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The board met earlier this evening in closed meeting.
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We are in compliance with the revisions regarding the Open Meetings Act with regards to this meeting tonight board president
Madam President
Mr. Griffin, I know that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report is recommended by the superintendent and close meeting second
up a motion by mr. Griffin a second by
Mrs. Doyle the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report is recommended by the superintendent and closed meeting any discussion
Hearing none will proceed to vote all in favor raise your right hand and say aye
I motion passes six to zero mr. Mahalski is unable to be here this evening
We have any scouts in the audience this evening. I
Don't see any
This time we'll have our first report
It's a delight to have a report about Katie independent school district virtual schools this
Mrs. Rankin and Miss Richards. It's nice to have you here this evening
Many of you may recognize tonight we are experiencing technical issues and are unable to project our presentations on the screen for the audience to see during the meeting.
We have provided paper copies of the two reports posted on the agenda so everyone present can follow along as each report is given,
just as you would if we were able to follow our regular practice of displaying the reports on the screen.
The video of this board meeting, which is posted on the website the day after each meeting, will have the presentation of the video.
As is our normal practice, the technical issue is with the projection device in the center of the boardroom only.
In other words, we turned it on and the bulb went out and it takes two days to get a replacement bulb.
So live with it.
Madam President, members of the board, and Dr. Hint, I am Darlene Rankin, Director of Instructional Technology,
and I have presenting with me Susan Richards who is the manager of e-learning
We are here to present an update to Katy virtual school. I
Would also like to recognize members that might be in the audience that have been a part of this collaborative team
and that's Rhonda Ward Alene Lindley dr. Casilda still and
secondary curriculum coordinators I
Also would like to recognize Barbara Landreau. She is the virtual school coordinator
we also have a Katy virtual school teacher here with us tonight miss Carrie
sanguineetti dr. Caskey and dr. Lana I would also like to thank you for bringing
this vision to the cabinet and to the board
katie virtual school supports the kdi SD mission statement katie independent
school district the leader in educational excellence together with
family and community provides unparalleled learning experiences
designed to prepare and inspire each student to live an honorable and
fulfilling life to create the future Haiti virtual schools primary objective
is to expand those learning opportunities and offer flexibility and
choice in high quality online courses developed by Katie ISD I could probably
spend the entire time on just the benefits alone of Katie virtual school
however this evening I will highlight a few of the major points to explain the
first two points choice flexibility and the expansion of learning opportunities
I'd like to tell you about a couple of students the first student Peter wanted
to take a culinary arts class at Miller Career Center but in order to receive
his credits he needed to take a course outside the regular school day he chose
K virtual school during the summer session which also allowed him to
continue with his summer job the second student is Lisa she's an athlete and an
art student and she wanted to be involved in athletics for four years and
an art for four years she needed to gain as additional credits during the summer
however she was posed with yet another obstacle her father was asked to go
overseas for six weeks and the family wanted to go with them so she decided to
take a KD virtual school course because overseas she was still able to work on
that on that course another benefit to KD virtual school is providing our
students with a high quality online courses that is KD ISD curriculum with
KD virtual school the content is aligned because our curriculum coordinators
along with the assistance from teachers develop the high quality content
creating collaborative teams of online teachers is important we hear from our
Katie virtual school teachers who are also teachers at our regular high
schools miss Stacy cave at Katie high school stated that Katie hat virtual
school has changed how I approach teaching and working collaboratively
with my peers. This is key to creating a virtual class that is student-centered.
Mr. Jerry Coker from Morton Ranch High School, KD Virtual School has easily helped me facilitate
interactive lessons within Canvas in my virtual course and face-to-face classroom.
KD Virtual School maintains a budget-neutral operation, which allows our students to take
courses usually less than half of what they can ask what they can take them for
outside our students pay $200 per semester per course if the student were
to take a course from an external provider that course might cost well
over $400 another major benefit prepares our students for post-secondary so if a
student was to go into the military into the workforce or college at some point
they are going to gain information from an online standpoint by offering
instruction we are able to offer these courses and assist students as they
navigate learning online the chart shows the number of courses offered in its
corresponding year as you can see we have grown from two courses all the way
to a projected 30 courses next school year.
The Katy Virtual School started in a very interesting way.
Eileen Lindley brought the dilemma of junior high students being transported from their
junior high campus over to the high school campus to take pre-AP geometry.
And each year, the number of students who needed to take pre-AP geometry continued to
grow.
So in addition to the transport cost, students were also using two periods a day, one for
instruction and the other for transportation.
So after seeing the benefits in creating that online course for these students and getting
the feedback from both students and parents, we decided as a district to make a concerted
effort to move forward and offer additional courses for our students.
summer of 2013 we adopted a robust learning management system and began to
certify teachers and staff members to teach and write courses online that
decision was canvas so canvas is the district learning management management
system and to me the best way to describe canvas is it's a dashboard that
you log into so a student logs in to this application and they see all the
courses that they are enrolled in and then on the right hand side they'll see
their to-do list these are actual assignments that the teacher has posted
for them and they have a due date in which they are supposed to complete
those assignments the student can also click on the calendar to see a broader
view and additional assignments or announcements that are coming the
modules within canvas coincide with our district unit plans of study for example
unit one of study unit one of study in AP world geography would be the same
module of study in canvas as you know Katie ISD uses a variety of online
resources to teach our concepts online resources such as encyclopedias
electronic textbooks discovery education to name a few are embedded right into
canvas so our students have easy access to those just as students and teachers
have discussions within class watch the teacher teach a lesson ask a question
collaborate with their peers take quizzes or tests this too can all be
completed within the online management learning system canvas it's mobile
friendly and supports safe communication parents too can also observe their
student in canvas and gain knowledge about the upcoming assignments and any
announcements that the teacher has posted I also would like to mention that
several of the universities here in Texas also use canvas so if a student
and outside of Texas as well so UT Baylor SMU Rice are a few that use
used Canvas as well.
As you heard, our first course was pre-AP geometry.
We also noticed that a lot of students were taking courses
from external providers that were AP courses.
And that was one of our original goals was to create
some AP courses online so that students would take the
courses from the KD teachers and the KD curriculum, and we
could lower the cost for students.
So we began with some of our AP courses.
From 2014 to present, this is the list of our AP and our pre-AP courses.
As Darlene mentioned, the pre-AP geometry students at the eighth grade, we also began to have eighth graders that needed pre-AP Algebra II.
Most of them had transferred into the district and had taken Algebra as a sixth grader and Geometry as a seventh grader, but we had this need.
So we wrote that course.
So our needs often drive the courses that we develop.
We also offer pre-AP independent study and mentorship that is only offered online in
the school district because the course basically was not making it most of the high schools,
but there's enough if we put all the high school students together to have an online
course.
And looking at the list of academic courses, many of these are required for graduation.
Often students move into Katy from out of state, from out of the country, and they don't
have all the courses they need in order to graduate with their cohort so we've
created some academic courses so that that can help students graduate and
graduate on time next year we're going to offer Latin and Latin is only
currently taught at one school in the entire school district and that's at
Taylor High School because we only have one teacher in the district he actually
spoke with the curriculum department and said I'd really like to teach this
this online so more students can take it. So we're creating a Latin course and
it'll be offered to students at all of our eight high schools. So that's another
unique niche for the virtual school. This is a six-year comparison of the
enrollment and online courses. The blue represents external providers, mainly
Texas Virtual School Network, and the red represents the student enrollment in
Katie again our first year was pre AP geometry and we also offered health
online and as you can see over the years the enrollment from Katie virtual school
has definitely grown and we have fewer and fewer fewer students taking courses
from the Texas virtual school network
so how do we prepare teachers to teach online we have a recruitment and an
application process. Oftentimes teachers are referred to us from curriculum
instruction or from current KB Virtual School teachers. We also hear from
teachers from time to time that say I'm interested in learning how to do this. So
the teachers create and complete an application and their selection is based
on their use of Canvas, their online learning experience as teachers and or
students. Many of them have through their bachelor's degree or their master's
degree or their PhD have taken online courses that's pretty popular now at the
college level we look at certifications and what we're going to teach we prefer
to have teachers who have already taught this course are currently teaching this
course so that they're up-to-date on what the unit plans are through the
training through the curriculum department what's your ability to
transition instructional strategies from face to face to online and also we
assess a little bit about their computer skills currently we have over 60
teachers who work with the Katy Virtual School either by being a teacher or by
helping develop courses. Some teachers just like to help develop courses and
their forte doesn't want to be teaching online. So we have about 60
teachers involved right now. After the teacher is accepted into the program
they need to receive their online instructor certification. We now offer a
course through TXVSN and it's actually we teach it and it allows the teachers
to gain their online instructor certification.
It's approved by TXVSN as an official online instructor course.
So how does a course get developed?
We first start with the unit plans and take the activities and all the rich resources
in the unit plans and try to transform them into this digital environment.
A district course is created following the unit plans.
So if we have eight teachers teaching AP U.S. History in the summer,
all eight of them are using the same course.
So the students are receiving the same resources, similar assessments, the same assignments,
and that type of thing.
We also follow the best practices of several organizations who create guidelines and best
practices for K-12 and the college environment.
One is Quality Matters.
They have a rubric by which you can grade your course, so to speak, to see if it meets
the best practices of online instruction.
We also use the ISTE, the International Society of Technology Education Standards for Learning,
and the International Association of Online Learning.
And again, these three are the standards for the nation, basically, for college learning and for K-12 learning.
We create technology-based models for our courses.
By that I mean, for example, in professional communications, which meets the speech requirement for graduation.
The students often record their speech within Canvas.
They don't have to leave Canvas.
They record their speech and the teacher watches them giving their speech and grades it online.
Our group also provides support for teachers.
We can't just leave them out there.
We provide constant support for teachers.
We provide Canvas training.
We assist them with best practices for online engagement.
How do I take this face-to-face lesson and make it a good online lesson?
We manage their grades and we're also the student and parent liaison.
on students and parents know they can always contact their teacher if they
have other questions they can contact the Katie virtual school and we'd be
glad to help them we provide technology support for teachers during the summer
they might be having issues with their browser and we remind them to clear
their cache or it might need to update their browser and we get all kinds of
technology support questions that we answer we also provide just-in-time
professional development for our teachers we assist with canvas
integrations or if they come up with a vision we try to help them make it a
reality by helping explore the tools that are available to make it happen in
the course our teachers meet throughout the year often because they want to meet
throughout the year as darling referred to some teachers they now have these
powerful teams of online teachers that are also transitioning all these skills
they're learning into the face-to-face classroom oops went too far so what is
This is the Katy Virtual School student experience.
Darlene pretty much described what Canvas offers, the ability to give quizzes and tests
and offer assignments and those types of things.
Our courses are set up in weekly modules, and students can work on them 24-7, anywhere,
anytime, almost any device.
Our courses are not truly self-paced.
The student has to keep up with weekly modules, and they have weekly deadlines, but the students
students can work ahead if they need to.
Often in the summer, the student may be going to camp
for a week.
So they tell the teacher, hey, I'm going to be gone the week
of July 11.
Can I work ahead?
And the student works ahead as long as they stay up with the
weekly modules that's fine.
And we've had students that go to camp where there is no Wi-Fi
access, and we're certainly flexible with that.
There are live tutorials that can be hosted in Canvas where,
in particular, our math teachers use a tablet, and
And they can solve math problems online with the students.
And the students can see how they work out the problems.
If the students have questions, they can ask and get assistance that way.
They can also upload files from Google Drive, from Office 365.
They can upload PDFs, audio files, video files, all kind of files to submit for their assignments.
Canvas also offers a complete set of notifications.
There's probably a list of 30 different notifications a student can get.
And the student sets this up to either go to their KDE email.
email, they can add their personal email, or they can receive text messages.
So they can receive a text message every time a new assignment is created.
So they know there's a new assignment or there's a deadline coming up.
Parents can also set up these notifications so they know what's coming down the line for
their student.
We also offer technical help for our students.
Number one question is questions about browsers.
Oftentimes they might be on a device that they haven't updated the browser lately.
lately.
Canvas works with a variety of browsers and a variety of versions, but we can help them
with that.
And of course the student experience, the number one thing about the student experience
is choice and flexibility.
These students choose to take these courses and it's flexible and it fits into their lifestyle.
Some feedback from some students.
My favorite part of taking an online course is learning how to adopt to an alternate way
of learning.
The class is flexible as assignments are not due every night and I can plan my time to
to submit all assignments on time.
It's nice to access all resources in one place,
and I can access them whenever I want.
How do people find out about the Katy Virtual School?
We visit with principals and associate principals,
make sure they're aware of the courses that are available,
when they will be offered.
We also meet several times a year with counselors
to inform them of new courses.
They also offer up courses that they
see students need based on what they're getting from transcripts.
We really need to offer, like that's where English 3 and 4 came from.
We really need to have this online for students.
We meet with them and they often give us ideas.
Student publications, information is in the student handbook.
All the courses are listed in the course catalog.
There's also information in the course catalog that also is found online.
We communicate with parents through Canvas.
We can create announcements at a school level and send it to all parents so they're aware of when semester exams are or
How does your student get help that type of thing?
And their grades are in the home access center and our grades are printed on progress reports and report cards
So it's not like a grade that's out there forgotten
Which was one of the problems we had with external providers and we often use parent link to also contacted the parents
And for more information you can visit us online
on the Katy School District website. This is the virtual school website where
parents and students can find information about registration. They
register online through InfoSnap which is the same product we use to register
new students into the school district so people are familiar with that. What are
the guidelines and how to contact Katy Virtual School. This is an email link and
then there's a student orientation on how to use Canvas. So we welcome you to
visit us on the website and learn more about what we offer to the school district.
Thank you for giving us an opportunity to present to you tonight.
I think our program is very good.
We have received calls from Canada to see if students could enroll in our courses.
We have received calls from other cities around Texas.
Can we put our students in your school?
Right now we're only offering our courses internally.
but we think we have a good product and we appreciate your support thank you
board members questions madam president mr. Scott I've been generally familiar
with this trend for about six or seven years and there's very few things in
public education that excite me more than what you're describing and I'm not
I have many questions and I hope that dr. hint will allow one or more board
board members to actually come visit and observe some of this in action.
Public education itself as an institution, we all understand, is under extraordinary
pressure on many fronts, choice being one of those.
And from the time I did some consulting with the Harris County Department of Education
and became familiar, generally familiar with this.
I think this offers KDISD and public education in general just an enormous payoff.
And I could ask a bunch of questions now, but I would like to defer.
I think this is something this board needs to get knee-deep in understanding,
understanding
Not just from a policy standpoint
But to help us
See what we need to do as a board
To take this program and I I can't tell you how much I hope it is as good as I think it is
I really hope it is but if this is a program that this board should look and investigate
How do we make this even better? How do we take this even further? And so that's that's my comment
and answer your question absolutely course we we can sign you up for a
course so you can see what it looks like I hear you but I know miss Richards and
miss Rankin's would would you know love to have any of you come sit down with
them walk you through it and let you see it that way I mean because it's online
but virtually anywhere virtual the accountability the rigor the the whole
bit madam president mrs. Doyle well I get the luxury of experiencing this
because I actually have a child that is enrolled in one of the online courses
when she started her ninth grade year due to her desire to be a professional
ballerina and the way that she trains in that profession she is required to take
courses summer school courses to so lead her where she wants to be and so with
that she takes extra classes to get her where she needs to be in the future and
so her counselor is the one that said look this is the path that we have her
on and this is what she's going to have to do she has been enrolled in other
online courses so she's a little bit of a connoisseur her and I on online
courses and this one by far has been the most user-friendly she has access to the
teachers she's like this is night and day different than what she's
experienced with other virtual courses and it's been though the curriculum
isn't easy the access and the just the user friendliness and the accessibility
to the teacher and things like that I've been it's been nice for her for me to be
able to say okay comparing it to other things that she's done she's definitely
been like oh my gosh it's so wonderful and and you're right she can work on
things in chunks when she knows that she's gonna be have a heavy load in
other courses which has been nice and so I can tell you that it's been wonderful
And I love to see us increasing the classes that we're offering these kiddos
So I commend you on on that and I agree with you. Mr. Scott. I hope that we can continue
to build on this because we do have
Kids in like my daughter that have special situations that may need to increase their course load for different reasons and do it virtually
One of the questions I have the teachers that are currently teaching these courses. They are in the classroom
currently and simultaneously teaching online courses correct yes that is
correct that is correct they use time outside of that day and and are paid to
do that if it's outside of their regular day so normally a high school teacher
teaches six periods and as has one conference period and that's devoted to
the face-to-face class and then they are paid an additional amount depending on
the number of students they're paid by the student okay all right wow kudos to those teachers for
taking the time to do that as well in the summer our teachers are not teaching face-to-face right
anywhere else and they like it because they too can travel they don't have to be in a school
building not that they don't love being in school building but they can travel during the summer
they can work from home they can work on vacation and it's been really positive for our teachers
Right. Well, and it would be interesting as we increase this program, do we ever see Katie get into a point where we do have full online school where some of our teachers that maybe don't want to teach in the classroom, maybe they want to be stay-at-home moms, but they still want to teach.
We have maybe that elementary or that high school teacher that now stays home
But still wants to be a teacher and can teach virtual school solely from home and still be that
Be that mom at home as well and do both
We're open and and we'll follow y'all's direction and absolutely so
Mrs. Rankin yes a couple of questions. Well, I too like mr. Scott have a bunch of questions
but let me I think some of these are very quickly answered okay what's the
teacher-student ratio on average with this and is there more demand than there
are teachers or is it the opposite those are loaded questions so the first one is
we try to in depending on the amount of years that that are in which isn't very
long yet but if it's the first time that the teacher is going to teach the course
then we probably try to reduce that student to teacher ratio at that point, but we cap them at 30 and
Try to give that equal access across the district because there is absolutely more demand than there is you know
Students are wanting to take there are more students wanting to take the amount of courses than we have to offer it. I
Like that I wrote down flexible times with question marks and then you answered it there
there, how do they get help when there's the email or do they text the teacher?
There are several ways teachers and their students can get help.
Within Canvas there is a big question mark over here on the left navigation to report
a problem and it comes into our ticketing system where we can provide help.
They can also email their teacher and as we send out our beginning communications we tell
them to email our email address which is kdvirtualschool at kdsd.org or they can call us on our email
our phone number but often they reach out to the teacher and if the teacher
can't solve the technical support issue they'll turn it over to us and we'll get
with the student and are the parent if they have a question about it too so
there is technical support there's also a student orientation course within
Katie virtual school where it's on the main dashboard of each course and it's a
student orientation that shows them how to use canvas what do I do if I get
get stuck here.
And we kind of have frequently asked questions also, the ones we've been
getting over the years.
We provide answers that way. But there's always,
there's always help. There's always somebody online to help them. I mean,
it's 11 o'clock at night on Saturday and we've helped a student, you know.
This question may be better for Ms. Sanguinetti
than for you, but what challenges do teachers find to the online teaching?
I wonder what their biggest challenges are and
what we could do to help.
Ms. Sanguignetti, join us here at the microphone so it can be recorded.
Thank you.
Sorry, I put you on the spot.
I don't mean to put you on the spot, but what do you love about it and what challenges do
you have?
What I love about it is the fact that, well, personally, I'm in a new role now.
I'm no longer in the face-to-face classroom.
I'm a classroom technology designer.
So being able to continue in my role as e-support here and on campuses and mainly helping with
Canvas and Canvas training, I still get to have that interaction with my students, which
which was one of the things I knew I was gonna miss most.
So I absolutely love that.
I love being able to work in a platform.
I'm a very huge fan of Canvas,
and I've grown to love it since we started doing this
a couple of years ago.
But I love the fact that this platform offers me
the opportunity to maintain developing those relationships
with my students just as I would
in the face-to-face classroom.
We have discussion boards.
We have online meetings. I have hold virtual office hours. So the students can still come in on
For example this Thursday afternoon and they can
You know drop by I'll open up an online classroom for an hour
They can drop by and ask a question or we can you know get help with something that they're working on or a project
also one of my favorite
assignments which
which probably one of the greatest challenges.
I was trying to figure out how to move the workplace readiness module,
which is my last module of my course, into the online environment
because in the face-to-face environment,
it's very easy to have that interview practice
as if you're going to a job interview.
And the students dress up.
They bring their resumes.
They have practice interviews and take turns being an interviewer or an interviewee.
So, I mean, that's simple.
Every speech teacher in the district knows how to make that a fun and successful activity for their students
But in the online environment that gets a little more challenging
and then I realized that
In order to get the position that I'm in right now
I had to go through an online interview process for a couple of times before I was
Invited in for a face-to-face interview
So I explained that to my students that today in this day and time things are
changing and a lot of them will experience that online interview and
it's still important to know how to maintain eye contact with the camera on
your computer and not be looking around not fidgeting and so we hold an online
we have a different you know a couple of different ways we do it but my favorite
way is to hold an online interview with them where I open up that classroom a
small group of students come in I interview them one at a time I let them become the presenter and
They upload their resume into the classroom other students get to observe and watch we ask each other questions
And and it's a lot of fun so the challenges is still maintaining that
Relationship that you build in the face-to-face classroom and making it meaningful learning for the students so that they remember it and they get
Something valuable out of it, but the joy is probably the same thing
Thank you so much.
I'm so glad you brought her.
Yes.
Ms. Rankin, thank you so much.
Exactly.
Anyone else have a question?
I have the, let me see which one.
So I love this and have been talking about it since a long time, right?
More virtual schools as our children were attending school and our daughter would constantly remind me,
If I didn't have to do, you know, all those courses you make me do, I could do all the things I'm really good at.
And they always had a fine arts in it.
Right.
So she wanted to do all of the fine arts and every year.
So these are really great.
And they would take health through Texas Tech, you know, during the summer.
And there just weren't very many choices for them at that time that would apply.
This is so exciting.
When they got to college, they saw a little bit more of this.
And so I think it's just opportunities for our students that just frees up more and more and more
experiences with a KD ISD quality at every turn so
Love love love it and I see the potential that this would free up
Real estate in our schools, right? We're growing
People are coming here because incredible teachers and incredible students are making
themselves known worldwide and people want to be in KDISD.
And so the demand for buildings and things like that, this frees up classroom space,
you know, square footage, and yet still delivers a high quality.
I see that this is like a win-win for all of us.
So I would love to hear the ideas you have for more teachers because I think
that the more students who experience this the more demand there's going to be.
So I know there's a special training for teachers is that right? And how are you
marketing it to teachers to take on more than six classes every day? Right well
and I guess Susan can attest to this that she has teachers contacting her
continuously wanting to you know get on board and and you know until we got this
course created and I Barbara and Carrie you know developed that and had it
approved through Texas Virtual School Network and so it was expensive to go
outside to Texas A&M to get that certification but now we're able to do
that in-house and free up that cost so that that's exciting and so I
I absolutely see this growing and we would like to dedicate full-time teachers to this,
but we're also moving slow and making sure that our community and everyone's on board,
our board is on board with this movement because I do feel like students and teachers alike
like, feel like it's a viable solution for some of their coursework.
I know several of our teachers who teach all day in our high schools and then teach online
courses for HCC and Lone Star, and they've been doing that for a while.
So I think this is something that they will love.
And to keep that solid quality for our students is just, it's fantastic.
Exactly.
The quality of the teachers and the coursework.
That's the key component right there.
and the support that they get while they venture into this world you know because
our teachers are here and can continue to you know reach out to them or maybe
they even know a teacher that they have for another course that they're that
that students taking that that teacher could reach out to them and say hey are
you doing okay in this online course you need any other assistance things like
that so absolutely and really the more exposure that they get to extra courses
While we're not trying to be more demanding on our students who already have so much more demand,
but many students who want to explore other things,
that's just an awesome opportunity for when they go to college is where do I really want to be
and what things really interest me.
So kudos.
Very awesome presentation.
Thank you all.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Superintendent, for the presentation.
Okay.
Mr. Smith, here you go.
Let's talk about online budget
Online money, how are you madam president? Where is mr. Smith? I can barely see him
Good evening
Mrs. Fox dr. Hinton trustees my pleasure tonight to give you an update of where we are with the budget process again
We started in April and y'all been hearing to me periodically or each month. I think thereafter
after tonight I'm going to see show you where we are standing again we're five
months or over five months away from adopting the budget but I want to give
you an update tonight because tonight you will be presented a staffing plan
which is a large portion of the budget but I want to start off by showing you
the assumptions that we talked about in February at length I'm sorry in January
at length and agreed to and these numbers are and these assumptions are
based off of current law on the top there I've shaded the fact that we're
using current law and as I go through this that shade is going to move and I'm
going to try to talk about those points and help you focus in on those especially
when we're dealing with numbers it just kind of help you focus to draw the
attention to what I'm saying again this budget is being adopted off or projected
off of an enrollment of seventy seven thousand two hundred thirty three
students that's the 1,500 student increase or about 2% it's a little less
aggressive than we had last year but we feel comfortable with that number we've
talked about it a lot and and feel that that's that is a good number at 2%
increase again we've been 2% or higher for many years and so it's no surprise
that we have an enrollment growth we're also looking at taxable values we've
averaged over 10% each year for the last 10 years on average. We're using that
average right now, an increase of 10% in our taxable values. That's because of all
the new growth that we continue to see pop up, etc. And you can see there that we
if 10% and we'll know this in April, late April, early May for sure, if it's
10% will be 40 billion dollars. That means the total property value or
taxable value of the properties if you added them all together would be 40
billion dollars in KDISD teacher growth we show the teacher growth in here
that'll be what's presented tonight in the staffing plan at 189 teachers and
our 84 non teachers that's for three campuses to junior highs in high school
and I'm sorry an elementary school a junior high and a high school that opened
this year and again I will show that we are looking at a total of 3% in salary
increases or payments to staff. 3% is where we're starting. Again, it's very
early in the budget process. Current law is what we're using. You can see if 10%
of our values increase, and they again they have over the last 10 years averaged
10%, sometimes higher, sometimes a little lower, but average of 10, that would
would increase our property tax revenues by about $46 million.
But look at state funding, and you see that's gone down by $21 million in our estimate.
Even though we're growing, those number of kids are 2% in our enrollment.
That's the effect of those rotten apples.
That's the effect of prior year property value growth that we experienced in the 16-17 budget.
The state's taking that into account and reducing our funding, and that's, again, the apples.
Our state TRS contributions, that's in a little different shade.
That's to show you that there's an offsetting, whatever that amount is, there's an offsetting
expenditure in those two WASH.
So as you see, the TRS contributions, either on the revenue side or the expenditure side,
they're always a WASH.
We're too early along in the budget process to know this exactly of how 2017-18 is shaping
up.
but it'll be very similar to what you see there that's the official budget in
the 16-17 school year and a majority of our expenditures are 88% is in salary
and benefits again as a reminder our second largest expenditure is in that
purple section and that is utilities primarily utilities our second largest
expenditure behind personnel costs and I think that makes sense we're labor
intensive and we have buildings to heat cool and water and flush our expenditures
there on the far left as we develop this budget will continue to be the majority
of them on that far left column which is where it should be it's an instruction
instruction related areas that's the 16 17 actual numbers from our officially
adopted budget and everything we've done so far and are doing will continue that
same trend as we move forward with 17 18 operations so the staffing plan that
you'll see later on tonight I believe it's in section 5.1 or item 5.1 one on
the agenda this again includes new facilities in elementary school junior
high and high school it also includes ancillary positions associated with
those new facilities such as cafeteria workers bus drivers groundskeepers etc
and then it includes district-wide growth and what that means in
district-wide growth is we're having 1,500 kids they're not all going to
conveniently move to the elementary the junior high and the high school that are
new they're going to move throughout the district and there'll be growth needed
in cases throughout the district and maybe not are the opposite in some
campuses depending on the campus location but for the most part it's
district growth drives that number up so from a position standpoint what you'll
see tonight and new teachers is ten million dollars those sixteen hundred
kids are going to need teachers to teach them and and and these are the folks
that are tied to the teacher salary schedule so it'd be ten million dollars
if that 189 teachers again you can see these salary increases that we're
discussing or using as our starting point of nine million four hundred I'm
sorry, $9,600,000 in the 2% and 1% lump sum in our salary increases for the teacher pay group.
Non-teachers associated with those campuses are $5.1 million.
When you open a new school, unlike the other kids that move in and go to new campuses that are growth,
when you open a new campus, you have fixed costs like a school nurse, a principal, an athletic coordinator.
Those kind of things are fixed costs.
And so those are those are included in in what you will be seeing later tonight again
The cost of salary increases for non teacher pay groups are there just over a million and a half dollars
So some other compensation that we're working with in this budget and again, it's still early
But just to give you an idea on stipends right now
We will continue to analyze these as they go move forward for the summer
So we're using that nice round $8.6 million as a placeholder.
That will get massaged, but it will be pretty close, plus or minus $100,000, that number probably.
Substitute teachers is another large expense.
Again, we'll analyze based on what's happening this school year, and we'll sharpen it up as we get towards the end of the school year and this summer
to be able to give a better projection of what will happen next year.
So $7.5 million is what we have in there as a placeholder, and it'll be close again.
It will be exact by June or July.
Overtime and supplemental pay, again, that's an estimate, but that's the other large portion of our other compensation.
That totals $29 million.
From a benefits perspective, our biggest benefit by far is our health plan.
We contribute $385 a month.
per person participating in our plan or per per employee participating in our
plan right now we do not expect that need to change and are not projecting
that but you do see an increase there million and a half dollars or I'm sorry
two and a half million dollars and that is because we're adding new staff and
each time you add new staff we're going to add the under three hundred eighty
five dollars a month times twelve months for each of those new staff that's why
That's why you see an increase there.
These other benefits are all directly resulted off the total payroll numbers or just based
off of percentages.
I will point out the TRS 1.5% local contribution.
I call this the TRS payroll tax.
The State adopted this in 2005 and for the – I'm sorry, in 2015 and they – for the
13 and for the 14-15 school year they funded it and for the and that only that
year and from this point from that point forward that's been a just an expense to
us no revenue associated with it but that's our local contribution to keep
TRS active TRS retirement plan healthy and that's the same for every district
as the percentage of their payroll 1.5 percent TRS stat minimum is another one
that that I want to point out this is the amount that because we pay above the
teacher salaries the minimum teacher salary schedule because of competition
with other districts we pay in to TRS on anything above the minimum minimum and
so that's that six point five million dollars and then also back in 2000 and I
don't know if it was 13 or probably 13 or 11 we also had to have to fund
anybody new to TRS, anybody new to public education, we fund their 90, first 90 days.
The state does not fund those first 90 days. The districts do. So we have a total
payroll budget of 500 and almost 560 million dollars. There's this blue
section I wanted to point out that was on the revenue, the 33.8
million dollars that came over from revenue, again that's an offset. Some other
highlights to point out campus allocations seven million one hundred
thirty dollars that is done our the campuses finish that up for for the
on their their their portions up on that just last week or the week before spring
break so that's a lot of moving targets now the campuses are being asked to work
on some of their non their payroll portions which are campus tutorials
over time and the campuses will be doing that over these next couple of weeks.
And then from that point below, the cabinet and the departments will be getting to work
on the department allocations and non-allocations.
And again, the majority of those monies are things that we can't control, like utilities,
although we do a great job under Mr. Cruz's leadership of controlling our utility costs
through strong pricing.
It's a large expense
Other things that are there maybe in non allocations that we can't control or appraisal districts. They pass on
their expenses onto their
Participating entities and it's based on our fees based on our levy. So as our levy goes up our fee goes up
Total non payroll cost again of seventy nine point six million dollars
is what we need to keep it to under current law for a balanced budget and
again I'll stress the current law of several times we've seen things from the
House and the Senate that are happening that make somebody like me seasick
trying to keep up with it or I'll get into a funk or I'll get on cloud nine
just based on what I last read and that's why we don't project off anything
because I would start getting emotional in this there are things that are
positive that are happening in austin there are some things that are negative so current law as
an example the senate uh on their uh senate budget committee is currently its current law is to be
funded in in uh for new instructional facilities they may not fund that this next biennium that's
going to cost us a million and a half dollars if they don't that's just one example um but
we've built these numbers off current law so next month we're going to try to go over the debt
service fund we're going to go over where we are with what we're looking at
from from a tax rate perspective and trying to lower that tax rate we're also
going to talk about what our principal and interest payments will be and
hopefully by then we'll have the results of our bond sale that we can that we can
report on next month and then in May we'll bring bring you the same type of
presentation that you saw tonight maybe a little bit more detail and maybe more
specific toward property values and anything that's evolving from a law
perspective in Austin and that's all the information I have for you tonight
matter president mr. Griffin mr. Smith are you using 2% for the growth next
year and this year we use 2.9 would is 2% since it's smaller than 2.9 is that
more conservative an estimate or is it is it lower or better or more
conservative higher more conservative we are we're using 2% student growth and
And that is based on, let me grab that.
That is more conservative or less, that's what we think it's going to be.
Conservative or not, we think it's going to be 2%.
Okay.
That's based on the data we received from PASTA.
Yes, sir.
As well as our internal demographer looking at the numbers.
Okay, thank you.
And one thing I want to highlight also, Mr. Smith, if you'll go back,
anytime there's red in parentheses, I want to make sure that we acknowledge that.
If you'll go back to that, move forward again.
Sorry.
As we stand right now, that red, adjustments for a balanced budget.
Right now, if we were to pass the budget today, based upon the numbers you see,
Austin doing nothing at all, this is what we're looking at,
to include a 2%, 3% actually, to reoccurring a 1% lump sum.
But if you recall the first time we reported to you, I believe this number was around the $10 million range.
And the point being is I want to commend Chris and his staff, this cabinet, working with their people.
The principals, we've got after looking at ways to save some money without killing programs,
although we're going to look at some of that in the future.
I told you we're doing that right now
And finding ways to be a little bit more efficient with what we're doing not only on personnel, but on multiple
Any other questions from Mr.. Um I'm president mr. DeBrell mr.
Smith I'm hearing that the house is proposing a 23 month budget rather than 24 would that affect us
any I
I know they did that a few years back.
No, sir.
What they typically do is by adopting a budget, basically by delaying one of our last payment
to public schools throughout the state, by delaying that, they're on a cash basis.
And so by delaying that, that beefs up the year that they delay it.
And it puts that off until they catch up.
And they've delayed it before.
And then they've used surpluses in the past to catch up.
up but it's an accounting measure way that they're doing it that the state's
doing it to help make the budget look better
and president mr. Scott by any other name it's called a conservative shell
game any other questions mr. Smith thank you so much for your presentation and
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
We'll hear from you again.
Okay, we'll move to the consent agenda.
Board members, 5.1, Mrs. Stevenson will visit with us about security cameras and data cabling
at some of our high schools.
Good evening, President Fox, Trustees, and Dr. Hint.
I have five contracts to bring forward for your consideration this evening.
The first one is the award of the contract for the purchase and installation of security cameras and data cabling at various high schools.
In the ongoing effort to provide a safe and secure environment at our schools, the technology department has identified six campuses where the security cameras needed to be upgraded.
Accordingly, they identified one that will provide better resolution and better coverage at the campuses.
and to ensure that we were getting best value where we released a request for
competitive sale proposals after evaluation of the proposals received it
was recommended that we award the lowest cost proposal submitted to meeting the
district's specifications so the cameras for Cinco Ranch High School Morton Ranch
High School Rains High School and Seven Lakes High School are recommended to be
installed by AccuTek technologies at a not to exceed cost of four hundred and
$116,545.50.
The cameras for Katy High School, the recommendation is that they be installed by Network Cabling
Services at the not to exceed price of $108,939.89.
And the recommendation for the cameras at Taylor High School is that they be installed
by IE Smart Systems at a not to exceed cost of $147,886.78.
cents so the contract will commence upon board approval and will be completed
before the start of the 2017-2018 school year so the total cost of the contract
of six hundred and seventy three thousand three hundred and seventy two
dollars and seventeen cents which includes the installation and all of the
service and cabling installed in a five percent owners contingency and all
bonding cost will be funded from the 2014 bond funds questions Thank You
mrs. Stevenson I'm you're gonna be here for a little while let's talk about
musical instrument repair service okay the next contract I have is to invite to
provide musical instrument repair services for the district the purchasing
department along with the assistance of the Fine Arts Department developed a
list of potential providers from those that we have had experience with in the
past of the 12 contacted only 10 responded however all of the vendors
responded meet the KDE ISD qualifications to be vendors for the
school district if the contract is approved if the list of vendors is
approved the fine arts department will utilize the vendors awarded for all the
instrument repairs and for any repairs over $3,000 they will seek competitive
quotes among the approved vendors. The contract would be effective for one year
after award with an option for three additional one-year renewals and all of
the expenditures will be funded from the general operating fund and or special
revenue funds as approved by the board. Any questions? Why don't you move right
into the the next one I have follows along with that is for the musical
instruments and equipment for the new campuses we are opening in the fall of
2017 the Fine Arts Department utilized developed a list of the necessary
musical instruments and equipment to open both Pato high school static
junior high and Bryant Elementary in order to be sure that we were receiving
best value we did release a request for competitive seal proposals and the
recommendation is to award to the lowest bid the lowest priced item meeting
specifications additionally we will have a section where we have approved all the
the vendors submitting that met KDISD qualifications to be vendors for items that are not specifically
listed because we know there will be some of those that we have not yet identified.
Any purchases in this category over 3,000 will require competitive quotes.
The contract will stay effective for one year after award to allow us to receive all the
instruments in because there is a long lead time on some items and to be sure that everything
Everything is prepared within warranty for service.
The anticipated expenditures for the musical instruments and equipment needed to furnish
the new campuses are estimated to be $2 million and this will be funded from the 2014 bond
fund.
Okay.
5.4.
Okay.
The next contract I have is for the lit and dark fiber for the infrastructure growth of
the district.
district. As we have done in the past, the district's technology department contracted
with Education Partner Solutions, or EPS, to help us to develop the recommendations
and specifications for the expansion of our current telecommunication centers, or fiber,
so that we could connect all of the new construction that we have going on. So EPS reviewed the
district connectivity and developed those specifications and helped us to bid them out
as per the e-rate requirements so that we would qualify for e-rate
reimbursements as we can meet them so this proposal addressed all the fiber
cabling needs for any new construction we have coming up through elementary 41
and after review of the proposal submitted the represent the
recommendation is to award the contract to pure speed lightweight and I must say
that the impact statement on this on your paperwork is incorrect we miss
printed it and the total cost is actually two hundred and forty eight
thousand one hundred and I'm sorry and two hundred forty eight thousand ninety
five dollars and forty nine cents and that will be
the correct amount and we will make sure that the impact statement is corrected
before the board meeting next week and again the recommendation is for a pure
speed light wave the contract will commence upon approval and will begin
installation as of July 1st 2017 any questions okay your last one mrs.
Stevenson last contract for this evening is again that this goes along with the
contract we just awarded this is for the bill of materials for the actual
networking equipment that will need to be purchased for elementary 41 again the
district utilized education partner solution who have been our consultants
for a number of years to develop the plan and to help us to develop the
correct bill of materials to purchase for this particular connectivity after
review of all the proposals submitted the recommendation is to award to
NETSYNC AT A TOTAL COST OF $233,407.20.
AND AGAIN, THIS PROJECT WILL BE FUNDED FROM THE 2014 BOND FUNDS.
BOARD MEMBERS, ANY QUESTIONS?
OKAY.
THANK YOU, MS.
STEPHENSEN.
BOARD PRESIDENT FOX, I KNOW THAT MS.
STEPHENSEN SAID THIS IS THE LAST ONE FOR TONIGHT, BUT I THINK CHRIS WANTS TO DO A QUICK RECOGNITION.
I believe this is the last time we'll see Miss Stevenson here because she's retiring.
I am.
Yes, sir.
Miss Stevenson, I believe it's 37 years in the business.
Actually, almost 38.
Almost 38.
11 in Katie, and I'm proud to say that I was part of the group that sat in on the interviews and chose Regina.
And I think as being in here and listening over the last 11 years and knowing people in the business, she's top notch.
And we've been blessed to have her these last 11 years.
I'll speak from an employee perspective.
She keeps us out of jail and kept us out of jail.
And I very much appreciate the work that Regina's done for Katy ISD.
It's truly been my honor to work for Katy ISD.
I've enjoyed every minute of it.
and the people here are just incredible. So thank you very much.
Mrs. Stevenson, you have been presenting to us for a very long time and every
presentation is thorough. You answer every question, you have them answered
before we even get to them and you send all the you know all the materials that
you send us and we look at and you are a consummate professional and your ethics
are unquestioned and your integrity and we're just so happy that you've served
us and we congratulate you on your retirement and don't be a stranger you
you're a part of our family we're grateful to have had you here for
Acadians thank you very much
Okay board members will move to 5.6 the design services for the renovations at
Galbo Elementary and Pattison Elementary. Mrs. Cassman good evening good to see you.
Good evening. Good evening President Fox, Trustees and Dr. Hint. I'm bringing forward
four items for your consideration this evening the first item is for the board
to consider the approval of design services associated with the
renovations at Galbo and Patterson elementary schools the 748 million
dollar authorization provides funding for the comprehensive renovations at
these campuses both these campuses were opened in 1989 Patterson has previous
renovations and building additions as part of the 2002 bond referendum there's
has been no major work at Galbo.
VLK Architects is being recommended
to provide design services for these projects.
VLK has extensive experience in K through 12 design,
including the previous renovations of Paterson
and the sister campuses of Sundown and May Creek,
as well as our current elementary prototype.
The design services fee is 7% of the construction cost.
Approval of this recommendation will
ensure that design work can be completed to commence
construction for 2018.
18 but part of when do you think construction will begin did you say that
up sometime early 18 spring break I will know that once we get into the design
I'm president mr. Scott dr. Hill by 7% just walk me through that that's been
the norm on this one I was hoping you would last till the next action item
Where we were able to negotiate it down point five percent. I saw that all right
Can I I mean is this typical with this kind of project? Yes, it is. Okay. That's all is the norm all right
Can I add to that dr. Hint? I'm a I am surveyed seven school districts, and that is the norm
Mrs.. Kassman this is a part of the
2014 bond but that bond for the
the greater thing was 2014 to 2017 was kind of I
Remember the bond committee putting together they they thought about a four-year bond or a three-year right proposal
So was this 2018 always their timeline with the bond committee expect to see this as a 2018?
Completion yes, that is correct. Okay, and is it the last thing to be completed on that the last two major projects?
Okay, well we still have an AG facility drainage too
So let's make sure we're very clear about that, but we anticipate having all this work started and completed in 18
And this is that timeline available on the website or I know I have it somewhere
I'm just wondering if maybe it has been available on the website. I have to go back and check again
Would you send it to us that just I just want to review it in my in my mind?
I've seen it, but I've seen a million things since then so ask me if you'll send that to me, please. Yes, please us
Get that to us. Okay. Thank you
Okay any other questions
Okay five point seven miss Kessler is also you and it's the design services and
For the junior high 16 in high school night that is correct
This in regards to the growth in the southwest quadrant of the district that supports the need for junior high 16 to open in
2019 and high school 9 in 2020 the district currently owns property in Cross Creek Ranch and land use zone
73 C in
Addition as infrastructure work is currently underway in the vicinity of these sites
It would be beneficial to retain the design services at this time to ensure proper coordination
the schedule for the design and constructions as follows for the junior high a porn bar upon board
approval design would start in April of 2017 we estimate nine months for the design and with
construction documents complete by the end of the year and upon a successful bond election in
November construction could convince early 2018 so we could be ready for 2019 for the high school
would be the same start but there's an estimated 12-month design schedule once again we'd hope to
bid that the first part of 2020. pbk architects is being recommended to provide design services
for these projects pbk has extensive experience in k-12 design including the previous junior high
and high school prototypes and prototypes design services fee is three percent of the construction
cost repeats are typically three and a half and funding is available from the
2014 bond authorization any questions madam president I do have a question and
I but I don't want to do it here and I I don't know if if just technically we
pull it off the consent agenda there's no real problem but I don't I mean I
I don't think the question that I have, I'd like to be able to visit with you.
Absolutely.
Okay.
And I'm sure it's going to come back on the consent agenda, but there is a question I have.
Absolutely.
You can share that question with me, and as the information states in BE Legal and BE Local,
a board member has the authority and the opportunity to pull a consent agenda.
If there's more information you need or you would like provided to our community,
my recommendation would be let's go ahead and move this to action.
that gives us an opportunity to get you the information during this next week
and then have additional conversation next week.
This is one of those things I think I know the answer, but I really do want to ask you.
That's the purpose of the policy, absolutely.
I have a question, Mr. Superintendent, about this.
So, Board members, this is new to us that we are doing our agenda a little differently
that Dr. Hint has told us about.
Everything will be consent.
Instead of moving and moving and moving,
we'll start with them,
and then we move them to action if we like.
But the board policy, my understanding is,
that we could move this any time during the week
if our question isn't answered.
Mr. Scott, could we leave it on consent agenda,
and if the question becomes something else,
just send me an email,
and I'll just pull it to action for you,
and we can talk about it.
If the question means that you'd like to talk about it
in front of all of us,
just email me during the week.
Okay, okay board members any of us if we'd like to move anything
To a discussion for next week and not keep it on consent agenda
You have during the week to get your questions asked and answered and if it's something we need to have a open discussion about just
Email me both in time to
our to the posting
prior to the post well, right
Right.
Right.
And you stole my thunder at the end of all of our consent.
I was going to explain this, which I think all of you are fully aware of the process.
You told us about that.
Yeah.
And this is a really good idea because I always forgot move to consent agenda,
and they're pointing to the little sign, the big red sign that says move it to consent.
This is a great idea.
Okay, Mr. Scott, let me know.
Yes, Mrs. Doyle.
Madam President.
Mr. Griffin.
Mr. Superintendent.
Are junior highs gonna stay two stories in high school three stories since we're talking about design services? I would assume so
It's correct. It's gonna be a modified repeat of what's currently under construction. Great. Thank you
And did I understand sorry?
Did I understand that typically it's three and a half percent but in this case it's a three percent that is correct and
And the norm is three and a half
That is correct
Thank you to whoever made that happen, right?
Please, Mrs. Dahl.
Will we be consulting with Stock, Dick, and Pato?
Will there be enough time for us to do a refining on those?
I know that in the past when we've done a modified repeat,
we've kind of talked with the principals and said, what works?
What maybe would you have changed?
Things like that.
Will we be looking at that as well?
Is that what that nine-month design?
Well, the bulk of the nine-month is the site conditions,
the civil engineering work.
But there'll be some opportunity, but it'll just be opening. I know both principals have been in those campuses
I don't know how much feedback we'll get okay
That's an excellent question
I hope there's opportunity because that's you know
That's really good Cinco Ranch High School was our first one and we made some modifications for the ones after that now
This is our new design
So I hope we have time to get you some feedback for some things that'll that'll make sense there. It will definitely try. Yeah, that's great
Okay, and
Cassam and you're gonna be here a bit
Okay, the next time I'm bringing is an amendment number one to sterling structures the construction manager at risk for the career technology education
facility expansion front office renovations and LGI at Beck Cinco Ranch
Katie McDonald and McMeans junior high schools the design of this
This 2014 bond authorization project was approved in the December of 2016 board meeting.
The team has been working with the campus central office staff and the contractor to
finalize construction documents and obtain pricing to establish a guaranteed maximum
price.
Per the original scope of the project, we have provided for the renovation and addition
of the CTE spaces to support principles of health science and technical education.
In addition, we are providing for the renovation of the front office area to improve security
and function. As we previously reported during the design process in meeting
with the campus principals, it was these principals that brought to our attention
that these five campuses and older prototype did not have any large group
instruction space. The LGI has become a standard program space in our designs
beginning in 2003 with the Morton Ranch junior high model and
considered this project to provide equity at the junior high level.
We've talked about this before. Any questions? Updates? No? Okay. The dust collectors, is
this new to the thing we talked about the LGI part before and now I see dust collectors
at Maid Creek and West Memorial or is that?
We were doing the work at the dust collectors at the five original campuses and just for
some value on it be easier just to bid all all them together so that's why
those two were included in here great thank you very much any other question
okay Thank You mr. Kessler last you have one more 5.9 okay the final item I'm
bringing forward is in regards to the final phase of construction associated
with Pato high school and the Stockton junior high campus this item would
provide for improvements to Stockton school Road and peak Road the scope of
work provides for improvements to the two current to the current two-lane farm
roads to support safe and efficient mobility in and out of the campuses work
includes the widening of peak and stock deck from the current 21 feet wide to 37
feet wide including turn lanes this work is in accordance with the traffic study
recommendations as required by Harris County funding will be from the 2014
bond authorization five proposals were received on February 21st with triple-a
asphalt ranking first overall Madam President I just want to go on record
saying if you give me a t-shirt I'll vote for almost anything 16 some of them
here all the time this is awesome we love it so I understand that the mascot
spot design is coming in addition to this mrs. van I'm glad to see this work
is being done because that road is pretty pretty narrow well steep drop-off
and we know this work will be completed by school opening and by it's going back
to school for the practices and all that that is the plan but I don't want the
board to be misinformed we're not talking about that roadway yeah no we've
got some work to do working with our Commissioner to see to it that we've
got a road that my four by four actually struggles getting down sometimes no the
part explain the exact location of I don't want them to think it's the entire
No, it's basically on Peak Road.
Not 100 percent, all the way in front from end to end.
I'm trying to remember, what is the road that runs north and south there next to Peak?
This has nothing to do with Peak.
We're talking about the high school right now, not Stockton.
Explain exactly where the street location is.
if you look in your documents it's got a diagram right right so it goes in front
of the high school and then in front of the vent and the subdivision part of it
covers part of that subdivision right and is that that's in front of the
school mm-hmm that's that scary road yeah but not the scary one that runs
runs into that which we've got some work with radic on then what is the road
peak I assume running north and south
mr. superintendent would you get us a diagram hold them out we'll get you
diagram mr. superintendent may we have a copy of the diagram did you hear of the
the request mr. superintendent will get you a diagram so much do you call it
dr. superintendent if you don't say hint no mr. dr. superintended yeah would you
like I apologize if that's getting the hang of it okay thank you so much okay
Okay, Mrs. Kassman, I think you're good.
All right, thank you very much.
Thank you to the principals who have put in extra long hours tonight to be here in case we had questions.
I appreciate that.
Mr. Millman, good evening.
You're going to talk about casualty insurance.
Yes, ma'am.
Good evening, Madam President Fox, trustees, and Dr. Hint.
In March of 2016, the Katy Independent School District Board of Trustees
approved the renewal premium quote from Texas Associated School Board's TASB
Risk Management Fund for a 12-month period providing auto, general liability,
and school board liability coverage for the district at a cost of $234,564.
The Risk Management Department seeks to renew this program which provides
provides casualty coverage for the district.
Although the district continues to grow, adding more employees and assets yearly, the renewal
premium offered is 3% higher than expiring.
This is the result of organic growth rather than loss experience.
This program provides commercial auto liability coverage for the vehicles owned, operated
and or leased by the district.
Additionally, the program provides general liability coverage to ensure against actions
resulting from the day-to-day operations of the district.
Lastly, the program provides coverage for school board legal liability
for those claims related to administrative issues.
After the evaluation of losses over the past three years,
risk management believes it is not cost-effective to purchase comprehensive coverage
for the district's fleet, as the premium expense is far greater than the loss experience.
This program only provides liability coverage.
The proposal has been that the renewal program offers the best value and
provides one coverage limits that exceed the maximum expected laws, special
coverage afforded to only school districts, premium savings below market
rates, and claims administration by TASB Risk Management Fund which solely
practices in the education environment. The terms and condition of the policy
or for a 12-month period from April 1st, 2017 to March 31, 2018, for a total premium of $242,062.
This action impacts the 2017-2018 General Operating Fund expenditures for casualty insurance premiums
by $242,062, while providing adequate limits of coverage for the district assets and operations.
The Board of Trustees approval of the renewal of the TASB casualty insurance program is consistent with Board policy CRB legal and CRB local.
If you have any questions, I would entertain them at this time.
Madam President.
Mr. Dubreuil.
On the auto liability, does that also take care of uninsured motorists or is it just straight liability?
Is there uninsured motorists?
Yes, there is uninsured.
There's uninsured motorists.
Well, let me back up.
No, not uninsured motorists, underinsured motorists.
there is a difference any other question the difference is if you have a claim
where there is not adequate coverage it picks up the Delta any other questions
for mr. noman thank you very much thank you said how are you this evening you're
going to talk to us about our campus staffing plan for 17-18.
All righty. Good evening President Fox, Board of Trustees, and Superintendent Hint.
I am here to present for your consideration the 2017-18 campus
staffing plan which is all encompassing of the growth in student
population as well as new facilities. In order to ensure that we have a quality
staff that will impact student success and efficient operations. As reflected in
Mr. Smith's presentation earlier this evening, we're requesting a total of 372.74 units.
Of those units, 274.74 will have a direct impact to campuses and 98 will provide indirect
campus support.
Those 98 units include such positions as LSSPs, DIACs, security guards, crossing guards, custodians,
food service workers, nursery workers, and groundskeepers.
At this time I can address any questions you may have.
You may have mentioned it, but my Board President and I were just having a side question.
There are those additional growth units in this plan.
That is correct. We're requesting 35 growth units.
And we'll use them as needed as new students come and the growth comes.
That's what they're for.
Absolutely.
Any unexpected growth, yes, ma'am.
Okay.
Thank you very much.
You're very welcome.
Any other questions?
Okay.
Thank you very much.
Okay.
Thank you.
Good evening.
This is Butterfield.
Tonight we're going to talk the March 2017 budget amendments.
Good evening, President Fox, Trustees, Superintendent Hint.
Tonight there are five budget amendments, and some of them are significant.
In the General Operating Fund, we are recognizing additional revenues as a result of amending to the levy from the preliminary tax rolls.
This brings us $5,498,001 in General Fund revenue.
Additionally, we are amending the expenditure budget to increase expenditures that will
be recognized in 16-17 related to the earlier start of school for the 17-18 school year.
This expenditure is estimated at $13,391,616.
Together between the increase in revenues and the increase in expenditures, the fund
balance in the general operating fund will decrease seven million eight hundred
ninety three thousand six hundred and fifteen dollars for those same six days
to be recognized in 1617 the food service budget expenditure budget is
increased by four hundred and fourteen thousand four hundred fifty dollars with
the fund balance decreasing by the same amount and debt service revenue budget
is increased as amended to an increase a million nine hundred and three thousand
four hundred and sixty six dollars also recognizing the increase from the
preliminary tax roll to the levy which increases debt service fund balance at
same amount of million nine hundred and three thousand four hundred sixty six
dollars
any questions or numbers thank you very much miss Butterfield for the explanation
board members I'll direct you to 5.13 which is a proclamation for National
Library week I'll read this now and because we'll keep it on consent agenda
We don't have to read it again next week and president. Yes. I want to move this off the consent agenda
It's just a joke. We haven't we've had so little laughter tonight
So we can read it twice
So this is a proclamation for National Library Week, which is April 10 through 13
2017 the National Observance sponsored by the American Library Association across the country in April
April proclamation reads National Library Week whereas libraries have long served as
trusted and treasured institutions and library workers and media specialists fuel efforts
to better their communities campuses and schools through the power of reading whereas library
media specialists are organizers and information experts who for centuries have guided people
to the best information resources librarians provide more than facts they provide the expertise
expertise and services that add meaning to those facts.
Whereas library media specialists continue to fulfill their role in leveling the playing
field for all who seek information and access to technologies, especially regarding the
changing information landscape and the skills needed to thrive in our digital world.
Whereas library media specialists work collaboratively with classroom teachers to support the curriculum
and teach skills which are vital for student achievement and success.
Whereas libraries open a world of possibilities through innovative STEAM programming, makerspaces,
job-seeking resources.
Whereas libraries continuously grow and evolve in how they enrich the educational experience
in the district.
Whereas libraries, library media specialists, library workers and supporters across America
are celebrating National Library Week.
Therefore, be it resolved that the KDSD Board of Trustees do hereby proclaim National Library
Week April 10 through 13, 2017.
2017 we encourage visiting the library this week to explore what's new at your library and to engage with your library media specialist
Because you because of you and our experts in the library
Libraries transform sign this 27th day of March
2017 Rebecca Fox president Katie SD Board of Trustees
Okay at this time we will move to our open forum and
And the Board of Trustees will hear from patrons as established by board policy
We didn't have anyone sign up to speak an open forum. So I don't have to read all of it
So our future meeting a regular board meeting is next Monday March 27
2017 and if there being no further business this meeting is adjourned at 8 0 3 8 0 3 p.m
Thank you.
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