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Katy ISD Special Meeting, November 17, 2017

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I hereby call the special meeting of the Board of Trustees of Katy Independence

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School District to order. Today is Friday, November 17th, 2017. Time is 12 p.m.

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By law, for purposes of canvassing election results, only two board members

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are required to constitute a quorum. Noting that at least two board members

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are present, the board will now convene an open meeting. Dr. Hint, will you verify

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that we are in compliance with the provisions of Texas Open Meetings Act

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with regards to notice for this meeting we are in compliance with the

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provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act with regard to the notice for this

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meeting today now we'd like to move to our action item consider board approval

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of the order of canvassing returns and declaring results of the school board

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bond election mr. Graham madam president mr. Scott dr. Hintz what you have before

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you is a fairly simple order canvassing the election. Let me just go over some of

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the high points of this order which I think are worth noting here today and

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worth noting moving forward. We had a total of 13,722 votes cast in our

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three counties, 9,007 votes for, 4,715 votes against, for a total of over

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65.6% voting in favor of the issuance of the $609,200 bond. The

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election was duly called and notice thereof given in accordance with the law.

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The election was held in the manner required by law. Only resident qualified

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electors of the district voted at the election. A written return of the

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election results was made to the districts in accordance with the

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election code and majority of the resident qualified voters of the

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district voting in the election including absentee voted voted for the

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proposition the official return shall be delivered to the secretary of the board

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of trustees who is hereby directed to enter into the election registrar the

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tabulation of the votes cast for and against the proposition and to preserve

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such tabulation as is required by law. As discussed herein and made evident by Dr.

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Hint, the Board of Trustees officially finds and determines that written notice

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of this election was properly posted. The president or vice president of the Board

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of Trustees is authorized to execute and the secretary of the Board of Trustees

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is authorized to attest and seal this order on behalf of the Board of Trustees.

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fairly fairly simple motion fairly simple document fairly simple process I

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will take any question that you may have

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any questions how long does it take to get to Dallas

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do you have any questions

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would you like to make the motion

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ready

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Madam President I move that the Board of Trustees approves the order canvassing

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returns and declaring results of school building bond election I will second

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that motion a motion has been made by mr. Scott and a second by myself that

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the board trustees approves the order of canvassing returns and declaring results

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of school bond building bond election we'll take a vote all in favor raise your

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right hand say aye motion passes 2 to 0 the meeting is adjourned the time is 12

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12-03.

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