do we know what it's going to look
like and what it's going to build out at they have been the master planning for that site was
approved back in April of this year architectural plans yep come up here Lisa I'm gonna ask the
project manager if I can Lisa Cassman to answer that that specific question because there's a
50-50 chance I'll get it wrong the design development in April was the overall site
the working documents, the architectural, the civil.
We're kind of at a hold right now.
Architectural has moved along, but civil we can't move forward
until these utility and drainage agreements are in place.
Okay.
When was the initial design?
How fast after the bond issue did that work begin and was it completed?
We started immediately thereafter.
In January we got word that there was developers in the area that we could get the utilities from,
so we started researching those.
So we started off draining towards the north then we heard of some other agreements
So our site design has gone a couple different ways until we get something in place
I guess I mean when did that work go the bond was in?
2014 was this work that you just described January 215
We started right right after the bond
so when I get my public information request back from the Harris County flood control district and
Steve Radek Harris County precinct 3 and I asked them for all documentation of
written communication between Katie ISD and the flood control district and
precinct 3 am I going to see a lot of documents from Katie ISD you will not
see a lot because there have been meetings until we actually get the
design in place that's when the formal review process starts but we've had
about three meetings with Harris County flood control and engineering to discuss
our options. When did those meetings occur? We had some in 2015 and I just
recently had one here in us at 2016. When did the district know that there was a
flood control issue? The maps changed in July of 2015 as well as the regulations
so that's when we found out that the site was now in the official floodplain.
And prior to July 2015 did KDISD anyone with planning and facilities or anyone
anyone associated with KDISD have contact with the Harris County Flood Control District
and or Steve Raddick at the Harris County Precinct 3 to have an advanced look at what
might be on the agenda relative to the floodplain issues?
We had one meeting prior to the July 15th notice.
As a matter of fact, the day that we met with them in July, that was the day that the preliminary
maps were released.
So up until the 15th, we had no knowledge and no one gave us any indication.
One final question, I promise. July 15th is when we learned that there was a flood control problem. In leading up to defining the cost of the bond issue that was taken to the public, the bond issue is passed and the design work is going forward.
at any time from that 2014 to July 2015 did anyone associated with Katy
Independent School District ask either the flood control district or Steve
Raddick if there were any pending developments that might involve the
flood control the floodplain I don't recall the exact conversation but we did
talk to flood control
engineering about what was going to be occurring in the area. Thank you.
Any other questions? Thank you Mr. Gannell and Ms. Kastman for your presentation.
We'll move to the consent agenda. Board members, section 5.1 consider future
board approval of the proposal for district-wide security upgrade package
number four mrs. Stevenson Europe good evening how are you and mr. Brimmer
good evening good evening president Fox trustees superintendent hint I have one
only one contractor bring forward to you tonight and this is the security upgrade
package number four this is a continuation of the projects that we
have been doing. We again engaged Brian Hood with PBK MEP group to assist us
with the design and the plan so that all of the facilities will begin to
interface together as the project is completed. The project that you're
looking at has a number of schools listed and the total cost of the project
will be $689,000. That was the final negotiated cost, which includes all software, hardware,
and an owner's contingency of 9%. The project will start immediately upon approval by the
Board of Trustees and should be completed by June of 2017. The recommendation is to award
this package to FISC, again, at a total cost of $689,000.
Questions?
Questions?
Thank you very much.
Our next item is from Mrs. Holland.
Consider future Board approval of the interlocal agreement with Harris County
Department of Education for therapy services.
Good evening, Mrs. Holland.
Good evening, Madam President, members of the Board, and Dr. Hint.
We're here tonight to ask the Board to approve an interlocal agreement between
Harris County Department of Education and KDISD. This is an annual contract
that we bring forward and we rely on Harris County Department of Education
to provide therapists for physical therapy, occupational therapy, and music
therapy. We have worked with Harris County for many years. I don't know
exactly how many, but they have done an excellent job of making sure that we
have quality therapists to provide for our students. There's no change in the
amount of the contract for this year over last year so we were pleased to see that but
this is an annual event that we bring this forward any questions for mrs hollander dr malachuk mr scott
i want to say that i think that the contract you do with harris county department of education is
outstanding and let me take an opportunity to say something about the department of education
they get a lot of political grief.
But one of the things that that department does is do this.
It allows school districts to buy what they need in a more cost-effective way.
So as maybe the ironclad is conservative, perhaps,
I want to say that I think this is money well spent,
and I think this is a good thing for the district to do.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mrs. Holland and Dr. Malachick.
Our next presentation is to consider future board approval of grant ratifications.
Ms. Sherry Butterfield will present to us this evening.
Good evening, Ms. Butterfield.
You'll be here for our next three presentations, so just go right ahead.
Thank you, President Fox, Trustees, Superintendent Lant, Superintendent Hint.
Tonight for the grant ratifications, a total of $715,232.
These are the usual and customary grants that come to you for ratification.
They range from $353,200 for the regional day school for the deaf
to $300 for the state's license plate program.
Okay, continue.
Mr. Smith is joining you for the November 2016 budget amendments, Board 5.4.
Thank you.
Tonight we have seven general operating fund amendments,
and one of them is increasing the expenditure budget in the amount of $836,315.
We are also recognizing the same amount in additional state revenues, so this is neutral
to the bottom line in the fund balance.
All other amendments are offsets between different functions and result in no change to the general
operating fund fund balance.
Construction fund has three amendments.
The first of these is for $325,000 for furniture replacement at Cimarron and Hutzel Elementaries.
The second one is for $308,468, and this is to transfer between Pato and Stockton campuses in the technology portion of the bond for additional technology upgrades at Stockton.
The final construction bond fund amendment is for $1,200,000.
This is for security camera replacement and upgrades district-wide.
Approval of these bond fund amendments will utilize $1,525,000 of available bond funds from project savings.
And I'm going to go ahead and touch on that, on the available bond funds and project savings.
I just want to be clear that the $325,000 for the furniture replacement at Cimarron and Hutzel Elementary is being requested to come from the 2010 authorizations.
These furniture replacement projects were part of the 2016 operating budget and were largely completed prior to August 31, 2016.
However, this furniture has not been ordered, the furniture in question has not been ordered,
but it will complete the furniture renovation at those two campuses.
As of October 31, 2010, the 2010, I'm sorry, as of October 31, 2016, the 2010 authorization
had identified $886,910 in available project savings.
So approval of this $325,000 would leave $561,910 in that authorization and savings left.
The amendment that Ms. Butterfield mentioned on the $308,000 is simply moving technology from Pato High School and between Pato High School and Stockton Junior High.
Currently, these two have approved budget not to exceed a certain project amount.
and ratification of this amendment would reduce pay tow and increase stock
debt not to exceed price. This is a balanced amendment is being done in an
attempt to be within, stay within our technology standards, our equity
standards. And in the million two that she talked about for security cameras
was identified early in the spring of this last year. So when you see that or
or you read that we have $12,798,000 in 2014 project
savings.
That number has already had the million two in security cameras
excluded from it because we identified that need early on
and knew that we did need those funds.
However, it had not been ratified by the board,
and that's what we're trying to do is get board ratification
to spend that.
So when we're done, if ratified tonight,
we will still have $12,798,467 in project savings from the 2014 authorization.
Any questions?
Okay, we'll move to 5.5, the annual review of investment policies and strategies.
Mr. Butterfield?
Okay.
The Public Funds Investment Act requires an annual review of our investment policies and strategies.
Our investment policies stress the significance of the following.
safety and preservation of principal, sufficient liquidity to meet anticipated cash flow needs,
competitive rate of return, as well as the need to maintain a diversified portfolio.
Our investments continue to consist of financial instruments that provide safety of principal and high quality,
high liquidity, while achieving a competitive rate of return.
We do not, we do not invest for speculative purposes.
The Public Funds Investment Act requires that the Board review the policies and strategies
by fund type annually, approve brokers, and approve investment pools and authorized training
sources.
CDA Legal is a summary pretty much of the PFIA, Public Funds Information Act, and the
CDA Local brings it down to Katie.
So although CDA legal describes all authorized investments, CDA local refines that for Katie to include U.S. Treasuries, government bonds, notes, and bills, as well as agencies, CDs, repurchase agreements, commercial paper, no-load mutual funds, and investment pools.
Our quarterly reports reflect the policy to monitor current market rates, market
ratings on securities, to report book value, market value, accrued interest,
specific maturities where applicable, and all of those are elements of the
law that we're required to do. At this time no changes to CDA local are
recommended with this report. Our policies and strategies by fund type are
very similar and are consistent with prudent non-speculative investments.
They're focused on safety preservation of principal and also focused on
liquidity. Strategies for the general operating fund include preservation of
principal, safety of principal, and liquidity to provide for 24 months of
operating cash flow but not to exceed three years special revenue and agency
funds and also preservation and safety of principle with maturity sufficient to
meet anticipated cash flow debt service sufficient liquidity to meet debt
service payments according to the bond documents but not to exceed three years
and capital project funds sufficient investment liquidity to meet capital
project obligations also not to exceed three years. The next the next slide on
our report is a list of brokers authorized to engage that we are
authorized to get engage in investment transactions and you can see there are
about ten of them there. We don't do business with all ten of them but we do
receive information from them daily so in some cases weekly in some cases and
sporadically in some cases but should they have an investment out there that
we find interest of interest that would be thought would meet these criteria
that we're speaking of we we do have this list that we would provide that by
those from so code and policy also describes how we go about getting
brokers and each broker or investment pool interested in doing business with
the district must sign of certification acknowledging that they have read our
CDA legal and local and understand Katie's investment policies all brokers
and brokerage firms and pools are assigned a CD CDR number that are
available to anybody to use to research through FINRA to ensure that these are
in good standing with the authorities and with the within the industry so
brokers or firms who express an interest in Katie is D and are in good standing
and who complete the certification documentation and return it to the
district are reported to you tonight on the list of approved brokers. Although we
receive information and investment opportunities from the firms on this
list, we currently have no purchase securities. And I would think the main
reason for having no purchase securities at this time is our relationship with
Prosperity Bank, our depository. Prosperity continues to provide us with
competitive rates in a collateralized manner as well as excellent customer service we do maintain
balances within the investment pools that are listed on the next page so um
the following slide is the authorized training sources also part of compliance with cda legal
and local and and pfia to state the training sources available district investment officers
are required to take a minimum of eight hours every two years to remain compliant,
and the training resources are varied enough to provide an acceptable avenue
for us to complete that training requirement.
The final slide in your package is an annual investment summary
that aggregates what we give you quarterly for the fiscal year 2016.
And this meets our requirements of both CDA legal and local
for our annual review of investment policies and strategies,
AND WE APPRECIATE YOUR TIME IN THIS.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
BOARD MEMBERS, ANY QUESTIONS?
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
AT THIS POINT, WE WILL MOVE TO DISCUSSION ACTION ITEMS.
PICKS POINT ONE, DISCUSS AND CONSIDER FUTURE BOARD APPROVAL
OF THE ANNUAL COURSE EDITIONS FOR THE 2017-18 SCHOOL YEAR.
DR. STEELS, IS THIS YOUR FIRST TIME PRESENTING TO US?
WELCOME. GLAD YOU'RE HERE.
I'M IN MY NEW POSITION.
in your new position. It's so great to see you. Talk to us about courses.
Good evening, Board President Fox, Board members, and Dr. Hint. I'm here this evening to present
the secondary course additions for your review and approval. Each year we solicit input from
campuses and central office staff based on curriculum changes that may necessitate the
the need for additional courses.
This evening, we bring before you 18 courses
for your consideration.
Of these, 10 courses are in the area
of career and technical education,
some of which will be taught in the Miller build-out.
These include dental assisting, pharmacology,
digital auto technology, cybersecurity,
and manufacturing engineering technology.
We are also bringing forward
an elective dual credit course, Learning Foundations, that would be available for
students in grades 10 through 12 to increase our dual credit options. You
will also notice three AP courses, two of which are part of the new College Board
Capstone program which campuses must apply for. The third is a new AP
computer science course that freshmen will be eligible to take to learn coding
coding skills. Other requests include math and ELA courses designed to provide students
with more choice in meeting their third and fourth year graduation requirements. I'd be
happy to respond to any questions that you may have at this time.
Madam President, Dr. Steele, how do these courses, particularly some of the new ones,
line up with House Bill 5?
So they're adding a little bit more option to the plate for students. We're trying to
add third and fourth year math courses so you saw on their algebraic reasoning
and statistics we offering another English course so that students have a
little bit wider genre to choose from all right as they are forming their
their plans and being in the pathways that they'd like to be in president
dr. Stoll can you tell us a little bit more about this capstone program with
the board and you said that campuses have to apply for that so I just kind of
I guess second part of that question is do we anticipate our campuses will be
applying for that? Yes sir we have some campuses that have that are applying you
have to apply year in advance. Capstone programs are very unique that offer a
very unique opportunity for students to learn. They develop their course
depending on the kind of interest that the entire group has and every student
learns and works on a different part of that project over the course of a year's
time. You have to be very open and very flexible because every year the capstone
will look a little bit different. The first year it's a seminar, the last year
it's a research course so they're learning a lot of extra skills that they
would normally see in a traditional AP course.
A lot of also skills working as a team, problem solving, thinking outside the box and using
a lot of higher order thinking.
There is a required, if they would like to take the AP course, I mean the AP exam at
the end, there is an exam that's a little bit more open ended that can be taken for
any kind of project that the kids are working on.
right and if students go to different universities in their future a lot of
them have to complete capstone projects at the end of their four years of study
and this is a very good opportunity for them to get a glimpse into that world
thank you that sounds very interesting absolutely
Absolutely.
Madam President.
Mr. Scott.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Mr. Scott, go right ahead.
This didn't work.
In that last thing that you were talking about in regard to Mr. Mihalski's questions, are
there requisites?
I mean, do you have to have certain courses to be able to get into that, or is it free-standing?
No, sir, you have to be an upper-level student, so you're going to be in the 10th, 11th grade.
You can't take it as a freshman.
but it's not like having algebra 2 or sir sir it's open-ended okay my real
question is part of the thing that we have here are there certified highly
qualified teachers readily available it may be something that you're you might
since more human resources you might what's the answer to that question on
these 18 and are there any district of innovation implications for these
courses mr. Scott you and I are thinking a lot I actually wrote dangerous but yes
several of these courses are part of the reason why I'm discussing district of
innovation and having that flexibility or some of those CTE courses that may be
hard to fill courses perfect timing as we adopt this and move forward with the
district of innovation the board will have the flexibility then to do some
alternative certification or a few of these hard to fill positions just out of
morbid curiosity if we were doing this as we are today without district of
innovation would we have problems filling the teachers or the instructors
for some of these classes we would have a hard time there would I mean there's
there's folks out there but we would limit the pool tremendously that's what
I wanted to know thank you the president mr. de Broglie um course number 16
learning foundations you said is dual credit tell me a little bit about it is
and it's an introductory course right now we only offer about five that
students really take advantage of on a yearly basis and this particular course
is nice because part of our problems with finding teachers for dual credit
courses is that there have to be in a specific area in this particular course
you only have to have 18 hours in education in general and so it is just
an elective course about career development career study. Dr. Steele,
thank you for your presentation. I see these courses and we shall we're going
into high school again like this so not available to us when we're here. Thank you so
much. So good for our students. Thank you so much. Any objection to moving this
item to consent so moved now we'll move to discuss and consider future board
approval of design services and construction delivery method associated
with elementary school number 41 41 41 good evening president Fox board
members dr. hand I'm here this this evening to talk to you about elementary
School number 41. This evening you heard a presentation from Mr. Gannell as well
as from Dr. Poole as well as the presentation last month on demographics
with respect to the growth that continues to occur within KDISD and if
you can recall the the Robert and Felice Bryant Elementary School in elementary
number 40 was originally scheduled to be open in in in 2018. A similar situation
situation back at that time when when we realized the board realized that growth was happening at such a such a rapid pace that
The recommendation was to accelerate that particular project by one year
Thereby we're opening we're planning to open that particular school elementary number 40 this summer in 2017
similarly due to the growth
projections specifically in the southwest area the school district and to relieve some of that high enrollment at some of the campuses the
we have been charged with the challenge of accelerating this particular campus,
Elementary Number 41, which was originally identified in our rollout to
be a 2019 school to 2018. I should mention that the the Bond Planning
Committee, the Board, and subsequently the public in the approval of the bond
had the foresight to include within the 2014 bond authorization funds for
engineering services for schools that would be ultimately constructed with
construction dollars out of a subsequent bond. So the engineering dollars
associated with this particular school are already there approved in the
2014 bond. So what we're recommending this evening is that we retain
VLK architects to undertake the documents required to provide the
package for elementary number 41 as a refined repeat of the Robert and Felice
Bryant Elementary School for a fee of 3% of the construction cost. As you know for
a new construction it's typically 6% so there's a significant savings in that
regard. Todd Lean from VLK Architects is here this evening and I should indicate
that that working with with Mr. Lean we were actually able to reduce the fee
because the Robert and Felice Bryant Elementary School was was a fee of three
and a half percent so this particular school we've been able to work out a
contract with with VLK Architects for a fee of three percent of that particular
construction cost and we our plan would be to bring because in order for us to
accelerate this project for an opening in August of 2018 we need to move
immediately on completing the documents. Our plans would be to receive costs in
February, bring those costs to the board in March and at that particular point in
time working with Mr. Smith, funding strategy would be identified at that
particular point in time. I would reiterate once again that the funds for
the engineering services for the architectural services are already
within the 2014 bond and we're recommending a competitive sealed
proposal delivery method that saves us at least a month on the construction of
this particular project any questions mr. Scott when you say refined design
how refined pardon me when you say refined design how refined what is the
difference in the terminology of a refined design or refined repeat of
of Robert and Felice Bryant Elementary School. What we do is we work closely
with VLK Architects. We'll go back to the campus, see what's worked well and what
in this particular case actually as recently as this morning I was out at
at Bethke Elementary School meeting with the the team leaders the academic team
leaders at the campus how can we tweak this to make it better they've just
recently being in the school so a refined repeat is based upon the the the
bar the robin fleece Bryant footprint on that on the cross creek site and I
should mention I should reiterate that that elementary 41 is located within the
cross creek ranch subdivision on property that we own my question was
actually the literal how refined what kind of hourly commitment is required to
take a school that you've built and tweak what what are we paying per tweak
well it's typically it's happy in this particular case it's 3% okay a normal a
full design fee would be 6% so what has to happen is with we would go back into
the design look at areas where we could and and there might be key areas where
we could value engineer look at some of the materials where can we find savings
in the project and also there's design obviously civil design work associated
with locating this school site on a new this this footprint on a new site I
guess I'll let my next question be for dr. Hinn I'm not still after listening
to the answers I don't have any idea what the answers to my questions are do
you feel like you're in a position to maybe drive even a harder bargain than
the three percent if it if there's not if this is a matter of manipulating
computing computer graphics and something that is done fairly easily, then I think the
3% is probably still excessive.
This is a school that has been built, and if the tweak is a tiny tweak, then I'm not
sure that we should pay the 3%, and so I hope you will look at it harder, and I know you'll
get more detailed answers than I did.
Well, and I think Mr. McElwain indicated, let's look at the big picture also.
We're looking at the construction costs and the three percents is off the construction cost and that's where I do believe that we can do
Some refined design to save some money in the long room on under the construction of the building now
We're going to be building this we're going to be advancing this with general fund dollars correct. We're going to use right now
We've got money in our
2014 bond, but we are looking at
advancing this there could possibly be at this point in time right now we have
roughly 13 million dollars in the 2014 bond that's available for this project
should we move forward with the 2017 bond November 2017 and it's successful
we won't have to touch any general operating that's that's what I wanted to
know anything that we do general fund can be reimbursed from a future bond
issue sir okay very good or this project or this project you would designate from
general operating funds and we should not have to touch that with a successful
November 17 bond all right very good mr. Smith if I could add that shortly after
we would the board chose to move forward with this we would be bringing a
resolution for the board to adopt for reimbursement to the general fund that
That would be good even if we spent the bond fund surplus through the end of this fiscal year.
It would be good and that resolution would be intact that we could use future bond dollars to reimburse the general fund.
So the bottom line is this board has talked about giving some sort of what we will call a pay raise but in the form of a payment.
In no way will this affect the ability of the district if it chooses to do that, to make that payment to teachers.
Right.
Okay.
Thank you, Mr. McIlwain.
Any other questions?
I'm so sorry.
Forgive me, Mr.
You made a comment that this would be a competitive sealed proposal delivery method.
That's correct.
You made a comment that you thought we would save a month because of that.
Now generally when we've talked about that versus the construction manager at risk and
especially in complex renovation type projects, we use that argument on the construction manager
at risk working with the architect early on typically saves time.
So explain to me how a competitive sealed proposal on this where this project is hitting in the schedule
It's more beneficial to work with a competitive sealed proposal process because we don't need the advantage of having a construction manager
On on this particular project up front
but if we did do a construction manager risk process you would have to have that
selection process timeline built into the end of the schedule whereas with a
competitive seal proposal you do not with respect to the Bob Bryant or the
Robert and fleece Bryant elementary school that project was also done on a
competitive seal proposal when that project was accelerated and we're in
excellent shape with respect to that project at this particular point oh
that's good you just threw me off when you're talking about saving time with
that now it's the same time where we are in the process on this particular
project if the board remembers I sent some information to you guys a couple
of weeks ago on the competitive versus negotiated on this project any other
questions okay thank you mr. McElwain any objection to moving this item to
consent agenda now we'll move to 6.3 discuss it consider future board approval
of dedication of easement to municipal utility district number 346 associated
with the pedestrian bridge being constructed adjacent to Patterson
Elementary School good evening mr. T good evening madam president board
members superintendent Hint I'm pleased to bring the recommendation for the
Board of Trustees to approve a dedication of easement to the municipal
utility district number 346 associated with the construction of a pedestrian
bridge municipal utility district number 346 is constructing a pedestrian bridge
and recreational hike and bike trail adjacent to hazel s pattison elementary
the easement will allow emergency vehicle access to the bridgehead since
the widening of the trail and encroaches upon an easement previously granted to
center point energy houston electric LLC it requires an easement modification
this dedication to allow the encroachment. Municipal Utility District
number 346 and Centerpoint Energy Electric LLC have requested the district
to approve the dedication easement. The easement is depicted in the attached
document. All the costs are associated with the construction of the pedestrian
bridge and improvements are being financed by Municipal Utility District
number 346 this document has been reviewed by the district's legal counsel
any questions mr. Mahalski just who will be responsible for maintenance once the
bridge is constructed miss Bowman utility district 346 and a joint
agreement with Harris County flood control thank you any other questions
Thank you for your presentation.
Any objection to moving this to consent agenda?
Still moved?
Okay, Board, at this time I'd like to declare just a very quick recess.
Okay, at this time we will reconvene the meeting.
Our next, thank you for your patience.
We have one discussion item, 7.1, discuss Board operating procedures regarding Board of Trustees communication with the media.
Mr. Griffin, you asked for this to be on the agenda tonight, so I'll let you lead us off.
Good evening.
I did.
Awesome.
What a great thing to talk about right after Veterans Weekend.
As veterans, we take an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States,
and our current interpretation of our board policy has put a focus on board members not
talking to the media.
and unfortunately as a veteran I took a note to support and defend the
Constitution but I never took one to not and so I find it rather difficult as an
individual not to be able to talk to the media I find as an individual I don't
need to be ever policed by the board the community is is the police force for a
school board member that's why there are no ramifications for board members
really getting into trouble the community is the one that watches what
we do and how we act and what we say our current board policy procedure on
talking to the media I think is very weak I think spring branch has a very
good board policy on communications with the media and I would like to encourage
our board to look at their policy and adopt that in lieu of ours it will take
some of the misunderstanding that has happened out it'll put more clarity into
our policy and it'll keep board members from shooting from the hip because it
will give them ample procedures to follow so they know what to do and how
to go about handling talking to a media and includes talking emails Facebook all
of it and it is a very well-written written document that far exceeds what
we're using here in Katy okay anyone else
man president mr. Scott I concur with everything Charles said I'm going to
actually be uncharacteristically brief. It is the burden of the school board
leadership to give a statutory or regulatory citation that says the school
board can impose a muzzle on an individual board member who is not
speaking on behalf of the board, is not pretending to speak on behalf of the
board who is not pretending madam president do you need to talk to Brian
go ahead and finish okay who is not pretending to speak on behalf of the
district the fact of the matter is is that an elected public official is not
an employee an elected public official is elected to look out for your interest
I'm not going to get into an argument at this table. I haven't been at one in five and a half
months. This is the sixth month of meeting. But I'm saying if the district's attorneys and if the
district's administration and if the district school board cannot show me a statutory citation
or a regulatory citation that empowers you to tell me that I can't talk about academics,
academics, that I can't talk about the football stadium, that I can't talk about special education,
that I can't talk about boundaries, that I can't talk about anything with the media without
filtering it through the board, to me it's as if it doesn't exist from this point forward.
Show me the regulation, show me the law, and I'll obey the law. I took an oath to uphold
I will uphold that law, but it's in your shop to show me where my speaking and exercising
my constitutional rights is a violation of that law.
And it's just that simple to me.
Anybody else?
I have a question for Mr. Griffin.
Go ahead.
Did you feel this way about this procedure last year when you served as president?
And if so, why did you not bring it forward at that time?
As president, nobody had brought this issue up to me. Had they brought this issue up,
I would have been more than happy to talk about it and to change the policy or procedure that we had at the time.
Madam president, may I respond to that question as well, even though it wasn't directed to me because I'd made my statement, but I'm going...
Let's see if anyone else... Absolutely.
Mrs. Vann?
In three years, as a member of this Board of Trustees, I have never once spoken to the press
because the understanding of the procedure that was in place,
out of respect for the three different presidents that I have sat on the name.
Last year, Mr. Griffin was president from May 2015 to April 2016,
and he was the only one of this Board of Trustees who spoke.
There was an understanding amongst this Board that he was the only one to speak.
If he has an issue with this procedure, I wish he would have brought it up then.
Because at the time, at least I'm speaking for myself, it was out of respect for the Office of President that we did not speak to the press.
Because he asked us to follow the procedure that was put in place about 10 years ago by Board of Trustees before us.
Do I agree that this procedure should be looked at?
Yes, I do.
Do I think it should be maintained?
Maybe, maybe not.
but there's a little bit of hypocrisy right here and right now about who can speak and when there's
a little bit of respect that's been given to leadership present and past three of which are
sitting at this dais with me here tonight um and i you know i i think demanding the right to speak
to the press whenever is a little bit self-serving i was not elected to this board to serve myself
I was elected to support to serve the students the staff
The parents the taxpayers and the community of Katy I see do I completely agree with the procedure?
I'm not going on record saying that but there needs to be a blanket review by this board instead of
Picking at each other like a flock of crows. We just need to sit down as a
40 cool a body corporate a
A team of eight and talk about this procedure because I don't disagree with mr. Griffin, and I don't disagree with mr.
Scott, but there's a little bit. There's a little bit of details here that aren't being shared with our community and
The word muzzle is a little extreme
But there's a little bit of respect leadership in the past that has been put in place and I just would like to go on record as
identifying
When I'm president mr. DeBrell
Mr. Scott, I am not surprised that this is something that you're in favor of, because I know the motivation of your heart. From the moment that I met you, there's at least four things I know about you. You're a champion for free speech. You're a champion for freedom of the press. I know that you're a very strong advocate for student academic success, particularly when it comes to students in high risk areas.
Would you would you agree with that? So I know that I know that's the motivation of your heart and I
Remember six years ago when I was elected we talked about this at one of our work meetings and we opened it up some
regarding social media
and
I can honestly say I'm not opposed to opening it up and having that discussion even more
but
my question
is primarily
to the purpose of why we're trying to do this at this moment because I believe the purpose and intent of any
Policy we make is at the heart of writing that policy
So so with that mr. Griffin last year I
Brought to you an invitation that I had to do a radio program to
To comment on extracurricular activity, which I feel very strongly up about I'm very passionate about that
I believe that these band directors these coaches become more than teachers but mentors try young men and women
So I'm very very passionate about that. Not only as a board member, but as far as my work
For 15 years working with youth, but when I was asked to do that program and I sent you an email
you said that I couldn't I
Disagreed with that ruling and said that based upon the conversations
I've had with people the policy you're pointing to
Doesn't doesn't state that in fact the board president has the right to allow any board member to speak to the media
I had a column in a local magazine about three or four years ago
It was fine with the board president. The Chronicle has done stories on me where I had interviews when mr. Adams was president
It was fine. So my question to you is
is what has changed from last year when you were very strong,
and I have a copy of this email, and if you want to talk about freedom of the press,
I'll be willing to give it to them, of our email exchange, to now.
I just want to understand what has changed in you,
because I'm open to having the discussion, but I want to understand where that's coming from.
Sure, I'd be more than happy.
And for the community, I would love for you all to do a PIR
to get all the discussion that Henry and I had.
There's a complete email chain that I would love for you all to read.
The procedure that we have, the one that Henry was talking about, was he wanted to represent
the district to talk about extracurricular activities in the district.
So I sent that question into the administration and said, can Henry go on a radio show and
talk about extracurricular activities in the district?
And the district passed that up to TASB, and TASB Legal said that you're talking about
a program that belongs to the superintendent.
that is a district program that belongs to the superintendent the procedure I
don't have it in front of me but it says spring branches which is similar to ours
it says the superintendent or a designated staff member shall be the
official spokesman for the district on issues of media attention that relate to
district operations that is the law I told Henry that what he wanted to do is
is the superintendent's realm, that if he wants to do that,
he needs to talk to the superintendent and become his designee.
Henry didn't want to do that.
He said fine, and he stopped with wanting to do that.
That would have been awesome if Henry said,
Henry DeBrell is going to go talk to the radio person.
He didn't want to be Henry DeBrell.
He wanted to be the school board guy talking about the district.
And as a district program, I'm sorry, I didn't write the rule, but that belongs to the superintendent,
and that's exactly what this procedure says.
A board president talks for the board as a whole.
It goes into some requirements, but the single most important statement in here,
and what I've already been talked to twice by the board in closed sessions, so y'all didn't get to see that,
was a board member retains the right to speak to the media as an individual.
that's the same thing mr. Scott said I
Have a right I fought for that right for 20 years
The first amendment still applies to all of us it applies to you Henry
Everybody else on the board had you done that as you not as a trustee representing all of us. It wouldn't have been an issue
but my
the funny thing is is
y'all do all this, the Facebook, social media, I don't do any of that.
And you can go to some of y'all's sites and you'll have all kind of interest and you have all
kind of things. Y'all never want to address that.
Ms. Fox, you did a lot of work for one of the candidates in the election.
Does that represent all of us, that we have the same beliefs? I don't know.
But if they go to your site, which a lot of people see,
your site is just like talking, but not one time have we gone
on in a closed session and talk to you about what you're putting on your website.
That's Rebecca Fox.
That's an individual, and I've never had an issue with that.
And you've done that the whole time.
I haven't said a single thing about our individual sites.
And, Henry, that was the difference, and that's what I explained to you in that email, which
I hope every single person out here reads, the whole chain.
Charles, I would be glad to share this email with the media.
Me too.
I have a copy of it.
because I explained to you that I was going because of my youth, my work for 15 years, but at-risk youth,
and now as my work as a school board member, generic, not a Katie school board member, a school board member, generic,
and my youth background, the importance of extracurricular activity in the lives of a young person.
So you say that, and then even you mentioned Facebook.
I was in my home one morning reading my personal Facebook page and I liked a story that another
minister friend of mine had posted.
I didn't post the story, I read it, I thought it was interesting, I pressed like on my personal
Facebook page and instead of calling me or talking to me man to man, you chose to bring
it out and call me down in closed session about people are complaining about a like on my facebook
page so i'm just trying to understand i appreciate your service to america i honor you for your
service to america and i support the opening up and the conversation about what this policy takes
i'm just trying to understand why now when last year you had the gavel and it seemed to be a
a little bit different story. So if you're just saying that you're waiting for now
to bring a policy, I understand that. But I'm more than welcome, I'm more
than willing to share this entire email chain with the media. I don't have a problem with it.
I'm not even sure we had a call-out session and closed session. Could you
remember, was it with the Black Lives Matter issue with the police
thing? No, it was nothing like that. It was about a story from a minister
friend that someone liked on my page.
I don't know to me about you don't recall that no does anyone else recall that what was it about?
May I speak and I'm president at the end of the day gentlemen
I respect both of your opinions
But we're here for students and I'm not real sure how this argument has anything to do with the betterment of the students in Katy ISD
I'll know I'm not finished. I'm sorry. I thought you were that's okay, so I
I believe we all have very strong opinions. We all do a great job of serving in this district
or we wouldn't have been put in this position. And though our opinions may be wonderful,
I don't think that seven of us need to be giving our opinions to the media because then it can be turned and we
can become a very divisive group of people which then ultimately
harms the students of this district and that is not any of our goal.
I think that when it comes to media information, it needs to stay factual. It needs to stay informative
I think that we have plenty of opportunities in this boardroom and in the boardroom in the back to express our opinions
And I'm talking about and and if we agree with something we vote
Yes, if we don't agree with something we vote no and that's how our opinions are shared
I think that when discussing with the media the facts and the information that happened in this boardroom in the past three years
I have trusted and respected the position of presidency that you held
You held Brian now miss fox holds
I
Trust that they will be able to deliver that message to the media and I see no reason why we would argue about this
Point at this meeting because I don't think this is
This doesn't benefit our children at all
Let me help clarify that for you then I'll be glad to try to help that
First of all, let me make three points. One, I do think that this, between the
the resentment that is facing here Charles, may be a slight counterproductive
but I've been covering school boards and City Council meetings since 1973 and
rather than be upset that seven people are having an honest discussion and
we're not fighting each other, you should be proud of that and not ashamed of that.
Two, I want to say that I have been trying to get this school board for six months.
This is the sixth month that we've been meeting and I've been trying to get
academics on the discussion point. In the six months that I've been on this board
we have spent less than one half hour on academics. 30 minutes of that was in
the hieroglyphics of a state mandated report. We have had no substantive
substantive discussion. It's not been on the agenda. There has been nothing that has led to
a full discussion of accountability, of testing, of curriculum. And here's what I want to clarify
for you. We are serving students and we are serving taxpayers when we speak what we believe
or important issues that are not being heard at this board table.
I respect the fact that people can grow and transition,
and maybe Mr. Griffin was not the perfect vessel a year ago or two years ago,
but I will tell you this.
Charles Griffin is the only person on this board,
since I presented something at team building,
that has asked me one single question about the seven pages that I gave to the
school board back then that called about accountability in the superintendent's
contract that talked about a taxpayer and academic student bill of rights and
here's my clarification that I want to make sure everyone understands I'm not
negotiating whether or not I'm going to speak to the Katie times or the Houston
Chronicle or covering Katie or anyone else that's not open for negotiation
after tonight unless you show me a state law and state regulation that says it
won't help for that if you talk to me about I didn't even possible for this
discussion on I didn't mean to talk to me about academic when I do that I'm
going to helping students and classroom teachers and administrators in this
district big time mr. Scott when you mr. Scott a question for you clarify a
question when you've asked to put something on the agenda that's a no I
have been asking to request those that have spent on the India we've had
conversations and we've written conversations if you want to try the
cadence your mister the people of the Katy Independent School District that
or stop it's not me to talk about the district learning assessments about
accountability about access to data in a specific in in agenda item we had a
team-building session that I think everyone agrees was a catastrophic
disaster mr. okay so the answer is then put it on the agenda okay let's put the
data request on the agenda or the next thing I'll do is I'll just invoke
chapter 11.1 of the Texas Education Code and we'll start there.
Anyone else? As I have been preparing for this evening's agenda item as a request
by our school board members,
I agree with Mrs. Vann that we've had deep respect for the Board President and the procedures
that we look through.
We go through our Board operating procedures usually as a group.
We usually take a lot of them and look at them, refine them.
We talk about them.
We've talked about this one many times.
We've modified it.
We've refined it and we've all agreed to it with the exception of Mr. Scott who has not
had that opportunity yet and so we've agreed to it and we've been respectful
of it for the person who holds the presidency position and I too am open to
discussing it and refining it as I always have been so I think we can look
at the mr. Griffin you like the spring branch version how about if we do this
How about if we get that out to all the board members for us to look at and get some feedback
and let's look at modifying our procedure and how would that be?
Right, so we try very hard to have board workshops.
It's very difficult with seven very busy, very accomplished people to get our calendars
together.
Mr. Scott and I have been very passionate about wanting that to happen so that we can
talk about the things that you're passionate about and we are continuing to look for a
date that we can all meet. So I agree with you Mr. Scott. I too want to talk
about the things that you presented to us and and academics. Mrs. Doyle, thank
you for calling our attention to the fact that this discussion is about seven
of us and not about student success. But our mission statement calls for us to
to give unparalleled learning opportunities so that children can create their future.
So this is housekeeping.
These are things that we should be able to send out in an email.
We'll look at them, give feedback.
Mrs. Nowak could take that feedback, draft it up for us.
And so Mrs. Nowak, will you send this to all seven board members?
First, will you look at it, give your feedback to her, and she could present it to us, and we can get it ready for future action at a future meeting.
Right.
Printed copy, too, would be great.
So we can highlight and mark on it, Mrs. Nowak.
That would be great.
Mr. Griffin, how's that?
Yes, ma'am.
Could you please read to us our policy on communications with the media?
We don't have a policy.
How about our procedure?
have a procedure. Mr. Griffin, I can, but we're about to adjust it and we're taking
time away from the public who have come to address us on some other issues.
Shouldn't take long. It's only about three sentences. Okay. It's addressed in
more than one place, but this one says in our district board operating procedures,
the district and board work with local news media to provide information to the
the community regarding the goals, achievements, needs, and conditions of schools and educational
programs. All written requests for information should be forwarded to the Director of Communications.
If a board member receives a call from the media, the call should be directed to the board president.
The superintendent should also be notified of the call. Anything else? No, I was just wondering how
so many board members were confused about talking to the media with that simple statement,
because there is no restriction on board members talking to the media.
Thank you.
We've just had an understanding for years, Mr. Griffin,
and talked about it many times and agreed to it.
And we were quite respectful when it was your turn last year,
and there were things that we wanted to talk to the media about,
and we chose not to because we respected your position
and we continue to respect you and your service to our district.
Thank you very much.
Okay, Board, at this time we will move to the open forum section of our meeting.
At this time the Board of Trustees will hear from patrons as established by Board policy.
The first 20 speakers who signed up at least 15 minutes before this meeting began and have
provided their first and last name will be allowed to speak.
A maximum of 30 minutes has been allocated with the time divided equally among those
who have signed up.
However, the maximum amount of time for any one speaker is three minutes.
A time clock is visible on the podium so each speaker may see the time remaining and our
Sergeant at Arms, Mr. DeBrell, at the end will alert you when one minute remains.
If speakers wish to share non-confidential written material with the Board, 10 copies
should be provided to the Secretary for Board Services, Ms. Nowak, over here.
Due to posting requirements of the Open Meetings Act, the Board is able to respond only to
a statement related to a posted agenda item.
Specific student issues, discipline, and personnel matters shall be addressed through appropriate
channels established by policy and the presiding officer shall determine whether a speaker
has attempted to solve a matter through those proper channels.
As I announce your name, please come to the podium.
State your first and last name for the record.
Our first speaker this evening is Jenna Miller.
Hi, Ms. Miller.
great to see you thank you thank you everyone thank you to all of you members
of the school board for working for our students and and serving our community
and I have a fifth grader with severe nonverbal autism and he cannot speak so
I'm here to speak on his behalf I was wondering is it okay if I play just a
little audio from him today so anyway I just wanted to share that
with you I also have a first grader and I posted on Facebook this this evening
that I was going to be speaking to you all and one of my Facebook friends wrote
that's amazing an actual parent allowed to speak at a school board meeting
that's because we moved here two years ago and in that place where we moved
from they don't allow an open forum so something like this is very important
I'd like to say I'm very happy with our school Nottingham Country Elementary
and I'd like to to mention our principal miss Stroud and our assistant principals
mrs. Moran and mrs. Gillespie a my older son's Y cap teacher mrs. stars E Lee and
our first grader and his teacher is mrs. Heather Villarreal and this is her first
year teaching in Katy ISD and I know as a school board you have a lot of hard
decisions to make but I hope that you always remember the students and that
you recognize the teachers and the staff who work so hard to care so much about
our students and I think it's great that there's so many parents here tonight and
they're also really concerned about their kids and I've been hearing their
conversations and I'm sure that a lot of them are gonna arrive super early next
time so that they get a chance to speak to thank you very much and I hope you
have a good evening. Thank you Mrs. Miller. Our next speaker is Josephine McGill.
Hi Mrs. McGill, it's great to see you.
Well I just want to say that I thank all of you to be the volunteer for the board and spending so
much time on the behalf of us and building this school and I know that all of you care deeply
and we don't always agree, but I also, in a way that I would like you guys to be as
open as possible in making decisions and so that we can approach you and like the
Spring Branch policy that I know even with Facebook because it is the new
generation and I sometimes not as comfortable approaching people in person
so I would say something and not necessarily attacking anyone but more
like expressing how I feel about things and sometimes if I write on my Facebook
I can edit and delete and edit and delete and trick it so many times before
I do it and sometimes if I talk to you indirectly and I would just, oh I don't know, you know.
So I'm more, I'm very much in support of you guys, more open to all of us and so that we
can have open communication and express where we are.
And I really just want to say thank you for your hard work.
Thank you.
Thank you Mrs. McGill.
Our next speaker is Sam Lilly. Hi Mr. Lilly, welcome.
Hello. With the new superintendent and also a new demographer, I wanted to come back and kind of
give a little bit of history as far as the ABM last year and some of the other things that I've
been familiar with being a 2014 bond committee member. During those meetings, the district cited
multiple times over the six months that we met the need to consider functional
capacity to justify building the new schools and rightfully so it's
definitely something that should is very important they spent one entire meeting
explaining why this is a primary argument for the need for building new
schools but in determining the attendance zones the supreme factor in
the daily to the logistics of the 60 schools and 75,000 plus students is just
erased and trying to understand why that is. So three things to me that really
should be at the heart of ABM's functional capacity versus design
capacity especially schools that are now 30 years old compared to schools that
are built just this last year. District standards for all schools that was
another element that during the bond committee meeting meetings was presented
over and over that we needed the district standard needed to be for all
of the schools and lastly all programs should be specifically placed and should
have some consideration not to be moved a little bit more on those three things
older schools lose classrooms to retrofit for technology and the science
programs that the newer schools have and it's a moderate attempt at maintaining
the so-called district-wide standards but I would be shocked if anyone would
say that any school in elementary school east of highway 99 looks anything like
Jinx Elementary. Bilingual programs are listed on the annual update and they
were this year in 2016 and the last several years but last year Mr. Dunlap
the demographer stated that the district tries to house those programs within the
schools where the students are already in those attendance zones so I feel like
that in a lot of ways that is creating an unrealistic and inaccurate statistic
because several as he stated several students are already going to that school schools that
house special needs programs also reduce the design capacity but for reasons unknown to the
parents like mrs. Miller moving here supposedly trying to give their child a premium education
the demographics report appears the sole substantia of which school a child attends
with little regard of how changes to the programs are significantly impacting the children so I
I would implore the board to demand the district provide
functional capacity numbers for the 2017 demographic update.
We really need to see where the children are,
not slide after slide about how Katy is growing.
Everyone knows that, it's been happening for years.
And how our non-neighboring districts are growing,
that we don't need to be worried about that.
We need to be worried about our own district.
And we know that that information from the last five years
of the demographic updates.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Lilly.
Madam President, I just didn't catch his name to start with.
Sam Lilly.
Sam Lilly.
Thank you.
And just in response to Mr. Lilly, as I have that latitude, we are working on those functional
capacity numbers as we speak.
Typically a functional capacity, for those of you that aren't familiar with design versus
functional, design is if an architect tells you exactly where every single kid can go
into a building if you utilize 100 percent of that space.
functional capacity typically falls within a 10% or 15% range off of the
design capacity and that's what typically is a more realistic number and
when we look at populating schools thank you our next speaker is Ray Dolan
Hi again. Okay, sorry, I've got it on my phone this time. So my name is Ray Dolan. As I mentioned
last month, I'm a mom of three Katie Tigers, one in each of the old Katie schools. I volunteer
heavily at Katie High, where I serve as an officer for the Athletic Booster Club and donate a lot of
time to helping out with the girls basketball program since my daughter is a manager for the
varsity team. My husband spends a lot of time at Acadia Elementary with my
youngest son. My middle son is apparently too cool to have his mom at school all
the time. I had hoped upon hope that you would be able to find a way to work the
number so that the kids spread out thinly in the country areas currently
zoned Acadia Elementary which combined are smaller than other individual
attendance zones by themselves regarding the number of kids that would be that
would be able to remain I just messed that up sorry carry on our specific zone
20 B has only 32 students at Katy Elementary and has been zoned there for
decades our small size means we don't have a big voice and we can't turn in a
ton of form responses but we have a big attachment to Katy Elementary we're
heartbroken over the thought that of that tradition changing I understand
that we can't stop what's being built around us but I ask that you might at
least take one more look as to whether or not it's possible to keep us at Katy
Elementary since you guys only know since only you guys know what's
projected and how fast it's expected to come before you make these
recommendations final of course that probably won't stop us as a neighborhood
from going over the map ourselves between now and then now that the
recommendations have been released but we promised our kids we do whatever we
could to keep them Katy Tigers I know that that everything has to grow
And everything has to move and and nobody's gonna be happy when they're rezoned from a school
But I do ask you all to take into consideration the fact that these kids are spread really thinly out. They don't have
400 other houses in the neighborhood that have kids and readily available playmates
They have a long history at Katy Elementary the parents do most of them are following
Siblings that are long out of Katy Elementary and into Katy High
I'm in it ma'am
But if these recommendations were to become final and we had to break the news to our kids and tell them that they won't continue
Being Tigers. I hope you all keep this loss for our neighborhood our kids and yes for us as parents in mind during future rezoning
especially since it was just mentioned that Katie high is going to need future rezoning and
The impact it might in the potential impact it might have
To our Tigers on a junior high and school level and with that said I'll see you all next month
thank you mr. Olin madam president did she say what land use code did she say I just didn't
catch it already when he be when TB 20 B yes sir mr. ed sorrel says our next speaker mr. sorrel
Good evening President Fox, Board Members, Superintendent Hint. I only have one student
remaining in KDISD and we will not be directly affected by any future boundary modifications.
But I have watched the ABM process as my children grew up here. I'm pleased to hear the district
considering better tools to understand utilization and functionality and considering ABM for
schools that are not in the new construction zone we have instances of
students within safe walking distance of an underpopulated school robust miles
away to another school this is an efficient use of scarce bus drivers and
existing classroom space the boundaries were set many years ago to satisfy
outspoken parents who wanted their children to attend the new school those
Those children have long graduated, but the legacy of their parents' activism remains.
In my opinion, the primary objectives of ABM should be the education of our children, the
operational efficiencies, including feeder pattern coherence, and individual preferences
should have less consideration than long-term costs after their children have grown.
Thank you for your consideration as you tackle this difficult issue every year with new school
school construction and as needed to balance district resources.
Thank you, Mr. Sarles.
Our next speaker is Sean Guymon.
Mr. Guymon, did I get your name right?
Yes, ma'am.
Oh, good.
Welcome.
Most don't.
My name is Sean Guymon.
I would like to speak about the lines being changed for Katy High School.
I attended Katy Junior High. I graduated from Katy High School. My children, I have an eighth
grader at Katy Junior High, a sixth grader at Katy Junior High, and a fifth grader at
Katy Elementary. The lines as shown will force all three of my children to go to a new school.
My children have grown up knowing that they would be going to Katy High School. The lines
that are currently shown do not account for Katie families that have been zoned
Katie high school for generations on the very western portion of the of the area
I agree that a new high school should be available for new subdivisions
preferably east of Katie Hockley there are no new subdivisions on the west side
of Katie Hockley there are no new subdivisions in the process of being
built. I don't understand why a few select students on the very western
portion would be forced to go to a new school when it won't affect the the
Katy High School at all. I have a lot of problem with the line being arbitrarily
drawn on Morton Road. Why not why not Clay? Why not Katy Hockley? I don't see
any reason why a portion of it would be cut out. Everything west of there has very few
student population. My property as it sits now is closer to Katy High School than the
new high school. That's how far west I am. My property is also very close to a gas plant.
There's absolutely no subdivision being built near me. So there's no reason to look at an
elementary or junior high or high school being built that far west that my kids would have
have to go to so I see no reason why the line shouldn't be drawn further east to
include the subdivisions that are there and not worry about the the land that is
still in agricultural use thank you
Thank you, Mr. Gaiman. Our next speaker is Jeff Horde.
Thank you for your time. You guys have a very...
I'm going to defer my time to Verm Head. I'm Jeff Horde.
Okay, Mr. Horde.
Oh, thanks.
Tell me your name, sir. Speak your first and last name.
Vim head very nice to see you I know you guys have an extremely tough job in
trying to come up with a plan that's going to please everyone and it
certainly won't my name is Vim head as I said I speak on behalf of the lakes of
Katy as a board president probably 75% of the people here from my neighborhood
is it's currently written one of the biggest concerns is that Bryant
Elementary is is on the far southwest side and Patak or the new high school is
on the far northeast side and to be able to get from the elementary school to the
high school in a reasonable amount of time is nearly impossible and as you
look at the plan West Memorial is two and a half to three times further from
Katie high school than we are we are twice as far from the new school that's
being planned petak and almost three times as far from Bryan elementary
school than the schools were currently zoned to and so the biggest issue here
is how far are we going to have to end up driving when this is all said and
done it's it's hard for parents to get their kids across campus on an ongoing
basis on a daily basis especially when you look at at some of the schools that
are very close if you look at West Memorial it's very close to Morton Ranch
High School it's you know it's a mile and a half from from Morton Ranch High
School and it's three and a half to four miles from Katy High School and we're
like a mile and change from Katy High School and so when you when you look
just at the distance it's a big it's a big issue for us you look at our the
the families in our neighborhood again we've got a handful of neighbors 60
different neighbors in our neighborhood if you look at the amount of underwriting
that we've done for the PTO projects that teach each of the schools that we
expect our kids and you know all of our kids to be able to use that that's a big
deal to us we also look at zone 8 which is where we are and it shows that
currently we've got 88 students in the zone 8 so it's a very small number of
students it shows that it's going to go to 500 and something in the next four
years we've got a developer right here that has proof that there is no major
development happening in zone 8 because it's all small tracts of land and the
big developers don't want to go in and develop small 30 20 acre tracts of land
and do some mass building and so for these reasons in many others we're in
opposition to the way that the lines are currently drawn and we appreciate your
careful consideration and helping us to not have to make such long drives so
thanks again thank you mr. head our final speaker this evening is Kelly
Horde and company good evening what's your name Robert fling nest and I would
like to thank the board as well I know it's a thankless job hours of hard work
and I know we have tough decisions to make but I have three daughters I live
I live in Lakes of Katy as well.
I'm an attorney here in Old Katy.
My office is less than one block from Katy Elementary.
I came here for that reason.
I moved from the big firms and the big glass buildings,
and I like having grass in my front yard of my office.
My three daughters, two of them are at Katy Elementary,
one of them's at Katy Junior High.
It's different there.
And I think the board recognizes that.
It's one of the only elementary schools
that has the word Katy on it.
It's red and white. They have tigers on their shirts. They walk in the front door
every morning and they run the hand along the tiger, the tiger statue. Their
parents did the same. Their brothers and sisters did the same. And it is a lot of
these Northwestern rural small communities and small neighborhoods and
farms and their kids go there and it feels like a small town. They go to the
Harvest Festival. They go to the parades. They go to the road. They go to the Katy
the KD Rodeo, not the Houston Rodeo. If you say, are you going to the Rodeo, they think
you're talking about the KD Rodeo. They don't know anything about Houston. It's too loud,
it's too big. And as I said before, if you were to tell our children suddenly you're
not going to go to KD High School, you're not going to go to KD Elementary next year,
you're sending them into a world they don't understand. My children walk from their elementary
school down the sidewalk across the street with job who holds up his sign
and they slap his hand every day over to my office they never leave old Katie
it's the town and I heard the board deference that when they mentioned that
all of the shit that none of the changes would affect any student that lives
inside old Katie which I keep saying so I'm not even thinking about saying old
Katie or one minute proper and to my knowledge I don't think a Katie school
board has ever sent a child who would have gone to Katie Elementary Katie
junior high Katie high school out of one of those schools to another school I
could be wrong but I would urge the board to take in consideration what a
special place and what a special line these kids follow that they will always
wear red and white they will always have Tigers just like their siblings did and
just like their parents did and if anybody wants my last 20 seconds please
because I think everybody in this crowd is in agreement that they want to stay a
Katie Elementary Katie junior high Katie high school and they want to hey Katie
Katie Katie thank you all for being here we can we understand these your comments
are heartfelt and we received them heartfelt I know that several of us have
have also, our children have been rezoned.
We too moved here.
And my children graduated from different high schools.
And that was not a pleasant place in my house
when that happened.
We get it.
We get it.
We bought all one color, and that's not what happened.
So we understand the difficulty of that.
We do.
Several of us have children who have been rezoned.
We've started new schools.
We've opened new schools.
and we are grateful for you being here.
No, sir, that's not what I'm saying.
No, sir, absolutely not what I'm saying.
What I'm saying is that we heard you
and that we feel it more than we're nodding and saying,
yeah, yeah, we hear you.
I want you to know that we feel it
and you have an opportunity.
Thank you for being here and speaking to us
and the survey will go online in a couple of days.
Wednesday?
Wednesday?
Tomorrow?
I thought you said Wednesday.
I apologize.
It'll be there tomorrow and you can send people to the presentation and, you know,
we appreciate you being here.
I just wanted you to know.
Thank you very much.
well and but there's lots of communic thank you sir thank you sir thank you sir thank you very
much I'll be happy to get it for you in print I would absolutely be happy to get it for you
in print thank you so much our next meeting will be at oh here it is uh monday november 21st 2016
there being no further business before the board this meeting is adjourned the time is 8 38 pm
Official documents
Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 3.1
PassedI move that the Board of Trustees takes action to terminate the probationary contract of Clarence Appleby, III (Mayde Creek High School Assistant Choir Director). Based on the information provided in Closed Meeting, I further move that the Board finds that good cause exists to terminate the probationary contract of Clarence Appleby, III (Mayde Creek High School Assistant Choir Director) and that the Board authorizes the Board President to take all action necessary to notify him of the Board's decision.
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 3.2
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 003 · AGENDA 3.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees names Mark Tiedt as the executive director for maintenance and operations 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 |