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Independent School District to order. Today is Monday, May 21st, 2018 and the
time is 531 p.m. Noting that a quorum is present, the board will now convene an
open meeting. Dr. Hint, will you verify that we are in compliance with the
provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act regarding to this meeting? Madam
President, we are in compliance with regards to Texas Open Meetings Act
with regard to the meeting tonight. On behalf of my colleagues I welcome
everyone to this evening's board work-study meeting. To prepare for this
meeting each board member received the agenda and documentation for this
meeting on Thursday May 17th and have had four days to study its contents and
to seek clarification from Dr. Hint. This evening the items posted on the agenda
will be presented to the board by staff, administration, and the superintendent. The
The board will have the opportunity to ask questions and discuss agenda items during
tonight's meeting.
If we could, please, I would like to ask that everybody take a brief moment of silence for
those who lost their lives and were directly impacted in Santa Fe, Texas.
Thank you very much.
Do we have any scouts in the audience?
They're all homesteading for finals it looks like.
Next up we have our recognitions.
Dr. Hint?
Yes.
First on our agenda I'd like to introduce Ms. Maria DiPetta, Manager of Media Relations
and Multimedia for the recognitions portion of our meeting tonight.
Good evening Madam President, good evening to all of you.
Tonight we would like to present the top two students from each high school ranked highest academically in their respective graduating class.
At this time, please welcome Principal James Cross to introduce the valedictorian and salutatorian for Cinco Ranch High School.
All right, I'm going to catch my breath for just a second.
We had a robotics banquet here last night, and it's like the third year in a row.
The kids and the parents told me, if you need a drought taken care of, schedule a robotics banquet.
And that will do it, because we had about three years of rain.
So, all right.
Good evening, Madam, oh, Madam President.
There you are.
Thank you so much for that.
I appreciate it.
It's a good color.
Board members and Superintendent Dr. Hint, it is my pleasure to be here tonight to introduce
our salutatorian and our valedictorian.
I will begin with our salutatorian.
And so at this time, I would like to recognize Ms. Saviksha Srinivasan.
There she is.
She obviously is ranked number two in our class and carries a 4.8551 GPA.
And so, oh, I would like to recognize her parents as well while we're here.
As my fogged up glasses, we'll have to wait a minute.
So her father, Srini Vasan.
I'm so sorry, I can't see well enough.
Partha Sarathi.
I probably didn't say that exactly correctly.
Thank you.
And her mother Padmahariya Padmanabhan.
Okay let me tell you a little bit about Saviksha.
She is a cheerful girl who's been involved in activities both in Cinca Ranch High School
and in her community.
In school she's been active in Science Olympiad and meddled in Invitational, Regional and
State competitions.
She has also attended the national competition in her freshman year.
An active participant in academic cathelon and UIL spelling, she placed fifth in the
district.
Outside of school, she has been an avid volunteer and intern at Christ Clinic, where she developed
a mobile app for Android phones to aid uninsured patients.
This past semester, she interned at the Cardiology Center of Houston and shadowed a cardiologist
to understand the nuances of patient care.
In her free time, which I'm wondering how she has any free time, she loves to act in stage plays in English and also in her native language to promote culture and linguistics.
She has participated in interviews with advanced ED to achieve the first accreditation in the nation for her native language.
She also enjoys playing the viola at nursing homes, providing musical therapy and support for the elderly.
In the future, she hopes to become an orthopedic surgeon after being inspired by her medical history, internships, and volunteering.
She is attending U of H, the BSMD seven-year program.
Sabiksha Srinivasan.
All right, now for our valedictorian, Shreya Bhudiraja.
There she is.
Shreya has a GPA of 4.8553 and I'd like to introduce her father and her mother
Ashish Booliraja her father and Anshu Booliraja
all right a little bit about Shreya in her time in high school she's been involved in numerous
clubs including Future Business Leaders of America and Mu Alpha Theta. In FBLA,
Shreya has been a chapter officer for four years and was elected the state
parliamentarian for Texas FBLA in her junior year. Through FBLA, she organized
local and statewide community service events, hosted workshops in the state
leadership conference, and promoted career and technical education in
conferences and state capital. She's been the vice president of competitions for
for the past three years in Mu Alpha Theta,
where she tutors students weekly
and helps organize math competitions.
Competing as well to qualify
for the American Invitational Mathematics exam,
which I can tell you is a very prestigious test
and club to be in.
Shreya plays tennis,
having been on Cinco's varsity tennis team,
qualifying as a super champion,
or as those in the tennis world call it, super champs,
within the USTA and achieving her highest rank
of 29th in Texas. Shreya has been involved in various activities in the field of medicine,
a career she is intent on pursuing. She spent the last three summers researching UT Health
and Rice University labs along with Memorial Hermann Rehabilitation Hospital. She also
volunteers at the Methodist Hospital and has completed her year-long internship at Child
Neurology and Stroke of Houston. Shreya is attending Northwestern Feinberg School of
medicine where upon completing three years at Northwestern University she
will automatically matriculate into the Feinberg School of Medicine. She is
planning on majoring in biomedical engineering as a Murphy scholar in the
Honors Program of Medical Education. And that is the Cinca Ranch Salutatorian
Valedictorian.
Thank you, Mr. Cross.
Let's give them one more round of applause.
applause. At this time I would like to introduce Dr. Rick Hall, principal of Katy High School.
President Vann, members of the board, Dr. Hint, Katy High School has a tradition of
excellence. For well over a century our graduates have gone on to become doctors,
politicians, educators, leaders in their field. They have contributed to society
in many ways. The 2018 graduating class will continue this tradition of
excellence and further our legacy. It is my honor and privilege to present the
valedictorian and salutatorian for Katy High School. Our salutatorian is Miss
Piper Mackenzie Harris.
Piper will be graduating with a 4.8214 GPA and will be attending Rice University where
she plans to study biochemistry and neuroscience.
She has been involved in many clubs and organizations including National Honor Society, Model United
Nations, Technology Student Association, Academic Decathlon, History Club, and Interact.
Piper has been awarded scholarships through Friends of Katie, Model United Nations, and
and Katy High School History Club.
She is the daughter of Benjamin and Jennifer Harris,
and I'd like them to be recognized at this time.
I'm proud to present our salutatorian, Piper Mackenzie
Harris.
Katy High School's valedictorian is Ms. Marie Ann Marone.
Mary Ann will be graduating with a 4.8226 GPA and will be attending Brown University
in the fall where she plans to study neuroscience and psychology.
She too has been active in many clubs and organizations while at Katy High School including
the National Honor Society, Model United Nations, Mu Alpha Theta, French Club and Interact.
Mary Ann will be attending Brown through a full ride academic scholarship.
Marie-Anne is the daughter of Raul Barone and Marie Fernanda Eisenhower.
And I'd like to ask her to stand up.
Again, congratulations to our valedictorian, Marie-Anne Barone.
Thank you, Dr. Hall.
Now, please, let's welcome Mr. Ronnie Edwards, principal of Maid Creek High School.
President Vann, members of the board, and Dr. Hint, it is my pleasure to be here this evening to recognize two outstanding students from May Creek High School, class of 2018.
As you know, this year has provided many challenges that our students have had to endure and overcome.
The two students I am going to introduce have provided great leadership to their class and their school.
They have served their school and community while maintaining their focus on academic achievement.
They have displayed tremendous resolve in the face of adversity which began our year.
Their legacy will be one of perseverance and determination.
I am very proud of their accomplishments.
Our salutatorian is Mr. David Liu.
David will be graduating with a 4.7119 GPA and will be attending the University of Texas
in the fall where he plans on majoring in biochemistry.
After attending UT in the fall, David plans on attending medical school to become an anesthesiologist.
He has been active in many clubs and organizations and activities at May Creek.
He was a member of band, tennis, cross country team, wrestling, National Honor Society, Key
Club, Future Business Leaders of America, Science National Honor Society, Spanish National
Honor Society, the Science UL Academic Team.
David has also served as class president.
He has received over $30,000 in scholarships and grants and a $20,000 Houston livestock
Talk Show and Rodeo Scholarship. David is the son of Mr. Da Lu and Mr. Ya Yi. They
are unable to attend tonight but please recognize them for their accomplishment as your parents.
It is my privilege to recognize May Creek Salutatorian David Lu.
Our Valedictorian is Mr. Arman Yazdian.
Armand will be graduating with a 4.7586 GPA and will also be attending University of Texas
in the fall with David where he plans on majoring in biochemistry.
After attending UT in the fall, Armand plans on attending medical school as well to become
an anesthesiologist.
Great minds think alike.
He has been active in many clubs, organizations, and activities.
He was a member of orchestra, varsity tennis, national honor society, key club president,
future business leaders of America, science national honor society, and Spanish national
honor society.
He has received over $52,000 in scholarships, including a $20,000 Houston livestock show
and rodeo scholarship, a $20,000 University of Texas presidential scholarship, and a $12,000
scholarship from the Texas Exes Houston chapter. Armand is the son of Hassan and
Yori Yazdian. Please recognize his mom here today.
It is my privilege to recognize May Creek's valedictorian Armand Yazdian.
One more round of applause for them.
Thank you, Mr. Edwards.
At this time, I would like to welcome Mrs. Julie Henson, principal of Morton Ranch High School.
Good evening, President Vann, Dr. Hinn, and members of the board.
Tonight I'm honored to present the 2018 Morton Ranch High School Valedictorian and Salutatorian.
Our Salutatorian is Ms. Kelly Singh.
I would also like to introduce you to Kelly's parents, Hung Nguyen and Sue May Singh.
Please stand and be recognized.
Kelly is graduating with a 4.6774.
During her time at Morton Ridge High School, Kelly was a member of the Symphony Orchestra,
National Honor Society, National Math Honor Society,
painted a piece for the KDISD Keys Mentorship Program,
is co-captain of the Legend of Taiwan Dragon Dance Company,
And another unique thing about Kelly is she is a two-year gold medalist in weapons form from the world star Chinese martial arts competition.
She has received most of her scholarships from various organizations in which she has strived to promote the Chinese culture.
Kelly will be attending the University of Texas at Austin to pursue a degree in chemistry in order to become a research scientist.
Please join me in congratulating our salutatorian, Kelly Zeng.
Our valedictorian is Ms. Penelope Gaudia.
Applause
I would like to also introduce you to Penelope's parents, Enrique and Aria Gaudia.
Please stand and be recognized.
Applause
Penelope is graduating with a 4.6842 GPA.
During her time at Morton Ridge High School, Penelope was a captain of the Maverick Band,
member of the National French Honor Society, was a National English Honor Society officer,
National Honor Society president, and was the class vice president for her junior and senior year.
Her favorite high school memory is the first football game of her junior year.
It rained, so she didn't have to play her instrument, and it was able to dance in the rain, and we won the game.
She will be attending the University of Texas at Austin to pursue a degree in biomedical engineering
and someday wants to join a nonprofit organization such as Doctors Without Borders.
Please join me in congratulating our valedictorian, Penelope Gadia.
All right, one more round of applause.
Thank you, Ms. Henson.
Next, I would like to introduce Mr. Ted Vierling, principal of Seven Lakes High School.
Just kidding.
Madam President, Dr. Hint, members of the board, thank you.
It is my pleasure to recognize Dennis Liu as the salutatorian of Seven Lakes High School.
Dennis?
Dennis is graduating with a 4.8333 GPA.
GPA. His father is Zong Lu and mother Jane Zhang. If you'll please stand and be recognized.
Dennis will attend the University of Texas at Austin. He is a National Merit finalist.
He's a member of the Science Olympiad team, which just finished sixth in the nation this
weekend thank you very much the National Honor Society and Spartans out serving
the Seven Lakes High School salutatorian Dennis Liu
and a valedictorian Seven Lakes High School is Anushri Shah
Anushri is graduating with a Mathematically Impossible 4.873 GPA.
Her father is D.V.
Shaw.
Mother is Jigna Shaw.
You'll stand please.
Anushri will be attending the University of Texas at Austin and will be participating
participating in the Turing Scholars Program. Her scholarships include the Emerald Circle Scholarship for Girl Scouting, the Texas Exes Scholarship, and Texas Children's Junior Auxiliary Board Scholarship.
Her activities and clubs, and there are many, the National Honor Society, the Spanish Honor Society, Science Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta, Future Business Leaders of America, Seven Lakes Stock Exchange President, Captain of the UIL Current Events Team, received a Girl Scout Gold Award for the Bhutanese Refugee Service Project,
Vice President of the Texas Children's Junior Auxiliary Board, teaching
assistant at a STEM camp for girls at Rice University, and a member of Spartans
Out Serving, Anushree Shah.
Congratulations.
At this time, please welcome Mr. Christopher Morgan, principal of Taylor High School.
That was more applause again, Ted, just to let you know.
We have an ongoing thing there.
President Vann, members of the board, and Dr. Hinn, it's my pleasure tonight and
honor to present the valedictorian salutatorian for Taylor High School. Our
salutatorian is Mr. Hashim Bey.
His mom, Jinan Baba, is here with mother of the sisters and brother.
Our
salutatorian is Mr. Hossam Bey. He will be graduating with a 4.7969 GPA. He will
be attending Rice University in the fall where he plans to study biochemistry. He
has been active in many clubs and organizations while at Taylor High
School including National Honor Society, FBLA, Investors Club, Pre-Medical Society,
MSA Parliamentarian, and Spanish Honor Society. Hossam was also once a member of
our Quiz Bowl team and once won events at the FBLA region meets. He has been
awarded a grant from Rice University and also I have to say that he works at
Bahama Bucks and he makes a mean strawberry freeze cheesecake smoothie so
I can vouch for that one. It's my honor and privilege tonight to recognize our
salutatorium Hashem Bey.
Taylor High's valedictorian is Miss Saatchi Kempka.
Her mom and dad, Hamont and Lalita Kempka are here.
Sachi will be graduating with a 4.8 GPA and will be attending Rice University where she plans to study biochemistry.
That's right, they're both going to do the same thing at the same university, so it's awesome.
She too has been involved in many clubs and organizations including National Honor Society, Spanish Honor Society, Science Club,
Texas Children's Hospital Junior Council Committee member Mu Alpha Theta, former
president of the Habitat for Humanity and founder. She has spent time
volunteering with Key Club and at the Oakmont Rehabilitation Center. Saatchi
has been awarded the Emerald Circle Scholarship and the Taylor Parents in
Action Scholarship. She also has earned her Gold Award for Girl Scouts,
congratulations on that, Miller Career Technology Award, as well as an AP
scholar. It's my pleasure to introduce Taylor's High School Valedictorian, Sachi Kimco.
Congratulations to these amazing students.
Thank you, Mr. Morgan. Next, I would like to introduce Mr. Mark Grisdale, principal of Tompkins High School.
Madam President, members of the board, Dr. Hint, it's my pleasure to announce the valedictorian and salutatorian from Tompkins High School.
The salutatorian is Rohit Kamef.
Rohit is the son of Ramesh and Aparna Kamef.
There we go.
Rohit has a GPA of 4.8125.
He will be attending Vanderbilt University in the fall, enrolling in a pre-med program in neuroscience.
science. Rohit is the recipient of the Cornelius Vanderbilt Scholarship which
covers full tuition and provides funding for research and study abroad. Rohit has
been the treasurer and co-president of the Tompkins High School Science
National Honor Society. He is a state champion and two-time national finalist
in future business leaders of America competitions and he is the FBLA Texas
State Vice President. He has won a state championship in behavioral sciences at
at the Texas Science and Engineering Fair.
He's a region gold medalist in academic decathlon,
and he has been involved in numerous local and international
community service projects.
Please join me in congratulating Rohit Kometh as the Tompkins
High School Salutatorian.
The Tompkins High School Valedictorian is Viraj Punia.
Raj is the son of Shivinder and Jyotinder Punia.
Raj has a GPA of 4.8382.
He will attend Duke University in the fall where he will enroll in a biology pre-med
program and he is a National Merit Scholar.
Raj has been a state medalist and co-president of the Tompkins High School Science Olympiad.
He has competed at the Future Business Leaders of America national competitions and was an
invited speaker at a TEDx talk in 2017.
He's been active in student government, serving as a class officer and as a class president.
Please join me in congratulating the Tompkins High School Valedictorian, Viraj Punia.
Congratulations to all of these students on their outstanding accomplishments for all
their hard work.
Let's give them that very loud round of applause that they all deserve.
This concludes the recognitions portion of this meeting.
Thank you, Maria.
Tonight is a very special night for two people, and for another two people, for two totally different reasons.
First, we have two outgoing board members who have given six years of their time and
commitment, their volunteer time and commitment to this school district, to the students and
the staff and the community of Katy ISD.
And this is their last board meeting with us here tonight.
We did it right after Sal's and Val's, just for you, Charles.
Charles. But I would like to start it off by first recognizing Mr. Moholsky and Mr.
Griffin. It has been a pleasure and an honor to have served with you the past four years.
You were both served in this role while I've been on this board. And I'd like to say that
I learned a lot of serving in the role of president from both of you. You've been my
my sounding board since day one.
And it's going to be really weird with
out to you all here. But I know you're going on to do some really awesome things, some moves and
some changes of environment. And now you get to fly even more, Mr. Griffin. But we really do thank
you for your years of service with this district. And KDIC is a better place for the time that you
gave, the gift of your time. I'll open it up to the other board members if they would like to
say anything.
Ms. Stoyle?
Ms. I do not want to be redundant because I have served the same amount of time as Ashley.
And when we were sworn in, I remember sitting down and both of you welcomed Ashley and I
as new board members with open arms and were very willing to take phone calls anytime that
we needed advice or hey how to how do we what does this mean and um and i really appreciate that
guidance and that willingness i know that both of you are very busy with your real jobs this was
just a volunteer job and and i appreciate that we've had lots of laughs and i appreciate those
moments as well and so um i hope that though we are no longer working in this capacity that we
We will continue those phone calls and those moments.
And I appreciate the time that you have served.
Unless you're on this side of the desk, people aren't aware of how difficult this can be sometimes.
And so we have an understanding because we are on this side of the desk.
And so we'll always have that.
and thank your wives as well because they have also given time by letting and
allowing you to be here both in physical form as well as an emotional space that
you have taken to serve this school district and so thank them and your
families for giving giving that to us and we appreciate that so you will be
missed but enjoy your time now. Mr. Scott. To Charles and Brian, Charles first.
Given our respective backgrounds in this community you and I might be really
considered the original odd couple. You and I had a lot of differences
coming into our board service, but I came to have an extraordinary respect for you.
And over the two years that I've been on the board, my respect for you has only grown.
And there are people in this community, primarily some in the room tonight who helped me get elected,
that will never, ever understand why I respect you so much.
You have been a consistent voice, a strong voice in executive session that only we can hear by law.
And you've been a strong voice in public session.
And I respect the hell out of you.
Brian, you and I have had a checkered past.
Why don't we just tell the truth, okay?
Going back six years, I don't even remember if I supported you or not.
but what I do know is this maybe I've chosen to forget but what I do know is
this in particular over the last six or seven months you have been an extremely
valuable member of this board and I'm not trying to discount or wash away or
or launder whatever disagreements you and I have had.
But when you've come to the end of the race tonight,
you leave with my respect because I know this.
You're kind of like Ashley and you're kind of like Courtney.
You will look me in the face in executive session
when we're talking about legitimately executive session material
material, and you will not say in these words, but you will say what I understand to be,
what in the holy hell are you talking about?
Okay?
And I respect that.
So Charles and Brian, I wish you both were not leaving, but the people of, you made your
choice, and the people of this community have chosen two new members, and all of us have
a responsibility to accept the will of the community and the two new folks that are coming
on board and try to do our best.
And I know this, when I came on board, whatever differences we had, you put aside.
So Brian and Charles, I have just extraordinary respect for you.
And we've never compromised one single principle between us.
Madam President.
Mrs. Fox.
I wonder how many people think I can get through this without crying.
I'll try.
Mr. Griffin, thank you so much for your service.
Mr. Maholsky, six years, it goes fast, doesn't it?
And people ask me all the time, why do you continue to serve?
And it's because things change, right?
In KDISD, over six years, we've seen a lot of things come across our desk,
a lot of issues, a lot of exciting things, lots of progress.
And thanks to both of you, we're better because of it.
Mr. Griffin, you and your service to our military
and your service to our community is to be respected.
and I look at your children and your wife and know that your family is important to you and it shows who you are and
I'm grateful for you. Mr. Mahulski, you and I've had many many conversations and you challenge me
just exactly the way I need to be challenged which is kind and thoughtful and a little pushy when I need it and
you've made me a better board member and
and your family is very respected.
All of your children, your wife, your service here,
we owe you a debt of gratitude.
Thanks.
Thanks for serving our community.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacy.
I'm going to cry then for you, Rebecca.
I've had the opportunity to sit here what seems like just days ago that that I was installed as
a board member it was days ago yeah 360 some of them and I cannot thank the both of y'all for
guiding me being the new guy on the board for guiding me through everything from showing which
button to push and how to get caught up because it does go so fast when you sit up here on this
side of the dais and to uh to being a sounding board and giving me the assistance that i needed
this year we went through a lot as a board together this year harvey and just everything
thereafter and thank you all so much for your service to our community
good news is guys you get a lot more baseball time i'm going to be jealous if you go to omaha
again this year like i was last year and you get to talk to your cows so there
guys thank you again for your service and i appreciate everything you've done for us
mr mahosky well first to all of you thank you for the kind words i'm not going to lie the very
six years ago when I when I first sat up here and had to push this little button
to speak on this microphone it was a little intimidating but it's not anymore
six years later so this may go for a little while so just settle it just just
kidding first I just really want to thank the community for your support
over the last six years at least a majority of you but no that that that
means a lot and we have had a lot of support I will say one of the biggest
highlights over the last six years of serving on this board is having a
front-row seat of watching the amazing professional educators that work in this
district do their job. It is quite amazing. So thankful for everything that
you do each and every day and really more than anything else I'm thankful for
for the way you love our children and help prepare them for a successful future.
That's got to be one of the highlights.
You know, when Charles and I came in six years ago, KDISD was already on top,
one of the best districts in the state, one of the best districts in the nation,
and I think they do a fantastic job with our children.
That's why so many people move to this community
and why we've had such vast growth over even the last six years.
I think we've added another, what, 15,000 to 18,000 students over that time period.
And we're still on top today, okay, but we can't take that for granted either.
You know, and so it's been a great run.
This is actually a day that should really be a big celebration.
I feel like we've got two outstanding people that are taking these seats on this board
and are not going to miss a beat and are ready to serve as evidence of the outstanding campaigns that they ran.
We're in the last week of school.
Kids are about to get out.
Teachers are about to get a break.
And we've got, what, a little over 5,000 seniors that will be walking across the stage in the Merrill Center this weekend
to receive a KDSD diploma.
So much to be thankful for.
Yet at the same time, I'm a little bit sad to be leaving on the state that we're in right now.
Because I feel like public education as a whole is somewhat under assault at a national, state, and even local level.
You know, just this year we've had multiple senseless, horrific, and tragic acts of violence in schools.
you know leading to the one just last week that was so close to home you know state level we're
still dealing with six years later and this is something that I think we six years ago when
Charles and I came we wanted to make make some improvements here but the state level we have a
state finance and accountability system that is seriously lacking and failing us and in many many
many areas. And finally we have just locally here the last couple of months
have just been we have been subject to relentless attacks that have greatly
affected this district. So board that is continuing on and the two new members
that are coming on board you've got a big job to do. These are all these and
many other issues are things that you are going to have to address in the in
in the coming year. And I'm with you and I will be praying for you. And I'm a phone
call away if there's anything I can lend, but I will definitely be praying for wisdom
as you move forward. We have a great district here and we have a great community here. And
we want this community, this community needs to at this time come together. Come together
for our children come together for our district dawn and Susan you got a big
you got a big role you're taking on now and I know that you're very well aware
of that and I know that you're up to the task so I support you 100% here to
answer any of those questions I'm only a phone call away as you kind of embark on
this service and but you've got a lot of great people up here as well that will
will do the same so I'm looking forward to your service and what you got in the
perspective and the talents that you bring to this board because it will lead
it forward and finally I want to give one little tribute on my way out and it's
to the man who held this seat for 12 years before I took it over and that's
mr. Robert Shaw who who held this seat for 12 years with honor and respect and
And when I took it over, because he stepped down as he was ill, you know, that was something that was very important to me.
And I hope that I continue to show that honor to this seat on the board.
And may Robert rest in peace.
But we love you, and we know how much you love KDISD.
And with that, I will say goodbye.
Goodbye.
So long.
Farewell.
Mr. Griffin.
Yeah, it's my turn.
This has been a great journey.
It all started with two of the most important people that I've ever had.
the privilege of calling my friends Deb Herring and Robert Willoughby. This thing whole started
with Brian. They did a lot of talk and we did a lot of discussion and Robert and Deb put together
a phenomenal team and you guys know who you are. You were a great sounding board. You reached out
to the community and you gave me an opportunity to talk, not to board members, but to the community
and always know how the community feels and have the right decision to be put up
here and I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. Thank you community
for giving me the privilege to serve for six years. I think what's really funny
was six years ago Brian and I were doing a where they ask you questions and you
answer them. We didn't really know what the heck was going on but we did our
best to sit up there and not look too foolish and had this gentleman walk up
to me handed me his business card his name was Dennis Spellman and I honestly
had no idea who he was but I had a board member say oh you want to talk to him
he's not a nice person and four years went by I never talked to mr. Spellman
and what's really really sad about the whole thing was four years after that
point I look in my suit and I have his business card and he comes up to me and
And he says, hey, do you want to talk?
And I'm like, well, I guess so.
Anyway, from that point, we developed a good relationship.
So I kind of missed out on four years of having another person to put in my hip pocket that if I needed to talk to or to get another input from, I could have got that.
So my advice to the two new board members is just because you think you know somebody, give them an opportunity to talk to you.
And don't be afraid of talking to somebody that somebody else thinks that they're not a nice person
because they might turn out to have some really important information that they can pass on to you
or be able to help you get your job done a little bit better.
Administration, you guys are phenomenal.
And I would like to call each and every one of you out by name, but I don't think I want to be here this long.
But Mr. Smith, you and your team are phenomenal.
I can't think of an easier job that I had as a board member never to worry about our finances.
You took over from Mr. Moore, and I know you were kind of worried.
We never had any doubt from the board, and y'all's team has just knocked out of the park.
You've accelerated it.
We couldn't get anything done without you and the amount of work that you guys are doing, which is awesome.
Mr. Nauman, you and your team, holy mackerel.
You offer the best health care with all the stuff that's gone on in this district.
you've got your great understanding and you're doing a great job of making sure that we're covered in all those areas.
Chief Jenks and your group, you hear about these things in the news,
and I know that our community and our kids are safe.
When you bring us new hire policemen or you bring us a security staff,
nothing makes me prouder than to see the young group of people that you're bringing in here,
and they have kids and they're bringing their families because I know that if
anybody has any issues in this in our schools that those mom and dads that are
working as our policemen are going to be frontline they're gonna run right in
there and take care of all of our kids miss no whack holy mackerel I don't I
don't think anybody here knows the amount of work that she does to bake
this whole whole thing work she gets phone calls from us seven board members
We're worse than seven kids.
We're worse than seven relatives.
We call her all the day, all the time.
We ask her questions.
And if anything goes wrong, she's the one that seems to take the blame.
And I'm sorry for that.
But thank you for all your hard work.
You have made this job a privilege and a pleasure to do.
Thank you.
And I know we sometimes give you little birthday gifts, but it's not near what we should be giving you.
But thank you.
Dr. Hint.
Thank you very much. You have been a phenomenal superintendent. Mr. Alton Frailey gave me the
opportunity to sharpen my teeth up and you just gave me the ability to just keep on going.
I'm so proud of you. I'm so glad that you came back home and you just knocked it out of the
ballpark in this district. I'm sorry that we weren't able to keep your family and you protected,
but I've just been, from the day you got here until the day I leave, I've been proud of every
single thing that you've done and our kids are much better off for that
all right lastly since everybody had words about me mr. hop Mahalski we
started as friends and we finished as friends teamwork Robert and Deb finished
out bill way to go man you asked some great questions I love the business
experience that you bring we do all these land matters and you're bringing
questions that we've never even dreamed of thank you very much Ashley you've
done a outstanding job as board president you've done a great job as a
board member thank you for being my friend and putting up with all of our
shenanigans Courtney you're a freaking mountain you're a rock I've never met
anybody and I've said this to shouldn't surprise you were extremely hard-headed
and when you figure out what you want you fight hand-tooth and nail for it and
And that is such a privilege to know that I can always count when you make your mind up.
That's the decision that you've made, and you're proud of it, and you're willing to stand behind it.
And, Mr. Scott, I'm so mad at you that you left me six years here.
If I could have got you six years ago, you could have been my mentor
and think of all the great things that we could have done together.
I'm so proud to call you my friend.
I've learned so much from you.
I think with the exception of one or two educators in this room,
you're probably more knowledgeable than the rest of us all brought together. But thank you for
serving and thank you for stepping out and putting yourself on the line like the rest of us. And with
that, thank you very much. Thank you. Now I move to the oath of office. We will now administer the
oath of office to the newly elected members of the Katy Independent Sildish Report of Trustees.
Will our newly elected board members please step forward.
Please raise your right hand and repeat after me.
I, Susan Gesoff, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the duties of the
Office of School Board Trustee for the Katy Independent School District of the State of
Texas and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution and laws
of the United States and of this state.
So help me God.
Congratulations.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
Please raise your right hand and repeat after me.
I, I, Don Champagne, do solemnly swear, do solemnly swear, that I will faithfully, faithfully,
that I will faithfully execute the duties of the Office of School Board Trustee
for the Katy Independent School District of the State of Texas
and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend
the Constitution and laws of the United States
And of this day.
And of this day.
So help me God.
So help me God.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
I know there's some photo ops that the newly elected and now newly sworn in board
trustees would like to have, but we're going to go ahead and call closed meeting and we'll
meet down here for some pictures before we reconvene.
Before we reconvene and close.
The Board will now convene and close meeting as authorized under section 551.001 of the
Texas Government Code for the following purposes.
Texas Government Code 551.071 and 551.129 and 551.074.
The time is 624 p.m.
The Board will now reconvene in open meeting.
Today is Monday, the 21st, 2018, and the time is 733 p.m.
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.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacy.
I move that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the Superintendent in closed meeting.
Second.
The motion has been made by Mr. Lacy, a second by Mrs. Doyle,
that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the
superintendent in closed meeting. Is there any discussion? Being then, we will
now take a vote. All those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye. Motion passes 7 to 0. Madam President. Mr. Lacy. I move that the Board of
Trustees names, I'm gonna slaughter her name, I'm sorry, Gloria Truskowski. Did I
Did I get it right?
Very good.
As the Director of Purchasing is recommended by the Superintendent in closed meeting.
Second.
A motion has been made by Mr. Lacy, a second by Mrs. Doyle,
that the Board of Trustees name Gloria Tarkowski as the Director of Purchasing
as recommended by the Superintendent in closed meeting.
Is there any discussion?
All right.
Being none, we'll all pursue to vote.
Please reach right hand and say aye.
Aye.
Motion passes 7-0.
And Madam President, before we move on, I'd like to introduce Gloria Tchaikovsky and welcome
to KDISD, if you'll please stand.
I know Mr. Smith is excited to have you start work tomorrow.
Before we move to agenda item number six, I just have some things I would like to say.
The 2017-18 school year has been nothing short of historic for Katy ISD.
We opened three brand new schools and our student activity facility, Legacy Stadium.
All of them were state of the art.
We were then hit by a tropical storm Harvey and it ravaged our community from the inside
out.
But there was never a time I was more proud to call Katy home than during that time.
Seeing the way our community fought for and connected with neighbors in need was heartwarming
and unforgettable.
This building and the Merrill Center were flooded, sending this board, well, almost all this board, to hold our meetings at the Miller Career and Technical Center.
And we'll be forever grateful for the hospitality the five months that we met there.
We then passed a $609 million bond referendum by over 65%, making it possible to build six new future schools and comprehensively renovate 61 of our 65 campuses.
There were hundreds, if not thousands, of student successes in academics, fine arts,
athletics and more.
The district was named number one school district in the Houston area and a top workplace as
well.
And we're closing the school year with over 77,900 students.
It has been my distinct honor to have served as the 2017-18 president of the KDIC Board
of Trustees.
It's a true highlight through my journey of life.
But to put it simply, I'm tired y'all. My family's tired. The past few months
have shown me a lot about myself and the one thing that I know is that the wind
is out of my sails. However, I would like to truly thank everyone who supported
and encouraged me in this role as president of this, your KDISD Board of
trustees so in saying no further I would like to nominate Courtney Doyle for the
position and we don't need a second for that we don't need a second for that no
we don't need a second for that do we have any further nominations we have any
further nominations okay being no further nominations I will entertain a
motion to close I find a motion to close the nomination madam president mrs.
Fox I move that the board closed nominations for the office of president
second a motion has been made by mrs. Fox is second by mr. Scott that the
board closes the nominations for office of president we are prepared to vote all
All those in favor?
Oh, yeah, proposed.
Sorry.
I've got to get this right.
I've only practiced this all day.
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
The nominations are closed by a 7 to 0 vote.
A nomination was made by myself, the board president,
oh, by myself, Ashley Vann, that the board elect Courtney Doyle
for the office of president for the board of trustees
the 2018-2019 school year.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
Motion passes 7-0.
Thank you.
Thank you, Ms. Phan.
First and foremost, I'd like to say that I'm honored to sit in this seat.
I have some large shoes to fill and we won't go into the size of Ashley's foot compared to mine.
That's personal information that we know about each other because we are friends.
But before I go any further and take on this role, I would like to acknowledge the job that Ashley has done as president.
I have sat on this board for four years and been part of this district for almost 10.
And to my recollection, I don't think that there has been another sitting president.
Ms. Fox, you have been here longer.
So maybe you could speak to this. I don't think there's been a president that has been faced with
Quite the extent of what miss van has been faced with with Harvey and some of what our district has gone through
so I would like to say that miss van has led this board with grace and
humility and strength
both in our closed sessions out here in the public she has always had a smile on her face and
And I know that her family has sacrificed greatly for her to be available at all times.
And so I would like to just take a moment, and if any of the other board members that have been serving with Ashley would like to say something publicly,
I would like to say that I am honored, first and foremost, to be your friend and to work alongside of you for the 10 years that we've worked together
and to be mentored by you in the times that you have mentored me.
and to know that you have been an amazing leader,
and we are grateful to have you here on this board.
So thank you.
Anyone else?
Madam President.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacy.
I get to be the first person to call you Madam President.
It's a wonderful thing, but to our outgoing president,
it miss miss I don't know how we cannot thank you enough you were faced with
insurmountable challenges to our district to our community and you did it
with grace and dignity and I am honored to call you friend and have served on
this board with you and thank you so much for the guidance and the mentoring
that you've given me in my first year it's been a wonderful wonderful
experience thank you so much. Madam President. Mr. Scott. I'm gonna say
something publicly that I've said to Ashley privately and because I'm a
dinosaur that was here I'm a dinosaur that was here when the dinosaurs roamed
Cinco Ranch and other places I've been here since 1983 and what I've told
Ashley is this I've known every board president from 1983 until today and
there is no board president in my observation that has had to take on
challenges as tough as a natural disaster and challenges as needless and
and gratuitously evil as man-made disasters that we've had to face over the last several
months.
I am not aware of a single board president in the time that I've been in this community
who would have handled the last year with more honor than Ashley.
you may not be president going forward but you will still be a leader of this
board because you have led this board and you've done a damn good job madam
president you're right I've been around a long time and there have been some
really really difficult things that we've endured as a board and I'm
certainly not going to bring them up because I don't want to travel down that
memories I don't care to relive. But Mrs. Vann, you have led us well. You and I worked together.
You were the vice president when I was president the year before, and we worked
together during that time. And before that, I've seen your leadership throughout our community
in numerous organizations.
And I knew of your leadership then,
and you demonstrated it well.
And I thank you for your service for four years
and for your service as our board president.
And I look forward to continue working together
as we continue to serve our district.
Thank you.
I could go on and on too, but I don't want to be redundant.
You've taught me really well about that.
All right.
With that, we will move on.
Nominations are open for the position of Vice President.
Madam President, I nominate Bill Lacy to serve for the position of Vice President.
A nomination was made by Mr. Scott to elect Bill Lacy as Vice President.
Are there any other nominations?
Hearing no other nominations, the Chair will entertain a motion to close nominations.
Madam President.
Ms. Fox.
I move that the Board close nominations for the Office of Vice Chairperson.
A motion to close nominations was made by Rebecca Fox, seconded by Ashley Vann.
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed?
The nominations are closed by a 7-0 vote.
A nomination was made by George Scott, seconded by Ashley Vann.
that I'm sorry nomination was made by George Scott that the board elect Bill
Lacy for the office of vice president of the Board of Trustees for the 2018
2019 school year all those in favor raise your right hand and say aye aye
all those opposed the nomination is approved by a 7-0 vote nominations are
open for the position of secretary and president mr. Lacy wait a minute I lost
I would like to nominate Miss Ashley Vann as secretary.
A nomination was made by Bill Lacy to elect Ashley Vann as secretary.
Are there any other nominations?
Hearing none, the chair will entertain a motion to close nominations.
Miss Fox?
I move that the board close nominations for the office of secretary.
Do I have a second?
Miss Gassop?
A motion to close nominations was made by Rebecca Fox, seconded by Susan Gesoff.
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed?
The nominations are closed by a 7-0 vote.
A nomination was made by Bill Lacy that the Board elect Ashley Vann for the Office of
Secretary of Board of Trustees for the 2018-2019 school year.
All those in favor, raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed, the nomination is approved by a 7-0 vote. This concludes the election of officers.
We will leave you all in your positions for tonight and then we'll move. Okay.
Okay. With that, we will move on to the report section of our meeting, 7.1, 2018-2019 budget
update. Mr. Smith.
Thank you Madam President Doyle, trustees, new trustees, and Superintendent Hint.
I want to start this monthly update with a look back, not too far, but about two years ago.
ago.
On May 13, 2016, the Texas Supreme Court had their ruling and they ruled that the state
funding system is indeed constitutional.
And they had a lot of rhetoric, but basically they urged lawmakers to fix what they considered
a stagnant and outdated system and to quit putting band-aids on it.
I was in a meeting at Region 4 that day and when the announcement came out, it was interesting.
There was a group of people about the size of this audience and everybody there was a
bunch of geeks like me, had their phones and were just looking at each other going, oh
wow, oh wow.
And it was interesting times.
It's hard to believe it's been two years so far.
And then they hung the fate of school finance on the legislature and then the 85th regular
regular session came and went and nothing happened from a school funding standpoint.
Special session came and went and nothing happened from a school funding standpoint.
This is a snapshot that kind of summarizes that and I won't go into those details tonight.
The only thing that came out of those sessions, if you'll look on the very far right, you'll
see the golden penny yield increase thanks to Austin ISD's wealth per student.
that did provide a little bit of money to us but that was said in statute going
back over ten years so basically that that yield stays with the Austin yield
and was done ten years ago so local taxpayers save the budget again public
Public education savings was a result of property value growth statewide.
Local property values increased in districts like Katy and districts throughout the state
that generated about $3.6 billion of additional property taxes.
And recapture increased about $1 billion for about $4.5 billion of additional tax dollars into public education.
and we've referred to those as apples or rotten apples and the state's portion really hasn't changed.
So where are we now?
Well, right now in the 17-18 budget update is where we're in the 17-18 budget
and I wanted to give you a little brief catch-up of where we are.
We've amended this budget like I've never seen a budget amended before because of Hurricane Harvey.
And you can see there that at the top right you can see some expenditures.
The Harvey at $24.7 million.
Some renovations to the annex next door.
The purchase of the Creech annex or the KDISD annex.
Renovations to Creech Elementary School.
You can see insurance proceeds of $21.5 million have already been recognized in budget amendments.
We hope to increase that to $25 million in the next couple of months.
We did a two-cent tax swap, which did not increase tax burden on our taxpayers,
but was a strategic decision on the board's behalf to generate additional state dollars
that went toward recovery efforts in the district.
And then one that you're going to see in an amendment tonight, this $11.6 million,
because of free and reduced lunch for all students in September and October of this year,
as a result of Harvey, our state funding and compensatory education funding is
going to go up and that is something that we'll be amending the
budget for tonight and there's been miscellaneous amendments of which we
still $55 million in total expenditures. I wanted to show you this as I get going.
This is the district's fund balance and this could be sort of a litmus test for
for the health of the district.
And in that black line there is what you want to be over.
It represents about three months operating expenses.
We are above that slightly.
We're about three months and a couple of weeks,
just over 30%.
And I think if somebody said, Chris,
if you could wish one thing for your career in the next 10
years, what would it be?
And it would be for that line there,
the way the graph trend is happening, to stay level.
level as a growing district your fund balance needs to increase slightly
because your expenses are increasing slightly but you're also utilizing that
money and not banking it because it's easy for to want to put that money into
cash but my goal would be to have it work for children and I think this board
administration has done a good job of having those funds work for children and
still maintain from a management perspective a healthy fund balance so
So our objectives as we started out this year going back to October to maintain a balanced budget, to maintain a competitive compensation plan,
to maintain our healthcare program, our self-insured program, and avoid TRS active care.
It's been a high priority on student and staff safety and comfort.
Opening Campbell Elementary School, the additional grade at Paytoe High School is part of this budget.
as well as we're planning for an elementary school of 42 to open next
year a junior high and that final grade at high school at Pato high school so
those are on the horizon and things that we're considering and we'll be part of
this 1819 budget because we have a fiscal year ends that August 31st and
we'll start that school in earlier August and so those those those campuses
elementary 42 and junior 16 will be part of this budget items impacting the
budget student growth we always have a challenge of student growth that
continues to be a challenge we have a continued decline in state revenues
those rotten apples or the funding cliff and I'll talk a little bit more about
that in a few minutes the impact of Hurricane Harvey of course we've got a
reappraisal that's still working through the three appraisal districts I don't
have any concrete information I do have information that that makes me feel that
but we were pretty spot on with our estimates from back in September and October on that.
And it is also kind of making the 18 values or the values that we're going to use in this next year's budget
a little bit more difficult to project, and I'll talk about that in a few minutes as well.
Property insurance premiums, we were lucky.
We're on the third year of a deal for our property insurance.
those premiums are sure to increase when we address those next February. We are
also going to be need to address our coverage limits to make sure they were
adequately covered. We were in this last disaster but you know had it had it been
another couple of schools we may not have been adequately covered. Items
impacting the the budget. So our assumptions we're building this budget
under current law. We're building it at about a 2.9 percent increase in student
enrollment or about 2,500 students. Taxable value increase of 2.5%. I think
we were looking the last time that I addressed this issue at 5%. Came in
rather sluggish at 2.5%. I'll talk about that on the next slide. But that
that has affected the the budget and the bottom line. Teacher growth. There's the
the new teachers on the right that we had, there's not quite as many teachers,
although we had a larger enrollment increase than we had the prior years
because we didn't, we're opening only one campus and not three campuses. And when,
I'm sorry, and then we also built in, in the numbers that you'll see tonight, a
2% recurring salary increase and a 1% one-time salary increase. And all the
the salaries were on a new higher average teacher, or for the most of the new positions
were at $55,500.
This is a look at our assessed value and you can see that in 2014 we peaked at about 18%
property value growth.
That was in the height of our economy.
We know what happened on Thanksgiving of 2014 in the oil and gas market and we've seen some
sluggish economy around the Houston area since. That gold number that you see on
the far right is what we budgeted at 5% and you can see where it came in at
a little over 2% or about 2.5%. This is our values by county. I'll just
focus you on the far right. Waller County is a very, very small percentage of our
total tax base, but it is still seeing growth, substantial growth at over 10%
again. Harris County is on the left. You can see that for the first time in
several years Harris County came in at our lowest growth as opposed to our
highest growth. I'm not going to go into the details of this slide. I'll just
quickly say that someone asked me, I've had several people ask me, do you
think our reappraisal will hurt our values? And I think the answer to that is
is no. Yes, it lowered our values, but it didn't hurt our values going forward.
Remember that the comptroller's office is tasked with taking data from
our three appraisal districts, analyzing that data, and assigning a state value or
a local value. And the local value, the green, is they did a good job. If they
assigned a state value, that would hurt us very severely from a school funding
standpoint luckily our appraisal districts have done a good job over the
years and we have been getting local values and that's the test for are the
appraisal districts doing a good job of being equitable across the state of
Texas and I think you know one could say well maybe that goes back to the rotten
apple property values rise it helps the state that could be part of the rotten
apples thing but the comptroller does monitor our appraisal districts in that
that aspect. This is our state funding percentage. You can see that since the
2014 school year, let's see if I can, that's the, this school year we
were about 50-50. The local, what our KDISD patrons pay toward education in here
and you can see that our local participation has increased
substantially and the state share has decreased substantially. That goes back
to what I was talking about earlier and when I mentioned the rotten apples. And
from a statewide perspective you can see the local taxpayers statewide are also
contributing more and the state's contributing less. It just seems to be
more in Katy because we are a fast growth school district. I will
point out and Dr. Hindt I've talked about this substantially when you look
at a two and a half percent increase only in property values in the 2020
school year this time next year we should be looking at a less of a cliff
you can see that our local value or this local percentage only increases by 1%
and the state's portion only declines by 1% that's because of the slowed the
sluggish property value growth the state will those rotten apples will be a little
a little less rotten, a rottening of a pace as we build the budget next year.
Okay from a revenue perspective I've shown these they're slightly shaded to
speak to on tax revenue you can see our tax revenue grew just over 2% or about
not even 10 million dollars and then our state funding is the same. State funding
is the same with almost 2,500 new students and a higher Austin yield, a
slightly higher Austin yield but it's the same it's because the states as our
the state's funding formulas are using a seven point one percent increase in our
and our funding and that's the rotten apples taking into effect they're
actually a year lag and so our value tax growth a year ago is catching up and the
state is saying okay now we're going to take that money away so they're taking
it away at seven percent and our growth was only at two and a half percent and that's creates a
funding cliff and that's become so important across texas that the texas education agency
has recently announced a rule that in schools first which is you hear my report in october to
you in schools first it's our financial report card we will be told we will be it will have to
be a separate agenda item to talk about the funding cliff at a board meeting within 120
120 days of adopting a budget and so I don't think that rule takes into account
until a year from now of course we've been talking about it almost every time
I get up here I talk about it because it's so important in Katy but it's
important statewide so much that they've asked us to put it on a separate agenda
item moving forward statewide I want to say that we're also again building this
budget with the two cent tax swap that is seven point seven million dollars on
that again our debt services is is going to be two point or 7.7 million dollars
less on our debt service budget no effect no change at all to the local
taxpayer but that generates that swap generates 13 and a half million dollars
in next year's budget so that's very good business on your behalf to allow us
to continue work building a budget with that in mind because of the impact it
does have on our bottom line when it comes to revenue.
There's the impact of the Harvey, it's the second year of that free and reduced lunch.
September is the last month of one year on how we calculate state funding.
October is the first month of the next year.
So those extra students that are 100% of our students that were eligible for free and reduced
lunch in those two months helped us over two fiscal years.
So that's worth $12 million, and that is in the numbers that you're seeing tonight in our revenue.
And then a TRS contribution that has no effect on our bottom line.
You'll see that shaded a little blue as I move forward.
But we're looking at about $710 million in revenue.
Our expenses of 88%, that big blue pieces in salary and benefits, were very labor-intensive.
The purple piece is next.
Most of that purple piece is utilities.
utilities, student comfort, air conditioning, lighting, etc. So, you know, about 92% of our budget is in things that are pretty hard to control from an expense standpoint or an inflation standpoint. You know, we're hit with utility changes in prices, fuel for our buses. We know the fuel cost of fuels going up. Those things do put upward pressure on our expenses.
So new positions based on our staffing plan that you approved in March and we'll be looking at tonight.
Those that are tied to the teacher salary schedules are $9.5 million.
That's less than last year. Again, we're opening two less campuses.
It's on our standard staffing ratios.
There is, we're showing that 2% salary increase as well as that 1% one-time payment.
So that just, that's why it's on that 3.5 million dollars.
That's what it costs to give the teachers a 1% pay raise in this district is 3.5 million
dollars.
Non-teacher pay groups, again, that's less of our staff, but it's 3.3 million dollars.
again significantly less than last year because of the three campuses that we
opened last year again there's the cost for that pay group for two percent and
it calls for a one-time one one-time payment so those two added together are
four point nine million dollars to give a one percent salary increase some other
things that make up our compensation I'll just hit these highlights on the
The big one, stipends, is about $8.8 million.
We're not seeing any growth.
Again, we're opening just in elementary schools,
so there's really not a need for changing stipends as much of a need.
Substitute teachers is a large expense.
We'll see some increase in that because of our growth.
Supplemental and overtime, supplemental pay and overtime,
the biggest chunk of that is probably in our summer school program.
That's where that lies in our budget.
And so moving forward with our benefits, of course,
I think we'll see some underspending that 32.1 on your left column
I think we did we budgeted a little more than we needed I think in the 1718 budget
Hopefully we'll see that fallout and fund balance
But this year
Where our expenses are not going down in our health plan and we're adding staff to it
But but we did you will see what's budgeted to be some savings there
TRS care
this is this is what the district and districts all across the state are
tasked to pay for our teacher retirees insurance so 3.9 million dollars of the
budget that you'll approve or by law will be going to the to the retirees
insurance health care insurance
I think that's great I'll be one someday but that's the the state has turned to
that to help fund that that that insurance program as well as the TRS
just the regular TRS benefit program. This was added in 2015 in that session.
That's what I call the TRS payroll tax. It's one and a half percent of our
payroll. Six percent is added and was added back in 2015. There's no revenue
associated with it. I think there was for a year, a transition year, and now that's
that goes straight to retirement from our coffers. TRS stat minimum, this is
because of us and most districts across the state pay above the state minimum
salary schedule for teachers. We have to contribute TRS on behalf of those
maximum amounts that that schedule has and that's a seven and a half million
million dollars again if we paid our minimum the set the state minimum we
wouldn't have to pay that credit monitoring that goes away we offered
that service to our customers about three years ago that expires and that
goes away at per the agreement that we that we went into with our staff at that
time so our salaries total salaries are right at 500 million or four hundred
$299.4 million and a total salary and benefits budget of 625 million and there's that blue again
That was so was showed an offsetting revenue that same amount and that really it does not affect our bottom line
And that's what the state contributes on our behalf based on our total payroll
That's what that is what the state commits are on our behalf the retirees behalf to fund the TRS
program
Oops
Oops.
Non-payroll is $88.8 million.
Again, most of that in the department allocations
are just under $20 million is in utilities, fuel, et cetera.
So this is from the 17-18 official budget,
but it's what this budget is indeed, again, shaping up
to look at.
We won't know these until July.
Again, I want to say until July, there's
a lot of districts that adopt their budgets next month.
they have July 1 start dates we have a August or a September 1 start date so
we'll approve it in August and I think I get calls from from people that say hey
what have you come you haven't adopted your budget it's because we have a
September 1 start date so there are budget there are neighboring districts
that you'll see in the press and they're really close on adopting their budgets
but they're they're a couple of months ahead of us because of their their
their start sooner. But the vast majority of our budget is going to go into that far left,
which is into the classroom. That's where it should go. And that's what the administration
works daily to try to do is maximize what we spend in instruction. So how does it look on the
bottom line? Far right column shows a slight deficit right now. That's because we are receiving
saving no more state funds overall, our 7% increase in the CPTD value, along with only
2.5% value growth, puts that number over to the right.
I do want to note that that's still a budget cap.
I don't think that by this time next year we will have spent it, because we normally
don't spend our whole budget, but that is a deficit budget that we're looking at at
this point.
I will say that that's what we're looking at this point and then the bottom there shows, I showed you that one graph and it shows that we are still at a very healthy above 25% above three months expenses.
So looking out after four years, there's the enrollment that we're kind of using into our long-range plan projections.
There's our value increases, and I'm going to show a 6% value increase for the next year.
I think that Harvey will be a thing of the past, and this economy is still putting up houses and businesses like crazy.
I'm starting to hear those stories of people selling their houses really quick.
So I have built these assumptions on a 6% and then an 8%.
for those next two years, kind of looking out over the horizon.
We know what schools we're opening over those next few years.
Those are already contracted and being built.
Based on those number of enrollment, we know our staff are about what the staffing ratios are going to kind of play out to look like.
And I've used what 2% and 1% continue to use those.
Again, those are inflationary items that state funding really doesn't take into account.
but I've used the 2% and 1%, and what that's going to show is using those.
If you'll look here at that column I just shaded,
it shows pretty big deficits out there in the next couple of years, out on the horizon.
Not this year.
The 18-19 budget, we're okay.
But looking out, as long as there's inflation,
as long as we have things in our budget that's subject to inflation
and the basic allotment in those funding formulas don't increase it's really
tough to fund those and so it looks does not look that great I would say that
there's probably some conservativeness in that when they were put together
that's my nature but but there but it's not good when you're because of
inflationary things our fund balances percentages would dip below 25% if we
did not or three months if we did not receive anything anything different from
the formulas again our taxpayers our patrons are paying it we're just not
getting to keep it and I think that's the story across from a district to
district across the state they're paying more it's just not being able to go
toward toward the programs and so for future budget considerations in order
you know to avoid that we may need to look at revenue increases legislature
meaningful meaningful school funding reform tax ratification election
possibility we're seeing the benefit of a two cent tax swap the only way we can
sustain that permanently is with the TRE other revenue measures that may be out
there budget reductions is a possibility strategic abandonment of programs is way
I like to call it not a reduction but a strategic abandonment and in staffing
ratios again we're very labor-intensive and a very small tweak without in hurting
classroom instruction on our ratios could possibly benefit some some some
savings this is the counter that the board will be using moving forward I
won't go over that but it's a counter that highlights the from now until the
adoption of our tax rate and on these final takeaways as i wrap up i want to um i want to
talk about sluggish av growth and uh our our a a a v growth or appraised values didn't come through
like we thought we projected five percent came in at two and a half percent uh the previous ten
years ten years we've averaged over nine percent so two and a half percent is really tough off that
average one-time revenue is for the 1819 school year's budget we're using that
one-time revenue but it goes away after 1920 the two cent tax swap and they
comp ed money go away after after after this year after the year we're planning
on deficits everywhere pick up the paper community impact chronicle their
There are districts that are having these budget discussions, and we've heard an excess of tens of millions of dollar deficits.
We're blessed this year that ours isn't tens of millions, but it is a deficit nonetheless, and we're looking at those in the future.
We're just a year behind those that are having really, really tough deficits.
Inflation is a problem.
Anything that's subject currently to inflation in our budget.
fuel salaries medical inflation for health insurance utility rates utility
usage anything that's that's a that's inflationary there's nothing built into
the revenue that will help us deal with that and then tough strategic decisions
ahead you know we're gonna have to have to make some tough district strategic
decisions ahead as we watch this legislative session that meets oh in
about seven more months and I think with that that's my presentation Thank You
mr. Smith do we have any questions and I'm president mr. Lacy mr. Smith if you
could flip over to page eight has to do with the amended budget the general fund
I know that we've got twenty one and a half million that we're that we've got
got in revenue from insurance, yet we've got 24-7 in expenditures. I know that the U of H Creech,
that was a different line item. And then the renovations and repairs to Creech,
is that included in what will be covered by insurance? Or is that something that was planned
anyway? And then the final part to my question is, when do you feel like we will have the final
insurance proceeds, the revenues from insurance that'll show that we're as close to zeroed out
out as we can possibly get. Okay. Your question about Creech, I was moving the screen and I don't
think I heard that all. Your question about the Creech and the Annex? Yeah, well, we've got the,
yeah, we've got the, what we call Creech U. That was in the KDISD Annex. That's almost nine million
there. Yes, sir. And then the repairs to Creech Elementary, that's it almost six. That's the
campus itself. Yes, sir. Yeah. That's the campus itself. And so those are winding down now and we
We will be moving that campus back in August.
And to put that campus back together, that's the expense.
Was the majority of that, though, covered by our insurance?
Yes, sir.
Okay, perfect.
Yes, sir.
I think when it's all said and done, and Lance, kick me if I'm wrong,
but I think when it's said and done, the damage to this building
and the damages to Creech Elementary will be covered by our insurance policy
with the exception of the deductibles.
but we should be fully covered for those two events.
It's the other things, the thousand other claims that we had district-wide
that weren't as big and easy to talk about,
but there were a lot of moving parts that add up,
and those may be above our insurances or at least they're above our deductibles,
and we are working with that FEMA claim.
That is something I need to mention, thank you, that reminds me.
We're not showing any revenue in here for FEMA.
I don't know if we get revenue from FEMA
I don't expect it to come and tell this budget and we would amend that budget
It would be a positive effect to our bottom line because the expenses are happening as we speak
So those FEMA revenue could could prop up help prop up this budget as we before but that'll be one time
Anyone else
Mr. Scott
Mr. Smith
I've seen sobering reports before but I want to thank you for giving this much
heads up. Dr. Hint and his administration and you've been a part of that as well
in the specific recognized over a year ago that state finance is broken. It's
dramatic and I want to thank Dr. Hint for having the leadership to march
through this strategic plan as we're looking at finance and constitutional
finance. That's just a comment I want to make but I have three questions because
every time you make a presentation on the budget I'm going to ask basically
the same three questions because I think it's important that it be understood. The
The state of Texas has a vested financial interest in higher property values and higher property tax incomes from school districts like Katy, Cy Fair, and around the state of Texas.
That's a true statement, right?
Yes, sir.
So when members of the Texas legislature make their presentations and they willingly lie that the state property tax has nothing to do with the financial interest of state government, that is not true.
Number two, the state clearly over a trend line at least the last 10 years,
maybe a little bit less, cardinal where you draw it, their percentage of funding
public education is going down and down and down and down and down and that is a
consistent line going down.
K-312, yes sir. Three,
Three, when we have two kinds, we have many kinds, but two basic kinds of recapture.
One is for constitutional equity, and that's called recapture, commonly known as Robin Hood.
Yes, sir.
Okay.
The state of Texas takes property tax revenue.
They send it, they capture it for the state of Texas,
and somehow, some way, it ends up being called, in some sources, state revenue.
The TEA has called it state revenue.
But in reality, it is property tax revenue that the state of Texas has confiscated
from local property taxes around the state of Texas.
And then there is another kind of recapture.
Katie and other districts like ours lose state aid when our value goes up.
Yes, sir.
And they spend that and we lose that revenue.
We lose that because even though we have 2,500 new students, our state revenue does not go
up.
This is not a fair question.
I'm going to add one.
But I know we've had the tables over time.
Would it be, if you look back over the last six or seven years, would it be fair, could you give a ballpark, 20 cents cumulative, 22, 23 cents cumulative that the state has taken from Katie in the form of reduced state aid?
Something in that magnitude.
That would equate to somewhere around 20 cents.
20 cents.
Yes, sir.
Okay.
So if the state were not confiscating property tax money by reducing state aid,
we would have 20 cents more over that period of time to deal with local issues.
I don't know what it is going to take for people in this community
and people around the state of Texas to understand that the Texas legislature
is coming into your pocketbook, stealing your property tax money, and blaming school districts for doing it.
What you've seen here tonight is an administration that has chosen to tell you the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
We have a hell of a mountain to climb over the next three to five years.
And yes, FEMA money may take that red number and make it less red for one year.
This is a state funding crisis by people who would not know how to tell the truth
under massive doses of sodium pentothal. And the community and the communities of
the state of Texas need to once and for all wake up and understand this. That
when the Texas legislature's lips are moving, I don't have to finish the
sentence. Madam President. Ms. Fox. Mr. Scott, help me if I say this incorrectly, but Mr. Smith,
isn't it also true that as new values are generated in Katy, for every dollar that's
generated, the state withholds a dollar of our tax revenue? Yes. That, right? And that revenue
intended for education is then taken and put into GOF, not into the education fund?
Is in the state's general operating fund, yes.
Put into the state's general operating fund.
It's taken away from education and put into the GOF, not into education.
That's correct.
Right, Mr. Scott?
Yes.
Do we have any other questions?
Thank you, Mr. Smith.
Item 7.2, School Health Advisory Council Annual Report.
Mr. Grimmett and Ms. Owens.
President Dewell, members of the board, Superintendent Hint, Michelle Owens and I are here tonight to give our annual presentation of the School Health Advisory Council presentation.
and our goal here tonight is to report directly to you all and given a detailed
account of all the activities that we discussed over the over the year. Our
council membership it consists of our parents, our teachers, our administrators,
health care professionals, community members, law enforcement members, and
and nonprofit health organization members.
Our focus areas are based on what we call
coordinated school health.
There we have discussions on health education,
physical education, parent and community involvement, staff
wellness promotion, counseling and mental health services,
healthy and safe school environments, health services,
and nutrition services.
services. We met this year for three dates. Normally we meet four, but because of Harvey,
our date in September was moved to that November date. Our summary of activities now will be
discussed and covered with the co-chair of SHAC Michelle Owens.
So I'll go over these real quickly, but just to cap on the fact that in 20 years of my career,
I've gotten an opportunity to be on the end of law enforcement that's preventative,
and it's about health and safety. And because of that, being able to be part of this council
is amazing. So thank you for your support in it. So please continue supporting this,
because it is an amazing program. And we covered so much from beginning with the KDIC food
Food Dialogy Awareness Program, to reviewing information on the status of physical education
programs at Creech Elementary and Bear Creek after the impact of Harvey, then reviewing
information regarding the Katy ISD Santa Cops program, which is an outstanding program as well.
Review information over Katy Christian Ministries grant and its impact on the community,
reviewing information on the Alliance for a Healthier Generation program,
and reviewing information on the Senate bill 725 regarding shared tables on
school campuses we followed that with reviewing information on the west side
homeless prevention assistance provided in the community and then on to
discussing and listening to the information about aim for success
program which is a great preventive program as well and then on to the
information about common threads cooking for life program and then we went over
our SHAC report in the end. Those are activities that we reviewed and
discussed over over this year's school year so we have any questions? Madam
President, Ms. Fox. Ms. Owens, when you say that you received information from
Westside Homeless Prevention did did you take action on it or they just made a
presentation how did you get that information so basically they came in
and they gave us a presentation on on how their services have an impact at
Katy and how we can take that information and distribute that to our
campuses so that our community is aware of the services that are available to
them I know this program very well and it's a hand up not a handout and I
I really like that program and I just wondered how you coordinated with them and I know they've come in to help especially after Harvey
we have more more children considered homeless and
That's thank you for that
Are there any other questions?
Thank you so much for your thank you
Item 7.3 early college high school options
Katie independent school district strategic design goal one point ten
Dr. Steele.
Good evening, President Doyle, Superintendent Hinn, and Board of Trustees.
Yes, sir.
Is that good?
Is that better?
Okay.
I am pleased to present this report on early college high school options.
This report is a result of actions required by Strategic Design Goal 1.
I am reporting on specific result 1.10, reporting on the feasibility of developing an early
college high school.
Currently, TEA has designated 198 early college high schools in the state.
The first early college opened in 2004.
TEA defines an early college high school as an innovative high school that allows students
least likely to attend college an opportunity to earn a high school diploma in up to 60 college credit hours.
An early college high school provides students dual credit at no cost, offers rigorous instruction in accelerated courses,
and provides academic and social support services.
services.
TEA has a blueprint for all early college high schools to follow, which includes six
benchmarks.
I'm going to go through each one of them separately.
Benchmark number one, target population.
Early college high schools shall serve or include plans to scale up to serve students
in grades 9 through 12 and shall target and enroll students who are at risk and underserved
and who might not otherwise go to college.
Benchmark number two, partnership agreement.
The early college high school shall have an MOU,
which defines the partnership and location,
states the school district will pay for college tuition, fees,
and required textbooks, includes joint decision-making.
Benchmark number three, P-16 leadership initiatives.
initiatives. The school district and institution of higher education partners
shall develop and maintain a leadership team that meets regularly. Membership
should include the early college high school leader and individuals with
decision-making authority from the district and the institution of higher
learning. Benchmark number four, curriculum and support. The early college
high school shall provide a rigorous course of study so a student receives a
high school diploma and earns an associate's degree or at least 60 credit hours toward
a baccalaureate degree during grades 9 through 12.
The early college high school shall provide students with academic, social and emotional
support in their course of study.
Benchmark number five, academic rigor and readiness.
The early college high school shall administer the Texas Success Initiative, the TSI, which
which is a college placement exam.
Benchmark number six, school design.
The early college high school must provide a full-day program at an autonomous high school,
which includes a high school with an early college high school leader
assigned to early college high school responsibilities who has scheduling, hiring, and budget authority,
an institution of higher education liaison with decision-making authority,
and a highly qualified staff with support and training.
The early college high school location shall be on a college or university campus,
and a high school is a standalone high school campus
or in a smaller learning community within a larger high school.
In order to apply to become a designated early college site,
TEA requires a year of concentrated planning.
The purpose is to develop a strong partnership with a college provider, build an MOU that meets the needs of both the district and the college, determine funding, build a leadership team, establish strong pathways and crosswalks, and any and all other details the team believes are necessary for students to be successful.
This slide is a little busy, but it does show you a map to becoming an official designated
early college high school.
If you look at the very top row, and we start from left and go right, you're going to see
that the district decides they are interested in early college.
They plan, put in an application to plan.
Once accepted, you're going to work with technical assistance through the state of Texas.
You'll plan that full year with all of the elements necessary so that you can become a provisional early college high school.
And then over the next four years, you grow, improve, build.
and if you meet all the design requirements then you officially become
an early college high school in the state of Texas our demographics if we
go back and think about the definition tea a gave for the type of students that
will be allowed to attend an early college high school it states that early
college high schools allow students least likely to attend college which
which would in this case include some of our at-risk students.
KDISD is 41% at risk and 32% economically disadvantaged.
When looking only at our current high school population,
our high schools are about 32% at risk and about 32% economically disadvantaged.
And please note that these numbers vary at each one of our high schools.
The student interest survey was given to students in grades 6 through 12 from February 9th of this
year to March 5th, 2018. There were 39,000 surveys delivered and 22,000 responses for a return of
about 58%. The purpose of the survey was to ensure that our district is providing students with the
best opportunities to achieve their goals during and after high school.
As part of this, Katy ISD asked students about their interest.
Students' responses to the questions in this survey will help us make decisions about future
programs to offer our students.
And results reflect only the perceptions and opinions of those students that participated.
When students were asked, what is your level of interest in attending an early college
high school in Katy ISD 54% or about 12,000 students were either moderately
or very interested in attending an early college high school when participants
were asked what type of early college high school would you prefer to attend
while in high school it's real very very clear that students wanted to and it
attend an early college high school at their current high school which is about
51% of the students that responded. When asked about interest in acquiring an
associate's degree, the survey shows almost 14,000 students are moderately or
very interested, which is about 61%. After visiting several early college high
schools in our area, this is a typical four-year plan. Students take a
combination of pre AP AP and dual credit classes most students take about 20 dual
credit classes while in high school to earn their associate's degree and a high
school diploma so up there you see year one two three four if you go from left
to right you'll see that students not only attend school in the fall and
spring but they also do their second and third year summers as well the next
three slides I will show you an estimated breakdown of cost no this is
just a sample numbers of students will fluctuate and let's start on the left so
if you look at the left and you'll see the years one two three four down on the
right or on the left side first year we would have to hire coordinator and one
staff member you see the total there the first cohort of students you see would
would be 50. There would be no charge for any of our classes, no charge for books, transportation,
some miscellaneous expense there. And you see the cost for one school times nine. You see that at
the far right. If you continue to go down the chart, it's the same thing over time, but you're
adding students every year. You're adding a new cohort every year. So by the time you get to year
year four, that would be the first graduating class of students.
And if you go to the far right, you'll see what the total cost is for
one times nine high schools that we'll have at that time.
When you look at books, you see IMA, which is Instructional Materials Allotment.
So we would have part of our books in hard copy and
some books that are in an e-book that are in a library of books.
So now what I'm going to show you is the same chart, but what if the only change you'll see on
this second slide is the cost for classes at $50 per dual credit class. At this time, we do not
know if our college partner will provide classes for free, so we have estimated a $50 charge for
classes. If you look all the way to the far right, you will see what the estimated cost would be for
nine high schools over a four-year period of time.
And the last chart, the only change on this third slide is the cost again for classes
at $100 per dual credit class.
And again, we do not know if our college partner will continue to provide courses for free.
While reviewing the feasibility of an early college high school, a variety of sources were used.
Student interest survey data, early college high school visits to HISD and ALIF ISD, various articles,
TEA website, early college high school visit artifacts and discussions with leaders from the Houston Community College
who currently serves as our dual credit partner.
So the process for implementing an early college high school is number one, to seek approval
to move forward with planning, to seek board approval, to plan and submit an application
to TEA for fall of 2018, the planning phase.
Three, to partner with an institution of higher education to create a rigorous four-year plan
that provides students an associate's degree and a high school diploma.
develop a cost-effective model for an early college high school that follows the TEA blueprint for such an innovative high school,
and the last, to phase in an early college high school as a school within a school model.
Welcome.
Any questions that you might have about the process of implementing an early college high school here in Katy ISD?
And I thank you.
your attention. Dr. Steele would you go back to the first screen where you had the first year,
second year, third year, fourth year. Right there? Yes, I think it's important to note to our board,
of course we did the survey, but if you look at the total number of students a year of cohort,
it's that fourth column from left to right. We're estimating a number of 50, it could be more,
and I want to be cautious of that. You know when you survey students and we had 30 or 3,000
and responses that said, yeah, we would be interested.
But then when they found out that it would be at a separate campus,
they weren't so interested.
They were interested with it at their campus.
That's why I had all nine high schools and what that potential cost would be with that.
As you guys know, under the strategic plan,
it wasn't a strategic plan that said you will do this.
It was a strategic plan that said you will report to the board
on what this would take as a school district to do.
With the budget analysis that we just saw from Mr. Smith prior to,
I think he used the term, and correct me if I'm wrong, Mr. Smith,
strategic abandonment or program abandonment
should we get into a crisis situation with state funding.
Well, we know we're in a crisis situation with state funding,
have been for quite some time.
I would just caution the board on the amount of time and effort we've put into this, the manpower.
And if you want us to move forward, I want you to be clearly cognizant of the total cost that this will cost the school district.
And it's an adding of a program, and it does not meet that strategic abandonment.
Also, I want to caution you that with every program we add, there's a watering down effect with the other programs that we have,
potentially in the dual credit area where the board just received a report
from the strategic plan where we did wait that slightly higher at 4.5 to
attract more students into that dual credit program so I want to make sure I
touched on those items before we engaged in conversation and I'm really looking
for direction and what the will of the board is because this has taken quite
some time to this point and it will take time and effort which is money moving
moving forward in the future.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacy.
I do have a few questions.
If my rough calculations are correct,
if we do just based on what's on this particular slide,
in the next four years it's going to cost us $9 million,
and that's just for 50 students to graduate.
Well, it's not.
Does that work?
Yeah, if we take all the high schools.
Potentially 450 kids in year one.
potentially 900 kids that we add in year two, you add 450 per grade level over a period of time.
I understand that this is also college credit, but how many children in other schools that are
doing this in other communities, how much do they actually participate in, because it's for
mostly for at risk, correct? That is correct. So how many of these children actually go on and get
those percentage-wise get that college level credit rather than just try to
slide through and graduate high school the majority of students at the two the
three that I visited their turnout their turnout rate is close to if they get to
as close as a hundred percent and the least amount at one school is about 92
percent ninety two percent will graduate with both an associate's degree and a
high school diploma and you said that you visited three and there's a hundred
998, correct, in the state currently.
Yes.
So do you feel like that that's an accurate number across the state?
Pretty much, sir, because even the ones that are around us are much larger.
The ones that are around the state tend to be a little bit smaller.
And most of the ones in all of the districts that I've talked to and I've seen, there's only one.
So HISD is an anomaly.
they've got several standalone you know early college high schools but they also
have a number of school within a school kind of model to fit the communities in
which they the students live in all right but so our model would look a
little different because we were at the students okay are asking that they want
a program at their particular high school so that means that we would be
not just forging one but one nine of them at every high school that we have
which is a little bit different than what you typically see and quite more
expensive than what you typically see how is this different from the other
advanced placement classes and things that we already have in place okay sir
with AP students are taking AP classes at their particular high schools and
And they take an assessment at the end,
like we're in the throes of that.
We just finished all of that in May.
And then they earn college credit
because of the scores that they make, 3, 4s, and 5s.
And it's all dependent on the universities
on which they attend.
So not always do all of those translate into credit, per se.
You have to do a lot of homework to do that.
With a dual credit course in particular, in an early college high school here in the state of Texas, you know, you're putting all of your courses on a transcript, okay, that will be accepted by a university wherever you decide to attend.
Okay.
Madam President, one last question.
Can we make this a separate agenda item instead of on consent?
Oh, this is not on consent.
This is just a report.
Okay.
And that's all we're doing is reporting to you guys and then just seeking further direction.
Super.
Thank you all.
Madam President.
Ms. Vann.
As we said earlier, this is for at-risk students, correct?
Do we know our percentage of graduation rate, graduation in KDISD, percentage of our students that do graduate, whether they have their dual credit or just a high school diploma?
What is our percentage of graduation?
I can't tell you that.
I can't tell you the definitive number because I don't know that at this moment.
It's in the mid-90th percentile overall as a district, what our graduation rate is.
We could break that down by at-risk, low socioeconomic, et cetera.
But overall, it's in the mid to high 90th percentile.
Pretty high.
Okay.
Okay.
Mr. President.
Ms. Gasol.
Yeah, I figured out what button to push.
I can't remember if it was last month or the month before, Dr. Seel, but you gave a presentation
about the dual credit and there was some talk about it being funded or it was going to be
free for students.
Is that still going to be the case?
Okay, currently, and at least for 18-19, we know that it is free, all right?
But we do not live in the district of Houston Community College currently.
So we never are really sure. I know at some of their board meetings this year, they have talked about that.
All right. And so never quite sure if there is going to be a funding increase or not.
You know, our other local community college that's near us, Lone Star College, they've never gone free.
They do charge a fee for every one of their courses.
We are just fortunate enough to still provide no fee.
and we just started that recently last year, so this will be year two.
But the difference now is that any student can take those courses.
They couldn't necessarily take enough courses to earn an associate's degree, could they?
No, ma'am, because right now they're taking them as a junior and a senior,
but they have always the opportunity to take summer courses on their own
as long as they get approval by their building principals and their counselors,
counselors, and then all of that goes on a transcript before they go to their, whichever
university college they would like to attend after graduation.
What concerns me is the equity issue.
If it's a program within the school, but it can only be participated in by certain groups
of students.
Well, and I can tell you too that part of the planning year is developing that rubric
of what it would look like in order to attend or to fit the profile of what the leaders
of that particular campus and the leaders of the higher institution of higher learning
get together and deem most appropriate.
And most importantly is that it needs to follow the population of the school that's there
as well.
So they all, so ours in general would all look a little different because every one
of them, their populations look just slightly different than one another.
Okay, thank you.
Yes, ma'am.
Madam President, may I ask a question?
Yes, Ms. Champagne.
Okay.
I have two questions actually.
How are the students chosen?
Okay, so during that planning year that I talked about, that's when that group of people would decide all of those parameters.
Okay.
All right?
And then, I actually have three questions then.
So who took the survey?
Did all the kids take the survey or only the children in that parameter take the survey?
No, ma'am.
We had the survey went out to sixth through twelfth graders, all right?
And it was sent to everyone.
Communication sent the link to everyone.
They had a certain period of time.
I told you that frame of time was a little over two weeks to participate, and that's
how we got our data.
Okay.
And then the last question is, have you done any studies to show how well these students
do after they graduate? What they do with their degrees? Do they follow on? Do they go to class?
Yes ma'am, that is part of the early college incentive piece is that the majority of students go on to finish their college degrees.
I can't, there's all different kinds of numbers out there. It's quite high. It's almost equivalent to that of a student taking one AP course.
Okay, so it kind of gets them on track so that they see the end a little bit more quickly and that they will follow
Suit and finish. Okay, thanks. You're welcome
Madam president miss Fox. Sorry. Mr. Scott. Did I interrupt?
You're fine. Do you want to notice madam president? Thank you. Thank you. Dr. Steele for your presentation
Lots of really great information here a couple of things
When we talk about the students taking a survey and they don't want to leave their high school that shouldn't surprise any of us, right?
None of them want to leave their high school to go to Miller Career Center.
But now, and in the beginning we had these incredible programs with not very many students.
Then they find out how great it is, and now we have a waiting list for almost everything.
Because when they find out the benefits to each other and they share that information,
I think that you will find that nobody wants to leave their high school now,
but if they see what the benefit would be a lot of these boys and girls that
we're talking about are not necessarily of you know involved in lots of
extracurricular activities and so I know that there are so many successful
programs around I visited the one in a leaf yes incredible they have one in
spring branch incredible and I also know that those students are rock stars when
when they leave the program.
And not only do they have an associate degree,
but they're like, of course I'm going to university.
I'm already a college student and I have a college degree
and I'm going right into the next four year university.
And they're incredibly successful.
I'm wondering if you have any data for us
that talks about the earning income of a student
with a college degree versus a high school degree.
Maybe an associate's degree, maybe even those,
or even a kind of a number of how many would pursue a four-year degree I've
seen data like that and I've got some of that but I don't have it with me so I
can't give that to you but I'd be more than glad to supply it to you okay but
it's impressive from what from what I've seen so I think the potential there is
good so big do you think that the cost is kind of a little bit daunting here
because it's all nine high schools.
If we had a standalone campus,
or if we had it at some maybe and not all,
but not to take away equity.
But so I have this dream when I saw the U of H campus go in
on 99 and I-10, and I know that Houston Community College
is talking about partnering with them.
And I see us for years.
I've been dreaming of a partnership with HCC and U of H
there in that area where there's some land now.
You know, there's so many possibilities that I see that I dream for our children to break the cycle of what
of
Just graduating high school and going to get a job but of seeing a success that I've seen
replicated over and over and I saw an article this week from the US News and World reports that
HCC's dual credit. I mean the early college high schools are some of the best high schools in the nation
and their national rankings are a testament to the quality of the programs that they have.
So I've seen some of that, and it gets me very excited for possibilities for our students.
I'm not making a judgment at all, Dr. Hint,
but looking at what we could have would be something I would be incredibly interested in
because an educated populace pours back into society,
and the more educated, the higher the income potential.
Ms. Fox, I am on the board of directors for the new U of H campus.
All right.
And I can tell you that currently the focus of that particular institution is going to be nursing and engineering.
All right.
There were a number of mayors and a lot of people in development that were at the very first meeting not too long ago.
And currently HCC is housing some of the University of Houston courses at their campus.
that's near May Creek High School and their whole idea is that students would end up taking courses
at HCC so that then they can just go right into the programs that the University of Houston is
going to be offering. A lot of good conversation and they're doing a lot of great planning.
I do believe that early college high school is a great opportunity for kids at the right time and at the right place.
I believe right now we might be putting the cart in front of the horses if we anticipate that we're going to have a partnership with the University of Houston at the University of Houston campus.
And I understand the dream.
I just want to make sure that before we move forward
with this, that we have all hurdles addressed and jumped
over.
Also, the equity question is one that I
think is a very valid one.
We had a very tough decision to make here recently
about a two-way immersion program.
And because it didn't service all students in the school
district, it was the decision of the board
that if we can't serve all, we need to make sure that our emphasis are there.
Also, back to the Miller Career Center, I agree, 100% great program.
But you recognize it took some time to fill up some of those programs.
If we move forward with an early college high school also,
there's the potential loss of students in that program or those programs for this program.
So I want to make sure that we're fully aware of a board.
The more we add, it does water down some of the other programs.
And, again, I know some superintendents that have implemented in early college high school.
They loved it.
I know some that have implemented it, and now they're shutting the program down because they didn't get their bang for the buck in the program also.
I just want to make sure that as you guys direct the administration to move forward in our discovery, that we're fully transparent on the pros and the cons of the program.
Madam President.
Mr. Scott.
It's been a long meeting.
We were in an executive session a lot longer than we expected.
We have a long agenda to go.
I'm just going to cut to the punchline, and then I'm going to ask for about four to four and a half minutes.
The punchline is this is no way to adopt a decision to go forward on what is essentially rhetoric, non-empirical data.
I've spent probably 30 hours over the last four days looking at actual data, not semantics
of data, but actual data.
The data is from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board that tracks the actual
performance of early high schools, not the projected performance.
performance, at the Texas Education Agency that tracks enrollment at early high schools
relative to school districts, at Texas Higher Education data that tracks GPA data from graduates
of early high schools, from TEA and College Board data that tracks did they come out with
a degree and did they get a four-year degree.
Here's the bottom line to early schools, early college.
It is a tiny solution for a major problem.
The notion that we have a college program with a tiny fraction that these programs serve
of at-risk kids is absolutely not true.
We have a college performance program that goes across the board.
The cleanest is those that go to a two-year college, enroll in a two-year college, and the college board would report, for instance, of our students in three-year cycles, which the college board reports, of the 32, 31 percent of our graduates in the last measurement that started at a two-year college, 10 percent got an associate degree, and 19 percent got a baccalaureate degree.
Now that's the real world. And to say that we want to spend this kind of money
on non-empirical, semantical stuff is to say, for instance, in Aleaf it has a
highly touted program. I've actually looked at the results. I've looked at the
GPAs, I've looked at the graduation rates, but the truth of the matter is that in
In 2012-13, ALEAF Early School had 384 total enrollment that represented about 3.2% of
the total enrollment of ALEAF ISD.
And it represented about 3.7% of the graduates of ALEAF ISD.
Do we really want to start down a path of even authorizing the Board, authorizing the
the administration to go forward with this when there is so much empirical
data available to us. All right, one of the things and so Dr. Hinn, I'm gonna
I've learned that if I have real questions I should direct you. If I'm
direct them to you I think that's better. So if I'm looking at KDISD and I can
tell you that 70% of the graduates who start at a two-year college right out of
KDISD are not getting an associate degree and are not getting a baccalaureate
degree. Could it be that the dual credit and other methodologies will reach more
students than three to five percent of our student population? For instance, if I
were going to ask and I'm sorry I'm already over four and a half I'll try to
go two more and this will be it but you know there's nothing wrong with talking
about data in the context of spending multiple multiple multiple millions of
dollars we probably should have a special meeting on this alone all right
because this is this goes to the heart and soul of the core mission of public
public education, preparing kids for the future, and that we're focused right here, like this,
on 3% of our student population is counterintuitive. So let me ask this.
If you look at the PSAT score distributions of KDISV 2014-15, and you use the Texas Success
Success Initiative or the PSAT College Criterion Standard.
What you see is a great mid-range of students that if you looked at the SAT entrance scores
of second-tier and first-tier universities, we have a lot of kids that are not graduating
from those universities because they're not getting there.
One of the reasons that I would like to have more information on this is, are we,
have we reached a point where student testing and finance that were being
deprived is compromising the integrity of the ability of classroom teachers to
deliver effective instruction because we've got wide disparity. If you look at
classrooms across this district and you look at classrooms, classrooms by
classrooms if you look at the top 10% in the bottom 10% the top 25% in the bottom
25% and the median for instance on PSAT scores you can look at every core subject
classroom in every high school of this district and you can do empirical
analysis as to whether or not we are we are grouping these classes so disparate
and so wide that the difference between the top 10 and the bottom 10,
the difference between the top 25 and the bottom 25 is so wide,
and I promise you it's there,
that no teacher can effectively reach those students
who could make it and succeed at a community college.
There is so much work that needs to be done
before we launch a program that wants to target 3% statewide.
I've actually looked at those 198 schools, okay?
Some have early college in it.
It's ego.
It has nothing to do with early college.
But I've looked at all of those, and what you see, it's consistent.
3%, 4%, 7%, and some 8% of the student population,
and they're spending multiple millions of dollars,
and there is no evidence that it's raising the vote for all the students.
And so I'm just saying, I personally want this tabled until this board has an opportunity to do a very exhaustive analytical process.
Believe it or not, I heard your questions.
There were three, and yes, yes, and yes.
And I think I understand what you're talking about,
that unfortunately the Texas Education Agency has set up a school district,
school districts, plural, across the state of Texas, 1,200 of them,
where we are addressing a high level of students that may be 10% to 15%,
and then we're addressing a low level of students that may be 10% to 15%,
and we're leaving a lot in between to flounder and figure it out on their own.
This doesn't need to be tabled because it's a report,
but I think it's very clear that the board has a lot of questions with regards to this,
And I'd like to have an opportunity to also visit with the University of Houston, I mean with ACC, to see where they are with this potential.
We can't do it alone.
That's clear to me.
We can't do it alone.
And the numbers are guesses.
Our numbers of students are guesses.
It could be less than 3%.
It could be slightly higher.
It could be geographically on the east side versus the west side, the north side versus the south side.
The point I'm trying to make, there is the one thing that I can say with all certainty.
It's going to cost the district more money.
And I want to make sure that we're fully aware of the cost and to make sure we get the bang for the buck.
Because I do believe that a lot of the things that an early college high school offers, we are currently offering just not through that setting.
And no, not through the associate's degree opportunity later on.
I just want to make sure because you know two or three years from now
I don't want this board
whomever's on this board to be making a hard decision about a program that we implemented and then we have to take it away from
Two or three percent or less than the students that are provided that opportunity
Madam President
Miss Fox I want to thank dr. Hint and mr. Scott for your comments and I agree wholeheartedly with mr
Scott that I would love to see this
at a future discussion when we have more time for data. Thank you Dr. Steele. This
speaks to my heart but my role as trustee is to be cognizant of our of all
our resources and physically responsible so I would really like to look at it
some more when you deem appropriate maybe a workshop something like that so
I've seen some of the programs and another quite successful world we're all
all here for student success and how best to make that happen takes more time than we have here
tonight thank you madam president for the presentation thank you dr steele thank you
we will move on to consent agenda 8.1 consider future board approval of the teacher data portal
of the texas assessment management system waiver for 2018 2019 and 2019 2020
2020, Dr. Allison Matney. Welcome. Good evening, President Doyle, members of the board, and Dr. Hint.
I'm here this evening to request a future approval of a two-year waiver from the specific requirements
of the teacher data portal of the Texas Assessment Management System. The state allows districts to
utilize alternate compliance systems with this waiver, and Katie has had this waiver for multiple
years as our eduforia aware system meets all the requirements in this law do you
have any questions okay one more 8.2 I am also requesting a future approval for
a two-year waiver for a modified schedule for state assessment testing
days having this waiver approved allows for some flexibility in scheduling if
if needed, on state assessment days for campuses.
Do we have any questions?
Thank you.
Item 8.3, consider future board approval of the 2018-2019 honors
pre-AP courses identified as exempt from no pass, no play.
Dr. Steele.
Good evening, Board President Doyle, Board members, and Dr. Hint.
I'm here this evening to present the 2018-2019 courses that are exempt for No Pass, No Play.
Each year, we review honors courses in the subject areas of English language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, economics, and languages other than English for the purposes of extracurricular eligibility.
Honors courses that are automatically included are all College Board AP courses and dual credit courses that fall under these same categories.
KDISD may identify additional courses to add to the automatic honors courses that are exempt for extracurricular eligibility.
You have a copy in your board packet of all courses that have been reviewed and are being submitted for your approval.
I'd be happy to respond to any questions that you may have.
Are there any questions?
Thank you, Dr. Stewart.
Thanks so much.
Thank you very much.
Item 8.5, consider future Board approval of the May 2018 budget amendments.
Mrs. Oh, I'm sorry, 8.4.
Yes.
Consider future Board approval of the legal policies and adoption of the local policies included in Board Policy Update 110.
I'm sorry, Mrs. Hollander.
That's all right.
Madam President, members of the Board, and Dr. Hint,
We are here tonight to present for your consideration update 110.
This is, without a doubt, I believe the smallest update that we have ever received.
We have ten policies, all of them legal with the exception of one,
and that policy deals with updating property
the schedule of when board members are to be elected. The new dates have been
updated and just some clarifications within the language. In addition to
update 110, we do have four local policies that we would ask the board to
consider. DEA is a policy that has been revised to clarify the policy wording
and ensure alignment with actual disaster pay schedules and practices.
I think after Harvey we had a lot of opportunity to look at that and so we
have updated the policy to clarify and make it very clear how that will work.
At EHBB, which deals with our gifted and talented program, the language in that
policy has been revised so that all decisions regarding kindergarten
kindergarten children and their selection for the GT program will be made at the campus
level.
Due to the growth in the district and the numbers of students, it has just become too
much for the district level to evaluate all programs across the district.
So the process is basically the same, but the decisions will be made at the campus level
for kindergarten students.
students. At EHDB, we are moving some language regarding credit by exam from that policy
to EHBC and that would limit the number of language courses in languages other than English
that an individual could take through credit by exam to a maximum of three. If you have
any questions I would be happy to try to answer those for you. Any questions? Thank you Ms.
Holland. Item 8.5 consider future board approval of the May 2018 budget amendments. Now Ms.
Ms. Butterfield.
Good evening, President Doyle, trustees, Superintendent Hint.
Tonight we have several budget amendments in the general operating fund for your consideration.
We have $600,000 on the renovations at the Katy ISD Annex.
That's the Cinco Ranch property at U of H.
$422,229 related to Hurricane Harvey Amendment No. 9.
$379,000 related to replacement of white fleet vehicle.
And $105,464 increased contribution to the TERS.
A few other smaller amendments.
The total of these is $1,594,045.
We have revenues in the General Operating Fund to recognize $11,650,000 related to the Tier 1 revenue from the free and reduced lunch services and increased comp ed funding.
another $105,464 to offset the tourist contribution, also related to property values.
There are two construction amendments.
Both are funded from 2014 project savings, $300,000 for electrical work at Galbo and Pattison,
and $732,480 for work at Maid Creek 9th Grade Center.
Do we have any questions?
No.
8.6, consider future board approval of the 2018-2019 Voluntary Student
and UIL Sports and Activities Accidental Insurance.
Mr. Nelman.
Good evening, President Doyle, Trustees, Dr. Hint.
The UIL accident policy is paid by the district
and provides supplemental medical benefits for accidents incurred by students
who participate in UIL activities such as athletics, fine arts,
and career and technology education.
The plan is secondary to any other available insurance participants may have
and includes a supplemental catastrophic policy.
State law allows school districts to purchase this type of insurance, but it is not mandatory.
The insurance also provides voluntary accident insurance for students, which includes at-school or 24-hour coverage, with or without dental coverage.
Those who elect voluntary coverage pay the associated premium on an individual basis to the carrier.
The General Operating Fund expenditures for this coverage in 2017-2018 were $195,629,
which includes premiums of $180,000 for UIL coverage and $15,629 for catastrophic coverage.
The premium for 2018-2019 will be $204,629, of which $189,000 will be for UIL coverage
and $15,629 for catastrophic coverage. The applicable deductible remains at $250
with voluntary coverage rates remaining the same as in 2017-2018 school year.
This program represents year two of a three-year previously approved program
by the board. The UIO insurance provides for student growth and success by
providing district paid insurance for student accidents while participating in
those covered activities. For students without other insurance the plan pays
primary. A provision of the voluntary student accident insurance is deemed as
a public service that provides low-cost accident insurance alternative for
students. Authorization to purchase coverage is granted through
FF&D legal. It is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the UIL
catastrophic accident insurance and voluntary student accident insurance as
presented for 2018-2019. I would welcome any questions if you have so at this
time. Do we have any questions? Ms. Gesoff? Just real quick I'm just curious how I mean
like any insurance policy I'm not suggesting we don't need it I'm just
kind of curious are there a lot of claims that are filed? Relative to to the
the size of our school district our claims experience is relatively flat we
did have a slight increase in the UIL coverage and that's more of a function
of growth and exposure to the district from our organic growth okay thanks
any more thank you thank you and eight point seven consider consider future
board of people of the awards purchase technology security upgrades mr.
Mr. Christofferson.
Good evening, President Doyle, members of the Board, and Superintendent Dr. Hint.
It is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the award to purchase Technology Security
Upgrades Next Generation Firewall Solution to Solid Border Using DIR Contract DIR-TSO-2700
for the amount of $909,509.
As part of the 2017 bond technology security infrastructure, there's a need to upgrade
our current internet firewalls for both growth and the ever-changing cybersecurity landscape.
Next generation firewall solution will include expanded application awareness, intrusion
prevention, advanced threat protection, and the ability to handle our current traffic
volume as well as the ability to scale for our continual growth.
We asked for quotes based on these requirements and determine the solution that best meets
the district's needs, cost, and overall value, there were five respondents to our
request for quotes. The Technology Department recommends that we award the
purchase of the next generation firewall solution to Solid Border. Solid Border
offers the best value to the district and has successfully performed
technology security work for the district in the past. Work on this
project is scheduled to be completed within 90 days following the board
approval and legal review of terms and conditions. Project funding source is a
2017 bond technology infrastructure security upgrades. The total proposed contract amount is $909,509.
Board approval of this recommendation for award is consistent with board policy CH Legal, CH Local,
CV Legal, and CV Local. Do we have any questions?
Thank you Mr. Chris Anderson. Item 8.8 consider future board approval of the contract to replace
place an HVAC chiller at the educational support complex. Mr. Teet. Good evening, President Vann,
board members, Dr. Hemp. It's recommended that the board of trustees approves the award of the
contract for the replacement of the HVAC chiller serving the technology department server room
located at the education support complex to Hunt and Services utilizing the choice facilities
contract number 14 slash 021 JN-05. The HVAC chiller at the education support complex data center has exceeded its expected life cycle and utilizes the R-22 refrigerant, which is no longer being produced. The unit is being replaced like for like. However, the new unit does have higher efficiency rating than the original equipment. A copy of the proposal is attached for review. The work will be done
scheduled during the summer of 2018 and coordinated with the district technology
department for a shutdown of the district network project funding source
is a 2017 bond education support complex data center cost is three hundred nineteen
thousand nine hundred ninety three dollars for a total project cost of three
hundred nineteen thousand nine hundred ninety three dollars the contract has
been reviewed by district legal counsel and approved as to form board approval
approval of this recommendation for award is consistent with board policies
CH legal, CH local, CV legal, and CV local.
Are there any questions?
You also have 8.9.
It's recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the award of the
contract for the replacement of the vinyl flooring at Maid Creek High School
9th grade building to Mohawk Group utilizing the by-board contract number 476-15.
The vinyl flooring at Maid Creek High School 9th grade building is original to the campus
in 2002 and is in need of replacement.
The new flooring will match what is being used in the main campus renovation project.
The work is scheduled to start July 9th of 2018 and be complete by August 10th of 2018.
The project funding source is 2014 bond savings.
May Creek High School 9th grade building cost project is $254,282.57 for a total project
cost of $254,282.57.
The contract has been reviewed by district legal counsel and approved as to form.
and board approval of this recommendation is award for award is consistent with board policies ch
legal ch local cv legal and cv local do we have any questions thank you mr teen thank you item 8.10
consider future board approval of the proposal for a construction manager at-risk contract for
the comprehensive renovations at fielder elementary school additions and renovations to
to Katy High School Career and Technology Education Spaces and Athletic Renovations
and Access Control Upgrades and Additions, package number 7.
Ms. Kassman, thank you.
MS.
Good evening, President Doyle, Trustees, and Dr. Hint.
Today I'm bringing three items for your consideration.
The first item is to consider future board approval for construction manager at risk
for field or elementary renovations, Katy High School CTE and athletic renovations,
and access control upgrades package number seven.
These projects were identified in the November 2017 bond.
Fielder Elementary is scheduled for a comprehensive renovation.
Katie High School is scheduled for work at both the CTA spaces,
which could result in new spaces depending upon design development
and renovations to the field house,
and finally a continuation of access control upgrades.
SEAL proposals utilizing the construction manager at risk delivery method
method were received on April 26 for these projects. Eleven proposals were received using the one-step method and Ansel O'Brien being ranked first overall. A tabulation is attached for your review. As a result of this process, we are recommending awarding the construction manager at risk project contract to Ansel O'Brien Construction for a fee not to exceed 1.5% of the cost of work and for pre-construction services totaling $10,000. The team is confident that Ansel O'Brien
with their experience can positively contribute to both design development
and construction phases of these projects. Ansel Bryant has excellent
reputation in the community along with their subcontractors. They have completed
Memorial Parkway Elementary, are in the process of completing May Creek High
School renovations. Tonight I have with us from Ansel Bryant, James Bryant,
Jeff Bryant, and Steve Pittman. For Katy ISD, Ryan Wojtyla is going to be the
project manager for Fielder and access control and other representatives of
miss Carden for Fielder elementary principal dr. Hall from Katy high school
and coach Joseph and Katy high school and dr. Martin for CTE we have three
different architects across these projects Jennifer Henriksen and parole
vs from Stantec Brad Ewing and Alan Cooey from VLK and Brian hood with leaf
engineers do we have any questions item 8.11 the second item is to consider
future board approval of a water line easement a sanitary sewer easement and a
storm sewer easement to Harris County Municipal Utility District number 432
associated with elementary 42 in the Morton Creek Ranch subdivision Harris
Harris County MUD 432 has requested these easements as depicted on the attached documents that you have in your reports in the Morton Creek subdivisions.
These utilities are primarily located on the southern boundary of the site and will support the provision of utilities at this location for August 2019 opening.
Do we have any questions?
The final item is to consider future board approval of proposals for the building management control systems replacements at Alexander King and Schmalz Elementary Schools and the Student Support Center Annex, which is currently Creech Elementary at U of H Cinco, and the Education Support Annex.
It is recommended that the Board of Trustees awards a contract for the Building Management Control Systems replacement to Hunt and Train for Alexander King and Schmaltz Elementary Schools in the amount of $849,500 and to Unify Energy Solutions for the Support Center Annex and the Education Support Complex in the amount of $226,750 and the total approved project costs not to exceed $1,571,000.
110 dollars the current building management control system used in the district has a number
of components that are no longer manufactured and remanufactured parts are no longer available
the current system has become very unreliable resulting in many areas of district
losing hvac services daily the replacement of the system will improve the overall performance
of the equipment in the district proposals utilizing the competitive seal proposal delivery
delivery method were received on May 1st for the first phase of replacement for the five
campuses mentioned earlier. In order to provide for competitive pricing from the contractors,
the proposal form included 13 alternates and subalternates for a total of 43 line items.
All five facilities received proposals for a full system replacement and the existing
facilities, Alexander, King and Schmalz, included an alternate to upgrade the current control
control systems. The five proposals were received from the vendors. They were evaluated with
Hunt and Train ranking first overall for the BMCS at Alexander King and Schmalz. Additionally,
the proposals were evaluated with Unifi ranking first overall for the Student Support Annex
and the ESC Annex. The proposal ranking is attached. We have representatives here from
Hunt and Train, Kurt McCulloch and Keith Robinson, and Moe Bauder from Unifi. Salah Sabrine was
as a design engineer and Gerald Cutler along with our maintenance department will oversee these
projects do we have any questions thank you Ms. Caspin thank you item 8.13 consider future board
approval of a salary increase for the 2018-2019 school year Ms. Edmond good evening President Dole
Trustees and Superintendent Hint, it is recommended that the Board of Trustees
approves a $1,230 increase for all teachers. It's actually an equivalent of
a 2% average increase and we're also recommending for non-teachers that they
receive a 2% increase of the 2017-18 midpoint of the non-teacher pay ranges.
Any questions? Item 8.14. Okay, it is recommended that the Board of Trustees
approve additional department staffing that is needed to address growth for the 2018-19 school year.
We're requesting a total of 35 various positions to be allocated over 14 different departments.
Do we have any questions?
Madam President.
Ms. Fox.
The 2% average increase, so $1,230, if I can back up to that one right there,
The $1,230, that's the amount that every teaching position would receive?
Yes, ma'am, those that work 187 days.
Two percent.
And then the possible 1% lump sum, we would approve that at a later time, is that?
That's part of the budget that you will approve.
Okay.
Thank you.
Were there any questions on agenda item 8.14?
8.15?
The last item is recommendation for the Board of Trustees to approve the 2018-19 Texas Teacher
Evaluation and Support System Second Appraisers.
It's a list of assistant principals and principals who would be available to appraise
teachers if needed.
Any questions?
Thank you, Ms. Edmond.
Thank you.
At this time, the Board of Trustees will give members of the public an opportunity to speak.
A meeting that is open to the public under the Texas Open Meetings Act is one that the
public is permitted to attend.
The Act does not entitle the public to choose the items to be discussed or to speak about
items on the agenda.
A governmental body may give members of the public an opportunity to speak at the public
meeting which KDISD board policy does allow. As defined by BED local, the first
20 speakers who signed up at least 15 minutes before this meeting began and
have provided their first and last name will be allowed to speak. A maximum of 30
minutes has been allocated with the time divided equally among those who have
signed up. However, the maximum amount of time for any one speaker is three
minutes. Tonight we have 12 speakers so each speaker will be given two and a
a half minutes to speak. If speakers wish to share written material with the board,
10 copies must be provided to the board secretary of services. Due to the posting requirements of
the Open Meetings Act, the board is able to respond only to a statement related to a posted
agenda item with a statement of specific factual information or a recitation of policy in response
to the inquiry. If a speaker has not attempted to solve a matter administratively through the
proper channels, the presiding officer shall advise the speaker to seek resolution through
the appropriate policy.
It is a criminal offense for a person to substantially obstruct or interfere with the ordinary conduct
of a meeting by physical action or verbal utterance and thereby curtail the exercise
of others' First Amendment rights.
Board policy provides for removal of any member of the audience after one warning who disrupts
the meeting by words or actions.
As I announce your name, please come forward, state your first and last name for the record.
Our first speaker this evening is Victor Yon, and I apologize if I mispronounce your name.
Good evening.
I want to start by asking the Board and the Superintendent this question.
If there were a school shooting tomorrow, how many children and teachers will die before the shooter is stopped?
I understand the federal and state governments all have responsibilities in school safety.
But is the district already doing everything in its power to protect the children and the teachers?
At tonight's meeting, I see many police here, which is great.
All the meeting attendees, including myself, deserve this level of protection.
But my son's high school has more than 3,000 students.
I asked him how many police were at the entrance this morning when he went in the school.
He told me none.
So clearly something still can be done by the district at this moment, right now, to
to better protect our children and teachers.
Including having onsite full-time police at every school,
having police guarding the school entrance and exits,
having police constantly patrolling
inside the school buildings, not just the parking lot,
and also installing metal detectors at every school.
All of which can be implemented without the support
or approval from state or federal governments.
Several years ago, when the district was pushing for building the stadium,
it had many community meetings, it formed bond committees and a task force.
It sent out newsletters, so on and so forth.
I urge the Board and the District Administrator to make school safety the highest priority.
Maybe start by forming a permanent school safety task force.
Without school safety, everything else is just meaningless.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Mr. Young.
Our next speaker is Michael Schieman.
Michael Schieman All right.
Ashley Vann, April 22nd, I sent you a detailed email presentation,
solution about connecting outcast with each other before they become bullied and
eventually potential shooters in KSD. Do we have a program to get those outcasted students,
students, such as those alone at lunch, together in class activities or social events to safely
build or rebuild their social dignities. If not, I think we should. Demetrios, the shooter
of the Santa Fe shooting, was apparently simultaneously outcasted by his coaches, friends, ex, and
current love interests, all supposedly within the same circle of friends, his only circle
of friends. He was perhaps put under pressure to at least get the girl to
respect, if not affection, or lose his entire circle of friends she was
apparently also in, especially after her public humiliation of him almost
immediately before the shooting. We absolutely should be looking at being
outcasted as a warning sign in KISD and do our best to prevent it before it
becomes danger.
Thank you, sir. Our next speaker is Ju Wang.
Again, we are heartbroken by the news of another mass shooting happened last Friday.
But this time, it happened at Santa Fe High School, only 55 miles away from where we live here.
As a parent of high school students, I cannot concentrate on anything the whole day, nor
can I imagine how suffering for those parents that lost their kid in the mass shooting.
The healing must come from the knowledge that we will do anything and everything we can
to keep these tragedies away from our children.
We must fight, not only against the now frequent mass shooting,
but also for our peace of mind.
People talking about gun control and changing their constitutes,
but at this point in time, that is irrelevant, because we cannot wait.
We want to do something right now, as soon as possible.
Just calling from my, in my deep mind, I want to do something.
I want to voice out and remind the principal, the member of the board, KISD, you not only
focus on our GPA score, not on our education, that education you provide our kids, but also
their safety, our kids' safety is first priority.
No life, none.
known is meaningful.
People maybe think their security cost too much money, but I have a proposal just because
of my work is doing some construction related.
I did a rough estimate.
estimate if we have 750 some dollars on hand it's less 1 million dollars we
could bought almost 200 air air pod grade metal detectors and more than 6,000
hand-held ones for the metal detector.
If we buy them directly from the manufacturer,
the cost is that, very, very inexpensive and affordable.
And even taking into consideration.
Thank you, Ms. Wang.
Thank you.
Elise Markowitz.
I am Dr. Eliz Markowitz, the nominee for the Texas State Board of Education, and I came
here tonight because I am appalled at the current situation surrounding KISD.
The KISD Board of Trustees recently stated that they were considering pursuing a defamation
lawsuit against individuals who have allegedly damaged both the reputation of
the superintendent and KISD at large. According to the laws under which our
country is governed, defamation is defined as a false statement that ruins
the reputation of an individual or group. The claims made against the
superintendent which occurred decades ago preclude verification. To pursue
such a lawsuit would be a disservice to the students, parents, and teachers of this district
and set a dangerous precedent for the future, his constituents would no longer be able to speak out
for fear of retribution. Not only would you egregiously waste taxpayer money, but your
actions would also continue to draw negative attention to KISD, a school district that is
no longer known for its academic prowess but is known for its inability to handle
divisive situations i call on you the kisd board of trustees to stand
down from using taxpayer funds for purposes that do nothing to better our public education system.
I'm also profoundly troubled by the allegations of plagiarism facing the superintendent and would
urge the Board of Trustees to address this issue. The failure of the Board to publicly address the
issue of academic integrity and its importance at all levels of education goes against the standards
established by the school district. In a day and age when facts appear subjective
to some, we must remember that truth is objective and verifiable truth is not
defamation. And let us not forget that the entire purpose of the Board of
Trustees is to better the educational outcomes of our children, not to engage
in personal and political warfare. I call on you again, the Board of Trustees, to
to not pursue legal battles, but address the importance of high quality public education
that emphasizes academic integrity and logic.
Thank you, Ms. Markowitz.
Our next speaker is James Strickland.
Good evening, Board, Dr. Hint, Madam President.
My name is James Strickland.
I'm a father of three, two of which currently attend Katy ISD schools,
from which the very beginning my wife and I Georgia I'm sorry my wife Georgia
and I made the choice to be very involved parents I grew up as an only
child with a single mom times were tough mostly for her as you see I was a very
troubled young man I was always getting into trouble had severe discipline
problems I was even actually put in special education because of it I had
never made the right choices as a child and I did not have a mentor until a few
years later. I was actually put into the Big Brothers and Sisters program and my
mentor actually taught me how to be a man. I was able, I was actually at that
point given a support system in place to help me deal with problems and not
eliminate them. I think we can all agree that our society has definitely gone
soft. Everyone feels entitled. We as parents have created a society of
victims. Parents, we need to step up and be parents. We need to stop asking our
teachers and administrators to raise our
children. I get it, it's not easy to be a parent, but we should never take the easy
road and expect others to raise our children for us. They will look up to us
regardless of what we do. Let's give them something to look up to that is
positive. Let's prepare them for life and arm them with confidence to face real
life problems. I'm not here today for sympathy or a pat on the back because I
had a tough childhood. I am here to introduce you guys to a program called
Men on Campus and it is brought to you by the Katy area council of PTAs
and I am a volunteer. My task is going to be to make available and promote as many
as many volunteer and involvement opportunities for fathers, grandfathers,
uncles, etc. I feel that a greater presence of male role models in our
district will go a long way and will fix many of the issues we face. A better way
to induce change is to stop complaining and get involved. Change starts in each
of us in the home. It's not a systematic policy change with laws. If you'd like
more information on the men on campus please feel free to reach out to me or any of the local ptas
and know how to get in touch thank you for your time thank you mr strickland our next speaker
is tiffany gettleman good evening president doyle dr henton board of trustees thank you for the
opportunity to address the board tonight in this open forum my name is Tiffany
Gettleman I'm the mother of two KDISD students a seventh grader at McMeans
junior high and an 11th grader at Taylor high school I'm also a substitute nurse
in the district I'm here today to advocate for more counselors in our
schools on Friday I was extremely surprised and concerned to learn that
the district had eliminated the position of one of our junior high counselors as
of the 2018-2019 school year she is being reassigned to another school
because our junior high doesn't meet the criteria to keep her the criteria used
to keep a junior high counselor for each grade level as I understand it as a
population of 1,200 plus students our school population falls short by 85
students this year in the current climate across the country it suggests
that students need more support from trained mental health professionals in a
school setting so I'm unclear as to why this position would be eliminated it is
not the time for our district to remove these needed positions from our schools
this is a time to set new standards to help promote the mental health of each
student on every campus as a district we should be allocating more funds towards
the creation of new jobs for trained counselors who will be able to provide
provide support to our children in their times of need.
I serve as a substitute nurse in the district on many of the campuses, and
I frequently encounter students in distress.
These are students who come to the clinic with vague symptoms,
headaches, stomach aches, general tiredness.
I've learned after engaging them in conversation, sometimes for
just a few minutes, that they are actually experiencing signs of distress,
depression, or anxiety.
These are students who are in need of support and guidance during challenging
moments. I implore you to consider funding the funding we have for
counseling services and ask you to consider increasing the number of
trained professionals to work with our students in need. Please hire others to
act as schedulers in our junior highs and high schools and allow our
overworked counselors to function in the roles they were trained to perform. Let's
be proactive and address the mental health needs of our children before
before tragedy strikes in our community.
Thank you so much for your time and consideration.
Thank you, Ms. Gettleman.
Our next speaker is Susan Wallace.
This is from a certified teacher with a master's degree
and over 40 years of experience teaching.
To Katy parents and Katy ISD staff,
we teach students that everyone makes mistakes
and mistakes help us grow.
They teach us valuable lessons and what not to do next.
What did Greg Barrett do when he heard of Hindt's resignation?
He said it broke his heart, showing the compassion that Hint had not shown to him.
Now the school board is victimizing Greg again with their 100% backing of Hint.
I say Greg Barrett is the hero.
As a teen, Hint brutalized William Stein, causing him to need many surgeries.
He almost died due to Hindt's attack.
This man also forgave Hint without Hint even asking.
I say William Stein is the hero.
Hint would like us to believe that he is a changed man,
but he has only apologized for what are problems for him.
These are not just dumb mistakes like most kids make.
They're horrific, life-changing acts of violence.
As parents and teachers, we know that you don't reward bad behavior.
I say the school board has failed. The most important quality for our leaders to best to possess is integrity.
And quality of being honest and having strong moral principles, moral rightness, simply doing the right thing.
This needs to be referred for administrative approval or resolution.
You're interrupting my, I think that's against the rules, you're interrupting my speech.
What kind of message does bringing a defamation lawsuit in support of Hint give?
It is to not speak up when you see something that you believe is wrong like Sean Dolan has been steadfastly doing.
And it is not to question the judgment of the school board.
Ms. Wallace, this is our counsel.
This needs to be referred for administrative resolution.
Also, board rules generally prevent references to individual names.
And when I spoke last time, everyone said names.
Y'all are using these rules in a way that is unfair to everybody.
It's just pick and choose as you would like.
the arrogant attitude of the school board is counter to the me too see something say something
her microphone off which is encouraging people to discouraging thank you thank you miss wallace
no ma'am it's per our board policy thank you mr scott
no mr scott thank you miss wallace our next speaker is don massey
Good evening.
I'm sorry?
I want to know what the administrative review that you're suggesting that closed those remarks.
What would be the administrative policy that would cut that?
Do I like hearing that?
No.
No, but my direct question is, give me the administrative policy that that cost.
Well, there's two.
First of all, I think that can be resolved through the grievance process,
but also you have a general rule in your rules that prohibits references to specific individuals,
and the courts have held that that does not violate the First Amendment rights.
That's Fairchild v. Liberty ISD, if the circuit case.
I can't possibly see a grievance on that situation.
I understand the second component of what you're saying,
but I believe when the attorney addresses the board on a matter of this nature
with about 20 seconds left, that the attorney should tell us chapter and verse and exact status.
That's what I personally believe.
I could handle the last 20 seconds of that talk.
Mr. Massey. Good evening board, Madam President, Superintendent Hint. It is a great honor to be in front of you today. First of all, I just want to congratulate Don Champagne on a great campaign. Well done. Congratulations to Susan Gesoff. Well done. I think you both are going to do a great job and I wanted to publicly tell you that. I'm very excited what you guys are going to be able to do for us.
board and I know your heart is right for our children. So tell you a little bit
about me. Once again my name is Don Massey. I have three children in the
district. All three are at Kitty Elementary. I also have a 16 year old
niece who lives with us that we're responsible for who attends the Simon
Youth Academy. You know what's unique about her is she struggles through
mental health issues. Depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts. So what is that what
What does that have to do with today's climate?
While my background in law enforcement,
I have an advanced training in crisis intervention,
dealing with people in crisis, bipolar, depression, anxiety,
another reason why she lives with us.
We need to think about what are we doing
to prepare our teachers for what's going on?
What are we doing to take care of our students,
to protect them?
What are we doing in our classrooms?
I think the district does a great job
on looking ahead. I think the social sentinel, I think there's a lot of
discussion out there is that going to be a good thing. I think if it saves one kid
it's a great thing. So I think you guys are doing a great job on that area. Now I
think we could do a lot more. So a couple things I think we could do is making
sure we do have a police officer at every campus. I want to give Chief Jenks
everything he needs to take care of our students. I want to make sure our
campuses are locked down a little bit better. It's called target hardening,
safety security measures which would be bollards. Katy Elementary doesn't have
bollards for example. 3M protective film, advanced door locks. We need to make sure
we take care of the classrooms and take care of our our schools. Lastly I
encourage the board to think about the excess 40 million dollars we saved in
the high school. I want to challenge this board that I will be a voice to continue
to come up here every every month that we use those dollars to lock down our
school is a little bit better. What that looks like I think is up to discussion.
I'm here to help any way I can. Thank you so much board. Appreciate it.
Thank you Mr. Masson. Our next speaker is Sean Dolan.
So I hadn't planned on speaking today. I feel like I've said everything I could
say and I don't feel like I've been heard but earlier today I received a
letter from a parent here in Katy so I'll read that instead of I've shortened
it a bit on May 18th horrific events once again played out at an American
high school this time in our own backyard again like Parkland very little
of the conversation is going to be dedicated to understanding why this
young man felt he had no options left other than to inflict tragedy on those
around him. Reports have already surfaced that this young man was a victim of
bullying at the hands of both students and adults. If we look deep into the
root cause of this latest incident and the ones that will certainly follow,
there are certainly going to be many adults that had the opportunity to
prevent this massacre by reaching out to help this young man before things turned
into a deadly spiral. And perhaps even adults that further perpetuated things
with their own actions and not just their inaction. It is time for every
parent, educator, administrator, coach, school board member, community leader, and
every other adult that interacts with children on a regular basis to stop
blaming immediate causes and to start acting to fix the root causes. Once again
in Santa Fe there's one child with blood on his hands and many adults that also
have blood on theirs. However, only the child is going to be the focus of
national scrutiny and only the child is going to go to prison. Instead of being
another wake-up call, Santa Fe needs to be the catalyst for change. It is time
for the adults of Katy to step up and fix the root causes. In closing, I'd like
to request that each night every member of the board ask themselves, how many
children were brutalized today because of your inaction? How many children were
victimized today because of your inaction? How many children were
inflicted with a pain so great today that they will carry a scar for the rest
of their life because of your inaction? How many children have contemplated
suicide today because of your inaction? How many children have already started
down the dead-end path that has a potential to result in tragedy
unfolding at a KISD campus because of your inaction? If you think that the
answers to these questions on any given night total zero, then you're lying to
yourself. It is time to set politics and personal agendas aside and focus on
on creating a culture in KISD that prioritizes the safety of our children.
Nick Funditas, parent in KDISD.
Thank you, Mr. Dolan.
Our next speaker is Laurie Harrison.
Good evening, President Doyle, Board Members, and Dr. Hindt.
My name is Lori Harrison and I recently celebrated 25 years working in KISD.
I have two daughters who attended KISD from kindergarten to 12th grade. One came back here to teach.
I now have two grandchildren in this district. I have loved every minute
except for one.
May 10th when you announced that you were retiring and stepping down as our superintendent.
It was a sad day for this entire district,
especially the staff members who knew what it was like to work under your leadership.
I just wanted to take a moment to let you know that you have thousands and
thousands of people standing behind you. We just weren't loud enough but there's
a change taking place and it'll be a good one. I also wanted to say how sorry
the majority of us for the hate that you and this board have had to endure the
last two months. The pain it has caused your families, the hatefulness, the result
in a passionate leader stepping down as well as leaving an ugly stain on our
district and Katy as a whole. Not only did the actions of a small group
diminish the great and wonderful things that happen each and every day on our
campus, they have managed to tarnish the names of those who came before us,
passionate teachers, dedicated leaders, and devoted educationers. Let us also not
forget under your leadership as well as this board we showed the entire world how a community comes
together to deal with crisis that seems to have been all wiped away now i will venture to say that
the majority of the group that has forced this hell on the district doesn't even know you they
don't know you they have not seen or refused to see all the positive changes you have made
in less than two years they don't know how you interact with students teachers and staff
throughout the district every day. They refuse to see the energy you spread
creating an atmosphere like no other I have seen in 25 years. You breathe new
life into this district only to have it sucked back out by this small group.
Again thank you to you all the board members and the for for everything
you've done for a different district know that there are many people standing
standing behind you and we will continue to stand behind you. Thank you.
Applause
Applause
Thank you Ms. Harrison.
Our next speaker is Robert Willoughby.
I've never seen
10 o'clock.
President Vann, Board, Dr. Hint.
President Doyle.
What did I say?
Vann.
Oh, I'm reading the sign.
It's okay.
It's late, you know.
I'm just going to give you a chance.
It's okay.
I know yours.
Let me just lean in here where I can see better.
Before I blow my time, Ashley Vann, I just want to thank you for your leadership this
last year it's been a trying year and you're an awesome person i'm just glad to know you
and support you and thank you for your service and i have actually written some stuff down here
so i better get to it i got about a minute and a half to do it in today's a sad day for me
i came to realize that we have let our community down that we did not fight hard enough speak
speak loud enough and work to counter the false narratives of the adult bullies who
live among us.
There was a miscalculation on our part, but what did we miss?
We missed the importance of being a dad.
You see, a husband and father will take care of his family before all else.
Lance Hint is that kind of man.
And so we find ourselves where we are today, with a man who has to choose, and he chose
chose to be a husband and a father over our superintendent.
Honestly, I would have done the same thing.
Dr. Hint, how you and your family were treated
does not represent the Katie that I know.
We are better than that.
We just didn't step up when we were needed,
and we didn't do the right thing.
I will fight to change your mind until the very last day.
It may be a wasted effort, but you and your family represent the kind of Katie I want to live in.
And I want you to be able to, once again, call Katie your home.
Thank you so much for what you've done in your short time with us.
I'm sorry we were not there for you, even though you were there for our children.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Willoughby.
It was okay for him to say his name.
We were promoting.
Ms. Wallace, if you'll give me a minute, please no more outbursts.
I put my time away.
If you would just wait.
I was just about to address it.
Please, speakers, refrain from saying names.
Thank you.
Ms. Wallace, if you have an outburst again, I'm going to ask for you to please
be removed.
We clearly stated it when I read the Open Meeting Act on the open forum that after one
outburst you would be removed and I've allowed you four now.
now. Okay. We have one more speaker. Ms. Stockdick.
Good evening, Madam President, Superintendent, and the Board. My name is Jennifer Stockdick.
I've lived in Katy for 40 years, over 40 years, and the Stockdick family's been here for 123
years. Our family really believes in education. Our great-great-grandfather was a land man,
and his job was to go out to other states and bring families here. He told
them about the fertile soil that we had, the agriculture and the education. And our
family built two schools in Katy in the early 1900s before Katy ISD was even
incorporated. So we knew the value of education from a long time back. Our
family got the great honor last year of junior high number 15 Stockton Junior
High so thank you for that. My daughter graduates this weekend from Katy High
school and she will be the fifth generation to graduate from Katy high school so this family
has really been one of the leading founding families of this community and a really big
family in education so I'm up here tonight to tell you guys that I appreciate everything that
y'all do I'm going to try to not get emotional but you guys serve with your hearts like this is your
calling I know that you guys take time away from your families to be here from your spouses from
your kids from all their activities and everything that you've done has been amazing um superintendent
i can't use your name but i appreciate what you've done for us in the two years that you've been here
i mean you've made great strides um in leadership and innovation and the direction that we're headed
so thank you for that so in closing i just want to remind everybody the sacrifices that our families
have made in this community to get us to where we are today our kids are benefiting are benefiting
from this and our community is as well. So enough of the bullying, right, enough
of whispering and talking about each other behind their backs. It's enough,
right. This is a great community and this is Katy, so thank you. Thank you Ms. Stockdick.
Our regular meeting is scheduled for Tuesday May 29th 2018. There being no
further business before the board this meeting is adjourned. The time is 10.04.
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