January 21, 2019

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The Board will now reconvene in open meeting. Today is Monday, January 21st, 2019 and the time is 635 p.m. Mr. Grigorski, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Opens Meetings Act with regard to the notice for this meeting?

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Madam President, I confirm we are in compliance with the Texas Open Meeting Act in regard to this meeting tonight.

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On behalf of my colleagues, I welcome everyone to this evening's regular board meeting. Each board member received the agenda and documentation for this meeting on Friday, January 18th 2019 and have had three days to study its content and receive clarification from administration Additionally the board met last week in a work-study meeting to receive information and recommendations from staff and administration on these agenda items Board members were able to ask questions receive answers and should be prepared with responses and action tonight The Board has just reconvened from closed meeting in accordance with Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code. Any action arising from discussions in a closed meeting must be taken in an open meeting. We will now move to Agenda Item 3.1. Madam President. Ms. Fox. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the Superintendent in closed meeting. Second. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, I have a motion by Ms. Fox, a second by Ms. Vann, that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting we will now proceed to vote all those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye aye all those opposed motion passes

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agenda item 3 mr. Lacey I move that the Board of Trustees names Michael Schwartz as the principal of Stevens Elementary as recommended by the superintendent in

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closed meeting second I have a motion by mr. Lacey a second by mr. Scott that the board of trustees named Michael Schwartz as the principal for Stevens Elementary School as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting. Is there any discussion? Hearing none we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor please raise your right hand and say aye.

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All those opposed? Motion passes. Go ahead. Madam President if I could I'd like to invite Michael Schwartz he's out in the audience if he would please stand and be recognized. And Michael, it looks like you brought some folks with you, if you'd like to introduce those people.

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This is my son, Rylan. I have my mom here and

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one of my colleagues.

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I mean, before Rampart's a colleague.

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Soon to be not colleagues, I guess. Alright, well we're excited to have Michael aboard and to put in that principal position he's done wonderful work here in the district for a number of years as a AP at two schools over at wolf and at Bear Creek and he's doing wonderful work and he's going to continue that work for us so thank you Michael

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next we'll move to our Pledge of Allegiance mr. Gorg or ski Thank You

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madam president we have a special guest with us and I'm gonna go ahead and invite invite up Kathy Ong to the podium. She is a fifth grade student over at Alexander Elementary, and her principal is Dr. Charmaine Hoban, who's with us tonight. She has with her also some special guests, her mother, Su Mun Chee, and her father, Ong Ong, and her sister, Sandy, is in the first grade, and she's with us as well. So I'd like to say a few things about Kathy. Her special interest, art is something Kathy enjoys because of the different forms of materials she can use to draw the materials she uses are oil pastels chalk pastels watercolor paints acrylic paints and colored pencils her favorite subject is math because of the different ways to solve problems like addition subtraction multiplication and division and her personal favorite is multiplication because it is repeated addition doing order of operations is more exciting because you can do all the different math types in one problem and a few quotes from her teachers from Mrs. Chris Ohm, fifth grade teacher, Kathy is very conscientious student. She comes into math class each day with a smile and eager to learn. And from Mrs. Kim Franden, fifth grade teacher, Kathy is a thoughtful and responsible student. She makes smart decisions and always looks for opportunities to improve. Kathy consistently does her personal best on a daily basis, a joy to have in the classroom. And from Sarah Jackson, fifth grade teacher, Kathy is a driven student who always displays kindness and compassion towards others. And from Emily Morgan, fifth grade teacher, Kathy is a kind and sweet young lady. She exudes positivity to everyone around her. Kathy always brightens my day with her gentle hugs and a huge smile. I am thankful to have her in my class. So Kathy, thank you for being with us today. I'll let you go ahead and lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance and then we're going to turn the microphone over to you to share some words with us.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I honor the Texas flag. flag. I pledge allegiance to the Texas, one state, under God, one and invisible. Good evening, President Doyle, board members, and Superintendent Gregorski. My name is Cassie Ong, and I am a fifth grader at Alexander Elementary. I have been a Stingray since 2014. My favorite subject is math because I like the different ways to solve problems. I also love art. I enjoy it because of its different forms and materials that I can use. Some of the different forms of art that I like are pointillism, sculpting, and painting. I love Alexander because of its great teachers, and I want to thank them for their support. I also love to see Mr. Alexander when he visits our school. Ray is a very special place. One moment that was special to me was when my fourth grade teacher was having a rough year due to Hurricane Harvey. The class got sticky notes and wrote positive and nice messages on them. We put them on her back without her knowing. When she realized she had them on, we took some off her back. And she was so happy that we thought to do something so nice for her. Another thing I love about Ray is the fifth grade kindness crew because it is a great opportunity to be kind inside school and out. As fifth graders, we have lunch with our counselor, Ms. Watson, and principal, Dr. Hoban and talk about the importance of being kind. We are challenged to perform 20 acts of kindness in 20 days, record them on sticky notes, and add them to our classroom kindness jars. Doing this makes the world a better place. I am very grateful to be a student at Katy ISD. Thank you for this opportunity, and have a great rest of the week.

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Thank you.

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I'm so excited to meet her because I thought it would be.

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Oh wait, principal.

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Thank you, Kathy. Next, do we have any scouts in the audience? Okay, seeing none, we'll proceed. Agenda item 5.1, presentation on the 2017-2018 annual report to include the Texas academics performance report. Dr. Caskey?

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Dr. Matney.

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I'm sorry. I didn't see you standing over there. My apologies.

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Go ahead. Good evening, President Doyle, Superintendent Gorgorski, and members of the board. I'm here this evening to present in a public hearing format our 2018-2019 annual report. The annual report requirements include listing of the district accreditation status, which we are accredited. It includes portions of the Texas academic performance report, which will go through those details. Acknowledging that our special education status is that we meet the requirement. New for this year is a requirement to report out if we meet our armed services vocational aptitude battery ASVAB test requirements. And we do, all of our campuses offer that to students. Reporting out our campus performance objective update, report on violent or criminal incidents on campus, and student performance in post-secondary institutions information. So with that, we'll get started with the taper component, the district performance. performance. And just a reminder that the performance thresholds that we'll discuss here this evening include approaches grade level or above, and the state defines that as students having some knowledge of course content, but maybe missing critical elements. The student needs additional support in the coming year. That's approaches grade level. Meets grade level is the middle level of mastery. Strong knowledge of course content. The student is prepared to progress to the next grade. And master's grade level. Mastery of the course course knowledge and skills is shown. Student is on track for college and career readiness. So our STAR approaches grade level or above results are here and what this slide shows you is the state results are the black bar on the left, the region four results are the red bar in the middle, and the gold bar is the KDISD bar. And that one shines well above the state and the regional results for all subjects, ELA reading, mathematics, writing, science, and social studies. For meets grade level, that's the middle level of mastery, again, you can see that our KDISD bar is significantly higher than the state and our region average. And the same trend applies to our masters grade level. So not only are our students passing our star exams, but they are doing extremely well and And on top of that, scoring higher than our state and regional averages. For our school progress, so how are students performing from one grade level to the next? You can see again our KD students progress at a higher rate than our state and region data for both subjects, ELA and math. For attendance and post-secondary readiness, our attendance rate is 97%. when you're talking about attendance rates there's not a lot of up and down there so pretty consistent with our state and our regional peers our annual dropout rate so for 1617 that's the level of data that's reported because this does work one year behind you can see that the Katy dropout rate for grade six or for seven and eight excuse me and for grades nine through twelve are well below the state and region dropout rates we're keeping kids in school which is a a great place for them to be. Our class of 27, four-year graduation longitudinal rates. You can see again, KDISD at 94.5% graduation rate, well above our state and regional averages. For class of 2017, the percent of that class of graduates that was considered college, career, and military ready, this was a new indicator this year. So that's based on our student achievement domain. 70% of Class of 2017 was considered college, career, and military ready. You can see, again, well above state and regional percentages. Class of 2017, the percent of graduates that met or exceeded the college ready TSI criteria, it's a threshold that students can meet either through ACT, SAT, or by taking a TSI exam. Again, you can see Katie is doing incredibly well there. well for English language arts math and in both subjects so students who are proficient in both subjects is the is the section on the right for 2016-17 our percent of students who took one or more advanced courses or dual enrollment so that's our dual credit students our percentages are there for any subject so So taking any subject, English, language arts, math, science, and social studies. This screen is a little bit different from previous years. This year the state is including all students grades 9 through 12. In the past it's only been juniors and seniors. So this is the first year that they're including all students enrolled in high school. Our advanced placement results, we do not administer the IB exams here, but the state does consider it altogether for districts that do. Again, our participation rate, 34.8% of our students participate in AP exams, and the percent at or above the criterion that the state sets, 82.5%. So our students are not only taking AP exams, they are doing quite well. For Class of 27 SAT and ACT results, our participation rate is 76.4%. That participation rate is based on students who elect to take an SAT or ACT on their own. Many districts in the state and region have elected to providing that for all students, which is why our participation percentage is slightly lower because we do not administer it to all students. But 76% of our students are electing to go on their own and take these exams, which is a fabulous percentage. At or equal to the criterion, we have 45.6% of our students scoring where the state says that they are college ready. Our average SAT scores, you can see again, above our state and regional numbers. ACT scores, we continue with the same trends. Graduates in post-secondary institutions. The state looks at this data and considers the percent of students who graduated from KDISD or the state or the region and what percent are enrolled in a Texas Institute of Higher Education. They're not looking at outside of Texas but at a Texas Institute of Higher Education and we have a significantly higher percentage than the state and region and then our percent of students completing one year without any need of remedial courses is 72.3 that is fantastic our district profile is included in the taper and it outlines our percent of um of our students for their race ethnicity as well as program participation The taper report also outlines retention rates by grade level. You can see state is the black bar on the left and in this case, Katie is the red bar on the right. It outlines average class sizes by grade level for elementary as well as secondary by subject. total staff percentages as well as teachers by years of experience for the campus performance objectives section this is a reminder that all of our campus performance objectives are aligned to our strategic design goals in KDISD and campuses update these and make sure that they are on track for completion quarterly. Violent and criminal incidents is the next requirement to report. We report on level five and level four offenses and the percentages for KDISD for elementary, junior high, and high school are outlined here. Our level five incidents for Katie we only had 21. Our level four incidents we had 306. So fraction of percentages. Addressing how we are impacting those numbers is addressed in our strategic design through goal 8 as well as in our district improvement plan through goal goal eight. Student performance in postsecondary institutions, so just like the screen previously this evening, the state looks at students who leave Katy Independent School District and go on to four-year public universities, two-year public colleges, independent colleges and universities. There's a couple of data sets and they're indicated there when we have some data anomalies, maybe the numbers don't match up, a student may use a state identified number in a public school system and use their PEMS number in the college. So we do have some numbers there, but out of the 4,810 graduates we are tracking, and these are in Texas post-secondary institutions. This data does not include students who go on to Stanford, to University of Oklahoma, outside of the state of Texas. Not sure why they would want to leave the great state of Texas, but many do. So in summary, lots of bullets for areas that were higher than the state and region as we discussed. Approaches grade level performance, meets grade level performance, masters grade level performance, the school progress domain. So we're not only achieving but we're showing great progress our graduation rate our students graduating college career military ready scoring incredibly high on assessments whether it's TSI SAT ACT They're enrolling in Institute's Institutions of higher education and they're doing well there lots to be proud of they couldn't do that without the great background that they're getting here in KDISD. So our focus from this data is continuing to increase achievement for students who are English language learners as well as those students who receive special education services and then increasing our performance in the area of writing at all levels. It's measured in grades 4, 7, English 1 and English 2 but we have to be consistent and across all levels. That ends the public hearing portion.

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Thank you very much, Dr. Matney. Next we have agenda item 5.2. Oh, I'm sorry. Yes, go ahead.

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No problem. I just want to make sure I understand one in particular. Let me get back to it, please. I inadvertently went off. It's the one that shows the number of students in four-year, two-year, etc. It was towards the end. There we go. Is that saying that out of the class of 2016, there were that many graduates from four- and two-year universities or that many enrolled? That's a singular class, as I understand it. Correct.

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Correct. Singular class, our graduate class of 2016 went on to enroll in those.

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That's not college graduation. Correct. Okay, and I do want to make a comment on this because that's what I do on things that come up academic. First of all, let me express my appreciation to Dr. Matney and her team. I've dealt with lots of research and accountability directors and associate superintendents over time and I've not seen any better than Dr. Matney and her team. The report that you've looked at from the state of Texas is a report that she is required by law to give as it is reported and we need to understand that the state of Texas is prescriptive prescriptive prescriptive in what it reports because it doesn't want to appear to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth about the vast majority of the state of Texas and when And when that happens, to some degree, even the numbers for KDISD appear superior. Now, having made that point, I want to add this because I think it's important that people understand the state's accountability system and what it does to consistently and pervasively misrepresent student academic performance in the state of Texas. Now, having said that, I have done extensive research of late as of the 2017-18 star test results in the state of Texas. And I can tell you, if you start doing what the state does not want to do, disaggregate the data in a relevant way in virtually, not virtually, in every major category of student academic performance. performance, when you look at the top 63 enrollment districts in the state of Texas, which includes rich and poor, small and big, major and tiny, in terms of that 63, there's a wide disparity is what I'm trying to say. In every instance, three through EOC, KDISD is in the top one, two, three, four, five, six of all of those school districts when you break it down, whether it's at risk, whether it's regular students. And here's what I want to say. All that to say this. This district is not broken. It has a lot of work to do, and what this board has done in naming Ken Gregorski, our superintendent of schools, is to reward and honor the administrators and the teachers and the principals throughout this district for a job well done. I've taken three votes since I've been on the KDISD school board. One was not to do an external search. Two was to hire Lance Hent and three was to hire Ken Gorgarski and I am proud of the board leadership of this school board who stood tough from relentless attacks on this board. Relentless attacks from a tiny element of this board. I am proud of this board for standing behind Ken Gorgorski and Lance Hent and all of the employees and all of the administrators of this district because these results don't just happen.

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Madam President, I would like to say something. First of all, I really enjoyed add the presentation also but when I was on the CAT team and Mr. Stocks at Taylor High School was good at explaining this to us but I thought that that maybe you could also explain it to everyone because when I was on the CAT team with him I was really impressed with how KDISD keeps on top of the students that drop sort of drop out but they don't really know what's happened happened to them, you know, the seniors who become the one year afterwards, and we don't really consider them a dropout until, could you explain that? I mean, I felt good to know that the district was kind of staying with a kid, you know, for a while, trying to, you know, find them, and what are they doing, and what can we get them to do to get their GED, or

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can you go into that at all? Absolutely. There's multiple things. So one is that students can graduate after five years after six and and come back to their high school in that fifth and sixth year if they still have credits that they have to make up if they do drop out and they do not come back to us dr creech leads a great team that like you said is just relentless in in finding and digging and in providing services to those kids helping them with academics how can we meet their academic needs how can we meet their assessment needs if it's the assessment that's keeping them from graduating and and just really not giving up making sure that that every student sees their opportunity and and ultimately either like you said either earns their GED graduate Simon youth program is a fabulous program where a lot of our kids find their way home to graduate from from there. So there's lots of opportunities to be successful in Katy.

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So I just want to add, I'm really impressed with that with our district. I didn't know that and I really want to thank Mr. Stocks for even telling me about that because that's just another impressive thing that I think our district does. Thank you.

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Are there any other comments or questions? Moving on to 5.2, it was a public hearing on the 2017-2018 annual report and we had no speakers sign up tonight so we will move on to agenda item 6 recognitions mr. Krakowski Thank You

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madam president next on our agenda I'd like to introduce mrs. Maria de peta manager of media relations and multimedia for the recognition portion of our meeting

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Good evening, President Doyle, Board members, and Superintendent Gregorski. Each year, the Texas Association of School Boards proclaims January as School Board Recognition Month. Although showing appreciation should be a year-round process, taking advantage of this designated month is our way of ensuring members receive some of the thank yous that they deserve. The City of Katy has also proclaimed January 2019 as School Board Recognition Month. Tonight, a City Council meeting was called and regrettably, Mayor Chuck Bronner could not be in attendance. However, his office has asked that the following proclamation from the City Council be read on his behalf. City of Katy Proclamation School Board Recognition Month 2019. Whereas the mission of the public schools is to meet the diverse educational needs of all children and to empower them to become competent productive contributors to a democratic society and an ever-changing world and Whereas local school board members are committed to children and believe that all children can be successful learners and that the best Education is tailored to the individual needs of the child and whereas local school board members work closely with parents parents, educational professionals, and other community members to create the educational vision we want for our students. And whereas local school board members are responsible for ensuring the structure that provides a solid foundation for our school system, and whereas local school board members are strong advocates for public education and are responsible for communicating the needs of the school district to the public and the public's expectations to the district. Now, therefore, I, Mayor Chuck Bronner, hereby declare my appreciation to the members of the Katy ISD School Board and proclaim the month of January 2019 as School Board Recognition Month in the City of Katy. I urge all citizens to join me in recognizing the dedication and hard work of local school board members and in working with them to mold an education system that meets the needs of both today and tomorrow's children. An official recognition whereof I hereby affix my signature this 21st day of January 2019.

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Madam President, I would like to note Maria did say that Mayor Bronner was unable to attend tonight. Just so that the folks in the audience know, the city of Katy actually has their own special meeting tonight. Their meetings often fall on the same Mondays as ours do, and that would be the reason for his non-attendance, as I understand it.

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to continue our celebration the maid creek elementary pep squad joins us this evening for a special performance under the direction of aaron cassoni abby eddins britney baron kaylee lady and katie netts gators take it away Thank you.

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Who rocks top? I said the Gators rock top. And when the Gators rock top, they rock it all the way down. Woo! Woo! I said let's get it in front of them. And when we get it in front of them, they're gonna get all the way down. Woo! Woo! Applause Applause Applause Ready? Okay. Everybody do the London Street Trouble. Everybody do the London Street Trouble. Everybody.

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Everybody, rumble.

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Everybody do the lovely, sweet rumble. Everybody do the lovely, sweet rumble. Everybody, rumble. Ready? Okay. Make a difference. Choose to be.

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Excellent! Y-E-L-L, Y-E-L-L, everybody yell Go Mayfreet!

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Go Mayfreet! Ready? Okay!

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O-G-O-G-O, Go Go, let's go! Go, go, G-O-G-O, go, go, let's go.

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Thank you so much, girls. Y'all are fabulous. Hey, girls, if you could back up and get together. Board, do you want to get together and stand behind him? Why don't we get together and stand behind him?

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Gators, for that wonderful performance. Let's give them one more round of applause.

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Thank you so much, girls. Y'all do anything to get me out of the picture.

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And the fun isn't over yet. Next on our entertainment lineup, please welcome the Memorial Parkway Junior High Choir under the direction of Alex Latham. Welcome, Memorial Parkway students.

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Thank you. Thank you.

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I'm so glad to be here.

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I look to you. I look to you.

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Teach me how to dance. Dance in the wind. Dance and show off the sky.

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Thank you.

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Wow, what amazing performance. Thanks, Memorial Parkway students.

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NEXT, KDISD HAS A VERY ACTIVE GROUP OF PARENTS WORK EACH AND EVERY DAY TO SUPPORT OUR SCHOOLS. THE KD COUNCIL OF PTA'S IS HERE THIS EVENING FOR A SPECIAL PRESENTATION FOR OUR BOARD MEMBERS. AT THIS TIME, I WOULD LIKE TO ASK THAT EACH TRUSTEE PLEASE STAND IN FRONT OF THE DAIS. AND I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE MRS. GEORGIA STRICKLAND, PRESIDENT OF THE KDISD COUNCIL OF PTA'S.

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Mrs. Strickland real quick I will say that I went to my leadership KD class on Wednesday had a TASB discussion and it's very mind-boggling so I commend y'all for all the work that y'all do without all the pay and appreciation that you you don't get that you definitely do deserve. So it's been an honor to get to know y'all and work with y'all. Look forward to continuing that. And I would like to invite all the ladies and gentlemen who are working just as hard at the campuses, who go unappreciated just like y'all do, and they would like to come give you a little bit of an appreciation. If y'all will please come to the front, ladies and gentlemen.

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Thank you.

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One more.

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One more.

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Thank you, Ms. Strickland.

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Thank you to Ms. Strickland and to all our parent support groups for their commitment to the students of KDISD. Next members from the University Interscholastic League were not able to attend or join us this evening, rather for our next recognition. So at this time, I would like to introduce Debbie Decker, Executive Director of Athletics, and Dr. Rick Hall, Principal of Katy High School, for a special presentation.

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Good evening, Madam President, Board Members, and Superintendent Grogorski. The University Interscholastic League seeks to highlight and recognize the contributions of coaches and sponsors of UIL scholastic competition. competition. They identify and recognize outstanding sponsors who assist students in developing and refining their extracurricular talents to the highest degree possible within the educational system and helping them to keep their personal worth separate from success or failure in competition. It is extremely fitting then that the UIL proudly announced that Katy High School head football coach Gary Joseph as a recipient of the 2018 UIL sponsor excellence award coach Joseph is joined this evening by his wife Sheila his daughter Julie his two granddaughters as well as mrs. carp members of the Katy High coaching staff and athletic department personnel as well as the booster club to celebrate coach Joseph please come forward

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Congratulations, Coach Joseph, on receiving this award in honor of your hard work and dedication. to student athletes. Next, College Board recognizes school districts that have increased access to advanced placement coursework while maintaining or increasing the percentage of students earning scores of three or higher on AP exams. KDISD has earned a place on the AP District Honor Roll for our commitment to increasing the number of students who participated in AP classes and successfully complete the exams with a score that can earn them college credits during high school. Tonight we are proud to announce that KDISD is one of 373 school districts in the United States and Canada to be included on the 9th Annual AP District Honor Roll. This will be the sixth year in a row that the district has been recognized for improving student performance. I would like to ask Aline Lindley, Director of Gifted and Talented Advanced Academics, to please come forward in recognition of this achievement. One more round of applause for Eileen Lilly and the district. This concludes the recognitions portion of our meeting this evening.

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Thank you, Ms. DiPetta. Next, agenda item seven, consent agenda.

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Madam President.

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Mr. Lacey.

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I move that the Board of Trustees approves the consent agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.12. Second.

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I have a motion by Mr. Lacey. A second by Mr. Scott that the Board of Trustees approves the consent agenda as recommended in items 7.1 through 7.12. We will now proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Motion passes. Next, we have our action items. Action 8.1. Madam President. Ms. Vann.

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I move the Board of Trustees names Junior High 16 located at 4141 Cross Creek Bend Lane, Joe M. Adams Junior High School, as recommended by the naming advisory committee.

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Second. Second.

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I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Scott, that the Board of Trustees names Junior High number 16, located at 4141 Cross Creek Bend Lane, Joe M. Adams Junior High School, as recommended by the Naming Advisory Committee. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, we'll proceed to vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye.

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Aye.

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All those opposed, motion passes. Congratulations.

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Thank you.

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Yes, please stand up.

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Agenda item 8.2. Mr. Graham.

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am. Madam President, members of the board, Superintendent Gorkorski, I want to go ahead and apologize in advance for the bags that are under my eyes. I had the great fortune of having my firstborn son last Friday and so we've started thank you so we've started the first three nights of what I'm assuming is 18 years of no sleep in all seriousness I again present to you from this position and not to die because I do so as the elections administrator for Katy Independent School District as we discussed last week that we there were a few questions by this board about the order of election then that order of election has been in your board packets and been posted as proposed online since Friday after this board takes action it will be made public and it will be included in any candidate packet as you will see on the order of election I just want to hit a couple high points we have the same five early voting locations that be the Merrill Center Seven Lakes James E. Taylor High School, Cinco Ranch, and Morton Ranch High School. And those are going to be, as proposed on here, the times that we have are 7 AM to 7 PM. There was some discussion at the last board meeting, and I had a couple of trustees come to me prior to that and ask me, can we look at early voting hours, do we need to vote from 7 AM to 7 PM? I went back and looked at the numbers that I had had my group run previously and just looked at percentages. What we found is at our early voting locations, 10 to 12 percent of all the early votes that were cast were cast between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m., which is right on par with sort of the rest of the time periods. And so I can understand election judges, election officials having to work long days, but they do get paid for that time. And it's obviously worth it because as we looked at the voting totals, they seemed pretty consistent. Like I say, 10 to 12 percent of the early votes were between 7 and 9 a.m. And it would be my recommendation to this board to keep the hours. One of the benefits of keeping the hours consistent is that people don't have to go look at the calendar or go back to the elections webpage to say, oh, what time is it closed? Because you know it's easy to say 7 to 7. Anybody who asks, 7 to 7. So we have the same five early voting locations. The only change from last year is at Katy ISD Precinct 5. We have the same 13 precincts. Those have not changed. but precinct number five which is in Harris County sort of more towards the east side of our district that voting location day of voting last year was at Hayes Elementary now in previous years prior to last year it is my understanding now I wasn't at the district at the time but it's my understanding that those that the election site for that precinct five was Memorial Parkway junior high the reason that it was moved to Hayes for that time period was if you'll recall this board approved in the end and we have finalized the update the renovation of Memorial Parkway junior high so now we feel that it's appropriate to move that that voting day location to Memorial Parkway junior high helped the interruptions of the elementary school but it's also just a little easier to get to because it's at that major intersection having said that everything else is pretty standard I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have are there any questions hearing none i'll proceed to read

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katie independent school district order of election an election is hereby ordered to be held on saturday may 4th 2019 for the purpose of electing school board trustees to fill the following terms of office position one three-year term currently held by george scott position two three-year term currently held by rebecca fox voting on election day will be held from 7 a.m to 7 p.m. at sites listed on Attachment A. Early voting by personal appearance will be conducted each weekday between the hours of 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. beginning on Monday, April 22, 2019, and ending on Tuesday, April 30, 2019, at the following five locations. Leonard Merrill Center, room 143-144, 6301 South Stadium Lane, Katy, Texas, 77494. Seven Lakes High School, 9251 South Fry James E. Taylor High School, 20700 Kingsland Boulevard, Katy, Texas, 77450. Cinco Ranch High School, 23440 Cinco Ranch Boulevard, Katy, Texas, 77494. Martin Ranch High School, 21000 Franz Road, Katy, Texas, 77449. A special Saturday early voting by Pershing, appearance will also be held at these same five locations on Saturday, April 27, 2019, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Applications for ballot by mail shall be mailed to Justin R. Graham, Election Administrator, Katy ISD Education Support Complex 6301 South Stadium Lane, Katy, Texas 77494. Applications for ballot by mail must be received no later than the close of business on Tuesday, April 23, 2019. Applications by mail may also be emailed to evkisd at kdisd.org. The administration is hereby authorized to provide notice of this election, a substantial copy of the order shall serve as proper notice. Notice shall be given by publishing the notice not less than 19 days prior to the fixed date of the elections, April 15, 2019, on the bulletin board used for posting notices of the board meetings. Additionally, the notice of election shall be published at least once, not earlier than the 30th day preceding the election, April 4th, 2019, nor later than the 10th day before election day, April 24th, 2019, in a newspaper published in the district. Issued this 21st day of January 2019, Courtney Doyle, Board President.

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Madam President. Ms. Vann. I move that the Board of Trustees adopts the order calling for a regular election of school board trustees to be held on May 4th, 2019 and authorizes the administration to provide official notice of the election as required by the Texas Election Code. Second.

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I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Lacey, that the Board of Trustees adopts the order for calling a regular election of school board trustees to be held on May 4, 2019, and authorizes the administration to provide official notice of the election as required by Texas Election Code. We need to move on to a vote. All those in favor, please raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. All those opposed, motion passes. Next on our agenda is agenda item 9.1, the quarterly investment report. The board was provided a copy of the quarterly investment report. 9.2, donated items to Katy and Pennant School District. The board was provided with that copy as well of donated items. Future meetings, our next board work study is February 18, 2019, and our regular meeting will be on Monday, February 25th. There being no further business before the board, this meeting is adjourned. The time is 729 p.m. Thank you all.

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Thank you.