May 10, 2018

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The Board will now reconvene in open meeting. Today is Thursday, May 10, 2018, and the time is 9.15 p.m. Dr. Hint, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Opens Meeting Act with regard to the notice of today's meeting?

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Madam President, we are in compliance with regard to the notice for tonight's meeting.

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On behalf of my colleagues, I welcome everyone to this evening's special Board meeting. The Board has just reconvened from closed meeting. In accordance with Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code, any action arising from discussions in a closed meeting must be taken in an open meeting. Item 3.1.

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Madam President.

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Mr. Griffin.

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I move that the Board of Trustees approves engaging the law firm of Feldman & Feldman as special outside counsel to pursue any necessary legal action arising from the defamation of the superintendent other school officials and or staff as presented

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closed meeting a second a motion has been made a motion has been made by mr. Griffin a second by mr. Scott that the Board of trustees approves in engaging the law firm of Feldman and Feldman as special outside counsel to pursue legal action for defamation on the behalf of the superintendent other school officials and or staff as presented in closed

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meeting madam president mr. Graham madam president is my microphone on yes yes as with as we discussed in closed session as with any expenditure of public funds funds, there must be a clearly defined public purpose. It is my understanding that your, that this Board's, stated public purpose and goals are to curb the harm of reputational damage of the Chief Executive and reputational damage of KDISD and this Board of Trustees, which has placed us all in a negative light. This has significantly affected the Superintendent's ability to perform his duties as expected by purposefully interfering with that relationship with the board, community, the administration, and staff. All of this working together negatively impacts the life chances of our students. It is also my understanding that you understand that the resulting impact on the superintendent has been such that he can no longer consistently and effectively perform in his duties, thus requiring the next item which is on the agenda. This has and is interfering with our long-term strategic plan and educational mission mission which is required by law the public purpose is to address remediate and prevent such future harm it is further my understanding as discussed in closed session that this board understands the public purpose that the distractions and consumption of resources occasioned by such attacks on leadership teachers and staff of Katie is D negatively impact our core mission and therefore warrant expenditure of public funds to mitigate or abate further negative impact on our students' education. Further, it is my understanding that this Board has recognized there is a public purpose as an employer to recruit, protect, and retain the best staff, leaders, and teachers. This demonstrates full support of the staff and remediates the reputational harm of this school district, the harm of which is in direct conflict with our educational mission.

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Board, do we have any other questions? All right, prepared to vote. All in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.

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Aye.

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Motion passes 7-0.

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Madam President. Mr. Lacy. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the amendment to the superintendent's contract as presented in the closed meeting. Second.

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A motion has been made by Mr. Lacy and is second by Mr. Griffin. The Board of Trustees approves the amendment to the superintendent's contract as presented in closed meeting. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. motion passes 7 to 0 may I address the board excuse me would you please allow our superintendent of schools to speak dr. hint Thank You madam president and

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members of our community I will please forgive me I'm going to read and a effective January 1st, 2019, I will resign and retire as superintendent of Katy ISD. Coming home to Katy to lead the school district where I grew up and attended school was my highest professional honor. It was a dream I longed for during my amazing 27 years in public education. education. Serving the students, parents, staff and taxpayers of Katy taught me more than I ever taught anyone. I've witnessed so much kindness, humility, excellence and creativity. As a district we weathered Hurricane Harvey. We passed a $609 million bond. We established Katy ISD as a district of innovation while at the same time establishing a community and board approved five year strategic plan. No doubt we made some tough decisions as we moved the sixth largest school district in the state forward. Along the way, I am proud to say we were recognized as a top school district in the greater Houston area. We were recognized as an AP Honor Roll school district, top fine arts district, and everybody knows we're the top athletics district around. We were also recognized as a top workplace in Houston and I couldn't be more proud of our staff, what I refer to as our superstar staff, for this designation. The people of our great district have always been my focus, especially what I consider our dynamite teachers and I believe of Katy ISD is a better place today than when my team and I arrived two years ago. I consider this community and the good people of Katy, or the majority, to be my family. They helped raise me, but folks, my immediate family has to come first. My wife and my children, they need me. In light of an organized, relentless, and dishonest smear campaign against me, I cannot remain as superintendent of Katy ISD while fulfilling those duties and still fulfill my sacred duty as a husband and father. My family is now my number one priority. They are innocent bystanders but this malicious campaign against me is hurting them severely and I cannot allow it any further. As much as I want to stick it out, draw the line, keep serving and just endure these unfair attacks as stoically as I can. I cannot justify putting my wife and kids through it anymore for reasons beyond my control, beyond the majority of the board's control. The situation in Katy has become untenable for me, my family and the board. I'm committed to serve and lead faithfully as I have in the past up until January 1, 2019, allowing our board time to secure the next superintendent. I will continue to work as hard as I have in the past until my exit date, at which time my focus will be, again, entirely on my family. I want to thank Board President Vann, Vice President Ms. Doyle, Secretary Mr. Griffin for their strong leadership and support. I also want to thank board members, Ms. Fox, Mr. Mahalski, Mr. Scott, and Mr. Lacy for their patience with me and their unwavering commitment to the success of Katy ISD. I love Katy. I love Katy. But there is a vicious ugliness in the ruthless attacks that I and others have endured. My prayer is this community, the silent majority, comes together to never ever allow something like this to happen again. I am thankful the board has taken a stance and is moving forward with the defamation lawsuit or the possibility of. Hopefully this will send a message that the antics of a mob of ruthless individuals will not be tolerated today or in the future here in Katy ISD. I leave my role here in Katy with a clear heart and a humble spirit. I am profoundly grateful for the students, staff, parents, community, board members, all of those that have stood by me. In closing, I want to quote my father. I'm reminded of something he told me a long time ago. He said, son, chase your passion, but when your passion becomes a job, it's time to find a new passion. I look forward to what God has in store for me and what that passion is in the future, And I just want to again thank the supporters of Katie for standing by me. Thank you. Good luck, Dr. Hitt.

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Madam President. Mr. Griffin. Dr. Hitt, I'm sorry. I'm sorry this happened to you. Dr. Hinn, I'm sorry this happened to you, your wife, and your children. In my six years on this board, the last few months have been most troubling.

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Excuse me. This is a meeting of a school board. Would you please let our school board member speak? Thank you.

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Excuse me. In my six years on this board, the last few months have been the most troubling. What people don't know is that in closed session we see a lot more information than we're allowed to disclose to the public. This process protects private and sensitive information of the students, our teachers and our staff. It's not an attempt to conceal anything. Bullying is wrong and I don't know anyone that accepts it or tolerates it. It's a complicated problem, but together we can help fix it. But tonight, as a board, we have to do our job as trustees. And we have to protect our students, our staff, and our teachers. We've been subject to months of personal and professional attacks that continue to escalate outside the original topic of classroom bullying. The cyber bullying by some adults in our community has crossed the line so So far, it's time to say enough. Tonight is that time. I fully support Dr. Hint and the actions of this board. As I leave later this month, I'm confident that the board leadership will focus on issues at hand of the district, and we can get back to the job of what we're here for, and that's educating our students. This sideshow has done nothing to help our children. This sideshow has cost this district money. It's cost us time. and our children are the ones that are paying the price and it's just extremely extremely upsetting to see this distraction because this is our community and we've cost us our own money this is in our hands and we punished our own children Thank You dr. Hint and I'm sorry that you have to that

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you have to go. Madam President. Mr. Lacy. Dr. Lance Hint has long said that KTISD is his dream job. When he was hired all that was in all of us in the community thought that we had someone who really understood what KTISD was about and what made us such a unique and wonderful place to live and to work. For the first year it was a dream job for him. He established his strategic plan that would take KDISD to the next level. This strategic plan looked into every department, every classroom, every school and evaluated how we could improve on what we were already doing. He developed a phrase that he lived by that KDISD would provide a safe and secure environment for all students staff and administration then things started to happen in our community to validate that we and I believe that we had the right person for the job it started with a bond needed to fund school repairs and expansion a large committee from the community was formed to review and rank the projects from timing and necessity. Through Dr. Hindt's leadership, the bond that started at over one billion dollars was worked into more manageable amount. It addressed renovation and on over 60 existing schools and construction of six new schools due to the anticipated growth. By the way, under his leadership, the new junior high and high school have already come in 42 million dollars under budget. Then Harvey hit. As we all know, that was a massive, there was massive devastation in our community. Dr. Hint took it upon himself to lead our community and open three schools as shelters for people who were affected by the storm. These shelters housed over 3,500 guests for four days while they were able to contact friends and family members for a more permanent permanent place to stay. He led by example, working tirelessly along with many of the district's administrators, teachers, students, and many of us board members that were able to get back to Houston because I know Ms. Fox was not able to even get back to town, but she sent her husband to work here. And we all took care of the needs of our community. Prior to and even after Harvey, Dr. Hint was everywhere in the schools and the community, meeting people, supporting our teachers and staff, getting to know our students. He was showing what a strong superintendent looked like. All this said, Dr. Hint was our dream superintendent. He was all that we could have asked for and more. Then a small group of people for reasons unknown decided to turn this dream into a nightmare for Dr. Hint in our community. A calculated smear campaign was started under the guise of bullying in our schools. It later escalated to calling into Dr. Hindt's personal and professional reputation. This group was not only attacked Dr. Hint, it also attacked his family, his wife, his son, and his daughter. It didn't stop there. This group even attacked some of our living legacies and some of our school leadership. Vicious accusations, outright lies, combined with half-truths, rumors, and distortions were spread about these wonderful people. It has come to the point that the good people of our community, church leaders, business leaders, and other community leaders, all quietly support the district and Dr. Hint, but have not spoken publicly for fear of being the next target of this group. We are now a community that is afraid. We are being bullied and we do not know how to stop it. Well, this has to stop. The district, this board, and this community deserves better. Our community has asked that we stop the bullying and act as adults. We really need to find out who is really behind this terrible mess and have them be accountable for destroying this fine man, this district, and this community. We have to bring back the good to our district. This is not to say that we're perfect, for we are all far from it. We are working to get better and improve at all levels. The strategic design that Dr. Hint worked so hard on when he first arrived needs to be fully in place. There's a timeline for all of the items that need to be addressed. School finances, curriculum, growth, discipline are all items that are being worked on in this program. These plans do not happen overnight. night. There is a very this is a very large organization with many moving parts and change is never easy. But if we keep the end in mind, we will be a better district and community because of the foresight that Dr Hint has given us. I'm heartbroken to hear that Dr Hint has been forced to decide between his dream job and the safety and the security of his family. Quite frankly, I don't know of anyone else who could have endured what he has over the last several months. The damage to Dr. Hint and the district's reputation have been severe. This board has a fiduciary responsibility to protect this district. We are to protect our children, we are to protect our staff, and we are to protect our reputation. and just as Dr. Hint has made the difficult decision to resign from his dream job, we have to make the difficult decision to find a legal remedy to protect the district's reputation so that this great district will continue to have great educational leaders in the future that still view Katy ISD as a destination for their careers. We are here to provide the best education for our children and in order to do so we have to protect our reputation. Our district has been significantly damaged to both our reputation and finances. Teachers, staff, administrators are all fearful for what may come out about them. We have lost opportunities to retain and to hire top candidates for our schools. Also we now have the significant burden of locating and hiring a new superintendent. This will take time as well. My hope is that we can find a person that possesses the professional quality that we have had in the past. The grave concern that I have, given the last several months, is how difficult will it be to find a superintendent that this community needs rather than a superintendent that needs our community. With this legal action, the board, on behalf of the district, district intends to find out who is involved with this malicious attack. I believe that this will bring to light all involved the full truth of why this attack has been launched against Dr. Hint, our staff and our district. I intend to protect this district while I occupy this chair. My responsibility is to this district, our children and our community and I take this responsibility very seriously.

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Mr. Moholsky. Mr. I will be a little briefer than that. I do not have prepared remarks. I was not quite as well informed as some Board members about what was happening here tonight, apparently. Lance, I was prepared to say goodbye to you in about 11 days when my successor resumes her seat on this dais. was not prepared for this here tonight. You know, but now that we're here and discussing that, you know, I remember back two years ago when we hired you and the breath of fresh air that you brought to this district coming home. And I think a lot of people remember that. I know the staff certainly remembers that first convocation and all the excitement in the Merrill Center as you assume that leadership role and and and addressed the staff here at Katy ISD and it's and in many ways I'm not going to go through all the accolades and everything that my colleagues here just did but in many ways it's been an incredible two-year journey and I'm sorry about the way it's kind of ending I truly am because I believe the many great things have been accomplished to move this district forward an already great district when you got here but um and getting even better every day so i appreciate what you brought here um absolutely do and i wished really wished that it would continue on much much longer but i do understand as well um you know what you have been going through what your family has been going through and i can't even imagine I can't even imagine and I'm sorry I feel like we have failed you I feel like this community has failed you in many ways and and it didn't have to be that way so regardless I wish you all the best and I'm glad that you will be here to see through a succession plan for it for a time being and and the board needs need you and you need them. And as this new board takes its seat in the next couple of weeks, I will be praying for each and every one of you that we can get this community back to where it needs to be. And it's going to take strong leadership and it's going to take support from the community. So please, it's time to stand up and let your voice be heard. Thank you once again for what you mean to this community.

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Ms. Fox.

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I don't have prepared remarks. remarks, I too was completely surprised by the action tonight. I was the first board president when dr. hint arrived and I got to know him very very closely as we work together. As he began to be reunited and reconnected with our community. I've been impressed with you, Doctor Hint since the day I met you. And my respect and admiration for you have grown. As I watched you make us better. as I listened to your vision for our district, as I surprisingly watched that you're a real geek about data, and that you pulled so many things together so quickly and analyzed it and found ways to make us stronger, better, leaner in administration, that your love of the classroom is unprecedented. and other superintendents I know from across the state. Your love of students and teachers and making a difference right there in a schoolroom desk is your driving factor for the decisions you make. I love watching you connect with people. When you walk into a school or a store or a building of any kind, you ask people their names, you remember them, You ask about their families. You share a piece of yourself with those you meet. And they feel connected to you because you're genuine. You are honest. And you deeply care about people and their purpose. And now our teachers are afraid. They're afraid that they're next. They can't do their jobs as well. Because they wonder. What will people, are people searching me? Are they trying to find out something I did when I was younger? We're not doing our vision. We are not doing our jobs, which is students, which is, we're not doing it as well as we as we have because there's a new element of antagonism and anger and fear and harm. And I think that so many of our people, our community, I know how much our community loves KDISD and believes in what we do. And I fear that I have played a part in failing them and helping them understand what was happening because I believed that if we just stayed strong and rise above it that they'll understand and yet Yet the media is the only thing they heard. I'm guilty of that too. When I read something or hear something, I think, oh my. But I know, we know what happens. We know the truth. We know who you are. I wish we had been able to do more. I'm reminded of the stories you told as you first came to Katy and you drove around and you said the people who helped make me the man I am today have their names on buildings and the joy you had to be able to come back and serve the community and the schools and the teachers who poured into you and challenged you. And I will be forever grateful for what you've done for us. And I'm sorry if I failed you or our community in any way by not helping you understand what was really happening and the truth and the depth of the hurt that has been caused to you. you. During Hurricane Harvey, our home was flooded with two feet of water. I was out of town. I was just frightened about what was happening and my husband was home alone. home. And you helped him. You helped him get out of our home and he came. You called him and said, come to Cinque Ranch High School, get over here. And he came and served and loaded trucks of water bottles and helped with all the things that were happening there. It became his ministry. And you checked on him every day. And then when I was able to get back, you offered us a car. You offered us to stay with you. You offered us anything we needed, furniture, food. You checked on me every day. And many others, not just me, because I'm a board member, but my friend Melissa who is also flooded, and a teacher who lives across the way in the other neighborhood across from me, checked on her. what you did for people and giving them a safe place, that's the man you are. I have a million more stories. I mostly love that we share a belief in a God who is bigger than all of this. And in a God who will walk beside us and carry us through. I am grateful for you, Lance Hint. Thank you.

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Mr. Stein.

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I'm not going to talk much tonight, just a few seconds, about the politics of personal destruction and the impact that it can have in hijacking a community, hijacking a school district, but that's what's happened. We've had an organized effort to destroy human beings' career, professional career, personal career, and go after their families. This district has been harmed. KDISD has been harmed. I'm not going to talk about journalism tonight. I'm not going to talk about the media. I'm just going to say in the real world the politics of personal destruction can travel as fast as a virus. What I want to talk about in my remarks is Dr. Hint. My first superintendent that I covered was as a young reporter almost 50 years ago and in the 50 years that I've been covering or interacting with superintendent dozens and dozens of superintendents there have been average ones there have been mediocre ones there have been many many who have been good and conscientious and dedicated. I've come across three that were unique. Billy Reagan in the 80s, Rod Page, who was a good personal friend, and then Lance Hint. That's okay. I'll let you get to it. And Lance Hint. From the time that Lance Hint arrived in this school district, he has met every single marker that this board imposed upon him. But I want to talk about something that is really special about Dr. Hint. About right out in that row, before he actually took the oath of office as superintendent, I gave him an 84-page political monograph because my passion in education has been about for 30 years. The state of Texas has lied about equity. It has lied about testing. It has lied about finance. And we've had lawyers throughout this time that have failed to even understand how to bring that to closure, how to go after it. Lance Hint actually read that damn 84 page document I gave him. I've given it to reporters and reporters won't read it because that takes work. Let me tell you what Lance Hint did over the course of two years and Rebecca was right there with us. Let's do the preface one more time. The state has created a de facto state property tax. The state lies about what children do and do not know. The state has imposed a punitive accountability system that punishes teachers, punishes students, and punishes classroom teachers. All. It has an accountability system that is wrong, it's punitive, and it's harmful. And Dr. Hint, from the day he got into this campus, said, we're going to take a serious look. And through the entire strategic process, Dr. Hint was there shepherding it all the way through. I wouldn't have expected Billy Reagan to do that. Rod Page became Secretary of Education. But Lance Hint is the one that adopted this because the people of this community said, we want this school board to look at a way of challenging and a way to restoring some measure of local control. We want to have a fair, equitable property tax system. We want to have an accountability system that is not punitive. The secret is this. This district is a changing district. It is no longer an enclave district. We are a majority minority campus district. I'm sorry. We have an extraordinary burden to try to do something to not only look at education today but going forward and Dr. Hint has put his heart, his soul, his courage, his passion into that mission. I'm going to tell you something. Of all the superintendents I've dealt with, and due diligence me, I've been at odds with more superintendents than I've been in support of. Of all the superintendents that I have dealt with professionally, which rises into between between 30 and 40, Dr. Hint is absolutely 100% the top of the top of the top that I've dealt with. I am heart sick that we are losing this man. It makes me sick to my stomach that we're losing this man. But the destruction of a family is not something that we can demand he stay. the viciousness, the meanness of what has happened to this family is despicable. And all I want to say in closing is this, I want to reiterate, people may have expected because of who I was and my background in this community that I would come on and be an enemy of Dr. Dr. Hint or any superintendent. There are people who helped me get elected to the board that will never forgive me for having high respect for this man. Never. They walked away from me very quickly. But what I want to say to Dr. Hint, you've done an extraordinary job. You are an extraordinary leader. You are an extraordinary family man. You did nothing to deserve where we are today. today. I am grateful that you're going to be here through the end of the year. I am grateful that we have an opportunity to shepherd projects through. I'm grateful that you're staying here, but you are my number one superintendent in my entire career.

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Mrs. Doyle.

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Further interruptions? We do have the right to remove you from the boardroom. Please allow us to do our business. Ms. Doyle.

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Thank you, Madam President. I've been a volunteer in this community since our family moved here in 2008, and for the last four years I've been honored to be a representative of this board. As board members, we set policy and we make decisions that will impact your children and this community. Some are much easier than others, and I do not take any of them lightly. be it rezoning TWI, transportation, or moving to a multi-bail schedule. Every decision impacts students, teachers, families in our district. One decision I was the most honored to have done was to hire a new superintendent. When we went through the interview process, we were presented with several qualified candidates, but none impressed me as much as Dr. Lance Hint. We needed a superintendent in this district who would be personable, relatable, relatable, who would be on the campuses with the teachers and who would be willing to have his door open to anyone and everyone at the time they needed him, and he has done that almost to the detriment of himself and to his family. He was open and honest with us, humble and relatable, never claiming perfection, but rather claiming that he wanted to return to the town that made him the man that he was today and to help shape the children of this town to be the children of our future and to leave a legacy of their own. Today we face a time of division. our district is not perfect and it will take time to undo what has been done. This board didn't create the problem of classroom and cyber bullying and neither did Dr. Hint. Our society through social media is out of control. No one, be it a teacher, a student, a parent, volunteer, or even the superintendent should be subjected to personal and relentless attacks on themselves or their family. enough is enough. I want to be clear I am against any form of bullying by any group of any age and I will work to fix what is broken. I have six children some of them have been bullied right here in Katy ISD. I was bullied growing up and it is not fun and I did not want to go to school because of my bullies so I have been there and I have felt it and I have seen it on both ends of the spectrum. I to have no place to turn. So I have been in those shoes and we can always do better. I fully support Dr. Hint and the actions of this board tonight. We have plenty of work ahead of us and an anti-bullying is just one priority of many for us to look at that I think needs to be addressed and we have to change the culture but you know what guys it starts with us the adults. I've been quiet as we work through this process but it takes time to take it takes I'm sorry It is time for us to take a stand for positive change. I challenge those in our community looking for the next problem to stop and look for a solution, not a place to lay blame. As you have all heard, he who is without sin cast the first stone. Well, I'll take my stone. I'm going to use it for building our community's reputation back from how it has been torn apart over the last several weeks versus throwing it. I pray that our society has not become one where we all go around judging one another for what each of us has done 40 years ago. My question to you is, are you willing to put your stone down? We have to be solution-oriented, or we will never move forward. In closing, I want to ask the people of this district to stand with us, support us in what we have to know that is true. This is a great place to live and to educate our children. children. Let's not continue to be a small minority tearing each other apart, but rather a loud majority in supporting one another and take a stand and find solutions to be positive because there's 78,000 children. They're going to wake up in the morning and not know that the adults in this district are tearing each other apart and those children need us and this is ridiculous. Dr. Hint, I'm sorry for what your family has gone through and you have my support and I hate to see you leave but I completely

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understand why you must go first I'd like to say thank you to all of my board members these past few weeks have been unique to say the least in my leadership as board president I thought the craziest thing we would do is dedicate a stadium but you know so I will now read my final words and that I would like to share there has not been a single day since August 1st 2016 the day that dr. Lant Lance Hint assumed the role of superintendent of schools in Katy ISD that I personally have questioned him as a leader of his district I have been quoted as saying and I will state it again that he was my one and only choice out of all the very strong candidates. After our rigorous, thorough and professional interview process, he has always been transparent and forthcoming with his district's trustees. He has communicated openly and promptly and he works harder than anyone I have ever known in the field of public education in my 16 years I have been involved in it. but because of directed and planned attacks on his character, career, and family. His focus and ability to communicate with his board for us to do our jobs has been taxed, and that simply is not what our community deserves from their leader in our public schools and the board they elected to serve them and our almost 78,000-plus students. students. Our Board of Trustees, yes, is a volunteer job. We do this job for the students and the staff of this district. A district that educated some of us, that educated all of our kids, or is currently educating and serving some of our younger kids. A district that's educating and serving thousands of others plus tens of thousands yet to come. We certainly do not do this job for media coverage, likes on Facebook, clicks on or shares of links, quotes in newspaper articles, or to be in the nightly news. And the false narratives directed our way have been nothing short of damning. Since August 1st, 2016 and going forward, I will respect and admire Dr. Lance Hindt. He is a man that once was a boy who grew up. He grew up to be a committed coach and teacher, a passionate educator, an informed and diligent administrator, a kind friend. But most of all, a devoted brother, son, and father. And a faithful and loving husband. And he simply will not put his family through this anymore. more and I and then she heard tonight the rest of his board respect and understand that the chaos just cannot be louder than the district's message and focus efforts that simply will not work for the greater good so it's time this needs to come to an end so we can all do our jobs the students and staff is phenomenal school district Katie is home and simply put our homes been attacked a Our reputation and our culture is being directly harmed daily. It is time to defend ourselves for our community, our taxpayers, our students, our families, and our staff. For our pride and for our legacy. Because the legacy of Katie, for all of us, is much more than just a hashtag. tag. Unfortunately now, we will be doing our work going forward in this great district in the very near future without Dr. Lance Hint. There being no further business before the board, this meeting is adjourned. The time is 10 o 2 p.m.