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The Board met earlier this evening in closed meeting. Any action arising from discussion in a closed meeting must be taken in a subsequent open meeting.
Mr. Gregorski, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Opens Meeting Act regarding the notice for this meeting?
Chair Greg Musil, R-President, I confirm we are in compliance with the provisions of the
Texas Open Meeting Act in regards to this meeting tonight.
Ms. Thank you.
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, September 13th, and have had four days to study its content
and to seek clarification from administration.
This evening, the items posted on the agenda will be presented to the Board by staff, administration,
Administration and the Deputy Superintendent. The Board will have the opportunity to ask questions and discuss agenda items during tonight's meeting. Agenda item 3.1.
Consider Board approval of the Personnel Report.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacy. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the Personnel Report as recommended by Mr.
Gregorski in a closed meeting.
Do I have a... Miss... Miss Gessau?
I have a motion by Mr. Lacy, a second by Ms. Gesoff, that the Board of Trustees approves
the personnel report as recommended by Mr. Gregorski in closed meeting.
Is there any discussion?
Hearing none, we will proceed to vote.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
All those opposed?
Motion passes.
Do we have any scouts in the audience?
We do.
Would you please come up and share your name and your badge that you're working on?
Hello.
There you go.
My name is Rex Blackwell, and I'm working on citizenship in the community.
Thank you and welcome.
Next on our agenda, reports 4.1, planning for growth.
Review the preliminary results of the community feedback survey on the attendance boundary
modification associated with elementary school number 42 and high school number 16.
Mr. Bierling.
Welcome.
Thank you very much. Good evening Board President Doyle, Board members, Deputy Superintendent
Gregorski. It's my pleasure to be with you tonight to provide an update on the K-12 Insight
survey results related to the attendance boundary modification for junior high 16 and elementary
42. Dr. Shelby McIntosh is here tonight representing K-12 Insight. She'll be providing an update
regarding the survey results thus far. At this time the survey remains open for community input. Dr. McIntosh.
Hello, good evening. Thank you for having me. I'm looking forward to reviewing these results with
you. These preliminary results, as he mentioned, the survey is still open. These results were
pulled on September 11th. I'll just give you a little bit of background here and then walk you
through the results so far the survey was actually opened at the beginning of the summer you can see
june 20th is when we we administered the survey via email as well as posted links to that survey
on the district website we've sent a number of reminders since then a couple in july you can
see the dates in the third paragraph there a couple in august and then we will continue to
send reminders throughout the survey window including one after the meeting this evening
important to note again that these are ongoing we pull these results on September 11th we've
received a few results since there are a few additional responses since then and they will
continue to come in until you all decide to close the survey one final note is that the results here
do not reflect random sampling so they cannot be generalized to the entire population rather they
reflect the opinions and perceptions of those who have elected to take the survey so far so a little
bit about participation there are actually two separate surveys the elementary survey was sent
directly to parents who have children enrolled in one of the impacted elementary schools or
potentially have a future child enrolled in one of those schools and then a separate survey was sent
to parents who have children enrolled in one of the junior highs or elementary schools that that
feed into one of the junior highs that will be impacted you can see that participation is
actually already pretty high 25% based on the roughly the population of those
impacted parents for the elementary school ABM and then 36% for the junior
high which is actually one of the highest participation rates we've had
since we've been helping you all with this survey so quite a few engaged
families in this project so far this year one additional note about
participations we do show you how many have taken it via those email
invitations as well as those on the public URL. It is possible that if they
chose to or anyone that takes the survey via public URL can take it more than
once but something to note is we do run what we call a ballot box stuffing on
the back end of our system just to test to see if there's anyone who's taking it
over and over trying to bias the results and our analysis so far is that there
might have been one instance of that on the junior high side but when we looked
at there's about 18 responses where it's possible it could have come from the
same person but those results did not bias the preliminary results so far so you can be pretty
certain that at this point there there's none of that happening via the public url i will walk you
through the preliminary results for elementary and then i'll i'll stop and take any questions
that you guys have before we move on to the the junior high abm so a lot of numbers here but what
we're showing you is participation by luz and i did i highlighted a couple of numbers 11b which
is a land use zone impacted by this abm um how to this is 11 of everyone who's taken it comes from
that land use zone it's roughly just over 60 people so far and then there's another one land
use zone 33 had over i think almost 60 people take it that one is actually not impacted by
the land use I'm sorry by the the elementary school ABM specifically
however those kids go to one of the schools that is impacted by this change
a little bit more about who's taking the survey again so far by by far the
majority of them are parents one thing to note about the survey is that if they
didn't have a child currently enrolled or future or a child a child that will
be enrolled in one of the impacted schools then they were taken to the end
of the survey so when you see these preliminary results they are reflected of just those parents
who have kids either now or in the future enrolled in one of those elementary schools
a couple of again background notes here and then we'll jump into levels of support for each of the
options we do every year ask them if they have had children previously impacted by an attendance
boundary modification in katie and this year when we look at the elementary school parents
just under a quarter of them have had a child impacted by an ABM before.
However, when we asked them about their experiences, just about 26% of them said it was a negative experience,
but by far the majority said that it was either a positive or a neutral experience.
And it actually looks even more favorable when we ask them about the experiences of their child who was impacted in his or her new school.
school, you see almost two-thirds of them saying it was a positive experience, another
26% saying it was a neutral experience.
So something to keep in mind, obviously change is never easy, but this is, we always ask
this question just to get a sense of the previous experiences of those who will be impacted.
So jumping into the options, remember there are three options, and for each of those we
ask them how they believe the change would impact their student's commute to school,
school and then the level the extent to which they support that change.
A little spoiler here at the end of going through all three options will show you how
they stack up against each other so you don't have to keep these percentages in your mind,
but I'll remind you what they are.
So looking at option number one of three, we asked them about again their their believed
impact on their child's commute to school.
The majority of them said that it would either be a positive impact or no impact at all.
And then whenever we ask them the extent to which they support that option, you can see the majority either said 46% said that they fully support this recommendation, 21% said they somewhat do, 11% do not at all, and 21% were not sure.
We did ask those that did not fully support the recommendation the reasons for their choice or for their level of support.
And this is common every year. We see higher percentages of parents say that they're concerned about their child adjusting to the new school. You can see for this one, 29% chose that option. There's another 29% that said, I'm concerned about the future schools and future boundary changes that will cause us to move again.
Again, the reasons for this one were spread out quite a bit, and some of the other options, you'll see some reasons jump out more than others.
So moving on to option two here, again, asking about the impact on their child's commute to school.
19% said positive impact, 69% said no impact, and 12% said it would be a negative impact.
When we asked about the extent to which they support this option, 36% fully supported it,
20% somewhat supported it, 21% do not support this recommendation, and 23% were not sure.
I'll show you option three, and then again I'll show you how they stack up against one another.
Sorry, before I do that, the reasons, again, for impacting their level of support,
I mentioned that in some of these you'll see one reason jump out more than others,
And this one we see that with the second option here, I feel the proposal does not balance enrollment between existing schools.
45% selected that reason for impacting their level of support.
The last one here for the elementary school ABM, again, this is the impact on their child's commute to school.
20% said it would be positive impact, 64% no impact, and 16% a negative impact.
When we asked about the extent that they support this option, 38% fully support it, 18% somewhat support it, and 21% do not support it.
When we asked about the reasons for their level of support, a little more spread out again like the first option,
but we do see 35% saying that they feel it doesn't balance enrollment between the existing schools.
The last thing we asked these parents to do is then rank their favorite options.
Either option one would be their favorite, option two would be their second choice, and option three would be their last choice.
You can see it actually fell in that order based on the options.
Option one had the highest overall rank of the three.
Option two came in second, and option three came in third.
One of the things we like to show you with this kind of question is that relative weighted score.
There's some complicated math behind it, but really what it shows you is how close they came.
And when we're looking at the elementary ones, there's actually a pretty big distance between option one and option two.
So option one actually really stood out from the other two in terms of preference among the parents that have taken the survey so far.
This will be important when we look at the junior high one, but this one was pretty clear when we looked at those results.
This concludes the slides for the elementary school portion.
so I'm happy to answer any questions you guys have at this point.
Or do you have any questions? Madam President, I have a question.
I'm sorry, Ms. Shea. Thank you. Okay, thank you for the presentation. I have a question. First of
all, I noticed that the what the survey result was where the overall rank also matched the recommended
and the one that was recommended, but I I'm just curious how much is the community's
Feelings or wants going to weigh into the final decision. I know that this one it matches but
I think that's probably a question for you.
Ms. Champagne, the information from the survey is designed to help the board make the final decision on this.
So the board is always the ultimate decision maker on ABMs.
The information obtained from the community is to help guide that decision.
Okay. Thank you very much.
One second, Ms. Goswap.
off. These yellow signs that were on the front row, those of you that are standing in the back,
they were reserved for scouts and we have one here. If you'd like to come sit down,
you're welcome to use these front rows and we can just remove those. Yeah, there you go. Thanks.
Thank you. You can just set them on the floor.
I'm sorry, Ms. Gesoff. Dr. McIntosh, I was interested in what you said about the ballot box
analysis so what happens hypothetically if you find out that you know somebody's
kind of stuff in the ballot box what happens to that data great question so
it's it we present the option to really the people in the district that we're
working with to administer the survey so in this case and there was not a big
enough nothing that was impacting the overall results but if we thought that
it was we would give them options we'd say this is strictly hypothetical we
we would say it looks like there's 35 responses,
all came in from potentially the same person.
They have exactly the same responses.
They were all submitted within 15 minutes of each other.
If we take them out, it changes the results.
So option to you.
We can condense them down to one response,
or we can keep them all in,
and then it's up to you all to decide.
We'll make a recommendation, but ultimately you all decide.
Okay, so we get that choice.
And then just a second question.
So the questionnaires were emailed to parents that were impacted.
The URL can be accessed by anyone?
Within the district?
From the website, that's right.
Okay.
All right, thank you very much.
You're welcome.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacy.
To take what Mrs. Gussop said, when using that stuff in the ballot box question,
I'm assuming we capture each URL, so we will see that it comes from a particular area or spot, right?
An IP address, yep.
Okay.
Yeah, it's one of those electronic things.
Yeah.
Yeah, often what happens when you get the same IP address is they're all like at a school or they're all at a community center.
They're all somewhere that's just using the same IP address.
And usually it's completely innocent, but it's worth looking at just to be sure.
Thank you.
Are there any other questions?
Okay.
Thank you for your presentation.
Okay, I'll move on to the junior high one now.
A very similar layout that you're going to see, but obviously some different data.
There are lots of LUZs on this list.
So again, I won't go through every single one, but a big takeaway from this is every single land use zone that was impacted by this had responses, some of them 50, 60 responses each.
So again, you're getting some really strong participation for this survey from parents that are impacted by this one already, even though the survey is not yet closed.
Again, you're seeing a far majority of those that are taking the survey have children currently enrolled in KDISD.
And when we asked them about their previous experience with ABMs, you see a slightly higher percentage saying that their child has been previously impacted, which makes sense.
These are older kids, potentially.
But it does still reflect that by far the majority of them have not been impacted by one before.
And then similar to what we saw on the elementary side, 26% as a parent described their prior experience negative, while 27% said it was positive, 47% said it was neutral.
When we look at the child's experience, again, we see the far majority saying that their child's experience in their new school was either positive or neutral.
So then we ask about the three options on the junior high side, and it looks very similar.
First, we ask about impact on transportation.
You can see for this one, 20% positive, 51% no impact, and 29% negative.
You're going to see a commute concern for transportation theme on a couple of these,
and this is one of them.
When we asked about levels of support, you see 36% fully supported this one, 17% somewhat,
30% do not support, and 17% were not sure.
When we asked about impacting, what factors impacted their level of support,
This is where you see, if you go about halfway down this list, I like how close we are to our current school.
41% select, or sorry, 44% selected that.
And then transportation to and from school become a challenge was 41%.
So again, proximity to school, transportation, you saw that when the percentage that said they believe this might have a negative impact on their transportation.
Looking at the second option for junior high, 19% said positive.
52% said no impact and 29% said negative impact on their commute.
We asked about levels of support.
34% said they fully support, 15% somewhat, and 33% said do not support the recommendation.
And again, these are their reasons for what's impacting their decision there.
41% said they like how close they are to the school.
39% said that transportation to and from school will become a challenge.
We also see 34% talk about future changes, the fear for that, and 31% saying they feel like the proposal doesn't balance the enrollment between existing schools.
The last option here for the junior high ABM, this was impact on commute.
Positive impact, 33%.
56% saying no impact, and 11% said it would have a negative impact.
When we asked about their levels of support, 50% said they fully support this one, 15%
said they somewhat support this one, and 17% said they do not support this one.
Interesting about this one, the reasons are a little bit different here.
We actually see the most common reason that this impacts their level of support is that
they feel it doesn't balance enrollment between the existing schools was the most common reason
for for not supporting this one and when we asked them to rank this one this got
a little bit more interesting than on the elementary side option three
actually had the most rank one with about it was a little over 1,200 people
ranked option three first however it was the most polarizing options so we also
had over a thousand people rank it last so this is option three is one either
you love it or you hate it option and you can see that in the relative weighted
score you can actually see they're actually really close option three had a 100 when we weighted
those scores and option one came in 98. option two was more of a neutral option for pretty much
everyone but it'll be interesting to see the favorability of option three versus option one
as we keep the survey open and see what happens there that's the end of the junior high portion
again happy to answer any questions about this one do we have any questions okay miss van
I believe this would be probably a question for you, Mr. Gregorski.
Do we know when the principal positions will be posted for the new junior high and the new elementary school?
We're looking at posting those around mid-October and trying to get those finalized before the end of the school year,
and then we'd have a start on those in January.
That's been our custom previously, and that's probably the same timeline we will follow.
The communities would know by November who the principals were for each of the schools?
Correct, yes.
Yes.
Do we know the planned time that we plan to have the board vote on it and
then proceed with the naming of the schools?
Because AVMs are always a hot button topic, but so is naming.
Our general practice, once again, is to go ahead and put the zones in place first and
then do the naming right after.
That follows right in line with naming of a principal.
Kind of those things go hand in hand.
We get the principal on board and we do the naming of the school, but
that's both after we get our zoning in.
Okay. I would just like to make a suggestion to the board that we space out the decision on the zoning for the junior high and elementary school to, just because we all know ABMs are a little bit of a hot topic sometimes, and do the zoning for 42, the elementary school number 42 in November with the naming in December.
and then vote the next month in December I'm sorry two months in December to name
the junior high I mean to zone the junior high and then in January do the
naming to give the community some time and some feedback and and not pop it all
on one time but that's just a suggestion just from doing this a few times that
I'd like to make to the board that's definitely something that we can do the
timelines are always said administratively that the timelines are
not board action or board approved or needing board action so we can set timelines that do
that and it probably would help us possibly to look at as you have described uh we do the
elementary first it seems like that one is is much more in alignment with what the community
is asking with the district had previously recommended whereas the junior high we might
want to look at those options a little bit closer and give us a little bit more time
so doing a november december would would probably fit easily into that scenario
Ms. Fox?
MS.
Madam President, I'm not sure who to address my questions to.
I think it's probably you, Madam President, because we don't give direction to administration,
so I'll direct it to you.
I wish I had my maps with me during this time.
So when you look at 11 and you look at 13 and you look at 72, I wish I had my maps so
so I could see three versus one and two, those kinds of things that would help me a little bit better.
And so my question about feeder patterns, because it's always my question,
is what does this do to feeder patterns as a board, I think,
and as parents who have been through rezonings many times,
we're trying to get as close as we can to pure feeder patterns so that all junior high babies,
excuse me, junior high boys and girls, they're not babies, don't tell them I said that.
Don't tell them I said that go to the same high school together as soon as we can get to that and with a new junior
High that's not possible
But are we affecting other junior highs and are we changing feeder patterns in any way that we would take?
That we would break up any of that that we've worked toward I
Don't know who to ask that question to so
I'd go ahead and answer that one, but I'd rather hand that one over to mr.
Mr. Cruz, our operations, who has been looking at those maps extensively and could probably answer that better than I can.
Thank you.
Ms. Fox, obviously we do pay attention to feeder patterns.
I can tell you that particularly in the Cinco Ranch zone, there is one land use zone that would be split off that normally those students attend, you know, high school and they go to junior high together.
they would be split off to in option one they would be split off to a separate
junior high and still attend the same high school that is correct okay I'm not
okay if especially if they're so close would it what what does it do to the
numbers of why did we do that if you if you look at the numbers for option one
and option three, which seem to be the leaders in this case.
The concern really for option three, in my mind,
is if you look at Ty's junior high and what it looks like in 2019,
it's 1,710 kids in 2019.
So option one creates a great balance in that southwest quadrant
with all of our schools being at a healthy enrollment
without going far over their standard enrollment, their projected, their normal enrollment capacities.
So option one creates better use of our buildings, in my opinion, and more balance in our buildings.
Option three is the minimal move option, and that is why I believe it is probably the favorite.
People are resistant to changing schools.
I can understand that.
I was had a parent that went through public schools or I had students that went through public schools as a parent and
So I understand that it does not create very good balance though at least with ties and
and
Wood Creek also will jump right back up to a larger a
Larger enrollment the the positive news is both option one and option three open junior high sixteen with a healthy enrollment
May I follow up? And with the Ties junior high, when you talk about that number, is that a very large number for a long period of time, or is it a year, or is it, will it balance out if we keep feeder patterns together if possible?
The projections are that in 2019, Ties would have 1,710, and these are passive projections, our demographer.
In 2023, they'd have 1,803, and in 2027, they'd have 1,752.
They don't do individual years for us.
They do them five years at a time, and that kind of gives you a guideline for what it's going to look like.
And do you have those numbers if we went option one, please?
Option one.
Thank you, Madam President, for this.
For option one, Ties Junior High would be in 2019 at $1,392.
At 2023, they'd be at $1,449.
In 2027, they'd be at $1,409.
Wood Creek would be $1,224 in 2019, $1,489 in 2023.
With option one.
With option one.
And the new school would be?
In option one, the new school opens at 1,213 students and in 2023 has already reached capacity at 1,429.
Thank you.
Madam President.
No, go ahead.
Go ahead.
Mr. Scott, go ahead.
I'm going to go Mr. Scott and then I'll go to you.
Works for me.
Okay.
I guess everybody that's ever put together an Excel spreadsheet likes the opportunity to change other people's Excel spreadsheets.
So here's what I would like to see.
I would like you all to save me a lot of time because clearly it's coming down to one in three.
I'm not going to talk about the merits of one in three.
and as Mrs. Fox knows, we have extensive information with detailed numbers
on how those numbers project out.
Here's what I would like.
I would like you all to do me a map that is somewhat bigger than a bread box,
maybe a ledger size, and express pages 20 and 21 for the junior high school
in numbers on that map.
because what I like to see is the I want to see the physical geographical
location on a map where the option three people are and the option one people are
I've driven the area extensively over the last several times over the last
several weeks and you know I could sit there and do this 11 B I could put in
the numbers i could do the calculations i might make a mistake in my formulas i would just like
to know what you all have there were zero percent but was that two people in 11b there was one
percent how many people how many respondents are in each land use zone because i want to do i want
to see the physical relationship to the to the schools from which they would move to the schools
to which they would go. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to look at the
maps and understand that we're going to be moving people from Tice Junior High
School somewhere else. And if we don't do that, then we're going to have
overcrowded schools and we're going to have lots of portable buildings still in
place and we're not going to take advantage of substantial build-out with
with new building facilities to stabilize for an extended period of time.
So as I reach my final decision, it would be very helpful to me to have a map that my
eyes would work, that would work for my eyes.
It doesn't have to be audio, so it doesn't have to work for my hearing.
But that I can look at and see the spatial relationship between where the respondents
live and how they're voting on this.
Right now, this is an Excel spreadsheet with numbers that I know mean something,
but if you waterboarded me, I couldn't tell you what these numbers mean.
Got it.
I think we can do that for the final recommendation meeting.
Okay.
Mr. Lacy.
I'm sorry, Mr. Scott, is that all?
Yeah.
Okay, Mr. Lacy.
I have to agree with Mrs. Fox.
I feel like I'm at a little bit of a disadvantage not being able to see the maps
and having a little bit of time to kind of.
it's been a while since I looked at it and I didn't look at it in this past
weekend and I don't know if it's I don't know who to direct this question I have
a couple of questions but at what point do we need to draw the line in the sand
and go we've got the data now we just need to make the decision we've got the
information from the community on the junior highs because obviously the
junior highs are gonna do a little bit there they're a little bit more
fractioned here in way of you know one or three at what point are we gonna shut
shut off the questionnaire and just give the data to us so we can make that decision.
Mr. Lacy, I'll go ahead and tackle that one there.
We have the survey open through October.
Dr. McIntosh, what date is that closed in October?
I don't think we were going to set a final date after this evening,
but we had discussed mid-October.
Okay, so that will close off the survey.
We'll have the results.
Like Ms. Vann had said, if we do elementary in November
and we do junior high in December. It gives us a good amount of time to look
at this and I'll also remind the board at this time that our demographer Pasa
will be out in October with a presentation of demographics which will
include we can look at these again we can look at the maps again and we'll
look at an overall bigger picture of what's happening with the entire
district in term of student demographics and locations. Excellent and as a follow
follow-up. Based on what y'all have seen and based on my recollection, which this part is actually
crystal clear, if three seems to, and based on the numbers that you shared, three seems to be
an option that will force us to readjust our boundaries again in a not so distant future.
My goal in my thought process is that what I would like to see is for us to get everything south south of I-10 locked down as much as possible so that these children in these neighborhoods don't have to worry and the parents as well don't have to worry about.
well we live in this house in this neighborhood and we should be going to
this junior high but in case they change it I want to be able to see where our
community can each one of our communities can come together and if you
go to an elementary school you're gonna go to a junior high and you're gonna go
to that particular high school that's what's gonna lead to a sense of
community I believe for south of I-10 and then it's gonna take some time some
Some growth is going to happen north of I-10, so we're probably a number of years out for that.
But if we can lock down south of I-10, I think that's going to help us a lot.
The entire south, not just the southwest.
The entire south of I-10 will be able to be locked down based on what pass is going to be able to provide us.
So, folks, that's where my thoughts are.
So, ta-da.
Thank you very much.
Madam President, follow-up based on what Mr. Lacy said.
I hear what you're saying. It's nice to know what you're going to do.
I would like to request, Madam President, if possible, the administration, when they give us the feeder patterns,
if they could give us a percentage of students based on what Mr. Cruz said,
there is maybe a land use zone or a few that are going to change the junior high they now go to,
but they're going to go back to that high school that everyone has been going to.
to. We lived that in our home and for a time we went to the junior high and then the junior
high split and there was a very small like 5 or 10% of children who went without friends
and you don't take your friend group with you when you're at junior high the whole time.
Everybody's talking about and they're going to football games and they're buying their
color and even Seven Lakes Junior High is going to go to Seven Lakes High School. Oh
oh, oops, except you're not.
You're going to Tompkins, right?
So even naming them the same thing was one of those things that we deal with.
And boys and girls in junior high, they don't, you know,
when you're 5% or 10% of the students that don't belong, it's difficult.
So I hear what you're saying, when you know, you know,
but there's a great impact on boys and girls of I don't belong.
You know, everybody talks about one thing and then we're the ones,
and which kid is it?
And so you have neighborhood friends and and that's a good thing and I always believe that
If we gave an option every parent you get to choose what school you go to
Children are one are going to be with their neighborhood friends. They like their neighborhood friends. So if it's a significant amount
You know when mr. Cruz gave us the numbers that that gives me heartburn. I don't want to see our junior highs
crowded like that 1700 is too many but
But I would like to see the percentages of the number of students who would be sent off to a different, you know.
Do you all remember when Cinco Ranch Junior High, there was a portion of Cinco Ranch Junior High that went to Katy High School, right?
But most of their friends were going to Cinco Ranch High School right next door.
So it was that kind of, as a board, we worked toward getting those as pure as possible.
I don't question numbers.
I know you have a lot of that so it's just going to give us something to think about so thank you for
Giving us extra time mrs. Van. I think that's why on this junior high give us a lot of time for more feedback and to really consider
These are not numbers these are boys and girls and their time in our schools and their
their physical well-being their their
education and that you know strong
strong support that they have, a community. Everybody needs somewhere to belong because we also in our strategic plan have a mental health and a thing like that. So it's a bigger decision than just numbers and not an easy one. And so thank you.
I will make this a lot briefer than this.
Here's the bottom line, folks.
I haven't made a final decision on how one-seventh of the board is.
I've watched every rezoning in this community since 1983, Williamsburg, Parish, Colonies,
Settlement, all the way around.
there's never been a single rezoning of any magnitude that you haven't had a
certain degree of disruption of the lives of families. That's just the real
world when you grow from 8,000 to 9,000 you're around, you've helped make
decisions like that and it is a lot about numbers. We build buildings, we
We build very nice schools and buildings.
And we equip those buildings with state-of-the-art technology
and the best teachers in the state of Texas.
And wherever the kids end up, they're going to be embraced.
They're going to have the highest quality of education they can.
But the truth of the matter is we've got imbalance that occurs with growth,
and it's been occur imbalance with growth has been occurring since 1983
it's been occurring since Jimmy Taylor went out and started buying land in the
70s so we are going to have to make a decision about due diligence protection
of the taxpayers due diligence of getting the maximum use out of
facilities and the real reality is that some pockets are going to move or we're
going to do nothing and I want to approach it from the standpoint of like
Mr. Lacy said okay what can we do every every five every ten years every ten
years if you can predict the next ten years you've done a very good job of
attendance boundary and you can't reach that point until you have substantial
build-out and we are now at a point where we have substantial build-out in
an area of the district and now is the time that we may have to make some tough
decisions on some pockets that we don't necessarily want to make but because
we're not in single-member districts because we are looking out for the
the entire community because we have a responsibility to every campus, every zone.
We may have to make some decisions.
And so Mrs. Fox, I understand that these are not numbers, they are kids, but in the bottom
line when you start making maximum use of facilities, they are numbers and we have to
pay attention to those numbers.
I'm really glad you made that so much shorter than mine.
I think it ended up not being as short, but I do think it ended up being more relevant.
Mr. Spada, I was just joking.
All right, all right, children.
I was joking.
Okay, okay.
Thank you both for your comments and the relevance to your comments.
Do we have any other board members with any questions?
I would like to say bouncing off of what both Ms. Fox and Mr. Scott said, for the community
to know it is probably the one most despised job that we have as board members.
This is not fun because they are numbers, they are children.
And it's parents that do not want their children to be moved or away from where they're at.
We get that. Please children, behave. With that, I also will say most of us have been there. Like
Ms. Fox said, she had children that were moved. I had one child amongst many of mine that moved
five times in six years and had very high anxiety prior to being moved five times in six years. I
I was more worked up about it than he was.
And he did well, but he did well because of the community at the school,
because the teachers knew the communication that I had between myself, the administration, the teachers,
to let them know that this was not an easy move for him and that he had done it multiple times.
But he's 19.
He's fine.
And so please understand that, too.
We don't enjoy doing this.
We are listening to you.
and we just we feel for you and for the children that have to be moved. So thank
you for your presentation. Thank you. Mr. Vierling do you have anything to add? Yes
ma'am, we appreciate the thoughtful comments and the questions. We will get
you giant maps that you'll be able to see with lots of numbers and based on
the request from the board and Mr. Gregorski's recommendation we'll come
back to the November board meeting with the recommendation for elementary 42 and we'll
go to the December meeting with the junior high number 16 and both recommendations will
have all the final survey results as well.
All right.
Ms. I'd like to say one more thing.
As we're talking about these zonings and then we will have to name, could we also put a
community group together that would potentially rename Creech University?
We can certainly do that as well and we can develop a timeline.
So what I'll start doing is working with our cabinet members to put together three timelines
for that naming, for the naming of the two schools and we'll be able to get that information
to the board, kind of show you what we've mapped out for that to put all of this in
place.
Well, because we don't have zoning for Crete University, like an ABM that we have to go
through so we could put together some community members similar to what we did with the transportation
areas. That'd be correct. Yeah, we could probably start on that most immediately.
And if a timeline was acceptable to the board, we could bring something back probably as early as October to a regular board meeting, if so choose, because it's just about putting that committee together and start that process soliciting the community input for that building.
Because once again, it doesn't involve the ABM or any boundary with that.
Okay.
Madam President.
Mr. Scott.
The Creech University thing here just kind of came out of left field.
I didn't know that was going to be dropped on us.
I think that it would be appropriate to at least have an initial board discussion relative
to Creech University.
I had no idea that I needed to write a note or a request on that.
I certainly wasn't expecting that to come out of tonight's discussion based on what
what I've seen on the agenda, but I think Crete University is a special place and that
the board should maybe have a tentative discussion about it before we get into the committee
process. That's just my thought.
And that was my, whenever I was looking at the timelines for zoning and how we were going
to do that, the communities that are impacted with the zoning and the namings and the principles,
things like that. It was one of those facilities that we have not named and so
that's why I made the recommendation of us looking at moving forward and getting
that named as well. I would like for the board to have a discussion about that facility before we open it up to the committee.
That's my request. Are there any other comments or questions? Madam President, I
I just have one more thing that I just wrote down.
Would we be able to include transportation if there are any transportation changes based on some of these recommendations?
I'm wondering if transporting children further causes what kind of transportation needs is going to come with that rezoning.
Thank you.
I know we'll take care of it, but it would be nice to have that information.
Since you're putting together maps and numbers and big things, thank you.
Okay.
All right.
Thank you, Ms. Fox.
All right.
Thank you, Mr. Vierling.
Thank you, Ms. McIntosh.
Next, Item 4.2, Simon Youth Academy Optional Flexible School Day Program.
Ms. DeVries.
Good evening, Madam President, Board of Trustees, and Mr. Gregorski.
Thank you for the opportunity to be here tonight to provide the annual report on the Optional Flexible School Day Program
that is used at the Simon Youth Academy at Katie Mills.
I'm Heather DeVries, the coordinator of the program.
The OFSDP or Optional Flexible School Day program under the Texas Education Code 29.0822
notes under number one that the student must meet one of the following conditions.
The first two bullets under condition one are the primary students that our program
is focusing on.
Students who are at risk of dropping out of school and students who as a result of attendance
or at risk of being denied credit due to a number of absences.
I'd like to note on number two of eligible students that we do take students under the age of 18
as long as we do garner parent or guardian permission that they participate in the program.
Just to reflect, our primary goal at the Simon Youth Academy at Katie Mills
bills is in line with the OFSDP because we are truly recovering students who have dropped
out or stopped attending from every one of our high schools in Katy ISD.
We don't discriminate, we don't withhold spaces, we take students from wherever they come if
we are able to serve them in a very small personalized setting.
This goal is of course aligned with OFSDP.
What does scheduling look like at Simon? Under OFSDP, we actually offer three separate schedules
for students. Students can attend school from 8 to noon, from 10 to 2.30, and from 12.30 to 4.30.
We block schedule that time so that students are scheduled into two courses at a time. It enables
enables them to have a more realistic approach to completion, not so overwhelming in a full day schedule.
Lunch is provided every day from 12 to 12.30 and brought in from another campus.
It's common for our students who are struggling to re-engage in the academic setting and the learning environment
to attend less than that amount of time or a schedule that they didn't choose
because they have a number of barriers that they are facing.
Transportation can be a barrier, child care, their work schedule changes, family or personal illness, anxiety, depression, other life challenging circumstances that can be physical or it could be mental or emotional.
Our session numbers, and I will have a caveat, this changes weekly.
We're in the middle of the school start window in the state of Texas where this
is the time to recover students who dropped out of our schools during the
17-18 school year. So we're able to bring them back in and this is our big push
right now. So we're literally talking to students and enrolling students on a
daily basis. Right now from our 8 to 12 session we have 47 students. From our 10
to 2 30 we have 25 students and from 12 30 to 4 30 we have eight students we did see a shift this
year um if you remember we've only this is the start of our third year last year we did have
more students in that afternoon session because we had young people who were working at night
and they were getting to school later in the day that shifted this year over the summer when
students came back they would call and say miss D I got a new job and I'm
working in the afternoons now I need to come in the morning so we have that
shift in that flexibility to make sure we can accommodate the students and meet
their needs so those trends may vary a little last school year with the start
of second semester we were able to implement the OFSDP program at the
the Simon Youth Academy and we actually served 93 students under this attendance accounting system
and that garnered us a combined minutes which totaled over 1,700 days of attendance for students
who came to the school from January to May. Based on our enrollment trends, we have 80 students
right now and that was when I created this so we're actually further along than that. We could
reach capacity certainly in that morning session 8 to 12 time frame we may meet
capacity relatively soon we'll just have students have the option to attend in
the afternoon so we still have some playroom and wiggle room that we can
accommodate students the benefits of OFSDP are certainly that we are able to
accumulate attendance funding for all times a student is served to again
reiterate if a student is scheduled to attend from 8 to 12 in the morning but
they come for a particular day at 1230 because of transportation we're still
able to garner funding for that time that student is instructionally served
OFSDP allows for more flexible scheduling for this very at-risk student
population which is really important to us it provides flexibility in the number
of hours each day the student attends school provides flexibility in days of
the week you know when I have students who are struggling on a daily basis to
walk through the door and we can accommodate them by perhaps saying you
know what let's start with three days a week we want to work up to five this
really hits home for some of our parents and students who are trying to re-engage
in the academic process and ultimately meet graduation goals it also allows
accumulation hours of instruction for students who wouldn't otherwise allow
state funding some of our students when they can get there for an hour they're
coming in to work for an hour and that means that we're still able to garner
funding for the time that they're there and again just to reiterate attendance
accrual begins after 45 minutes that the students are served in the academic
setting thank you that's all I have you have any questions I'd be happy are
there any questions I have a few questions please okay um I earlier today
I got some information and I found out the total cost of the program is five
hundred and ninety two thousand seven hundred sixty one dollars and I figured
out that's about $7,400 per student and it's also about $340 per day based on
your days and I know that that's a little bit more than what we spend on
our other students and also they're only going about half the time right I want
to know there's a few things I have a question about what is their success
rate after after graduation what are they are they you know how are they
doing after they graduate graduate and then I have some other questions but if
you want to answer that one so it's gonna vary and we haven't hard fast we
have had 27 students will 28 Friday was my first graduate of the year we haven't
really kind of done post I'll be very honest with you for many of my young
adults and their life circumstances they're going into the workforce we
We actually have had in our first two years five scholarship recipients from SYF who've earned over $60,000 from completing through our program that have enabled them to go on to, I have one in Texas State Technical College right now.
We have two in HCC, another who I believe is Lone Star, and one who's actually deferred to begin in January.
So other than that, some students are there, they're already working. So that
path mainly is continuing. Okay, can I ask some other questions? Sure. Okay, so what
is the age limit? I know you know what you were saying about under 18, but what
is it 21? Is that the age limit? Yes ma'am, if they have not turned or aged out by the age, the
the first day of school, 21 years of age, then we consider their eligibility.
Now we also take into consideration the feasibility that the student
can complete the program.
I'm never going to be disingenuous and
misrepresent with a young person or their parent if they are extreme overage young
adult, if they're a ninth grader and they're 20 years old.
the feasibility of them through the program and completion is going to be pretty small.
So we're always going to have those very in-depth conversations prior to the point of enrollment.
Okay.
May I continue?
Okay.
And you said that the OFSDP funding comes from the state.
Is that 100% from the state?
So it's just a different attendance accounting system, whereas our comprehensive high school's
traditional campuses to garner partial day funding students must be served for
two hours for a partial day four hours for full day what this allows us to do
is once that student is in the seat for 45 minutes then we start generating that
funding okay and I noticed when I looked at the the cost and that they there
there wasn't any expense to the mall itself.
Is that right?
So SYF, Simon Youth Foundation,
which paid to build out the space in coordination with Katie Mills,
they paid the lease on the mall, which is $1 a year.
Okay.
And are we under a contract?
And how long is our contract for this?
We have a five-year memorandum of understanding.
Yes, ma'am.
This starts our third year in the program.
And the last question.
In your presentation, you said that you might reach the maximum capacity.
Can you tell us what that is?
Sure.
We can serve.
It's very small.
Feel free to come visit us.
We'd love to have you.
I'd love to have you sit down.
We can sit about 75 students at a time.
And that's honestly very strategic.
Many of our young adults who are leaving our academic setting, it is not for being academically incapable.
capable it is because truly their plethora of life challenges and barriers are so significant
that by creating a very intimate setting we feel like we can gain the momentum to really graduate
some students i feel like this is our year three is our big year we have 37 seniors right now
um who we're working to graduate all right that's all i had thank you mrs debris you're very welcome
time mr. sure you know that's great job Don do you sure you don't take a minute
or two of my time you have any more seriously all right well then I'll pick
up where you left off I'm used to being I've been willing to ask about this
program for some time so I'm used to being able to go to TEA any other state
source and I can find out ad nauseum data on any campus any special campus in
in the state of Texas.
Would it be too much if we asked for sort of an annual report
or a quarterly report that gives us similar kinds of data
on students in, what they are?
I would like to have actually a copy of the contract.
I don't think I've seen an actual copy of the contract.
Do our students, what's an example of a course
they take working towards graduation? Oh, it can be an original credit course. For
instance, I have students who are taking English 4B original credit and they may
be taking ECO for credit recovery. Will they be taking English one end of course
exam? Most, the majority, and I can give you the data as well, the majority of our
students by the time they're coming into our Academy have met their expectations
on end of course exams. That's why I stress it's not really that students are
dropping out because they're academically deficient they're being successful on our standardized tests
most most is a narrative it's not a number is it possible that we could get a report that talks
about this program from an empirical standpoint does kdisd pay any money in to support this program
or staffing yes we support staffing we support the the technology so well i guess what i'm saying
I'd like to pick up where Don left off. I would like to see some sort of quality
empirical quality control analysis of this program
And that's not against the program. No one should should assume that because I'm asking questions
I'll ask questions about Cinco Ranch junior high and
McDonald junior high and all of those others this weekend. I spent about five hours pulling data on end of course algebra
algebra in KDISD, so it's not picking on the Simon Academy.
It's just that with everything else that's been going on, truth of the matter is I don't
know a whole lot about it.
And I think it's time that I know a little bit more about it.
Thank you.
Mr. Scott, I'll be happy to start putting that data together.
We can grab the same types of data that we have for every campus.
These students do track back to a high school.
That's why you don't see them as a standalone campus.
but any data that the high school has we have on that student and we can certainly add as the board is familiar with there's
A set of reports you get it at different times of the year and we can put this in as either a quarterly or a mid-year
Report we can put it as many times as the board wishes to see it four times a year and give you an update on
All the students there as part of that reporting process
Madam President, Mr. Lacy, as a person that's gone to a couple of the graduations and been on campus, it is and actually been able to sit down with you to be able to hear about the stories of some of the some of the students.
It does your heart well to know that these students want to get their high school diploma.
The one that I remember the most was the one young man, I don't know a name, one young
man was living in a car, had nowhere to go, and was able to still get his high school
diploma so that he could further his career.
And to me, it just does my heart wonders to know that we have that capability and that
Simon who is a large landowner in our community in in greater Katy is is doing
a lot with it as well because they could make a lot of money on that square
footage instead of just charging us a dollar and I understand it comes down to
miss in miss champagne you're exactly right it does come down to dollars and
cents it is you know sometimes we have to make those hard decisions and it's
good that you've asked I admire you on that and and mr. Scott for asking the
the hard questions about what about the data of it.
But I'll tell you guys, and this is to everyone in the room,
come to a graduation, see these kids that are graduating from Simon Youth,
and I'll tell you, it's life-changing.
This kind of a program is truly life-changing, and it's very admirable,
and I thank you so much.
You're welcome. Thank you.
I have another question, please.
Ms. Fox, I'm sorry.
Thank you, Madam President.
Thank you, Mr. Vries, for your presentation.
I have a couple of questions.
How does this differ from Raines High School?
Great.
So, great question.
In KD, we want to have opportunities and options for students.
Raines High School is that opportunity and option for students who are still attending school.
They may not be thriving in our high schools, and they may be looking for a different option or opportunity.
opportunity and reigns is that option and opportunity the students who are coming to Simon are students who have been out of school for
significant length of time they are having withdrawals for non-attendance because they've had
extensive days of unexcused absences
And truly that is based on their life challenges and barriers
We take away those barriers to automatically enable them to apply for consideration
So there's no wait time for students who've dropped out and are ready to engage.
We feel like if we had wait time through a larger application process, we would miss students and lose out on the time to reengage them.
So that's how we differ. Kids who are still in school, Reigns is that option.
Kids who are completely out of school, Simon becomes that option.
Thank you. And I see that you have options 8 to 12, 10 to 2.30, and 12.30 to 4.30.
Have you considered an evening option for boys and girls who might be, or young people who might be working 8 to 4?
At this time, no. Truly, you know, when we look at what happened this year, I don't think we were prepared for so many kids to want to come at 8.
They're so excited not to be in school at 8 a.m.
And then it changed in August, and so we weren't really prepared for that.
So based on what we've seen, we don't feel from feedback from students that that at this time would be something we would pursue.
I appreciate very much your program.
We don't give up on young people.
And the program that you offer there is a very different environment.
I've been to RAINN's and I've been to your program and it's very different.
Right?
RAINN still feels like a school.
And your academy feels like a family.
And for so many.
And I get the connections they have with each other.
I am grateful that we don't give up on children.
Students, because everything points to an educated populace pours back into society
and an uneducated one drains from it.
So educating, getting everyone that can get a diploma to move on to better jobs and better opportunity and success and to have a confidence in that.
Thank you for loving them and caring about them, and thank you for your presentation.
Thank you.
Ms. Champagne.
Okay.
That was actually one of the questions I was going to ask, but also I learned this when I was on the CAT team with actually Mr. Stocks for a year and another year with Mr. Morgan at Taylor High School.
that they keep, you know, that the schools keep records of their dropout rates,
and then they kind of keep up with kids for a number, I don't know how many,
but a number of years, and if they end up getting GED or whatever.
So do these children who, well, not children, but young adults,
who end up graduating from Simon, let's just use Taylor High School, for example,
and they were at Taylor, but they left, and now they went back to Simon Youth,
and then they graduated.
Will this go back as a success for Taylor High School, for example?
Correct.
That's why we are set up as a program so that every student that we reengage, recover from dropout status, we graduate, or they may go on to another option, they actually attribute to their home campus, their campus of origin.
That way, we're all about boosting graduation rates, lowering dropout rates, boosting graduation rates.
Are there any other questions?
Thank you so much for your presentation.
Thank you.
All right, next, a consent agenda, item 5.1,
consider future board approval of the 2018-2019 School Health Advisory Council
SHAC representatives.
Our presenter is Mr. Grimmett.
Welcome.
Thank you.
President Doyle, members of the board, Deputy Superintendent Gregorski,
By board policy, the board shall establish a local school health advisory council to assist the district in ensuring community values are reflected in the district's health curriculum instruction.
The school health advisory council is comprised of community and district personnel who represent the eight components of coordinated school health,
such as physical education, health education, nutrition, health services,
counseling and psychological services, healthy and safe school environments,
family and community environment, and staff wellness. Before you is a list of
district and community members who make up the 2018-19 School Health Advisory
Council. Tonight I'm requesting your consideration and approval of the 2018-19
19 School Health Advisory Council.
Are there any questions?
I have a question.
Ms. Champagne.
Okay, thank you, Madam President.
I would like to know, Mr. Grimmett, how were these people found?
Well, members are recruited through the campus PTAs.
And so at the end of the spring semester at the final PTA district meeting,
Donna Pittenger from Food and Nutrition and myself, we go and we solicit
participation and our membership is actually really fluid. We have
members attend at all different times of the year. Okay, but what about schools
that don't have a PTA? So some schools have PTOs and so it's the same.
And where are the, because I saw that the meetings are open, but where
where are they so you can find our dates on our school health advisory council
website and they are located at the food and nutrition department and that's off
of Franz Road our next meeting is November the 6th thank you yes ma'am are
there any other questions thank you so much thank you 5.2 consider future board
approval for designated use of the 2014 bond savings projects. Our presenter is Mr. Teague.
Good evening, President Doyle, board members, Mr. Gregorski. It's recommended that the board
Board of Trustees approves the designated use of 2014 bond savings in the amount of $886,521
for the replacement of play equipment at 16 elementary campuses, replacement of marquees at two elementary campuses,
and the installation of concrete in the patio areas at five junior high school campuses,
campuses, one elementary campus and the modifications of concrete paving at one junior high and
one elementary campus for student safety.
The replacement of play equipment is for designated structures at the identified campuses that
have met their expected life cycle and should be replaced before they become a safety hazard.
The two marquees identified for replacement will bring these two campuses up to the district
standard for elementary marquees. The five junior high campuses and one
elementary campus identified for concrete patio work will provide a
needed design change to limit the mud and debris being tracked into the
facility. The concrete modifications at one junior high and one elementary
school are related to student safety and the parent drop-off and the front drives.
Work will begin immediately on these three projects with the completion of
the marquees by November 30th, 2018, the concrete work by December 31st, 2018, and the play
equipment replacement by January 31st, 2019. Project funding sources of 2014 bond savings,
play equipment project cost $527,504, marquee replacement project cost $82,023,
$223.
Concrete modification project cost $276,994.
Total proposed project cost $886,521.
Are there any questions?
Ms. Gesoff.
Mr. Teague, what are the safety issues associated with the concrete work?
The safety issues that you're trying to remediate?
With the concrete work?
With the concrete work, yeah.
In these particular junior high schools, the back patio area,
they have sidewalks that were constructed out of decomposed granite
and some flower beds that, due to the heavy use of the area,
they no longer grow anything.
So when it rains, the mud and stuff just gets tracked into the building.
We have a lot of slip and fall issues as well.
Which doesn't seem, it seems like not much when you say it, but my, I have a safety background in industry and slips, trips and falls are the biggest single source of injuries on facility campuses.
Thank you for the clarification.
Are there any other questions?
Thank you so much for your presentation.
5.3 consider future board approval of the design associated with the addition
and renovation to Katy high school career and technical education area miss
Kassman looks like we have dr. Hull and mr. lean and mr. Ewing first item is
request for future board approval for the design associated with the addition
and renovation for the CTE program at Katy High School the 2017 bond
identified that the space that currently houses the CTE at Katy High School does
not need to meet does not meet the needs of the program the classroom space
project space and proper infrastructure to support the programs of construction
agriculture principles of Human Services business and floral where programs
recognized as not meeting district standards the design will be presenting
presenting this evening provides a new building addition that addresses the needs of these
programs. The project team included Dr. Rick Hull, principal of Katy High School, Dr.
Sarah Martin, CTE director, Megan Connell, our construction project manager, Todd Lean
and Brad Ewing of VLK Architects, and Steve Pittman of Anzal O'Brien, our contractor.
Dr. Martin will provide a few words followed by the VLK presentation.
presentation
President Doyle trustees and mr. Gregorski
It's been my extreme pleasure to work on the CTE expansion project at Katy high school
Katy high school is home to the largest CTE department in the district with a total of 25 CTE teachers and has boasting rights for the
Housing the largest FFA chapter in the state
This expansion is much needed as our CTE programs continue to grow at Katy high school over the past three years
Katie CTE has has had a steadily excuse me has had a steady enrollment of close
to 1,900 students the number of students who consistently request CTE courses and
programs is on the rise specifically in the area of agricultural sciences and
engineering this expansion will alleviate the need to turn students away
from CTE courses and programs due to the lack of space although I'm pure tiger
pride Katie high school CTE staff has been working their magic in current
current spaces providing opportunities for student success.
The expansion, however, will adhere to TEA's recommended space for CTE classrooms.
In addition, the new wing will allow for additional instructional opportunities to support industry
credentialing initiatives.
My staff and I are extremely excited about the expansion and look forward to working
closely with our project manager in creating CTE spaces that foster innovative learning.
Good evening, President Doyle, members of the board, Mr. Gregorski.
Again, my name is Todd Lean with VLK Architects.
We had the pleasure of being selected to do the design for this important project for
the Katy High School campus.
You can see from our schedule we're presenting the design tonight, looking to receive bids
and present a final GMP for the project if it's approved tonight in December,
which allows the construction to begin early 2019
and be completed in the fall for the beginning of the following year in January of 2020.
At this time, the areas that are highlighted in the plan are those areas that are dedicated to the CTE programs at Katy High School.
So we looked at all those spaces, looked at some of the existing conditions of those spaces within the B Hall and some of the other areas of Katy High School.
There are older spaces, obviously heavily used by the students and faculty there.
A lot of spaces on top of each other, the mechanical systems on top of each other, the welding booths and things.
storage as with any space within a school is always a premium but they're
doing the best with what they can also have some spaces that are a little bit
difficult to access for other storage areas and looking at those we also
identified those spaces compared to the programs at the other high schools for
the standard CTE spaces those are those areas identified in the in the red were
were areas that were deficient in the square footage.
And then some areas in blue were those areas
that did not exist at all within the campus
as compared to other campuses.
So that's where we came out with the need for the expansion.
The expansion will exist at the end of C Hall.
It creates more classroom space as well as ag mechanics shop
spaces.
It also provides for easier access to the outdoor
activities where they're building things also to accept the delivery of materials
for the Ag mechanics. We'll continue to have access for students through C Hall
where they come from now from the large parking lot just over here. This is a
representative view of the new addition. It will use the same materials that the
the existing Katy High School campus to fit in with that campus.
Another representative view of the front entry to that.
Taking a little bit of the clues from the addition that was done at
the Katy High 9th grade center using those same materials.
We're also looking to reuse some of the materials that were salvaged from
the building that was demolished previously.
Some of the limestone that was taken off that building we're hoping to
incorporate into this design as well.
In the floor plan, you can see on the lower end of the plan are the Ags mechanic shops with open up to a covered area that allows for construction of larger projects.
We've grouped the livestock management principles of Ag and animal science and horticulture classrooms on the left side of the plan.
The center is the floral design areas, all gathered around a collaboration area,
which allows for the students to do activities in the hallway and collaborate on other things.
The red area at the center is the ag science teachers,
where they have a workroom that allows them to have view of those collaboration areas and monitor the activities.
And then the other areas, commercial photography, AV production, green room studio, as well as principles of human resources, I'm sorry, human services.
And then the test kitchen areas where they're teaching culinary arts areas.
This is another representative view of which would be the collaboration area outside the floral design area.
area, takes a lot of clues from the areas that are created in the Katy High School 9th
Grade Center. Durable materials of construction or concrete block and durable carpets and
or I'm sorry, concrete floors that require low maintenance. With that I'll have to answer
any questions on that one if you'd like.
Are there any questions?
I have a question.
Go ahead.
Okay, let's start with Ms. Fox, and then we'll work our way this way.
Thank you guys for the presentation.
I'm so excited.
I'm going to just have to buckle up here, stay in my chair.
So I love this.
I love opportunities for students.
I can hear Bob Shaw in my head going, we've got to fight for opportunities for our kids
because that's not just, you know, sitting in a desk.
So he would love this, and so do I.
all of these programs they teach children real life skills and they
combine it with a deep curriculum but they're engaged and they care about it
and it interests them to a way that these deep roots of learning and and
skills that they'll take with them certainly at Katy high school we have
the most amazing and the biggest AG student group in I want to say Texas but
but I think it's the whole wide world.
Am I right about that?
The whole wide world.
I think so.
And so it's, of course, there's a need,
and you're already, Mr. Hull, meeting them where they are,
and, you know, it's incredible.
And kids are going off to college and getting all these opportunities.
It's an exciting thing.
So when you, now to my specific questions,
I'm just real excited.
Thank you for giving this the attention it needs.
and if you need anybody in floral design to come and help, I'm available. So this, I wish I had a
book so I could flip back and forward because I might ask a question that shows that I don't know
what I'm talking about. Everything is in one area. You're bringing all of those, the first picture
you showed us, and I guess maybe go back some more, the very first picture you showed us had
like a green and a yellow and red and then some down on the right, like the first one right there.
So all of those colored areas, now you're going to take them together and build them new in another...
No, okay, I don't know what I'm... What is that?
Not all of those areas. We tried to incorporate as much as we could within the budget,
but it is a consolidation of a number of them.
It's a what?
A consolidation of a number of them in the new space.
A consolidation of a number of those, and now it's going to be a new building,
or you're going to put it somewhere it already exists.
It's new construction to bring all of these together and upgrade facilities
so the boys and girls can have you know if they're gonna go get really great
jobs and go to college they need to know you know maybe a some some machines that
21st century maybe great okay thank you very much mr. Lacy I agree with miss
Fox I'm absolutely love this and I'm glad that it is that we blah can't even
and talk. I'm glad that we do have the opportunities. Dr. Hull, who's already
vying for the room that you're going to be clearing out. Do you have plans for
that? I'm sure you do and tentative. We do. We've had several people express
interest in moving to the vacating rooms to take over that area as well. We'll
We'll recapture those as regular classrooms in that V-Hall area as is and look forward
to that opportunity.
There's a follow-up with a son that went through welding and he took the fire pit with him
to college, which I still am a little bit chapped about, but that welding program is
tremendous.
I'm glad that we have it.
I'm glad it's through FFA.
I'm glad that they have those opportunities.
and I'm really excited to see the expansion of the square footage for that because
When my wife and I toured when he was in that class, I'm not gonna lie. I was concerned about the small space that they had
And the safety for those children, so I'm glad that we're expanding on that. Thanks guys
Yes, sir
The the good part about that is that with those two areas that we'll have we'll have the opportunity to look at giving additional
Certifications for the students in the welding program
Then one last question, and I know this is all in the plans.
Dr. Hurl, this isn't going to be you, so you're off.
Thank you, but the power needs, because I know welding and the refrigerators for the kitchens and for the flower design,
the power needs are tremendous.
I know that's all been taken care of and in the plans, but is that going to be something that,
with it being a new building, is it easier than trying to retrofit what we had?
Yes, much easier because we can identify what the existing equipment is there as well as any new equipment that will come in and plan for it as opposed to trying to search out the existing circuits, add circuits and walls that are already constructed that would have to be surface mounted and things like that.
Excellent.
Thank you all.
Ms. Champagne.
I was wondering when you look at this the map of the aerial view it's online
it's 9 of 14 the entrance way how how are we securing that since it's not there
will be we're gonna meet extensively with the district to determine what the
the access control is, but typically it would have an access control device and be monitored
just as any other.
It's not essentially a front door at that location.
We'll still have student access coming from the south end where they do now into the C
Hall.
And I have another little question that's actually a little bit off topic, but talking
about the CTE classes I would like for one day as to consider waiting some of
those grades like we do for the fine arts to encourage more CTE participation
mr. Scott I haven't had a chance to say this so I'm going to take the advantage
I think that adding VLK to the go-to architects in this district was a great decision.
Thank you very much.
Having fought a lot of battles in the past, I think y'all brought a really good mix to the district.
I'm so glad to see that y'all have taken this approach.
Having watched Houston ISD fail miserably at total reguts and redos, I think this is a really good approach.
And Dr. Hall, I want to say to you that you showed me, you gave me the tour several, a
few months back, and I left, I told you I was leaving you and going to the San Antonio
Conference where I was taking a tour of school districts up there.
I went from purgatory and saw a tremendous CET program, and I'm so glad that you're
going to have, that your school and your teachers are going to have an opportunity to have this
kind of state-of-the-art facility having taken that tour like I'm sure other
board members have your CTE staff and crew out there were performing miracles
every day in some of the worst academic settings I have ever personally observed
and that includes having toured many HISD schools what y'all had out there
was not good not appropriate for that campus and I'm really really glad that
that that is now taking taking place it's so deserved and so needed are there
any other questions thank you all for your presentation this past mignola
stand with us for a 5.4 consider future board approval of the design associated
with renovation in addition to Katy high school athletics area okay so during our
investigations at Katy High School for the CTE project it was brought to our
attention that the athletics area at Katy High School particularly the field
house lacked parity with all other district athletic facilities in the
district the field house was constructed in 1997 and no major modifications have
been provided for since then Taylor High School received upgrades as part of the
2010 bond and May Creek and Cinco received upgrades as part of the 2014
bond the renovation in addition will improve functionality and delivery of
the program the team also included dr hull coach joseph debbie decker megan connell the project
manager vlk architects steve pittman of anzal bryant coach joseph will provide a few words
followed by our presentation good evening mr Gregorski and president doyle the members of the
board I appreciate you taking the consideration this this is something
that is well overdue parts of the field house again the tile floor you know has
come up and they're not able to match the tile in there the facilities for our
coaches need renovating in the worst way my secretaries has got three file
cabinets out in the hallways it's not a good deal and think and our training
room and area there and needs renovation obviously they've gotten their equipment
out in the hallway and like I said it's just something that I think is well
overdue thank you go ahead you know any questions I can answer I'll be glad to
answer them thank you madam president yes mr. Lacy
Coach? No, no, no. This is for Coach Johnson.
Oh, okay.
Sure. I'm behind the dais. I feel a little bit more protected right now, Coach.
So a couple of quick questions for you.
I know that it's going to be probably on your shoulders.
In looking at the plans that we were privy to on Thursday,
we're going to move out that wall to where it's going to be kind of squared off.
but in that we're taking that patio up for our state championship things benches
thank you thanks all y'all what is your plan for those are you gonna have those
inside are you gonna put them in the courtyard or something they're gonna be
in a courtyard they're just gonna move them out in the square right in front of
the pack and and move it out there and stuff it's a great place for it and
stuff they have a hard time keeping things alive and that thing anyway so
I've been there, that's why we want to have the ag group over there closer to you, by the way, too.
And then off, just off the top of my head,
of your head and this may be going to be counted and this may not be you coach um how many square
feet are we expanding our workout area to um and then our storage facilities for equipment and
things like that because i know boy they are cramped i've been in there i can talk that i'm
not a square foot man no sir you're a first down man we like that yes yes well again thank you for
uh letting me present this tonight and i'll answer those if i may as i as i go through the floor plan
Again, the schedule we're presenting tonight, looking for this phase or this project to come to a November board meeting for GMP,
which allows them to start construction in December and make sure that they're done for the following year so the coach can get back to football.
The area in red is the area we're talking about, the field house and the coaches' locker rooms area.
area. This is that existing area. You see the weight room in the center. We are expanding the weight room a little bit with that storage room that's at the bottom left. That goes away and we get to take a little bit more for the weight room there.
there. The total square footage of the new building will be 17,000 square feet. Again,
with this diagram you can see those areas that were deficient in there as compared to
the other programs and some of those spaces that did not meet the standard. Total of about
about 6,000 square feet of additional space that's being added to it that's divided between meeting spaces and
training room and storage spaces and things like that.
These are some of the areas that the coach talked about the
exercise bikes out in the hallway outside the training room,
some of the storage needs that they have,
some of the areas within the locker rooms for the finishes that need to be upgraded,
The football storage that uses every nook and cranny of space that they have and a small ladder to get up to it.
This is a representative view looking to the south of a two-story space that will house some meeting rooms and the coaches offices.
offices, as well as a reception hall, or not a reception hall, but a reception area at
the beginning or in the entry.
And then you can see the additional space to the right hand of the slide is the additional
space that's being added of storage training rooms and other support spaces.
This is a view from the area outside the PAC looking into the new lobby.
And just it's not showing the photo but just outside of that will be where that those benches and that are within that that courtyard
This is the new plan showing the renovated football coaches locker rooms in the upper right hand side the new lobby
slightly expanded weight room
then the
Training room which has become much larger
one of their other big needs was providing the
the space for both the boys and the girls training locker rooms for them,
as well as trainers' offices, the spring coaches,
and then probably most importantly the equipment storage
and another small meeting room downstairs.
We'll do some minor renovations and finishes to the existing locker rooms that are in blue,
but not an extensive renovation of those areas.
This is also a representative view of just inside the main lobby with a wall of champions for all the trophies and other things.
To the left-hand side is the coaches' offices that will have views out into that space, and then you'll also have views into the weight room.
The stair on the right takes it up to the second floor, which is the team meeting rooms,
which allows them to have a large meeting space with a wall or a movable wall that allows them to all get in one space,
but then also to separate it into two meeting rooms.
Then we have the athletic coordinator's office and secretary and much more storage for her
and a small workroom for her to organize all of the things that she takes care of for Coach Joseph.
And with that, I'll be happy to answer any questions.
Do we have any questions?
Madam President, Ms. Fox.
I don't have a lot of questions.
I'm glad to see this.
Again, when we make things better for students, it gives them more success,
and it's just, that's what we do, right, is make sure that, you know, we meet student needs first.
And, Coach Joseph, I did have one thing I'd like to say to you, sir.
I was at your game on Friday night, and the way your boys treated that visiting team
team speaks volumes about you and your program and how you teach your young men.
And, you know, the visiting team came and joined in the school song,
and they were just happy to be a part.
It looked like they were part of the family, and that speaks to you, your coaching staff,
certainly the parents of those boys, and it touched my heart and a lot of people in it.
Thank you for what you do in building young people, not just athletes.
Thank you.
That's the value of athletics, and that's part of athletics.
I appreciate you all giving us the opportunity.
Madam President, I do have one other question, one other follow-up question.
During the time that this construction is going on,
I mean, I believe there's going to be quite a bit of demolition.
Where are those poor young men and ladies going to the house?
Are they going to the old area, like an old gym or something?
What are they doing?
Yeah, we're going to move our weight room to the East Gym down there.
We're going to move our training facilities down there to the East Gym,
the dressing room in the East Gym.
It's used just right now for storage, but we're going to clean it out and set up a training facility down there for our training room and train the staff.
The weights, of course, you know, it's not a convenience thing for anybody, but it's something that needs to be done.
Now, as far as relocating everybody else, we're having to work around the fire marshal and everything else like that, but we'll make do.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Thank you so much.
I do have one thing to add.
you know this is not just about the football program in the field house
Katy High School has several athletes thousands of athletes and whatnot that
are going through there and the fact that this training room is going to be
renovated in added space that's going to affect every single athlete that's
that's basically there on the campus so yes the the football program will
benefit but all of our programs will actually benefit over there from this
need a need of renovation and thank you so much mr. president maybe this is for
mrs. Kassman this the funding for this project comes from where we're looking
at 2017 bond savings thank you very much thank you so much for your presentation
thank you coach Joseph dr. Hull and stacker miss Kassman next 5.5 consider
consider future board approval of Amendment 1 to the Anzlo Bryant Construction Limited
Contract related to access, control upgrades and additions, package number 7.
Ms. Caspin, you're still with us.
The 2017 bond provided for additional security hardware and related upgrades throughout the
district.
This package number 7 will include additional hardware and upgrades to support access control
at Cimarron Elementary, Davidson and Randolph, May Creek High School and Cinco Ranch High
School.
completion of these campuses will provide parity at all campuses scope of
work includes upgrades to the current access control system to bring it to
district standard hardening of reception areas and security camera upgrades there
may be future packages that will address security issues as a result of the
National School security concerns PBK is the architect Ansel Bryant Steve Pittman
and Amanda Coggins are representing them tonight and Ryan will tip goes our
project manager are there any questions
hearing then we'll go to 5.6 consider future board approval of design services
associated with the construction of elementary school number 43 miss Kasten
right so in order to provide enrollment relief existing campuses the
construction of the new elementary school is being recommended for an
opening in August 2020 the new school be located within the Ellison subdivision
this will relieve Bethke in particular hopefully where they're over there
projected enrollment by 255 as of today. The proposed school will be a refined
reiteration of Amy Campbell Elementary and VLK will also be the architect for
this project. Are there any questions? Thank you so much. Thank you. 5.7 consider
future board approval of the legal policies and adoption of the local
policies included in board policy update 111. Ms. Holland. Good evening Madam
President, members of the board and the superintendent Gregorski. In accordance
In accordance with Board Policy BF Legal and Local, I'm here tonight to present Update
111.
The focus of this update is primarily on updating the legal policies in accordance with laws
passed during the legislative session along with administrative rules that have changed.
The majority of the update is legal and those provisions are already being implemented in
the district since they've been in effect for some time.
As is our normal practice, we distribute the update to all of the chiefs and division heads
so they can share these with their immediate reports and have them to consider them in light of their particular responsibilities.
There are a few local policies in the update. Some of those are simply reorganized.
Others have changes in citations as a result of some changes in statute.
statute, but I think most of the local policies that are there, there are only seven, are
very clear and easily stated.
In addition to the policy update, we have one local policy for the Board's consideration
and that is that DNA, that is our policy on appraisal of teachers.
The only change there is that we have removed the date as to the year that we would be implementing
D-Test is our appraisal system for teachers. On Monday night, we'll be asking the Board
to approve the legal policies and adopt the local policies and update 111.
Thank you, Ms. Holland. Are there any questions?
Yes, ma'am. As you said, the vast majority of these are legal policies and we don't
have any discretion. Does DNA local on t-test, which is local, does it add
anything to the legal policy? We're not going above and beyond the nonsense that
the legal policy mandates, right? And I didn't notice any reference to water
boarding teachers. We're not doing that, are we? Okay. Mr. Scott, I'll go ahead and
tackle that one since it's an HR policy that I'm very familiar with and
that we've been using. We switched over to T-Test as our appraisal system. It's the state's
recommended system. But when we wrote the policy, the policy was written, it said
beginning in the year 2017-18, or it says in the year
2017-18. We've struck that language and just changed it over
to begin with just to state T-Test is our recommended
appraisal system. So take that year out. Just for the record, I will
vote for the legal policy because it's
required by law. T-Test is another example of the Texas legislature and the
Texas Education Agency taking actions which torture teachers in their
classrooms. It's nonsense, it's bull, it's completely useless, it is disrespectful
of the teaching profession and it ought to be burned at the stake. But I will
vote for it because we don't have any choice. We don't have any choice when the
Texas legislature steals our tax money. We don't have any choice when they do
this kind of stuff. We can't protect the teachers from this. So we'll do it and
we'll vote for it but there should be no misunderstanding. The Texas legislature
sends down another mandate. This t-test program requires classroom teachers
to add additional numerical goals for student performance above and beyond
even what was done last year. It's like they sit up in Austin and they send it
down to their consigliere's at the Texas Education Agency and they wake up in the
morning and they say what can we do that pretends that we care about public
education but has the de facto result of making the delivery of instruction more
onerous more time-consuming to administrators this is nonsense and I
will vote for it but it's the law that we vote for it thank you mr. Scott any
other questions Thank You miss Holland 5.8 consider future board approval of a
principal assistant principal substitute list miss yolanda edmund
good evening president doll trustees and deputy superintendent gregorski i am here to present
to you for your consideration a list of principal and assistant principal substitutes that we could
potentially use throughout the year to cover when we have other administrators out this list is
presented I'm sorry is presented annually as a recommendation from TASB.
Are there any questions? Mr. Scott. Congratulations I'm very proud for you.
Thank you sir. Any other questions? Madam President. Yes. Ms. Zedman how do you
come about the list because it's an exceptional almost like hero list of
exceptional administrators how do they get on the list? So for the most part
they reach out to us. As an administrator retired, they will call our office and request to be on our substitute list.
So actually they're all veteran employees of Katy ISD.
You're with us for 5.9. We'll go ahead and move forward. So my next item is about the classroom
waiver exception. Each district in the state of Texas is required to conduct a class
enrollment survey of kinder through grades 4. Based on class enrollment, each district seeking a waiver must submit a written application
application to the State Commissioner of Education. At this time, KDISD is seeking
Board approval for the Superintendent to prepare, sign and submit an application to
the State Commissioner of Education for a class size waiver exception. This year we
have a total of 22 campuses in 76 sections.
Are there any questions?
Madam President, are you seeking to balance those or do you expect that the
The balance has already happened. Will these stay?
The balances have already happened.
Through our balancing process, we balanced every classroom at 23 to 1.
We balanced all grade levels at a 23% ratio.
After we file the waiver, we'll file the waiver for any class section that's over 22 to 1.
After the waiver has been filed, any class that reaches 24, we will add a teacher.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Are there any other questions?
Thank you so much, Ms. Higgins.
You're welcome.
Agenda Item 5.10, consider future Board approval of a proclamation for
Principals Month. I will read that. Proclamation of the Katy Independent
School District Board of Trustees Principals Month. Whereas principals play
an essential role in making a school great and whereas principals are an
important part of district leadership and vital to the overall success of
teachers and students and whereas principals are a valued and respected
group of administrators that sustain the district's most important assets, its
its people and students, whereas principals are supportive, dedicated, and determined
to encourage staff and student success, whereas contributions of campus principals impact
student lives on a daily basis, and therefore the Katy Independent School District Board
of Trustees does hereby resolve that the month of October will be observed as Principals
Month throughout the district.
The Board also encourages students, staff, and parents to express their appreciation
to Katy ISD principals for their dedication and commitment to their campus community's
staff and students. Agenda item 5.11, consider future board approval of a
proclamation of Texas Education Human Resources Day. Proclamation of the Katy
Independent School District Board of Trustees Texas Education Human Resources
Day. Whereas the Human Resources Division is instrumental in recruiting, selecting,
resourcing and retaining quality staff in support and providing an excellent
education for all students. And whereas Human Resources plays a key role in
fostering satisfaction and loyalty among employees by allowing for professional growth and development
and keeping employees informed about policies, working conditions, compensation and benefits,
and whereas human resources monitors and manages current and future workforce trends, organizational
culture, legal and legislative trends, and ethical and social responsibility, and whereas
human resources is an important part of district leadership and is vital to the overall productivity
productivity and efficiency of the district's workforce. And whereas Human Resources is a valued and respected department that sustains the district's most important asset, its people. Therefore, the Katy Independent School District Board of Trustees does hereby resolve that October 10th, 2018 will be observed as Texas Education Human Resources Day throughout the district. And the board also encourages students, staff and parents to express their appreciation to our Human Resources team members for their dedication and commitment to the
to KDISD employees and students.
Next on our agenda is 5.12, consider future board approval
of the claims administration by Texas Association of School
Boards Risk Management Fund for Unemployment Compensation
Claims.
Mr. Nauman.
Good evening, President Doyle, Mr. Gregorski, Board of Trustees.
The district shall comply with the provisions of the Texas
Unemployment Act.
And by doing so, the district is permitted by law
to enter into a joint group account
with other political subdivisions to share the cost of benefits that are
attributable to the services provided in the employee of a group of account
members. Katy Independent School District has provided these services
through an interlocal agreement through the TASB Risk Management Fund. The
contribution for 2018 was $266,257 with the renewal contribution of
of $252,944 per plan year 2019.
It is recommended that the Board of Trustees
approve the 2019 claims administration
by the Texas Association of School Boards,
TASB Risk Management Fund for Unemployment Compensation Claims.
Moving on to Agenda Item 5.13,
consider future board approval of the September 2018 budget amendments
Ms. Butterfield. Thank you President Doyle, Trustees, Deputy Superintendent
Gregorski. Tonight in the general operating fund expenditures increase for
two timing amendments by $6,410. These are amendments where budget was
allocated last year and products were not received by the fiscal year end of
831 so products were received after 9-1 it creates a fiscal year timing issue and so you'll see
probably a few more amendments over the next couple of months related to timing issues
the remainder of the budgets amendments in the general fund are direct offsets between different
functions so approval of these amendments will result in a decrease of six thousand four hundred
$210 to the general operating fund balance.
Construction fund expenditures increased $275,603,
and these are all related to the fencing project at Katy High School
and the architect fees for that.
The FITS replacement budget now will all be consolidated entirely within the bond funds
for a single source for accounting purposes.
approval of this amendment will result in no change to the construction fund balance.
Thank you. Do we have any questions?
Thank you so much.
Agenda item 5.14, consider future board approval of the campus performance objectives.
Dr. Frieda Creech.
Good evening, President Doyle, board members, and Mr. Kowarski.
I'm here tonight to present the campus performance objectives that are established in Texas Education Code 11-251,
the campus decision-making process, and BQ Local.
Campus performance objectives are required to be approved by the school board.
You've received some information ahead of time that gives you campus information by school of just the performance objectives, because that's the piece that goes before for approval.
You've also received student profile demographic information that gives you sort of a picture of how the school looks, how the complexion of the school looks, and the TEA accountability summary report.
By the way, for the first time we've been able to pull the student information, that
demographic current.
It's not last year's students.
We are actually looking at current enrollment as of September 7th.
Campus principals have developed their campus improvement plans in collaboration with the
campus and district staff and the CPO's campus performance objectives are the campus comprehensive
needs assessment and address performances of the campus achievement indicators.
indicators. As you can tell, this is just a piece of the process. The whole process includes the whole improvement plan, but that's not the piece that we bring forward here. The improvement plan would have full comprehensive needs assessment. It would have the goals, the performance objectives, identified strategies, as well as evaluation timelines, resources, data sets. The whole plan is a bigger piece.
What we have here tonight is just the goals and then the performance objectives on how they intend to accomplish those goals.
I'll answer any questions.
Thank you.
Are there any questions?
All right.
Thank you, Dr. Creech.
Next, we have Action Item 6.1, Consider Board Adoption of the 2018-2019 Interest and Sinking Tax Rate.
We have Mr. Smith.
Good evening, Mr. President Doyle and members of the board and Deputy Superintendent Gregorski.
I've put a visual up there that I'm going to speak on just for a couple of seconds.
This is a 12-year history of our tax rate.
You can see that for eight years, KDISD was able to maintain, after tax compression, the
the same tax rate at $1.5266.
That says $1.53 up there, but it's $1.5266.
And for the last four years, and that
would include my recommendation tonight,
we're at $1.5166, or a one cent tax reduction.
These are the tax rates we've been discussing
since our budget meetings back to January.
The recommendation again continues to have the one cent decrease in that debt
service tax rate. It maximizes state funding and the total rate plus the
budget as adopted stays true and supports our long-term debt plan that
we've worked so hard on over the years. Item 6.1 specifically speaks to
to the debt service tax rate.
And it would be the administration's recommendation
that the Board of Trustees adopts the order adopting
an interest in sinking tax rate of $0.37 per $100
evaluation for the tax year 2018 or the 2018-2019 school year.
Madam President.
Mr. Lacy.
I move that the Board of Trustees
approves that 2018-19 interest in sinking tax rate.
Second.
I have a motion by Mr. Lacy, a second by Ms. Vann, that the Board of Trustees approves
the 2018-19 interest and sinking tax rate.
Is there any discussion?
Just a quick comment.
This carries forward the swap that we did last year that generated additional state
revenues beyond what we would have because of the declaration of emergency.
That is correct.
This budget picks up where the tax state flood left off. Now this year we're going to use Harvey.
That is an accurate statement and it maximizes our state funding.
Between the two years, how much additional revenue have we used?
Because basically we used probably an unintended consequence in state finance system.
Chair Greg Musil.
These will generate, both last year and this year, will generate an additional approximately
$26 million to KDISD in the form of state revenue over two years.
Great job.
Great job.
Any other?
Okay.
I'll repeat the motion.
We have a motion by Mr. Lacy, second by Ms. Vann that the Board of Trustees approves the
2018-19 interest and sinking rate.
We will now proceed to vote.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed?
Motion passes. 6.2, consider board adoption of the 2018-19 maintenance and operations tax rate. Mr. Smith.
And with that said and my previous comments about the total tax rate, it would be the administration's recommendation that the Board of Trustees adopts the property tax rate of $1.1466 under Tax Code Section 26.08 to be further recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the attached order adopting that rate of $1.1466 for the 2018 tax year or the 2018-19 school year.
Madam President, Ms. Vann, I move that the Board of Trustees approves the 2018-19 Maintenance
and Operations Tax Rate.
Second.
I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Lacy, that the Board of Trustees approves
the 2018-19 Maintenance and Operations Tax Rate.
Is there any discussion?
Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote.
All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.
Aye.
All those opposed?
Motion passes.
Thank you, Mr. Smith.
Next, we have our 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 and will, with the time divided equally among those who have signed up.
However, a 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 be turned off.
If speakers wish to share written material with
the Board, 10 copies must be provided to the Board Secretary of Services for Board members,
the Superintendent, the Chief Communications Officer, and for 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 B.E.D. Legal states that it is a criminal offense for a person with intent to prevent or disrupt a lawful meeting
to subsequently 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
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 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.
our first speaker this evening is Sean Dolan. Mr. Dolan and the rest of the
speakers you will have one and a half minutes tonight. So to start the ballot
box stuffing prevention it concerns me a little bit because not that this is
happening but it could happen if 100 staff members every day logged in and
filled out the form the method that was explained tonight of looking at the IP
address. Similar submissions and in short filled out in short time would not be
detected if it's done in the same location at a school. Also the latest
power school forms sent to all parents you asked parents to waive their child's
Fourth Amendment rights. This should be clearly stated in a way that at least
most parents who have signed it are aware if not all. In this case most
parents I've spoken with have signed away their child's Fourth Amendment
right without knowing they did. I find this a bit unethical if not illegal. And
even for those who do understand what they're assigning there's not an option
to not agree. There's one choice to allow an appropriately trained administrator
to examine a student's personal device and search its contents in accordance
with the law. I'm not sure what that means in this case. I don't trust every
staff member in this organization have access to my children's personal texts,
text, images, emails, Instagrams, Snapchats, and mobile phone browser history.
I hope the district will message all parents who receive this form and clarify that this
is not required and provide them with a method not to agree if they choose.
In the meantime, I have a form on abetterlegacy.com slash documents that parents can fill out
and provide to the school.
And that's my time.
Thank you.
I'm sorry.
Thank you, Mr. Dillon.
Our next speaker is Michael Scheman.
in all right increasingly many kids are identified as needing behavioral transition then blame for
not being inspired by working with the people who just insulted them i deliberately avoided fixing
my originally autistic daughter, teaching her to explain herself and
students now follow her socially. At seven she needs virtually no academic
aid, gives herself chores, designs and builds things like wallets out of paper, and works out for fun.
In past board meetings I summarized a presentation with social engineering
solutions and student ambition matching led survey idea to link excluded students
students by common admiration, not rules of punishment. So far, no response. Thus, any
parent or student is free to contact me at Mike, S-H-E-I-M-A-N, at hotmail.com or visit
my Facebook social group, KISD Networking, and support for excluded students until, unless,
either you or a better legacy finally steps up to do the job. I don't think it's nearly
as tough as people make it out to be, and I don't think we need to be spending the time
money or blame on others that we have over that issue and I think that would solve of course the
issues with suicide possibly suicides and shooters associated with the safety of the school system
thank you mr. Schumann our next speaker is mr. Nick funditas thank you at the special board
meeting on May 10th 2018 the KDISD Board of Trustees voted unanimously for the
approval of engaging the outside counsel of Feldman and Feldman to pursue legal
action for defamation on behalf of the superintendent other school officials
and our staff the check register for the month of July which is the last month
publicly available shows that KDISD spent twenty nine thousand six hundred
sixty two dollars and fifty cents for legal services from Feldman and Feldman
I would like to know what public person purpose has been achieved what controls
are in place and what return benefit has been realized for this nearly $30,000 expenditure.
Since this Board has a fiduciary responsibility to the taxpayers of Katy, I would like to
make sure that each of you are informed that the Attorney General of Texas Opinion G-0878
states that because the United States Supreme Court has said that governmental bodies may
not bring defamation lawsuits, the governmental body's employee may not attempt to circumvent
that prohibition by bringing a personal lawsuit with funding from the governmental body
because doing so would necessarily be limited to the employee's personal interest
i mean it's more than just the kd than the state of texas taking money out of the students from
katie this board is taking money from the students of katie i would challenge you all to do better
thank you thank you mr funditas our next speaker is susan wallace
To the men and women of the Board, I apologize.
I was disruptive at the last work study meeting.
I was warned and you had every right to boot me.
I come here with good intentions, but over the course of the meeting, something is likely
to upset me.
I assure you I do not come with the intention to interrupt.
Frankly, I would love to be somewhere else doing something else, anything else, rather
than come into what feels like a hostile territory trying to be heard as a voice for improvement.
It would be nice if we could speak in a more conducive environment than this.
It would be great if some of you would be willing to speak to us outside of this forum.
Or one of you.
Yet we find ourselves here.
Yes, I'd like to be somewhere else doing just about anything else, and I could, unlike you,
the Board, who volunteer your time.
It seems a handful of volunteers do the work of and for many.
That's something I'm very familiar with and can appreciate.
I also volunteer my time in our community.
I've volunteered all of my life.
In the last 18 years, I've done so primarily in Katy, Texas.
I've been recognized by the Scouts, American Red Cross, the United Way, and Katy ISD.
I've earned Volunteer of the Year twice.
twice. It's because I invested in the health of the community that I cannot in good conscience
sit back and watch with my head in the sand. I see I'm about to run out of time. Didn't
get enough done.
Thank you, Ms. Wallace. Our next speaker is I think it's Eric San Miguel. Am I correct?
I apologize. I was having a hard time reading.
That's okay.
Thank you.
Thank you. I'm going to have to say I'm pretty unfamiliar with doing something like this, but I felt the need to come and do this where the negativity seems to get a lot of the attention.
I wanted to bring some positivity. My son means the world to me. Both of my boys do, and they had such a wonderful experience.
experience. My son was tested for autism and as a guy who's that guy who moved to Katy because he wants his kids to be Katy football players, I'm that guy. You know, even before I even knew their interest, who cares about their interest, right? It was about me and before I was a, you know, before I had them, right? But I just wanted to let you guys know I'm so blessed to be here. The teachers and the staff at Hutsville Elementary changed my child's life. He was removed from the program, the PPCD program about midway through the year. He made
so many great strides throughout the year his teachers as the administrators
everybody was just incredibly gracious incredibly faithful patient and taught
me gave me the tools to be a better parent a better man and I really wanted
to come here and say thank you thank you for all the volunteer work you guys do
thank you so much to the Hutzel Hornets I think they are a very underrated
school in this district. I can't thank the principal Margie Blunt enough, the
teachers, all of his resources, I can't name them all and I know I'm running
out and I'm a little nervous because I've never done this but thank you so
much for allowing me to be here and allowing my family to thrive here and
don't let the negativity get to you. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Sam Miguel.
Our next speaker is Renee Glasscock.
Good evening, Madam President, Trustees, and Mr. Gregorski.
I appreciate the opportunity to speak on behalf of my students
and advocate in the best interest of their education.
I understand we have to be in compliance with TEA,
but I'm wondering how long this waiver 5.9 is for,
and shouldn't we be working to reduce class sizes instead of adding students?
While I understand that our district is growing,
and I'm super proud that people are choosing our community to come and have their children educated,
everything that I've read, researched, and personally experienced as an educator
suggests that greater class sizes do not have a positive impact on increasing student outcomes.
As a teacher, I would appreciate the continued ratio cap at 22 to 1 as it is a more effective environment in which students are able to grow as learners.
I would also like to respectfully ask for any research the board or administration is privy to that determines that greater class sizes is conducive to better outcomes for our students.
I respectfully ask the board to consider input on this issue from your people on the front lines as your teachers, the ones who are held responsible daily for improving student outcomes.
I have three 90-minute ELA blocks. I have students reading from a second grade level to a sixth grade level in a fifth grade class. The differentiation that I'm asked to do every day is hard, but we get it done.
done. What I'm asking is for less students so that we can make sure everyone gets what
they need.
Thank you.
Our next speaker is Alan Molda.
Hello. Thank you. This is the first time I'm doing this, so just bear with me. I do have
three kids in KISD and I'm one of those residents of Katy that actually went K through
my senior year here in KISD so I know the value of the KISD education so thank you for that.
I do have a problem with the boundary modification proposals that you put out there.
I've been a resident, I've been living in my house for 10 years in Highland Park.
This will be potentially the fourth time my junior high is being re-zoned. It's the fourth time in 10
years. I currently, kids currently go to Ties Junior High which is walking distance so we
We don't get a bus.
You're now zoning me for Cinco,
potentially zoning me to Cinco Ranch High School,
a junior high, which is actually requires a bus.
So you're adding to the problem that we have
with the current bus schedules now.
We don't have enough buses and you're adding more to that.
As Mr. Scott eloquently stated
that you gotta make tough decisions
to do the building utilization.
I don't know if you realize option one
still has Beckendorf overcrowded with 1700 students,
still has McMeans under capacity by 400 students,
still has a memorial parkway short 300 students so it doesn't feel like any of these options are
really taking the tough decisions you're really just focusing on ties and not the broader uh
redistricting of the students in the area and lastly uh you talked about the survey uh if you
look at the the way you set up the survey it is highly biased to for people to choose the first
one because you said it's recommended and that was the first one the last choice was number three so
So when you look at the fact that...
Thank you so much.
For clarification, Mr. Mulder.
Mr. Mulder.
Clarification, you said you live in Highland Park?
Highland Park.
Okay.
Thank you so much.
Our next speaker is Oscar Salit.
My name is Oscar, well, board members, officers.
My name is Oscar Sali, and I live in Greenway Village.
And I'm here to talk about the attendance boundary modification, ABM, for junior high.
and I believe that the way I was informed it was just by chance I would
like to ask to send an email to everybody who is in the school district
not only to those schools that have been going to be moved or changed
everybody you know my children when they finish elementary school they won't go
to college they have to go to junior high and everything else and for us
having to drive or catch a bus instead of going to the high school that is next to us or junior high makes a big difference.
And I just want to have a map that is good and is not only by the numbers.
I would like to have a map that is taking priority the distance from the house to the
school, not only having the numbers.
I mean if you just want the numbers I can write a program and get that for you.
But this is about students and going to school in a sequence.
Sorry, it's my first time speaking like this.
Thank you so much.
Next our speaker is Stephen Blackwell.
Kind of going to echo what has just previously been said about the boundary modification.
We live in King Lakes which would be impacted greatly by this and based on these numbers
which some people tend to put a lot of stock in, they're not balanced.
I would like to thank you for taking into account the human side of this.
My son, my youngest, would be, I mean, he's on Ty's football team.
They train according to Tompkins.
Their feeder pattern works with that.
His guys are all there.
That's going to be disrupted, and that needs to be taken into account
because he would spend his eighth grade year in Cinco Ranch
where they don't know anybody, they're in band, they're in football, and the human side of that has to be taken into account when these numbers are completely inefficient, as has already been previously stated.
If you, I mean, Beckendorf doesn't even change in any of these plans. That's insane.
And just like three or four schools within the 70th percentile, you tell me there's not a better way to balance that out from east to west? There absolutely is.
So I really urge you to factor in the feeder patterns as you guys often say they're very important to this.
But again, look at the numbers and make a better plan. These plans are not good.
I'm going to leave early.
Can I ask you a question just for clarification?
Sure.
I could not read that. Is that a copy of our current?
Here's your current plan in the upper.
Or is that something you created?
No, no. This was printed by somebody in the office.
Okay. I just couldn't read it and if you could read it I was going to ask you this question.
But I've seen it before so I can recall and I know my zone
But thank you
Thank you
Our next speaker is Ernest camp
Mr. Camp you created the map I I
Put the KDISD maps together. I
I apologize for the size of the maps. I tried to get all the data on one page with the numbers also.
As a community, I would believe the efforts of the district for boundary modifications
would include limiting the overcrowding of schools, limiting the distance traveled by
students to the schools, and reducing the likelihood of additional boundary modifications.
None of these three options included in the survey address these goals. I moved to home within
in Greenway Village within one mile of the schools that my students that my
four children currently attend the current survey has three options option
one and two would have my students 2.9 miles away at Beck junior high option
three has our neighborhood still in attendance at Cinco Ranch junior high
but leaves many other junior highs severely overpopulated the junior high
zoning maps are not using common sense to achieve the goals of the district.
Four of the ten junior highs in the survey of these attendance zones are
closer to my home than Beck. This likely means thousands of students which are
literally across the street from junior highs are being bused to a different
junior high. As a parent of KD ISD students I don't want to feel under
constant threat of losing bus service or rezoning. I believe there are better
Are there better options to the attendance?
Thank you, Mr. Camp.
Our next speaker is Martha Mahotney.
Yes, Martha.
Partha, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Partha. I'm reading it and saying it wrong. I apologize.
Madam President, before he begins, may I just make a comment?
If anyone doesn't have time to finish their remarks, please feel free to email those to us.
We read every word.
I read every word that you send.
So if you want to send in the remarks that you don't finish, I'd be happy to read them.
Thank you.
Good evening.
This is my first time, so please.
We live in Highland Park, 15-year-old subdivision, and we already have been rezoned three times.
This will be the fourth time if we get rezoned to Cinco and Junior High.
we don't have bus service right now because we live less than two miles from
Tice then what sense is does it make to send us to three and a half miles to
Cinco Ranch Junior High it doesn't make sense to me already okay students have
been moved to two schools Beckendorf so he my kid has lost a few of his friends
to Beckendorf and now he's going to Tice but if he gets rezoned to Cinco Ranch
and junior high, then I don't understand.
My apprehension is if this rezoning goes through,
then there is nothing that is preventing the rezoning board
to kind of like, even though we live next to Tompkins,
nothing is preventing them to rezone us
to Cinco Ranch High School,
saying that that is the right feeder pattern.
So that's all I have.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Our next speaker is Kapil Upadhyay.
Please correct me.
I apologize.
Good evening, President Doyle and members of the board.
My comments are, again, regarding the boundary rezoning.
I am from Zone 68A, King Lake Subdivision, and I speak on behalf of a large part of our subdivision.
We got zoned to Thais two years back due to proximity, and now options 1 and 2 propose
to change that again.
As you have heard earlier tonight, continuity is important for development of our kids.
If a feeder pattern of Thais junior high gets disrupted, there may be negative impact on
emotional well-being of our kids.
I believe instead that this might be an opportunity for the subdivisions called Westheimer Lakes
and Pine Mill Ranch to be rezoned because they already have a disrupted feeder pattern.
Distance to Thais versus Sincoran Junior High is really the key issue for us,
and transportation is not getting better in KT anytime soon.
The least we as parents and our kids also want is proximity to our schools.
Lastly, when I analyze surveys as part of my job,
the rate of acceptance that I look at is based on industry standards and whenever we see 20% or more participants not
agreeing to something then there is a problem. So I do
request you to look at the 30% or more people who have rejected options one and two and
and go with option three. Thank you.
Could you please repeat what what neighborhood did you say you were in? King Lakes. Thank you.
which one king lakes our next speaker is james strickland
good evening board madam president mr Gregorski here's a quick men on campus update we have five
new launch events this month and we have about 15 inactive schools coming up so basically out of
of all the schools 15 of them do not have any program that I know of so
that's not very many left so I'm excited about that as far as the inquiries I
have a lot of high schools reaching out in fact I've got several meetings with
them next week and those are going to be adopting the male
involvement program and so regarding some recent media attention that we've
gotten the idea has actually been supported from the district from the
the very first time I brought it forward. So just want to clear that up. I had an article that was
written that said it might have been due to some stuff that came out a couple years ago. It's not
the case. And I am not on the payroll. This is not my program that I am packaging and selling. I do
not get paid and I will not get paid. So regarding all this, there's been a clear line drawn down the
community and I don't think it's appropriate. Some have chosen to be pretty obnoxious in their
pursuit. Kind of fast forwarding so I have a little bit of time. Men on Campus expects its male role
models to follow the rules and to set an example and I expect the people of this community to do
the exact same thing and stop goofing off on social media. When you're yelling nobody's listening. Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you Mr. Strickland.
Our next speaker is Mike Murray.
Mary.
I'm sorry.
Yes, please.
I am a teacher and a member of the Safety and Security Advisory Board for our district.
I requested to be part of the discussion around safety and security of our kids mainly because
of the strategic design plan that we adopted last year and specifically the goal of supporting
the emotional well-being of all learners.
To me the mental health of our kids is every bit as important as their physical health
when it comes to safety and security.
I was encouraged after attending the first advisory board meeting to see that multiple
new projects were being implemented such as comprehensive control access systems
security fences that being said I remain hopeful that more funding can be
directed towards programs and staffing that provides psychological services for
the students in our district I realize that fences and IT projects are capital
staffing is on the operational side and that's much harder to do but if we're
going to remain true to the goal that we put on our strategic plan we have to
to provide funding for the psychological services in support of our kids. I think, and I'm biased,
but I think our counseling and psychological services are the best in Texas, but the explosion
of mental health disorder diagnoses, along with the social media dangers that our kids face that
you all know about, these folks need our help. I think fences and badges are good, but in my opinion,
mental health services provide for the emotional well-being of our kids, and they have a more
meaningful and long-lasting impact on their safety and their security.
Thank you.
Our next speaker is Colburn McClellan.
Hello and good evening.
My family moved to Katy ISD about two and a half years ago.
And we left a school district that was in bad shape in Beaumont, Beaumont ISD.
You want to see a school district in real problems with some real issues, take a look
at that.
We considered South Lake, Lake Travis, West Lake, many other good school districts here
in the state and we chose Katy.
And I'm so proud to have now opened businesses here in Katy.
My three children are here at Katy ISD and we are honored and glad to be here.
And I can tell you that there's no place perfect.
But as I have looked at and read and hear all the things that have been said about different faculty members of KDISD, board members, our superintendent, he's still our superintendent.
I'm proud that he's our superintendent.
And I wish that Dr. Hint would reconsider his position and take his position back as our superintendent.
And so I just want to say I'm proud to be Katie, proud my kids are in Katie ISD.
Thank you for all the work that you do. I know you guys are all volunteers
here in front of me, and I thank you for your service and
appreciate it very much and glad my children are here.
Thank you. Our next speaker is Erica Steitenbroth.
Good evening Madam President, members of the Board, and fellow community members.
Before I begin, I want to thank you for the countless hours that you volunteer for our community, students, faculty, and staff as our Board of Trustees.
I'm here tonight because I've sat on the sideline for months amongst the silent majority,
in part due to disbelief at what has been unfolding in our district and in
part in fear of potential retaliation from the leader and supporters of a
better legacy I am here tonight because I'm tired of being afraid to speak up in
support of our excellent district and to let you know that there are many
families in this district that stand that in fact do stand with KDISD and are
tired of the bullying you and Dr. Hint are enduring in fourth grade I remember
teasing a girl because she wore Supergirl underwear. I also remember
being teased for wearing glasses and in high school I remember intimidating
Jackie because she was flirting with my boyfriend. I'm inclined to say that we
all have a story at some point in our history similar to these. Angelina Jolie,
a humanitarian who promotes various causes, one of the most influential and
powerful people in the American entertainment industry, admits that she
was quote a punk outsider that nobody messed with. She was a bully. She was
is also bullied. Yet today, millions of people around the world applaud her humanitarian
efforts and support her career. Does she deserve to be attacked the same way that Dr. Hindt
our district has experienced? No, because we were adolescents and now it's different.
I stand with the
doctor thank you
thank you our next speaker is Patti Lacy
Wow good job my name is Patti Lacy and those are some tough acts to follow but
But I just want to tell you guys, I've lived in the district for over 25 years.
All four of my children graduated from Katie Schools.
And my four beautiful granddaughters will all attend Katie Schools, and one already does.
I just want to tell you guys thank you.
I want to thank Dr. Hint, the staff, the police, the admin, the teachers,
Deputy Superintendent Gregorski.
That's a mouthful.
But thank you.
I thank you guys so much.
And my husband's so proud of me because I finally said his name right.
Can I get an amen?
Thank you, babe.
I also want to thank the volunteers.
And like they've already said, these sweet, sweet board members are just that.
They're volunteers.
They do this for free.
And it's not for free.
They give a lot.
And trust me, I know firsthand.
So I thank you guys.
I thank all of our volunteers, the PTA, the men on campus,
the booster clubs, the parents, everyone that volunteers. And our district is not
perfect, but that's okay because we're pretty darn good and I'm proud of that
and I'm proud of y'all and we aren't going to take it anymore. We need to be
nice and can we be better? Of course we can be better. Will we be better? Yes, we
will be better, but let's just come together and show respect for one
another and for our community and for our children. Thank you.
Thank you.
Our next speaker is Kimberly Rendon.
Good evening.
My name is Kimberly Taylor Rendon.
I've grown up here in Katy since 1977.
Thank you very much for all that you do.
I thanked you last month at last month's board meeting.
And I just want to say that my dad taught me my maiden name is Taylor.
When we walked out that door, that last name was his last name.
So we better not disrespect it in town.
And I grew up treating people with respect, dignity, and trying to do the best that I knew how to have integrity in my word.
And when I look around and I see stuff on social media, I don't want to see stuff like your Chicken Little, like the sky is falling.
Our district is better than what has been perceived on social media.
With the negative media attention that we've received, it's nonsense.
And I, like other people, are standing up and saying enough is enough.
We want positivity in this district.
Our district's better than the negativity that's been rolling through this district.
So as far as I'm concerned, we need to not only stand behind Dr. Hint
and those that are here on our existing board meeting,
and we need to walk to the polls we have walked up here and spoke publicly how we
support now my dad taught me if you're gonna talk the talk you need to walk the
walk well I'm walking up here to this podium I'm walking to the polls I'm
going to get other people in the KDQ thank you so much
Our next speaker is Robert Willoughby.
My name is Robert Willoughby. My family moved to Katy in 2001 from just over the hill there
there in Aleve. And we moved here for many of the same reasons that us newcomers chose
KDISD. We chose it for the schools, and in my case, I chose it for this community. We
were welcomed even with all of our flaws, and my children were given an opportunity
to excel. They weren't given the right, but the opportunity. And as a father, the opportunity
was all that I needed. Recently our community missed out on an opportunity.
Our time to stand with you in the face of adversity, torment, ridicule and
bullying, well we blew it. Look, we all know there are issues that need attention. As
adults it is our responsibility to bring these issues to you in a respectful
respectful manner and to work with you to find a solution.
It is said that only light.
Can drive out darkness.
And then only love can counter hate.
If we stay on the sidelines in silence in our comfort zones,
we will lose our way and the darkness will become our norm.
Tonight I ask our community to be that light to offer up that
that love and to stand with you for what is right. Thank you for your time.
Thank you. Our final speaker is Katrina Catisralis. I too want to speak about
the negativity, ongoing negativity with Katy ISD. I'm the editor of Katy
magazine and for 15 years it has been my job to know the ins and outs of this
district and the people who run it because education is a top priority to
our readers having had encounters with hundreds of teachers administrators and
everyone I know without question in Katy ISD is dedicated to the kids they serve
I am also a mom of two Katy ISD graduates who are blessed to go to Katy
ISD schools my family came from California believe me I know what a bad
school district looks like this is not it. With 80,000 students to educate there
will be issues in situations that need improvement. Not everyone is going to get
the outcome that they're expecting but these conflicts can be handled in a much
better way. Just be kind. Strong leadership is vital to a top school
district and everyone in the district should be very afraid that Dr. Hint is
leaving. He is the most innovative, caring, enthusiastic leader this district has
has ever seen, all because of one person rallied up a social
media hate campaign when he didn't get the outcome he
wanted for his own personal situation, not for the greater
good of all the children, his own personal situation.
The ultimate loss of all this is the kids, these children.
The more time we spend on this, the less time we have to help
children and do what's best for them.
Thank you to our weary board.
We appreciate everything you do.
Keep up the great work.
Thank you to all of our speakers.
Next, Agenda Item 8.1, Superintendent District Update.
Mr. Gregorski.
Thank you, Madam President.
It's with great pleasure I get an opportunity to talk to our board
and share some of the things that have been going on since the last board meeting
and share with the community as well.
A few of the things that I'll be touching on were some of the things that were brought up tonight during the public comment, so it'll be helpful to get some of that information out as well.
Last month, I spoke to some of the challenges we had with opening schools, especially transportation and some of the routes associated with that multi-bill schedule.
And we've done a lot of work on that schedule, and I think most of you, maybe not everybody, would agree that we've seen great improvements since that time.
We track our data, we've looked at our data, and our data shows that over the last couple of weeks,
what we call our on-time bus routes, when we look at all of our routes over time,
we're hitting approximately 98% of our routes on time for all levels, that's K-12,
which is a marked improvement from what we saw the first couple weeks of school.
I asked for some patience and a little bit of understanding with that, and I think we've delivered on that.
A few other things we'd like to address with transportation, and we're getting there,
But I think we've shown considerable improvement in that category
Like every other district. I think the recruitment is a challenge
You know I mean getting bus drivers to work you google it up
You'll find out there's a lot of districts struggling with getting a lot of drivers here if we were fully staffed
I think we had fixed every problem we have with our routes, but we're working towards that we have a number of people in our
Pool right now who we are training to get their CDL and once they get their CDL and finish their training
We'll have them driving routes as well
We've hired 20 plus bus attendants in the last month, which has been really helpful in solving some of those problems.
But I think one of the issues we're working on are incentives for recruitment.
We've put two or three, four different things into play there that we think are going to help us in the long term.
But most importantly, I want to talk a little bit about the retainment of our bus drivers.
We do a great job retaining our folks.
They stay here with us in Katy for many of the reasons probably you heard about today.
It's a great place to live, great place to raise your kids and be part of a community.
And looking at last year's data when we finished the school year
until just September last week when I pulled it and got those numbers from HR,
we've had a retention rate of 96.5% of our drivers, which is pretty solid retention rate
I would say of holding on to our employees. So I wanted to bring that to everybody's attention.
Second thing I want to talk about a little bit the Legacy Parent Academy that was addressed a couple of times here today talking about
social and emotional and well-being.
I'm proud to say we had that first kickoff of that last week.
It's part of our goal eight of our strategic plan that you heard just a short time ago from one of the speakers.
And I'll tell you, we had a great night that night.
We had over 400 people register for that one event alone, which would have been a huge turnout.
And at the same time, when we had to close the max capacity on there, we found a way for technology to live stream that event.
So during the live stream, we had 500 plus plays that evening of that event.
So a lot of people chose to stay home in lieu of it and not attend the event.
But to us, as long as we can get the information out to the people, that's what really matters.
Whether you came live to see it or you watched it live stream, we had a great time there.
And a lot of good information was shared.
And I appreciate those presenters who came out to deliver those community event for our people.
The other thing I want to talk about is we've got a couple other things tied to that Legacy Academy.
There's two coming up in October.
We've got the college and career night on October 3rd, and we have mental health services in Texas on October 24th.
So all of those academy nights, they can be found on our district website, so I encourage anybody to go there and see what we've got coming up.
Register for those events, the ones that require registration.
A lot of the other ones you can just show up because the capacity is almost unlimited, but
some of our venues are a little bit smaller for that.
Another thing with parent and community engagement is a survey we pushed out just recently from our communications department.
IT'S TIED TO GOAL 7 OF THAT STRATEGIC PLAN.
IT WENT OUT VIA E-MAIL.
IF BY CHANCE YOU DIDN'T GET IT,
YOU CAN ACCESS IT FROM OUR WEBSITE,
BUT I WANTED TO BRING ATTENTION TO THAT
BECAUSE THAT'S IMPORTANT TO US,
THAT COMMUNITY RESPONDS TO THAT SURVEY
AND GIVES US THE FEEDBACK OF BETTER WAYS
THAT WE CAN ENGAGE OUR COMMUNITY,
ENGAGE THEM WITH THE DISTRICT, ENGAGE THEM WITH SCHOOLS,
AND WE CAN BUILD THAT RELATIONSHIP
AND THAT PARTNERSHIP TOGETHER.
SO I WANTED TO BRING SOME ATTENTION TO THAT.
ANOTHER POSITIVE EFFECT,
and somebody talked a little bit about safety so I want to touch on that one as
well some of the safety measures we put into place are working very fine one of
them is that clear bag procedure we put in place at roads and legacy stadiums
things are going great with that and it's a testament to the the community
that's coming out it's been very positive as part of that and I want to
thank the community for being part of something that's helping everybody stay
safe and and follow along with the clear bag policy last thing I want to talk
about is last month I talked a little bit about enrollment we were just a
little bit under projection at that time and I said we're gonna hit it soon and
sure enough we've exceeded our projections for the year as of this
morning we were 215 students over projection we generally hit our
projection around semester or soon after right about that time so we're hitting
it quicker than we've ever hit it before people are still coming to Katy that
that number continues to rise I know one of the speakers talked a little bit
about class size and balancing and that's always tough in there especially
as a fast-growth district as kids are coming in so the waivers are one of the
things we use as a strategy because we just can't get teachers in that that
quickly in terms of this so there are some challenges in there I know some of
our HR folks are here tonight Yolanda Edmond our assistant super HR
came up and presented and I appreciate her work there I've seen Nita Hill our
executive director out there Lisa Moore was out there somewhere I saw her but
But some of the work they've been doing behind the scenes, we really appreciate what HR does, even in those most challenging situations in balancing.
So with that said, those were the things I wanted to cover tonight.
Appreciate the opportunity of giving that update.
Madam President.
Yes, Ms. Fox.
Mr. Krakorski, what's the current enrollment number?
We're over.
Do you happen to know it?
I'd have to dig for it in my notes here.
I know it's 215 above.
But if you give me one second, I'll find it.
I'll let you look and I will go on. Thank you, Mr. Gregorski.
Our next regular meeting is Monday, September 24th, 2018.
Do you have it? I do. Our projection was
$79,481. Our actuals came in right now at $79,698.
So I said we're going to hit that $80,000 by the end of the year. It's coming.
I don't know when it's coming, but it's going to come fast.
There being no further business before the board, this meeting is adjourned. The time is 922.
Thank you.
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