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We are in compliance with the Open Meetings Act with regards to the meeting and the posting tonight.
night. Do we have any scouts joining us this evening? Okay. So we'll move on to agenda for public hearing 4.1 presentation of the 2017-2018 budget and
proposed tax rate. Now Mr. Smith I told them you were gonna have a problem but I I knew that you were a smart guy and we make that turn.
Thank you.
All right, well, I'm going to give a brief budget update. We talked about this ad nauseum over the first nine months of the year, and we adopted our budget, and we're meeting a technicality to have this discussion one more time. So a lot of the slides that you've seen tonight, you all have seen before. In fact, you saw them again on August the 23rd and on August the 31st. But as we discussed then, August 31st is the deadline for any board of trustees to adopt their budget. That's our last day of our fiscal year. You guys, I'm proud to say, adopted our budget on August the 31st. Unscheduled, it was supposed to be a couple days earlier, but Hurricane Harvey, and I appreciate that we appreciate the adjustment of August 31st so we met that requirement section 28 26.08 is kind of why we're here and we republished our ad in the paper that we are having this meeting that was done I guess late late September as well as early August the ad speaks to the budget that this meeting the proposed tax rates which are $1.5166 that's the same rate we've had the last three years. It speaks to the property values etc. So this slide is kind of another part of why we're here the governor's proclamation of a natural disaster in our three counties Harris, Waller, and Fort Bend County. There's a picture of those proclamations by the governor and when we developed the budget you saw that we used assumptions of two percent enrollment growth to 77,233 students. When it says currently at 77,495 that was as of Wednesday of last week we were 77,495 which is significantly over not significantly but over budget already from an enrollment growth standpoint. But as of Friday afternoon we were at 77,553 students. So we've grown another 58 students and are about 320 over what we had budgeted for this year. So the growth continues even through the uncertain times of Hurricane Harvey we continue to grow daily. Of course we opened three campuses that are part of this budget and our tax base grew 6.2 percent to 38.6 billion dollars. Now that's going to be an uncertain as we move forward throughout this year because of Hurricane Harvey and the reappraisal process but it was it was still be somewhere around five and a half to six percent probably from a gross standpoint. Of course it's been delivered now and teacher paychecks the 3.1 percent that you approved over last summer and the non teachers of 3% in the midpoint. I've heard a lot of positive feedback and gratitude to the board and the superintendent for that and so that's happening and has been for several weeks now. And then of course we discussed the development of this budget on the $51.66 tax rate. Again that's the same but we were able to lower it two years ago and it stays the same total rate of $1.5166 for the third year. Tax rates and budgetary impact at section 26.08 increases revenue to KDISD of approximately 1.6 percent. We're not ready to put that in the budget amendment yet, but we will probably in December or January. So far as the general fund, that's exactly as this last was on August the 23rd but because of the events of Hurricane Harvey you we expect tax revenues to change other local revenues with our insurance claim to go up we expect state funding because of section 26.08 and the Austin yield to go up slightly and then federal revenue based on our FEMA claim eventually when we'll have a budget amendment that will amend all three of those as we move forward and things become a little more clear. This is the the makeup of our revenue and how it looks. That's going to change slightly because of Harvey and the things I just told you about. As far as the general fund expenditures, 88% is in salary and benefits. Although the dollar amount of salary and benefits won't change, that percentage will slightly decrease because of the expenses associated with Hurricane Harvey are almost all or 99.5% of them will be in that's that 12% piece. So that 12% is going to increase. In fact, tonight's budget amendments, uh, on top of what we approved in September, tonight's budget amendments that Miss Butterfield will present to you tonight will increase total of $17 million. So that gold piece will go up $17 million or about 3% because of Harvey salaries, 595 almost $596 million in salary and benefits. That budget won't change as a result of Harvey and non payroll costs that will change as a result of Harvey. Again those increases of total of 17 million dollars and and then that's what we know of now. There are still more to come will be in the non allocations there of the 14.3 million dollars. So you can expect that to change. Again this is a different look at our budget and where we expend our money. You can see the 88 percent in salary and benefits and again that that purple and the green slices will change because of Hurricane Harvey. Again, most of our money is spent in instruction on the far left, by far the mass vast majority and that's where it should be spent is in the classroom. But we will be expending more in that yellow section because of Hurricane Harvey. So our general fund because of Harvey, it has changed from when I presented this in August in the form of budget amendments and it will continue to iron out over these next two or three months, maybe even longer as we move away from the storm. Food service budget, that's going to change because of Harvey. I will say that because the district was able to provide free lunches to all students for the month of September and October, the local revenues will fall. however that should be offset by the increase in federal revenues and then I expect expenditures to go down because we were ten days less in serving food and so there will be ten days less expenditures but again September December or January likely when we will know those numbers for sure debt service fund because of twenty six point oh eight will expect the property tax revenues to go down slightly. However, that'll be offset by general fund fund balance, a transfer out for the equal amount. And so we have it, we adopted, you adopted a two million four hundred ninety four increase to fund balance in that fund and I expect that to be the same. Again, it'll make some changes to everything above it, but the net change to fund balance should stay the same over the next couple of months. So that's, these are just a little bit slicier as far as more data for our three funds together. It's the required TEA format. I won't go into those numbers. Again, they're just changing. So tonight we've reviewed our assumptions. We've talked about Harvey related adjustments associated with 26.08 and the fact that we are having to amend the budget, et cetera, from when we talked back in early August. 17.5 million dollars of expenditures to date. Y'all will see some of that tonight in the budget amendment that Miss Butterfield presents and there's more to come. Local and state revenues are adjusted. Tax revenues are going to change because of tax collections, whether they're slowed or and then the reappraisal process will probably change that. And again, we'll amend the budget as necessary in the next few months. Insurance proceeds we have received $5 million today. We expect to receive a lot more than that but until until we receive it it's it's uh it's a big question mark still so we'll we that should be coming uh but uh and we'll amend the budget when we get the funds and not amend it on speculation of what we think the claim should be uh state revenues again that's going to change because our tax efforts going to increase and i will say that this is kind of new as of last week uh that cptd audit spoke with mr pavonka last week in fact i've got got a box in my office that I'm going to take to Austin myself. Uh, he's done in his annual audit of our property values, which is an annual thing. And I think the results of that should yield about 4.5 to $5 million in additional state revenues. That's not in the amended budget. I won't amend the budget until that's a known from the comptroller's office. But I'm real pleased that Mr Mr. Polanco has done that again on our behalf. FEMA, again, there's a question mark by that. We're working through the FEMA claim. We spoke to FEMA at 2 o'clock this afternoon for the first time. We had our, I forget what the meeting was called, but we had our first meeting with them at 2 o'clock today. As far as long-term considerations that we're thinking about, the student enrollment trends, the growth continues, but at what pace? Well, as of these last couple of weeks, it's been at an increased pace. Again, you saw that we added 58 students from Thursday or Wednesday of last week to Friday. It's just in two days. And that continues. Permanently and temporarily relocated, we've kind of shuffled some students around. And that will work itself out over time. And property values, changing property values are going to probably go down because of the reappraisal process. And that's the right thing to do. and then the values some values as I understand it may be dropped from our roles eventually I don't know when but eventually and then it we've averaged a trend of property value growth about a little over 9% expect to see property value growth you still see houses going up and businesses that support the folks in the houses but at what pace is it going to slow that pace down from our average of 9% probably but nothing fortunately all our assumptions that we views are conservative in nature and reflect not as robust as what our average has been. Property insurance premiums, we're all going to see it. Whether we were affected or not, we're all going to see increases in our property insurance premiums, rate increases. And then I know the district always continuously looks at its coverage limits. We're going to have to continue that. and based on this experience make sure that we're okay. Again, I think we have adequate insurance for the for the event but we will need to look at that again. Knowing what we know now it gives us a different focus on it. Transportation cost increases. We've seen a big increase in our transportation cost. Transporting what you know it's it sounds bad but it's a homeless students. We have a lot of displaced students is a better term, displaced students, and our transportation costs over these last few weeks has really increased. Labor force movement and inflationary costs, those are yet to be seen, but we do think that that will present some challenges that we'll have to have to work manage through. Again, you can see our tax rate history for eight years. We had a $1.53 or $1.5266 is a tax rate and we were able to lower that two years ago and a dollar fifty to a dollar fifty one six six or it says a dollar fifty two on the slide and we're I'm pleased to be able to say that we're still going to be recommending a dollar fifty two or a dollar fifty one six six is the total tax rate tonight and thank you that's really all I have for the budget hearing
Mr. Griffin. Mr. Smith, you and your team, awesome job. Thank you. Keeping us up to date throughout the year has been awesome. I assumed that these extra expenditures are coming out of the fund balance, and that's part of the reason that you brief us on the fund balance every year. Has any of this extra cost put any pressure on the fund balance to give you any worry?
No. Yes, yes, yes and no. Yes, it gives you worry anytime you're using that fund balance or the savings. We do have a little over three months operating supply, operating cash. We are using this. Every bit we've spent so far is all coming out of fund balance. That does, this is the time of year where we are at our lowest in cash balances, but it's not to the level where, you you know, there's a cash flow concerns at this point. Um, I do, I have had correspondence and have had folks call and say, hey, if you need a tax anticipation notes, et cetera, because apparently some some jurisdictions are having some cash flow problems. But because y'all been good stewards of the fund balance, we should be, we should be okay.
There's got some of the cash balances will be compensated over the course of of the year through reimbursements, correct?
We hope so.
It's expected.
Through the insurance claim, through the Austin yield, and through FEMA. We hope to be able to recover, but even then, we're not going to be able to recover things like if value grows close, insurance premium increases.
Mr. Mahofsky.
Mr. Smith, I appreciate and obviously keeping the tax rate flat and all that, but there is a little bit of a shift between M&O and debt service and what we're doing here. And I guess my question is more around what's the long-term effect of that? What happens next year when we go to set the tax rate and all of those?
Next year when we go to set the tax rate, we probably, because of the, we may be in an opportunity to do that again. end. I think the long term repercussion is is uh if if the district spent the Austin yield on something that recurred was recurring. It's it's there to get us through this tough time and it should. We just can't spend it on something
that will repeat itself annually. I guess if I could follow up with that, if I might. Does that mean that because this is basically allowed because of of the emergency proclamation and all of that, does it automatically revert once that is no longer in place?
Yes. Yes, it will.
Mr. Scott. Mr. President, the net effect of the change in the tax rate is to increase state aid.
Is to increase state aid and the Austin yield. Yes, sir.
And we have a two-year window available to the board to increase state aid beyond what the state finance would normally pay us without us raising the tax rate. That is correct. Yes sir.
So the two years you were talking about is that 16 and 17 because of when the
disasters were? Help me with that a little bit. It's 26.08 states the year following the the natural disaster. So we are the natural disaster happened in our in August of our 16-17 tax year of budget year. September 1 started the 17-18 budget year and we are in the year after that. So are we saying that same event
then is actually applicable for two years because... Let me make it very
simple because we all recognize events as names. You had a tax day flood and then you had the hurricane slash tropical storm flood. We've put in for 26.08 to take advantage of state revenue at about 11 million dollars a year based upon the language of being declared a disaster zone. Tax day flood we were declared both Fort Bend Harris and Waller as a disaster zone as well as the most recent event which is the hurricane slash tropical storm. So we are anticipating utilizing the tax day flood in one year and then the storm in year two with the potential receiving 22 million from the state over those two
year period of time. Which would be over the 2017-18 year and then potentially the
2018-19. That is correct when we received it based on the year previous. Okay. Now Now, if they come back and say because of when the event occurred and when actually the declaration occurred, we know for sure we qualify for the one. We're going to make the state tell us which one and then seek the reimbursement on the other.
And as you will see tonight at $17.5 million, we are out far more than that in expense. and the Austin yield will be very nice and help, not with cash flow, but with our financial condition moving forward.
Any other questions? Okay. Thank you very much, Mr. Smith. We move to item 4.2, receive public input regarding the 2017-18 budget and proposed tax rate. We've had no individuals request to speak regarding this budget and proposed tax rate that did not sign up prior to the start of the meeting. So we can move on to agenda item 5, 5.1, our recognitions. Peace Officer Oath of Office for the Katy Independent School District.
President Vann, Board Members, and Superintendent Hitt, newly commissioned peace officers are required to publicly swear a firm and oath of office. Tonight we have one newly commissioned officer. I would like to ask officer Christopher Pickering to come forward to take the oath and be recognized as a member of Katy, the Katy EISD Police Department.
Can you raise your right hand and repeat after me? I, Christopher Pickering, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the duties of the Office of Peace Officer of Katy Independent School District of the State of Texas and will, to the best of my ability, the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend, preserve, protect, and defend, the Constitution, the Constitution, and laws, and laws, of the United States, of the United States, and of this state, and of this state, so help me God, so help me God. Congratulations.
Chris's early childhood took place internationally due to his father's work in the oil industry. However, his family finally settled down in Katy, Texas. Chris attended elementary school, junior high, and high school in Katy Independent School District. Chris's mom is a retired Katy Independent School District teacher who taught at multiple schools within the district. Chris graduated from Taylor High School in 2001. Taylor High School in 2001. After graduation, Chris attended Baylor University and received a Bachelor of Business Administration in 2005. 2005. He returned to Katy Independent School District as a substitute teacher and a contract worker at the Leonard Merrill Center. In February 2007, Chris was hired by the United States Border Patrol. He served nearly eight years as a Border Patrol agent at the El Paso Station. While in the Border Patrol, he served on the Bike Patrol and Tunnel Team. He also helped initiate the El Paso Sector real program which mentored at-risk youth in the public education system. The assignment sparked an interest in working with youth in the educational setting. In 2014, Chris's wife, Melanie Ray, had an opportunity for career advancement in Los Alamos, New Mexico. So Chris resigned his position with the Border Patrol. For almost three years, Chris was a stay-at-home dad as well as a part-time seminary student at the Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, utilizing their online campus. Chris and his family returned to Katy in 2016 and he began studying for the Texas Peace Officer exam. He passed the test in April and was hired by the Katy Independent School District Police Department in July of 2017. 17. Currently Chris and his wife have three children, two girls and a boy. Chris is excited and honored to serve his community at Acadia Independent School District Police Officer. Help me welcome Chris Pickering.
And Chris, I hate to put you on the spot, but I think you've got a real fan club here with you. Would you real quickly introduce who you got here with us?
This is my wife, Melanie. Joanna, 3 month baby. Jesus, she's 6 and a half. John's over there in the corner. He's almost 3. My mom, Judy. My dad, Darren.
congratulations and welcome officer victory now I move to agenda item or six consent agenda starting with item six point one consider future board approval of nominating candidates for positions on the board of directors of the Waller County Appraisal District the Fort Bend central appraisal district and the Harris County Appraisal District. Mr. Smith you are back up.
All right. Hopefully my neck won't hurt after this one. Of course we're members of three appraisal districts, Waller, Harris, and Fort Bend County. And as soon as I find my and of course districts are are allowed to have representation on those appraisal district boards currently on the appraisal district board from K representing KDISD is Roosevelt Alexander at Waller County Fort Bend County has no KDISD residents but Al Abramczyk is who we recommended and nominated last year. Ms. Feitinger and myself have gotten to know him through various meetings that we go to and he's very engaged in this. And then Harris Harris County currently is Pete Poppy. Pete is the CFO of Deer Park ISD, and he's actually on the board of Goose Creek ISD, and he represents school districts for Harris County. Of course, I mentioned Mr. Alexander representing Katie, and we've been asked to nominate him again. As well as, and I don't have my note with me, I'm sorry. I'm going to have to get back with you. I don't have it. Sorry. But, again, so we are asked tonight to ask for a Waller County Appraisal District representative to be nominated for the election in which I would get to cast your votes at our November meeting. Waller County is Roosevelt Alexander. Fort Bend County we would recommend nominating Al Abramsik and then Harris County Appraisal District currently serving us is Pete Poppe. Mr. Scott.
Mr. Griffin.
Sorry. We look the same. We wear the same shirts. Mr. Griffin. Thank you Mr. Harris. after the presentation I think we should include mr. George Scott for position on the Harris County appraisal district
does that need a second we're not making a motion he just had commented that he would like to recommend you as a nomination for the Harris County appraisal district so it's okay for me to comment yes sir mr. Scott I would
I would like to do that. I have previously served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Harris County Appraisal District. Before I left, I think it would be a very pro-friendly taxpayer representation to put someone with my background on the HCAD Board. I will make it so that there is due diligence disclosure. I sued HCAD in 2015 and won. I sued them in 2016 and won. And I'm suing them again in 2017. I would obviously recuse myself if I were to win a position on that board. but I do believe there are significant substantive equity issues with the way the Harris County Appraisal District deals with the issue of the appraisal review board process with the way it deals with the selection of comparable properties and the way it deals with the selection of the analysis of comparable properties I believe that it would be helpful and send a very good message by by this school board to put someone on there who has both a private sector background and not just a government background on the appraisal district. I have a long track record in this and I would appreciate the support of this board to pursue that objective.
Do we have any more comments or questions? No? No. All right. So does the board have any issue with pulling this off consent and having it as an action item for next week's regular board meeting?
No. Okay.
All right. So 6.1 will move off of consent and be listed as an action item for voting next week. Thank you, Mr. Smith. You're still up. You got 6.2. Consider the board approval of the agreement for the purchase of attendance credits.
Excuse me, Madam President. I have a question. Do we have enough votes, Mr. Smith, to put someone on the H-Camp? Do we have enough votes to do that, or is this one of those things where all school districts come together and pile it all on?
and all the other as I understand it all school districts get one vote so if our school district votes and that candidate gets enough votes to carry the all school districts but school districts specifically in Harris County have one official representing school districts we get one vote to one person yes right
what we're doing with this here is we're bringing back the nominations of the the board of the three candidates Waller, Fort Bend, and Harris and then that's our one vote in the overall pot of representation of those taxing areas.
As I remember one of the those districts like we get a lump of votes or something like that right?
In Waller and Fort Bend County it's based on the amount of our property values compared to other folks so we may get several hundred votes in some cases but but but another a larger jurisdiction would get more votes than us or a smaller jurisdiction would get more we get less votes than us but in In Harris County, it's one vote per district and one representative representing all districts.
Thank you. I was just trying to make sure I remembered that correctly. Thank you, Madam President.
I had to look at Ann to make sure I was saying it right. It's not 344 or 670.
I was remembering that correctly.
You're exactly right.
Agenda item 6.2.
Okay, 6.2 is on the purchase of attendance credits. and I will be very quick on this because this is really just going through the motions unless we adopted a maintenance operations tax of three cents more or or higher three cents higher than then we have historically this does not affect us I will show you this slide just as a frame of reference this just shows our wealth per student and the base the white line at the bottom is the the state's average wealth per student. And you can see that the yellow line is Katie ISD and historically we have been at or maybe just a little above or just a little below one year of the state average. These last couple of years we've actually increased higher than the state average. I'll say that the states is still an estimate. Ours in the 16 17 year is real. However, in the 17 18 year it's an estimate and it changed as of my phone call with Mr. Polanco and that box that I'm going to be taking to Austin that will lower our value which will lower that yellow dot a little closer to the white one so that's kind of exaggerated but it's really kind of good to be able to show you where we stand we're just a little above state average until we got to the red line which you see above it is it would be when we were subject to recapture or when we would be subject to sending money back to the state like some of our neighboring districts so we're quite a ways away from reaching that red line But we do need to go through this in case we had a the ability we had a tax rollback election and adopted a tax rate that would be where it would be subject to potentially sending a little portion of that to Austin but we're far from there.
Any questions for Mr. Smith? Being none, we'll move to item 6.3 consider future board approval of the October 2017 budget amendments.
Ms. Spudafield. Good evening President Vann, Trustees and Superintendent Hint. Tonight we have a few budget amendments for the general operating fund. First there's five hundred and four thousand dollars that amends the baseline budget for the printing of parking decals and the printing of auxiliary staff handbooks as well as a fee increase on Pasa. We have a $130,796 amendment for the renovations associated with the Brazos Valley Schools Credit Union property and there is our second Harvey amendment, Harvey related expenditures of $4,985,276. Also as I said related to Harvey. This is the second of two amendments we've presented so far. The other budget amendments are direct offsets between different functions and the result of approving these amendments will be a decrease of $5,121,472 to the general operating fund balance. We have two construction projects. 6 construction and expenditures increased $239,304 for HVAC controls at 12 campuses and expenditure increases of $383,691 related to CTE family and consumer science classrooms at five of the junior high campuses.
Does the Board have any questions or comments from Sputterfield? Thank you very much. Item 6.4, consider future Board approval of the legal policies and adoption of the local policies included in Board Policy Update 108. Ms. Holland.
Madam President, members of the Board, Dr. Hemp. In accordance with board policy, BF legal and local, we are presenting the TASB update tonight for the board approval and adoption. Most of this policy update is really a cleanup. Many of the legal policies have been streamlined or completely reorganized. In the case of the policies in the E section of our manual, which deals with teaching and learning, A lot of those policies have been recoded, so you see a lot of deletions in current codes because they're no longer active codes, and those have been moved to new codes. So a lot of that changes our coding system. There were several exhibits that have also been recommended for deletion because those are considered to be unnecessary since the information is covered elsewhere. In addition to the TASB update, there are two policies that the administration would like to present for the board's consideration and adoption. The first of those is BBD, and we would much like to recommend that the superintendent be given the flexibility of designating someone other than himself to be the public information coordinator. coordinator. And so we would like to change the language in that code. And then at DIA, there's no changes in the language in that local policy other than a title change. So no substantive change to that particular policy. So we would like to ask on Monday night that the board approve the legal policies and adopt the local policies as presented.
Any questions? Okay. Thank you, Ms. Holland. Next, we move to 6.5. Consider future board approval of the method of purchase for the replacement of the cafeteria and gym flooring at Sundown Elementary. Mr. T.
Good evening, Madam President, board members, Superintendent Hint. I'm here this evening to bring to you a recommendation that you approve the method of purchase for the replacement of cafeteria and gym flooring at Sundown Elementary utilizing the job order contracting method. This method of contracting would provide the best value to the district for the flooring replacement project at Sundown Elementary School. The 2014 bond authorization project will involve removal of the existing cafeteria and gym flooring and replacement with like material that meets the district standard for flooring in these spaces. The replacement funding is coming from the 2014 bond authorization and the approval of this recommendation for method of purchase is consistent with board policy CH legal, CH local, CV legal, and CV local.
Any questions? Thank you. And next up, 6.6 is also you, Mr. T.
Yes, ma'am. I'm bringing a recommendation on to the board to approve the method of purchase for electricity for the Ag Project Barn number 8, the Education Support Complex Annex, and Elementary number 41, utilizing the request for proposal method. The request for proposal method will provide the best value to the district for the procurement of electricity at these three facilities. And the contract period will be for 12 months with a fixed price quoting, or fixed pricing quotes, also received for 24, 36, and 48 months. The funding for this is coming out of the district utility budget for all three facilities. and again the recommendation for this method of purchase is consistent with the board policy CH legal CH local CV legal and CV local. Madam President. Mr. Scott.
Could you just give me a little bit more detail when you say purchase electricity I mean I know what you're talking about obviously but what makes this unique that needs more approval? These are new facilities to the district
that we do not have currently under contract through our current provider with direct energy our current contract with direct energy so we are getting a new contract is this just an extension of an I mean in addition to an existing contract no sir it's not in addition to a new contract to the existing contract we are actually asking for new pricing for a completely different separate
contract is it the same price as the old contract or is it a better no so we're
hoping you to get it substantially less okay thank you any more questions thank
you mr. Dean thank you item 6.7 can see to consider future board approval of a design associated with the renovations at Galbo and Patterson elementaries miss Cassman we also have dr. Lilliam and miss Baker from Galbo and Patterson respectively Parker Parker I know bark you know from Galbo and Patterson
respectively good evening madam president board of trustees and dr. hint my first item this evening is the presentation of the design development for the renovations at Galbo and Patterson elementary schools these renovations are part of the 2014 bond design team included campus representatives led by dr. Dan Lillian of Galbo who's Debbie Parker of Patterson miss Megan Connell project manager for Katie ISD mr. Trey Barnett the associate project manager and VLK representatives Todd Lean partner, Janda Ortiz project coordinator and Brad Ewing designer and Brookstone is our contractor. We will hear comments from Dr. Laleem and Ms. Barker and then the presentation by VLK will follow and then welcome any questions afterwards. Good evening Madam
President, board members and Superintendent Hint. I have enjoyed this this process and I'd like to thank you all first for selecting VLK to do it. It's been very we've worked for five months together and so I've gotten to know these people very well and I'd like to thank Megan as well as the area assistant superintendents who were sitting in on our meetings. We started at one place and as we shared ideas and things that we felt like would assist with making our schools more comparable with the new buildings. They They listened and they'd come back to the next meeting and bring their ideas. And every time we would meet, it would get better and better. So it's been a great process. And they've all been fabulous to work with. And they have a huge amount of patience with the amount of questions that we've asked along the way. So it's been an honor to participate. And it's been great working with everyone.
Madam President, board members, and Dr. Hint, good evening. First of all, I'd like to take just a minute to thank you for letting us be a part of this process. I want to reiterate what Ann had to say. VLK and our maintenance and operations department and building construction have been wonderful to work with. Our area superintendents have been very supportive of our endeavors. One thing I'd like to talk to you about this evening is something that's intangible, and that is the synergy that's created when you do something like this. It's incomprehensible to me that you've been in a building 30 years and we're redoing it. And the excitement that I see from the staff and the community is to be commended. I've had the pleasure of working with several districts in my career, and it's nice to know that I work for a board in a district who not only builds new campuses, but supports and maintains their existing ones and walks that walk. and I appreciate that. I just can't tell you how we went had a meeting not long ago and we walked out and when I walked out my librarian and the staff were like what did they say? They are so excited about the possibilities we haven't been able to share a lot yet but they are so incredibly excited that those are intangible things that service well in recruiting, that service well in being being able to build our communities, be able to maintain property values and those types of things. And I just want to thank you for the privilege of being a part of that process and a privilege of being a part of such a wonderful district that's been so supportive. Thank you.
Good evening, Madam President, members of the board, Dr. Hint, I'm Todd Lee with VLK Architects and I appreciate the kind words of the ladies that we worked with. I had the pleasure of working doing an addition to Pattison Elementary School a long long time ago when I started working in KDISD So it's nice to come back to a campus like that we work long and hard with them to accomplish what was set out in the bond and We're working towards keeping it within the budget and delivering all that So I'm gonna have Brad Ewing who is the designer and kind of the vision behind all these great ideas Present what we have tonight
Good evening. First I want to start off with saying this team has been great. The principals have had so much good input and it's also our team here at VLK. Okay, but I want to throw it back to four years ago, we met to do a design charrette. And a lot of people in this room were there at that charrette to talk about the future of Katy Elementary School spaces. And so a lot of those ideas, you know, as we've been building the prototypes, we're now carrying that into these renovation projects. And it's been really exciting to see how we can take a school and breathe new life into it. Here we have our project schedule. As you can see, we are here in September and we're starting construction documents. and we are looking forward to in December getting early procurement and final approval and starting construction in July or ending construction in July. For project scope we have two campuses so we're going to go to kind of go between the two. You can see that overall construction will be replacing ceiling tile, doors, walls, casework, all your flooring finishes. Almost all the work is interior work, including mechanical work. But we also have some spaces in the building that will be doing interior finish outs where we'll get into that in the next few slides. And you can see Pattison here. So this is the new construction floor plan and we have it broken out into all the different types of spaces and we're just going to go into the admin as you enter the building you can see that the space that used to be in the school was a large space they had a bunch of desks in there and now we're providing the correct program space that you'll see at the prototype elementary with your principal offices YOUR WORK AREAS, YOUR COUNSELOR OFFICE, RESTROOMS, MEETING SPACES, AND CLINICS. AND ALL OF THEM ARE SIZED CORRECTLY FOR THIS CAMPUS. YOU CAN SEE HERE, HERE'S KIND OF A BEFORE AND AFTER PHOTO. THE BOTTOM IS A RENDERING OF WHAT THE NEW SPACE WOULD LOOK LIKE WITH THE NEW FLORING MATERIALS AND THE NEW FINISHES. WHAT WE WANTED TO DO HERE IN THIS SPACE WAS IMPROVE security and allow them the principal and the reception staff to see who's coming in through the intervention as you move on down the special ed suite we have reconfigured this meeting we met we had several meetings with the special ed department and to make sure we had these spaces meet the current KD standards as you come in to this suite there's two life skills classrooms with an attached restroom and you also have a PPCD classroom you also have a motor lab and a speech classroom and then a large storage room at the end of the at the end of the hallway and we also have this is a big addition for the campus what we've done at the new prototypes is we've we've added a literacy library and this is a great a literacy library this is for all the materials for the the teachers and so what we've done here at this campus is made a new literacy library and it's right it's centrally located in the campus and we also have an adjacent computer lab which is something that was greatly needed at this both campuses and they're situated right across from the library we also have a brand new large science classroom with all new casework locked storage TECHNOLOGY, AND THIS WILL BE A GREAT SPACE FOR THE TEACHERS AT BOTH CAMPUSES. HERE WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IS A BEFORE AND AFTER OF THE LIBRARY. AND THE LIBRARY, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A COUPLE OF DESIGN CHALLENGES WE HAD WITH THE LIBRARY AT THESE TWO SCHOOLS. FIRST, WE WANTED TO ENCLOSE THE LIBRARY. AND SECOND, WE HAD TO PROVIDE THE ADA STANDARDS FOR THIS ROOM. WHAT I MEAN IS SEE HOW THERE'S TWO RAMPS, WE we needed some stairs. So what we have here is an arrangement where we have a we have a new ramp, we have a little computer station with a reading area, we have stacked space, we have sit-down learning space with the teaching wall similar to what you'll see in all the classrooms, and we have a circulation desk and a work area behind that. And you can see a view of that on the bottom and really is to split that library up into different areas for the kids to learn in that space and greatly improving all of the the lighting in that space as well outside of the library in the long corridors we're providing areas for display space and student achievement and to break up that corridor that connects all the different pods. You can see here north of the gym area we have a reconfigured teacher lounge and a gym office, restrooms and a new gym storage. So a lot of the parts of this project were we had all the pieces with that that they were using these rooms for and we had to evaluate that with the new standard of KD prototype and try to rearrange all the spaces to make it work within their own footprint. So this is a great example of utilizing space that wasn't really used like we use elementary schools today. They had like a locker room. You know we don't really use locker rooms in elementary schools anymore. So what we're going to show here is the typical classroom and this is very familiar of the prototype classroom where you have a set teaching wall in the north elevation which consists of tackle surface area a smart border smart panel and a magnetic surface area and adjacent to that is some tall cabinets storage for technology and another marker space adjacent to that on the south elevation you have another writable surface this is one thing we worked with curriculum is creating multiple areas in the classroom where kids can break out and and write on the wall like on this example on the south elevation they can actually sit on the floor and write on the wall because it goes all the way down and then on the west elevation we have the cubbies and your bookshelves And what's one thing that was really cool with our design meetings is we came up with this device charging area above the cubbies and utilizing that space that we had on that wall. Here's a view on that before-after of the classroom. You can see the teaching wall and the new casework in the cubbies to the left. One challenge with this school is it's all CMU walls. walls. So adding any data or power, we would have to bring down conduit and whatnot. So on one of the walls in the classroom, we're going to bring in gypsum walls. So all that will be hidden. It'll be nice. And it will look very new in those classrooms. And you can see here carrying on new collaboration spaces like we did in the prototype. We've carved out a collaboration space for each one of these pods. So in these collaboration spaces it's going to consist of a teaching area, tackle area, and extra tall storage cabinets for the teachers to have storage out in the collaboration area. You can see a view on the before after there. So one thing I want to do is to create these spaces to where they feel different as they go from a classroom into a collaboration space into a library so it doesn't feel like it's just you're walking into the same space over and over here we'll be doing extensive kitchen renovations and you can see here we'll be extending the cooler and freezer out with the shed roof and redoing that whole space inside there so at this time if there's any our team would like to entertain any questions or comments that you guys have?
I'm sorry, now present.
Mr. Griffin, I have called Mr. Scott.
Dr. Hayden, you have a great process for fixing and updating our schools. Just on the cost issue, we're doing a lot of modifications. We do a lot of new buildings. How does our cost compare to neighboring districts when we go about with a project like this?
On a renovation? Yes sir. On a comprehensive renovation it's comparative. It's usually it's based upon what type of interior changes you make plus the square foot of the facility and how you do it. If there's additional information
how we do it. Dr. Henswright is comparable but you know some schools just do an architectural finish. We do a lot of NDP upgrades but we're in line with our surrounding districts. Thank you.
Yes, Madam President. Ms. Fox. Thank you, Mrs. William and Mrs. Barker, for being here. I've been in your campuses many times, and I know that this is much needed, and I'm excited. I have a question about a couple of design questions, because, you know, I love this stuff, and, you know, I pretend like I work with them. So the libraries will still kind of be the slope down, right? and there's still plenty of room for chili cook-offs right okay and so the ramp goes around and I see that you've added stairs there I like the rideable surfaces that you talked about and I know that we have seen like at Miller Career Center where almost every vertical surface is a rideable surface and that just well so like when I honestly I'm not trying to tell you I'm I had bursts of thoughts. Like when you have that teacher space, where does it go? That collaboration interior space. Like I see one white wall there, and I'm just thinking, I could just see teachers being collaborative. And whoever you have, is that a teacher? Mostly a teacher collaborative space, the one with the cabinets tall, all the way to the ceiling cabinets on one side. I think it's a teacher collaborative space. I love that, and I can just see the creativity of our teachers. So one thing that's probably just a suggestion of one one fight wall, but so actually
That all the tall cabinets on that side We saw that there's so there's so much space there that we're actually going to be using a rival service on the front of the cabinet so you have even more
Right won't that be can't you just get so excited to see I came to your school mrs. Parker one time when you were having an IC meeting in the Literacy Library and you were just on top of each other but you were making it work and serving your students so well but all of this Literacy Library I can just see it all over your campuses and it's very exciting and I can see why there's a synergy and I can't wait to be invited when it gets all finished thank you Mr. Scott I just
can't resist what do we call the library before we call it Literacy Library
no there's two different things those are two those are two different things the literacy library and the library are two separate what is a literacy library
you guys can explain more don't go don't go detail this library for the teachers
with materials primarily for the teachers maybe we should call it professional to bring into their class now you're back in my gym what would be
Mrs. Barker or Mrs. Lunding, what would be an example of using the Literacy Library? Can you speak to this?
We would use it for like our Literacy Library books, our leveled readers. That would also be a resource place where our math coaches would have manipulatives and those kinds of things for the teachers to check out when they're planning in there because they'll be planning in that facility. So they'll be planning cohesively and collaboratively together. The materials will be there and then they'll take those back to their classrooms. Thank you.
No, that's great. That's great.
Anything else? One more question. So the bookcases in the library are the newer ones we have that are on wheels, so you can move them all around and make any kind of collaborative space you need there as well? Is that the design?
It is a large, flexible space with all of the cabinets have casters on them and can be moved and rearranged to say if there's going to be a large event in the library, they can do that.
It took us way too long to invent that idea. It's fabulous.
Thank you. Anyone else? All right. Thank you so much to all of you at VLK for working so great with our campuses, and we're excited to see the changes. And Dr. Laleem and Ms. Barker, I'm very excited to see the changes throughout, and it's going to be like a brand-new school come next August.
And if it's okay, I'd like to make a comment, because we've received a lot of questions regarding the 2017 bond and what does a comprehensive renovation look like. And so although it's a different floor plan and we haven't even gone down that road yet, of course you guys know that we've got an election out there, but that is a comprehensive renovation. And that's a perfect visual of what a comprehensive renovation looks like for an elementary school. Of course, we all know that Fielder is one of those on that bond project.
And we can see completed projects like the Memorial Parkway Junior High one that just was completely comprehensively walls moved, spaces moved, updated to meet our students where they are, how they learn today. This is from the 2014 bond. This is from the 2014. The last of the 2014 bond. It's one of the last two projects. Is that correct? That is correct. Thank you.
Okay, the second item is in regards to the rebuild of Creech Elementary. Per Government Code 2269, Board policy requires that the method of contracting be selected and approved by the Board of Trustees. We are recommending the competitive seal proposal method as the best value for this project. Plans currently being worked on, and we are going to be reviewing them shortly. And with the goal of bringing the cost of the December board and start that rebuild in January and be done by the first part of July.
Questions?
Okay.
I do, Madam President. Ms. Fox? When you talk about the rebuild of Creech, so will that, you'll bring us designs, but are you thinking changing some things that probably need, and maybe their library will get those caster kinds of things and white walls, this kind of thing, or is that just put it back the way it is?
it was. Yeah, per the insurance and other requirements, we were obligated just to put back what it was. If there's some code things we need to upgrade, we'll do. But we're kind of limited on this go-around.
Thank you. Anyone else? Okay. Thank you, Ms. Gassman. We are on to item 6.9, consider future board approval the limited English proficient enrollment and bilingual educational exception ESL waiver application for 2017-18. Ms.
Shepherd. Good evening Madam President, board members, and Dr. Hint. As required by the Texas Education Code, I am here once again to report the number of our limited English proficient students. As of October 2nd, 2017, we reported 12,921 limited English proficient students district-wide. Additionally, each district with an enrollment of 20 or more students of limited English proficiency in any language classification in the same grade level district-wide shall offer a bilingual education or special language program. This year we have 14 languages. They're the same that we reported last year. Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, Urdu, Vietnamese, Korean, Hindi, Portuguese, Telugu, Filipino, Tagalog, Russian, Tamil, Japanese, Cantonese, Chinese, and Yoruba. KDISD is also requesting an ESL waiver for nine teachers who are providing ESL services to our students. We are recommending that Dr. Hemp be permitted to submit the 1718 bilingual exception ESL waiver application and Jennifer Purple like our instructional officer for ESL it's going to tell you a little bit about the application and what we do to support our ELLs the office of other
languages offers multiple professional development opportunities for teachers of English language learners we provide language acquisition training and professional development in the areas of sheltered instruction to enhance the instructional delivery to ELLs. We collaborate with the district curriculum coordinators to provide training to content teachers that embeds language instruction within the content areas. We have created Canvas courses to provide online professional development to assist teachers in meeting the needs of ELLs and become trained in sheltered instruction. Additionally, we employ paraprofessionals who speak the top five languages after Spanish. These paraprofessionals are placed on the elementary campuses with the highest numbers of that targeted language. These are just a few of the components that we plan to include in the 2017-18 bilingual education exception and ESL waiver application. At this time we welcome any
questions. Mr. Scott. Since it's focused primarily on elementary just just taking Arabic and Cantonese as an example, because that's the ones I'm looking at, how fast or how quickly do you expect these children to exit the bilingual programs in these languages? Do you have a track record?
We typically exit majority by the fourth year. Research shows it really takes about five to seven years to acquire a second language, but many of our students can meet the exit criteria, although they may still exit and still be developing the language learning the more difficult things of our languages like idioms and things like that. When we say
bilingual what is the level of mastery for many of these students in English? How bilingual? What's the divide that you see commonly? It just depends when they
come into our district. We have some students that were born here and we have some students that come in ninth and tenth grade and they're hitting the
ground running trying to graduate. I'm just curious we have 597 spread from pre-k in Arabic pre-k through the fifth grade how long has that been going I'm just curious about how quickly would transition them out. In English typically I
would say about four years if they're coming in at a very beginning non-english-speaking their very first year there's a state test that kind of tracks and we're required to make progress in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. And so we track that and we do intervention if students aren't
hitting that target. So the four years would kind of cut across all the languages if they're fresh in? Yes. Okay. We have assessment mechanisms that we
utilize to determine where they're at in their second language. Wow that's very interesting. Now Jennifer I have one question. Where'd you go to high school? I also want to say that my friend here in the front row had to walk in with his billboard on.
Well, Dr. Hinn is being honored this weekend.
Let's go to the next action.
We are looking forward to honoring him on Friday and Saturday.
This is a very interesting report. I don't think I've seen this before on the bilingual. It really is.
99 different languages. All right. Move to agenda item 7, action items 7.1, consider board adoption at 2017-2018 debt service tax rate.
Hello again. The debt service tax rate recommendation is to adopt a tax rate of 37 cents per $100 valuation for tax year 2017 and the that is displayed there as part of the dollar fifty one six six tax rate in total our dollar fifty two on the graphic but it's a dollar fifty one six six and the total and you have a resolution or an order before you with that recommendation
Mr. Griffin. I move that the Board of Trustees adopts the order adopting a debt service tax rate of $0.37 per $100 valuation for the tax year 2017.
Second. Second. I have a motion by Charles Griffin, a second by Courtney Doyle. The Board of Trustees adopts the order adopting a debt service rate of 0.37 cents per $100 valuation for the tax year 2017. Do we have any questions for Mr. Smith?
Nope.
All right. Prepared to vote. All in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
Motion passes 6-0. Mr. Lacey was unable to attend tonight. Agenda item 7.2, consider board adoption of the 2000... Oh, I have to read this section. The board president shall state that after the order is approved, the 2017 adopted tax rate for KDISD is .37 cents for the debt service. Right now we will move to item 7.2 consider the board adoption of 2017-2018 maintenance and operations tax rate. Mr. Smith.
Okay, likewise as I discussed earlier and as is on the slide there, it's recommended the Board of Trustees adopts a property tax rate of $1.1466 under tax code 26.08A.
Madam President, has a motion been made?
No, sir.
Okay. I move that the Board of Trustees adopts the property tax rate of $1.1466 under Tax Code Section 26.08 . It is further recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the attached order adopting the maintenance and operations tax rate of $1.1466 for $100 valuation for the tax rate of 2017. Second.
A motion has been made by Mr. Scott second by Mr. Griffin that the Board of Trustees adopts a property tax rate of $1.14.66 under tax code section 26.08A It is further recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the attached order adopting the maintenance and operations tax rate of $1.14.66 six six cents per 100 valuation for the tax rate 2017. Do we have any questions for Mr. Smith? Mr. Scott?
I would like to make a statement. Mr. Smith, you've been around for for quite a number of years in this district and I want I want to publicly thank you for the leadership and the work that you do in keeping the district and the school board informed on a very complex subject called public school finance. The The district is very fortunate to have you here. You have talked about the golden pennies, the rotten apples, whatever we want to call them, for many, many months. And I hope the public understands that when a finance guy makes presentations and he puts question marks, in their own mind there's not as many question marks as they do when they put it on a piece of paper. Your leadership and Dr. Hintz's leadership and your team is going to produce more state revenue at the perfect possible time for this district. It's going to be tens of millions of dollars, maybe a couple of tens of millions of dollars if everything works out. And the taxpayers need to understand that this kind of stuff just doesn't happen. You have to understand the subject and you have to be willing to take that leadership role. and I appreciate it and I've been watching finance guys around Katy since the 80s and you do a great job.
Thank You Mr. Scott. I concur wholeheartedly. Is everybody prepared to vote? Do we have any more questions? Okay. If you're ready to vote, all in favor Raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Motion passes 6-0. The 2017 adopted tax rate for KDISD is $1.1466. For maintenance and operations, the total tax rate remains $1.5166 unchanged. changed. Item 7.3 consider board action to dissolve the resolution regarding immediate... Oh, just this sentence. This tax rate will raise more taxes for maintenance and operations than last year's tax rate.
Madam President.
Commissioner Mahofsky.
I move that the Board of Trustees dissolves the resolution regarding immediate needs associated with Hurricane Harvey and recovery.
Second. Come on, y'all sure about this?
A motion has been made by Mr. Mohalski, a second by Mrs. Doyle. The Board of Trustees dissolves a resolution regarding immediate needs associated with Hurricane Harvey and recovery. Any further comments? Okay, being none, we'll take a vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. The motion passes 6-0. Agenda item number 8, information item 8.1. on the board member report from Mr. George Scott.
Well, shock. I'm making a few friends at TASB, Austin, Dallas. It's not that funny. No, it's not. It's been a very interesting transition at TASB. The last one was the delegate convention. And most of us have been to professional or these kinds of conventions before. It's always the case it's the personal relationships that you make that you have an opportunity to meet. The thing that is that has pleased me about having the opportunity to do that is it's so timely with our strategic plan and what we're talking about, Goal 6. I've made, I've made very interesting, had very interesting conversations with folks from Fort Worth to Galveston to Kenya TLO to Longview, big and small districts, there is such a common attitude about the state of Texas abuse of students, abuse of teachers, and abuse of taxpayers on assessment accountability and school finance. I think and am confident that as we proceed down our own strategic plan, I'm just very confident that there are allies out there that are going to be be ready to join. I really am more excited than in many years. The one thing I would say is that I think this last meeting was where the resolutions are passed. The truth of the matter is I think the resolution process at TASB has gotten kind of lazy and before the next meeting or before the next time that these come up I'm going to suggest and bring to this board recommendation that I would like to take up to TASB on how to better maybe vet resolutions that get there. I think after many years, it just appears to me that there is some lack of due process in the way resolutions get there, but I've actually had a very cordial and good working relationship with many of the officers and many of the rank and file. So I'm glad you all appointed me. I've enjoyed it and I think it's going to I think that with the research there's a strategic plan and the common the common allies that are out there I think it's going to prove beneficial to the district over the course of the next
year thank you for attending the tacit has be convention we as a board typically go and for furthering education and continuing team-building building, but we decided that it was important that we stay home and stay here and continue focusing here after Hurricane Harvey and not, you know, just stay in our own backyard for a while. So Mr. Scott went and represented your entire board and this district and thank you for your presentation tonight and going up to Dallas to do that for us. I appreciate it. Next we have our open forum. At this time, the Board of Trustees will hear from the patrons as established by board policy. The first 20 speakers who have signed up at least 15 minutes before this meeting began and have provided their first and last name will be allowed to speak. A maximum of 30 minutes has been allocated with time divided equally among those who signed up. However, the maximum amount of time for any one speaker is three minutes. If speakers wish to share non-confidential written material with the board, 10 copies should be provided to the secretary for the board, Ms. Sharon Nowak, or the chief communications officer. Due to posting requirements of the Open Meetings Act, the board is able to respond only to a statement related to a posted agenda item. Specific student issues, discipline, and personal personnel matters should be addressed through appropriate channels established by policy and the presiding officer shall determine whether speaker has has attempted to solve a matter through those proper channels. As I announce your name, please come to the podium and state your first and last name for the record. And because we have a little bit different setup, we don't have the timing capabilities. Mr. Griffin is going to keep time on his personal device. And you will each be given three minutes. At the one minute mark, he will go, one minute. And that is kind of, because you don't have a visual of a clock to help you know kind of your tempo. but that's when you guys start talking fast if you still have a lot. Oh, we do have a little pig. What? One minute. All right. First we have Mr. Roy Labardette.
Thank you very much, and I appreciate the opportunity to speak, and I'm proud to say I voted for each and every one of you. Thank you, sir. I live in Fielder Elementary neighborhood. We have a cul-de-sac that backs up to the green space, and I've been a resident in that neighborhood since 2006. The traffic has increased with the attendance, as you might expect, and it is a very dangerous situation in our neighborhood. When there are cars parked on both sides of these fairly narrow streets, It is virtually impossible for emergency vehicles, fire engines, and ambulances and such to get down these streets. And we actually had an incident a few years ago where we did have, fortunately it was a garage fire, and there was no loss of life or injury. But it does make us very aware of that issue. The second issue is Cinco Ranch, as you all may or may not know, a very heavily deed restricted. We enforce these restrictions very, very vividly and heavily. Street parking is not allowed by residents, so it is somewhat frustrating to see people who do not live in our community necessarily parking on the street in front of our homes, but we're not allowed to park there ourselves. And then finally is the portable classroom units. There's been an additional unit added to the units that were already there, We've taken up virtually all of the playground space. It is an unfortunate situation for the students and very unfortunate for the community. We feel like we're living in a, pardon the expression, a trailer park, driving down that street. And we would really like to see every effort made to reduce the attendance back down at least to the design capacity of 907 or even to the functional capacity of a little over 800, your efforts along those lines would be very well appreciated. Thank you very much.
Our second speaker tonight is Mr. Mark Asche. I wanted to say Ashley. I'm sure you probably get Ashley a lot.
So actually, Ray and I didn't coordinate this. I'm also a Fielder Elementary resident and KDISD parent. So I echo everything that he said. You've heard the phrase trying to put 20 pounds of flour into a 10-pound sack. That's kind of how we feel about the area around Fielder. It's been very crowded, a lot of congestion. But it's because over the years there's been a tendency to let more students participate in programs that tend not to get smaller that's created this issue. And so we and I think I speak for several people believe it's a it's not a resource issue It's a management issue of managing growth Carefully and using the right resources that are available to to you to get that done Such as looking at schools that are not overcrowded and moving some of the students eventually into programs into those schools There's a lot of people that I that I talked to that are that are really really upset about the overcrowding of Fielder and it hasn't been just like one year or two years, it's been like four or five years. So I wanted you to be aware of that and to ask for your help, not immediately, but in the fall of 2018 to try to help relieve some of this overcrowding at Fielder Elementary. Thank you.
And although the board can't comment, the board, I will comment to this. I had an opportunity to visit with several parents out at the Fielder Elementary open house, and it was good conversation. I totally understand their comments. I understand their concerns and as superintendent I do believe that it is a management issue and something that we as a school board and as a superintendent will need to address before the 18-19 school year.
Our last speaker for the evening is Dr. Lisa Babin. Good evening I am Dr. Babin.
I'm happy to be here. I have some compliments I'd like to give out. I met earlier this summer with Mr. Cruz and we took a little walk around Schmaltz Elementary and had a great time pointing out little things that needed to be improved upon. on and he was very receptive to listening to what I had to say. I walked that campus three or four times a day. My office is in that neighborhood and Peter McElwain credits me with circulating the petition to force the district to build a school there all those years ago and I went door-to-door so I take a little pride in that area. I still want single-member districts because we do have taxation with no representation on the front end but I can say that we are getting more engagement with the schools outside of PTA more people I think because we finally got the renovations on the junior high and the high school and the old gal looks good she got a butt lift a facelift I'm telling you she looks hot okay I mean and she was looking real rugged and shaggy and y'all can't deny that it you know I mean her roof leaked okay all the time I mean it's just sad so thank you all for that and we look forward to it being completed she's far from done her her beauty makeover is far from complete but I did want to thank you mr. Cruz for listening and he has already made some improvements we had rosemary at our old marquee that just took over and he's taking that out and it just makes a difference I do want to compliment Mr. Willett. He helped me with Hurricane Harvey handling Barker's Cypress and maintaining order there and then he I just out of the blue asked him if he wanted any instruments so I was able to donate two instruments from my home to him and he was able to place them in the hands immediately of students over at Cardiff who had lost their instruments so that made me feel really good and if anybody's got any old instruments lying around there's a lot of kids who lost their instruments across the state so it's something to think about one minute miss washington was real instrumental in helping coordinate a clothing drop-off i don't know why i did this and janet teese is also she is a rock star but as well as the teachers at smalls a friend of mine had a ton and a half vehicle full of clothing from their warehouse brant electrical was the donator and he said where do we put this clothing so that people can go through it because there's people who lost everything and I said bring it to Schmaltz we'll put it on the stage and we couldn't get into school and all that sort of stuff so the teachers took a lot of it home and sorted the clothing and just you know it all came together and worked out but there was a little bit of red tape in getting from lovely Miss Washington to Miss Tice because of the donation factor so that was kind of cool I have no complaints this go-round I do have some concerns I did address that with Mr. Cruz we got a leaking sprinkler head that's causing it's causing what do you call it mold and mildew and drainage and all that sort of stuff and it's kind of a safety hazard where it is for the kids and then I did have something to read from Ms. Belcher but it sounds like my time is out thank God because it really didn't want to read I mean if she wanted it read let her show up sorry
Thank you
Thank you Dr. Bavin. Call attention to our future meetings. We have a regular board meeting next Monday, October 23rd, 6.30 p.m. right back here. Out there being no further business before the board, this meeting is adjourned. And the time is 7.55.
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- No speaker on this recording is identified. The transcript separates one voice from another but does not name them, and every turn therefore reads Unknown speaker.
- The speaker turn timeline is not continuous. There are intervals with no attributed turn, so a gap between two turns is not evidence that nothing was said.
- The district’s video index for this meeting carries no timestamps, so the recording is presented here as a single section rather than divided into agenda items.
- The district publishes this recording as 11 separate files rather than one. The player on this page plays the first file; the later parts are on the district’s own player, linked above. Transcript times run continuously across the whole recording, so a time past the end of the first file will not play here.
- The recording is played here from the district’s own stream. The archive does not hold or serve a copy of the video.
- No speaker on this page is named. The automated attribution available for this recording was derived from names spoken aloud in the transcript, and a surname inside a turn is not evidence of who is speaking. Every speaker is therefore left unresolved.
Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 7.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees adopts the Order adopting a Debt Service Tax Rate of $0.3700 per $100 valuation for the tax year 2017.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 002 · AGENDA 7.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees adopts the property tax rate of $1.1466 under Tax Code Section 26.08(a). It is further recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the attached Order adopting the Maintenance and Operations Tax rate of $1.1466 per $100 valuation for the tax rate 2017.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 003 · AGENDA 7.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees dissolves the Resolution Regarding Immediate Needs Associated with Hurricane Harvey and Recovery.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bryan-michalsky | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |