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The Board met earlier this evening in a closed meeting. Any action arising from discussions in a closed meeting must be taken in a subsequent open meeting.
Dr. Hint, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act regarding the notice for this meeting?
Board President Fox, we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act.
Mr. Mahalski?
I move that the Board of Trustees enters into an agreement to purchase from Nash FM 529
LLC an approximate 13-acre parcel of property for a future elementary school for a total
acquisition cost estimated not to exceed $1,557,270.
Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Mahalski, a second by Mr. Dubrow that the Board of Trustees enters
into an agreement to purchase from Nash FM 529 LLC an approximate 13 acre parcel
of property for a future elementary school for a total acquisition cost
estimated not to exceed $1,557,270. Any discussion?
Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All in favor raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye. Motion passes 6-0. Mr. Griffin is not in attendance this evening.
Madam President. Mr. DeBrell. Moved that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel
personnel report as recommended by the superintendent and close meeting.
A motion by Mr. Dubrell, second by Mrs. Vann.
The Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the superintendent and close to meeting.
Any discussion? Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye. Motion passes 6-0.
Do we have any scouts in the audience this evening working on badges?
Maybe they've learned this is the really long meeting and they should wait
Okay, our first report this evening is our 2016 health care plan results and plan update.
Mr. Noman, good evening.
Good evening.
I'm here to discuss our 2016 results of our health care plan.
We'll start with a overview of what we would like to accomplish this evening. First off,
I'm going to give you some items of interest from the 2016 health care plan. Secondly,
we will look at a high-level review of our operating results. Third, we'll look at our
Mercer projection for 2017. I'll try to give you my best update for TRS active care, the Affordable
Affordable Care Act impact for 2017 and our next steps.
Last year, our total funding for the plan, as you'll see in the
Is that not progressing? There we go. I'm sorry.
Total funding for the plan was $51.7 million.
dollars. The cost per covered employee in 2016 was $776.2. Cost per covered member in 2016 was $4,217. The cost of medical claims in 2016 was $31.8 million. On an average day, Katie paid $87,180, and that's 365 days per year.
yearly. The cost of pharmacy claims in 2016 was $12.7 million with an average per day
payment of $34,863. And the pie graph kind of shows you the breakout of that.
I presented this slide to you last August as to what our expected premium rates would
would be and this is just a simple overview of the rate increase that we
saw in 2017 and our projected monthly premiums for each plan by tier and the
breakout shows at the very last a participation in each one of our four
plans this is the good news in 2016 we had I came to you with the projection
that we would have a $2.2 million loss, plus the Affordable Care Act impact was a function of that.
In 2016, our actual numbers, we recognized a $1.7 million operating gain.
Factors to consider, we had a plan member growth of 4.8 percent.
Our medical trend was only 2.2 percent.
And the Affordable Care Act impact, we estimate, was $332,646.
And the last factor of that is our large claims.
And if you'll see in the exhibit below, you will begin to see the inching up of the severity and frequency of the large loss claims.
We had 83 in 2014.
In 2015, we had 84.
Last year, we had 91.
We were fortunate from a severity standpoint that we dropped by almost a million dollars.
That really helped us out last year.
And for definition purposes, large claims are those claims $50,000 and above.
This graph basically shows you our continued growth with eligible employees.
The middle line shows our costs going down.
and the bottom line shows our participants following trend with those eligible little
historic overview in 2015 we had a 2.4 million dollar loss and the Delta was picked up by the
general fund 2016 we saw an operating gain of 1.7 million as I alluded to earlier and at this
moment based on our projected data we have an operating gain of $835,000.
The question each year is what is TRS Active Care doing for 2017? At the moment TRS is considering
a single high-level deductible plan with the elimination of TRS Active Care 2 and TRS Active
care select secondly the school districts greater than a thousand lives
will not be eligible to join and be removed from the plan there is an
estimated 55 districts that this will impact which equates to roughly 160 to
165 thousand lives that will be impacted if that goes through the legislature and
lastly at the the high point there is an offering of one time out for districts
less than a thousand lives and they will not have the opportunity ever to go back
in so once you leave they'll never be able to come back and all this is still
up in the air it's with the Senate but this is just the main focus of what's
going on in Austin right now and we continue to be self-funded in 2017 we
looked at an estimated impact from the Affordable Care Act that continues to be
burden to us. There's the continued mandate to the Internal Revenue Service
for reporting expenses, mandated affordability. At this point it's still
unclear the expected outcomes by Congress and or the executive branch. The
PCORI fees and there's also this year a medical device pass-through tax and also
Also, our ex-company or pharmacy passed through tax through the Affordable Care Act.
And again, we're all going to wait and see what goes on with Congress and our President.
Next steps for 2017.
We'll be having these conversations and speaking with district administration.
We'll be looking at considerations for 2018.
We will present to our Benefit Advisory Committee, advise them of what these changes are and
get their input and then we'll be updating you in July of 2017.
And I'll come back to you in August with a recommendation for the 2018 plan year and
what our expected results will be at that time.
And I would welcome questions if you may have them.
Any questions?
Madam President?
Mr. Scott?
First of all, I landed on the Board about a year ago when you were making this equivalent presentation.
And I think that you all do a wonderful job.
Sometimes when I ask a question, there are people that believe there are subterranean, secret reasons I'm asking that question,
and in truth there's not I think that this report shows a lot of progress from
last year but this is just me 1 7th of the board would you go back to the 2017
employee monthly premiums table it doesn't have a page on mine but there
you go I would still like to see last year it was a blended number and I know
we're not there this is me 1 7th I would still like to see a true disaggregation
by each of the 16 plans or across for down of premiums collected expenses so
charged paid I would just like to see that I have long long ago in a distant
time I served on the Harris County Hospital District Board of Managers and over the time
I called back on their expertise to help me understand stuff. I've showed them your stuff
and they think you're doing a darn good job. I would just like to see that and if you can
satisfy me, I'd appreciate it. If the board doesn't want to go along with it, I'm not going
to make a stink but i would like to see that disaggregation of premiums paid
cost in crew ensued incurred so that i get a feel for where these major claims are coming from
and the profit and loss from each of the disaggregations but you do a great job this
year this year looks better than last year right we're we're trending uh 2017 still we're still
early in the game so we're we're optimistic thank you i'll go ahead and get with mr nauman and i'll
report back to the board uh the possibilities of that and don't say i said anything nice
you're smiling thanks
Thank you, Mr. Debrow.
You spoke about the affordable care impact.
What part of that is the fee that we have to pay since we're self-insured?
The fee, as you, I think, eloquently called it one time.
Well, I call it a shakedown.
Shakedown fee.
You can call it.
Expired last year.
But, however, we have new fees coming on in the coming years.
that the pass-through tax on durable medical equipment for pharmacy the
reporting that fee that you mentioned has gone away so it's it's right now
it's gone forever but as I alluded to in my presentation it's still up in the air
what's going to happen we just it's moment by moment I wish I had a glass
crystal ball that I could look into and say well we're gonna have these fees or
those fees but we can't it's just uh year by year unfortunately thank you
any other questions president um well great job by the way i mean having an operating gain in the
year because it's been a couple years since we've had one of those right and before we had had to
pay some from the gof to kind of make up that talent what happens to that 1.7 million dollar
operating gain I mean is that and I set aside for future in this fund or is it
part of the geo after begin with it's it's part of our medical fund and I just
which we tried to keep the the spikes out of these these highs and these lows
on a consistent basis okay follow up if I may on that so if we ran let's say
several years at an operating gain and say built up a balance on that I mean
How do you how do you envision that being used would it be to increase benefits potentially lower some?
If you were able to build up a decent surplus there, there's there's several factors in play as we grow
As a district our population gets older
Medical costs continue to allude to that trend so there are several factors in each year. We look at those factors
What can we do what's responsible for the plan is our as our for more
foremost priority and then making sure that we deliver quality benefits that
keep our employees well and we keep everyone working and in the classroom so
there's there's several moving parts and just to say well if we had a great fun
we could you know accent it's that would be in a perfect world but we there's so
many moving parts and we take a look each year at those parts again
appreciate your efforts and kind of managing all this also looks like we had
a little healthier workforce this year as well which is also a very good thing
Yes, it is.
Thank you, Mr. Noman, for your presentation.
Next this evening, Board, we have the 2017-18 budget update from the debt service perspective.
Good evening, Mr. Smith.
Good evening, President Fox, Dr. Hinton, trustees.
This is kind of what's become a monthly thing on the budget update.
This month we're focusing on debt service, and I brought along some experts in debt service
with our new financial advisors, First Southwest.
On the left here is Jeff Robert and on the right here is Terrell Palmer.
They're our financial advisors and they're going to give you an update of
where we are moving forward after my very brief budget update for you on
the 17-18 debt service. Of course we're early, it's April. We won't be adopting
this budget until August but I wanted to remind you that we're
currently doing everything on 17-18 under current law and we are doing it
with values which are below our average increase over the last 10 years or just below at 10%
on our values. Excuse me. So from a revenue perspective, when we're talking about debt
service, our property taxes, our main, in fact our primary source of revenue, we're
looking at about $153 million. And our interest earnings, we obviously invest the cash or
for the fund balances or the taxes until we spend them.
So we had some interest on that.
So we're looking at about $153 million of local revenue.
And then I wanted to point out that you
can see that green bar moving.
We do not receive any longer any instructional facilities
allotment or existing debt allotment.
At one point within the last 10 years,
we were receiving 23% of aid from the state on those.
And as our wealth increased that funding has just decreased as kind of going back to those apples again
but we do at when the
$10,000 additional homestead exemption was adopted we lost tax revenues of approximately 1.9 million dollars and the state is funding that
Based on that additional increase in our homestead exemption. So state funding did come back into the picture this last year
So look at at about a hundred and fifty five million dollars in revenues
news. From an expense standpoint, principal payments are estimated right now that would
include defeasances, which we'll talk about on the first agenda item tonight, of $75 million.
Interest payments of $80 million, and of course there's some bank fees associated with our
bonds. Total expenditures about $155,755,000. We do invest the proceeds when we have a bond
sale and we're going to have one tomorrow and that's what these guys are
going to talk about at length but we're going to invest those proceeds and even
though we're spending it we will earn some interest before we spend it and we
put that back into our debt service fund as well as our Babs we that is revenue
to the general fund but we've historically transferred that over to
the debt service fund and that's what helps us maintain our tax rate so this
This is what it would look like altogether with our fund balance revenues and expenditures
together at this point based on our assumptions and our planning right now.
We'd be looking at a small increase to our fund balance of about $2.7 million, ending
the year with, again, everything going to plan, about a $58 million fund balance.
Shifting gears from that, just a little bit of recent history from our 2014 authorization.
characterization
Tomorrow we're going to have our third sale. It's two hundred ninety three million dollars
We've spent all the two hundred seventy five million dollars is gone
We've paid that to contractors that are building our buildings and we're spending that
At a significant amount of dollars a month
And so we'll we'll have those the sale tomorrow and replenish that account and start spending that those funds
So our first of three just as a reminder was 180 million dollars at an all-in
in tick or true interest cost of 3.49% and an average life of those bonds, which matches
the average life of the assets that we're using for it.
Actually, it's better at 18.2 years.
Our second one we had in January of 2016 was $275 million in proceeds.
It had an all-in tick of 3.39% or 18.81 years.
So tomorrow is our third, and these gentlemen are going to talk about that at length.
It's April.
we expect it to be named the 2017 a or that's what we're naming it it's going
to deliver 293 million dollars in proceeds and we're not sure of the all
interest cost at this time but I'll let these guys talk about it but we think it
is favorable more so than it would have been had we had this transaction a month
ago or two months ago average life we we know that as well at this point debt
management tools just as a reminder because it's important it's been able to
to help us maintain what I think is a pretty positive outlook from a debt standpoint.
And these guys will talk on that.
But this set the stage.
These tools that this board has been able to use over the last couple of years,
we've had by taking advantage of the low interest rates environment, just like many of us did.
I know I did with my mortgage.
We did that with our bonds.
And by refunding outstanding bonds that had been issued 10 years ago,
we were able to save about $70 million in interest by refunding those at a lower interest rate,
just like I did my mortgage and many of us did we've also been defeating bonds
we've defeats bonds to save about 17 million dollars that's just paying off
bonds early not refunding and just paying them down and that saved us about
17 million dollars so at this low rate and it's straight environment with
refunding sand defeats as we've saved are us about 87 or 86 point seven
million dollars that's what's helped with this our tax rate had been 40 cents
for since the 2007-2008 school year in the 2015-16 school year after we sold
180 million dollars of the first authorization we were able to drop the
tax rate a penny in 1617 again after the 293 million dollar sale we were able to
continue that drop I've got instructions and a goal to continue that and and the
The numbers that you've seen tonight would reflect another decrease, a small decrease,
if we're able to maintain that between now and August, a small decrease in our tax rate as well of a tenth of a cent.
And I'm going to turn it over to our financial advisors to talk a little bit about what planning we're doing
and what may happen with the interest rate environment that we're looking at right now.
Thank you, Mr. Smith.
Board President Fox, Dr. Hemp, members of the board, my name is Jeff Roberts.
Carol Palmer with First Southwest also here this evening is actually your bond account or receiving bond council Rick Witte and Tanya Fisher with
Andrews Kurth and Ken Young. It's very nice to meet all of you. Welcome. Thank you very much
We appreciate the opportunity to be here and we appreciate everybody's time
Since we've come on board and working with the district
We've worked on a couple of things probably first and foremost is the putting together this last
transaction for the 2014 authorization
which is the 293 million but then also to kind of take a look at where you are
currently after this issuance but then also capacity for future issuances as
well so what we have on this first page here are three different tax based
growth scenarios we did a growth scenario one there on the left in purple
which is the higher growth scenario we could see 10% down to 8% for a couple
year six percent uh and then two percent in 26 and what we did moving left to right and growth
scenario two and the green was to lower that by two percent each year and then on the last
scenario in the blue we lowered that by another two percent each year so to give you an idea of
even after the issuance of this 293 million for those different uh growth scenarios where we
project your tax rate to be. The blue obviously being the lowest growth rate scenario, the
purple being the highest. You can see what we view the tax rate, what it would look like,
and you can see a lot of, a big drop in the tax rate, which is great for capacity going
forward. You're in an excellent position to hopefully be able to take care of your future
needs. And this once again includes the projection for tomorrow's bond issue as well as the defeasance
that's on the agenda this evening as well. And to give you an idea for tomorrow, I know
I know Tara will go into it, a little bit more market information,
but we feel like on this issue that we'll be below a 385 in terms of the true interest cost.
As you all know, ever since the election in November, rates have gone up a little bit.
However, over the last couple of weeks, they've actually come down a little bit.
So we're real pleased with hopefully coming in certainly under 4 percent and maybe closer to 375,
but we feel comfortable it will be under 385.
I'm going to let Terrell go over the other future potential election authorizations and
kind of discuss tax rates associated with those.
Well, again, so we know Katy is experiencing some phenomenal growth, and that
doesn't look like it's going to stop anytime soon.
So I believe you've already put together your bond committee, and they're looking at options
uh to uh to have you know come before this board and ask you to call a bond election we're not sure
what that amount is but we needed to start someplace and so this model uh shows both a
680 million dollar bond election in 2017 that would be those bonds would be issued in january
of the next three years, followed by a 2020 election of $720 million.
So you can see almost $1.4 billion in new bonds that would be issued with these three
different growth scenarios.
So if you look at, again, the market growth of KDISD in the purple line, you can see that
we're we really don't get higher than our existing tax rate of 39 cents we're
able to maintain and possibly even lower that tax rate even with a more
conservative growth scenario there's a couple little dips where it where it may
get above that 39 cents but that is clearly a doable transaction and able to
to issue that 1.4 billion dollars and maintain a debt service tax rate in and around your current levels.
Now, in the last scenario, I believe it's light blue above that,
again, that is 4% in growth less than what we are currently experiencing,
and it also includes the 720 million.
We wanted to show you this, but we really don't think that it's reality.
In reality, what would happen if your assessed value stopped growing,
you wouldn't have the need for additional schools,
and maybe you would postpone that $720 million bond election to a time when you could afford it
and when you really needed the additional schools.
And if you don't mind real quick, Mr. Palmer, just to chime in,
When talking with the board, I wanted them to come to the board with those three scenarios.
Also, I wanted to map it out for 10 years, dropping it, being very conservative in what those appraisal values might be.
And, you know, talk a little bit about the 2017 and 2020 elections, as we've discussed, with the growth of the district.
And if it maintains that growth, we're probably looking at every three years coming back.
And I don't want that to be a surprise to anybody.
so the purpose of showing you guys these three scenarios three different
scenarios ten years of data and as you see this data coming back every year and
we talk about it it'll become more familiar as you as you saw on the
previous page that the tax rate looked like it was kind of bouncing around it
It has always been a philosophy of First Southwest and really Terrell and Jeff more in particular
to try to maintain a very stable tax rate for our issuers.
The one side that we can really control is really the debt service side.
And so we wanted to show you a scenario where we took that current growth scenario, growth scenario one,
but then we leveled that tax rate out.
And you can see that this is providing a tenth of a penny reduction in your debt service tax rate.
Again, providing the $680 million election in 2017, followed by $720 million election in 2020.
But we're still able to provide almost $1.4 billion in bonds with the current tax rate,
even providing a little bit a little small symbolic I would call a symbolic
drop in that tax rate of a tenth of one penny so in ten years we would hopefully
be down to around 38 cents for for this option so that's how we maintain a
consistent debt service tax rate and don't really have the the taxpayers
wondering what's going on with their with the tax rates going going up and
down and this is very easy to do. We'll probably do this with accelerating a lot
of bonds to pay for kind of short-lived assets, computers, buses, other things like
that that we'll use to to maintain that tax rate. If you're more of a
numbers guy and don't really like the graphics, this is all of the data from
the graphs previously if you would like to look at any particular rate there
it's all there for you and then we wanted to move quickly through some some
market data as Jeff mentioned we are in the market tomorrow with your 293
million dollars worth of authorization everybody is this is something that we
produce weekly it's got a lot of data and several pages and and I'm certainly
not going to put you through it tonight but if it's something we're going to
provide you with packets this is going to be in your packet and if it was if
you would like to get a little bit of what the the bond buyers and and your
underwriters looking at in the current market please you know review this a lot
of a lot of data here where we've we've got a really good market look not a lot
of competition. I think there's there's only a Magnolia ISD that's going to be
selling later on this week. This is more of a 10-year look at interest rates and
everybody knows they've kind of popped up a little bit since the since the
election but they've really settled back down over the last couple of weeks
probably saving the district as much as
basis points in an interest rate. This is a little bit more verbiage on you can
look at what rates were at at the election day and that's the the third
box from the right and how it spiked up a little bit right after the election.
What's interesting as you can see everybody was worried about the Fed
funds increase and you can see that there was an increase and interest
interest rates actually went down after that and so it's very strange times Jeff
this this is just a graph of the the 20-year bond buyer index this is just to
give you an overall flavor of long-term tax exempt interest rates in the white
background there what this shows is where rates were all the way back in the
early 80s versus where they are now to the far right you can see that even
even though we're not at the lowest point on this graph.
We're still at a historical low.
And then the blue shows what it's done just over the last year.
And this comes out every week.
It actually came out again Thursday, and we're down to 377.
So we got up close to 4% earlier this year, but it has settled back down,
which has been very beneficial to our projections on this upcoming issuance.
And let me also say we're pricing tomorrow.
There's been a lot of work that Dr. Hint, Mr. Smith, and their team have put in.
We did also have the the ratings with Moody's and S&P and I'm glad to say that
they did reaffirm the district's outstanding ratings which are a double
a1 with Moody's and a double a with S&P which is a very very good reading
rating especially when you take into consideration that you are a fast-growth
district. So what that really means is when we go to market tomorrow there's
really you combine that with the permanent school fund guarantee triple-a
rating with that as I like to say Katie's gonna be the prettiest girl at
the ball so to speak so we're going to get the best rates in the market tomorrow if we're able
to go ahead and price that and then we just have a kind of the schedule of events that we've gone
through um tomorrow is when we're hoping to obviously finalize this and then deliver funds
next month there's any questions we'd be happy to answer on a present mr.
Mahalski yeah you treat me a little bit I just want to ask some questions gonna
get a little more of your thought process on reducing the the debt service
tax rates because if I look go back and I am the numbers guy I'm not looking at
at the chart I'm looking at the tables but the scenario one on the far right
corner there talk basically drops the debt service rate a tenth of a penny
looks like for the one about the next eight years or so and just kind of want
to understand the logic behind that I mean obviously reducing a tax rate is
reducing a tax rate but would it I guess my question is would it be better to
wait a little bit and give a more meaningful tax rate because on a 40
billion dollar total asset value appraised value for the district that's
about four hundred thousand dollars right for a two hundred thousand dollar
how homeowner that's appraised to her that it's a two dollar credit per year
right so I just kind of want to understand the logic behind kind of that
recommend I don't know if that's a recommendation or just a scenario but
let me jump on the logic as I've discussed with the board I want it to
start out with a minimal what we could get that doesn't mean that's what we're
going to do we could as a board majority decision to do more but I wanted you
guys to see a steady decrease and see scenarios scenario one at 10% appraisal
value scenario two at eight the nuclear option as somebody usually says scenario
three at six percent we could see our appraisals come in at 11% and it gives
gives you guys some options to actually lower it more.
I don't ever like to say something more that we can't deliver.
Again, it's the minimal and through conversations
and letting you see these charts in a long-term plan,
just like you do your finances, I hope.
You have a long-term savings plan.
This is a long-term plan that, worst-case scenario, I think we can do this.
Best-case scenario, I think we can do better.
Okay, if I might follow up to that a little bit.
And I agree with that.
We do need a plan.
And I think there's a lot of different variables here, and they do move.
We're not sure what the interest rates are going to be when we're selling bonds for 2017 or 2020.
And even tomorrow, we're not exactly sure yet.
But that being said, we also, and this administration has always done a great job of looking out for opportunities for both refundings, defecents, and all of that.
and having a little bit in the in the funds for those and knowing when those
opportunities comes up is also something we want to mix into the overall I guess
strategic plan with it when it goes to our dead yeah absolutely it may be that
we pull this group back in the lie you know and have another conversation in
this chart may slightly move a little bit again I want it to get it out there
I want it the board to see what we're working on see that we do have a plan
that we're working on worst case scenario plan to parent depending on the scenario
Best case scenario we can come back and do a little bit more part
Like that idea and I'm president I
Want dr. Hint to know that the Scott family long-term financial plan my wife is working on right now. It's called income tax
So when I get home, I'll know what our long-term strategy is for five o'clock tomorrow in all seriousness
this is a very classic approach that is not used by every government looked at these a lot of times
and I think I've done a great job you dr. hint in laying out the three scenarios you made I want to
pull out a sort of a puller-outer three things that I that I heard you say one is that there
There are very few governments that will look out and admit that we might do X amount of
bonds over the next six or seven years.
That is part of transparency.
But what you also said was that if we're into a five-year Soviet agricultural plan called
Growth Scenario 3 that doesn't work, then we're not going to sell those bonds because
the the need to sell those bonds will not be there we're going to make basic
decisions in three as I look at scenario one it really doesn't match any scenario
that this community has had with the exception of about two or three years in
terms of being conservative even scenario one is conservative based upon
on our history and reasonable projections so long as you beat the Koreans to selling
your bonds tomorrow.
Growth two is very, very conservative.
And scenario three is we're all going to need to go to our staples if we're in scenario
three.
So I long-winded, I acknowledge, but I think it's important to say that this is a different presentation form than the past.
This lets people look at three scenarios and understand what the economic factors are within each of those scenarios.
So I'm very pleased with this.
we're not implementing $1.7 billion of bonds tonight.
We're looking at growth scenarios,
and my reading of this is that if this district decides
that it wants to go after the golden pennies,
we're going to have some flexibility to do that.
To me, that's the good news out of these scenarios.
Well, that is the tax swap.
We would do it on the M&O side and trade for the INS side.
But I'd also like to say, and having worked with Jeff and Jeff and I having worked together,
there's a lot of similarity in this and what I've seen in the last three to five years.
We'll adjust this annually, and we'll come back with the appraisal value growth of last year,
And you'll see that adjustment in 2018. You know you don't want to
Overestimate for two years from now or three years from now so when I say conservative and Mr.
Mahalski, you know I'm being very conservative
These are very very conservative numbers and as you indicated if we hit scenario three
And it would be a totally different conversation about how we maintain within what we have currently
would present mr. Hoss I think there's a very valid point there that these growth
scenarios coupled with our enrollment growth they are gonna they are very much
directly related and if we have enrollment growth that we are projecting
to precipitate another bond then more than likely the values are going to be
there as well probably a higher rate and president mr. de Brown the past we've
talked about did you say you're going to market tomorrow and the past we've talked
about negotiated sale versus competitive sale or we doing negotiated tomorrow
we're going okay sir yes sir we're executing a negotiated sale I'm sorry
Sorry, a negotiated sale, yes, sir.
Any other questions?
Thank you, gentlemen, for your presentation.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
Appreciate it.
Okay, and Board members, I'll direct you to the Consent Agenda 5.1.
Mr. Smith is going to talk to us about certain of the district's outstanding bonds.
Mr. Smith?
Madam President, are you doing the entire consent agenda?
No, we're going to go through each item.
Okay, all right.
I'm sorry.
All right.
In follow-up to the presentation that we just made,
the item before you on agenda item 5.1 is the resolution
expressing the intent to defeat certain amount of district bonds. We've gone
through our debt plan with the fine-tooth comb and we see an
opportunity exist to defeat certain bonds. Those that we see that are able to
be defeased potentially are up to 25 million dollars. This would basically pay
off bonds as opposed to having them continue to gain interest. You just pay
pay it off and you save interest. I think if we were able to defease the full amount
of $25 million it would save taxpayers about $3.7 million in interest if we were able to
defease that amount. So what you have before you is a resolution with our intent to defease
bonds. We've done this resolution each of the last, I guess this is the third or fourth
year that we've done this. The final amounts that we're able to defease will be presented
to the board at a later meeting. So what you have before you is
a resolution that we would recommend that we move forward with tonight
or at our meeting next week.
Questions?
I think we just had a thorough presentation. Thank you very much.
Okay.
Okay, we're going to move to, this is already on consent.
Oh, Mr. Smith, stay right there.
You are staying right there.
Future board approval of the contract for the generator and safety upgrades at Beck Junior High and McDonald Junior High.
And you're presenting this because it's coming out of bond funds.
I'm presenting this because today is Paul Young's first day on the job, our new purchasing director.
Oh, I wondered about that.
Hi, Mr. Young.
Welcome.
We're so glad you're here.
Thank you very much.
You don't look one bit like Regina.
I won't maybe I won't call you by the wrong name because sometimes I do just
ask chief thanks but I have Paul here to back me up if necessary but I am going
to try to handle that handle this item for him I didn't think it was fair for
him to do it on the first day and then behind me of course is Nathan Fuchs and
Mark T because this item is for these items are for them but what the first
time that I'm presenting to you tonight on this is the approval of a contract
for a generator and safety upgrades at Beck Junior High and McDonnell Junior High.
In order to keep up with our district's standards and maintain all sites in
optimum operational level for safety and security for students and
staff, the maintenance department contracted with Brian Hood of PBK Group
to look at our McDonnell Junior High and Beck Junior Highs. The systems
Systems recommended are for fire alarms, digital clock systems, and intercoms.
Mr. Hood also assisted the district, these two gentlemen, and Regina Stevenson at the
time in reviewing the proposals received to ensure that the district was receiving the
best value for the contract recommended.
After review of the three proposals submitted, which you'll find on page two of your attachments,
the recommendation is to award the contract to Piper Electric at the not to exceed rate
cost up to $661,000. The amount contracted includes a 6% owner's contingency. So what this is, is the funding source would be coming out of the 2014 authorization. We had $740,000 budgeted and earmarked for this. This is coming under budget at $661,600. So $661,000 in cost to upgrade those generators and life safety systems at Beck Junior High and McDonald Junior High from 2014.
bond funds through a contract with Piper Electric is what's being recommended.
Any questions?
Thank you very much.
All right, the next item on the agenda is associated with growth.
KDISD, based on our growth, is relocating several portable buildings to accommodate
the district's growth.
The large volume of work associated with the relocation of our existing portable buildings,
the Maintenance and Operations Department has sought proposals from
Brown and Root through the Texas Cooperative Purchasing Network or
TCPN to complete the necessary infrastructure repair to prepare the
buildings for use. The proposal from Brown and Root include all necessary
work as the permit drawings developed by BBK and includes the bonding cost. Each
project and owners contingency fund of 5%. Brown and Root successfully
performed projects similar to this during both the 2015 summer and the 2016
summer. Projects recommended for approval are Holland Elementary School, one
portable building at $62,000. Jenks Elementary School, five portable
buildings at $322,000. Tompkins High School, four portable buildings at
$236,000. And I'm sorry I'm rounding for speed. Randolph Elementary at $316,000,
for portable buildings. The Opportunity Awareness Center, two portable buildings at $76,000.
And Tice Junior High, four portable buildings at $214,000. In full disclosure, the next item that
we'll be talking about is the budget amendments. We budget, obviously we anticipate the moves of
these portable buildings annually. This year, we're a little more than we thought when we
we planned last summer, $439,000.
So when Ms. Butterfield comes up here
for the budget amendment, there will be a budget amendment
for $439,000 for this project, and that will be included.
That will be what's necessary from what was budgeted
last summer to make all these moves happen for students.
All work is to begin shortly after the buildings
are in place and is scheduled for completion
by August the 1st, 2017.
2017 total cost of the walkways canopies
PA fire alarms electrical infrastructure and portable buildings on all these projects that I went through are 1 million
227 thousand one hundred eighty eight dollars
And it would be recommended that we move forward with this so we can get those buildings ready for the
2017-18 school year
Any questions, madam president? Mr. Scott a question doesn't mean opposition. Okay. I really have a question here
why does it take that much to relocate would you just explain to me what the
actual cost is just explain it once and then you go I'll give it a shot but mr.
Mr. Tate. Go ahead, Mr. Tate.
Sure.
Yes, sir.
The actual
relocation of the building
is about $7,000.
There it goes.
The actual relocation of the
building is about $7,000
for the physical moving of a building.
These costs
directly go back to the
building of the walkways, the canopies,
running of the fire alarm system the public address all the life life safety issues
putting them in place and making them operational at their new place yes sir but like katie junior
high i'm just using this as an example katie junior has a a portable city yes sir okay so
you're moving it to a campus that has that infrastructure does that mitigate the cost
or are we not doing that?
It that's why the problem when you look at the individual backup on these
It's it's kind of hard to read that in some like ties for example. We're moving four more portables there that we just put
Two portables at last summer because of the growth
So it's a little less per square foot because of the infrastructure that we did last summer
At Randolph is the exact opposite of that
we put we added two portables at Randolph last summer and we're putting
four portables there this summer but we're having to increase the electrical
capacity for those four additional portables all right this is you know in
a three-quarter billion dollar budget M&O this is like nothing but one
building 62,000 five buildings 321 that's pretty proportionate or buildings
235, four buildings 316. Each and every one of these instances are the
infrastructure that is needed at the receiving campus. Yes sir.
Fine thanks, I appreciate it. Okay. Any other questions? Any other questions?
Thank you very much. And now Sherry Butterfield will come and talk to us about
the budget amendment good evening miss butterfield how are you evening president fox trustee
superintendent hint tonight we have several budget amendments but in the general operating fund
we have an addition of eighty one thousand six hundred dollars for additional special ed services
the amendment that chris mentioned at four hundred thirty nine thousand five hundred seventy seven
$47 for additional budget related to portable building expenditures and an additional
341 thousand four hundred and seventy nine dollars for an emergency replacement chiller at Creech Elementary
There are two construction related amendments
one million six hundred one thousand four hundred nine dollars for dust collector systems at all junior high
CTE labs and two million seven hundred seventy seven thousand nine hundred
eighty seven dollars for replacement and retrofit cycle for furniture replacement
at various campuses both of these will not increase will not have result in no
change to the construction fund balance and I apologize I did not mention the
decrease of the general operating fund for the three amendments I mentioned previously is $862,656.
Any questions? Thank you very much.
5.5 is also yours, Mrs. Butterfield. Yes, thank you. This is related to the depository
services that the school district uses and there's a very specific procedure
for this with the TEA but just for a point of information public funds hold a
unique place in commercial banking and because of the district's responsibility
fiduciary responsibility to protect public funds the school district looks
to collateralize all funds on deposit in excess of FDIC insurance to
To collateralize deposits, a bank sends its own securities to a third-party custodian,
and this sets aside itemized securities where the third-party custodian causes those to be pledged to the school district.
Commercial banking services required by the school district include some services that are familiar to you,
like ACH direct deposits for payroll checks or the clearing of checks we
issue by our accounts payable department or for example change orders where coin
and currency are supplied for our various functions and activities there
are some unfamiliar fees that you're probably not aware of that we also are
subject to wire transfer stop payments balance fees positive fit pay all of
these options of fees we have the ability to hold compensating balances or what are known as target
balances to offset the fees and these are in interest earned in credit rate ecr and additionally
banks will pay a school district or a public fund earned interest earnings or interest bearing rates
on their accounts and that's actual interest income the ECR rate offsets
fees the interest bearing rate is revenue to the district I recommend with
this background in mind the tabulation of statistics is presented in the chart
reflects strong bids from these banks and we appreciate all these bankers for
their interest in serving the needs of Katy ISD it is our recommendation that
the 2017-19 biennial depository contract be awarded to Prosperity Bank.
This recommendation is strongly supported by the tabulation, the years of above and
beyond customer service to our end users at the campuses, cafeterias, and departments
who routinely make bank deposits, but also based on Prosperity Bank's willingness to
to accept all district deposits and allow the district
to earn interest income on all deposits.
With that in mind, the district met all the requirements
as prescribed by law, sending solicitations to all banks
within the school district boundaries,
and based on our evaluation, it has been determined
that Prosperity Bank offers the best value
to the school district.
Any questions? Thank you, Ms. Butterfield, for your presentation. Next we have Mrs.
Cassman talking about the retrofit of the performing arts centers at Morton Ranch
High School and Seven Lakes High School. Good evening, Ms. Cassman, how are you?
Good evening. Good evening. Good evening, President Fox, Board of Trustees, and Dr. Hint. I have four items to
present this evening for your consideration I also have representatives in the audience tonight from
the various campuses district staff architects and contractors the first item is the award of
the construction contract to Ansel Bryant for the pack retrofits at Morton Ranch High School
and Seven Lakes High School and the amount of two million seven hundred and eighty three thousand
dollars Ansel Brian is currently working in the district on the renovation projects at Memorial
Memorial Parkway Elementary and May Creek High School.
Similar to the 2010 bond, this contract will provide for replacement and addition of various
performant lighting, audio, video, and rigging components to bring these campuses to our
current district standard.
No major work to these PACs have been done since they opened in 2004 and 2005 respectively.
I am also pleased to announce that this project came in under budget by around $336,000.
Any questions?
What is the architectural fee on this?
6%.
Why?
These are relatively new buildings.
Is there any structural, load-bearing, other complicating factors that would make this something other than just a perfunctory contract?
It's the selection of equipment, reviewing each side, and it is a common flat fee for this type of work.
Okay.
Okay.
Mrs. Kessman, this includes the rigging and the draperies.
for these just the rigging not the drapery that's covered under a different funding source that's
been covered through maintenance it's lighting audio video and the rigging for the drapery correct
any other questions thank you i think you have the next one as well
okay the second item is the award of the construction contract to 3i contracting
for the construction of the cafeteria kitchen renovations at Bear Creek and
Hutzel elementary schools in the amount of two million four hundred and seventy
thousand one hundred and forty eight dollars similar to the kitchen
renovations from the 2010 bond that were done at Cimarron and Nottingham Country
Elementary work includes providing for two serving lines dishwashing
modifications and equipment replacement approval of this contract will allow
for work to take place this summer and be ready for the 2017 school year please
Please note that the total project overage can be covered by the under budget saving
of the PACs as previously described.
And I need to address an issue and apologize for an error in the public content.
The information you provided had an error in the total proposed construction cost.
It should have indicated that the total proposed construction cost is the $2.4 million and
the total project cost is $2,711,000.
dollars.
Mr. Maholsky.
Thank you.
This question may be a little more relevant for Mr. Smith, but if I do recall, historically
in our food services fund we've had I think some excess funds before and we've used that
for some kitchen renovation type things.
I was just curious as to, it doesn't look like it's the case here, I just wanted to
see if there was an explanation for that.
The fund is right now.
Of course, you know the federal government requires us to spend that account down,
and it may be, and I can get that information to you,
that we don't have the funds to cover this cost in that account at this time.
But this would be the type of things you could spend those funds on if you had that situation?
This could be with cafeteria and kitchen renovation.
Thank you.
One of the things I'd like to point out, and Lisa did mention it,
If you remember in 5.2, we did have an $80,000 savings from our bond funds 2014 and that,
and then as she indicated on 5.6, $336 million.
Of course, this is one of those that have come in over, but the point I'm trying to make,
we have a lot of projects in the 2014 bond.
some of them come in over some of them come in under but we're still well
within the seven hundred and forty eight million authorization matter of fact
this board has already given us the authority to move some of that excess
fund to elementary 41 as we close out so appreciate the good due diligence on
on this board's part.
Any other questions?
Thank you, Mrs. Kastman.
Okay, the third item is the award of the construction
contract to construction masters for the renovations to the clinic and front offices at
maid creek elementary and sundown elementary in the amount of 1 million 233 000 the scope of work
for this project provides renovations to these areas to meet current district programs approval
of this contract will allow for work to take place this summer and be ready for the 2017 school year
this project had only one bidder for the recommended recommended total proposed construction
cost and I apologize again for the similar error in public content which
reads 1.3 which is proposed total project cost any questions thank you
move on to the next one 5.9 my final item is the award of the construction
contract to Dramala construction company for the construction of elementary 41 in
in the amount of $24,606,400.
As you recall, design services were approved in November
to accelerate construction for fall 2018 opening
due to the rapidly increasing growth
in the Southwest quadrant.
Funding will initially come from bond savings
and will rely on GOF if the 2017 bond does not pass.
Four proposals were received
with the Dramala ranking first overall.
all. Any questions? Thank you very much. Thank you. And while we know it's very
very long days for our administrators, it's always so very nice to see you here.
Thank you for being here and supportive in case we had questions and of course
what we have is thank you for the work you're doing okay mrs. Holland and you
talk about legal policies and adoption of the local policies and our ballast
policy update number 107 how are you mrs. Holland
Excuse me. Madam President, members of the board, Dr. Hint. Most of the policies in update
107 are legally referenced policies and are pretty self-explanatory. There are a number
of exhibits that are recommended for deletion and the TASB is recommending
that so that we might develop our own forms that are more applicable to our
district there is one exhibit that is being retained and that is that DH
which is our employee code of conduct as standard 113 there it has been made a
violation of code of ethics for an educator to be intoxicated on school
school property or at any event where students are present.
Then in standard 114 implements provisions of the Every Student Succeeds Act
prohibiting employees from providing assistance to school employees, contractors, or agents
and obtaining new jobs if they have knowledge or probable cause to believe
that any one of those has engaged in sexual misconduct with a minor or a student.
So that is the only exhibit recommended for retention.
In addition to Update 107, the administration is recommending five local policies
and the deletion of the exhibit dealing with curriculum development,
suggesting that that might be better covered in an administrative procedure or regulation.
In the local policies being presented for your consideration tonight,
We have BDD which is basically recognizing our new general counsel and some provisions in that
regard. Board policy DED deals with employee vacations and holidays and just bringing that
language more in proximity to local practice. Then we have two policies DNA and D&B that reference
our move to TPATH and T-Test. At DNA we are recommending that we take advantage
of the opportunity afforded us through the administrative code allowing us to
appraise teachers on full appraisal less than annually but there are some
conditions that the teacher has to meet in order to qualify for that less than
annual appraisal. In the legal policy at DNA, it defines specifically what the
teacher must meet in order to be eligible. For example, the teacher must
have a full appraisal that indicates that they are proficient in nine of the
sixteen dimensions and has not been identified as being deficient in any one
one of those areas and being deficient is defined as a rating of improvement
needed or its equivalent on any of the 16 dimensions in the administrative code
in our local policy we are recommending that in addition to those criteria that
the teacher must be on a term contract in other words they would not be a
probationary teacher in addition to that eligible teachers we are recommending
would be appraised at least once every three years. The administrative code
actually says at least every five years but our recommendation in Katy is that
we would appraise them at least once every three years. That does not prevent
either the teacher or the principal from asking in writing that an appraisal be
conducted in a year for which they are not scheduled for a full t-test appraisal.
It also does not prohibit a principal from returning a teacher to a more frequent appraisal if they feel that the teacher is deficient in any particular area.
We are recommending that in those years where a teacher who is normally eligible for less than an annual appraisal,
we would still do some type of review with the teacher annually.
And those reviews and interview process, it would create a written document of some type
that would be signed by both the teacher and the principal and be filed in their personnel file.
But it would not be the full TPAS appraisal.
So I know that we'll be working with several different people working on administrative procedures
for exactly how that will be carried out.
But Mr. Gorgorski and several of us have been talking about those procedures
and they will be developed for the implementation of this policy.
But we think that's a good practice both for our teachers who are doing a great job
and a good thing for our principals as well.
Then we can spend a lot of our time with those teachers that might need more support
because they're new to the district or because they have some areas that they need to work on.
but we think that will be a good practice for KDI Steve and let me add
also the DNA with the t-test and the t-pest of course you guys know that we
to be quite honest was like a year behind and trying to get the right on in
this year and they've done a wonderful job in doing it all of the information
that miss Holland is sharing with you we did talk with our Katie improvement
council yeah as a large number of teachers and our teacher leadership
leadership forum and got teacher input in this process.
Yes.
Roughly what the policy is, and you did receive a revised DNA local.
It allows for about a third of the staff to be waived in a year.
Now that number will never be perfect because you've got new teachers, you've got probationary
teachers, this or that.
But it also gives us an opportunity as an administration to focus in on a third of that
staff in that appraisal year, working with that teacher to help build the appraisal process.
So our administration and our teachers can better plan for it and better have input in it versus asking our administration
Trying to every single teacher all in one year
consecutive years
Mrs. Holland, I don't know if you know the answer this question some of the feedback
I'm getting from teachers is that they like t-test better than the is it called P. DOS? Yes, because it has
feedback and input from the teacher and it's meant to be helpful right so it's
back and forth conversations that they have to have it's just about improvement
it's not about you know criticism all criticism and I'm wording it completely
wrong but they like the t-test because of the because of the potential for you
know improvement and back-and-forth dialogue with their supervisors is that
That's what I'm hearing too from some of our KIC members.
They feel like it's far more informative.
And a good teacher always wants to be better.
And they really feel like that they're going to come away with more valuable information
for what they need to do to be better.
I think it's two words that describe it, informative and collaborative.
That's the word collaborative.
Because before PDOS was punitive and a report from the principal.
Here's what you need to do to improve.
But this one has collaboration with the teacher, so they're liking it
Okay, good. Thank you very much president
I've read it so if you could clarify a couple of points for me
The state has one course of action every year
The district is seeking to extend that to once every three years
Except on its own terms right
Right. The state allows us to wait five years, but we would prefer to do it more frequently.
So there are 16 measures.
Dimensions.
So a teacher passes 14 or proficient on 14,
and there are two that they're determined not to be proficient, something less.
The next year, is the teacher evaluated on all 16, or is there a focal point on the deficiency?
Mr. Gagarski, you may have to help me on that one.
You've had a little more experience with it.
I'd be happy to answer that question.
If the teacher is up for a less than annual appraisal,
then they wouldn't be evaluated on any of the dimensions.
But let's say they did score 14 as proficient or higher,
and maybe one or two of those criteria were marked as developing.
They could still qualify for a less than annual appraisal,
Is the way the commissioners rules are written they must hit nine of sixteen right unless they also have to be on that term contract
Okay, and they it has to be an agreed upon between the appraiser and the teacher
so if at any time that the appraiser the principal or assistant principal thought that they should remain on the t-test instrument for another year and
Evaluate them they would evaluate all criteria and not just the ones that would be marked developing
okay so here's my here's my question just in terms of structure you have a
teacher you have two teachers that have 11 of 16 proficient that means each of
the teachers as a certain number that they were not proficient they may or may
not be different does a principal have the authority in one teachers incident
at one school to treat those deficiencies different than the other
school and the other teacher is it individualized to that degree it is
individualized to that degree within principals across campuses or within the
same campus it's individualized because we want the the principal and the the
teacher to figure out what's best in terms of that instrument it goes back to
what we had mentioned with the collaborative and the the partnership of
what they're working on and they would most likely identify some professional
learning and some goals that are tied to those areas that are more developing and
then they would create a plan in partnership to kind of increase those
areas that they're working on together so it's not one-size-fits-all
determination no certainly not okay and again I think the point being is I
mean the Commission literally says nine out of sixteen all right in order to be
eligible for the waiver less than annually.
And we're going to certainly look at that.
In our first year working with the administration and teachers, we're going to work our way
through this.
This is not going to be a punitive process.
MS.
No.
MR.
It's going to be an engaging, collaborative process that we work with staff.
And actually, staff is looking forward to this process versus the old PDAS.
MS.
I'm very positive.
MS.
I hear very positive things.
I think it's going to be a step in the right direction.
they can really work with teachers and every teacher wants to be great they do
right I love that okay thank you very much any other questions okay it's
Holland now we're going to talk about the calendar yes we met with our kick
advisory group on the 11th last Tuesday and presented the waiver for our early
release days in our professional learning days that are incorporated into
into our calendar and they were very positive about us presenting a waiver to you this evening
to be able to request those waiver days from the state. And we're most grateful for the
calendar that was approved and they're very pleased about that.
Any questions? Okay, we'll move on to 5.12. This is the approval of a foreign exchange
student waiver and mr. Calvin is joining you good evening mr. pal day good evening
president Fox superintendent hit school board members thank you for allowing me
to present five point one to the consideration of approval for the
foreign exchange student waiver this waiver comes up for renewal every three
years from the Texas Education Agency so I'm happy to entertain this waiver with
you this evening we're asking for the waiver to be renewed in 18 18 19 and 19
19 20 school years the one change that we're looking at in the waiver in the
past years that Katie I see has had this waiver we have limited to five students
the reason was limited was so that we're not we're not using tax bases on
non-resident students this year though we are asking to increase the waiver the
waiver to seven students per year and what this will allow us is allow us to
to look at the total international change of students,
what's going on, because our numbers have declined,
especially taking into consideration
what's been going on with international travel,
because these students do have to go through
a lot of legal policy to come here
and live for one year with a host family.
This waiver was also presented to our KIT group,
and we did ask for their feedback
back as to how they thought this might be perceived at campuses, then we got very positive
response.
Any questions?
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
you evening miss Edmund you're here to talk to us about a salary increase for
next year this is positive good evening president Fox trustees and
Superintendent Hint, I'm here tonight to present a 2017 salary increase for
employees. We are recommending a 3% midpoint increase for non teachers on
this 2016-17 pay ranges and also an $1,800 increase for teachers
which is an average of 3.16%. Madam President. Mr. Cabral. I'd like to thank
Thank you for your work on this, Dr. Hint.
I know in past years it's almost been July or August since we got to this point,
so I appreciate, Mr. Smith, your diligence on the budget so we could get to this point earlier.
And before our teachers leave for the summer, they know what they're getting when they come back.
I know as we move into the summer, the budget, I believe,
we may find more money as we go.
I think we'll see some changes.
I'm all or nothing. We'll see some changes. So I know in previous years. We thought we've also done a lump sum
Distribution around Christmas time. I would like for us to also consider looking at that in addition to the 3%
Sediments absolutely. Yes in the past we've waited I think with the budget
We've kind of worn you out on monthly basis on the M&O and INS side
We've got that budget now to where we're working within about a $3 million range.
If you remember starting with a 10% appraisal value and estimating the opening of three schools and the number of kids that we were coming,
we started with about a $10 million deficit, but we started with the end in sight and worked back off of that.
You guys know Mr. Smith, very conservative.
I looked him in the eye in a meeting.
I said, do you feel comfortable with this?
He said, very much so.
But the comment that he made was it was the right thing to do for employees based on last year, the 1%.
And, of course, you know the benefits ate up quite a bit of that.
As a matter of fact, some employees actually took a pay cut on that end.
We feel comfortable with this.
Yes, we're going to see what Austin does.
We believe that there's going to be some movement on the Austin yield, which generates funds for school districts both on the House and the Senate side.
that is something they have in their budget but we're basing our decisions
right now on current law we'll see what happens in May and if we're able to come
back to the board at that time with another recommendation we'll certainly
do that dr. hint I have been watching the House Bill 21 which is the budget
proposal that they have out there that I think that's Hubert ease bill Hubert ease
bill that is favorable for us and would allow us to be able to treat our
teachers really well and so I've been making calls and telling my
representatives how much I support that and I've been calling my senator and
telling her how much I like the House bill and the closer the Senate can get
to that so I just encourage everybody to do that you know teachers here's your
opportunity you know call your representatives and you know talk to
them about funding education because that's where more opportunities for them
happens and more support for our students and you know we want to treat
our employees well and you know more help we can get from that and we won't
know that until the end of when does that kind of all the way work itself out
come May unless there's a special session that's called right so there's a
a lot going on in Austin, but anyway, I just encourage people, parents, teachers, employees,
everybody to call Austin and tell them to help support our education funding.
And I appreciate, too, the work that everyone has done on this to make it available so early
so that our teachers know.
So many times they'll say, Mrs. Fox, you know, we have to sign a contract before we even
know how much you're going to pay us next year.
and you know I get that that's tough but again our teachers in the classroom make
a difference for boys and girls not because they're making a fortune but I'm
so grateful to know that we'll be able to do three it's isn't it correct we did
two percent to the base and one percent this is last year yes no no last year
was just one we'd recommend it earlier in this budget cycle we did one percent
on the reoccurring salary and then a 1% lump sum.
When we presented earlier two, three months ago,
we recommended a 3% pay increase,
but we had broken it down into a 2% salary, 1% lump sum.
After looking at the climate in Austin
and working internally to reduce some expenditures,
not at the campus level, but more at the central office level,
we were able to come back and say,
no, we're going to do this 3% fully in salary.
then have the potential to possibly come back for the 1% after we see what the climate is and let me add this also
By bringing it to you in April. We will then bring a true
If this is approved we will bring a true
Compensation booklet to you in the next board meeting in May that has this adjustment in it
So now everything is legitimate for the 1718 school year
Ms. Fox.
Ms. Yes, Ms. Sidman.
Ms. While I'm here presenting, I would be remiss if I didn't give credit to my
compensation manager, Connie Davis, who unfortunately could not be here tonight, but she put a lot
of work into this at the last minute to get this item done for me.
So I really want to thank her for it.
I'm just presenting.
Ms. Any other questions or comments, Madam President?
Ms. We have a teacher fair coming up this weekend as well, don't we?
Ms. 22nd.
Ms. That's correct.
Mr. That's another reason.
Okay, all right great, so that will be reflective in the teacher fair this weekend as we're recruiting
We can't well we don't we don't have a starting salary created yet, so it's hard to
Kind of discuss the new teacher salary schedule with new recruits, okay, but we don't have a starting teacher salary
But we'll have 2,000 people still want to come and be a part of this that is correct. Yes. We're awesome
Well, I do appreciate the work that's been done right you mr.
Mr. Smith and the administration to make those cutbacks to then give more to our teachers.
So wonderful work.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Okay.
We'll move on to 5.14.
Mr. – excuse me, Dr. Hint.
I was going to ask Mr. Smith, but Dr. Hint, you don't think we'll have any changes to this 5.13 before we, between now and next week, there's no reason to hold that off consent agenda.
Is there?
That's certainly the board's prerogative.
I mean, if you wanted it to be placed as a single item on action, you could elaborate more to it at that time.
No, I do not anticipate any changes to this in one week.
Because of the importance of this, I'd like to keep it off of consent agenda and move
it to an independent item vote, I think, for next week.
Is that okay with everybody?
Okay.
5.13 will be removed from consent agenda.
Thank you.
Okay.
5.14.
Hi, Dr. Caskey.
How are you?
Good evening.
Good evening, Madam President, Board members, and Dr. Hint.
We are here this evening to provide you with an update on our instructional materials allotment.
our adoptions coming up for next school year and also request your approval of the annual TEEX
certification
To recap the history of the instructional materials allotment. I promise it's very brief in
2011 Senate bill 6 was passed to create the instructional materials allotment
From the state textbook fund and also from the technology allotment fund
This was done to provide flexibility for school districts in the selection of our instructional materials
to include the purchase of instructional materials beyond just your traditional
textbook to include supplemental materials and things such as software
our IMA is based on our per pupil amount and we are funded on every two years
it's also important for us to remember that in Katie ISD our curriculum is not
driven solely by textbooks but we use multiple resources within our classrooms
such as online resources literature libraries and other hands-on learning
tools for our students as our teachers work to bring our curriculum alive in
the classroom this year the proclamation included our career and technical
education courses languages other than English algebraic reasoning and through
our process we also identified several other areas in need of instructional
support including discrete math a few of our advanced placement courses and we
are also recommending this year that we set aside some funds within our
instructional materials allotment account to assist identified dual credit
students with some of the materials that are required as part of our dual credit
program this slide depicts our timeline for the selection of materials we begin
this process in September by establishing our review teams October
through December the teams work to review materials and make
recommendations based on the alignment of the materials to our courses in
January we collect feedback from teachers and also community members and
And final recommendations are put together in February
to prepare for this evening.
This chart outlines the planned expenditures for the next year.
It's also broken down by content area.
The total estimated expenditures are about $8 million.
And once we receive the funds from the state in September,
our IMA account will have a balance of a little over $7
million, which will be used on upcoming proclamations.
I do want to let you know that you have a packet, a listing in your board packet of
all of the instructional materials that we are recommending this evening.
The list was simply too long to put on the slides.
Speaking of upcoming TEA proclamations, you'll note that in 2018, there are no proclamations
which impact KDISD.
However, looking towards 2019, there's a very large proclamation.
that's K through 8, ELA, and personal financial literacy.
And then high school will come on board in 2020, high school ELA and pre-kindergarten.
And then looking forward to 2021, we have health and physical education.
I do want to thank our curriculum staff, our CTE staff, and all the program folks over there for the work that they do,
and also Ms. Coy for facilitating our processes.
And we're here to respond to any questions that you may have.
question then president mr. Scott I've looked at the long list that you've
given in the in the thing it just seems here that this is a very narrow band
cyclical or instructional materials correct well it's all of our career and
technical education courses but yes of course subjects like language social
studies that's correct so if I'm looking for money to buy teachers document
cameras this is not where I look um no okay generally not taken out of this
account there is flexibility to take it out of this account but generally we
have not okay just wanted to know dr. Caskey since this implementation in 2011
but this came on board right Senate bill was approved in 2011 so we we like this
better right because we don't have to buy exactly what they say and they're
not purchasing them for us we get to spend it how are we how are we liking it now that it's been a
few years and we've had experience i mean these are huge when you look at 2019 like i don't know
how we can afford to buy all those things but how's it working i think um it does exactly what
it was said also do it provides us the flexibility in order to expand just beyond that traditional
textbook so we're able to purchase a lot more supplemental materials things like i mentioned
in the literature libraries.
There's a lot of technology in here.
We're moving, you'll notice in the chart,
more and more of our textbooks are online
as we purchase class sets.
So I think it gives the flexibility.
You guys agree?
And it gives us more opportunity
for individualized learning and personalized learning.
Personalized learning, exactly.
Right.
Mm-hmm.
Awesome.
Thank you very much for your presentation.
Other question?
Okay.
Now, 5.15, board is, I'd like to present the board four proclamations.
The first is the Proclamation for Teacher Appreciation Week to take place May 8 through 12, 2017.
KDSD will join districts and communities nationwide in honoring the crucial role our teachers play
in making sure every student receives a quality education.
This week highlights the importance of our teachers and the work they do to support
and inspire our next generation of leaders.
The proclamation reads, Teacher Appreciation Week 2017, whereas teachers are the heart
making our district great whereas teachers work to open students minds to
ideas knowledge and dreams whereas teachers fill many roles as educators
listeners explorers role models motivators and mentors whereas teachers
continue to influence us long after our school days are only memories and
whereas our country's future depends on providing quality education to all
students whereas teachers spend countless hours preparing lessons
evaluating progress counseling and coaching students and providing
community service whereas our community recognizes and supports its teachers in
educating the children of this community therefore be it resolved that the KDSD
Board of Trustees does hereby proclaim the week of May 8 through 12 2017 as
Teacher Appreciation Week and strongly encourages all members of our community
to personally express appreciation to our teachers for their dedication and devotion to their work.
Signed the 24th day of April 2017, Rebecca Fox, President, KDSD Board of Trustees.
The next 5.16 is the Proclamation for School Nutrition Employee Week.
The proclamation reads, School Nutrition Employee Week 2017,
whereas nutritious meals at school are an essential part of the school day,
and whereas the staff of the district's nutrition and food service department is
committed to providing healthy nutritious meals to the district's
children and whereas the men and women who prepare and serve school meals help
nurture our children through their daily interaction and support and whereas KDISD
expresses deep appreciation to these valuable employees and commends their
good work on behalf of our children therefore the KDISD Board of Trustees
hereby proclaims the week of May 1 through 5, 2017 as School Nutrition Employee Week
in Katy Independent School District.
Signed the 24th day of April 2017, Rebecca Fox, President, Katy ISD Board of Trustees.
5.17 is the Proclamation for School Nurse Day.
This will be on May 10, 2017.
Katy ISD is blessed with 75 district nurses who work to support education and advance
student health.
The proclamation reads, School Nurse Day, May 10, 2017.
Whereas children are the future, and by investing in them today, we are ensuring our world for tomorrow.
Whereas families deserve to feel confident that their children will be cared for when they are at school.
Whereas all students have a right to have their health needs safely met while in the school setting.
Whereas children today face more complex and life-threatening health problems requiring care in school.
Whereas school nurses have served a critical role in improving public health and in ensuring student academic success for more than 100 years.
Whereas school nurses address the home and community factors, example social determinants that impact students' health.
and whereas school nurses are professional nurses that advance the
well-being academic success and lifelong achievements of all students by serving
on the front lines and providing being a critical safety net for our nation's
most fragile children whereas school nurses act as a liaison the school
community families and health care providers on behalf of children's health
by promoting wellness and improving health outcomes for our nation's
children whereas school nurses support the health and educational success of
children and youth by providing access to care when children's cognitive development is at its
peak and whereas school nurses are members of school-based teams like school health services
504 iep disaster emergency planning and they address the school population whereas school
nurses understand the link between health and learning and are in a position to make a positive
difference for children every day therefore be it resolved that the kdisd board of trustees do
to hereby proclaim May 10, 2017 as School Nurse Day in observance of National School
Nurse Day. Signed, the 24th day of April 2017, Rebecca Fox, President, KDSD Board of Trustees.
And the final one is 5.18, Proclamation for Police Officer Appreciation Day. Mr. Howard,
this one's for you. I'd like to present a proclamation.
No, no, not Chief Jenks.
I mean, and Chief Jenks.
I see you over there.
Finally, I'd like to present a proclamation for Police Officer Appreciation Day on May 15, 2017.
The KDSD Police Department is a full-service law enforcement agency comprised of over 50 officers.
Police Officer Appreciation Day highlights the invaluable service our police officers provide the district
and shows appreciation for those that serve and protect the KDSD community.
And the last time y'all were really appreciated there were so many donuts iron that maybe we should look at some non
perishable
We get some carrots
Movie passes or something right?
Proclamation of the Board of Trustees police officer appreciation day
2017 whereas students staff and parents have a right to a safe and secure learning environment free of crime and the fear of crime
And whereas KDISD police officers are a creative, forward-thinking, effective, and efficient
workforce dedicated to raising their level of excellence to meet the challenges of tomorrow.
And whereas KDISD police officers are recognized as leaders in campus public safety practices,
committed to integrity, service, and excellence, while supporting the diverse and dynamic campus
community's pursuit of academic goals.
and whereas KDISD police officers effectively and efficiently provide for
the protection of lives and property, preserve the public peace, and with the
highest level of professionalism and ethical standards, provide the central
and campus administration specialized services, strengthening their ability to
prepare students for the changes and challenges of the future, and whereas
Whereas police officers pledge to protect and serve even at the cost of their life.
Therefore, the KDISD Board of Trustees hereby proclaims Monday, May 15, 2017,
as Police Officer Appreciation Day in Katy Independent School District.
Signed the 24th day of April 2017, Rebecca Fox, President, KDISD Board of Trustees.
So these will be signed next Monday, but we've read them into the record
so that they can stay on the consent agenda for tonight any questions or comments okay hearing
none we will move to the open forum portion of our board meeting at this time the Board of Trustees
will hear from patrons as established by board policy the first 20 speakers who signed up at
least 15 minutes before this meeting began and have provided their first and last name will be
allowed to speak a maximum 30 minutes has been allocated with the time divided equally
the maximum amount of time for any one speaker is three minutes a time clock is visible on the
podium so each speaker may see the time remaining and our sergeant at arms mr de brel mr de brel
will go like this or that's usually what he does we'll alert you when you have one minute remaining
um if if speakers wish to share non-confidential written material at the board 10 copies
should be provided to Sharon Nowak. And due to posting requirements of the Open Meetings
Act, the Board is able to respond only to a statement related to a posted agenda item.
Specific student issues, discipline and personnel matters shall be addressed through appropriate
channels established by policy and the presiding officer shall determine whether a speaker
has attempted to solve a matter through proper channels. As I announce your name, please
come to the podium, state your first and last name for the record and our first and only
speaker signed up this evening is Terry Pearson and you have already provided
your handout and we all have a copy of it good evening mr. Pearson it's so nice
one page so nice to see you not 50 I'm Terry Pearson I'm a parent of a straight
a student and basketball player at Seven Lakes and I want to talk about the case
for girls sophomore basketball as you may know boys high school basketball
has five teams has varsity junior varsity sophomore 9a 9b girls only have
four teams they have all those except they don't have a sophomore team in the
spirit of equity fairness equal opportunity for boys and girls we we
strongly suggest that the girls should have a sophomore team Katie is the teams
are very competitive win lots in basketball and other sports and that is
to be committed as a worthwhile goal but we think an equally valid goal is to
have active participation in sports for a as high a percentage of students as
possible sports or teach great life skills for our students to make them
future ready unfortunately this is a real challenge for the large schools we
have in KDISD. Our school has 800 in its class and I don't know the exact numbers
you do but I think there's a number of schools with five to eight hundred
students. How do you get to keep these kids in sports but given the great
skills they get? A sophomore girls team would be very helpful with this. Now some
some high school coaches believe that there are not enough sophomores, girls to
field a team or to field several teams so that they can play against each other
on the basis of the number of arriving sophomores that try out for junior varsity and varsity.
We think that's misleading because the girls self-cut,
the numbers are extremely daunting on how trying to make the team
whenever you go from 24 9A, 9B students to make 24 slots in the next year.
And other girls simply move to smaller schools in the district or outside of the district so they keep playing sports.
That's a real problem in Katy ISD.
So as an example of Seven Lakes, I understand that there are five graduating seniors on the girls' varsity team.
That creates basically five slots.
Those 24 girls who all love basketball have five slots.
They actually have less than that if there's any transferring students that come in.
Some upperclassmen who
couldn't make the team the year before are going to try out again, so it's pretty daunting. A lot of girls
look at the numbers and make a realistic assessment and say I'm not going to make it and they don't go out.
So we think in order to assess the ability to field teams at a particular school or a number of schools,
There really needs to be a systematic approach to figuring out how many growers will really play.
Mr. Pearson, thank you so much for presenting to us.
We have your presentation.
I'll just quickly address Mr. Pearson.
I have your information.
Thank you very much, sir.
and I do believe it's my understanding that there was a conversation at maybe
the campus level or the athletic directors level regarding your request
for the 10th grade team is that correct thank you very much
Board members, I'll direct you to our future board meeting next Monday night, April 24,
2017.
There being no further business before the board, this meeting is adjourned at 8.26 p.m.
Official documents
Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 3.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees enters into an agreement to purchase from Nash FM 529, LLC an approximate 13-acre parcel of property for a future elementary school for a total acquisition cost estimated not to exceed $1,557,270.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 002 · AGENDA 3.2
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the superintendent in Closed Meeting. Motion Passes
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| henry-dibrell | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |