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The Board met earlier this evening in closed meeting. Any action arising from discussions in a closed meeting must be taken in a subsequent open meeting.
Dr. Hint, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act regarding the notice for this meeting?
Madam President, we are, I verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act regarding this meeting tonight.
Madam President.
Mr. Griffin.
I move that the Board of Trustees adopts the attached resolution authorizing the sale of 25.22 acres of surplus property on the north side of Pine Forest Lane west of State Highway 6 and north of Interstate 10 to Harris County for a sales price of $3,300,000.
I second.
second we have a motion by mr. Griffin second by mr. Lacey the board of
trustees adopts the attached resolution authorizing the sale of 25 point 22
acres of surplus property on the north side of pine forest Lane west of state
highway 6 and north of interstate 10 to Harris County for a sales price of three
million at three hundred thousand dollars any questions and president
extremely well done anyone else all right all right a vote all in favor
please raise your right hand and say aye aye motion passes 7 to 0
madam president mrs. Doyle I move that the board of trustees approves the terms
as outlined in the non-binding letter of intent to purchase 14.4 one acres of
property on the south side of Martin Road between Porter Road and highway 99
For a future elementary school site and further authorizes the board president to act on a contract
This property at the requested same price purchase price
second
The motion by mrs. Doyle a second by mr.
Griffin the Board of Trustees approves the terms is outlined in the non binding letter of intent to purchase
14.41 acres of property on the south side of Morton Road between Porter Road and highway 99 for a future elementary school and further
authorizes the board president to act on a contract for this property at the
requested same purchase price any questions or discussion being then
ready to vote all in favor raise your right hand say aye all right
motion passes 7 to 0 do we have any scouts in the audience I think I see two
if you'll please stand and you can come to the mic if you like tell us your name
your troop number and the badge that you're working on tonight this one right
here the podium hi my name is Noah Samiski I'm troop 826 and we're working
on citizenship in the community hi my name is Sam I'm in troop 826
Thank you, Sam and Noah.
All right, we'll move on to the report section.
Item 4.1, our first report, is a 2017 community bond advisory committee to recommend the bond package.
Mr. Keith Carmichael.
Yes, ma'am.
I'm going to steal one of these mics here.
I'm sorry, motion is kind of part of my job description, so I can't stand behind a podium too well, so forgive me for that.
Madam President, Board of Trustees, and Dr. Hint, it is my pleasure to come to you tonight. My name
is Keith Carmichael and I'm the president of the Community Bond Advisory Committee. We were charged
with looking at the needs of the district and coming up with a package and a recommendation
to you guys tonight for you to review and to look over to decide how you want to move forward with
that and that's what we're doing. But before we get to that, I want to talk about who we are as
Katy I think that's kind of an important question to ask you know Katy is a
unique community it's very distinctive I've lived here for 25 years and and I
think I'm a resident of Katy I know I am and I and then what's interesting about
it is I tell the story before some of you may have heard me tell this I'm a
huge football fan and so on Friday nights I'm we're at football here in
Katie. On Saturday we're in Kyle Field for Aggie football and so my wife and
about three months out of the year sitting in a football stadium and about
three years ago when they rebuilt Kyle Field our seats moved. I had
sat in the same seats for 20 plus years and I was very anxious because I was
kind of sitting next to new people and kind of freaked me out because I'd been
around the same people for 20 years. I knew all of them, I knew how to react to
them so we got to our seats and of course everybody all hundred thousand
people there that day were meeting new people because no one knew who they were
sitting around as a potluck kind of deal. What was interesting about that day was
that we began to introduce ourselves and where are you from and they go oh I'm
from Houston, I'm from Houston, I'm from Dallas, I'm from here and I said well
we're from Katy. That's where we're from we're from Katy. Oh we're actually from
Sy Fair, we're in the Sugar Land area so everyone who was from Houston all of a
sudden tell us what suburbs they were from but we said we're from Katy
and most people who live in Katy when they say where you from they don't say
say I'm from Houston, they say I'm from Katy. I think that's a distinctive in our
area in the metropolitan part of where we are because we're proud of who we are,
we're proud of our heritage, we're proud of the legacy of this district of almost
a hundred years. And so that's what we come to you tonight as residents of this
community of Katy, Texas proudly presenting to you what our
recommendations are as we move forward for the future growth of this district.
Our community is made up of great people who are very involved in the schools.
Last year over a million hours were volunteered in Katy ISD schools and our
communities made up over a hundred civic groups and community and parent groups
who are involved in the schools. It's something that we're proud of our
involvement not just in our community but also in our schools and when you
look at our students 89% of the students in Katy ISD the seniors are those who
were students who in their testing they had an 89% performance rating which was
16 points higher than the students on average to the rest of the state.
25 million dollars was given in scholarships to seniors and for the
14th year in a row we were named as one of the best communities in the nation
for music education. We're very proud of our heritage, we're very proud of who we
are in Katy and we're very proud of our schools. Our district is growing rapidly
and that's what we're looking at and that's really what's brought us to this
meeting today. As you look at headlines that have been in the papers over the
last six months you see that there's an incredible growth. Cady's been recognized
as one of the fastest growing suburbs in Houston for the last five years. You see
that it's also a place where there's expanding business base. You see the
expansion of 99 and it opening up and all the businesses that are moving into
that area. That creates opportunity as new businesses move in, people who work
there move in. As those people move in they move in with kids, those kids need
schools and that really brings us to why this is such an important meeting
tonight as we look at the recommendation that we're bringing forward to you. We
see also as part of the growth that there's our enrollment in our students
as I said when they come they come with students. Over the last five years on
average we've grown by over 2,800 students per year. Many of our campuses
are bursting at the seams. In fact some of our campuses have six lunches and
their their lunches begin at 955 in the morning. Now I don't know where you guys
are from, but where I'm from that ain't lunch. That's called a late breakfast. And
so there obviously is a need to accommodate and take care of that
problem. We see the enrollment and the growth and these numbers are for
population and survey analyst PASA, who is the demographer for the district and
they have a 99.9% accuracy rate. That's pretty incredible as far as
accuracy is concerned. And if we just use the moderate growth projections,
they do low growth projections, moderate growth projections, and high growth
projections using the moderate growth projections were projected by 2020 that
have over 84,000 students, by 2023 over 90,000, and by 2026 over 98,000 students
using just the moderate growth projections from the demographers. The
next slide here is very interesting. This is a slide that kind of reflects back on
the 2014 bond and if you'll remember that that bond was important as we were
once again taking care of the growth in the district. This reflects two junior
highs that were impacted in that 2014 bond. Seven Lakes Junior High and Wood
Creek Junior High. Those two junior highs were way over capacity. The design
capacity for a junior high is 1,400 students. That represents
how many students can fit into the school if you put the maximum number of
students in each room. The functional capacity reflects the programming. In
In other words, design capacity really isn't optimal because schools have programming.
Some of those programmings have more students.
BAN would have more students than what would be optimal.
Or maybe some classes would have a much smaller student base.
But you have to provide this programming.
So when you look at the programming and how students average out through those programs,
actually the functional capacity is lower than the design capacity.
So if you look at those numbers, they were way over what they should be.
I remember during the 2014 bond process, I actually went to Wood Creek Junior High and I visited.
I said, I told the principal, I said, Carrie, I'd like to come and just kind of hang out there and find out what's going on.
I mean, you got a ton of students and she said that would be great.
She goes, I want you to come at class change.
And so I went with her and I can remember standing in the middle of the main hallway of Wood Creek Elementary
and literally I thought there were a herd of elephants coming through there when that bell rang.
I've never seen it was a mass of humanity in one place at one time they
were very organized they were very civilized and they got to where they
need to be but that was not a good situation for those students and so
without the bond of 2014 you can see what the enrollments would have been
this year 2300 at Seven Lakes junior high and 2600 at Wood Creek that is just
that's over all that's almost double with the capacity of design is for the
the school. So these bonds at the right time make a big difference to keep us
from having overcrowding in our schools. Speaking of the 2014 bond, 97% of those
projects are completed. The only project that really has not been started yet is
the Agriculture and Science Center and that's, you're gonna hear more about that
tonight and I think it's going to be bid out later this year and be completed by
December of 2018 is the projection on that. There were some issues with that.
There were issues that had to do with drainage, water and sewage, and also the
floodplain maps after 2015 were changed which affected detention and floodplain
mitigation. So there were some issues with that. Those issues been worked
through and they're ready to start on that. So that would bring us to
completion on all the projects in the 2014 bond. If we see here we see a
history of the bonds and how they are growth. We go back to 1994. At that time
there were 24,000 students in the district and that 1994 bond it built five
this is an intro I want you to listen this trend this is an interesting trend
in 1994 we had 24,000 students that bond built five schools with major
renovations in 1996 we had increased by 3,000 students and we built four schools
with that bond and had major renovations in 1999 we had increased by 6,000
students to 32,000 and we built six schools with that bond also the high
school performing arts centers and major renovations in 2002 we had jumped by
7,000 enrollment to 39,000 almost 40,000 that bond built nine schools with major
renovations 2006 we jumped by almost 12,000 students and that bond built six
six schools with major renovations and support facilities.
2010, we jumped by 10,000.
That bond built eight schools with major renovations.
And then in 2014, we had increased by another 10,000 students.
And that bond built six schools, a stadium, an ag center, and major renovations.
What you see here is a history, at least recent, of going three to four years,
a jump of about 10,000 students during that time frame, and on average about six
five to six schools in each bond. That's what you see over time as you look back
at the history of where we come from in bonds and our growth. That hasn't changed.
We're still on that same curve and that's what we're coming you today with
our recommendation. The purpose of the bond committee was the community bond
advisory committee was to review the need for capital projects, timeliness and
and cost. The bond committee counsels and provides input to the
administration and presents findings and a bond recommendation to the Board of
Trustees for their consideration. That was our charter and that's what we've
come to you tonight to do. What you see here is the bond committee was made up
of a cross-section of our community. You have folks who were teachers, who were
students, who were retired teachers, who were from engineering,
from accounting, from oil and gas, who were medical career field, marketing,
Realtors, faith-based individuals, you saw a huge cross-section of our community.
They were, some folks on that committee, they were not supportive of past bonds.
Some of them were big supporters of past bonds. So you get, you got a difference of
opinion that looked at the different projects, looked at the different history,
looked at the different proposals. So you got different viewpoints that we came to
in our decision-making. Every feeder was represented in the bond and it was truly
a cross-section of our community. Tonight many of those individuals are here
tonight and I'd like to recognize them. So anyone who's here tonight who served
on the 2017 Community Bond Advisory Committee, would you please stand and be
recognized.
Thank you guys. These folks work very hard. We were very proud of the work we've
put together and we're excited to present that to you tonight. There were
114 committee members. We reviewed 56 decision points. Those 56 decision points
represented 332 projects. And so when we look at that we spent three
months, our meeting spanned over three months, we spent nine meetings and over
3,500 volunteer hours in coming up with our recommendation to you tonight. The
first couple of meetings what we did was we spent looking at what we could
learn about the district. It really was a lot of folks were new to the district.
They were new to this process so we we talked about the district. What is all
what's included in the district. We talked about enrollment. We talked about
capacity. We talked about finances. We talked about construction and cost and
facility needs and we also took tours. The last few meetings we spent reviewing
the projects, coming up with individual decisions on what we thought should be
included in the package, coming back together and collaboratively as teams at
tables coming up with a package at that table and then coming forward with a
package that we would bring forward to find if we could get a consensus vote on
that. This was our decision-making process. This was well defined and what
we used throughout the process and we said you know consensus is when no
one vetoes the proposal. Michelle Hughes who was our facilitator for this process
used to say you know everybody's can get something they want and everybody's not
going to get everything they want. So you can get
some what you want but you're not going to everything you want and so the package isn't
going to be everything you want to be but the bottom line is if you can approve and say you
know i can support this then you need to say this is something we can move forward with and that was
our goal was to reach consensus which meant that no one would veto the package no one was so adamant
against it that they said i just cannot support it uh the uh if we couldn't get to consensus it
would be an 80 rule and then lastly would be as a fallback would be a super majority of two-thirds
What's interesting about this process, when we came together at our tables, there were 16 tables.
The tables all came up with their packages and then we determined by how many tables included
a project whether or not it would be part of the final recommendation. We were a very definitive
decision-making group. Most of the decisions were yes or no. There were very few that were in the
middle. In fact, in the package that we're going to present to you tonight, that you
have that for you tonight, only one project, only one, okay, out of the projects that
are included did not make the 80% rule. Most, every, all the projects except for
one had over 80% of the individuals and the tables approving it. Only one, and
that was the Outdoor Learning Center, and the modifications and changes that
that that was the only one that only had a supermajority vote. I think that's very
interesting because it speaks to the the deliberative nature of our process and
also speaks to the consensus that was built at the tables and among those
groups and in the package that you see before you. Of the 332 projects that
were presented, they represented $735,400,000.
That's what we looked at and when we came up with our decision, I want you to
know that we were able to come to a consensus which meant that no one in the
room vetoed the package not everybody was pleased they wished there had been
more some wish there had been less but overall no one would would veto this
saying that they could not accept it moving forward the consensus was that
been reached we did we feel that this breaches the near-term needs of the
district that accommodates the rapid growth that we talked about earlier and
also that it comes with a zero tax rate increase which was very important to the
committee. So what does the recommendation look like? Okay it
represents 74 percent of this package of six hundred and nine million two hundred
and four thousand five hundred and thirty three dollars. Seventy four
percent of that is represented in the six new schools. We see there the
comprehensive renovation. Most of that is found in the in the renovation to
of Fielder Elementary. The component replacements, they go across the entire
district. That touches just about every building in the district. The school
expansions, most of that money is tied up in the Katy Career and Technology
Education and the expansion of the classrooms that are needed for that. You
see the safety improvement technology, the other would be buses and portables
to get to the $609,204,533. The project includes 239 projects.
remember we reviewed 332 that means the committee rejected 93 projects that was
presented by the district so we we said no to 93 of the projects I don't want
you to think this was some kind of rubber stamp process we actually looked
at the numbers we talked about the numbers we negotiated on some of the
projects the district changed some of those to make a reflection of what the
committee was asking for we were able to work together collaboratively as a team
to present to you a package that we feel very comfortable with. That 74% you see
here this is another way of just looking at the same data that 74% in new schools
which is four hundred forty eight million six hundred thousand dollars
that's one high school two junior high schools and three elementary so like
that one two three I mean that even an Aggie can count that it's easy so we see
that what that represents and that really is addressing the growth in the
the southwest and the northwest quadrant of the district as we talked about
earlier. Also involved in this package 61 campuses and facilities will have
repairs and replacements for the kitchens, the roofs, and flooring. Two
campuses will see facility expansions, 40 campuses will see
improvements in their safety and security, 27 campuses will see upgrades
in their technology network systems. Overall this package that we presented
to duct you tonight increases the seat capacity by 8,900 seats. This is
represented in 3,090 seats for the three elementary schools, 2,800 seats for the
two junior highs, and 3,000 seats for the one high school. That 8,900 is consistent
with the reflected growth over the next three years in the district and the
growth pattern that we've had over the last several bonds. Here you see a couple
of the projects this is Fielder Elementary you see how outdated the beautiful neon yellow cabinets
are real 70ish and so you see that and how that needs a little update and does it really look like
flexible seating and cool seating in there that you see in some of our newer buildings
also along with Fielder Elementary there's mechanical electrical and plumbing issues that
need to be addressed in that renovation project also the next slide here we see the Katy
high school career and technology education area is very industrial and
you see there's a lot of needs there where that has Katie High School has the
largest career technology education program with agriculture business
floral design and construction extra space is needed in order to accommodate
the students in that program the next slide here shows before and after of one
of the projects in the 2014 bond this is Memorial Parkway junior high you see
there the entrance to the school before and afterwards you see new awning and
some windows and stuff as I said I don't really think this picture tells a story
the real story is told inside 2014 I went that building I went man this is
the craziest building I've ever been in my life triangles of our classroom so
they went and got rid of those triangles and turn that into a much more
functional space so the real story of Memorial Parkway junior high is what you see
inside that building and the expansion on the outside and it I pass by it every
day it looks like a brand new school it really does and that's a reflection of
the incredible space those kids are the building that's over 30 years old but
they really are getting a brand new space a brand new school and I think
that those parents and those students will be well served by that project that
we saw from the 2014 bond what you see here is a dot matrix or a triangle
matrix I guess you might call it of all the different projects and how they're
spread out over the entire district you can see how every area and every corner
of the district is represented in this bond. These do not reflect the scope of the projects,
okay. It doesn't compare scope but what it does give us is identifies how large the reach is.
And so this tells us that the bond has an incredible reach to all four corners of
the district. And now I'll turn the program over to Chris Smith.
Good evening. Good evening, Ms. Vann, Superintendent Hinton, Board of Trustees and public. I'm pleased to present this information to you tonight to talk about the financial information.
I think the exciting part is on this first slide.
It can be seen there in the middle.
In 2014, three years ago, I stood before this board and the public,
and we were talking about a potential authorization that would increase the tax rate a half a cent.
The interest rate environment was good to us,
and we were able to actually decrease that tax rate just a year later by a penny.
At this point in time, we feel comfortable based on what Mr. Carmichael said, that we will be able to issue all tranches of a bond authorization of this size without impacting the tax rate.
In other words, a tax rate neutral authorization.
Just a little history.
Going back to the 05-06 school year, KDISD had a total of a $2 tax rate.
At that point in time, a special session coincidentally in 2005, in the summer of 2006, I'm sorry, actually lowered, compressed the tax rate.
That relief came in the general fund by, I believe it was House Bill 1.
It was a two-year lowering, and you can see that the second year of that put our tax rate down to $1.5266.
that was comprised of $1.1266 maintenance and operation tax rate and a 40 cent debt service tax rate for a total of $1.5266.
We were able to maintain that tax rate for eight years.
Again, in the September-October of 2015, we were actually able to lower it by a penny,
and we've maintained that, being able to lower it by a penny.
and the bid budget we're going to be talking about next week and adopting in
August includes that lowering it by a penny the net tax rate neutral that we
discuss includes that lowering it by a penny or keeping it at 39 cents just a
little bit more history there's a lot of information on this slide and I'm just
going to focus on these two columns but I'm going to do it on the next sheet so
there's a plenty of information here of what our values have done and our tax
tax rates over that history of time that I just showed on the pennies. But just to look a little bit deeper or a little bit focused, in 2011, if you bought a home, and it was a $201,000 house that you bought in 2011, you would have paid $2,852 on that home in ISD taxes.
If you were to go sell it at the end of about this time last year, the market value on that
house, that same house, was $279,000 if you were to go sell it then, or $3,860 in taxes.
So that's a substantial increase, a $78,000 increase in market value.
And yes, there are paying more taxes on that, even with a penny decrease.
That goes back to kind of my budget presentations where I talk about the rotten apples and how local taxpayers, not just in KDISD, but across the state are paying more to educate children.
That's the tax effect of that to an individual household.
So yes, people are paying more in taxes, even though it's the same rate or a penny less.
But the value or the investment that they had in their home has had a substantial increase.
And I know as a homeowner, I've seen that on a couple of occasions by buying and selling
a house and buying another one and then selling it.
And I've been able to see that in my Truth in Lending or my sales sheet when I was able
to make those transactions.
And I'm sure many of us have seen that as well.
So an increase of $77,000 in equity, yes, you're paying more than you paid in 2011,
11 but the value of the residence is more we built these and probably the
biggest assumption that we use in the tax plan and in April of course the
board heard from our financial advisors first Southwest this is the based on
their middle plan where our current values of all the residents of all the
taxable assessed values in Katie ISD and our three appraisals districts are
currently at thirty six point four billion dollars based on the initial
estimates that we received in early May. We think we're going to see a 6.2%
increase in that or up to $38,650,000,000.
And then we've projected what's below average moving forward for the bond plan
that you were presented back in April. This is the middle plan,
not the high growth plan or the medium or the low. This is the medium growth
plans. But we still think it's conservative considering over the last
15 years we've averaged over nine and a half percent so with that our current
debt plan looks like this in the next year or two we start really have been
paid off that debt and so the tax rate would would start to start to fall and
that's historical of what we've done over the last you know dozen years but
we are back to where we're need seats and so we'll issue more debt with this
and the bond plan on that scenario I just showed shows that we could issue a
six hundred nine million dollar authorization and and not have to raise
the tax rate but we don't just look at what we're looking at tonight and what
you're considering tonight the administration and the financial
advisors also look out and say we're probably gonna have to do this based on
our trends of kids coming to KDISD we're probably gonna have to do this again in
three or four years so what are we doing so we'd make sure we don't box
yourselves into a corner knowing that we're going to continue on this pattern
and we feel confident that we would be able to do a reasonable mouth or is
authorization three or four years from now as well without increasing or
putting upward pressure on that tax rate using that middle growth scenario if we
slowed our value growth down likely the student
growth that we were having would slow down and likely wouldn't need to have an election as soon
as three or four years from now. It may be four or five years or six years from now
if things started slowing down, but we don't see any signs of that at this time.
Just a little history for the public and as a reminder to the board of what we've done
since we were here three years ago. We talked about the interest rate environment. It was
was very good and it wasn't going to get much better.
Well, it did get better, and we were able during that three-year window to refund bonds
or refinance a mortgage, similar to what many of us have done with our mortgages.
We've refunded bonds, saving taxpayers of KDISD about $69.7 million.
We've defeased bonds.
When our bond plan presents an opportunity to pay down bonds early, we do.
do. We've saved about $17 million in doing that. Not refunding, but just getting rid of them.
We've saved about $17 million. We continue to use the Build America bonds that were issued in 2010
as an incentive from the IRS. We continue to put those proceeds from the IRS to our
debt service fund. That's worth about a penny in our tax rate, and that is another tool that we
we have used to keep that tax rate smooth or even to lower it.
We do have the option to use those monies in the general fund,
the way those Build America bonds were written,
but we've continued to do that and use it as a tool to manage our debt.
It was debt that generated it.
Interest income, we're one of the few districts that when we have a bond sale
that I'm aware of anyway that uses the proceeds of the bonds that we sell
and until we spend them those are an interest in our in our investments and
we use that money and it goes right back to the debt service fund and it's used
as an income to the debt service fund many districts that I'm aware of use
those dollars to do additional projects or to fund a shortfall on a budget that
may have come in short etc but we put that towards the debt and manage our tax
rate and it has been significant in the past of course we have a fifty two point
$1 million fund balance. That's necessary in case we needed it to pay our bonds and make our obligations with our bondholders. We don't feel like we're going to need it, but it is there. That is one of the first questions the rating agencies, Moody's and Standards and Poor's ask. They want to go and look at the debt service and the general fund fund balance. They use that as a snapshot to see just a real quick health test of the financial
condition of the district so we have a healthy fund balance if in the future
one of the projections came in a little less than we'd hoped we would be able to
use that fund balance to continue to keep that tax rate smooth for a year or
two we we could miss but we wouldn't miss much to put it in in that yeah I've
been asked last week to say well what happens if we what if we didn't do this
and we did this not now but later so we thought so I was tasked with coming up
with some things because I came up with something when I was asked it and I put
those in writing on this slide to say we would be exposed in construction
inflation risk the bond plan we've seen in inflation on our construction
projects the the amount that you see in the six hundred nine million dollars
does include and take into account inflation but if we passed on this and
did this another year we may not be exposed to interest rate to inflation
depending on the general construction environment but history tells us that we
would be and that would be about you know between anywhere between six and
ten percent higher if we do a did based on historical trend interest rate risk
interest rates from three years ago they were good they've only gotten better about this time
last year just after brexit interest rates hit a historic all-time low they did go up slightly
after the presidential election but they've kind of eased off and it's still a great time to be
selling bonds it's about as good as it was three years ago again it got better and it could get
better but the odds are based on what we've seen that if interest rates will
eventually start going up especially if if Congress is able to it does something
with income taxes and that gets kind of complicated but that could put upward
inflation or upward pressure on the interest rates that we sell our bonds
for additional pressure on the general fund if we wait we're gonna have to
potentially buy unless those kids come students come exactly where we could use
use them, we're probably going to have to have additional portable buildings scattered
throughout the district to house kids.
That's just additional pressures on the general fund, and I know that this board would like
to keep those, historically, likes to keep those in their classrooms where the children
deserve it.
Overcrowding of students, that's going to happen.
Kids are going to come.
Historically, they've come to KDISD.
They're going to continue to come to KDISD, and that would probably be, in my opinion,
the most important as to now versus later.
they're coming. Just some information about voting and information about
election on how y'all decide to go forward. The last day to call election is
August the 21st. Last day to register to vote would be October the 10th and the
last day early voting would be October 23rd through November 3rd if a decision
was made to move forward with a November election which would be November the
the 7th 2017. In closing today I want to take some time to tell you that we work
very hard to present to you what you asked us to do. I would to look over the
information that was provided, to look over the needs the district had and to
make a recommendation on how to move forward to accommodate the growth. As I
so told you three years ago when I made the presentation I just you know some
Some of this is very mechanical, it's very utilitarian when you look at this, and there has to be that part of it.
But there's also an emotional part of this project, because when you look at education,
it's way more than just schools and buildings, it's way more than just capital expenditures.
My oldest son graduated from high school a couple of years ago.
First one to graduate, that can be really hard.
I mean not even for a guy who's not real emotional it can be a hard deal try not
to admit it but it's hard and as all the presents and all the notes and all the
congratulatory comments came in I'll never forget the week before his
graduation a note came in the mail for him he opened it up and it was a sweet
note that said you know I'm so proud of you congratulations I know that you have
have a great future ahead of you.
And I will always remember you, your first grade teacher,
Mrs. Richmond."
And inside of that note was a picture
that Harrison had drawn when he was in the first grade
at Alexander Elementary.
We received a lot of wonderful gifts when my son graduated.
He received all kind of nice things, gift cards and money.
But by far, that picture that he drew in the first grade
was the most meaningful gift we could have received. This year my middle son
Hudson graduated. He went back for a reunion to his elementary school which
was Williams Elementary and we went with his friends. They walked through and they
kind of walked through the building and reminisced and had a little reception
and then they gathered in their kindergarten teachers classroom and she
had put together a CD of pictures from their kindergarten year as a gift for
the graduation. Once again, one of the most powerful gifts we could receive. You see,
when I look at this bond, I don't see brick and mortar. I don't see buildings. I don't see
infrastructure. I don't see debt. I see classrooms where teachers can impact the lives of students,
where they can mold and shape them, where they can inform and educate them, as they
can grow and make a difference in the next generation. And tonight I proudly
stand before you on behalf of all of these incredible people that I've had
the privilege of working with over the last three or four months and
wholeheartedly endorse and stand behind this recommendation for the bond package
of $609,204,533. Thank you very much Madam President. I'd be glad to answer any questions.
Thank you Mr. Carmichael. Thank you Mr. Smith. Anybody have any questions?
Madam President. Mr. Carmichael, I need you back up at the microphone. I know you're probably afraid
to grab that. Well I'll speak from this one this time. I don't have to move. I can be still for a
few minutes I promise all right this this is more of a general question on
our policies and procedures and what we do as a board first of all thank you
Thank You community members Thank You teachers and administration everybody
that worked so hard to bring us this recommendation so we as a board came up
with this community this committee to help provide us with information do you
think this does an adequate job of reaching out to our community getting as
many people involved as we can and accurately represent what the community wants us to do
you know that's a great question mr griffin i would say yes absolutely um in 2014 when i did
this we had man like 150 and then we had all these alternates who were part it was over 200 people
were part of the whole process and it was a huge room of people and um i have to admit i told you
all this before man the first like three meetings i thought man we're schizophrenic i mean there's
something wrong with us what have we done this is a crazy environment but at
the end of the process you felt like you heard from a lot of different people and
you came to a decision that everybody in that room who agreed who disagreed was
able to come together and make that decision this process in my opinion was
different okay it wasn't nearly as large remember the 2014 bond was a huge bond
it really was when you look at the scope of the projects that were included in
that with the schools, the stadium, the Ag Center, all the six major major
renovations of schools and that was an enormous bond and so you had a lot of
things to discuss and go over in trying to determine what to include in that. So
this was you know a lot simpler I mean you just basically we were trying to
address the rapid growth that the district was occurring in the district
and how do you do that so we looked predominantly at the numbers the
the projection numbers on population. We looked at the current enrollment in the
schools that were affected, that were overcrowded or past capacity, and we
began to determine are these the needs that we have. And so really when you see
that 74% of the bond is reflected in new schools, I think that was the major part
of our decision-making process. The rest of the things we kind of looked at, they
were, they were, we spent a lot of time on them. Obviously I talked to you about the
outdoor learning center where there was a lot of discussion and debate over that
and it finally was included in the pack so we did debate the other ones but the
majority of the time was spent on the six new schools and the comprehensive
renovation that was taking place at Fielder Elementary those seven we spent
a lot of time discussing I do think of the hundred and fourteen people I know
it's less than what we had in 2014 but of these folks behind me that were part
of that process most of them most of them were brand new to this process they
They had never been in a bond.
In fact, most of them had never served in any committee anywhere in the district.
They all volunteered to be a part of this.
There were probably 30 or 40 of us who had past bond experience.
The rest of those folks were brand new.
Many of them had just moved into the district, not a majority, but many had moved into the district within the last five years.
And so you do see a reflection of the changing dynamic of our district.
It is changing.
As new people come, new perceptions come, new ideas come, a new perspective comes.
And so you saw that in that room and you saw that as people talked about the importance
of the schools and growing the schools and accommodating the growth.
So I do think that this does reflect the district.
It reflected those with history and it reflected those who are brand new to the process.
And I do feel like we got a good decision because of that.
Thank you.
Thank you, sir.
Madam President.
Mr. Vesey.
I've got a list.
Yes, sir.
I'm sorry.
That's okay.
I'm from real estate.
I poured over the numbers.
We got the notebook, what, several weeks ago that was about five feet thick.
And I admire the work that y'all did.
Y'all really went through absolutely everything I think that y'all could have.
But I do have just a few questions that would be.
I see in the coming years the need in the southwest quadrant for the new high school.
Yes, sir. Were there any immediate
alternatives
For rather than putting the new high school in this bond put and not putting it in in a bond and say
Absolutely was presented
Not it that that discussion came up. It was not a presentation that we made there were folks
folks in the room who made that recommendation. Like I said, there were folks who wanted way
less and folks who wanted way more. And so, you know, it's kind of you get a lot of ideas.
I mean, I could talk to you about all the people who wanted all $734 million who were
upset because we didn't put all of it in there. So it goes on both sides. And it's a balancing
act where you see both who want more and less. And so there were folks who wanted less. And
one of the things that they thought was that, you know, we can delay the high school. And
so there was information that was presented in a group of folks who had an email that
that came out the week before we went into our deliberations for the bond.
So we had just, we got our information packets on Tuesday,
and, oh no, excuse me, we got our information packets two weeks prior to the meeting,
and then a week or so, maybe a little less than a week,
an email came out from some folks who had reviewed the data,
and their recommendation was that we delay the high school
and that we instead look at rezoning in order to accommodate the overpopulation
that would take place at Seven Lakes and especially at Tompkins and at Katy High School,
all three of those schools, if we do not build a new high school,
will be overpopulated in the next three to four years.
And so in order to slack off that overpopulation and to delay the high school,
the recommendation from that group was to rezone, and they presented a proposal of the rezoning.
Everyone got that email.
That email was not a formal presentation, but that group sent that out to everyone.
Everyone had the opportunity to review that data, to look at that data, to mull over it
individually.
We were not in a collective group.
When they came to the meeting on Tuesday night, I think that was considered.
I think most people, at least at my table, had a discussion about that presentation.
That was a part of our discussion.
It was a part of what we all talked about.
So I do think that information was considered, but I think it's important to remember of the new high school
15 of the 16 tables
Met the threshold to include that into the package
Okay, not all of those were at 80% at their table some of those were at 67%
But a 15 of the 16 tables made the recommendation to include the high school in this particular bond
So I think they all considered it to answer your question
And I think that they felt a new high school was a better option than reason doing a district-wide
Rezoning because a rezoning I think would affect every school in the district. No words your established schools
like Taylor and Cinco and
Some of the schools that the more branches just now law some students open pay toe
So they have themselves in a more stabilized environment
those schools would be affected in order to accommodate the overcrowding at Seven
Lakes and Tompkins and Katy High School and we felt like a new high school would
be a better option than rezoning the entire district I guess that's I hope
that answers your question absolutely I have a couple more yes sir
madam president mayor thank you so in the anticipated cost for the high school
and all the and the other schools there was the big lump sum number is that
going to be it the reason I ask it this way is I know a lot of people in the
community have been very upset with the way that previous administration's
position numbers within the within the bond and then within the budget with the
football stadium yes you know that was something that was brought up when y'all
did your surveys and it was very much expressed is this a this is what we're
going to be and everything's all in I guess is my question yes sir I think the
the specific question you're asking was the infrastructure number that was
included in the stadium in 2014 the stadium was 58 million dollars there was
six million dollars that was put into an infrastructure line item for the bridges
for the road work for the site work for the you know the cutaways to get in and
out of the stadium on our property and so that that was to cover that and also
the road work or the site work that need to be done on the roadside of that same
so that was put into an infrastructure line item six billion dollars it was a
a larger number but six million of that was allocated towards the site work and
groundwork and bridges at at the stadium and I think that's the controversy that
you're talking about and and you know in that along with that it's not just that
six million but I think it was the add-ons of the stadium that that wasn't
just the administration I think the board looked at those add-ons and felt
like that it made sense fiscally to do those in conjunction with the
construction stadium and they proved that so that increased that cost up to
to what it is now, the $72 million or whatever it is right now.
And I think all of that, I think it's bigger than just that one light item.
I think you've got to look at the whole picture if you look at the stadium
and the controversy that's surrounding that.
But, yes, we did discuss that.
The stadium was part of the survey, absolutely, and we heard that.
We talked about that.
It was part of a constant, you know, we want to make sure we build trust
and credibility with the district.
We don't want to be underhanded.
We don't want to be deceiving with the numbers.
we want to make sure that they're actually reflected and
And so the schools are actually from what we were presented and what we were told by
All those who came to present were the actual numbers to build those those schools
last question for you I
Are we going to be using and using the high school and the junior highs?
is the
General floor plan the design work. I know that in previous years
We used you know designs of the two-story much like the Cinco Morton seven lakes Tompkins design
Is the new high school going to be that design or is it going to be the pay toe three-story designer? Do we know yet? I?
Think it was the pay toe design if I'm not mistaken
The design of the schools in there is the new junior high design is the new pay toe high school design in the new elementary
design
so it's all it's the three current designs are being used the ties the
Bethke and the
the pay-toe design.
That's what I thought, but that verifies that.
Okay, I guess this is more of a question for,
a financial question for Mr. Smith.
In anticipating the costs of the designs and such,
is there places that we may be able to cut some corners,
so to speak, because we already have the designs
and we already have everything?
Or is it gonna be that much of a tweak
on that three-story, the pay-toe design
that we're gonna have to incur all the same costs that we would when we built
pay toe I'll take a stab at it and I may need to ask mr. Cruz to bail me out but
when we do a modified repeat we do pay less to the architect fees because it is
a you know a lot of it is done and I believe we would pay about 3% less to
the architects for a modified repeat okay and note those three news camp new
floor plans are now would be considered modified repeat by the way in one last
thing mr. Smith and I should sound so mean and I'll be done with you but
historically and I went back to when Morton Ranch was built and compared
Morton Ranch than Seven Lakes than Tompkins than paid so and then with high
school number nine it has been a 10% increase usually over a three or four
period at your period of time however pay toe was 50% higher do we know why
was it so much more was the cost that you're probably comparing that to
Tompkins. Yes. And Tompkins we went for bid in approximately 2010 shortly at the
tail end of the recession and we got a really good buy on Tompkins High School.
In fact it was so good if you, well you won't, but the members of the board at
that time can probably remember we were able to use the savings and build two
elementary schools. Davidson and Randolph were both built with the savings that we
we had on Tompkins High School alone because of the opportune time in the construction
market that we had at that time.
Excellent.
Madam President, thank you very much.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you.
Madam President.
Mr. Scott.
Let me just go ahead and say something and get it out of my system and also say something
to the people in the community.
There's not any person in this community who opposed that football stadium more than me.
I did everything I could to beat it in its original variation,
and maybe some people didn't know the $58 million bond issue for that stadium was going to cost $72 million,
but I did, well before anything.
Now, having said that, I think that I have a standing to say this because of my past involvement.
I've never opposed a bond issue in this community going back to 1983 that dealt with schools.
This bond issue deals with schools.
That's what this does.
This board and I will take it personally to look at what you all have done,
and I may want to tweak it.
I may try to convince the board to tweak it,
but I want to congratulate you on your process
because as one who believes that we have to put that darn football stadium in the rearview mirror,
we can't hold a grudge forever.
The stadium is being built.
My stadium would have cost $30 million less.
That's what my stadium, that's what my approach would have cost.
$30 million different.
$30 million in the scheme of public education in KTISD is nothing. It's not worth a continuing
warfare in this community that would hold schools hostage. Mr. Smith, would you go to page 38 of
your slide if you can get us there? So Mr. Carmichael, I want to say that I think that
the committee process which i have followed closely has been more open and more disciplined
than any process i've seen since i've been in town so i want to congratulate you i want to
congratulate the members of the committee for that can we get to pay or maybe it's the one before
that or after that okay this one the one with the houses and the market value to market value
you. That may be the single most honest, integrity-filled slide that I've ever seen presented
at a government meeting, and I've been a cub reporter since 1973. That's when I was a cub
reporter. This tells the truth about the tax impact of a construction bond. This is what people
deserve. This is the kind of communication that I think makes a
difference between what got a lot of us people in this community angry,
righteously indignant, and this is the kind of communication that we need going
forward. And I'm not I'm not going to talk about why that isn't honest. If
anybody in the media wants to know they can ask me. That is perhaps the single
most honest slide that I've seen presented at a government forum in a long a long time okay and
I want to thank you for that I have one question besides my pontification do the rating agencies
look at the general fund balance when they're making their overall decision on rates interest
in rating absolutely it's the first question they ask is tell me about the healthier fund balances
What's your projected trend and what your current budget is going to end at your fund balance?
And how about your forecast and your fund balance health?
So the message from that answer is this, that the state of Texas has put school districts in the position of selling bonds to build schools.
That's what we do.
That's what we have to do.
And in terms of the metrics that are used by rating agencies to look at school districts,
They look at our bond finance reserves.
They look at our bond history.
They look at how we defuse bonds.
They look at how we get rid of interest rates.
They look at our general fund interest rates.
And as a dinosaur here, and I'll take advantage of that,
from Earl Walden to Bill Moore to Chris Smith,
this district has been blessed with very conservative,
very strong fiscal management over the last 30 years and there's nothing in
this presentation that I have seen that changes that in one iota.
Madam President, Mrs. Doyle? I have a couple things for you, a couple statements and a
couple questions. I'm gonna bounce off of what Mr. Lacey said with and then you
answered with the rezoning. If we did not build high school number nine in this
Ms. Bond, and we did a district-wide rezone.
Do you foresee in the next three to five years that we would have to build high school number
nine anyway in the southwest quadrant, then putting us back in a position where we're
now rezoning the same kids and the same family?
I think, Ms. Doyle, that was one of the things that we discussed, and I think that was one
of the determining factors with a lot of folks is that no matter how you could delay the
high school and the argument that was made by a group of folks in the email
today they said absolutely using their metrics and using their recommendations
you absolutely could delay the high school there's no doubt about it but if
you did that eventually you are going to get to a point if we continue our growth
to where I feel you're going to need that high school I think the passing
numbers show that I mean even if you rezone just by the growth that you have
still out in the you know on the hasn't been developed on will of on Willowbrook
forms and over where Bryant Elementary if you go further back towards Fulcher
that's still part of Katie back in there so there's still some development needs
to go back in there I just don't see how and here's the deal Randolph is busting
at the scene just the largest school in the district it's elementary school it's
gonna be is if you look percentage it'll be the most populated school in district
Shaffer is busting at the seams all those elementary schools in that area I mean you
know are over what they can hold well those kids aren't just gonna stop growing up I mean those
third graders will become fourth graders and those fourth grade test that because I have a
kindergartner yeah I hate to tell you 12 years from now you're gonna be crying when you get your
little video disc too so it happens but but they're gonna get they have to they're gonna
going to grow up and when they do they're going to have to go somewhere and so we get eventually
you're going to have to build that high school and and that was one of the things that we discussed
and that was a big part of the discussion is you can delay it but eventually you're putting off
the inevitable and then you're going to move all those kids back now i want to let you know
from a perspective of someone who lived through that okay we we were alexander williams when
When Williams opened two years later, the Beck, then from Beck, our kids went to Cinco.
And then when Seven Lakes opened, we were then sent to Seven Lakes because there was a determination in that rezoning that they would not have enough kids.
Even though at the time Seven Lakes was built into what was a cow pasture.
I mean, there wasn't a home within a mile of the place.
So you knew that it was going to explode in the next couple of years.
And we argued and argued.
argued, do not send our kids way over here, I mean literally all the way to Fry Road and
Westheimer, all the way to Seven Lakes High School.
That doesn't, we're closer to Taylor and to Senko than we are to Seven Lakes.
But we were sent over there anyway, and three years later, when Seven Lakes was overpopulated,
they rezoned those same neighborhoods, I think Mrs. Fox lives in one of those neighborhoods,
back to Cinco Ranch High School. So I lived through that and our neighbors
across the street their kids started at Seven Lakes and then they had to move to
Cinco and they moved because it was more convenient for them not that they had to
they were grandfathered in but it was just more convenient because how much
closer it was and that's just not an optimum thing you don't want kids moving
in the middle of their high school career that's just not a good thing so I
think everyone looked at that and decided that just was not a very good
option and and to add a little bit to that I with the number of children that
I have and we when we moved into the district there has been multiple reasons
so my son started in the fourth grade and was reasoned five times before he
entered high school so I totally understand what you're saying about that
and that's why if a district-wide rezone is brought to us I take it very personal
for all of the kids and what they would have to go through and I do recognize
the fact that you're focusing on the Southwest West quadrant when you do that
and just from personal experience it may not be the same kid in that four-year
high school period but you're talking about families as well so when a child
is at Seven Lakes junior high and they assume they're going to Seven Lakes high
school and now we rezone and we say no we're actually gonna send you to
Tompkins now and oh wait a minute we're going to now pull this neighborhood back
to Seven Lakes there's really no there's no legacy built there's no culture built
within those schools because the kids are always moving they're they're not
staying together there's no there's no history that can be built within that
school because there's constantly this movement and this fluidity between well
you were going to be a Spartan but now you're going to be a Falcon oh never
Never mind, we want you to be a Spartan.
And you know what?
You may be a cougar.
We can't tell you what you're going to be.
And so.
Well, we could do a leaf and have a lottery and just pick out of a jar and then go to whatever high school you draw out of a jar.
I think that would be right.
Yeah.
Let's not do that.
But I'm just joking.
I'm just giving you a joke.
I just I want to I want to verbalize that because not everybody comes to our board meetings.
People do watch these.
And I want the community to also be aware of what the options are in the event.
We don't build nine now.
We build it later. What does that look like?
so I'll get off of rezoning for just a second and
I think you said something very important
I want to if I could if I absolutely you said that this focuses on the Southwest Quadrant and it does
I think it's very important to remember. It's the Southwest Quadrants term
But we went through the same thing in the southeast quadrant when Cinco was exploding
We went through the same thing in the northeast quadrant when Morton ranch and King and all I mean all that area
there was exploding over there we've experienced this in other quadrants it's
just now it's a Southwest quadrants turn and we didn't do this you know gyration
of moving kids right with the exception of the the Cinco seven lakes example I
just gave you that's really the only time that that that mistake and I call
that a mistake was made and so I think it's important that we we we build our
schools projecting towards growth I think that that's what we've always done
And I really think that's what this bond does now. Yes, you can delay it
But if you delay it there are consequences to doing that and that's what you were referring to well and instead my next
Question or maybe statement about delaying it and the growth is looking at what our numbers would look like at Tompkins
Seven Lakes Cinco Ranch in the event
We don't we don't build this high school. Do we have those numbers handy? I think we
We can get there.
Well, it would be safe to say we're going to be over 3,500.
Yes.
At every school.
Yes.
And you said in your presentation that design capacity is 3,000, functional capacity is 2,700.
I actually spoke to a very wise man, and he had an analogy that said if you walked into a movie theater
that sat 500 people to watch a movie would you be happy if the movie theater
sold 600 tickets and an extra hundred people wanted to watch that movie with
you airlines everything has a capacity and and so I want to make sure that we
stay focused on what is the safest number one safest capacity for our
students in the event that there's an emergency and we have to god forbid get
them out quickly what's the best learning environment where our children
actually have names and the teachers know them versus their numbers because
it's literally just crowd management I I know that Miss Fennison ran Woodcreek
junior high when it was busting at the seams I too went and watched in fear as
those kids moved through the halls and so she did a great job is very organized
But it was slightly conducive to a great education environment. I I want to say this here. I've got the number
We've got you asked the question. I want I cuz we've got every data you can come up with
Well, I'm sure
Mr. Scott you could come up some questions
I wouldn't have the answers to but most of us we have the data right here in front of us
But Katie high school the enrollment if we don't build high school high school say it again Katie high school
The projected enrollment would be three thousand five hundred thirteen students
Seven Lakes High School will be projected at 3,643 students.
Tompkins High School will be projected at 4,130 students.
And that's based upon the PASA data, and that does not include rezoning.
But you're looking at over 1,100 students that you would have to rezone from Tompkins alone.
You're looking at 500 you'd have to rezone out of Katy, and you're looking at 600 you'd have to rezone out of Seven Lakes.
You're looking at rezoning an entire high school in order to accommodate the growth. Why not just build one?
That's my question
Okay last one can I I'm sorry this is a lot
the cost difference between pay to high school and high school number nine is
I'm looking at some data here in 2015
2015 a toe was 168 million seven and some change to build it today the cost
Estimate was going to be 198, but high school number nine is actually projected at 206. Yes, ma'am. I
Know that we've got an auditorium a competition auditorium that we're looking at that did the committee
Look at what if we did not add that an auditorium to that high school because I know there's some
some talk about why is the high school so much more expensive than what pay to and just do something standalone
What that we did look at that that was one of the other things that was presented why not build a standalone facility?
Having been through a bond that did a standalone sports facility. I really would not recommend that
Mr. Scott so very eloquently put it I don't want to go I don't have enough blood left to go through that process again
but so that would be my first response I just don't think it's worth the
standalone facility to do that I think what they're talking about really is
expanded seating is what that is it really is expanded it's you're building
an auditorium regardless I mean we're not going to build high school number
nine without an auditorium every school has an auditorium that's built in we
you've got to do that so what you're talking about there is expanding the
the seating capacity. I think it's important to remember that. It's not that it's bigger,
it's not that there's more lanes, it's not that there's more, you know, a 50-meter pool
instead of a 25-meter. I mean, it's just, it's the normal auditorium that every school
gets. It's just that we're expanding the capacity of seating to accommodate the number of kids
who are participating in the swimming program. And Katie has an incredible swimming history
and a lot of kids who participate on those swim teams and a lot of parents who go who are not able to get into
The facilities to watch their kids or they are but they only get to get in there to watch their kids compete in the race
And they have to go back under a tent out in the parking lot
So this will help relieve some that pressure and I think it's a wise thing to do that came out to
Four million Lee is that correct? Mr. Cruz? I'm sorry
about four and a half one half million is what that in that 206 million is what's represented
in the expanded seating capacity so you go from 206 down to 202 you're still going to be over
200 000 just building a standard high school with a standard auditorium without the expanded
seating so we did discuss that that was a big portion of what we looked at and talked about
there were people who we had a lot of questions for like three meetings mrs decker came as the
athletic director and made the presentation we looked at the history of
the number of swimmers we have the district where those swimmers are
located and the utilization of that with outside groups like Katie aquatics and
some of our summer league programs and how many with the growth the revenue
sources is associated with those outside course so we ask a lot of questions to
look at whether that made sense to do it and ultimately everyone said yeah we
need to do we're gonna have a lot of explaining to do okay because it is a
a big number, but we think that the numbers reflect the participation of the program and
there's enough people in this community who understand how many kids participate in year-round
swimming and in competition swimming that we think that we can communicate that in a
way that they'll accept that.
MS.
Okay.
And this is more as a statement for public knowledge for people who watch and are curious.
Am I correct in saying that the committee of 114 people, each of these items was voted
on individually each item that was presented to that each 56 there were 56
decision points right so in other words that represented 332 projects understand
that there was a line item for roofing we did not vote on every school so the
roof be done on my schools that's where you get 332 projects so there was just
reroofing and there was a number that was attached to all the different
projects they would each one of those is a separate project but it was one line
item so there were 56 decision points and each one of those decision points
was voted on by each table to determine whether or not it should be included
once it reached the threshold of over 67 percent it reached the supermajority
like I said all but one of the decision points that we included and we included
239 projects I don't know what the decision point number was but it was you know whatever it was
maybe in the 40s I would imagine I'm don't quote me on that I'm just guessing but whatever that
decision point number was of those that were included in the bond package all but one had
over 80 percent support from the 16 tables and that only that one project was the outdoor Learning
Center okay I think I've grilled you long enough thank you I survived I was
easy you were I know I got through him I don't have to take my blood pressure
medicine I survived thank you mr. Carmichael I appreciate it
I'm present oh you can't go back now mr. Hockey mr. Parker Michael thank you
once again for your leadership in this process along with mrs. Hughes and and
everyone in the administration that played a role as well through that
You'll be glad to know that I have no questions for you. Thank you, sir
However, I do have one question. So I want to I want to kind of address the vine committee members that are that are here tonight
and
And thank you. Thank you for your service. I applaud your efforts
I know that it is not difficult with such a large and diverse group to come to build into a consensus on
Something such as this and I realize how difficult that is. We lived it three years ago, and I remember that
So thank you for the what 3,500 plus volunteer hours.
But my question and it doesn't need an audible response is has to do with what do we do now because
your work is not yet over and what I guess I want to know is are you guys now prepared to be the hands and
feet to get out and support this bond to be
Talk to your neighbors to go to your children's events and talk to people and to be out ready to because November 7th is not
that far away and and it does take it does take an effort just as all those hours you spent so many
of them were spent um learning and being presented by things from the district to kind of learn a lot
about all the different components in this bond we have to we have to duplicate those efforts now in
the community to go out and pass this referendum so um that's that's kind of what what i want and
i want to know that the people that built this thing and of course uh the board has its work to
do as well but we'll be out there supporting that from now until november so that we can continue
to give our students great opportunities because what happens if we don't prepare for the future
and the growth that is coming what it absolutely affects in the end is our students and and it and
it creates situations where they may not have equitable opportunities as much as the students
that came before them and we want to ensure that all of our students have great opportunities in
this district so once again thank you so much for for your time your efforts and i applaud
the package that you're bringing here tonight yes scott real quick on the natatorium i think
there's a little historical memory that should do about many years ago when the district was
expanding the Katy High School natatorium there was a discussion of
building a natatorium that would accomplish all the high schools coming
and they didn't do that and and is it dr. mr. Carmichael mr. mr. Carmichael
is a hundred percent correct this is a natatorium that replicates equity among
all of our high schools and the question the first question I have asked when we
were going to spend more on a natatorium how many people are coming and it took
about 30 seconds to figure out that the natatorium that we built a decade or
more ago or whatever timeline that was was under built at the time it was open
and the lesson is that you have to have the courage to do the right thing at the
right time so that somebody else doesn't have to pick up and do the right thing a
a decade later. This is something that this district made a decision on, and all we're
doing now is just providing equity and creating a facility that our parents want. And they
want that not subjectively, but they want that because they're showing up and they don't
have room to be there. Okay? And so again, I want to reiterate, I think the committee
did a very good job a very serviceable job the product that I'm reading is a
big help to me and I appreciate it Madam President mr. Carmichael thank you
for your presentation thank you for agreeing to continue to serve how many
bond committees have you served on six who of those who did together 99 and oh
too I was there with you and so I I've lived what you lived and I'm grateful
for you I do have just a whole bunch of comments evidently because that's what
we're doing tonight I'll make them quickly I want to address the district
wide reason because I know there's some talk about that and before the 2014 bond
presentation to us I asked the district about that how can we ask our taxpayers
to pay more money when we have some schools a few schools who are not at
full capacity so thus comes the education of here's what a district-wide
reason would look like mrs. Fox and it totally changes the idea of neighborhood
schools it is shifting students from west to east so far past anything resembling neighborhood not
all of us get to go very close to our neighborhood schools we to have a story so similar to you to
you sweet Carmichael's that our first student through the district graduated from Cinco our
daughter didn't speak to me because I was on the school board who rezoned her to seven like she
didn't get to go and have her sweet um you know mr eaton and mrs stevenson and all those favorite
teachers that we talked about in our home for always and always and so we too went way far
to seven lakes and at the in her senior year this board rezoned our neighborhood back to
cinco ranch and she was like mine that won't help me and i said michaela if you had the choice would
Would you go to Cinco Ranch?
And she said, I wouldn't give up the blessings I had at Seven Lakes.
So no matter the name on a building, it's all about those teachers in those classrooms.
You're exactly right about that, Mr. Karmak.
It has nothing to do with walls and windows and driveways and concrete and gymnasiums.
It has everything to do with teachers and administrators who love on our babies
and get them so prepared for their futures I appreciate mr. Smith your
presentation I love the penny slide I love the mountain slide I like that
house slide I've seen it you know before it's such a great visual for our
taxpayers who say my taxes are going up your tax rates not going up oh yes it is
that is such a great tool for us thank you so much for helping us explain that
we are now empty nesters in our home and we choose to stay in Katy because this is our community and
there are people who came before us long before us the Katy High School people who created of
the legacy of Katy the people from Taylor High School who came before and made Creek who came
before us and created a Cinco ranch which was just being built when we moved here and for all
those people who paid and contributed and sacrificed so that my babies could
have a KDISD education I feel the responsibility to continue to pay it
forward it's part of our be the legacy I'm so we stay and continue to
contribute and Mrs. Doyle is exactly right it's about students when you all I
I came to, if not all, almost every meeting of this bond committee and watched you guys
spend countless hours and sacrifice your family time and your own things that you needed to
be doing to serve us.
And like, I wish there were a bigger word than thank you.
I wish there was a way to show gratitude in a way that's, you know, bigger than recognizing
you tonight.
but the gift that you gave to our community by building a bond referendum
that you're going to present to us through our superintendent like you're
making a difference the names on buildings that you drive around Odie
Tompkins and James E Taylor and woman and Schaefer and Davidson and I'm gonna
to leave people out whom I love. You know, Mr. Carmichael and I have been part of bond committees,
and now we can drive by and go, oh yeah, I remember that. Right? Creech and Williams and all those.
All of those schools serve families. And you all came because of the reputation, and what you've
done and what your babies have experienced came from someone else who served. And now you've
presented a package to us that when you see those buildings built you'll drive
by and go like I'm really glad I did that and we are super grateful that you
did that because it's about boys and girls and opportunities and when we
overcrowd schools because we lived through that our son was at Cinco when
it was at its very very largest it wasn't a happy place it was crowded
people were frustrated they were kind of angry and and it just was fussy it
It just was fussy.
And not everybody, there's still only one volleyball team.
There's still just one baseball team.
There are not unlimited opportunities for students when you put too many students in a physical building.
We can manage growth temporarily while we're beginning to build another.
A temporary management of growth, we do that well.
Mrs. Finneson, you know, we've talked about her too much that she's embarrassed.
But she knows what it means to manage growth until we can get more space for our boys and girls
But they're still just you know not not unlimited up and unlimited spaces for our boys and girls and they deserve
The best we can give them in opportunities because that's that's why they're there
They don't wake up in the morning and can't wait to go to calculus
Earth can't wait to go to you know English and write another paper. No, they can't wait to go to band
they can't wait to go to FFA they can't wait to go to art or fill in the blank
of what your student loves that's why we do it
I watched you serve hour after hour after hour after hour and the
the recommendation that you chose and you decided on I don't believe that I
am more of an expert to make any changes what you're bringing so I appreciate you
and I'm supportive of what you did and I thank you for the support of what you're
doing thank you Thank You mrs. Fox thank you to the board for all of your
comments and questions I think it's been said and asked I will they thank you
again mr. Carmichael and mr. Smith for your presentation and to miss Hughes for
all of your hard work and to the entire committee I know small portion is
represented here tonight but I really appreciate the many hours and an entire
board appreciates the many hours that you put into it and we know there's many
many more hours to come.
So with that, thank you very much.
And we will move on to item 4.2, strategic design outcomes and priorities.
I have Ms. Permetti.
You know, I look at the phonetics and I'm like, it's just better sometimes not.
That's what my kids say, spaghetti and permetti.
Yeah, Ms. Permetti.
Thank you.
Good evening.
I am so excited to be here this evening.
I feel like I'm the town coming for me and see my friends in the audience
I'm Karen Prometty with engaged to learn and so
It's been an honor to serve as one of your facilitators for this process and some of you
May I think I know we have a couple a new board member
But just real quick engaged to learn our main focus is to help our partner districts
build or continue having a high-performing culture and we do this
through three main key areas and one is it's very collaborative we collaborate
with all your stakeholders internally and externally and it's very local and
we really do believe that our local communities know what's best for schools
I think and this evening's bond presentation is very reflective of what
what your community wants and from and needs from its public schools.
And, of course, we use that to design your community-inspired vision.
And through that process, we develop a call to action, a community-based accountability,
which is basically how do we measure success with your values that you have as a community,
a learner profile and outcomes, goals, action plans for operations.
So here are six guiding principles of our process.
It's student-focused.
if you participate in any of our processes you'll see with students
everywhere all the time and I have to say that I have spoken about Katie
with other districts about the students here because I was like they won't give
it up for me they were going head to head and we had some really good
discussion about what's important with our students and with our teachers and
and what's so great is we really listened and they had a vote so if they
didn't vote for something it didn't go in that's just a very um how student driven we are so
obviously it's very transparent everything we did was online and of course most importantly
actionable so here's our five-step process i'm not going to go every detail into every one of
these pieces but overall some of the highlights is when we engage we engage with all of your
stakeholders we collaborate with them and to design a learning framework and a strategic plan
that fits and what you want and your community wants for its children so here
is our timeline so here is how we broke it down of summit responses we had 833
responses from our poll everywhere system over our series of summits we
200 people participate in our focus groups and 1933 and people participated
in your survey so with the design team create and lead you can see that there
were different numbers of participation and what i love so much i get this from all of our districts
and katie was no exception is like this is really a commitment how do you get people to commit for
six days and i keep saying give us two and they will come back for more and so surely um we were
really thinking about how we wanted to use your time and so they kept coming back and i think that
speaks to the work and how well they spent their time together and making new friends in the
the process so here's the roles in the process and I'll just kind of touch on
this as far as Board of Trustees your role tonight is really to approve reject
modify the plan if you will so the community and here's all how the other
design teams went into play in the process so that's just kind of an
outline for you so when we do our plans we always start with beliefs and
everybody asks me why do we start with beliefs well beliefs to me are the
heartbeat of your community it's where you set the tone for the culture that
you want and during our beliefs we really work on everything that your
community wants for its children we really talk about what our highest hopes
and we draft them and believe statements and one of our litmus tests is we always
say you know believe not everybody believes in the same belief and when we
go out in the community you may say I believe in this and somebody may not but
But when we come together and we create beliefs, everybody has to believe in it and be willing to fight for it in case somebody doesn't believe in it.
You say, why?
So that is why we always start with beliefs.
And I know we have Donna Lanier who's going to speak to the beliefs that your strategic design team developed.
There's more than one slide.
Can you click?
Can you click?
Sure.
When we went over these beliefs, I need you to know that it was a 100% consensus agreement
that all, everybody agreed on every word.
We had to try a couple of times on a few of these, go back, work it out a little bit and
come together.
So every word of this we came together on.
We believe that all learners are unique and thrive through personalized learning experiences.
We believe that when ideas and individuals are respected, a culture of mutual respect is built that benefits all stakeholders.
We believe that collaboration, which honors all voices, creates ownership that drives personal accountability.
We believe that being open-minded fosters continual improvement.
We believe that meaningful relationships are vital to learner success.
We believe that effective assessment is a continual process of giving and receiving
meaningful feedback that advances learning and supports a system of accountability.
And we believe that our success is not determined by a single standard of conduct.
assessment so I think it would I think Donna hit on a very clear statement on
agreement versus consensus so and it was engaged we talked about agreement and
agreement means that you have to say yes to every single word you have to be an
agreement that every word is what you would have chosen if you had a right
that belief consensus we don't do consensus through our facilitation
because consensus is somebody kind of has to vote so you're kind of a majority
rule so we don't do that so I really wanted to kind of clarify that it's very
important it's long it's time-consuming we have what we deemed unity you as part
of now engage it Lark to learns language because we were using it so much in
Katie it's now I was actually working with another district today I'm like I
need a unity you and I had to explain what that is so that is where we all
came together and we had to agree on everything so then we get into our call
to action so we move from beliefs to call to action or call to action is our
guiding purpose it's basically this statement behind why of the strategic
plan and we always think that with the end in mind what is it that we want for
students what are your highest hopes what do you envision what's their eye
for their ideal future, what needs to happen with your organization, and what is the purpose
of the organization's existence.
So through those questions, we determine a call to action.
And so we have Amanda Fite, who's here to share with you your call to action.
Our proposed call to action is that KDISD learners, through active engagement, achieve
individual success while making positive contributions in an ever-changing world.
So this is your driving guiding purpose statement for your entire strategic plan.
So then when we look at what is our learner outcomes and learner profile, we start with
the question, and what skills do our learners need in today's context and in their future?
So I have Sharon Jurassic and Tiffany Shiree who will speak to the learner outcomes and
learner profile.
All right.
And so I'm here to go over our five learner outcomes that we, as a committee, all agreed upon.
First one is all learners will develop and achieve personalized goals.
And I do want to clarify our definition between learner and students, and that was a different.
And so you can see up here we've used students twice and learners.
And our learners are referring to everyone within the district as far as our teachers, our staff, and our students.
And that was a hard word to move past and to come to agreement that we did mean everyone.
So in moving on, number two, all students will engage in meaningful learning every day.
All learners will demonstrate leadership, integrity, respect, and character.
All learners will contribute to their community.
And finally, all students will graduate from high school prepared for life, career, and
post-secondary opportunities.
So to come up with our learner profile, we really sat and tried to think about the skill
set that we want our graduates to have, the skills that we wanted to hone in our schools
and help our kids become the best possible citizens locally, globally, and so on and
so forth.
So our learner profile, the learner, problem solves using critical thinking, analytical
skills, perseverance, innovation, resources, collaboration, and ownership. Our learner
will communicate through understanding the audience, active listening, nonverbal
interaction, digital integration, oral presentation, writing, and civility. Our
learner will adapt through open-mindedness, problem-solving, time
time management, persistence, and coping skills.
And our learner will contribute through empathy, active listening, passionate engagement, preparation,
investment, respect, and confidence.
I will also, here's another bragging point on Katie.
You have all these bragging points this evening.
As far as your learner profile and outcomes, when you discuss, you're pretty much one of
the very few school districts that have said when we talk learner we want it to
include everybody it's very inclusive so I think that speaks highly to
expectations that you have of your staff and of your students and really your
community because that was one of the things they really did talk about is
that learner really should be everybody and not just somebody specific and so if
you really look at the learner profile the one that was just shared with you
that Tiffany shared with you a lot of that is also incorporated into that as
well so I wanted to kind of rock on that for you so we after we develop our
learner profile or outcomes we started discussing goals and what do these goals
need to look like we talked about systems time organizations tools place
measures for success in these goals one thing about your goals they are very
much a bold resolution and they're not their systems goals they're not most
systems when we think systems they're not just horizontal or only vertical
systems move in between up and down and over and fluid in an organization and
you're designed and created goals that address the fluidity of your systems so
I wanted to definitely highlight that so every one of your goals touches every
part of your organization so not one goal is singular leaving somebody or
some department or some team out so here your Katie's goals and I'm gonna let
Matt Schomburg talk to you about your goals hmm it's kind of open they were
gonna wheel in dinner for us at this point of the evening huh one of those
working dinners like all the working lunches all right our goals are our
learning environments will foster engagement by integrating personalized
learning experiences. KDISD will develop systems where customized resources will
ensure equity in response to the needs of a growing district with rapidly
changing demographics. KDISD will develop meaningful effective assessments
that inspire and inform students and educators toward continuous improvement.
KDISD will create and sustain best-in-class infrastructure to securely
accommodate the current and next generation of digital content and tools
for all stakeholders. I love how my kids are always playing on Snapchat. KDISD
will attract and support high quality staff members to optimize their impact
on student learning and create a culture of staff retention. KDISD will address
flaws in the state finance and student assessment systems in order to regain
gain local control. KDISD will develop intentional strategic partnerships which
capitalize on the strengths, resources, and talents of all stakeholders in order
to engage the entire community. KDISD will actively support the emotional
well-being of all learners. So beyond developing the goals, your strategic
design team also came up with 33 specific results including 14 total
year one action plans a learning framework design which I will show in
just a second to you a community-based accountability which is things that
we're still working on we're still working on that particular tool and of
course there was some added input and feedback which are the some
superintendent non-negotiables which are all embedded in your strategic plan so
So we're all working in concert with one another and forward with that guiding purpose.
So here's just one example of a KD action plan.
I want you to take a look at the depth and breadth and the detail of these action plans.
And we believe in this kind of depth because it takes something very broad and breaks it
down to concrete sequential with timelines and measurements and how we're going to evaluate.
So this is just one sample.
So in here is what we've called the legacy learning framework, and this is basically your catalyst
It's a learning framework that takes in all your goals and takes in your curriculum instruction all your departments kind of will feed into this
Of how do we serve as a catalyst?
To achieve your strategic plan so the next steps on this is to definitely write out the protocols and identifying these steps
I'm moving forward for your classroom teachers and your staff, but this is basically what your strategic design team
created as well so before we come to a close this evening I feel it's really
important that you have had all the all this voice participate in the process
that that you should have some reflections of what and that process was
like and they kind of give you how they develop this plan and give you a
perspective that it just sometimes when you look at the statements you think
it's oh that took that long really but you don't really realize how long it
really does take so I have two people that are going to return to the or the
podium which would be Matt and Tiffany to share and their participant
reflection okay see I thought this was gonna be a quick meeting tonight I
figured we get here we believe I almost feel like I'm in another one of these
strategic design nightmares with no dinner gosh or candy so it it was truly
it was truly an honor miss Rhonda had called me for the for the first couple
meetings back early April and it's funny you guys tricked us right so this is
just a thank you this is just a two-day meeting sure enough you fall in love
what's going on it's extremely organized the people in the group just they suck
yeah me is you all my best friends now we've been through some some very hard
days you kind of kind of joking about dinner but we would start at 8 a.m. it
wasn't 801 right dr. hints up there hey it's 8 o'clock we're gonna get started
the second day of the deal he goes hey I got good news we're gonna get out a
little early today right we're gonna get out at 4 58 yeah this is Friday it's
well past my happy hour at that point but you know one selfishly I did this
I'm a small business owner in Katy the school district has done so much to
grow my business so for me anytime any opportunity I had to give back to the
community I want to do that and then selfishly I have four boys that are in
the Katy ISD school district and to see that the vision of where we're going
what you know what a blessing and the leadership that we have in Katy ISD is
is by far hands-down right just incredible for me I got to make some
some new friends I got to spend a lot of time with with miss Rebecca Fox she's
she's a riot she's a superstar candy crush to come to find out listening to
George Scott who is extremely passionate and as we go through this consensus or
whatever the word is where we're all gonna bang our head on the desk until
everyone agrees but to just just to go through that was was just a tremendous
experience and so I want to thank you guys for for inviting the community to
participate in that engage was was a tremendous asset to this the way they
were able to moderate the way they were able to take 50 or 60 people in that
group break them down and and continue to move it forward was um you know i wish i could just
move my little group of employees forward the the way they do so i did steal some of what they did
but overall tremendous experience and and thank you to our group that showed up
all six days and and worked hard and um appreciate your your consideration tonight for this thank you
so I was invited to do this and represent a teacher perspective the days were very long
we worked through lunch each day and when I go home in the evening after a strategic design
meeting it was the best night's sleep I gotten in my entire life because I was so mentally drained
from the talking and the voting and the bartering at times in the you know going
back and forth and and it was just a great process like Matt said you know
personally I have three kids in the district you know and I'm employed by
the district and so it was an honor to be part of our future or to help lay the
groundwork for our future I did get to meet a lot of people and and have a good
time with a lot of people and and argue with a lot of people and it was just it
was great I mean the whole thing was a really cool experience I got to meet
some amazing students from our district who you know would stand up and just
talk to us like we were you know like normal people think that they were like
having a conversation or with the superintendent you know I mean they're
just talking they're spitting out ideas and disagreeing and agreeing and holding
their own and and it just really made me very proud to be part of such an amazing community
because kdisd is humongous but it's still a community it's the biggest community i've ever
been part of but it does have that small town feel i think in a lot of ways and so it was nice to
have my voice represented um and so thanks to everybody to have me and and i'm so happy i got
to work with all of you guys and uh engage you guys rocked it i stole some stuff from you guys
as well for my English meetings so y'all have a good night I know we have some
strategic design team members here and I'll be remiss because they are part of
my family too so if you would stand if you participated in the strategic design
team at all in the process
so one of the things is that we started eight and we get what did go to five or
505 at 510 yes and we did run over on a couple of days and that just for you
know we did not take breaks so if you need a drink of water you need to go to
restroom you need to whatever you're on your own but you get back in we do not
take breaks and all of our lunches you got to break to grab your meal and then
you were at it you had a basically a lunch assignment that you had to get to
you and for just to grins thumbs up that's how we did it how I knew if we had an agreement or
just you are yeah George maybe not that's how we knew if we had agreement because sometimes would
be so much talking we would just have to get a barometer if you're an agreement and if not then
we would stop hold go back and talk about it and either delete it off the table if the concept was
not going to be going anywhere or if the concept we agreed upon but the language
was not the best that we needed to communicate that and so I that's kind of
the overall in the process and I had a great pleasure work with two of your
board members Rebecca and George and it was awesome to work with you two and so
many of your bombers are summits and and focus group type events and so I'm just
very thankful to have been a part of it so that said we have wrapped the process up
Adam president it's it's great to see you again and hi all my besties my we spent so much time
together right we got to know each other really well I just want to compliment the process
this was I agree with them this was hard hard hard it was just hours and hours and hours and
you would get through something they would give us a piece and you would get the piece done and
it would be so much more difficult than other things we had done and then we'd be finished
and then they'd be like okay next you'd be like no what can we do next and so yes I'd take a candy
crush break and then we'd take a snack break and then right back after it you know I it's just I
I wish I could think of a couple of things.
One thing that comes to mind is they ask us in small group tables to,
if KDISD were a vehicle, what would it be?
Draw it.
Come up with it together.
Decide what it's going to be.
Draw it.
And then present it.
And you think, oh, that's not that hard.
No.
Really hard and really creative.
And so the amount of creativity that we got, and you're right,
talking about every word choice,
and that if everyone wasn't in agreement with word choices,
We kept working on it and we respect that was in the room for each other and for the
collaboration and the product that came from that will give this board
our
superintendent and administration like the
pathway to go forward and while I just want to say that when the bond committee brings us a recommendation
that recommendation is something I sit solidly on because I've watched what you
did and observed this take what you all have brought to us and go with the
intent that you cared about and we will tweak those and we have a clear process
going forward you have clear strategic we have clear strategic goals we have
plans but some of those will change as our district changes because this is a
three to five year process that we've done and the unity u was fantastic i loved that as we
come together after being broken into different table groups and working with so many people the
most important thing that i want to recognize is how the student was always at the center of the
universe of when we were talking and also i wanted to thank you for the amount of attention that you
gave to community because around here we talk about students teachers staff auxiliary staff
and and of course community but you all were so focused on what every person to be so inclusive
and that's a reflection of who you are and um i'm just really grateful for you that your love
and commitment for our district is so reflective in what you do so thanks madam president
Ms. Doyle.
Ms. I just want to make a statement.
I noticed that we had the bond committee, please stand, and you guys stood and you all
are just representing a small portion.
And then we had the strategic design committee stand and I know you all are representing
a small portion, but the same people didn't stand.
And so I just want to recognize, because I don't think earlier whenever I spoke and commend
you guys, all of you, on the fact that we have two completely different groups of people
that actually simultaneously we're working on two very important facets to
things that we can do in our district for growth for learners for students for
our community for us to move forward with what we have been tasked with which
is making a ISD wonderful and so I just wanted to recognize for those people
that are watching online or that will watch it later or that can't be here
that we just had two large groups of people representing an even larger group
group of people, not overlapping, that have both been working rigorous hours and times
to bring something extraordinary to us.
And so I just want to thank you for the time that you've put forward.
Thank you, Mrs. Doyle.
That was a great point.
Mr. Scott?
Imagine George Scott going to Unity University and not getting expelled.
It's amazing.
Look, I want to echo before I make my comments on Engage to learn what Courtney, what you've said.
It's hard to get used to saying Mrs. You know, I'm sorry. I think that we need to look towards
our superintendent of schools and understand that we have a different kind of leadership in this
community here we are at one night and we have these two groups engaged to
learn which I can tell you as a participant it was rigorous the bond
committee which I think I say you're still here I think the bond committee
and the engaged to learn processes that have come to the board on the same night
probably by coincidence represent a real commitment from our superintendent and
certainly from his administration from my perspective I'm not putting words in
his mouth this is my perspective is to be very forward in involving the
community in in very substantive ways the bond has reported let me talk a
couple of minutes a few minutes about the engage to learn process I started
off as a skeptic she knows that but over the course of the process and I guess
Rebecca and I probably spent 75 to 100 hours over the course of this involved
in this process it was very rigorous and you look at the pages and you see words
and their philosophical their summary but I would like you to go to that page
that has the goal six action plan priority one I think it's page 24 25 and
I'm not going to belabor it I hope you can see it each of these phrases each of
these concepts come down to this and they use this as an example 6.1 is Katie
the if there was one message there were many messages but if there was one
The one message that came out of the Engage to Learn process, like you did, Courtney, people who are listening online or watching on the computer, the one message is that this community is sick and tired of the assessment program, the state of Texas, abusing public education, and the system of school finance.
and out of this process with all of the meetings and all of the interactions
and all of the disagreements,
and anyone that doesn't think that there were active disagreements in these meetings
just weren't there.
But it comes down to, if you look at 6.1, this could change the state of Texas.
This gives this board and this administration the opportunity to put meat on the bones
of people's anger and righteous indignation and frustration with what's
happening in the state of Texas and if you look at the other goals and each of
them are important every single goal that has come out of this is important
Rebecca is exactly right we had students that were there representing the
interest of students not but they weren't just representing the interest
of students but they were talking about things like the pressure that they see
their peers under. And we had very significant discussions on what can we do to respond to
these students' needs. What do they want and how as adults do we have to listen to them.
This was an extremely, extremely effective way to discuss public issues. I'm very proud
to have had an opportunity to participate in it. I'm glad the school board let me be
one of two members on this committee and the same thing that I will tell the bond committee is the
same thing that I will tell the engage to learn committee it doesn't mean that every 100 percent
of every i dotted and every t cross that I am 100 percent believing that that is the exact way
but what I can say is I am 100 percent committed to getting the job done and and your farm did a
great job you all did a great job and and though I wasn't as engaged in the
bond committee I've seen the product of your work I've got a lot of work to do
but I'm very proud of the effort that dr. Hint and the board as a corporate
entity as engaged over the last three to four months when a lot of people were
not looking and I think it's been a very interesting productive and important
night for this district and for the community.
Do we have any comments? Okay. Thank you so much Mr. Reddy. We will move on to
item 4.3 the 2017 health care health care update. Mr. Lansnaman.
Here we go. Good evening, President Vann, Board of Trustees, and Dr. Hemp.
Here to bring you up to speed on where we are with our health care plan for 2017.
I'm going to speak about what's going on with the 2017 health plan.
We're going to talk about some updated operating results for 2017.
I'm going to show you what Mercer is projecting for 2018, our challenges within that projection,
our strategies to address those challenges.
We're going to look at what's going on with TRS for plan year 2018 to give you sort of
a comparison and the Affordable Care Act and the impact thereof.
a voluntary plan update and what we try to do on our next steps this slide I've
shown to you I believe in April but it summarizes in 2016 we had funding of
fifty one point seven but the things I want you to look at is it cost the
district seven thousand seven hundred and sixty two dollars per employee to
fund health insurance and then for covered member that would be a spouse or
dependent was $4,217. In 2016, our medical claims cost us $31.8 million or $87,000 a day. That's per day. And for drugs and pharmacy, it cost us $34,863.
dollars. This slide shows you sort of historically what we have been
experiencing regarding the operating gain loss of the plan. In 2015 we had a
2.4 million dollar loss that was funded, was bolstered up through a general fund
transfer. In 2016 we saw an operating gain of 1.8 million.
Currently Mercer is projecting and we're projecting to finish the year
at 800,000 and that's based on current data through June of this year. This
slide shows in the blue line our eligible employees continue to grow with
everything we've discussed about growing student population. This follows trend
with that and the orange line or the bottom line follows form as we've
historically we see a 1.8 ratio of participants to eligible members and
And the middle line shows you our per-employee per-year cost that I showed you a few moments ago.
In 2016, here it shows you the financials.
We had employees contribute $21.6 million.
The district contributed $30.1 million against claims of $49.9 million, giving us an operating gain of $1.8.
Presently, we project we'll have contributions from the employee population of 23.6, from the district contributing 32.3, against expected claims and administrative expenses of 55.1, leaving us a projected gain of $800,000.
dollars these numbers for 2018 we are basing our projection on 7164 employee
participants in the plan assuming there are no design changes plan changes
anything of this nature we are projecting a 2.4 million dollar loss to
to the plan this year.
The challenges that we're facing presently,
our spousal risk scores continue to rise, and that
basically the spouses that we are garnishing in our plan are getting
sicker number two ER versus urgent care costs significantly are impacting our
plan from the increased availability of standalone ER clinics in our area they
continue to pop up on every corner and we're educating our employees about the
cost differential in that they're very expensive and they're very expensive for
for the plan. Our high cost claimants continue to show an increase in long term conditions, which ties into the first bullet point. Our plan costs are driven by our population growth and our trend development. I've talked about this before. We're presently at about a 2.8 to a 3.0 percent trend. Trend is a fancy word for inflation.
and we continue to beat the national average which is anywhere from 9 to 11
percent so we're doing things right in that regard and the additional
Affordable Care Act requirements that we face I think I said in April if I had a
crystal ball to figure out what Congress was going to do regarding the Affordable
Care Act I'd be retired but at this moment we're still sitting we're still
waiting for Congress to vote or do anything so it's hard to make that determination.
Our strategies for 2018. Bullet point number one. I am very, very excited about this.
We are rolling out effective September 1st a telemedicine model with our carrier Aetna.
This basically allows an employee to call a doctor and say, doctor I've got a cough,
I've got an upset tummy. Doctor triages with the employee and or the plan participant and calls
them a script. It allows the employee to go to the doctor or not to have to go into urgent care or go
to the emergency room if it's a non-emergent situation and get that prescription. There are
There are many benefits to this.
We're going to see an uptick in our claims expenses going to drop.
We're going to see an uptick in absenteeism dropping.
It's really a service to our employees, not only from a healthcare perspective, but also
our students.
Because if we're able to keep our teachers in the classroom teaching and not having to
go to the doctor for their young child or a family member that's on the plan, then we've
we've gained some efficiencies there. We'll continue our educational campaign
to inform staff of the differentials between the standalone clinics and
urgent care clinics. We're going to strengthen our step therapy program
within our RX program, which means we're going to put some tighter controls on
the new drugs entering the market to prevent runaway over-prescribing of
medications to maintain costs and we're going to be looking at reduction in our
administrative costs of the program
the next two slides I'm showing you are slides that show the recent possible or
three percent raise for staff members and what our premium increase would be
If we do zero, obviously our premiums would stay the same.
I would point out in the Consumer Basic Limited employee only, the $92.
The ACA, the Affordable Care Act, mandates that we have an affordable plan,
and that's based against the federal poverty level.
That current level is $96.
KD offers the most affordable plan at $92,
dollars and that's very very important to note this next slide shows a tier
increase of a 1% 2% and a 1 or 2 percent across our tiers and it shows you the
dollar impact against that raised amount for the health plan and again I focus
bring down to the consumer basic limited square is $93 still the the Affordable
Care Act dictates that that level be at $96 we're ahead there and it's it's a
wonderful benefit these two slides are summarized in this in this slide here we
have a 2.4 million dollar projected loss the strategies that I mentioned before
of the pharmacy formulary impact and the telemedicine would be $508,000.
So that leaves us a deficit to share of $1.89 million.
If we did nothing to the premiums, we would still be looking at $1.8.
But if we increased 1% to 2% across the board,
that would impact the premiums in this offset of $345,000,
leaving a deficit from GOF of 1.55 million. Let's look what's happening in
Austin with TRS. I reported to you and I think it was in April about the
possibility of TRS kicking some districts out for the thousand or more
lives. That was basically table. The can was kicked down the street and here's
what they did across all three plans you see an average of nine to upwards 11
percent premium increase across their tiers they also increased the single
maximum out-of-pocket for each plan by $300 for single participants in family
participants by $600 so really when you roll the premium increase plus the
out-of-pocket maximum increase you're looking at well in the highest double
digit transfer of cost to those TRS plans and those districts and this slide
just basically shows you the plan participants there against their proposed
plans from the active care HD1 active care select active care 2 and the HMO
plans that they are offering and as you can see that is a very very expensive
undertaking that's going to be placed upon the employees participating in TRS.
The Affordable Care Act challenges for 2018. We continue to have to report
financially to the IRS through form 1095 C which is a very labor-intensive
process for us. There's a technology fee assigned to us that we have to incur.
incur other administrative burdens, we have to track all of our 30-hour employees to make
sure that we're in compliance with the law.
We report these hours to the federal government.
We have to report the employee's enrollment status on a frequent basis and answer all
the IRS inquiries if a person has signed up for one of the markets or our plans as well.
Voluntary products.
These are the products that our employees choose on their own that we go out to the market for.
And as you will see, the renewals are flat.
So we were able to keep those flat.
And we negotiated those rates two years ago, and this is just a continuation of going forward.
And our employee assistance program is no charge to the employees.
Briefly, another thing I think that is very important that we need to talk about, just kind
of bring you up to speed on, is we offer an administrative service to our retirees. We act
as a plan administrator for our retirees who are able to continue dental and life. We collect those
premiums on behalf of the retirees. We pay those premiums to the carriers. And then we also act as
a liaison between the carriers and the retirees, problem-solving the things that they may have. And
And this is really a really neat benefit for our folks who have served the district.
This slide shows you our EAP, our Employee Assistance Program.
The blue line shows our current year of activity against the green line of previous year.
I want to bring this up to you because this shows how in the previous year,
how our marketing effort of educating folks about EAP.
It's such a wide range of products and services they offer and our employees are continuing
to reach down and utilize those products.
Next steps.
We will continue to look at the options before us with our district leadership.
Consider and finalize and tweak those final options and we'll let the Benefit Advisory
Committee know of these actions.
and then in August we'll come to you with the final recommendations thereof.
And questions, and I wanted to answer your question from the last board meeting
about the big tax, so to speak.
The reinsurance tax fell into sunset last year.
We paid our last reinsurance tax.
That was a big number to the plan of about almost half a million dollars.
We're not responsible for that going forward.
However, the other administrative burdens are there is a cost to the plant.
We have to continue to manage the plant.
And I don't know what new fees or fines are going to be coming down the road if Congress
changes or does whatever they do in their infinite wisdom.
So I can't answer your question.
Thank you very much.
And I would entertain any questions you may have now.
Any questions?
questions all right thank you thank you mr. now I think before we go to consent
agenda we're gonna take a quick five-minute break give it a chance for
some of y'all to scoot on home if you'd like to because we still have 14 agenda
items to get to so you don't mind we're gonna take a quick five-minute break
will join us back here at 848 all right we will reconvene miss Holland will
start with our consent agenda item 5.1 mrs. Holland your first of three with us
tonight good evening madam president members of the board and dr. Hint the
The first item that we have for you tonight is the Memorandum of Understanding with Harris County Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program.
This is a memorandum that we bring to you each year.
There is no change.
I'm happy to report this year in cost at all.
It will still be we are asking for three seats at $110 per day per seat.
So identical to the contract that the board approved last year.
Any questions?
Okay, 5.2.
5.2 is our Memorandum of Understanding with Fort Bend.
This is for our Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program in that county.
We are asking for two seats.
Each of those seats is $7,000 for a total of $14,000 for the two seats.
This is the same price and the same number of seats as the board approved last year.
Any questions?
5.3
The next item is
our revised discipline management plan and student code of conduct that we're bringing for the board's review and approval.
Most of the changes in this year's plan are the result of legislation.
legislation. And so I think most of them are pretty self-explanatory. Senate Bill 179 changed
the definition of bullying slightly and so that is reflected in the plan. And they also
defined cyberbullying, which is under the bullying umbrella and we have included that
in our plan as well. Then also the legislators decided that we were not to suspend a student
below third grade outside of school unless they were engaged in drugs,
alcohol, weapon or violent acts. Fortunately in Katy that should not
impact us greatly. We don't have students in second first second grade and below
who bring alcohol and drugs and so forth to school so we don't anticipate them.
That will be great. One of the things we're really proud of in this plan and I
want to give public credit to our KD Improvement Council. We always struggle
every year with how to explain to our parents the various privacy codes, what
those mean and how it impacts them. We have a lot of creative people in our KD
Improvement Council representing parents, community members, business leaders,
educators, and so all of those people put their minds together and they said what
What about a question and answer type document in a chart?
So in this year's plan, we have a simple question and answer document with a chart that shows
the parent if you select yes, everything is shared.
Your child's information is subject to public information requests and so forth.
If you check no, we're not going to share anything about your child with anybody.
If you check other, then there are certain limited things that we will share about your
child. If they're in athletics, they'll be in the athletic program, but not subject to
public information requests or subject to other kinds of open requests. So we think
that everyone's very happy with the chart. We've run it by several groups and this is
so easy to understand. And that's what our goal was, to help our parents really be able
to understand what it was that they were selecting. In addition to some of the
things that are mandated by law, we believe that we first and foremost want
to protect our employees. We have in our plan now that we can, under certain
conditions, permissively remove a student to our DAEP if they assault an employee.
employee. If they assault an employee and there is an injury, then we have a mandatory
removal. And we have for some time had a process whereby a recommendation could be made for
a discretionary permissive placement to a committee. In making the change that we're
recommending for this year, there would be no committee necessary if an assault occurs,
occurs, whether that be assault by threat, assault by contact, it doesn't have to be
with injury, we don't want to have to wait for an injury to deal with that type of situation,
then we would simply have the option if the administration at the campus felt it was severe
enough that they could automatically ask for that permissive placement.
So we think that will be helpful to our campuses.
We also are recommending that if we have a student who's been assigned to a DAP, we give them three days of out-of-school suspension awaiting their placement at the OAC.
That gives them time to arrange for an intake at the OAC.
Then we, if we can't get a hearing, if the parent requests that at the campus within that timeframe,
then we do provide for an on-campus DAP awaiting the opportunity for their appeal. We found over
the last few years that sometimes parents will drag out that opportunity for the meeting and
all of those days on that campus are counting toward their placement at the OAC. That cost
the district a lot of money because we are hiring subs to man those classes and
it's the students are not getting the education they would get at the OAC
because it's not direct instruction from teachers teachers are sending work to
the on-campus DAP but it's not the same level so recommendation is we will allow
you up to three days after you return from suspension if you have to stay
longer only the three days will count towards your time at OAC and we think
that will help to expedite some of the hearings if they're necessary. So again,
we think that will be a cost-saving measure. We also think it will be an
opportunity to get those students into direct instruction with certified
teachers more quickly. We have incorporated in the plan, and we've done
this for several years, incorporated different phases of restorative
practices into our plan. We do by all means follow all the requirements of
Chapter 37 and what is required by law. But we're also trying to incorporate
some of those social-emotional kinds of learnings and opportunities for the
students through some of the restorative practices that have been in place. And we
We have a number of campuses who have been piloting the restorative practices.
We have two designated individuals in the district at the two major pilot campuses.
One of those is OAC and one of those is Martin Ranch.
And so far, the responses from those programs have been very beneficial.
One of the things that the OAC person does is when a student has been at the Opportunity
awareness center and is transitioning back to their home campus, then she will go to the campus and help them to do a restorative circle with that child returning.
And basically what it is, if the student agrees to participate, is different representatives from the campus will gather and they will talk with the student about how they can support him or her upon their return.
And then the student can openly talk about the things that he or she feels have contributed to their inability to be successful
so
We're seeing a lot of positive things that have come from those interactions
And go ahead Charles, thanks my president
Miss Holland when the students start the parents and the students start sign a form saying that they know the student code of conduct
During the year, are there any refreshers that go on for the student body?
Like occasionally, I guess the kids get their feelings hurt and they start doing
a little cyberbullying and then some things get out of control. During the
year, do we ever remind them of the student code of conduct? I send out memos sometimes when there's a pattern of
something that we see happening to our principals and ask them to talk to the
students. One example is every spring I send a memo to the principals, remind me
your seniors not to do something really foolish right here at the end that might
prevent them from walking at graduation. At the beginning of the school year we
provide each of our campuses, we develop a PowerPoint for elementary, one for
junior high, and one for high school that gives a brief synopsis of some of the
major things of the discipline management plan that we think students
need to know. Campuses do the updates in different ways, probably not done as
frequently at elementary as maybe at the secondaries but how those campuses
manage that or when they feel the need to do an update is more or less left to
them but sometimes they will call us and ask can you support us in some way to
prepare for some type of an update and we're always happy to do that thank you
madam president mrs. Holland you and I've been around long enough we can
actually remember when the discipline handbook became the lead story in the
Houston Chronicle that's right look I have some concerns about discipline I
don't know if they're episodic or systemic but I think the appropriate
person for me to ask the questions are to direct them to dr. Hinn because on a
scale of 1 to 10 we've got a lot of things going in this district and this
may not be the priority that needs to distract a lot of time but the only time
I can do this and talk to the board at the same time is in open session right
because we don't do rolling quorums and all the board members understand that
dr. Hinn I could use many of examples among last two or three questions and I
would just like you to to address how you how you address this if a student
stands up in a classroom and calls a teacher a pejorative phrase the first word being an outright
profanity and the second word of that phrase being a female slur ending in ITCH should that student
be returned to the campus to that classroom the next day under this discipline program
Secondly, if an overweight female teacher is teaching her class and a student calls her fat,
we can use that F word, fat, with the female pejorative, should that student come back into
the classroom the next day? And are we really looking at, do we need to look ahead, maybe at
the start of next year do we need to look ahead to figure out a quality
control process that really lets us look at what rank-and-file teachers often
confront because there is a belief among some that teachers are at fault for
aberrant behavior of individual students and if no one expresses that outrightly
if a student walks into the classroom the next morning as a triumphant hero
that would be nonverbal communication to that teacher how do we address that as a
board in what kind of timeline yeah two questions you asked me and they're very
similar questions I mean it's profanity directed towards an employee or
profanity directed towards a student in the body of a classroom out in the
hallway wherever it may be and I think that you're relating it to the
restorative practices or the restorative circles first of all let me make it very
clear that restorative practices and restorative circles are after
disciplines been assessed and the student has met the expectations of that
discipline under this discipline plan you have level two and level three
disciplines profanity as you described it is a level three that has up to three
days suspension if it's happened or occurred multiple times there's
additional steps that we can take it could be out of school suspension it
could be in school suspension but my take on restorative practices is
restorative practices really don't fall in line with level three disciplinary
offenses but you're asking me what my expectation is if that happened in my
school when I was a building principal many many moons ago that student would
would not be back in that classroom the next day,
probably wouldn't be back in that classroom for three days.
And if we were going to do restorative practices after that,
we've got to put some onus on the parent.
The parent is going to be part of that process
when they bring that child back to school
in order for us to deal with the discipline.
The way you described it only leads a student
to continue to do those disciplines.
And I've got three or four great assistant superintendents back there.
One of them two of them have known me a long time two of them have gotten to know me in the last year
And I think that's their expectations as well
Now let me address that restorative circles though I
Think miss Holland said it very appropriately
That it's piloting and those pilots are only after there
They have had extensive training and right now we only have five schools that are
Working with the restorative practices
Correct me if I'm wrong Morton Ranch High School. We got the OAC Simon youth
I think it's West Memorial Elementary School Taylor High School and Taylor High School
No other schools unless they've gone through the excessive training and that training would be just as I explained it
But it doesn't take place of a severe discipline
It's included with after the disciplines assessed and the child has met that
All right, so I want to make it very clear that that is my expectation as superintendent of schools
Now I would like to go back though to one thing and I want to make sure that we we hit this also
That directory information that we talked about of that disclosable information
Not only does it simplify it for our our parents
But when I started meeting with my teacher leadership form
form, one of the first months I was here, I saw on this screen seven things that these
parents could choose from, which meant that we could have a class of 24 kids that half
of them, they could have all seven plans.
And I said there's no way that our teachers can teach and at the same time try and track
that.
Not only does it simplify it for parents, it simplifies it for our teachers.
MS. Madam President, Mrs. Holland, thank you for your presentation. I have a couple
of questions. You said something about children cannot be expelled, I think the word is, if
they're in K-3.
MS. They cannot be out of school suspended.
MS. Out of school suspended. What happens, because we have some babies K-3 who
who kind of need some of that discipline.
What is in place for KDISD students
for necessary discipline?
Do we have those levels that exist there too,
Dr. Hant, right, level one, two?
We have, of course, in-school suspension,
we have timeout, we have behavior contracts,
we have a variety of things.
One of the things that we have in KD that's unique to us
it's an overnight suspension and basically what that is is a mandatory
conference with the parent. It doesn't take the child out of class necessarily
the you know but it's an opportunity to communicate with the parent directly
that we're having some serious problems with this child and we need your help. We
do have some students who are challenging in those grades as far as
the reasons for granting an out-of-school suspension that is now in
statute. I don't think we're going to have very many removed for drugs, alcohol,
violent behavior or any of those things that they've listed as reasons. But I
think the main thing that we have seen since the original passage of chapter
37 in 1995 is that there is a clear message being sent by the legislature
and it has increased over the years is they want students left in school and in
in class. You know in 1995 they put in DAP students were no longer expelled to
the streets and one by one we are seeing a greater emphasis on keeping those
students in school in class and it does present real challenges for the campus
because we heard our Commissioner just the past Commissioner talk about how we
were using too much in school suspension that we should keep school you know
know students in school in class but you know they need to visit some schools
because I think our administrators on campuses do a great job of trying to
balance these requirements but at the same time have an orderly and safe
environment for all students so mrs. Holland do we have an out-of-school
suspension for any elementary schools if they're above third grade we do have
some out-of-school suspensions that's not the first option that any that go to
the OAC I'm sorry not to know that would it's not a to the OAC out of school
suspension is suspended to home
They're not suspended. The district,
disciplinary alternative education
program is currently for secondary
students. If we have an elementary
student who is in need of a DAP for
short-term, we will create an on-campus
DAP for an elementary child that needs
to be removed for a period of time. At
their home campus probably? At their home
campus. I see, okay. I just have a lot of
teacher friends and I hear some concerns that some of our babies some of our
smallest babies sometimes need it's just too disruptive to everyone else you know
when a kindergarten teacher is trying to keep 22 babies all focused and you have
one very very disruptive one hard that it it now if the student is below the
age of six we cannot place them in a DAEP okay regardless of the first grade
teachers say though there are restrictions on the kinds of removals
that we have at our disposal now if the student is disruptive and they are a
student in special education you know there are some special provisions and
opportunities for them we have a past program for some students who can go and
be reoriented and and that's helpful right that again you know more and more
we're being restricted on the kinds of removals that can make okay so that
answered my second question on 11 a mandatory placement in a DAEP we do have
the a EP for elementary it's created on the campus on their home campus uses a
teacher um or we have a substitute teacher we get a sub I apologize my
number 11 is a different question okay mandatory removal for assault of
employee because our our assistant principals and teachers some elementary students have um you know
some of our elementary employees also have that but that daep is on the camp it would be on the
home campus is that um so does every campus have one and would it be better for us to have a
district-wide something like we have for secondary students because i'm thinking if you have one
one student at a campus, that one student has to have a certified employee of some kind
to be with them.
I'm assuming a lot here, Dr. Hemp.
Is that what you're thinking?
We use a sub for them.
One of the issues that you have with elementary students is the period of removal because
most of the time if you ask an elementary child who's third, fourth grade and you ask
them why are you here that the answer is often I don't know after so many days
but again we want to remove that student make them understand because while
they're in that on campus DAP they are isolated it's very autocratic you have
the substitute and the student they don't go to lunch they don't leave that
room for any point during the day we did have at one point in the district some
some years ago, we had some centralized programs for students with behavior problems.
One of those was at West Memorial Elementary.
But the feedback we got then was it was not very effective
because you were bringing all of those elementary students together
from across the district who had problems,
and then you were having to have very low pupil-teacher ratios.
And then because the time frame they were there was so short,
it was like a revolving door all the time which wasn't that effective let me
speak to my experience that helps me understand a little better than I try
with elementary students and setting up a district or a centralized program you
actually it is not efficient with expenditures because there will be
periods of time where we don't have a large number of kids there and period of
times when we might and as as Holland said a lot of times you don't want to
put those kids together in the same room for a period of time and it's more cost
efficient for us to do it at standalone that's the answer I was seeking and
that we've tried that opposite for the secondary I agree and I have substituted
at the OAC and I understand the benefit of that and the and I agree 100% with
not sending kids home or to the street absolutely we will educate them and we
do a good job I I was just had a couple of questions of share conversations I'd
had and you've answered them and I appreciate it thank you you're welcome
anybody else have any thank you item 5.4 consider future board approval of an
amendment of the 2016-17 contract with Harris County Department of Education
for therapy services mr. Malche Canadian president van board members and dr. hint
With regards to the first item, the Board of Trustees actually approved the 2016-17 Harris County Department of Ed contract in fall 2016.
However, due to the early start of school this year, we had to write an addendum to cover OTPT and music therapy services.
So this addendum just covers that so our students are covered for that month because the early start kind of affected that time.
That's about that item.
them and then the second item is our 2017-18 Harris County Department of Education contract
for occupational therapy physical therapy and music therapy for the new school year for your
review so that's that's for New Year with the same population of kids do you have any questions about
that thank you very much item 5.6 miss Butterfield instead of future board approval of the July 2017
2017 budget amendment
Good evening president van trustees
Superintendent hint tonight
We have three revenue related budget amendments in the general operating fund and each of these has
offsetting expenditure budgets these include
$5,500 for human resources for highly qualified testing regarding
related to Title I campuses for paraprofessional employees.
$81,271 for Katy Virtual Schools increased student participation in courses
and $112,000 for concessions and catering,
and each of those three have offsetting expenditure increases
increases resulting in no change to the general fund operating
general operating fund balance
the debt service fund however is
increasing the expenditure budget by two million fourteen thousand two hundred and ninety dollars to defuse
3.8 million in series o7c bonds
approval of this amendment will result in a two million fourteen thousand two hundred and ninety dollar decrease
to the debt service fund balance mr. Scott on the virtual school which
document is that in place what page virtual school is on the budget
amendments I'm not too worried about this amendment because it's to cover a
thing I just want to say something as a policy level or the for the next budget
18 budget I really believe that this is a program that if we need to put more
money into research and development how to expand this program and I don't
please I had a great meeting with the folks that are involved in this when I
make this statement it's not about them if we need to get additional people or
expertise that they can pull from within the district I think this is a program
that that if we do what we need to as a board to let our staff see how far they
can take this in five years from now it will it will save money produce money
and improve the quality of education and I think the people that we could
initially target beyond mean as an expanded not we are targeting kids but
but as an expanded, I see one of the things, part of the region, part of the Engage to Learn
was talking about personalized learning experiences.
Okay?
Dr. Hint, you and I have talked about this.
One of the problems that we have, and I don't think there's any curriculum people in KDISD
that would dispute this, how you deal with it is one thing.
We have classes that have tremendous disparity of academic skill sets of kids.
they're not all GT AP classes they're not all second tier classes I just
really believe that this technology driven this interactive technology
driven program is something that we really should look at in 2018 and if
necessary like a little bit of that budget reserves and and do some
additional research and development to see how we can take that to the next
level I can't imagine anybody better able to do that than the professional
staff that Katie ISD has absolutely you know that was a conversation we actually
had this morning because $81,000 81,000 271 and you teed it up for me again
thank you I didn't even know I was too that was for an increase in enrollment
in that program so we're seeing an increase in Roman but not only for the
reasons you talked about but we're seeing a need for maybe dual language I
mean dual credit being offered through the virtual school network in
conversations with HCC right now they can't feel the need of certified
quality teachers to meet the need of dual credit here in the district so yes
we're having conversations about it I just can't throw the money at it right
now until we have a plan to bring my board and say this is the reason but I
would agree in 1819 we need to make sure that we have a plan presented to the
board starting in the spring of how we believe we can increase the opportunity
for kids in the district and maybe even look at opportunities that we can get a
little bit of cash back from offering students maybe outside I really think
that there is a market there and I that's why I'm saying not necessarily
implementation funds but research and development funds how would you do it a
year from now and I don't I would like for there to be some money in the budget
or something that is just pure academics this is as close to purity as you can
get believe me Kathy and John they've all come to me saying I want I want I
want and I've said let's get a plan in place and let's not ask for small
incremental amounts let's get a plan and show the board what we believe we can do
based on data and then ask for the whole amount I'm for it
yes okay Thank You mr. Phil item 5.7 mr. Smith
you
we what you have there is a copy of the notice of the publication that we're
going to publish in the august third copy of the kd times we'll be starting to work on that
we're going to dive in next week and work on that that is a standard required by truth and
taxation of the comptroller's office to to publish that what we normally do is we do publish rates
and in there we'll publish the dollar 1266 and a 39 cent tax rate and just really wanted to
get your acknowledgement that we are going to send that to press um on august the third
And in that, it'll also mention that we'll have the work on August the 17th, which I believe is the work study, that we will publish that, that we will have the public meeting to discuss the budget and the proposed tax rate, which will be voted on in September.
Any questions for Mr. Smith?
Thank you very much.
item 5.8 consider future board approval of the proposal for the district-wide
security upgrade package for six mr. young
good evening president van and trustees and superintendent hint I would like to
share with you that this is barely my third time presenting to the board and
on the first time I developed a script to help me in presenting the second time
I thought I had mastered my skills in presentation to the board and I did not
use a script so but I find them I found myself a little tongue-twisted that time
so I would like to let you know that I'm back to using a script hey we work off of a
script too all right don't worry about it i apologize this will probably not be not be the
most engaging presentation you have heard tonight uh without further ado i'm here to present a
proposal being recommended for contract award for the district-wide security package number six
as implied by the title of the title of this agenda this is the sixth district-wide security
upgrade package being presented to the board since the initial rollout of these security
upgrade projects. These projects were approved in connection with a 2014 bond
with a purpose of updating the security access and controls at all district
facilities with integrated security systems and hardware. In continuation
with this series of projects, security upgrade number six includes the
upgrading of entrances with access card readers at the following 14 schools.
schools.
Cardiff Junior High School, Maid Creek Junior High School, Morton Ranch Junior High School,
Seven Lakes Junior High School, West Memorial Junior High School, Wood Creek Junior High
School, Katy High School, Taylor High School, Katy ISD Law Enforcement, that's not a school,
Beck Junior High School, Katy Junior High School, McDonald Junior High School, McMeans
Junior High School, and last but not least, Raines High School and Opportunity Awareness
Center.
To ensure the best value for the district, the KDISD Construction, Technology, and Emergency Management Departments, in collaboration with PBK, MEP Group, issued a request for proposals, and upon evaluation of the two vendor responses received from FISC and Division 1, the district, it was determined that the FISC's proposal offers the best value to the district.
Although FISC was not the lowest priced vendor, their pricing proposal was competitive and FISC has proven to be successful with other similar projects within the district.
district. With that said, the recommendation is to award the contract to FISC at a not-to-exceed
cost of $4,368,073, which includes all software, hardware, and an owner's contingency of 7%
to cover any unforeseen conditions or changes that may be required during construction.
The project would start upon award of the contract and the majority of the work would
be scheduled for completion by December 15th 2017 except for Katy High School
and Taylor High School which would be scheduled for completion by March 1st
2018 if approved this this project would be funded with a 2014 bond funds at this
time I would like to turn it over to you for any questions any questions Thank
Thank you, Mr. Hint.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Next, we have item 5.9.
Mr. T, consider future board approval of the method of purchase for the renovation of the
May Creek High School Baseball Field Complex.
Good evening, Madam President, Board Members, Superintendent Hint.
I'm here this evening to bring to you a recommendation that the Board of Trustees approves the method
of purchase for the renovation of Maid Creek Baseball Complex as using the
competitive seal proposal method. The competitive seal proposal method will
give the best value to the district for this renovation project at Maidy Creek
High School Baseball Complex. Next month the department will be bringing the
recommendation for the award of this project to the board for its
consideration.
Questions?
Mr.
Madam President,
almost bedtime for me.
Are they going to basically duplicate
what's at the other baseball complexes in the
district? Yes, sir. We're going to bring
Maid Creek up to our district standard.
And what is the time frame that that turn's going to be?
Are they going to be able to be there this spring
for their season,
or are they going to have to play elsewhere for a couple of years?
No, sir. We are anticipating to have the project finished, be substantially complete, but prior to the opening of the 18-ball season.
Outstanding. Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Item 5.10.
Consider future board approval of a proposal for the construction manager at risk contract for the comprehensive renovations at Colville and Patterson Elementary Schools.
Mrs. Kassman.
Sorry. Good evening, President Vann, Board of Trustees, and Dr. Hint.
I have three items to present to you this evening.
The first item is the recommendation for the construction manager at risk for the renovations at Galbone-Pattison Elementary.
These are the last two major projects in the 2014 bond with an estimated total project cost of $15.5 million each.
each. Seven proposals were received in May 2017 and they were ranked not only on their
cost which includes their fee and pre-construction services but their performance and extent
to which their services meets the district needs and past relationship with the district.
Subsequent to the evaluations, Brookstone ranked first overall with a fee of 1.75% and
and pre-construction services at a cost of $22,500.
Fees range from 1.75 to 4.95,
and pre-construction range from 22.5 to 50,000.
I have representatives from Brookstone
and the architect in the audience.
Questions?
Thank you.
Move on to 5.11.
The second item is the plat for Katy Junior High.
In recent years we have brought forward these plats as part of new construction.
When Katy Junior High was opened in 1995 this was not a requirement of permitting.
We have now requested to have this parcel platted as part of the city permitting process
and it includes right of way for future construction on Katy-Hockley and approval of this plat
will allow for this part of the permit process to be completed.
Questions?
Thank you very much Ms. Gassman.
One more? 5.12.
Did she say that it wasn't?
Sometimes it pays to be deaf.
Go ahead, Ms. Kemp.
The last item is another step in the Ag Science Facility.
This amendment to Stuart Builders allows for the clearing and grubbing of the site
outside of the barns and other existing facilities in preparation for the final phase.
We are close in our agreements for drainage and utilities.
Since the update of the floodplain maps in July of 2015, we have conducted preliminary studies that provide information to Harris County.
We are targeting the commencement of construction late this fall and have the facility open for events in February 2019.
Any questions?
Okay. Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Next we have item 5.13. Consider future board endorsement of a nominated individual for the
Texas Association of School Boards, TASB, director position for region 4, position B.
Madam President, if I could just jump in here. Charles Cunningham from Umbilized D is the only
candidate for region 4 position B I've worked with him and Tassby in the past
years and he's really awesome and he's he's the incumbent and the only nominee
so I think we can just recommend him to move forward on consent agenda that's
okay with you is everybody good with recommending Charles Cunningham of
humble ISD okay all right and then our vote on Monday would just be in the
consent agenda and give him our votes yep all right thank you very much moving
Moving on to item 5.14, consider future board approval of a delegate, an alternate delegate,
for the 2017 Texas Association of School Boards TASB Delegate Assembly.
I will entertain a nomination from the board for these two positions.
Madam President, it is my recommendation that the Board of Trustees approves Bill Lacey
as the official KISD voting delegate in the 2017 TASB delegate assembly in Dallas, Texas on October 7, 2017 and approves.
Anybody?
Mr. President?
I think that's a fantastic idea.
He's not going to try to lead a palace coup at TASB as he could.
could my question is does mr. Lacey have the hours he needs that was going to be
my question yeah I think it's a brand new board member mr. Lacey run your
hours it's um the learning opportunities that we have at that convention might be
more beneficial to you than being a delegate but feel free it's about four
hours on an afternoon you get one hour of credit to do it we do it for four
hours and get one hour credit yeah that seems fair right and it's right visiting
And it is
Cold-should I counter and nominate mrs. Fox?
I'm what guys I'm gonna be there. I'm happy to represent Katie is Steve that's
If someone needs to
Okay, so you're good on your hours. That's not don't know okay?
Make sure you're because this is no way
Are you sure? Okay.
All right. So we have Bill Lacey nominated with a second from Mr.
Mahalsky. Will you take the alternate?
Are you assuredly going to show up?
What is this? Because I do need hours.
Mrs. Noack, this is
on this is already on our calendar right it is and i believe i think you and i discussed this is on a
break um for both my son's football schedule now i don't know about your son's football schedule but
i've got it on my calendar you have it on your calendar okay then i'm good yeah i should be there
i'm happy to be the alternate if you promise to be there i'll be happy to be that's what he said
but because mr mahalski needs the hours in case something happens i'd be happy to do the
alternate 99.9 sure that you'll like doing it I know that I'm planning on being there and I'm
virtually 100 sure okay it's interesting but none of us are volunteering to do it let's have Lacey
as the delegate and I think Ms. Fox should be the alternate since you do need your hours
so we'll move that forward on consent yeah that on consent for item 5.14
for moving to agenda number six open forum we had nobody sign up tonight so
there is will be no open forum tonight we can move to agenda item seven
information item which is a board member report from our region for position e
Texas Association of School Boards has the board of director mr. George Scott
well I was going to go to Dallas and have a good time now I'm gonna have to
to be looking over my shoulder I appreciate I appreciate president van
letting me do this because it's important to me I want to express the
appreciation I'm I really appreciate being given the opportunity to represent
the board on TASB I've had several I've already put a lot of time into it
getting ready for Austin next week but I think something here is symbolic this is
the district's position it's not George Scott's board seat and I want to give
just a brief report tonight that the discussions I've had with mr. Crowe who
is the executive director have dealt with some of the issues that are
directly out of our engaged to learn and that is what what is the role of TASB
in assessment and looking at these issues of finance.
And so I think I'm off to a positive start,
but I think it's very important that as we go along,
that as issues come up, that I be in contact with the president
and the superintendent, and that going forward, from this time forward,
that whoever has the honor of being the board's TASB representative
representative needs to stay in regular contact with the board because I want to
represent our interest the district's interest and I believe that I'm so so
pumped about what has come out of the engaged to loan process and I see that
there is potentially some things that we can do at TASB and I think we're off
to a positive start in that regard so thank you for that thank you very much
mr. Scott item number eight future meeting our regular board meeting will
be next Monday July 24th 2017 this very room so with that number nine there'll
be no further business before the board this meeting is adjourned the time is 9
39 p.m.
Official documents
Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 3.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees adopts the attached Resolution authorizing the sale of 25.22 acres of surplus property on the north side of Pine Forest Lane, west of State Highway 6 and north of Interstate 10, to Harris County for a sales price of $3,300,000.
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 approves the terms as outlined in the non-binding Letter of Intent to purchase 14.41 acres of property on the south side of Morton Road between Porter Road and Highway 99 for a future elementary school site and further authorizes the Board President to act on a contract for this property at the requested same purchase price.
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 |