October 23, 2017

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The board will now reconvene in open meeting. Today is Monday, October 23rd, 2017 and the time is 634 p.m. Dr. Hint, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meeting Act with regard to the notice for this meeting?

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Madam President, we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act with regard to the notice for this meeting.

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The KDISD Board of Trustees met last week in a work study meeting to receive information and recommendations from the staff, administration, and the superintendent. Board members were able to ask questions and receive answers and should be prepared with responses and action tonight. The board has just reconvened from closed meeting. In accordance with Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code, any action arising from discussions in a closed meeting must be taken in an open meeting.

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meeting.

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Madam President.

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Mr. Griffin.

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I move that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the Superintendent in closed meeting.

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Second. Second.

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Oh, I'm sorry.

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A motion has been made by Mr. Griffin, a second by Mrs. Doyle. The Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the Superintendent in closed meeting. We'll now go to agenda item number four, Pledge of Allegiance.

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Should we vote? Yeah.

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Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry. Let's vote.

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Oh, yeah.

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This also is a vote. All in favor please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Motion passes six to zero. Mr. Mihalski was unable to attend our meeting tonight. Now we will do the Pledge of Allegiance.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible.

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I'm sorry. I'm sorry. All right, I'm going to give you guys a little bit of information about our student here, Julia Matthews, Roosevelt Alexander Elementary School principal Dr. Charmaine Hoban. She is in the fifth grade and parents David and Kate are here tonight with her. Siblings Lauren and William special interests. Julia enjoys participating in Destination Imagination and Girl Scouts. She also likes music, art, animals, crafting and making others happy her favorite subject is Julia's favorite subject is writing because she likes the opportunity to express her thoughts she also enjoys conducting experiments in science and I've got a couple of quotes here quote about Julia from her music teacher miss plum in addition to being an exceptional student and musician Julia shows responsibility in her daily tasks she is compassionate and caring toward her classmates and is always putting others first. Well congratulations for being here with us and I think you've got some time and some words to share with us. Hello my name is Julia and I am from

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Roosevelt Alexander Elementary. This year is our 20th birthday. At our school we like to do tons of fun things such as the Kindness Crew and Special Buddies. The The kindness crew is a group of fifth graders from each class that show the younger grades how kindness affects everyone. In special buddies, we help our special needs friends get off the bus into their classes on time. I started Ray since kindergarten. A couple of memories I have are clapping out my brother and sister at fifth grade graduation and going to DI State with my best friends. Some more memories I have are doing the pumpkin book character, reading to the kindergartners, special buddies. I also remember my dad being a watchdog, the third graders reading to me, field day, watching my sister singing choir in all the field trips. I am also excited to perform at TMEA in San Antonio with the choir this February. We want to thank you, we want to say thank you to the Katy ISD Foundation on behalf of Ray families affected by the flooding. I enjoy coming to this event and hope you have a wonderful day.

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Thank you so much Julia for saying both of our pledges for us this evening. Fun fact, I have three kids that all started at Alexander in kindergarten too. just like you and your siblings. Alexander has a pretty sweet spot in my heart too. It's a pretty special place. So I'm going to present you with this certificate that says Julia Matthews, Alexander Elementary was a pledge later today October 23rd 2017. Thank you.

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Why don't parents get in there real quick and get a picture with Julia. Julia, all right. Teacher, principal, come on.

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And Julia and her campus also brought in board trustees, this great, kindest crew. But actually, let's see if there's. This way. This way? I want you all there.

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Great.

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Hey, look.

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That's awesome. Can you look at Dr. Hovind?

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Thank you. Thank you, Julia.

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Now to agenda item 5, 5.1, presentation of the district's rating on the financial integrity rating system of Texas otherwise known as FIRST.

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I don't have water. Do you have water?

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Good evening, Mrs. Vann, President Vann, Superintendent Hinton, trustees. It's my pleasure tonight to present you our financial report card or schools first first stands for financial integrity rating system of Texas and this is being done This month and next month throughout the state of Texas at every ISD Schools first was adopted in the 1999 legislature. It's a statewide rating system implemented for the first time in 2003 with the results of the 2001-2002 2002 fiscal year. TEA has implemented numerous changes over the years. This is the second year of the changes that we're currently in. They're always tweaking, always making it a little bit more difficult, or trying to make things a little easier for the public to understand. The purpose of Schools First is to expand public education accountability system in Texas. Its primary goal is to improve the management of school districts financial resources and to assure the maximum allocation of resources are directed for instructional purposes. You've heard me mention that before, the importance of making sure our resources go to instruction, and here's a law that is requiring a look to make sure we're doing so. There are several indicators that are now more easily recognized and interpreted both by public and by the finance industry. There are several indicators that have a sliding scale on a rating. This is a new thing. This is the second year we're in the sliding scale for the rating where you can earn somewhere between zero and ten points. And then there's still five indicators that are called critical indicators. They're the first ones that we're going to go over and then critical indicators will be in red and those are if you fail one, you fail it all. So the determination of our rating is based on the numerical scores and 70 to 100 is superior achievement. with the substandard achievement being less than 31 points or a failure of one of the critical indicators. So I'm going to let Ann in an attempt to make this a little bit more entertaining and we're going to rotate and I'm going to ask Ann to go over the critical indicators for you. Okay so the first

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critical indicator is was the annual financial report filed within one month after the January 28th deadline. The board did approve it on the 23rd and we we have it all filed and put to bed by January 27th, 31 days before the indicator requires. Indicator 2A is, was there an unmodified opinion in the annual financial report? And that, an unmodified opinion means a clean financial report. In other words, there were no findings, and the district did have an unmodified financial report. Indicator 2B is was the annual financial report free of instances of material weaknesses in internal controls? Yes, the auditors did determine that our internal controls were found to be sufficient to prevent any potential material errors. Indicator number 3 was was the district in compliance with payment terms of all debt agreements at the fiscal year end? and yes we did make all of our required debt payments for the 2015-16 school year. Indicator number four asked if the district make timely payments to the teachers retirement system, Texas Workforce Commission, Internal Revenue Service, and other governmental agencies and yes we did. And the last critical indicator was was the total unrestricted net asset balance in the statement of net position or net assets greater than zero and yes we met that outright our net assets were 124.7 million and after adjustments it actually comes up to 271 million that they adjust for this report. Okay indicator six is were the number of

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days of cash on hand and current investments in the general fund sufficient to cover operating expenditures? We've talked about that we talked about it last week about our cash reserves and yes we had about 128 days days of cash on hand at the end of the 2016 school year. Was the measure of current assets to current liabilities ratio for the school district sufficient to cover short-term debt? The answer is yes. Was the ratio of long-term liabilities to total assets for the school district sufficient to support long-term solvency? Answer is yes. All of these are worded to answer yes. Sometimes they're worded a little funny because of that. Did the school district's general fund revenues equal or exceed expenditures? And then that in our case yes, but if not was a school district's number of days of cash on hand greater than or equal to 60 days? Well I've already mentioned that we're about 128 days of cash on hand, so yes. Indicator 10 was this debt service coverage ratio sufficient to meet required debt service? Yes. I will note that because we had a current refunding in the 15 and the 16 17 school year that that's one this is one that we need to watch indicator 10 we need to watch it it's not because we had a spike in our debt payment it's because of governmental accepted generally accepted accounting principles requires us to record it the type of refunding we had as an expense if you record it as expense and not another source, I mean another use. It actually does pop out where this could give us some problems next year. Not just Katy ISD, every school district that did a refunding would have an issue with this and so we think that the agency will probably make a make a rule change but we are looking at it again. There's not an increase in expenditures, it's an accounting print issue only.

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Indicator 11 Ann. Okay indicator number 11 is was the school district administrative cost ratio equal to or less than the threshold ratio. This ratio takes administrative costs and divides them by specified instructional costs. It comes up with a ratio. For a district our size of a greater than 10,000 students, our ratio should be less than 8.5 percent. We were at 3.75 percent, which is down from 3.9 percent in the prior year, and we have one of the lowest ratios in the area. Indicator number 12 asked, did the district not have a 15 percent decline in the student to staff ratio over three years. We did have a three and a half percent decline from 8.23 student to staff ratio to 7.94 in that three-year time period which was well below the 15 percent threshold. Indicator 13 asked if the comparison of PEIMS data to like information in the audit resulted in an aggregate variance of less than three percent of expenditures per function. I personally love this one. Our expenditures were $621,491,946 and we were off $618 which is rounding within the pinks which the accountant in me loves to say 99.9999% accurate. We could have been off 18.6 million. Yeah. But we were off 618. Okay. Indicator number 14 asks was the annual financial REPORT FREE OF ANY MATERIAL NONCOMPLIANCE FOR GRANTS, CONTRACTS, AND LAWS RELATED TO OUR LOCAL, STATE, OR FEDERAL FUNDS, AND WE WERE FREE OF ANY MATERIAL NONCOMPLIANCE. AND THE LAST INDICATOR ASKED, DID THE SCHOOL DISTRICT NOT RECEIVE ANY ADJUSTED REPAYMENT SCHEDULE FOR MORE THAN ONE FISCAL YEAR FOR AN OVERALLOCATION OF FOUNDATION SCHOOL PROGRAM FUNDS AS A RESULT OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP? YES, WE DID NOT REQUIRE A REPAYMENT SCHEDULE ADJUSTMENT. In other words, we were able to operate within the payment schedule that the state provided to us.

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Thank you, Ann. That's the 15 indicators this year. So KDISD did pass all critical indicators. KDISD received 100 of 100 points. Our rating was 100% or superior. And that is the highest rating possible established under the guidelines and rules of the Texas Education Agency. see. So the good news is in short the financial audit that was done when we finished the school year August 31st 2016 was 100% or superior rating when it comes to the financial condition of your school district. With that you have a report in front of you and in the report I'm just going to walk through it real quick. The first, or page four through seven, has the presentation that Ms. Feitinger and myself just went over. Page nine is the actual ratings and the scores from Texas Education Agency right off their website. That's on page nine through eleven. And then the prior years, same ratings but the prior year so you can compare one year to the next are on pages 12 through 15. Again that was we received 100% as well that year one year ago and then you have the required disclosures that we're required to have so the reimbursements have the reimbursements that were made to both superintendents Fraley and hint and then the board members that were on the board during the fiscal 15-16 school year. Any outside compensation and fees received by the superintendent and there was none. And then page 22 discloses any gifts of $250 or more by an executive officer or board member and there were none on this again. And then page 24 asks for any business transactions between the school district and board members and again there were none on none during the 15-16 school year you've all have miss noac and myself put on your place a thing a form requesting your information so we can get that in advance so we can just go over it next year and so if you'll have that in front of you if you could complete that again and give it to miss noac that would be very beneficial. But that concludes my part of the school's first report and I would just be willing to answer any questions or provide any follow-up.

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No questions? Madam President. Ms. Fox. Mr. Smith, how many years has KDISD received the

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superior rating? Fifteen. Fifteen. There was one year where because of the changes that the agency made. It was pass fail. We passed but outside of that we've received the highest 100% ratings 14 of the 15 years and the other was pass fail. But we would we did score a superior anyway. Thank you. Awesome job.

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Anyone else? Okay. Thank you very much for your presentation. Appreciate it. We'll move to item 5.2 is receive a public input regarding the district's rating on financial integrity rating system of texas we had no signups for the public input public hearing part so we will move on to recognition but before that are there any scouts in the audience okay then we'll proceed with agenda item number six we'll move on to our recognitions

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next on our agenda i'd like to introduce miss maria depeta manager of our media relations and multimedia for the recognition portion of the meeting tonight.

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Good evening Madam President, Board Members and Superintendent Hint. Due to the number of individuals and groups being honored this evening, we may revisit some of these categories again at the end of this program to ensure we recognize any late arrivals. First off, we have the National Association of Secondary Principals, the National Association of Elementary Principals, and the American Federation of School Administrators selected October as National Principals Month. The month is set aside to honor the hard work and dedication of the principals across America. The key to student success is a great school, and the key to a great school is a great principal. A proclamation was presented to the Board of Trustees for their approval, DEDICATING THE MONTH OF OCTOBER TO HONOR ALL OF OUR PRINCIPALS ACROSS THE DISTRICT AND TO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPRESS OUR GRATITUDE FOR THEIR COMMITMENT TO STUDENT SUCCESS. AT THIS TIME I'D LIKE TO ASK PRESIDENT VAN TO READ THE PROCLAMATION ONCE AGAIN.

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PROCLAMATION OF THE CATIE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT OF LORETROSTE'S PRINCIPAL MONTH. WHEREAS PRINCIPALS PLAY AN ESSENTIAL ROLE IN MAKING A SCHOOL GREAT AND WHEREAS PRINCIPALS are an important part of the district leadership and vital to the overall success of teachers and students, and whereas principals are a valued and respected group of administrators that sustain the district's most important assets, its people and students, whereas principals are supported, dedicated, and determined to encourage staff and student success, whereas contributions of principals impact student lives on a daily basis, and therefore the Katy Independent School District Board of Trustees does hereby resolve that the month of October will be observed as principals month throughout the district the board also encourages students staff and parents to express their appreciation to KDISD principals for their dedication and commitment to their campus communities staff and students signed the 25th day of September 2017 Ashley Vann president KDISD Board of Trustees thank you madam president

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please join us in recognizing all of our elementary campus principals big round Give them a round of applause for them.

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No, I'm not.

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I can't take it.

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I'm not going to take any of this.

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We might need the board to come. Ooh.

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We might need the ladies in the front just to kneel down a little bit. All right.

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We're good.

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We're good.

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We're good.

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Wow. Wow. Thank you.

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Take a step forward. Come on, come on. There we go.

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there we go. Y'all kind of squish in. All right, everybody ready? All right, here we go.

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If y'all can see me, make sure y'all can see the camera. And in three, two, one, let's get another one. Stand by. And three, two, one, and last one. Here we go. and in three, two, one, thank y'all.

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One more round of applause for them. Congratulations.

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Chris, Chris, Chris. Where's the clicker? Okay, we're going to do this one more time. Now please join us in recognizing all of our secondary campus principals. Squeeze a little bit more. Squeeze in. Squeeze in.

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Yeah.

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Don't come forward. Come forward. Come forward. Come forward. Come forward. Come forward. Come forward. There we go. There. Yeah, that's good. That's good.

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Yeah, I'm fine.

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Don't see the board members. Everybody in the back, make sure you can see the lens. Make sure you all can see the lens. Here we go. Stand in by. And in three, two, one. Let me get one more. Here we go. Stand in by. And in three, two. Thank you all.

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Thank you. Congratulations. Congratulations.

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Do you want to give it a clicker? I'll get it. Okay, next I would like to introduce KDISD's 2017 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists. These students are among 16,000 semifinalists named in this year's National Merit Scholarship Program and were selected based on their results on the PSAT National Merit Scholarship qualifying test. These talented high school seniors have an opportunity to compete for scholarships worth 33 million dollars that will be offered next spring. Students when I call your name please come forward. We'll start out first from Cinco Ranch High School we have Ruwa Ding. Shruti Gadiyar, Alex Kong, Russell Pugh, Ji Won Ling, Michelle Ling, Laura Ling, Tommy Liu, Abigail Ronnie, Michael Tian, Amy Wong, Elizabeth Xu, Alice Yang, Julia Yang, Melissa Yang, and Kevin Yu.

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picture. Alright. Yes. We're going to do two rows.

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The girls step on the background and the boys stand behind the girls. Yeah, and y'all may have to just bend a little.

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Alright, here we go.

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Everybody ready? And in three, two, one. Let's get one more. Here we go. And in three, two, one. Thank you all.

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Hold tight. Hold tight. We've got some bags. Mom's a dad. Come on, Rossi.

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Congratulations.

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Now Seven Lakes High School we have

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George Lee Dennis Liu Hannah Liu Sophie Liu Bruce Liu Praneet Padesetti Thor Roy Rydahl. Roger Xu. Rishikesh Srinivasan, Brett Fing-Pen, Joshua Tai, Zachary Wang, Kevin Wu, Amy Yang, Yaxuan Yang, Sabin Yang, and Jennings Yee.

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No. Okay. And three, two, one. One more. Here we go. And then three, two, one. Thank you all.

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Congratulations. Congratulations. Just Taylor. From Taylor High School, we only have one, but we have quite a big list. Argua Vanjoplain, Ruiz Blount, In Young Cho, Santiago Cortez, Isaac Kim, John Latch, Alana Larkin, Emily Liu, Leonardo Lopez, William Matava, Shirley Tang, Lawrence Wang, Jody Wong. Congratulations.

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And three, two, one. Thank you.

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Mom?

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Congratulations.

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Congratulations. From Tompkins High School, we have

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Thank you.

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We wish all of these students continued success. Thank you guys. Next students from Morton Ranch High School brought home the gold medal and the national star which stands for students taking action with recognition if this was an events competition at the family career and community leadership of America's also known as FCCLA 2017 National Leadership Convention which was held in Nashville Tennessee this past July these Morton Ranch FCCLA members advanced in the category of promote and publicize one of 31 national star events available to FCCLA students. As participants in this event, these young men used their family and consumer science related skills to develop a portfolio, interview with judges, and they also participated in a presentation which showcased all the community service activities performed by their members throughout the year. At this time we would like to congratulate Kyle Triplett and Michael Hurley.

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And their principal and their teacher sponsors are here.

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In 3, 2, 1. Let me get another one. Here we go. And in 3, 2, 1. Parents.

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Can we grab a picture with the principal and teacher sponsors? Come on. Come on.

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And then three, two, one. One more. Here we go. And then three, two, one. Thank you all.

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Congratulations to both of you for this accomplishment. Thank you. Next, I would like to introduce Gary Johnson, President of the Katy Rodeo Committee, George Thomas, Board Member and Rodeo Arena Director, Doug White, Katy Rodeo Committee Board Member, and Troy Furgati, also a Katy Rodeo Committee Board Member, for a special presentation.

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Good evening Madam President, Board Members, and Superintendent Hite. I'd like to thank you for allowing the rodeo committee to make our annual distribution to the FFA chapters tonight. As you know we hold a rodeo in conjunction with the FFA livestock show each year. The monies raised in in this event are distributed to the campus FFA chapters in various ways. Over the past 11 years, 12 years now, we've distributed monies to pay for animal vaccinations, student teacher development courses, FFA american degrees, different events that the chapters are teachers wanted to attend, and we contribute to the activity fund each year. This year, our distribution to the activity fund is $75,000 in conjunction with the 75th anniversary of the rodeo that we'll have in February of 18. These proceeds are used to help offset the cost of events, travel, and other costs that are incurred by the chapter while attending different events with students. I'd like to call forward the FFA advisors from each school who are with us this evening. From Cinco Ranch, John Ford, Dean Fox, Elizabeth Jensky, and Amanda Coxell.

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Thank you.

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call in Heather Jackson, Ashley Laird, Jacob Price, Seth Lucas, Josh Vodnall, Jessica Reeves, and Daniel Powell.

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Let's get one more here we go and in three two one thank y'all.

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Thank you. And now from Maid Creek High School, Glenn Hughes, Chelsea Lawandowski, and Ronnie Machinsky.

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Three, two, one. Let's get one more. And three, two, one. One more, one more. here we go, set a mind. Three, two, thank y'all.

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And now Martin Ranch High School. We have Charlie Boyce, Abby Bozarth, Stephanie Knight, Will Farr, and Corey Spikes.

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And this year we also gave seed money to to Paytoe High School since they are brand new and they haven't participated in the past. We'd like to recognize Rachel Packman, the teacher, and several of her students.

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Thank you all.

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In Seven Lakes High School we'd like to recognize Joe Beauchamp, Blake Goodwin and Breanne Warhol.

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and Taylor High School Sarah Jackson, David Laird, and Jerry Schimmick.

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One more, here we go. And in three, two, one. Thank y'all.

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And last but surely not least from Tompkins High School we have Shelby Baum, Katie Sheffield, and Michael Watson.

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Thank you.

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Once again, I'd like to thank Madam President, board members, and Superintendent Height for this opportunity and look forward to working with the district for the 2018 rodeo.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Okay. Each year, the Foundation of Music Education announces a select group of high school and middle school bands to be chosen for the Mark of Excellence Honors. This year, we are proud to announce that six Katy ISD musical groups were selected as national winners. From Beckendorf Junior High, the Honor Orchestra, Carol Butts. From Seven Lakes Junior High, Honors Orchestra, Ragan Watley. From the Seven Lakes Junior High Varsity Trouble Choir, Kristen Lycos. From Seven Lakes High School, Sinfonia Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra, Desiree Overy. And from Taylor High School Chamber Orchestra, Clinton Capshaw. accepting the award on behalf of all of these schools is dr. Imelda Medrano from Seven Lakes junior high

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Come on down.

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It doesn't matter.

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Everybody take a step this way. And in three, two, one second. One more. Thank you all.

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Congratulations. Next, the Texas Forensic Association brings about more effective cooperation among the members of the speech and theater arts professions in the discharge of their responsibilities and Forensic and Theater activities. Tonight we would like to recognize Gay Hollis from Taylor High School for being inducted into the 2017-18 class of the Texas Forensic Association Hall of Fame. Congratulations to her she was not able to be here today but we will make sure she gets her recognition. Next the Council for Economic Education also known as CEE is the leading nonprofit organization in the United States that focuses on personal finance and economic education for students K through 12. Each year the council awards outstanding teachers for their excellence in economic education. We would like to recognize Michael Clark from Tompkins High School who received the John Morton Excellence in the Teaching of Economics Award this year for his innovative approaches and classroom results. Congratulations.

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Here we go. Stand by. Three, two, one. Thank you.

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Thank you very much, sir. The Industry Leader Under 40 Award is presented annually at the National Sports Safety and Security Conference and Exhibition. This honor recognizes young professionals from the sports, safety and security field that have demonstrated outstanding leadership in addressing safety and security issues, also enhancing the safety and security of their venue, and they've also set an example for others to follow. The National Center for Spectator Sports, Safety and Security, also known as NCS4, industry leader under 40 award is presented to Ben Rollins general manager of the Merrill Center. Next, the Government Finance Officers Association has again awarded KDISD the Certificate of of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting. The district also received the Association of School Business Officials Certificate of Excellence in Financial Reporting. Both of these awards represent KDISD's commitment to financial reporting and demonstrating full disclosure in the area of finance. Accepting these awards on behalf of KDISD is Chris Smith, our Chief Financial Officer.

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sir thank you and i have some we have uh six certified public accountants on our staff and i think some of those are with us tonight of course liz excuse me liz haven is our accounting supervisor she's over all our accountants she actually worked with whitley penn sterling schiller our senior accountant is here uh starling you said 28 years with the district last week and then rand baker is here uh rand is on his third year with kdisd and then of course and fighting our business manager these guys put this report together that's 186 pages and have done so and been recognized by it for it being what i think is pretty darn flawless uh doctor this is exceptional so thank you all for y'all's hard work

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One more and in three, two, one. Thank you.

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Thank you Chris Smith and thank you to your team for their hard work and dedication and for receiving this designation. Thank you Madam President and Superintendent Hint as well as board members. This concludes the recognitions portion of this meeting this evening.

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Ms. Fox, I mean Ms. Doyle, sorry. I move that the Board of Trustees approve the consent agenda as recommended in item 7.1 through 7.9. Second. A motion has been made by Mrs. Doyle, a second by Mr. Griffin that the Board of Trustees approves a consent agenda and agenda you're just all off today yeah agenda is recommended by items 7.1 through 7.9 um are we ready to vote all right all in favor raise your right hand yeah i i motion passes five to zero mrs fox had to step out for a moment madam president mr griffin i move that the

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Board of Trustees approves the attached resolution nominating candidates for positions on the Board of Directors for the Water County Appraisal District Fort Ben County Appraisal District in Harris County Appraisal District a motion has

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been made by mr. Griffin a second by mr. Lacey to the Board of Trustees approves the attached resolution nominating candidates position on the Board of Directors for the Waller County Appraisal District the Fort Ben County Appraisal District in the Harris County Appraisal District I will take this time to read the resolution. The Board of Trustees of the Katy Independent School District being convened in regular session at its regular meeting place within the boundaries of the Katy Independent School District on the 23rd day of October 2017 with a quorum present. It is hereby resolved and directed that in accordance with the Senate bill 621 66 legislature for the Texas State of Texas which provides for a state property tax board and further provides for a local appraisal district board to be appointed by taxing authorities within that appraisal district according to the procedures outlined in Senate Bill 621 to assess and appraise all taxable property for all taxing units within said appraisal district whereas the Katy Independent School District has selected designated constituted and appointed Waller Fort Bend and Harris counties Texas as its appraisal districts Katy Independent school district hereby nominates the following named citizens duly qualified residents of said districts as a candidate for members of the board of directors for the following counties Waller County Appraisal District Roosevelt Alexander and Larry Jones Fort Bend County Appraisal District Al Abramovic Harris County Appraisal District George Scott do we have any comments or questions? Okay being none we will take a vote. All those in favor please raise your right hand say aye. Aye. Motion passes 5-0.

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Madam President I think it's important to note that we were notified by the Harris County Appraisal District that they had submitted their candidates for for the Harris County position on October 16th. It was actually a deadline. Although it's not a deadline that Waller County or Fort Bend County is adhering to, Harris County did, we're still pursuing Mr. Scott as our nominee and it is not likely that this will be resolved based upon conversations that we had, but I felt like it was important to note the conversation that we had. I think it's important to note also that with all that was occurring in the month of September with Harvey and a lot of the different things this could have been something that I overlooked but again we're we're doing what we can with the Harris County District so that we can submit Mr. Scott's name. Thank you very much.

52:36 Unknown speaker not human verified

Agenda item 99, bring your attention to the information items. Agenda item number 10, future meetings. Board work study meeting will be Monday, November 6, 2017, followed by our regular board meeting Monday, November 13, 2017. and 17. The board will now go into closed meeting to be held for purposes authorized by the Texas Open Meetings Act. So, you go back in there. Yes, ma'am.

53:10 Unknown speaker not human verified

Okay.

53:12 Unknown speaker not human verified

I closed it.

53:14 Unknown speaker not human verified

Oh.

53:16 Unknown speaker not human verified

Today is Monday, October 23, 2017. The time is 7.28 p.m. The board will now convene and close meeting as authorized under Section 551.001 of the Texas Government Code for the following purposes. Texas Government Code 551.074.