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Madam President, we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meeting Act with regard to the meeting tonight.
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 arriving from discussions in a closed meeting must be
taken in an open meeting. Mrs. Fox. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting.
A motion was made by Mrs. Fox second by Mr. Griffin that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting. All in favor please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Motion passes six to zero. Mr. Mohoski was unable to join us tonight. We'll now do the Pledge of Allegiance.
Yes, I'm excited to introduce to you a student from Davidson Elementary School. His name is Arthur Mamira and the principal is Jesse Miller. He's in the fifth grade. He has his parents here with him, Anil and Samia, and he has some siblings, Saharish, Mamira, and I don't see, is she here with us? Okay, she's at home in bed doing homework. She's in pre-K. All right, we start tomorrow. But let me tell you, we've got, Throob's got some special interests. Star Trek is one of them. Technology. I guess the show, The Orville, is that right? Is it a show that he enjoys? Politics and debate. You're going to do well in this setting right here. All right? My favorite subject is social studies. I'm just going to give you a little information about him from some of his teachers. Arthur is an outstanding young man. The passion he expresses for learning is beyond anything I've ever seen from any other student. He comes to school each day ready to learn and is always enthusiastic. Arthur is not only a strong student academically, he is a great classmate to the fifth graders. As our student council classroom representative, already in politics, he strives to make all of the students in our class feel important. Arthur Rube is truly a remarkable student and it is our pleasure to be his teacher. Well, let me tell you, it's our pleasure to be your superintendent and school board also. The mic is yours. Why don't you come on up and lead the way.
Please stand for the American and Texas flags. 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. And now the Texas flag. 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. You may now be seated.
Alright, the mic is yours.
The reason I like Davidson so much is because of the facilities it provides to enhance the learning of my peers and I. Some of the facilities are the computer lab, the science lab, the gym, and the art room. The biggest thing that stands out about Davidson is the people. All the staff is kind and they stand around in the mornings and help out the students. And the volunteers are always helping out at special events. Well, they're just amazing people who are kind and generous. Some of the things I would like to do after high school is get a 1600 on my SATs.
That's a goal.
Go into the field of civil engineering. Attend MIT. I would like to join the Navy in a command position and rise to the rank of captain and get a job in a good engineering company.
Very nice. Congratulations.
We don't know whether to applaud or pick our chins up off the floor. Did you say fifth grade? I'd like to check the credits. Right? Feeling very, very poised and confident, and we can tell that you're going to be super successful. Thank you for contributing to KDISD and for loving on our schools, our teachers, and other students. As a trustee, I have the privilege of giving you this certificate of recognition for speaking to us tonight and for leading us in our pledges. And give you this very special, this is the first ever, right? We used to give lunchboxes and then Harvey kind of like took care of the lunchboxes. And now we have this super cool backpack, right? And you were the very first recipient. And there are only about nine students who get this. So it's indeed very, very special as you are. It's very nice to meet you. Please, I want to keep up with how you're doing, okay, and all the fun things you do. Congratulations. It was my pleasure to be here. Let's take a picture. Mrs. Davidson, your namesake is here, and Mrs. Miller, your principal. Let's take a picture of it.
I didn't even see Kate come back.
She's hiding. And Mr. Reese is here, too. Okay, come back. steps back just a little bit so we can do a real great job I'm not here we go everybody ready here we go in three two one
Thank you, Jesse. I didn't see you hiding back there.
Do we have any scouts with us this evening?
Okay.
Now we move to our recognitions part of the meeting.
Next on our agenda, I'd like to introduce Ms. Maria DiPetta, our manager for media relations and multimedia, for the recognition portion of our meeting here tonight.
Good evening, Madam President, board members, and Superintendent Hintz. We start tonight with Project Adam. A Project Adam Heart Safe School designation means a campus has taken all of the necessary steps to safeguard the health of its students. This includes ensuring that all AEDs, also known as automated external defibrillators, are available and accessible, that there's a written plan, a team of CPR AED trained staff ready to act in case of an emergency, and conduct emergency response practice drills. Two campuses have been awarded with a Heart Safe School designation for Project Adam. Please join me in recognizing Kalli Hildebrand, Davidson Elementary School Nurse, and Bernadette Kingsley, Nurse at King Elementary.
That's your turn. I'm getting in front of the camera.
Congratulations to our nurses on this great accomplishment.
Thank you.
Next, the Seven Lakes Junior High Yearbook staff was recently honored for their 2016-17 yearbook. The crown award is the highest recognition given by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association to a print or digital medium produced by students for overall excellence. Judges consider all aspects of value to the reader or viewer, such as content, design design or presentation, coverage, photography, as well as writing and editing. Also at the National Journalism Conference in Dallas on November the 16th through the 19th, the National Scholastic Press Association presented the first place best of show, the highest award for junior high yearbooks in the nation, to Seven Lakes Junior High yearbook staff. Accepting this award is Mrs. Katie Frazier, Seven Lakes Junior High yearbook advisor. Congratulations to the yearbook staff on this outstanding accomplishment.
This is Paige Henrich, she was my editor-in-chief last year, and Keiko Akiyama, who was also one of my editors last year, so I made sure that they were here to share this moment.
Congratulations!
Congratulations. I'm actually in high school now. I got you. And they're in high school now. Oh, Kate.
May I ask, Katie, how many times have you won this award?
This is our second crown award. And we've placed in Best of Show before, but this was the first time we won first place.
Oh, that's sad. I thought it was a recurring theme with your yearbooks.
Oh, sorry, sorry.
One more round of applause.
And I think that's just another example of how Mr. Edwards goes around the district and steals the best talent.
For our last recognitions of this evening, please turn your attention to the following video.
Board members, I really want you to watch this video.
I don't know how you'll fit.
There you have it. The Risk Management Department along with employees from Communications, Human Resources, Curriculum and Instruction and the Katy ISD Police Department produced this no texting and driving video which received the 2017 Risk Management Innovation Award at the Public Risk Management Association Texas Prima General Session last month. This video was distributed to over 3 million people as well as the top 100 school districts in the nation. Accepting this award tonight is Lance Nolman, Director of KDISD Risk Management, Brandi Richard, Employee Relations Coordinator, Human Resources, Tiffany Shirey, English Language Arts Teacher at Pato High School. Congratulations on this distinguished award.
One more round of applause. And this concludes our recognitions for this evening.
At this point, we will move on to our reports portion of our meeting. Yeah. I need to hear me read this. All right. As per the Texas Administration Code Title 19, Part 2, Chapter 61, Subchapter A, Section 61.1J, at the last regular board meeting of the calendar year, the President of the Board shall announce the name of each board member who has completed required continuing education, who has exceeded required hours of continuing education, and who is deficient in required continuing education as of the date of the meeting. Completing the annual required continuing education is a basic obligation and expectation of any sitting board member under state Board of Education rule. This year, Tier 1 training applied only to new board member Bill Lacy and consisted of 3.5 hours of local orientation, 3 hours of orientation to Texas Education Code, and 1 hour of open meetings training. training. Bill Lacey has completed the local orientation, the orientation text education code and the open meetings training. Tier 2 training consists of board self-assessment and superintendent and board team building. At least three hours of Tier 2 training are required each year. All board members have completed the required Tier 2 training for the year 2017. Tier 3 training consists of continuing education for board members in areas of assessed needs. At least 10 hours of Tier 3 training are required for new board members. Bill Lacey, a new board member, has exceeded the required continuing education for the year 2017 with 14.5 hours. At least five hours of Tier 3 training are required for each of the experienced board members. All experienced board members have completed the required Tier 3 training for the 2017 the year 2017 George Scott position one has exceeded the required continuing education with eighteen point five hours Rebecca Fox position two has exceeded the required continuing education with eleven point five hours Ashley van has exceeded the position three has exceeded the required continuing education with 17 hours. Courtney Doyle, position 4, has exceeded the required continuing education with 14.5 hours. Brian Mahalski, position 6, has exceeded the required continuing education with 10.5 hours. Charles Griffin, position 7, has exceeded the required continuing education with 9 hours. Completing the annual required continuing education is a basic obligation and expectation of any sitting board member under State Board Board of Education rule, no board members are deficient in any area of continuing education training for the year 2017. Also under the Texas Administration Code Title 19 Chapter 61 Subchapter A Section 61.1a, the framework for governance leadership adopted by the State Board of Education used in structuring education for school board members shall be distributed annually by the president of each board of trustees to all current board members and the superintendent. The framework is attached in board docs for each board member and a superintendent to review. All done. 6.2 junior high gifted and talented program model presenter
Ms. Swinley. I'd like to start this off like I did last week this is part of our strategic plan was to give you guys a report on the GT program seek input from you and any questions you may have.
Good evening President Vann, members of the board and Superintendent Hint. I'm very pleased to present this report to you on the junior high GT model of services. This report is a result of actions required by KDISD strategic design goal 1 with the specific result 1.9 provide a report on the feasibility of making recommendations for the gifted and talented junior high model. I will begin by establishing a picture of the current status of the GT program and its design. We serve almost 2,000 students in grades 6 through 8. This represents about a little over 11% of the student enrollment in these grades. You'll see that the enrollment of course is going up, the percentage of GT students at the the junior high level is also increasing. The junior high GT enrollment by ethnicity, you see the ethnic makeup of these 2,000 students in this graph. And our current program serves gifted students through advanced academics in the four core areas of math, science, social studies, and English, and subject specific matter aptitude model. model. It serves students at their home campus and all 15 junior highs through their pre-AP GT courses. And it serves students in courses designated as GT with a teacher who has completed the 30 hours of GT training. Additionally, we have gifted facilitators at each campus, either one or two days a week. They manage the screening process, monitor services and student performance and they track professional development. Gifted students also are clustered in these sections designated as pre-ABGT and ideally these sections should consist primarily of students identified as gifted. This chart summarizes the core course offerings for our GT students in grades grades 6 through 8. The four core are represented here. And research-based best practices support the KDISD model of GT service. The National Association for Gifted Children supports four design elements, all of which are employed by KDISD, as well as supported by the Texas State Plan for the Education of Gifted Students. You'll see that we identify students by strength in a core content area, we cluster or group our GT students together, we provide professional development for teachers of the gifted, and we provide an accelerated curriculum or advanced academic above grade level content, and also options for credit by exam. In this review of the Junior High GT program, we were able to gather information from a variety of sources. The first one, the survey, was part of the annual GT program evaluation in 2016-2017. The focus was on the secondary program and we sent surveys to students, identified students in grades 6, 9, and 11, their parents, as well as to secondary teachers, counselors, and principals. In addition, we examined data from the curriculum documents, enrollment data, master schedules, professionals, professional development records, and we spoke with students, principals, parents, and other districts. Our findings fall into four broad categories, the identification processes, services, curriculum and instruction, and professional development. Related to our identification processes, teachers and principals expressed some concern about whether the identification processes for secondary placement adequately matches the program design and our identified GT population is not representative of the student demographics in terms of services provided the grouping of GT students into GT classrooms is accomplished well on many campuses parents students and teachers prefer classes made up entirely of GT GT-identified students. The transition from the elementary pullout program to the secondary model for some students is difficult due to the change in the program model. The social and emotional needs of gifted students should continue to be addressed. The role of the GT facilitator is somewhat misunderstood by campus staff. And while other districts also serve GT students in pre-AP courses, several have multidisciplinary content or independent research elements as requirements for GT students. A review of our curriculum indicated that instructional guidance and resources were found to address the unique needs of gifted learners and while these curriculum documents include strategies and resources for gifted learners, teachers do need training on the use of those resources. Gifted students also report to us that classes that are appropriately paced and allow choice and demonstrating learning are more interesting and more valuable. And then our last finding in professional development at this point in the school year we have we have approximately 7% of our junior high staff still in need of completing those 30 hours. As a result of these findings the following are the recommendations for the junior high program. In regard to our identification process, we want to investigate the possibility of testing fifth grade students district-wide to assist in a secondary course and GT program placement decisions and to continue to employ equity measures through targeted outreach. Our recommendations related to program services include continuing to cluster GT students in high density groups, investigate options for an advisory curriculum to support the social and emotional needs of gifted students in the junior high setting, investigate the possibility of developing a multidisciplinary curriculum for sixth grade students to ease that transition from the elementary pullout to the secondary program, and investigate redefining the role of the GT facilitator. In the area of curriculum instruction we want to continue to emphasize strategies for GT students within the curriculum continue to highlight elements of effective GT instruction for administrators and teachers increase the focus planning and instruction for GT students by designating fewer teachers as pre-ap GT teachers and support the use of pre-assessments to guide instructional instructional practices for gifted learners. And for professional development, we want to continue to develop and deliver professional development in meeting the social and emotional needs of the gifted student. This aligns very nicely with the strategic design goal number eight. Continue to develop and deliver online professional development for ease of access for teachers, administrators, and counselors. counselors, investigate the development of a KDISD GT Advanced Academic Summer Institute for junior high GT teachers, provide ongoing GT training specific to each content area and differentiation strategies, and investigate the possibility of a GT support position to assist with GT lesson design and professional development. And those are our recommendations. Have any questions? I'd be glad to answer them.
Mr. Bryan was always proud about talking about how band and choir perform so well compared to the normal group of students. Have you ever looked at how our GT students perform comparative to the rest of the students at Katy? And what I'm kind of asking is, is the GT program students, is their performance actually actually as a whole much better than the average group of students? Are we seeing them clustered in our AP programs? Because the GT program is kind of an expensive program.
The students are performing at the top of the class. They do outperform other students.
Thank you.
Anyone else? I have a quick question, although I probably should know this answer. So, eyebrow raises when I see that there's the potential to test the fifth grade students district-wide. Yes, sir. Do you know what that cost might be per student or what it would cost the district district-wide if something we were to do, if something would be something the board would need to be aware of?
I did request a quote just to gauge the amount that it would cost. It's about $96,000 for 6,000 fifth graders.
Okay, and that is to determine whether or not some of those non-qualified GT students would qualify for further...
It would do a couple of things. Right now, students that are currently in the GT program are transitioned to the secondary program without any new testing data to make those determinations. So it would help us identify students more specifically for the core content areas that they would be joining in the secondary program. The second thing that we do, which principals have asked for, is to help them make placement decisions for other kinds of programs in their campus. So it's not just for the GT program, but also for the other as well. Right now we do screen non-identified fifth graders and there is a cost associated with with that so it would be the 96,000 minus the cost we're already doing to identify those students that are not currently identified as GT.
Another I've already raised for me was 7% of our teachers teaching GT curriculum right now still are in my understanding is from many moons ago when I was principal they have a period of time to do that during the year while they're teaching that course you also mentioned the Summer Institute with the Summer Institute be geared to making sure we start the year with all of our teachers? How they qualified or qualified in the GT?
Okay, we do have a summer institute that is 30 hours of GT training. And so we have awarded 76 30-hour certificates this year. Part of those were done completely in the summer. Some of it was done in the summer and then finished up over the course of the year in the Saturday training that we offer, or online training that we offer. The 7% that represents 21 teachers who have been working on that training but for one reason or another have not actually finished the entire 30 hours. By state law, they should be finished by the end of the first semester. We do notify the principals if they're not in compliance.
Gotcha. Well, then the final thing, I've spent a couple of meetings with you and a core group of GT parents and you have to appreciate their passion and I just have to say this you are a godsend your knowledge of the GT program the curriculum is beyond anybody's knowledge and I just thank you for what you do I appreciate you saying
that you saved me in other words. Any time Dr. Hint. Any time. Anyone else?
Thank you Ms. Lilley. Thank you. Thank you. All right.
Now, consent agenda.
Mrs. Doyle?
I move that the Board of Trustees approve the consent agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.19. Second.
I have a motion by Mrs. Doyle, a second by Mr. Griffin, that the Board of Trustees approve the consent agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.19. All in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Aye. Motion passes 6-0. We now move to our action items. Item 8.1, consider board ratification of resolution purchase and sale agreement and any actions taken by the administration to purchase and close 10.10 acre parcel University of Houston located. And the abstract number is 692-70 in Fort Bend County, Texas. Yes.
Trustees, thanks for your time today. Dr. Hint.
You can't bend over to that way.
So what you have here is an action item. It is the same item that we discussed last week. What you will see here is that we specifically listed the item and the address and the abstract numbers in Fort Bend County. The reason we did not do that last week was because we were discussing it in closed section as authorized under Chapter 551 of the Open Meetings Act. Today we are simply asking that you ratify the actions previously taken. I know that the earnest money has already been paid and we're looking forward to closing on that property by the end of the week so that we have it fully in our control before January 1. I'm happy to take any questions that you may have. That's correct. Yes sir. Okay.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacey. Dr. Hinn.
Yes, sir. I can tell you there's been a lot of discussion with that being brought up. I'm very excited that we're getting this done and there's a lot of people that are eyeing that property that want to use it.
You're looking at a whole table over there.
I know. I'm very excited.
Madam President. Ms. Fox. Just because this is being recorded and whatever, it's the University of Houston the now going to be the Creech University property we're going to purchase that we're talking about. That's correct. Yes.
We're just currently using Creech Elementary.
Creech University.
Madam President, I still think it's probably the single best real estate deal made in the history of this district. It's a, I mean it's just a tremendous deal.
It is. Anyone else? Okay. We read the resolution last week so we can move forward with our vote if everyone has
Thank you, Mr. Graham. Madam President.
Ms. Fox. I move that the Board of Trustees ratifies the resolution, purchase, and sale agreement, and any actions taken by the administration to purchase and close a 10-acre parcel from the University of Houston located in the abstract numbers 186, 190, and 270 in Fort Bend County, Texas.
Second.
A motion has been made by Mrs. Fox, a second by Mr. Lacey. the Board of Trustees ratifies the resolution purchase and sale agreement agreement and any actions taken by the administration to purchase and close a 10-acre parcel from the University of Houston located in the abstract numbers 186 190 and 270 in Fort Bend County Texas on favor please raise your right hand say aye motion passes 6 to 0 item 8.2 consider I move that the Board of
trustees approves the attendance boundary modifications ABM for the 2018-2019 school year presented in option one. Second.
A motion has been made by Mrs. Doyle, second by Mr. Griffin that the Board of Trustees approves the attendance boundary modification or ABM for the 2018-2019 school year presented in option one. Do we have any discussion?
I have a question.
Mr. Scott.
option one is different than where we were a week ago when we're talking about
option two we did but if you recall the conversation was that the survey indicated that you know the majority of the people wanted that there was that to treat true boundary line there's 12 kids there now it's about 40 kids in the future it's one little area called Bora lakes is that correct Sora I'm sorry and And we feel like we can accommodate it with what we're doing.
As I understand the discussion, using option one, Lilly is consistent with the policy that we may need to employ with future ABMs in terms of best use of facilities. Is that right?
Absolutely. I think either of the options meet the policy and the procedure. Okay, it's just one of the options had more neighborhood support. Okay. All right
Anyone else Ready to vote all in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye Motion passes six to zero item 8.3 consider board approval of the December 2017 budget amendment
Mrs. Doyle, I move that the Board of Trustees approves the district's December 2017 budget amendments
Right.
The motion has been made by Mr. Doyle and seconded by Mr. Griffin. The Board of Trustees approves the District's December 2017 budget amendments.
Just so the Board knows and so does the community, this is the same budget amendment as we had at the workshop meeting other than we revised the budget for the purchase of the Cinco Ranch U of H facility and we revised the budget for what you just approved in consent which which was the spring course.
Any questions? All in favor raise your right hand. Say aye. Aye. Motion passes 6-0. Item 8.4 consider board approval of the legal policies and adoption of the local policies included in board policy update 109.
And if you recall we pulled this last week so that the administration could take a harder look at it. I will tell you that we looked at it. I'm very comfortable with the revisions. Of course we can't change the legal but there are 16 local policies administration took a look at those and we're very comfortable with the revisions that TEA has provided they're
typically perfunctory in nature. Madam President. Mrs. Fox. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the legal policies and adopts the local policies included in
board policy update 109. Second. A motion has been made by Mrs. Fox is second by Mr. Griffin that the Board of Trustees approves the legal policies and adopts the local policies included in Board Policy Update 109. Any more discussion?
Oh I'm deafier that way I thought you were voting. Well then let's just do it.
All in favor please raise your right hand. Motion passes six to zero. Now I our board member, Mr. Scott, for TASB board of directors.
I did just pass out a document that Commissioner Morath presented to the TASB, and I'll make a brief reference to it. I'm going to try to summarize this, but I do want to say, as I've said to the board before, the TASB seat belongs to KISD, not to Joe Adams or Henry DeBrell or George Scott. It belongs to the board and it's a privilege to serve on TASB but the only reason I would want to stay on TASB is if this board is supportive of my efforts there and I think that requires me to kind of keep you informed as to what my efforts there are. I have not spent so much time already on TASB related matters to be a potted plant at their meetings, pursue leadership there, or to suddenly change stripes and try to become a social butterfly. My sole interest there is to further the interest of KTISD and public education in a specific context. In Katy and TASB, we're entering a critical phase during which work on the January 2019 Texas legislative session needs to begin soon. TASB's legislative process, while sophisticated and mature, has gaps which I have addressed in meetings there. From From my first meeting last summer at TASB through this past December, I have focused primarily on those values embedded in Goal 6 of KTISD's Strategic Plan – constitutional finance, constitutional equity, and accountability standards insulated from the TEA's and the Texas Legislature's pervasive dishonesty. My efforts have involved extremely candid conversations with TASB professional and board leadership, key TASB staff, and rank-and-file TASB board members with an aggressive and personal outreach to African American and Hispanic board members in particular above and beyond those minority leaders in TASB leadership. I think it's important to understand that KDISD is an evolving district. We have a dramatically changing demographics. We have a goal six that that talks about equity and finance and return of local control. And I think as you're represented with 11 belief, one core belief that I have is that I need to represent the district and make a very aggressive outreach to minority members of Taz be in particular because we have a lot in common as we go down the goal six strategy and I want to say this I encourage both the board president and our superintendent to engage independently TASB leadership in order to assure themselves that my efforts at TASB are being perceived as direct but professional I think it is important that I have as I address issues at TASB that I not be seen as a lone wolf or a singular voice. And so the rest of this report is to try to give you an idea of what I've done in my first three meetings. And I know this has not been common and maybe as a result of this briefing it will become even less common, but at least I have the floor tonight. I've been assigned to budget and finance and that's that was not my first goal but if Katie Gold's six plans evolve successfully that's a potentially good place for me to be. Primary focus thus far but it's been grounded in issues not I'm a good guy you're a good guy it's personal relationships with the executive staff the board leadership and the executive committee this includes executive director Jim Crow and each and every individual member of the TASB board. There is an irony here. I can have more detailed conversations with TASB board members than I can with you all because of the open meeting time. So one of the things that has happened, I kind of have a vision and I think we all have sort of a vision about where goal six and strategic and our strategic plan is going. I, y'all know last graduation I was putting together a TASB study. I can I can actually sit down and go over them with detailed information, but because it may become an agenda item here, I can't do it with you. I do believe that we're going to catch up on that pretty soon with Goal 6. Our mutual outreach to, when I say ours, the TASB board members and mine, I believe they understand. Charles Stafford, who was the outgoing president, a really good guy, he lied about my one golf game in 25 years. He called me a stiff breeze in front of the executive committee, and he's pretty good about that. That was funny, actually. But the point is what I'm trying to do is encourage a relationship with them so that they understand that there are serious issues that confront this district, and we need to be able to visit with TASB and get their expertise to the degree we can. The second, and I would say that my plan, I probably had eight to ten very detailed discussions with some of the minority members. I do plan on traveling to about four or five communities over the next couple of months so that I can visit with more in their home just on a personal basis. system. My number one concern about TASB is pretty much one of my central concerns about KDISD and that is the legislative agenda committee process. I believe that that clearly when you look at the the scope of issues that we have to deal with the the there has to be a more due diligence orientation some of of the legislative resolutions that got to the TASB delegate convention were frankly as perfunctory as you could get. I mean, I don't know how the discipline process got it there. So what I want to outline is this, that my efforts at TASB have been to talk about equity and finance at full board discussions and at committee meetings. As a board member, I've attended and addressed equity and finance issues before the legislative committee openly suggesting an enhanced effort. As a board member, I addressed direct and key questions regarding equity to TEA Commissioner Mack Moret, had a question and answer attended by all board members. Kind of like you sometimes, they're probably holding their breath when I raise my hand. but it was very direct questioning and I even called Dr. Hinn afterwards to tell him how excited I was that we have a Commissioner of Education that actually will tell the truth in public and he did he answered a very fundamental question and I think it's going to end up being directly related to our goal six strategic six I look forward to the day if our if this relationship continues to build that Katie ISB might well host some Katie is some TASB leadership and from executives and some of the board members from around here in Katie where if if we do get something going on goal six there's a lot of common denominators out there but this plan is going to be so more sophisticated than a typical legislative plan that I think it would be good when we can to to to expand our discussions in a fundamental way. I've set the groundwork for the district, I believe, for our superintendent, board president, and key administrators to meet with Jim Crow and some of the TASB experts. After my questioning of Morath, I actually went up to him afterwards and told him that in the 44 years I've been doing this, involved with every commissioner going back to Ernest Bynum, I said there's no doubt in my mind that the average IQ of the Commissioner's Chair is now about 60 to 70 points higher and that you are a very honest person. But I will tell you honestly that this program right here implies that we have a growing centralization, more and more power coming into the Texas Education Agency. It's becoming the Department of Education, not only Potomac, but only Travis. And I think going forward that we need to have a more sophisticated legislative process. So here's what I'm going to take it on myself to do in terms of bringing a decision tree to you all. I'm going to ask that we have a discussion in January about how we proceed with the legislative agenda. I will ask that an item be placed on the KDISD's January workshop that will give me an opportunity to suggest a totally revised board process that would be conducted in full public view, not dependent upon a small committee of board members, friends, or supporters in a process that lacks both seriousness and due diligence. Rather, it will be a process that guarantees high quality and professional input in identifying those issues most important to KDISD, in particular in public education in general. Coordination with experts in and out of KD would offer a practical kind of due diligence in the developmental process. A full broad-based and opportunity for significant input by rank-and-file citizens throughout KDISD that goes way beyond the three minutes at the end of a long meeting with no opportunity for direct exchange. There are informed people in this community and preferential membership on a small, essentially cloaked committee should not take precedence over strategically inclusive public involvement. A full commitment to public hearings at least at two strategic times before the finalization of the legislative pan and a final product that will not include template stereotypical political mantras that dominate so much of public education's knee-jerk stereotypical strategeries that reach and are often systemically dismissed by hardcore legislative process that is decidedly hostile to public education. You have a plan in here. It's not mentioned explicitly. You have to be there to appreciate it. Where in the, and this is an example, where looking ahead head to certification, we' administrators. And what we're going to have some going to be a piece. Okay under one set of criteria I just had a one word que retroactive. No, but it m it to be. So we're going where new administrators coming in are going to have to videotape themselves giving answers on how they deal with situations. Steven Spielberg couldn't make this smart. The notion that we're going to invest that sort of autocratic, autonomous authority over our administrators and our school board, It sucks away local control. It takes it to Austin. It's insane. And we have to develop, I believe, and that's what I'm going to ask this board to do, we have to develop something. We owe it to our classroom teachers. We owe it to our campus-based administrators. We owe it to our central administrators that have to cope with and interact with an ever-expanding authoritarianism from Austin vastly more than stereotypical political rhetoric. What I'm going to suggest is that we have basically a research approach abundantly, abundantly public, but without the small group kumbaya meetings. And so I will lay that out if the board will agree to put that on the agenda next week. and I mean next month I'm sorry and it's if we get in to goal six you know I didn't do this at 930 last week I'm gonna give an example dr. Caskey this row here and curriculum people back there. The question I asked Commissioner Morath was what is the Texas Education Agency's definition of constitutional equity? Is it the cut score, the lowest cut score at approaches or the lowest cut score at meets? He didn't want to answer the question. Very, very professionally delivered, a very professional dodge where he said I don't really want to get into the legal part of this and I said you know that's exactly what the question is what do you legally consider what does the TEA legally consider constitutional equity and he basically said the lowest cut score on meat on approaches we all know that. If we go down the path of strategic six, go. They want local control. They want more insulation from testing. They want rational finance. All of those tie together and we can't fight this growing animus towards public education by taking them perfunctorily bullet We're going to have to get down in the weeds, we're going to have to talk to very smart people, we're going to have to produce a viable, coherent strategy, whether it's through Goal 6 directly or correlated through a legislative train. And then we're going to have to reach out to people, not on a social level, not on a feel good level, but we've got to reach out to them, get their experience and their knowledge. What public education does not do and has not done effectively for as long as I can remember, they never ever actually go forward and prove the consequences of the state stupidity. It's all done at a superficial level. It is all done at a political level. school districts around the state of Texas everyone that I recognize in here is paying a price a heavy price because we're not communicating effectively the consequences of an anti public education mentality in Austin Texas and you know I may have 15 months left on this board it's a pretty good way to spend the next 15 months if we can if we can try to get that going longer than I know but that's what I wanted to say and I appreciate it.
Call your attention to item 9.2 donated items to Katy Independent School District. Item 10 future meetings we have our board work-study meeting on Monday January 15th 2018 which happens to be not only Martin Luther King's birthday but my second born's 18th birthday in 2018 that's just crazy and our regular board meeting Monday January 2nd 2018 location to be determined possibly with no be there being no further business before the board this
The location is highly likely here. Don't get hopes up. It's that old saying, you under-promise, over-deliver. All right? Okay.
Just bring Bistro with you when you come. We will.
Thank you for speaking on my behalf, Mr. Scott.
Madam President, so just as we're going, can we say Merry Christmas to our staff and enjoy your high lump sum? Yes. Merry Christmas.
We got that going out in a different message, but... Sorry. This is y'all's mic. It's open mic time evidently.
But we didn't talk about it.
Yeah, we did. We got a message going out. But yes, we do. It is a... Go for it.
Did I give a secret?
No, not at all. All right. There being no further business for the board, this meeting is adjourned. The time is 7.33 p.m.
Now we can start.
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Motions and votes
Recorded actions
MOTION 001 · AGENDA 3.1
PassedI move that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the superintendent in Closed Meeting.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 002 · AGENDA 7.1
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meetings held in November 2017.
MOTION 003 · AGENDA 7.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.19.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 004 · AGENDA 7.2
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meetings held in November 2017.
MOTION 005 · AGENDA 7.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.19.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 006 · AGENDA 7.3
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meetings held in November 2017.
MOTION 007 · AGENDA 7.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.19.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 008 · AGENDA 7.4
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meetings held in November 2017.
MOTION 009 · AGENDA 7.4
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.19.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 010 · AGENDA 7.5
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meetings held in November 2017.
MOTION 011 · AGENDA 7.5
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.19.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 012 · AGENDA 7.6
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meetings held in November 2017.
MOTION 013 · AGENDA 7.6
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.19.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 014 · AGENDA 7.7
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meetings held in November 2017.
MOTION 015 · AGENDA 7.7
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.19.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 016 · AGENDA 7.8
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meetings held in November 2017.
MOTION 017 · AGENDA 7.8
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.19.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 018 · AGENDA 7.9
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meetings held in November 2017.
MOTION 019 · AGENDA 7.9
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.19.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 020 · AGENDA 7.10
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meetings held in November 2017.
MOTION 021 · AGENDA 7.10
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.19.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 022 · AGENDA 7.11
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meetings held in November 2017.
MOTION 023 · AGENDA 7.11
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.19.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 024 · AGENDA 7.12
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meetings held in November 2017.
MOTION 025 · AGENDA 7.12
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.19.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 026 · AGENDA 7.13
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meetings held in November 2017.
MOTION 027 · AGENDA 7.13
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.19.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 028 · AGENDA 7.14
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meetings held in November 2017.
MOTION 029 · AGENDA 7.14
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.19.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 030 · AGENDA 7.15
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meetings held in November 2017.
MOTION 031 · AGENDA 7.15
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.19.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 032 · AGENDA 7.16
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meetings held in November 2017.
MOTION 033 · AGENDA 7.16
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.19.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 034 · AGENDA 7.17
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meetings held in November 2017.
MOTION 035 · AGENDA 7.17
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.19.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 036 · AGENDA 7.18
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meetings held in November 2017.
MOTION 037 · AGENDA 7.18
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.19.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 038 · AGENDA 7.19
UnknownIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the minutes of the Board meetings held in November 2017.
MOTION 039 · AGENDA 7.19
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Consent Agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.19.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 040 · AGENDA 8.1
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees ratifies the resolution, purchase and sale agreement, and any actions taken by the administration to purchase and close a 10.00 acre parcel from the University of Houston located in the Abstract numbers 186, 190, and 270 in Fort Bend County, Texas.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 041 · AGENDA 8.2
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the attendance boundary modifications (ABM) for the 2018 – 2019 school year presented in Option 1.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 042 · AGENDA 8.3
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the District’s December 2017 budget amendments.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |
MOTION 043 · AGENDA 8.4
PassedIt is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the legal policies and adopts the local policies included in Board Policy Update 109.
6 Yes · 0 No
| Trustee | Vote |
|---|---|
| ashley-vann | Yes |
| bill-lacy | Yes |
| charles-griffin | Yes |
| courtney-doyle | Yes |
| george-scott | Yes |
| rebecca-fox | Yes |