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Katy ISD Work Study Meeting, August 20, 2018
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Today is Monday, August 20, 2018, and the time is 638 p.m.
Mr. Gregorski, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas
Open Meetings Act regarding the notice for this meeting?
Madam President, I confirm we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings
Act regarding the notice for this meeting.
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, August 16th, and have had four days to study its contents and seek clarification from Dr. Hint.
This evening, the items posted on the agenda will be presented to the board by staff, administration, and the deputy superintendent.
The board will have the opportunity to ask questions and discuss agenda items during tonight's meeting.
The board has just reconvened from closed meeting.
First, I'd like to acknowledge our scouts in the audience.
Guys, if you'd like to stand up, come here and share with us what badge you're working
on and what troop you're with, that would be great.
My name is Julianne Whiteley.
I'm working on .
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my name is julian whiteley i'm working on citizenship in the community
i'm part of troop 209 and i'm in seventh grade
Hello, I'm Tristan Whiteley and I'm working on Arrow of Light, PAC 585 and Creech.
Great job.
Thank you so much for being here.
Madam President, before we got started I went and visited with our scouts and we're neighbors.
It's so good to see you here. So I'm really glad to see you here. Well, very good welcome
Next item 4.1 presentation of the 2018-19 proposed budget and tax rate. Mr. Smith
one second all right good evening everybody it's my pleasure to be here to
talk the final talk of the budget and the 2018-19 school year we started this
back in January and I know you're tired of hearing about me from this process we
did run this on August the 2nd it's the notice of this meeting if anybody paid
attention to it it does show that our budget is going to be decreased from the
amended budget to the original budget that we're adopting or that we're
proposing. Why is that decrease? Because of Harvey. Harvey expenses are in there
in the amended budget and when we start this new budget Harvey expenses will not
be, will no longer be in there. So just a little bit of FYI but we did publish
that and we're at the public hearing tonight and I appreciate, you all have heard a
lot of this and so I'm not going to go into as much detail but especially when
it comes to state funding as we have in previous months. The agency requires, Texas
Education Code requires that we have the adopted budget adopted by the board by
August the 31st and it should be materially prepared already. It's been
materially prepared since back in July. In the assumptions that we use for the
budget, we budgeted enrollment growth of 2.9 percent. That's
79,481 was what we used to derive the expenditures in this budget and the
revenue. I will say that we grow throughout the year although we're not
at that enrollment budget enrollment number yet between this week or the
first week of school last year and the end of October which is when we do the
peem snapshot we grew 759 students and from the first week of school last year
to the peak which was May the 11th Friday May the 11th we had 77,000 947
students or a 1177 student gain from the first week of school so we're going to
continue to grow throughout the year and that is one thing that's unique with KDISD
is we grow not from just all day one and not through just October
but through the entire year. New campuses in this budget of course we're
opening Campbell Elementary School and we're adding the
11th grade at Pato High School. Next year we'll add the 12th grade at Pato High
School. Tax base we're looking at a 2.4 percent growth that would be just under
$1 billion. Again, we've averaged 9.5% growth in years past, or in the last 10 years. We're looking at 2.4% growth this year. We did get an email today that we expect Harris County to certify their values and provide those to us tomorrow. So we hope maybe we get them over the weekend. We did not. There takes days once we get them to analyze it, but we do expect to get those tomorrow or Wednesday. That's the latest update from about 1045.
this morning. Assumptions, we looked at 2% are you approved a 2% salary increase
for teachers. That was $1,230 per teacher and 2% of the midpoint for every
teacher, every employee not tied to the teacher pay grade. And then of course the
one time, 1% lump sum is in the budget that's being presented for
approval. Maintenance and operations tax rate, we're looking at a
$1.1466, that's the rate that we're currently in, and the debt service tax
rate at 37 cents. Those two combined tax rates of $1.5166 is the same. This will
be the same fourth year in a row that we've been able to have it dropped by a
penny, the total rate by a penny. We dropped it in the 15-16 school year, but
But prior to that, it was nine years that we had $1.5266 tax rate.
And now we're at $1.5166 tax rate.
And this budget was built on that assumption, again, $1.1437.
The general fund does talk about the revenue highlights.
You can see our major revenue and growing revenue source for the district is $443 million of local taxes.
that's at a dollar fourteen remember this two cents on the section 26.08 some
of that revenue will be moved in the form of fund balance over to the debt
service fund but that's 40 are by far our largest revenue source in the
general fund and increasing every year that 209 million dollars over the next
few years even though we're growing 2,000 plus students a year 3,000 plus
students a year will continue to go down under the current form and funding
formulas TRS state TRS contributions are a wash and then federal revenue is made
up of our build America bonds our Babs indirect costs on our grants and the
third one that I'm the Shars is the main the largest one of those our revenue
looks like this from a breakdown standpoint that blue section or the
The local revenue section is the one that continues to grow every year.
It's at 64% and 34% state.
And also from a graphic, what these expenditures that we're fixing to discuss look like is 88% in payroll costs.
We're very labor intensive and only 12% non-payroll costs.
So our salary and benefits budget, this is both salaries and benefits.
We're looking at about $449 million in salaries, $32 million in other compensation and benefits,
total about $96.7 million. So a $629 million salary and benefit budget.
Non-payroll cost, $86.9 million or $86,896,000.
dollars a large portion of that is up above it goes to the campuses and
departments but the largest section of all that is what's in the department
budget of maintenance and operations and that's our utilities so taking a look at
it from a graphic standpoint a little bit easier to see than those last couple
of slides as you can see that 87.8 percent of our budget is in salary and
benefits and then the purple section is the one I just mentioned it's our second
largest expenditure and the largest portion of that piece of pie is the
the utility budget and then you go to supplies and materials but more so than
paper and pencils believe it or not is probably fuel for buses and full for
fleet we spend a lot of money in and in keeping those you know transporting
students and staff around the district we don't have any capital outlay or what
is only registering not as even a percent capital outlay we do have in in
in our construction budget.
We don't have any of that in the general fund budget.
So from where we spend our money,
that's what areas we spend our money.
Again, salary and benefits being the most,
but what areas of our functions do we spend it in?
And 66.8% is where it should be over in instruction.
That's the column on the left at $468.6 million.
Just to talk about those instructional school leadership
would be next at $45.9 million or 6.5%. Support services, 10.3%. Administrative support services,
that would be my salary and the administration building salary folks, that's 2.2%. And support
services non-student would be things like our utilities and grounds, et cetera, et cetera,
at 12.6%. This is remarkably tracked over the years. Right off the TA website you can look and see that by far this is pretty consistent where we spend our money, most of it being in instruction and instruction related.
but the annual trend going back many years if you go look does show that
that's where we spend our money and you can't see one area growing over another
it's it's really pretty consistent district-wide and I'm really glad that
this board's leadership has shown that that's important and and again it's been
that way for many years in large part general fund in summary we're starting
at a two hundred six million dollar fund balance that's just about 31 percent of
of our budget that's just over three months operating supply. That's what any
financial advisor will tell you, you want three months savings. We have that
because of things like funding formula changes by the state, tax collection
issues, etc. Cash flows, so we want to borrow money to make payroll. We have our
lowest points of cash shortly after the end of the first of the year and that
fund balance keeps us through those to where our tax dollars are received or
our state funding starts to come in. So it's important to have that fund balance.
Also the rating agencies look at that fund balance and want you to be at 25%
and that's one of the things that gives us a good rating is because we do
have not too much of a fund balance, we have a healthy fund balance. So
total revenues of $715 million expenditures, we've talked about it, $701
million dollars and then transfers out we have at 13.2 million dollars and I'll
go over what those are transfers out is 7.7 million dollars in fund balance
because of section 26.08 so we're going to take those two cents on that from
section 26.8 and move fund balance over back to the debt service fund because we
have a debt plan and we have to adhere to our debt plan the Babs that's our
That's our Build America bonds payment.
That money is received from the IRS to general fund.
So one of our largest revenues in that general fund for federal.
We move that again over to debt service and always have since 2010 when we have that.
That's a way we control that, that we manage the tax rate tool.
Then we have $3 million that we move out to health insurance to make sure that we continue
continue to are able to provide health benefits that are better than our competition, in this
case TRS.
And then transfer in from our TERS fund, it costs us money to operate the Merrill Center,
although the Merrill Center does make money, we do transfer monies back into the general
fund from the TERS fund.
So those total $13.2 million and you see that as a transfer out in total.
So it looks like we're going to have a balanced budget of $58,000, just barely, but we do
have a balanced budget. We don't normally spend our entire budget and we'll talk about that a
little bit later, but we were able to do a able to come in with a balanced budget. Our food service
fund starts out with 4.3 million dollars. Local revenues is less than federal in this case.
Federal revenues are the monies that we receive through the Texas Department of Agriculture
through the through the feds of 16.4 million dollars that's monies that we
receive for free and reduced lunch students and then those paying students
that we have are fourteen point six million dollars total revenues of thirty
one point two million dollars expenses supplies is the bigger expense that we
have here unlike personnel we're pretty personnel intensive in this but there
are big supplies our cost of goods sold which is the the the trays and and
and everything on the trace in this case.
So we're looking at total expenditures of $32 million.
We'll have a deficit.
I want to make a note that we don't have capital.
We had capital in our expenses this year,
but moving forward for next year, there is no capital,
and $739,000 is the deficit.
But I'll tell you now that we probably won't have that.
We have been historically conservative when it comes to budgeting this fund as well.
Debt service fund.
looks like total revenues are 146 million dollars. Again you see that those property taxes are calculated at 37 cents. I want to make a strong note of state revenues, ASAHI, that's additional state aid for the homestead exemption. A couple, three years ago the state increased the homestead exemption from $15,000 to $25,000 per house or per homestead.
because of that they took a snapshot of what our debt payments statewide what
what districts debt payments look like and they they are funding the difference
between the the data the homestead increase in the homestead exemption that
it will only dwindle we used to receive state revenues for our capital campaigns
because we had growth needs both for the existing debt allotment and
instructional facilities allotment, those two things were like their other rotten
apples that we've talked about during the budget process. Those went away and
now we only receive the ASAHI. Principal payments of 70 almost 72 million dollars
interest of 85 million for a total of 157 million dollars in expenditures. In
this you can see the transfers in that goes back to what I went through earlier
that's seven million seven hundred thirty one thousand six hundred sixty
six dollars in fund balance that we're using for the two cents or the 26.08 and
the three million thirty seven thousand dollars in Babs is the other part that
leaves one million two hundred eighty thousand dollars that's interest that we
earn on the bond proceeds before they're spent and we we are one of very few
districts the only one I know of that takes those investments that we use and
and put that back in our debt service fund.
Some districts make it to where they can spend more
on their construction projects.
We've always used that as a debt management tool
to keep that tax rate smooth.
So totals, you can see the three budgeted funds that we have
that you'll be asked to adopt next week.
Total $892,000, sorry, $892 million.
And then expenditures of $891 million.
million dollars, transfers in and out net of $220,000 for an ending surplus of $60,566.
So we are what I think with all the work that's gone in since October really of last year
and publicly since January, we've come a long way.
And I appreciate the boards listening to me every month and Dr. Hindt's leadership and
the administration from the campus all the way to the well from the campus
staffs all the way through their principals and and our directors and
board cabinet they've done a fantastic job trying to manage these expenditures
as best we can just one more shot this is our expenditures by function again
this goes back to that bar graph that I showed you where that's pretty been very
consistent over the years of our spending and where we obviously value
you where we want to spend our dollars and that's where it should be is in
instruction in the classroom but that's just another look and you'll see that in
your in the budget document and what is what we'll post on the web now we're
from here where do we go upon your adoption I'll have a letter that
summarizes what we this will be this presentation will be up there a letter
that summarizes our budget as well as the budget both in the PDF format and in
in an Excel format will be posted on the web.
And I believe we keep five years of history of original budgets on the website.
So that's really all I have for you at this time and appreciate it.
Thank you so much.
Board, do we have any questions?
Madam President?
Yes.
Just a couple of real quick ones.
I know that last year we adopted the golden pennies in our budget for 2017.
Yes, sir. How long does that last?
I was trying to remember and racking my brain and
could not remember how long we're able to play with those golden pennies well
it's section 26.08 says the the year following the the event where the
governor proclaims a natural disaster and asked for federal aid so what we did
in October is we made that 26.08 tax swap based on the tax day floods of
of April 2016, that generated over $13 million
for the children in this district
and didn't cost our taxpayers any more money.
And that's a kudos to you as a taxpayer.
I'll say that's a kudos to the board for having
the vision to do that.
But now we're the tax year after Harvey.
And so what we've been planning since January
would be because of Harvey.
And that will generate, again, over $13 million
million dollars that we need in state revenues that will go to the kids of KDISD.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Lacy.
Anyone else?
Mr. Scott?
Excuse me, Mr. Smith.
I want to congratulate you and your team.
I want to ask a couple of questions.
Bill's basically covered it.
I just want to reiterate it with sort of an exclamation point.
That's $26 million over the last two years that the state of Texas would not have provided to KTISD
had the administration not taken advantage of understanding the true impact of state finance.
True, false.
True.
Okay.
Secondly, we as a district and we as a board have been confronted recently
recently with analysis from what I would call functionally illiterate people who have no
knowledge of public school finance who would take a dollar figure in a given year and calculate
that per student. Now I'm not going to ask you to comment on that, I will. I've done,
because of the nonsense of that analysis the pure absolute unmitigated nonsense
and miscommunication that that does to the people and the hard working
taxpayers of this district let's put that in context since 2007-8 if you go
to the last 10 years and this budget year will be the 11th year some of the
the people who make these kinds of nonsensical comments probably wouldn't
recognize a TEA function code if it jumped up and bit them in the tail. But
let me explain it. What you have is a distribution of how money is spent. And
if you look at it by the Texas Education Code and you go back and you look at a
ten now eleven year track that is the time that per student calculations are
more accurate the notion of looking at a damn electric bill and making a per
student calculus is foolish I can say that I will say that it's nonsensical if
If you look at 2008-9 to 2018-19 through 2017-18,
you take all the expenditures out of it,
you do a square footage increase,
you do a per student growth,
and you take each of the functional codes,
what we see is an extraordinary, stable, consistent,
consistent, absolutely consistent growth pattern over the last decade in terms of
per student calculation. People that want to take an electric bill and do a
per student calculation just eliminate the whole concept of context. And so what
What I want to say to you is this.
I appreciate the fact of the stewardship
that your department, Bill Moore before you,
Earl Walden before Bill Moore, have
had a consistent, stable management of this district.
So that when you look at electricity,
when you look at function 31, when you look at function 23,
three school leadership, when we look across the terrain of all expenditures, what we have
is an extremely consistent growth pattern that is absolutely consistent with the growth
of the district in terms of buildings, absolutely consistent with the growth of the district
in terms of students, and absolutely solid and stable.
Here is the big difference.
The big difference in the finances for the rank and file taxpayers of KDISD is that the
state of Texas has gone AWOL.
They have gone missing in action.
They are taking money from this district and putting it in the state treasury.
Does Michael Schofield want to have a Lincoln-Douglas debate on that premise with me?
anytime, anyplace, anywhere. Has the state of Texas had a dependence upon higher
property values and higher tax rates? Yes. Does Governor Patrick want to have a
Lincoln-Douglas debate on that premise anytime, anyplace, anywhere? The
The bottom line is, KDISD, SAFARE ISD, Kline ISD, Spring ISD, you name the entity that has ISD after it.
And the bottom line is, the state of Texas has declared war on public education financing at least over the last four or five years.
and that there are knuckleheads in this community, I don't care,
that there are knuckleheads in this community that will take an electric bill
and calculate a per-student calculus on that is not my fault,
it's not Rebecca's fault, it's not anybody's fault.
It is just knucklehead.
And the people of this community need to make a decision
soon are they going to turn this district over to knuckleheads or are they going to continue to support solid management in this district?
And yes, I slammed my fist, I spilled some coke, and I am absolutely unapologetic.
Thank you, Mr. Scott.
Yes, one, Ms. Champagne, before I get to you.
Audience, please remember that we cannot holler out in the meeting.
We have to maintain decorum.
Thank you.
Okay, Madam President.
Mr. Smith, I want to tell you thank you very much for all.
I've asked a lot of questions.
You've answered my questions.
and I really appreciate your staff taking the time to give me all those answers on you.
But I do have one question, and especially with the operating transfers in and out,
you did a good job of explaining it to me personally, and then you just now did, so thank you for that.
But now I didn't know about the golden pennies before, so I'm glad that you brought that up.
But I just want to know, in general, when there are unexpected expenses, where do we find that?
How do you – where do you –
I'm sorry. Thanks.
When there are unexpected expenses, what we do is what we did last year every month from September,
starting in September is we make adjustments on the fly, and you'll see a budget amendment.
and we will bring those to the board.
If the expenditure is so grave that it needs to happen before the board does it,
then we basically say, okay, well, we wanted to spend the budget on this,
but we've got to get this in triage, and we'll amend the budget
so we can stay back with our master plan next month.
And we put something at risk in order to do that.
If it's dire, most of the time we wait.
Mr. Cruz will have to wait until the board says get set budget amendment,
analyzes it and enacts on it. So there's, but we do that monthly and so we did
that I believe with Harvey expenses on to the tune of you know over 30 million
dollars in revenue and expenses. Okay so you just do line item adjustments each
month? Yes. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Do I have any other questions? In
In considering this budget, Mr. Smith, Harvey, of course, has been an exception to our budget.
Yes, Harvey's been extremely difficult to deal with.
Even though there's no any really big expenses in 18-19, it still analytically makes it difficult.
And it's just been a really tough year to do that.
And the administration, Mark Teat, Lee Cruz and his staff and all the campuses and, of course, the rest of the, Dr. Hindt, his cabinet have done a good job.
and being patient with us as we try to move that stuff around and find revenue.
And we've been able to do so thanks to this board with the two cents, golden pennies,
and some other various things that have helped, insurance proceeds being the other.
And we appreciate all of the work.
Thank you very much.
Ms. Vann.
And to date, I can't remember the last number figure we saw,
but expenses from Harvey was about $30 million?
Yes, ma'am. In fact, they were.
You've been keeping us up weekly and to the dollar.
I just moved two kids to college.
$29,529,000 are Harvey-related expenditures that we've had.
That doesn't include payroll that we had.
Man in the centers, that's things that we've had to purchase or repair from Harvey of Vietnam.
Thank you.
Madam President, Ms. Spoff,
I want to thank you and administration
for giving us an opportunity to hear this.
budget presentation over and over and over and to ask questions all along the
way mr. Smith you and your amazing staff have given us a lot of information and
while tonight it's it look it's a huge presentation and we're ready to make a
decision we've been seeing it consistently and you've been talking
about it and I too am quite concerned about the future and what's happening
and the 2.9% of property value increase compared to what we normally have, 6, 10, 17% has me quite concerned.
And I will be talking with my legislators about it.
They will be meeting in January, and school funding has to be on the top of their priority list.
And I'll be visiting with them, and I encourage everyone else to do the same.
And if anyone needs talking points or if we can help you and talking with them about how you care about your public schools
Any one of us would be willing to visit with you and help you and talking to them because they need to hear from all
Of us our children's education has to be a priority a bigger priority than it is
Thank you very much for presentation. Thank you. Miss Fox. Thank you for mentioning that staff because Sherry Butterfield is the one who?
who was the one who has her arms wrapped around this entire budget,
expenditure-wise, and she is so into the details and is absolutely so good,
and this district is very blessed to have her, and Ms. Feitinger as well.
But Sherry really owns this budget and treats it like her own.
Anyone else?
All right.
Thank you again, Mr. Smith, Ms. Feitinger, and Ms. Fetterfeld.
Next, Agenda Item 4.2, we're going to receive public input
put regarding the 2018-19 proposed budget and tax rate. Those individuals requesting
to speak regarding the 2018-19 proposed budget and tax rate signed up prior to the start
of this meeting. There will be an open forum later this evening at which time other topics
may be presented. Thirty minutes have been allotted for this public hearing forum. The
time allotted will be divided equally among those requesting to speak, but no presentation
may exceed five minutes. A time clock is visible on the podium so that each speaker may see
the time remaining and board member ashley van will alert you when one minute remains as i
announce your name please come to the podium state your first and last name for the record
our first speaker this evening is miss susan wallace
look at that five minutes wow boy i feel like i've been given a gift really uh so i didn't really
prepare a lot but I did have a few questions about funding. We talked about
the state funding. You know there's over 300,000 we could find in that penalty
that we're going to have to suffer thanks to the severance package y'all
voted for for the doctor, mister, where is he? He's not here. Yeah. Yeah so that's
over 300,000 in state funding that y'all are electing to lose. I really do
appreciate the two new faces. I hope that the time on the dais doesn't tarnish you.
It's obviously tarnished a few people here that might be no longer here in
about a year. For the five of the last six years, you've been here this long so
this has all been under your heading for sure, the spend on general administration
has grown at a faster rate than the student population. The 2018-19 school
year is projected to have 41% increase in the general administration spend per
per student compared to the 2012-2013 year.
Money is money, it doesn't matter if it's public or private.
So, why is the spend per student on general administration
increasing for the 2018-19 school year,
when the spend on transportation per student
was decreased year on year?
I have a lot of time, so I can wait.
Also, I know that y'all don't like to answer questions, but that you can, so let it be shown, let the record show that no one wants to answer a question.
Okay.
Why is the growth in the spend on general administration outpacing the student population growth so consistently?
Let me repeat that just so you get it all.
Why is the growth in the spend on general administration, like paying all the people over here, these positions that have been created in the last few years,
Why is the general administration outpacing the student population growth so consistently?
I mean, just blowing through the money.
Let the record show, no answer.
Is the BOT planning, Board of Trustees, if you're not sure what that means,
is the BOT planning any control measures to ensure that the spend on general administration
does not continue to trend of growing at a faster rate than the student population?
That might be for the man ignoring me over here.
Let the record show, no one wants to answer.
Maybe you can answer this one, it's pretty simple.
Is the education support complex, commonly known as the ESC, is it the same as general
administration?
Not even the two new people, no one's going to answer that.
Is the ESC the same as general administration?
No.
Let the record show, no one wants to answer that one.
So they either don't know the answer or they're just not willing to share something that simple with a constituent.
I urge the two new board members to look back at the January and February meetings.
Look and see how the board members spoke to the people that came up to talk.
Let that be a lesson on how not to speak to the constituents and the taxpayers of our community.
I spent last year over $5,000 in just the school taxes.
I'd like to know, 50% of that went to paying all these positions that y'all have created in the last few years, or roughly.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
No one wants to.
So I'm going to leave it for a minute and 18 seconds because I just didn't know I was going to have five whole minutes.
I'll be back up here, though.
Thank you, Ms. Wallace.
Madam President, we have a factual response, response with facts here from our CFO.
Thank you, Mr. Graham.
Yes, from the records that I have here now, excuse me, from the records I have here now,
I'm on the fly here, so I see that our per-student general administration expenses have actually gone down since the 2010-2011 school year.
There are ebbs and flows where they go up and down, but overall they've gone down since then.
I was talking about 12 to 13 from now.
The speaker has voluntarily left the podium.
You have.
An administrator is exercising public policy to do a response.
I didn't make her leave the podium.
She chose to leave the podium.
I want the policy enforced.
Yes, Ms. Wallace, you have chosen to leave,
so they're going to answer you with the factual statements.
There's a policy that y'all are going to enforce,
not make up something like last time.
Ms. Wallace, you've been warned by the board president.
Okay, we were talking about 12 and 13.
Ms. Wallace, please have a seat
so that they can answer you with the factual statements.
I've got where expenditures and instruction have gone up by a significant amount per student.
Instructions from that year have actually gone down by $2 per student.
Again, there are years that it's gone down further and there's years that it has gone
up.
It depends on our staffing plan and how we staff for students and the amount of number
schools that we open etc etc because it costs a lot more money to open four
schools in one year than it does a year where we have none so when we're growing
and in some years we grow at 3,000 students some years we just grow at
1,500 students and so those ebbs and flows will happen but pretty they're
pretty consistently from the data that I show and from from going back years it's
pretty consistent that our percentage spend and instruction is pretty
consistent and our percentage has been in administration. Yes, we add administrators,
but we add students too. And so we do need administration to help guide the
school district and so those have grown proportionally when you look at
information found in our audits that are on the web page. And those are in
line with surrounding districts. Again, there's different stories that can be
told from one year to the next in any district, but over time it's pretty
pretty consistent. We also look at the Texas Education Agency
calculates the administrative cost ratio and we have historically done pretty
good when it comes to the administration cost ratio. In fact in October we'll do
our schools first report and I'll speak to that but we could have administrative
cost two and a half to three times what we have and still score okay from a
school finance standpoint. I think that's a little much and
exaggerated because that would you know we don't need that much staff but we
could and still score okay in that but we do it historically do pretty well in
that calculation.
Thank you Mr. Smith for clarifying that. I'll be glad to visit with you.
Miss Wallace you cannot speak from the audience.
Thank you for understanding. Our next speaker is Nick Funditas.
Yes.
Good evening.
I'd like to start with a question just raised from the presentation.
You had mentioned that when the bond money is received, it goes into the bank account
and the interest for that is applied back towards the debt services.
That's correct.
But I would assume the interest that that yields in a savings account is less than the
interest we pay on the bond.
Otherwise we would just take a billion dollars of bonds and put it in the bank and make money.
And is that correct?
correct? Go ahead and use your time please. Okay. And then if he has any factual clarification.
Okay. So it would seem that because the yield on the bond money in the bank is lower than the
interest we're paying and since you don't actually have to sell the bond at the time of the election,
you sell the bond at the time you need it, it would seem that would be an overall lower burden
to the taxpayer, an overall lower cost to just sell the bond when you need it instead of selling
it putting it in an account to make an interest rate but paying more interest
on the bond so I guess when I'm done if you could clarify that I would appreciate
it on the 2018-19 budget in terms of spend on transportation I mean every
surrounding school district is subject to the same conspiracies by the state of
Texas that mr. Scott was pointing out I would assume and it looks like there's a
projected 2200 plus increase in enrollment year-on-year last to this
year yet the 2018-19 budget for transportation has actually been reduced
by approximately 4% since the 2017-18 school year broken down by student I
believe it works out to a $245 per student spend on transportation this
year as per the preliminary budget versus 263 as per the June amended
budget so a new what is that $18 per student less the proposed budget versus
the amended so I guess my question if you would answer when I'm done is why
are we reducing spend both overall and on a per student basis year on year with
a student population increase and in addition to the student population
increase we've got a scenario where we have a multi Bell schedule now that was
supposed to alleviate pressure on buses so I would assume that means and you
know use my time afterwards I guess to correct me the bus drivers are going to
be driving two routes per day versus one meaning the bus driver should be making
more in compensation and I would think that that would result in an increase in
the overall transportation budget so if you could clarify for me why it's being
reduced I would appreciate it aside from that I guess we can add one more
question to that if there is room to reduce the overall budget from last year
to this year and the overall spend on a per student basis could we not just keep
the budget flat and increase the amount of students that are able to access the
bus transportation by reducing the the radius of coverage and use that funding
because I think there's been a lot of issues and I understand it's the
beginning of the school year but a lot of students and this isn't going to
change and students that are walking long distances to school today aren't
walking because the bus is late they're walking because they're outside of the
radius of coverage so could we not use that funding that was there last year
and is being cut this year to just shrink down the radius and maybe not go
with the straight as the crow flies calculation and look actually at risk
factors of roads that need to be crossed you know sidewalk accessibility that
that kind of stuff and yeah I guess I also wasn't expecting five minutes so
that about sums my questions I'll stay up here so just in case there's any need
for discussion we can start with the bond yield wouldn't we just be further
ahead by not selling the bond and paying interest on it versus putting it in
in savings?
And that's a straight financial question.
I don't see the need to look in records for that.
But the bond interest is roughly, what, 4 and 1
half percent?
The yield in the savings account, at best 2%.
I don't know.
I mean we're going to answer once when I sit or
madam president would you like to answer any of the questions you have 30 seconds I apologize
for missing the one minute mark that's okay I forgive you for that not other things
I would like to apologize to everyone here, though it would be much faster if they would
just answer, but that's bureaucracy, I guess.
Elected to represent the people but just not speak to them.
Spending our tax dollars.
MS.
Thank you, Mr. Funditas.
Next on our agenda, this is the end of our public hearing.
Thank you for your participation in the hearing.
The Board appreciates your comments.
Next, 5.1, we have recognitions.
Peace Officer Oath of Office, Katie Independent Police Officer.
Our presenter is our Chief Jenks.
Welcome, Chief.
Members and Deputy Superintendent Gregorski,
newly commissioned peace officers are required to publicly swear or affirm an oath of office
Tonight we have two newly commissioned officers. I would like to ask officers Joseph Aguilar and Justin Rivera
To come forward to take the oath of office and be recognized as members of the Katy ISD Police Department
Please raise your right hand
I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the duties of the Office of Peace
Officer of 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
Officer Joseph Aguilar was born and raised in Houston, Texas, where he graduated from Langham Creek High School.
After high school, he attended Universal Technical Institute and graduated in 2004.
Officer Aguilar worked at Mustang Cat as a natural gas engine technician and heavy equipment mechanic for 14 years.
In January 2017, he decided to change careers and enrolled in Lone Star College Law Enforcement Academy.
He graduated that academy in December 2017 and was hired by KDISD Police Department in March 2018.
Officer Aguilar has been married since 2006 and is the father of two sons.
I believe they're here.
here. Officer Justin Ravarie was born in Houston, Texas where he graduated from Kempner High School. He attended the University of Houston main campus from 2001 to 2003 while serving in the United States Army College First Program. In 2003, Justin left college to go to active duty in the Army.
Army. Upon completing infantry school in 2004, Justin was stationed in Fort Hood, Texas, where he deployed to Camp Tajee, Iraq from 2005-2006 and to FOB Falcon, Iraq in 2008-2009. After honorably discharging from the Army in 2009, Justin pursued his education in computer information systems at DeVry University, where he received a
received his bachelor's degree in 2010. He continued his education at Keller Graduate
School, obtaining his master's in information systems security as well as earning certification
as a certified ethical hacker and forensics examiner. Justin worked diligently over the
years in the private sector. After his daughter Riley was born on November 6, 2017, he decided
and needed a career change. Something similar to what he was doing but keeping
him local so he could spend every extra minute with Riley. After completing his
T-Cole licensing exam, Officer Rivari began his career with the Katy ISD
Police Department in May 2018. Please help me welcome Joseph Aguilar and
Justin Rivari to the Katy ISD Police Department.
Thank you very much.
Quite the impressive resumes that you both bring to us,
and I know that your boys and your daughter are going to be very proud
having you serve in this capacity.
So welcome to Katy ISD, and thank you.
Thank you.
Next on our agenda is Item 6.1, Legacy Parent Academy Update,
date and that will be Dr. Christine Caskey. There you are.
Good evening, President Doyle, Board members and Mr. Krakorski. We are pleased to be here
this evening to provide you with information on a new program called the Legacy Parent
Academy. This learning opportunity designed specifically for our KDISD parents is an outgrowth
of our district strategic plan specifically related to goal 8 which
requires us to actively support the emotional well-being of all learners
coined the legacy parent Academy we have developed a series of informational
sessions specifically geared towards parents and helping them to support
their children throughout their experiences in KTISD the Academy has two
purposes first to provide information on current topics that impact students
district-wide and secondly to supplement the many campus-based programs and
initiatives throughout our district we recognize that many of our campuses have
specific sessions and trainings for parents and the Academy is an attempt to
supplement those programs not to replace them because we recognize the importance
of emotional well-being of students we have designed the Academy to have two
distinct tracks one is purposely focused on the social and emotional well-being
of students while the other is focused on academics. We know that when students
lack emotional support they typically do not perform as well in school oftentimes
resulting in negative impacts both academically and behaviorally. Focusing
on positive emotional supports and empathy we hope to engage parents and
strategies and solutions that will create healthier safer learning
environments for our students. We plan to kick off the Legacy Parent Academy next
next month with a series of 11 sessions held throughout the school year.
Most sessions will be held at Legacy Stadium,
which has the capacity for about 360 participants.
Topics were determined based on multiple sources, and after this year,
we do plan to reassess and reach out to our community to determine future topics.
Board members, you should have received a copy of the schedule,
which also will be posted online and shared with our campuses.
The sessions have been developed in conjunction with community partners.
This slide lists the social emotional learning sessions aimed at creating an awareness of
processes, available services, and strategies to support the social and emotional well-being.
Mental health services in Texas, My Childhood Addiction, and Human Trafficking will all
be presented in conjunction with our Katy ISD Police Department's Parent Academy.
The session, Is It Mean? Is It Rude? Is It Bullying? will be presented in partnership
with the Bullying Prevention Coordinator, Ed White.
This slide lists the sessions aimed at supporting student academics by creating an awareness to ease
transitions and inform parents of academic choices for their students. While College and Career
Career Night, Military Academies Night, and Financial Information Academy have historically
been offered in our district, the other topics are new for the 2018-2019 school year.
Our next steps include developing a presence on our district and campus websites, as well
as engaging in extended communication outreach efforts to inform our parents of the Legacy
Parent Academy and the process for registering for the sessions.
We're excited to offer these opportunities to our parents this year and joining me this
evening are Rhonda Ward, our Assistant Superintendent for Student Support Services, Kristi Maker,
our Director of Counseling, and Edie White, our newly hired Bullying Prevention Coordinator.
And we are all here to respond to any questions that you may have.
Do you have any questions?
Mr. Scott.
What's the bottom line productivity goal that you want when this program has achieved
its fruition?
The bottom line productivity goal?
Yeah, what do we expect from this?
We expect…
Better education or a…
And information.
…imperial for the result.
We expect to have parents better informed of our processes within our district.
I think one of the things that came up during our strategic planning process is that students,
parents, community members wanted to know about what processes we have in place,
specifically referral processes. If students are engaged in, if they have a
need, how do we go about tapping into some of the resources? Our district has a
lot of resources, but it's clarifying what those processes are. Those processes
for students and processes for parents if students are struggling. But this is
very much a part of the strategic plan yes sir this is directly that was part
of the yes sir entire process yes sir madam president miss Fox dr. Kasky thank
you for the presentation this is one part of goal 8 but it's not
comprehensive right that's correct because of a primary focus of goal 8 is
to reach students and so that's another part of that absolutely and are those
like yearly goals or those time determined so for each of the goals we
have eight goals there are specific results and we worked on a timeline as
to when those specific results are reported out and next year we're
entering year two and eight point two and eight point three are specific
results that are slated for this school year very much I just wanted to make
sure this is not all of go no no no no no this is a teeny teeny little piece of
about yes I appreciate and and to help parents because we can't help our
students if we don't have the home piece that goes with it very good idea thank
you thank you are there any other questions yes madam president may I ask
a question please yes mission okay dr. Caskey I've seen the agenda for the
items and I think they're gonna be great I'm just wondering if somebody misses
is one of those or they can be presented somewhere online where someone can ask
parents can access it she's talking in my ear she said that that has been
discussed with communications but at this point we're coming up on the first
one actually in three and a half weeks it's coming up really really fast but
we'll explore that option of possibly videotaping on recording them and then
posting them online yeah yeah that'd be great thank you this is your one so
So always growth and improvement after year one.
Any other questions?
Thank you, Dr. Paskin.
Thank you.
Next, we'll move to our consent agenda, item 7.1,
consider future board approval of the proposed 2017-18 final amended budget
and August 2018 construction budget amendments.
Mrs. Butterfield?
We're going to get both of you.
Wonderful.
Welcome.
Thank you, President Doyle, trustees, Mr. Gregorski.
We are here tonight to talk about the final amended budget and the process used to derive the final amended budget involves expenditure and revenue review,
both booked and encumbered, and estimating actuals through August 31st, our fiscal year end.
In doing so, the final amended budget refines the budgets where indicated.
In accordance with TEA rules, the objective is to make sure we do not overspend any functional category.
Therefore, as it applies to the general operating fund, from the July amended budget to this final amended budget,
revenues decrease $4.4 million related to estimated property value and other revenue adjustments.
and expenditures have been reduced $975,000 for underspending identified primarily in payroll.
However, there is one major change here to draw your attention to.
With regard to the AIG insurance proceeds,
it has been determined that the accounting for these proceeds should be in Object Code 7919
for extraordinary or special items,
and therefore the insurance payment for Harvey is moved out of revenue and into other sources.
These changes result in a decrease to fund balance of $442,000.
As it pertains to the food service fund, from the July amended budget to this final amended budget,
revenues have decreased $3.3 million.
In the last two budget presentations, we spoke to this need as revenues have changed, have been impacted from Harvey, were determined, possibly overstated.
The expenditure budget has been reduced $531,000.
Also, for identified underspending, again, primarily in payroll, other sources increased $26,500 to recognize this.
of assets these changes result in a decrease of unbalance of 2.8 million which includes a one-time
funding of 730 000 for kitchen renovations at maid creek high school remember this fund usually
comes in a little better than expected it's been difficult to project trends on this fund due to
the distortion from harvey finally the debt service fund from the july amended budget to
this final amended budget revenues decreased 2.2 million again which as with gof related to
estimated property values and expenditures increased 37 000 related to the august 15th
interest payment due on the new money series 18 bonds issued back in june operating transfers in
increase 1.8 million primarily to recognize additional interest earned and these changes
result in a decrease to fund balance of $488,000.
There are two construction amendments.
And construction fund expenditures are amended
a million 57791 to provide funding
for additional security fencing at 42 campuses
and $67,574 for a boiler that needs to be replaced
at Cinco Ranch Junior High.
Funding for both of these will be provided by 17 bond project savings.
Madam President, one thing that I would, I want to point out that she said a lot,
but our general fund is going to end up, has a surplus budget of $3.6 million. Again,
we're a growing district. We should increase our fund balance from year to year to keep up
with growth, but $3.6 million, and that's the maximum that we expect to spend. We don't expect
to spend the entire budget. We never do. So the budget that you're approving this week, it would
be a rarity if we spent the entire budget and we don't expect to even spend this one at this
date and time. So we should come in about above $3.6 million in our surplus. And just a couple
of things that are really hot on the burner. There's some federal grants that we are in the
process of applying for. One is called a restart grant. That's $4.4 million. Once we apply that,
if we are received it that'll be monies that we can use to apply to expenditures in the current
in the eight six 17 18 school year meaning that will reduce our expenditures in the final amended
budget that we're speaking of there's an emergency impact grant we're not sure the amount yet
we're expected to be contacted by the agency within the next couple of weeks again if we
We estimate maybe around $3 million.
Again, if we're able to receive that, the vast majority of that as well would be able to be applied toward expenses in the 17-18 school year.
So those would lower the expenses.
So we think that $3.6 million surplus is going to be conservative once those two grants are applied for and received.
Again, the majority of them being able to apply toward expenditures associated with Hurricane Harvey.
Okay. Are there any questions?
Madam President.
Mr. Lacy.
I actually have two. Mr. Cruz, I hate to put you on the spot, but I think it's a little
bit of both. The fencing that is being done at the 42 schools, are we on task to have
that done in about when?
The additional, are you talking about the additional board item that was brought?
Yes, sir.
We're hopeful to have the elementaries done by December, and then the rest would continue throughout the year.
But by the end of next year, we hope to have all fencing complete.
And my second question is back to Mr. Smith.
As I recall, when I first came on the board this time last year, and you were presenting the budget for what was going to be this year,
year, boy, it gave me great concern because it was very similar to what the budget is
going to be for the following year, what is now.
Now you're telling me, and now we're coming back with a significant difference.
I know that you all try to over budget on things which I greatly appreciate.
I just wanted to make that point to those of us that are here in the public that while
while the budget that he has presented for the coming year
was very similar to what it was last year.
And then as you can see with the data that was just presented,
that we come in with a lot less in expenditures.
And this is including a lot of the Harvey expenses
that we've had.
I cannot thank your group enough for the hard work
that you all do.
Thank you.
We would request that this item not be on consent,
but it'd be an action for next week so we can look at it and continue to look at it and make sure that we're not gonna
Make a mistake make a mistake make a boo-boo. Okay, we will move item 7.1. We'll pull it to action
Thank you so much item 7.2 consider future board approval of a resolution to commit and assign fund balance
Thank You president Doyle deputy superintendent Gregorski and board
The Governmental Accounting Standards Board adopted GASB Statement 54, which became effective for fiscal year starting after June 15, 2010.
This statement requires the district to adopt a resolution to commit a portion of its general fund unassigned fund balance and to delegate the responsibility of assigning fund balances to the superintendent or his designee.
The resolution presented tonight commits a portion of the fund balance to the district's health insurance program and the local campus special revenue funds.
Ms. If you don't have any questions, I think this is one we'll read into the record.
Ms. Okay. Do we have any questions? Okay, hearing none, I'll read the resolution.
Whereas the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, GASB, has adopted Statement 54, GASB
54, as a new standard for governmental fund balance reporting and fund type definitions
effective for fiscal years starting after June 15, 2010, and whereas the Board of Trustees
shall approve all commitments and delegates the responsibility to assign
fund balances to the superintendent or his or her designee. Assignments may
occur subsequent to fiscal year end. It is hereby resolved and ordered that
annually the Katy Independent School District commits a portion of its
general fund unassigned fund balance as stated in board policy CE local. Be it
resolved that the district commits a portion of its fund balance for
contributions to the district's health insurance plans. Be it resolved that the
the district commits a portion of its fund balance for local special revenue funds not
restricted by funding source for its intended purpose.
Be it resolved that the provisions of this resolution shall be effective as of the date
of adoption and shall remain in effect until modified by action of the Board of Trustees.
Thank you.
Agenda item 7.3, consider future Board approval of the 2018-19 State Compensatory Education
Education Fund and other end-of-course assessment funding budget as required by House Bill 5.
Again, Ms. Feitinger.
Ms. Okay.
Texas Education Code 29.08 requires a district to budget funding for accelerated instruction
where students fail to perform satisfactorily on end-of-course assessments as required for
graduation.
Included in the 2018-19 budget presented in the following item 7.4 tonight, the district
has identified $100,000 of general fund budget for accelerated instruction related to end-of-course
assessment remediation. This requirement was established several years ago and the
district includes this board item each August to ensure we have documented our
compliance. Are there any questions? Thank you. 7.4 consider future board
approval of the proposed 2018-19 official budget for the Katy Independent
School District. Again, Ms. Butterfield. Thank you. This is the culmination of the
months of budget updates in tonight's earlier presentation this is presented in the format
of fund function high level object and mirrors everything that mr smith spoke to earlier
after the board meeting we will update the website with the official and adopted budget at the bottom
of this presentation of fund function high level object is a blue box this is senate bill 622
requirement which requires school districts to reflect in their proposed
budget expenditures to publish statutorily required public notices and
newspapers and you'll see that number at eight thousand two hundred forty two
dollars for the 1819 school year this item also I believe we want to consider
not following on the consent agenda and bringing it back next week are there any
questions hearing none we're gonna pull item 7.4 to action as well
moving on 7.5 consider future board approval of the district performance
objectives dr. Matney thank you ladies very much good evening president Doyle
members of the board, W. Superintendent Gregorski. I'm here this evening to present to you the 2018-19
district performance objectives and ask for future approval. You've received a copy of these DPOs
prior to this meeting. In 2018-19, it's the first year that we blended the strategic design
process outcomes with the needs and compliance items from our needs assessment.
The DPOs represented are a mixture of objectives from the strategic design process and the
comprehensive needs assessment process conducted this year. Are there any
questions? I have a question Madam President. Yes. Okay. Um on on how some of
these questions have been answered to me I know that so I appreciate that time
but I just want to I want to say it so that everyone can hear. So how on goals
too are you going to are we going to measure that so these are the
performance objectives themselves and within this processor specific
strategies and and it's listed there from each of the departments that have
those how they're going to be measured quarterly as well as at the end of the
year so this specific one off the top of my head I do not have as we're still
putting in those specific strategies and how those are measured and so that's how we how we discover
so this the prioritization process is a mixture of two different departments looking at some
technology components as well as finance components and so they'll each be measured differently
thank you absolutely miss Gesoff so so does that mean for all of these performance objectives
there's some KPI, some performance indicator, some measurable performance
indicator that underpins this? Yes ma'am. Okay and just that one that Ms. Champagne
asked about, department and campus leaders will implement a systematic
prioritization process to align programs and priorities with available resources.
Can you explain that one a little bit? So the thinking behind in the needs
assessment this is actually one that blends over from last year as well so at
the end of last year we did we went through and looked at our progress for
each of them and this is one that was listed to continue and that it wasn't
completely finished so it's it's continued on until this year and so some
examples of that is looking at for example our finance processes that Mr.
Smith and his team do such a great job with whether it's communication of
of streamlining finance processes, whether it's technology, allocation of resources.
So making sure that those processes are in place, and that's so important,
especially in a growing school district as we add new campuses, new staff members all the time.
Okay.
And then if I could, just one more.
Under Goal 1, Performance Objective 3.
Yes.
The percentage of students in all special programs scoring at each of the approach meets
and masters on STAR will increase over the previous year.
Just questioning the wording just a little bit, and not only to be semantics, but if
we're going to judge ourselves against this, I think it has to be right.
So we want the special program scoring in approaches to increase as well?
Yes, ma'am.
So this one directly is impacted through domain three of the accountability system, and I'll be back next week to talk to you about that and those outcomes.
But in our domain three, the approaches grade level meets grade level and master's grade level, all three levels of performance.
Those percentages are reported out by special program and race ethnicity.
And so the idea behind this specific performance objective is making sure that all three of those levels increase
So students going from not meeting standard to approaches grade level so passing over that
Passing hump so they're all measured against where I came from correct. I get it. Okay. Thank you. Thanks for the clarification
Absolutely. Are there any other questions?
Thank You. Dr. Matney. Absolutely agenda item 7.6 consider future board approval of the proposed changes to board policy
EIC local. Ms. Bonnie Holland. Madam President, members of the board, deputy
superintendent Gregorski. Tonight we have for your consideration revisions at
board policy EIC on class rankings. The first portion of the policy has
contained not only recommendations from TASB but describes the current
provisions for students graduating through 2021 and then beginning on page
four we have the provisions that will be in place for the graduating class of
2022 that contains the weighted grades for dual credit so that's where the
changes are between the first section of the policy and then the section
beginning on page 4 which reflects the dual credit are there any questions mr.
I will admit I'm having problems with computer access and more docs and I
didn't because I've been able to do it I didn't bring my pad could you tell me
what we're doing for dual credit in 2022 what is dual credit getting 4.5 right
right that's all thank you any other questions miss champagne yes I would I
would like to say first of all miss Holland I am so happy about the changes
to the dual credit and getting the 4.5 I know that that was really needed and
also another positive change I just want to point this out so everyone can know
that starting now in 10th grade and for the freshmen now and they can start
exempting things starting in 10th grade rather than 11th grade.
For the kids who are the high achiever kids who don't want a 4.0, I mean, I have a couple
kids who would be grateful for that, but for those other kids that they can start exempting
that in the 10th grade.
Starting.
I'll go ahead and comment on that with you, Ms. Champagne.
We did go ahead and make a slight change in the policy on there.
Those are the GPA exempt courses and what we found out over time were although the old policy said
It was junior and senior we were having sophomores who were taking those courses a little bit earlier and who are getting ahead
They take courses in middle school that gets them a little bit quicker into high school
So we did go ahead and make that change to allow
10th 11th or 12th grade to go ahead and use those GPA exempt courses instead of just having grades 11 and 12
Which helps the students as you've pointed out?
Yes, I just wanted to say I really think that's going to be a very positive thing for our kids.
Any other questions?
Thank you, Ms. Holland.
7.7, consider future board approval of a memorandum of understanding for operations of Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program, JJAEP, with Harris County.
I'm sorry, you're staying with us.
Thank you.
This is a recurring MOU that we bring before the board.
If you recall, just recently we presented the MOU for Fort Bend, and now we're bringing forward the MOU from Harris County.
There are no changes in this MOU as compared to last year.
The fee is still the same, and so we're happy to present this MOU for your approval.
Thank you.
Are there any questions?
Two.
All right.
Thank you.
7.8, consider future board approval of the Texas Association of School Boards TASV risk management fund interlocal participation agreement and documents related to the workers' compensation claims administrative services.
Mr. Nauman.
Good evening, Mr. Gregorski, President Doyle, Board of Trustees.
Board Policy CRE Legal states that the district shall extend workers' compensation benefits to its employees by choosing one of the following options, entering into interlocal agreements with other political subdivisions, providing self-insurance.
Administrative services for the Katy Independent School District self-funded workers' compensation program have been performed by the Texas Association of School Boards' TASB Risk Management Fund through an interlocal agreement since 2006.
The scope of services to this agreement has not changed for the renewal period starting September 1, 2018.
Pricing considerations have not changed for the renewal period as well.
Claims handling fees are $125 for medical only and $725 for indemnity claims, respectfully.
These claim fees represent life of claim pricing and are not subject to change based on any claim status changes.
Expenditures for these services are based on claim frequency with an estimated cost of $150,000 for 2018-2019.
The cost is budgeted and paid for from an internal service fund for workers' compensation as authorized through CRE Legal.
It is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the interlocal participation agreement for administration with TASB Risk Management Fund for the period September 1, 2018 to August 31, 2019.
Are there any questions?
Okay, we can move to 7.9.
Board Policy CR Legal indicates a district may purchase reinsurance for risk covered through
the self-insurance fund. To protect against very large specific workers' compensation claim
occurrences, Katy Independent School District currently purchases reinsurance for its
self-funded workers' compensation program. There is a very limited number of carriers that provide
this coverage. Risk management seeks the renewal of the excess workers reinsurance
policy through Midwest Casualty. The renewal represents year two of a
previously approved two-year rate guarantee. This policy has a renewal rate
which is the same as the expiring rate. However, the actual premium increases as
payroll volume increases. This policy is audited at expiration. The plan carries a
a retention of $550,000 per occurrence.
The policy term is September 1, 2018 to August 31, 2019.
Expenditures for this insurance will be paid from the Workers' Compensation Fund, a budgeted
internal service fund approved by the Board of Trustees.
It is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the renewal of excess workers' compensation
reinsurance policy offered by Midwest Casualty Company with a $550,000
specific retention for an estimated deposit premium of $79,920.
Are there any questions? All right, 7.10. Board policy CR legal states that a
district may procure contracts with any insurance company authorized to do business in Texas to
insure its employees. Voluntary benefits made available to district employees through payroll
deductions are offered to provide services that promote and enhance the health of employees and
their dependents. The benefits are presented to the Board of Trustees for approval on an annual
basis. For 2018-2019, the district will extend a new supplemental benefit product, ILOC 360.
ILOC 360 offers credit monitoring and provides $1 million in identity theft protection.
The products are offered through an interlocal agreement with Region 4
Education Service Center. The interlocal agreement satisfies the bid requirement
and is evergreen unless canceled by either party.
The recommended product offerings for 2019 are as follows.
Disability income protection with Unum, a $0 increase.
Vision with Davis.
Vision sees a $1.90 for employee increase per month
with a $4.74 increase per month for family coverage.
The dental HMO plan through UnitedHealth has a $0 increase per month.
The Dental Indemnity Plan through MetLife has a $0 increase.
Term Life offered through Aetna has a $0 increase.
The Legal Plan through Legal Ease offers a $0 increase.
ILOC 360 is being offered at $6 for employee and $13 for family coverage.
The incumbent vendors are recommended as they represent the best value and ensure no interruption in provider services.
The renewal option for dental HMO through UnitedHealth saw an expansion in coverage for plan participants.
All other products saw no change from the expiring term relating to coverage options.
Voluntary benefits are offered to employees at a comparative group rate.
These benefits, if elected, are 100% funded by employees.
It is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the voluntary benefits products for 2018-2019.
Are there any questions?
No questions? Okay.
Go ahead to the next agenda item.
When the district moved to self-funded healthcare plan in 2004,
the main objective was to reduce the effect of long-term medical inflation
while providing quality health care options to employees.
Since the inception, the annual rate of increase of the district's health plan has been 2.7%,
while the national average continues to currently climb at an annualized rate approaching nearly 10%.
The Katy Independent School District plan was formally structured under the umbrella of the Total Health Care Partnership,
through which KDN-Pennant School District participates via an interlocal
agreement with Houston ISD and Aldean ISD. Effective April 1, 2018, the
interlocal agreement went into sunset. Upon the sunset date, KDISD began to
self-administration, resulting in a significant savings to the
administrative expenses of the health plan for plan year 2018 and long-term
savings beginning with plan year 2019. Current consulting services are provided
from Arthur J Gallagher Benefit Consulting. Following preliminary
projections to the board in July of 2018, various options were considered for the
2019 health care plan year. The options considered were to 1 evaluate teacher
retirement system, TRS health care on an annual basis. 2 maintain base premiums to
to follow current medical inflation along with the implementation of the premium support payments.
Option 1, the future instability of TRS and double-digit premium increases
along with significant increases to deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums
does not support district goals and would place a hardship on employees.
Option 2. After consideration, it has been determined that the district should maintain its self-insured status.
For 2018-2019, base premiums should be increased to follow planned medical inflation.
Additionally, the district will implement a premium support payment program based on the operating results of the plan on an annual basis.
basis. Premium support payments are supported from the elimination of the HRA or the health
fund to empower employees to make wise consumer choices in health care while providing overall
premium relief on a monthly basis. In 2019, employees will not see changes to deductibles,
out-of-pocket maximums, or co-pays. The estimated share of the deficit to be funded by the district
is approximately $1.50 million.
This amount would be covered from the General Operating Fund
designated in the 2018-2019 budget.
As per Board policy, CRD Legal and CRD Local,
the Board annually shall determine the district's contribution
to employee health insurance premiums
as a part of the budget development and adoption process.
It is recommended that the Board of Trustees
approves the 2019 health care plan design are there any questions I have a
statement okay first of all mr. Nauman where's my car but anyway I accidentally
parked in his parking space one day anyway um I want to thank you for
presenting to us the comparison to the other four districts and that are
similar tires and I really feel very confident that we are or you have helped
us and we are providing the best health care that we can on a on a cost basis to
our employees I feel very very good about that and I really want to tell you
how much I appreciate that as a person that was just a person in the community
before May this is something that I would get questions of from my friends
that are in place for the district so i really want to thank you for that welcome and thank you
miss Gesoff at the risk of being redundant i'd like to thank you too for the work that you
put into providing that analysis for us i having earned a teacher's salary and many of my friends
who are still teachers it's um it's tough to live um sometimes especially single parents and
And the fact that we're keeping deductibles the same and co-pays the same, I think, is huge.
And it's part of what makes us such a wonderful place to work.
And what are we, top 100 places to work in Katy or in Houston, right?
Top 100 places to work in Houston.
And, you know, teachers, I don't think, are ever paid enough.
Pretty much most of us would agree with that.
But this certainly helps.
Thank you.
Yes, ma'am.
Thank you.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacy.
In the information that was provided to us to study and look over, I did notice that
the numbers for actual claims and administrative expenses from January through May are up to
$22.3 million with a projection of $60 million for the entire year.
If you take that out and try to divide it by a month and multiply it, I know that that's
no way to really do it because there are so many teachers that do over the summer months go and
make their claims will you be coming back to the board at some time in the coming months and
updating this information so that we will be able to see and be able to compare with where we're at
tracking to the towards the budget so to i guess to really answer your question to answer yes we
can i can come back to you and present some updated numbers uh but we review those numbers
and that frequency and spin on a monthly basis and guide where we are.
Yes, the summer months are the months where people have time to get things fixed, so to speak,
and we manage that very closely and keep an eye on that as it relates to our budget
and as we look for projections for 2020 now.
Where are we looking for 2020?
2019 was was last night so we're looking down the road so does that we can't
back to you and give you that data as requested excellent thank you so much yes sir anyone else
thank you so much mr nalman next agenda item 7.12 consider future board approval of the contract for
exclusive athletic apparel csrfp number 1718 we have miss debbie decker and chris smith
and mr stevens charlie stevens thank you
Hello again. The request for competitive sealed proposal, RFCSP, was developed by both the purchasing department and athletic department for exclusive uniform apparel supplier for varsity team sports.
The contract is inclusive of varsity athletic wear, including footwear and coaches apparel. Again, varsity only. It does not include individual sports or sub-varsity junior high sports.
sports. The request for competitive seal proposal was advertised on the KDISD website and in
newspapers and sent directly to manufacturers such as Nike, Adidas and Under Armour. Responses
were reviewed in order to ensure the district receives best value. They were reviewed by
both the purchasing department and the athletic department. A copy of each bid tabulation
is attached for your review. These were reviewed by athletics with the assistance of the purchasing
department. The anticipated spend is $700,000 per year. The award of this
contract provides high school athletic departments with additional revenue,
donated items, and scholarship monies. And I want to turn it over to Coach Decker
to elaborate on that. Thank you. Good evening Madam President, Board of
Trustees, and Deputy Superintendent Gregorski. As Mr. Smith said, this
agreement is primarily for varsity team sports. However, all of our individual
individual sports and all of our sports will have the opportunity to take advantage of the discounts and incentives they choose.
You can tell by the bid evaluation that the proposals are all about the same.
However, the incentives are what differentiate the proposals and lead us to the recommendation of the BSN Nike proposal.
This agreement will provide all of our sports the opportunity to take advantage of the overall success of our athletic programs.
So our recommendation is to award the agreement to BSN Nike.
Do we have any questions?
Madam President.
Mr. Lacy.
Sorry, I've got to catch up on my notes and be able to read my own hand stretch,
and if you've ever seen my handwriting, you would understand.
Yeah, it is bad when you can't read.
Yeah, it is. It's horrible, guys. It's horrible.
So I know that this is for how long, and then do we have renewable options with this,
or will we take it back out to bid in the future?
Yes, so it is a five-year agreement.
That is correct.
And at the end of the five years, we would evaluate and go from there.
Okay.
And I know that your suggestion is with Nike,
and I know that there was some others that were considered Adidas,
Division of Rydell, and then Under Armour as well. What was the primary, if you take
away the numbers, was the quality the same when you looked at the different
uniforms and different things that they had? I'm gonna defer to Charlie Stevens
who handles a lot of our athletic business. We didn't actually like bringing
in uniform samples or anything, but we did do a competitive analysis of retail cost of
the different uniforms, and the Adidas and Nike uniforms were very comparable on their
retail costs, comparing a custom uniform as well as a stock uniform, and the Under Armour
products came up a little bit higher.
So when you looked at it, as far as that goes, the Adidas and the Nike uniforms were very
comparable.
Okay.
And then lastly, I understand that a lot of this has to do with the reputation that KDISD Athletics has,
and specifically KD High School of Football, their several national championships and state championships,
as well as the softball state championship.
So I'm glad that we're able to provide to all of our schools the benefit that Nike has been able to provide to KD at some point,
point. Granted it not as as grand as what it is here now, but I am just really thrilled that we're able to go to one central processing place rather than try to spread it out and each individual school try to have their own individual contracts. I before being on the board, I had thought that we had this before because it seems like such a cost effective way to buy any of our uniforms and sporting goods. So I commend y'all at doing this. It's fantastic and I'm real excited about this. Thank you, Mr.
Mr. Lacy, and I will tell you that the fact that we're able to spread this to all of our programs really was the driving force behind this.
I'm present.
Ms. Vann.
You mentioned in working with Nike there would be opportunity for student scholarships.
Yes.
Along with this package, could you elaborate on that, please?
Yes.
Yes, so in the incentives that were offered through this agreement, there are actually
two $2,500 student scholarships available, one to a female athlete and one to a male
athlete.
That would actually be done, our department would actually get a committee together to
bring up, get the qualifications and whatnot to see how we would be able to disseminate
the applicants.
Mr. Scott.
A couple of questions.
I've actually spent quite a bit of time on this over the weekend.
And there are a couple of issues, and I want to pick up on what Bill said, but
I might want to be a tad more direct.
Caddy High School, my three kids graduated there.
They're kind of the golden jewel, the crown of high school
marketing opportunities in the state of Texas and I would like to hear the word
because this is something that swayed me tremendously is that at the high school
varsity level this actually is expanding equity to all of our campuses that do
not have the pizzazz and eight state championships would one of you all say
say that and put that in your own words. I think it's important to actually hear the
word come out of our administrators, equity.
Yes, sir. And again, just as I said to Mr. Lacy, the fact that all of our sports will
have the opportunity to take advantage of the overall success of all of our programs
and and each school each high school every year annually we will be given
these incentives in addition to the discounts so the fact that all of our
high schools are able to qualify that and high schools in the future as well
okay the second thing is we're still the one thing that concerned me a little bit
was old school competition but then new school is you get the best deal for the
taxpayers, you know, so it's sort of a competition. But we still are not moving
this system-wide. It's not junior high schools, it's individual sports and
other things. So this is not, as I understand it, an ironclad mandate across
the system yet is this a tiptoe sort of things that might come it's a it's a
tiptoe it sub varsity as well as sub varsity programs as well as junior high
programs are not in the program at all however they have the ability to also
get some of these incentives or discounts if you will there there are
are some of our individual sports that are considered in the agreement,
but primarily the focus was on the varsity team sports.
All right, one final question that gives me some concern,
and that is this is a contract that has deliverables.
By definition, you have professional services,
and that has a deliverable in the context of contract law,
but this is actual deliverables.
If at some point the district is not satisfied with the deliverables, is there a remedy under the contract?
I'm going to defer to General Counsel.
We, at this point in time, we have just had the open bids,
and what you see in front of you is not the final contract terms.
So obviously warranties of fitness, warranties of merchantability,
and other remedies will be included in our contract when we finalize it,
but we're not quite there yet.
We need board approval so that then we can go negotiate the contract.
So my question was not really stupid, right?
No, it was a great question.
Okay.
Madam President?
Yes, Ms. Champagne.
Okay.
So I need to know this.
I'm just curious.
Are any of these costs shared with by the students or the parents?
and also are these uniforms to be used over and over again?
Okay, so your first question was will there be any discounts
that will be forwarded on to the students' appearance?
No.
No, will they pay for the use of the uniform while they're using it?
Oh, no, no, ma'am.
And will they be used over and over again?
Yes, ma'am.
And so part of the terms that we do have finalized in this is the fact that, you know, if this agreement is approved,
not all of our programs will go and order Nike uniforms after September 1st.
Our programs are on different uniform cycles.
And so, for example, if Under Armour uniforms were bought in the spring by a program, those uniforms will live out their life, if you will.
And then whenever that uniform cycle is done and it's that particular program's time to order new uniforms,
then Nike would be what they would be ordering.
So all of our different programs will basically be phasing out those.
However, we will not shorten the life of any of our uniforms.
Right now, for those programs who are in a different athletic apparel company other than Nike,
if it is their time they actually Nike is actually offering from now until
February a buy one get one free so if there are programs that we have that are
actually it's their time for uniforms now they'll be able to qualify for that
program okay I just want to make sure something so for example if a kid was in
a varsity I don't know tennis that uniform can be reused again next year
Yes, correct. And a lot of our uniforms are actually passed down. So they'll start with the varsity and then after the varsity has worn them during their life, then if they're still in good shape, which most of ours are, they'll be handed down into the sub-varsity. It's a little more difficult with freshmen because there's quite a big size difference in the freshmen and varsity uniform. Is there anything else you want to add to that?
That's exactly right. They're meant to be passed down. So we might get six or seven years as they go down the chain.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacy.
I am so sorry. I forgot about one other thing that I had written down, and again, it's my hand scratch.
I do note that helmets, both baseball, softball, and football helmets are not included in this because obviously they do not include,
Nike doesn't make them at this time. I'm sure they're probably thinking of a way to do it.
But so is that going to be handled at the at your level at the administrative level or is that going
to be handled at each school both high school and junior high level? Our coaches all order their own
equipment and we have some standards of certain things but this contract isn't going to include
any kind of protective equipment whatsoever and it doesn't in as far as
a parent purchasing things in sports that the kids purchase their own shoes
for instance they won't be bound to this contract either it's only on district
bought merchandise so a soccer player man won't have to go buy Nike shoes to
play on one of our teams they can wear whatever shoe that they choose to buy
and so equipment balls soccer goals things of that nature are not in this
agreement so we'll continue to follow our purchasing guidelines with that
which includes an assortment of vendors. Are there any other questions? Okay thank
you so much. Agenda item 7.13 consider future board approval of the change
order number one to the brown and root job order proposal to replace the
baseball field fence at Katy High School. Mr. Teague. Good evening President Doyle, board
members, Deputy Superintendent Krakowski. I'm bringing tonight a recommendation
that the Board of Trustees approves the change order number one to the Bridenroot
job order proposal for the baseball field fence replacement at Katy High
High School in the amount of $122,252, utilizing the national IPA contract number R160402.
The Board of Trustees previously approved the replacement of the Taylor High and Katy
High School's baseball fences at the December 11, 2017 meeting.
These fences were damaged during Tropical Storm Harvey.
The City of Katy required additional structural documents prepared for permit approval for the Katy High School baseball fence.
The change order reflects the new design requirements.
Attached for your review is a copy of the change order number one proposal and approved fence design documents.
Work is scheduled to begin immediately after approval and will be completed prior to October 29, 2018.
So the Katy High School Baseball Fence Replacement funding source is a 2014 bond.
Katy High School Baseball Fence Replacement cost was originally $137,751.
Change Order 1 to the proposal for the fence replacement cost $122,252.
for a total revised project cost $260,003.
This contract has been reviewed by our district legal counsel and approved to form.
Are there any questions?
Ms. Gesoff.
Mr. T, Dr. Hint was kind enough to answer some questions about this,
but I guess my question is, should I go march on City Hall?
I mean what is going on in the city of Katy that makes a fence cost twice as much and
Is this going to be a problem going forward to anything that's built inside the city of Katy or are we smarter now with our?
Designs is that additional cost just for more drawings that the city required us to do
These design this cost relates directly back to the design addition
And what they did was they made the fence a structural component
So, therefore, there's a whole lot more concrete in this fence than what we built at Taylor.
Other than that, it's going to look identically the same.
So going forward, is this going to be an ongoing problem with stuff inside the City of Katy
that they're going to want a Taj Mahal version?
Kind of.
The City of Katy is going to require the school district to adhere to the 2012 IBC, International
National Building Code completely regardless of what we do.
Thank you.
Welcome to Katie and Susan.
I have a lot of vote for Susan Gesoff signs we could repurpose.
We could march.
But thank you for that.
I'll contact our representatives there.
Thank you very much.
Please.
Thank you.
So for clarification, Mr. T, this was not something that we could have done anything about.
This is imposed on us by the City of Katy.
and we have to comply by the rules that they've placed before us.
Yes, ma'am.
We've been working a lot with the city to try to work something out.
We've worked with different structural engineers to try to get different designs,
more economics in the design to try to keep the cost down.
We just, this was the best we could get to.
Well, thank you.
Are there any other questions?
All right.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Next, consider future board approval of Amendment 4 to the Stuart Builders Incorporated Construction Manager at Risk Contract
for the guaranteed maximum price related to barn number 9 at the Agricultural Sciences Center.
Ms. Kassman.
Good evening, President Doyle, board members, and Mr. Gregorski.
The first item is Amendment 4 to Stuart Builders for the Ag Science Project.
They built barn number 8.
Now this will be barn number 9 to open up when High School 9 is available.
It's a modified repeat.
It'll have everything except the restroom because barn number 8 provided for a restroom
for that new set of barns.
Do we have any questions?
Agenda item 7.15, consider future board approval of design services associated with kitchen
renovations at Cinco Ranch High School and Cinco Ranch Junior High School and the addition
of floral coolers at Cinco Ranch High School, Martin Ranch High School, Seven Lakes High
School and Tompkins High School.
Go ahead, Ms. Kassman.
Okay, this is a contract with Stantec Architects.
They have done a number of projects for the district.
This is part of the 2017 bond.
This work will be ready to open up in 2019.
It'll be the redesign of the serving lines for Cinco Ranch High School,
the entire kitchen at Cinco Ranch Junior High, and the floral coolers that support
the CTE program at the four high schools you mentioned.
By bringing them on board, we'll start design, and we can bid that and
be ready for next fall.
Okay, thank you.
Are there any questions?
Ms. Thank you so much, Ms. Custon.
Ms. Thank you.
Ms. Next, we're going to move to Agenda Item 8, Open Forum.
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, however, give members of the public an opportunity to speak at a public meeting, which KDIC Board Policy BED Local does allow.
As defined by this Board Policy, 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.
If you are not finished speaking at the end of your three minutes, your microphone will turn off.
If speakers wish to share written material with the Board,
ten copies must be provided to the Board Secretary for Services for Board Members,
the Superintendent, the Chief Communications Officer, and Permanent Record.
Due to 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 given or a recitation of
existing policy in response to the inquiry if a speaker has not attempted
to solve a matter administratively through proper channels as stated in
board policy the presiding officer shall advise the speaker to seek resolution
through the appropriate policy board policy BED legal states that it is a
criminal offense for a person with intent to prevent or disrupt a lawful
meeting 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 BED local provides for removal of any member of the audience after at least one warning
who disrupts the meeting by his or her words or actions. Finally, pursuant to Texas Government
Code Sections 551.074 and 551.0821, the Board will not permit the presentation of personally
identifiable information regarding a student and will not discuss the
appointment, employment, evaluation reassignment, duties, discipline, or
dismissal of a public officer or employee, or to hear a complaint or
charge against an officer or an employee. Should a speaker wish to address one of
these issues, they must do so through the appropriate local grievance policies, FNG
local, DGBA local, or GF local. As I announce your name, please come forward,
state your first and last name for the record, and our first speaker this
this evening is Kyle Knight.
Much ladies and gentlemen of the board.
I'm sorry, I'm a little bit short.
So I always have to adjust the mics.
Thank you so much for allowing me to speak
on behalf of the patients that I serve.
My name is Kyle Knight
and I represent the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
I participate in a project called Pennies for Patients
throughout the KDISD.
And the great thing about that is that we have
a particular rock star campus that I really want to recognize tonight. On
behalf of myself and the patients I serve, I actually lost my grandfather to
lymphoma over ten years ago so it means a lot when we have a school that just
comes out as an anomaly and so I would like to welcome up at this time Mr. Kemp
and Ms. Steeves to present an award to the campus, Jenks Elementary School.
They did something really amazing last year which was actually raised over
$15,000 for blood cancer patients here locally in the Houston area.
And just to put that into perspective, last year we had so many patients that were actually
affected by both their ailments and Hurricane Harvey.
And as an organization, because of campuses like Jenks Elementary, LLS was actually able
to contribute over $800,000 to local patients as far south as Puerto Rico.
So without further ado, I would love to give just a round of applause to Jenks Elementary
and their contributions this past year.
I would like to recognize that our namesake, Ms. Jenks, is here with us.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you.
Thank you Mr. Knight. Our next speaker is Courtney Johnson.
Hello. I'm here to talk about something that will not directly affect my family.
I'm here because I care about Katie and because I feel that English-speaking children in Katie
are at a disadvantage and I want you to do something about it. What would I like you to do?
First, I would like you to approve a district-wide survey put forth by your bilingual administration
that asks in part three crucial questions to all adults living in Katy ISD.
Number one, do you wish you spoke two languages?
Or do you wish your child spoke two languages?
Number two, if so, what languages do you wish that you would speak?
And number three, would you like Katy ISD to provide a language opportunity in elementary
school?
school. This survey should cost little to no money. I got it. Money's tight. If the answer is no, you can be done. You can wash your hands of TWI. But if the answer is yes, which I think it will be, then your bilingual department has already begun to construct a plan because that's what they do. The plan should not be a TWI plan that's left a bad taste in many people's mouths. It should be a dual immersion plan. Dual immersion does not focus on just two linguistic backgrounds. In our case, it's Spanish and English. It's open to
to all children of all ethnic backgrounds, all linguistic abilities. It's a program that has one
teacher that would meet the state ratio, which I think is 22 children or whatever it would be at
that time. And so therefore it doesn't cost any major bucks. It's a program that provides
biliteracy from the start that you could offer the target language instruction, it might not be
Spanish, at an 80 percent level at kindergarten, first and possibly second grade. 20 percent of
instruction would be in the English language primarily phonics and reading
transitioning to a 50-50 over time throughout elementary school. Having more
instruction in the target language helps the outcome and success rate
specifically for English-speaking children who rely a hundred percent on
class time to achieve their bilingual results. Your bilingual department is
well educated in these types of programs and I beg you to give them a chance to
show it. Every child in Katy ISD high schools takes foreign language. Not every one of them
speaks it upon graduation. I teach middle school Spanish. I love it. I love it. I love
it. But I see them struggle. I see them memorize vocabulary. I see them frustrated with the
grammar. And although I try to make it fun, the success rate is just not the same as if
those same children took language in elementary school. Thank you.
Thank you, Ms. Johnson. Our next speaker is Kimberly Rendon.
I'm short, too, so pardon me. I would like to thank the Board of Trustees, and I wish Dr. Hint were here.
I came here tonight because, let's face it, this district needs, we need, what we need is positivity.
I'm really really distraught with the lack of it this is a great district I'm
a product of this district my folks moved here in 1977 I'm a proud graduate
of Katy high school my daughter graduated from Katy high school the FFA
program is phenomenal and the fact that we've had so much negativity and that
that the media wants to focus on the negativity, I'm done.
I want this to be a fabulous year, spite the hurdles,
spite all of the stuff we've had to overcome with Hurricane Harvey,
with the tax they fled.
My dad was a CPA here in Katy.
I have known from a very young age what it takes to make a board work
and to see your passion and to see your dedication
to want to make sure that you don't just get it right for this school year,
but for years to come I am very very proud to be a product of the school
district and I want to personally thank you very much you dedicate much time you
take away time from your families and I want to let you know that you are very
much appreciated thank you
our next speaker is Sammy Barcelona
Good evening. My name is Sammy Barcelona with Barcelona Sports.
My company has been servicing KDISD for over 60 years.
I'm here tonight to discuss the RFP for Exclusive Athletic Apparel contract.
First off, my concerns around this RFP is not all about the business that it will cost Barcelona Sports
and several other local businesses in the community, but the way the RFP was managed.
As soon as I heard about this, on August 2nd, I set up a meeting with Debbie Decker and Charlie Stevens.
Debbie informed me that her office had been approached by Adidas and Nike and they were considering the benefits.
Purchasing sent an RFP directly to manufacturers, no vendors were involved.
She explained that Nike had the best deal on the table and included promotional dollars for coaches as well as other perks.
I then asked the question, being one of KDISD's largest Nike suppliers and have been for 20 years, can we continue to do business as usual?
That's when Debbie told me no, all Nike purchases will have to go through BSN Sports, my competitor.
I asked why. She said because that's who Nike designated as their servicing vendor for the RFP.
We continued to discuss the details of the RFP. I asked what discounts they would receive.
She said the set pricing was at 40% off retail and 35% off on apparel.
I asked Debbie if she was aware that in most cases she was getting a larger discount than that from Barcelona's.
We talked about other
Details around the RFP and I could not seem to get clear answers to my questions.
Come to find out, BSN Sports sent in two replies, one outlining an Under Armour offer, one outlining a Nike offer.
Doesn't it seem odd that all of the approved vendors in KDISD, you only received a response from one of them?
With that being said, do you feel like you've received competitive responses?
If KDISD required responses from manufacturers, then responses from VSN or any other vendor should not be accepted.
If you're accepting responses from vendors, this should have been sent out to vendors and communicated in normal fashion,
as Barcelona always gets an email notification for athletic bids but received no notification for this one.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Barcelona.
Our next speaker is Nick Funditas.
I guess I can open by extending my sympathy to Barcelona sports and welcome them to the
transparency of KDISD. This is pretty much the standard. Unfortunately, since members of the
public are limited to a maximum of three minutes per month to speak to the board, I have to digress.
I would like to open with a few definitions to ensure that the Board of Trustees has full understanding of the concerns many taxpaying members of the community, along with myself, have.
Verifiably is the adverb of verify, which is to demonstrate truth or accuracy of, as by the presentation of evidence.
False is simply an adjective that means incorrect or not according with truth or fact.
To combine the two, verifiably false is something that can be demonstrated to be incorrect.
correct. One must then conclude that when a statement was made on behalf of the Board
of Trustees that the allegations of plagiarism were verifiably false, that the Board of Trustees
had some way to demonstrate how they reached this conclusion. Despite requests through
the formal channels such as PIR requests and less formal channels such as email requests,
the public are still waiting for the Board of Trustees to substantiate their statement.
If there's another administrative process, please email me and let me know. As members
members of the public there is little we can do other than wait for U of H to reach a decision
and trust they will reach a decision based on facts and merits of the evidence they have
in front of them.
Madam President, can you please confirm with a statement of fact that if U of H determines
their policies of academic honesty were violated by our superintendents of schools if that
would be considered.
Madam President, Madam President, I'm going to go ahead and stop this line of questioning.
I don't believe that this is, this needs to be directed to the appropriate administrative
administrative channel. So please let me know those administrative channels. Thank you Mr. Funditas.
All right so I'll continue with a different line of questioning then.
$700,000 on varsity uniforms per year without doing the due diligence to a depth of checking
the quality seems to have consensus from the board but special ed cameras are just too expensive.
That seems a little bit odd. Several hundred thousand dollars for a baseball fence
but then again the comment back to the public that special ed cameras are just
too expensive to put in the classrooms I think you guys need to have a little bit
more accountability to the taxpayers to the members of this community who have
worked for the school board for a long time and trust you with our dollars and
trust you to be transparent I think the Barcelona thing just resonates with me
as kind of a microcosm of what goes on in this district for transparency Thank
Thank you, Mr. Funditas.
Our next speaker is Sean Dolan.
All right, so a few things here.
I'd be happy to pay for the TWI survey,
so I would donate whatever that cost is to have that done.
I usually donate about $5,000 a year to the district,
or at least did before they removed all their thank yous on all the websites
after I brought up concerns to the district, which I thought was petty.
So I'd be happy to funnel it to other people that have needs.
That was addressed by Nick, so I'll leave that.
I just wanted to read the KDIC discipline management plan as far as plagiarism and cheating
goes, just so we're all clear on what the standards are that we set for our children
and our students.
Plagiarism, the use of another's ideas or products as one's own, shall also be defined as cheating.
Plagiarism is any failure to give credit for information found and used.
It may involve word for word copying, paraphrasing, or simply using ideas and information.
I have given a copy of a series of...
Madam President, Madam President, I'm going to go ahead.
I've seen the materials that have been presented to the Board of Trustees.
This matter has not been addressed to the appropriate administrative channel.
As you have discussed at the beginning of this outset, the KDIC is a robust grievance
process and our-
There's no names on that document.
There's no names.
Mr. Dolan, Mr. Graham is speaking.
Oh, I'm so sorry.
Madam President, this matter has not been addressed to the appropriate administrative
channels.
Can we return back my time, please?
You can't continue with what you're, the avenue in which you're going.
I can, but can I have the time back since I was interrupted?
Please.
Please, excuse me.
Please stop the clock.
Mr. Scott.
He voluntarily chose to choose his path.
He doesn't get compensation for his own culpability.
Mr. Dolan, you're aware of the rules.
I read them ahead of time.
You have 41 seconds left.
I've stopped the clock for Mr. Scott's remarks.
our legal counsel has addressed that you cannot continue with the path that you were on. If you'd
like to use those 41 seconds to redirect your statements, you're welcome to use those. We will
restart the talk. Go ahead, Mr. Golan. Thank you very much. So then I guess the other note I have
here, I'm actually meeting with Mike Schofield in a few weeks. I bid on a private tour of the
the Capitol with him. So I will relay the invitation for you to have a Lincoln-Douglas
debate with him. But frankly, to be honest with you, the fact that Nicholas came up here
with very valid questions and not only took your hearing piece out of your ear but turned
your head away from him, I highly doubt that will ever happen. Thank you very much.
Thank you, Mr. Dolan.
Madam President, that's a personal attack and I want to respond to that. I am deaf in
this year i have tonight there are some speakers that speak into that microphone and i can hear
there are some that can't if you want to make fun and mock a 69 year old hearing impediment of mine
then you can do that there are times that i put it in there are times that i don't and the one person
on God's green earth that I will not consult when I need help hearing is you.
Thank you, Mr. Dolan.
Thank you, Mr. Scott.
Our next speaker is Susan Wallace.
Ms. Wallace.
Tonight I address the board and request that you take your jobs very seriously
and take the time to research what you are being led into with social-emotional learning.
Some Katy parents have been warning about this shift away from developing
strong academic knowledge toward forming attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs in our
children through social-emotional learning or SEL. We have asked for your
research in recent months on implementation of various aspects under
your current leadership including the strategic plan and there has been little
to no evidence of research by the board. Federal legislation is driving the push
for SEL coupled with a data collection that is taking place in our children
without parental knowledge consent or participation SEL stands to harm the
future of our children not only by undermining parental authority but by
dismissing our children's rights to privacy there are available resources in
our district who will help you to understand what all this means take the
time to know and understand the information behind the decisions you are
making on the behalf of our children I have one more thing I would love to say
about positivity. It just amazes me that people go on about positivity but you would rather have children get harmed and not talk about it because it's not positive. It's not good for the district. Also about this transparency. You came back with the things that I talked about and you didn't quote the years I talked about. You quoted another year.
All this information is from the information we get on that y'all put out.
We aren't making up these numbers.
We're taking the numbers that you spit out to the community and we're digesting them.
And as I said before, dollars are the same in the public and private sector.
It's the same dollar.
It's spent the same way.
One other thing I'd like to address, which is really unprofessional, is this eating up
up on the dais. Oh my God, could you not eat on the dais? Do you not eat any other time?
And could you please close your mouth when you chew? Madam President. Thank you. Mr. Graham.
Oh, and the son of Mr. Wallace. Mr. Graham is speaking. Madam President. Mr. Graham. This is
appropriate for an administrative channel. This is not an appropriate airing of grievance with
public officers or employees. Okay, so you talk about Administrator Wallace. Give them to us.
Ms. Wallace, I've warned you twice now.
You don't answer emails.
What administrative?
Thank you, Ms. Wallace.
Your time is up.
Our next speaker is Lori Harrison.
Good evening.
Forgive me, I'm about to be positive.
I'm sorry.
First of all, I want to say thank you for the convocation we had this past year.
All of you.
It was it was amazing. It's such fun and seeing everybody dressed up in their decade outfits is amazing
Dr. Hint can fire up a crowd like nobody I've ever known and
It we all came away recharged and ready to go with this new year
I had a
couple of quotes from people
That I'd like to share not using any names, but just want to share the thought
lot. One said I had the pleasure of a nice conversation with Dr. Hint today while at the ESC.
I let him know that I really appreciated him as their superintendent and his leadership for our
district. In my opinion, he's truly been an outstanding superintendent. His actions, work
ethic, and obvious rapport were all remarkable in my book. He's the best. So many of us wish we could
thank him personally for all his amazing leadership. I so wish we could have had it longer.
we are losing a good man who truly cares about everything. In this time, in his
time here, even the guy on the outside saw a major shift in attitude between
administration staff and students and community. Also the first day of school.
Be careful saying names. There were some trials we're obviously aware of but
reading comments from parents that day that were sharing their child's first
day experiences. Nowhere was there a child that complained about the buses.
You know we're only four days into the school year and things take time to work
itself out but most of these kids were coming home with I had an awesome day.
It's been a magnificent, it's been a, my own grandsons called it epic, an epic day
and over and over again these posts have talked about what an awesome day that
they had at school and they're ready to go and not once did one child say anything about the
bus service they just didn't um the last uh actually the very last um they were thanking
teachers and you guys and everybody for just the amazing stat the way staff greets them and things
things like that. But here's one. My daughter loves her teachers and classmates. She wasn't
stressed about that.
I'm sorry, Ms. Harris. Your time is up.
Thank you for your time.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Our next speaker is Elizabeth Cox.
Ladies and gentlemen of the board, thank you for allowing me this time to speak. I come
to you with a question. I'm glad that your general counsel is here. My question is, when
When I look at my child's student handbook, and there are three pages that are dedicated to organizations that my child can join at your school,
there's paragraph upon paragraph about what is in dress code.
Why do you not have a written standard for when a child can be interrogated by the police in your school without notifying a parent?
I'm sure that all of you are aware that student arrest in Texas in the first six
months of 2018 rose 156 percent. The largest percentage of that were children
between the ages of 10 and 13. For terroristic threat, do you know what
counts as a terroristic threat in your school. Mr. Scott, if you were in your own school.
Ms. Cox, you cannot address this.
Madam President, this needs to be addressed to the appropriate administrative person.
I have actually spoken to the appropriate school personnel. I have spoken with Jeff
Stocks, who asked me to come here.
Ms. Cox, you cannot continue.
So who do I speak to then? If you are unwilling to address the issue, who do I bring it to?
At the end of the meeting, we can speak with you about the appropriate channels.
Thank you, Ms. Cox.
Our next speaker is James Strickland.
James Strickland.
Good evening Madam President, Mr. Gregorski and Board. Thank you very much for the time tonight. I am actually going to start a monthly report from the Men on Campus Initiative, which I told you guys about about two months ago.
We have several schools that are on board. We actually have about 40 that
actually have some sort of male involvement program already. I'm just
kind of going through the list to make sure that they're installed properly,
working, and if they need support. The ones that have a brand new is Katy High
School. So they will be actually doing a pizza night on September 24th. So you are
more than welcome to show up. And we've got obviously a couple of junior highs.
we have Katie Junior High which is actually having a pizza night which is
just the kickoff for the dads to come out that is September 20th and we have
three that are going to be starting pretty soon which is Smalls Elementary
Sundown Elementary and Franz Elementary and King Elementary is going to have
their kickoff night September 27th all of these can be found on our Facebook
page men on campus Katie you can see the website menoncampus.com I would
like to have anybody that is interested in joining a program or a program or is
already doing a program to reach out to me so that I can give them proper
support just go to menoncampus.com submit your information it just goes to
me I'm not sharing it with anybody and I would like to thank Mr. Gregorski
personally Dr. Grooms Janet Tice and Dr. Hint they have been remarkable in
getting this program supported and started. I'm sure I could have done it on
my own at some point in time but it would have been very difficult to
approach schools as a parent volunteer in not really an official capacity. It's
very nice to have the district support so that I can provide the support that
I'd like to to the schools. And once again this program is not a end-all fix-all
for bullying but we are prepared to put men on campus that provide a positive
male role model environment to decrease bullying, to have an extra set of eyes and ears, and really just to take some initiative as parents to actually solve some of the problems on our own and not expect other people.
So I appreciate your time, and please go to manoncampus.com.
I'd be glad to help you.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Strickland.
Our next speaker is Georgia Strickland.
Madam President, I have a question.
I didn't mean to interrupt your applause, Mr. Strickland.
I have a point of clarification for you.
Thank you, Madam President.
Is it, I've been around here a long time, my understanding is, please correct me if I'm wrong,
my understanding is that when speakers come and they want to give accolades and gratitude to some of our employees,
that mentioning their name is not a concern.
It's the grievance and accusation process that needs to go through the channel.
So it doesn't prohibit all of our speakers from mentioning names.
Is that correct, Mr. Attorney?
Ms. Fox, thank you.
Ms. Wallace, I've warned Ms. Wallace twice now to please quit hollering out.
Ma'am, you're going to have to be removed.
Thank you, Ms. Wallace.
Ms. Wallace.
So thank you for your question, Ms. Fox,
and maybe for the clarification of the board and the entire audience.
Fifth Circuit case law, which closely tracks the First Amendment and the constitutional right to redress this board as given under the Texas Constitution,
indicates that complaints against, specific complaints against officers or employees must be directed through appropriate administrative channels.
The word there that I think we need to key in on is complaints.
So if you have a grievance, if you need to redress your grievance,
So if you complain against an individual, that's the appropriate time for you to go through the appropriate administrative channel as we tell people when they sign up, as is indicated on our website, as is indicated on the speaker forums when they have to sign up, as is given to them by instructions by the board president immediately prior to the open session, and as also given in reminders.
So thank you for your question.
Did I answer it?
You answered it extremely well. I'll just say that.
Thank you, Mr. Graham. Thank you, Mr. Kirkland.
Thank you, Mr. Kirkland. Our next speaker is Georgia Strickland.
For the record, yes, we are married.
Anyway, I just want to thank you all for letting me speak.
I am Georgia Strickland, the incoming Katy Council President.
I am looking forward to working with you all, and I want to give you all an update on the PTAs
because they don't want to brag on themselves, so I will.
Last year we had 27,957 members.
My personal goal for this school year would be 30,000 members.
We are still the largest council in Texas, which is really awesome.
When we went to the National PTA Conference in New Orleans,
I met state leaders who actually have a smaller state than what we have in Katy,
so it was kind of like, ha-ha, but that was fun.
Over 130 PTA members from Katy leaders spent a weekend of their own personal time in Dallas training like crazy.
There was moms, dads, there was principals there, there were teachers there.
So it was really neat to see that many Katy people in Dallas representing us very well.
Davidson, I wanted to give you an update on them.
They did a undergarment drive for their campus and collected several pairs of new undergarments for their nurse to keep in their office
just in case of accidents and Bear Creek Elementary has
624 registered students and with the help of their principal their PTA was able to give every student a backpack filled with supplies
So no one had to pay for supplies and on top of that their PTA is providing each kid with a free spirit shirt
shirt to wear so no one has to buy a shirt this year.
And going to take off my PTA president hat and speak as
Georgia Strickland mom. I will stick to PTA budgets all day
long because I praise y'all for the work that you do because
those numbers scare me and it's a little intimidating even
just sitting and listening. So thank y'all. I look forward to
working with y'all and I will always come to y'all with
questions out of respect and I hope to have a good
relationship with you all this year so i look forward to it thank you so much thank you mr
our next agenda item is item 9.1 opening schools report mr ken gregorski thank you madam president
gives me great pleasure to go ahead and update the board in our community about
what's been happening with schools since we've opened our doors just last week on wednesday
with students but i think it's a good time to talk about some of the things prior to the opening and
and what we've been up to as we transition into the new school year.
I want to talk a little bit about right at the end of July 30th and the beginning of August,
we had a new teacher orientation in our teacher academy.
We welcomed in about 600 new teachers, and about 140 of them were new to the profession
and provided them with professional development over a period of days.
We worked on instructional strategies, content material.
We worked with them on classroom management strategies, relationship building with students, and positive relationships.
So it was a great day of learning, and I know Dr. Kasky's group put a whole lot of work into that, as they do each year.
And I commend them for what they do for all of our new staff who come in and get them acclimated to what we do here in Katy.
And it was a really great week of learning for our new staff.
Our new teachers returned on August 6th and the very next day we had our convocation.
You heard a little bit about tonight in the open forum there, but I will acknowledge that
as well.
It was a great day for our staff.
We had about 8,000 staff members come in, that's teachers, campus staff members.
We had elementary convocation in the morning.
We had a secondary in the afternoon and it was very positive energy.
We had a great time in there.
We talked about many of the great accomplishments from last year.
We talked about where we're moving together as a district, moving forward with our vision and our mission and supporting our kids.
We had some time to talk about some of our new initiatives, some of our goals and activities.
We talked about strategic design.
We talked about new initiatives such as, you know, bullying prevention, some of the things we're doing with that,
the new bully app that we rolled out, some of that communication.
So it was a great time to talk with all of our staff members and kind of set that course from the superintendent
with all of our school leaders and our school teachers and those on the campuses.
We also had a convocation for our maintenance and operations group on Friday, August 10th,
and we had a food services convocation on August 13th to energize those groups as well to get ready for the new year.
And once again, it was a great time to be had by all.
We started school on Wednesday, August 15th.
Of note, at that time, we opened up our doors for the first time for Campbell Elementary.
they opened up the doors to 753 students if you haven't seen that building yet
you need to get by and see that I went by further open house right before
school started it just looks fantastic the other building we reopened would be
that Creech Elementary if you haven't seen that is either that is a wonderful
looking building it looks all brand new and we open that to about 784 students
on the first day so once again we welcome those families back and it's
It's awesome to have them back in that building.
We had three comprehensive renovations, which really stressed out our maintenance and operations department.
It is tough to do a full renovation in the summer.
And once again, we commend those folks for their hard work and dedication.
But Galbo and Patterson, I encourage you to get into those buildings and see what they look like.
Maid Creek High School has been a comprehensive renovation we've been doing for quite some time.
And all three of those buildings look great.
A few finishing touches here or there, but if you get in, I think you'll be very impressed with what we do to renovate those schools and get them up to date with new technology, a little bit of everything new.
They just look like brand new buildings once you get inside.
Prior to the start of school year, we projected KDISD.
You heard from Mr. Smith earlier a little bit about that with the budget, but we projected 79,481 students.
As of today, we have 79,111.
So just a little bit under that projection, but as history shows, more students are coming and they will continue to come throughout the year.
If I was a betting man, I would put down, we'll hit that 80,000 sometime this year, but we'll see.
And we'll give regular updates about student enrollment as we go throughout the year.
But we know more people are coming to Katy for the school system.
With that opening of schools came that multi-bell schedule, and it has some transition with that.
We've got two elementaries that either go on the 8 a.m. or 8 20 start. We've got
the high school that stays on their regular start of 7 25 and we've got the
junior high with the late start at 8 45. So there are challenges within that but
we're working through those things with the multi-bell schedule. It's
something that's good that's going to work well for us as we continue into the
future with multi-bell. Right along with that multi-bell is that transportation
and you heard a little bit about that today but we know in the first few weeks
of school that we've got some transition problems with transportation. Unforeseen
things you know I mean we can anticipate challenges it's awful difficult to
predict where those challenges may be. Some of the things that come across for
example when we run those routes around the elementary schools you'll find out
that a lot of those folks bring their kids for the first few days of school a
lot of congestion around there so that slows down our buses at times we're also
getting our elementary kids used to those routes and sometimes those are new
stops that they're not used to and that slows down a little bit of the delay
until those kids get used to it knowing where those stops are we've got new
drivers and we've got drivers that are experienced but they were driving new
routes and we think all those things do contribute to a little bit of the
the slowdown that we've had as we've transitioned into the multi-bell and the transportation.
But it's everything that we look at that is a problem.
We address that daily.
We have regular transportation meetings daily throughout the day and into the evening.
We worked very hard this weekend, and I think we're going to see the fruits of that labor
as things are starting to smooth out now, and I think you're going to see a whole lot
different with the transportation meeting the expectations that we think it's going
going to meet and our kids are going to arrive on time at a home on time as expected. So we just
asked for a little bit of patience there and understanding that we know we've got a lot of
issues to iron out on that, but that's not uncommon this year compared to any other year or any other
school district that starts school. There are transportation related issues. We do have the
transportation call center if there are issues related to that. So I want to make sure people
people get out there and reach out to them it's open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. to
be open to that time all week and they can call in and get some support with
transportation so we can meet those needs of those kids and those families I
will say this also about transportation services and it was mentioned a little
bit earlier about that we do we do pride ourselves that we go above and beyond
what the state will give us back in terms of reimbursement for our children
State only will reimburse us for students who take transportation at two miles or further.
We do have the routes that we do that .5 mile or a half mile radius for elementary,
and we do the one mile for secondary.
So we're transporting a whole lot more kids than what the state would reimburse us for,
but that's a commitment we've made to this community, and we want to stick with that.
What that equates to for our kids is we transport about 45% of our general education students.
We transport about 77% of our special needs children.
So when you look at that and you figure we've got close to 80,000 students here,
we're transporting about half of our kids, about 40,000 kids every day.
And there are some challenges into that.
We don't make excuse for that, but I think we've got a good staff who can work through some of those challenges
and things are going to balance out here very soon in regards to that. One of the
new things that you may have seen if you visited the campuses, one of the security
measures we put into place was that campus standardized door lock and unlock
time comes along with the cameras at the entryway. You have to show your ID to get
in there, but we did standardize them for our different
elementary and secondary groups and hopefully you're finding out as you
enter those campuses that you see some of those things that we're trying to put
into practice to ensure the safety of of all of our campuses all our students and
our parents in our community so I want to point that out as well about those
campus door and unlock times last point I want to make which I think is
important and we're going to talk a little bit more about this next week as
Allison Matney's talked about the accountability system but last week you
may have seen that TEA released school district ratings across the state in
terms of the accountability ratings. This is the first year that school districts
are rated on that A through F rating and we've said it for months now and
probably a long time before I even arrived standardized tests are not a
measurement of what this district is all about. It is one piece of that
accountability system and it's an important piece but there is so much
much more that KDISD is all about that is not just measured by a standardized test.
But with that said, we were very pleased to receive an A rating overall from the state of Texas,
and I think that's a testament of the hard work and dedication you see in this district every day
and what's going on in these campuses when you visit them
and some of the things you've heard about from parents that when they get out of there
and that hard work from those people that are very dedicated on those campuses happens every day,
whether you see it or not and we do appreciate everything that they do those teachers and those staff members what they do for those
Kids is pretty amazing around here. So I wanted to mention that
Appreciate the opportunity to provide the board with this update and once again, we appreciate everything that our staff is doing every day
It's been a great start to the year. We look forward to having a great school year this year. Thank you. Thank you. Mr
Gregor see I would like to bounce off of the the state rating
I did have a quite extensive conversation with Senator Korkorst and and she did share with me that that was no easy
feat for us to achieve that a rating there were quite a few excellent school districts that did not acquire that a rating and of
Course they weren't pleased that they didn't and so I just don't want the public to think oh well
It was just easy peasy to to get that it was very difficult, and so we should be very proud of that
Next, we have a regular board meeting next Monday, August 27th.
There being no further business before the board, this meeting is adjourned.
The time is 910.
Thank you.
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