March 25, 2019

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The Board will now reconvene in Open Meeting. Today is Monday, March 25, 2019, and the time is 645 p.m. Mr. Grigorski, will you verify that we are in compliance with the provisions of the Texas Open Meetings Act with regard to this notice for this meeting?

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Madam President, I confirm we are in compliance with the provisions of 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 Friday, March 22, 2019, and have had three days to study its contents and receive clarification from Mr. Grigorski. Additionally, the board met last week in a work-study meeting to receive information and recommendations from staff, administration, and the superintendent on these agenda items. Board members were able to ask questions and receive answers and should be prepared with responses and action tonight. The Board has just reconvened from closed meeting in accordance with Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code. Any action arising from discussions in a closed meeting must be taken in an open meeting. We will now move to agenda item 3.1. Madam President. Ms. Vann. I move the Board of Trustees approves a personnel report as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting. I have a motion by Ms. Vann, a second by Mr. Lacey that the Board of Trustees approves the personnel report 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. Aye. All those opposed? Motion passes six to zero. I'd like to note that Ms. Gasloff is not with us tonight.

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Agenda item 3.2. Madam President. Mr. Lacey. I move that the Board of Trustees approves the one-year employer probationary contracts, one-year employee dual assignment probationary contracts, one-year employee term contracts, one-year employee dual assignment term contracts and two-year employee dual assignment term contracts for the 2019-2020 school year with the exception of those employees who have resigned or a decision has not been made at this time concerning being recommended for a contract for termination or for proposed non renewal which will occur at a future meeting in April 2019 as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting

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Second. Second. The motion by Mr. Lacey is second by Ms. Fox. That the Board of Trustees approves the one-year employee probationary contracts, one-year employee dual assignment probationary contracts, one-year employee term contracts, one-year employee dual assignment term contracts, and two-year employee dual assignment term contracts for the 2019-2020 school year, with the exception of those employees who have resigned or a decision has not been made at this time concerning being recommended for a contract for termination or for proposed non-renewal, which will occur at a future meeting in April 2019 as recommended by the superintendent in closed meeting. Do I have 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 6-0. Next, I will turn it over to Mr. Grigorski.

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Thank you, Madam President. I'm going to go ahead and invite up to the podium our special guest for tonight, and that is Nora Woody. And she is a fifth grade student at Cimarron Elementary. And she's down there with her family and her principal, Shawna Hunt, is down there with her. Parents are Nathan and Emily Woody. And a full family of other children that also attend KDISD. Natalie, Elijah, Greta, and Georgia. And we welcome you all out tonight. So a little bit about our special guest tonight. Some of Nora's special interests. Coin collecting. Nora likes to look at the dates and see how old coins are and compare old coins with new coins. Nora looks for the differences in shape, artwork, and color. She also likes getting coins from other countries. And she also plays soccer. Nora likes to play soccer because it's fun and she learns something new all the time. It's a good exercise and she likes having a cool team. Crafting. Nora likes to craft because sometimes it doesn't come out right. And Nora finds that she likes it even better that way. That's awesome. Favorite subjects, Nora likes math because she is always learning something new. She likes to partner up and help other people understand the lessons. And Nora also likes the math games. Few quotes from the folks who have the opportunity to work with Nora every day, and those would be her fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Erin Tristan. Nora is what we would call a star student. She comes to school with a delightful attitude and a smile on her face every day. She is kind to her peers, goes above and beyond to help everyone. She works hard on her academics to achieve good grades. She loves to read and can bake like a professional. Of course, her teachers love getting to see and taste her talented work, and we are so proud of her, and we know she will go far in life with her hard work and her unique personality. And from Mrs. Holly Smith, fifth grade teacher, Nora is the student example of excellence in education. She strives to do her best every day, helps her peers when needed, and puts her education first. Nora continuously demonstrates kindness, perseverance, grit, and determination. She is a true rock star student in each and every way. And from Mrs. Destiny Huggins, fifth grade teacher, Nora is a blessing to have in class. Nora goes out of her way to ensure that she and her peers are successful, and she is willing to help those around her no matter how big or small the task. She is passionate and driven about learning and is always willing to go above and beyond to do her best. Above all, she always has a positive attitude and treats everyone with kindness, and she truly is a role model. And lastly, from her principal, Mrs. Hunt, where do I begin? Nora is absolutely a joy to have on our campus. She is the epitome of a kind, caring, hardworking, talented student, and I could go on and on. Whether it's participating in various organizations on campus such as the Reed Deed Run, the choir, math club, or just simply being a good role model and kind to all students on campus, she excels and always puts her best foot forward. In addition to school activities, she has outside interests that make her quite the well-rounded individual. You can definitely tell that her parents have instilled in her traits that have served her well and will serve her well in life. I can't wait to see what wonderful things Nora does in middle school, high school and beyond she is on track to fulfill all our goals and i can't wait to be the one of our first customers of her bakery when it opens so how wonderful and i'll say this we've got a bunch of cookies up here homemade and thank you nora for bringing us the treats and if i see some cookies down there where mrs gessoff would be sitting i'm going to take hers too so without further ado we're going to turn it over to you nora for the pledge and then we're going to give you time to uh give us your message tonight as well

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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. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state, under God, one and indivisible.

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All yours.

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Good evening, President Doyle, board members, and Superintendent Gregorski. My name is Nora Woody. I am 11 years old, and I am in fifth grade at Cimarron Elementary. My teachers are Ms. Tristan, Ms. Huggins, and Ms. Smith. My principal, Ms. Hunt, chose me today to lead the Pledge of Allegiance tonight. I am very honored to represent my school, my grade, and my family. I have attended Cimarron since kindergarten and have and had the opportunity to participate in many activities such as book club, Read and Run, and choir. I just finished my second musical at Cimarron. This year we performed Joust, the medieval musical. I love playing the part of Lady Luck. Currently, I'm involved in math club. Math is my favorite subject for many reasons, but the main one is that I get to bake. Tonight I have brought you all a treat from my very own kitchen. One day I hope to open up one of my own bakeries called Dessert Island. One of my biggest and most difficult accomplishments happened at Cimarron. I have been working with Miss Inglit, my dyslexia teacher, since second grade. I have been given me tools to be a successful and confident reader. I work very hard to overcome this challenge. I know the transition to West Memorial Junior High will be hard, but with help from my awesome teachers and Ms. Inglis, I know I can continue to be the great student and maybe one day own my very own bakery. great thank you again for having me tonight

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for 100 year celebration of the flag. I want you to know how very special you are because we have over 80,000 students who can get to see you. We like to have a few of them. We have over 80,000 students who can attend to you. If you come here and speak to us, we'll attend it for years. We have a lot of people who are interested in seeing you, and I'm sure you'll get to see them soon. And I think we can record this I love space and I love the fact that he was looking at my next space and I always do.

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And I like it better.

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So I love that.

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You love to watch all the children cry. Okay, maybe I'll see you on Chocolate Junior or a ride. I would love that. Let's do the picture.

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Thank you.

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Thank you again, Nora. Great job, sweetie. Next, do we have any scouts in the audience? No scouts tonight? Okay, great. We'll move on to our recognitions. Mr. Gagorski.

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Thank you, Madam President. Next on our agenda, I'd like to introduce Mrs. Maria DiPetta, 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 Grogorski. We start tonight with the Japanese Language Speech Contest, which is held each year with the Japan America Society of Houston and the Consulate General of Japan in Houston. This contest is designed to inspire Japanese language learners of all ages to challenge and improve their Japanese language skills by providing an opportunity to demonstrate oral communication skills and bringing the Japanese American community together to celebrate the language culture and and the people one student from Katie ISD earned first place in the haiku division of this contest for those of us who do not know what is haiku it is a short traditional Japanese three verse poem will Emily Lent from Cinco Ranch High School please come forward and if her teacher is in the audience as well can she please come forward and join her her student. Let's give her a round of applause.

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I just want to remind our parents that if you would like to take photos you can come up to the front when our videographer comes up. Thank you, Emily. Congratulations. Next, our students received a total of 62 Scholastic Gold Key Awards this year. We also have several who received National Silver Medals for their works of art that demonstrate high honors on the national level. These pieces will be on display in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards online gallery after after April the 15th. Students, please come forward when I call your name as well as their teachers if they are present this evening. Now please note that due to the large volume of students and teachers, we'll be taking three separate group photos. For group number one, receiving gold keys in the category of mixed media from Tice Junior High, Julia Hu, who also received a national silver medal. Adriana Landon-Serenas and Dion Motatera. From Cinco Ranch High School, Rosa Lee, drawing and illustration. Sammy Levin received gold keys in the categories of drawing and illustration as well as painting. Angel Lowe received gold keys in the categories of drawing and illustration and also two gold keys in a national silver medal for mixed media. She was also one of ten recipients to receive an additional Texas Art Supply Cash Award out of 5,000 submissions Daniel Mabry for drawing and illustration Kina McGill sculpture Fabiana Munoz drawing and illustration Nicole sweet drawing and illustration and Foti trend received two gold keys in the category of painting from Katy high school we have Skylar Clark ceramics and glass Ethan cloud received two gold keys for photography Caden Elliott drawing and illustration co gene Lee drawing and illustration and Olivia Meyer sculpture let's give these students a round of applause

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Very good. Okay, very good.

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Congratulations to our first group of students. For group number two from Maid Creek High School receiving gold keys in the category of digital art, Jada Cox, Nicholas Edwards, and Valerie Lara receiving a gold key for painting. For Morton Ranch High School, Leslie Garza for painting. From Seven Lakes High School.

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Emily Park, Painting Maria Prado, Mixed Media Lauren Tamalti, Ceramics and Glass Nina Um, Ceramics and Glass Rachel Wang, Received Gold Keys for Drawing and Illustration and a National Silver Medal for Mixed Media Daphne Yang, Drawing and Illustration Jason Jang received gold keys in the categories of drawing and illustration, as well as a national silver medal for mixed media. And Rufeng Jang for painting. Let's give group number two a big round of applause.

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Thank you.

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Congratulations to our amazing students. Now to group number three from Taylor High School. Elisa Bach, Art Portfolio. Tize Balmacerat, Sculpture. Emily Guerrero also received a National Silver Medal for Sculpture. Nayoung Kim received gold keys in the categories of drawing and illustration as well as mixed media. Grace Liu, drawing and illustration. Summer Norwood, drawing and illustration. Ashley Serna, mixed media. And Amy Votlevic, art portfolio. From Tompkins High School we have Sarah Shai, painting. Isabella Concepcion, Painting. Carly Harville, Ceramics and Glass. Madeline Nguyen, Drawing and Illustration. Melody Lu, Drawing and Illustration. Kendra Nguyen, Drawing and Illustration. Luana Rodriguez dos Sacramento received two gold keys and and a National Silver Medal for Drawing and Illustration. And last but not least, Sabrina Xu with Drawing and Illustration. Congratulations to these students.

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And I think all our Scholastic Gold Key winners deserve one more big round of applause. applause. Next, the Texas Art Education Association recognizes March as National Youth Art Month. Each year districts from across the state submit works of art in pre-k through 12th grade. Only 100 pieces of artwork are selected for exhibition in the Youth Art Month State Capitol Artwork Exhibit in Austin. The pieces are first displayed at Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum and then in the lower rotunda of the Texas State Capitol Building. The following students now have their artwork on display on the state's Capitol Building. Students, please come forward when I call your name as well as their teachers if they are present this evening. From Davidson Elementary, Poppy Kent. From Stockdick Junior High, Sophia Tongo. From Tice Junior High, Nicole Perez Escobar. from Wood Creek junior high each in gang from Cinco Ranch high school Emily McMahon West two pieces on display and seven lakes high school Elise go via congratulations to all these students

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Thank you.

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That's her dad in the red sweater.

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And some of our awardees may be small, but they have great talents. Thank you. Next, for more than 50 years, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo School Art Program has provided students in pre-K through 12th grade the opportunity to compete in district shows, earn scholarships, travel to summer workshops, and display artwork in the Hayloft Gallery during the rodeo. The rodeo received more than 200,000 entries this year, and KDISD had a total of 19 students that were recognized, earning a combined total of $316,000 when their pieces went to auction. The students, please come forward when I call your name as well as your teachers if they are present. Ashley Chung from Beck Junior High received the Junior High Reserve Class Champion Award and her artwork is titled Next to the Road. It auctioned off for $32,000. Adriana Landon-Sereniz from Ties Junior High received the Senior High Class Champion Award in her artwork titled, Midsummer Dreaming. It auctioned off for $49,000. I almost missed it there. And Madeline Nguyen from Tompkins High School received Class Champion in the Monochromatic category for her artwork titled Texas Stud, which auctioned off for $75,000.

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Congratulations to each one of these students and keep up the great work. Next, the Music for All Festival showcases the finest instrumental scholastic music and and shines a national spotlight on outstanding music ensembles. This year, two junior high performance groups were selected to perform at this prestigious festival. Will the following directors please come forward when I call your name? And if any of your students are present tonight, please join your director. Katherine Urban, Cinco Ranch Junior High Symphony Orchestra, as well as Jennifer Jingle, Seven Lakes Junior High Honors Orchestra. There she is. Congratulations on these outstanding achievements.

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Congratulations!

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Next, the Texas Mrs. Texas Music Educators Association, also known as TMEA, honors orchestra selection process, seeks to recognize and honor quality musicianship and showcase exemplifying teaching that promotes the growth and the development of orchestra programs throughout Texas. Being selected to an honor orchestra with a performance during the annual convention also recognizes communities and school districts that successfully support music in education. This year, the Beckendorf Junior High Honors Orchestra received the distinction of a TMEA Honor Orchestra and was chosen as one of two groups to perform at this year's convention. Please join us in congratulating Director Carol Butts and his talented group of students on this recognition. KTM-TMEA also selected two groups to perform at the convention as well and received the distinction of Honor Choir. Will the following directors please come forward when I call your name and if there are any students present tonight please join your director. From Griffin Elementary, the director of fifth grade choir Jason Ritchie and Cynthia Brott. as well as the mixed choir directors from Tompkins High School, Kristen Renartz and Austin Hart.

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Congratulations. Next, for over 70 years, musicians, educators, and those passionate about music education of all skill levels have gathered in Chicago for the largest music conference of its kind. During the Midwest Clinic International Band Orchestra and Music Conference, top ensembles are showcased throughout the four-day event. Student and professional performers exhibit their talents to an enthusiastic audience and help musicians of all skill levels advance into the next level of their career. Out of all the applicants received from across the United States and internationally, the McMeans Junior High Camerata Orchestra was chosen to perform at this year's McMeans Junior High. very prestigious conference. Please join me in congratulating Director Amy Williams and if any of her students are present please join her at the front.

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Congratulations to Ms. Williams and her students. Each year, Region 4 recognizes the leadership, service, and the dedication of two campus administrators from each district. The principal nominees from KDISD were chosen by their peers and exemplify exceptional campus leadership. These principals will be honored at the Region 4 Principals Recognition Ceremony on April 4th. Please join me in congratulating Dr. Anne Lillian from Golbo Elementary for being selected as the KDISD Elementary Principal of the Year, as well as Julie Hansen from Morton Ranch High School named Secondary Principal of the Year.

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Thank you.

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Congratulations to these amazing administrators. The Texas School Public Relations Association recognizes outstanding communications campaigns, videos and projects of its members. Judges evaluate submitted entries based on a set of criteria and award gold, silver and Bronze Star Awards as well as Best of Category. We are proud to announce that two departments under the School and Community Engagement Division received a total of 13 awards. The Communications Department and the Internal and Community Relations Department together. These departments received Gold Star Awards for the following pieces in the program categories. They are the 2018 Student Excellence Event Program and the Transportation Sinners Dedication program. In the writing category, Superintendent 2017 Convocation Address. In the video marketing category, Be the Legacy was selected. In the external e- news category, the KDISD Update, the October 2017 edition was selected and also received the Best in Category Award. Now since some of our department team members are unavailable this evening, it is my honor to accept this award on behalf of the Communications Department and the Internal and Community Relations Department.

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Okay.

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Okay, this concludes the recognitions portion of our board meeting tonight.

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Very good. We're going to move on to our reports section of the agenda, 6.1 Hurricane Harvey Financial Summary Report. Mr. Chris Smith.

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Thank you. Thank you, President Doyle and Superintendent Gagorski. I've got Anne Fighting, our business manager, who's going to help me out. I'll tell you Anne has done, and her staff, Kayla Smith and Liz Haven have done a lion's share of the work in trying to wrap their arms around our Harvey expenses, some of which we'll never, never know because they're indirect, but we are doing our best to provide a summary of what we've done. This is what I promised back in the fall of 2017 in the aftermath. I'm going to talk to you, I'm sorry, Ms. Feitinger is going to talk to you about our damage claims, our direct claims and recovery. I'm going to talk about the reappraisal process and state funding, and then Ann's going to finish it up with grants. So I'm going to turn it over to Ms. Feitinger and let her talk about the claims and recovery process.

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Okay, so we started off, we had our estimated claims which include our damages, emergency protective measures, shelters, et cetera, totaled up to be $30.3 million. We were able to collect 100% of our insurance, our full limit of $25 million. We received that final $10 million in December, so all $25 million is now in the bank. Our FEMA claims right now, we're estimating it's going to come in at about 4.7 million. This claim is still active and we anticipate that it will still be active for several months and then audited for several years. It's an ongoing process and we'll continue to be working through this. Remaining amounts were made up of things like the Harvey event was a 90% federal share event, so 10% had to be picked up locally. So for every claim we had, at least 10% had to be charged to the district. We had to pick up our 10% to get the 90% from FEMA. We also had some projects that fell below the FEMA threshold of 3,100. Right now there were just over 30 projects that fell below the threshold. And then we had some costs that just could not be claimed, miscellaneous costs. Oh, and in total, I guess I should say, the insurance made up about 82% of our total losses. FEMA about 16% and the local shares about 2%.

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Okay, in September, the Board of Trustees was the first, I believe, in the Houston area to ask for a reappraisal. Y'all passed a resolution in September, very late September 2017 for that reappraisal. that a reappraisal as we understand it from the three appraisal districts Waller, Fort Bend, and Harris counties had 8,900 accounts that were our parcels that were affected by the by the event that value was at 374 million dollars in value the cost for those reappraisals in order for the appraisal districts of again Harris, Waller, and Fort Bend counties that they charged our district, it was our portion, was $194,000 and the value of that audit or basically that $374 million in value lost was submitted to the Comptroller. Now that's what needs to happen in order for us to get some state funding back but we will not get all of the state funding back as we talked about back in September of 17 back from the event. But state funding because of things such as that decision we did take advantage of the 26.08 tax swap which we've talked about every month in our budget process both throughout 18-19 school year. We did get an enrollment hold harmless that was worth approximately 5.8 million dollars. Essentially what the agency did, Texas Education Agency, is they looked at our enrollment trends and took an average over several years of enrollment growth growth. And they applied that to last year. So last year we did not meet our typical enrollment or growth in average daily attendance. And the difference in that was $5.8 million. So they did fund it as if the event did not happen. And then the free and reduced lunch that we spoke about where 100 percent of our students were eligible for free and reduced lunch during during the month of September and October of 2017, did generate some state funds for some compensatory education, which the district spent on comp ed services. I wanna speak to, let Ms. Feitinger speak to you about the disaster grants that the agency was administered on our behalf.

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Okay, these grants came in very late in the year, or even after year end. The first one was the immediate aid to restart school operations, also called the Restart Grant. KD's share was $4.4 million. We used this to fund teacher salaries, an asset tracking system, and electronic procurement system. $3.3 million of that was used to offset 1718 expenditures, which was allowed by the grant. That was the salaries. The other $1.1 million is the asset tracking and electronic procurement. That's allowed under the grant because we're moving things away from paper and into electronics which is obviously a better system to have in place should another disaster occur so we're using we're taking advantage of that we also receive the Texas hurricane emergency impact aid for displaced students or what is known as EIA this was 3.1 million this had a very short time frame had to be spent by 1231 we only received it a few months before that we use that entirely to offset teacher salaries for the 1718 school school year. Other federal grants we received related to the disaster were about $266,000. They were the Project Serve grant and a Texas Hurricane Homeless Youth grant. We used a lot of, a large portion of this to offset additional transportation costs for displaced students. So we had a large increase in that cost because we had students that were dispersed throughout the district and we got them back to their campuses. And then we're also using that for some extra duty pay for counseling. Just a note that the district is ensuring that there are no duplication of benefits. That's one of the reasons we did not fund any repairs with these funds. It was very explicit that they did not want you to mix FEMA money, insurance money, federal money, that you had to keep those separate. So that's why the decisions were made to stick with salaries and some of these things and not go for any of the repairs that that were being done with FEMA.

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On these grants, one of the things that Ms. Feitinger said, but I want to make sure it's clear, those are all expenditures that we were able to reduce, our 2017-2018 expenditures. So when we received our audit back in September, the bottom line was affected by that. These were shown in that bottom line, in that modest bottom line that we had. I also want to say that these are the direct costs that we know of. We don't know and there's no way to quantify some of the things that this district had to go through such as 10 days of lost instruction, the property value loss on our 18 property values. We know what it was for the 17 based on the reappraisal but there's no way to really know how that pulled over into 2018 and what that's going to do into 2019. Our ADA growth was stunted. We saw that and we saw that there was an offsetting grant for that of $5.8 million. Will that come back? We don't know. There's no way to know that. Again, we grew as a district and we continue to grow as a district, but what impact this had, we know what it had last year based on our trends, but going forward we don't know. Loss of new growth both in properties, new properties, and in ADA that I just mentioned. The contractors and subcontractors were tied up for months. So what, you know, on these, the parcels affected, how many of these parcels still are going to be on our 19 values? It's not valued to the value that they were. Again, impossible to quantify. Our insurance premiums, you folks on the board had to approve a couple of months ago. Those were increases. We expect those to be annual increases from this point forward. and then the cost of indirect cost of things like Creech University that was not covered by insurance or FEMA but that was a cost that's again not in not in the numbers that we presented to you but a cost an indirect cost nonetheless of of Hurricane Harvey and I will just say that again and fighting her and her staff Kayla Smith no relation and Liz Haven and the accounting department have done a fantastic job putting their arms around this everybody did mark T and Lee Lee Cruz from putting all this together. You know, there was a time where it was pretty bleak in September of 17, and we were able to put this in four or five slides. But we've come a long way, and I consider this, although Ann and her staff are gonna continue to have to coddle that FEMA claim. We're by and large are over the hump on that and wanted to put Harvey to bed and move forward as that thing is in the past. And with that, I will be glad to answer any questions that you may have.

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Do you have any questions? Mr. Scott?

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Thank you for all your team. We talked about this either at Cinco Ranch High School that day or over at the Miller Career Center. Y'all began your documentation even before the worst hit. and y'all did a wonderful job in protecting the district with the just extraordinary job of documenting everything along the way and you're to be your whole team is to be congratulated for that I've noticed that Harris County Appraisal District has released a lot of values not all yet on their website but are they holding have y'all received any communication from Harris, Fort Bend, and Waller County if they are holding the release of values in KDISD at this point in time because there are major subdivisions that

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I've not seen listed. No sir I have not had any communications to that no sir. So

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we don't know if you've not been told when to expect the release of January

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19 values? When I, it's my understanding that we'll really receive those sometime in late April or early May but but there is some concern of delays in that because of all this throughout Harris and Fort Bend counties all this backlog to the reappraisal process there is a concern. Let me just say that there was a

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time when the Harris County Appraisal District had a higher level of communication with member districts. I don't know if that's your conclusion. I'm not asking for your conclusion, but it's a pretty extremely apparent to me that there should be a better level of communication, particularly from the largest appraisal district to the school district. And I regret that that has not happened.

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Are there any other questions? Madam President. Ms. Fox. Mr. Smith, thank you for the presentation. Having been one person who's homeless, flooded, and go through all of the bazillion forms and trying to figure out how to submit them, how to get it all done, how to document every shoe, everything that was lost, it's a daunting task. I can't imagine how much you all went through doing that. but you you did an excellent job i also know that this much time later we're still seeing me not just me but our neighbors and i live near creech and beck and so many i guess beck had 75 of its families affected creech had 100 and it um they're just still long-lasting effects of those kinds of things uh one example was our fence just fell over the other day and you could could tell that it had just rotted at the bottom from sitting in all that water, right? So just one of the things, you just time after all this time, you still find things. And that just brings me to think about our boys and girls and their families and that you can put a monetary figure on lots of things, but you can't always put a quantifier on the struggles that they still have. but yet time and time again I hear from our sweet families with the little kids driving the Barbie cars in the street that how much they love their teachers and and how well that's going I wonder if I'm just grateful for them you know because those teachers lost their homes too so that that will be an effect that will stay with us a long time so in these numbers does it also include all the transportation like having to get children all which away and did it talk about the right like the incredible job that our food service department did of taking lunch to Creech University every single day until they could figure out like how to get a serving line or something and I'm thinking that it have any cost associated with opening those two high schools to to house people who

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were displaced. It does include the shelter cost, but the what they put the government considered normal operating costs like transportation and food service is not included because we were not able to claim any of that. That one homeless grant did claim we did claim some of the excess cost of transportation, but that was really all we were able to claim as far as that extra money for Harvey. Okay thank you very much. Again I just want to wrap up

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and say there is a lot of cost associated with this they're just going to be impossible to calculate and and and I've got the financial services team got some accolades but again I want to stress that that it wasn't just us we had a great effort by Lee Cruz and the operations staff, Mark Teat, the Transportation Department staff, food service staff, as well as the purchasing department and all the campuses in the district, the principals all did a fantastic job in helping us try to get our arms around it. I'm talking from the financial perspective. We did a fantastic job on that and it was labor-intensive

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on everybody. Thank you so much Mr. Smith and Ms. Feitinger. Madam President, I do

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want to have a cautionary note to this board and to our public. Mr. Smith and and Mr. Gorski, the superintendent at the time, we were with Mr. Cruz down listening to the commissioner of education after this event happened and saying, what can we do? How can we make you whole? We are here. What can we do? And I think what you've heard from the efforts of Mr. Smith's group and Mr. Cruz's group and all the campus principals is that we're headed in that direction. But at that time, 2017, the first hands that were raised were from the school districts that said please close our hurricane Ike claims first from 2009 from 2008 so nine years ahead of that so that's how long some of this FEMA reimbursement process can take so we're just gonna have to be patient as a board and as community as we work through again all the forms that we're gonna have to go through and file Thank You mr. Graham board we're now at

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consent agenda um madam president mr lacey i move that the board of trustees approves the consent

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agenda as recommended in item 7.1 through 7.18 second i have a motion by mr lacey a second by

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mr scott that the board of trustees approves the consent agenda as recommended in item 7.1 through 7.18 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've got agenda item 8.1, donated items to Katy Independent School District. The board has been provided with a copy of the donated items. Next are future meetings. Board work study is Monday April 15th 2019. Regular meeting is April Monday April 22nd 2019. There being no further business before the board this meeting is adjourned. The time is 737 p.m. Thank you.