The Board will now reconvene in open meeting. Today is Monday, June 19, 2017 and the time is 6.30 p.m.
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Katy ISD Board Work Study Meeting, June 19, 2017
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- 0:00 to 1:46 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 for the purchase of property for a drainage easement into South Mayde Creek for the Agricultural Science Facilities.
- 1:46 to 2:26 Item 3.2 Consider Board approval of the District organizational structure for the 2017 - 2018 school year.
- 2:26 to 3:29 Item 3.3 Consider Board approval of the personnel report.
- 3:29 to 4:09 Additional Item Additional Item
- 4:09 to 11:56 Item 4.1 Peace Officer Oath of Office - Katy Independent School District Police Officers
- 11:56 to 35:43 Item 5.1 Planning for Growth: Attendance Boundary Modification (ABM) for 2018 – 2019
- 35:43 to 1:15:17 Consent Agenda 6.1 Consider future Board approval of proposed changes to Board Policy DC (LOCAL). 6.2 Consider future Board approval of proposed changes to Board Policy FNF (LOCAL). 6.3 Consider future Board approval of a contract with Harris County Department of Education (HCDE) and Katy Independent School District for the promotion of adult education in Harris County. 6.4 Consider future Board adoption of a resolution authorizing the deputy superintendent to accept resignations as the superintendent's designee. 6.5 Consider future Board approval of the Katy Independent School District compensation plan for the 2017 - 2018 school year. 6.6 Consider future Board approval of a Water Line Easement to North Fort Bend Water Authority for the construction and installation of underground water lines located adjacent to Cinco Ranch High School and Cinco Ranch Junior High School. 6.7 Consider future Board approval of a Temporary Construction Easement to Willow Fork Drainage District for the construction and installation of recreational facilities located adjacent to Cinco Ranch High School and Beck Junior High School. 6.8 Consider future Board approval of a proposal to replace two air cooled chillers at James Williams Elementary. 6.9 Consider future Board approval of a proposal to replace the chiller system at the Mayde Creek High School Natatorium. 6.10 Consider future Board approval of Amendment Two to the Anslow Bryant Construction, LTD. Construction Manager at Risk contract for the Guaranteed Maximum Price related to the comprehensive renovation at Mayde Creek High School. 6.11 Consider Board approval of a CenterPoint Energy Electrical Easement associated with the construction of the Agricultural Science Center and barn for Paetow High School. 6.12 Consider future Board approval of Change Order One to the AAA Asphalt Paving Inc. Competitive Sealed Proposal contract for construction of roadway improvements to High School #8/Paetow High School. 6.13 Consider future Board approval of the contract for the purchase of disposable food service products. 6.14 Consider future Board approval of the Interlocal Cooperation Agreement for the collection of Katy Independent School District property taxes for Fort Bend County. 6.15 Consider future Board approval of the June 2017 budget amendments. 6.16 Consider future Board authorization for the superintendent to solicit names and form a committee for the purpose of proposing a name for the South Transportation Center per Board Policy CW (LOCAL).
- 1:15:17 to 1:20:17 Item 7 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.
- 1:20:17 to 1:20:31 Items 8 & 9 8. Future Meeting 8.1 Regular Board Meeting - Monday, June 26, 2017 9. Adjournment
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Item 3
The Board met earlier this evening in closed meeting. Any action arising from discussions in 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 Opens Meeting Act regarding the notice of this meeting?
Madam President, we are in compliance with the provisions of Texas Open Meeting Act regarding this notice for this meeting tonight.
Madam President.
Mr. Griffin. I move that the Board of Trustees enter into an agreement to purchase from Mini Bee Inc. an
approximate 60,000 square foot parcel of property located in the northeast corner of Katie Hockley
Cut-Off Road and Beckendorf Road for a total acquisition cost estimated not to exceed
$180,000 and no cents.
We have a motion from Mr. Griffin that the Board of Trustees
enter into an agreement to purchase from Mini B Incorporated
an approximate 60,000 square foot parcel of property located in the
northeast corner of Katie Hockley Cut-Off Road and Beckendorf Road for a
total acquisition cost estimated not to exceed
$180,000 and no cents.
Motion was made by Mr. Griffin, seconded by Courtney Doyle.
Do we have any discussion?
Hearing none, we'll take a vote.
Mrs. Fox was unable to join us tonight, so we'll take a vote.
All in favor of Rose-Bride Hayden, say aye.
Aye.
Any opposed?
Motion passes 6-0.
Item 3.2
Mrs. Doyle?
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the 2017-2018
independent school district organizational structure as
recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting. Second. Motion has been
made by Mrs. Doyle and a second by Mr. Moholsky. The Board of Trustees approves
the 2017-2018 Katy Independent School District organizational structure as
recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting. Do we have any discussion?
hearing them we'll vote all in favor right to raise your right hand and say aye aye and post
motion passes six to zero I am three point three madam president mr. Griffin I move that the board
Item 3.3
of trustees approves a personal report is recommended by the superintendent and closed
meeting motion has been made by mr. Griffin and a second by mrs. Doyle the board trustees
approves and personal personal report as recommended by the superintendent in
closed meeting any further discussion hearing them will take a vote all in
favor raise your right hand and say aye aye and opposed motion passes six to zero
individuals that was part of that personnel report that you just approved
and I wanted to invite them to stand so the board could recognize them it's mr.
Kyle Green he is our new assistant athletic director welcome welcome mr.
green okay before to the recognitions item 4.1 we have police officer oath of
office oh I'm sorry gosh you're important but I skip recognizing the
Additional Item
scouts that are in the audience one minute we have scouts with us tonight if
you please stand say your name your troop number and the badge that you are working on go ahead
i'm harsh kumar um i'm from troop 1103 and i'm working on my communications merit badge
my name is connor hogue i'm from troop 1047 and i'm working on the communication merit
badge and citizenship in the community thank you all for joining us and now we'll move on to our
Item 4.1
police officer with of office president van board members superintendent here newly commissioned
peace officers are required to publicly swear or affirm an oath of office tonight we have four
newly commissioned officers i would like to ask officers beatrice riva palacio kayla vinko
Edgar Torres and Jordan Wells to come forward to take the oath and be
recognized as members of the KDISD Police Department.
Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I Beatrice Barbara Riva Palacio.
I, Beatrice Barbara Riva Palacio.
I, Edgar Torres.
I, Edgar Torres.
I, Kayla Vinko.
I, Kayla Vinko.
I, Jordan Daniel Wells.
I, Jordan Daniel Wells.
Do solemnly swear.
Do solemnly swear.
That I will faithfully.
That I will faithfully.
Execute the duties.
Execute the duties.
Of the Office of Peace Officer.
Of the Office of Peace Officer.
Of Katy Independent School District.
of the State of Texas and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend
the Constitution and laws of the United States and of this state.
So help me God.
Congratulations.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
Beatrice Barbara Riva Palacio was born February 16, 1987,
in Houston, Texas, to Beatrice Riva Palacio.
Bebe, as she's known, was raised an only child and has resided in Mexico, Miami, Austin,
before settling in Houston.
Bebe persevered through troubled times, including dropping out of high school, before being
determined to graduate in 2005 from the Alta Academy.
Wanting to pursue her passion for work in school setting and to encourage children that
that you can reach your goals no matter the hardship,
Officer Reva Palacio became the first in her family to seek a career in law enforcement.
She attended the University of Houston Downtown Police Academy, graduating in December 2016.
She began her law enforcement career with the Katy ISD Police Department in February 2017.
Bibi is married to Alfredo Dominguez and they have two children.
Their son Gavin is 10 years old and their daughter Reva May is 3 years old.
She is incredibly happy to have joined the Katy ISD Police Department and to be starting
a lifetime career of working with and protecting the students and staff.
Kayla Vinko was born to Alan and Patricia Vinko on June 9, 1995, in Katy, Texas.
Kayla attended school in South Fair ISD, graduating from Cypress Lakes High School in 2013.
She was attending Lone Star College and unsure of which career path she wanted to take.
Kayla, while watching her father go through the police academy, became inspired to pursue
a career in law enforcement.
This inspiration led Kayla to University of Houston Downtown Police Academy, where she
graduated in September 2016.
In February 2017, Officer Vinko joined the Katy ISD Police Department to begin her career
in law enforcement.
Kayla is proud to say that she is the first woman in her family to be in law enforcement
and the second to serve in educational law enforcement, joining her father, who is an
officer with the Humboldt ISD Police Department.
Edgar Torres was born to Mauricio and Delmis Torres and raised in Bolivar, El Salvador,
before moving to Houston, Texas at the age of 10 years old.
Edgar attended school in A-Leaf where he graduated from A-Leaf-Felsick High School.
In 2008, upon graduation, Edgar attended St. Justin College before moving to Austin, Texas.
While living in Austin, he worked for Austin ISD as a security guard before relocating back to the Houston area.
area. Edgar began working for KDISD in August of 2015 as a paraprofessional at the Behavior
Transitional Program. Edgar's desire to help others and repay the support he received from
the staff and campus officers in high school helped his decision to attend Lone Star College
Police Academy, where he graduated in December 2016. Officer Torres began his law enforcement
career with the KDISD Police Department in February of 2017 where he says
looking forward to applying his experience and knowledge in law
enforcement with students and staff while working with his fellow officers.
In his free time Edgar likes to work out, play indoor soccer and on the weekends
take his dogs to the park with his wife Cynthia. Jordan, last but certainly not
least Jordan Daniel Wells was born July 7th 1995 in Houston Texas to Joel and
Angela Wells Jordan has two brothers Jacob and Josh along with two sisters
Paige and Alicia raised in Katy Jordan attended Cimarron Elementary West
Memorial junior high and Katy high school where he graduated in 2013 after
After high school, Jordan attended Blinn College and attained an associate's degree in criminal justice.
Jordan graduated from the University of Houston Downtown Police Academy in December 2016
before joining the Katy ISD Police Department in February 2017.
He was inspired to get into law enforcement, having grown up around Katy ISD police officers and security guards.
His mother, Angela Wells, who is in attendance tonight, has been a security guard at KD High School since 1997.
Jordan loves hunting, fishing, baseball, football, following Jesus, camping, and basically anything outside,
including directing traffic at graduation.
No, that's not in here.
He's excited to have the opportunity to serve the KDISD community just as it has served him in his life.
I'd like for you to join me in welcoming these officers to KDISD Police Park.
Thank you, Chief Jenks.
Item 5.1
And we'll move on to the report section of our agenda,
Item 5.1, Planning for Growth, Attendance Boundary Modification for 2018-2019.
Mr. Cruz.
Good evening, President Vann, board members, and Superintendent Hitt.
Tonight, we start setting the stage for Attendance Boundary Modification, or ABM,
that will be recommended for implementation in the 2018-19 school year.
We are beginning this process very early in hopes that it will give our families, staff, and community stakeholders
ample opportunity to provide feedback and input on limited projected zoning changes recommended for the 2018-19 school year.
Here you see our district ABM process that was established in 2012.
While we continue to adhere to the same process in general, the timeline has been extended
to allow more opportunity for discussion and evaluation of proposed plans.
Step one, as listed above, involves working with our contract demographer, population
and survey analyst, and we have Chris Poole here tonight with us, to project enrollment
need trends district-wide and review campuses in need of boundary modification.
Once initial recommendations are complete, they are presented to the KDISD School Board and community.
Input is sought from stakeholders with final approval requested from the Board in December of each year.
The December deadline is important for several reasons, including early notification of parents with students affected,
staffing timelines for the new and impacted campuses, as well as preliminary bus routing work that must occur.
Each year, District Administration, along with PASA, review the attendance boundaries for existing buildings,
as well as anticipated building openings. While many of our buildings are at or slightly exceeding capacity,
no significant changes are being recommended for existing campuses, with the exception of the schools that could be impacted
with the opening of elementary 41 in the Cross Creek subdivision. Shown here is
the timeline for the ABM cycle. Tonight you will see a first draft of the
recommended attendance boundary modification for elementary 41 which is
scheduled to open in the fall of 2018. During the months of July through
November, feedback will be gathered from stakeholders in response to the
recommended ABM plan. In September, a board update will be provided with
preliminary feedback results and any resulting changes to the ABM plans with
final ABM approval slated again for December of 2017. The timeline between
September and December will be a final opportunity for feedback from parents
and other community members while allowing additional opportunities for
October or November board updates if they are deemed necessary before
anticipated final approval. At the conclusion of tonight's meeting the KDISD
Communications Department will begin the process of informing our community of
the proposed changes along with an invitation to participate in a survey
that will be used to guide the remainder of the ABM process and provide answers
to concerns that may be expressed. Communication will culminate with
notification of parents having children affected by the new attendance boundary.
It is now my pleasure to introduce Ms. Chris Poole, who is here to discuss the boundary
development process and give insight into considerations for the boundary proposals.
MS.
Good evening.
I'd like to start this presentation tonight by showing the current attendance zones and
the projections as we have them based on the October 2016 demographic update.
The figures shown here are the geocoded students, and so that means that they are the counts
of students that we would expect to reside in each attendance zone. This does
not necessarily reflect the actual enrollment of the school given that
students transfer between schools for a host of reasons.
Ging's for example houses a large bilingual program that currently enrolls
335 students, 299 of which are from outside its zone. Keep in mind that it
does have a larger capacity as it was expected to be a bilingual campus from
the beginning of its construction the capacities listed here represent design capacities as
indicated by the architectural design firms and functional capacity of the buildings is typically
more conservative at 10 to 15 percent of that design number it's real easy in this area because
they're almost all the same the next map shows option one for the opening of elementary 41.
this potential attendant zone shows a very clean split of randolph along fulcher bend drive and it
51C and 73B from Jenks.
LN 73B contains Churchill Farms and LN 51C contains Tamron Lakes 2 and Weiss Land Development
Parcels.
We've done a little more checking into the Weiss Land area and that Weiss Land is expected
to remain a gravel pit and sand pit for quite some time.
This would open Elementary 41 at near 60% of design capacity allowing for additional
growth.
growth.
The current bilingual program at Jenks would then be split with Elementary 41.
This would bump the projected enrollment to between 70 and 80 percent of designed facility
usage in 2018.
I've shown the projections for the next few years as well as our 2026 projection just
for reference.
We use these sorts of long-term projections as benchmark data only, but these 2026 numbers
show that we would expect a fairly even split of geocoded enrollment between Randolph and
4741 and Jenks at the end of the projection period.
We did consider the possibility of relieving Davidson by moving 67F, which is the Cardiff
Ranch subdivision, and placing that at 41, but most of those students that are currently
there are in the Davidson Walk zone, and this would require them then crossing 1463.
Laney Sun 67F contains approximately 220 elementary students.
students.
We also looked at relieving Schaefer, but the growth there has stabilized for the foreseeable
future and again students would be crossing 1463 if they were to attend Elementary 41.
Therefore we are currently leaving those two schools alone and this Elementary 41 zone
is comprised of students from only Jenks and Randolph.
We are now showing an option 2.
It is very similar to option one except for the fact that it pulls 73 L up to elementary 41
Laney soon 73 L has Sora Lake subdivision
Which is currently under construction and it should contain approximately 35 elementary students when built out
the students in this lane you son are also not in the walk zone for Randolph and
Moving this would put slightly more students at elementary 41 to open it
We also considered moving 73 K to elementary 41 is it also fronts Fulcher Bend Drive?
but a large portion of the students in that lane you sound or in the walk zone
for Randolph this lane you son contains depending on the year 120 to 140
elementary students but due to its proximity to Randolph we show it
remaining there in both proposals so in conclusion this slide is pretty
self-explanatory we need an ABM and eight for the 1819 school year due to
the opening of elementary 41 the ABM recommendations have been collaboratively
crafted and the process this year is going to allow plenty of time for
feedback from all stakeholder groups the board our community our staff anybody
that has input on this we would like to hear from at this time we would welcome
any questions does board have any questions or mr. crews mrs. bull could
Could you go back to the option two, option one and then option two?
Option one, is that it?
Yes.
Yes, sir.
Okay.
The 2018 number that you show, 591, does not include a split of the dual language, right?
That is correct.
Okay, and that would push 2018 up to?
Almost 800 students.
Okay.
In the 770s.
so is there summary I'm just I know we have plenty of time and thank you congratulations
and everything for this early so what is the reason that you would would do that is it because
of the growth that would come at jinx is it to keep it stable in capacity there but we actually
ask that the board think about functional capacity on these schools and
mr. Cruz in that number there with all of the bilingual program at jinx or
remaining at jinx they would not be able to maintain that that is correct the
bilingual program is actually outgrowing the added capacity that we put on to
jinx so we're we're looking at 350 to 400 bilingual students by the time we
get to 18 is our guess okay so that's the reason that rather than move 73k or
L or 73 K you're going to fill in at elementary 41 with a viable ongoing
program what we're doing and basically is moving a program to relieve
overcrowding at one campus jinx okay and to show good stewardship of our use of
our buildings at 41 we're able to fill it with a program instead of disrupting
some of these other walk zones for students, which I think is more appropriate.
And right now we're showing that 299 of the students in that program reside from outside
the Jenks zone, so they're tacked on top of any of these numbers here that you're seeing.
We're already busing those students from outside the zone to Jenks, so it makes sense if we're
opening a new building, we could continue to bus them.
There's really no additional cost other than maybe additional mileage, but that's not going
to be much if you know where those two campuses are.
Ms. Doyle?
Ms. I have a question.
On the elementary 41 numbers projected out to 2026, let's say, are these numbers considering
the future homes that will be coming to Cross Creek?
Have we taken those numbers into account?
Ms. That's everything that we have projected as it stands right now, including
including up into 51 and Churchill Farms and everything that's in that yellow area,
those are our projections.
You know, 2026, long time away.
But, yes, we are counting everything that we know of at this point.
Okay, because if I'm understanding correctly with what you all shared with Jinx at 1333,
then they're looking at about 1633, actually, with that bilingual program in there in 2018.
Because you're showing a jinx with 1,333 students.
That's in the current zone.
Right.
Plus their bilingual, yes.
Right.
Okay.
And so then once we open, then we'll pull it out and we'll be looking at 1,029 plus
their portion of the bilingual program.
Right.
All right.
Yeah, I know.
I just want to make sure that these numbers are, when people are looking at these numbers,
they understand that y'all aren't able to give that bilingual program a value right
now in 2018 that number actually would be 1633 right okay thank you matter president mr griffin
i just got one question on like your future projections you show relatively the the district
just staying very stable on our east side we've seen the numbers drop pretty significantly
At what point do you start saying that these houses are going to fill up with new families
and you continually keep a static growth as opposed to where our older additions are?
We don't have the families regenerating as fast as, say, down here.
The unfortunate answer to that is that it varies widely between subdivisions.
Sort of the standard answer is 30 or 35 years is when you see a home in an area start to
regenerate with a brand new set of residents that would then have younger
students moving into the school district but it depends on what the economy is
doing it depends on what sort of house you've got there are people going to
stay in that home forever and ever and ever and be buried in backyard is that's
the situation and so in in this area we're expecting a lot of these
residents to stay we take the current students and we age them forward for
quite a long time we can't age them forward in perpetuity because we just
sort of be replicating the kindergarten students that are there. We can't, we look at birth
data but we don't have a really good way to get at it down to the subdivision level.
And aside from actually going and knocking on a door and asking how many preschool students
are there or something like that, we can't get at much below the kindergarten level.
So we've looked at aging those kids forward. At some point, yes, I do expect that they
are going to decline. And so that's why the 12 and 1300s don't bother me that much because
because I think you guys will see a stepping down in the future.
But right now the ratios of students per house are very, very high
in that southwestern portion of the district.
It's a very popular area for, I know you guys know this,
for people with students that are in the school district.
This is a question, and my experience is in former school districts
that were near build-out, 90%, 95%.
What is our build out right now in KDISD, would you say?
Are we at 70% build out?
What is our number?
You know, we have that actually on a map.
We try to get and try to estimate that based on parcels.
It's always a rule that, sort of an unwritten rule, that the district will continue to go ahead and get more dense,
almost as you're built out, because then apartments come online.
Correct.
And so that ends up filling in the space less land they start growing up, right?
We have a map we call it our development density map every if we do it for you guys every year and
So of the district right now approximately 45 percent of the district is they is full of existing
Developments be it single-family or multifamily. We have 8% in the fall that was actively developing
We had 8% that was undeveloped but planned to develop, like out of plat, some sort of
concept plan.
We had about 18% that was undeveloped with no development plans yet, but oftentimes we
will go ahead and be projecting development of some sort by 2024 or 2025, that sort of
thing.
We had 2% in parks, 1% in preserves, and 18% in reservoirs.
Okay.
Okay.
So based upon your comment there, it's safe to say that 18% undeveloped don't even know about what plans there are.
And then an additional 8% undeveloped, but we do see some future plans there.
Those two numbers, 26% of the district roughly undeveloped and will be undeveloped for some time forward.
Is that correct?
And 8% actively developing right now.
Okay.
Okay. My experience has been that if we were to look at a district-wide rebound ring,
when is the ideal time to do that?
Is that when you are at build-out, if we were to look at so that we could then stabilize the school district?
Or what has your experience been?
I don't know that I actually have a good answer for that because some of the school districts,
One in particular I can think of in the north part of the state that I work with a lot,
they are building up very rapidly, sort of like Spring Branch did to your east.
You all have built out over a really long timeframe.
And so by the time you're actually building out in one area, you're going to be regenerating
on the other end of the district.
And so that's why we haven't ever thought that you're going to have, as some districts
have done, a great up and then a great back down as people are still staying in place.
So if you wait until the district is completely built out, we are going to be probably dealing with some other
regeneration and some new people coming into some of these older older subdivisions.
You know in the Southwest as the homes are built and as
most of the development settles down and of course you can you can see the whites of their eyes.
That's at least obviously a much easier situation to handle
once you've got what you think is all of the buildings on the ground.
but I think it varies by district and varies by the way in which the district
has built out and the length of time over which the district has built out
before you can really understand what's the best thing to do I don't think I
have a really solid answer let me ask you maybe in a different way because I
know what my thought process is you have 26% of your land still yet to be
developed we really don't know if it's rooftops or apartment complexes I've
been part of a district that was at 95% build out and the next thing we know we
had an influx of kids because they were apartments condos and townhomes and
that's all working with the development stage where we're at right now could you
say that we could do a district-wide rebound ring whether it was elementary
junior high or high school and remain stable with those boundaries not
running a main stable because you've got so much
else to continue to build out you know I mean so we have to would say we would
have to do knowing that you'd have these other facilities going ahead and coming
online in the future okay
mr. Scott going back to option one oh yeah there I'm sorry
option one slide did I understand you to say that the capacities you're showing
or design capacity yes that worries me a little bit more than because the
functional capacity is obviously less that still doesn't give you concern
about your 1300 1300 concern at 1300 but the situation there is that all of the
schools in that area are very full and so 1300 if it's stable and it's
flattening out and we think 13 isn't going to turn into 1450 then if they are
are okay then you know everybody seems to like to stay where they are so 1300
isn't my favorite number to see if you have a capacity of a thousand thirty but
the other option would be to pull out 75 or hundred kids and put them in Randolph
or put them in Stanley or take them across 1463 to an area that they're not
close to you know there's not another a better option that that we were really
finding every every time everything we looked at didn't seem to make as much
sense would you envision ten years down the road five years down at some point
in time when elementary 41 is more built out would you envision because you've
got Schaefer above you've got Davidson in the high 12s would you envision any
Any more move to settle out 41, Randolph?
Any more move to settle out to add more students to 41?
It depends on what you are able to do with your bilingual program.
You know, if we're looking at 1,100 students and then you're adding another chunk of bilingual kids on top,
then I don't know that you can put any more kids in there.
And just for clarity, because I know that we as a board have talked about this since I arrived in the district,
And that is design capacity is the capacity of a building if an architect said you utilized every available space in that building for kids, meaning kids in the library, kids in the cafeteria, kids in the gyms, optimal amount of kids in every single classroom.
But in the real world, an architect's design capacity is really not functional.
Functional capacity typically, as Ms. Poole said, is 10% to 15% less, but we, I presented
to the Board many months ago in a document looking at functional capacity, which is 10%
less than design capacity.
We even went so far as to add the number of T buildings, functional capacity with T buildings,
design capacity with T buildings.
I would encourage the board to make sure that we are differentiating between a design capacity versus an
Educators functional capacity because unfortunately, it's never going to be a perfect design capacity world in our buildings
Madam president I do have a question for a couple of questions for a miss pool. Okay, what is the
projected build-out time frame of just this area the southwest quadrant I
I don't know that we have a projected build-out timeframe.
Every time you ask Dr. Guzman that question, she hedges it a bit.
We were asked that question by the Bond Committee just district-wide.
And she said something that we will not see build-out in the next ten years, and we project
out ten years, that it will be some – and then it will slow, that development will slow
and continue to trickle on in toward the end of final build-out there.
So district-wide, we'd be looking at 15, 18 to 20 years, even though she wouldn't actually be pinned down to a number.
This sector of the district, the majority of this, we can see building out in the next 10 years.
And so I think that, you know, we've been looking forward and looking for the schools and things that we think are going to be necessary.
But it's much, much more imminent than the future build-out there, of course, in the northwest.
West then the other part of my question is simply to tie on to dr. Hintz
question and his statement would it be reasonable or would it be something that
we could look at to I don't know how to phrase it other than just kind of lock
where that all the school lines are going to be in the next two to three
years for anything that may be say south of I-10 in the southern quadrants is
that something that's possible or do we still need to be somewhat fluid I've
I've done this long enough to say that you never lock the lines.
I understand.
You know, because things are always going to change.
Yes, you know, of course, everybody, their idea would be to let's, we moved into this area, we know where we're going, and that's where we're going to stay.
But, of course, you guys are going to have to always be aware of the ebbs and flows that are in the school district,
and you're going to have to use the capacity as good stewards of the building if you need to move a program or move an apartment complex
complex or a section of a subdivision that is always a possibility and we think that
the districts that manage the facilities well are those that are constantly monitoring all
of that because things do change. That said, everybody sure does like to stay where they
are.
Thank you.
Do we have any more questions?
Thank you, Ms. Poole.
Mr. Kruse?
We'll move on to the consent agenda portion of our evening. Starting with item 6.1, consider
Consent Agenda
future board approval of proposed changes to board policy DC local.
We have Ms. Holland and... welcome Ms. Holland. We'll have you for a little bit with us
here tonight. You're a ray of sunshine we're happy to have you. Good evening
Madam President, members of the Board, Dr. Hint, we have some recommended additions
to the policy on employee practices at DC that we would like to present for the
Board's consideration. One of those has to do with requiring applicants to
certify that the information included on their applications is both true and
complete. Any falsification, omissions, or misrepresentation could prevent them
from being employed by the district or if they are employed and it is
discovered that the application contained false or misleading
information the person could be subject to disciplinary action including up to
discharge from their position. In addition to that we would like for the
board to consider delegating the authority to our superintendent to
employ contracted employees from June 1st through August 31st. There's a lot of activity
that occurs during that time period. In the interest of efficiency and to allow us to
absolutely get the best candidates before they consider another employment, we think
that this would be very beneficial to KDISD.
Ms. Hollant?
Ms. Hollant, this particular policy deals with interrogations and searches and it is
our recommendation that we delete references to random drug testing and that we discontinue
that program.
Feedback from campuses, while this was implemented in the 2004-05 school year, and we had four high schools at that time, we were able to test a lot more students.
The cost of testing has gone up since that time, and we now have, soon we'll have eight high schools.
So the number of students that really would be tested under this program is very minimal.
Feedback from the campuses over the past few years, it takes a lot of administrative time to oversee the random testing.
For students who are selected for random testing, they are missing valuable instructional time while they wait their turn.
I'm also told in talking to some of our administrators that they see much greater value from the drug dogs
as a more effective resource. For one thing, only those students who are in
extracurricular activities or who drive a car to school are impacted by random
drug testing. A very low percent of our students who are tested are actually
found to have a positive test. With the drug dogs, all students are subject to
the same search. That might be a search of a car, it might be a search of a
locker but all students then would be subject to that search. The cost of the
drug dog is $8,000. We could have a drug dog for every campus for less than we
could do the random drug testing and I think would serve a much greater purpose
and for one thing it would return our administrators to focus on the main
thing and not be taken off to deal with drug testing. A lot of our students are
because it's random testing the same students are often tested multiple times
where other students are are never tested so it is our recommendation that
we discontinue the random drug testing and look at perhaps using those funds
for some other type of resource and and I'd like to add I think it is important
to note that $150,000 was allocated to this program in 2004 as Miss Holland
said there were four high schools at the time at some point or another and we
haven't been able to find it the exact date it was reduced to a hundred
thousand I would assume that might have been in the 2011 year when you know
school districts across the state were faced with budgetary cuts but we are now
serving seven high schools soon to be eight high schools at a hundred
thousand dollars a place I don't think that it's an effective program if we
really want to effectively have a program like this which is not
preventive it is a catchy program and we need to allocate far more than a
hundred thousand dollars to it my preference would be in visiting with
staff and for all the reasons miss Holland talked about that we reallocate
that hundred thousand dollars into preventive programs maybe at the
elementary level to reach out to all of our kids instead of in a catchy mode
with some of our kids and less than three percent of the 1021 kids that were
tested last year tested positive or something and of those less than three
percent we had to do additional testing on those students so a lot of money was
was being spent on very few students.
All right?
Mr. Mr. President, I had four kids go through the program
and not one of my kids thought this program
was worth having.
It doesn't deter their friends, it didn't deter them.
They were taught something and either lived
with what they taught, but this program to me
was just spending money and not really doing anything.
So I am so glad that we're updating this policy and and getting rid of it
And I'm president on join Charles in that as well
This was a solution
In search of a problem that it could not solve right it was it was probably
Advanced by only conservatives to pretend that they were tough on drugs
the dogs are much better when you do a random sample and you have a
of fraction of a cohort it's as useless as well it's useless so I totally
support this change it's rational if you spend that kind of money you get a 3%
return on investment then you haven't accomplished anything so this is good
mr. Lacey wrong button here I'm sorry I have a question you mentioned that we
We have in the capabilities to have a dog per campus, per high school campus.
Do you feel, in your personal opinion, do you feel that it's necessary to have that many for the district with us being where we are?
Or do we need less than that and share across the district?
I don't think it would be necessary to have one per high school.
But I'm saying for this amount of money, you could have one for every high school and still save dollars.
That's what I was thinking.
I think our police department would be in the best position to tell us how many drug dogs we would need to do a good job and to have the dogs going on a regular basis.
Of course, students would not know when the drug dog was coming.
But we have had pretty good success with the dogs that our police department has purchased.
Thank you.
Now I did see Chief Jinks' ears perked up back there when he heard maybe more drug dogs.
You know.
Thank you Ms. Holland.
Yes, the drug dogs are very impressive and I know the more we had the less, and it's
a long day for one dog and it's a lot of work when you have that many campuses and they'll
be able to cover a lot more ground.
So thank you for your presentation.
I appreciate it.
And one question I have also there's no drug testing required by UIL anymore, correct?
So that wouldn't be who would put us in compliance?
I just that out there for the information for everyone to okay item 6.3. We're moving on
We're bringing forward the agreement with Harris County Department of Education. This is a recurring
Partnership that we've had for a very long time in the district. There's no dollars that exchange hands, but
but Harris County provides an adult education program
to prepare adults to take the GED.
They work with limited English speakers,
and they also provide some instruction in basic skills.
And we have had this as a partnership for many years,
and so we are asking that the board approve
our continuation of this partnership.
Board have any questions?
Thank you.
One last time, Ms. Holland, item 6.4.
We are presenting for the board's consideration
a proclamation that would allow our deputy superintendent
to accept resignations as the superintendent's designee
if the superintendent is not available.
Knowing Dr. Hint, that's not going to occur very often,
I think he lives up here, but it would allow
for our deputy superintendent to accept those resignations and of course once a
resignation is accepted then we're able to post that vacancy and then respond in
a very efficient effective manner and as the policy reads right now it says that
the superintendent has the sole authority to accept resignations or a
board-appointed designee right we've never appointed a designee that's why
we're bringing this to you. Any questions? Thank you Ms. Holland. Item 6.5, consider future board
approval of the Katy Independent School District compensation plan for the 2017-18 school year.
Ms. Yolanda Edmond. Good evening President Vann, Trustees and Superintendent Hinn.
Before I get started with my presentation tonight I would like to acknowledge Ms. Connie Davis who
unfortunately couldn't be here tonight for medical reasons.
Ms. Davis is the person who prepared all of the documents that are
before you tonight. I am here presenting it on her behalf but she has done a
phenomenal job with these items.
So tonight I'm here to present the KDISD compensation plan for the 2017-18
school year.
It is a comprehensive plan that includes job classifications, teacher salary
schedules.
schedules. Additionally, I will review with you the departmental staffing units, reclassifications
and salary adjustments. In previous years, this information was presented to the Board
of Trustees as individual items. Having a comprehensive plan allows us to present all
compensation related items in one document, which is a means of being completely transparent.
So there are a couple of items in the compensation plan brought to your immediate attention.
One is the 2017-18 teacher salary schedule, which is inclusive of the $1,800 increase
that the Board of Trustees approved in April with a starting salary of $52,000.
The second item is the 2017-18 non-teacher pay ranges.
The minimum, mid, and maximum rates reflect a 1.5% increase above the 2016-17 rates.
Number three would be job classifications.
And just to give you a brief explanation of the job classifications, it is a list of all of our professional, auxiliary, technical, and paraprofessional positions,
which include those pay grades titles duty days and pay ranges and make note
that those pay ranges are reflective of the 1.5 percent increase that I just
mentioned the fourth item would be stipends our stipend list has changed
very minimal very minimal changes to it we have three new stipends and one
modification and then the last item that I'd like to draw your attention to in
the plan is our substitute pay scale which we're not recommending any changes
changes from last year. In addition to the compensation plan, you will find additional
departmental staffing units that is available for your review and consideration. Also reclassifications.
And the third item is the one that I would like to give you just some general information
on. They're both listed as salary adjustments. One is for the police department. We have
found that it is extremely hard to recruit and retain qualified officers in
the district. So we are recommending that we count non school district experience
for our police officers which would give us a one-to-one year match with their
outside experience with a maximum of 15 years. The second
item to help retain those officers would be to increase their T-close
certification pay currently they receive a maximum of two thousand one hundred
and sixty dollars for their certification and we would like to
increase that maximum to three thousand and the second item you will see on the
salary adjustment list I'm sorry would be for nutrition and food service for
the 2016-17 school year the district created momentum created I'm sorry a
minimum wage rate of $11 per hour. That was a pretty significant increase for that pay
grade. However, there was really no consideration to our tenured employees in those pay rates.
So it caused, it really did cause some compression issues with those salaries. So the employees
that came in new to the district and received $11 per hour, and you have existing employees
who are just barely making over the $11 an hour.
It caused those compression issues, which resulted in inequities
and sort of a low morale in our full service department.
So Ms. Davis and I did some research, and we examined those individuals
and realized that we needed to increase or modify the rates
for a very small group of full service employees in order to maintain equity.
I think with that those are all the items I would like to present and then
I'd like to open it up for any questions you may have. This time last year you
y'all did Human Resources did a great table for me on the issue of absenteeism
particularly at Title I campuses and my conclusion was I really spent a lot of
time with those and my conclusion was that it's one of the few areas where the
micro tables don't get you into the minutiae of maybe where the negative
impact is at our title one campuses and I've talked to dr. Hinn about this so
let me preface it by saying this is not a complaint this is a concern and it's
one that I've expressed on several occasions I am of the belief that at our
title one campuses that the problem in core subject which is sort of a nuance
of the table we got is is still a problem I believe that there is
episodic and I don't know how you pull it out of the computer to know okay but
I think there's an episodic issue where teachers substitute teachers do not show
show up and co-teachers are pulled out of their ICS classes and that doesn't necessarily
reflect this in absence, but it has an impact on the delivery of instruction.
I am still unconvinced of the 24-hour blockout.
I believe we need to do everything that we can to stabilize and start the
delivery of instruction particularly at our title one campuses I am still of the
belief would welcome to be corrected that if a substitute calls in and three
weeks out or two weeks out a lot of teachers know they're going to be gone
there's in service staff development etc and a substitute teacher clicks in and
that gets that job, as long as they don't click out and take another job within that 24-hour,
they can change without punishment. I really think that we should consider a policy or at least a
discussion of it, that if you're a teacher and you prefer teaching at Beck or Beckendorf or Seven
Lakes or any of the any of the campuses and you queue in at May Creek or
McDonald or Katie junior high or Martin Ranch or any of those campuses if you
take a job you're locked out and the 24-hour thing I don't think works
episodically I'm pretty sure it doesn't work statistically I don't know the
second thing is we're I'm sure we're going to be looking at stats on
absenteeism from teachers and I think that a lot of research in public
education is vendor driven and not reliable but there is one element of
research I think that is pretty solid and that is the more you're out of more
teachers out of a classroom the more impact there is negatively on
instruction I would really like us to explore creating or expanding I'm not
saying we don't have it but expanding it so that we are putting and training and
hiring for that purpose to put more substitutes who want to teach at our
title one campuses possibly even reducing the definition of long-term
teachers at title one campuses I just think we have a focus that we need to do
that those are 15 questions in five minutes now come up with the answers
comments because I couldn't agree more the reality is is that we have
substitutes that may accept a position at a campus we decline at that campus
even if it's outside of 24 hours and we struggle to get a substitute in those
positions and they do there are subs that for multiple reasons they live in
this area they got something closer to them I agree and some of the things we've done in the
past and I will be more than glad to bring this recommendation back to the board we just saved
$100,000 we could easily find a way at our title campuses maybe provide a long-term sub that is
stationary at that campus and only that campus and therefore they could take care of those in
In the absence of needing a sub, they could do some other work there.
It is something that I know that Mr. Grogorski and I in HR, we have discussed, we've explored.
You will get the tables on the absenteeism.
You won't get them until probably July or maybe even that evaluation period that the board does with me,
and we've got that timetable of when certain reports are provided to you.
But that's something that we could actually do at board approval at any time. It could be August September
I just need the data to support it so I can bring it back
Thank you, thank you do any more questions
Thank you. Thank you
number six point six
Instead of future board approval of water line easement to North Fort Ben water authority for construction and installation of underground water lines
located adjacent to Cinco Ranch High School and Cinco Ranch Junior High.
Welcome Mr. T. Good evening Madam President, Board Members, Superintendent
Hint. I'm happy this evening to come to you to recommend that the Board of
Trustees approves a water line easement to the North Fort Bend Water Authority
for the construction, installation, maintenance, repair, replacement and
operation of an underground water line located adjacent to Cinco Ranch High
school and cinco ranch junior high school as depicted on the attached easement documents
the north fort bend water authority is requesting a 20 foot and 30 foot wide easement for their
construction of these underground water lines on the two parcels of land located at cinco ranch
high school and cinco ranch junior high all costs associated with the construction of the underground
water lines will be placed within the easement will should be the sole responsibility of the
the North Fort Bend Water Authority. This easement has been reviewed by the district's
legal counsel and approved as to form. The board approval of this easement is also consistent
with board policy BAA legal and BAA local.
Any questions?
I do. I have a question, Madam President.
Go ahead, Mr.
I've noticed throughout Cinco Ranch that there's a lot of, they're changing the water
supply lines for grass watering and landscaping and stuff like that where's non-potable water
is that what this is for no sir this is actually where they're bringing surface water in for the
municipality the mud districts to to go on transfer off the wells and bring them on to
surface water this is bringing in a trunk line to supply that okay thank you anyone else okay
Okay, moving on, item 6.7.
I'd like to bring before you all a request to approve a temporary construction easement
to Willow Fork Drainage District for the construction, installation, maintenance, and repair,
replacement, and operation of recreational facilities located adjacent to Cinco Ranch High School
and Beck Junior High School, as depicted on the attached easement documents.
The Willow Fork Drainage District is completing the recreation trail connections to the new 32-acre park adjacent to Cinco Ranch High School and the other trail segments in the district.
The four segments identified in the easement documents are located at Cinco Ranch High School and Beck Junior High School, and the connections of the trail will allow public access to the park from the trail systems previously installed.
All costs associated with the recreational trail and related
pertinences placed within the easement shall be the sole
responsibility of the Willow Fork Drainage District.
This easement has been reviewed by District Legal Counsel and is
approved as to form, and the Board approval of this easement is
consistent with Board policies BAA Legal and BAA Local.
Any questions?
Are the trails asphalt or are they just...
They're concrete.
Thank you.
No questions?
Okay, moving on.
Item 6.8, also Mr. T.
I'm bringing a recommendation for your approval to award the contract for the replacement of the chiller at James Williams Elementary to Hunting Services as presented.
The children at James Williams Elementary are 17 years in age and are no longer able
to handle the campus cooling demand on hot days.
daily attention to keep them in service. The recommendation is to proceed with
the awarding of the contract for the replacement of the two train air-cooled
chillers to Hunting Services utilizing the Choice Facilities Contract Number
14-021JN-05. The total replacement cost
$341,479, utilizing 2010 bond savings in the same amount.
out. Replacement of the chillers will be expedited and scheduled for completion by October 1,
2017. The district will utilize a temporary chiller on site to open school in August 2017
and provide air conditioning until the replacements arrive and are installed. Board approval
of this replacement is consistent with Board policy CH Legal and CH Local.
and one item I'd like to note with this and a coming item that we want you guys to consider
our operations department mr. Cruz feet have done a wonderful job and they're going back and looking
at some of the 2010 bond savings and allocating some of those funds now for projects as we venture
in the discussion about a future bond we want to make sure that we don't have lingering money
still in a 2010 bond or even a 2014 bond without it allocated before we ask our
taxpayers for more yeah thank you moving on to item 6.9 mr. T I'm bringing a
recommendation to award a contract for the replacement of the chiller system at
made Creek High School natatorium to hunting services as presented the
The current natatorium chiller system
at Maid Creek High School is no longer able to be repaired
and is operating at minimal capacity.
The system is original to the building opening in 2007.
The recommendation is to proceed with awarding the contract
for replacement of the chiller system
for the natatorium to Hunt and Services
utilizing the choice facilities contract number
14 slash 021 JN-05.
The total replacement cost $514,056.
Replacement funding will be supplied by the 2010 bond savings in the same amount.
Replacement of the chiller system will be expedited and scheduled for completion by November 1, 2017.
Board approval of this replacement is consistent with board policy CH legal and CH local.
and the reason for that extension on that timeline is this is a custom-built
Unit from stainless steel, so it's got a little bit longer build time for it
Madam president is this is it custom because of the chlorine and the chemicals are in the air yes, sir
My other questions
Thank you
Thank you.
We'll move to item 6.10, consider future board approval of amendment 2 to the Anzal Bryant
Construction Limited construction manager at risk contract for the guaranteed maximum
price related to the comprehensive renovation at May Creek High School.
Mrs. Cassman.
Good evening.
Good evening, President Vann, Board of Trustees and Dr. Hint.
Tonight I have three items for your consideration.
The first item is requesting the approval of Amendment 2 to Ansel O'Brien for the
Maid Creek High School renovations. Subsequent to the commencement of
construction, the project experienced a number of unforeseen challenges
impacting and increasing the original project cost. Scope includes
reconfiguration of areas to support additional identified campus
program needs including circulation, technology, security, and infrastructure.
structure. Some of the items include the emergency generator, the existing terrazzo, and some
of the canopies, some of the main items.
And that opposed GMP for the amendments, $1,500,000, and that's coming from 2014
bond remaining or bond savings funds.
Madam President.
Mr. Scott.
I just want to go on record as saying I've always liked that phrase construction manager at risk
So see him at a risk
That's good to know we'll use that more often
I'm six point eleven miss
The second item is request for a ten foot electrical easement from Centerpoint
Energy for AG barn number eight and the future barns coming off of Beckendorf Road
the current service cannot be expanded and the service will be overhead similar to previous
Centerpoint easements and there'll be an additional easement forthcoming once we proceed with the next
phase of the project legal counsel has currently approved the wording but we are seeking changes
from CenterPoint for future easements. Any questions?
I'm 6.12. Okay the final item is for a change order to AAA asphalt for the
roadway work at Payto and Stocktick junior high. Subsequent to getting the
plans approved by the county there was some additional changes mostly related
to drainage an additional 7 foot by 4 foot box cover and a 30 inch pipe on the
south side of Stockdick School Road and Peak Road. This work is going to be
commenced as soon as the item is approved. The amount of the change order
is $320,000, $751.50 and funding would be available from the 2014 bond funds.
And I would be remiss if I didn't say this because I think we need to give a
little kudos to Commissioner Raddick. This price came in originally at $600,000
and through some masterful negotiation skills of Mr. Cruz we
met with Mr. Raddick and he was able to work with us to almost cut the pricing
in half. Of course we've got some continued discussions with Mr. Raddick
on some other projects but I think that reach out to him was beneficial to the
the district and will be in the future any questions all right thank you thank
you move on to item six point six thirteen consider future board approval
the contract for purchase of disposable food service products mr. young
Good evening President Vann, Trustees and Superintendent Hint. I'm here to bring to
your attention a contract being recommended for award for the purchase of disposable food
service products. If approved this contract would provide the nutrition and food services
Department with various qualified vendors from which disposable food
service products to be purchased and delivered directly to the
district central warehouse for further distribution to the various district
sites as needed. In accordance with our procurement requirements we issued a
request for competitive sealed proposals to the vendor community and we
we received a total of 19 proposals. Upon review and evaluation of the 19 proposals,
we are recommending a contract award to a total of eight vendors based on the evaluation of pricing,
product quality, the ability to meet the product specifications, and the ability to meet delivery
requirements. All of the vendors being recommended for award either have
established a service with the district or with other districts of similar size.
In the contract term being recommended is for one year with three annual
renewal options with an estimated annual expenditure of one million dollars to be
funded either from special revenue funds general or general operating funds as applicable any
questions for mr. young thank you very much oh I'm not on six point one before mr. Smith I'm sorry
Good evening Mrs. Vann, Trustees and Superintendent Hint. As you know in 2011 we did away with our tax office or collecting taxes within KDISD and we outsourced those to Harris County and Fort Bend County.
Fort Bend County is the agreement we're wanting to renew. It's an annual renewal process.
Tonight Fort Bend County collects taxes for Fort Bend and Waller County parcels.
They collect about 44% of our tax levy, our largest revenue source for the district.
We pay them around $40,000 annually to collect the taxes on our behalf, much cheaper than we could do in-house.
and they've done a good job of collecting at historic historic
collection levels and we would recommend another annual renewal of that agreement
any questions for mr. Smith thank you very much
moving on to item 6.1 5 consider future board approval of the June 2017 budget
amendments mrs. Butterfield good evening president van trustees superintendent
Hint tonight we have a couple of general operating fund budget amendments to
bring to your attention the first is an increase of revenue and offsetting
expenditures but not in equal amounts we have four hundred and twenty five
thousand dollars worth of revenue to recognize and a hundred and thirty four
thousand dollars worth of general operating expenditure budget to increase
related to marketing at the legacy stadium there is an additional amendment
for $13,000 recognizing both revenue and expenditures related to a STEM summer
camp at the Shaw Center approval of these amendments will actually increase
the general operating fund $291,000 we say that again increases the operating
job teres fund is amended to increase expenditures by 2.4 million dollars for
the acquisition of property at across the road at Brazos Valley School Board
credit union excuse me multiple construction fund amendments tonight we
have a million dollar increase in total project costs for Pato high school
related to FF&E and four hundred thirty seven thousand six hundred forty dollar
increased the total project costs at Stockton Junior High related to FF&E.
These increases will be funded by savings previously earmarked and
reserved for this purpose within the 2014 authorization.
Maid Creek High School renovation total project costs increased 2.4 million to
to renovate the baseball complex and $1.5 million
related to a list of additional work for main stairway redesign,
exterior lighting, additional paving in the student drop-off area,
an emergency generator, and building access control.
These increases will be funded by savings
available from the reduction of the land budget in the 2014 authorization.
authorization
finally an
855 thousand five hundred thirty five dollar increase in expenditures to replace chillers at Williams
Elementary and made Creek High School
Will be funded with current bond project savings from the 2010 authorization
Questions
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We've recommended that the board authorize me, the superintendent, to follow CW Local as we did with the naming of our stadium.
Also, I'd like to recognize something and maybe look at a possible revision to this language.
It was this morning through conversation with cabinet that we recognized that we not only have a south transportation center that does not have a name,
but we also have an east and a west that does not have a name.
so through this committee process I would like to revise this and maybe
bring back three names if we find that there are multiple names that are
submitted through this process of naming our transportation facility at the south
we possibly can knock out three birds with one stone and name east and west as
well discussion I would like to recommend that we do that I agree great
idea madam president mr. Griffin thank you for tasking the superintendent for
finding this name I think we tried different processes and other the board's
ultimate responsible thank you for utilizing the superintendent the
community and the administration to bring us the best possible name would
Would you like me to reread it as well? I'm sorry go ahead. Okay, you're the boss
All right
So the wording will now read consider future board authorization for the superintendent to solicit names and form a committee for the purpose of
Proposing a name for this East West and South
Transportation Center for poor board policy CW local
Any other discussion, okay?
So any objection to moving these items to consent?
All right.
Second.
MS.
Item number seven, open forum.
Item 7
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 meetings begin.
speakers shall provide their first and last names and shall indicate the topic
about which they wish to speak at this time the Board of Trustees will heal
hear from patrons as established by board policy the first 20 speakers who
sign 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 30
minutes have been allocated with the time divided equally among those who
who have signed up. However, the maximum amount of time for any one speaker is three minutes.
A time clock is visible up on the podium so each speaker may see the time they have remaining.
If speakers wish to share non-confidential written material with the Board, ten copies
should be provided to the Secretary for Board Services or to 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 students issues discipline
and personnel matters shall be addressed through appropriate channels established
by policy and the presiding officer shall determine whether 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 and only speaker for this evening tonight is dr. Lisa Babin welcome
Dr. Babin. Good evening President Vaughn, members of the board, members of the
community and Dr. Hint. It's with great regret that I have to come back to the
board and request that. I have received no feedback regarding an apology from
Ms. Fox regarding the February issue and so I'm here tonight. I struggled with
this. I prayed on this. I'd like to ask for her resignation. There doesn't seem
to be any action from the board regarding any ramifications or
consequences to her behavior. You know I appreciate her service and everything
but there has to be some sort of consequences to bad behavior by school
district employees. It just cannot be let gone by and swept under the table
because it sets a very bad precedent and it also put an employee in a bad way.
You know she's manning a table and she had to allow somebody to sign up because
allegedly a board member told her it was okay to do this. So that's not cool to me.
I spoke to you about this again. I'm just asking for either y'all to suspend her or
to offer you know her to tender her resignation. There just has to be some
some sort of standard set for the community.
It's just not going to sit well if we allow this to stand
because it begs the question,
how many more things have been swept under the table?
How many more times have something like this?
I don't want to spend any more time on this
because I've got a lot more to say.
You've never known me not to.
We'd like to ask for term limits of board members.
We think that if you can't accomplish what you set out to accomplish in six years,
you can take three years off and come back and run again.
But we think that it's really important
to set some term limits. We would like to see an increase in the Board of Trustees by two to fairly
represent the growth of the district. There's a lot of taxation without representation and it puts
all of y'all on there's a lot of schools to be divided up by a lot of y'all. We'd like to go to
single-member districts based on high school feeder patterns. We think that that could be
something that needs to be discussed and looked at and we think that any board of
trustee members should be able to place an item on the agenda it should not take
three people it if you've got something you want to say or discuss we kind of
think that maybe a BOT member is pretty knowledgeable you did get elected to
office it shouldn't have to be three people compliments Tom Wilson at VIPS
for his invocation we'd like to see more of that we've got in God we trust on the
the back of our police departments we say it in our pledges it's cool with us
if y'all would announce a chaplain that might be something that we might need to
do kudos dr. hint on the video driving the bus we now know you can drive a bus
so we assume that if there's a vacancy in one of our transportation departments
you would be the first one to go yay me concerns I'd like to address those with
Dr. Cruz afterwards if that's okay it's just a suggestion and the dogs the added
thank you posting our future meeting item 8.1 future regular board meeting
Items 8 & 9
Monday June 26 2017 there being no further business before the board this
This meeting is adjourned.
The time is 7.50 p.m.
Official documents
Agenda
The district's own agenda file, as published on its video page. 4 pages.
Board packet · 30 documents
The district's own backup material for this agenda, retrieved from BoardDocs. Each file was checked against the size BoardDocs states for it.
- NFBWA - Water Line Easement 6552 KB
- NFBWA - Side Letter2 95 KB
- Katy-ISD_trail-segments 8140 KB
- WFDD overall trail system 1044 KB
- Fort Bend Tax Collection Agreement 6_2017 348 KB
- nat chiller contract 480 KB
- JWE chiller contract 467 KB
- EDGAR_Vendor Certifications_Revised (swl 7 7 15) 62 KB
- 2_ REVENUES, EXPENDITURES AND FUND BALANCE 0617 35 KB
- 3_KISD_2016-17 Budget 0617 8 KB
- Function and Object Code Descriptions 2016-17 187 KB
- RFCSP 1628 Disposable Food Service Products_Tabulation 123 KB
- RFCSP 1628 Disposable Food Service Products_EVAL 182 KB
- BudgetAmendmentDetail060817 29 KB
- Katy ISD 2017-2018 37 KB
- FNF(LOCAL) 05-17 38 KB
- DC(LOCAL) 05-17 17 KB
- Board of Trustees Resolution 83 KB
- WFDD - TCE Katy ISD (Seg. A, B, C, and D) 107 KB
- G701-Change Order 01 750 KB
- electrical easement for ag science center 326 KB
- AIA amend 2 MCHS reno 1028 KB
- rec letter MCHS renov amend 2 136 KB
- Lease Agreement (WFDD and Katy ISD) 1794 KB
- arch letter change order 1 Paetow HS 170 KB
- Compensation Plan 2670 KB
- Additional Departmental Staffing 202 KB
- Reclassification 196 KB
- Salary Adjustments 180 KB
- 0 - 2018-2019 Elementary #41 ABM (002) FINAL 811 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 Mini-B, Inc. an approximate 60,000 square foot parcel of property located in the northeast corner of Katy Hockley Cut Off Road and Beckendorff Road for a total acquisition cost estimated not to exceed one hundred eighty thousand dollars and no cents ($180,000).
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
MOTION 002 · AGENDA 3.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the 2017 - 2018 Katy Independent School District organizational structure as recommended by the superintendent in Closed Meeting.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
MOTION 003 · AGENDA 3.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the superintendent in Closed Meeting.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |