March 27, 2017

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Good evening. The board will now reconvene in open meeting. Today is Monday, March 27, 2017 and the time is 6 30 p.m. Dr. Hint, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act with regard

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to notice for this meeting? Madam President, we are in compliance with provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act with regards to this meeting

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tonight. The KDSD Board of Trustees met last week in a work-study meeting to receive information and recommendations from staff administration and the superintendent board members were able to ask questions and receive answers and should be prepared with responses and action tonight the board has just reconvened from closed meeting in accordance with chapter 551 of the texas government code any action arising from discussions in a closed meeting must be taken in an open meeting board members i direct your attention to 3.1 madam president mr Mr. Griffin.

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I move that the Board of Trustees names Paul Young as Director of Purchasing as recommended by the Superintendent in closed meeting.

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Is there a second?

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Second.

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I have a motion by Mr. Griffin, a second by Mr. Michalski. The Board of Trustees names Paul Young as the Director of Purchasing as recommended by the Superintendent in closed meeting. Any discussion? Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.

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Aye.

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Motion passes 7-0. Madam President.

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Madam President, we do have Mr. Young here tonight. If Paul would. There he is. Welcome aboard.

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Thank you.

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Madam President. Mrs. Doyle. I move that the Board of Trustees name Rebecca Wingfield as principal of Stanley Elementary School as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting.

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Second.

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I have a motion by Mrs. Doyle, a second by Mr. Griffin. That the Board of Trustees Names Rebecca Wingfield as principal for Stanley Elementary School as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting any discussion We're prepared to vote all in favor raise your right hand and say aye

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Aye motion passes seven to zero welcome and we also have Miss Wayne Farrell please stand up Congratulations

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congratulations and a president mrs. van I'm moving the board of trustees names Jeff stocks as assistant superintendent for instructional and administrative support as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting second

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have a motion by mrs. van a second by mrs. Doyle board of trustees names Jeff Stocks as an assistant superintendent for instruction and administrative support as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting any discussion We're ready to vote all in favor raise your right hand and say aye Motion passes 7 to 0 and you all know Jeff. He's in the battery Three point four

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MS. Madam President. MS. Mrs. Vann. MS. I move the Board of Trustees names Manny Villalobos as the Director of Utility Conservation as recommended by the Superintendent in closed meeting.

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CHAIRMAN BRYANT.

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Second.

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MS.

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I have a motion by Mrs. Vann, a second by Mr. Mohoski that the Board of Trustees names Manny Villalobos as the Director of Utility Conservation as recommended by the Superintendent in closed meeting. Any discussion? Let's vote. All in favor raise your right hand and say aye. CHAIRMAN BRYANT.

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Aye. to zero and i believe mr villalobos is here there he is welcome aboard welcome

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madam president mr mahulsky i move the board of trustees as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting approves the one-year employee probationary contracts one-year employee dual assignment probationary contracts one-year employee term contracts one-year employee dual assignment term contracts and two-year employee dual assignment term contracts for for the 2017-2018 school year of current employees who have been issued contracts covering 2016-2017 school year with the exception of those employees who have resigned or a decision has not been made at this time concerning being recommended for a contract or termination or proposed non-renewal, which will occur at a future meeting in May 2017. Second. Second.

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I have a motion by Mr. Moholsky, a second by Mr. Scott that the Board of Trustees as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting approves the one-year employee probationary contracts, one-year employee dual assignment probationary contracts, one-year employee term contracts, one-year employee dual assignment term contracts and two-year employee dual assignment term contracts for the 2017-18 school year of current employees who have have been issued contracts covering 2016 to 2017 school year with the exception of those employees who have resigned or a decision has not been made at this time concerning being recommended for a contract for termination or for proposed non-renewal which will occur at a future meeting in May 2017. Any discussion? We'll vote. All in favor raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Motion passes 7 to 0.

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Madam President. Mr. DeBrell. Moved that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the Superintendent in closed meeting.

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I have a motion by Mr. DeBrell, a second by Mrs. Doyle. The Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the Superintendent in closed meeting. Any discussion? Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All in favor raise your right hand to say aye. Aye. Motion passes 7-0. zero right now that we've taken care of that business any scouts in the audience working on a badge this evening if so please stand to be recognized then we'll

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move on to our pledge leader yes we have a dynamite Schaefer elementary school student and her name is Christina Marino and her principal is a Sawyer she's in in grade five and parents Greg and Tola are with her tonight sisters Daniela Katherine and Michelle just a little information about her and then after the pledge will allow her to visit with us as well students special interests are soccer fine arts reading singing and technology I'm telling you well-rounded right there favorite subjects you gotta love this one reading science math and social studies the four cores way to go just real quick a quote from a couple of teachers mr o'connell christina's determination kindness and unconditional love for education has really shown all year long i am positive she will go on to do amazing things she has left a lasting impression with all of the staff at schaefer and i will continue to do so with her and she will continue to do so with her future educators in KDISD. I feel very honored and privileged to have been a part of her legacy. And from Ms. McKinney, when Christine walks in the room, she is a ray of sunshine, is well liked by her classmates. She is an enthusiastic learner who enjoys a challenge and always exceeds expectations. She is a very honest, dependable, and sets an example of excellence. Christina is a leader at Schaefer by being a student council representative, choir member involved in Read, Deed and Run, RDR, and was the mayor of the JA BizTown. I have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know her this year and know she will continue to exhibit a positive outlook and attitude and be successful in all of her future endeavors. It's an honor to have you here. We're going to let you say the pledge and lead us in the pledge and then let you visit with the board a little bit

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come on up to the podium and dr hint with her and her family and principal week she brought celebrities the namesakes whose names are on the building of the school mr mrs shaffer will you

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of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all honor the Texas flag I pledge allegiance to the Texas one state under God one and

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indivisible all right you're gonna tell us a little bit about yourself aren't

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you go for it you have the mic okay um like I said before um my favorite things to do are soccer singing basically sports in school yeah it's cool in sports yeah so do I read this now go for it so So I was told to write about what I like most about Schaefer. So Schaefer Elementary is a wonderful school, and I'm privileged to attend it. What I like most about it is how it promotes good character and personality in so many different ways. From the moment you walk into school, the front desk ladies and a few posters tell you a positive message for the day. As the day goes on, you are reminded by your teachers how important having good character is. Schaefer has come up with many ways to encourage students to do their best and have a good personality. The two highest honors a Schaefer Knight can receive are Noble Knight and Core Essentials. Some other awards a student can receive are a Schaefer Shoutout and a Temporary PE Coach. Schaefer even promotes good character through musicals and field trips. On our fifth grade field trip to BizTown, I learned that when running a business, it is important to be respectful, hardworking, and courteous to others. All of our plays and musicals that we perform teach us good audience behavior as well. As you can see, Schaefer is a wonderful school. It promotes good character and that is what I like most about it.

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Very nice. Very nice.

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Christina, if you'll turn this way. Please excuse us, board members. I want all of them to see you. and from the board we have a certificate of recognition presented to you for presenting the pledge this evening and we have a very special thermal bag for you the only people who get this bag are the eight or nine students who come during the school year and present the pledges so you and we have 76,000 students so you are very very special so can I have a picture with you Mr. Lebron Thank you so much for your leadership and I know how special your school is and you have the cutest family ever. Four little darling girls right there, you don't call that right? Congratulations and thank you for being here with us tonight. We're so very proud.

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Thanks for coming.

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I'm just moving on. And next on our agenda we have the recognitions portion. I'd like to introduce miss Maria de peta manager of our media relations and multimedia for the recognitions portion at this time

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Good evening madam president board members and superintendent hint each year region 4 Recognizes the leadership service and dedication of two campus administrators from each district this year. Dr. Quabana Mensah principal of McRoberts Elementary received this recognition in the elementary principal category and Dr. David Paz, principal of Maid Creek Junior High received this recognition for the secondary principal category. These two administrators will be honored at the Region 4 Education Service Center principal recognition ceremony in April. Please join me in congratulating Dr. Mensah and Dr. Paz on this achievement.

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one more round of applause next a school geography bees were held in elementary and junior high schools throughout Texas to determine school champions. School champions then took a qualifying test administered by the National Geographic Society and the top scoring students have now qualified to compete at the state level. We are pleased to announce that Ethan Zhang, excuse me, an eighth grader at Seven Lakes Junior High will compete at the state level competition of the National Geographic B. Four additional Katy ISD students also qualified for the Texas State B and and will be joining us at the May board meeting to be recognized. These students include Charles Chen, Beck Junior High, Armand Satsena, Woodcreek Junior High, and Pasan Singal from Beckendorf Junior High. Please come forward, Ethan Jung, for a photograph and to receive your award.

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Thank you.

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And good luck to Ethan at the Texas State Bee later this month. For the next portion of our recognitions, I'd like to introduce Mrs. Mitzi Jones, Assistant assistant director of fine arts.

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Good evening Madam President, Board Members and Superintendent Hint. Tonight I'd like to begin by recognizing students who were featured in the Texas Art Education Association's Youth Art Month State Capitol Exhibit. This 100-piece exhibit showcases pre-K through 12th grade art from across the state of Texas during March, which is our National Youth Art Month. Our work is currently on exhibit at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum from March 7th to March 26th, and now moves to the South Gallery at the State Capitol from March 28th to April 4th. A culminating awards program and reception took place yesterday at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin Where two of our students were actually announced to receive the highest honor of having their piece included in this year's Governor's gallery the governor's gallery consists of the top 14 pieces in the state that will be showcased in the governor's business office for a one-year exhibit students with an art on exhibit at the Capitol will please come forward from Katie when I call your name slide number five is if Asha Rahim from Davidson Elementary entry.

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Look at that sweetheart.

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She did that. Hafsa is a top Governor's Gallery exhibit winner and only 14 pieces will be in the Governor's Gallery this year. Congratulations to Hafsa. Ashley Fornosh from Williams Elementary please come forward shy Guerrero from Morton Ranch junior high and Dora Wang from seven lakes high school Dora is also a top Governor's Gallery exhibit winner. Congratulations to Dora. Amy Yang from Seven Lakes High School, please come forward. if the students teachers are here tonight please stand and be recognized they want the extra mile to get their artwork ready and our supportive parents as well parents in the audience thank you congratulations to you all on this accomplishment

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next the Harris County Department of Education has awarded the scholastic gold key art award to over 50 KT ISD students which is our record-breaking year for us since its inception the scholastic awards have established a track record for identifying the early promise of our nation's most accomplished and prolific creative leaders the artwork these students have produced has been on display recently at numerous venues throughout the Houston area this year's group comprises the largest number of gold key art award recipients in the history of our participation and the scholastic competition and seven students received two awards the works of art were judged nationally in New York City by panels of renowned artists art professionals and arts educators educators. National recognition is based on three criteria, originality, technical skill, and emergence of a personal vision. Six gold and eight silver medals were recently awarded at the national level this year. The National Awards Ceremony will be held in June at Carnegie Hall where national medalists and their educators will be honored with a star-studded ceremony. Students please come forward when I call your name. Maria Rojas, Beck Junior High. Maria is also earning a national silver medal for digital art. grace Zhang Beckendorf junior high grace Yannigan Lee Cinco Ranch High School Angela young from Cinco Ranch High School Skylar Clark from Katy High School Jaylin Malone Katy High School Erica Smolik Katy high school she has two gold keys Erica Abby sticker Katy high school Abby also earned a national silver medal for her painting Arianna Acosta from May Creek High School Matthew Dang, May Creek High School. Guadalupe Cabrales from Morton Ranch High School. and from Seven Lakes High School Grace Carter Gabrielle Clements Ali crochet Ali is also earning a national gold medal for sculpture Sydney do sec Ellie gal Andrea Lou with two gold keys Sarah Monahan Vanessa Morena Vanessa has earned a national silver medal for drawing and illustration

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illustration.

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Natasha Nehura. Daniel Pastrana. Daniel has earned a national silver medal for drawing and illustration. Ashley Roberts Savannah Reddick Savannah earned a national silver medal for her sculpture Chelsea Tang Chelsea a two gold keys Akhil the Donnie Akhil had two gold keys at the regional level and is on his way to New York with the National gold medal for drawing and illustration Morgan Thomas Kylie Torres. Shree Varanasi. Rufain Zain. just two gold keys this year and Allison sue who also has two regional gold keys from Taylor High School this year Alyssa bulky Danny Cepedis Fatima Ebrani. Fatima also earned a national gold medal for sculpture headed to New York. Connie Lowe. Connie is also earning a national gold medal for her ceramics and glasswork. Dennis come Caitlin Larson asthma Michelle she is earning a national gold medal for sculpture sure congratulations Anna over Anna has earned a national silver medal for mixed media Jiwon So, Vivian So, Amber Wang, Shiel Yernini, Katie Yu. we told you this was record-breaking right from Tompkins High School Andrea Aaron Long's Alexa Beza Claire by Rachel Bai with the National Silver Medal for her art portfolio. Lucy Chen. Isabella Concepcion. Veronica Hernandez. Veronica is also earning a national silver medal for her ceramics and glass entry. Audrey Liu. Brittany Taylor. Christina Zhao with two gold keys and a national silver medal for drawing and illustration if the students teachers are here would they please stand and be recognized if the parents are here parents of scholastic key members please rise congratulations to our students this is your picture moment yes there's five gold and eight

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if you're going to New York and you have a five the five students who are gold keys could you stand right up here for your parents to get a quick photo you're my five gold key winners and you're going to New York real quick because I know your parents want a photo I know there's at least four of you here I'm not sure about the fifth one if your gold key you're going to New York quick photo I know the parents died for photos you got about three seconds congratulations guys I call on President.

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Room clear. Right there, that's a room clear.

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Good luck in New York. One more round of applause.

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okay continuing along with art awards the Harris County Department of Education also recognizes the talent of young writers the following students have received the Scholastic Gold Key Writing Award and have advanced to national competition students when I call your name please come forward Thomas Harrington Seven Lakes junior Junior High. Meherina Khan, Cinco Ranch High School. Samuel Teese, Cinco Ranch High School. Madeline Consolden, Seven Lakes High School. Kaitlyn Chiroke, Seven Lakes High School. Regan Walsh, Seven Lakes High School. Michael Hahn, Tompkins High School. And Celine Lowe, Tompkins High School. If these students, teachers, and parents are present, please stand and also be recognized.

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Beautiful smiles. Congratulations. The Texas Statewide Network of Assessment Professionals, also known as T-SNAP, is an organization that supports the needs of assessment professionals in Texas. The network strives to inform members on student assessment news and information, find answers and share knowledge, provide networking and training, and connect members to resources. We are proud that Dr. Jennifer Wohlin, coordinator of the State Assessment Program in the Research Assessment and Accountability Department, has been granted the Outstanding Service Award by the T-SNAP organization. Organization, Dr. Whelan provides outstanding service through sharing materials and best practices with the organization in assisting new district test coordinators as they navigate state assessment. Congratulations on this recognition. One more. And next, the Texas School Public Relations Association, also known as TSPRA, is a professional organization dedicated to improving public education in Texas by promoting effective public relations practices and improving communication between Texans and their public schools. TSPRA's annual star awards program provides recognition for outstanding school district communication initiatives and strategies and in addition to receiving several silver and bronze star awards the KDISD communications department won three gold star awards the organization's highest honor the logo development and design for Bethke Elementary earned a gold star award the Bethke Bison logo was embraced as the visual device to represent the school and community values and can now be seen throughout the campus and surrounding communities the branding campaign for Ties junior high also earned a gold star award the objective of this branding was to provide a visual representation of the school community for a new junior high the 2016 student excellence event program also received the gold star award the purpose of the program was to share and celebrate the accomplishments of the students and teachers who were recognized at the annual student excellence award event and convey the event theme which was creating masterpieces dr. Andrea grooms Chief Communications Officer Leah Marchione, Manager of Internal and Community Relations, Brian Lepore, Web Manager, and Sarah Klein, Communications Specialist, please come forward for your recognition.

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There was actually There was actually one more. So U.S. Congressman Michael McCaul from Texas District 10 has also presented the department with a special congressional recognition in honor of being recognized as the 2016 Markham Gold winner in the category of E-News. As you may recall, the KDISD update earned a Gold Markham Award, recognizing the E-News as an electronic publication that's exceeding a high standard of excellence excellence and serves as a benchmark for the industry. Congratulations one more time to the Communications Department. This concludes the recognitions portion of this meeting.

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Madam President, before we move, I'd like to volunteer to go to Carnegie Hall with those students. I'd be glad to represent the Board if we could.

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Awesome. Okay, we'll keep that in mind. At this time, we'll have a report. Our commercial development update, we are very honored to have tonight Mr. Lance LaCour, the president of the Katy Area Economic Development Council. We're glad to have you.

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Good evening. Thank you for having us this evening. Pleased to make our annual commercial update report. Let's see, is it coming up? We have a little PowerPoint for you. I have 35 slides, but I promise to go as quick as I can. We do have a new vision and mission at the EDC, and I just want to share those with you briefly. Our vision is when seeking a location in southeast Texas, the Katy area will be the location of choice for companies and families. And our mission is to lead the economic development efforts of the Katy area to recruit, retain, and expand new high-quality, high-impact companies jobs and talent to improve the quality of life in place for Katy area residents this is just a little information about who we are what we do a few things I wanted to mention to you Katy has received some accolades from one of one of the site selection magazines that's prevalent throughout the south and from southern business and development magazine we received best Best places to live in Metro Houston, the Cinco Ranch area. Best public school systems in Metro Houston, Katy ISD. Best places for headquarter opportunities, the Energy Corridor. Best places to start a business in a Houston suburb, Katy. Best places for distribution centers and manufacturing in the West Houston region, Katy. And then Fort Bend was ranked as the fastest growing county in Metro Houston at 17%. Population and demographics, our most recent estimates are for the Katy area are at 332,000 with about almost 106,000 households. Over the next five years, Katy is projected to grow to about 372,000 and 121,000 households. This is a little chart that shows you the comparison of the Katy area. to some other areas like Corpus Christi, Texas, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Cincinnati, Ohio. It's probably not exactly a fair comparison because those areas are actually cities, but it's meant to try to show how large the Katy area is growing. This is some more information about demographics in the Katy area. Our total population of 16 plus in age, about 244,000. Civilian employed, nearly 167,000. Unemployed, about 7,600. Average household income, 123,150. Median household income, 90,679. And per capita income at about 40,000. Our projections are expected to grow to 2020 by these numbers that you see here. Average household income is expected to grow to $143,000, and median household income will eclipse $100,000, go to about $105,000, and then per capita income $47,000. Our unemployment rate has stayed basically below 5%. In 2010, our unemployment rate jumped up to about 6.9%, but our unemployment will continue to be below 5%. This is an indicator that we track closely because some of the types of companies that we want to attract to Katy fall into this category that's engineering, accounting, and research, employment growth. Last year we had about almost 17,000 people employed in that. We've had a slight decrease in that sector down to 16,682. And then this is some information about industry employment estimates. As you can see, we've had some significant growth. There's been some negative growth, of course, in mining, which is the energy sector. but overall adding about 19,000 in employment over the last from 2015 to 2016 a great deal that increases come from the healthcare industry from retail and from entertainment type operations Just some more information about different companies that are committed to locate in the area. The FedEx Ground Project. We also had Peppel Plus Fuchs, which is bringing 100 jobs to the area that's a German company. I'll show you a little bit more about that later. And of course, the University of Houston Victoria is located here as well. well. University of Houston Victoria has leased 40,000 square feet at Grand Way West bringing about 100 jobs to the area and also 1,300 students. This particular location, this will be a temporary location when they will move to the new University of Houston campus where where they have purchased 46 acres. There'll be about 200 new jobs created there, initially an 80,000 square foot building. They also have an option on an additional 14 acres. And there'll be a focus on energy and engineering, perhaps subsea engineering at this campus. Initially they'll have about 2,000 students. Eventually the goal is to have about 8,000 students at this campus. Some other projects that are going on as well, Members Choice Credit Union is constructing an 80,000 square foot building, four-story building in the Energy Corridor near Barker Cypress. This is not new jobs, but consolidation of jobs, retention. Kelsey Seabold opened a new facility near West Park Tollway. It's brought about 106 jobs to the area. And this is some information about medical projects and jobs. and I mentioned purple plus fuchs this is a hundred eight thousand square foot building 100 jobs 28 million in capital investment this is a regional headquarters and engineering center and we also have another German based firm valet which is our locating in the city of Katy West End Business Park six acres is a manufacturing supplier of mobile electrification solutions 33 jobs they're also looking about looking to expand as well five to ten million dollar project I mentioned the FedEx ground project unfortunately this project is not in Katie ISD it's very close to Katie ISD we we worked on this project and it didn't land exactly where we wanted it to but it's going to have a major economic impact on the region eventually this this project will create 2,500 jobs. They bought 500 acres of land, so they've got plenty of room to expand.

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Mr. LaCour, what's the location of that?

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That is West Road and Grand Parkway on the northwest corner. Also, we recently announced we had a groundbreaking for T-Mic, which is a joint venture between Toshiba and Mitsubishi. They're constructing a 45,000 square foot project in Energy Park West which they'll assemble, test, and package utility-scale photovoltaic inverters for the solar power market. 100 jobs initially and about 6 million in capital investment. And another project is Cianic, which is in the same business park, 60,000 square feet, 40 plus jobs. This project has the largest tank outside of NASA for testing subsea equipment. I was out there the other day and it is very deep. Another economic windfall for the area is the Shell downtown relocation to the Katy area and also to the Shell West Hollow Technology Center. This project is bringing 3,500 jobs from downtown Houston out to Katy. Now some of the employees do live in Katy that work downtown, so it won't be a total net gain but but it is going to be significant for the area this this job relocation will possibly make shell the second largest employer next to Katy ISD in the Katy area and also we've got several new hotels that are being built and of course the boardwalk project which city of Katy this is the city of Katie project 90 acre Lake and Park two mile boardwalk conference center hotel 400 million dollar potential investment I think this week they announced that they're breaking ground on the projects very exciting this is a artist rendering of what it may look like and of course we've had some new retail and amenities come to the Katie area we've got a new embassy Suites Hotel that's located in Katie ISD Dick's Sporting Goods whiskey K kitchen and bar Bucky's of course and Alamo Drafthouse cinema coming to Los Anteros some information on real estate inventory our class a office which includes most of the energy quarter the vacancy rate is pretty pretty high at this point that's our softest market at 18.5 percent vacancy class B office 15 percent and in our industrial industrial vacancies about nine point seven percent retail is doing very well at under four percent and then new home sales this gives you an idea of some of the home sales with some of the major master plan communities and also Also to note, there were a total in 2016 of new and resale closings of over 5,600. And this is some more information about some of the projects that we tracked last year. Our metrics for 2017, we're looking at job creation in some of the sectors that we track and we're involved with of about 2,000 jobs, capital investment of $300 million, and 1.5 million square feet in space. And that's all I have. I'd be glad to answer any questions.

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Madam President, Mr. La Cour, that 18.5 for the Class A office space, what do you contribute such a high of vacancy rate?

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It's the energy slump. The energy slump has had a significant impact on the office arena. There there been some major consolidations that have happened So you've had a lot of companies that are unloading space and putting it on the sublease market because They you know they don't they we have lost jobs in that in that area and they don't need the space So there's quite a bit of sublease space You can get get an extraordinary deal in class a and classic class B office in the energy corridor at this this time

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Madam president

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Mr. Scott?

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Just following up on that, what do the 2017 values on Class A space look like in terms of growth or attrition? In terms of new developments? No, in terms of just overall Class A values. What has HCAT and Fort Bend County done to the Class As? Usually when you have higher vacancy, you have a diminution in value. Have we experienced that?

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or is it staying solid for 2017 i i don't know i don't know i could look into that i'm not sure what hcat has done we haven't really followed that uh i i would hope that they would decrease the values to make it more uh attractive for companies to come in but i i can't say that

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that's happening i don't know any other questions i have in county mrs van go right ahead um it's exciting that you of H is relocating out to cave it's it's excellent you there's two locations there's a temporary location and then the permanent location I couldn't tell from the side that you put up where they would the temporary and the permanent are is and where the eventual larger campus is there about a

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mile and a half away from each other talk Katie freeway but what's that I

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suppose Katie freeway they want me to go back to well yeah I was just wondering I said the eventual permanent location of the U of H campus oh that yeah

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no that Northeast corner there it's right across from the JC penny it's just

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east of the JC penny where we there's talk of eventually must be a mall it's gonna be okay okay perfect there will wait there was gonna be a mall that what There was to be a mall there at some point, but that large piece of land right there next to the movie theater and JCPenney.

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There's about 400,000 square feet of retail space planned for that area. There's still going to be, and there's another project that's not part of that location that's further east where they are planning more of a, I wouldn't call it a regional mall, but it would be more like a town center type development. So there'll be plenty of retail over there, I think, to support that.

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Mr. LaCour, it's awfully fun to have so many new businesses come, and you only highlight a few, of course, but we have that grilled cheese place that's fabulous, and Tips Treats is here in Katy.

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I haven't been to either of those yet.

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They're both excellent. I mean, don't ask me how I know.

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Madam President.

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Mr. Moholsky.

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Mr. La Cour, thank you for the report. First off, a lot of great things happening in Katy right now. I kind of want to go back to the slide on the industry employment estimates, if we could, real quick. It was curious to me, you're showing about a change of about a little over 19,000 year-over-year in jobs in these sectors, and that seems that's a pretty high percentage increase for one year. So I just kind of want you to give a little more color, if you could, on what you attribute that to.

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I do believe that the you can attribute much of that to the health care growth that we've had we were so we were surprised that these numbers as well these numbers come from Dun & Bradstreet which it's based on all the contacts that they make with the companies that are in their system and generally it's been pretty accurate but we were surprised at at the numbers so just sorry the but there there have been there have been some significant increases in the healthcare industry You know as you can see there's a decrease in mining and there's been some increase in construction and

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In manufacturing as well. Yeah, and retail and services looks like had a pretty big jump as well I when I look at that and look at this chart I would kind of it what it says to me is obviously with the higher percentage than our overall growth rate of jobs in Katy Would do are we seeing people that were previously commuting that are now working? you know in Katy as well and I would hope that would be the case that the

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agenda I think that's the case I think you've had with with some of the job loss that's been in the energy sector there's there's some people that may have been commuting into Houston that are now staying here because some of the jobs that they they had you know they're they're looking at at employment opportunities here to stay closer to home

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Anyone else? Ms. La Cour, it's always so interesting to hear this presentation at your state of the area, presentation every year. And so thank you for bringing this to us. It's very important for us to have this kind of information. It helps us understand our community and we certainly appreciate the great relationship you have with KDSD and how hard you're working for our community and we're very appreciative. Dr. Hinton, did you have something earlier? No, I heard. Okay, great. Thank you. Thank you for being here. Okay, Board members, we're to Item Number 7, the Consent Agenda.

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Madam President. Mrs. Doyle. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in Items 7.1 through 7.17. Second.

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I have a motion by Mrs. Doyle, a second by Mr. Griffin, that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in Items 7.1 through 7.17. through 7.17 all in favor raise your right hand and say aye aye motion passes 7 to 0. now we'll turn a few pages and go to item 8.1

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yes number 8.1 is for the board to consider approval to dissolve the board appointed second stadium naming advisory committee as you know when the board commissions a charter and we have a committee and once the work is done we like to close that out that's what i'm bringing to you now Now, if you recall, we did the same thing a month ago.

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Madam President.

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Mr. Griffin.

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I move that the Board of Trustees approves to dissolve the Board-appointed Second Stadium Naming Advisory Committee. Second.

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Motion by Mr. Griffin, a second by Mr. Michalski. The Board of Trustees approves to dissolve the Board-appointed Second Stadium Naming Advisory Committee. Any discussion?

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Yes. Mr. Hint? Dr. Hint? Yes, sir. Thank you very much for doing both board policies and procedures. I think this is an awesome example of How the policy comes to be used in a very effective manner? You did a great job of talking to the community You did a great job of getting everybody's input to coming up for a name, and I want to thank you for that

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And this is the Naming advisory committee that named the complex. This is the one that named the complex

59:40 Unknown speaker not human verified

This is the committee that was commissioned originally for the stadium, then it grew into the complex, then the, this is the charter for the complex, which was originally called the Stadium Naming Committee, and then the Board, if you remember, authorized the superintendent to move forward through the policy for the naming of the stadium

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so this is ending the committee that was a board committee chaired by mr.

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Moholsky that's this one okay and president mr. so just to clarify if we want to name anything out else out at the complex we create a new committee if we want to create a committee we will create I would actually recommend that

1:00:26 Unknown speaker not human verified

you evoke the policy that we used for the name of right of the stadium but certainly the board has the option to move forward with the Charter a committee again my recommendation would be to stick to but that committee

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doesn't exist when this vote passes no sir okay okay any other questions

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everybody understand okay Okay. Hearing no further discussion, I have a motion by Mr. Griffin, a second by Mr. Mahalsky that the Board of Trustees approves to dissolve the board-appointed second stadium naming advisory committee. All in favor? Raise your right hand and say aye.

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Aye.

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Information passes 7-0. Okay. And if you'll see, we have information items attached to our documents this evening. and our future meetings are a board work-study meeting on Monday April 17th 2017 and a regular board meeting on Monday April 24 2017 and at this time we will adjourn this meeting and then we have to go into closed meeting so we'll ask everyone to adjourn from this room and there being no further business drink open the time is 732 p.m. and the board will take a brief recess in order to clear the room as we reconvene in close meeting