The board will now reconvene in open meeting. Today is 636, I'm sorry, today is Tuesday, May 29, 2018, and the time is 636 p.m. Dr. Hint, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act with regard to the notice for this meeting?
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Madam President, we are in compliance with the notice for the meeting tonight.
On behalf of my colleagues, I welcome everyone to this evening's regular board meeting. Each board member received the agenda and documentation for this meeting Thursday, May 24th, and have had five days to study its contents and to receive clarification from Dr. Hint. Additionally, the board met last week in a work-study meeting to receive information and recommendations from staff, administration, and the superintendent on these agenda items. Board members were able to ask questions and receive answers and should be prepared with responses and action tonight. 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. Ms. Fox.
I move that the Board of Trustees approve the personnel report as recommended by the Superintendent in closed meeting.
Second.
Is there any discussion? I have a motion from Ms. Fox, a second from Ms. Vann. that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed? I'd like to note that Mr. Scott is not with us tonight. Motion passes six to zero. Madam
President. Ms. Fox. I move that the Board of Trustees names Ted Feerling as the assistant superintendent for operations as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting
are there any discussion i have a motion by ms fox a second by bill lacy that the board of trustees names ted Vierling as assistant superintendent of operations as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting we will now proceed to vote all those in favor raise your right hand and say aye Aye.
Aye.
All those opposed? Motion passes 6-0.
Madam President, if you don't mind, Mr. Vierling's here, his family, so I'm going to ask him to stand and be recognized. Mr. Vierling, wait, I'm not letting you off the hook yet. Since your family took some time to be here, why don't you quickly introduce them to us.
Yes, this is my wife, Amy.
All right. Good deal. Thanks for being here, and we look forward to putting you to work.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacy.
I move that the Board of Trustees takes action to non-renew the term contract of teacher slash coach Tanya Lyons. Based on the information provided in the closed meeting, the Board finds that good cause exists to terminate the term contract and authorizes the Superintendent to take all actions necessary to notify Tanya Lyons on the Board's decision.
Second. Is there any discussion? I have a motion by Mr. Lacy, a second by Ms. Vann, that the Board of Trustees takes action to non-renew the term contract of teacher coach Tanya Lyons. Based on the information provided in closed meeting, the Board finds that good cause exists to terminate the term contract and authorizes the Superintendent to take all action necessary to notify Tonya Lyons of the Board's decision. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Motion passes 6-0. Next we have our Pledges of Allegiance and we'd like to invite Sergeant Clarence Howard forward to the microphone.
To the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible.
Thank you, Sergeant Howard. Do we have any scouts in the audience? Boys, would you please stand, state your name and the badge that you're working on.
Thank you, boys.
One back and back.
Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead. Wonderful. Glad to have you.
Madam President. Mr. Lacy. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the consent agenda as recommended in items 5.1 through 5.16.
We will now proceed to vote. I have a motion by Mr. Lacy, a second by Ms. Fox, that the Board of Trustees approves the consent agenda as recommended in items 5.1 through 5.16. All those in favor, please raise your right hand. Aye. All those opposed? The motion passes 6-0.
Madam President, before we move on, I would like to address two items that are on item 5.15, which is consider board approval of additional department staffing needs to address growth for the 2018-19 school year. As the board is fully aware through the information you receive, there are two new positions to the district on that that I'd like to ask staff just to speak to our community about with regards to what it is we're looking for in those positions. Of course, we know that we have a coordinator for bullying prevention and student support services. We also have a staff attorney that will work under the general counsel. The coordinator for bullying prevention and student support will work under the deputy superintendent. I'd like to ask Mr. Graham and Mr. Gregorski to speak to those two positions briefly mr. Graham if you'll hit us first please trustees
and community I appreciate the approval tonight before joining Katie in February of last year this district did not have an in-house council did not have an in-house legal department so part of what I had been tasked in my first full year here and we're still in my first full fiscal year here was to look at the needs of our campuses and departments and determine how we were allocating our resources in the expenditure of legal funds and when I say expenditure when I say resources I'm not talking simply about the finances I'm talking also about the staff time and when I say staff time I'm talking about campus staff time it has been our goal with the creation of my office to provide better access for our campus administrators in our departments as evidenced by the fact that you know the principals can now get the answers to their questions without having to worry about who to pick up the phone and call they know who to call and one of the areas that we've been looking at where we feel like there could be an additional savings of money is within the amount of money and time and staff time that we spend dealing with special education matters as you know KD ISD has long been known for its excellence with regards to special education which is why it's such a sought-after district for parents of children who have those needs of course when you have those populations and with the number of children that we have oftentimes there's there's just a myriad of legal issues that are faced which will require the special that the expertise of special Council to help our campuses with so with the creation of this position it's our goal again not only to save district time and resources but in campus time and resources but also get our campuses better access to council and better access to council on special education issues which I don't have to tell anybody on this board or in this community you know can be difficult and can be complex I'm happy to take any questions you may have if not I'll turn turn it over to Mr. Gregorski.
Mr. Gregorski, being the fact that they just approved this, I don't know what kind of questions they may have, but why don't you share with us what we're looking for in the coordinator for bullying prevention and student support.
Thank you, Dr. Hant. We're looking forward to bringing on another person onto our team. That's the school leadership and support team of our assistant superintendents that are over the campuses, and we feel this position will add value immediately to come into the district and look at what we're currently doing in terms of bullying to strengthen our current practices and also add any new programs, design programs, coordinate programs, implement programs, everything in an effort for intervention and prevention of bullying within the district. We anticipate developing what we call a three-year plan on this. Most of the goals that will be in that three-year plan, we will relate to our overall district strategic plan. If you remember, goal eight in the strategic plan is part of the emotional well-being of students. And we anticipate putting specific goals in alignment with this in terms of bullying, with that prevention and intervention that will help those students with those issues and emotional support and well-being. And we just look forward to working with our community as well. This person would work with internal and external stakeholders, meaning our parents and community groups, as well as our internal groups, our campus groups. We envision this person getting out of the campus doing presentations on the campus level, presentations with students, training for faculty and staff, and then as well as doing presentations for our community as well. So we work in partnership with our community, with the school district to do our best and put our best foot forward in terms of prevention and intervention of bullying.
I ask a question. Mr. Gregorski, so what are you looking for? What kind of skill set are you anticipating that you're looking for for this position?
Yeah, that's been quite a task as we've developed this job description over several months. We've pulled from job descriptions all around the nation of some different things we thought we could do. I probably called at least six people of other districts and explained what I was looking for and I can't quite say anybody out there had Anything close to what we were trying to design or accomplish which made it a bit of a challenge to describe or to design this But at this point looking for somebody they may be an educator. They may not be they may be a counselor They may be a social worker type the heck they could be a police officer I've got some some folks out there in the community we've worked with through Crime Stoppers and I think there's good folks in those organizations as well who have a wealth of experience to bring into the district and I'd like to look at them so in an effort to find just the right person I would say I'm gonna leave no stone unturned in this we want somebody you can come in who's good with people who understands relationships with people who can present to large audiences but someone who also has that skill set to design programs right goals right right initiatives and see those plans through to ensure we're giving back to our community what they need.
So if you've got anybody in mind, anybody out there, the posting is up and we would look forward to seeing their name.
So in all the districts that you spoke to, we're kind of innovative in this space. You didn't find anybody who already had someone on staff in that role?
Could not find anyone that way and I've reached out to some of my friends who've worked in HR before and described the job description and it's a pretty unique job description. We built it from scratch. Like I said, we've been able to find some job descriptions around the nation that are close to this, but this one was hand built by my team over my shoulder here. We've went over that a few times and kind of designed what we think Katie needs at this time. But if we need something different as we move forward, if we discover something, we'll just add it to that job description as well to be able to meet those needs. What I will add in there is somebody had brought up, we used to have the parent and patron center, which was more of a resource for a lot of calls and complaints to come directly in. We did do away with that because my team handles those incoming calls now. Now, this position isn't one of those kind of parent complaint centers of that. This person is going to be out in the field taking action, specifically, like I said, getting out there and training people, providing that support and assistance, someone who's a true expert in this field who we can lean on to ensure our community gets what they really need to tackle a tough problem such as bullying.
But embedded in your team so they'll still get the benefit of the lessons learned from those complaints that you're handling if there are lessons to be learned.
Definitely so. So that's the way the position was designed to work in partnership with my team, which is over here on my right hand over here, this group over here. That's over the schools. There are assignments over the schools that they will work hand-in-hand. That's why this position comes into my department. And at the same time, I've been working with Dr. Kasky and her group because this position will work very closely with counselors, psychologists, our LSSPs, which is all over on that side. But it would be very closely tied to our assistant superintendents who are over those schools, who work with our schools every day in terms of leadership and support and with our parents in our community thank you very much you're welcome do we have any
other questions Thank You mr. Gregorski anything else dr. me no thank you all
right that moves us to item 6.1 consider board approval of a salary increase for 2018 2019 school year and I'm president miss Fox I move that the Board of
of Trustees approves a $1,230 increase, the equivalent of a 2% average pay increase for teachers and for non-teacher pay groups, an increase of 2% of the midpoint of the 2017-18 non-teacher pay ranges.
CHAIRPERSON WONG I have a motion by Ms. Fox, a second by Ms. Vann that the Board of Trustees approves a $1,230 increase, the equivalent of a 2% average pay increase for teachers and for non teacher pay groups an increase of 2% of the midpoint of the 2017-2018 non teacher pay rate ranges we will now proceed to vote all those in favor raise your right hand and say aye all those opposed motion passes 6 to 0 lastly we have item 7.1 donated items to KD independent school district and then we have our board work-study meeting Monday June 18 regular meeting scheduled for Monday June 25th and with that meeting is adjourned at 652 We don't need to adjourn?
Okay.
Okay. The Board will now convene in closed meeting as authorized under Section 551.001 of the Texas Government Code for the following purposes. Texas government code 551.071, 551.129, 551.0821, and 551.074. Today is Tuesday, May 29th, 2018, and the time is 6.52 p.m. Do I need to ask for the room to be cleared?
Yeah, we'll give them a few minutes to let them know that we will be coming back into a closed session in seven o'clock.
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MOTION 001
PassedThat the Board of Trustees approve the personnel report as recommended by the Superintendent in closed meeting.
MOTION 002
PassedThat the Board of Trustees names Ted Feerling as the assistant superintendent for operations as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting.
MOTION 003
PassedThat the Board of Trustees takes action to non-renew the term contract of teacher/coach Tanya Lyons. Based on the information provided in closed meeting, the Board finds that good cause exists to terminate the term contract and authorizes the Superintendent to take all actions necessary to notify Tanya Lyons of the Board's decision.
MOTION 004
PassedThat the Board of Trustees approves the consent agenda as recommended in items 5.1 through 5.16.
MOTION 005
PassedThat the Board of Trustees approves a $1,230 increase, the equivalent of a 2% average pay increase for teachers, and for non-teacher pay groups an increase of 2% of the midpoint of the 2017-18 non-teacher pay ranges.