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.
Katy ISD · Regular Board Meeting
Katy ISD Regular Board Meeting, May 29, 2018
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- 0:00 to 3:53 Item 3 Reconvene from Closed Meeting - The Board will reconvene from Closed Meeting. The presiding officer will verify that the meeting has been duly called and notice of the meeting has been posted for the time and manner required by law. 3.1 Consider Board approval of the personnel report. 3.2 Consider Board approval of naming an assistant superintendent for operations. 3.3 Consider Board action to nonrenew the term contract of teacher/coach, Tanya Lyons.
- 3:53 to 5:30 Item 4 Pledges of Allegiance
- 5:30 to 14:39 Consent Agenda Consent Agenda 5.1 Consider Board approval of the minutes of the April Board meetings. 5.2 Consider Board approval of the Teacher Data Portal of the Texas Assessment Management System waiver for 2018 - 2019 and 2019 - 2020. 5.3 Consider Board approval of a modified schedule waiver for assessment days for 2018 - 2019 and 2019 - 2020. 5.4 Consider Board approval of the 2018 - 2019 Honors (PreAP) courses identified as exempt from No-Pass, No-Play. 5.5 Consider Board approval of the legal policies and adoption of the local policies included in Board Policy Update 110. 5.6 Consider Board approval of the March 2018 financial reports. 5.7 Consider Board approval of the May 2018 budget amendments. 5.8 Consider Board approval of the 2018 - 2019 Voluntary Student and UIL Sports and Activities Accidental Insurance. 5.9 Consider Board approval to award the purchase of Technology Security Upgrades. 5.10 Consider Board approval of the contract to replace an HVAC chiller at the Education Support Complex. 5.11 Consider Board approval of the contract to replace vinyl flooring at the Mayde Creek High School Ninth Grade Building. 5.12 Consider Board approval of a proposal for a Construction Manager at Risk contract for the comprehensive renovations at Fielder Elementary School; additions and renovations to Katy High School Career and Technology Education (CTE) spaces and athletic renovations; and access control upgrades and additions, Package #7. 5.13 Consider Board approval of a water line easement, a sanitary sewer easement and a storm sewer easement to Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 432 associated with Elementary #42 located in the Morton Creek Ranch subdivision. 5.14 Consider Board approval of proposals for Building Management Controls System (BMCS) replacements at Alexander, King and Schmalz Elementary Schools; and the Student Support Annex, currently Creech Elementary at UH Cinco Ranch and the Education Support Complex (ESC) Annex. 5.15 Consider Board approval of additional department staffing needs to address growth for the 2018 - 2019 school year. 5.16 Consider Board approval of the 2018 - 2019 Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System (T-TESS) Second Appraisers.
- 14:39 to 15:38 Item 6.1 Action Consider Board approval of a salary increase for the 2018 - 2019 school year.
- 15:38 to 15:47 Item 7.1 Information Item Donated Items to Katy Independent School District
- 15:47 to 16:16 Item 8 Future Meetings 8.1 Board Work Study Meeting - Monday, June 18, 2018 8.2 Regular Board Meeting - Monday, June 25, 2018
- 16:16 to 16:57 Items 9 & 11 Closed Meeting - Closed Meeting will be held for the purposes authorized by the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code Section 551.001 et seq. concerning any and all purposes permitted by the Act, including but not limited to the sections and purposes listed below. 9.1 Consultation with Board's attorney. (Texas Government Code 551.071: For the purpose of a private consultation with the Board's attorney on any or all subjects or matters authorized by law; and Texas Government Code 551.129: For the purpose of a private consultation with the Board's attorney by telephone conference call.) 9.2 Consider a Level Three FNG grievance (FNG-17-007) pursuant to Katy Independent School District policy FNG(LEGAL) and FNG(LOCAL) regarding student and parent complaints/grievances. (Texas Government Code 551.0821: For the purpose of deliberating a matter regarding a public school student if personally identifiable information about the student will necessarily be revealed by the deliberation; and Texas Government Code 551.074: For the purpose of considering the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline or dismissal of a public officer or employee or to hear complaints or charges against a public officer or employee.) 11. Adjournment
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Item 3
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?
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
Item 4
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.
Consent Agenda
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
Item 6.1
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
Item 7.1
independent school district and then we have our board work-study meeting
Item 8
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.
Items 9 & 11
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.
Official documents
Agenda
The district's own agenda file, as published on its video page. 4 pages.
Board packet · 31 documents
The district's own backup material for this agenda, retrieved from BoardDocs. Each file was checked against the size BoardDocs states for it.
- 1 Financial Statements - March 2018 15 KB
- 2 Analysis Function Object - March 2018 17 KB
- Construction Report March 2018 216 KB
- MIN 04 16 2018 Work Study PENDING APPROVAL 394 KB
- MIN 04 23 2018 Regular Board Meeting PENDING APPROVAL 378 KB
- May-Donation Report 2018-1 56 KB
- TASB Update 110 Packet fo Board 05-18 2136 KB
- Monthly Amendments - May 2018 550 KB
- Hunton Services Proposal 496 KB
- Mohawk Group Proposal 106 KB
- rec letters 982 KB
- aia a133-2009 fe khs cte and access controls 14678 KB
- Combo Ranking Sheet revised 36 KB
- Easement_Sanitary Sewer_Katy ISD_0.0119 acre 22 KB
- Easement_Storm Sewer_Katy ISD_0.0083 22 KB
- Easement_Water line_KATY ISD_0.0622 22 KB
- Elem #42 Easements Locations 905 KB
- let01ap - Recommendation Letter - Unify 33 KB
- let02ap - Recommendation Letter - Trane 32 KB
- aia a101-2007 bmcs hunton trane 5521 KB
- aia a101-2007 bmcs unify 5429 KB
- BMCS CSP ranking 47 KB
- 2018-2019 Second Appraisers List 82 KB
- March 2018 Tax Report 264 KB
- 3 Check Registers - March 2018 7 KB
- 2018-2019 Additional Department Staffing3 96 KB
- aia a101-2007 bmcs hunton trane signed 5620 KB
- aia a101-2007 bmcs unify signed 20459 KB
- Easement Sanitary Sewer - Signed 1434 KB
- Easement Storm Sewer Signed 1366 KB
- Easement Water line Signed 1444 KB
Motions and votes
Recorded actions
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.