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The Board met earlier this evening in closed meeting. Any action arising from discussion 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?
Mr. Maholsky.
Mr. Board President Cox, we are in silence with the piece of the .
Regarding the notice for this meeting.
Mr. Madam President.
Ms. Mr. Maholsky.
Mr. I move the Board of Trustees approves the Personnel Report as recommended by the
Superintendent in closed meeting.
Ms. Second.
Ms. I have a motion by Mr. Maholsky, a 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 will proceed to vote.
All in favor raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Motion passes 7-0.
Do we have any scouts in the audience this evening
working on a badge?
Can you tell us your name and what badge are you working on?
Welcome, we're so glad you're here. What's your name?
Hi, Eva.
Anna.
Hi, you guys.
We're glad you're here.
We have a place reserved for you at the front row if you'd like to come to the front where you can see better.
See all those yellow signs right there for people working for Scouts?
Please come right there.
Place of honor for our Scouts.
Awesome.
Hi, girls.
We also have joining us this evening, as is typical in pretty much any place where we
gather, when we have one of our namesakes in attendance, we like to recognize them.
And I think I saw Bob and Felice Bryant here.
Are you here?
there you are wave and be recognized
we are honored to have you join us and thank you for sharing your name on one
of our buildings we're very honored first mrs. Holland always wonderful to
have you here we make you come every single time are there any other
namesakes in the audience and I didn't see you come in okay at this time we'll
of our recognitions.
And at this time we have our peace officer, Oath of Office,
Katy Independent School District police officers.
The presenter is our chief, Robert Jinks,
and he is going to introduce to us a couple of police officers.
Officer Jinks here.
Oh, there you are.
President Fox, board members, superintendent Hint,
newly commissioned officers are required to publicly swear or affirm an oath of office.
Tonight we have two newly commissioned officers.
I call upon Officer Stephanie Fulgencio and Officer Donald Meisenheimer
to come forward and take the oath of office and be recognized as a member of the KDISD Police Department.
Please raise your right hand and repeat after me.
I, Stephanie Falencio.
I, Stephanie Falencio.
I, Donald Meisenheimer.
I, Donald Meisenheimer.
Do solemnly swear.
Do solemnly swear.
That I will faithfully execute the duties.
That I will faithfully execute the duties.
Of the Office of Peace Officer.
Of the Office of Peace Officer.
Of Katy Independent School District.
of the State of Texas, and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend
the Constitution and laws of the United States, and of this State, so help me God.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Officer Stephanie Fulgencio was born and raised in the heart of Chicago, Illinois.
Stephanie is the fourth of six children.
She moved to Houston, Texas in August of 2005.
She attended May Creek High School, where she played varsity soccer as well as participating in cross country and track.
Upon graduation, Stephanie attended Lone Star Community College for her basics and worked for State Farm Insurance for three and a half years.
Stephanie has a son, Julian, who is four years of age.
Stephanie worked as an advisor for two years at Lone Star College while completing the EMT program.
She graduated with an associate's degree in 2013.
In January of 2016, Stephanie enrolled in the police academy at the University of Houston
downtown and graduated with class 288 in May.
Officer Meisenheimer was born outside of Chicago, Illinois, but moved to Texas shortly thereafter.
He attended school in Alief before moving to Katy in 1996.
Donald attended college at Sam Houston State University where he earned a bachelor's
degree in agricultural business and criminal justice.
Officer Meisenheimer began his law enforcement career while attending Sam Houston State University
by working as a correctional officer for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, where
he served for five years and was a member of the Region 1 Honor Guard.
It was while working for TDCJ that he decided he wanted to go into school-based law enforcement.
Upon graduating from Lone Star College Police Academy, Officer Meisenheimer went to work for Alief Independent School District, where he served as a campus officer for three and a half years.
Wanting to move a little closer to his home in Katy and broaden his skills as a law enforcement professional, Officer Meisenheimer decided to apply with Katy ISD Police Department.
Donald and his wife Monica live in Katy and plan to raise their family here.
In their spare time they enjoy the outdoors, concerts, Astros games and
spending time with extended family. Officer Meisenheimer looks forward
to serving the community, to serving this community. Please help me welcome both of
them to the Katy ISD Police Department.
Thank you, Chief Jenks.
Welcome to Katy.
We're really glad you're here, and we appreciate you and your attention to keeping our students
and our community safe.
And it's great to see your colleagues over here.
It's always great to see our people in blue, men and women in blue.
Thank you for what you do for us.
Thank you.
At this time, Board members, I'll direct you to Item 5.1, a presentation given to us this evening by Ben Rollins,
our General Manager for Special Events, Reservations, and Marketing at the Leonard Merrill Center.
Good evening, Mr. Rollins. Good to see you.
Good evening.
Good evening, Madam President Fox, members of the Board of Trustees, and Superintendent Hint.
I am here tonight to provide an overview of the KDISD Marketing and Advertising Program.
Before I begin, I'd be remiss if I didn't recognize the district's Marketing and Advertising Coordinator, Mrs. Laurie Mitchell.
Laurie's over here.
Mrs. Mitchell has been instrumental in the success of this program.
Tonight I'll be covering the history of the Marketing and Advertising Program,
as well as discussing the Live Action Media Broadcast System, or LAMS as we affectionately call it.
The district-wide marketing and advertising program began in the fall of 2010 and as such,
we recently completed the seventh football season at Rhodes Stadium that has included the Lambs in
action. Program examples include the Lambs, as I just mentioned, at Rhodes Stadium, in stadium
signage and stadium entrances, seen those at Rhodes Stadium, audio and video rights fees,
That's for streaming and or radio and television broadcast rights website advertising on Katie is D
Org at Merrill center org and bus advertising and since the inception of the program
It has generated 2.6 million dollars in revenue that has gone towards the general operating fund
I'd like to focus on the lambs program at Road Stadium for the next couple of slides
This program has been recognized as an outstanding outdoor
laboratory opportunity which aligns directly with the district's vision to
provide unparalleled learning expenses experiences for our students the program
involves students from the Miller and Career Technology Center and audio
engineering film 1 and film 2 classes if I could introduce if it's okay mr.
Bertram John Bertram on the front row here John just say hi he's from Miller
Career Technology Center and John teaches audio engineering and also
and serves as our LAMS director for a lot of the games.
Okay, this is an email from a current student at Texas Tech University
that was a member of our LAMS crew in 2014 and 15.
And if you'll give me permission, I will read it, but I promise I will do it quickly.
So, hey, Mr. Bertram and Ms. Stadnik, who's our other director.
This was sent this past fall.
So this past Saturday I worked my first college game,
and I just wanted to say thank you for everything that you all taught me.
Since it was my first game, I was only supposed to shadow, but due to it being a complete
blowout, I was allowed to film the last quarter and it was the most amazing thing.
While there were a lot of differences, like the fact that they used $250,000 cameras and
that they used random numbers and colors to call the game, it was still familiar and it
was easy to pick up.
It only solidifies that this is still what I want to do.
So thank you all for the experience and education I gained over the two years of LAMS.
I hope that this year's LAMS students are as good as we were last year and the year
year before. Last year, KD Magazine ran an article titled, Lights, Camera, Action.
They called LAMs an invaluable knowledge opportunity and went on to say the
audio-visual technology program mirrors the environments of both a college and a
workplace. At the November 2009 work-study meeting, administration asked
for the funding to purchase the LAM system for Rhodes Stadium and we
We indicated to the board that the payback for the expense would be approximately 10 years.
I'm pleased to report that while we recently did complete the seventh season with lambs in place,
the system has paid for itself while also contributing additional funds to the general operating fund each year.
There are some considerable additions to the marketing and advertising program as we look ahead to future years,
with the largest component being the student activities complex naming rights agreement.
At next week's regular board meeting you will be presented an item to consider the naming rights partner for the student activities complex
If approved by the board this long-term agreement will contribute considerable revenue to the district's general operating fund for many years
Additionally another critical component of the marketing and advertising program as we look ahead is the lambs to system at the new
student activity facility
Second Stadium, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that the program is projected to generate
rate seven point five million dollars in revenue for the general operating fund
of the next ten years now that's the marketing and advertising program as a
whole these next two slides highlight the many components of the system that
our students will be operating so your exterior components these are the ones
you see right the video board the ribbon board with the football game information
that's going to be on the front of the front fascia of the field house the
cameras you've all seen the students running around with those cameras at the
the games. Put scoreboard enclosure is obviously something that's not
controlled by a student or by anybody but it is what's going to go around the
video board itself but it is an exterior system component. Your game clocks, your
25-second play clock and a catwalk to access the panels for the maintenance.
The interior components are the things you don't see as easily but are
crucial behind-the-scenes student operator equipment. Some of those for
for your interest here, control room.
There's the room where you see all the students running
the software for the system, the instant replay machine.
Everybody we've noticed likes to stop and turn
after almost every play and look up at that board
to see what that replay looks like.
The program that sends the actual content to the displays.
Your hardware component, that's your switcher.
That's taking all the different inputs.
Computers for sponsored commercials,
your camera display boards, the monitor for the director,
and the communication system,
because part of these students' training
is learning how to wear the headset and communicate and take direction and give
direction we let lots of students put the headset on and actually give
direction during games pretty frequently actually later on at the meeting
tonight you will see an item for your consideration related to the structure
portion of the lambs to system at the new facility the anticipated cost of the
structure portion is five hundred eighty four thousand three hundred and four
dollars the remaining system components will be purchased via purchasing
cooperative for a total project cost including structure not to exceed 1.875
million dollars the next step pending your approval of the change order to the
dirt contract presented presented later tonight the administration plans to
bring back to the board next month a budget amendment to provide funding for
the entire project again not to exceed 1.875 million dollars we plan to use the
same process to secure advertising commitments at the new facility that we
currently do at Rhodes advertising packages will be offered at the complex
as a whole and not at individual stadiums additionally it's worth noting
that current advertisers will have the first right of refusal on securing their
place at both stadiums so if your roads now we're certainly planning on talking
to you in the future about being at both facilities the package pricing will be
relative to the number of events hosted at the complex and increases the number
of events increases. So the cost will be paid back, cost of the LAMS 2 system will
be paid back via marketing and advertising agreements on the electronic
displays and other stadium opportunities as they arise and the
advertising funds received after the initial payback will go to the general
operating fund just like LAMS 1. To summarize, I hope this marketing and
advertising overview provides you with some additional information on the
the program as well as highlights the benefits that LAMS 1 and potentially
LAMS 2 systems have and will have on our students. I would say the program
has been quite successful. I'm very proud of this program. It's provided a
world-class opportunity for our students to receive certifications and or jobs if
they want to go straight to the workplace and we anticipate a
significant return on investment to the general fund over time. At this time I
I would be happy to answer any questions you may have.
Thank you for your presentation, Mr. Rollins.
My question is the students in the training, maybe Mr. Bertrand,
they'll go back and forth seamlessly between the stadiums with the LAM system,
or will the new one be more high-tech?
Well, I can do it.
We'll, we're going to have the students trained at both facilities.
I mean, the equipment is, it is different, you know, because what we got at Rhodes is seven years old now.
But we will have the students trained to where they will be able to go back and forth.
Yes, ma'am.
I know it's so impressive when we're there and we see those students and the amount of things that they can do.
And then they get hired, you know, when they leave KDSD to go work at college stadiums or other places.
So they're very impressive the amount of work they do and how they talk to each other
and I really appreciate how its student run and
Overseen by by the teachers. Yeah, very very impressive
The great outdoor learning classroom. I appreciate the way you said
To add anything to that mr. Bertram or we cover it especially okay
anyone else
Yes.
Madam President.
Mr. Scott.
I'll probably have some additional comments when we get down to the business side of this later in the agenda, but I want to say that this school board will probably put more students from KTISD into the professional workforce than the entire football program in KTISD in any given year.
I'm absolutely a supporter of this. Everybody does not have to go to college.
Everybody does not have to go to Harvard. But if you can come out of high school
and you can have these skills, this is going to pay kids way to college, whether
it's the community college and the four-year route or its direct
entrance into the workforce of all the money spent probably the money on the
school board is probably the most productive that will spend I'll save
everything about the stadium to later but I absolutely support this anyone
else thank you so much mr. Rollins for your presentation this time we'll move
to the consent agenda and we will hear consider future board approval of the
contract for the dine-in and catering services as Regina Stevenson director
of purchasing good evening good evening good evening president Fox board members
dr. hint I'm bringing one contract forward under the consent agenda this
evening and it is for the dine-in and catering services the purchasing
department worked very closely with the schools and departments to develop a
list of potential providers for these services. While we had a list of about
200 vendors when all of the proposals were sent out and the data received back,
we only had 64 vendors who qualified to provide service to KDISD. These, the
schools and departments will be encouraged to use these vendors and to
obtain competitive quotes whenever it's possible and they'll purchase under the
the best value criteria. This will be a one-year contract effective in January
with an option for two additional one-year renewals. The annual
expenditures for the dining and catering services are anticipated to be
approximately $830,000 per year and with the majority of the expenditures paid
for from activity accounts but all the rest of the expenditures will be
funded from the general operating indoor special revenue funds thank you any questions mr president
mr de brel ms stevens i just want to congratulate you as i look down this list i see
the vast majority are vendors within the borders of kdisd and i think any time that we can use some
of our local vendors that's uh that's a benefit to the entire community so definitely appreciate
you making sure that some of those i mean the vast majority are inside the borders and i i
They are indeed and we do encourage our schools to try to utilize those vendors. Thank you so much
Thank you very much our next presentation
Consider future board approval of grant for edification. So miss Sherry Butterfield director of budget and Treasury good evening
Good evening president Fox trustees superintendent here for grant ratifications tonight
There are two grants one from the Meadows Foundation and one from the Texas Commission on the Arts and these are both going to campus
any question Thank You mr. Butterfield you also have 6.3 consider future board approval of the
December 2016 budget of it yes thank you and our budget amendments there are only three amendments
tonight and they are direct transfers between the existing budget between different functions
so there's no change to fund balance any questions thank you very much our first discussion action
Action item is 7.1, discuss and consider future board approval of the attendance boundary modifications, ABM, for the 2017-18 school year.
Our presenters this evening, Mr. Tom Gannell, Chief Operations Officer.
He also has supporting him Dr. Shelby McIntosh, Vice President of Research K-12 Insight,
and Dr. Chris Poole, Attorney and Chief Data Analyst for the Population and Survey Analyst called PASA.
Good evening, Mr. Gannell. I think we have some people who are interested in what you have to say.
good evening i i think we do i think we do well good evening president fox trustees and
superintendent hint uh not news to anyone here but as i said last month uh here we're writing
another chapter of here we grow again as we discuss attendance boundary modifications or abm
for short um as uh president fox said i'm assisted today by uh dr shelby mcintosh to give you a
little bit more background on her she is from k-12 insight you may remember her from the work she did
with us last year for our abm you might also remember her for analyzing the feedback from the
2014 community survey as well as her presentation on public sentiment to our transportation
sustainability initiatives k-12 insight is based out of washington dc i am pleased to report that
that Dr. McIntosh is a native Texan
and is home-based in Austin.
Dr. Poole will be discussing the details
of the attendance boundaries.
Population Survey Analysts out of College Station
is the largest demographer in the state.
They specialize in planning for schools
and have been our demographic consultant since 1996.
And I have Deep Bench if there's any questions
that I need to bring them on board for.
Our presentation goals for tonight
are really straightforward.
we will provide you a summary of the attendance boundary feedback and we will
present to you our final formal recommendation for the three new schools
opening next fall as far as the schedule goes back in July we talked about the
scope of work with the board in October you received the demographic update from
population and survey analysts just last month we provided a preliminary ABM
recommendation to you at the work study following that we had the ABM public
feedback and survey and tonight we bring to you the board item for discussion and
action after we discuss the boundaries tonight we will be updating the public
on our recommendation tonight's recommendation will be on our website by
tomorrow morning and we will provide electronic updates through e-news
following the board meeting next Monday additional correspondence will be sent
via e-news press releases social media regarding the decision on approved
attendance boundaries by February we intend to follow up our electronic media notices with
letters mailed to the homes of impacted families and we will do that in Spanish and or English we
begin using electronic surveys back in 2011 here you can see that the feedback has increased 13
fold when you compare it to this year's feedback to 2010 this year the number of surveys we had
completed was 8667 which is about 200 surveys less than we had last year we
also received 37 phone calls last year we received 43 I think this note is
important as a response to the feedback we received over the last few weeks we
have made some modifications to both the high school recommendation and the
elementary school recommendation you will see those modified recommendations
in a few minutes. Lastly as a reminder I want to point out that our ABM web page
is online and can be easily reached through our KDISD website. It is now my
pleasure to introduce Dr. Shelby McIntosh from K-12 Insight who will walk
us through the ABM survey results. Thank you Tom. Good evening President Fox,
Trustee, Superintendent Hint. It's my pleasure to walk you through the results
of this year's survey. A note, as Tom mentioned, the survey results this year
are feedback based on the recommended modifications that you all
received in November and not reflective of the changes that they're going to
discuss later this evening. I'd love to walk through all of the slides and then
take questions at the end with your permission. I'll start off by just
talking about the general purpose of the survey as you see here. The primary
purpose was to gather information about how families may be impacted by these
modifications and to gauge their support for each of the proposals a secondary
purpose was to also inform them about the ABM process the data from this
survey will be used in consideration to determine the attendance boundary
modifications for the Northwest and Southwest project quadrants for the 2017
18 school year some details about the study here we emailed survey invitations
to almost a hundred thousand parents and community members each of those emailed
invitations had unique survey links that they could use to access the survey
individuals who contacted either Katie ISD or k12 insight received saying that
they had not received an email invitation were given a public URL to
access the survey that URL was also posted on the district's website paper
surveys were available on request and the survey was also available in Spanish
We sent reminders to to those who had not yet taken the survey via email on
November 22nd and November 30th and as you can see the survey was open and
opened on November 15th and then closed on November 30th. This report here
summarizes these survey results. It's important to note that we did not do a
random sample. We felt it was important that anyone who have an opinion about
these modifications have an opportunity to express those opinions. Because of
that these results should not be generalized to the entire community but
rather reflect those survey participants who participated in the survey speaking
of those survey participants as mr. Goodell said we had 8667 people respond
to the survey this year most of those were in response to the email invitation
that they received but we had just over a thousand people who took the survey
survey via public URL as well. And as you can see here, the far majority of those who
took the survey were parents. 83% of them, parents with children currently enrolled in
schools in Katy ISD. Another 10% are employees who are also parents. 6% are employees of
the district that do not have children currently enrolled in Katy ISD schools. And 4% community
members who do not have children currently enrolled in Katy. A bit more about those who
participated you can see we asked them the quadrant of which they reside 43
percent from the southwest quadrant and 21 percent from the northwest quadrant
not surprising given those are the quadrants most directly impacted by the
modifications for this year we also asked them how long they had lived in
the district you can see that about three-quarters have lived in Katy ISD
for 15 years or less with the highest percentage 30 percent of them having
having lived in Katy ISD from 8 to 15 years.
So I'm going to go through each of the recommendations now, show you high level, and then drill down
a bit more on those results.
So high level here, you can see that 67% of all survey participants supported the attendance
boundary modification for Paytoe High School.
If we look at those parents who have kids enrolled in the two high schools directly
impacted by this proposal 63% of those parents said that they support the
proposal when we drill down on that a little bit and look at the two schools
separately you can see that 60% of parents that have children currently
enrolled at Katy high school said that they support the proposal and 68% of
parents with children currently at Morton Ranch high school said that they
support it we'll look now at the junior high proposal again looking at all
participants on the left 67% of those saying that they support this proposal
and if you look at parents currently with children currently enrolled in the
impacted schools 63% of those parents said that they support this proposal
looking at the two schools separately again on the left you can see that 64%
of parents with children currently enrolled at Katy junior high said that
they support this proposal and 63% of parents with children enrolled at
McDonald junior high said that they support it and then finally we'll take a
look at the elementary proposal here with again on the left 65% of all survey
participants saying that they supported this modification but if we look at
parents on the right with hat that had children currently enrolled in
the elementary schools directly impacted 60 67 percent of those parents said that
they support this proposal when we look at that those two schools separately you
can see here on the left that 48 percent of parents with children enrolled at
Katy elementary school said that they support it while 39 percent said that
they do not on the right looking at parents with children currently enrolled
at Wollman Elementary 85% said that they support the proposal it's important to
note that many of the survey participants who said that they do not
support this one reference to living in the Cane Island or Falls at Green
Meadows communities just a couple of general findings here and then I'll take
any of your questions we noted that strong majorities of survey participants
those both those potentially impacted by the changes and the group as a whole
either fully or somewhat support all three of the proposals those that did
not some common explanations among those those groups of survey participants were
concerns about transportation and issues getting children to and from school
increased distances and commute times some also mentioned concerns about the
transition and adjustment issues for their children at their new school happy
to take any questions that you all have at this time. Madam President, I'm going
to try to make these kinder, gentler questions, but I have a responsibility to
the people that elected me and I have a fiduciary responsibility as a member of
as Board of Trustees.
And I want to point out that basically we got this at the end of November.
We give the administration and our consultants a six-month fuse to do all this,
and then we give the public a week to 10-day fuse to try to work their way through it.
And I don't think that's fair.
I don't think this is any way to run a railroad.
road and I want to say to the people out here I owe you an apology I'm smarter
than this I should have seen this train wreck coming I really should have I've
been around government for a long time and I knew this schedule but I have to
tell you that when it comes to a head like this it's it is surprised even me I
would be interested in your definition of somewhat support do you believe that
somewhat support is a fully informed support certainly a matter of
interpretation I think whenever they selected somewhat support or do not
support we asked them to explain their responses and I think mr. Cadell could
certainly speak to the thousands of explanations that he read through in
terms of this it shows you to explain why they somewhat don't believe it
certainly the very first pen to the last of us decision a mine face for
somewhat support into one table. I'm kind of a data guy and I don't like that and I'm just going to tell you right candid
I don't like it. I don't respect it. I don't appreciate it. I don't appreciate it on behalf of the citizens out here
I'd like to ask you this question at
Morton Ranch High School you have the number who survey participants with children at Morton Ranch High School
277 have concerns. I've supported it. How many of those 277 parents had children who are not being moved from
from Martin Ranch High School?
I can't say.
Those that answered the question and the ones that have children currently enrolled
in Martin Ranch High School.
Well, let me say this.
And again, I'll be assigned to .
That's my responsibility.
I get a piece of paper that says 277 parents at Martin Ranch High School
support this, and I cannot be told if all 277 of these are immune from the move?
Sure.
I can tell you a little bit more about the decision around that decision,
if you'd like.
Ma'am, we're being asked tonight to put this on the consent agenda.
Okay, how in the world can I put this on a consent agenda?
If and I would imagine I could take you through Katy High School. I'll do it again.
The survey participants with children at Katy High School,
460, it's a pretty big school over there.
How many of those lived in West Katy?
How many of them lived on Bartlett? How many of them lived in the city of Katy?
how many of them lived in Pinnock how many of them of this four hundred and
sixty how many of the four hundred and sixty have kids that are not going to be
moved from Katie high school we did not ask that question I can tell you though
that one of the reasons that we group this in this way the reason that we say
impacted parents are both those that have children that are leaving and those
that are staying is that based on the comments and the feedback that we've
received from the community that both of those who leave and those that stay feel
like they're impacted by this change so we wanted to include both groups. I
honest to God do not mean to be disrespectful of you. I do not mean to be
mean. I'm not trying to be a jerk here okay but when I'm a data guy and when I
get tables that tell me that purport to tell me something definitive something
that I'm supposed to make policy decisions on and you can't drill down
Not you personally the company the district whomever wants to accept responsibility
for this survey if I can't get an answer to the question that
460 people at Katy high school don't care about this plan and
277 at Morton ranch and a hundred and forty nine at McDonald and
527 at Katy junior high if I don't know who those people are
this wouldn't pass Rasmussen, it wouldn't pass Gallup, it wouldn't pass IBD, it wouldn't pass
any known professional survey to which I am professionally aware, having been in the business
of monitoring and evaluating surveys for 40 years. I'm telling you, Madam President,
this matter does not need to go to a decision next week this matter does not
need to go to the consent agenda we should put this off for January because
I want to look out to these folks and I here's what I know because I've gone to
their community meetings okay they get this information they put in a public
information request. They burn the midnight oil just to try to represent
the needs of their children and what they believe is right. And here we come
up and I doubt that one single person has seen the change. We have people from
Colony, we have people from Cane Island, we have people from Old Katy. I am a
member of this board. It is my fiduciary responsibility to represent these folks
and I'm telling you I swear to God I cannot represent your interest tonight
on what I now know and I apologize that I got caught this short the best I can
hope to do is to get this delayed till January and if this makes me persona
hog-rotten for the rest of my tenure on the next two and a half years of this
board then I'll just be persona ha gratum I want this delayed I want it
delayed
what I'm saying is this if it is not delayed then we're going to find out new
interpretations of the open meetings record tonight so I'll pass for now and
see what happens mr. Griffin the survey that was done was that for the original
original ABM or is that for the modified ABM?
The original, the proposals that you received in November. So they have not yet responded to the changes that Mr.
Ganell is going to review with you this evening.
So really the survey applies to something that we no longer are really reviewing for tonight, correct?
I think, sorry, go ahead.
If I could, one of the more valuable aspects of the survey is to get the feedback inputs from those who submit them.
In there you find information that you want to consider as you're coming up with a final recommendation to the board.
So you have folks call out individual communities or neighborhoods and they want to point out their attention to whatever it may be.
And you take a second look at it.
It's never, this survey's never been meant to be a horse race to get the most votes.
It's always been meant to try to collect the feedback that would give you something actionable to look at and pursue a little further
It's the same format that that we've used in in the past. It's certainly the one that we used last year
I don't think with any any changes were there
No, okay
But to answer your question the survey was based upon the original ABM that we presented
November 14th, thanks
Thanks.
Any other questions?
Okay.
Well, if there are, look, I was going to pass it,
but there are four things I want to say right now.
I think this board needs to discuss before we pass on this line,
before we pass and before I surrender my timeline
to be able to call three people up to that table,
which I fully intend to do unless we can get those folks talking and have a full and free access
to Dr. Hint or to other administrators. We have people out here who did their honest best
to take the numbers. They put them in spreadsheets. They tried to do it. They worked their
their tail off from 10 days ago to try to do it.
Some of them got to meet with Dr. Hintz.
Some were not politically astute enough to know that they could even do that.
And I'll tell you this, folks.
I want to make sure there's something really understood here.
I respect Dr. Hintz.
If this were not Dr. Hintz, this thing, what I'm trying to do tonight,
would be dead on arrival.
I'm asking for time.
and if if we're not going if we're in fully intent on doing this next week
then I want to call three people up here and I want them to be able to explain
the effort and the work that they've done right now six months surveys we've
delegated our communications to the WWW and we don't even have quality control
over it and we've got 20 people out here who have signed up and they're going to
get one minute and 50 seconds and we can't talk to them we can talk to people
who we write a check to we can talk to people if they're a corporation and we
get and we write them a check if the taxpayers write them a check we get to
talk to them if the taxpayers come up here the people who write the checks and
they want to talk to our board one minute 50 seconds we can't talk to them
And tonight is the night that we don't need to do this if these folks get a fair shake.
I'll stop if these people get a fair shake.
Let me give you my word, Mr. Scott.
First of all, instead of just putting a hold on this now, I think a lot of these folks came to see what are the revised ABM plans.
And I would like for the administration to have an opportunity to present those revised ABM plans.
And yes, we do have a segment at the end in which we will take feedback.
And then, yes, there will be a week period of time in which I can have some individual
conversations and if need be, you know, make a recommendation to this Board based upon
that feedback.
But if at all possible, I would like to go ahead and move forward with this item, finish
the presentation, allow the modified ABM plan to be seen.
and then you know I got seven days I have found where I've actually found
more hours in a day there's there's a lot more than 24 hours I found that in
the last couple of weeks dr. hint III I can go with that if they go with it
because here's the deal I knew that there was more to come but I wanted to
send this board a message that we we keep doing the same old thing bus routes
come out two weeks before school and parents don't have a real opportunity
they have a theoretical opportunity ABM's come out right before Thanksgiving
and now we're on a short fuse I hope that these folks are 100% pleased with
the revisions I hope they are but I wanted this board to understand that if
you keep doing this process the way we keep doing it it's not right and i want this signal to be
that this process has to change going forward all right and i'll do humor now i know why you wore
the WWF tie thank you for I still have one more one more part to do here if I
if I could thank you please sit down I'm gonna ask dr. Chris pool if she can come
up and join us modifications she will walk through the the actual
recommendation. So you may see three of them. You may see the one current attendance boundaries.
You see an initial recommendation. That's from last month. And then two of the three cases,
you see a new revised modification, and that'll be for the high school and the elementary.
Well, I thought he was going to do it for me. It would have been nice.
Let him go. Okay.
So, good evening, President Fox, Trustees, and Superintendent Hint.
We will start the discussion tonight with the ABM for Pato.
The current attendance zones for Katie and for Morton Ranch are shown here,
and as we discussed in November, both of these schools will need relief,
and most especially Morton Ranch will need relief because Katie still has an opportunity for relief
from a new school in the southern portion of the district.
Shown here is the map with the initial PATO recommendation with the grandfathering of
the 11th and 12th graders accounted for in those first couple of years.
The goal in designing this zone was threefold.
First to leave Morton Ranch the ability to continue to add approximately 300 projected
students in the next several years.
A second to provide a good level of utilization in the first few years for PATO.
And then third to not drop Katie's enrollment to drop it to a more manageable number but
but not pull so many students from Katy that Katy would be too low when the future southern high school is opened in a few years.
So this map shows the final recommendation for Payto.
And if I can turn the pin on, this keeps land use zones 8 and 9, which are in this area, right here,
and also Lane-New-Sones 22C and D right there in Katy.
I can't, I'm sorry.
Turn this off.
There it is.
At the crossroads.
Okay.
I'm sorry.
Mm-hmm.
Can you go back to that last one?
Let me try to point out a couple geographic features if you can bring that slide up.
I'm sorry, Tom, the pin. I've got a pin.
We're having technical difficulty.
The pin is a problem.
Bear with us.
To the far north of the district, you see coming in on an angle the Waller County line where it runs into Clay.
So just north of Lake Cicada, you will see that line running from Waller County.
That is the northern boundary.
So if you take Clay and you look across to the water county line and then up that identifies the westernmost
boundary of the revised attendance boundary recommendation
Is that enough
Do we have a highlighter?
In 22 be there and what road that is that right there the areas that is between Katie Hockley cutoff and
Well, it's Katie Hockley, right.
It's right in there just to the west of where we have Paytoes, the 2020 and 2021 numbers.
And just across the street from Katie Jr.
Right, and just to the north of the athletic complexes, too.
Okay, the residents in these landing zones did provide feedback to the district
requesting to stay in Katy High School due to proximity issues in Laney Sons 8 and 9,
and also because 22C and D, keeping those in Katy High School,
that more closely aligns the high school and the junior high boundaries.
It was decided that the numbers of students expected over the next few years in this area
are likely to be manageable for Katy High.
And with those additions, if you don't mind, would you,
the numbers that we currently have at Katy High School, my eyes aren't real good,
but it's 3,457.
That's expected in 2017.
That is with the grandfathering of the 11th and 12th graders.
So you see the 35-46 there in 2018, but then it drops a little bit, and that's because
we're losing an extra chunk of 12th grade students there.
That puts PAYTO at 861 in that first year for two grade levels.
For two grade levels, growing to 1431, and then by the time it's all four grades at about
2110 you'll also see Morton Ranch it's it continues to remain high but that's
because of the 11th and 12th grade remaining there and then just the 12th
grade and then it drops to 2612 but then continues to grow on up and we were
hoping to sort of create in his own and create a zone that would allow more
insurance to continue to grow because Haiti is going to have other high
schools in its northern and southern regions but Morton Ranch one all right
and just just for I think something that's important to note NASA originally
did not have the numbers for land use zone luz8 9 and there is new development
going into that area that full far north west boundary there that correct there
there is received a phone call when we were doing the collecting the ABM
feedback there's a developer at clay and Pitts who is looking to perhaps very
near-term develop a hundred Lots a year for the next five years we had identified
that area for development we'd seen plans for that area but there's a great
deal of water in that area running through that parcel plan so the initial
plans that we had seen included a lot of lakes and included a lot of things and
we're likely to be for large parcels from our understanding and so we had
projected lower numbers than that in that area.
Want to go to the junior high now? Excuse me? Want to go to the junior high now? Please.
Okay. We're moving on to Stockdick Junior High. This map shows the projected
geocoded students by current junior high attendance zones. Geocoded means resides
in the district or projected to reside there in the attendance zone. Katie Junior
High and McDonald Junior High both have capacities of just over 1,200 students,
so you can see from the numbers that they are obviously in need of relief. And
then this map shows the final recommendation for Stockdick. It's the
same recommendation that we brought to the board in November. In this option,
Stockdick splits with Katy Junior High, largely down Katy-Hockley Cut-Off, down
to Franz, and then the eastern boundary of Stockdick is the Grand Parkway.
And finally we'll move on to the recommendation for Bryant. Shown here are
again the projected enrollments in the current attendance zones. Katie Elementary
School and Wollman Elementary School are in need of relief but it is important to
remember that Katie only has a capacity of 643 students. And Katie's in the
purple and Wollman is in the gold just so anybody has trouble looking or
reading green color plus right south of the purple so this is the initial
recommendation for the Bryant zone as was shown to the board in November the
goal of the Sun was to provide relief to Katie and woman knowing that Bryant
would continue to grow but would get relief from a future Cane Island school
and then the recommendation here is what we're presenting to the board tonight
this puts all of Falls at Green Meadows into Katy Elementary and it places
portions of Laney Sun's 8 and 9 into Katy Elementary. We split Laney Zone 8
and created a new zone called 9B that includes Lakes of Katy and August Lakes.
This change is expected to cause Katy Elementary to exceed its capacity but
not by all that much. It would put Katy Elementary at approximately 113 percent
of capacity in five years. This addresses some proximity issues for residents of
of Lakes of Katy and August Lakes.
And it's important to note that it keeps all of Kane Island together at Bryant,
and it keeps all of Falls at Green Meadows together at Katy.
And if Katy begins to grow too significantly,
then Katy would in the future be able to be relieved by the new Kane Island School.
Okay.
Do we have any questions?
Madam President.
Mr. Griffin.
Ma'am, you just touched on it kind of briefly.
When y'all were putting these, the packages together with which kids go to which elementary,
junior high and high schools, how much emphasis did y'all put on pure feeder patterns?
I would love to be able to design pure feeder patterns for everybody.
But the fact of the matter is that's one of the factors that goes into it.
We also have to look at transportation.
We have to look at proximity and we have to look at numbers of students that will fit
inside the buildings with a small school at Katie and holding 634 and a thousand
students at another district so it's one of the pieces of the puzzle but it's
difficult to say in any zoning situation which is the most important people
always want to know what is the most important thing that you look at and it
really and truly depends on the situation so when you're looking at our
district as a whole or this this puzzle what was probably the greatest problem
that caused you the most issues with moving to pure feeder zones or I'm sorry
pure feeder patterns it's with moving with any district if you're Peter
patterns the biggest problem is that people don't move in where you would
like them to live in that's what it really boils down to is the development
is not a very definable easily understood where certain numbers of kids
live in the same shapes of areas I have done this now for about 20 years and
we've done it all over the state and I don't I can maybe think of one other
district that has pure feeder patterns if they have more than about two high
schools thank you if I could add one thing when you just try to come try to
figure out how to work the puzzle another thing is school size and grade
levels aren't an exact match when you take a look at it so if you were to like
take a look at a high school which may have 750 kids in each grade level and take a look at those
that are being feed from the junior high you're going to have more than that feeding into each
of those year groups so at some point you have to figure out where to split where not to split
make sure you don't splinter communities to the best of your ability and that's all part of the
all part of the work you do when you craft the boundary thank you madam president mr scott
Two final things. One, I think I'm looking at people in the audience who played a very significant role in making changes.
Whether they're fully pleased with this or not, I guess time will tell.
my position is this it is not right to break something before Thanksgiving and put people
into this kind of pace and make a decision in December whether it's busing or our attendance
its boundaries or programs for curriculum or whatever. These sorts of
things that have a direct impact on the lives of parents should have a longer
time and we should have a process in place where this school board can talk
to citizens in a timely fashion. We've got to get off of this nonsense that the
the only way we can communicate with people is when they come and talk and they can interact.
There is room within the Open Meetings Act to be able to accomplish this, and I hope
that they're satisfied with this.
I really do.
But there are people, and I'm looking at several right now, that I know played a significant
role, more of a role than any single member of this school board, including me.
and they deserve a lot of a lot of praise for getting at least some
rationality that did not exist in the first recommendation and I would agree
mr. Scott I think I would like to just highlight you know some of the comments
that were made as far as some of the determination that is made with regards
to a new school boundary yeah in a perfect world I'd love to have
elementary schools feed into a single middle school or junior high and that
junior high feed to a single high school unfortunately in a district that has
grown and I had a great conversation today with mr. Bryant and he he gave me
some data that 750 percent is the number the growth of this school district in
the last 30 years and we maintain a school district of excellence we've got
63 great schools we're about to have 66 great schools next year but when it
comes to boundary you've got your geography distance to and from campus
yeah we'd love to make sure that the distance is shorter to a campus versus
one that may be closer and we may get in within the 85% range but we can't be
perfect in that area we look for natural boundaries and thoroughfares creeks or
highways 99 I 10 we like to think that we may be within 85% of that but
unfortunately we can't be perfect there either we look at the total number of
kids by L U Z we made a recommendation and I will agree with you it was because
of community input through a survey but really it was through community input
and some conversations that we had after that November 14th meeting the one thing
that a the one thing that a a pass or a survey can't tell you is families that
may have been in LLUZ for four or five generations and I get it I understand
that campus space of course all of our schools aren't the same size we have
three or four different designs at the elementary level not to mention the
junior high and the high school so yes the feeder patterns I'd like here here's
Here's the deal, and I take a lot of interest in this, and I don't want to belabor my age,
but in 1978, at about this time, I was a student at West Memorial Junior High.
And I'll never forget, for two years I thought I was going to be a Katie Tiger.
All right?
Just imagine that.
I could have been a Katie Tiger.
But there was a school that was built by the name of James E. Taylor High School.
and at about this time my father informed me son you're going to Taylor
High School I said what all right and you know my dad wasn't the type of guy
that would take any argument I went to Taylor High School I've got a lot of
great friends I love this school district but all of our schools are
great schools and you know I did okay I think you guys hired me a superintendent
you know but
Yes, we're going to you know, no decision is made tonight. We're going to listen to our community input
We've got 20 speakers at a minute and a half
But any commercial you can get your point across in 60 seconds and I'm going to listen to these folks
And then I'm going to deliberate tonight tomorrow the next day and I'll make some recommendations to this school board
Madam President, one more thing I promise.
I want to say to you, Dr. Hint, that you are a breath of fresh air
in terms of the approach that you take with the citizens of this district.
And I don't dispute that in any way.
I don't believe we would be here tonight headed where we are under the past.
but again the point I want to reiterate is to praise you and to praise your willingness to
meet with these folks I have nothing but respect for that but releasing something in November and
expecting parents who do dive into the numbers who do get the Excel spreadsheets who do try to
replicate they can't do it over Thanksgiving leading to December and
looking ahead I'm glad I brought my WWF tie to that because I meant to because I
want to say we have got to change the way and we can't just depend on the fact
that you're a good guy we have to institutionalize the reality that this
board should not need a group of private citizens to do our job for us we're
supposed to protect them they're not supposed to protect us
when I'm present mr. Cabral mr. Grinnell could you speak to the process after ABM
transportation HR processes hiring for those schools a lot hinges on the decisions to to
approve the attendance boundaries you know the first one coming down the road pretty quick is
staffing in January once we know the number of students that are going to be going to schools
we can start figuring out what type of staff we need to have and and do those do those plans for
next year it also determines where and where we're going to send the buses to and and make sure that
we order enough buses to to complete that you know typically you have to order those early in the
year to make sure you got them here by the uh by by the next fall there's other administrative
stuff associated with it you know whether it's the determining of the school mascot or whatever
it may be but the big ones are transportation staffing and probably budget
Thank you.
Madam President.
Madam President.
Mr. Griffin.
Mr. Gunnell, or whomever.
the plan that you put together here with the projected numbers in here do you
think our junior highs are going to be relatively stable for the next five
years our elementary schools relatively stable like when you see the growth
happening is going further up north unfortunately some of the kids are going
to get to move twice there's a plan that you're putting together and with the
input with the community do you think you're able to minimize those kids that have to move
especially the ones that are most vulnerable you know when we when we take a look at i just popped
up the uh the one for the new one for the elementary schools when you take a look at the uh
the numbers for bryant uh you can make it through 2021 uh if these numbers hold um so if you have a
that's five years down the road.
So if you make it to 2021, 2022 is the next year, that's six years.
So that's certainly minimal amount of changes there.
When you take a look at Bethke, something's going to have to be done
because they just have so many students coming in there
that that would almost justify two new elementary schools
in the next five years, for example.
So for the attendance boundaries we talked about today at the elementary school,
I think that's a pretty fair statement that there will be minimum impacts.
I think it's really important to note that one of the things we did is, as again part of the feedback from folks talking last month or feedback or whatever it may have been,
was a determination to try to keep the developmental areas together where we could.
So that's why you saw, for example, the Falls at Green Meadow being put back together.
Although we couldn't satisfy Kane Island all going to Katy Elementary, at least we kept the development together.
So those are things that we worked on.
For the junior highs, I think we're pretty good generally with the junior highs that we talked about,
except as you get further north, depending on the development, you know that we have probably a junior high or two in the next bond.
So I would expect there to be some impact to the to the north where exactly I can't tell you at this date
I
Hope that answers your question. It's probably the best I can do with a five-year forecast
I'm president. I'd like to address something mrs. Doyle
One of the things that I want to address in reference to this with what Mr. Scott is sharing,
and I don't totally disagree with what you're saying, it is a lot of information that is
presented in a very short amount of time and for the amount of time that I've been in Katy,
this is how it's been done. Not just because it's done that way, I agree with you, it doesn't always
mean that it's the correct way. But what I do want to correct you on is that I serve on this
board because of the children of this district so I want to make that
correction in what mr. Scott said I missed my senior son's football banquet
tonight to be here for this board meeting because I knew the importance of
what was coming before us and I dread ABM meetings and one of the reasons that
I dreaded is because of that senior in high school when I moved here he
attended five schools before he was a freshman in high school and we moved
here when he was in the fourth grade so he was in a different school every year and on top of that
he had a severe anxiety disorder so you can just imagine what it was like to look at that child
just as dr hint's father had to look at him and say oh by the way next year you're going to a new
school and it was very difficult and so i want to make sure that you know as a community that i do
hear mr scott and i don't disagree with him as a board member he is making some very valid points
that this is a lot of information and it is not fun information and by no means
is it fun for me as a board member to have to look at any of you as a parent
or any of your children and tell you that you have to go to a different
school it is growth and it is fantastic I can tell you that I probably have some
of the most well-rounded children because of the moves I came from a very
small town and everybody went to the same elementary the same junior high and
the same high school and if any of you know me though i don't attend katie high school i have
been to a lot of katie things and i tell you every time i see you i feel like i'm home when i'm at a
katie high school thing because it reminds me of home because that's how home was for me and and
there is something very special about that that history and the family and and the um legacy of
people that go there and so y'all have spoken to me i did get your emails i spoke with you after
the meeting last time and i hear you and i do get it and i do care about your children so i do not
want this meeting to end without everybody in this audience understanding and i think i speak on
behalf of every single board member especially like but mr scott said that we we are here
because of your children and because we we care we're not here because we just have nothing else
better to do so please know that at the end of tonight that we we lose sleep over this that this
This is very important to us and it's not easy and I want you to know that.
Madam President.
Madam President.
Okay.
Is there?
If it's okay, I'd like to have a turn.
Is that okay?
Yeah, I just didn't understand what you were saying.
I'm having a hard time putting into words how I feel about you and your children.
I'm taking a long time to answer because I'm trying not to be emotional.
This is the sixth school district that our family has lived in.
We moved here because of KDISD's reputation, like a lot of you do.
And we stopped moving because of Katie Iciti's reputation and because of what they did for our children.
Because of what you created Katie to be.
750% growth is because of you.
You created it.
Turn around and look at the back wall. You see that? Our vision statement, be the
legacy. You did that. You created the legacy we all want to be and we chose be
the legacy because we know that it's our responsibility to keep contributing. And
so the seven people who sit here as your elected volunteer Board of Trustees are
are here because we want to do what you did,
and we want to make this a better place.
Mrs. Doyle is right.
Attendance boundary modifications
are the most painful thing.
Not having enough bus drivers so we can give every person
a ride to school breaks our hearts,
because we want to be the best.
We want to be what everyone talks about.
We are, but we're not happy. We're the best school district in the Houston area.
Do you realize that Houston area is called Region 4 and it represents 25% of the children in Texas?
We're the best,
but we're not happy.
We want to continue to be better.
I love your children.
And just like Mrs. Doyle, our family has been rezoned a few times.
We moved to a high-growth area.
And you all didn't.
It came to you for the most part.
Every single time, we got a quality building and the best educators on the
land.
I put our educators against anybody.
And you would, too.
You don't get to be the best by being mediocre and we aren't.
And I'm sorry that we can't give everybody what they want because we would.
We have new people coming and we're going to love them and educate them and give them
the best we have.
We give them the best namesakes.
The Stockdicks are also in the room.
I'm sorry I missed seeing you earlier.
The Stockdicks are here.
the Bryant's are here and Katie we are Katie thank you for what you did make
this a place I love so much more than the day I started because of you thank
you for what you've done and for the opportunities you've given me to serve
you and to my children who have graduated from here and gone on to be
very successful because of what you've given them and I don't know how to say
it any better than just I am overwhelmed with emotion because I know your pain
and also have such gratitude for what you've done and thank you for your
feedback we've listened to it all we've read all the emails we've listened to it
we made adjustments as much as we could and I hope that you're very informed and
and have all the information and thank you.
Madam President.
Mr. Scott.
I certainly hope and it was not my intention
to impugn the motivation, the character,
the good feelings, motivation of any member of this board.
and I just want to say that I approached this item on the agenda in the context
of having a fiduciary and corporate responsibility that is uniquely held by a
corporate entity called the Board of Trustees there was no intention
whatsoever to impugn any individual. Nonetheless, I believe that the comments
that I made about the corporate entity are well grounded and I think you're
all's compassion and concern is equally sincere and equally well grounded.
Any other? Mrs. Vann. I'll be brief. I just wanted to say that thank you Mr.
Ms. Doyle and Ms. Fox for your comments.
And thank you, Mr. Scott and Mr. Griffin and Mr. DeBell for your questions.
I think this has been a very emotional and a very important discussion to have.
But what I wanted to say is thank you to all of you that are sitting out here tonight who have been here, you know, meeting after meeting.
It's a true passion and dedication you have to not just the community you're in but the greater community of Katy ISD.
And I thank you for your respectful way of approaching this as has been set up here.
and ABM is something we all lose sleep over and it's not an easy thing to do to
tell to for any parent to look at a child and say you're you're changing
schools whether excited about it or not but I just wanted to say thank you to
the community that's that's here tonight and and I'm sure we will continue to
hear from but I appreciate and the respectful way that you've handled all
this because it's I know it's a passionate filled thing and and I just
said we've read your emails and had chance to speak to a lot of you personally but I just I
want to express my personal thank you to all of you here and all of you that aren't here that
you speak for and stand for that's all okay this item will not be moved to the consent agenda we
We will continue to take input and look and consider it in the future.
Board, I would direct you to 7.2.
Thank you so much for your presentation, Mr. Ganahl, and Dr. McIntosh.
We will discuss and consider future board adoption of a resolution regarding property tax relief and transparency in taxation.
Mr. Smith, good evening.
Good evening, Mrs. Fox, trustees, and Superintendent Hint.
It's my pleasure to talk to you tonight about a resolution that kind of got its grassroots started in the North Texas area,
but it's very true to Katie and most of the state.
But I'm going to set the stage by talking a little bit about our last 15 years I have graphed up here.
year, and the peach color or the pink color is our enrollment, and it's grown from about
$18,000 to about $75,000 students over those last 15 years.
And our property values have grown from about $8 billion to about $36 billion over the last
15 years as well.
We've had tremendous property value growth and enrollment growth.
And these two of those went hand in hand.
But if you'll look at the 13, 14, 14, 15 years, those property value growth really started getting higher.
And I think that's happening in the state of Texas.
In fact, I know that's happening in the state of Texas.
And I'm going to show you what the ramifications are for having our property value growth grow faster than our enrollment on this next slide.
Now, I spent a lot of time speaking about this slide during the budget process.
And I won't spend as much time tonight on that, but I'm going to focus on three lines.
And the first is that on the far right where it says $15 million in the difference column.
That's our Tier 1, and that's what the state will spend, or that's what it costs to educate children for the basic education across the state of Texas, and that's our Tier 1.
And you can see that that went up by $15 million.
Well, why would that go up by $15 million?
dollars it's because we had student enrollment growth and the more students
you have the more you need to educate the students so we had 15 million
dollars in growth but because of the anomaly that I'm going to speak to you
about tonight the next line is shows a 49 million dollar increase in Katie is
DS the amount of Katie is D needs to pay towards the basic education a 50 million
million increase. The difference would be the next row down, which shows a 34, almost
a 35 million dollar decrease. That's the state's share of funding of basic education. So what
happens is the local taxpayers, all of us, are paying more and the state's paying less
under the current formulas that we have to talk about, that I'm speaking of. So some
Some of you may recognize this, I think it's a pretty picture, but what I want to talk
about is the two parts.
That's an iceberg for those of you who haven't figured it out.
The one that's the bright shiny part at the top in the sun is above the water line and
of course you see the part below the water line.
There's been a lot of press speak, especially in the Houston area on HISD being a Chapter
41 school district.
And I'm going to back up a slide and show you that, yes, we received state money to fund our education.
In fact, it's $171 million this year.
So Austin is sending us a check to educate our children.
It's less of a check, but they're sending us a check.
If that were negative, we would be a Chapter 41 school district that was contributing toward recapture.
That's what's happening in Houston.
It means that we get so much tax revenue we have to write a check back to Austin.
That's what's above the waterline is somebody, some geeky guy like me writing a check and sending it to Austin.
That's easy to talk about.
It's easy to picture in our minds.
But it's the part below the waterline that I think is a lot bigger,
and it's very important throughout the state because it's Robin Hood.
It's not us sending the check, but it's Austin's check getting smaller.
Okay?
and you've seen me talk about these Apple slides a bunch so when property
values go up state funding goes down and in the 13-14 school year just three
years ago we were almost at 50-50 or state was funding 49% of what it cost
to educate children in tier one and we were paying 41% as tax but 51% as
taxpayers in the 1617 school year it's 35% state and 65% local means this to
the local taxpayers are paying 14% more towards the basic cost or the tier one
cost of education that is a big swing and it's based on the property value
increases this equates to and I'll give everybody a second to just kind of think
wonder how much that is based on that first slide chris said 102 million dollars if it was back to
51 or 49 and the state was paying 49 percent that and still we would have about 100 102 million
dollars over these last three years to have operated our on but instead the state's using
that money for other areas of the budget and not it's not going toward education so it's 102 million
dollars over the last three years and in my budget talks this summer I called it
rotten apples this grassroots effort well before I hit that I'm going to say
that a little bit more macro level on it state benefited from local property
values in this biennium by five point four billion dollars so we saw a hundred
and two million dollars on the slide but statewide it's not just Katie it's five
point four billion dollars and then not all of that stayed in education some of
that went toward other areas for example two point six billion dollars of those
funds went to franchise tax relief or to the businesses and I also say that back
when I started in in in Katy or I wouldn't say many years ago before I
started at one point the state was paying 23 percent of our debt service
service payment. 23% would be about, in today's money, is about $30 million. Now we get no state
money to make our debt payment. It's because of this rising property values on the debt side. But
instead of just hearing it from me, I want to let you hear it from real people.
We do own a house. I am a mother of a two-year-old.
Do you have to pay property taxes on your home?
Yes.
You can't answer that one.
Yes, we do.
Every year we write a check at the end of the year, usually in December for our property
taxes.
Same home for about six years now and it's gone up every year.
And it is quite a bit and it takes most of my savings every year.
I know we put it into an escrow and they pay it at the end of the year, but specifically
what they go to, I don't know.
I know the property taxes go towards fixing roads.
They go to the parks.
Developments in the city, schools.
Staffing of the schools.
Teacher salaries or infrastructure.
If you found out that that money that you paid to the school district was actually not all going to the school district, how would that make you feel?
Well, I guess you're referring to some of it going to the state and being divided up to other districts.
I see the need for that because we have so many areas that are not as fortunate as we are economically.
Did you know that the money goes to the state or did you assume that it is
stayed here in the district? I actually didn't know that I went to the state.
Not any portion, so that's news to me. If you found out the state was using
those funds for things outside of education, how would that make you feel?
Pretty mad. It seems kind of weird and it feels like something that we should have
how to say it, you know.
That would upset.
Yes, that would upset a great deal,
because we pay other taxes for that.
Is it going towards education in general,
or is it just going any old place?
I want to know where it was going,
because it has been itemized to go to the district.
Well, that would be disappointing.
Disappointed?
It's really disappointing.
I would be disappointed.
Especially if you have kids in that school district,
and you want the best for them.
I just feel like you don't really know what is going where.
We're assuming that it's helping educating your children, that we're paying to educate our kids.
It wouldn't surprise me that much, in all honesty. Money moves in magical ways.
In 2008, the state spent an average of $4,226 for each student in Texas public schools,
taking into account an influx of 723,000 students since then.
along with inflation growth, the state's funding has dropped $795 per student since 2008.
That's a 19% drop in funding per student.
Over the last two years, the state of Texas has benefited $5.4 billion from rising school property values.
So, if the additional funds are not going to students, where are they going?
And then the state gave 2.6 billion dollar tax cut to businesses in the state.
Ah.
So, we don't know.
You know, if you're in business, you better know how to do your own damn business and don't make me pay for it.
The money that, the surplus money from the school is actually being given to businesses.
Um, what...
Attracting great companies here is also very good for our kids and our schools.
I would want to balance all that out.
I think the money for education needs to stay with education.
Is it publicly declared to be an education but then it goes somewhere else ultimately?
Is that what you're saying?
Yeah, so that's not right.
It's a lie. I think it would be misrepresentation.
How do they get away with that?
I was in education for thirty something years so I should know but I didn't.
Whatever is designated to the schools that it's ultimately going somewhere else, it should be split into a different category so we can see the breakdown more transparently.
More items put out publicly that actually tell people where the money is going.
Yeah, that would be very interesting to see where it does go.
I feel that would be my biggest part. It's just sharing.
Our neighborhood is great. There's a lot of families with young kids and our schools are
lacking severely in funding.
It would be cool if that money stayed super local, didn't go to just kind of spread out
all over the place. Maybe that's a dream scenario.
I would be the kind of consumer citizen that would want to look further into what you're
saying. I'm just a person that is very big on doing my research.
Okay, so presented before you is a resolution that speaks to this probably much more concise
and better than I have spoken to you about it, and it also provides suggestions such
as annual adjustments to the basic allotment, which funds that basic cost of Tier 1.
If those rising property values throughout the state went back towards Tier 1, it would
keep the dollars in education and this resolution again does a good job speaking to that and
keeping the funds in public education.
That's all I have for you at this time.
Thank you, Mr. Smith.
Any questions?
Madam President?
Mr. Dubrow?
Last week I was up at the TASB Board meeting and we actually had several conversations
about this. This is actually reaching epidemic proportions around the state. I
was sharing with Mr. Smith earlier that the city of Houston is actually playing
a big game of chicken with the state over its 120 million dollars. City of
Houston, well, HISD, supposed to write 120 million dollar check to the state of
Texas and they just, they put it up for vote among the public and HISD, their
constituents, and they've already know. So they're not sending it and they're, have
Have little t-shirts made up with the cannon that says come and take it so it's from the state of Texas to come and take it so
that's funny, and I appreciate their gall, but I
Appreciate you bringing this forward because this is reaching
Epidemic proportions to where the state is actually taking this money and redirecting it to other areas
Not even education. I could see if it was going to a poor school district that maybe needed the help
But the fact that it's not even going to education at all
So I think I appreciate you bringing this forward and I think that this is something that we should support a hundred and ten percent
Madam president, mr. Scott dr. Hint, I would like to see Katie isd explore
with large districts perhaps Houston ISD might be the be the one to do this
because I want to see the state of Texas take that much money away break
bondholder covenants and punish a school district with 99% minority kids but that
aside I think the serious issue here is that the state of Texas has created the
de facto state property tax by any other name and I would like to see this
district explore the definitive lawsuit against the state of Texas and we need
to go after them because what they're doing it is in effect whether the
lawyers can prove it or not what they're doing is creating a state property tax
which is against the state constitution period paragraph end of story we've got
money in our balance sheet and I personally would support spending a lot
of it if we could find a coherent legal strategy to go after them but I don't
want to I don't want to do it symbolically I want to go after their
jugular vein we need to win this battle they are destroying public education I
think there is a motivation to to hurt public education and advance the cause
of vouchers and charters and privatization because when you take
take money away from a public education school district,
you're hurting the vast majority of children.
Let's go sue them if we can find a legal strategy to do it.
That's my attitude.
You know, HISD just got a new superintendent,
why not two rookies go for it?
It is, this has been a snowball rolling down a hill
for 20 years and we are probably all fortunate that they picked on a 98 99
percent minority district and the issues are going to crystallize there and I'm
not so sure that we shouldn't join that fight if there is a legal way to do it I
think this this is a start right here with what we're doing and I'll certainly
engage in that conversation Thank You mr. Scott mr. Smith what action do you
want us to take it would be my recommendation that y'all that the board
adopt the resolution regarding property tax relief and transparency and taxation
is there any objection to moving the resolution to the consent agenda so
moved and so in order to do that at this time I'll have the board secretary mrs.
Doyle read the resolution into the record then on next week we'll take the
vote. Mrs. Doyle? I am. Resolution of the Katy Independent School District Board of
Trustees regarding property tax relief and transparency and taxation whereas
Katy ISD recognizes that increases in property values have resulted in
increased property tax burdens on taxpayers in Katy ISD and in other
communities and whereas rising local property values enable the state to
reduce its funding to KDISD and other school districts across the state, which enables
the state to shift general fund revenue paid by taxpayers for use in education to other
state priorities, resulting in both a lack of transparency in taxation and an overreliance
on local property taxes.
And whereas KDISD, on behalf of its taxpayers, advocates that taxes collected in the name
of public education must remain and be expended solely on pre-k 12 public
education and not diverted to other state expenditures or priorities and
whereas KDIC believes the current public education funding system utilized by the
state lacks transparency and whereas KDIC supports our vision to the current
public education planning system outside the state to ensure that state
adequately and fairly on publication and whereas current education funding system
utilized by the state does not provide any adjustments to the various equalized
wealth levels to the rate of inflation and the rate of population growth and
whereas KDIC believes public education funding should grow annually by a rate
of not less than the rate of inflation and the rate of population growth now
therefore be it resolved KDIC petitions the Texas legislature to take action
during the upcoming regular session related to the pre-k 12 application
finance to one assure that in order to establish transparency and fidelity in
taxation at all levels of government, the State shall eliminate the practice of reducing
the State's funding obligations to public education because of increased property tax
revenues resulting from the growth in property values, a practice which allows the State
to divert State funds previously allocated to public education to other priorities.
Two, assure that public independent school districts have greater ability and incentive
to provide local property tax relief by eliminating the possibility that future increases to a maintenance and operations rate previously approved by taxpayers might cause the district to subject voters to the cost of another election to ratify that same rate again.
3. Provide automatic annual adjustments to the basic allotment and each of the equalized wealth levels relative to the rates of inflation and population growth in the current or any future public education funding system utilized by the state.
or provide a consistent and fair balance between local maintenance and operations
taxes and the state's contribution to public education adopted this 12th day
of December 2016 by the Board of Trustees of Katy Independent School
District Rebecca Fox president Board of Trustees
80 Independent School District Courtney Doyle secretary Board of Trustees Katy
independent school district I mean where's my round of applause people and
a drink of water okay 7.3 discuss and consider future board approval of the
total required funding which includes a change order to amendment 3 of the
guaranteed maximum price contract to Durrell tech Inc for the structural
support component of the live-action media broadcast system at the student
activity facility stick at stadium again mr. Rollins nice to see you again you
brought mr. McElwain mr. Nathan how do you say your last name books books with
you good evening good evening madam president members of the board and
superintendent him the item for consideration this evening goes hand in
hand with the presentation I gave earlier this evening with respect to the
live action media broadcast system at the new student activity facility second stadium the
total cost of the system including the work included in the associated change order
is not to exceed 1.875 million dollars mr mcawain and mr fuchs are here should there be any
questions related to the design or construction should this be approved we anticipate this being
finished in conjunction with the student activity facility any questions uh yes madam president
Was the scoreboard a line item in the $58 million component of the 2014 bond issue?
No, it wasn't, Mr. Scott.
In the design development, which was presented as part of the design approval in July of 2015,
it was specifically identified that this particular component in total would be funded separately.
I'm sorry, maybe I misunderstood.
understood did you say that that was put together in July of 15 that yes the
does about November 214 how was this was this promoted that the stadium was going
to have a scoreboard it would have a scoreboard and was it in a line item
specifically related to the bond issue no it was not okay was it the intent to
to use bond funds to buy this scoreboard?
As I mentioned, when the design was presented
in July of 2015, it was identified
that it would be funded separately.
Subsequent to that particular point in time
in talking with senior administration,
it was felt that the recommendation should be to fund that
initially out of general operating funds
with the intent, as Mr. Rawlins had mentioned earlier,
to ultimately recover that funding
through marketing revenue.
Okay, I'm gonna say this, and then for the rest of time,
If it's up to me and no one wants to get into an argument about it,
I just wish this board had shown, as a corporate entity, this is not a personal attack,
I wish this board had shown a smidgen of contrition about the shell game that was played in the 2014 bond issue.
I am voting for this scoreboard.
I'm voting for it.
I think the stadium was a turkey, but every turkey deserves its dressing,
and this is good dressing.
This will help the students of this district.
The stadium we go forward, as far as I'm concerned, it is now a dead issue.
But I wish there had been some contrition to the citizens of this community
who were severely frustrated at the approach.
as far as the stadium as far as I can tell is beautiful I may even go to a football game there
dr. him but I'm through with the stadium issue unless somebody wants to discuss it in more detail
any objection to moving this to consent agenda thank you very much seven point four discuss and
consider future board approval of the design associated with the career and technology
Education CTE we call it facility expansion the front office renovations
and large group instruction or the LGI rooms at Beck Cinco Ranch Katie
McDonald and McMeans junior high schools mr. McElwain you just changed geography
these I will you also have with you miss Lisa Cassman thank you president mr.
mr. McElwain let me introduce the rest of your group miss Lisa Cassman's
construction project manager dr. Sarah Martin director of rare and technology
Education. Good evening Mr. Stuart Campbell, Texas IBI Architects. Good
evening. Welcome. Thank you President Fox, Board
members, Superintendent Hant. I'd be remiss if I did not also recognize this
evening some of the junior high principals that are here this evening
that are associated with this particular project. We are excited and I'm
excited on behalf of our Facilities and Planning and Construction Department
because the general theme of the three items which I have some involvement
in this evening are all associated with career and technology education. First we
just spoke about the LAMS project. I wanted to say publicly that I'm
extremely proud of our involvement in these projects to support our career and
technology education program in the district. I'm going to make a few
introductory comments and turn it over to Dr. Martin who will give some
supportive remarks about this particular set of projects and subsequently
consequently Stuart Campbell from Texas IBI Architects will run you through the design of this particular project.
The five campuses which are involved in this particular project, Cinco Ranch, Beck, Katy, McMeans and McDonald,
represent a similar footprint and in that regard you'll see as we move through the design a similar treatment.
The general scope of this project is to address the needs in the career and technology area of these particular junior high campuses,
specifically in the area of food, nutrition, or the food and family and consumer sciences area,
as well as the engineering area and lab area, classroom area of this particular campus.
Also included in the Braun project was identified work within the office area. If you're familiar with these particular campuses, there is room for improvement with respect to functional arrangements in those particular campuses to improve efficiency.
we work closely with the principals and you'll also see as we move through this project that in working with the
with the principals over the last number of months
Lisa Casman, the project manager specifically to give a recognition
I was identified and need was identified by the principals which was not identified
originally in the bond original bond line on the other project for
or to see if there was a potential to create a large group instruction area in the campus.
These campuses do not, this footprint does not have the LGI space.
So without further ado, I'll turn it over to Dr. Martin.
She'll give some supportive comments.
Good evening.
The Office of Career and Technical Education is extremely excited about the renovations for the junior high school campuses.
Our family and consumer sciences, our technology education and production labs, the expansion
will provide students that launch pad that they need in eighth grade so that they can
select their endorsement pathways going into Houseville 5.
So when they go into their high school CTE programs, they'll have a little bit better
understanding of their explorations.
These campuses are extremely important.
It creates equity amongst the districts or amongst the schools in the districts because
that space will now mirror what is at all schools at the junior high level so
we're extremely excited it's a long time coming our students are going to gain
all all the experience and opportunities that they can have prior to entering
high school and go with a lot more experience under their belt I will now
ask us to work Campbell Texas IBI architects to walk you through quickly
quickly the design of these particular campuses.
Good evening, President Fox and Superintendent Hint and Board members.
I will briefly go through this the best that I can.
When we sat down, like I said, I would like to say that it was a nice collaborative effort
for the design of this school, so I do appreciate the input of all the principals, facilities
group and also the CTE administration.
They have helped overcome a lot of obstacles and also identify things that I think will ultimately benefit the children in the district.
What you see currently is the existing courtyard at the back.
We plan that's where our addition will go for the CTE lab, which will be there.
the front entry current front entry right now which lacks a little bit of
security one of the things with the office plans is try to increase it to
meet the current programs that you're doing throughout the district so what we
propose is a new new front entry where it completely separates the visitors
from the district from the school staff and also the students sir please excuse
the principals on the front row doing the happy dance the happy dance when
they see this entryway and it like I said it came about a lot by their input
what we were able to do is basically bring the reception desk forward and
also add attendance to where if you're visiting the school and you need to get
your child out or whatever you do not have to go within the confines of the
school so you'll be within the safe zone you will not have to sign in and reach
reach like I said staff or student areas of the school this would be the interior
of that CTE lab what it does from the current one and you'll see from the
floor plans that the growth from what now was built the first one in about the
early 80s the programs weren't as defined the spaces were severely smaller
and you really can't safely do the programs in the in the space that they
have right now we'll go through all these very quickly the first one is Beck
and just kind of well I'll go over Beck and then quickly go through the other
ones on the floor plans are all fairly similar site layout is relatively close
to all of them we will be like I said upgrading emergency emergency systems
and all of that when you look your existing plan will be on my right hand
side board members I guess if you're looking at it'll be the right hand side
of the screen with the existing you see where we've come into the the lobby and
the office area made some minor revisions there we have the lab at the
the back currently both the food the sorry lost my place here both your your
food lab and your CTE lab were located in that very small sliver at the back if
you see the additions that we're doing on the other side you can see the growth
and also the the improvement in the facilities they also identify in kind of
of the green area the library this has been one where we we have found a way
without changing the current standards that are that this or I say standards
the current layouts that you're doing in new schools for square footages this
would give you basically the same amount of square footage in the library as it
would within the LGI so in effect it will not change the footprint of the
school will not change any of the opportunities that you allow in your current plans so it was
a nice option that is also listed as an alternate so we're looking at that as we go on
uh second school we go in order of course would be cinco ranch uh cinco ranch is a little bit
different only because we would have a little bit more special needs uh access out the back
so it would have an additional canopy but very much the same approach Katie
junior high once again very similar with the same approach some have like I said
intricacies about them that change a little bit but all of them are pretty
much the same th McDonald which is actually the first of that prototype and
once again the same general approach and then McMeans with that approach our
Our timeline right now is that we would be completing our documents over the next month or so.
We would come back to you with our GMP.
Start construction in March.
That would be for the outside portions of the addition in respect not to disrupt any of the ongoing operations of the school.
The majority of this work would be done during the summer months when no one is at the school.
and we've already like I said planned on arrangements for the staff during that
time so we're looking into that the students would come back the following
year with everything in place and ready to go with that I'd like to also mention
the fact that maybe congratulate the design team as well as sterling
structures who are the the construction managers in this particular project and
When the bond was first, the bond program was first developed, it was anticipated that three of the five schools would be done this summer with the other two schools being completed next summer.
The team working together felt that for efficiency purposes, cost-effective purposes, if there was any way that we could do all five this summer, that would be most beneficial.
And they rose up to that challenge.
So all five schools are anticipated to complete this summer.
And just to reiterate a comment that Stuart had mentioned with respect to the large group instruction areas,
the alternate, when the pricing is brought back to the board,
we'll also have that separate pricing or alternate pricing for the LGI.
So the board will be able to see the cost of that LGI at the time of approval of the costing for these projects.
Any questions?
MS. Thank you for your presentation. I think that it's the equity, as was said,
is a long time coming. Watching the principals sitting here and spending time on the different
junior high campuses, I know that the security of the front office is very important and
the streamline of having the attendance right there for parents to interact with the front
office and get their child in a timely manner and be the least disruptive to the front office,
that's amazing and CTE is just that's just exciting I've my third junior high
student is in a family consumer sciences and she will be taking engineering as an
eighth grader next year so I just it's very exciting that with that growing
opportunities for our students that that the equity has come to these campuses to
speak to the LG I and like I said I have my third child in the same the same
junior high all three and maybe as a parent volunteer and as a parent leader
I took for granted the LG I I've seen it in action I've seen the project-based
learning and the group and the groups that can meet in the classrooms that can
get together and the projects the shark tank projects and the different things
that are made possible because there's an LG I also as a parent volunteer it's
a great space for principals coffees and PTA and PTO meetings so I to be
completely honest I kind of assumed that most campuses had an LGI because it's
such a functional space and it it can be one thing one day and one thing the next
so I was glad to see that and I'm glad to know that the square footage is
mirrored to the other campuses in the district and I also think it's an
excellent excuse me an excellent thing that all schools are going to be done at
the same time is you know one person doesn't get the little the shiny brass
ring and someone else is waiting for their so I think I thank you Sterling
structures for pointing that out and making that bringing that to the
district making that possible mr. Campbell have a question did I
understand you correctly to say that even with the taking some of the
existing library space for the LGI the remaining library will still be
comparable to those other schools that are in the district. The current
plans that your district is building yes they are comparable to that. So these
five schools had larger libraries to begin with? The libraries were a little
bit larger but we'd also be taking out a center corridor and that corridor was
while it was partially used I will say it's probably not as a hugely used space
You have another corridor that's just up to the depending on which way you are just around the corner
Really steps on our Fitbit to go around that's fine
And it doesn't really change doesn't change any fire egress anything like that. So it was nice found space great. I too appreciate the
presentation here and the thought put into
equity for our campuses I too have
have, sorry if I'm repetitive, Mrs. Vann, but right, those LGI rims are used for so many,
so many things and provide a great opportunity for our principals and our students there
to use. I like all of it. I'm mostly excited about the CTE opportunities for our kids.
I agree with Mr. Scott. Every child's not going to college. It's not our intent.
Lots of children are going to go right to the workforce and start making a difference.
They're going to create and invent things that I'm going to be really excited about
and have to ask my kids how to use.
And, you know, that happens a lot with children who have hands-on scientific opportunities
to figure all those things out.
So I'm excited that these campuses will get improvements.
So thanks for that presentation.
We appreciate the opportunity.
Anybody else have questions?
Yes, ma'am.
Mr. Scott?
Yes.
Sorry.
Is page 18, is that MacDonald Junior High on your sheet?
I think it is, but would you verify for me?
Yes, that is MacDonald Junior High.
Are you taking out computer labs to accommodate this?
There would be one computer lab that would be affected.
That's where we would move the library staff,
staff, basically the office and the workroom. With the layout of the school, the other opportunities, also by adding the concepts of engineering lab, which is a computer lab, the school did not see the need for a, quote, stand-alone computer lab. A lot of that technology is going in the classrooms right now, too, to where a lot of that education is literally in a classroom, not in a computer lab. So it allows a little bit
more flexibility of the spaces that's the theory but could i get an answer there are four computer
labs as i understand it now at mcdonald junior high school when this is done how many computer
labs will there be mr scott we are taking out the one but it was discussed in depth with the campus
i don't believe mr cummings is here this this evening but he was going to be able to make it
work with the other technology around the building as mr. Campbell stated
there's computer opportunities available everywhere else and that was a discussion
with the campus that was how your lab are we losing any computers well we
never actually losing but are we reducing the number of computers
technology we possibly are but now with they can bring in laptops and that's a
a discussion we're still having with technology so we're not going to
shortchange any students from any computer availability at some point in
time dr. Hint whenever the board gets around to discussing curriculum and
academics we can have a discussion about laptops versus computer labs and how
teachers use computer labs and how many teachers do not use the laptops sort of
the soup de jour I think it's an issue when you're taking computer labs out of
title one campuses and I think it's an issue when you are taking books the
printed page out of junior high libraries and I don't believe that the
calculus of square footage matches the impact of taking volumes out of
libraries on the other hand I do agree that there is there is a a trend I mean
I mean, there is a use issue at these older junior high schools, but I'm not convinced that the staff actually gets input, real input.
I believe certain people at staffs get input, but I'm not sure the rank and file get input.
It's not a construction issue until it becomes a construction project, but I have concerns about this.
But I'm not, I mean, I just want to voice those concerns.
And I have.
Any more questions?
Any objection to moving this item to consent agenda?
So moved. Thank you so much for your presentation. We're excited for the change.
We're at 7.5. Discuss and consider future board approval of Amendment 1 to the Stewart Builders
Incorporated Instruction Manager at Risk Contract for the Guaranteed Maximum Price Related to the
Agriculture Sciences Center Expansion. Mr. McIlwain, you're moving target. There you are.
Mrs. Casman, how are you?
Thank you, President Fox, board members, Superintendent Hint.
I'm joined by Lisa Casman this evening.
This is her project, which she is project managing from within the district.
At last month's board meeting, Mr. Gunnell gave an update with respect to the
Ag Sciences Facility 2014 Bond Authorization Program project,
and at that particular point time it was identified that this project would be done in
in phases with the first phase being the barn construction
associated the barn that's associated with the opening of
Pato High School. As you know there is a barn associated with each one of the high schools.
I'm proud to say that since this particular facility has been developed
these barns have seen tremendous amount of use. I'm proud of this particular program and
and the students and what this will provide once this project is complete.
This item which is before you this evening is amendment number one to the
Stuart Builders Inc. construction manager risk contract for the construction of
the barn and associated infrastructure as well as a restroom facility. The total
The total cost of this project is $2,213,579 and as I mentioned there will be another phase of this particular project
which will include various other facilities on the campus as Mr. Gunnell, or on the complex that Mr. Gunnell had identified last month.
I should identify the efforts of Stuart builders they've worked closely with
with staff with Lisa Cassman in the development of this particular facility
the barn construction is going to be very similar if you drove driven past
the Gerald D Young Agricultural Sciences Center it'll be very similar to the
structures that are there currently with approval of this particular with the
approval of this particular item we'll be able to move forward on the
construction of the barn in order that it can be opened simultaneously with the
opening of paytoe high school any questions any objection mr. McElwain
um this is this will be funded from the 2014 that's correct can you specifically
Tell us though is it is it from the line item or pay toe high school or from for the AG sign for the egg?
Sciences facility for the expats because every time we build a new high school we have to build one of these barns, right?
But because it was part because we are building this complex as part of this bond program
It made sense to have that barn as part of this particular overall
But as part of the student activity facilities act science center project
Any objection to moving this to consent?
So moved
7.6 to scatter discuss and consider future board approval of a water line easement and a sanitary sewer easement
the West Harris County Municipal Utility District number 17
Associated with the construction of water and sewer lines
adjacent to Ursula Stevens Elementary School
Good evening. Mr. Teed director of maintenance. How are you?
Good evening, President Fox, board members, Superintendent Hint.
I'm pleased to be here this evening to present to you the two easements for sanitary water and domestic,
I'm sorry, for domestic water and sanitary sewer,
coming to you from West Harris County Municipal District number 17.
These easements are adjacent to the Ursula Stevens Elementary School.
and they are for developing the site adjacent to the campus on the south and southwest corner of
the campus all costs for the installation of the project will be funded by west harris county mud
number 17 and the construction is expected to begin in late may or early june of 2017
during the construction phase of the project the open trenches and any open boreholes will be
secured from students. The documents presented for your review and approval
tonight have been reviewed by the district's legal counsel and I'd be
happy to answer any questions if you have them. Let me just make clear the
easements as depicted all costs associated with the construction of the
underground utilities are being financed by West Harris County Municipal Utility
District number 17 correct yes sir we aren't constructing it and we aren't
paying for it they need our approval to access the East yes well you're asking
this okay any objection to moving this to consent so moved Thank You mr. T
thank you okay seven point seven discuss and consider future board approval of
the contract for publications and printing services and the contract for
maintenance or repair service for the district owned and leased up your fleet
This is Regina Stevenson, Director of Purchasing, and Ms. McTaggart, how are you?
Good evening again, President Fox, Dr. Hinton, board members. I've got one more contract for
you to consider this evening. This contract is for the Publications and Printing Services and
also the contract for Maintenance Repair Services for the district-owned and leased copier fleet.
For the last eight years, the district has had a contract with Ricoh USA Incorporated
to provide both the publications and printing solution and the service and maintenance of
the district-owned copiers and lease copiers.
But after being approached by a number of companies, it was decided that it was time
to reassess our position and to be sure that we were indeed getting the best value for
the district.
So to look at this as the companies proposed to us or kept coming saying that they thought they could save us money, we decided to split the contract into and send out a request for proposals for first the printing, the publications and printing services, and then have a separate proposal running out there for the maintenance repair services for the district owned and leased copier fleets.
The contract for the publications and printing services provides all the printing and publication needs from document creation, submission, job acceptance, production, finishing, distribution, budget postings, archiving, and courier services to deliver the print shop, the final jobs, to the schools and departments as needed.
They also provide the intra-district mail.
We asked the firms that were interested to submit their proposed solution for a long-term,
cost-effective solution, and the district was seeking a firm that could provide a high-capacity
enterprise account with local support that could accommodate the increasing demands from our
KDISD campuses and departments and would assist the district in supporting our current equipment
and also help us to plan for our future needs with future technology all
interested firms were provided with current equipment lists production
records and current staffing interested firms were also invited to a pre
proposal contract and it included the tour of our existing facilities running
concurrently we also released a request for proposals for the maintenance
repairs of the district copier fleet the majority of the copier fleet is owned
directly by KTISD and we in the proposal request that we released we notified
that the district would consider we'd notify the firms the district would
consider any and all proposed solutions including replacing the own fleet with
another manufacturers brand providing the solution proposed was cost-effective
and could be phased in over the years to come a listing of the district's current
copier fleet was provided to all interested firms as well as the service
history for each of the machines that are a part of the fleet we had a large
committee that was involved in the evaluation of the proposals that were
received and the rep the districts the representatives are on the list provided
to the board the purchasing department also acted in an advisory capacity to
make sure that everything was kept fair and equal for all players although
Although numerous firms expressed initial interest, there were actually only three firms
that ended up submitting to us after consideration of all the layers of needs that the district
has.
Three firms requested with a comprehensive proposal for publications and printing services.
These included Ricoh USA, Zeno Digital Solutions, and Innovative Service Technology Management
Services known as IST.
For the maintenance and service of the current district fleet, only two firms actually submitted
proposals.
One was Ricoh USA and the other was Zeno Imaging.
The firms were invited then to present to the committee to thoroughly, so that we could
thoroughly analyze their proposed solution and they were there to answer any questions
or concerns from the committee.
A comprehensive cost analysis was also done by our Financial Services Committee representatives.
So after intense analysis and several meetings, the recommendation is to award to RICO USA the contract for publications and printing solutions,
as well as the additional contract for the services and maintenance of the district-owned and leased copiers.
The proposals by RICO-USA were determined to be the most cost-effective for the district.
The awarded contract term will be five years with an optional three two-year renewals.
The cost for the publications and printing services, based on the historical printing levels and estimated growth,
is estimated to be $12,429,477 over the next five years. The fleet maintenance and service costs are estimated to be $3,239,665 over the next five years.
These were the final negotiated rights after many meetings back and forth between the district and RICO USA, and it does include a 3.5% rate increase for each year over the next five years.
When the renewals come up, after the five-year period, the proposed renewal
rights will be evaluated by the district at the time submitted and they have to
be supported by industry and district data if there are any requests for
increasing costs. So again the recommendation is to award to RICO USA
for both contracts. And let me add, I think it's important to note that we had
a previous contract that was a five-year contract and then we rolled it for three
more years annually per year and one of the chores that I've asked our staff to
take a look at is some of those contracts that are automatically rolling
to make sure that we're getting our best bang for the buck something that I
gleaned from this and visiting with staff the current contract with Rico the
one we've been in for eight years we had a monthly fee of about one hundred and
seventy one thousand seven hundred ninety seven with an annual rate of
increase at five percent I've heard from this board in the past to negotiate and
look at some ways to find efficiencies and savings here in the district this
new contract shows a monthly fee of one hundred and sixty two thousand three
hundred and fifty dollars with that annual rate of increase at three point
five which at the end of the five years we're certainly back at the table to
negotiate with them before we automatically
thank you doctor camp
the question
any objection to moving this to consent to jim
the most thank you very much
the
and i think that's just in consider future board approval of the proposal
from engaged to learn for the district
strategic plan development our presenter this evening is dr. Lance head
superintendent well I promise you it's not gonna be 15 minutes all right and
please forgive me I'm gonna just read a couple of items here for you as you know
when I first arrived in the district I told the board that I felt like we were
doing some compliance things and we needed to really pull some folks
together and do some real strategic planning as a high-performing one of the
top as our board president indicated the top in region four it's easy to get
complacent and that is not what I want it to happen here in KDISD. I want it to
find those areas that we can grow. Through an interview process and
actually this didn't have to come to the board because it's through a by board
which the board has already approved but I thought it was significant and
important that we explain to you guys the direction we were going with
strategic planning. We'll begin the process of developing a strategic plan
in January of 17 to create a system of continuous measurable improvement. The
plan will have an emphasis on student achievement, accessibility, alignment,
accountability, data-based decision-making. We've had a lot of
conversation about that here of late. It will include multiple stakeholder groups.
I envision seeing parents, students, staff, board members, community members,
business leaders. Key sources of data for developing the plan will be
information collected from multiple surveys as well as through some of our
stakeholder summits and focus groups. Believe me, I've been down this road
before and it's a very detailed process. It's tiring but in the end we have a
living document. We'll utilize independent consultation, Engage to Learn.
that ensures that all voices and ideas are heard they don't have any agenda within the district it
will incorporate into the strategic plan and the process and product are through the complete and
then you know complete let me just tell you what I've heard in the five months I've been visiting
the district talking with board members touring schools visiting with parents administration
teachers and students some of the things that I've gleaned and lots of discussion
is why don't we look at an early college high school why don't we look at dual
credit expansion why don't we look at more opportunities for vocational
courses in the district for students they may not be college bound why don't
we look at more family engagement opportunities or just community
engagement opportunities so you know through this process and and looking at
data and some of the data points that mr. Scott has short shared with the
board doing a real analysis on the DLA s that we're providing looking at our PSA
TSA T a CT data and using this data to drive decisions in the future this is
is what I'm talking about with strategic planning.
It'll be a six to seven month process.
Eventually, the board of trustees
are going to be those that prove this,
and we'll have a lot of input in this product in the end.
I truly do believe it's an outline
for the future of the district five years, 10 years out,
and gives you guys information that you know that we have set
goals and we have actions that we're working towards that you will hold me
accountable that's it that one 15 minutes and a president very good mr.
DeBrell I can I want to really thank you for this this is something I've been
talking about for quite some time we all have great ideas things that we like to
do but I believe by bringing them together in a strategic plan we can
align those so we're shooting at a at a target and uh putting everybody on the same the same
path so to speak going in the same direction so uh i appreciate this i believe that this is a
wonderful direction for our district and what i didn't mention it's not just an original plan
we'll have the group come back annually to review the plan it's an outline revise it if necessary
and also present to the board of trustees on an annual basis
anyone else i too applaud this i think it's an awesome uh it's the daunting undertaking
we haven't done one in a long time and it's very difficult to do but um love so many of the things
you talked about opportunities for our students in our community that's great um any objection
moving this to consent so moved okay look two things the very famous Bonnie
Holland of Holland Elementary mrs. Holland mr. Fowler you're gonna talk to
us about election sites for the May 2017 board election and future let me just
read through this so you can just move from one to the next and we'll know how
to move them never mind I have to move them one at a time to consent go ahead
with the first one. Madam President, members of the board, Dr. Hint, we are
here tonight to present the proposed voting sites for the May 2017 board
election for your consideration and future approval. Mr. Fowden is going to
review those sites with you now. Thank you, Ms. Holland. When we look at the
order of election or the early voting sites, we're still recommending having
five early voting sites. Mr. Fowden, would you pull that microphone just really
close to you so we can hear you better. I guess the first time I ever said that
to me and usually much louder. Thank you. I'm recommending five early voting sites.
Those five early voting sites are the same except for one and that would be
the Leonard Merrill Center, Seven Lakes High School, James E. Taylor High School,
Cinco Ranch High School and the change being from May Creek High School to
Morton Ranch High School. And the reasoning behind that is if we all recall
what happened that last second last week of April last year when we had shut the
district down for a week. May Creek High School does have some accessibility
issues when the water rises and when the water does rise then it only would
create issues for voters getting to the polls. So it'll be logical to try to make
that early voting site a little more accessible as invisible in regards to
making that change to Morton Ranch. And then when you look on the second page of
of the order of election, the election day polling sites,
we still are considering the 13 polling sites.
The only changes would be of those 13 polling sites,
of course, polling site number three,
which is city, which is Katy City Hall,
as we all know here in downtown Katy,
we have a new city hall.
The building that was used for election sites
for precinct three for Katy ISD,
it's not gonna be available.
We will be moving to the new city hall.
That's a simple and understood change.
The third change would be precinct nine,
where was May Creek High School this is again taken into consideration
location and on that election day moving it to May Creek Junior High as Morton
Ranch High School would already be covering for another Katy ISD precinct
on election day any questions yes ma'am mr. Scott mr. Fowden I am so surprised
you're coming back to do this again that's just the inside joke I understand
I understand. Thank you. It was a great learning experience.
Mr. Fowden, did you cover 7.9 and 7.10? Or was it only 7.9?
As written in here, 7.9 is only to consider the changes of election sites.
Any objection to moving 7.9 to consent agenda?
This end of the table down here. I'm talking.
7.9 in the objection it was it was epic you're right your whole thing any
objection to moving 7.9 to consent okay so move okay 7.10 also you mr. Fountain
Thank You president Fox as in 7.10 it's asking us to for the board to consider
the order of election as we reviewed the order of election as we can see this
This will be another nice year of elections.
The first Saturday of May for our general election,
which positions three, four, and five
will be coming up for election.
As again, we already talked about the early voting sites.
The only addition on the order of election that was changed
due to the law seminar that I attended last week
was we did include our email for early voting.
As some of you may already be familiar with,
early voting ballot by males have a very large role in elections now. Therefore
I'm asking you as a board to consider this order of election for May 6
elections. Any objection to moving this to consent agenda? Okay so I will read
this order at this time so it will be read into the record so that next week
on consent any independent school district order of election an election
is hereby ordered to be held on Saturday May 6 2017 for the purpose of electing
school board trustees to fill the following terms of office position 3
three-year term currently held by Ashley van position for three-year term
currently held by Courtney Doyle position 5 a three-year term currently
held by Henry Debrell. Voting on Election Day will be held from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at
13 sites as indicated on attachment A. Early voting by personal appearance will
be conducted each weekday between the hours of 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. beginning on
Monday April 24 2017 and ending on Tuesday May 2nd 2017 at the following
five locations Leonard Merrill Center room 143 to 144 6301 South Stadium Lane
Lane, Katy, Texas, 77494.
Seven Lakes High School, 9251 South Frye Road, Katy, Texas, 77494.
James E. Taylor High School, 2700 Kingsland Boulevard, Katy, Texas, 77450.
Cinco Ranch High School, 23440 Cinco Ranch Boulevard, Katy, Texas, 77494.
Morton Ranch High School, 21,000 Franz Road, Katy, Texas 77449. A special
Saturday early voting by personal appearance will also be held at these
same five locations on Saturday April 29 2017 from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Applications for ballot by mail shall be mailed to Russell Fowden, early voting
clerk, Katy ISD Education Support Complex 6301 South Stadium Lane, Katy, Texas
is 77494. Applications for ballot by mail must be received no later than the
close of business on Tuesday April 25 2017. The administration is hereby
authorized to provide notice of this election. A substantial copy of the order
shall serve as proper notice. Notice shall be given by publishing the notice
not less than 21 days prior to the fixed date of the election April 15 2017 on
the bulletin board used for posting notices of the board meetings
additionally the notice of election shall be published at least once not
earlier than the 30th day presiding the election day April 6 2017 nor later than
the 10th day before Election Day April 26 2017 in a newspaper published in the
district issued this the 12th day of December 2016 Rebecca Fox board
Board President. I do have a question Mr. Fowlton. Yes ma'am. The early voting times end at 6 p.m.
Sometimes that's hard for our voting I mean our working uh folk to get home and vote before
is you know 7 a.m. Is there any reason why that's not extended to 7 p.m. during the early? No ma'am
the state basically states that the polls have to be open for a specific amount of hours.
hours. Those hours are flexible. We can easily move those hours to 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. But those
hours are flexible. We just have a minimum. That definitely covers the minimum.
Any feedback? I'd rather see it start later and end later because for people who are coming
home I don't know there are a lot of people on that Katy crawl to work. Any feedback?
And again, the early voting, one of the things we need to remember, early voting, individuals
can vote at any voting site during early voting.
Right.
But even getting to Katy on I-10 by 6 p.m.
I-10 is a lovely place at 5 o'clock in the evening.
What do you think?
Y'all want to?
We'd have to do the order again.
We'd have to re- would we need to read it again on next Monday?
Mm-hmm, but if you want to give feedback to mr. Fowlton at this mr. Scott, what do you think?
What are you suggesting? I mean got like other seven like go to 7 p.m. And open
At 9 or 8
Just move it move everything in our instead of starting at 7 ending at 6 could we start at 8 and end at 7?
The same amount of hours same amount hours
Hindsight either way I think I think we could do a little bit of both from what I'm hearing
and Mr. Fowlton tell us that we could do an improvised schedule maybe on a Tuesday, Thursday,
do it from a certain time because there could be individuals that would prefer a 7 o'clock voting.
That is correct.
What we can do is work out an improvised schedule for all of you guys.
Too confusing to either keep it open 7 to 7 or just, I think the feedback we've gotten in past years is 6 o'clock p.m. is too soon to end.
Certainly a board's choice.
sure I've had feedback that 7 a.m. is too early too so however you want to
entertain it that better Mr. Mahal mr. Felton do you have recorded times of
when people have voted historically I do not have the exact recorded times for
early voting I just have the numbers per day it would be interesting to know when
the when the traffic's a little heavier they make our decision a lot easier I do
know from last year's observations the heaviest traffic during early voting was
during lunchtime you know madam president maybe dr. Hinn is on to
something let me just throw this out we publicize the Saturday the special
Saturday vote maybe if you don't go back and forth and back and forth but you say
on this date or these two dates consecutive we're going to have an early
start and six and on these dates certain we're gonna have a late I I'll go either
way y'all want I'm sympathetic to later hours I just want to know that I just
want to make sure y'all are comfortable administering that sure we can one hour
the election workers would appreciate that I'm sure I'm sure yeah the democracy
how do you feel about seven to seven I'm fine with whatever y'all decide just
y'all are gonna have to administer it yes are you good with it yep
mrs. van the seven I said a question unrelated to the time but um thank you
for bringing that point up when you say that applications for ballot by mail
where does one get the actual application? Can you print it off of the
KEIC website? Walk into the ESC? The application by mail can each can be
requested from me. It can also be requested through our County voter
registrar. It can also be downloaded from the Secretary of State's web page. Okay
and is that closer to early voting time? Will there be something on our home
banner that link us there? As of January 1st 2017 is when you can begin
registering individuals for absentee ballot by mail if you would like to I
have about 500 in my office that are available January I'm just not asking
silly for me I'm asking for our community I have two parents that
typically vote ballot by mail and I'm usually walking into your office and
hand delivering it to them but I just was wondering if there's a way to print
it off at home or and yes it is but it is available on the county websites when
go to the voter voter registrar websites and it's also a direct link if you just
go to the Secretary of State's website it's available there. Is there any way to
put a link to either of those when early voting information starts popping up on our homepage? Yes, absolutely.
The Secretary of State webpage links are already there as well as the
Harris County, Fort Bend County, and Waller County links are already there for any
election questions. Could they be on the banner? We could put that there as
if you're referring to the KDISD homepage absolutely that can be put there.
I just think that's beneficial to absolutely at large and especially that college kids and at one of the things like that I
Can get with communications no problem. Thank you. Mr. Scott. What is the on the early voting by?
applying by email. What is the law? What's the black letter of the law on that?
What are you referring to? I mean, anyone can call in. I mean, anyone can email in now and
you will send them a ballot. No, sir, not anybody. A registered voter. Yeah, first, that's the first
step is being a registered voter. Yes, sir. Then also, you have to have a specific disability,
65 years of age or older. And then also, there are some individuals that may fall into the United
States military or overseas and those do count as a just like your absentee
ballot by mail and those are all applications that are available on the
Secretary of State's webpage or links to the county voter voter registrar's I'm
gonna say and I don't even I'm not even sure what I think about it but I do
recognize an issue that the early voting by mail is historically been a political
function okay and it does lend itself to stepping in big piles of gray if the
school district were actively to promote and use its mailing list and all of that
to encourage mail-by-ballot I think that is a I don't know what the law is yet
just learned about this tonight I'm for anything that improves early voting but
But I'm just looking ahead and saying that this is an area that the district needs to use an abundance of caution in terms of how it promotes this.
Education is one thing.
Proactive education gets a lot more grayer the more proactive you are.
Are you saying a link on a home page would be promoting?
Or is it just...
I don't know.
I don't know.
maybe sending out to all employees here's your early but our early
employees tell your parents know you're this tell your just say the link would
basically be your link would be just saying I can envision ways information
okay I can envision ways proactively that this could be a slippery slope
absolutely and I could hear exactly what you're saying especially if you're
trying to go in and promote individuals to go in and do an ABBM it would just be
do you need voter information? Here's the site you go to. You can get all the
voter information you want. So this would be an informational link?
Correct. Okay. And that link would be coming down to just one question.
If you want voter information, click here. Okay, great.
Okay, so we will not move this to consent agenda. It will come off consent
agenda. We'll read it again. Should I read it again with the 7 p.m. in it now?
We'll read it next week.
week we're tired of it okay last thing is I think that's right thank you very much thank you we have
an action item that we will take action on tonight and this is consider board approval discussing
consider board approval of the 2017 legislative priorities mr. the Braille you want to yeah this
this was presented last board meeting um i'm asking the board to move ahead and approve these
this committee has worked extremely hard some extremely passionate hours put together
to come up with this and i would also ask the board a couple of a couple of things
that we allow this committee to stay together at least through the legislative session so that
they will be able to go out and visit some of our legislators to move this agenda forward and that
we could we would be allowed to expand it to other community members that may want to take part in
this process i know i've had interest from people people have contacted me who like to be a part of
this process as well and one thing i think that as kdisd that we should lead we always talk about
we're a leader uh this past week at the tazby board meeting i had conversations with uh people
from uh sci fair as well as fort ben and they uh those board members were interested in coming
together and putting together a joint legislative agenda from all of our
districts just those three districts along KDI is the side fair and for being
would represent a quarter of a million young people so I would ask permission
of the board to continue to reach out to them begin to pull some of those
districts together I'm president um let's say I appreciate the the work of
the committee mr. deBruyne mr. Scott and the members of the community that
that served on that and so with that,
I move that the Board of Trustees approves
the 2017 legislative priorities as recommended
by the Legislative Priorities Advisory Committee.
Second.
Motion by Mr. Moholsky and a second by Mrs. Doyle
that the Board of Trustees approves
the 2017 legislative priorities as recommended
by the Legislative Priorities Advisory Committee.
Any discussion?
I appreciate what you said Mr. DeBrell, I agree.
I think that the committee's worked really hard to continue to build and educate and
advocate for our boys and girls I think is a positive thing.
Any other discussion?
Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote.
All in favor raise your right hand and say aye.
I should pass this 7 to 1 7 to 0 sorry 7 to 0 just a reminder that we did
I
Counted to 8 all of a sudden we talked about that last week and had this presentation. So thank you for this
Okay, open forum. Here we go
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 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 at the end of the aisle here, Mr. Henry DeBrell,
will alert you when you have one minute remaining. Should you do a 30 second since it's one and
a half minutes we'll give you a 30 second warning because each speaker is going to have a minute and
a half because we have so many if speakers wish to share non-confidential written material with
the board 10 copies should be provided to the secretary for board services mrs noack and she
will distribute those to us 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 Cathy Smith.
Hi Mrs. Smith. Welcome.
I'm not sure if you can hear me this is fine this is my first time speaking but I'm a resident from
Cane Island and two weeks ago we found out our school was being possibly moved to Bryant and I
just had a few questions for you guys after some research that I had done and I know you can't
answer but things to think about why did land why did Landy stones north of highway 90 get pulled
into the proposal for Bryant when the KT ISD website states Bryant is opening to relieve
areas south of i-10 what can we do to address the net ease in the pasta data
being used to impact our students next year our research showed a discrepancy
in pasta data provided which estimated that my land use zone would send 63%
more children to Katy Elementary this year than it actually did enrollment at
Katy Elementary is down in almost every land use zone 10 of the 12 impacted by
this attendance battery modification question three and which was kind of
answered tonight there was a new proposal that we didn't know about so
all the recent decks that I viewed 30 seconds we're using numbers that were
just old they weren't they're not current they're not accurate and has the
board considered the risk of the impact on transporting children across
interstate 10 busing kits farther away from homes increases cost to taxpayers
Spares creates an unnecessary safety risk and gives a perception that feeder pattern loyalties are in play
Especially when you consider land you stone 53 which will have access to Bryant via Kingsland to drive from their homes to Katy Elementary
And Bryant is 10 minutes
Mrs. Smith, thank you
Mrs. Smith you you've provided us
Written comments and we will we will read every one. Thank you so much for being here
I believe your husband is addressing us next and Smith you're next
Is that right
So my name is Dan Smith the most recent demographic report upon which the ABM is created is
proven to be inaccurate
Slower than expected growth has substantially reduced the actual number of students and Katie's newest developments compared to projections
Kane Island has 26 elementary students this year which is two zones that's half
of the 49 students that PASA projected just last year the original ABM impacts
12 attendance zones I think it's nine now with the update our proposal that
you will receive today impacts only seven zones and provides better access
to those affected our proposal also significantly reduces the impact of
future changes every zone north of highway 90 that's impacted now will be
moved yet again when kane island elementary is opened and we keep all of those zones at kd until
that time with adjustments for inaccurate projections our proposal keeps kd elementary
within acceptable attendance limits until kane island elementary is built in closing there's
three points you should take away number one the demographic data used to create the abm is highly
inaccurate to using correct data and appropriate ABM map impacts only seven
zones and four of those zones are within 1.5 miles of Bryant Elementary and
finally third every zone left at Katy when the ABM is corrected will move to
Kane Elementary Kane Island Elementary upon its opening and that minimizes the
impact of future boundary changes thank you
Thank you, Mr. Smith, and for your written comments and your maps,
and we promise to look at every single thing.
Okay, our number three, Anita Shiflett.
Hi, Ms. Shiflett.
Welcome.
Hello.
Good evening.
Thank you so much for letting us be here real quickly because I only got a minute,
26 seconds in counting.
So just once again, thank you.
We didn't know about the change of the attendance, the ABM,
but now that we saw the change, it did affect my area,
So I do appreciate that that change is made. I hope that it stays that way
And I don't know if y'all can say yay or nay, but hopefully it will but I do have one thing that I do feel like
That it is still affecting some of our area and that's our elementary kids and they will be driving into a very dangerous area
Which will be Pedersen across I-10 to that wonderful roundabout going into Bryant Elementary
I don't know if any of y'all been to the roundabout just at HEB and that's crazy because no one knows who had arrived in it
I can't even imagine seeing school buses going in the same area trying to get into Bryant Elementary
So I really think that there needs to be some type of new traffic pattern done
In that area whether it be down by igloo or however, it needs to be done
I think these considerations need to be also looked at before you start moving people into those areas, especially
Dangerous roundabouts. I do also applaud mr. Scott
I think that we should be given also a little bit more time to do some more research ourselves
so that we can come and give you or try to provide you some of our recommendations
and maybe we can stimulate something there at that end also.
So thank you very much.
Appreciate your time.
Our next speaker is Charlie Munster.
Good evening.
I hope I said your name right.
Munster.
It's actually Munster, but close enough.
Get it all the time.
I'm okay with the board I like to pass my time to Commissioner Beckendorf
actually mr. minister our policy doesn't allow sharing time with some I appreciate
I would have loved to have heard from Justin yes let's restart the timer on
the border mr. Scott would you cite that policy and regulation for me I'd like to
actually see that policy yes and I got in trouble for doing that's why I was
just gonna correct it tonight I caught a point of order and I would like to have
a citation of the policy or administrative procedure there's
policies there's procedures I would like to have the policy or procedure mr.
Mr. Scott, one moment.
Mrs. Holland is coming.
Maybe go with another speaker until we get the point of order.
Who doesn't want to defer their time?
I can do it.
It don't matter.
I mean.
It's up to you, Al.
Or we can go wait for the policy to be presented.
All right, I'm fine.
I'll talk.
As a fireman, I'll make this a lot shorter than a minute and 30 seconds, I promise you.
Thank you for listening to us.
I feel that we were listened to on the ABM
Filled out many of them. I appreciate
Y'all did the right thing and adjusting that
Boundary line and we thank you. I feel the Waller County residents were actually represented
which we weren't because
you looking at the Katy high school boundary was all pretty much city of Katy and
We spent thousands of dollars, you know to get into residence to get to school schools that we wanted
Spent $1,000 in taxes and appreciate you listening to us and
Lastly mr.. Scott. Thank you read my mind
Blankly it was a
very support and somewhat support I
Don't know how they got that that I fully supported their idea. I somewhat supported it and
Thank you very much. You read my mind
Our next speaker is Tabitha Garcia
MS.
Hi, Ms. Garcia.
MS.
How are you?
MS.
Good evening, Board, President Fox and Superintendent.
I'm here on behalf of myself and my husband and all of the Cana Island residents.
My husband and I are new to Katy and we fell in love with the small town feel.
My residents that I live in the neighborhood gave all you the factual information.
I'm here to tell you about the emotional.
As a full-time working mom, I needed a community that was safe, kind and close to friendly
teachers and neighbors.
As you can tell this evening we succeeded with the neighbor portion of our goal by how many people are here to cheer us on
Getting to this point has not been an easy one for our family. We have two adopted children from foster care
We adopted them at ages five and six they were moved ten times before we got them into our home
So this is their first elementary school that they've been in and felt comfortable
Having someone with anxiety as you do mrs. Doyle. My children have severe anxiety
So moving them to another elementary that's six point seven miles away from home when our current elementary school is
1.6 miles away. It just doesn't make sense to me. Does it make three seconds boundary was was driven?
So since I'm new the community but not new to business
I'm just confused as to why neighbors that are not in Katie school limits
Such as Penn Oak are zoned to Katie Elementary and we're not able to put our students and our
people that are 1.6 miles away I realize that everyone has a story every family
will be affected by this move but we're simply asking you just to look at the
boundaries and see who is closer and how it makes sense
Thank You mrs. Garcia our next speaker is Michelle Corbin
hi mrs. Corbin thanks for being here
hold that closer to you I'm sorry I'm here tonight to talk about the attendance boundary
modification which unfortunately the changes still affect my daughter who is a freshman at
Katie High School this year she has made the transition to high school and she
loves it at Katie High she's an FFA member she's James anime club and my
request is that you all would please reconsider letting this freshman class
that are going to be sophomores next year grandfather in I will understand if
there need to be some stipulations my daughter is on a B honor roll
consistently she's a great kid but she's also very shy we moved here four years
ago from Belton ISD in Central Texas it was a resistant move for me I was happy
with my school district for my daughter but my husband's job was here in Houston
he worked out of town for six years was only home on weekends I researched for
one year to pick my school second which was Katie junior high in Katie high
school and I just wanted my child to stay in Katy high school so if you all
would please think about letting this year's freshman class which is going to
be sophomores next year grandfather in I'd appreciate it thank you thank you
miss Corbin our next speaker is Adrian Devitz sorry was that wrong right the
My name is Adrianne DeVitz. I'm a third generation Katie Elementary, Katie Junior High, Katie High School graduate.
My mission in life was to help better education for our children, and I did just that.
I was a teacher at Katie ISD for six years before I had my child.
Tonight, my life mission continues.
Our proposed ABM effects came 6.3 miles away, crosses a railroad track, highway, and interstate.
As a result, our commute triples and increases our time in the car by over 50 hours a year.
psychological effects of on show on our children you guys know the research
behind that safety we chose Cairn Island to avoid congested areas such as 1463
and I-10 we're unsure of why neighborhoods like Penn Oak are crossing
I-10 whenever there's other schools that are bordering them that are a lot safer
for them to get to many daycares of the ones that we're currently attending they
They do not provide bus services to Bryant.
So we'll happen to change daycares as well, which is concerning.
We have plenty of community support.
We have 146 signatures on our petition.
The PASA report that you guys put out in October 2015, it did not predict another oil drop about 40%.
So average days on the market in this time in our zip code have increased by 35%.
There was a 22% decline in home sales, about half a million.
And this affects nine out of ten Cane Island builders
Y'all the pasta projected that we'd have 72 children attending Katy Elementary when we only have 26
We have a current proposal that you guys have a map of
This is the Fitz thank you so much we have your comments here. Thank you very much
Our next speaker is Amy Kakey
Did I say your name correctly? I want to.
Good evening, Ms. Kagey.
My name is Amy Kagey. I live in Remington Trails.
I graduated from James E. Taylor High School.
I am an engineer.
I have a strong appreciation for logic, especially in decision-making that involves my children.
There is insufficient infrastructure to handle the increased traffic on already heavily trafficked two-lane roads,
specifically FM 2855, Highway 90, and Pedersen.
The safety of our children is being compromised.
Three very dangerous intersections will have to be navigated in an intrinsically unsafe way.
At the intersection of FM 2855 in Morton and at FM 2855 in Highway 90,
left-hand turns will be required where there are no traffic lights or four-way stops.
The speed limit on these roads at these intersections is 55 and 60 miles an hour.
There is heavy 18-wheeler traffic on these roads.
They do not even have any street lights, and visibility is often close to zero because of heavy fog.
These factors have contributed to deadly accidents in the past and I fear for our children riding on the bus on a dark winter morning
Pulling out onto these roads making a left-hand turn in front of an 18-wheeler
Traveling 60 miles an hour at the intersection of highway 90 and Pedersen within the last year or so
I have witnessed two occasions where an 18-wheeler has toppled over on its side
Attempting to make the right-hand turn onto Pedersen from highway 90 a school bus which is similar in size could suffer the same fate
badly injuring or even worse the children on board who don't even have so much as a seat belt to secure them.
I challenge each of you to travel these roads on a dark December school day morning and then take into account these
logical fact-based reasons and weigh them appropriately.
Thank you, Ms. Kagey.
Our next speaker is Vim Head.
Good evening. How are you? Good evening. Thanks so much. Board, I understand that you've got a very tough job to do. It's never easy to make these changes and with the growth that we've got out here, we certainly understand it. I would like to personally thank you guys because it's obvious that you've listened to the community, the feedback that's come from the community over the past month or so and have made the changes that we see will eliminate huge distances between the schools that our kids would go to and allow us to be able to
able to get our kids to school on time and so again you guys have a tough job
we appreciate what you do you're underpaid for what you do we appreciate
thank you for listening to the community I get a meal every once in a while thank
you so much our next speaker is Oliver Salgado
Good evening Mr. Salgado.
Good evening President Fox, Dr. Hint, Board of Trustees.
I also represent Lake Cicada and many of you have had to undue stress in your own households
with this ABM so now you have to make these difficult decisions and we appreciate everything
that you guys do.
I just want to say that the survey, when we first saw it, we had our concerns.
But like Mr. Scott, I'm an engineer and I look at numbers and I question it.
But what's a relief is to see that there is a process.
And if you follow the process, you guys are listening to us.
And thank you so much for that.
Thank you.
you. Our next speaker is Chris Claffey. Good evening Mr. Claffey, we're glad you're here.
Yes ma'am, good evening, thank you. I also represent Lakes of Katy. We got together as
a team several nights spending, you know, burning that midnight oil. Thank you for hearing
hearing us out, we had several concerns with safety, as Ms. Kakey had mentioned in her
emotional talk.
And we focused on safety and then with Mr. Beckendorf also discussed other options and
venues.
And so we do appreciate your time, we do appreciate you looking at the information we provided
earlier.
Ms. Nowak, thank you for all the information you provided in helping us get our feelings
heard.
Mr. Scott, thank you for doing such a good job representing the people of Katy.
I certainly appreciate your point of view. I think you guys do a great job up here.
You're all volunteers, except Dr. Hint, but we certainly, and the other executives.
But Mr. Gunnell, thank you for hearing our case and listening to us.
And again, we really appreciate the effort and understand your volunteers.
volunteers. You do a great job. We appreciate you looking after our kids.
Thank you.
Our next speaker is Robert Fling. Good evening, Mr. Fling.
Good evening, Ms. Fox. I also would like to thank the entire Board for listening to us
and sharing and letting us share all of our concerns. I think we came in here a few weeks
ago with many concerns and many of them have been addressed. I think the board should continue
to keep in mind these travel distances and the dangers of traveling down 2855 and crossing
90. I actually employed the services of one expert witness who happened to be trained
by Katy Elementary, my daughter, who actually timed the time from Lakes of Katy to Katy
Elementary and came up with like six minutes and 35 seconds 35.45 seconds.
So come I also timed the distance from Lakes of Katy to Bryan Elementary and it
was more than double that time and I also had encountered something like 17
18 wheelers merging into traffic and crossing in front of 18 wheelers at that
time. So we do appreciate the board taking into consideration those safety
the concerns and the distances and the valuable time that we have to spend with
30 seconds and anytime I would have left I would like to give to our
water County Commissioner mr. Justin Beckendorf just just so that I can give
some clarity and this is something that you asked for mr. Scott it does not mean
because it's a local policy is certainly up to the discretion of the board but in
In local policy BED, it does state public comment.
At work-study meetings, the board shall allot 30 minutes to hear persons who desire to make comments to the board.
Persons who wish to participate in this portion of the meeting shall sign up with the presiding officer
or designee at least 15 minutes before the meeting begins.
So it does say that speakers wishing to shall sign up.
Actually, it doesn't say that.
their time. I don't think you'd have to be the, I don't think you'd have to be a very powerful
lawyer in the largest law firm in Pleat, Texas to see that there's an absence of language there.
It doesn't say it, but I think that if we have a commissioner here,
they've done a tremendous job. And I think you can see what, how hard and how serious
these people have worked. And I've been here and I know that at least once or twice,
we have deferred mr. Smith will speak to us and he defers people that we write a
paycheck can defer but citizens who may feel somewhat less comfortable in
talking can't defer mr. policy does not say that we can't defer it's blank on
that mr. Scott I would hesitate to give one person an opportunity and not
not everyone else in the room.
The policy does not say that a person who speaks up cannot defer his or her time.
It doesn't say that.
That may be the practice, but the policy does not say that,
at least what was read to me.
Our next speaker is David Welch.
Good evening, Mr. Welch.
How are you all?
Great to see you.
I'm going to try not to use a minute and 30 seconds,
But I would like to thank the board and everybody involved on listening to us
And I do agree with the with the new bit ABM maps
It is a not a fun job
But I do appreciate your consideration and all the things that went on along with that
So I'm gonna get off that topic and change the whole thing
My second topic is what I want to dress is the naming of the new football stadium
And since I've only got a minute I'm gonna read it
In my opinion, there are only two names that meet the criteria for such an honor, and that's
Coach Gary Joseph and Coach Mike Johnston, two deserving men who dedicated dedication
to the district and the students would be hard to match.
I would like for the board to consider naming the stadium after Coach Joseph and the field
house after Coach Johnston.
Honestly, I think this is a no-brainer.
I know the board likes to wait until namesakes are retired from the district before honoring them with the building or facility
But we didn't
Merrill Center when dr. Merrill was the superintendent I'm doing good every
morning I go to Katie to the old Katie town and actually I go to McDonald's
because that's where I eat breakfast and I got a hurry
coach shows that there's there's numbers on the years that we won state
championship for on that water tower coach shows his fingerprints on every
one of them except for the 1959 so I think this is an easy one those guys
created they are the legacy and they are done
Thank You mr. Welch our next speaker is Kim pine
Ms. Pine?
Ms. Pine, it's glad to see you.
Hi.
I'm a KDISD parent.
I have two children in Katy High School and one in junior high and a four-year-old who's
ready to start as well.
I also have nieces and nephews who have gone to Katy High School.
And my daughter made me come here.
and in her words she told me to voice our concern to continue our family tradition and she wants to
stick with her best friend the moving the boundaries to the clay road is what I believe is
the best decision because I think Kate likes of Katie and Eula Morgan are communities that should
be going to Katy high school for their traditions as well my current concerns is where I live which
is on the waller county line which with the new proposal does include us it only includes 29
houses in that area and only about 10 of them have children that would be going to school so
i think that it's not that much more to add to that but the transportation would take a bus to
go four extra miles to get to that area if you don't include the waller county um i also have
a concern that the transportation to the elementary school what they brought up
earlier it is very dangerous it's very foggy a lot of times going out on
Morton Road to 2855 there's no stop I mean there's a flashing light but
there's no stoplight there it's very dangerous and getting through that
intersection is very hard thank you thank you
MS.
Thank you.
Our next speaker is Robert Willoughby.
Good evening, Mr. Willoughby.
We're glad you're here.
MR.
I don't think I can stand up after all of that.
Okay.
I'm not talking about ABM.
Last summer, the district employed K-12 Insights to ask the community for their input on naming
the second stadium in the surrounding complex.
Over 5,600 responses were received and 57% of the respondents wanted the district to sell the naming rights.
43% desired the stadium to be named after an attribute like the other district buildings.
By splitting the naming into two parts, the complex and the stadium, you can meet the desires of both groups.
I understand that you have a sponsor for the complex and you'll probably discuss that next week.
Therefore, the naming of the stadium should be up for consideration.
According to the survey results, 43% desired the stadium to be named after an attribute,
The most frequent recommendation was Mike Johnson Stadium
No other KDI SD employee exemplifies excellence in our student athletes more than coach Mike Johnson
He laid the foundation of our districts success
Had look at the clock and his legend in Texas high school football under his leadership
Katie ISD has become second every state of the union and in countries like Brazil Belgium
Singapore England and with our military in Afghanistan and Iraq
You have been entrusted by the community represent our voice tonight
Tonight we ask you to consider Mike Johnson as the namesake of the district's second stadium.
It's the right thing to do for all the right reasons.
And I'd like to say thank you for working with the ABM.
I think that's important.
Just because we've always done it one way doesn't mean that's how we should continue to do it if we can improve.
But thank you for your time.
Thank you, Mr. Willoughby.
Our next speaker is Todd Fogelson.
Mr. Pogleson, welcome.
Mr. Hi.
First off, I just want to say thank you to all of you.
I know as everybody says, it's a thankless job, but you guys do a great job.
I wanted to let you all know that we are happy with the revised ABMs, and that's really about all I have.
I just want to say thank you for listening.
Ms. Thank you for speaking to us, Mr. Pogleson.
Ms. Our next speaker is Jason Billingsley.
Hello, how are you doing?
My name is Jason Billingsley.
My wife and I live in Lake Crest Park.
I've been nominated to speak on some of the residents in Lake Crest Park and Lake Crest Village.
My wife and I specifically bought that house for our kids to remain in the same schools they're going right now.
as it is right now we have an 11th grader at Katy High School eighth
grader at Katy junior high a fifth and a second grader at King Elementary we
would like more clarification on grandfathering if our daughter is a
senior next year and is allowed to be grandfathered what happens to our
ninth grader you know we're gonna separate him from his
sister and then when he becomes a senior our fifth grader right now will then be
be a freshman in high school so we splitting people up that's what I would like more clarification
on and as it is right now we are one mile away from Katie junior high four miles away from Katie
high school as it is right now we'll be seven miles away from the new high school and junior high
and excuse me also from what I understand Stockton's still a two-lane road I don't think
it's been expanded that's going to be very dangerous for anybody dropping off their kids
And if anything happens at that high school or junior high in that evening if anybody's coming up Katie for being going over Morton
If there's anything going on at Katie pony, you're gonna get stuck in a lot of traffic. You're not going anywhere
So I guess I got ten seconds in closing
I would like to say I don't understand why people who are south of I-10 and east of
99 still go to Katie
Collingsley and our next speaker is Gino Cantina. Good evening Mr. Cantina. Welcome.
Thank you. I want to echo what everybody is saying about the Pinnock neighborhood
being south of I-10 and still going to KDL entry. I'm happy with some of the
modifications that we heard tonight but I think I still see one glaring problem
And that's that zone 8, 9, and 20B are still being moved to the new elementary school,
while zone 53, which is south of I-10, is staying at Katy Elementary.
And I think there's two objectively reasonable reasons why this is wrong.
Number one, if zones 8, 9, and 20B were to remain in Katy Elementary,
that would result in a rational feeder pattern for those zones.
And if and likewise if 53 is moved out of Katy elementary that would result in a reasonable
theater pattern rational feeder pattern for that for that community as well and
secondly
The
As was mentioned earlier by one of the speakers
The proposed modification still would put pressure on Katy elementary going forward
But I think if you move 8 9 and 20 B if you leave that in Katy Elementary and move 53 out that would relieve that
pressure because according to the statistics I have
for the period from August 2016 to
2021 8 9 and 10 have 89 projected new housing occupancies while 53 has
280 so for those two reasons both future pressure
Thank you, Mr. Katina. We have your remarks here.
Our next speaker is Rachel Dolan.
Hi, Ms. Dolan. Welcome back.
Hi.
So my name is Ray Dolan.
You've changed the ABM and told me I have until the end of this meeting to prepare opposition to it,
contained in less than 90 seconds or forever hold my peace.
So why isn't Zone 53 being moved once,
leading the country zones in Cain Island as they are until housing development justifies a new facility like the one rumored to be slated for Cain
Island and then rezoning for that facility resulting in a single move when needed
Why are 82 students spread out over multiple zones being made to cross I-10
Instead of meeting the 85 students in zone 53 to the school on their side of the highway
Why bring the numbers crossing I-10 up to over 200 rather than bringing it down to 40?
Why are we not moving the only zone at KES that feeds into Wood Creek to Bryant, which also feeds into Wood Creek?
Why is zone 53 so untouchable that every neighborhood fighting this mentions them, yet they are never discussed?
What we have been asking for is a detailed explanation of why moving our kids twice with an unsustainable
ABM in zone 20B with dangerous travel routes is your best option.
Why you believe my kindergartener will be minimally affected by attending three different schools before the fifth grade.
But there is no conversation. There's me talking every month and y'all smiling like I'm talking to a wall.
And it would seem this board is more concerned with keeping its timelines than explaining to my neighborhood
why this is your best option. The best option really for who? For you? For Zone 53? For the affluent?
For those with neighbors in Zone 53?
It's sure not the best option for our country kids in Remington Trails or the zones that directly surround us that much, I can assure.
our final speaker this evening is skip Connor I guess I better read it my name is skip Connor
I've been a resident Katie in the penis clues for 40 years been a resident Katie city for 40
40 years also. I've known Mike Johnson since he moved to Katy.
I'm talking about renaming the stadium, by the way.
Mike and I have served as deacons in the First Baptist Church for
probably over 30 years. He's even currently one of my
Sunday school teachers. I think this speaks highly to the character of the man.
It took him over 13 years to change the attitudes that would allow a team
to go to the state championship. That was in
what 1994 that was my second term as mayor city of Katy you go downtown you
look at the water tower there's a tiger painted on it was the first thing done
that was done the year after we went to the state championship for the first
time so what has he done Mike Johnson's brought great pride to the city of Katy
and the Katy ISD that pride joy and excitement and recognition is still
evident in this community because of Mike Johnson you can travel anywhere in
in the state as we heard earlier i ran in other places they know of kdi sd they know of katie
tiger football besides all of his victories in football what else has mike accomplished well
let's look what he's done for his players one of his first goals as head coach was to make his
players be an example for all the kids in school turn him into upstanding young men and make them
ambassadors for the school he did that how he built character installed pride encouraged self-esteem
use discipline teamwork to get kids to do with their best
Thank You mr. Connor that concludes our open forum and our future meetings we
have a regular board meeting on Monday December 12 2016 and a special meeting
on Tuesday January 3 2017 there being no further business before this board we're
adjourned 946 p.m. thank you
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