February 26, 2018

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The board will now reconvene in open meeting. Today is Monday, February 26, 2018 and the time is 645 p.m. Dr. Hint, will you verify that 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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Madam President, we are in compliance with the Texas Open Meetings Act with regards to this meeting tonight.

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On behalf of my colleagues, I welcome everyone to this evening's regular board meeting of the KDIC Board of Trustees. Each board member has received the agenda and documentation for this meeting last Thursday, February 22nd, and have had four days to study its contents and receive clarification from Dr. Hint. Additionally, the board met last week in a work-study meeting to receive information and recommendations from staff, administration, and the superintendent on these agenda items. Board members were able to ask questions and receive answers and should be prepared with responses in action for tonight. The Board has just reconvened from closed meeting. In accordance with Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code, an action arising from discussions in a closed meeting must be taken in an open meeting. Agenda item 3.1, consider Board approval of the naming of the principal of Schmalz Elementary.

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Madam President.

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Mrs. Doyle.

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I move that the Board of Trustees name Charlotte Gilder as the principal for Schmalz Elementary. Schmalz Elementary School as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting. Second.

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We have a motion by Mrs. Doyle and a second by Mr. Lacy that the Board of Trustees name Ms. Charlotte Gilder as the principal for Schmalz Elementary School as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting. Is there any discussion? All right. We'll now proceed to vote. All in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.

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Aye.

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Any opposed? No. Motion passes 7-0. Item 3.2.

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Well, before we move to 3.2, if I can go ahead. I haven't seen Charlotte. I'm looking for her. Charlotte, if you're in the room, stand up. There she is. All right. Charlotte, I want you to stay standing. I'm going to read a little bit of your background so everybody gets to know a little bit more about you. And I know you probably got some family there with you, so we'd like to meet them as well. But I'm pleased to announce that Ms. Gilder has been named principal of Schmalz Elementary. Ms. Gilder has worked in the field of education for 24 years. She began her educational career in 1994 as a teacher in Port Arthur ISD and Goose Creek Consolidated ISD. She later became the reading-writing specialist for Kirk Elementary and SciFair ISD, and she held that position for two years. For the next four years she was a counselor in both Lamar Consolidated ISD and Katy. Following her counseling career, she became an assistant principal and served in that capacity. For 12 years in Katy ISD, she has served at Maid Creek Elementary from 2004-2007, Beckendorf Junior High from 2007-2009, Tom Wilson Elementary from 2012-2016, 2016 and her most recent administrative position has been at Morton Ranch Junior High as the student support assistant principal since 2016. Ms. Gilner holds a Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education from Sam Houston State University and both of her graduate degrees were awarded from Prairie View A&M. She holds a Master of Arts in Counseling and Development as well as a Master of Education in School Administration and you'll be on the job tomorrow ready to go, right? Why don't you introduce your family real quick.

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Thank you, Dr. Menzies, and to the board for allowing me this opportunity. I'm very excited.

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I have my first meeting here with me tonight.

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I'm going to invite my husband, Juan Miller, and my sixth-grade daughter, and he will attend the KDIF.

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All right.

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Now to agenda item 3.2. Mr. President. Mr. Mohoski.

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I move the Board of Trustees approves the administrative one-year probationary, administrative one-year term, administrative two-year term, staff member one-year probationary, staff member one-year term, and staff member two-year term contracts as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting. Second.

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We have a motion by Mr. Mohoski and a second by Mr. Griffin that the Board of Trustees approves the administrative one-year probationary, administrative one-year term, administrative two-year term, staff member one-year probationary, staff member one-year term, and staff member two-year term contracts, as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting. Is there any discussion? We'll now proceed to vote. All in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.

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Aye.

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Motion passes 7-0. Item 3.3, Madam President. Mrs. Fox.

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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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Motion has been made by mrs. Fox a second by mr. Mohalski that the Board of Trustees approves a personnel report as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting. Is there any discussion? Being them we will now proceed to vote all in favor raise your right hand and say aye aye

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Aye.

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Motion passes 7 to 0.

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And before you get going, as part of that personnel report and has been the norm here lately, there is one position that I want to introduce to the community and the board. And that is the new head football coach athletic director at Seven Lakes High School, Mr. James Hammond. James, if you'll stand up and let me brag about you a little bit. I see you wore the right colors in your tie there. Good job. Learning early. But I'm pleased to announce that James Hammond has been named high school athletic coordinator head football coach for Seven Lakes High School. Coach Hammond has been in education for 14 years. He began his teaching career at Clear Creek ISD in 2004. He then taught and coached at Sam Rayburn High School in Pasadena, Texas for eight years. His coaching experiences in Pasadena included freshman girls basketball, JV baseball, and football, where he was offensive coordinator. He most recently served as a teacher and coach in Fort Bend ISD. While in Fort Bend, he taught pre-AP, pre-calculus, AP calculus, ABBC, and served as the Algebra II team leader. Pretty good at math, aren't you? He was, so you ought to know that your score should be higher than the opposing team's score. He was named as Ridge Point High School's Teacher of the Year in 2016-2017, as well as Ridge Point High School Assistant Coach of the Year. His coaching experience in Fort Bend includes special teams coordinator and defensive backs from 12 to 14, and defensive coordinator, defensive backs 2015 to present. Under his guidance, the Ridge Point football teams were area finalists in 2013, 16, and and state semifinalists in 2016. Coach Hammond graduated magna cum laude from Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology with teaching emphasis in mathematics. Welcome aboard. Do you have family with you? All right, why don't you introduce them. And those are the boys you said can run a 4-5-40 already, right? All right. Welcome aboard.

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All right. Thank you very much, and welcome to KDIC. Next, we have the Pledges of Allegiance.

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and I am excited to introduce to you a Bethke elementary student his name is Curtis Westaway his principal is Kerry Lowry grade is fifth grade and his parents Mindy and Clint Westaway are here with us he's got brothers and sisters Ben who's in the fourth grade who happens to be his birthday today is that right how about that where's Ben all right Ben happy birthday Ben we've got him Emily in the first grade and we've got George and Shelly who are both in preschool I'm going to give you a little information about this fine young man Curtis is a well-rounded kid currently he's involved with the school choir scouts swim team and basketball he loves responsibility and helping others. He's also interested in cooking, camping, and art. He serves as a safety patrol member at Bethke and shares his ideas on how to improve the campus with his principal. Curtis and his family lived directly behind Bethke and watched every step of it being built with excitement. His mom even served on the naming committee. He is proud to be a Bethke Bison. His favorite subjects include reading, writing, science, especially PE. That was one of my favorite subjects. He loves being active. Quotes about Curtis. Ms. Sample, Curtis' fourth grade teacher. Curtis Westaway is an outstanding fifth grade student at Bethke Elementary School. He participates in Read, Deed, and Run and is a leader in Safety Patrol. Not only is he among the first to step forward to help others, Curtis is the kind of young man who looks you in the eye when he's speaking to you his character work ethic ethic are outstanding and then miss Keller Curtis fifth grade teacher says Curtis is a very bright student and a leader in his classroom he is very inquisitive and excels in anything he sets his mind to and then of course quote from Miss Lowry his principal Curtis brightens my day every morning and afternoon when he dutifully arrives for safety patrol he not only takes his responsibility seriously but often asked how I am doing and generally cares about my answer he is the first to help offer suggestions and not afraid to work he is the kind of kiddo that reminds us why we become educators he motivates me to be a better educator I'll tell you what you're dynamite aren't you well I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to you but there's also one person that I want to recognize here and that is our namesake at Bethke Elementary School and that's Gigi Bethke over there and I know she's beaming with pride. The floor is yours young man. We're gonna say the pledge and then I think you get to talk a little bit.

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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. On the Texas flag, I pledge allegiance to the Texas, one state under God, one and invisible.

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All right, the mic is yours.

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Good evening. I am a student from Catherine Bethke Elementary. There are many great things about Bethke, one of which is Bison Time. Bison Time is a unique school program where students have the ability to take part in many skillful activities based on what we are interested in. Some of these activities are cooking, sports, robotics, science, mathematics, and so much more. We work together during Bison Time to give back to our community. Bison Time also gives students the ability to make new relationships and release their inner herself Bethke is unique to me because there are so many exceptional teachers that our principal miss Lowry has chosen to lead our school and build our legacy one thing that is special to me about Bethke is that we saw it get billed from a sagebrush field to a thriving school campus my little brother would look over the fence and watch the building go up now over 1,000 kids have benefited and and learned at Bethke. I invite you to come see the amazing students and teachers at Bethke. We are doing great things and can't wait to show you.

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Curtis, that was one of the best speeches I think I have ever heard from the board. And thank you very much. In honor, speaking in front of all these people, and I think we even have people standing out in the aisle to hear you talk. We give you a letter of recognition. This is for you and you're the first to get two gifts. The superintendent used to give buses out but they were getting expensive so now we only get to give these. There's a backpack to put stuff in and your own little lunch box. And if we could get Ms. Lowry and Ms. Bethke to come up so we can take a picture of everybody. We're going to sneak right in front of the camera.

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That was so funny. What? Move around here. Let's move that over here. Are they scouts? Oh, sorry. Sorry, I jumped the gun.

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Are there any scouts with us tonight?

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Okay.

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Not tonight. All right. Oh, wait. Oh, where? Oh, there you are. Sorry. Where? Oh, I'm so sorry. You know what would help? We'll start from my left to the right, and if you'll announce your name, your PAC, and what patch you're working on. Badge. Sorry. I was a girl scout.

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All right.

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Wait, wait, wait. There's two of them that ended up back over here. Yes ma'am, she's right there.

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Okay. Hi. Hi. Should we get here? Go ahead. That was very brave to walk all the way up here. Thank you. I should have gotten a picture of that. I just heard.

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My name is Max .

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Go ahead. Thank you very much for being with us tonight.

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All right. Now, next on our agenda, I'd like to introduce Ms. Marie DiPetta, Manager of our Media Relations and Multimedia, for the recognitions portion of the meeting tonight.

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Okay. Good evening, Madam President, Board Members, and Superintendent Hint. We start tonight with KDISD being thankful to have students enriched by the involvement of their parents and community members who share their time, talent, and resources to support extracurricular activities at our high schools. Tonight, we recognize the Booster Club presidents from each high school for their dedication to our students and staff. Would each Booster Club president please come forward when I call your name and remain for a group photo. We start with Cinco Ranch High School. Keith Carmichael, Athletic. Rod McCain, band. Melissa Nixon, band. Anna Marsh, choir. Sharon Ellie, dance. Tina Costley, FFA. Usha Makrashi, orchestra. Megan Schacht, theater.

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From Katy High School we have Danita Holmes, Choir. Amber Berry, Dance. Danann Smith, FFA. Angelique Burnside, Orchestra. Thomas Clark, Robotics. And Melissa Palestina, Theater. From Morton Ranch High School. Slow down just a bit. from Morton Ranch High School Michael Rosario athletic Stacy Massey band Shauna Pippen choir Lorena Zubiera dance Heather Anderson FFA Heather Sanchez orchestra and Kim specs gore theater From Pato High School, Jennifer Bernhardt, Athletics, Rachel Rowe, Band, and Jill Castillo, Theater. From Seven Lakes High School, Mary Ann Vondenstein, Athletic, Foster Williams, Band, Vanessa Hines, Choir, Theater, Bonnie Hanning, Dance, From Taylor High School Catherine Stevens Dance Nancy Steele FFA David Heider Orchestra Ann Pamm Morgan Theater From Tompkins High School Darrell Brand Athletic John Rolson Band Melissa Bryant Choir Debbie Gutierrez Dance, Paul Zutz FFA, Naveed Yahya Orchestra, Cindy Devlin Robotics and Ashley Hurst Theater. Let's give them all a big round of applause.

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Okay.

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Thank you for supporting our KDISD students and your valuable contribution to our high schools. Next, students from Katy ISD brought home top honors at the 2018 Farrington Contest and Awards, a foreign language competition hosted by the Houston area teachers of foreign languages. The district had over 30 high school students win awards with three winning first place in American Sign Language and French. To win these prizes, students competed foreign language, completed rather, foreign language exams that consisted of reading, listening, writing, and speaking. Students, please come forward when I call your name. Nicole Pratt, Cinco Ranch High School, first place for American Sign Language 3. Sierra Walton, Seven Lakes High School, first place for American Sign Language 2. and Akshita Raghuvanchi Katy High School first place for French too congratulations to you

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And one more round of applause for these great students. At this time I would like to recognize the talented students who were selected as 2018 All-State Musicians. These students are among the best in Texas choir, orchestra, and band programs. All-State Choir students, please come forward when I call your name. From Katy High School, Conley Grimmett, Blake Holson, Hunter Kendrick, Justin Hopkowski, Sierra Richardson, Bradley Sherman, and Angel Zacharias. From Maid Creek High School, Nicholas Edwards, Gage Evans, and Samuel Holmes IV.

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Thank you.

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from Martin Ranch High School, Rachel Glasser from Seven Lakes High School, Annie Rude Ajay Rika Bachacharjee, Hailey Plavinsky Alyssa Sun Yiu and Erica Yannick

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from Taylor High School Parker McGowan and Brennan Till from Tompkins High School Leah Maria Bowles and Tashnu Islam. If any of the directors or parents of these amazing students are in the audience tonight, will you also please stand. Congratulations to each one of you.

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Thank you.

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Let's give them one more round of applause. We move on to All-State Orchestra students. Students, when I call your name, please come forward. From Cinco Ranch High School, from Katy High School

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From Seven Lakes High School .

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school. If any of the directors or parents of these students are in the audience tonight, will you also please stand? Congratulations to each one of you.

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Congratulations to each one of you.

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Next up, we have All-State Band students. Please come forward when I call your name. From Cinco Ranch High School, Nevin George. And Ethan Gomez. From Katy High School, Coriann Dearman. From May Creek High School, Dane McGruder. From Seven Lakes High School, Michael Nevins and Patrick Sullivan. From Taylor High School, Sebastian Saar, Sunny Tang, and Eric Wang. From Tompkins High School, Evan Dolotina. And also, if any directors or parents of these students, if you are in the audience, please stand and be recognized.

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Thank you.

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All right, congratulations to each one of you. Thank you. For our next recognition, I would like to introduce Ms. Debbie Decker, Executive Director of the Katy ISD Athletics Department.

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Good evening Madam President, Board Members, and Superintendent Hint. Each year all state athletes are selected from districts across Texas as some of the best in the state at their sport. So we'll have the athletes come forward as I call your name. And then of course at the end we would like for all parents as well as coaches to stand if you're in the audience. From Cinco Ranch High School, Blake Keithy. Also from Cinco Ranch, Tyler Worrell. Josh O'Filly, Heidi Nelson, Sophie Atkinson, and Megan Hopper from Cinco Ranch High School. From Katy High School, Connor Galvin, Kishan Rowe, Michael Matus, Deondrick Glass, Cole Birmingham, Seth Small, and Mauro Otomo, all from Katy High School. Before I move forward, go back one sec, I also have the privilege of announcing Kalloy Bratonev recently won the state gold medal for swimming in the 200 individual medley, and so we went ahead and snuck Kalloy in on this board meeting. So congratulations, Kalloy, on your gold medal. Swimming. From Seven Lakes High School, we have the Baten Horse sisters, Alyssa Kelly Baten Horse, as well as Danny. Come on down from Seven Lakes Volleyball. From Taylor High School, we have Mr. Ian Beek, Will Dupree, Tito Agbanya, Ben Montgomery, and Andrew Coker. Okay, and last but not least, and I will tell you that they have a little basketball game going on right now with some Tompkins High School folks, so we may not have a lot of them here, but Alyssa Balandron, Hayden Gold, Kat Abera, Grace Cahout, Marissa Marinchak, Lauren Archeron, Lauren Titus, and Daniel Figueroa. Congratulations to all of you and for your outstanding achievements. We could have the parents and coaches that are here go ahead and stand. Thank you.

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Okay, next, the Texas Music Educators Association Annual Clinic and Convention that was held earlier this month featured two chorale performing groups representing Katy I. The Seven Lakes Junior High Treble Choir prepared a 25-minute concert of seven songs they performed at the convention. They are one of only four junior high choirs chosen to perform from over 130 schools who submitted recordings. The choir is under the direction of Kristen Lycos and the assistant director, Jen Hart. Please come forward and remain for a photo. photo. Adding to them, the Alexander Elementary Sing-Reg Choir was one of only two elementary choirs chosen from the entire state of Texas to perform as well. They are the first elementary choir to be selected from Katy ISD since 2013. The choir is directed by music teachers Alyssa Plum and Michael Marker. Will you please come forward as well.

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Congratulations! Next, the Music for All National Festival celebrates outstanding music making by the nation's finest high school and middle school scholastic ensembles. Participating students experience an atmosphere of mutual respect while enjoying concerts from other outstanding ensembles. Will the directors please come forward as you are announced? Representing KDISD at this festival March 15th through the 17th will be Seven Lakes High School Wind Symphony Band directed by John Mays, Jonathan Yu, and James Vinson. The Wind Symphony is one of 71 high school and middle school ensembles from across the nation selected to perform at the festival. They will perform in concert, be evaluated by renowned music educators, and participate in master classes and a special event. Music for All had a record number of applicants for the national festival in the orchestra division. Only six ensembles from across the United States were selected to perform at the festival. Of those six, two are from Katy ISD. Seven Lakes High School combined orchestras directed by Desiree Overy and Herbert Anzora, as well as Beck Junior High Chamber Orchestra directed by Barb Nelson. Also, the McMeans Junior High Varsity Choir directed by Stephen Koch. and over 30 choir tapes were submitted and McMean's choir was the only junior high chosen to perform.

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Congratulations to these ensembles for this distinct honor. Next, the Seven Lakes High School Chorale Women will be performing next month at the Southwestern Division American Chorale Directors Association 2018, celebrating youth and diversity in the Arts Conference in Oklahoma City. City. These performers were selected among thousands of honor choir applicants and were chosen to highlight their talents with the conductors who will attend the conference. Twenty-three choirs were invited to the conference, nine are high school choirs, and only three are high school treble choirs. To be selected for the conference, the chorale directors submitted a recording of three pieces and a team of judges invited the choirs that scored for the highest in the selection process. Will choir directors, Emily Chandler and Jeremy Bledsoe, please come forward. And congratulations and good luck also at the conference.

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Wood Creek Elementary teacher Catherine Mills was named the 2018 Teacher of the Year from the Texas Council of Teachers of English Language Arts. Ms. Mills is being honored for the teaching that she has done both inside and outside of her school. Some of her most compelling work happened during Hurricane Harvey. As a way to reach out to her students during this hardship, she used Facebook to start the Hurricane Harvey book club and to share stories of adversity. She would actually read to her students and then ask them to post videos of themselves reading as well. Her project went viral across the nation. Congratulations Mrs. Mrs. Miles on your passion and devotion to our students.

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Commissioner, Sed Miller, honored the Nutrition and Food Services Department with a Best of the Bunch Award in the 2017 Local Products Challenge. The challenge encourages school districts to incorporate homegrown products into school meals and to teach children about the healthy foods that are produced in the Long Star State. The Farm to School Initiative, which is part of the Local Products Challenge, includes several ways for school districts to implement the commissioner's push to include more local ingredients accepting this award tonight is mrs donna pittenger director of nutrition and food services congratulations on receiving this award One more round of applause for Donna. To the parents of our students being recognized tonight, we'd like to thank you for being in our audience. You're welcome to stay for the remainder of the board meeting if you wish, but this concludes our recognitions for this meeting.

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Thank you very much. We now move on to agenda item number six, our 2018-2019 budget update. Mr. Smith.

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Good evening, Ms. Vann and Superintendent Hint. I'm going to set my alarm clock so it goes off at 10 o'clock so we're done tonight with this update about 10 o'clock. It's a pleasure to be with you. Tonight I'm not going to get specific numbers about CATI ISD. Really kind of what the administration and my office looking at as we develop this budget it goes back to the conversation we had over this time last year and then over the summer about state funding and as you know this is our tax rate it's been our tax rate has been level since the 2008-2009 school year what I'm going to talk about is that gray or the bottom part of our taxes for maintenance and operations tonight so what if our property values goes up there's your apples sample or right now we are about 50 50 or in 2013 14 we were about 50 50 or 49 percent 51 percent participation in funding a basic tier 1 education in the 1617 school year and this is off the TEA website we ended the year actually at a 36 percent or for us is 6 36 percent state funding and a 64% local funding. That's a 13% change. 13% more is being asked of our local taxpayers in funding a basic tier one education. 13%. And that's just over the last three years. We've referred to those as the rotten apples and that's equated to just about a hundred million dollars over three years. This is a picture of the property of the participation that is the local participation that's the local taxpayers portion of funding Tier 1 and as you can see that that same from that 2014 school year it's gone up to where more of the burden of funding of Tier 1 education is happening in Katy ISD. Likewise, the state's portion has gone down and that's pretty substantial. When we look at the state trends, the state trends are doing the same, they're just not quite as exaggerated as locally, but statewide this is not just a problem or an issue in KDISD, it's statewide. Rising property values are causing more and more of the funding of Tier 1 public education to taxpayers across the state. and again that's your rotten apples in action. State funding is reduced for property value growth, I've already said that, and the gain from property value growth is used for other areas of the state budget outside of education. So this is a snapshot if you will or a graph of the funding formulas that we live by and I've broken it up into three sections to talk to you tonight and I'm going to focus there on the bottom part is the compressed tax rate as you know the as I mentioned earlier the legislation in 2005 reduced the maintenance and operations tax rate for most districts from a dollar fifty down to a dollar and there's that dollar denoted at the very bottom that I just added at the bottom in Katie ISD's case because we had a dollar sixty three M&O tax rate and we were one of very few districts that had over a dollar fifty at the time, our compressed tax rate was down to $1.866, and I've denoted that there at the very bottom at $1.9. And as you know, when this board adopted it and when most boards adopted their new tax rates back in 2006, they adopted the four additional golden pennies. It's actually based off the Austin ISD yield or their wealth per student, and that was done by almost every district in the state at the time, or they've done it by now, because there's a lot of value in those four golden pennies. And I've denoted that there at the bottom right with a red line. There's no access to any pennies to the right of that for any district without a tax rollback election or TRE.

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Mr. Smith, I'm going to ask you to stop real quick. We've got some folks coming in. If the folks coming in can please find a seat. Go ahead and sit down. We're in the middle of a presentation. There's a few seats up front, officer, if they'll come and fill those seats or they can stand in the back. but once we shut the doors I want to go on with the presentation.

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All right go ahead and hold them right now we'll finish the presentation. Thank Thank you.

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Okay, so anything out to the right of that red line is only accessible for any district in the state with a tax rollback election or a TRE. As you know though, the golden pennies, shortly after they were adopted they added two additional golden pennies. In our case to access those would take an election. Any district across the state would take an election with the exception of, in the wake of a natural disaster. We were able to take advantage of those two golden pennies and this board made some very good, a very good business decision back in the fall when it adopted its tax rate and took advantage of those golden pennies since we were in the wake of the the Harvey natural disaster. Other than that it would not be accessible without without an election. So now we're going to move away from tax rates and we're going to talk about the state's portion of funding tier one. And I want to start out with the basic allotment. In the top left hand you'll see a 5140 and essentially what that number is is if you take all property value and you divide it by students you're going to come up with a number that's called it's five hundred and fourteen thousand dollars in value. Five hundred and fourteen thousand dollars in value. If you divide five hundred fourteen thousand by a hundred you're going to get five thousand one hundred and forty dollars and you divide that by a hundred you're going to get that yield of 5140. And I point that out on the left because that yield of 5140 or 514,000 is very important when it comes to state funding. I will say before I move on that the 2015 session increased the basic allotment by $100. So you can see that 50, it was 5040, or you can see it denoted there on the left at 5040. that $100 increase just funded or barely funded a 2% pay raise for KDISD staff. It funded a little bit more than that, but just added about a 2% pay raise is what it funded. So an increase in the basic allotment is important to the ability to have any school district to access more dollars into public education. So where does KDISD lie on this spectrum? Well, there we were in the 15-16 school year. In the 15-16 school year, I put the formula out there. If you take our total property values, our taxable values at $27.8 billion, and you divide it by our number of students, it would equal $314,000 or almost $315,000 or a yield of $3,150. That would be compared to the $5,140. We're quite a bit lower than that black line above it. it. Each year as our wealth increases, we've kind of creeping up. Now we're at 3550 and then in the 17-18 year, the year that we're currently in, we expect to be about a 3780 wealth per student. Again that's the 35.3 billion dollars in property values divided by our total number of students equals 378 thousand dollars. So you can see we're creeping up to that black line. That black line is important again it represents the basic allotment but property poor school districts like Katy ISD are below that black line and they receive money from the state of Texas up to the black line okay so as we creep closer to the black line we're going to get less funds for a student that's the rotten apples if we were lowering our values per student and this happens some in some places throughout the state that money goes that that line goes down and as you go go down from the black line you get more money from the state but the trend across the statewide is all school districts most school districts are creeping up towards that bike line of the basic allotment and I'm going to talk a little bit about what's above that that line if you take a school district that is property wealthy or subject to recapture that buzzword recapture if you do the math on that they are going to be have a wealth below above $514,000 per student. So if they do that, if you do the math and it's $600,000 per student, then they're somewhere above the black line. And what happens? They pay recapture or money back to the state that brings them down to the black line. So a district like KDISD receives money to get to that black line. A recapture district pays money, in essence, down to keep at the black line so we are bungeed to that black line of the basic allotment so that's a very important number when you hear it mentioned in state funding and so a property wealthy school district if they're above the black line and they get wealthier they pay more into recapture okay just like we get less state funds but the overall benefit is to the state of Texas budget okay so the third part and I'm ten minutes into this and I'm just about done I will be be done by about 10 o'clock, 10 minutes into this and I'm going to wrap up here soon to talk about that skyline. Beautiful picture. It's from about Lady Bird Lake in the city of Austin facing north. You can't quite see the capital. It would be just under the 2005 there, but that's the Austin skyline in 2005. And remember I called those golden pennies the Austin They were tied to the Austin Yield earlier. And at that time, Austin ISD, according to the TEA website, has about 79,707 students. As that stood sometime in 2017, that's the same angle, same skyline. You can see the iconic building with the kind of the pointed top now just dwarfed around other high rise buildings. And you can see three or four or five cranes in this picture because they're still building. And in that time, Austin, at this time in the 2016-17 school year, Austin reported just under 83,000 students or 82,700 students. That's a gain of 3,000 students and a whole lot of value that I see in that picture. KDISD over that time has gained in some years 3,000 students per year. So Austin is growing. They're not growing as rapidly from a student standpoint, but they are growing from a value standpoint. point and I say that to go back to the right of that picture to the Austin yield in the 15-16 school year that yield was $77.53 so if you want to do the math that's their property value divided by their students is about $775,000 ours was 370,000 there's this 500 and it was 753,000 early on in the the budget this last year when we were, Dr. Hindt and I were following the legislative session, both House Bill 1 and Senate Bill 1 is what's carried their budgets. The Senate and House respectively showed this in their budgets. It was a $99.41 yield, and that's because Austin's wealth is rising. They're moving up that scale. So those golden pennies became a lot more wealthy, and they survived with the session and are reaping about what cost us to give a 3% pay raise. So So that's how golden those are to do that. And I will also say that we anticipate, or they budgeted for, that to be $106, or just over a million dollars per student of property value in Austin ISD. So those golden pennies are golden. And what happens there is I'll show you that purple line, that's still us from before the pictures were in the way at our wealth level. And so what happens is on those golden pennies, a penny of taxes will get us to that purple line. And then above that, the state pays us to get us up to Austin's yield. And that's why they're so wealthy, and that's why it was a good business decision for this board to go and get not just four, but six, because we could. We were able to take advantage of getting more golden pennies. So now I'm going to talk in only very briefly about this right-hand side. These are again only election able to be to get with an election their copper pennies. You can see that if you were Below that that that particular black line. It's a smaller yield at three hundred and thirty one dollars and ninety five cents or three hundred nineteen thousand five hundred dollars If you were below that and you had an election to get those pennies You would get brought up to that level in state funding or if you're above that level in wealth and you had those pennies, you would have to pay back towards that line. So if you you could see that if KDISD, if we had access to those pennies, we would be above that black line and we would be having to pay those monies back in a form of recapture. Now we're far from that. We're not going to have an election to get that, but every year in September or October for these last couple of years We've been required since we're above that black line to go through the steps and be called a chapter 41 school district. And we go through that and we tell them this is what we would do with the money if we had access to it. But we don't have access to it, and so it's a waste of time. But if we did, we would be subject to recapture on those. All right, so I'm going to talk about the basic allotment goes through these formulas. And it goes through all the different types of students that we have. and you can see every year we grow and there's about a 4% gain in that. There's about a 20 million dollar gain. It's all because of new students again, but I'm going to show those those monies, those rotten apples hidden home. So that's the same slide we just saw. There's the growth of Tier 1. That's that the basic allotment with all our different types of students grew 4%. Our local fund assignment grew 17%. Now the local fund assignment is that's how much it cost I mean that's how much KDISD taxpayers should pay for that tier one education. It's gone up 17 percent. Why? Well because the prior year our values and our tax maintenance and operations taxes went up by 17 percent. There's a correlation there and because of that our state funding went down substantially. That's the rotten apples in action. Now then we had an 11 percent gain again on top of 4%. So next in the 17-18 year, the year we're in, our local share went up 11%. Again there's a correlation there and state funding went down again by another 15 million dollars. Now in the year we're in somewhere between five and seven percent is what our taxes are going to go up based on value growth. Students are going to go up next year in the budget. You can see that that's a significant more money in students that we're anticipating but there's that 7% increase in the local fund assignment or the the taxpayer share of funding tier one those tie together so our state funding is going to go down another 11 or 12 million dollars not as far as it has before because the property value growth there at the bottom percentage wasn't as high and that leads us to the big question of what are our values going to do this year. We're anticipating a 5% increase. Again, we've averaged over 9% increase in values over the last 10 years. We're looking at a 5% increase this year. Could be more, could be less, don't know. There's a whole lot of new construction still going on in the north side of our district and along the I-10 corridor. That's going to help with that, but then of course we know what the impact of Hurricane Harbor, we're not sure what that will be. So that's the big question is what's that value going to do and it will move forward and it will correlate no matter what it is to what that number will be next year when we're looking at the 1920s budget so that's really all i wanted to talk to you about about is the fundamentals of how we're building the administration's building the budget uh in march we're going to show you some actual numbers with the proposed staffing plan in those numbers and we'll see some some bottom line develop in april Our gentlemen from First Southwest will be here, our financial advisors, I'm sorry, Hilltop Securities, our financial advisors will be here, and Terrell Palmer and Jeff Robert. And they're going to talk about this same subject, our budget with our debt plan, and we're going to issue and start going through the process of having our first bond sale, the 2017 authorization sometime later this summer. And then I'm sorry and then in May we have to have a yet another budget update by then we'll know what that property values will be at that time so things will start coming together very clearly. That's all I have for you tonight. Thank

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you Mr. Smith. Does anybody have any questions? Mr. Smith there's a lot of new

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people or a lot of people that are not normally here and I like to run through three or four questions just real hopefully in rapid order correct me on any point that my presumption is wrong. When we talk about recapture, we really kind of focus on the situation that HISD confronts where they're having to give back money to the state of Texas for what has been called traditionally Robin Hood. Yes sir. Equity. Is that correct? Yes sir. Okay. When we talk about tax base going up and our revenue from the state going down, we're not talking about Robin Hood per se correct yes sir but when the state of when we achieve a higher tax base some that don't follow this might assume that we're putting 100 percent of that money in our bank account that is not true is it that's correct that when we have a tax base increase and you look at we should be able to have X millions of dollars more in reality we may have X millions of of dollars or more that we're taking from people's pocketbooks via property taxes, but that money goes to the state of Texas for transportation, health care, law enforcement, or any general purpose of the state's treasury. Yes, sir. So, in fact, what we have when the tax base in KDISD goes up, because we're not at the recapture line. The reality is that the state of Texas will criticize us for raising taxes, but they're the prime beneficiaries of that increased tax base. True or false?

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True.

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Okay, so let me say this. The reality that we have just seen is the reality that affects everything Everything we do, everything that we would like to do, and everything that we would vision that we would want to do. But the overall lighting reality is this. I'm not representing them, I'm representing me. The state of Texas has lied about a testing and accountability system and imposed tens tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars of burden on school districts. The state of Texas takes your property tax money, pretend that it goes to us on the tax base increase, and they spend it elsewhere. And then you get mad at the school district. School districts all across the state, they get mad at school districts, because the state of Texas has imposed a de facto state property tax. And the reality of the situation is this. If you look at our tax base going from X million to X plus million, the state of Texas confiscates that money. And one of the things that this board is trying to look at is how do we address a de facto state property tax. We went through a strategic process. We had dozens and dozens of citizens, many dozens of hours. And we're going to look at that issue. But the bottom line is this. There are many great programs, but the reality is this. This school district and every school district in the state of Texas lives within an economic reality over which we're not in total charge. That's the bottom line and I understand your passion, I understand your letters, but the reality is there are other factors that go into any decision. Thank you, Madam President.

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Anyone else? Okay, thank you very much Mr. Smith. We now move to agenda item 7. consent agenda. Madam President. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the

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consent agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.18. I have a motion by Mr.

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Griffin, a second by Mr. Moholski that the Board of Trustees approves the consent agenda items as recommended in item 7.1 through 7.18. Is there any discussion I'll proceed to vote all in favor please raise your right hand and say aye motion passes 7 to 0 mr. Mahalski I move the board of trustees

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approves the transportation sustainability model that maintains the current ridership eligibility of 1 half mile radius for elementary and one half and one mile radius for secondary and moves to a multi-bill schedule in the 2018-2019 school year as presented by the administration. Second. I have a

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motion by Mr. Moholsky, a second by Mr. Scott that the Board of Trustees approves a transportation sustainability model that maintains the current ridership eligibility of one half mile radius for elementary and one mile radius for secondary and moves to a multi-bail schedule in the 2018-2019 school year as presented by the administration. Is there any discussion?

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Madam President, Ms. Fox. We had a great discussion last week when we talked about this and I appreciate the discussion that we had and the respect we showed each other during that. Because of my strong passion about later start start times for our high school students, I won't be able to support this motion. I just wanted to make sure it is, I absolutely support the multi-bill system, and I support the transportation model, but my vote will be about the importance of later start times for high school students and how I agree with the research that I've read about it. Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Fox. Madam President.

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Mr. Griffin. Rebecca,

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Rebecca, I understand your passion and I understand the discussion that you had yesterday, or I'm sorry, at the last board meeting. But I felt that you crossed a line. The board directs the superintendent, a board member does not. And I understand you said you had the passion for the later start time for the high school. But to me, during that discussion, you had crossed the line. The board has had plenty of opportunity to weigh into the superintendent. We told him we want the two-to-three bell schedule. We've told him that we want him to listen to the community. We said we want him to talk to his teachers. We want him to listen to his students. But at that time, your addressing the superintendent should have been addressing the board because we as the board can give the superintendent that goal, not a board member. And the thing that really kind of ties it all to me that makes it so dangerous is the superintendent's recommendation takes into account the board's goals. And I say the board's goals because it's all of us. But it also takes into account the community. It takes into account the administration. And it takes the students. It's the whole thing. And from what I've seen, superintendents don't give recommendations lightly. The last time that a superintendent gave a recommendation that this board failed to act on, we found a new superintendent six months later. So when you were pushing to change that one issue, had the superintendent come to this board with a different recommendation, it would have been you driving that, not the board. and then we might have been looking for a new superintendent because his recommendation that he came up with was based on all of us and then for him to have changed it would have been for you and you are a board member and we are the board so next time instead addressing the superintendent with your specific request how about addressing the board and say as a board can we we because we did the strategic design and that's where that information came from. And we can't divert the administration's attention from this board and what the superintendent wants to do. Madam President.

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Mr. Scott.

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The board knows that I have taken advantage of my opportunity of being on this board to to express opinions that may not be consistent with the full board. The linebarger contract, the delinquent tax contract was an example. I want to point out that when Harvey struck and there were three members of the board absent, and it was clear that the tax contract was the absolute majority will of the board. I chose to not vote symbolically but to vote substantively for that contract because it was the majority will of the board and I did not believe that any major contract of this district should be done by a minority but legal majority we all have a right to advance our individual preferences however we are never ever immune from the consequences of our opinions and our suggestions on how the board should act the truth of the matter is the reality of the matter is that to move the junior high and the high school to later stock times based based on advocacy research, tending to border on psychobabble, would not solve the transportation safety issues that have been brought to this board by the superintendent of schools. It would not solve the problem of, in fact, it would greatly aggravate the problem. The lives of high school students are infinitely more complex than the lives of junior high students in jobs, co-curricular, extracurricular, internships, and the notion that we should move, that we have this situation that the administration has brought back a reasoned, rational, community-involved recommendation. the notion that we would tell the superintendent of schools at this point in time go do it again would be counterproductive to the very integrity of the relationship between a board and a superintendent I not only support the superintendent in this because I am loyal to the superintendent I support the superintendent in this because he is 100% correct. We don't live in a parallel universe where this board gets to tuck in high school students to make sure they get enough sleep time. We live in a system where we need to protect as much as we can the schedule of high school students in their very complex lives. and the notion that we're going to make a choice between junior high and high school. This superintendent has not only brought us a good recommendation, he's brought us the most rational recommendation, and it is clearly the result of a board directive of study. It is clearly the result of hours and dozens and dozens of hours of research. It is the result of the superintendent's team bringing us a report and by gosh if we don't want to take that recommendation we need to go out and get another superintendent and I will tell you this for darn sure I am

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not for that thank you mr. Griffin and mr. Scott for your opinions and for you being honest before the vote and expressing yours as well it's my understanding and knowing well enough going forward that regardless of your vote it is the it is you will support the vote of the board as it stands

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Absolutely. Regardless. I will support the board because it's part of our board ethics. I would like to answer one thing with Mr. Griffin if I may. Mr. Griffin, I apologize if you think that I in any way was giving the superintendent a directive. I have been on this board a number of years and I understand that when we speak, we are, when, I will not speak for you all. When I speak, I am speaking to the board members. I don't turn and look at an audience and carry on. I'm speaking to you all when we're speaking. If we're speaking to one of the presenters, I'm speaking to the presenter. But when I'm trying to plead my case or my beliefs, I am speaking to you all. The superintendent engaged with me, as we have, and I was answering his questions. But please, Mr. Superintendent, I hope you do not think that I was being disrespectful in any way or you and I had already had a conversation with the superintendent he was not surprised by my passion because that also is the member the role of the board member I would never come and surprise the superintendent with my comments at a meeting he was aware of those this I am one of the most supportive people this district sees and has seen for years. I love our community. I love our students, our teachers, and our community and I am super supportive. This is something I care deeply about. I'll stand on my vote this evening because I believe that in the future we may see that it it changes or it doesn't change But I will feel very confident in this and I know that you all have seen that from me before and I'm a little disappointed that a board member or two would stretch what my passion is about later start time for high schoolers based on the research and say that that my comments would cause us to look for a new superintendent. I believe that's a far stretch. And Mr. Superintendent, if I am Mr. Superintendent, you know I'm a huge fan of yours. I'm super supportive. and I will support the decision of the board, but I just wanted to make you aware. And thank you, Mr. Superintendent, for visiting with me before last month and for getting our conversation to the forefront so that I believe that here is our time in the open. It's where we have our conversations. I don't get to call all of you all and talk about it. I spoke with the superintendent, but in open meeting is where I get to talk to you all about my passion and the things that I've been reading. And so I respect our superintendent very much, and that won't change after tonight. Thank you, Mrs. Fox.

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Do we have any other?

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Madam President. I'll be quick. Ms. Fox, 70% of 19,000, the administration and the student councils all support the administration's decision. Don't look at me and say you support the administration, the students, and 70% of 19,000 people when you say that.

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Ms. Griffin, that survey was about transportation, not about start times. I just wanted to make my comments about start times. Thank you.

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Ms. Anyone else?

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All right.

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We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Ms. Any opposed? Aye. Ms. Motion passes 6-1.

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Ms. Madam President. Ms. Doyle. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 instructional calendars presented by the administration. Second.

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A motion has been made by Mrs. Doyle, a second by Ms. Fox. The Board of Trustees approves the 2018-2019 and the 2019-2020 instructional calendars as presented by the administration. Is there any discussion? Madam President.

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Ms. Fox. I would like to thank the board for the for the thing that we gave to the superintendent to do two years of calendars Thank you to the superintendent and administration for bringing us two years of calendars I think that's very helpful for our families and our teachers to plan. Thank you very much

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If it's okay, madam president if I could go back real quick just to yes, I'm sorry That's all right To the multi-bill schedule. I want to make sure that our community is fully aware where we're not going to be able to push something out tomorrow. Now that the board has approved the multi-bill schedule as it's detailed in the action item, we'll start doing the routing and the routing pairing. And I know the next question will be for our elementary folks, where we have a little fluctuation in some of our start times there, 8 o'clock versus 8.20. We should be able to come back. as you know March is a very short month being that we have a spring break in the middle of that and I don't think you guys are prepared to come back in the middle of spring break but at the April 23rd board meeting we'll push that information out to you so that our community is well aware and it is our hope at that time that we'll have the elementaries outlined as far as who falls in the eight o'clock bracket who falls in the 820 bracket okay thank you

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I'm sorry you asked to speak about that and I went right over you so I'm gonna repeat the motion for item 8.2 mrs. Doyle has made a motion and mrs. Fox has seconded that the Board of Trustees approves of 2018 to 2019 and the 2019 to 2020 instructional calendars as presented by the administration is there any comments or discussion all right being then we'll now proceed to vote all those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye motion passes 7 to 0

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And just want to point out on that calendar also, because we don't have the testing dates yet for the 1920 testing cycle, we may have to come back and do a minor modification, but it will not affect our holiday times of Thanksgiving, Christmas, or spring break.

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Thank you. I'll call your attention to agenda item number nine, the donated items to Katy Independent School District. Our future meetings, board work study meeting Monday, March 19, 2018, and followed by our regular board meeting Monday, March 26, 2018, right back here in this boardroom. There being no further business before the board, the meeting is adjourned. The time is 8.08 p.m.