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Katy ISD Board Work Study Meeting, May 15, 2017
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- 0:00 to 2:06 Item 3 Reconvene from Closed Meeting - The Board will reconvene from Closed Meeting. The presiding officer will verify that the meeting has been duly called and notice of the meeting has been posted for the time and manner required by law. 3.1 Consider Board approval of the purchase of property for District functions.
- 2:06 to 2:35 Item 3.2 Consider Board approval of the personnel report.
- 2:35 to 3:13 Item 3.3 Consider Board approval of an amendment to the superintendent's contract as discussed in Closed Meeting.
- 3:13 to 19:43 Item 4.1 Katy Independent School District's Financial Transparency Website
- 19:43 to 23:21 Item 4.2 School Health Advisory Council (SHAC) Annual Report
- 23:21 to 39:10 Consent Agenda Consent Agenda 5.1 Consider future Board approval of the May 2017 budget amendments. 5.2 Consider future Board approval of the contract for a mobile device management system. 5.3 Consider future Board approval of the 2017 - 2018 Voluntary Student and UIL Sports and Activities Accidental Insurance. 5.4 Consider future Board approval of the proposal for the purchase of dairy products. 5.5 Consider future Board approval of the proposal for the purchase of produce. 5.6 Consider future Board approval of the proposal for the purchase of grocery products, commodity storage, and beverages. 5.7 Consider future Board approval of the 2017 - 2018 Honors (PreAP) courses identified as exempt from No-Pass, No-Play. 5.8 Consider future Board approval of the 2017 - 2018 Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System (T-TESS) Second Appraisers. 5.9 Consider future Board approval of the interlocal agreement with Harris County Department of Education for specialized services at Academic Behavior School West.
- 39:10 to 50:21 Item 6 Open Forum - In accordance with BED (LEGAL) and BED (LOCAL), the Board shall allot 30 minutes to hear persons who desire to make comments to the Board. Persons who wish to participate in this portion of the meeting shall sign up at least 15 minutes before the meeting begins. Speakers shall provide their first and last name and shall indicate the topic about which they wish to speak.
- 50:21 to 50:38 Items 7 & 8 7. Future Meeting 7.1 Regular Board Meeting - Monday, May 22, 2017 8. Adjournment
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Item 3
the world met earlier this evening and closed meeting any action arising from
discussions and 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 yes board
president newly elected president we are in compliance with the open meetings at
Mr. Mahalski?
MR.
I move that the Board of Trustees enters into an agreement to purchase from Brazos
Valley Schools Credit Union an approximate 15,000 square foot building on approximately
1.78 acres for district functions for a total acquisition cost estimated not to exceed $2,400,000.
CHAIRPERSON WONG.
Second.
MS.
We have a motion by Mr. Mahalski, a second by Mr. Griffin.
The Board of Trustees enters into an agreement to purchase from Brazos Valley Schools Credit Union the approximate
15,000 square foot building on approximately 1.7 acres or district function functions for a total acquisition cost estimated
Not to exceed two point four million dollars. We have any discussions
matter president
Sir, sir superintendent. What do you plan to use that building for in the future?
sure we've got a lot of different uses that we're looking at and I know that
our chief financial officer has his eye on that place possibly with some payroll
things know that Education Foundation may have their eyes on that facility or
use that in I can guarantee you we put it to good use and before we we occupy
the space with any department or program we'll bring it back to the board so that
that you guys are pulling thank you
anymore discussion no being there now we'll take a vote all in favor raise
your right hand and say aye aye opposed nay motion passes 7 to 0
madam president mr. Griffin I move that the Board of Trustees approves a
Item 3.2
personnel report is recommended by the superintendent and close meeting okay
We have a motion by Mr. Griffin, a second by Mr. Mohoski, that the Board of Trustees approves a personnel report as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting.
Do we have any discussion?
If there's none, we'll take a vote.
All in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
Any opposed?
3.3.
Item 3.3
Madam President.
Mrs. Doyle.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the amendment to the superintendent's contract as discussed in closed meeting
We have a motion by mrs. Doyle a second by mr. Lacey the Board of Trustees approves the amendment to the superintendent's contract as discussed
in closed meeting
You have any discussion?
And there's none we'll take a vote all in favor right raise your right hand and say aye aye
Do we have any scouts in the audience?
We'll move on to reports. First is 4.1,
Item 4.1
Katy Independent School District's Financial Transparency website.
Good evening Mrs. Vann, Superintendent Hint, and trustees. It's my pleasure tonight to be up here
to talk to you a little bit about the KTISD's financial services transparency website.
We've had this site for quite some time and every year the comptroller ups the bar from
a transparency standpoint and we feel like we've always exceeded the bar.
This year they upped it quite a bit and we did a lot of work to put this together and
what we wanted to do was unveil it to you tonight.
It has been made public for a couple of months, but we wanted to talk it through tonight for you and the public to show
You the amount of transparency we think we're covering
first of course sherry Butterfield our
budget director and Treasury director is
It's going to help me with this
presentation tonight and an fighting our business manager is
But sterling Schiller is in the audience and I wanted to make sure that sterling
Sterling is recognized a lot of the moving parts on this that the ones that change monthly
Sterling is responsible for so appreciate your work in all this Sterling
ongoing work but as you can see from the KDISD web page our home page right there
off the front there's a quick link here to the financial transparency and if you
go to the financial transparency website you'll be on essentially a financial
services web page real quickly just a little bit of layout to the right it has
information about myself and and our business manager it has according to the
the comptroller's rules information about our board and we'll be working on
getting some of that updated tomorrow based on the the realignment tonight it
has information on open records requests and and how did the rules and and all
that good stuff about open records request and how to make an open records
request as well as a form to put in an open request but open records request
I'm going to turn it over to Sherry and let her get into a little bit of the
meat and potatoes of this and then she's going to give it to Ann well thank you
Chris what I want to show you is this portion here we're labeled budget and
check register and if you come into this there's an organization to this of the
current year's budget and down in the lower left corner the previous year's
budgets so this information here will migrate to the previous year once we
present the 1718 budget documentation and that information will get posted
here in in accordance with the public postings where we do this posting in the
newspaper and this posting on the website which are part of the
requirements for the award.
Additionally, this is the presentation that you see Mr. Smith make when we have the public
hearing.
And so all of this, the point being all of this information is here on the website.
Everything that pertains to the current year's budget is encapsulated in this upper left-hand
corner.
The visuals are simply graphs.
you've seen them before in mr. Smith's budget presentations as well over here
on the right hand side is the work that is a lot of work that sterling does and
you can see that there's an archive of many many years worth of information out
here the current year information we can see checks written from December of last
year and come back and see checks written from December of the most recent
recent year, so you can see we've got quite the archive of good information out there
for transparency.
I'm going to close out a couple of these extra tabs here so we don't have so much on the
screen and turn it over to Ann.
Okay, the section that I'm going to go over here is the center section of this web page
and these are prescribed visualizations and graphs that the Texas Comptroller
Transparency Stars Award requires. So first of all there is a financial
summary. This is as of 8-31-16. This is some broad general categories on our
revenue and expenditures and presents in total and as a per student basis. Next we
have expenditures per student and revenues per student. This is in the same format
just two different sets of data. I'm going to open one of them. This is
revenues per student the bottom graph which presents general fund debt service
capital project and special revenue funds is what is required we've also
added the top graph which is the general fund because we feel like sometimes that
is more meaningful and some of analysis that some people may be trying to do
next is our full-time equivalent personnel this is ten years worth of
full-time equivalent personnel in the district the same information is in our
comprehensive annual financial report.
Next is property tax revenue per student which is just a more detailed breakdown
just property tax revenue in the same format as the previous revenue graph
that I showed you so I'm not going to open that. I will open the tax rate per
$100 valuation basically says that we've been able you've been able to hold this
tax rate steady for the past six years and actually dropped for two years to
to the 39 cent debt service tax rate.
The budget and check register is another way to get to the budget and check register information
that Sherry talked about previously, so I'm not going to open that again.
Next is our comprehensive annual financial reports, our bond ratings, and our awards.
This top section right here gives you seven years' worth of comprehensive annual financial
reports.
Each of these documents is over 200 pages long, so I'm definitely not going to go through
all this detail with you tonight but there is it is there for anyone who
wants to take a look at it well then we have our bond ratings from standard and
poor's we have a double-a and Moody's a double-a one this is our underlying
credit rating and of course with our permanent school fund guarantee we are
we receive the highest rating then we have a link to the ASBO the Association
Association of School Business Officials International and GFOA, which is our
Government Finance Officers Association. Each year we submit our financial
reports to these organizations to try to get the award, and we have received that
award for several years now. In addition, we have a link to the school's first
website. This is the state's school financial accountability rating system.
This has been in effect since 2002, and Katie has received the highest possible
rating of superior achievement for each of those years since its inception then
we'll go into the debt service side of the information this first one is a
visual that's required is this as of 831 2016 it lists every series of bonds that
was it's outstanding at August 31st and the amount and per capita is listed here
Tax supported debt just gives you a total tax supported debt for the last five fiscal
years.
The inflation adjusted tax report is the same information.
It's adjusted to restate that debt in 2016 year dollars and it is presented on a per
capita basis.
I'm not going to go into that.
In addition, we have debt information for budgets.
So if you're in the debt section and you want to see how that budget was framed, you can
click here.
It will take you back to the budget information that Sherri talked about previously.
So I'm not going to go back into that data.
It just helps the user get back to where they might find useful information.
Next we have our outstanding debt for the last five years.
This is the same thing that we saw on the first debt schedule that I pulled up.
This is required to be in an Excel format so that it is downloadable by the public and
they can take this data and analyze it.
in any way they see fit. Next is our historical bond election information.
This is every bond election that's been held by the district since 1994. It gives
you the year the election was held, the dollar amount that was proposed, even
what the enrollment was at that time, and the major projects, the major schools
that were funded with each of those. So you can see we go from 1994-96 and just
through every election that has been held, whether passed or failed.
And then at the very end, you'll see the 2014 bond that we're currently spending right now,
the $748 million and the major projects.
The ones that are asterisked with three asterisks are things that we're still currently working on right now.
Next is our House Bill 1378 Debt Transparency Report.
This was put into law on this 84th legislature, and it's a required report,
and it's got a required format. A lot of the information is what you've seen before, but this is required to be in this format.
We can either put it on our website or send it to the comptroller for them to put on theirs.
We've elected to put it on ours so that it's apparent for everyone.
It's a look out of a lot of the same information that has already been covered,
but adds a little bit more in a little bit different format.
Finally, the last three here that I'm going to cover are
links the Texas Comptroller public counts the debt at a glance there's a
link to that information you can look up our debt at a glance any school district
debt at a glance any city any County just some helpful information and a link
to the Texas bond review board we can see some more information on debt and
finally a link to pension information in which in our case is the teacher
retirement system of Texas thank you Ann and I'm going to wrap up here with the
very bottom we have of course the financial services division
organizational chart we have municipal advisor exemption notification that we're
required to publish TEA financial manuals if we hit this link it'll go to
the financial accountability resource guide that's kind of the rule book that
we play that we have to go by from an accounting and purchasing perspective
from TEA and it takes you right to the TEA website and then we have a breakdown
of how every dollar is spent over the last three years. So for example, 66 cents
of every one of our dollars in the general fund goes towards instructional
in the classroom as it should and it has a breakdown of every dollar spent. That
was and then we have a link we do have one chapter 313 agreement and we do have
a link to the chapter 313 site of the comptroller's website which does include
include a page for KDISD specifically for that one Chapter 313 agreement.
Moving back up, these are just more information from GFOA and ASBO, different links to those
sites that will actually go to their sites.
But I wanted to talk about the tax rate detail that we put.
It's got yet another picture of our tax rate which provides information on our tax rate,
but it also has information on our tax offices.
As you know, Harris County Tax Collection Office collects our Harris County taxes,
and Fort Bend collects taxes on our behalf for both Fort Bend and Waller County properties.
And then we have, and these links will go directly to their sites,
and then we have information on our three appraisal districts, Waller, Fort Bend, and Harris County,
and it will take you directly to those appraisal districts.
Going back to our home, I call it our home page.
The information on Schools First, again, we've seen that from one direction, but we can hit
it this direction and you can see the same information. It's got information on what
School First is. Again, it's our financial report card. But the presentations that we've
made to the Board each of the last three years are on there. So anybody that wants to go
and look and see how our report card is and how we scored can get to this information.
information.
With that said, I think that we've covered everything.
There's a staff directory that we've put out there, so if somebody has information or a
vendor wanted to call and they had a question about their check, they could call and find
the right accounts payable person or internal service, internal customer of the district.
Hopefully this is a one-stop shop to anybody they need.
If they need access to any bean counter, they're going to get them through this page.
So that's really it in a nutshell.
We are obviously always open for for comment on what we may be able to do better from the public and from the board
These are not our dollars
They're the community's dollars and the board's dollars and so we want to be as transparent as possible
And we've been challenged to continue to keep up with what the comptroller does and do more and we will always be
Open to opportunities to do more
With that I'll be glad to entertain any questions
I've spent a lot of time on government websites looking for data.
I've never had a complaint about what you've done and what you've done here is even better.
It's very convenient.
As one who's done a lot of research on governments of all stripes, this is one of the most user-friendly
avenues of accessing data that I've observed.
thank you madam president I'd like to say when I was running for office in the
prior weeks I stumbled upon this quite blindly actually and was able to look at
it was just I'll use the bluntly I was shocked that we had all this information
I got to go in and play with the Excel spreadsheets and stuff and be able to
really kind of break down where everything went it's it's very nice to
to have that openness that we have with the public.
Thank you.
Madam President.
Mr. Griffin.
Mr. Smith, how long did it take to put all this information together?
I mean, it looks like a tremendous amount of work.
It is a lot of work.
It's an ongoing process, so it's hard to tell exactly how long.
But, again, Sterling probably spends a day a month trying to keep this information updated.
Annually, once we have our audit, a lot of these schedules are inside of our audit.
it. They're just maybe presented a little differently or they're, and I don't want to
use buried when I talk about transparency, but they're in a 212 page document that's kind of
hard to navigate through. So what we thought and what the comptroller has thought is we brought
those highlights into a summarized, easy to look at level into this. And it's ongoing. And like I
say, we're always open for other suggestions on other ways we can present data. We are HIPAA.
we can't put a lot of information out there about our insurance because it's
HIPAA protected as well as payroll information even though there's public
information specific payroll information we really can't put out there but and
we we do things like we we don't display our check numbers we do that for
security and fraud purposes so bad guys can't get information off our website to
use in a fraudulent way against us so i would just like to thank you in the i.t department for all
the work you did that is tremendous amount of work and it looks awesome thank you yeah thank you this
was amazing i'm i stumbled upon it a few weeks back too but like mr lacey said and i'm just
it's great thank you very much for your presentation thank you let me just give you a
quick little secret or a precursor to next week we'll be recognizing chris and his department
and all those individuals responsible for this because of their level of transparency so
we'll have another opportunity to pat him on the back
item 4.2 school health advisory council or shack annual report mr grimmett and miss owens
Item 4.2
President Vann, members of the board, Superintendent Hint, my pleasure tonight to be here to present
to you our annual SHAC report and I have with me tonight Michelle Owens, my co-chair and
community member representative from SHAC.
Our Senate Bill 283 is a designated bill that says we have to report annually to our school
board of all the different meetings and topics that we covered for the year. The
different membership we have parents, we have teachers, administrators, health
professionals, community members, law enforcement members, nonprofit health
organization members attend our meetings at different times throughout the year.
Our focus areas are on what we call coordinated school health and that's a
health education, physical education, parent community involvement, staff
wellness promotion, counseling, mental health services, health and safety school environments,
health services, and nutrition services. We meet two times in the fall and two times in the spring,
and that's, again, by law. We have to meet that many times, at least four times, and so those
are the dates that we met throughout this year. And these are the summary of activities that
we discussed this year. So, Michelle, we'll cover those with you.
All right, so basically we started at the top and went through a lot of information.
Mr. Grimmett has got a lot to give us, and it's really enlightening when you really sit and listen to what's happening in the school district.
So let me just go from the top.
We began our discussion with our campus-based activities to promote school health, moved on to the updates about the KDISD school wellness policies.
Then we moved into immunization changes and updates on the Zika virus because that was
pretty hot at the time in discussion with some things that were coming up.
We moved on to how the coordinated approach to child health, the CATCH program and campus-based
activities were going on.
Moved into 2016 TEA school health advisory survey.
We went through that during our meeting and had some input and whatnot during that.
We got the opportunity to discuss traffic, school zone, time changes and
safety issues in KDISD and our community. We discussed the Fuel Up to Place 60
program, which if y'all haven't had an opportunity that's a really neat program
and I hope to see more of that come into KDISD schools. We also discussed how
the students have availability to the KD Connect crisis hotline. We also
discussed the First Tee golf program and we had the opportunity to see some pitchers.
of an activity that happened at one of our elementaries from the Fuel Up
Play 60 program event. That was pretty neat. I'm kind of going to push a little bit
at our school to maybe be the next one. And then we approved
the annual SHAC report and then last we discussed KDISD Texas
Agricultural Audit Report.
Alright, thank you so much for giving us this time tonight.
Anybody have anything they want to ask or say?
No?
Okay.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Mr. Kermit?
I'll move it to our consent agenda.
Consent Agenda
5.1, consider future board approval of the May 2017 budget amendments.
Mrs. Butterfield?
Thank you, President Vann, Trustees, Superintendent Hint.
Tonight we have just a few budget amendments.
In the General Operating Fund, we have one budget amendment recognizing additional revenue
of $36,000 and an offsetting budget, expenditure budget in the same amount for the STEM camps
at Shaw Center.
There is also a $29,500 expenditure amendment for additional budget in special ed related
to settlements.
The construction fund is amended for $300,000 in kitchen equipment related to Hutzel and Bear Creek renovations and $13,500,000 related to Elementary 41 as previously approved by the board.
These will be funded from the 2014 bond project savings and approval of these construction amendments will result in no change to construction fund fund balance.
Any questions?
Thank you very much.
5.2, consider future Board approval of the contract for a mobile device management system.
Mr. Young?
Welcome, Mr. Young.
This is the first rodeo with the Board.
Good evening.
Good evening, President Vann, trustees, and Superintendent Hitt.
I will be presenting on a total of four contracts which will be covered under
board agenda item 5.2 and then I'll be coming back for 5.4 through 5.6.
Under consent agenda item 5.2 we'll have a contract for the purchase of a mobile
device management system being recommended for award to Jamf Jamf
software LLC upon evaluation of the six competitive proposals received it was
determined that the proposal for Jamf software was priced competitively and
offers the best value to the district by awarding this contract the technology
department will be able able to effectively and efficiently manage the
the 27,000 plus iPads currently owned by the district,
and includes annual product maintenance and support.
The contract term will be for one year
with an option for two additional one year renewals.
With the first contract year valued
at around $118,000 per year,
and years two and three valued
at around $126,000 per year,
where you for years two and three reflect an increase of $8,000 per year
for the premium support agreement the funding source for this contract will be
the general operating funds questions Thank You mr. you 5.63 consider future
future board approval of the 2017-2018 voluntary student and UIL sports and
activities accidental insurance. Mr. Naumann. Good evening President Fox,
Trustees, Superintendent, Hint, good evening. The Risk Management Department sought
proposals for voluntary student and UIL sports and activities accidental
insurance on March 1st 2017 with four firms responding. The UIL accident policy
is paid for by the district and provides supplemental medical benefits for
accidents incurred by students who participate in UIL activities such as
athletics, fine arts, and career and technology education. The plan is
secondary to any other available insurance participants may have and
includes a supplemental catastrophic policy. State law allows school
districts to purchase this type of insurance but it's not mandatory. This
This insurance also provides voluntary accident insurance for students, which includes at-school or 24-hour coverage, with or without dental coverage.
Those who elect the voluntary insurance pay the associated premium on an individual basis directly to the carrier.
General fund expenditures for this coverage in 2016-2017 were $216,194, which included the UIL premium of $200,180 and a catastrophic premium of $16,014.
The results of the RFP show best in value in pricing for the district by the incumbent East Texas agency.
The premium for 2017-2018 program year will be $195,629, which includes $180,000 for UIL coverage and $15,629 for catastrophic coverage with a guaranteed rate for three years.
The associated deductible for the program of $250 is the same as the expiring period.
The rates for voluntary coverage also remain unchanged from the current rates.
The UIL insurance provides for student growth and success by providing a
district paid insurance for student accidents while participating in those
covered programs. For students without other insurance the plan pays as primary.
A provision of the voluntary student accident insurance is deemed as a public
service that provides low-cost accident insurance alternative for students.
Authorization to purchase coverage is granted through FF&D Legal.
It is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the UIL Catastrophic Accident Insurance
and the Voluntary Student Accident Insurance as presented for the 2017-2018 year
with two additional optional one-year renewal periods.
I would entertain any questions that you may have.
I do have a question.
the deductible I mean assuming a catastrophic accident is this the
deductible that the student would play yes it would that's it that's it it's
great
And I'd like to also commend Mr. Nauman and his department.
If you notice, there was about a $20,000 savings on this renegotiation of this contract.
Anytime we can recognize a savings to the district, I'd like to acknowledge that to our taxpayers.
Madam President, I do have a question.
Noticing the $325 that's the voluntary for athletics or football accidents,
Is there anything in place for I know a lot of our athletes
May not be able to afford something like that
Is there something in place that can help you supplement either?
Publicly or privately or through the booster clubs that can pay that deductible for them. I'm sorry for that cost for them
No, there is not we this is a voluntary if you will see that the voluntary to the parents
That's on a on a personal decision basis that the parents elect to the district does not fund any
supplemental or augment any premium for the students and the in like the booster
clubs or someone like that pay for that for them or is that something that's
against I guess policy or rules it's typically not done and it would it would
it could create a set of circumstances that could be cloudy at best thank you
thank you very much okay thank you 5.4 consider future board approval of the
the proposals for the purchase of dairy products.
Ms. Freyand again.
Good evening once again.
The next three
contracts will be
for, contracts
in regards to products for nutrition and food
service.
Under consent agenda item 5.4
we have a contract for the
the purchase of dairy products being recommended for award to Oak Farms Dairy.
Upon evaluation of the three competitive proposals received, it was determined
that the proposal from Oak Farms Dairy was priced competitively and offers the
best value to the district. By awarding this contract, the Nutrition and Food
Services Department will be able to effectively and efficiently purchase
milk products and cottage cheese from a single vendor capable of fulfilling and
delivering these orders throughout the district. The recommended contract term
is for one year with an option for three additional one-year renewals with an
estimated expenditure of two million dollars per year based on the
prior year's expenditures. The recommended contract would be funded
from either the special revenue funds and or the general
operating funds as applicable.
Any questions?
Okay. Now we can move on to 5.5. Consider future board approval
of the proposal for purchase of produce.
Under this contract, a contract for the purchase of
produce, including processed items, is being recommended for
award to Labatt Food Service. Upon evaluation of the
the four competitive proposals received.
It was determined again, the Labatt Food Services
was priced competitively and offers the best value
to the district.
By awarding this contract,
the Nutrition and Food Services Department
will also be able to effectively and efficiently
purchase all produce items from a single vendor
capable of fulfilling and delivering these orders
to the various sites throughout the district.
The recommended contract term is again for one year
with three additional one-year renewal options with an estimated expenditure of
1.5 million dollars per year once again the recommended contract would be funded
either from special revenue or general operating funds
moving on to 5.6 consider future board approval of the proposal for the
purchase of grocery products, commodity storage and beverages. Mr. Young. On this
last contract, again for the purchase of grocery products, commodity
storage and beverages is recommended for contract award to multiple vendors
including Labatt Food Service, Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages and Oak Farms Dairy.
As presented on the bid tabulation that was attached to the board agenda, upon
Upon evaluation of the six competitive proposals received, it was determined that the proposals
from these four vendors offer the best value to the district.
By awarding this contract to the recommended vendors, again, the Nutrition and Food Service
Department will be able to service all district sites.
Once again, the contract term is for one year with the option to renew for three additional
additional one-year terms with an estimated expenditure of $15.2 million per year.
The recommended contract would be funded from either special revenue or general operating funds.
Any questions?
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
That's a whole bunch of dairy produce and grocery products right there, folks, for 76,000 kiddos.
There it is. Item 5.7, consider future board approval of the 2017-2018 Honors Pre-AP courses identified as exempt from No Pass, No Play. Dr. Steele?
Hi.
Good evening, Board President Vann, Board Members, and Dr. Hint. I'm here this evening to present the 2017-18 courses that are exempt for No Pass, No Play.
Each year we review honors courses in the subject areas of English language arts, mathematics,
science, social studies, economics, and languages other than English for the purposes of extracurricular
eligibility.
Honors courses that are automatically included are all College Board AP courses and dual
credit courses that fall under English language arts, math, science, social studies, and languages
other than English.
KDISD may identify additional courses to add to the automatic honors courses that are exempt for
extracurricular eligibility. A committee reviewed all courses that will be offered during the 2017-
18 school year and proposes the additional courses that you have in front of you. There are two
additional courses up for consideration. One math course, pre-AP multivariable calculus and pre-AP
GT multivariable calculus as well as one social studies course pre AP psychology
be happy to respond to any questions that you may have at this time do you
have any questions no okay thanks so much you doctor item 5.8 consider future
board approval of the 2017 now sorry no yeah I haven't checked off let's do this
again consider future board approval of 2017 2018 Texas teacher evaluation and
support system t-test second appraisers miss Edmund good evening president van
trustees superintendent hint I am here to present the list of second appraisals
sorry second appraisers for the Texas teacher evaluation and support system
this will allow teachers to request a second appraisal as defined in board
board policy DNA legal questions questions do you have a question yes how
does that work if teachers not satisfied with the first appraisal yes there are
certain domains that will allow them to request it and they submit that request
in writing after 10 days of submitting their of receiving their appraisal and
they submit it to their principal and then the HR coordinators will define who
who will be the second appraisal.
Someone from a different campus?
Yes, sir.
We typically use campuses that are in the feeder pattern.
Okay.
Anyone else?
Okay. Thank you.
Item 5.9, consider future board approval
of the interlocal agreement
with Harris County Department of Education
for specialized services at Academic Behavior School West.
Good evening, President Vaughn, Board members, and Dr. Hintz.
This is a contract with a Harris County Department of Education at their ABS West facility for our five students that currently attend
At the facility now and this contract is actually for the 2017-18 year to secure those five slots for those same students
I'd be attending the program next year. You have any questions. I'd be glad to answer them for you
Have a question
Okay, thank you. All right that concludes our consent agenda items for the evening now. I'm a child
six open form
Item 6
In accordance with the ED local, no, I'm sorry.
At this time, the Board of Trustees will hear from patrons, as established by the Board of Policy,
the first 20 speakers who signed up at least 15 minutes before this meeting began
and have provided their first and last name will be allowed to speak.
A maximum of 30 minutes has been allocated, with time divided equally among those who have signed up.
However, the maximum amount of time for any one speaker is three minutes.
A time clock is visible on the podium so each speaker may see the time remaining.
If a speaker wishes to share non-confidential written material with the Board, 10 copies
should be provided to the Secretary for Board Services or the Chief Communications Officer.
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 personal matters shall be addressed through appropriate
channels established by policy and presiding officer shall determine whether a speaker has
attempted to solve a matter through those proper channels as I announce your name please come to
the podium and state your first and last name for the record our first speaker this evening is Andy
Rathbun. Chris. Oh sorry Chris. Oh it's Cindy that looks like an A. I apologize.
Chris. Podium please. Thank you. Thank you to the board, Mr. President Benn, and
trustees. My name is Chris Rathbun and I thank you for the opportunity to speak
speak this evening. The reason I'm here is just to discuss the failure of proper
guidance of my daughter Savannah Rathbun which resulted in her not being
recognized at graduation for her level of achievement that she deserves. It's
kind of a long story I only have three minutes but I want to hit the highlights.
So she re-enrolled into Katy ISD after being two years overseas. The Katy ISD
counselor at Katy High provided guidance or provided the option of
of the foundation program.
Now the foundation program, if you're not familiar,
starts with students in 2014,
and the first year of graduation will be 2018.
So to be able to get into that program,
we had to sign a waiver that basically said,
we rescinded the honors and the special honors program
for our daughter.
We specifically asked at that point,
is there any designation at graduation
that my daughter would potentially get?
And we were specifically told, no.
Then at that point we asked, is there anything labeled
on her transcripts that would designate her in this program?
Or anything on her transcripts?
And we were provided the answer, no, once again.
So we found out on May 8 that basically she
would have been given a cord.
She would have been segregated.
It would have appeared on her transcripts.
She would have been announced ahead of the remaining class.
class and she would have been listed in the program for her achievements.
So in the new foundation program, we also found out that there has to be an endorsement
of her, there has to be in writing an endorsement.
So according to Assistant Principal Miriam, she's in the Arts and Humanities program and
that's something that we've never even looked at, we never even were informed about.
One minute.
So we called the University of Georgia and we were told that she was listed in the foundation
program like I had stated but it just listed pursuing so we were told an inaccuracy.
Last night we found out she qualified for the distinguished level of achievement program
which is recognized under the foundation program and due to the lack of proper guidance provided
provided the incomplete program direction,
the due to the numerous failures
and commingling of the programs,
we think it's only fair for something that she's earned,
our daughter be recognized for the achievement
she deserves to be allowed to at least sit
with the 4.0 students and wear the associated cord.
Thank you for your time.
Thank you, Mr. Rathbun.
Next we have Cindy.
Thank you for allowing me to speak.
I just want to try to cover a few points that my husband was trying to get across.
When we sat inside her counselor's office and we were suggested the new foundation program
and we were given the opt-in agreement to sign, as I was reading it, it states that
we rescind all honors.
I said to her counselor at the time, wait a second, we've been on the distinguished program since eighth grade.
Why would I rescind that?
And I said, at graduation, are they identified any differently at graduation?
And she told me no.
It's my understanding from Mr. Miriam, he's been at the school for two years,
and he knows that this particular counselor has been there as long as he has.
that she's been there at least two years so I don't know why she wouldn't have
said to me well yes they're identified differently they get cords for their
level of GPAs they are listed in the program differently and I would have
never signed the form had I been given that additional information I did not
know until April 8th of any kind of cords whatsoever this is our only child
and she Savannah inquired via email to her counselor and she was told yes for
as silly for some silly reasons you will not be getting this court this court and
And I asked her, Counselor, I don't understand why you didn't say back in August, why you
didn't let me know.
And she said, I'm sorry, there was some fine print at district level that I was not aware
of.
Well, she handles kids' futures every single day.
One minute.
Okay, thank you.
And I would think she would know in her position that they do achieve these recognitions at
graduation.
I'm asking the board to please consider allowing her to sit where she's earned
she doesn't deserve it she's earned it she is not taking her education lightly
I also asked the councilor on the day of signing this if her transcripts mentioned any kind
of program and she told me no.
I called her college today and the administration office told me directly from their board,
from their screen, what kind of program she's under.
So of course, her college has received that.
Thank you.
you I appreciate you listening to me and I hope that thank you our last speaker
of the evening is dr. Lisa Bevan
Oh, you're not Ms. Fox. Congratulations, I guess, Madam President. I am here tonight to speak of a
matter regarding that. As you know I've requested emails regarding the situation
of a individual who signed up after the fact under Ms. Fox's tenure as president to speak
to the board. It was done in the presence of Mr. DeBrell who served as sergeant at arms
and I'm not cool with that at all we have rules and regulations for behavior
in place for a reason and if we have school board presidents and trustees who
cannot follow the rules that govern this school board then they should not be on
the school board it's just really simple and cut and dry I want trustees that I
can trust and I'm sorry miss Fox you broke the rules there should be some
punishment for that. It's no different than what we would do for children in the district who break
the rules, the student code of conduct, and I'm just not cool with it at all. Not at all. Now,
Mr. Dubrell is no longer on the board, so there's really no way to punish his actions,
but the proof is here, folks. Ms. Vann, you know about it. I pulled the emails from public.
Mr. Griffin, thank you for your help in the matter. I
Want a better kinder Katie ISD. It's what I strive for and what I work for and I think
Under dr. Hint, sorry, you're my favorite superintendent. I'm just flat-out gonna say it. I'm no offense to dr. Merrill
None did mr. Fraley. I might be saying this next go-round for the next superintendent. I don't know but
Well, hopefully you'll be here a long time don't count your chickens before
for their hatch, sir.
But bottom line, Ms. Fox, I'm just not cool with it at all.
You broke the rules.
You owe this board an apology.
You owe Ms. Nowak an apology for putting her
in a position that's not cool.
Mr. DeBrell also owes the community an apology.
You owe the community an apology.
And you owe the parents and patrons an apology.
And I'm just disappointed in your behavior.
I mean, it's just not cool because you are the president you can just do whatever you want to do
So miss Vaughn, please if you are going to be the president take that under advisement
I think I can trust you and I think I can believe in you
but you know miss Fox we go back a long way three superintendents and
We have not been cool for those three superintendents and that's just you and I but you do need to apologize
You say it all the time
um just because you can it doesn't mean you should and just because you could
meant you should not I had some other stuff we wanted to talk about loved vips
thank you Dr. Babin. All right our future next future meeting a regular board
Items 7 & 8
board meeting Monday May 22nd 2017 right here in this room and I'm number eight
is there being no further business before the board this meeting is
adjourned the time is 720
Official documents
Agenda
The district's own agenda file, as published on its video page. 3 pages.
Board packet · 39 documents
The district's own backup material for this agenda, retrieved from BoardDocs. Each file was checked against the size BoardDocs states for it.
- Annual SHAC Report 2016-2017 26 KB
- SHAC board presentation 201617 182 KB
- 2017-2018 Second Appraisers List 13 KB
- 1_Function and Object Code Descriptions 2016-17 187 KB
- 2_ REVENUES, EXPENDITURES AND FUND BALANCE 050417 88 KB
- 3_KISD_2016-17 Budget 040517 22 KB
- Mobile Device Management System 1625 Tabulation (2) 62 KB
- Evaluation Form Mobile Device Management System B RFCSP 1625 21 KB
- RFCSP 1629 - Dairy Products - EVAL_FINAL 13 KB
- RFCSP 1629- Dairy Products - TAB_FINAL 85 KB
- Produce RFCSP #1630 Tab_FINAL 78 KB
- RFCSP Produce Eval_FINAL 19 KB
- HCDE - ABS West (2017-2018) 93 KB
- _RFCSP 1627 Grocery Products Comm Stor Beverages EVAL 44 KB
- _RFCSP 1627 Grocery Products USDA Commodity Storage and Beverages Tabulation 341 KB
- Budget Amendment Detail_i 369 KB
- Student Accident RFP 2017-2018 59 KB
- Certificate of Election ASHLEY VANN 99 KB
- Certificate of Election BILL LACY 99 KB
- Certificate of Election COURTNEY DOYLE 99 KB
- Oath of Office ASHLEY VANN 50 KB
- Oath of Office BILL LACY 50 KB
- Oath of Office COURTNEY DOYLE 50 KB
- Statement of Officer ASHLEY VANN 56 KB
- Statement of Officer COURTNEY DOYLE 56 KB
- Statement of Officer BILL LACY 56 KB
- Election Result--Official 2165 KB
- Cumulative Report--Official (002) 289 KB
- Canvass Report Total Voters--Official 001 873 KB
- Precinct by Precinct Report--Official FINAL 3804 KB
- Certificate - Doyle SIGNED 319 KB
- Certificate - LACY SIGNED 316 KB
- Certificate - VANN SIGNED 317 KB
- Statement - Doyle SIGNED 270 KB
- Statement - LACY SIGNED 267 KB
- Statement - Vann SIGNED 282 KB
- Oath - Doyle SIGNED 294 KB
- Oath - Lacy SIGNED 302 KB
- Oath - Vann SIGNED 311 KB
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 Brazos Valley Schools Credit Union an approximate 15,000 square foot building on approximately 1.78 acres for District functions for a total acquisition cost estimated not to exceed $2,400,000.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 002 · AGENDA 3.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the superintendent in Closed Meeting.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 003 · AGENDA 3.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves an amendment to the superintendent's contract as discussed in Closed Meeting.
7 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |